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AU-Qut Complete , ' . YouH find m newspaper can tire nor real satisfac tion than your local morn In paper, with Its WOULD NEWS plot BOMS COM MUNITY NEWS. Attack PCUNDDQ iCZi NINETY-SECOND TEAB. Scdencw Oregon. Sunday Morning, July 18. 1942 Price Sc. No. 9 sure Shipping Big Problem, (is J Way Talked - By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, July 18 (AP) The seriousness of the Ger- - man advance in the Don basin may prompt the US and Brit- f am to drive across the Eng Iisn channel soon to open a second front, but the tremen- : dous shipping and ; training v problems confronting the al lies made it unlikely that such a drive would be an all-out inva-1 sion. , ' : ' ' ' "'" Such an attack would differ ap preciably from , the grand , war- winning operations for which American, British and ' Canadian armies are training, said military experts who will not be quoted by .. name. . .'. . . " But whatever the scale of at tack, the allied armies approach ' tag France or the low countries would confront veteran German generals, stout coastal defenses, numerous airdromes for planes ' which could be dispatched from the Russian front and most im portant of all an army operating . on short interior lines of commu nications. As this Island trimly watch- - ed the tide of German successes in Russia, the minister of pre Auction, Oliver Lytyelton, de clared that the German army was "committed to the trip of a . second , paralysing winter which may well prove to be Its ; last If Hitler falls to crash the red army in the 90 remaining fighting days. The allies, pledged morally at least to opening a second diver sionary front -. to relieve Russia lest its millions be lost forever . to the allied cause, face tremen dous tasks in reopening west- era continental land front First is the selection of an in vasion site. Northern France is most often mentioned because it Is axiomatic that no. invasion can be, attempted beyond the range ' of fighter planes. An essential condition to success would be the occupation of German airdromes along the French coast by Amer ican ,and British forces. Without these; the invading allies' air sup port would be extremely limited. . .: (Turn to Page 2. CoL 6) T i .Diive 4? Wedge Acr M Hard Hits cf Axis ade by US Planes; Egypt Fight Fierce General Brereton Heads Bombers In Africa; Only 21 Craft Lost in Month; Rommel Boosts Air Power By EDWARD KENNEDY CAIRO, Egypt, July lS-KVDisclosure of new, hard-hitting raids on the axis supply ports of Tobruk and Bomba by United States army air forces under command of Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton marked the rising power of air warfare over the western desert Saturday. - 1 On the ground, British Imperial and axis land forces battled back and forth in bitter and in conclusive conflict for possession of the barren ridges west of El Alamein and about 75 miles west of Alexandria. General Brereton, whose as sumption of command over the American air forces in the middle east was made known only Sat urday, said that in 36 days of operations the American Libe rator and Flying Fortress bomb ers both large supercharged four-engine types had con ducted 21 missions and lost only three planes in comfcak In the newest of these assign ments they set fire to an axis tanker and ; scored direct hits on a large motorship at Tobrak Friday night, added to the fires which the RAF already bad set raging around the harbor, and reached on farther west In Lib ya to pound small ships In the Galf of Bomba, where the Italians once had a seaplane base. " . "They put Up a damned good show, said the British ' in praise of the American JMrmen, who are concentrating primarily vi on the shipping s Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel must have to maintain his threat against the valley : of the Nile. The British noted that Rommel himself was using air power on (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7V JapsMeetingBig Trouble In A le lit ians9 A Hacked Whenever Weather Good (Thto Mt the first of a scries at stories by' Staff Correspondent Keith Wheeler of the Chicago Times on action in the Aleutian islands. Wheeler, attached to the US Pacific fleet sine shortly after Pearl Harbar, arrived ' In Alaska with m fleet unit shortly alter the initial Japanese attack rm - Dutch Harbor and was the first accredited correspondent to reach Alaska. The stories are released for publication by the navy.) Stabbing Puts Bartender in Hospital Here Texas Man Alleged to Be Assailant After Beer Refused Efnest W. Smith of 2310 Fourth street, bartender at the Brown Derby tavern on North Commer cial street, was stabbed twice in the abdomen Saturday night al legedly by a man to whom he had earlier in the day refused to sell beer. At -Salem General hos pital early this morning Smith's condition was said to be critical. and a blood transfusion was giv en. The- pocket-knife stabbing occurred at approximately :45, Charles Edgar Adams of Hous ton, Tex.,- who at, first: Identified himself to city police as "Bill Adams of Memphis, Term.," was held at the city Jail,- his name followed on the blotter by' "dis orderly conduct and stabbing." Adams is said to have told city officer that he had served 30 months in San Quentin prison on a larceny, charge. Men around the beer parlor where the stabbing occurred said Smith had some time- Saturday afternoon thrown the Texas man out of the place bodily after an altercation over Smith's J decla ration that Adams had had enough beer. They believed no argument had preceded the stab bing Saturday night. A soldier is said, to have leap ed at Adams as the -latter alleg edly flashed his knife for the second time at Smith and to have felled the i Texan "before nearby police could get into the place. : Wenchow Freed Port Moresby in Flames mm Of Enemy By KElTH WHEELER (Copyright. 124, Chicago Times. Inc.) - rYr EA WITH THE US PACIFIC FLEET, June 18-(De- layed)-The'Japs are dying in Kiska harbor today as the war of 'the AleTftian mists begins again after three days of storm and . glue-thick fogs. , .. " United States bombers sank a Jap transport with a direct rhitndsix near misses. , .- It was the first contact since June 14 when the fog broke long enough for eight of the command's Catalina flying boats to drop through the clouds over Kiska and dump six tons of dynamite on the Jap ships lying there. ; - One 5t pound cramp .fell square en a light cruiser and started a candy fire. Another -dropped alongside a transport close enough, the bombardier felt, to snake serious underwater damage a certainty, . Aa usual, the JtpThad their guns trained on the cloud breaks and five Catalinas came away as full of holes as shirts back from the ship's laundry. One established a record of sorts by colliding with a three- inch anti-aircraft projectile in flight. It is unorthodox enough for a Plane to be hit square by ack-ack. But the CatSina concerned -violated all entiquette for such encounter by getting away with it. The projectile tore a neat hole through the hull but failed to explode According to my information, the day's endeavors brought the box score in this odd 15-day-old campaign to this: Two Jap submarines and oao transport certainly destroyed; one heavy cruiser torpedoed and probably tank; three cruisers set afire of six hit by bomba; one destroyer aei afire; two trans ports hit; several f our-enf iae patrol seaplanes destroyed; one cruiser plane, one Mitsubishi bomber and several Zero tighten - shot fawn. !- "-yy:''"'':Y And so this strange war proceeds , on its errie course in the latitudes of the midnight sun. . The contest has developed into as grim a game of blindman's Muff as was ever contrived by man for the destruction of his fellows. Through the unending fogs it ranges up and down the bleak Aleutian , rocks, from Dutch Harbor fiOO miles past Kiska1 and Attu, where the Japs are getting set for what may become a major push against continental America. I Rark home, where the radios nightly boil down this war and ex it ta us. they appear to feel this is a remote business, of little moment either to us or to the Japs. Unfortunately that is not wholly . true.. '"'' -1 ' ' ' "- "l .!. The Japs are moving into these waters with as heavy a con .trnn of combat ships, transports and aircraft, as they've as sembled anywhere but Midway. Their cruisers and destroyers and two or more aircraft carriers provided for this show grope about in the eternal fogs waiting for the time to shoot the works. Through the same waters, but as shut off as though we occupied " ' another ocean, the ship on which I am an observer proceeds about its . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) 'm Chinese Retake ; Port, Inflict Losses on Japs By SPENCER MOOSA . CHUNGKING, J u 1 y lM The Japanese have been blasted out of Wenchow after holding i that southern Chekiang prov ince seaport less than a week and additional setbacks have been inflicted upon the enemy on three other active fronts, the Chinese announced Saturday night The official Central news ag ency said the Japanese were re treating southward from Wen chow toward Juian, 13 miles away, and that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces were reentering the- city which thus becomes one of two of the larger seaports still in Chinese hands. A threat to the other major port, Foochow, further south in Fukien province, was averted last week when the Japanese 'were driven from ,a nearby island. The news agency account sup plemented Saturday's high com mand communique, covering op erations up to last Thursday night, which said, a Chinese column then had pushed back to the city's sub urbs, inflicting heavy casualties upon the invader. Earlier In the week the big command bad acknowledged the Japanese capture of Wenchow last Saturday by a force thrust ing a second avenue of conquest across Chekiang. The first eue : mj unve was completed jasi' month along the line of " the . Chekianr-Kiancsl railway, from: Bangebow.i Japanese-held capi- -tal . in the north, southwest . across Chekiang Into KtngsL The high command said Satur day that Chinese units had gained the upper hand in fighting south of Juian and that other troops, following up recent 'successes, in Kiangsi, again were in possession of Kinki, town 80 miles south of Nanchangv Kinki itself has changed hands several times. In eastern ' Kiangsi, the high command said attacks upon towns (Turn to Page 2. CoL 4) if 4 .; - t Flames and smoke poor from buildings la Fort Moresby, New Guinea, after Japanese bombers raided the city during the unloading of aa aUled convoy in the harbor. This Associated Press photo Is from Paramount News. Many Drowned Navy Gunners tjj i?i i- 171 J Jrrove neroes in riasii riuuu French Action Is Disclosed People Paraded, During Bastille Day, Sang Death to Laval - WASHINGTON, July 18 -(Jf) MLvate advices to Free French headquarters here told Saturday how people In the principal cities of o c c u p led and unoccupied France defied authorities w i t h demonstrations against the Laval government and Germany on Bas lille day, traditional French holi day. -::-r:.J .-. -i- . . The crowds gathered hi three places to foil police, "' , In Chambery, between -"Mar seilles and Lyons;. crowds. demon strated all' day. In Marseilles ap proximately. 100,000 . persons filled the main thoroughfare: and marched to the town hall shout ing: " "Death to Laval, hang Laval, France for the French.' V The crowds also marched to the United States consulate where they -shouted that "the United State-la with us." Free French officials said sol diers of the Tri-oolor legion formed by Pierre Laval fired into a crowd at Marseilles killing four persons and injuring six others. Few British Planes Bomb RAF Destroys German ' Raider ; '. Another . Strafe. Village Service Men Maurice S. Wedzewader, who is at the naval air training sta tien for the United States ma rine-corps at Seattle, was pro moted to corporal on July t. Be is a son of Frank F. Wedxewad er, route six, Salem. ..For - additional., news about men from Salem and vicinity in the anaed forces, turn to page three of today's Statesman. LONDON, July 18--A "small formation" of -New British Lan caster bombers -blasted the Ger man industrial -Ruhr district in daylight Saturday for , the - third successive day, and . winged safely heme despite heavy Gorman fight er opposition. r A British informant said each of the four-motored planes car ried several tons of bombs, but did not disclose the. exact strength of the foray. Bad weather-had kept the bombers . grounded Friday night. . . RAF fighters also destroyed a German fighter off. the French coast Saturday morning. ,-. . Z ' A single German raider dip ping low over a south coast Eng lish town Saturday killed a wo man and four children and wounded about a dosen pedes trians with his machine guns. One bomb from the craft de molished a row at cottages. The air ministry announced a supply ship was left listing and on fire and another supply ship and two escorting anti-aircraft ships were damaged by an RAF bomber-fighter attack on an enemy con voy off Cherbourg peninsula. One RAF plane was missing. Allegheny River On Rampage ; - Homes, Roads "Washed PORT ALLEGANY; Pa; July 18 -4fV A "flash" "flood by the uppper Allegheny river.-, struck this central ; Pennsylvania town of . 2198 , population . Saturday,,! causing untold - damage a n d drowning Several . persona." " r:t . This, town, in McKeah county appeared, the hardest hit as the river overflowed its banks in McKean and Potter county on the New York state border. The town .Austin, ,1116 population, as well, as . Bradford, Coudersport, Eldred, Johnsonburg, Roulette, Emporium and Smethport all re ported business places and homes flooded , before the water began to recede. Motorists . were reported stranded on route six near Coudersport. Pennsylvania, rail road officials reported several washouts, making a detoar nec essary over the Baltimore Ohio tracks to Dubois. All - means of communications with Port Allegany broke down for several hours, but later Dep uty Sheriff - John - Pfiel reported by telephone that "several per, sons" drowned and fires ' Caused by short- circuits had destroyed "at least five- homes" and the Free Methodist church building. Pfiel. said one of the victims had been identified as Mrs. Mar garet O'Connor:; 70, who died of a heart attack - when . her. home was swept off its foundation by the high water. Teeter, Of Sea Fight WASHINGTON, July lg-P) Some of the toughest fights of this war are being fought and won for America by little bands of navy . gunners, who ride . US merchant ship over the world's convoy , routes. y For these. wind-bitten young-. sters i most are In their late "teens or early twenties HI. even a ' tougher war than their predecessors of 25 years ago had -to fight The gun crews of World War I, when the naval 'cam . palgn was a one-ocean affair anyway,' bad to contend only with submarines. Now there arc warplanes, as wdL " The navy gave out Saturday night a tew details of what the gun crews have been going through since December 7. The - navy was not specific about exact locations bnt It mention ed some of the supply routes covered by run crewmen through the Caribbean to Latin (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Agency Offers to City Germ M ans ove On In South ".,.- Douglas Planes In Battle for River Basin NEW YORK, July 18 -(JF) The British radio Saturday night said the Germans were v reported threatening Kamcnsk,' 40 miles south em Mlllerovo oa the Rostov-Moscow railroad. - Kamensk fa only 90 miles north of Rostov. . The broadcast was heard here by CBS. The British radio also re ported the Russians were drop ping parachutists behind the German lines south of Mlllerovo and that they were attacking " nasi communications In coope- -ration with well-organized guerrilla. Cooperative Seeks Share of Contract -Onr Street lights Request for a share of the city's street lighting business when new contract is up for consider ation Kfras mailed to Mayor W. W. Chad wick 'and. the!. Salem city council ' Saturday y '; theJSalem Electric Bonneville Power Distri bution agency, formerly known as Salem Electric cooperative, Harry B.-Read,- manager, announced. . Offering the city electricity at what was asserted to be approxi- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Sunday, July IS (AP) Russian troops coun ter-attacking in the Voronezh area under the protection of American-made Douglas bombers were reported Sun day to have driven a wedga into German positions and to have occupied a number of populated points. The midnight communique oth- erwise indicates little change m the desperate defense of the Don river basin. The' Soviets at the other end of the front still were locked with the nazis "south of Millerovo," but the , exact area was. not named.. J '(! ' . v Fierce defensW'r battles Were reported being waged by the Sov iets south of Millerovo against the Germans, who were ' using every weapon in- their arsenal from flame throwers and tanks to para chute troops. 1 (A Berlin radio summary (Turn to Page 2. Col 4) . Women Find What to Do In War Work Training, Welding, Sheet Metal By ISABEL CHILDS Mishap Fatal To Roberts Highway. Accident of Friday Night Said Unavoidable Death of Ramon Clarence Rob erts, 20 Salem employe of Sears, Roebuck and company; resulted from a crushed skull and many other Injuries' received In an un- Earlier- " Mrs. Marv Teeter, avoidable accident," a coroners . postmaster, had reported in a call jury in Salem declared Saturday to postal Inspectors at wuuams-1 aiternoon. port that the greater part of toe Roberts, resident of 1158 North town was under eight to 10 feet winter street, was repairing a tire of water. She and two clerks had nia at 1:30 Saturday morn to cut a hole through a first floor ;n. beside' the Pacific highway an- .To woman's ,cry of "What can I do?" which, rising Decem ber 7, has increased in volume as sons, husbands, fiances and brothers have marched away to-war, on military and industrial fronts, the US employment service in Salem this week has an almost new answer: You may help build the planes and ships needed to win the war! True, that opportunity has been offered to women before, but never has there been a call for an unlimited number of feminine defense industry workers from the Salem area such as that received this-past. week, according ; to W. H. BaiJhe, manager of toe Salem employment office. r '' ' " .-' W Now, the capital city b told U provide by tall 173 defease worker, men and women, for Portland's expanding shipyards and other, wartime Industries. Th capital city's war producttos training program, f ormerly designated as the defense tralniag program, b ready to take those who can eaalify for suck work, -indicating that all who complete the short courses will be needed. Milady may well turn her thoughts from figures, bounded by foundation garments, stop worrying about the threatened shortage of girdles and commence to consider figures followed by many zeros. When she does this, she-will know that Salem b&s not many more than 600 men of non-military age who are yet .able to leave their ceiling of the postoffice to escape nroTm.telT a half mile north oft current employment to wield the welder's torch. It'a. up to the the underoass at the north edge women! - i . " s : l,' of Salem when both he and toe . Can you scb a floor, dust the bookshelves, wash the dishes Mr tnuk hv a Cniietu Fast I and weed the earden? Then, declares C. A. Guderian. head of the Freight truck driven by Carl Eu-1 city's free defense trainini schools, in allprobability you can learn drowning. Pfiel said manr of 15f per-" . . M . . .it.. : sons incMui a xmmow on an bland In the Allegheny river were' trapped ' by , the flood. "I .think that some mast have drowned, but we 1 bodies as yet," he said. "Every effort b being made to deter mine by a recount how many, if any, are missing." "Our water supply b cut off and there la- a terrific need for typhoid vaccine," he added. Gas and electricity were also shut off while Pfiel said he had banned the sale of .all liquor "until the emergency ends." lergenc .- BERLIN (From German Broad casts). July 18-()-A few-civilian hfi-.---. TiiatSw casualties were caused in western T Ormer J USIICC Germany at noon Saturday when C -1 wl THao n few British droooed sutlierlana Uies bombs at random, competent Ger man quarters said Saturday night Two of the raiders were reported shot down. Our Senators Lc:l 9-5 ygr- STOCKBRIDGE, Masa, July 18 (-Geore Sutherland, a member of the conservative bloc of the su jpreme court in the "i to 4" de cisions of earlier new .deal days, died In bed during the night. t The S(year-old jurist, who re tired in January, 1838, after Presi dent Roosevelt' tempt to enlarge the high court, had ; been in failing health for some time, but was able to be up I until Friday. Death was caused by I coronary thrombosis. in six to eight weeks to weld, preparing in this brief time to earn from $1.12 an hour up. 1 " Can you sew a straight seam on the machine? De you nejoy fitting a sleeve into a tricky shoulder? Then,: we'd guess that your sett ices after. a short course (again six to eight weeks) may be worth con siderable in building the planes that our men will fly . . and your wages will start at 55 cents an hour,' increasing each month by regular schedule to approach the welding pay. I ;. Dent get as wrong. These are no simple tasks no easy wars to get rich quick. They are the ehaaeeo IHeraHr tneuaands of women have been seeking since Pearl Harbor was bombed: To work hard for tke-daration, te free men from labor at borne 4e make possible aa off ensivsf abroad, to earn- a bettor tbajt average -living far the families of taoos-samo men, to make every day count ta bringing closer the end of the war. V' - - Such opportunities are hot available without sacrifice and this, too. women have indicated they want. While men are offering not Raymond L. Roberts; sisters, Alice! just the present but also possibly their futures on the altar of their and Audrey Roberts; a brother, country, the girls they left behind them have strained at the halters, Glenn Roberts; grandmothers, j have resented toe fact they could not put more of their earnings into Mrs.- Kate Shimmm and Mrs. war bonds, that life for them went on at the regular eventcnor. Pearl Boberts, aU of Min City, r : 4 it you have ever Iworked at semi-monotonous physical labor, Members of . the coroner s jury worked hard because you were doing a job you Wanted dona well. for Saturday's inquest were Frank I you know that time flies, that the weariness thus earned is worth as G. Jewett, Lee Haskins, Bert F. 1 much in slumber uninterrupted by dreams as the paycheck, large Adams, Wilmer C Wells, James though the latter may be. It b to a task such as this that the women gene McCIure of Loo Angeles. Accompanying Roberts was Miss BQlie Scott, 1075 Rural, and they had been en route to Salem when the tire trouble developed, state police, who investigated, said. Mis- Scott suffered, from shock, but her injuries were said to be slight McCIure s companion, a relief driver, was asleep in the back seat of the truck when the accident occurred. A hardware salesman, Roberts was highly spoken of by bis store's manager. ; Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Dorothy Roberts of Wheatland; parents. Mr. and Mrs. Plant and Albert P. Ramseyer. Friday's max. temp. 75, rain, it. River Than -L7. By army request. - weather . fore- - easts are , withheld and temper-. atare data delayed, x - welders now in traininx here are to go. . To "be a welder (this comes from observation on the job ana ai the city's welding schoob conducted as part of the war production ' should iudxo one should . be ."husky.", Not I necessarily overweight, the successful woman to that .trade surely can't be underweight and Stand up again xne eiemen. aiuua the task b not heavy and electric welding b not the uncomfortable, hot drudgery that acetylene welding was. ; .(Turn to page z, co. - -f.
