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Koop Posted vs- Momentous events occur la all parts of th world while yea sleep bat also while The Statesman stwi services arc reporting them. " Keep pasted; read Tha Statesman. itejety-second yiar A M TtTI ie! X Ai. MM. i , Attack imiff a -aJL ti m aVs7 In Striking i4tcaj Tanks CAIRO. July 14-(iT,-Austra- lian desert troops have repulsed axis armored counter-attacks aimed at regaining the domi nant coastal ridge at Tel El Eisa Hill of Jesus and the roval airforce stepped up operations Tuesday against masses of tanks and motorized, equipment the enemy is bringing up around El Daba. , 1 c- i i niti - tions by British fighter-bombers supported the ground forces de fending Gen. Sir Claude Auchin- ledCs newly-won positions at the northern end oi the Egyptian bat- tlefront The German ground troops who attacked the Australian positions Monday were reported to have suffered such heavy losses that they did not. renew their opera "iions Tuesday on anything like the scale of the previous two days. The aerial swarms were de clared to have flattened the ap- proaching axis tanks and motor borne infantry in mass operations beginning Monday. In the first phase of the day ' long battle on the north, heavy RAF bombers struck at the enemy transport columns and concentrations, and " this was followed ap by a big fighter ' bomber attack on axis airfields -' to keep as many planes land locked as possible. ; , : . As a result the enemy 'air ac tivity was satisfactorily curtailed to an extent that permit the RAF to develop cooperating operations With ' ground forces 'later in the fighting against enemy attacks, Among five German tanks de stroyed by direct bomb hits were iour oi in powenui. "jviarx a type. ' ' - .- Marshal Erwin Rommel's tanks and infantry battered throughout Monday morning at the allied sal- L108"81 of El Alamein at intervals of ap proximately an hour, but each at tack wilted before the three-ply defense put up by heavy artillery barrages, the Aussie ground troops and the RAF. Scrap Depots .Given Chest Collection Campaign . To Continue for War Materiajs ; Salem's United War Chest,, suc cessor this year to. the Community Chest, was ' designated , asj bene ficiary of scrap donation . depots to be set up in the city within the next - few days, by, action of the Salem salvage committee at the chamber of commerce Tues day night. C W. Paulus. count v salvage . chairman, who presided over the meeting, said any individual or ganizauon desiring to put on a scrap salvage drive of its own. selling material collected to deal ers and pocketing the profits, was not wily privileged but also urged to do so. fj: . : :f "The aim of the national war scrap drive is to salvage au ma' terial possible, Paulus empha tlzed. ' A continuing campaign for the collection of scrap rubber will be carried on along with drives for salvage of metals and fats, Ralph Mitchell, executive secretary of the Oregon salvage committee, told the local group. Housewives planning to save- all waste fats for wartime use "y: '.V.f. "T:; days had been designated 47 Sorvico Men Krs. Mildred Mortenson, Sa lem. : his received a cablegram from lMir grandson. Pvt. Robert Gabriel, that he Is now In Pales tine. He is a radio operator wita the army air corps. Since join- bur the air corps la December, 1939. Pvt. Gabriel has also been la AtsiraiU wd Iafila, He Is formerly of Cascadia, Ore bat . has spent -several summers Ih Salem and has many friends Far additienal news about toen from Salem and vicinity In ' the armed forces, turn to page The M SSAt . - v !v f ''3v Uncle Sam's new and Improved M a more difficult target to hit i . ' - ' -' f r ' -' - O'trf r v. , N 1 h - 1 I . " ' - - . 1l . - " - "2 - - which Is raised and put in a traverse turret, Man y .machine guns constructed of east or welded hulls, which speeds production. This Japs Lost 20 Ships Battle, II S 2, Personnel Losses 4800 for Enemy, 307 Americans; Navy Tells Story Of Planes' Sinking of Carriers WASHINGTON, July 14-P)-The navy announced Tuesday night in a resume of the month'sold battle of Midway that the Japanese had lost 20 ships, including four aircraft carriers, sunk or damaged plus 275 aircraft destroyed or lost at sea and 4800 men killed or drowned. iTie official communique, first complete review of the his T iromise is Made on Farms May Break Lockup Over New Funds WASHINGTON, July 14-) Senate and house conferees Tues- day worked out a compromise de signed to break a two months' old deadlock on the agriculture de- partment's $680,000,000 appropri ation bill, but thinned house ranks postponed a final vote on the agreement The - proposal tentatively was approved on a standing vote of llato 34 but Rep. Hope R-Kas) objected on the ground no quo rum was present, and the house was adjourned. It previously had been agreed that because of the large number of absentees, no roll-call vote on the contro versial measure would be taken until Wednesday. rThe proposal represented a splitting of , the differences be tween the senate and the house on appropriation items and conces sions on the matter of permitting the sale of government-controlled I grain surpluses at prices below parity for livestock feeding. Chairman Cannon (D-Mo) of the appropriations committee said the compromise was - "ideal" in that it "suits nobody and is agree- able to everybody.1 The house quickly agreed to the compromise appropriation items, and indications' were the senate would do likewise.' ' House conferees expressed belief the senate would accept the surplus grain sales proposal (Turn to Page 2. CoL 8) Fighters Raid Nazi Regions Firing of Three Ships' Follows Bombing Of Ruhr Area . - London. Joir iibhm J pieA territories, attacked railways and airfields 'In northern X France both morning and afternoon and se. three small ships on fire off Ostend. the air - ministry an nounced Tuesday night ? The fighter attacks followed re newed strong force bombing ex peditions over ; the Ruhr; Monday night. The .Germans admitted Duisberg, " Germany's great -in land port, was raided, British pi lots set : fires in a big industrial area in what they described as "good medium-sized show". During the day. an official com munique said, "fighters were on offensive patrol over northern France where they attacked rail' ways and airfields,' One British plane was lost dur ing the day operations, the com- Lomp - 4 Goes Streamlined & - 4 tank, with I to lower silhouette "All 'round" firing power Is provided by Its major 75-calibre run, Review Shows toric action yet issued, said Ameri-; can losses were the 19,900 ton aircraft carrier Yorktown, "put out of action," and the destroyer Hammann, which was torpedoed in the closing stages of. the fight Our total personnel losses were 92 officers and 215 enlisted men," the communique said. ; In a description of the coarser of the battle which started June I and : lasted through Jane . 6 when the enemy was in full re treat there were numerous ref erences to American planes eith er being shot down or failing to return to their bases, but no to tal of aircraft losses was given. The Japanese, it was disclosed, had collected an armada of ap proximately 80 ships for the grand assault on Midway, vital . outpost of the Hawaiian stronghold. The ) enemy apparently decided to turn back, however, at the first evidence of strong resistance. ; The navy said the Japanese retreat be gan on the morning of June 4 at a time when it was estimated only about 10 of their ships had . been damaged and when American of ficers expected "the attack would still be pressed forward. " As a result of the action, -in which naval surface craft and army, navy and marine . aircraft participated, the navy said this damage was inflicted upon the enemy: "" . ' .' '" . - -. "(A) Four Japanese aircraft carriers, .the Kaga, Akagi, Soryu and Hiryu, were sunk. (B) Three . battleships dam age by bomb hits, one severely. . (C) Two heavy cruisers,- the Mogami and the Mikuma, were sunk. Three others were damaged, one or two severely. - (D) One light cruiser- was damaged. " () Three destroyers were sunk and several others were damaged by bombs. : (F) At least three transports or auxiliary ships were damaged, and one or more. sunk. , '(G) An estimated 275 Japanese aircraft were destroyed or lost at sea through lack of flight decks on which to land. -- '(IJ) Approximately 4800 Japa nese were killed xf drowned." - The carrier Yorktown was put out of action in what amounted to a long range duel of planes between the United States ship and the Japanese carrier Uiryu which, at that time. Juno 4, was still undamaged - ; - ;; 'A force of 38 ; enemy planes found the Yorktown and. her es corting ships and attacked. Those planes were from tee Hiryu. "Eleven of 18 Japanese bombers in the group were shot down by our fighters beforetheir bombs were dropped," the communique reported. "Seven got through our fighter protection. Of these seven (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Allies Bomb Salamaua (3ENER AL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Wednesday, - July f 15.HP)-Allied planes bombed the Japanese-held airdrome at Salamaua, New Guinea, Tuesday and attacked the wharf at Kalabahi on Alor island, starting fires and sinking a small vessel, allied headquarters an nounced in its daily, communi PCUNDDD Salem. Orogoa. Wednesday Morning, July IS. 1942 1 i and with no abrupt angles, makes are also carried. These tanks are Is an official US army photo. Schools Slate War Insurance Harland Is Chairman; Teachers Employed; Ward Honored Keorgamzation for a new year of activity, decision to cover the district's $2,000,000 worth of prop erties with war damage insurance and approval of personnel' changes in the teaching staff featured Tuesday night's meeting of Sa lem school directors. ; r Roy . Harland, Salem attorney whose term expires next year, Was elected chairman of the rKtard, v succeeding Mrs. David Wright, re cently reelected to the directorate. Mrs. Wright was named chair man of the buildings and grounds committee, of which Ralph Camp bell is the secondj member. Donald Young was named chairman of the committee on supplies with Dr. L. . Barrick as fellow mem ber. Campbell was appointed to handle insurance; Mrs. Wright health matters; Harland, employ ment, and Barrick, finance. ('Young was appointed as the board's member of the city playgrounds committee." Clifford Bullock, who In May left the city system for private employment, was reinstated and named 1 assistant principal at Fairish- Junior high school, a post created in the recently - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) House Group Okehs Taxes Corporation Rates of Wartime Bill Said Result of Logroll WASHINGTON, u 1 y 14 t CP) The house ways and means com mittee formally approved a new $6,144,000,000 wartime revenue bill - Tuesday containing; corpora tion rates - which Rep. Knutson (R-Minn.) said in a minority re port were "arrived at throughr a series of trades and shameless log rolling" and which would injure corporations engaged in the' war effort. - - ' " . ,' ' In a formal report to the house, which will start debating the; big bill Thursday, the committee ma jority said it had , tried to obtain every dollar of additional reve nue which, in its opinion, the na tional economy can bear.? It add ed "care has been exercised in every instance not to place an un bearable burden upon any .tax payer." - :- ."; '" Knutson referred to the fact the committee - at the last minute Changed corporation rates so the excess profits leVies would be less severe and the normal' taxes would be 'higher. The members changed" the flat excess profits tax rate frdm 94 to 87 per cent and boosted the combined normal and surtax rate from 40 to 45 per cent - - The committee's report estimat ed the present federal, tax struc ture' would - produce about ' $17, 000,000,000 ; irt . t h 1 a . fiscal - year while expenditures have been timated at $73,000,000,000 for the same period and may increase. ven under these figures, .how ever,, a- deficit of more than $56, 000,000,000 would result except for theqrevenues under this bill,' the committee said. "While the bill is ; estimated to product $6, 144,000,000 in a full year of oper ation, its estimated yield for the in Midway Mazis. Imperil Med- on 600 Miles; .Enemoi Ly - Much Materiel ABout 'Voronezh Shipyard Bus Plan Meeting Set Here .Tonight; Keeping Residence Aim; Possibility that homes and pay checks of 400 or more Sa lem men destined to enter war industries may be kept in the capital city was held out Tues day night by a chamber of commerce committee which spent the day in Portland con ferring with representatives of the Kaiser shipbuilding organiza tion, transportation lines and the federal housing administration. A mass meeting of all Salem workers In Portland war Indus tries, and of other residents now in training for or planning to eb&ln defense plant Jobs is to , be held at the chamber of com merce at 8 o'clock tonight. Transportation arrangements to enable them to keep their homes In Salem and training plans will be discussed by Ray J. Stumbo, chairman of the Salem draft board, and others. Manager Cochran of the cham ber Tuesday ' urged all persons Interested to attend the meeting. There is no question about Uthe Kaiser yards wanting Salem teen, to the exientr that they are willing to help us work out the problem, of getting them to and from ' work," Ray J. Stumbo, reeeutly-aBpointed city, trans portation chairman, reported. They also offer to put all Sa lem men fat the same yard, to simplify matters. Stumbo said he believed it would prove possible to arrange for enough busses to carry Salem shipyard workers to and from the .Kaiser ferry slip being in stalled on the west Portland waterfront, with a travel time , of IVi hours. Also chairman of the local draft board, Stumbo pointed out that the program of urging - men to Anfa. lira, mHneiiMM nnw nnr4a. way would severely deplete the manpower and income of the city unless a way were found to keep them' as residents of Salem. , "We hope we Can work this out and also that no one type of local business or industry need be seri ously depleted as to manpower,' Stumbo added. Salem's war trades training school as now operating can turn out 50 men a week for de fense Industries, the draft chair man pointed out. : The chamber committee, which consisted in addition to Stumbo, of Business Extension Manager Clay G. Cochran and F. L Bressler, also brought back the report that fed' eral housing officials had indi cated a declaration placing Salem m a critical area for construction tamable inithe near future. Cochran said necessary appli- cation letters would be mailed to- day to the housing authority. ument Of Murder Appeal Set Reargument of the first degree murder appeal of William H. Wallace," Portland,; on September 8 was ordered oy tne state su- preme court here Tuesday in an oral directive. Wallace has been lenuary letnai gas , xorr me Slaying toi , uen -Binaeiv , in Portland in August, 1941. 'No reason for ordering the new hearing, ; following, the original arguments presented three weeks ago,, was given by the court. Wallace based bis appeal on the refusal of the . Multnomah circuit court " to. permit him to use an insanity -plea as a defense. . (Additional supreme court story on page five.) Moriday'a Weather. ,' Monday's max. temp. 99, mln. 54. . River Sunday, -2.1 ft. By army request, weather forecasts are wi&heU casi tecperatore Proposed Kearg nalties a& Where Reds Drlves begun earlier tn the week early Wednesday morning, bat to heavy blows were reported at gAjjZr i to- zoo . aussa JrJjr fs "' ' ' ANKARA jsfcAKU; '-!jTiy ; " - - - S -IRAN 'H:stl L r-;-j where possible objectives arc Indicated by shaded arrows In above map. The Rshex-Kallnln sectors (4) were also quieted. t (Associ ated Press Telemat.) 1 Allied A ttack ... ..... '-: On Bastille Gestapo Is British Bombers Message Promises For Liberation of France; Vichy Refused US Ship-Moving Offers By J. WES GALLAGHER ... . ' - - ' . . i LONDON, July 14-(i,P)-The "shadow armies" of France and other subjugated lands observed aay as lne porieni oi an auieu tightened their channel defenses ,rtrlri nwrtim British bombers roaring over northern France, Paris and Varied Raids Sink Vessels Torpedo Fatal When 10 Minutes Before . US Ship's Drill By Tbe Associated Ptcm The sinking of a United States j merchant vessel, the torpedoing i of another which managed to .kW . hmmI kv4 nnt a atiro a! I "" . . a smoke screen, and the tuve- J bomber sinking of a Panamanian vessel in the Indian ocean com prised the n a v y ' s latest reports Tuesday on the war at sea. . A German U-boat sank a me dium sized American ship in broad daylight 200 miles off South America June 27 and - another submarine torpedoed a Norwegian ship June 23, raising The Associ ated Press unofficial tabulation of western' Atlantic sinkings to 371. La Prensa reported the Norwe gian sinking from Mexico City, declaring 25 survivors had been brought to Progreso by a fruit ho&t which picked them up. The captain gevenlcrewmen were :2Jm the attack on the American ,m 10 f lh a-ma erew W their lives. Irenieally, the cap tain reported, all might cava been , saved v had " the torpedo struck IS minutes later when all hands would have been on deck for lifeboat drill. J " . The Other medium-Sized 1 Ame rican merchantman limped safe ly into a United States port, a gap ing hole in her side, after being torpedoed; May 22 in the .Carib bean. A emoke screen "helped her dodge through . reef-studded ,; wa ters to safety. Two of the 39-man crew were injured. , , ; , ' The Panamanian vessel of med ium size went down under a lone Japanese dive bomber, which VCV Prlc 5c aled Pushed Back I SOVIET RUSSIA in the Rostov area (1) were quiet the north Russian retreats under Boguchar (3) and Voronexh (3) Hope Day; BUsy the Bastille anniversary Tues- uivmwu, whub Mieueiui and Gestapo execution squads Vichy dropped 5,000,000 messages from British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden promising the li beration of France and aid to nazi enslaved millions. ' t "We know," the messages read, "that we and the people of France Will again be brothers in arms." Amid rising anti-German vio lence and sabotage on the con tinent, a Yugoslav government spokesman declared 700 Croats bad been : klUed by the Ger mans' tn reprisal for the assass ination of the gestapo chief at Zagreb, a Major Hlem. He was killed by a hand gren ade thrown into his car on the main street of Zagreb, a . sup posedly "safe city" in nazi-over run Yugoslavia, and the capital of an axis puppet government. "The gestapo guards ran amuck after the bombing,! the spokesman said, "shooting at overyone mov ing on the street and hurling hand grenades through . nearby win dows."' ;" ' v- - The closest thing to an allied second front in Europe has been established for some time in the Serbian mountains south of Zag reb where 100,000 Yugoslave pa triots under Gen. Draja "Mihai lovic are waging la war of attri tion against G e r m a n-I t a It a n troops. . y : - France herself was - reported free of major violence on" this anniversary commemorating the storming of Bastille prison ' In Paris - July :? 14, 1789, classic symbol of the verthtrew of po litical tyranny. - - , WASHINGTON,' July . 1H) While axis forces .drove, toward Alexandria - earlierv this month, President Roosevelt proposed to Vichy that Frenchwarships there be removed, and twice the pro- sosals were refected," ; the f atate department ; disclosed Tuesday, The rejections were in the face of k warning from the- president that unless the proposals : were accepted the British , would be justified in ordering the warships Going Avay? Going sway; on a vaca don or to a war job? Have The Statesman follow yen. to keep yon posted en events it home. Call flU for de tails. " ' No. 83 35,000 i-1 Second Front -' -:':-"v-;': i. - ' : Asked Soviets Savagely Fight, Retreat : From Nazi Trap !- '"V j- . ; 'i-i-TJv By EDDY GILMORE ' - X- MOSCOW, Wednesday, July 15-P)-A crushing German ! drive imperilled . nearly 600 ; miles of Russia's front early Wednesday, but tbe Soviets said the red army still was fighting savagely in the Voronezh sec-( tor, where one formation alone killed and wounded more than . 35,000 nazis In ten days. . v .The Soviets acknowledged 0eit troops were taking hammer blows both at Voronezh and Boguchar to the south in the Don valley. At the latter point the Russians again retreated to new positions after ' being almost trapped in a . nazi - encirclement attempt, . j t- , Besides the enormous casual ties suffered at Voronezh, the Germans were said to have lost , 157 tanks, S41 anti-tank and field guns and maehineguna, and hundreds of supply wagons. The midnight communique did not disclose , any significant changes in the fighting which ex- ' tended to the-Rzhev area north west of Moscow.' ? . But there also was no attempt -to minimize the gravity of thm2 situation. Instead soviet commen tators Emphasized mis perUT and -called upon the allies to open a -second front in the west. 1 , "The battles on the eastern -front are the battles for New York and London," the Moscow radio announcer said. in- Japs, 2 Areas Enemy Columns at Wenchox on Coast , -Of Chekiang CHUNGKING, July lT) Japanese columns plunging south ward through the heart of Che kiang province have reached Wen chow on the' coast, the Chines high command said Tuesday night, but added that on two other fronts the Chinese had the enemy on th run. - - '- ; Wenchow. hitherto, one of th few important ports remaining in Chinese hands, was gravely men- aced by Japanese troops, which pushed into the city's environs Saturday night, the high command said. (The Japanese announced Wenchow's capture Saturday, , The drive to Wenchow thrust Japan's second avenue of conquest across Chekiang. The first, com pleted last month, followed th line of vital Chekiang-Klangst railway, from Hangchow, th ' Japanese-held capital in the north, southwest across the province, into KiangsL In neighboring Kiangsl prov ince, the Chinese said their army had hurled the Invader back to th ' outskirts of , Linchwan, starting point of a frustrated drive to the , nBW Muawv v - -g'- m ed in pursuit of .the Japanese, whose original number was esti mated at 30,000 when the Chinese first sprung their ownr offensive last weefcr: V",:-: ''H On tho.Shansi-Honan front in the north, these Chinese said some a a w - OiTU Japanese were bjlucu i they were surrounded ih the town of Lingchwan, in southeastern ShainsV The remamder : of th enemy garrison was reported 1a flight toward Tsingkao. , .. Toledo Asks Aid Road's Extension - ' i - NEWPORT, July 14--iP)-Th Toledo chamber of jcommerce 1 re newed, ItJ appeal for aid in get ting extension cf highway No 23 Tuesday In a letter to Arch San ders, secretary of the Oregon Coast Highway Association. f , The chamber pointed out that the national coast-to-coast h!gh way ends at Albany, 5 miles in land. It said it should be extendc;! PnsK Cve cf today's SUlesman. munique declared. que Wednesday.- - - fiscal year 1943 is $1,028,000,000.' data delayed. (Turn to Fag9 2, CoL 2 . iTurn to Faze 2. CoL 3)- ' to Newport. .