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Cripps Avers
Invasion Sure
Hard and Successful
Attack Planned
In the West
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latter situation was found in a
Reuters News agency dispatch
"from the Trench frontier re
porting that Hitler has demanded
that Pierre Laval, Vichy chief of
government, cede 1,000,000 tons
of French shipping a demand
which seemed to say that the nazis
are plaining a vast movement of
men and supplies across the Med
iterranean and perhaps the Black
sea.
A Daily Sketch columnist said
France would b left but 500,000
tons of her own" ships to trade
with her colonies. He estimated
her shipping in allied hands to
taled 600,000 tons.
Cripps spoke at a mass meeting
in Empress hall, which was pack
ed by almost 7000 persons gath
ered to observe the anniversary,
June 22, of the German attack on
Russia. Included in the audience
were Soviet Ambassador Ivan
Maisky, Rear Admiral Alan G.
Kirk, chief of staff of United
States naval forces in European
waters who represented Ambas
sador John G. Winant, and repre
sentatives of all other allied gov
ernments. "With the help of the United
States and Its industrial forces
added to our own and the soviet
anion's productive resources, we
should be able to launch a treat
and successful attack upon Hit
ler in the west," he said.
He warned against a premature
venture leading to failure, how
aver, and said when we strike, let
us strike hard and with determi
nation to march through to Ber
lin before we call a final halt"
"It may be sooner or later,
though Hitler has apparently
guessed that it may not be too
far ahead. As we make our prep
arations, so no doubt, he will try
to make his too, and this in itself
may influence the time factor."
Then he added significantly:
"This matter, as you know, was
discussed with Molotov (soviet
commissar) when he was in Eng
land and I can assure you he
knows much more about it than
I can tell you."
That the time for the blow
may be chosen to allow a com
promise between the African
and second front demands upon
allied resources was suggested
in the comment of well Inform
ed sources, one of whom said:
"If we don't fritter away our
resources by too great dispersion
H could still be done after we
have taken adequate steps to in
sure that the middle east will
bold."
Eagles of Oregon
Install Officers
LA GRANDE, June 20-(f)A
plan for unification of 250 Eagles
I lodges and allied organizations to
father and disseminate informa
tion about the war effort in their
communities was suggested t the
dosing session of the state conven
tion Saturday by Lester H. Loble
of Helena, Mont.
Loble also acted as installing of
ficer as John Bennett of McMinn
ville won the vice-presidency from
Andy Meek, Klamath Falls, and
Boy H. Jewell. The Dalles, won
the outer guardship in the only
two contests.
George D. Fields, Gresham, un
opposed, became the new state
president
Gas Protection
By DR. WARD L. MOULD
Medical Gas Officer
US Office of Civilian Defense
(This, is the first of a series of six
articles about war .gases, their char
acteristics, and the measures the
civilian can take to protect himself
against gas Injury.) :
I The Possibility of Gas
Attack
The first step in the citizen's
defense against war gases is to
obtain a clear understanding of
what gas can and cannot do. This
aeries is designed in " part to dis
pel some of the current misinfor
mation about w.ar gases.
Despite the increasing range
and capacity of aircraft, a gas at
. tack on a large enough scale to
cause injury to a substantial por
tion of a large city is not regard
ed in authoritative quarters as
feasible. Even in' limited areas
gas. to be effective, must be used
in great quantities.
Gas might be used in an attack
upon a city either alone or in
conjunction with other weapons.
The better citizens are trained
and equipped to deal with gas the
less likely. it is that gas will have
. any appreciable effect.
Quick-acting types of gases may
be used' against a community to
pro d u e - Immediate casualties,
throw th population into a state
Of panic and disrupt their protec
tive . services. 'jSlow-acting types,
which may remain effective for
several days in liquid form, may
be used to "contaminate? import
ant factories, railroads, highways,
etc., to prevent their use. Such
gases could be sprayed or sprink-
f I led from iirplanes in the form of
i ne f&r they migtt fee con
t . tained -Jk ' bombs - drofSM from
plane & Citizens : will : find it of
t value to know something of the
t varieties of gas 'that might -be
f.'vs&S. -,t
f Tomorrow- The Types of Gases)
Mighty Vega B-17 'Flying Fortresses? Now in Production
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production of B-17 "Flying Fortresses ' for the US army air forces. Vega was the first to make de
liveries of these heavy bombers under a pooled facilities agreement with two other aircraft manu
facturers, and is new pushing production ahead on a 24-hour schedule. ' Photo shows one of the
Vega-built four-engine aerial monsters being delivered to the US army air force at a west coast
lrport.
US Merchant Sailors Can
Take It; Torpedoed, They
Go Back to Sea Again
Wid World Features
NEW YORK Axis submarines are sinking American ships,
and men with them. Has this made it difficult to get crews?
National Maritime union officials say no. They guarantee to sup
ply crews now and foresee no shortage later, either because of
sinkings or because of the vast merchant shipbuilding program.
American seamen don't jump ship, they tell you. They
haven't had a case since the
United States entered the war.
How does a sailor feel about
being torpedoed? Bill Caves,
bo'sun on a tanker that was
sunk off North Carolina, will
sail again as soon as his burns
are healed. He's been to sea 27
years.
"I knew I'd get it sooner or
later," he said. "I was drinkin'
a cup of coffee when she struck.
'That's us, Let's go,' I yelled to
three men with me. We rushed on
deck and they jumped before I
could stop 'em. It was suicide.
Flames from the burning oil on
the water were 75 feet high. Two
boats of us got away, but 10 out
of a crew of 37 were lost, in
cludin' the captain and all the
mates.
"Maybe 111 get it again, but
that's the chance you gotta take."
John Sobota, one of 18 surviv
ors of the worst disaster thus far,
was looking for a berth the day
after being discharged from the
hospital. He doesn't look 30, has
been to sea 12 years. Born in the
United States of Polish parents,
he is married, has no children.
Sobota was asleep when the
' first torpedo struck his tanker.
Another hit, then another. He
reached the deck wHh a frac
tured heel suffered when the
third blow knocked him down
a companion way. Clad only
in underwear shorts, he clung
to a life preserver until picked
up by a British freighter three
hours later. Many of the crew
who Jumped were washed by
high seas into the burning area.
"When the Britisher reached
me," he said, "I tried to climb
the Jacob's ladder over her side.
but I fell back into the sea. I'd
swallowed a lot of oil and kero
sene. Now I'm okeh and waiting
to ship out again. We gotta job
to do and we might as well do it."
John Wolfe was aboard "the
first armed merchant ship to
clear a United States port. The
third night out a sub broke sur
face 300 yards away. Wolfe had
served a stretch in the navy. He
manned the pointer of the four
inch gun.
"First shot missed; it , was for
range. The second musta hit a
torpedo room, because the ex
plosion blinded us for several
minutes. But we let another go
for good measure."
Is he afraid of subs?
New Zealand Tank
Modem British tanks are pictured
exercises unacr acuve service
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"I was nervous at first. But I'm
more afraid of those radio inter
views. I was on a broadcast Sun
day night. Gosh, it was awful
Ordinary seamen are insured
for $5,000, death or permanent
injury; get $25 a week compen
sation during temporary disa
bility. They are allowed 21 days
maximum shore leave between
trips, mast be available after
that or forfeit good standing in
the union.
Bonuses are paid in the danger
zones. Bill Caves' bonus on his
last voyage was 100 per cent of
salary. Sobota was torpedoed in a
35 per cent zone, just a few miles
from a 70 per cent zone,
One sailor was found who
"wishes he'd never gone to sea,
His freighter was torpedoed in
the Carribbean, but sank the sub
that got her. On the way up the
coast he saw a tanker three miles
ahead blown up. At the port
where he was taken after being
rescued, he saw two ships tor
pedoed in the harbor. So he
"wishes he'd never gone to sea
But he's going again.
School Budget
Hearing Set
Legal voters of Salem schoo!
district have been called to
public hearing Tuesday night,
June 23, for consideration of the
1942-43 school budget.
Calling for expenditures totaling
504, W4.au, an increase oi ap
proximately $16,494 over that of
the past fiscal year, the recom
mended budget would require art
estimated millage levy of 21.98
about a quarter-mill below that
of this year.
The meeting, scheduled for
p.m., is to be held at the school
administration building, 434 North
High street
Mill Lauds Employes
PORTLAND, June 20-y!p)-Co-
lumbia Basin Sawmills association,
an employer group, Saturday
praised 850 AFL and CIO em
ployes here and at Wauna, Ore
who have given up their vacations
to alleviate lumbering's acute la
bor shortage.
Brigade Readies
en maneuvers In New 'Zealand.
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Appointment of Paul Miller
(above) as chief of bureau in
Washington, DC, was announced
by Kent Cooper, general mana
ger of The Associated Press.
Miller,' who succeeds 'the late
Brian Bell, was born in Mis
souri 35 years ago and has
headed three Associated Press
bureaus. He goes to Washing
ton from a position as executive
assistant to the general mana
ger. Chinese Stop
Jap Column
Retake Town of Wutu
As Heavy Fighting
Is Continued
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Kwangtung of which Canton is
near the center counterattack
ing Chinese forced a crossing of
the Pa river from the north and
attacked Yungtam, a town on the
Canton-Hankow railway about 40
miles north of Canton. Japanese
communications were said to have
been disrupted when the Chinese
cut the railway south of Yung
tarn.
Front line dispatches said the
Chinese forces launched a fierce
attack with effective artillery
support. As Chinese guns hurled
shells across the river, the infan
try forced a crossing while anoth
er Chinese column made a flank
ing movement and assaulted
Yungtam from the southeast The
enemy was said to have retreated
after a brisk engagement.
to Repel Invasion
Tiirt.lr nor 1 ijrw
The dominion's army tank brigade
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Free People
Publishers Told Press
Not Asked to Giye
Out Propaganda
GEARHART, Ore., June 20-(!P)
The American people are not
like the befuddled subjects of
Hitler who must be told anew
each January that their opponents
will collapse this year. US Su
preme Court Justice William O.
Douglas told Oregon newspaper
publishers Saturday night
On the other hand, he contin
ued, the "genius of the American
people lies in their keen percep
tion of the difference between
wishful talk and fact and in their
refusal to be seduced by propa
ganda. "The same qualities that make
the American people tfnmune
to the blandishments of enemy
propaganda also make them
scornful of the ovenealous
among us whose wishful think
Irg would have the effect of
distracting us from the war we
are beginning to fight"
Douglas gave the American
newspaper man who indulges in
over-optimism and x who unwit
tingly accepts propaganda the
rough side of his tongue.
Some well-intentioned pub
lications are . . describing an un
real war in which it would ap
pear that we have little left to do
except prepare to receive the im-
he told the annual convention of
Oregon's Newspaper Publishers
association.
"The average American . . .
wants the truth . . . and wants to
know how he can do his job bet
ter. That is the help which the
people . . . want from the press
. . . Tvhat the people emphatically
do not want from the press . . .
is propaganda."
The assembled publishers Sat
urday heard J. B. Deacon of
New York, distillery executive,
predict that by September no
more whisky would be produced
In the United States for the du
ration. Distilleries are being
converted to defense use rapid
ly. There is, however, a four
year stock of liquor on the na
tion's shelves so the stoppage of
distilling or spirits will not im
mediately be noticed, he said.
N. J. L. Pieper of the San Fran
cisco FBI office declared there has
been comparatively little sabotage
in war Industries so far and urged
the newspapermen to be cautious
about ascribing damage, fires and
unexplained accidents to sabo
teurs unless proof is supplied. He
said the FBI had' arrested many
thousands of dangerous aliens
without any mass raids or ar
rests. W. H. Mylander of the office of
censorship, Washington, DC, dis
cussed censorship problems with
the newsmen Saturday afternoon.
Jack Biadiae of the McMinn
ville Telephone-Register was
elected president succeeding
Herbert Grey of the Medford
Mail-Tribune.
Palmer Hoyt of the Portland
Oreg onion was named vice
president; Gov. Charles A.
Sprague, publisher of The Ore
gon Statesman, Salem, treasur
er; and W. L. Jackson of the
Albany Democrat-Herald, a new
member of the board of direc
tors. Ralph C. Curtis, assistant pub
lisher of The Statesman, was one
of the speakers at Saturday's ses
sions. Parole Revoked
Again for Mayer
A second parole revocation or
der was signed against Dave
Mayer by Circuit Judge L. H. Mo
Mahan Saturday upon word from
Eugene and Portland that the man
had become involved in Portland
and Eugene on check charges.
Arrested at Bellingham, Wash.,
and removed to San Francisco and
later to Bakersfield, Calif., to
serve jail sentences, Mayer was
brought to Salem in January by
Sheriff A. C. Burk to face a charge
of larceny by bailee of $550 worth
of antique watches belonging to
D. E. Decker. Paroled on the
local charge, Mayer was returned
to court, a month ago on a pa
role violation count, which he
avoided by clearing up the Deck
er matter. Term of his release,
however, was that he not only
make restitution but also not vio
late any laws.
Advertising Men
See Growth of
Pacific Area
PARADISE INN, Mt. Rainier
National Pork, June 20-(vP)-The
vast Pacific ocean, which today
is a 7000-mile-wide battle area,
is destined to become a wide
thoroughfare for greatly expand'
ed trade between the west coast
of America and the far east af
ter. the war is won. ., . -
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here Saturday by delegates to the
39th annual convention of Pac
ific Advertising association. -
Advertising executives from the
11 western states and other parts
of the nation are due to register
Sunday. The first business sea
don will be held Monday morn'
ing with welcoming of visitors by
Tacoma's Mayor Harry P. ; Cain.
The convention is the first such
gathering to be held on the Pac
ific coast this yean ,
1 .Subjects, to. be takenjup include
Commands Yanks
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Cot Harry A. Halverson (above)
of Boone, Ia commands the
US air forces which pounced
on Italian naval units in opera
tlons from Libya, It was a
force under his command, head
ed by MaJ. Alfred F. Kalberer
that scored 35 direct bomb hits
on two Italian battleships in the
Mediterranean.
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This US "Pioneer," called more
versatile than the British Com
mando has mud smeared on his
face and carries a machet (left)
and a bush knife (right) at
Fort Lewis, Wash.
Willkie Asked
To Convention
Republicans Set State
Meet for Eugene
In Early Fall
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and new county central committee
officers.
Republicans, Lonergan declar
ed "must do everything to win
this war and afterwards, all in
our power to win back Ameri
ca." He proposed as a program
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to win the war, readiness to
participate in reorganisation
after the war, and insistence on
being given something to say
about the peace that is made."
Judge Joseph B. Felton, chap
ter president, conducted the brief
luncheon program,
The state club, Fischer reported
from the committee session, will
let local clubs determine the parts
thev wish ti-k rilav in tn iynnl
election campaign, but will seek
to gave direction as to voter regis-
tration promotion and member-
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3 Jap Ships
Sunk by Subs
London, June 20-A)- Tnree
large Japanese ships have been
torpedoed and sunk by British
submarines in the narrow straits
mar t I a
a ting Malaya and Sumatra, the
admiralty announced Saturday
One of the submarines, attack
ing a convoy of three ships, picked
out the largest and sank it, the
communique said. Two other ves-
sels were listed as destroyed by
another submarine, but it was not
made clear whether the second
submarine attacked the same con-
voy.
The date of the sinkings was
not aisciosea.
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PORTLAND. June 20-P)-The
reconstruction finance corpora-
tion has ordered that loans be
made available to mines engaged
in producing vital war minerals,
the state department of geology
and mineral industries was In
formed Friday.
post-war promotion in develop
ing Pacific trade, advertising's
part in wartime economy, and its
part in the preservation of free
enterprise.
Speakers Will include Dr. N. H.
Engle, "director of research at the
University of Washington, and J?r,
Yi-Eng-Kiang, Chinese consul at
Seattle,.-" '
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Germans Still
Battering Gty
Egypt Defenders Firm
As Rommel Strikes
Near Border
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quake, the Berlin radio said Sun
day. The incessant thunder of
guns has been heard for days
from the direction of Sevasto
pol in the Turkish coastal town
of Xneboll." the radio said In a
, dispatch front Istanbul. - "On
Friday evening the Dooming -of
guns Increased to such an In
tensity that houses begau to
shake and the inhabitants at
f fast believed an earthquake had
broken out,"
On Tuesday an earth tremor
strong enough to sway -apartment
buildings was felt in Istanbul at
8:45 am. Istanbul is about 300
miles west of Ineboli.
CAIRO, Egypt, June 207-f)-
Bri tain's bloody but unbowed
eighth army stood firm Saturday
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ing back two main columns of
axis forces which bypassed en
circled Tobruk and drove to with
in 25 miles of Bardia.
The armored columns of the
axis Africa corps withdrew after
a brief fight with the sun-black
ened veterans of Lieut. Gen, N,
Ritchie and it appeared they were
only testing the strength of the
new British positions and con
solidating their own stand.
Military experts said no axis
tank or man came nearer than
NEW YORK, J u e ZQ-(JP)
The British radio quoted a- dis
patch Saturday night from its
correspondent on the Libyan
front as saying axis forces had
"probably" entered the town of
Bardia, 10 miles from the Egyp
tian frontier."
SO miles from the frontier
the approximate position of the
new and stronger Imperial de
fense line.
Military experts said the situ
ation is similar to that of last year
just before Gen. Sir Claude Auch
inleck started his offensive which
drove the axis half way to Tripoli
before stalling at El Agheila.
RAF in Raid
Second Night
LONDON, Sunday, June 21(JP)
British bombers were over Ger
many again Saturday night for
the second night in s row, it was
announced Sunday.
There was no immediate indica
tion of the targets or the scope
of the attack, which capped a se
ries of daylight raids on Le Havre
and other objectives in occupied
France in which large squadrons
of fighters and American-made
Boston bombers participated;
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Ralph Allen, 2535 Lee street,
veteran buyer for Hunt Bros.
Packing company, was reported as
still seriously ill in the Salem
General hospital with a heart ail
ment. He was taken to the hos
pital Thursday for treatment but
physicians report no change in his
condition.
I Methodists Urge
C Liquor
PORTLAND. Ore.. June. 20-UP
Resolutions at the Oregon Metho
dists annual convention Saturday
urged congress to curb the na
tion's liquor consumption and de
manded the closing of all Oregon
liquor stores until the end of the
war.
Delegates also pledged support
to the war effort
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Capt Frank Douglas Sharp of
Salem, commander of an Ameri
can army bomber which made a
forced landing on the Indo-Bur-mese
frontier behind enemy lines
June , was reported safe Satur-
day in Associated Press dispatch-
es. Sharp and his crew made a
daylight raid on Rangoon docks.
Rl0od Banks Asked
onnrr amti n Juno 9ft -ts
Naval officers, addressing the Pa
I .
cine Northwest Medical associa.-
1 tion convention, Saturday cited
psychiatric military cusaDUiuea as
a serious problem and appealed
for more "blood banks.'
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Nazis Realize
Defense Boom
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greater submarine danger all
available craft'
The maritime commission said
cargo ships of America were be
ing equipped with the newest
types of weapons to fight off sub
marine and air attacks.
It eaa bo said," the eommis
skm declared, "that officers and
seamen are protected to the
greatest degree possible against
machine gunning by enemy
planes." Guns aboard merchant
ships are manned by crews sup
plied by the navy.
When the small Nicaraguan ves
sel was blasted to the bottom on
the night of June 15, five mem
bers of the crew escaped.
The other 20 died.
A nazi torpedo sent the little
ship down in 90 seconds only 60
miles from shore.
The five who escaped did so
by freeing a lifeboat and Jump
ing in as the sea swirled up to
it, the navy announcement said.
A few minutes later the subma
r i n e, apparently accidentally,
damaged the lifeboat. One man
was taken aboard for questioning.
In the other sinking an
nounced Saturday, the valiant
skipper of the US freighter
herded his crew off the vessel
as the submarine maneuvered
to launch a torpedo.
The skipper identified as Capt.
William H. Lane of Philadelphia
slipped his own lifebelt about
a sailor and was killed in the ex
plosion. "He was the bravest man who
ever looked death in,, the face,"
said Second. Assistant Engineer
Jacob L. Gregory of Captain Lane.
A lifeboat containing four men
disappeared when the blast came.
The 23 survivors said they feared
it was blown to bits. The freight
er sank 50 seconds after the at
tack. Meats' Price
Base Changed
WASHINGTON, June 2HJP)
The office of price administration
Saturday revised the basis for
ceiling prices on beef and veal
at the packer and wholesale
levels.
The regulation, effective Julj
13, provides that the ceilings foi
each grade of carcass and quarter
of beef, or carcass and- saddle of
veal, shall be a price ;no' higher
than the lowest price at which
each individual merchandiser
sold at least 30 per cent of his
total quantity of that grade during
March 18-28, 1JU2.
Maximum retail prices charged
consumers were not affected b
the revision.
Sales Tax
Plan Killed
WASHINGTON, June 20-(JP
The house ways and means com
mittee quickly killed sales tax
proposals Saturday, and then
adopted a formula for collecting a
part of each employed individual's
income taxes from his regular
paychecks beginning in January.
With the decisions, the commit
tee virtually completed a tentative
draft of new tax legislation in
tended to add at least $6,640,000,
000 to federal revenue. Final ac
tion sending the bill to the house
is expected to be taken next week.
Firms Reminded
To File Prices
War price administration offices
Saturday notified representatives
in Salem that retailers' inventor
ies and price lists as defined In
price bulletin No. 2 must he filed
in the local office by July 1.
The Salem office of the price
a d m i n i s tration organization b
conducted in the council cham
bers of the city hall In connection
with war rationing offices.
More Carriers Seen
WASHINGTON, June 20 -(P)
A proposal to make - every war
ship of the fleet from destroy
er to battleship a carrier of
fighting planes was advanced Sat
urday by members of a senate
committee considering a house
approved $8,500,000,000 naval ex
pansion bill. '
V-te; Sports
SEATTLE, June 20-;p)-Night
game (13 innings) '
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