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Going Away? Going away, on a vacs tion or to a war Job? Have The Statesman follow you, to keep you posted on events at home. Can 9101 for de tails. Savo to Vin Seventeen JO calibro rt - flea can be made from one Id steam radiator, one 75-' ran. tank gun front 17 ra diators. Soto scrap metal for Uncle Sam, KCIETY-SECOKD YEAR Salem, Orecjon, Friday Morning, July 31. 1942 Price 5c. No. S3 Darwin Attack Broken 27 Bombers Leave Nine - T TTa ' GENERAL M a c A R - ;thuits headquarters, r Australia, Friday, J u 1 y , 31 i (AP) A powerful attack on ' Port Darwin by 27 heavy - w i. l i 1 TL JOlNlllCO VV1U WJL O pvva 22 Zero fighters wag broken up Thursday by the bril . liant interception" of allied fighters and the attackers IsMrt nine ntinH Omrn MacAr- ; thur. reported early Friday. . The defending planes account ed for seven bombers and two fighters and lost only one, the communique announceu. The heavy attack was made in i the afternoon after a light aerial r thrust which resulted in no dam age or casualties. - The Japanese sent nine heavy : bombers against Port Hedland, ' Australia Thursday and caused light damage and one casualty by bombing from a great height, ; the headquarters announced. ' It was the first raid of the war gn Port Hedland, about 1000 miles - juthwest of Darwin. The communique also said that allied bombers set fire to a medi- tun Japanese transport off Gona, : en the Papuan peninsula. - Britain Hints About Front v ? Intentions Declared : By Crippg; Great Convoy Arrives LONDON, July 30.-tfP)-The government gave out a new hint Thursday that a continental in vasion is in the effing, boosting - allied hopes of establishing a sec ond front, but steadfastly declined to disclose any details of what is planned, beyond stating that it has - certain military "intentions." For the second time in a week. Sir ' Stafford Cripps, the govern ment spokesman in the house of commons, parried pointed ques- tions from members of parliament with the . suggestion that action would be forthcoming. He gave no intimation as to when it might be expected. - 'Whatever the military inten tions of the government may be,1 be said, "we weald be un able to state them in secret, ses sion, bat I can tell you now we have intentions.' He affirmed that Prime. Minis' ter Winston Churchill would make no further war statement before the house recesses and said that commons will have no secret ses- The -v- arrival of four United States generals to reinforce the command of American army air -forces in the projected air ozfen ive acainst Germany, and the ar rival of a large Canadian troop convoy at a British port mean while were announced. Brig. Gen. Frank Hunter came to take? command of American rirht9 "Tinita Mai. Gen. W. H. Fran J-commander of the air serv ice command, Brig. Gen. Robert C. Candee, commander of general mound air auDDort. and Brig. Gen As N- Duncon, air force chief of staff, Joined the ctaff of Ma. Gen. Carl Spaatr, chief of US army air - forces in the European tneatre. Tank crews " predominated . among th Canadian arrival. Tber were nsajr airasem aad . otter flrhtlBS mem aaaeaer thousands who scattered to baseo from Scotland to south ' arm Kmaiand however. - Amid talk of the necessity for (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) SorvicocMon SCIO Sclo Ugh school class f 1949 follows closely the rec ord set by the class of the fol lowing year In number of men wearing the country's uniform In wartime.; - ' , Five of the seven male mem bers of the class of '40 are In the armed forces. Three of the four male members of the 1941 class are In the navy ' For additional news about men from Salem and vicinity ' la the armed forces, turn to page s tiree of today's Statesman. Example r Dreamed up by C. W. Paulas, Marion county salvage chairman, and Knapp, secretary of Salem Rotary club, the 31 -foot scraplron was the surprise, and the hit, of the city and county salvage committee's klckoff program at Sa lea's victory center on the oourthouse grounds Thursday noon. Full Defense Practice Set Grading Set Tonight For Civilians of Various Corps While the USO entertains at a dance part of the army stationed in this area, civilian' defenders of Salem are scheduled , o ' rtin off their first "inek'eM-prfffflct" to night, with fiexmferr f? the state ciyilian dWeiseftiftice grad ing their efforts. . . : - - Number of persons on the alert tonight within; the capital city's imits should run into the thou sands, according to L. F. LeGarie, retiring city defense chairman who continues his activities while his successor, Paul Hendricks, at tends defense school in Seattle this week. Actual workouts ' are to be limited to a smaller number, who through the control center are to be notified to answer calls to various parts of the city where "an enemy bomb has dropped." Firemen, auxiliary police, decontamination and de molition squads, panel delivery trucks hastily outfitted as am bulances, first aid squads, cas ualty centers all are to be given their tests. In each inci dent, the practice call Is to come from air raid wardens.1 Tests for each group have been prepared, and grades are to be based, it is understood on skill, speed, and judgment in routing assistance. ' Some groups involved have sent their workers to scenes of hypo thetical incidents during previous practices, but never have all por tions of 4he civilian defense or ganization within the city had the strenuous exercise promised for tonight it was said Thursday at county civilian defense head quarters.' ' No sirens are to be sounded; (Turn to Page 2t-CoL.8) 1 Gen. DeWitt Accused "for Lack of Plan SAN FRANCISCO, July SO.-P) Ueut. Gen. J. 1 DeWitt and the war department were accused Thursday by Judge William Den man of the ninth US circuit court of appeals of failing to develop an adequate plan for. evacuating San Francisco In the event Jap anese bombs set the city afire. The jurist made public his cor respendeneo with John J. McCloy, assistant secretary- of war, under the caption, . "General DeWitt's ghastly seven months plan, or lack of planning, to prevent the burn ing of the city's women and chu dren, sick and aged." . General DeWitt is commanding general of the fourth army and the western defense command. Judge Denman said Japanese in' cendiary bombs, combined with the-City's wooden structure, and prevailing wind could readily re peat the San Francisco fire of 1908 but on a vaster scale. , George Levison, deputy director of the regional office of civilian defense, said "there is a plan al ready. It has been carefully drawn with the aid of General DeWitt and his staff, local and civilian de fense chiefs and civic officials.' stay r fa'afap Collectors .-- rVv --'tv;-.:M , , ; , 4. ..m 41 R ustr Sc ran Comes To In Life as Victory Statuary From Junkyard Surprise Of Salvage Drive Kickoff Here; McKay ;Urges Scrap s Necessity, . Scrappo, a 30-foot junkyard Frankenstein, came to1 life on the Marion county courthouse grounds Thursday noon, to rattle his chains, blink hi red electric eyes and emit guttural lectures on the value of collecting scrap metals, waste rubber and fats for the war program. The giant with the waggling tin chin was the surprise Female Navy Unit Planned 11,000 Members Slated In Counterpart of Army's WAAC WASHINGTON, July 3(M) The navy laid plans to enlist sal lorettes Thursday night after President Roosevelt signed into! law a measure creating a fem inine naval auxiliary ; of about 11,000 members. ; - J ' Formation of the corps a coun terpart of the women's army aux iliary corps already in training- is designed . ultimately to release for sea duty thousands of officers and enlisted men now holding desk jobs. ' The navy said tbo corps would be' made up of 11000 commis sioned officers and about 10,009 enlisted women. Congress stip ulated in the legislation that the sallorettes could not serve out side the continental United States. They also may not serve aboard vessels or cosabat air craft. ' Duties of the sallorettes will range from decoding secret mes sages to serving as secretaries for high ranking officers. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the house naval committee said .some may , get culinary: assignments, which prompted Rep, Vincent (D-Ky) to remark "there'll be a devil of a row if the navy puts them in the kitchen." The feminine officer candidates first in the navy's history will receive indoctrinal and technical instruction before winning com missions. Officer candidates may apply at naval procurement of fices in Boston, New York, Phila delphia, - Washington, Richmond, Charleston, SC, Miami, New Or leans, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Seattle. Adair Soldier Dies From Fall CORVALLIS, Ore., July 30.-(ff) Lieut John F. Rettiger of Galves ton, Tex., died Wednesday night in a hospital of injuries suffered in a fall from a fourth-story m dow of a Hotel here, : the army announced Thursday. Rettiger was stationed at Camp Adair, army cantonment near here.' ' . . . mum given guttural voice by Gardner "mechanical man" pictured above Scrappo Program - promised by the city and county salvage committees as the main attraction for their kickoff pro gram for ferreting out the com munity's unable waste materials. His feet burned in a pile of rusty metals and old tire rubber, the robot was built of structural iron, tractor wheels, pipe and a huge furnace flue, and an enormous iron kettle-for fata and greases slung from one hand while the other pointed to the salvage com mittee's billboard telling the lo cation of the Salem' salvage de pots. . - Scrappo took over as master of ceremonies aftery G. A. Vanden eynde, city salvage chairman, had started the program. The scrap drive Is an impor tant part to the -nation's answer to. Its most pressing problems, the supply . of raw materials. Sen. Douglas McKay, principal speaker, told the - noon - hour crowd of spectators from the Victory center platform. ."We must get much more scrap material ; than -. ever -before," Mc Kay declared. , If s the most im portant thing we can do at home to help win the war." f Present aim of the scrap metals drive1 is to build up a stockpile of 6,000,000 ' tons ' nationally to ' tide open hearth mills over the win ter, Claude L Sersanous, state salvage chairman, told the audi ence. ,; .- , "Let's kfll three birds with one stone, Tojo, Mussolini and Hit ler," urged Jess J. Gard, In an nouncing that proceeds of the Sa lem scrap metal drive . would go to the city's United War Chest Civilian defense . personnel are ready to help nut fas the salvage effort, Jerrold Owen, state, coor dinator, said. i - . . An estimated ton of rubber was turned It by aero than 1001 children as admission tea "scrap : matinee" that followed at the ElsJnorc theatre. Mouon pictures of the scrap committee's iron man and of the theatre crowds were taken by a news reel cameraman, P. EL Em ery, Portland, who said his film would reach New" York City. to day' and probably be given na tionwide distribution. Scrappo, 4 who will remain a fixture on the courthouse lawn for an indefinite time, - weighs ap proximately ten tons, his build ers, Lee U. Eyerly, Alfred C Ger linger and A. C Haag, - estima ted. A tractor that went Into his makeup; was donated by Supt Paul T. Jackson of Chcmawa In dian school. -. ' v - . - , ...... .: Raiders Give lLoiiSdn Two But No Boiribs Fall German Planes Strike Again Over West Midlands, Reported CXver Western, Southern England ? By E. bJ SULLIVAN LONDON,-Friday, July 3 l-5V3ennan -raiders gave Lon doners two quick' alarms Friday a.t i f ai i i of the week in the British capital; and struck at the west midlands, their favorite target of the week, and western, and southern England. - . ' . ' . . " ' . No bombs fell here but the capital's secret, new anti-aircraft Fighters Hit Wrench Coast Seven JFocke-Wulfs Shot Down in Heavy Offense By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, July 30-(P)-British fighter offensives, timed to keep up an almost continual racket of bomb blasts and gunfire, swept the French coast from near the Belgian border on the east to near the tip of Brittany on the west early Thursday night following another RAF heavy bomber blow, this time against Saarbruecken in the Reich. Thirteen British planes were lost in the series of dusk offen sives In which Spitfires scored direct hits on hangars and dis persal huts on' an airdrome in the; St Omer area, set fire to "a tanker off the coast and dam- ' aged a motor vesset ,. v r Seven of ; Germany's' speedy, high climbing new Focke-Wulf 190 fighter planes were shot down. A waning "bombers' moon" lighted the way to strong bomb er forces which -swept over the thickly built coal and steel cen ter of Saarbruecken Wednesday night when great fires and blasts visible 75 miles away were set off. This continued hammering by strong forces of bombers against the centers of German industry of which the attack against Saar bruecken was the seventh in ten nights, - it was disclosed mean while by informed air sources, is only " one of the ways in which the air war is being carried to Germany. Sweeps 1y British four and two-motored bombers into the Bay of Biscay where they look for nasi U-boat packs travel ing to their north Atlantic bunt ins;, grounds have become so strong, these sources said, that the Germans, have been com pelled to convey their subma rines with Condor flying boats. LONDON, Friday, July 21-UP) Flight Lieut John Joseph Mooney, of East Hempstead, NY, and Pi lot Officer Leroyl Skinner, of Webb City, Mo., members of the Secoml Eagle squadron, were re ported Friday as missing after fighter sweeps over German-occupied territory. . " Both the young Americans with the RAF were veterans of aerial dogfighting. Bean Festival Features Bond STAYTON, July .Si-War bonds will bo sold at the opening of the Santiam Bean festival Friday night and bonds will be given as prizes, in the log, bucking 'contest Saturday afternoon. .The program will be held at the-victory center in downtown StayUm and will in clude dedication c a bulletin board. with the names of all men in the armed forces from this area. Speakers at the program will include. Cot Elmer V, Wooton, state director of selective service. and Rev. W Irvin Williams of Salem., Honor pins will be ' pre sented; to the mothers of men in the military service by Colonel Wooton. - -i Oii Senators Lc:i 3-G. morning, the -fifth and -sixth a : i T x iv . . if - ' guns were in action against the fliers." " Seven of the nasi raiders were reported shot down over Britain and another was destroyed over its base in Holland by an RAF plane. There were some casualties in one west midlands town. The raids, however, were on a lighter scale than any this week. The first London alarm of the morning was without Incident but gunfire was heard during the second. Even after the second all- clear was sounded intermittent bursts of the new anti-aircraft guns were heard in some areas. One or two high-flying planes were heard over London. Ap parently they were headed " for targets farther west Incendiaries started two small fires in a town In the south and a west midlands town reported both high explosive and incendi ary bombs. German planes were reported over western England.. - : . A terrific anti-aircraft barrage greeted the raiders in the west midlands. , ... ii- The new British guns drove off raiders, appearing singly - over London last Wednesday and Mon day nights. A few, bombs were dropped in the greater London area Wednesday night. Senate Passes Huge Secret Weapon Funds Included; Shore Facility Planned WASHINGTON, July 30-)-A bill authorizing $974,634,000 worth of naval shore construction to keep pace with the great fleet! expansion and providing for a new, secret weapon was passed! by the senate and sent to the White House Thursday. Hidden somewhere in the pro gram, probably in a $60,000,008 appropriation for "fleet facili ties," Is the plan to use $30, 000,000 for the development of the mysterious weapon and the training of men in Its use. . So closely guarded Is the navy's secret that only the naval af fairs committees of the house and senate have heard about it The bill authorizes "such .tem porary or permanent public, works as the secretary of the navy may consider necessary" for the de velopment of naval shore activi ties. . - i : Among other things, it provides for: - . ' ' Aviation facilities $399,394,000; storage $24,000,000; liquid fuel storage $20,000,000; marine corps training : $1 1,0 0 0,0 0 0; ordnance storage $5 2,0 0 0,0 0 0; personnel training and housing $26,140,000; hospital and dispensary $25,000,- 000; shore radio $15,000,000; naval research laboratory $2,000,000; passive defense $23,000,000; mis cellaneous structures and advance bases $315,000,000; r For the novo! air force, existing operatina station aw , b ei panded and. new- stations built, two fas tbo northwosV one on the gulf coast, oivein the central east ern states, one in the southwest two in th Caribbean, one in the southern i Pacific coastal area. others in Alaska and Hawaii, and one in, the middle eastern states; The exact locations were not dis closed. .:.C--f Two new primary training bases for naval aviators are to be es tablished in the midwest a new glider' base at a site yetTto be selected and the existing bases ex panded.-: . , -jk .. . AU lighter-than-air stations - - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Wednesday's Weather Wednesday's Max. temp. 7S, mm. 58. River Wednesday rJ - ft By army request weather Y forecasts are withheld and tem perature', data - delayed, Navy Bill 6 Sunk VesseVs Captain Made .i War Prisoner AN EAST C O A S T PORT, July' 30.-MP)-A e t e r a n sea captain, 60-year-old Henry Ste phenson of Larchmont NY, hag been made a prisoner of war. aboard a German submarine that sank his medium-sized US merchant vessel Jiriy 9 far out in the Atlantic. Shipmates who survived the sinking and were unmolested by the nazis told on their arrival here how the German com mander imprisoned their cap tain and turned . daf . ear to, pleas that he be - permitted to' accompany them home. "Well treat? him well," said the English-speaking submarine commander. "Hell be aboard only about 11 days." - It was the first report made public here that -any seaman from a torpedoed ship had been made a prisoner 'of war. Ernest MacClellah, 31, of Hanson, Mass the chief mate, said - the submarine that cap tured Captain Stephenson ap parently was homeward bound to Germany or other axis ter ritory from a raiding expedi tion against merchant shipping closer to the western Atlantic coast . Cairo Bombed But Lightly Axis Raiders Defy Churchill Promise Of Attack on Rome CAIRO. JuIt 30.-PV-Axia air raiders dropped bombs on Cairo.! imnf In 4 Via nronum vnwwl l cfVlt i Thursday In defiance of' a long standing threat by Prime Minister ChurchiU . that the RAF "would reply to any such attack with raids on Rome. . - . Churchill made his threat to re taliate with bombs on the Italian capital in 1941, before the fall of Greece, declaring Rome would be prime target if either Athens or Cairo was bombed. Although Athens could have been attacked easily from the air before the German ground troops reached there, the ancient Greek capital never felt ' the thud of a bomb. The Germans bombed right up to the edge of Athens," however, attacking the adjacent port of Piraeus and destroying dock in stallations and much shipping in the harbor. . - The moonlit attacks 09 Cairo and widespread allied airdromes In the Nile delta area were i made by small flights of: axis bombers apparently seeking to cripple the sources of - allied bombings en r Marshal Erwln Rommel's sea and land com munications. Sirens screamed the alarm in Cairo, the Suez canal zone and in other scattered areas far behind the stalemated-desert front, west of El Alamein, and Cairo's de fenses threw up the greatest anti aircraft barrage "ever seen in this aresw ; . - ; . Some hardy observers went up on. the rooftops and to balconies to watch the lazily climbing tracers in the hot moonlit sky. Finally bombs feU in Cairo but giving evidence of the. light na ture of the raid, many arguments developed Thursday, as to just where they did fait . Invariably people in one suburb saw bombs explode in another suburb and people In the other place saw them explode ' some where else.' ; ' ' : A few were found who could testify that bombs did fall close to them. . . -"V: yv i,: The lull in the desert was brok en only by the imi osant artillery duels and patrol actions, the- latter of which turned upjhe fact that the northern sector no-man's-land was- littered with heaps of un buried enemy dead. Flood Waters Hit Waterloo, Iowa WATERLOO, la, July 30.-(ff) -Flood waters six Inches deep covered the main lobby fthe Russell -Lamson hotel, in the heart of the business district Thursday. Operators of e s t a b 1 ishments damaged by the flood waters, and an accompanying electrical storm. estimated their loss totaled $90, 000, mostly the result of flooded basements and fires. ; The ; associated manufacturers, working on war contracts, was forced to close when .three feet of water flooded the main factory buildings. , grad. Struggle ainst Odds '' ' r i Germans Yield ; :Voronezh Holds, Gain at Bataisk; By EDDY GILMORE : MOSCOW Friday, July 31 (APnspired by thVtali of . Joseph Stalin to obey the ex amples of some of the great heroes of the most desperate hours of Russia's history, the red army hurled the Germans back in their thrust at Stalin grad Thursday and waged . a battle to annihilate those of the enemy who crossed the Don south of Tsimlyansk, the Rus" sians announced Friday. . X 1- 11.. - north Don flank, the Germans gave up new positions in the course of bitter fighting, but south of Rostov it was admitted that the weight of German arms again had been too much and that a further retirement had been forced to southeast of Bataisk. ' Bataisk, 15 miles below Rostov, . had been given, as the scene of -previous fighting in that sector. To the northeast in the Tsim lyansk area, where the Ger mans made their first spring across the Don," however, the Russians said they were coun terattacking and bad driven a wedge of tanks and Infantry Into a large mass of. Germans and Inflicted ' huge losses, - In- -eluding , the slaughter of 1500 men, and destruction of 11 tanks and II BBt,.;. ': Many German tanks and infan- . try regiments, : driving with all their power across the barren steppes of the Don bend in an effort to reach the river and drive upon the Volga river city of Sta lingrad, were beaten back near Kletskaya, 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad, it was said. " Southwest of. Kletskaya our troops repelled enemy attacks and n some sectors pressed the enemy back," the communique declared. Several hundred Germans were annihilated, nine tanks destroyed and 14 planes shot down, it added. Front line dispatches broadcast on the Moscow radio gave a mora graphic description of a seeth ing . two-day battle. Day and night the shelling never dies down," it said. In the past two days the fighting has been heaviest where the Don makes its great bend. In this sector the enemy is going all. out to smash through to the river. the enemy is mak ing a furious drive for full mas tery of tn right bank of the Don at any cost "The battle is raging over an area extending several aozen miles along the front and in depth (Turn to Page 2, CoL X) - Inductee Fete GrouD Formed Palmateer Elected by Representatives of 15 Organizations - Permanent organization to give Salem -army inoucioea lareweii parties and, - after the war, to welcome them back and help them find jobs, wo- effected at the chamber of commerce. Thurs day night by American Legion members who started the move ment od 19-other organizations which joined them. , ... : -: r O.iH "Mose" Palmateer of the American Le gion was elected president of the selectee depar ture committee, . as tha group named itself.. Other officers chos en ' were Mrs. Opal ; Gardner, Eagles lodge, vice-president; Mrs. Both Mehlhoff, Disabled Ameri can Veterans of the. World War auxiliary, secretary; Earl' Wiper, Pacific Masonic lodge No. 50, treasurer; executive committee men R. R. Boardman, USO; Mrs. Hazel Marshall, Legion auxiliary, and Fred Gahlsdorg, Legion. . Additional members designated as' directors included d w a r d Grady, J. " A. Bycrs, Dave Holtz man, 3. Hornsburger, Mrs. "E. E. Bergman Don Madison and Lu ther Cook. ' . , j k The : committee -.' instructed Its secretary to send invitations to 200 other organizations that may be interested in participating in its program. - 4:g Big
