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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1942)
Going Away? . Going away, on a vaca tion or to ft war Job? Dave The Statesman follow ion, to keep jou posted on events at home. Call 9101 for de- tails. Servo fo Win ". " One old aoto battery con : tains the lead needed in making three three-Inch anti-aircraft runs, three how- Itsers or 29 tank runs. Sam scrap metal for Uncle Sam. POUNDDD tmiETY-SECOND YEAH Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning, August 4, 1942 Prico5c No. 102 o ilea, le mm n mmmm-? iri m Guinea Force Grows Japs Land More; . Sub Activity Is - n Renewed in SW GENE HAL. MacARTHUIVS H E A QUARTERS, Australia, Tuesday, Aug. 4--Japanese forces established in the Gona- Buna area on the northern coast of New Guinea have been rein - forced by s m a 1 1 numbers of ' troops and supplies, it was in dicated .Tuesday in reports that Japanese shipping had gone to that area. Ait rm snokesman disclosed that the original naval force which made the landing there July 22 consisted of two heavy - cruisers, three , destroyers and five transports. Of this invasion force one transport was sunk and (wn rprpivpH direct hits. The size of the original force has been estimated at 1500 to 2500. - - . .'. i Tuesday's daily allied com mand communique said the . ground situation remained un changed at Kokoda, Inland Jun gle town toward which Japa nese patrols marched overland to come In contact with allied .patrols." Allied planes strafed the Japanese positions there Monday, the communique said. The headquarters statement that the situation was unchanged at Kokoda was interpreted to mean that enemy patrols still were' in, the- contact . area where allied forces bad driven back the enemy on the previous day. - The first announced enemy sub , ..; marine activity in this region since mid-June was disclosed by - allied headquarters Tuesday in a bulletin , reporting the escape of small British trawler off the east coast of Australia after be ting shelled by an enemy pig-boat , - A. WV iircia UI Va. MJ Vlw w - killed. - however, and four ' Were wounded.: ; ' ' The allied command's daily communique meanwhile reported 'raids on Salamaua and Lae, New go ship was set afire. - Xv vessel waa Jut jMonoay and waa observed beached and burning by later raiders who strwek at enemy, InstaUstions at " Lae - and Salamaua Monday night, the allied dally commun h lane said. . . Announcement of the new sub marine activity off east Australia was made in a separate head - auarters announcement, rather than in the dally communique, after ' the attacked, trawler had reached port It was the first announced sub marine action since June 15 when the coast defenses at Newcastle, . between Brisbane and Sydney, also cn the east coast, were shell ed by an enemy submarine. New Draftees Will Report Here Today Salem local selective service board Monday announced a new list of draftees being called to re port at 7:15 a. m. today, to be tak en tq the Portland induction sta tion. ' ::V":' The list is as follows: Glen-' Howard Ford, Ralph Charles Prink, Toby Miguel Mar tin, Laurence LeBreton Bakh, Harry Albert Staples, John Shim et Pollock, William Eton Beard, James Monica! Miller, Clarence Nickoli Skaug. Jean Adair Rein- oehL Lloyd George Logan, Herbert Wilson Carter, Knute Herman An derson, Peary Verne Walters, Al vin Arthur Wohlgemuth, Robert Rosevelt Hale, John Geiger, Stan Icy Vernon Osborne, Thomas M. Smith, James Edward McCann, Elmer Kenneth Johnson, Maurice Clyde Holt Lawrence Harold El liott Alvin Charles Potter Frank Ouldin Staples, Julius, Herman Beckman, Richard William Espey, Dale Everett Nelson, Gerald Alex andre Richardson and Claude Cal vin Clement 1 Transfers from other boards Ilovt Hays Varbel, Mellody Thorn as Harmon, Pat Wilalrd Wilkinson, Edward Thomas Freedle, Carl Henry Gross and James Edward Dwyer. Red Journals Give Columns To 2nd Front . MOSCOW, Aug S-(JF) Throughout Moscow, Ivan Iva novkh the Russian counter part of the United States' John Jones read an Increasing dis play of "second, front" news from Britain and America Mon day seemingly with greater In terest than anything else In his Newspapers. - . The communist party newspa per alone carried on Its foreign news page five stories on the possibility of a second European front, and although the foreign news section is the back and not the front page of Moscow's, four pace newspapers, It was to this section, which most readers turned quickly. A favorite Item seemed to be the dispatch of the telegrams reported received by President Roosevelt urging creation of a new western, front Readers pointed this item out as they (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Council Gives 'Yes' Ballots War Insurance, Scrap Drive, Fire Service At Camp Approved War programs inspired the principal actions taken by Salem's city council Monday night, as ques tions of insurance, airport im provement, fire protection , and scrap metal collection were raised In each instance, affirmative action was taken. . The council directed the city, re corder to insure city buildings lor $100,000 and city vehicles Tor $60,. 000 against war damage. A reciprocal agreement - be tween the city and tbe Camp Adair command for fire service was aprpoved, withthe extent to which fire trucks and per sonnel may be exchanged left to the respective fire chiefs. xlo objection was raised to a request for the use of city en gineering department trucks for collection of scrap metals and de livery to salvage committee depots, at times when the equipment is not needed for other work. Rental of a dragline excavator to Hauser-Malcem-Tieslau,- firm engaged m building roads, sew age and drainage facilities at the municipal' airport, now - under lease to the army; was authorized. No word indicating progress of the army's proposal to buy the air port was given the council. Alder man Tom Armstrong, airport com mittee chairman, said an . audit showing the city's investment in the port property was in the hands of army officials. Charles H. Heltzel, named by the council two weeks ago to sue ceed A. O, Davisson, resigned, as fourth ward alderman, was seated and assigned to Davison's com mittee positions. They include chairmanship fo committee on ac counts and current expenses, mem bership on committees on health and sanitation, ways and means, and rules and revision of minutes, and membership on property con trol board. i Other" business was largely of a routine nature, as loiiows: Proposal of Salem Electric Bon neville Distributing agency to furnish part of, downtown street lighting tabled indefinitely; book magazine peddler licensing ordin ance, recently questioned : as to constitutionality, referred to city attorney for revision; application of A. L. McGuiney for beer li cense for Valley cafe, 158 South Commercial street, denied; street committee asked to recommend name for street south of Mission and one block east of 22nd. : US Bombers Smash 'Drome NEW DELHI, India, Aug. Flying through rains so thick pi lots said it - was "like submarine navigation,1 American bombers have smashed Myitkyina airdrome in central Burma to such an ex tent the Japanese are unable to use it as a base for attacks on planes ferrying y war goods f to China, US air force headquarters reported Tuesday. ,J Added to these monsoon down pours of tropical intensity as ob stacles were heavier and heavier ground defenses thrown up by the Japanese in. an effort to protect the" airdrome, which bisects the ferry command transport line be tween India and China. ; Gmans 2 Fronts Nazi Propaganda Builds; Yanks in Iceland Bombed (See story and map on Page Two) By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, Aug. 3-;P)-Neu- tral accounts of painstaking German defense maneuvers along the "invasion coast", of Norway emphasized Monday that Adolf Hitler's generals are taking .more and more seriously the threatened second front While the nazi government in tensified its propaganda to build up public faith in the strength of its western defenses, fire was added to second front talk by the announcement of The Nether- ands' government information bureau that Prince Bernhard, hus band of Crown Princess Juliana, is making preparations "for a re turn to The Netherlands." Prince Bernhard, recently made Dutch major general and rear admiral and given "new duties' suggested a Dutch commando as signment, was said to have dis cussed his new work and his preparations with Queen Wilhel mina while in the United States. His return to England was an nounced Monday. Coincident with dispatches from Stockholm telling of re cent maneuvers by German air, sea and land forces along the Fjord-indented coast , the Unit ed States garrisoned outpost of Reykjavik, only 600 miles dis tant, disclosed a bombing and machlnegunning - of a remote military Installation - In south eastern Iceland by a German Fockewulf plane. There were no casualties and only negligible damage was done in the attack Sunday, the fifth time in two weeks that German planes have appeared in the Ice land area. The Stockholm correspondent of the Swiss newspaper Neue Zur- cher Zeitung said the German' ex ercises in Norway were carried out from Kristiansund on the west coast to Trondheim, in an area where the ill-fated British and French expedition of 1940 went to the relief of the Norwegians. He said the Germans had banned ship traffic . and , fishing .(Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) D Vote rivers ,Wait Greyhound Has Ballot; Salem, Road Busses -Run Again Monday "', SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Z-JP) AFX. union spokesmen represent ing the Pacific Greyhound lines' 1300 bus drivers and station work ers in seven states said Monday night a "suspend work" order had been approved by a 98 per cent union Vote. Further action on the work stop. page order will be withheld, how ever, pending a meeting Thursday between union and company of fi cials and Federal Labor conciliat or Omar Hoskias. i v : A The dispute revolves around un ion demands for amendments to the present working agreement, and arbitration of new wage scales. The company wants to negotiate an entirely new contract rather than arbitrate wage demands un der the present agreement PORTLAND, Aug. S-d-Ore-gosi Motor Stages busses ran ea schedule throughout north west en Oregon Monday after AFL highway drivers, Salesa city drivers and machinists euded a : three-day strike. - . : The employes voted to return to work while a demand for war in creases and payment of highway driven by an hourly instead of a mileage basis is submitted to the war labor board. " r : - :-C:Vi The unauthorized strike disrupt ed transportation of workers to and from war plants several north west Oregon cities " and stopped municipal service in Salem. , Sunday's Wcalher . Sonday'a max. temp. 18, mix. 52. stiver Sunday, -IS ft By army request, weather forecasts art withheld and temperature data delayed. a : ' . arm! Loading S.7 'V :: 2 V u-.r: Turner Flier ..; Is Decorated V f ; Three Oregon Youths Get Medals ; Holcomb Fired Island Airport WASHINGTON, Aug. J-i)-The navy reported Monday that 21 aviators had been decorated for exploits in the January 31 task force raid on the Marshall islands. when enemy shore installations and ships were heavily blasted. - Two men received the dis tinguished flying cross : and' 19 were awarded the newly-author- ized air medal Among the awards: Distinguished flying cross: Lieut James W. McCauley, 29, of Fairbanks, Alaska, for action in which several large seaplanes, a hangar and other buildings were destroyed and a flying field dam aged. Air medal: Ensign Keith H. Holcomb, Z8, Turner, Ore., for attacking an enemy airfield aad starting ' a large fire adjacent to It and for bringing his plane home despite damage to It from machine gun fire. Ensign Reid W. Stone, 24, For rest Hills, Oswego, Ore., for an attack resulting in damage to ene my planes, buildings. Lieut. (JG) John N. West, 28, 121 North 12th street, Corvallis, Ore- for meritorious conduct in action with the enemy in the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire. . Mill Workers Will Return PORTLAND, - Ore- Aug. S-(ff) CIQ employes of the Eastern and Western sawmill prepared Monday night to return to work Tuesday and end an unauthorized strike which started Friday to enforce demands for a five-cent-an-hour wage boost, v W. C Ruegnitz, manager of the Columbia Basin Sawmills associa tion, announced after a conference of management and union repre sentatives that he 400 workers would withhold their' demands temporarily. - Eastern and Western workers, he said, would wait until wage ne gotiations were undertaken by the CIO on an industry-wide basis. Nazis Send 100,000 Wounded Per Month NEW J. YORK, Aug. S-(ff)-rThe British radio , quoted the Neue Tageblatt Monday night as saying "about 100,000 German soldiers are passed each month through the welfare hospitals for the wounded In Vienna." CBS heard the broad cast. 'OS - . 4 - ' v . - c ' v " f "it. ' r r vv f -oy.:vX-: ;:;:;::; v-::-xx- y y , L . rwi m ia v t , . -4 f TTr- ? J . - . - - I - -. - vv -4. " r'-- v ' ? w ' ' - - " , f ,. rnniif')'r - a Troopship of A column of US soldiers and Jeeps approaches a new Curtlsa "Com mando' military transport dur ing tests to determine Its. per formance' in speeding troops and mobile equipment to critical points in widely-scattered battle zones. The. plane has a wing span of 108 feet, weighs 80,000 pounds fully loaded and is powered by two radial engines. (Associated Press Telemat) Four Sinkings Told by Navy ToU Raised to 412 By New Atlantic Torpedoings By Tbe Associated Press The sinkings of four vessels, a British,- a Norwegian and two small United States ships, were tnnounced Monday by the navy, raising the -Associated Press total of announced ship losses in the western Atlantic sine Pearl Har bor to 412. Destruction of two other ves sels also was disclosed but pend ing further clarification they were not included in the total. An Ar gentine freighter told of one loss in a report on the rescue of 47 survivors of an unidentified Brit ish merchant vessel torpedoed in the Atlantic. - ,' The arrival at Nassau, Baha mas, ef 47 other survivors front a torpedoed, unidentified freighter revealed the other sinking. The men botded last Thursday on Aeklins Island In the Bahamas from a lifeboat and raft after being adrift 29 days. Six were lost with the ship, two died at sea and eight of the survivors were hospital ised. - Thirteen of . 24. seamen aboard the small Norwegian merchant man were killed when their ship as torpedoed in the Gulf - of Mexico July 19. Among those lost was the skipper. Five men were killed and sev en others of a crew of 17 were wounded when a submarine shelled an American Diesel fish ing trawler to the bottom of the North Atlantic Survivors of the British ship, torpedoed . and shelled in the South Atlantic May 28, said the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Says, Shots Fired Ere Pearl Harbor WILKES BARRE, Pa Aug. I (-Vessels of the US fleet ex changed shots with Japanese war ships in the Pacific before the at tack on Pearl harbor. Chief Gun ner's Mate Joseph Pwxta related Monday, on a visit home.: Purta, at 35 ' a veteran of; 15 years in the navy, stdd he was serving on a warship when the incidents occurred. He declined details, adding that in several en counters American losses were less than those of the Japanese. the Sky s Air leiense 1st Raid Alarm Since December Prolonged For Full Trial US ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Panama Canal -Zone, Aug. The vital Panama Canal Zone un derwent a one-hour general air raid alarm Monday Afternoon after a friendly plane not immedi ately identified touched off the strategic waterway's elaborate defense system. - The plane was first spotted while : heading toward Panama across the Gulf of Chiriqui at an estimated speed of 250 mph. It was soon identified, but Lieut- Gen. Frank M. Andrews, com mander of the Caribbean defense zone, decided to prolong the alarm for a full test of the canal's de fenses. The alarm waa the first sine shortly after the United States entered the war. Sirens shrilled from one side of the isthmus to the other, and de fense crews quickly manned their posts. The alert had not died away before men on the canal zone de fenses, ranging from giant coast artillery down to individual small arms,' were in firing position or on their way to battle stations. In naval district headquarters whistles shrilled in hallways and (Turn to Pago 2 CoL ) The Unusual Always in Hollywood HOLLYWOOD. Ana. --It was the first time It ever hap pened m the me vie colony. Film Flayers Dame May Whlt ty and Ben Webster celebrated their gelden . wedding anni versary Monday, Actress Greer Garson enter tatned these aad abent lift of their friends at her Bel Ah Veterans of Ct years on stage screen. Miss Whltty and Webster were married fa Lon don, August 1, 1892. Their first movie was ' "Enoch Arden," made In 1914 and starring Ger trude Lawrence. Their most recent deal ap pearance waa with Miss Garson in Mrs. Miniver." "w - Storm Starts Fires PORTLAND, Aug. 3-flJ-Sev- eral small forest fires resulted from lightning Monday morning in the Forest Grove and Oregon City areas, but forest service of ficial said almost all were under control. ----- Caucasian Lines Sway in Nazi Push Toward Kuban Soviets Stand Firm Against Drive Over Don at Tsimlyansk; Planes ' Strafe Troops of Both Armies By HENRY C CASSIDY MOSCOW, Tuesday, Aug. fighting; in the Don river elbow grad and in the Salsk-KnshcheTka area of the western Caucasus were reported officially early Tuesday to have killed mor than 9500 Germans in a successful 24-hour stand. ; In the area of KJetskaya northwest of Stalingrad the midnight communique said, two Russian imits killed more than 1300 Germans, and added that the red peasant army still was dealing "counter blows against enemy tanks and motorized infantry. RAF and Nazis Strafe Towns Daylight Raids Take Toll of Holiday Crowds in Britain LONDON, Aug. 3 -()- Britain and Germany sparred by air Mon day with a series of sharp day light raids. RAF Spitfires attacked freight trains and barges in the German occupied Netherlands, shooting up locomotives of several freight trains and hitting three barges off .the Dutch coast with cannon and machinegun fire. In addition the British fliers peppered coast al gunposts and german army camps. -,-, ,"V . " Nazi airmen ' made . hit-skip raids, bombing, and machine-gun- nine scattered towns : in north eastern England, the midlands and along the southwest coast and causing casualties . among . crowds gathered at resorts for the an nual bank holidays. - At one seaside town in south west England six persons v were killed and .others injured when ten German . Focke-Wulf 190 planes bombed and machine gunned the streets. This latest type German-fighter-bomber only recently has ventured ever England. Dvrinr the first months they (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Trial Verdict Goes to FDR Communique Indicates Conviction of at Least Some Nazis WASHINGTON, Aug. -&) President Roosevelt received from his special military commission Monday a verdict in the case of the eight alleged nazi saboteurs who landed in this country from U-boats. Although the president is not expected to announce the find ings for several days, the word ing of a communique Issued by the commission seemed to indi cate some, if not all, of the men had been convicted. "The commission reconvened at 11:05 a. m.," the communique said. "The commission announced that the findings - and sentence will not be announced by it. The commission adjourned at 11:07 to meet at the call of the president The fact , the word "sentence' was included in the communique indicated convictions. r ? It is President Roosevelt's task to review the finding, and he is expected to go into the case thor oughly before making public his decision. - It was believed possible the sentences, which might be a max imum penalty of death by hang ing or shooting, might be carried out before the verdict is an nounced publicly. During the trial there was un official talk that one of the pris oners, George John Dasch, might receive more lenient treatment than the others in view of reports that he . gave assistance to the government Our Senators LZZl . Defense WAP) Soviet troops 80 miles northwest of Stalin f Southwest f Kletskaya hv the Tsimlyansk area of the curving ) Don, the Russians said the Ger mans still were throwing tanks and men across the river, but the, communique indicated the Soviets still were standing firm. "On one ofthese sectors," the communique said, "the Germans threw into battle several dozen tanks. The Germans lost up to 50 officers and men killed." In the critical SaLsk-Kush-ehevka areas, 75 and 5a miles respectively below the Don, the lines apparently were swaying " hak and forth. Th mmmaml. que said 40t Germans were killed in tbe Salsk region, and ' another Set in the Kushehevka ' sector. ' '-I ' "During the day one big popu lated point changed hands three times," the communique sand of the Kushehevka' fighting. This total of 3150 nazi dead made a total of 9550 announced by; the Russians in"the: last 3, hours. CTn BBCT in broadcasts neard . by CBS said soviet naval guns and planes made a successful attack on a German 'convoy in" the sen of Azov off the western Caucasus, sinking ' one 15,000-ton German transport, and said - most of the Germans trrinff to fnrro th v Tsimlyansk lines "seem to be slip- ' -ping steadily into the waters of the Don.") Russian airmen were credited with destroying or damaging St nasi fad tanks. Set motor ve hicle with tnani m.tA uimiIU. and five fuel trucks Sanday. Bandrees of German Infantry men also were reported killed , la low-level attacks. - The western: Caucasus conflict . was raging some 138 miles above the big Russian oil fields of Mai kop. : J. - The repeated German attempt . to gain secure bridgeheads across the Don in the east at Tsimlyansk apparently was for an encircle- ment effort against Stalingrad on the Volga. The bulk of German men, tanks and screaming dive bombers, how ever, were hurled at the swaying . red lines in the Kushehevka area, -50 miles south of Rostov, and at Salsk, 100 miles to the southeast In those critical areas the Don and Kuban Cossacks fought with such furious vigor for their homelands that overnight they 7 killed 1500 Germans alone. . ' , ' 7 The Germans were throwing hordes of fresh reserves of t ma- durn to Page X, CoL 1) Negro Group LITTLE, ROCK, . Ark., Aug. S (-The Arkansas democratic party waa given. ..until Friday, ' August 7, to grant negroes the privileges of voting in primaries or 1 face a test in federal court In a , letter sent Democratie State CommittSjs Secretary Harvey Combs Monday,Dr. J. M. Robin son, president of the Arkansas Negro Democratic association, said that if a favorable reply is not re ceived by 'then "we have no al ternative In the protection of our veracity to 13,000,000 people but . to appeal to the federal courts for relief. - - ; Incendiary Bombs Dropped on Crops LONDON, Tuesday, Aug.' 4-(ff) The Daily Express air correspond ent reported Tuesday the : Ger mans have attempted to burn Britain's record harvest by show ering incendiaries on ripening corn during raids In the last few weeks. . 1T s.!';';Vv ' He added farmers were banding together to combat fireg in field Whrning