PAGE TWO Tbm OSSGON STATESMAN. Sodam Oragon Wdnodar Morning. Jun Zi. 1842 j Liberator US Planes Fight i Sevastopol Defense Stiffens; Outlook Little Improved (Continued From Page 1) escorts and sustained other serious damage to the two convoys caught In a three-day conflict In the Mediterranean more than week ago. One of these reached Malta from the west, the other had to turn back to Alexandria for lack of fuel after passing supply ships in to Tobruk. Meanwhile US and : British aircraft and British war ships were sinking an Italian hea vy cruiser, damaging two battle ships, sending two destroyers the bottom and destroying axis planes on a ration of more than two to every one they lost Attlee made no promises as to what the British would be able U d once the axis desert armies, now at the Egyptian 1 border, mount their next offen sive. But In Cairo Sir Miles Lampson, the British ambassa dor, said with assurance: The situation Is satisfactory. We shall beat the enemy decisive ly." His estimate of the military po sition as better than that of last year was, however, distinctly in the minority. In commons, one re bel conservative called the last Libyan campaign "one of the most serious disasters" of the whole war. Other observers pointed out that with Tobruk lost and Malta largely neutralized by prolonged air action the amount of rein forcement which the axis can send to Rommel is limited only by what Hitler can spare from Europe. The news from Sevastopol gen erally was meager, but the Ger mans themselves paid tribute to :the stiffened Russian defense by "talking, as they often do, about " "the most difficult terrain condi tions." The German high com mand reported also the Russians had essayed a landing on the north coast of the Sea of Azov, on the flank of the main German ar- my of south Russia, and claimed this had been repulsed. Tne red ciacK sea ueei ana lis air force struck new blows at Sevastopol, the fleet then putting to sea. An authorised account from Iraq, meanwhile, told of Amer ican non-combatants building a new Persian gulf port to broaden the stream of war sup plies now reaching the red ar mies by the southern route. Hundreds of planes, thousands of trucks, have reached Russia by this long course. On the western front the RAF plastered Emden, Germany's, sub marine port just across from The 'Netherlands, for the third time in four nights, and inform ants said the result was plain dev astation. In tragic France, Pierre Laval, again playing Adolf Hitler's propaganda game, announced the small and listless "anti-soviet ex peditionary force" recruited last year from among petty French fascists would fight in Europe, Africa or "anywhere," against "American imperialism and Anglo-Saxon greed." Laval, oddly enough, was shot last summer by a Free Frenchman who slipped into this dismal "expeditionary force" on review day. Casualty List Is Increased WASHINGTON. June 23-(J)- The navy s total of dead, wounded svji uuootuf aiuivuiivcu nx uic w ai to date rose to more than 10,000 today with the release of casualty list number 5. Declaring the "preponderant share" of the casualties resulted from direct action with the enemy while the rest occurred in the line of duty in the sea or in the air, the navy announced the number of dead in the new list as 98, with t wounded and 2101 missing. The casualties included personnel of the navy, marine corps and coast guard. WASHINGTON, June The navy department released to day casualty list No. 5 which in cluded the names of 32 Oregon . enlisted men three listed as dead, 29 as missing. . . No Oregon officers were listed . as either dead, wounded or miss ing. .,- Among enlisted personnel listed . as dead, with their next of kin: Bennett, . Orville Don, seaman, - first class,' USN. Father, Alonzo ' L. Bennett, Salem. Enlisted men listed as missing: Eshleman, Donald B. Corporal, USMC. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Eshleman, Salem. Hoblitt, Frederick M., Corporal, USMC. Mother, Mrs. Flora F. Hoblitt, Silverton. . First word that Seaman Ben nett, 18, had been killed in action, wis received by Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, 2080 North Commercial street, on May 14. His picture ap . peered in Tha Statesman at that tixna, it tnlisted on his 17th . birthday 1940 and was assigned . to thf quartermaster division of f the navy. " t Mr. and Mrs, Eshleman, 494 South Winter' Street, received a , telegrarf from Washington, DC, at aboui &9 lame time announc ing that their son. Donald, was rnissing from ' the Man fill bay tu-ea,H.Jeft Salem December 8, 1939, aerve Jn the marine corps. He was a former Statesman .i carrier, t A .brother, Samuel, jr. is serving In the US navy, Service Men Promoted Raymond VY. ; Iamka has been promoted from the rank of en sign to that of lieutenant Junior grade in the US naval reserve. according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Lamka, 1845 South 12th street. The promotion was made June 16, Just a year and three days after he received his commission as ensign. In addition to his reg ular duties he has been appointed officer in charge of music on the ship on which he is stationed. Re also has organized a popular mu sic band. Word received from Edgewood Arsenal, Md., tells that Abe L. Steinbock, 148 Union street, Sa lem, has been promoted to cor poral in the chemical warfare service there. While in Salem Steinbock played on city and west coast championship teams in table tennis, softball, basketball and dancing. Last year, before his in duction, he attended Willamette university, Men planning to enlist in the US marine corps for navy yard guard duty are advised by Sgt G. H. Bergstrom, to get their ap plications on file. July is the last mnnth in wrhirh snrh Milistmpnts wfu accepted there is now a ong list of applications on file. Bergstrom is the Salem ma rine recruiting officer. Mr. and Mrs. G. Frederick Chambers have 'received word from their son, Lt Douglas Cham bers, that he has been promoted to first lieutenant, field artillery. He is Stationed at El Segundo, Calif. ' . SCIO Roy "Squeaky" Slover is reported well in Australia. This was the first word from him since March 29. Willie Dobrkovsky, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Dobrkovsky of the Richardson Gap district, has been promoted to be second gun ner's mate on ship. He has been in the navy since April, 1938. Harold and Billy Hoagland, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Hoagland are stationed at Sheppard field, Texas, having enlisted a few weeks ago. Another seven Salem men were accepted for enlistment in the USN Tuesday. They are Herbert Leslie Stiff, jr., Pete Estrala Lores, Robert Lee Morris, Martin Albert Barstad, Jay Henderson McDon ald. Donald Samuel Hoffman, William Real. Others in the local group were Eugene Edward Lossett, Indepen dence; Joseph Henry Smith, Dallas. PORTLAND, June 23-(j!P)-Navy fkhlictmcntc annAtinaH Knra t rA n xr 5nlllH-. tw.m . ,,"VT j liam Rea, Robert L M ' Her bert L. Stiff, jr., Jay H. McDon ald, Martin A. Barstad, Salem. PORTLAND, June -Go ; big into the army today as a caD- tain in the air corps. Deputy US Attorney Edward B. Twining real ly felt like one of the boys. He has three brothers Brig. Gen. N. F. Twining, army; Lieut. Col. M. B. Twining, marine corps, and Cmdr. R. B. Twining, navy. PORTLAND, June 23-P)-En-listments in the marine corps an nounced today included Kenneth F. Steffen, Woodburn, and Her man M. Doney, Salem. Doney is a Salem policeman. Consumer Ceiling Set, March Level WASHINGTON, June 23-P) Consumer services, a $5,000,000, 000 industry carried on in 1,000, 0 0 0 establishments throughout the country, were placed under a wartime price ceiling tonight with top prices pegged at the highest levels of March. The ceiling takes effect July 1. The order covers laundries, un dertakers, garages and all sorts of repair shops. As a general rule, it covers all retail services per formed on things, such as shoe shining and piano-tuning; and it exempts services performed on or for people, such as those of bar bers, doctors and lawyers. Household repairs done by the job come under the order. As an example, the ceiling would cover a contract for reroofing a house if the- contractor named a price for the whole Job. If the house holder bought the shingles and hired a man to lay them, how ever, the repair would not come under the ceiling. For seasonal services, the order provides an adjustable price for mula based on rises in the cost of living since last year. - v f .e Whom Thy Am What Tbarfrm Doing SILVERTON Orville Towe la at the army hospital for a second hernia operation according to his brother, George Towe of Silverton. Orville was inducted some months ago and is stationed at San Luis Obispo, Calif. Leland Morley, son of Charles Morley, is in a hospital at Fort Cheyenne, Wyo., for blood pois oning treatment, received from' a nail in his foot. Morley writes that other than the little spell of illness, he is enjoying army life. Ernest Lewis is now at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., in training with the engineers. He is a son of Mrs. Oscar Lewis, and enlisted in the army May 4. James L. Anderson, who has been taking officers training at Fort Benning, Ga is homo on a short furlough before being sent elsewhere in army service. He has been commissioned a second lieu tenant. His parents are the C B. Andersons. Robert Anderson has written his parents, the George Andersons that the Silverton boys are togeth er in Australia and that they were enjoying the experience. Loron Dunagan, jr., is stationed at Dutch Harbor, and Mr. and Mrs. Dunagan have had no word from him since the recent bombing. Nips' Drive Is Stalled, China Master Plan Link With Singapore Balked for Now f Continued from Page 1) of Canton, the Chinese have re captured several villages, he said, while in the Samshui sector, 30 miles west of Canton, the Jap anese likewise have been unablo to make progress. Some of the bitterest fight ing reported today was In the Honan-Shansl border region north of the Yellow river, where Chinese charged headlong from their destroyed Taiheng hill po sition. Gen. Liu Yueh-Ting, a divi sional commande r, despite wounds, led the charge, was wounded a second time and final ly was captured in the bloody struggle. The Chinese said they killed between 400 and 500 Jap anese. The communique said the Chi nese, who previously were re ported defending a mountain pass with rocks, grenades and machine guns against a foe armed with artillery and planes, were con tinuing the battle. The spokesman said Japan's "master plan" to link Shanghai and Singapore by rail through China, Indo-China, Thailand and Malaya was the "key to success ful continuation of her war against the United Nations." In view of their recent naval losses, he said, the Japanese know sea-borne communication with their newly won south Asia pos sessions may soon be threatened. The spokesman pointed out railways already exist the .whole distance except for about 300 miles between Liuchow in Kwangsi province and the Indo China border. On the Yunnan front above the Burma road, the high command accused the Japanese of commit ting large-scale brutalities, in cluding the killing of 1000 able bodied Chinese youths and plun dering and raping. Civil Defense Jealousy Hit SEATTLE, June 23.-A-James C. Sheppard, west coast civilian defense director, cautioned today against the development of Jeal ousies between agencies in the civilian program. "If this job is going to be stopped while jealousies are re solved as between municipal and state and federal governments. and if instead of taking off our coats and getting to work, we are going to jockey for position and determine who does what, then we are due for a pretty rude awakening," he declared in a dis cussion at the institute of govern ment on the University of Wash ington campus. Rubber Drive Feared Short PORTLAND, June 23-VFafl ure of the "one and two pounders'' to come through indicates the scrap rubber drive will fall short, Stephen Brennan, field man for the war production board, said today. He explained the "one and two pounders" means the great mass of American civilians who had been counted upon to contribute small amounts of scrap. Govern ment drive estimates, he said, had been based largely upon -the mil lions of civilians who would give a pound or two of old rubber. rtflSC J Pin Tax L Bob Hope Faalette . Geddard "Nothing ' But The Mr. District Attorney in "The Carter Case" Truth- WU Head Dies NO V DR. CARL S. KNOPF Dr. Knopf Has Fatal Attack (Continued From Page 1) of Bible literature at USC in 1916 and from 1917 to 1920 was psy chology professor at Fullerton, Calif., junior college. He served as associate professor and later professor and chairman of the biblical literature department at USC from 1922 to 1935. From 1936 to 1939 he was chairman of the school of religion and then be came chaplain and dean until coming to Willamette. Besides being a teacher In re ligious subjects. Dr. Knopf was a renowned archaeologist. He was a past president of the Sooth west ArehseolotT Federa tion as well as prominent in many other organisations. He was a noted speaker and the author of nine books and mono graphs and numerous articles on religion, philosophy and sr cbaeolocT. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Florence Knopf, a brother, Albert luiopr of ls Angeles, a nephew and two cousins. 174 Qualify, Hostess Group One hundred seventy four Sa lem young women have qualified for and been accepted as mem bers of the junior hostess league, members of the city hostess league senior organization announced at their meeting Tuesday night. An other 70 in the younger group are under consideration. Recommendations for girls who have not filed applications and applications from those whose recommendations have, not been submitted are piling up, mem bers of the investigating commit tee declared, urging that an at tempt be made by applicants to file the two groups of papers simultaneously. A full quota of 100 women to serve as senior hostesses for en tertainment events planned for service men has been obtained although all have not been noti fied, said Mrs. Waldo Zeller, chairman. After July 1, identification cards and other required papers for hostesses in the junior group are to be available at the organi zation's desk in the Senator hotel lobby, it was said. Registrations continue there daily from 11 to 2 for young women 18 years of age or over and unmarried. A sugges tion box for entertainment fea tures is to be maintained there, it was said. Meantime, members of the city's recreation committee meeting at chamber of commerce rooms de clared they had adopted no policy as to plans for soldier entertain ment and would not until repre senatives of organizations affected had been consulted. Chairman Frank Earnest said his committee would meet again tonight Big Army Bill Passes House (Continued From Page 1) and all that everything we hold dear was at stake," said Rep. Ma hon (D-Tex). There were questions from the house floor as to what the United States was doing to safeguard the rich territory of Alaska, to protect the coast, how its guns and tanks were standing up against the en emy on the far-flung battlefronts of the world. While many of the questions went unanswered directly, mem bers of the appropriations sub committee on war expenditures, against the background of secret testimony from military chiefs, assured the house Of their faith in the army's command and on the excellence of American-made equipment I? Salen flrncry - Doors Open at 7:30 Plus Tax Admission . v Anti-Picketing Bill Sponsors Must Identify Money Donors For Campaign, Court Holds Organizations' and individuals who spqnsored the Oregon union control initiative measure usually identified as the "anti- picketing bill,, which later was declared unconstitutional, must file their expense statements with the secretary of state, the state supreme court ruled here Tuesday. The high court's opinion, writ ten by Justice Harry Belt, sus tained Circuit Judge L. G. Le wel ling of Albany, who heard the case from the-Marion county bench. Belt declared the cor rupt practices act requires the filing of expense statements in connection with campaigns for and against initiative and referen dum measures as well as for can didates for public office. The suit was filed by D. E. Nickerson, executive secretary of the state federation of labor, against the Associated Farmers of Oregon, the Eastern Oregon Wheat league, Horace Mecklem, Henry L. Corbett, Hamilton F. Corbett, Wil liam Knight, George L. Baker, Aaron Frank and others. The complaint charged that the defendants spent $80,000 in ob taining approval of the law at the 1938 general election. Commenting on defendant's con tention that the currupt practices act does not apply to initiative measures, the court said that the people, in enacting the corrupt practices law, "desired to main tain the purity of the ballot and to prohibit illegal practices in elections, whether a measure or a candidate is involved Defendant's contentions that Nickerson's suit was not filed within the legal time limit and that courts do not have Jurisdic tion in such matters, also were denied by the high court. "The purity of the ballot," the supreme court said, "can best be maintained by requiring a full and complete disclosure to the public of those individuals, committees or organizations expending money and the amounts contributed in opposition to or in advocacy of measures affecting the public wel fare. We can see no just cause or reason why the defendants should refuse to reveal what they contribute, if anything, toward securing passage of the initiative measure in question. We think the construction which we have given to the act is in keeping with its purpose and spirit, and will tend toward good govern ment." Erickson Dean Of Freshmen (Continued From Page 1) of admissions, at an increase in salary, according to Dean Chester F. Luther of Willamette. His du ties also will call for visitation at high schools seeking prospec tive Willamette students and di recting the operation of the uni versity's teacher placement bu reau, recently in charge of Irma I. Abbott, who has left the campus staff. Dean Luther said that work of the registrar's office other than that of admissions probably would be handled by a recorder, who is yet to be selected. University officials have indi cated that the position of vice president, dropped this month by Dr. R. Franklin Thompson, new president of the College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, probably will not be filled at present. Walla Walla Fire Damage Is Higher WALLA WALLA, June 23-(P) Damage in the fire which swept the hospital section of the army air base here early Tuesday prob ably will exceed the original esti mate of $150,000 made Tuesday by Lt Col. Earl T. Vance, com manding officer, he indicated Tuesday night Col. Vance said an investigation is being made. Tire, Auto Thefts Pile Up, Roseburg ROSEBURG, June 23-(iip)-Offi- cers were kept on the go all night as a wave of tire, automobile and truck thefts struck Douglas coun ty, State Police Sergeant P a u Morgan said Tuesday. On the stolen list were seven logging truck tires, a truck, an automobile and a pickup. Acid Indigestion wsat mumy Dactara fr ft Una to M-mi MIMl M iantiw. If Mr Mr ant total Mal l mn BeU-ua Mt, ntna an Lru MM gouS(0Tro:iQUB0!iqiEflRA' Yotyyg -.trrAiia una .t Wednesday, July 1 Dancing Starts at 8:00 Tickets at Music Nook 2 Court Street Argentina Is Ired, Sinkings 13 US Vessels Sunk In Caribbean; Losses Heavy (Continued From Page 1) gers, 635 have been rescued. The saved included 128 passengers. Eighty five persons were 13 ships, including 133 passen- mlsslng, three US soldiers were known dead and SI persons res cued when a mediom-tixed US merchant ship was torpedoed and sank In three mlnwtes In the Atlantic Jane 15. Unless the missing are rescued, it may prove one of the worst Ameri can ship disasters In these wa ters since Pearl Harbor. At a New England port 86 sur vivors told of a medium-sized British merchant vessel being torpedoed about 75 miles off the coast. Five men were lost, includ ing three officers who returned to the ship after the attack and attempted to get it to port. Thirty six crewmen from a tor pedoed Norwegian ship reached Paramaribo, Dutch Gulnana, aft er gambling their lives In a life boat rather than accept Intern ment on Vichy-controlled Devil's Island. They said the French authorities gave them the alter native of internment or getting cut of the colony. At the same time the Argentine government announced from Buenos Aires its freighter the Rio Tercero which was sunk Monday 175 miles from New York was the victim of a German submarine. Thirty six survivors, including one passenger, reached New York aboard a naval patrol vessel and five were missing. The announce ment brought a new element in to the relations of neutral Argen tina and Germany which only last week apologized for toroedoing the Argentine tanker Victoria. Dr. Francisco Aranbarri, the Rio Tercero passenger, safd later In an east coast port Interview American planes had bombed the attacking nazi submarine before it could submerge. At least seven bombs were dropped but he said he could not tell whether the U boat had been hit. He added the name Innsbruck and an image of a porcupine were painted on the conning tower of the submarine and its crewmen were obviously German. Reckless War Spending Hit (Continued From Page 1) bomber yet we had none. We are just getting them now. We pioneered in self-sealing gas tanks, but abandoned them and the Germans demonstrated how necessary they are." The maritime commission, the report declared, "has failed to provide adequately for the move ment of strategic raw materials by use of the tonnage actually or po tentially under its control." Overall, the committee said it had uncovered evidence dis closing "a sordid picture of ex cessive commission by brokers, profits by vendors, exorbitant salaries; bonuses and huge fees for management and related services la many department contrasts." The government has a responsi bility, committeemen said, to "eliminate exorbitant profits not after the war is over but during the period the war is being prose cuted." Coatisitoas from 1 P. M. Today and Thursday It't TTSp True To Life Soger Fryer Companion Feature' ;SW5t!U'(iift. nt!ll jMll afcok snssS. -7 ' feytriiaey News and Comedy irl 1 1 I I H 1 I I L Schools' Sked Is Shortened To Start Sept. 21; Physical Training To Be Stressed (Continued From Pago 1) since the Oregon State Teach- ers association BBoetiiur has been shifted from spring back to the traditional mld-wtnter convention time. Sept Frank B. Bennett told the school board. However, the calendar adopted Tuesday night shows no spring vacation with the possible ex ception of a Good Friday holi day, to be determined later. Christmas holidays are to com mence December 23. Shorter by four or five days of actual instruction than the Salem school year has been recently, the new calendar, nevertheless, is sev en or eighdays on the safe side of state school requirements, Ben nett explained. Reorganization of physical edu cation programs at both junior high schools and the senior high school to conform with federal agency recommendations in the national "keep fit" program is to result in a considerable increase in intramural sports at all three institutions, Bennett . said. Along with the change In pro gram, directors accepted Ben nett's recommended shift In men physical education instructors. Dnane Mellen, who has been assistant at Salem high school and social science teacher at Parrish, fa to take full time in struction at Parrish. Tom Dry nan, who has been head of the department at Parrish, and Gnrnee Flesher from Leslie move to the senior high school to form with Vernon Gil mo re a staff of three, replacing- Harold Hank, on leave for navy serv ice. Herman Swartskopf goes to Leslie to replace Flesher. The staff of city playgrounds employes, to be paid by the school district with the city to refund half, was presented by Gurnee Flesher, playground director, through Bennett, and approved by directors. Leave of absence for one year's graduate work at Washington State college was granted Mrs. Bernice Skeen, principal of Bush, and Miss Lois Peck, teacher of mathematics at Parrish, was named to replace her. Leave of Mrs. Edith S. Green was continued at her request Miss Jean Spaulding, who has been teaching at Springfield, was elected on e substitute basis to replace Mrs. Grace H. Schmidt, on leave from Garfield. I t i i 1 J 1 ' - I, J I,, 7 1 STARTS TODAY Plus Pelt Smith I . 4 A Jy 1 1 umM I I ml IX s Xv Algi BEN LYOft 1-7 Yjjmwm jones Land Is lions1 District Chief Convention Goers of Salem Hear Shots; Nobody Jittery (Continued From Page 1) attending the state Lions club convention at Seaside like other Lions making a rumpus, Monroe Cheek, 765 Ferry, reported Tues day night "I was in my room and heard the noise but merely thought some other Lions were having fun," he said. However, a few of the Salem delegates were able to get outside in time to see the gun flashes. Later some oi the Lions were allowed to inspect the craters created by the explosions, Cheek said, but only after the army had finished its investigations of tfc m. "Not one person was the least bit scared or jittery," Cheek an nounced in speaking of the effect of the shelling on the civilians in the area. ASTORIA, Ore., June 23.-(B) Suspected presence of an enemy vessel off the Oregon coast failed to deter deepsea fishermen and they came in with a few albacore tuna Tuesday, the earliest such fish ever have been taken in these waters. Despite the Sunday night shell ing of the coast near here by an unidentified vessel, believed to be a Japanese submarine, fisher men ventured 39 miles to sea, seeking soup fin shark. Their gillnets brought up tuna, but fishermen v said schools have not yet begun to form. Nevertheless a packers associa tion prepared to send a launch on a tuna scouting trip. Late Sports MILWAUKIE, Ore., June 23. -PJ-Milwaukie high school to day named Rufus L. Fox basket ball coach for next season. Fox resigned recently from McLough lin high school, Milton-Freewater, where he was hoop mentor for wive years. CONTINUOUS FROM 1 P. 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