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Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, July 23. 1342
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No. 82
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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-
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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-
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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
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