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(ifVThe nary announced
Friday It : would pay $109
rewards for meritorious sug
restloits by navy employes
for the elimination of un
accessary paper, work..
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IIZTY-SECOND YEAR
Salem. Oregon.' SaturdaY Morning. July 4, 1942
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4th Fete
: Legion Program
; At Fairgrounds
Has Martin Talk
THE FOURTH IN SALEM
At State Fairgrounds, American
Legion sponsors
(Entrance to the fairgounds will
' v be only by the 18th and Smith
. street gates.)
10:20 a. m, ceremonies featuring
- Gen. Charles H. Martin as
speaker." ; -
Music, by 7 1st infantry band, fol-
lowed by sports program,
p. m. "grandstand show.
' Military., exhibitions "arid racing
' . events. " "
. 5 p. m. Formal guard mount by
r - infantry. , ... .
7-7:45 Military band concert.
7:45 Vaudeville show, followed. by
' dancing.
At State Penitentiary
8 a.' m. Field day program. '
12:45 Boxing.
At George E. Waters Baseball Field
. 7 p. m. Salem Senators play Van
; couver Caps in doubleheader.
h No fireworks ban can keep
Salem fro m celebrating - the
Fourth of July, American Le
gion committeemen, state and
city officials and baseball spon
'"sors .declared Friday night as
they mapped out a colorful and
.full day's program here despite
the fact that no rocket may rise
and not so much as a cap gun be
fired tegdly;
From the opening ..... of - the
fjtrimm procrsm with a patriotic
- stddreso by Gen. Charles' H.
f Martin, former governor of the
.state, at 10:45 this morning to
the last measure of dance music
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500 Pickers ,
- Weekend Need
. ; Employment Service
! Open; Extra Help
Hoped on Holiday .'
' :- Five hundred cherry pickers
; are needed to take care of the
harvest in the Marion-Polk area
over the double- holiday, W.H.
(I Baillie, manager of the local
. branch of the United States em
ployment service, announced Fri
. . day. . '
' . The office will be open from 6
. o'clock in the morning today and
, Sunday for the convenience of the
growers who come in to take the
pickers out to the orchards. It is
-.hoped that a number of office
, workers and employes of stores
swill take advantage of the two
day holiday to assist with the
; harvest, which came on unexpect-
edly sudden because of recent
warm weather.
' ' J.-- All . pickers are receiving two
cents a pound and many are mak
ing good wages besides helping
with an acute harvest problem,
t , workers report
' .Many hay hards are needed in
certain sections, according to re
quests eW file with the employ
ment office.
Oregon Heat Kills 22
. PORTLAND, Ore, July 2HP)-
Oregon counted a death toll of zl
persons Friday in the wake of
soaring temperatures- that Thurs
day touched 107 degrees, an all
time high in the 50-year history
of the weather bureau here.
Eighteen of the heat prostra
Uon deaths were in Portland,:
two at Albany and one each at
; Eugene and Oregon City. Fif-
teen were reported Friday, six:
occurred Thursday and - one
Wednesday.
Most of the victims were elder
ly, seven being more than 70 years
old, but one was only 45 and five
were in their late 50's. : -
Hospitals reported treating
scores' of others less seriously
stricken. -
Three deaths by drowning were
reported earlier in the week as
hundreds of persons sought relief
in lakes and streams. . , ;
Small comfort to Salem resi
dents who sweltered la Thurs
day's 104 degree temperataw
are the records which shew t-2s
Japs Migrate
In Raid Fear
CHUNGKING, July S MK)r
Central News Agency said Fri
day that 200,000 Japanese had
migrated from Japan to con
quered North China in the past '
ten weeks. Inspired by fear of
another US air raid such' as that
of April 18. ::
"The raid caused great pan
ic,' the agency reported. Most
of the refugees were said to be
settling near Taiynan, Japanese
occupied capital of Shansi proy
ince, "where the.' puppet . pro-'
.vlnelal government is forcing
the Chinese to contribute- relief,
funds for. them."
Rail to Alaska
Line Surveyed
Supply; Route Follows
Route 'B'; Slated
For. October .Close
WASHINGTON, July i -'-W)
The war department- disclosed
Friday that ; the army, has sur
veyed about, one-third of . a pro
posed railway route to Alaska to
supplement the ' inland : highway
system already - under construc
tion!. - 1 -
Engineers working since early
spnng with wartime speed and
secrecy mapped ' in detail some
400 miles of a projected 1300-mile
route linking Prince George,
British Columbia, with the exist
ing Alaska railroad in the vicin
ity of Fairbanks, Alaska. .'
The line, .the war department
said, would round out. a four-,
way means of - access to the
strategically" I m p o r t a n t far
northern territory which now ls,
linked Jo the continental United
air,
Supplementing the guarded re
port made to congress last month
by Lieut Gen. Brehon B. Som
ervell that a railway was "under
study,, the war department said
plans -called for extension of ex
isting rail lines to reach Alaska
by the shortest possible route.
Preliminary work is being car
ried on by the corps of engineers,
which also is building the high
way, and "complete cooperation
has been received from the Can
adian government
"The survey follows in general
the 4B' route proposed by ; the
Alaskan international highway
commission, in an almost straight
line up the ; Rocky Mountain
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Traaen Family
Comiiig Home
. SILVERTON, July 3 The
Fourth of July should be a real
day of celebration for the Traaen
family at Silverton in the opinion
of Halvor Traaen, who expects
by then to be united with his
three children. .
Cablegrams this week reported
their booking as passengers on the
Swedish liner ' Drottningholm,
which docked in New York early
this week.
' Mrs. Traaen, who was ill, and
the children left some time ago
for a visit in Norway. In the
meantime the war broke out and
Mr.. Traaen had been unable to
learn anything about his family.
The recent cablegrams have not
revealed whether his wife was
still alive.
as 1942's hottest but not a rec
ord for July. Last year -a sirs
ling 1 OS was reached and de
grees In, between have marked
Julys of many reeent years. The
minimum temperature Thurs
day was
TALBOT, July 3 Clarence O.
Bursell, 75 years old, was over
come by heat and died of a heart
attack while working with a team
planting potatoes Thursday.
Neighbors noticed the team
standing- at the end of the field
without a driver and investigated
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, Our Senators
Lest
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TP,i t i s h S
tines; Rommel Goes
Back to
TTb
Numerous Axis Prisoners and Guns
Captured; Hand-to-Hand Fighting .
Replaces Tanks During Night ;
By HARRY CROCKETT '
CAIRO, July 3-(P)-British forces Friday slashed at axis
Field Marshal Erwirf Rommel's rebuffed forces on the northern
end of the El Alamein line, 62 miles west of Alexandria, captur
ing numerous prisoners and destroying a number of guns which
the axis troops were trying to dig in on fixed positions. t
(The British radio, quoting, a Cairo dispatch, said tanks,
artillery" and' B r i 1 1 s h infantry
moved against the axis late in the
day ' but the enemy; "withdrew
rapidly from all - engagements.",
The broadcast heard in New.York
by CBS, did not elaborate' on the
action.) - V; J : ' ;
The rumble of heavy guns
' could be heard In Alexandria,
but the fact that the fighting
kept more or less static indi
cated the reinforced imperial
forces had brought the axis ad
vance to' a halt t , least . tem
poral !ly. .. ' -. '.' .
1 Dispatches from the front said
bayonet and hand-grenade fight
ing, continued i throughout Thurs
day night while most of the tanks
were 'withdrawn "from the battle
for overhauling and servicing.
Reorganizing after their first
repulse since the British lost To
bruk June 2 1, the main body of
Rommel's armored forces was still
west of the El Alamein defensfs.
There was no indication they had
renewed -their powerful -. drive
against Alexandria and the Nile
delta. .
RAF Downs :
Nazi Raiders
Seven Killed by Raids
In Northeast Towns
Of England
LONDON, . "July SH-RAF
fighters shot down two ; German
bombers during an attempted raid
on the. north midlands industrial
area early Friday night it was au
thoritatively announced. ! ,.
A town in northeast England
was bombed and some casualties
and damage resulted, it was said.
At one village six persons
were reported killed and four In
jured while three houses were
demolished. In another town one '
giri was killed and the Metho
dist mission and two houses were
, destroyed.
i British and Canadian pilots left
the German U-boat nest of Bremen
a mosaic of flame, early Friday
after the fourth powerful attack in
a week. ,. . . - .
At the cost of 13 aircraft,' the
city was bombed in fine night
weather, and pilots reports termed
the result "the most satisfying" of
any of the four assaults. ,1
Some of the last pilots to
reach the target said fires were
burning so fiercely that "it was
like aiming, at a patchwork
quilt"
-
One German night fighter was
downed by Canadian- gunners.
Simultaneous raids were made
by lighter forces on air fields in
the low countries and on shipping
off the Netherlands coast
Bremen was bombed by more
than 1000 planes on the night of
June 26, and again on June 27,
June 29 and last night by forces
averaging about 300 aircraft
Luther Takes
New WU Duty
'.Dr. Chester F. Luther,'-dean of
Willamette university; , will take
over the authority and duties of
president of the university upon
his return from Chicago and other
eastern points, it was stated by
Dr. J. C. Harrison, president of
the board of trustees, Friday night
. Dean Luther, it was pointed out
will not be the acting president
but will assume authority auto
matically as part of his position.
He has been in the east for over
a week on university business. ;
: Progress is being made toward
selection of a successor for the late
Dr. Carl S. Knopf, president, who
died June 23, it was announced.
but no details could be given.
1 a s h A x i s
Meor
gamze
Americans Said
In Egypt Fight j
Axis Report Fails of ?
Confirmation ; Some
Troops Present
BERN, Switzerland; July 3-(JP)
Axis reports Friday night declared.!
that "several thousand excellent
ly equipped American troops took
part in the fighting at El Alamein"
in the battle of Egypt but there
was no confirmation from any of
ficial or other sources? "
The report, considerably round-
about, was in a Reuters dispatch
from Stockholm quoting the Berlin
correspondent of the Swedish
newspaper Allehanda, which cited
Rome dispatches.
In Bern, reliable informed
sources said they thought the pres
ence of American troops ,on the
Egyptian .Irorit was''possibJe : and
logical .mt"5S i -
- American technical advisers
and observers have been oa the
African front for some time and
It was said that It would be nat
ural for some troops to be with
the - equipment shipped to the
middle east - "
It was recalled that Havas, the
French news agency, some weeks
ago reported . American : troop
transport had halted in Gibraltar
but it was not known then whether
they would remains, '
. While it was never officially
confirmed, it would be possible,
if these transports actually were
at Gibraltar, to continue to the
African front
Cook to Head
Infantry at ,
Camp Adair
WASHINGTON, July 3 -JP)
Brig. Gen. Gilbert Richard Cook
Friday was named commander of
the 104th infantry division which
will be activated at Camp Adair,
Ore.," in September! !
Appointment df lthe West Point
graduate of 1912 was announced
by Lieut Gea: Lesley J. McNair,
commander of the army's ground
forces. Cook served in "France
with the 5Cth infantry regiment
during the first world war and
for gallantry in action was award
ed the silver star and an oak-leaf
cluster by the United States and
the croix de guerre with 'gilt star
by France. v . ,
After going to Hawaii in April,
1841, as commander of Schofield
Barracks, he was assigned to
Hawaiian department headqtiar
ters.
Cook is the second Camp' Adair
divisional - commander recently
announced. The other is Brig. Gen.
J; L. Bradley, who will command
the 96th. to be organized next
month.
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4 J J WAR BONDS 11 J -r J
Crimean Stronghold Yields
KHARKOV!
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STATUTE ' M I LES
Soviet Russia announced early today
liP 111 jpr
igBiM A pi
insula, to axis troops after a hand-to-hand struggle In the city. Berlin announced its. capture Wednes-
. day.' The loss removes any rear
! (lower broken" arrow). : Such a
goal with a thrust from i the Kharkov sector (2). (Associated Press Telemat
High
Fo r (
er Prices Set
Ores
on
7
Of 2 Cane ' Berries
jBoard Declares Minimum Rate for
'"onrigberries anV-B6yscxiLerries;
Affected by Allotment of Tin : : ,
' . Prices higher than last year but. not as high as growers had
hoped for were fixed by directors of the Oregon cane fruits con
trol board here Friday night coveringi the youngberry and boy
senberty crops.., ":' . . ; .V".'-' ' . ' 'I; -v'.V
The board set the mmirnunj price to growers for young
berries at tVt cents a pound, an increase of 1 cents over the
1941 figure, and for boysenberries,
at 7 cents,' approximately the
'same advance, William J. Linfobt,
executive secretary, reported.
This year is the first time'
these two berry crops have been .
brourht within the cane board's
operations.- r.: ':V..r;'
Shortage of the federal govern
ment's allocation of tin for the
boysenberry pack, in proportion
to the heavy .crop setting on this r
year, with a resulting necessity of
relying on sales to the army quar
termaster corps at limited prices,
war explained by Linfoot as the
principal factor keeping the mini
mum figure to the seven-cent
level. Packers are not limited in
amount of tin cans Used in sales
to the army and other specified
war agencies. The boysenberry
acreage was ' largely new and
bearing only lightly in 1940, the
year on which present tin alloca
tions are based. - .-'
Linfoot said packers would
have sufficient tin A. f o r the
youngberry crop , this year be
cause production Is light and
acreage has been reduced from
the 1949 leveL - V ,
Deliveries of youngberries be
gan this week in -the Woodburn
area. Boysenberry picking is ex
pected to start early next week.
The 1942 picture for evergreen
blackberries is bright, with a large
pack in prospect because of ade
quate tin allocations' and marked
government interest In the crop,
Linfoot said. The board Is expect
ed to- fix the grower price around
August 1, : with picking believed
likely to begin in mid-August
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the loss of Sevastopol' 1 1) last major-Red hold on the Crimean pen
threat to a nasi push across Kerch strait into the Caucasus oil fields
drive would link up with an apparent nasi plan to reach the same
Crops
FDR Calls for
Debt-Glearins
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Farmers Asked to Help
Anti-Inflation and
Ease Adjustments
WASHINGTON, July 3-(ff)
President Roosevelt' Friday, called
upon farmers to help with the
government's anti-inflation cam-'
paign by diverting a larger share
of their expanding income to the
retirement of an agricultural debt
estimated by credit authorities at
$10,000,000,000. .; ,:S
Payments of debts at this timer
the chief executive said, 'would
make it easier for farmers to
go through the post-war read
justment as well as reduce the
demand for. short supplies of
. civilian goods and provide
creditors ; with ' money with
which to buy war bonds;,
"Farmers, like all citizens of the
nation, fear inflation," the ' presi
dent said.
Mr. Roosevelt's plea was' made
in a letter to Secretary of Agri
culture Wickard endorsing efforts
of tho - federal farm credit . ad
ministration to ' get farmers . U
make substantial payments on
government farm mortgager. .
.Agriculture department econ
omists estimated that farmers owe
debts equalling about 21 per cent
of the total value of all their prop
ertyincluding land, houses, ma
chinery, livestock and other goods.
This debt included about $7,000,
000,000 in long-term farm mort
gages, $280,008,000 of which the
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Chambers Appointed :
ToOPAPosiUon
. PORTLAND, July iifW- N.
Chambers, ; state ' liquor ' control
commission member and ' Salem
civic leader,, was named senior
Oregon OPA price officer Friday
by Richard G.- Montgomery, state
OPA director.-
Thursday's Vealher -
Thursday's max, . temp. 104,
min. ft. River Friday, r.7 ft Ey
amy1 request weather ft recasts
withheld and temperature data
delayed.'
to Enemy
STALINGRAD
ASTRAKHAN
Three Vessels
Sunk; 77 Lost
Sub Sneaks Into Port
In Costa Rica, to
Torpedo US Ship
;., Br The ' Astociaied Press
" Destruction of three more ships
with the" loss of. at least-77 lives
was .disclosed Triday. Two of the
vessels went down in the Carib
bean, sea and one in the Gulf of
Mexico". -.
Announcement ' of 'these losses
increased the unofficial Associated
Press .tabulation of sinkings to
335. -S : : -A
Fifty four seamen were burned
to death in the three sinkings and
at least i3 were killed in explo
sions , A submarine sent, two tor-,
pedos into a small unarmed Lat- '
viaa ship In the Caribbean June
14, survivors said on reaching
a gulf coast port Fire aad ex
plosions took the lives of 21 of
the crew of 35. v
Flames : following explosions
killed 33 of 47 British seamen
aboard a medium-sized British
cargo ship in the Gulf of Mexico,
June 29, its captain reported at
another, gulf port Thursday. ;
Fourteen men in one - lifeboat
escaped. Two other Lifeboats with
their occupants were caught . in
flames and destroyed. '
SAN ' JOSE, Costa Rica, July 3 j
(V-At least 23 men were reported
lost Friday night in the torpedo
ing of a United States freighter by '
a German submarine' which;
sneaked into the 'Puerto Limon
harbor and fired three torpedoes
at the vessel.
Officials at the Costa Rican port
220- miles northwest of the Pana
ma canal aid that the 23 men
were known to have been in the
hold of the Vessel, the 3305-ton
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Sugar Bonus Slatecl
J WASHINGTON, July 3 JPf-A
sugar "bonus" of two pounds for
every ration card holder, purch
asable between July 10 and Aug
ust 22, was announced by the of
fice of price administration Fri
day night because of "somewhat
heavier shipments? of sugar into
this country than ' anticipated.
. ; la addiUon, institutional users
will get 75 per jxntjbl their,
normal sugar consumption for
September and October instead
of the present 5 per cent and
ladastrial users wfll act 8 per
cent Instead of 7t per cent " .
Householders '. may,, obtain the
dividend allotment by -presenting
ration stamp. No. 7 to the grocery
store any .'time... in the .' six-week
period. The bonus is" in addiUon
to the regular two-pound month
ly allotments obtainable with card
No. 5, and with card No.' d. ,
In effect the ruling simply al
lows use of card No. 7 at any time
during the period when cards No.
5 and No. may 'be used. Card
5 expires July 25 and card f Aug
ust 22. Originally, card No. 7 was
Totth '
Jji Giant : .
Evacuated
From City :
By HENRY C. CASSIDY j
MOSCOW, Saturday. July
4 -(AP) Sevastopol, R u 8-
sia great "Crimean . naval
uadc jtnu iunress, nasriauen -as
a mass of "'ruins,'!. Soviet
Russia officially announced '
Saturday, but its magnificent
aeiense was naued as a - ma
jor factor in holdinz up the -
German .spring offensive and'
cost the-.axisupwardsof 300,000
soldiers killed and wounded, r -
- The Soviets announced, that tho
Germans lost 150,000 casualties, '
including 60)00. killed, in the last
25 -x days- of the siege while the
Russian losses in that same period
Were 1 1,385 killed and 29,390
wounded or missing. , . -
"German troops suffered . huge
losses, getting nothing but ruinv" -the
special communique added.
' It disclosed that the troops,
commanders and wounded men'
were evacuated, front the city,
which the 'Soviets, said wa or-
dered abandoned " only ; Friday. V;
The ; Germans claimed It was
captured Wednesday
.The main task of Sevastopol's
defenders, the ; communique said, :
was to tie dawn on the Sevasto
pol sector as large a force "of Ger-
MOSCOW, Satnrdar, July 4
WVke Admiral E. 8. 0kfy.
abrsky,
of the soviet
Black Sea fleet was the main
organiser of tho Sevastopol de
fenses which fell after an eirht
menths seigt and cost tho Ger
mans J0,00l easaalties,' the
Eusstans annoanced Saturday.-
man fascist troops as possible and
io aesxroy as mucn manpower .and
material as they could. ?' ' ,
f The military significance of the -defense
of Sevastopol is hugh," the,
communique declared after svmv ,
marizing the cost in , men and t
material. "It pinned down a great
number of German and Rumanian'
troops, frustrated and messed up
the plans ' of the German i com
mand. ; '- y
"The iron steadfastness of the
Sevastopol defenders has been one
of the . most ' important ; reasons
holding up the so-called spring of
fensive of the Germans. The Ger
mans have lost time and suffered
huge losses in manpower.'
- In the last 25 days of siege,
the. communique said, the Ger- i
mans .threw 3tt,00 ' troops
against the battered defenses of
the city and used snore than 400
tanks and 909 nlanes nl their
furious assaults.
The Soviets' said their men
smashed in those fearful last days
six German infantry divisions,
three' Rumanian divisions, one
German tank division, an inde-s
pendent mechanized brigade,' four
independent "regiments, and a -
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scheduled for use beginning Aug
ust 22. By the change, card No. 8
will come into use on" that date.
" Price Administrator I. c o n
Henderson, In announcing OF As
decision, ! said It represented a
"conservative gamble" on tho
likelihood of sugar supplies eon-;
- tinslnr 1a arr4w 1m lTil km.. '
ent volume.-; V;--. ,-.. .: ' . '
' .OPA has been under pressure
froni several - quarters to boost
the basic, allowance of one-half
pound a week or two pounds ev
ery four weeks under the recently
altered coupon system--; because
sugar warehouses . in some parts
of the country were. Jammed el-
most- tO capacity. :.) h ,
The bonus plan- represented a
compromise which will relieve the
warehouses of about 200,000 tons
of sugar, but will not commit OPA
t , larger" rations as a. settled pol
icy. The latter plan, OPA said,,
was not feasible because of ack
of -any assurance thaMJxe-shippic
situation will remain as favorable
as it has been in the past two or
three months ' .