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British
Stave
Axis
US, RAF Bomb
Supply Bases;
; Prisoners Many
By EDWARD KENNEDY
CAffiO, July 20-033-Heavy
US bombers teamed up with
the RAF and British fleet to
batter- axis supply bases over
the weekend while the revital
ized army of the Nile staunchly
repulsed every German attack
upon its new gains on the El
Alamein front, the British an
nounced Monday. .
Since July 14, the British have
captured 4000 more prisoners,
making their totaf bag 6000 since
they ended their retreat and struck
back, they asserted.
Big four-motored bombers of
. the US army air force raided -Tobrnk
in daylight Sunday, set
ting three fires in the dock area.
Other heavy and light bombers
'had struck there the night be
fore, damaging the port and set
ting a supply ship ablaze.
Warships of the Mediterranean
fleet bombarded the; advanced
axis base of Matruh iFriday and
Saturday night, the second and
third sea attacks on that Egyptian
port Results of the attack were
not announced but - the British
warships probably destroyers
sailed away unscratched. South
African warships sank' an enemy
submarine in the eastern Mediter
ranean, it was also announced. !
- The preoccupation of the allies
with Marshal Erwin Rommel's ex
- tended and tenuous syPPly - lines
showed the determination ot Gen.
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Catalina Flying
Pace Battle of
With Bombs, Torpedoes
(This is the second ot a scries of stories by Staff Correspondent Keith
Wheeler of the Chicago Times on action in the Aleutian islands. Wheeler,
attached to the US Pacific fleet since shortly after Pearl Harbor, arrived
. tn Alaska with a fleet unit shortly after the Japanese first struck at Dutch
Harbor on June 3. ' The Times supplied the stories to the Associated Press.
By KEITH WHEELER
(Copyright, IMS, Chicago Times, Inc.)
' ' AT SEA WITH THE US FLEET, June 19-(Delayed )-Kiska
harbor may earn a place in history as the dreariest tomb ever to
rescue the corpse of an invader's hope to conquer the world. '
It may be that Hirohito's hopeful little men have chosen
the foggy bay under the black peaks of Kiska's hills to launch
their last serious attempt to invade and conquer the United
States.
It now seems more likely they have chosen a place to die.
Midway was their first choice
repetitious punishment by American bombers they are doggedly
assembling in Kiska. If they fail
to try again. '
Already the emperor's high-prewed ships are going down at
their moorings, victims of bombs falling day and night from big
brown and gray planes running a shuttle service of destruction
alone the Aleutian chain.
The big PBY Catalina flying boats first located the Japanese in
Kiska harbor June 10: They had moved in during a stormy week
and. had captured or' otherwise
observers there.
The battle began June 11 when
and army Fortress and B-24 Liberators began freighting bombs to
Kiska.: -
The weather at Kiska that
and overcast with only ravelings
and land below. The aerographer looked it over and charitably
called it a higfi pressure area. "Ideal for torpedoes," was his opinion.
" Singly and in" flights of two
slid across the mile' high peak of
ships in the harbor. That day one
a single destroyer and a naif dozen
Five Liberators launched the
came down to 1800 feet where
threw ud an umbrella of anti-aircraft and one Liberator caught a
,hunk aDDarently in the bomb load. He was there in formation-one
second and the next he came apart
other planes. Then only a cloud of
earthwara remainea. ... - '- -- . -
The remaining four planes revised " their technique 1 and I
climbed to 18.00O to drop their loads. They avenged their loss,
for as they left, one heavy cruiser lay flaming In the harbor, hit
squarely by heavy bombs
Before the day was over the Catalinas made seven separate at
, tacks.
One Catalina caught a submarine on the surface en route. Before
the sub could rig for diving the
" bombs. The sub broke up and sank
Another Catalina got two hear
500-pounders and another did the same with a light cruiser. Although
" "near miss" sounds harmless enough, near misses as defined by bom-
.tatrdiers are bombs close enough
target by pressure and fragmentation. In their turn the Japs were
doing well against tne Domoers. Anu-aircrwi, wmcn is noi par
ticularly damaging to most fast embat planes, is brutally punishing
to ships as large ana siow as uie wuuwm.
In the harbor that day three of the Japs' huge KawankhJ
feur-entine flying beats lay sneered, evidence that the Jap holds
serious Intentions of moving In to stay. .One Catalina dropped
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Albany Hunts
For Rumored
Parachutist
ALBANY, Ore, July 20)
Albany set Its men en a sabo
eur nuni jnenaay nignt art q
an apparently iaise report r jj
go
parachutist landing gained
denee here.
The rumor was that two para
chutists landed between Albany
and Corvallls.
Army officials, after an in
vestigation, said there was
"nothing to the report."
It was suggested a falling
weather balloon might have
started the rumor.
Despite the army's finding,
Albany stayed mobilized and
many continued to believe the
report. The, home guard and po
lice reserves were called up.
Police Chief Perry Stellmacher
said more than 500 men con
tinued the search in the Albany
Corvallis area. Linn and Benton
county sheriffs officers also
participated.
US to Build
RAF Planes
1000-a-Month Rate
Revealed in Jane's
New Year Book
By DREW M1DDLETON
LONDON, July 20.-P-The
United States is planning to build
1000 four-motored bombers each
month for the RAF, Sir Charles
Bruce-Gardner said in the 1942
edition of "Jane's All the World's
Aircraft," authoritative year book
on fighting and civilian planes,
published Monday.
; -Many of the big bombers will
beLJba, r a tors (Consolidated
B-24s) and flying fortresses (Boe
ing B-17s), said Sir . Charles,
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Boats
Mists
and they failed there. Now despite
here they may not have strength
disposed of 10 American weather
the first flights of navy Catalinas
-
day was better than usual cloudy
of fog blanking out stretches of sea
or three, the "workhorse Catalinas
Kiska volcano and down on the
heavy cruiser, two light cruisers,
transports lay ancnorea mere.
first concentrated attack.: They
they could see to work. The Japs
in a searing blast that rocked the
smoke and bits of debris rumbling
Cat was on it with a load of heavy
without firing a shot.
misses on a large destroyer with
to work serious damage on . the
Eagles
Afiack
?, ranee
Daylight Raids
Encounter but
Few Defenders
LONDON, July 2HP)-The
American Eagl squadron took
part in a mass, low-level attack
late Monday on numerous
French military targets between
Le Havre and Le Treport after a
night in which the RAF rained
tons o f explosives and fire
bombs on the German submarine
yards at Vegesack.
The air ministry said Monday
night nearly 200 Spitfire fighters
attacked occupied French objec
tives along the channel.
The Eagles "shot up radio
masts at Fecamp and saw an ex
plosion and a lot of smoke after
an attack on a factory," the air
ministry said. The Eagles are
US volunteers in the SAF. .
"Very few enemy aircraft" were
seen during the offensive sweep,
the ministry added.
Gunposts, Germany army bil
lets, motor transports, railways
and trawlers in the Somme estu
ary also were bombed. '
One plane was lost,
A force of Wellington bombers
attacked objectives in northwest
Germany early Monday night, the
air ministry said. All returned.
The daylight raiders also at
tacked a power station In the
Masingarde area in extreme
northeastern France.
. The - attack pn the Vegesack
shipyards was the first in a year
although the nearby, big port
of 4 Bremen " has been bombed
repeatedly, i ...
Three of the big four-motored
bombers were lost Sunday night.
The RAF said only the biggest
bombers " were used, indicating
hundreds of tons of explosives
were loosed. -
Yards at Bremen, Emden, Kiel,
Wilhelrrishaven,' Danzig, Luebeck
and Flensburg, engine works at
Cologne and Augsburg, and coast
al bases at SCNazaire and Le
Havre have been targets in the
RAP'S intensified effort to check
the submarine menace.
The German high command
did not mention Vegesack in Its
account of the British raids,"
which it said were directed
principally against Bremen, and
Oldenburg. T he German an
nouncement said the' attacks
caused civilian casualties.
. The Germans said their own
planes scored direct bomb hits in
a daylight attack Sunday on a
British war plane northeast of
London. The Rome radio broad
cast a Berlin dispatch identifying
the target of this attack as
Chelmsford, small manufacturing
center 30 miles northeast of the
British capital.
US Bombers
Strike Japs
Two Enemy Air Bases
Attacked in China;
Troops Hold Firm
CHUNGKING, July 20-(JPy-The
United States air force in China
announced Monday two more at
tacks on Japanese-used airfields
and invasion bases, and a Chinese
spokesman said the American ope
rations already had lessened con
siderably the threat of raids on
Chungking.
A communique from the head
quarters of . Lieut Gen. Joseph
W. Stilwell said large fires were
started in an attack Saturday on
a Japanese airdrome at Canton
where 50 to 60 planes were
caught aground. 'r
: The Japanese advances base
at Linehwan . in Kiangst prov
ince was bombed Sunday. Nei
ther raid cost the United States
force a plane. .
A Central news dispatch from
the Chekiang-Kiangsi front said
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Our Senators
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Army Bomber Hits Jap Transport
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Caught in the harbor at Kiska, Alaska, by a US army bomber, a Japanese transport burns furiously
after receiving a bomb hit. Note circled ship! of Jap force which landed on the island. A navy
plane made this picture soon after the attack. (Associated Press Telemat.)
Postmaster's
Office Sought
Democrat Committee
Stays Endorsement;
List Closes Today
A dozen applicants for the Sa-
em postmastership may be found
to have asked for the job when
the list, closing tonight in Wash
ington, DC, is released. . -i
Understood to have submitted
applications for the $4200 a year
job which H. R. Crawford post
master for two terms, is not seek
ing to retain, are T. J. Brabec,
Marion county deputy sheriff in
chargejofv tax collection. PihA
Lynch, "deputy roflector Of mtetti ;
al revenue; Gordon Thompson,
postal clerk in the Salem, office
and secretary of the clerk's union;
Dr. Estil L. Brunk, dentist, and Ira !
L Darby, auditor for the Salem
water commission.
J. F. Ulrieh, who retired last
month as chairman of the county
democratic . central committee, j
was once interested In the pesi-
tkta but is net new an apptl-
cant "because my business Is
taking all my time," be says. He
Is also ever the tS-year age limit
applying to all applicants ether
than war veterans and civil
service postal employes.
J. N. "Sam" Chambers, retired
Salem business man and member
of the state liquor commission.
who has been mentioned as a-post-master
applicant but never, seri
ously considered it, he says,- is
busy now at another job, that of
senior price officer for Oregon
under the office of price admin
istration. 5
There are other applicants, in
cluding several business and pro
fessional men who are seeking to
keep their interest in the position
quiet, according to Carl T. Pope,
new chairman of the county demo
cratic committee.
Pope said Monday that the
county executive conimittee had
discussed the postmastership and
gone so far as to take a straw
ballot on an endorsement. It has
been decided, however, to take no
stand until the list of applicants
has been rated by the civil serv
ice commission and the top three.
from among whom selection will
be made, have been identif led.
Pope explained. Brabec and Lynch
in particular are understood to
have sought the committee's stamp
of approval.
No written examination is given
for the position of first class post
master. According to civil service
commission announcements, appli
cants are to be rated, from their
own statements and from investi
gations made concerning them, on
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Washington
Has Blackout
WASHlNGTdX July, 20-
The nation's capital and its subur
ban i area in Virginia and Mary
land had a 30-minute surprise test
blackout Monday night, " '
William J. Mileham, chief air
raid warden for , the area, said
scores of stores remained lighted,
owners and -employes having cone
to their homes before the airens
sounded at 11:13 pin.
;!, Traffic was stopped.- - Street
lights were turned out and pedes
trians sought shelter.- ? : -
Defense officials notified the
public last Thursday there would
be a test blackout sometime before
July 23. - , ' - .
Ci.
uMnuH
Battles Away
23 Jap Craft
WASHINGTON, July U.-VP)
The war department told Mon
day hew an army flying fortress
bomber, piloted by Capt. Frank
Douglas Sharp, Salem, Ore.,
fought off 23 Japanese fighters,
shooting down four of the en
emy planes, during a two-hour
battle -ever Burma,
Enemy fighters attacked the
foar-englned Boeing B-17 after
tt bombed Rangoon. One gunner
was killed and four ether mem
; hers of the crew were wounded.
AD the timber's guns were put
ut of action : the rudder eon
trols weTe7shot away : and two
engines knocked, out of commis
sion. .' -y-. v . ' ., ?
Nevertheless, the department
said, after six members of the
crew,, including- two wounded,
had bailed est. Sharp and his
eo-pllet, both' wounded, man
aged to land the plane and
make .their .way back , to , their
command.
The ' asmenncement did " Mt
Identify any of the crew except
Sharp and did not disclose, when
the battle occurred. .
Women Begin
Army School
Cornelia Hulst First
Salem, Enlistee;
Tasks Ready Soon
Cornelia Hulst,' graduate of
Willamette university in 1838,
Monday became Salem's first
woman to enlist In the women's
army auxiliary corps.
Miss Hulst has been teaching
the last four years at Ashland
high school and for the last three
years has been dean of girls. In
Salem she lives at the home of
her parents, Mr. and . Mrs. Bert
Hulst, 175 Sunnyview avenue.
' FORT DES MOINES, . Ia
July 20 -(JPV- There was a
deputy sheriff from California,
an Arizona rancher's daughter
who looked something like Mrs.
Roosevelt, a polo player, and
stenographers and school teach
ers galore.
Blondes, . redheads and bru
nettes, and some whose hair was
streaked with gray. Many , had
husbands in the army or navy.
They were the first contingent
of. the. women's army auxiliary
corps , whose school openeM here
Monday.
They laughed and played and
climbed a fire escape to take pic
tures. They peeked out of win
dows at Director Oveta Culp
Hobby and swarmed to the soda
fountain and wrote postcards
home. It was a carnival day at
old Fort Des Moines. .
But they marched to mess with
a military precision tnai neuea
their recent arrival. And when
the proper time came, they went
soberly through the routine of in
duction as though fully conscious
each soon will relieve some desk
bound soldier so he may go to
battle.
The first 800 arrived Monday
440 -officer-candidates and 360
basic auxiliaries (privates).' They
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Sunday's Weather
Sunday's max. temp. 23 min.
S3: River Suu -2.1 ft By amy
request, weather forecasts are
withheld and temperature data
delayed.'-'. :
Douglas Sharp
Heltzel Named
As Alderman
Candidate Appointed;
Council Approves
Sewer Proposal
Charles H. Heltzel, young Sa
lem attorney who is to vie with
R. O. Lewis, Venetian blind manu
facturer and former city fireman.
for one of the fourth ward alder
manic seats at the November elec
tion, was elected 8 to 2 as coun
cilman Monday night to fill the
Mayer W. W. Chadwick Men-;
day night announced the ap
pointment ef Paul R. Bendricks,
former rfty attorney, as ehilr
man of the city's civilian de
fense committee, succeeding Al
derman L, F. LeGarie, resigned.
LeGarle, who will continue
as a member ef the committee,
said difficulty In obtaining
clerks for his grocery store had
made It necessary to give up the
chairmanship, the
plained.
vacancy created by the resigna
tion of -Alderman A. O.'j Davison.
He will serve until January 4.
Heltzel was nominated by Al
derman Ross Goodman, fifth
ward, and Lewis by Gertrude F.
Lobdell, the other fourth , ward
council member. '
Following up its early action in
leasing the city airport to-the
army "for the duration " the coun
cil Monday night passed . s reso
lution authorizing a sewer con
nection between the city system
and sewerage being built , for the
the air support command base at
the field. The army agreed to pay
any service fees that may be es
tablished for the city in general.
Other council actions included:
Order to the treasurer to in
vest $50,000 from the airport im
provement fund in war bonds;
transfer of $620 from building in
spection to engineering fund to
pay restored salary of engineer's
stenographer; postponement to
next meeting of resolution for
purchase of $150,000 worth of war
risk insurance to cover city build
ings. , .
13 Killed
In Planes
Army; Pilot Parachutes
To Safety Near Base
In Washington
TACOMA July 20-tfP)-Offi-
cers at nearby McChord field said
Monday night a pursuit ship from
the army , air base at Olympia
crashed ' and burned near the
Thurston-Lewis county boundary,
two miles south of Bucoda, late
Monday" afternoon. " ;
The' pilot. Second Lieut. H. C
Crim. Miami, Fla., parachuted , to
the ground and was unhurt.-
TUCSON, Arit, July 20 Eight
men were killed Monday when a
big army bomber from Davis
Mem than - field here . crashed and
burned in the desert three and
one half miles from the base.
. The public relations office said
the plane, a B-24, was one of
several : returning at daybreak
from a night training flight
The-craft was piloted by First
Lt. Blair K. Blacker, Corvallls,
Ore. . . . . . '
- FRESNO, July 20 -JP)- Two
army air force lieutenants and
three enlisted men perished Mon
day in the crash and explosion of
a B-25 bomber from the Hammer
field base here.
Nazi Infantry Cut
In Voronezh;
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Of Defense Ready
Enemy Position on Steppes Menaced
: By Stand of Russians Along Don;
Possible Counter Attack Seen
By FRED VANDERSCHMIDT
Associated Press War Editor , -I "
The battle of the upper Don near Voronezh has turned
in favor of the red army, the Russians declared early Tues
day with announcement they had seized the initiative, and
it became evident the decisive battles, for the Caucasus still -remained
to be fought. ? i
The southern armies also were rallying along the Rostov
Stalingrad line which runs "for many miles behind the lower
Don. .. ' ,
In the fighting around Voronezh, late soviet dispatches
said, the Russians had not only
Sunday and Monday but had made
advances themselves, their planes
and tanks cutting infantry com
munications in a fierce flank at-
t&k to the northwest of the city.
Perhaps significantly, a Berlin
radio commentator heard in Lon
don early Tuesday, warned the
German people they might ex
pect a heavy Russian onslaught in
the Don river area, and he cau
tioned them not to be misled by
the nazis' geographical gains to
date. , .
After an almost continuous ten-
day retreat,: Marshal Timoshenko
was reported to have managed an
orderly fusion, of his main forces
with the red armies which evac
uated the rich Donets industrial
and mineral region about Vorosh
ilovgrad. .
7 Gaining precious time by the
' retarding "effect of exhaustion
and heavy rain en the German'
'armored spearheads; h vras
" consolidating a ffont 'running
from Just north of Rostov east
to Novocherkassk, thence along
the south bank of the -lower Don
to a point near Stalingrad.
The Germans obviously were
doing their utmost to isolate the
Rostov "corner" of the west Cau
casus before i unosnenao can
anchor his lino to it; one report
of the Paris radio, which- ffe-,
quently leaps ahead of the truth,
said German tanks already were
across the spur railway leading to
Stalingrad and in Shakhty, 40
miles above Rostov and only about
20 miles north of Novocherkassk.
The Russian midnight commu
nique also disclosed the Germans
who- took Voroshilovgrad had
pushed southeast of - that indus
trial city in a drive toward Ros-
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77
Seamen Is
Monday toll
Five Ships Reported
Sunk in Atlantic,
Three American
By The Associated Press
Seventy seven seamen were re
ported killed or' missing Monday
in announcements of five more
torpedo sinkings in the western
Atlantic. A total of 120 crewmen
were rescued from the five ships,
three of which were American.
The sinkings boosted to 390 the
unofficial Associated Press tabu
lation of United Nation and neu
tral merchant vessel losses in the
zone since Pearl Harbor.
US losses included a medium
sized merchantman off the north
ern coast of South' America. June
29, a small cargo vessel several
hundred miles off the east coast
and another small, cargo craft ap
proximately 450 miles off the
coast July 13. -
i The . navy, also announced a
medium-sized Swedish merchant
man was torpedoed 200 miles from
the northern coast of South
America without loss of any . of
its 42-man crew. The fifth sink
ing was reported in dispatches
from a Yucatan port which told
of 'the Panamanian freighter Ta-
chira going to the bottom of the
Caribbean July 20 with a loss of
five from a 37-man crew
Service Men
Ward X. "Davis, Salens, for
mer member of the state dirl-
of audits staff., has been
to" the grade of tint
Ueatenant la the army, accord
ing U announcement from the
nbmth corps area headquarters
at Fort Douglas, Utah.
For additional 'news about
men front Salens and vicinity
in the armed forces. turn to
page five of today's Statesman.
Line
beaten off German attacks
House Passes
Big Tax Bill
Committee Proposals
Denied ; Revenue ,
For War Huge
WASHINGTON, July 2"W
Overriding its tax committee's
recommendations, the house made
a last-minute boost in rates to add
millions of dollars to the tax load
of corporations Monday and then
passed with only two dissenting
votes a revenue bill the treasury'
said would, raise more than iC,
271,200,000 a year.
The measure Would increase
Lthjs year's total federal revenues
to, $23,000,000,000 largest In the
nation's history. r, V -
One of the most unruly meet
ings in many months,, with dozens
of members clamoring simultane
ously for recognition, preceded
the final roll call of 392 to 2
for the bill. Reps. Moser (D-Pa)
and Oliver (R-Me) cast the dis
senting votesv r
The legislation, which now goes
to the senate for still more weeks .
of study, - would, increase, indi
vidual income taxes by $2,872,
300..000 and corporation levies $2,
840,700,000, and would increase'
a host of excise taxes to produce'
$758,200,000.
Chairman George (D-Ga) of the
senate 'finance committee has in
dicated the measure is in for ex
tensive rewriting on that side of
the Capitol with most of the,
changes aimed at' increasing the
total nearer the treasury's goal of
$8,700,000,000. ' J J
' When the house, met today, the."
ways and means committee recom
mended the excess profits tax rate '
be set at 90 per cent, instead, of
the bill's 87& per cent and, as a
corollary, the combined normal ,
and surtaxes on corporation in- '
come be reduced from 43 to 40
per cent
But on the floor, demands were
made and granted that those two
questions be divided. A teller vote
of 180 to 160 defeated the pro
posed revision in the normal and
surtax rate. But the 80 per cent
excess profits rate was adopted
with a boisterous chorus of "ayes."
AMERICA
Needs Your
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slatenenl la lis
By Donald
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chairman,
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