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Going Away? Going away, n a vaca tion irtot war Job? Dave The Statesman follow yen, to keep yon posted en events at home. Call 1101 for de tail. if Save to Win ; One set of old fU claoa contains enoarh . metal ts make JI calibre machine gun, Save all scrap metal; ell or tire it for Uncle Sa FCUNDS2tV iCi rniirTY-srcoND yeah Scdem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning, July 23. 1342 Price 5c' No. 87 1 TTTi on TCP Jiiff'eaueii Man Sill - c Warns Nazis Japanese Where Hitlerites Continue Advances Batahk Is i J? cached 9 Raided See Lc$ Don-CfossfiAsdiii: NX WW VV'. way WO A gam Birniingham Hit Monday; Guns JLTsed Are New LONDON, Wednesday, July 2$ (AP) -German ; raiders bombed three places in East AngKa and the midlands ear ly Wednesday in a resump tion of Monday night's at tacks, which were on the larg est scale in seteral months. Neither casualties nor. dam- age were reported immedi ately." Monday night's raids gave Brit' sin's new secret anti-aircraft guns their first real test. Birmingham, big industrial cen- j ter in the midlands, was the prin cipal target of the 50 to 70 planes which crossed the ...channel, but other points in the midlands and the eastern counties and even the greater London district got their share . of enemy attention. The night alarm in the London area was the first since June 3. British defenses, including night fighters, shot down eight nazi raiders, and a ninth German bomber was reported destroyed this morning off the southwest coast An air ministry communique. acknowledged fires : and damage were caused in the Birmingham ,: area and a number of casualties resulted. Greatest damage was suffered by homes and shops. A delayed action bomb fell near a hospital, which was immediately emptied. :''', CK Fire bombs f eU fjejdf Jear 1 London and a time bomb dropped . BERLIN (From ' German ' Broadcasts), July ZJ.HffVTtae royal air force attacked Ham- burg Tuesday night for the sec ond time In three nights, it was announced Wednesday. Twenty six of the invading aircraft were reported shot - down. .'" ' High explosive and incendi ary bombs caased Area and damage especially in residen tial quarters, the German an nouncement said. . In a park. No damage was re ported. The German radio, beard here, said 200 nasi planes raided Birmingham with heavy and ' medium high explosive bombs and Incendiaries, but the British estimate was that the number was no greater than 70 and pot slbly lower. ' The new British guns appear cd to be widely employed but no " detailed description of them was permitted. Listeners knew some - thing unusual was happening . though when they heard the novel twang in the midst of the familiar - bang and crash of gun and can Don. . The stinging reception they gave the nazis, coupled with the activity of the night fighters. mad the Germans spread them pelves and prevented them from inflicting any concentrated dam : age. ' -.' -1 :S ' Although 1 night fighters ' were able to get off the ground, beenber fleets were held home by' bad weather over the continent Tuea day, however, RAF planes," fly . ing singly, attacked points in Ger- many, and Air Marshal Sir Ar- thur T. Harris," chief of the bomb - er command, broadcast a grim warning to Germany "we are go ing to scourge the third reich from end to end." : "In comparison with what It will bo like as soon as oar own production of bombers comes to flood and as American produc tion doubles and then redoubles. -, ' all that has happened so far will - seem very litUe," Harris said. His broadcast followed a Ger man broadcast minimizing the - damage and casualties In the (Turn to Page 2, CoL S) ( Service Mon ; ' Walter Esplln has asked for military leave from the position he has held the past 18 months with the city police force and - has enlisted la the marines. A younger brother, Charles Esplin, "? previously left the force to Join the army. . :.. For , additional news - about tsen from Salem' and vicinity la the armed forces, turn to page five of today's Statesman. 1 r L SIR ARTHUR T. HARRIS RAF to Scourge Reich Tliird Bombing Foray Failure Townsville Raider Loses to Allies; Japs Push at Buna GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Wednes day, July 29.-j5-A single Jap anese flying boat which attempted to bomb Townsville in northeast ern Australia Tuesday night was intercepted by allied fighters and was believed to have been 4 de stroyed, a communiqu e said Wednesday. z - Tbe raider was hif Jrepeafedly nd . when last "jseeiat was Idsln, height," the communique said. "It 1 is believed to have been de- stroyed. I It was the third night foray against Townsville, but in .all T,r,0,. miJ.m i . cso7 uk v ajcaia.3 acaavaao vax i their bombs harmlessly into the sea outside that city. A single Japanese plane also I made a night attack on the allied New Guinea base of Port Mores- by, but the several bombs dropped caused no damage, the communi- que said. In a counter-offensive allied air units were reported to have I scored mis on me japanese-neid i airdrome at Koepang, Dutch Ti- mor, despite lighter opposition. Allied ground patrols mean while drove the Japanese back from advanced outpost positions west of Gons in southeastern (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Mott to See Coast Bases ' Expansion Planned for Tillamook, Tongue Point Naval Bage WASHINGTON, July 28.-UP) Rep. Mott (R-Ore) will leave here Wednesday with a house naval affair mhonnmWiu tn west and on the Pacific coast tk -r.rftnfi- woulH nnrf a nr in-1 spec ting Tongue Point and Till a- mook naval stations and th tion bases, at Astoria and Coos Bay with a view of determining what additional munitions and airplanes are needed. He said a bill HR7418V two- viding i $750,oa,000 f or .naval shore stations passed by the house last week would provide $5,000,000 for expansion of Tillamook and $500,000 for Tongue Point. "Our - legislative program ' Is completed, Mott said, , "and the house will take three-day recesses during August The committee wants to inspect all naval bases and short stations during this periocLrOur Oregon coast is the best protected spot on our shore lines, ' We need ; additional .- air .. . planes at Tongue Point and the Lmmut ia ,nin t try tn"t fVtm XX7a will rtovA ctrusnt taVwMit $12 000 000 each on Tongue Point nA rnim when the last ac propriaUon is finally approved." Mott said he would k. accom. panied on the inspection of the Oregon states by Rep. Magnuson (D-Wash) who will inspect Alas kan stations before visiting-Ore gon.: . Monday's Weather, Monday's max. temp, aa, mlii- 55. River Mon. 1.9 tU By array request, weather fore casts are withheld and tem perature data delayed. Conflict Fearful of End Though Cheered Now by Success TEditor's " note: Joseoh Drain. 29. joined the Associated Press staff at Tokyo in the summer of 1941 after having worked on the Japan Times ana Advertiser ana the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. A native of Chicago, he received his education in Kansas City and worked for the Kansas City Star. San Antonio Express and the Daily Oklahoman at Oklahoma City before crossing the Pacific.) By JOSEPH DYNAN LOURENCO MARQUES,! Portuguese East Africt, July 25 (Delayed) Although mo rale ran high in Japan through the early course of the war, II ! have reason to believe that deep within their hearts many of the j more thoughtful Japanese fore- i see a "long, dreary conflict and eventual defeat. " This premonition of disaster is strong among "westernized think ers," despite a heavy barrage of lopsided propaganda : which has claimed recruits even, in the ranks of the educated. The spirit of the rank and file is soaring, due to scarcely dreamed ( of successes and exploits ranking with the German conquest of Europe. Naturally the Japanese public gets only one side but the facts currently speak for themselves, with the Rising Sun flapping over Indo-China, Hongkong, the Philippines, Thailand, the East Indies, Barms, Singapore and great segments of China. ' -Thecapture of the British, fort- "ss of Singapore especially heart. ened the Japanese. ; Japanese civil and military of- ftciala m occupied areas are be- . cociuiy accoramg w me pattern established in China. i in People nave aosorDea some me grandiose feeling of the strutting, sword-waving officers unul now trie oread ol war wnn the united States has been out- weighed temporarily by the feel- ing that Nippon is up to the task, Typical of the attitude taken by the Japanese is the demand by Internment officials in Hongkong mai Americans saiuie mem con- tinually, the effort at . Yokohama I to inciuae internees as exnioits in street parades and celebrations in Singapore. The pubue mind Is lnioxl eated by the sweep of Japanese operations and the extent ef their current holdings,' an ex tent vitally necessary in the opening days of the war when the people were awed by the decision to fight the world's richest powers. My few ' contacts in the early ."rI ants and guards gave the im pression they needed propaganda shots in the arm to override the conviction of despair and national suicide. Thus the Am-il 18 raid by Gtv eral DoohWf airmen constituted I everT should be a universal I a tremendous iolt to the nuhlieland invariable rule. - ' - - - --- their earlier depressive tenden- cics. I have reason to believe the i Reeling is widespread among" edu- letted Japanese that the country's onlr aalvation lies in dhinnation of the military clique which orougnt on tne coniuct. But these individuals feel this elimination process could be pos jwble only througb major Japanese defeats . They themselves are powerless, and it is a mistake to (Turn to Pace X Cot 4) Russian Oil Storage Huge LONDON, July 28.-Brith night Russia had over 100,000,000 l . , , , . . . I r" 7 w P- ductIon 10 ohet than the Caucasus and beyond the reach Pf P1" German armies otriving souh- : 1esfJ3LPrts' Who to be quoted byname, said the Rus- armies could fight. for some months on this reservoir alone because: 1. Russian oil production is be-1 Ing increased in the vast hinter land far to the east of the Volga. 2. Civilian use has been cur tailed since the war started. S. Russian exports of oil, in cluding some ,. to Germany, de creased in the,years prior to the war and halted entirely, when I Germany invaded the soviet. fl -,-r- ; r . 1 'KHARKOV , -' f t llllJ,SK n 4 . - RUSSIA ililllilliliPllL "Vl -n x ' Vjl Oil Lines-1 Railroadt IllliiP : .: X ' o 'P. The Russian communique early today admitted nasi columns had reached Bataisk, south of Rostov (1), made a new Don river crossing near Tsimlyansk (2), and continued both Bataisk and Tsimlyansk the ingrad-North Caucasian railroad, slowed by heavy casualties about of the great Volca water transport 48-Hour Week Policy Slated Plan to Boost Work Efficiency Hints No Compulsion - WASHINGTPN, July; 28-) The - government ; Tuesday isistab lished a policy ; t h a t, "generally speaking, the nation's millions of war production workers should toil no more man eigiu nours a mj -. all workers should have vacations t w restore nr energy. The office of war information said the move was designed to protect health, promote work ef- ficiently and to stop "labor pi racy" by plants which entice workers away from other jobs by offering them opportunities of putting, in long overtime at high pay. OWI emphasised the work nrenosal "In no wav affects' the wage-hour act's provision re quiring time and a half pay for ail work after 49 hours s week. The policy standards subscribed to Jointly by the war and navy departments, maritime commis sion, public health service, war man-power commission, war pro duction" board, commerce and la bor - departments, were outlined by the OWI as follows: 1. For wartime production the l ...... J.. J 4V.. JO V,m,-m week approximate the best work. ing schedule for sustained effi ciency in most Industrial opera tions. 2. One scheduled day of rest for tbe : individual in approximately i . !;.. i . desirable. , . '-r.V 14. Vacation! are conducive to I sustained production. J ; The statement ww fssned m 1 t form ef a recommendation t governmental - establish mentsv to . fteld repreaentatiyes of procurement axencies, and to coa tractors working on war pro duction.' It gave mo hint palaiout would bo used against war materials producers who failed voluntarily i abide by the principles. The major effect of the new statement on hours, the OWI said, "should be to reduce : excessive working hours per week per worker, .which can Tiot be sus tained - without- impairing , ' the 1 -77. Z. ' tion." nilB,L Death City's 31t I PORTLAND. July 28-VWil. liam Hudson, 65, Milwaukie, died I Thursday night of injuries suf- fered when struck by a bus July 9. It was Portland's Slst traffic fatality of the year. Oiir Senators G-3 principle object of the drive was shown In the above map. Dispatches said the German hordes were 41 miles from Stalingrad, whose capture would mean the breaching system. Mussolini 59; Hitler Sends Axis Regards BERLIN (From German Broadcasts), July 28.-(;p)-AdoIf Hitler has sent a congratulatory telegram to Premier Mussolini, who 4 will . be , 89 years eld ww as . ' m ". . sl .. ... -these wishes- MrtlcuUrlr eohnZ?? IT cern your personal good health.' The telegram released Tues day night said: "On the occa sion of your birthday I convey to you, dace in comradeship most sincere wishes oa behalf of myself and the whole German people. These wishes particular ly concern your personal good health and the welfare of fascist Italy. "In the unshakable conviction that our peoples, together with the allies of the axis, will win. the final victory In the fight for Europe's freedom and future, I greet you most cordially today as always.1' Savings Plan Too Difficult' Senators View Moves To Avert Inflation Without More Tax WASHINGTON, July 28-P) Chairman George (D-Ga) to the senate finance committee declared Tuesday that although compulsory savings might head off inflation the mechanics of enforcing such a plan would present new and dif ficult problems. : Discussing with newsmen the testimony of Julian Goldman, New York; merchant" who advocated syphoning off from 25 to 30 bil lion dollars in consumers' "excess purchasing . power," George said the witness had not presented specific recommendations to carry out his plan. The chairman added, however, Goldman' had . promised to do so. . If a person Is earning $1S week new and formerly caned only $39 and that increase was due only U defense work, why shouldn't ones, an Individual be compcUed to apply $33 eat ef bio weekly salary far the purchase ef , war bends? Goldman- asked the eemndtteea - Declaring " Inflationary, . trends are widespread, and, "black.mar- ketsn for scarce-commodities are being created, Goldman, asserted : (Turn to Page 2, CoL .7) 8 Enemy Ships Sunk by Soviet ; v MOSCOW, July 2a.-(ffV-Eght enemy . ships have been sunk in the Gulf of Finland by soviet na val and" air forces, the Russians said Tuesday night' . s , A Pravda dispatch from the red northern fleet - said a : group' of bombers attacking a northern; port sank an enemy oil tanker, three transports and a barge and de stroyed several warehouses. ; " The "m i dni gh t" ; communique claimed soviet ships task three enemy transports totalling 19,000 tons. , their threat to Stalinrrad (3). At assumed to be cutting of the Stal FDR Appeals, Salvage Drive Declares No Shortage Of Food Generally ; Some Items Fewer WASHINGTON, July 2&.-UP) rectlyaffectmga the people lie ahead. President Roosevelt Tues day made a general appeal for the fullest possible cooperation in the coming scrap, salvage drive. He asked that cellars, attics and backyards be ransacked for old , . . waste fats be turned in at meat nurWt. An1 in M n . ,M whether a particular article would be of helD to the war effort, he said the citizen should assume it was needed, adding that it prob-1 ahlv wax. The neonle r,!!, rll the seriousness ef the situation. Mr. Roosevelt said at a press conference, but as yet H has made.no Impact upon the lives of many individuals. The scrap salvage drive he regarded as test and an opportunity for them to take a personal part in the war effort ' A reporter raised the question of the bill passed last week to create a separate agency to con trol and expand the ' production of synthetic rubber made from grain alcohol, a measure pushed through congress by the farm bloc. Mr. : Roosevelt said "the chances are it will get vetoed." He added he was planning some additional move regarding rubber, but would not say what (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Germans Use Smoketlirower -BERN,' July 28-(iTl)-German use of "amokethrbwer- was mentioned Lh1! TIIn for the first time Tuesday in Ber- of the big Don bend. Inlan lin dispatches telling of the oc- try and mechanized forces were ; A t -. said to have crossed on a broad newspaper Nachrichten said that in the midst of "unnervin deto- nations of heavy, artillery" great clouds of smoke were seen to rise from the ground. The crasa will fiot rro uain from the ground touched ny this smoke, the dispatch said. There - . was said to be a new tvoe of gas nuH in ennnectiem with the smoke. anA the Berlin newsnaner Voel- kischer Beobachter renorted the new weapon was handled by spe cial- troopsv -. 4,000,000 : Yanks Armed WASHINGTON, July. 28-P) President Roosevelt told report - erg Tuesday the United States has around 4,000,000 men under arms, Assuming the figure included all the nation's armed forces, this was taken as an Indication s the army may already have reached the S,6O0,OOO total which Secre- of battle. The line generally tra tary Stimson said. several months verses sparsely settled country ago was Its goal by the- end of 1942 - Near !Tsimfyansk Fierce Fighting Claims Large Enemy, Ixgse80.:;llile8. FromjSlingrad;; Reds Continue Voronezh Success ; . " ' l By EDDY GILMORE . MOSCOW Wednesday, July 29 (AP) German troops Epouring into the Caucasus have made another crossing- of the lower Don at Tsimlyansk miles south of Rostov, in their gTad-Ndrth Caucasian railroad, cially early. WedneadayiX s - 'In the region of Tsimlyansk the enemy crossed th river at one piace and reached the southern bank," the mid night . communique said." ''Our men are attempting to repel enemy attacks. Soviet tanks destroyed eight " nazi tanks, 18 guns; ten trucks and' killed 200 Germans during this engagement. - In the region of Bataisk there was fierce fighting. Four enemy attacks were repelled and the enemy suffered heavy losses. So viet artillery destroyed 17 tanks and annihilatd one infantry bat talion. ; At the eastern bend of theTJon river before Stalingrad the Rus sians also Were engaged in a su preme fight' Dispatches said the red army killed 8000 nazis in a single small sector on a curving front only some 40 or SO miles short of the vital Volga river port The Germans fichtlng their way toward Bataisk (which the Germans claimed they captured Monday) were . striking at , the .. western end of. the Caucasian rail system. . A branch railway stretches .100 miles southeast ward from Bataisk to connect with the main TYkhoretskr Stal ingrad line at Salsk. But the mam trunk line apparently was In more immediate dang-er from the German thrust across the Don at Tsimlyansk which Is w ... j wwiav mm limy. ..w.h mmmm railway. " . In a flareup in the Bryansk sec- I t itn .1 tl II "v """ r COW, Uie. KUSSianS S81Q UieiTlTOOpS had desy1 more than 100 nad ranM m rwo-oay ugni. The Russian communique re- Ported steady but laborious ad- ivances in tne voronezn area wi mue nortfl Of Rostov on the up Pr wie main u- casian theatre it was evident the nazis still were rolling forward. Huge forces of German reserves were poured into the battle below fallen Rostov and Novocherkassk near the Don mouth on the Sea of Azov. The Germans sought swift ly to exploit to the full the gains they had won at appalling casual ties In men and machines. The skies were clouded with Stuka dive-bombers and the land was crawling, with swas-tika-emblasoned tanks la a fur ious combat which ' Red 1 Star called probably the grayest mo ment of the war. . The Germans claimed to.be near I Kalach- on the east bank of the Don as it swings nearest the Vol I ga, some 45 miles from Stalingrad. The German advance in that area was declared slowed somewhat by staggering casualties. (The Germans said they had widened and deepened their pen etrations south of the Don and claimed to have reached or crossed. y ine T stressea lam .gxavuy m wie nour, nd Pravda again made an lm- Pu ""T1 Vr reportmg new German divi- ons movea into Kussia xrom I , a tvi a . - i ranee s.uu. . h T army newspaper Red Star n aviuans ro dc reaoy 10 Itaite up arms, saying: ; .-- Tbr ' Ri depend ! generation. If the Ger-. mans conquer us, the generation now five to tea years eld will pit upon us when It Is grown p-;;-;.; -, Moreover, Red Star said omin ously the Germans were .develop ing their drive into the .Jiorthern Caucasus with many .times nu merical . superiority - creating a -great danger .The invaders' 1 pressure -was. declared "more and J more difficult to meet. t j - The main German , thrust - was I directed south of Rostov along the j railway which crosses the Cau- j casus to Baku, the great oil center still 700 miles from the thunder I dotted by thatched villages of the t (Turn to Pago 2, Cot 1) and have reached Bataisk, 15 attempt to cut the Stalin the Soviets announced offi ; r-.-:v;.- Rommel Holds To Defenses " ' 1 r Allies Hold Aerial; Superiority to Stall Axis 'CAIRO, July.-WhThe axis armies of Marshal Erwin Rom mel, stalled four weeks in the Quattara-Mediterranean 1 corridor west of 1 Alamein, appeared to be digging in for a defense of indefinite duration some 80 miles short of their foremost objective, the British naval base of Alex andria. ( -. ; . There was evidence Rommel had. abandoned hopes ol an im mediate revitalized drive on the Nile delta and would be' satisfied for the present to hold what he has : gained : in;S the : long march across Libya ,Jnto Egypt," i , . " In the last .four weeks of . foach-and-ce flghtinr, of at tack a and counter-attacks, neither side has advanced ap preciably . and most of the stratery has been aimed at ham mering enemy supply lines from the air and, from the British (Turn to Page 1, Col. 3) " Court to Hear Saboteur Plea Decision to Clarify War Authority of Chief Executive WASHINGTON, July 28-4P) The supreme court meets Wednes day . noon in an unusual special session to hear the pleas of seven alleged nazi . saboteurs for writs of habeas corpus proceedings that may test President Roose velt's war-time powers to have the accused men tried before a special military commission. The court would make history by clarifying the president's war authority. ' Chief Justice Stone may dis qualify himself from the case be cause his son, Maj. Lauson H. Stone, is a member of the defense counsel. ' There was also -a question whether; Justice Murphy might not disqualify ; himself on ' the ground of his present connection with the army, to whose custody and prosecution, President Roose velt has . consigned the prisoners. j. The defense argument is ex pected to be presented by Cola, Cassius ML Dowell and Kenneth , Royalt Presenting the ' proecu (Tum to-Page 2, Col. 8) Washington Area Has 'Chute Hunt BALTIMORE, July 22- State and federal military and police agencies Tuesday night combed sections of Maryland and West J Virgmia : after . reports vt '. "parachutists or other objects , . dropped from unidentified planes the second such search in Mary land, within the week. ; ; v ; J - The third service command said a search by state, police, the state guard, 'the federal bureau of in vestigation ' and by military intcl libence -agents - was - in - progress within, an ? approximated '50-mile 1 radius of Wasnington, DC r 7 Zealan tiers Missing - WELLINGTON, NZ, July 28 MaJ.-Gen. O H. Mead of the New Zealand military forces, another army officer and four members of the, Royal Zealand air force were reported missing Tuesday cn a flight over a sea route, r