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Keep Posted Momentous events occur la all puts of the world while you sleep but also while The Statesman newt services are reporting- them. Keep posted: read The Statesman. Going-A7ay?l. Going Iway, on 'a Vaeay lion or to a. war job? Have" The Statesman follow you. to keep yon posted en events st home. Call 1101 for de: ; tails. te.Hih.1 sV"- :.'-Hi:? POUNDQD 1CZ1 imirrY -second yeab - Salem, Oregon, Sua day Morning, July 12, 1942 Pries-$& No. C3 1 MeiB 0.v (Mtf iii Gil t' Wm Mill Axis Work Or Fight' In Use Now Oregon Drafting Af (ects Married r Men; Explained Col,- Elmer V. Wooton, state director of selective service, said Saturday .that a work-or-fight draft program now is in operation. He warned married men that : the recent congressional act set ting up allowances for depend ents did not give blanket defer ment to married men. and said that some of their number would r be inducted within the next few months. "In actuality' he said, "the allowance act has made it p- 1, tible to indoet married men by providing for their dependents . .-. the act has removed finan cial dependency as any cause for deferment." The colonel added that the only , deferments at the present time are; being given to men whose jobs are essential or who are physically unfit. - "Without being an alarmist in any way," the colonel said in a ' prepared statement, "I feel free to ', state that a work or fight' pro gram is here. The men not ac cepted for service' in the army " must make their services available to the war industry . . . able bodied men who can work . . . must be removed from non-es-- sential occupations." Col. Wooton's statement con- tinued, in part: ."Confusion as to the status of , married men under the new act has arisen heeanse of misinter pretation of a clause in the new 1 act which authorizes the presi dent to make regulations pre scribing the order in which men with financial dependents or with wives or wives and fami lies win enter the services. The' regulations to carry out this clause have not ret been pub lished and issued but the intent ' f the clause is being carried (Turn to Page 2. Col. 4) Sp rasue Calls Harvest Help Declares Draft May Be Needed for Work in Western Fields . PORTLAND, Ore., July 11-JP) Gov. Charles A. Sprague of Ore gon declared Saturday that west ern states may have to draft work ers for the harvest fields. "The labor problem for agri culture threatens to reach a point where conscription will have to be restarted to in order to sustain our food suddIt." he said in a radio broadcast. .- "The way to avoid such an eventuality Is for city dwellers , 4o lend their hands voluntarily. ... we must have that response and we must have It at onee," . the governor added. He appealed for urbanites to go Into the berry fields this weekend to save crops otherwise doomed to rot on the vines. Growers in the Portland area, where the crop is valued at $1,200,000, estimated they needed 5000 pickers in addi tion to the 2500 on nana. Meanwhile John J. Corson, di rector of the federal employment -service, advised the Pacific Coast that it could not expect to import farm laborers this season. He told federal employment. ..directors and labor experts from 'Oregon. Washington; California and Idaho that the solution of the pressing labor preblesa rests - ta the people of those states. And an educational program wnld help, ho said. . ' " "We're banking on that 'extra response from citizens of this area to help us over the harvest peak rmhlwn Corson said. "We can count oiTno other labor supply." Service Men Core. BIU R. Porter, 22, grandson of Bin. K. I. Teuton, 1363 Lee street, Salem, nan oeen cromoted to the grade of ser geant at tis post at Fort Lewis, 17ash. Tor additional pews about r:ta frca 6 a! em and vicinity in fho armed forces, torn to page f re t,t today's Statesman. ' Fats Salvage" Starts, for Glycerine WASHINGTON, July ll-P) An out-ofyChe-Tfry ing-pan-in to-the-firing-line Salvage campaign will begin Monday aimed at sav ing millions jot pounds of waste kitchen fats f or use in making high explosives. . One pouny of bacon grease or waste kitchen fat contains enough glycerine to fire four anti-aircraft shells, the war pro duction board said Saturday. -It asks housewives to save such grease and sell it to one of the 300,000 meat markets which are cooperating in the drive. The waste fats salvage is one phase of the general scrap cam paign beginning Monday, involv ing continuing collection of all types of iron and steel . scrap, rubbef, rags and in certain se lected areas tin cans. Sugar Ration May Go Up Shipping and Output Exceed Present Use; Watch Is Careful WASHINGTON, July ll-P)-A possible increase in the sugar ra tion was hinted by the office of price administration Saturday in reporting that the United States now is obtaining about 30,000 tons more sugar a month than is being consumed. However, OPA cautioned that continued government control over the distribution of sugar was necessary to assure each person his fair share and guard against serious shortages in 1943. ' Emphasizing that the ship ping situation remained an 'an-; known" factor In the supply pic ture, OPA estimated that 1942 sugar production and imports would total 6J54.284 tons, com pared with normal . peacetime consumption of about (,800,009. If supplies continue flowing at the anticipated rate, 1942 rationed consumption will leave about 354,000 tons to spare, OPA said. It called this margin "too narrow for normal times, but : said it would not be "too dangerous un der a rationing system where im mediate curtailment of consump tion can be put Into effect when the need arises." - Rationing is now at the basic rate' of one-half pound a person a week. OPA authorized last week "bonus" of two extra pounds. Under this program, OPA said, the country now is using about 475,000 tons of sugar a month and is being supplied from its own crops, and all. imports at the: rate of about 504,523 tons, a month. The bulk oi this supply is brought to this country in ships from Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean," the statement continued, "and as long as we are V (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Presidential ort Members of the Willamette university board of trustees have been called to meet at the First Methodist church In Portland next Friday afternoon to hear the report of the special committee appointed to recommend a suc cessor to the late Dr. Carl Sum ner Knopf as president of the In stitution. f Dr. J. C. Harrison, president of the board, said Saturday it had been agreed to withhold identity of the committee's selection until the board has acted. ! onolulu There Jwere no blackouts In Sa lem last week as the eighth month of the nation's war with the axis began but in Honolulu there were, with .severe penalties for viola tors, with businss men's training corps oembers carrying pistols at all times and drilling in uniform on weekends, with all members of the population over three years of age taking gas masks wherever they went, and with military courts taking the place of normal civilian Justice. ; 1 - f Residents of Oahu, best-known isle of the Hawaiian group, have far more to remind them that they are In a war sone than do dwellers on the Pacific coast's own military tone, but they take it all without complaint. These are impressions given by Herman S. Simpson, for 7 years a member of the Honolulu Adver tiser staff, who hopes - to make Rep Ready M A lean 4 T ops In 9 Guinea Defend Moresby; Allies Raid Japs In China, Burma WASHINGTON, July U-(P) The presence of American troops in New Guinea, strategic jumping-off place for attacks on the Japanese invaders of the southwest Pacific, was disclosed Saturday by the war depart ment. Officially-approved photo- graphs pictured negro troops at Port Moresby, along with Austral ian and American fliers. Many negro troops, the war de partment said, are "spotted In the Pacific area building bases and airfields." The disclosure of the movement of American ground forces northward from Australia was thus made in backhanded fashion. Immediately north of Australia, Port Moresby shares with Port Darwin in North Australia vital importance both in the defense of the southern contingent and as springboards for a possible offen sive against the enemy. Port Moresby, raided scores of times in recent weeks by the Japanese, has stood squarely in the way of their further ad vance. It has been the base for bombing raids made by United Nations airmen en Japanese held Salamaua and Lae on New Guinea, and on Tulagi, Rabatd, and "Kendall on other islands. -.From Port Moresby, United Na tions' commandos last month; raid ed across the mountains to' Sala maua. Some observers "suspected the port was one objective of the Japanese naval and air thrusts of two months ago which were beat en back in the battle of the Cor al sea. - - At both Port Moresby and Port Darwin, United Nations forces have been built up steadily in re cent weeks, by officii reports. General Sir Thomas Blarney, Australian commander of allied land forces, commented that the defenders were "in a much better position than ever before" and said that although the loss of ei (Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) Chosen Sam F. Speerstra. Marlon county republican state committeeman, who was named to the state executive committee and to co- chairmanship of the state com mittee's legislative committee in Portland, Saturday.. . (Story on page two.) Residents either Salem cr Eugene his home. "Everybody is buckling down, showing a thoroughly American spirit, accepting scarcities is. food and thier article and do me his part for the defense of the islands," Simpson, In Salens to rklt with Mr. ana Sirs. Ralph Mitchell and Miss Mary Eyre,; reported. - . " ; , - Recently arrived from the is lands, Simpson reported that res idents of Oahu had adjusted them selves quickly to war conditions. Strict martial law prevails. Army officers presiding as judges, with soldiers serving as court at tendants, try all cases without jur ies, make decisions from which there is no appeal, and mete out what Simpson said he .had ob served to be Justice. . - . "Simplest. violation of blackout rules permitting a Cash of light to escape in opening a door at 4 V A v - i?j - . 1 ' ' i i - ' - r . i i i i r .- Premier - 1 : jt- : .' .: -, ; ; , .x-v "' i - ' -y. U , -. "V Sukru Saraeogla (above),-former fore in minister, in the ne premier of Turkey. Be 4uc ceeds the late Premier Refik Say dam. and' his appointment was made by Ismet Inonm, Turkish president. (Associated Press Telemat) Five Sinkings Told Insurance Charges on Cargo Raised 5 Per ; Cent; Most Saved By The Associated Press Five more ship sinkings an nounced Saturday by the navy raised to 359 the unofficial Asso ciated Press total of ships sunk in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor . ' , The rate of sinkings prompted marine underwriters to raise their charges for carg$4nsurance 5 per cent in most categories. . ; . Strengthening of the' allied merchant fleet was indicated., however, in the lease' lend agreement reached in Washing ton between the United States and Norway by which the Unit ed States will furnish free armament for Norway's merch ant fleet now fat the ' United Nations service, repair damare and replace ships lost in war operations.. The latest ships reported lost included two United States merch ant vessels, a British merchant ship and a small Greek cargo, ves sel. . ' The 80-ton- Cuban schooner La lita was shelled and sunk by an - (Turrr to Page 2, Cot I) ; Bus Strike Averted, to Be Mediated PORTLAND, Ore, July lL-(P) -An agreement to mediate a wage dispute late : Saturday averted a strike that would have halted bus service" throughout most of north western Oregon at midnight Sat urday night , Oliver Goodwin, Portland, fed eral labor conciliator assigned to the case. Saturday, said the agreement was reached In confer ences with AFL drivers and shop workers and Oregon Motor Sta ges officials. y,'- V "Operations will conti nu e," Goodwin said. "Both parties tuve agreed to refer the dispute -fto a special mediation board." .The strike threat, involving 150 employes, including all city : bus drivers in Eugene and Salem was over wage demands that were not made public. Y v Atlantic Taking Hardships ; night-ldraws a $5 fine and re quired purchase of ar $23 war bond for the first offense, $30 fine for the second. Maximum penalty for drunkenness ' is "at $500 -t fine ' and one-year jail sentence,-and theof- ficer-judges may be depended to impose the maximum, on repeat ers. - Business firms, Simpson said, are permitted to have at ; most $500 in cash on hand at a time, in dividuals S20O. , Motorists are not permitted to drive at night unless they have special passe. Total: blackout prevails, the period governed by changing hours of daylight. Cit ixens may walk about the streets at night now that 'the eurfew has been set back to 10 p. m. for the summer. For sev eral months p. m, - was the ' eurfew , hour. Intermittent use ' of a blue flashlight is permitted Push Toward Two Thrusts Taktflittle Territory Soviet Fliers Claim . Huge Damage on ' Nazi Equipment By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Sunday, July 12 (AP) -The German spears head east of the River Don was " poshed forward a few miles to the outskirts of Vor onezh, on the Moscow-Rostov railway, the soviet midnight communique said Sunday, but th Russians indicated two other German thrusts on the 200-mile front made little or no headway. The communique did not men tion a withdrawal in any sector, but its mention of fierce fighting "on the outskirts of Voronezh" indicated the Germans had en larged the bridgehead they estab lished east of the Don some days ago. Whatever gain the Germans made, however, must have been small for Voronezh is only ten miles from the river. An indication, of the Intensity of the fighting here was seen hi the communique report that an entire enemy regiment had been smashed in one: sector, north-" west of Voronezh and that one Russian tank crew alone had killed 0t Germans 2 i The communique made no men tion of the fighting ground Kan temirovka, 1 4? miles south of Voronezh, and Lisichansk, 55 miles still farther south, beyond say ing fierce fighting continued in these regions. . ' "On other sectors of the front no essential . changes took place," the communique said. In naval attacks on German supply lines, the Soviets reported their ships sank five German transports, with a total displace ment of 46,000 tons in the Baltic. The Russians also claimed soviet fliers on - various sectors of the front had .destroyed or damaged 89 tanks and 400 trucks with troops and supplies. The vast naiT offensive clear ly was aimed at Isolating the rich, oil-bearing Caucasus by cutting across the northern ap proaches to the Volga. Sealing off the Caucasus would cut the vital Russian supply route from the Persian gulf and would stake off a rich prise of war for attempted - conquest during the winter. But at Lisichansk, the Germans still were 800 miles from Baku and Its oil fields and much hard fighting lay ahead. The Soviets ', also said that Marshal Fedor - Von Bock . had launched a fresh attack on Lis! chansk, 200 miles : south of Vo ronezh in the area where the Don makes a wide semicircle to ; the east to within 45 miles oi Stalin grad, the great industrial city on the Volga. " - Friday's Weather Friday's max. temp. 71, min. S7. River Saturday, -t ft By army request, weather f orecaats are withheld and temperature data delayed. ' for pedestriamvM the strsete. Registratlpn of the populace has been thorough, Simpson said. Xv ery resident over three years' of age has been fingerprinted, both hands, and a thorough record oth erwise made up to identify him. By army order," all citizens have been innoculated against typhus and paratyphoid. - r--; A substantial part of the large Japanese population remain at 1 a r g e , "because to isolate the whole Japanese population would disrupt the island's economic set up," Simpson declared." They; are not, however, permitted to move about at night without special passes. ' ir-.-.J'i :-: r'. The Japanese La general are well-behaved he aid, and some,, of the young Nipponese males are being drafted and maiizg good soldiers. - Many shortages of foodstuffs Voro on. Russians Battle Ttvo Drives SMOLENSK V ' - " - -KALUGA . , sy ' ygl ' JROSSOSH r KXAPjeoyp I T I "jpn x ,IZY"4?vS?eV STALINGRAD 'TAGANROfSoIka Soviet - troops were hard-pressed Saturday by German troops In the outskirts of VoronesA (1), while the axis advance to slash red communications between Moscow and the southern front had pushed beyond Kossosh (2) and southeast Press fTelemat.) 158 German Aliens Arrested Biggest , Sinm Group Financed Return to Germany Of Saboteur; Federal Agent Goes Under Crossexamination in Trial NEW YORK, July ll-P)-The federal bureau oi investiga tion Saturday announced its biggest single haul of German aliens with the arrest of 158 members of a group which financed the return to Germany of . one of eight submarine-borne saboteurs recently landed on American shores. ' " ' x . The latest to be landed in the FBI net were 130 men and Swedish Ship Sunk, Baltic - STOCKHOLM, July ll-(ff)-The 8000-ton Swedish ship Luleaa was torpedoed and sunk in the Baltic Saturday shortly after Hhe foreign office declared it had proof that Russian rubmarines . were re sponsible for recent - attacks, on Swedish shipping, . ; The Luleaa, owned -by an iron ore company, was torpedoed out side the town of Vestervik as she steamed southward (presumably with a load of iron ore for Ger many.) She sank immediately. , Twenty of the crew were res cued and 16 were missing. Escort ing warships and planes attacked the submarine and it was believed to have been sunk. Witk No Complaints were experienced during the ear ly months after the Pearl Harbor attack; hut no one went hungry, Simpson said,, because supplies, of canned good . were adequate- He recalled a two-wceki period when no butter was to be had, six weeks when. be couldnt have bacon, times when potatoes and vege tables were scarce and fresh meat not available. Cigarette ' smokers could not be I cJwosey" as to brands. Simpson was a member of the business men's training corps, formed soon . after December 7. Training regularly" and n duty under army command a large parti of the time, whether at their reg ular occupations or 7 elsewhere, corps members , are organized to help police Honolulu in event of an -invasion - attempt cr other emergency, : -. - utezh Outskir & Volga, Stalingrad RUSSIA tOO 200 STATUTE Mats H towatiLStaUngrad. (Associated - , - , Saturday, e Maul 29 women all identified as mem bers of the German-American vo cational league a nazi -dominated group which paid for the passage to Germany in 1939 of Heinrich H. Heinck, a 35-year-old native of Hamburg now on trial before a military commission in Washing ton. ' Heinck was one of the eight highly-trained . nasi . saboteurs landed on Long Island and Flor- Ida beaches by a German sub-' marine late La Jane and sub- ' seuueatly picked up by the FBI. Already in custody were . 113 German-American Bundists swept into Jail i by a nationwide drive last week, and ? Herbert . Karl Friedrich Bahr, accused nazi spy apprehended travelling as a ref ugee aboard the Swedish diplo matic liner Drottningholm earlier this week. - ... (Turn to Page 2, CoL I) The visitor was ea t oeeeu fleer of the Advertiser building, where' he worke4 a of ' the; commercial . prtetua' paztmemV who bomb struck the street nearby. Honolulu - residents fca general mistook the Japanese attack of December 7 as merely" more realistic than usual training maneuvers on the part of the army and navy,' he said. Hiss Ethel M. MitchelL sister of Ralph Mitchell state salvage committee secretary, of Salon, is directing a working girls, YWCA hotel in Honolulu and carrying a heavy- load in defense activities, according to Simpson.' Mrs. Simp son and. Miss Mitchell are close friends... Miss , Eyre , became ac quainted with the Simpsons dur ing a vuut. to the islands-several years ago. ' British Move Aliead 5 Miles Along Desert 12" Jankers Transport : Planes Shot Down; No RAF Lost By EDWARD KENNEDY CAIRO, inly U (AP) A German effort to rush rein forcement by air to the hard pressed axis desert armies was broken up Saturday when a p a t r o I flight of British Beaufighters pounced upon a group of big Junkers-52 troop transport planes and damaged or shot down at least 12 Into the sea. r x In the land fighting British troops have taken 1500 axis pris oners, destroyed 18 enemy , tanks ' and advanced five miles along the I northern coastafjTailroad west of ; A' Alamein, frontline dispatches : reported. . ' f ( Th frnnrMrarnrinir nlancx frnm ' bases across the Mediterranean were under escort of twin-engined , axis fighter planes, but the Brit--ish said there were no RAF losses, in the engagement,- .The British attack ended only" "when the beaufighters ran-eut r of ammunition and low en gaso ,lie, indicating that some of the aerial : convoy imight: have.'lea-. caped and reached the axis bases In North Africa. Squadron Leader C. V. Ogden gave this brief account; V 7 .' "We were on patrol when' we spotted the junkers. They were only SO feet over the sea when we engaged them and in the series of fights ) which followed the air was thick with shells and machine gun bullets." The German troops who -per ished in the British attack prob ably were specialists being rushed " to reinforce Marshal Erwin Rom mel's front line, it was believed here.1 ' ' - . -x ' (The junkers 82 is capable of (Turn to Page X, CoL 1) ' Allies Raid 5000 Times Bombers and Fighters Busy Constantly' ' In Desert , ; ., ' ' LONDON, July ll.-(iF)-Allied bombers and fighters in one of the greatest sustained offensives of the war have made more than 5000 raids in thelast 10 days on axis forces in North Africa, the air ministry news service report ed Saturday night : v -I. ' r : A record number of Jlghter sorties was carried out Friday, it said, addmg that "so intense has been this air offensive that , battle Weary German and IU alian soldiers have-had hardly a minute's respite from bombing v and machine-gunning. ' Here's a sample of a single day's operations logged in the air min istry report: . . " One hundred thirty bombers es corted by 127 fighters attacked axis concentrations southwest of El Alamein. - -- v ' 'Ji . Seventy five Kitty hawk bomb ers attacked transport on 13 Daba airdrome. -'.-,:- '. One hundred sixty six Spit fire and nsrricane fighters swept battle area at hourly In tervals. ' ..- v Eighty four Wellingtons, eight Liberators arid six Blenheims in i night attack bombed- motor transxwrt ccevcentrauena in tne u Daba area, and shipping off Ben gasi,- , ' Huf ana Said in Fair Condition .' Booked at the Marion county jail on a charge of assault when armed with a dangerous weapon, Lucas Galvez, 42, Labish Filipino, still did not know ;thi morning whether, a more , serious charge would be filed against him. " Ambrose Hufana, whom Galvez allegedly admitted shooting in an argument over the ""--ppcrance cf Kulana's white wi , we s said I U Ce in lair nmtuuuu at tjuicia Deaconess JiospitaL,