Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1942)
The OSEGOH STATESI IA1I. Satan. Orveoa. Wednesday Morning. July 1 lMZ AGE TWO Rommel Faced iyi Hard Stand Expected; US Air Forces Take Big Battle Role (Continued From Paga, 1) The mHIIns masse of tanks, men and artillery ranged over hundreds of square miles of hard, brown desert sand during; the day - and fought on tonight under the refreshing cool of a. desert moon. The paramount object , of, both ': the British and Germans was to : destroy the opposing army. Earlier ta the bitter combat Tuesday, the allied army had thrown back the advancing- Ger--, man f ram Faka, a esastal polat - on the rim at, the desert 45 miles southeast of Matron. But the wJIjm axis commander, Marshall Vrwin Rommel, struck again with his two German and a third Italian armored divisions. Ap i parent j " the British dropped back before the superior forces . f . , , '.' . I (Axis communiques claimed Rormnel's advance forces -had reached and passed Fulra, but . not claim its capture) General Auchinleck's battle . groups were in the fore of this su ' preme ' defense of the Alexandria , naval base, the Nile delta and Suez , itself. . : V ' , . They are small, swift units of infantry,- supported by anti-tank guns and quick to .use the bayo- met Since Saturday they have been taking on the axis tanks, destroy ing a number of : them and at night rushing the' crews caught outside their tanks and wiping them out with cold steel and hand grenades. Naw Zealanders, brought into action from the east; have played an important part In these assaults. More Free Trench, grizzled foreign legionnaires of the kind who held out 16 days after . terrible assault at Bir Hacheim in Libya, .motor ized Spahis and Senegalese rifle men, were in the fight ' In the forward areas the US' . army ah corps, also reinforced," was In heavy bombfng action along with the RAF. For the . last two J nights these' streagth - ened squadrons have fired axis , tracks, ansa red vehicles and grounded aircraft just Vest of .Matruh and nave .'flown on to . damp explosives ' the ruined harbor of Tobruk, hitting . at leash one 5000-ton enemy sup ply vessel directly amidships. With the axis air force still' mov ing up, Alexandria, was under air attack Monday night for the ' second time in 24 hours. " Twelve persons were killed and 14 wounded."1 - One raider' which ventured- into , the Nile delta was shot tgpie sea by a British night fighter Enemy planes known to have been destroyed in the desert dur ' ' ins June now total more than 90, snore than a third jbf them dive- " bombers. - '"! The -area where the battle Is raging is dotted with desert air - fields which the British have had 'to abandon, but there has been no letup in the allied air activity as result a . SMd Losses r.Jaimt to 327 By j-The'"AoeUIi .Press ' Western-Atlantic ship losses by the united and neutral nations since Pearl Harbor amounted to 527 in the unofficial Associated Press tabulation with the an nouncement by, the nvy depart- mem uesaajLtnat tnree more merchantmen, hagfegeen sunk with presumed loss -of 67 lives. All three ships were torpedoed. rescued crewmen related. Survivors of a ""Canadian mer chantman "sunk in the Caribbean area said, the vessel sank so rap idly after two torpedoes struck her that only six men out of crew- of 30 survived. - SurvivorsTrom another ship said their medium-sized - vessel -was sunk v more, than 500 miles from land. Those rescued from a .third ship sinking said the under sea boat surfaced andmaem - quiries as to the cargo and des tination after torpedoing her. Only six members -of a crew of - 38 were r saved from the second ship reported sunk, and 24 of the 55 seamen, aboard the third craft were picked up alive. ttotuenecK Orout Scans ; Salem USO Without, any information as to ..' Just when work of remodeling the former Raymond garage building into a city; recreation center for service men may be expected to start, Don Orpu t- -regional repre sentative of the federal securities -agency, is in Salem today.. , The agency Orput represents is that J set up federally to provide, m- among other services, property - facilities f or entertainment of ser ( vice men. It has Indicated that the garage bulldog on North. High : - street here U acceptable and will V W v i.W J wm a i First laits recreation tenter to :be opened ill any. western Oregon city utsitff Of Portland: ta ta be fJedicatci Friday at Astoria ?r- " a noolinS ti federal, state- citv and county Xunds and at the close , of the war is to revert to the state ms aa armory, it is taaderstood. . uKBMIGp 1 - By KERKE L. - ,,. wide World War Analyst The fate not of Egypt alone, but of British power in the mid dle east, never in grave jeopardy since Napoleon's day, is being decided in a grim grapple of men,, tanks and planes on a bat tlefield shriveled to a bar 40 - by 1 1 : . , Sugar Ration Rules Told For Canada American tourists who plan to An mm iM-Mi,v-iil- n r-anada rj fc-ttfec to the dominion's sugar rationing law which becomes effective July 1, reports 3th Ore goh State. Motor association, which has just received the information through the Canadian Pacific rail way. This ruling will apply to those who. keep house in summer cottages, tourist courts or trailer houses. -; . ; Prospective visitors are advised to apply for the rationing cards now through the ration division, wartime prices and trade board, Ottawa, Canada. However, -cards may be secured from the local wartime price and trace board in any Canadian city after the tour ist reaches the dominion. Persons who will eat in cafes or restaurants ' and who do not intend to keep house will not be required to have cards. The amount of sugar, available for each person is not announced, but is expected to be similar to the United States allowance. The motor association also points 012V the' following additional facts of importance governing tourist travel between the two countries. 1. When returningtothe United States it is necessary that the American tourist be able to prove his citizenship. Birth certificate, passports or . voting registration certificates are excellent evidence. It is well to secure these papers before crossing the border. 2. Gasoline rationing for tour Ists now is effective in British Co lumbia and the visitor is allowed a maximum of 18 imperial gallons of casoline. This is eauivalent to nearly 20 American gallons. No additional kas can be secured un der any consideration and the tour should be planned within the driv ing limits of the available fuel. In other western Canadian provinces, the allowance is 20 imperial gal lons..'' 3. Canada is anxious for Ameri can tourists to visit its recreational areas and has extended special in vitations through dominion and provincial officials. Bremen Raids LONDON, June StO-iTV The German U-boat nest at Bremen was attacked heavily Monday night by the Royal Air Force and aq informed source declared the cumulative destruction inflicted there has put the nazis second biggest port "in much the same state as Cologne, Emden, Lubeck and Rostock." Looking back to the 1000-plane raid : on Bremen ' last Thursday night and the followup blows de llvered Saturday and Monday nights, ' observers calculated the port had -been hit by -about 2000 tons oUiigh ex; span of five nights. : In addition, it was reckoned that' tens of thousands ' of Tire bombs probably 100,000 were dropped on the submarine build ing yards, railway installations, factories and warehouses, , and it was estimated 1400 twin and four- lngined bombers had been sent over Bremen in me last mree raids.' -' The British announced the loss of onlynine boiribers , In the night's,, work which spread over airfields in German-occupied ter ritory and-to railway obpectives in France 1 and shipping off the French, coast Yaquina Workman Hurt by Cable Robert Shermer, about- 40, of Yaquina. was in a critical condi tion at the Salem General hospital rafter being struck in th? face by a cable while working in a shipyard at Toledo. Details of the accident were unobtainable upon his being brought to the hospital late Tuesday.-. - : - - Last Times Today - ' Ala tnd Bir Feature - Heavy i: - - t ; y SIMPSON for The Statesman - 60 mile span of sun-scorched desert " Into that rough rectangle east of Fuka oh the south shoreline of the eastern Mediterranean, Brit ish imperials of many races and from many laritts and American army air 'fighters : have , been poured to halt the surging German-Italian drive that has brought its guns almost within earshot of Alexandria. Not weeks, or even days, but hours, should see a decision that must incalculably alter . the whole trend of the war. . The f t that axis forces have adv need past El Daba, only 1M miles f r m .Alexan dria, Is ominous but by n means decisive. They have yet io g past the natural defenses ast of El Daba. At that point, . the distance between the Med . Iterranean and the Quattara depression is anly 31 miles, a : bottleneck which should be comparatively easy to defend.' If the British failed to hold there, it would be a stunning blow, not only to their pride and prestige, but to the cause of the United Nations. By the same to ken, however, axis defeat in the seething, formless conflict tha 1 rages day and night must con front the naxi tfar lord with tents of a-disaster that could wreck his whole stupendous con- , quest scheme. Hitler could lose the war, or begin to lose It, in Egypt He cannot win it there. He has risk ed all to capitalize on the Brit ish disaster in Libya which op ened the way to Egypt for his : troops. If they now fail to com plete their victory decisively, an axis disaster of even greater proportions and significanrP-than the British defeat ""the loss of Tobruk The back of the German-Italian axis itself could be broken ;in Egypt, Prime Minister Churchill must be waiting for some expected - speedy development - before he laces political critics in parlia ment with the most somber war accounting he has been called upon to make since the fall. of France. He told his' fellow mem bers of ''the mother of parlia ments" only that General Auch inleck, British commander-in-chief in the east, had taken per sonal command of the fighting ' front in Egypt That of itself in dicates the gravity of the situ ation. Auchinleck. hard - bitten . Scotsman and desert warfare veteran who ranks ' next to WaveQ among British fighting men, Is meeting a supreme teat The fit of the Church ill war ministry, of Churchill I himself, probably. Is in his EgTPt He Is in personal com mand at the most critical point , at one af the decisive moments of the war, and .the adds are not all against him. Reinforcements, i n c 1 u d i n hard-fighting New Zealand troops, have reached him from Britain's two other armies in the middle east The successive Brit- ish withdrawals from Salum, Si di Barrani, and Matruh, without a stand except for swirling rear guard action, has sucked the axis forces so far eastward they will be in peril if they now fail to force his front If brought to a stand either by British resistance or by the fearfully extended and exposed supply, lines which support them, and cumulative battle exhaus ton, Rommel's army must Re treat or be destroyed. Collapse of the whole thinly-held axis front in North Africa -TOuld- jboon re sult and with it an upsurge on war wearyings in Italy that Hit ler's accomplice, Mussolini, could not withstand. Victim Unchanged Condition of Mrs. Daisy Cr'ise, 245 North High street who was injured in a fatal auto accident Friday night remains critical at the Salem General hospital. Re ports . indicate that no change In her condition has been noted. I A N. A. C, Production f;!.- if- ; --. mmrCf i rgfiSSTRA . - TONIGHT! Salera rAnaory Doors Open 9:39 - Dancing' at S.C9 Tickets "at Jlosie Naok " --428 Court Admission 75 Plus Tax r-.-'Rc I Oregon Forests Closed, Entry Death of CCC Seen as Serious Blow to Fire Protection (Continued From Paga 1) have to call on them. Of course, we have seen this coming and have made plans,' but it does add to the difficulties in a year when the threat, from natural causes and sabotage is great and when we must keep production going in toe woods'. Watts pointed out that eeagreas had cut a requested $lf0tl, St for forest fire protection to $5,0M,tQCu la a defleieney ap propriation bill, bat tha senate later Inserted 15,509,000 for fire protection in the arricultare de partment appropriation bill, which still Is being debated, . "We really , need that $5,500, 000," Watts commented. T. S. Goodyear, supervisor , of the Washington-state division of forestry, ; declared that the elim ination of the CCC "wfll interfere seriously with' the entire fire pre-: vention program of aU protective agencies." The CCC has earned the major part of the fnflghtteginsWash ington f or the nast dghlTiears,1 Goodyear said. "And It nas ad vanced the entire reforestation program .at least 15 years ahead of where it would have been had there been np CCC." Lynn F. Cronemiller, assistant Oregon state forester, sounded different note, He said the 'de creased numbers of CCC enroHees since the United States entry into the - war - have minimized ' their contribution to forest trotecon anyhow. Lynn t. CranemiHer told The- Statesman Tuesday nlsht, "Be cause CCC enrollment has been down tinea the war began, we "have" rne ahead and made our , summer protection plans- with out depending upon help from fiie corps. However, the many trained foremen will be greatly missed unless they axe placed elsewhere." He observed that if the camps were kept fufl of men they would3 be of great assistance but under the circumstances he, did not feel that the effect of the program': elimination would be great upon uregon s xoresi lire proDiems. Teachers File Tax Petitions . Completed petitions for the Oregon State. Teachers association imtiatiyt-measure providing that all stale income taxes in excecsT'bf $7,750,000 annually shall be used for offset of school district axes were filed in the state department here Tuesday. The petitions contain the sig natures of 28,545 qualified voters as against 25,385 required by law. In event tha petitions are found to be regular the measure will go, on the ballot at the November election. E. F. Carleton, who retires Wed nesday as executive secretary of the State Teachers association brought thg.petitions to Salem. This year's state income tax col lections were estimated at approx imately $11,000,000. , Reds Hit When Needed, Down Cubs, 4 to 1 CINCINNATI, June 30-(4fr-The Cincinnati Reds were held to five hits Tuesday night by Bfl! Lee of rthe Chicago Cubs, but got them in the pinches to down the Chicago ans, 4 to 1, in an Army-Navy re lief game which netted the fund more than $36,000. - -; Rubber-armed Ray Starr was touched for six hits by the Cubs, but kept them spaced and allowed the losers to! score in the third inning only. It was Starr's eleventh victory of the season,! . U Lee and Hernandez; Starr and Lamanno. wi ;:. L Complete Circus and Menagerie UNDER CANVAS! Leslie Junior H. S. Groands One Day Only! i vma i u eooas oeh astcsmoom an micht Meoa4HCSS OAltT fr T a. m. SSACTU THB SAME IM EVEBT DETAIt GREAT 3 HI lTY7rilT7 I A V AMERICA'S FAVORITE DIG SHOW vc:::ees ci tb v::.id cf y;.3Te m a ttcir tzk:i eest H trUI'wM At4fw Star-SaiMsM As. ' kH mni Armlc Arfbfs, mn4 AsMUlng ' Animal Adsfs,..Emstcliit tks Crtem I lV WM CkfetQfCM TafMl. ' tons as iiFoiMiiia mrsisTi scosts or MAOtMsictat aoatit ClOWil A!OtS AtSfS 0 Tf NTS Ausplecs: Military Police. Oregon State Guard Sank 'Rykuktt f . .:-. Lieut. Henry Hunter Fitts, 25, of Macon, NC, one of the heroes of the battle between American air -arms and a Jap invasion flotilla fx Midway island in mid-Pacific Lieutenant Fitts, who was graduated from EUlngtoa Field, Texas, ( dropped tha closing bombs on the Japanese aircraft carrier Rykuku which sent her lb the bottom. Pilot of the B-17 which carried Uautenant FUts over Ma target was CaptJ Charles JL Gregory af Houston, Texas. " - -v ' Cherry; Picker Calls Mount Hundreds Needed as Weather Ripens , Valley Fruits The number of cherry pickers wanted in orchards of Polk, and MariorT counties mounted hourly Tuesday. It was predicted mat by this morning from 800 to 1000 pickers would be on the growers "want list" at the United States employment office, 710 Ferry street. - " The recent warm weather has ripened me cherries rapidly and reduced the ardour of many pick ers, W. H. Baillie, manager of -the office, said Tuesday. Additional school patrols were not organized Tuesday because it was found all the students to form them were picking cherries on their own account. Many Iwsistant calls for pickers were received Tuesday from' the Roberts community, one of the most productive cherry districts of the area. While pickers went .to masy other points, they evidently by-passed Roberts. V. - . '.(-' . I The employment office will be open Saturday and Sunday to take care of the growers' -needs.: The Sflverton Hills strawberry grow ers still have not all of the pick era they need. Wages of from $5 to $7 a dajr have been reported in this district where the season is at its peak. : .' Repairs Halt Paper Mill I First complete shutdown of Or egon Pulp it t Paper company's paper-making plant here in two years commenced Tuesday and is to continue until next Monday while equipment undergoes over hauling and plant repairs and al terations are made. Principal repair jobs involves lowering of the office floor 3D inches to conform to the floor lev el of the new warehouse, accord ing to Manager Karr.W. Heinlein. Sash and door operations of Che company continue, whOe pa per mill employes are off the 'job under a system which provides that the shutdown may be consid ered as vacation. Tire Quota Told r 1 PORTLAND, June 30.-(ff-The Oregon office of price adminis tration announced July county NG " c kaU'mti if frttt tni fslie ... "AU la alt . , tttt cirtM mt Mr a!." v Li Mafht KiMrfaar . . Ads Ikat ivryett aaylklaf tm I'lkXt VlkH cr i;.:chty cis TO? f.URYElS -,-r 1 . . :' 'i 1 :'. : ' '-'!. Series of Raitls . -i - Launched, Reds . . ....... i 1 . Attacks on Sevastopol Also Beat Off Vitb : dossal Losses Continued From Pag 1) said the Germans ( were suffering "colossal lossesJ "In the Kursk - direction, the stubborn battle continues," the communique said. "On one sector alone- during the day we killed over 2000 Germans.' 1 The communique said 150rtanks were destroyed in addition to 200 previously reported knocked out in the first two days of the Kursk battle. Referring to the bitter fighting around besieged Sevastopol, where the Germans have thrown quarter of a million men into the furious assault, the high com mand said tersely: "On the Sevastopol sector our troops beat off attacks by big ene my, forces; This indicated the Russian lines were holding firm after the with drawals mentioned in the previ ous day's communique. : The Kursk offensive, north f Kharkov, thundered into full fury Sunday la what looked like the prelude to Hitler's Ion verdae general assault i and the Russians 'said the Basis reg istered same initial penetrations with Infantry troops. r i But before supporting! tanks could be brought- up, Marshal Timoshenko's men swarmed in behind the nazis who perished in these, tight pockets by the hun dreds.5' More than 200 German tanks were declared knocked out in two days and, with the enemy thus weakened, the Russians! said their forces were able to smash subsequent attacks on their posi tions. . 1 At Sevastopol tha situation was clearly one of the utmost gravity for the soviet garrison as the un equal struggle raged through its 26th day apparently to an immi nent decision. Dispatches from the Crimean battlefield said the Germans had inched, forward slowly during the day with their more important gains in the northeastern fortifi cations of the once-great but now ruined naval base j In a supreme effort to force a decision In this long and costly siege, the Germans were re ported to have increased their attacking farce free It U 15 divMona aboat 25te me. : "No matter what the outcome of the unequal struggle for the ruins of the city, commented the army newspaper Red Star hi re porting this development, "this is a victory for soviet Innt!,',; . "History will always xemember the duel of one lone garrison with 15 German divisions. Tacom. Suiting Results in Death TACOMA, June 30 (ff) Lest er Montery Vaden, S8, died. In 1 Tacoma hospital Tuesday night soon after falling victim to a large knife wielded by an angered Ital ian identified by Police Detective Peter S. Modaht as Luigi Yacon- etti, 49. ' , ! ,r Yaconetti was immediately tak en into custody, Modahl said. The 1M1111111 m nuyiiK akMiu uyuu va den, while the latter. was walking along a sidewalk in a residential area, was the result of a quarrel over the affections of a woman, Modahl said. The woman, whose name was given by Modahl as Ethel Craig, waawalking with Vaden at the time of the attack, is said by the officers to have barely 1 escaped the wild thrash ings of Yaconettfs fcnife. She ran into a nearby house. tire quotas Tuesday. Included were: Marion county Passenger tires 52, "recaps 319, tubes 137. Truck tires 324, recaps 380, tubes 361. ' Continaou from-1 F.H. Today and Thursday S07T2S9C3 RASA ffilMS AT THI BlISsT ' ucirsi (Oiimtu net n News and Comedy f, - v pics r U"? fy 2nd Hill LJ "" , tUMMCt tlMll.flt "VTV J-' I fStochihgs9 Painted On Miss Patricia Lee, employed In the state department-LexS, has the distinction of being the first girl worker in the statehouse to ap pear at work with her legs paint ed a sun tan under a new cosmetic innovation. ' ' V;-: ;U -f . - - Miss Lee explained ! that this was a war measure, designed to conserve silk and other essential materials used in the manufac ture of stockings. She added that the "paint Job" would. -last three days.: Several shades of the cosmetic were said to be available. DeWitt Cuts Alaska Trips Fingerprints, Photos , Of AU Required For Army Permit SAN FRANCISCO, June 30.- (ff)-A. drastic military order re quiring the fingerprinting, photo graphing and detailed Investiga tion of every civilian entering or leaving Alaska was issued Tues day by Lieut GeTX. J. I DeWitt, commanding the fourth army. western defense, command and Alaskan defense command. After July 10 army permits will be required to enter or leave the territory, which borders the nor mal sea routes to Japan. v-T The order, first of its kind in the Pacific war ; theatre, was. Is sued to protect Alaskan, defenses. Alaska is the closest part of con tinental America to Pacific fight ing that, has been carried to the territory's own Aleutian islands by Japanese raids. : All unnecessary travel to Alas ka wm be eliminated when the army establishes its air tight con trol over civilian movement, Only six grounds will be recognized as meriting a pass. . These are official business of the government - definitely ar ranged legitimate, employment business, return of bona fide Alas ka residents, close domestic re lationship and school interests. 620 Register Here, Draft .16-Year-Olds .Essay, ' War Job Action Underway Continued From Page 1) ed for other types of kervice if they ; refused the war-industry Jobs. , ; WASHINGTON, June ZQHJPi The nation completed Tuesday the vast task of registering its .man power, with approximately 43, 000,000 on selective, service rolls or already In uniform. ' : Registration of the 1& to 20- year-olds throughout the nation moved along smoothly, incom plete reports indicated. - 90 Monday .Citizens of Salem sweltered Monday in 90-degree temperatures as summer at last appeared to hate come to stay. Porch swings, sun suits and straw hats . were gotten out and the city's swimming pools were crowded as thousands took steps to counteract, Old Sol's rays. . JBUY, WAK STAMPS IDZRE uToday and Thursday t Hits! fCOOLEST SPOT W TOWN"! : . iuh - aoRSXD ti - ) w, Companion Feature rl TCiPS la DrterhOweati C!IY Ki" NJ.' If B PIIITT f i TTfiniOTHf aOQRf Plus IX James Stewart la "WINNING YOUR. WINGS' COMING FRIDAY ' At Regular Prices' Gary Cooper as -SERG0ANTYORZ- STARTS TODAY . Centln. from 1 p.m la Technicolor Laretta Young - Richard Greene - i Walter Brennaa .'. PIX3 Els Latest DON "RED BARRY in JESSIE JA2ZXS. JR." Mercury 1 Churchill Is Predictei Receives Tumultuous Welcome Debate Opens Today By DREW MIDDLETON XONDON. June 30-(P)-A T- cisive victory for Prim Minister . rhiirchlirs national - government was predicted Tuesday night by well - informed parliamentary sources despite the addition of two recruits to. the list of 19 chronic critics whose mo-confidence mo-, tion precipiUted the : Impendmg two-day debate In commons.. The crime minister himself partly disarmed his critics- by an nouncing in commons mai uen.. Sir Claude Auchinleck, commana- er m cmer 01 ujc sduw the middle east has assumea command of the British army In north Africa June 25, supersed ing LieuL-Gen. Nell M. Ritchie. After Tuesdays nouse session Onn-chin conferred ' wltn lung George. ..... . It was Churchill's first appear ance in the house since his return from the United States and he re ceived a tumultuous welclme ( Nevertheless, the debate which Lopehs Wednesday was expected to verge on the acrimonious ana we probing and criticism wereex nected to wring from Churchill some concessions. These; the par liamentary sources said, would be most likejy to take the form. 01 the creation' of a more effective ; body to direct the-British mili tary effort such as a comDinea general staff. Va 4 'tsnlnHn t a strengthening of the government's position in commons, was the de cision of the powerful conserva tive "1922 committee'", not to sup port the motion of Sir John Ward-law-Milne, conservative, for a "no confidence" vote, calling it "ill advised." " .' This decision, in the opinion of conservative members, far - out weighed the addition of Sir Hen ry Morris-Jones and Sir Murdoch MacDonald, liberal nationalists, to the list of critics backing the mo- tion. ri"Hv w- Barbara Stanwyck Jael McCrea r. 'Great Bfan'a Lady! Judy -'Jarry: Canova Colenna Asm MlUer ,'::-..ri Trn to th Army gsyyijs8E(! 22c Plus 1 Great:. I-. , - lt:l Tr: 4S - SS .. Id! "'.t.--- Tax Tin s.-ea pj1i 1111 11 u nMmmM Hera Is the epic story af the men who fought ta build the e a a n try we I irr nemmg save. : mm am (TODAYS mm rf 5. I 1 k 1 pi " .. I iuuajf -'' -T - --irfniniiiii-rirM n iliiiiwij , Swing Out WiJSi : j Arfla Show f and His Band J&L ' Faulette and Fred S A Ms mmmsmM 1 1 - I 1 ' t I