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Keep Posted Momentous events occur In all parts of the world while yon sleep bat also while The Statesman news services are reporting them, Keep posted read The Savo 16 Win - Two i pounds of "wast king fit will make enearh glycerine for. five anti-tank . sheila. , Ears all waste fats; sell or give them to Uncle Sam, 1 ' j' ( , 6Ut POUNDCQ 1651 HIIIETY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, July 23. 1342 Price. Sc. No. 82 :B.a' n n lie tof 1 .Begin US May Buy City Airport. Accountant and Appraiser Doing Paper Work Now Purchase of Salem's munici pal airport by the US gOvern ! jnent loomed as a definite possi ; bility Wednesday with informal . authorization . by city council s' men of an "audit" to determine enact amount of money expend - - cd by the municipality in its de- . velopment : - , That the action had been re ciuested by an' AAA appraiser, whose services had been bor rowed by another branch of the . government to present figures on - ' the proposed airport purchase was v-. apparently general knowledge, al- though city officers had nothing to announce. . . , It was understood that J. B. - Protzman, Salem accountant, was to be retained to delve into city records for exact information sought. Sidewalk mathematicians - placed the city's realizable invest - ment in the port at something . more than $70,000 in cash, while the incinerator properties were placed on the books at approxi mately $30,000. The airport here is how under lease to the federal government ; for a period to extend six months . -after the close of the war. That - federal agencies are as interested In development of commercial - airline services as are municipali ties has been the declaration of its " representatives in this area when : mention of the city's contract with : United Air lines for service bere has' come . up for. discussion ' in - recent months, and the current lease - provides for continued operation of the air lines here. 35Killedin 3 Sinldiigs Sub Fires on Norse Skipper -for Not ' Giving Ship Name v ' " ; ; By The Associated- Press The captain of a large Norweg ian merchant ship sunk in the At lan tic was machine-gunned be cause he refused to give the U .- boat commander the name of his vessel, the navy reported Wednes day. K , U, ,' ; Torpedoing of a US .cargo ship ; and a British merchantman . also were announced, bringing to 396 fiie unofficial: Associated "Press tabulation of allied and neutral . losses in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor. The toll in the three sinkings was 35 dead and 89 rescued. -.:,. . . Capt Finn Ager Madsen, 42, of Tonaburg, Norway, said at a gulf coast port that the submarine fired on a dinghy carrying himself ' and three crewmen from the sink ing ship. ' The captain was hit in the arm but' the other three were unhurt v. ... Thirty five other men in. the crew rowed away in two lifeboats and reached Devil's island, French : Guiana. Rather than face intern ment there, they escaped and ' pushed on to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. - . ; - The American vessel, torpedoed about 650 "miles . off , the Atlantic coast. June 28. was sent to the bottom with the loss of 19 of her " 37-man crew. The 38 seamen who were rescued after drifting for 19 dars aboard lifer arts. - said that Miles Neklkin, a 25-yeat-old able bodied seaman, was responsible for : their escape. Survivors said Nelkin nleesed the liferafts while the (Turn to Page 2 CoL ) Sorvico Men Mertcm H. RoemhUdt, private first class, has reached Great Brit ain, according to a report from his sister, Irene Roemhildt, Fish er apartments, Salem. Pvt Roem hildt Is a topographical drafts man with the US engineers. He was Inducted In October, 1S41, and until that time was sj resi dent of Salem. V i For additional news about bms from Salem and vicinity la the armed forces, tans to ri-t rtrt of today's Statesman. Before He Left Hi Perch !:";7f-Jte.- CV;;'"":" f-. -' -lf r w - i mm am BBMBsMsmsssssBsslssssMSjsmsmvs TtessssmsssmsMBHsmwsisslBasoi:.--:: Fleeing to the selitade of a precarious perch 124 feet above the ground, Joseph Qaigley, 54, State officials uneasy for more than eight bears Wednesday. He is pie tared above on the hospital water tower reef. He spent the last six hoars of his stay ea the catwalk at the- lower edge of the big tank. Itimkit&df Atop Stays For Eight 54-Year-Old Man Qimbs 124 Feet To Berate Superintendent Evans; Descends to Earth Voluntarily. v Days of the flagpole sitters were recalled here Wednesday afternoon when Joseph Quigley, 54-year-old inmate of the Ore gon State, hospital fled from his '.associates in the institution laundry and clambered to a lonely, perch atop a 124-foot water tower, there to stay, barefooted and glowering, for 8 hours and 15 minutes. ".. .'--v . One of 2705 wards at the Salem institution, Quigley berated and cursed Dr. J. C. Evans, super intendent, from his high vantage point, defied the pleas of attend ants and inmate friends alike to come down, ; ...'.v.'.'" Fearful that Quigley might make a death leap if pressed, Dr. Evans directed that he. be-let alone and that no audience of curious em ployes or inmates be permitted to assemble on the ground below. ; "Hell probably give up and eome down if we let him alone , long enough, Dr. Evans said shortly after 1:30, time when '. Qaigley qnlt his assignment oyer the whirling clothes drier in the laundry. . Quigley did just that, at 9:15. From his position on the tower, topped on the hospital grounds only by the 150-foot heating plant stack, Quigley was watched by spectators at George . E.", Waters field, nearly. 16 blocks away by CTOW flight ' Two other inmates have fled up the hospital water tower . in : the last 15 years. The first leaped or fell to his death from about the 80-foot level. The other, who went up about four years ago, called down . that he would give himself up if a priest were called. Father Reedy, now an army chap lain, was called and the inmate kept his promise. License Revoked Of Brown Derby PORTLAND, July 22VThe state liquor control commission revoked five licenses Wednesday, including that of Sidney Julius Gentzkow, operator of the Brown Derby in Salem, who was charged with maintaining disorderly premises. " ;: Y.v : Z"'- The commission also ' suspend ed the licenses of 13 establish ments. . : ' . . hospital Inmate, kept. Institution Hospital Tower Amateur Show Unit Readied USO Group to Present . Programs , to. Soldiers ; ". Male "Actors Sought : "Amateur Shows for Soldiers' unit of the" USO was organized Wednesday night in a meeting at the Salem chamber of commerce. presided over by R. R. "Bob" Boardman, director, of the USO in Salem. General purpose of the unit will" be to arrange entertain ment for soldiers," to be presented either at Camp Adair or at the USO center in Salem when it is in operation. 4. - A second meeting was planned for Friday night at 8 o'clock, also at the chamber of commerce, at which men and women interested in participating in such shows are asked to : appear and register to indicate their availability. Al though ? the shows will include various forms t of entertainment, the; registration Friday night will be only for those interested in stage play roles. Any who are- interested but who cannot attend at that time are asked to telephone and leave their names t7ith Mrs. Ilda Bin genheimer 8 at the- USO office, phone S854. ' ,, Experience in" other communi ties' adjacent to army camps in cluding " those in which he has served has been that -the soldiers greatly appreciate . amateur en tertainment, Director ' Boardman told the group which met Wed (Turn to Page 2. CoL 8) Tuesday's Weather - Tuesday's max. temp. 87, sain. 87. River Tnes,,-2.4 ft. h By army, request, weather forecasts are withheld and - temperatare data delayed. Hours Japs In ; JL" ' Papuan Landing Allies Bomb and Strafe, Sink 2 Enemy Vessels GEN, MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Thurs day, July 2 3-JP)-J a p a n e s e landing forces, disembarking under heavy allied bombing and machine-gun strafing, have es tablished a new foothold near Buna on the northern Papuan coast, 150 miles south of their base at Salamaua, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters a n nounced Thursday. Allied aerial attacks were the only hindering force to the land ing, since there - were no allied troops stationed in the vicinity of Gona Mission, where the Jap anese disembarked. Bombing and strafing by al lied planes sank one Japanese transport and one landing barge. Between 150 and 2500 Jap anese were estimated to have made the landing from a small convoy. The first contact by allied planes with the Japanese ships was made Just before dark on Tuesday. Then one hit was scored on a transport, believed to have been the same one later reported sunk. The landing was made early Wednesday.. " Heavy casualties were inflicted on the landing troops. " . One enemy' seaplane "was shot down in fighting; with allied fliers. Two allied planes were reported lost - ' . - ; - Buna is located directly across the Papuan peninsula, about 100 miles from the allied base at Port Moresby. - Farewell Plan Group Begun Organization Will . Give Sendof f s r . '.' " To Inductee's First step toward formation of a civic committee - to extend the City's -farewell to its departing service men . were taken Wednes - I TTT I day night at the chamber, of com merce when representatives of Sa lem's organized veterans, their auxiliaries, part . of the fraternal and service groups are the minis terial association met . with O. E. Palmateer as temporary chairman. Hope that the organization might develop into a body ready to assist at the close of the war with problems of demobilization, . to aid returning service men in finding their places in the social and industrial scheme, was ex pressed by Palmateer. Serving as a member of the American Le gion's committee which last week staged a farewell luncheon for army inductees, Palmateer said his organization's members believed the entire city wanted a part in honoring the departing soldiers. , Other organizations are to : be contacted and those represented at the Wednesday session asked to authorize their representatives to form a permanent steering com mittee for the farewell parties be fore another meeting called for Thursday, July 30. Meanwhile, the Legion group and those, attending Wednesday's T gathering plan v to stage a party of a variety depend ing on the time of departure, for men leaving early next week. ; Until this month, it was ex plained, inductees have been sent to army centers Immediately fol lowing their final examinations as navy enlistees still are handled, and any organized farewell ges ture has been impossible. Pickets Told Not To Stop Freight Union men connected ' with' the Paulus Brothers' cannery strike Wednesday announced that pick ets at the Salera plant had been instructed not to interfere , with freight, movements, which,' plight have . a bearing . on war produc tion. ' , The announcement was issued several hours after workers from the 'picketed cannery had them selves moved - a freight 'car of empty cans onto a spur track at the south side of the plant in spite of protests of pickets, who earlier bad stood on the tracks when a switch engine crew attempted to do the same job. . . - - Tiny Pope rs Reveal Neics To Naziland LONDON, Wednesday. Jaly 22-;p)-BrUish bombers streak ing over Germany and Italy as well as the axis-occupied na-s Uons of Europe almost daily drop thousands of tiny news papers carrying United Nations news and. nneensored items about naxlland. The midget newspapers, no larger than a cigarette when rolled up, are printed in various languages. There are four pages, 8 by 5 inches, bat the fine print makes possible 10,009 words in a single Issue. The sise also facilitates .their surreptitious passage in gesta-po-ridden' lands. As an example of their wide circulation, even in axis coun tries, some of these newspapers recently were reported found on prisoners taken in Libya. War Workers Call to Grow Shipyards Need Great As Plans Grow to Transport Men A "you havent seen anything yet picture of Portland's need for war industry workers and of Sa lem's destined part in the ship construction program was painted by shipyard, employment service and draft board officials to work ers,' trainees and prospective non essentiat Job "casualties at the Salem .chamber of commerce Wednesday night 1 ?We have orders for nearly four times the number of men we can see in the offing as far as the iraining program is concerned," A. G. Johnson,' war Industry' coordi nator from the State office of the US employment service told the audience of more than 100 infor mation seekers. ' By the end of next December the ' Portland and Vancoaver shipyards want 42402 workers la six trades, as well aa many for office and field positions not rtaair in g mechanical skills, ' Johnson declared. They include welden 1C,S44 wanted " pipe fitters,' pipe welders, marine electricians,' shipwrights, and . machinists. Portland nust have these men irrespective of ' anything else. rhairman Dar J St,,mhn f th V - ' Salem local draft board asserted. The local board has reached or der number 1000 in drafting mar ried men without children, "and it will be only a matter of a few months until well be through the list of married men without chil dren, Stumbo warned. Then, he inferred, married men with chil dren will go either into the armed services or into war industries. More than 150 men and women now in or planning to enter Port land war industries have regis tered at the chamber of com merce as wanting to obtain the 81 a day , roundtrip bus service now being' planned on paper, Business Manager Clay C. Coch ran reported. - Local men and local capital are ready . and equipped to produce the needed busses, Cochran re ported. f . . The shipyard representatives, J. A. Dalzlel and F. L. May- . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Nazi Seamen Buried in US NORFOLK, Va, July 22.-W) The bodies of 29 crewmen of a German submarine sunk -' by ' a destroyed on Atlantic patrolthe first enemy dead to be landed on American shores ; in " this war- were brought here and buried with full' military honors in nearby Hampton. : ? - s - The . bodies; and a few empty life jackets were all that remained afloat after the U-boat was sunk. The navy declined to give further details in announcing the action tonight. : -" " - : The German dead were buried as night fell over : the national cemetery' at Hampton, Vsl" Brief requiem' services were -read -over the 29 new graves by two navy chaplains. - ' . - v - Germans Lose 6000 MOSCOW, Thursday, July 23 WV" The Moscow radio reported Thursday the Germans had lost 6000 killed in bitter fighting for a town south of Voronezh, on the upper Don-front.' ' Million Defenders JUet ense; Allies Attack Progress Reported; Coast Ridge Taken; ' RAF Rules Air By EDWARD KENNEDY .CAIRO, Egypt July 22-(ff) Un der cover of allied planes . ruling the air almost without challenge, British Imperials attacked the axis forces all along the 40-mile desert "front west and south of Alamein "Wednesday night in an onslaught that began Tuesday night and raged inconclusively through Wednesday. ; - While it was still too early to see definite results. the British under the leadership of General Sir Claude Auchinleck reported progress, . The Imperials on the northern coastal sector occupied all of Tel El Eisa (Hill of Jesus) ridge, which has changed hands re peatedly. " On the center, where the action began Tuesday night, some prog ress - was ' reported, with ' tanks in the fighting on both sides. V . On the south, where the desert merges into the salt- marshes of the Qattara depression, United Kingdom troops attacked and were making some progress. ; " ' It was the first time the. de fenders of the Alamein positions and of Egypt the Nile and the middle east had attacked on all three sectors simultaneously. ' The enemy forces of - Marshal in Rommel launched several counter-attacks during the day and heavy see-saw fighting ensued. The air force was carrying oat a good share of the attack. Enemy fliers were out in slight ly greater strength thaa . Tues day, when they were almost ab sent from the sky; bat the axis air activity still was smalL Elsewhere, the RAF struck at axis bases as far away as the Isle of Crete, the Mediterranean stepping-stone captured by para chutist invasion in the spring of 1041. RAF Bombs Heavy Missiles Start Big Fires in Port, Industrial Section LONDON, July 22-(V-A force of 300 RAF bombers dumped more than , 50 two-ton. fblock- destroyingw " bombs and other high explosives Tuesday night on industrial Duisburg and the world's largest river port nearby while the Russian : air;; force struck at the German military power at Koenigsberg, East Prus sia.: , . Giving the Germans little rest from air raids, British Spitfires flew over the channel. Wednes day afternoon for the fourth suc cessive day's raid on objectives in occupied territory, including Dunkerque and Le Touquet The planes attacked railway engines, factories,' gunposts and barges, the 1 auv nunistiy reported." - The ministry said the-raid on Duisburg, the heaviest by the British., since the 1000-plane at tackr'on Bremen- June 2J and, the first night raid on the Ruhr city since July 13, cost - the British 13 bombers. . .' s; But, the air ministry added with a note of satisfaction, "really good fires' were left blazing " in Duisburg itself and in the dock area of the river port, Duisburg Rhurort, Just north of the city at the confluence of the "Ruhr and Rhine rivers. . . .: -v-i "Experienced squadron, com manders are confident the attack developed - successfully.'. "the : air ministry said. ; -, Good weather, for the lack of which Britain's bombers have been held back often this month, fav ored the attackers as they smash ed and burned Duisburg V heavy industries and sea and rail com munications Along Entire Egypt Front Duisburg Germ W eit iMist Russians Continue Success In Counter-Attack Along North Sector, Voronezh f BIOSCOW, July 23l (AP)--The RussUnt an nounced Thursday that the This statement came the soviet information bureau's midnight communique had depicted the red army forces to the north of Rostor, falling back to the city's outer defenses under the pres sure of a million-man German army which also had driven a deep wedge roughly and' Stalingrad, - '. Rostov, held briefly by fore the winter's turn in the tide of battle also has been under a steady menace from the west where the Ger mans anchored their line miles away. - China Supplies Plan Results iWar Council Prepares To Help Fiercely Fighting Nation ; .'WASHINGTON', ' J ir 1 yv U-fiP) The ; Pacific war. council worked out plans for delivering supplies to .hard-pressed armies of China Wednesday, and its . members left the White -House obviously feel ing that- much had been accom plished. : ,T..-' "Now we know what the Chi nese need and how and when and where we can get the stuff in, Walter Nash, . the minister from New Zealand, reported to newspapermen.-The council, he said, had "worked out procedure to be followed to assure that China puts up the best fight that can be put up. , . . ' - . In addition to Jetnlma the eemnctt's dbeassiea. President Keesevelt eenf erred with the Russian ambassador, M a x 1 m Litvineff. whe, whether er net by, coincidence, arrived at the White Heuse seen after an an nouncement In Moscow that both StaUnsrad and Reatev had j been Imperilled by new German advances. - Nazi successes have Intensified demands in Russia, Great Britain andl the United States for the opening of an invasion front in western Europe, Litvinoff told re porters, however, that he and the president: had not discussed the second, front. ". The trend of submarine war fare against American shipping, the closing of the Burma road, over ; which tons .of materials had been hauled to China, and the new Japanese offensive in , that coun try obviously combined to present the Pacific war council with - a difficult problem. Since the Burma road became inaccessible, due to Japanese vic tories in Burma, some materiel has been flown Into', China by transport plane from India. There has been talk recently of increas- CTurn to Page 2, CoL 7) Vs Currie Talks With Chiang CHUNGKING, China, July 22 (AV-J-auchlin Currie, administra uve assistant to President Roose-i velt,. conferred for. several hours Wednesday with-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek on, matters of an undisclosed nature while the high command announced - the recap ture ef Klenteh, 65 miles south west of Hangchow, main Japa nese base in Chekiang province. : Currie's arrival in Chungking was announced last week. i , The high command said fight ing, was continuing around the port of Wenchow, on the Chekiang coast, and heavy fighting was" re ported at Lanchi, on the Chek iang-Klanssi railway - 20 miles south of Kienteh; , : j i Meanwhile. Chinese reports said that 30,000 Chinese troops still were fighting in Burma, sup plied with food and material by American transport planes. , an Press battle for Rostor had begun. less than nine hours after half way between Rostov '-'- , a ' , :f- the Germans last year be last winter at Taganrog,' 40 By The 1 Associated Press The storm of German assault swept Wednesday night to within 20 miles of Rostov and to the low er 'Don more than halfway from that city to Stalingrad,' and thus , the Russian nation' was plainly face to face with the "terrible days" .which its military spokes -men say it will have to endure ' The midnight communique' of the soviet information bureau 're ported battle- ai Novocherkassk and Tsimlyansk. ' .Novocherkassk is r on - a ravine-cut plateau K 20 miles northeast of Rostov, sur rounded, by .small tributa ries of the Don. Tsimlyansk is on 2e w' north bank of the lower Don 60 mSes east of the' Donets. It is 130 miles east of Rostov and 120 miles southwest . of Stalingrad. German reports early Wednes day indicated that the attackers . were preparing- to storm a de fended Russian bridge-head'' on ' the Askaitouzlov waterline at Novocherkassk. This makes m. semi-circle shielding Rostov from the. northeast ' . , 1 Location of the battle -area about Tsimlyanslrdid not precise- ly confirm the German claim to forcing the lower Don in that sec- . tor, but it was, by itself, a de velopment quite grave enoughs Tbe combination of triumphal German claims and the grim tone of the Russian military press left no doubt but that Rostov, west gateway to the Caucasus, wss im- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Second Front Gamor Swells , Unions Boost Move In England and US; 1 ' Rally Held in NY-j;. LONDON, July22-VThe plight of Russian armies retreat ing into the vital Caucasus swelled the clamor in Britain Wednesday night for a second front to divert Germany's - steel might from "the : east ; - .:;': .-i-v However," the , government 'and . virtually all the press kept strictly , silent on the prospect of invading France or the lowlands.. ; ' . ! Lord Beaverbreek's 'Evening .. Standard, t h r e e large - trade anions and British communist - party all cried ent for swiff ac tion by British and US armies based In these Islands. The Evening Standard declared in discussing the possibilities of a Russian defeat: '.'-? " - v "All then depends not on how . much aid we bring but how quick ly. The outcome of a soviet de feat would be violent and possi bly calamitous for our cause in every theatre of war. L) The big union of British war workers called for the immediate establishment of a . second front (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Our Senators - Uca 11-0 7 I--. a-