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mmm S&m'i m Mm oou M. n n ... Enemy Fourth On their Independence day la a world , at war. Unci Sam's Yankees made big news. Read the news from all fronts dally In your -morning newspaper, The Statesman. Losses Severe POUNDE3Q 1C1 NINETY-SECOND YEAB Salem-Sunday Morning, July 5. 1942 Price) 5c No 77 s&tO z A. -w fain 2 Planes Fail To Return Zero-Level Raid Brings Results On Nazi Coast By J. WES GALLAGHER LONDON, July 4 (AP) The United States army air forces set off their first fire works in western Europe on this Fourth of July with bombs and strafing raids on German airdromes, planes in stallations and enemy airmen in Holland and on nazi patrol ships offshore. The initial raid in a foreshad owed series of American aerial onslaughts aimed at knocking the German luftwaffe off the inva sion front produced an outstand ing hero-pilot who brought home his battered and tattered plane on one engine after it was. all but knocked out by anti-aircraft fire. The plane actually was down " once on nazi-held soil but it re bounded under the pilot's adroit control and made its getaway, si , lencing an anti-aircraft tower even as it escaped. The pilot, - Capt . Charles C. Kegelman, of El Reno, Okla . promptly,: was awarded the -dis-.tinguished service cross for gal lantry in action, the first so non ored on. this front by MaJ. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhour, American .commander in the European theatre. : The : raid was undertaken ' soon after dawn by 12 Boston ' Douglas light bombers, six of them manned by ail-American crews, the others by seasoned RAF airmen. Because tbey can develop a top combat speed of TTum to Page 2. Col. 5) Mine Search (Jets Funds Half of Appropriation For Interior Goes lo Reclamation, Mines - , WASHINGTON, July 4- Recapitulation of funds contained m the 1943 interior department appropriation bill (HR 6845) Sat urday showed that more than half of the money will be devoted to reclamation and investigation and promotion of production of stra tegic minerals. A long fight waged by western members of congress ended with the bill devoting more than $100. 000,000 of its total of 1178,099,718 to those subjects. It now is be fore President jRoosevelt for ac tion. ' Congress voted $350,000 for in vestigation : of raw material re sources for steel in the western states and $600,000 for investiga lions into production of sponge iron. It aDDroDriated funds for investigations into sources of pro ducing iluminum, for experi ments for producing the metal from low grade ores and $2,167, 500 to Investigate deposits of critical and assential minerals Funds for reclamation in the bill aa it finally went t the White house included: From the reclamation fund: Deschutes project, Oregon, $100,000; Owyhee project, Oregon, $25,000. '- - - " ' v-k?; Subs Destroy Two Vessels WASHINGTON, July 4-(J)-The navy announced Saturday night the torpedoing and sinVing -Of a Medium-sized United States mer chantman and a small Panaman ian vessel. ' ' , - - The United States ship was sunk eff the northern coast of South America and survivors were land ed at an east coast port The Panamanian vessel was tor jiedoed in the Gulf of Mexico and survivors were landed at a gui jort. see Type Six Douglas A-20-A army attack f V. ' flown by American air force men, took part in a daylight low-altitude attack in German-occupied territory early Saturday morning. Salem Budget Meet Monday Fireworks Expected On Proposed Change, Returning Cuts Residents of Salem who answer the call to a public hearing on the municipal budget Monday ' night are scheduled to he&f a renewal of council warfare which has bub bled out in squabbling at recent sessions. Monday night's promised dis sension centers around, a pro posed change in the budget docu ment as prepared by the budget committee and harks back to what some members of the council de clared was a high pressure sys tem of cutting proposed expendi tures when . recommendations of special committee were accept ed without discussion of indi vidua! items. Led by Alderman Lloyd Rigdon, the movement to return to the budget a portion of the items cut (including $1000 to the city li brary, approximately $800 to the engineering department and enough to return to the city at torney's stenographer the $33.50 cut from her monthly salary bringing it back to $93.50 to a total of $3365, is said to have suf ficient votes promised to insure its approval. The ,f unds would be provided through another cut, taking -$3000 from the sum now in the budget for city lights and another $500 from bridge construction funds, it (Turn to Page 2, CoJ. 1) All but One Of 75 Fires In NW Out PORTLAND, Ore., July i-(JP) All' but one of approximately 75 small forest fires set by lightning Friday night in Oregon and Wash ington were reported under con trol Saturday night The lone exception was a blaze which had burned over about 10 acres on Roundtop mountain in northwestern Washington county of Oregon, and C. C. Scott, secre tary of the forest protective asso ciations, faid "It is being brought under control." - About 50 fires were in the. na tional forests of Washington, re ported C. Otto Lindh, assistant sixth regional forester in charge of fire control. Twenty nine were in the Wenatchee and 14 on the east : side of the Snoqualmie, he said. Approximately 25 fires were out of national forest territory, 10 in Oregon, 15 in Washington. Japanese Observe Fourth With Party PORTLAND, Ore, July 4-() Japanese at the evacuee assembly center here observed the Fourth of July with a party Saturday. They saved sugar from weekly rations for massive cakes, which were decorated to resemble Ameri can Hags.' More than 3500 evacu ees participated. it of Plane in First US Raid on Europ'e "" 7 1 "v. bombers (such as shown above), Reds Engage Tanks In Fierce Battles; One Area Nazi Rushes Held in Kursk Sector; German Offensive Rages - Along 100-Mile Ukranian Front By HENRY C. CASSIDY s - - ' i t MOSCOW, Synday, July M-Stubbornly-fighting Russian soldiers have been forced back to new positions on one sector of the Kursk front, the Russians announced Sunday, but their red army comrades are fiercely engaging axis tanks and in fantry on other areas of that Ukrainian battlefield. The midnight Russian communique did not disclose just where the Russians fell back in fighting which has developed into some of the heaviest of the war. In its brief report on the Kursk fighting Saturday the soviet bureau of information re ported that soviet soldiers "car ried oat a fierce battle against tanks and enemy infantry" dur ing the day ' as the Germans sought ta advance eastward. "On one sector of this direction (Kursk) our men retreated and occupied new positions," the com munique continued. Stubborn battles still were be ing waged against the invaders on the Belgorod and Volchansk fronts, north of Kharkov. The Russians disclosed that the Germans were putting on the pressure on the Kalinin fr At, northwest of Moscow. The mid night communique said fighting still continued in that sector after twin offensives against two dif ferent points on the Kalinin front were thrown back with the loss of at least 2000 enemy men and officers and 27 tanks. The first attacks, were launch ed Friday by enemy Infantry supported by about 50 to 79 tanks and aircraft. These were reported thrown back and the Germans tried again Saturday but, the Russians said, to no avail. ' "All attacks were repulsed, bat tle continues, tne communique asserted. The red army earlier had hit (Tun to Page 2. Col 6) Governor Declaring that "Americans need to know that we can lose mis war," i Gov. Charles A. Sprague ! urged Oregonians in an Independ ence day radio address from his office in the capitol Saturday to play a greater part in the war ef fort than merely serving in the citizens defense and service corps. One of the greatest contribu tions the average citizen at home can make, the governor said," is in; helping build up the nation's stock iles of scrap . materials particularly rubber and iroru , The address, in large part a report from the national confer ence of ; governors which Gov. Sprague attended in North Caro lina last month, said he felt that "the responsibilities for war aU ministration rested in competent ( 11 "e f i Thus Independence day marked the opening of the long-awaited American attack on nazifled Europe. Two planes were reported missing. 1 Retreats Stop-Gap Bill Recommended Would Provide Funds For Ag Department As Houses Wrangle, - WASHINGTON, July 4-(P) Stop-gap legislation which would give the agriculture department really twice as much money dur ing July as it would receive un der a disputed regular appropria tion bill was recommended unan imously Saturday by a senate ap propriations subcommittee. If the senate and the house should agree to this plan, the two. branches could wrangle .over the appropriation bill for the rest of this month without causing financial embarrass ment to the department, now technically without funds. Under a simple resolution recommended by the subcommit tee, the department would be al lowed to spend this month at the rate which prevailed in June, the last month of the- previous fiscal year. - The old law provided $i,127, 623,845 for the 1942 fiscal year. The new supply bill sets up about $680,000,000. Accordingly the de JTurn to Page 2. C4 Urges Faith and Contribution hands" despite mistakes and -initial confusion. 5 ' ' "My Fourth of July messare to the people of Oregon is to have faith la your country's leadership in this war, the gov-' erner said. . . . I do not nrge blind and dumb acquiescence in all that comes eat of Wash ington these days. Honest criti cism "must still be nsed as a swift corrective. But let as net lose faith In the character and capacity of t h e s e , men who carry the tremendous responsi bility of gearing this country for war. and providing oar mili tary forces with equipment to punch through to victory . over the axis powers." Highlight of the governors' con- ference, the governor reported. 7. -4 Axis Firms Liquidated 507 Companies Put Out of Business in War on 'Column' WASHINGTON, July 4 (A)- A total of 507 axis-owned or con trolled firms.Jn the United States have - betn liquidated and enemy personnel forced out of scores of other concerns in a relentless drive by the government to elim inate financial and commercial "fifth columnists." Officials disclosed for the first time Saturday the wide scope of this unspectacular but all-important side of the war coincident with a conference here of financial and economic experts of the 21 pan American republics to discuss similar action throughout .the Western hemisphere. To date, the United States cam paign has brought: I. Forced sale of assets-Ii-quidation-of 597 foreign-owned or controlled businesses through withholding licenses required for operation under various f reeling" orders. 2. Outright seizure under alien property laws of around 2000 pat ents and the capital stock of sev eral large companies held by for eigners, many of these enterprises in the, vital chemical, .dyestuff and drug industries. . r"iacmg government repre sentatives in the businesses who after close observation, recom mended a course of action to elim inate axis influence. These rep resentatives decided, in the sever al instances, on seizure of the cap ital stock or both interest of un desirable individuals or concerns or liquidation of the enterprise or discharge of certain officers or employes. 4. Achieving the same foals through withholding licenses for ; (Turn to Pase 2 Col 7 31 WAAC Privates Asked From Oregon PORTLAND, July 4-W-Re- cruiting to fill Oregon's initial quota of 31 enlistees in the wom en's army auxiliary corps will be gin Monday. Lieut. Col. B. H. Hensley, army district recruiting orncer, announced, Saturday. was a roundtable discussion ;with assistant secretaries of the navy, of war and of commerce, Dmald Nelson, war -'l production Ward chairman; Leon Henderson, office of price administration chef; Paul V. McNutt war manpower direc tor; Dean James Landis, director of . civilian defense; Joseph B. Eastman, director of defense trans portation, i. . - "Nelson and Henderson and Patterson told us plainly what the (rubber) situation is," ' Govs Sprague said, "and it is indeed critical . This country is , . . now dependent . on its stockpile of around three quarters of a mil lion - tons of . crude now , in this country, - on such rubber as may be reclaimed from . salvage, and on 'the rubber articles now made New Allied Men In Egypt Battle; Body Auchinleck Presses Assault, Captures Infantry; Allied Aerial Attack Blistering CAIRO, July 4 (AP) General Sir Claude J. E. Auchin leck, waging a supreme fight for Egypt and the middle east, threw fresh troops into a battering assault Saturday night on weary axis forces which were being' pounded on their small strip of desert positions ever seen in the middle east. The first results of the new tions west of El Alamein, northern anchor of the British defenses of vital Egypt, was the capture of 600 German infantrymen. They were so exhausted after five weeks of continuous fighting that they were unable to resist Battlefront reports said it was General Auchinleck's knowledge of the physical state of the 'axis forces, now down to a pint of wa ter a day in the torrid desert, which led him to push his offen sive to prevent Field Marshal Er win Rommel from resting his men or rushing fresh troops Into the batUe. ; - v. ' ' : The British, on the other hand, were using newly arrived " New Zealand forces as well as British armored units and South Africans who have been through the whole campaign. Reports from Alexandria said all kinds of reinforcements, with American tanks, guns and other war equipment, were moving along the desert high way to the allies' front, 65 miles t west of the great naval base. Both in Cairo and Alexandria the people . were reported opti mistic over the prospects and fully confident that the tide of battle was turning in favor of the allies. The population was calm and all activities were going on normally. Berlin Admits Planes, Not Americans BERLIN, July 4-(Py-In Its ac count of the first American aerial attack against Germany, the Ber lin radio declared Saturday night that 12 enemy planes dropped a few bombs on the Dutch coastal district but the damage was "in significant." . (The Germans apparently did not know or did not care to acknowledge that they knew ithat United States fliers were in the raid for the broadcast did not mention Americans.) The raid was carried out in mis ty weather and bad visibility, the Berlin radio added. Four attacking planes were shot down by anti-aircraft guns and fighter : planes, the account ad ded. Two of the planes shot down were said to be of the Boston bomber type while the two others were Wellington planes. . . up and in use. It is estimated that tneraw rubber on hand plus the reclaimed rubber will be suf ficient merely to provide for mil itary needs, and to keep the es sential, civilian activities going, including farm operations, com mercial . trucks and busses, and transportation of workers in war industries. Of the 30,000,000 pri vately r owner motor, cars, about 20,000,000 of them will nave to rely on the tires they now have. Nelson told the governors the ' WPB was "ready to produce synthetic rubber according to any formula which weald de liver the goods,'' but pointed out that shortages of steel and copper made It difficult to pro vide materials for .-constructing (Turn to Pago 2, CoL 2) UEIPODe Tires by the heaviest aerial attack - ? attack, launched from posi Small Crowds See Program Military Takes Large Role on Fourth; , Horses Staged j Presenting - w h a I .-participants and .onlookers declared was their most eiaDoraie ana enjoyaoie Fourth of July program to date, members of Capital post No. 9, American Legion, Saturday night believed "one of the slimmest crowds" at an Independence day celebration since the last World war had attended their fair grounds shows. Gate receipts and pre-sales of tickets had not been fully tallied and thousands of persons had crowded the fairway between events so no accurate report could be made at the close of the dance, which completed the ? day's ac tivities. . I - " Professional vaudeville at the night show shared the spotlight with Salem's Oregon Mounted posse in drill presentation and singing Sgt. K. Lathia f head, quarters company, 7 1st infan try. whose popular Vocal nam bers Included two encores. The. military loomed large In the entire day's program with the 71st infantry, band, directed by Sgt John Mllite,i veteran band master, appearing at morning, aft ernoon and night events, and oth ers of the infantry parading with their commanding officer. Col. John Landis. A drill Without Com mand at the afternoon show' and anti-tank maneuvers were popu lar with "the crowd, - though State Fair Manager Leo Spitzbart al legedly groaned when hay shocks In the "center of the track were Itrewn far afield by the leaping jeeps. - .','- Speaker of the dl y ,. Gen. Charles H. Martin, former gov (Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) - 6 Jap Planes Shot Down ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sunday, July 5 -&-Allied planes shot down six Jap anese aircraft and ! damaged six in aerial "combat over Port Mores by, New Guinea, and heavy day and night raids on enemy bases, at saiamaua anfl Lac, it was report ed officially Sunday. !; ' . Twenty zero Japanese "planes attacked. Port . Moresby but one was reported shot down and three damaged. , ! Five Japanese planes were shot down from a force ; which - at tempted to intercept the raiders at Salamaua - and Lae and three others were hit the communique issued from the headquarters of General MacArthur reported. Our Senators Uc3 40. Lc:i 4-2 Weather Bar To Attacks On Invader WASHINGTON, July '4 (AP) A flying general reported Saturday on his return from the north Pa cific that army and navy air forces had "severely dam aged" Japanese shipg, air and shore installations in the invaded Aleutians. - -" Brig. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter, deputy chief of the army air staff, said the bombers in the Aleutian war zone were "carrying the fight to the enemy" and were well equipped but were handicapped by fog and ram. The war department made pub- ' lie his statement a few hours af ter the navy reported American fliers again had been striking at Japanese forces in the Aleutians, including an air attack on three transports and their convoys. The navy communique com mented, however, that the situa tion in the chain of 1 s 1 a n d s stretching out from Alaska toward Japan "has not changed materially" In the last , two weeks, r- This was the first navy com munique concerning the Aleu tians since that of June 21 when it was reported the Japanese had set up "minor, temporary struc tures"? at Kiska. That communi que also reported that army bombers had scored hits on an en emy carrier and sunk a transport Kuter, at 37 one of the youngest general officers in , the army brought the first official, personal report "of ; conditions in - the! re- mote Pacific area which the Jap anese invaded at the time their naval and air onslaught on Mid way island, west of Hawaii, was j beaten back a month ago. . ' J "American airmen are devising" I special means to put the Japs '" within range of "fighter planes op erating from the Aleutian bases," he said. "Distances are great and bad. weather Increases gasoline consumption. Nevertheless, when- ' ever the weather even approaches flyabflity,' our bombers take off ; to fight the enemy with bullets and . bombs." .Regardless of weather, he said, army and navy air forces . , operating under unified com- , mand were keeping the Japs oa Klska Island under observation and patrolling adjacent seas. A Kiska is 585 miles west of the , United States navy base at Dutch " Harbor. - Despite the latest reports from , the army and navy there were re- newed expressions of concern about the Aleutian situation. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond of Alaska said the reports, "shows they're working at the situation, but he added that he was "scared ; pink for fear we're going to daw dle until the Japs take over "the whole Aleutian chain." . " He expressed particular concern oyer Kiska, saying -that Satur--day's navy communique disclosed that the enemy was digging in at that spot to which the Japanese pushed after their initial landing at Attu on the western-most tip ": of the Aleutians. If the Japanese succeed la holding Klska and establishing a big base for land aircraft, be asserted, they would threat en all 1 American naval opera tions in those waters. I "We ought to take back and develop Kiska," he asserted. ' "It could be made Into the spearhead of an attack against Japan. ' "We ought to throw In at least 500 planes immediately and bomb . the hell out of them," Dimond said, referring to the Japanese"' positions at Kiska and elsewhere in the islands. 4 Kuter reported that in the Alas kan theatre one army fighter unit was commanded by Capt Sam Chennault a son of Brig. Gen. Claire Chennault, who command ed the Flying Tiger air force m China which was Inducted into , the United States army Saturday. Captain Chennaui ts fighter planes, he said, are painted, with the insignia of a flying1 tiger. j Kuter said ho was told by an . American bombardier that In : the Aleutians the ' aln come down "sideways." At the A mer- -lean air bases, he said, the men wear rain suits all the time, consisting of a rubberised par ka for warmth and protection, 'Tubberixed ' trousers with blan ket lining, high booli.and heavy ""underwear." ' ' . The navigator is the key mi (Turn to Page 2, CoL ) 1
