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Tho Insido - Scrvico Men - ? -Oar heya of - Salens and vicinity art ta Buifora wiii .Undo Cast rer, this. faca 1 ; .VC Your complete morning , - newspaper, The Statesman, " tfers you pertinent eom , meets on war newt of the , Amy by KIrke Simpun, Washington analyst. - the glebe. Follow them daily, la To'UtesyaVTcrvlc Men' column. ' ' IIETZTY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Oreejon, Friday Morriag, July 10, 1942 , . Ptk 5c No. tl : mm y . km 1 m . -m 1AT O TPK I X I I I 1 On SMp 'Chair Student Is Continues WASHINGTON, July 9 ( AP) A bold nazi attempt to slip a spy Into .the United States on the steamship Drottningholm, diplomatic ex change vessel, was charged by t h e justice department Thursday with announcement of the arrest of Herbert Karl Friedrich Barh, 29-year-old former American, college student, on charges of espionage. Barn, educated in Buffalo schools and at Rensselaer Poly- technical institute, has been in Germany, the federal bureau of investigation said, since 1938 A statement from J. Edgar Hoo ver, FBI director, quoted him as admitting that "he was enlisted in October, 1941, by the German gestapo for the purpose of return ing to the United States to se cure, and transmit to Germany , Information pertaining to the war effort of this country, ' A complaint charging Bahr with conspiracy to violate fed eral espionage statutes and us- " lag a mutilated passport was filed by the FBI Thursday be- -' fore X'S Commissioner Joseph F. HoUand at Newark. E. E. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Tirpitz Out For Months v Axis Naval Strength Directed 'Against' Convoys to Reds By The Associated Press MOSCOW, Judy 9 Russian - naval authorities said Thursday night the German super-battle-' ship Tirpitz had been put out of ' action for several months by the , daring attack of a red submarine, but saw her sortie into the Arctic " as evidence that the nazis have turned their main naval effort against ship lanes from America and Britain to Russia. Twice torpedoed and official- ly declared seriously damaged, the Tirpitz limped back to the shelter of a western Norwegian fjord with her accompanying squadron, the . pilots of soviet reconnaissance planes reported. There, while un dergoing repairs, she may be yul . : nerable to renewed RAF air at i tacks. Russian dispatches said the . submarine attack disrupted operations . of the strong Ger- man squadron against a big al lied arms convoy, and that all ' ships of the convoy reached a Bnsslan port In safety. . (The German, high command, denying that the ! Tirpitz either had been damaged or even at - tacked, reported that German air attacks on Murmansk, probable destination of 'the : convoy, left fires in harbor and city. Previous , German official reports had s ""rLTLri: action and that one of the " acuon ana inai one oi me -scls destroyed was a United Stotefafe ceavy cruiser. (Thursday's German communi que cited a Lieut Henneman who, is said, was "killed in the destruc tion of the American heavy cruis er." -v. ' - (British and. United States of ficial sources have made no state ment so far on the Arctic battle). Workers Will Talk Busses " A meeting to find out how many men in Salem and ' vicinity are now working in Portland defense industries, particularly the ship yards, and discuss plans for trans porting them to and from work will be held at the chamber of 'commerce here at 8 o'clock next Wednesday night, C C. Cochran, ; business and extension manager, announced Thursday. "We'd like to have all local ! men . now . working in the ship ',. yards i or planning to do so to attend' this meeting," Cochran said. "It . is possible bus ; trans- porta tion on a club basis such as operates between k Salem and . Camp Adair might be set up, or some other plan devised.: . v Cochran said three small busses : were already being operated be tween Salem and Portland by Shipyard workers. ' City May Top Goal In Rubber Service Station Men Search; End Of Drive Today Service station men of the Salem area who Thursday aft ernoon closed their establish, ments and with their employes canvassed homes in their neigh borhoods, in some 'cases going into rural districts to seek scrap rubber, probably put the cap! tal city "over thetop" in the in tensive rubber salvage 'drive which closes tonight, E. C. Men nis, petroleum ; industries' chair man of the campaign, believed late Thursday night. I No tally of the results was avail able as station operators and at tendants utilized . spare moments from their evening's work to re turn to the scenes of their: after noon canvass for the surplus they had not been able ,to carry in earlier. Salem's quota of 500 tons was topped, they felt, sure, but refused to estimate by what quan tity. Plants of major oil companies provided storage space for the rubber, which included few tires, it was said. Heavy pieces of rub ber had been donated earlier in the campaign, men who asked from door to door for such minor items as floor mats and old bath tub stoppers declared. If Salem had gathered 1009 tons (which It has not, those active in the collection emphat ically maintain) the request of Mayor W. W; -Chadwick'hat every resident today tilize two hours in searching for hitherto undiscovered robber items which may be spared for na tional defense would still be well worth a citywide response, Mennis said. Hope that when final "figures are announced from the White House in the president's scrap rubber ' driv $ Oregon may be leading all states in the pet' cap ita tabulation was expressed Thursday by,State Salvage Chair man Claude I. Sersanous as he sent out an SOS -for the aid of every resident. . "The state of Oregon can well be proud of the . effort put forth by its citizens in the president's national rubber drive," he- de clared. "As usual, as in all cam paigns put forth by the govern ment in this all-out war effort, the (Turn In Page 2. Cot 7) RAF Drops 2-Ton Bombs Wilhelmshaven Naval Base, Sub Plants Get Heavy Raid LONDON, July 9.-P)-"Extra-special" bombs weighing two tons each were deposited, by the RAF in strong force Wednesday night the German naval base and c:-yction plants at iv ? rmany'" under were the BritiS f jfr have announced us ing, and "vj returning pilots said they left got fires raging in the shipyards. The British said four bombers were lost in this first raid in force after five nights of unfa vorable weather and the first on Germany -proper : since the July 2 attack on Bremen. ' - German i radio reports of the raiding said the British attacked both Wilhelmshaven and Weser muende and that three RAF planes, were shot down.; : ' Tight er ' planes attacked ? Ger man airdromes, and other object ives in France overnight, and claimed two German-" bombers were downed. " . '' Allies Bomb Enemy On Timor Island ; GENERAL Mttc ARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTER S, Australia, Friday, July l(M)-AUied fliers bombed Japanese barracks at Dili, c a p i t a 1 of Portuguese Timor, Thursday and scored direct hits on a number of buildings, allied headquarters announced Friday. Timor -lies northwest of Aus tralia.' . - Off the northeast coast both enemy and alKecl activity was limited to reconnaissance, .the command said in its daily com munique - - :; r ' ' In Charge 4 ' ' I . i ; v-; ! fa- .- -1 iv ? - Til V. ' - .-. ... tl,, .: f . ' .... " ..i -?:M- 1 V:.-J'y . . :( i.v V 1 " I . --t r . Here are three of the top men at army's new 96th division, soon ment; CoL Gordon H. McCoy (left), commander of the permanent Hammond M. Monroe (right). Gen, Bradley's chief of staff. All arrangements for the operation of the camp upon its completion direction of Li. CoL S. E. M. Deslslets, area engineer. (US Army Three Way Program Rent Watch Chamber to Confer With Director Of Housing, Assemble New Data; ' Chadwick to Name Committee - - 5 A three-way program to meet Salem's housing need's was being put under way Thursday by the Salem chamber of com merce in cooperation with the realty board, Mayor W. W. Chad wick and army authorities through H. C. Johnson, Four-County cantonment council coordinator at Camp Adair. Chamber representatives had arranged for a conference "with Folger Johnson, defense housing director for Oregon, in Portland next Tuesday, Mayor Chadwick had agreed to appoint a committee to keep an eye on rents, and survey data on avail able houses were being assembled. Mayor Chadwick, in response to a request relayed by the; chamber from " Coordinator Johnson's office, said Thursday night he would soon' name a committee of probably five members to Investigate rental prices, make recommendations as to their control should that be found necessary and continue to keep watch over charges made to new residents. The committee would have no au thority to ake direct action. The four-county coordinator sent to' Salem newspapers copies of a statement " warning against high rentals originally directed to the Corvallis Gazette-Times, and recommending . that rental com mittees be set up in each com mittee. - " ". A survey of vacant houses made Wednesday disclosed that while a considerable number of dwell ings were unoccupied, there were few that were deemed livable, C. C. Cochran, business and ex tension ' manager of the chamber of. commerce, reported Thursday. This and related information will be presented to Housing Director Johnson next week in an effort to speed the designation, of Sa lem as sf critical area eligible to obtain priorities on construction- materials. - "The chamber is receiving letters by the dozen from all parts of the United States writ ten by people expecting to live - in Slem. Cochran also report ed. "Many of them are army men, some are civilians." Because of this indication 'of an impending influx of people brought on by war condiitons, (Turn to Page 16, Col. 7) Wednesday's 7ealher . "Wednesday's max. temp. S2, min. 48." Thursday river, -L7 ft By reaest ef army aathoriUes, weather forecasts withheld and' temperature data delayed. - ai New Army Cantonment Camp Adair: Maj. Gen.'James L. to be activated and trained at the FR Wants No ise Signs Farm' Stop-Gap ; , Calls for Unity On Wheat Plans V WASHINGTON, July 9-(JP) President Roosevelt, in a new rebuke to the house farm bloc, made it plain Thursday he would accept no compromise of the farm appropriations dispute which re stricted the government's author ity to sell surplus wheat for live stock feed at subparity price. ; i Signing a stop-gap measure to provide the agriculture depart' ment with uly operating funds, the president said in a statement that "Our war; needs do not per mit compromise or partisan dis cord.? He added that the disputed issues involved "more. abundant production of. things we need, which he previously had defmed as meat, poultry and dairy prod ucts. ' ' . ' . '." This Is no time,'' he com mented, "to hamstring successful principles." Senator Russell (D-Ga), chair man of a senate-house commit tee which has sought unsuccess fully since May 23 to compose differences of : the two congres sional branches .over the $680, 000,000 'ff- agriculture . department fund Immediately interpreted this as flat support of the senate's amendment authorizing the sale of 125,000,000 bushels of govern ment-held wheat for feed at about 83 cents a bushel, Accordingly, Russell said that when the conference group meets again, y probably next vweelc,i he would , ask the house members to seek another vote of that body on the question. The house previ ously had Voted to bar the sale of grain held by the Commodity Credit; corporation ; at less than full parity prices,- IM on - the farm in the case of wheat ' - '- Housing Prepared; Slated Comnrom JL Bradley (center), commander of the bur mid-Willamette valley canton Adair station complement, and CoL three men are at work completing by the contractors working under Engineers photos). Seek Raises Unions9 Demands to Affect Many on Pacific Coast LOS ANGELES, July WX) The CIO and AFL presented joint demands for aircraft workers wage increases Thursday to a government sponsored labor management conference de mands which representatives of both "sides estimated unofficially would mean a boost of at least $125,000,000 annually on the Pa cific coast alone. No definite figures were avail able because military secrecy sur rounds the total number employed in aircraft factories. Reputable sources agreed that the total prob ably would be higher. . A spokesman - for Faol R. Porter, chief of the war produc tion board's stablll satlon branch, said the discussions in volve some 1,250,000 present or future employes in the industry in. all parts of the' country. The CIO demands : that , wage' in creases be made nationwide. : Labor's actual demands range from a minimum of 95 cents per hour for unskilled trades now re ceiving 60 cents per hour, to $1.60 for skilled workers now receiv ing $1.52. - The present 60-cent minimum, however, is not in ef fect for more than a month. Con tracts with all plants provide for boosts of 5 cents per hour at the end of each month until a mini mum of 75 cents is reached three months after an unskilled worker is bind.'V:v-it- f The bulk of the employment total is in the unskilled classifica tion, -v.i-.:.. " - Simultaneously with the " wage demands, made by the CIO Unit (Turn to Page 16, Cot 1) Gotta Pay Bills Today -or Else PORTLAND. July Tonll be on Uncle Same's de fault list if yo don't pay up that overdue charge account Friday. A federal anti-inflation order : calling for payment of all charge accounts contracted in May or previously becomes - effective July 10. . Government regulations pre vent merchants from granting credit en certain Items In the future to those whoso accounts are in arrears. Our Senators Plane Builders irj7;Ss British H arass Desert Troops' Rest Disturbed j By Patrol Work i CAIRO,- Egypt; July M) Waging a war of nerves in the desert, allied air and ground forces were reported Thursday night scoring a series of suc cesses with continual patrol ac tions and aerial attacks on the positions of Field Marshal Er- win Rommel west of El Alamain. British General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck is retaining the initiative he took when the pres ent positions some 70 miles .west of Alexandria were assumed. The enemy movements of the p a s t week have been mainly to coun ter allied threats to the axis flank. There are indications that Rom mel would like a respite of two or three weeks before making an other push toward the Nile but it was by no means certain that he would be allowed this much time to rebuild his strength. Night sallies by the British are especially annoying to tho enemy, according to prisoners, as the Germans usually base their operations so every sol dier may get a good night's sleep. "-'"- Not knowing when a bayonet party will charge out of the dark ness at them and having to Jump into slit trenches when allied planes come over, they have any thing but a restful night' ' The British patrols, operating mostly at night, ranged the curv ing southern sector of the front at the head of an , expanse lying between the axis' extended flank and the Qattara depression. Blast Kills 20 Miners MORGANTOWN, WVa., July I (P An ' of f icial of the Pursglove Coal Mining company reported late Thursday night that 20 min ers were killed in an explosion in the concern's mine on Scott's run.. - ... v-'-'-'-i'--'' ''? Joseph Pursglove, who directed rescue operations for the com pany, issued the statement giving the definite total of ' victims al most seven hours after the blast, trapped two crews of miners four, and a half miles underground. Eighteen of the dead had been tentatively identified earlier. Rescue efforts have been ham pered by fire which followed the explosion and it was . hours be fore the center of the blast scene could be reached. 4 Axis Planes Down VALLETTA, Malta, July Two axis bombers and two fight ers raiding Malta were destroyed Thursday and several others were damaged, a British communique said tonight. ' : Mghtly Mill City Gunner One of Midway Heroes 1 Sgt Leslie B. Brown of Mill City, Ore, Is shown above (standing second from left) with other members of the crew of one of the first army bomber flights , Into the battle ; of Midway. Srt. Brown is side gunner. Other crewmen are (left to right,' front row) Capt. Cecil U. Faulkner ofBellevue, Tex awarded the distinguished flying cross In April; First Lieut. William B. Compton of Compten, Calif.; ' Second XJeut. Walter K. Heltzman, navigator, of LodL Calif. Back row: Staff JSgt. Benjamin F. Clifton, Fori Worthy Tex.; Sgt Crown; Sgt Jerome Parson, first radio operator, Johnston, Pa4 Corp. Robert ' Knaps, assistant engineer, Racine, Wise.; Corp. George Cnxaone second radio operator, Fhlladelphia, ra only member of crew wounded, a bullet hole m little finger, and Master Sgt Joe J, Mallenlx : bombardier, Wabash. Ind. On the first day of battle Faulkner's crew sank a Jap transport and scored hits cn a. tattlcsh!? and cruiser. Second day they hit a large aircraft carrier which they saw listing - heavily, aa kierne ef flame. Fhoto taken at Qonolulo. (Iaternatlonal Illustrated News). ; ; Back In? " """" "" " " : f v-';-'Vv.0:-.V-':x''''i:-1::':-''"::: v "'-: f -- i 'i v-----.. .-. MARSHAL VON BRAUCHTTSCH LONDON; Friday, July 1HP) The Stockholm correspondent of the Daily Mail reported Fri day that Adolf Hitler, who last December assumed the "intu itive" military leadership of the German armies,, has yielded to the demands of his high com mand and restored Field Mar- . shal Walter Von Brauchitach as commander in chief. Von Brau- j : chitsch now is directing the general staff work of Hitler's summer offensive in Russia, the correspondent said he was told by neutrals arriving In Stockholm from Berlin. Field Marshal Fedor Von Bock, who Is directing operations oar the central Russian front where the Germans have been report ' ed la a break-through from Kharkov, Is said to be answer able to Von Brauchltsch, the DaOy Mall correspondent de dared. Japs 'Routed By Ambush Kianggi Force Loses 2000 to Chinese US Bombers Raid CHUNGKING, China, - July 9. '-(&)-A Japanese force of 30,000 has been ambushed and routed with' the loss of at least 2000 killed and wounded in heavy fighting in Kiangsi province, Chi nese central news dispatches re ported Thursday night. AH told, the Chinese unofficial ly reported nearly 5000: Japanese casualties in various fighting sec-;! tors in recent engagements; , - Meanwhile, the headquarters of US Lieat Gen. Joseph W. . StilweU announced that United States bombers left eight fires raging In Hankow, Japan's main base in the Interior of China,'. In a . raid carried - out Monday . despite adverse weather, v . . It was the third raid against that Yangtze river port since July 1. Oil storage points and wharves were attacjeed. . ; i . . The Chinese acknowledged Thursday that the Japanese were in complete control of the 450 mile Chekiang-KiangsL - railway Uturn to Page 2. Cot 3) - v 'I- i K Graven Rails ":' Soviet Sinks J Three Ships: On Baltic ,By HENRY C CASSIDY MOSCOW, Fridayv Joly 40 (AP) The massed might of the German armies in south Russia had driven to within 235 miles of industrial Stalin grad on the Volga Friday, but the determined red ar mies held their ground firm ly before gravely imperiled ; Voronezh and the upper reaches of the Don; the midnight -Russian communique disclosed.- -j "During July 9 our troops con-f tinued their stnbborn battles to the west of Voronezh and in the town of Rosso8h,w the communi que said. . ; Rossosh is 100 miles southwest of Voronezh and 150 miles, direct ly east of ' the great steel 'city of Kharkov. On a tributary close to 4.1 w m rr . .. uie i-on, - riossosu is vu miles northeast of Kupyansk the first major point captured in this ma jor. German offensive of the year. It lies only 235 miles northwest of Stalingrad, on the broad' banks of the Volga commanding the northern - approaches to the oil bearing Caucasus,: which appar ently is the German goal. (Russian sources in London con ceded the latest German advance was of the gravest importance.)' ; "Rossosh ISa' manufacturing town about 20 miles from the mid dle Don area. The new 90-mile German advance pushed the nazi right wing far forward while the Russians . threw in hundreds of. thousands of soldiers in an effort to hold the nazi center and left along the line of the upper Don farther north. t ' By the advance,, the Germans went a long way toward es tablishing a new line extending from the Rostov area, the point Of their deepest penetration last year, 309 miles northward to Voronexh. . The critical nature of the fight ing in, the Rossosh area was point ed up by the fact that the town lies on the Moscow-Voronezh-Rostov railway, ) the , last remaining north-south link over which sup plies are funneled to the desperw ately pressed armies of Marshal Semeon Timoshenko. 3 i The assertion that the fighting was "in the area of the town" suggested that the railway might either be cut or at least gravely threatened over a 100-mile length. Already, if not cut, the rail link probably was under attack of, dive-bombers or long range ar tillery. ; 1 ' . Three ships, toUling 22.MS tons, a tanker and two trans Ports were declared sunk in the Baltic sea, Soviet submarines (Turn' to Pabe 16, CoL 5) . .