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Kcop Posted Momentous events occur In all parts of the world while yea sleep but also while The Statesman news services are reporting them, Keep potted; read The Statesman.; i : Going Away? Going away, en 1 nca tlon er te-ft war Job?- Can The Statesman fellew you, to keep 70a posted events it home. CiQ 191 for da- tails.'- - - ICS! hiiety-eecoiid year Salem. Oregon. Friday Morning, July 3, 1942: Price 5c No. 75 .BfMsIi Tanks ear of A 4-:FC Fly ins Tigers Review 7 Months By WILLIAM ' CHUNGKING. Friday. July 3 - American Volunteer group prepare to join' wings with the regular American army air forces in China Saturday an official review of. seven months of AVG operations disclosed Friday that 284 Japanese. planes were destroyed at a cost of action. - ' - Besides this list of confirmed victories, the review said there were "almost as many more probables which were not claimed because of lack of eye-witness verification. . Nine AVG pilots were accidentally out of 250 making up the group. . The record' of few against many aeriu msiory, ana roe review caiiccu utu ' m wivcv. "demoralization of the Japanese air force in China." The highest toll for a. single day was 23 Japanese planes positively vaders of Sevastopol on the out n Christeas and many more shot down at skHs of that Crimean seaport sea and unconfirmed. The Japanese had announced -the raid in advance by radio, bat It was broken bp by AVG pilots who were furious at the ma-chlne-runninr of one of their buddies as he bailed out of a dam . aged plane December 23. The Japanese tried again the day after Christmas, and the AVG and the RAF together had 24 confirmed victories. The highest total : individual score during the life of the AVG was 16 Japanese planes destroyed by Squadron Leader R. H. Neale of Seattle. . . 1 He and nine others accounted for 106 of the 284 confirmed vic tories. ' " !.-, Although it was not mentioned in the 'review,, pilots disclosed they received bonuses of $500 (American) for each plane destroyed, plus monthly salaries of $600 to $700. - The review commented .that the Japanese would be disap pointed to learn that Claire Chennault, who organized the AVG at the invitation of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, has accepted appointment as a brigadier-general in the United States army air forces and will continue In command of the air unit in China. Some of? the AVG men are., returning home to join the American services, butithe majority are remaining in China and will be inducted formally into top ranks of the growing United States aerial forces, the review said. The many AVG men who. were awarded decorations included ground crew chief Harry E. Fox of Coronado, Calif., decorated by China and recommended by the British for the Order of the British Umpire. : Attacked by a Japanese plane' at low level while he was repair ing a plane at Rangoon, he paused in his task only long enough to throw a wrench at the Japanese fighter. - ' Eight of .the pilots, whose names were not disclosed, were recom mended for the British Distinguished Flying Cross, r .. Y t ; Besides aerial combat, the AVG went en numerous bombing and strafing expeditions. Among the more spectacular of these was the destruction of 15 Japanese planes at Moulmetn by two pilots who were out on reconnaissance. Both pilots returned unhurt, bat their planes were shot almost to shreds. ' Another such excursion was made against Hanoi, French Indo china, where five AVG men -wrought havoc at a Japanese airdrome after a 400-mile flight across the mountains. One pilot dropped a bomb through the roof of the Japanese' administration building, just as he had said h& intended to do. . It was only due to the AVG bombing and strafing on the Salween front In Burma that the Chinese were able to consolidate their posi tions and halt a Japanese advance after an unexpected break-through, the , review continued. - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Oregon Gets 1328 Bicycles As Ration Opens on July 9 WASHINGTON, July 2-OTVRationing of bicycles will start July 9 and 230,000 will be released between that date and the - a a.,. u -:-:4: ; end of August, the office of Thursday night. State quotas were issued Farm Supply: Bill Locked House and Senate Fail To Agree on Terms For Department - WASHINGTON, July 2-iJP) Efforts to break a congressional deadlock on the $680,000,000 agri culture department supply b 1 1 1 failed Thursday and the house and senate adjourned Until next week, still leaving the farm agen cy without funds to carry on its far-flung crop programs. Senate and house spokesmen blamed each other for the odd legislative situation, y Still holding up an agreement was a policy of the administra tion of selling government owned wheat at prices below .. parity to encourare the. greatest possible production , of m e at, dairy and poultry products for the war effort. The senate stood firmly behind this policy,, while the house insisted on legisla tion which would bar sales of any government-owned crops at less than parity. Told by Chairman Cannon (D Mo.) of the appropriations com mittee that it had the approval nf senate conferees., the house (Turn to Page 2. Col. 6) Sprague Slates Talk Over Radio on '4th' Gov. Charles A. Sprague will rive Fourth of July address Sat urday noon over a statewide radio network, Jie announced Thursday, He will speak from his office in the state capitol building. The governor said he would dis cuss civilian defense, the war and the recent conference or gover rors which he attended at Ashe Mile, NC. McGAFFIN (iTV - As the Flying Tigers of the only 15 men killed or missing in killed, making a total loss of 24 is one of the most spectacular in price administration announced based on last year's . bicycles sales, the state-by-state demand for. new passenger cars, and the concentration of war industries in each area. County quotas will be allotted by the state directors. OPA also announced the classes of users who will be eligible to obtain bicycle purchase certifi- cates through application on orl P60 in the middle east and Med after July 9 to local ration boards, l iterranean J unequalled since the Broadly, eligibility is confined to I those "engaged, in a gainful occu-1 pation or in work which contri- butes to the war effort or to the public welfare" v . In additionthe applicant "must show that a bicycle is required because' qf the nature of his work, or because he must walk at least three miles or spend upwards of I first introduced against Church one or one half hours getting to ill's government since it assumed work; or because overcrowded power May 10, 1940, at the be transportation facilities or other ginning of the lowlands invasion circumstances make the use of a bicycle necessary. Of the total to be released be- iween juiy 9 ana August 31, 180,- vuu oicycies were auoxtca among the states and the District of Co-I lumbia. : States have, been assigned reserves xoianng zu.uuu lor ad- jusunem oi county quotas, ana jiauuiiiu reserve ox ou,uuu nag Deen s up ior aajusunem : oi siate qUT,ftftnA .J;J:: tlVt ",trVr w rrrT; rn r" nounced Thursday, with the state California 15,814 and 1,626; Idaho 384 and 46; Montana 416 and 46; Cretan 1328 and 153; Washington 3072 and. 360. Our Senators 71 (Horn Tonight) i Crimean Filing IrJOtreet If - f 1 J u y zis Hit Anew Near Belgorod, Kursk, Kalinin By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Friday, July 2-(JP) The Russians announced early Friday that red army soldiers gailors were fighting hand- , , . . to-hand with the German m . -long after the Germans claimed its fall while far to the north the nazis began a hew drive in the Belgorod-Volchansk sector north of Kharkov. The midnight communique, the third since, the Germans an nounced Sevastopol fell Wednes day noon, told of the continuing savage bayonet "fight amid the ruins of the Black sea fortress. Press dispatches said the heroic defenders were taking thousands of German lives In the savage fight, but the Ger mans were said to have IS times as many men engaged in the struggle. Russian tankmen were reported locking in a continuing bloody bat tle in the Kursk sector, 300 miles south of Moscow, but the nazis (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Wins ;'yote: 25 Refuse Support; Dark War Picture Painted of Egypt, By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, July 2-()-Prime Minister Churchill Thursday beat down with a 475 to 25 vote of confidence the severest challenge yet made in the house of commons against his leadership, but he left with the British a dark picture of near disaster in the middle east, alleviated only by news that "very considerable" reinforcements were pouring into the battle of Egypt Churchill plainly showed - that his mind was in the field of action SyP than In the debate ahd bluntly told commons: "At any moment we may re ceive news of grave importance.w He did not elaborate on what that might be nor did he tell the house more about the reinforce ment he said had reached the embattled eighth army In Egypt or was approaching It. The battle of Egypt, the prime nihistcr said, had developed "a recession of our hopes and pre f of France." A great cheer arose from the commons benches when the vote was announced and Churchill promptly went back to work. flashing the "V-for-Victory" sig- nal W1V nw ""gers. The censure motion which the house refused to approve was the by Germany. It was put before commons bv conservative - rebel Sir J o h n wardlaw-Milne. Previous votes of confidence have been-moved hv rhnrrhnr. own government challenging its critics. .The latest Of these was the 464 to one vote of last Jan I uary 29. The vote Thursday left 115 of the house's 615 members not ac- counted for. However; less than page 2, col 5) r lofyp Kllinc Canada Toivn . PRINCE RUPERT, Ba July 2 -(CP)-Fears were expressed by residents Thursday night that a forest fire which destroyed the once-prosperous mining town of Anyox,' BC, and forced its en tire population of 32 residents to flee, would spread to the ' little town of Alice Ann, 18 miles dis tant, a settlement of 100, Anyox fc 90 miles north of here on Observatory inlet. - The fire was estimated to cover Ian area 25 miles square.' Churchill Commom Field ' . ' :. ::: .. x ::. ..:":-:"::;':---:..- 1 ;.. .S,-'...Ayt.y:.v.: w.y, S - - M r " mm) ' , " ..ftomtt . - . ; s- " ' ( f y- r - ' I " " ' "v r i 7 - - .- -- f ' v-::-.:::v'o:-::v:::v::::-.:S i y f ' '' i - - .jy. ..- ... v - British artillerymen (above) feed coastal strongpoint which a few axis columns. Similar equipment 'picture was sent by radio from Press Telemat) an A rmrHalt First in US For Aiding Peter Krug DETROIT, July 2- Stolid and as devoid of expression as he had remained through three days of trial, Max Stephan, Ger-man-borh Detroit restaurant own er, Thursday night heard a jury convict, him of the highest crime in the land treason. ' Reporting to a hushed and jammed courtroom at 5:35 p. m., the six men and six women jurors brought in tljeir verdict . just 83 minutes after receiving the case from Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle. . Government Attorney John W. Babcock said It was the first conviction for treason in the history of the .United States. , Stephan was accused of 12 overt acts of assistance to a fleeing nazi prisoner of w a r", Oberleutnant Hans Peter Krug. Judge Tuttle said he would pro nounce sentence "very snorujr when he had completed . his nor mal procedure of gathering char acter reports on Stephan from probation officers. ; : X The maximum penalty-for trea son is death me minimum is five years imprisonment or $10,000 fine, or both. . - - ' Postmaster Place Open Crawford Will Retire Here; Applications Taken Until July 21 WASHINGTON, July. 2.-(JP Applications for the postmaster- ship at Salem, Ore., will be re ceived until the close of business July 21, the civil service commis sion announced -Thursday. Names of applicants will be announced later, probably oh July 23. ' Postmaster H. R, Crawford, now finishing his second term in , the office, is not planning to ; apply for reappointment. He expressed a desire several months ago to re tire land said he would consider continuing as postmaster only if postal . officials requested - it be cause of war conditions. ' J. F. Ulrich-ihen Marion coun ty I democratic central committee chairman, and Paul Lynch, dep uty collector of internal -revenue, have been among the most active spirants to the postmastership. Steph Giiris Roar atMatruh their gun under heavy enemy shellflre outside M a t r u h , Egyptian days ago was captured from the British by Field Marshal Rommel's Is now backed up in defense of Alexandria and the Sues eanaL This Cairo to New York and by airmail ; r Military Body Named to Try Eight Nazis W AS HINGTO N, July 2-(P) President Roosevelt Thursday or dered a military trial for the eight men accused of coming to 'this country In nazi U-boats to sabo tage the war effort. . The prosecu tion is expected to ask the death penalty. :. - ' At the same time, Mr. Roosevelt issued a proclamation denying them, and all persons who enter the country for the purpose of es pionage or sabotage, the right of access to the civil courts. ; To try the men, Mr. Roosevelt created a military commission consisting of Major Generals Frank K. ; McCoy, Walter S. Grant, B 1 a n t o n Wlnship and Lorenzo D. GasseV. the Brigadier Generals o4y V. 'Henry, John T. Lewis and John. T. Kennedy. The trial is to "begin as soon after July 8 as is practicable, is to be held privately in Washing-, ton and the prosecution is to be conducted by the Attorney Gen eral arid the judge advocate gen eral. CoL Cassius M. Dowell and Col. - Kenneth . Razall - were ap pointed to defense counsel. The procedure established dif fers materially from a court mar tial. . The latter . form ,of .trial . Is usually used ( to try officers and men accused of misconduct and to try military prisoners. The mill tary conunission method has few precedents, but ft has i generally been associated with the trial of civilians. I " - There Is no appeal from the decision of a military commis sion or court . martial, although the secretary of war reviews the findings of a court martial auto matically. And In this case, Mr. Roosevelt directed that a record of the trial including "judgment or sentence be transmitted to him. , The eight Ernest Peter Burger, George John Dasch, Herbert Hans Haupt, -'.Henry Harm Heinck, Ed ward John Kerling, Hermann Otto Neuttauer, Richard Quirin and tt i-- ml'.i . J t VTuner xxuei wci c aiieveu ui various parts of the country by the FBI. Wednesday 7ealher Wednesday's max. temp. Ill, min.-C4, Thursday, river, .4 ft. By army request, weather fore easts withheld and temperature data delayed. 4 7 : X to The Statesman. ' (Associated , ' "'7 ". 1 - j Ring in Jungle Fueled 'Axis Submarines US ARMY HEADQUARTERS, ! Panama Canal Zone, July 2.-(P)-' A nazi Jungle ; spy .leader, the king of Belize, who masqueraded as a businessman, and 19 other persons paid to fuel axis subma rines and spot allied shipping tar- gets in the Caribbean were de clared, under arrest Thursday through the work of a US, army agent who survived fiction-like plots to poison him and sabotage his plane. The 20 alleged spies; seized trnm Panama in T3icH tTstnrliiifl I included night club hostesses, trusted Canal Zone workers and shipping employes, Lieut - Gen. Frank Andrews, Caribbean de- fense commander, announced in disclosing the ramified plot. General Andrews . predicted other spy rings might be estab lished by the axis in his sone where so many ships have been sunk, but . promised that they. too, would be smashed. : Here's the story of the anony mous US army counter-espionage agent who did such valuable work in tracking down the spy net work: V A 'US air patrol cruising over the Caribbean last March spotted ship : carrying oil drums'. The ship, identified as the La Plata, 4ZiTl Z1 " ,r v duras, where the .key-studded coastline is ideal for submarine a ew"M"" Early in April army intelligence officers learned that the La Plata was to sail again from Cristobal .(m. evading censorship regulations (Turn to Page 2. CoL 6) Mereury Is Down Here Apparently satisfied with set' ting a new high temperature Tuesday of 102 degrees for the month of June, old Sol Wednes- day banked the fires conmara - tively speaking and the mercury soared to only 101 degrees for that day. T PORTLAND, " July 2-;p)-Wed- nesday was' the hottest June day ever recorded here with the mer cury soaring to 105 degrees,-the weather bureau announced Thurs day night after. the required 24- hour eensorshiD lame. Tuesday's 102 broke the June record of 101 which had stood since 1825. - - - : rise omes as Are Re Battle Rages Inconclusively; Bi4tigH Flanker Puts Sun InEv es v By EDWARD .CAIRO, Egypt, July 2 (AP) oi Lneray 1 and.artillery struck with full fory late Tliursday at the rear, of the axis army in a carefully planned maneuver to counter the armored assault of Field Marshal ErwJn Rommel upon ' the main British positions defending Egypt and the middle east. " - - . -- The inconclusive battle raged; into the night.' The deci sion, upon which apparently rests the fate of British and allied power in i the eastern Mediterranean, might not come for a day dr two. British Ships In US Patrol Canada Also Joins in Fight to Lessen U-Boat Menace By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, July 2(.T The United Nations high com mand, has thrown the full force of available allied -seapower into the light to smash Adolf Hitler's U-boat offensive1, thefcavy de partment- disclosed ; T ha ndiy with an announcement that British and Canadian warships were cruising side by side with US vessels in the battle of the Atlantic. :;' ' Allied corvettes, destroyers and other fally-eqvipped "anti submarine vessels' are at work both on the distant high seas and In the campaign against -submarines operating along oar eastern seaboard, the official statement revealed. Observers considered it prob able that the destroyers sent over here might include some of those remaining to the British out of the 50 ' American four - stackers traded to them two years ago, but there was no official information on this point. ; ' The announcement did make it (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) ' llllCiC raflPlr 11 P'25 VXV y? 1 T Jf TOIIl JLataan Women Left Corregidor Few, Hours Before Fort's Capture AN EASTERN PORT. July 1 OTVAn army nurse told Thursday how Japanese dive bombers failed to dampen Yankee humor in the darkest hours of the battle of, the Philippines. Remarking on the scarcity of food in the last days of Corregi dor. Second Ueut- Ruth Marie r 7 1 1 ,CT "-.rf with-nine other army nurses, said: "We all ate mule meat and ... mUA t 1 1 , 7 . ,7, , night when a soldier was eat- night Ing dinner his buddy hollered, Whoa' and the meat stopped in his throat.' A favorite song of both nurses and men after dinner, she said, Ain't What She Used to Be. Lieut Straub, who has been an army nurse for a'A years ana served both at Bataan and Cor regidor, left Corregidor 43 ' hours before the Japanese took the is land stronghold. Besides a shortage of food the men In the Philippines had a scar city of rmedicmes, particularly J quinine, she said. She added that J there are still many army -nurses 1 w tne manas. i Miss Anne BernaU tus of Pitts ton, Pa a navy nurse also with the group, said she was the only navy nurse to escape from Bataan and Corregidor. She has been a navy nurse for 5Ji years but was assigned to the army for six months. : "l ;., . Miss Bernatitus, who holds the rank of ensign, attributed her es cape to luck but was reluctant to discuss her siege experiences be yond saying: I - "There was lota of excitement Mdve inforced roops KENNEDY Reinforced British tanks v '. Picking his favorite time for a fight, Rcmmel hurled his armored legions upon' the British at El Alamein, 60 miles west ' of Alex andria, when the sun would be full in the allied, eyes. ' V - At that time, the British sent tanks and artillery pounding against his . rear by way of his right flank. , ' ' ' With this surprise move the enemy, too, was forced to fight with the glare of the sun in his eyes. ".. --. , Both sides haVe thrown every thing available in the region into the, struggle,, which Is the climax of the axis offensive of the past weeks.;;. vf?v v 'i ;y.--- he importance f thI battle 4 HAIFA, ralestiae, July 2.-(JP) This imnortani British port at the eastern esd of the Mediter-1 rmnean had .an air raid alarm Thursday afternoon, and anti aircraft defenses went into ac tion. .,.,.-. .-L-"";- Haifa, a port to which the British fleet may come In force in event Alexandria Is evacu ated, had a light raid Wednes day. . ; .... - , was recognized here. The enemy will take Egypt or be destroyed. The allied troops will save Egypt or be destroyed. , v 1 There is scant chance of either side turning back now. . The reinforcements of both men and materiel that are reach ing the allied lines are beginning to show a marked effect, it was said here. The British are rushing up 25- pound cannon and. a new- anti tank six-pounder which are ham mering away with a great gusto and determination and have proved an excellent detefrent to the German tanks.- The defenders of Egypt re pulsed a heavy attack of enemy tanks and truck-borne Infantry f upon El Alamein Wednesday' night Axis tanks broke through at , one point but were engaged and hurled back. , Farther south, along the rim of t the Quattara salt marshes, allied units . took, the offensive against the enemy column. The struggle, which had sub- ' sided -somewhat in the night, be gan again Thursday morning, with: the main blow of the axis coming Thursday afternoon. . Enemv fichter a e 1 1 v 1 1 v In creased somewhat out the allied air force; retained stery of thr' skies and struck heavily at the invaders. ,-'riA -r-y-W' Strike Goes To Warehouse Picketing of the Paulus Bros, cannery at Trade and High streets spread, to - at least ; one of , the firm's warehouses Thursday but with little apparent affect on op erations, : ; . '. ' The management of the can nery ; indicated operations were proceeding "as usual.". - , " Pickets , who on Wednesday first day of a -strike called by a group of plant workers who said they wanted slightly higher wages, the shop steward system and changes' in working condi tions, wore banners reading, simply, nJnfair to, Thursday carried others bearing', the in scription,' f Unfair .to Cannery A F of L Workers." . - " !.. ' . Y