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fS)I(MIiO Ds Odd " ; Mm I Light Rules ; The western defense com mand's new regulations gov -ernlng outdoor lighting, an nounced In today's States mas. are available at the Statesman office for study. POUNDDC lCi NINETY-SECOND YEAR Salem. Oregon, Wednesday Morning. August 5, 1942 Pricsj 5c. No. 1C3 (mtm ifiiE(tt' fafr mi mi Germans Move 50 Miles Somtfa, Claim Red City Encirclement Threatened To Soviets in Caucasus, Nazis Gain in Don Elbow By EDDY GILMORE ' MOSCOW, Wednesday,' Aug. 5. (AP) German troops have made another 50-mile advance in the Caucasus to threaten Tikhoretsk, an important junction on the soviet railway system, and also have gained in the Don river elbow northwest of Stalingrad, the Russians announced early Wednesday. ' Driving southwest of Salsk along the severed Stalingrad Krasnodar railway, the nazis have reached Belaya Glina, and their apparent goal is Tikhoretsk, another 50 miles away. Seizure of Tikhoretsk would outflank the Russian army Japs Retain Kokoda Hold Allied Planes Destroy Village; Chinese Storm Gties SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Aug. 4-P)-Shadowy jungle fight ing continued at Kokoda, 60 miles east of Port Moresby, Tuesday and front dispatches indicated cooper ating allied planes had demolished .the litUe - grass-thatched settle ment. Japanese patrols which pushed into Kokoda from the Gona beach ing wpre still in possession of Kokoda's airfield, however, which j is the settlement's main value. Australian patrols were said to have routed the Japanese in every clash In the area, but the ' Japanese displayed the same cunning which served them so well in the conquests of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. Kokoda is a few miles from "The Gap," a 6000-foot pass in the towering Owen Stanley mountain range separating it from Port Moresby. This back door menace to Port Moresby was tempered by knowl edge of the formidable mountain barrier, but it was obvious the Australians would be much hap pier if they, instead of the Japa nese, held Kokoda. The Japanese were reported to have shelled and machine-gunned Gona and Buna before landing. A few white officers and native troops in the district withdrew to ward Kokoda, but the Japanese we right on their heels. In one lace the Japanese even caught up with the retreating allied troops Yrr swimming a mountain stream whose bride had been destroyed. Each time the Australian patrols made a stand the Japanese fanned out into the jungle, cutting paths with . axes and bush knives, to encircle the Australian positions The Japanese jungle" fighters were described as wearing green uniforms to blend with the forest. and green mosquito veils over their head and shoulders. CHUNGKING, Aug. 4-(-Chi-nese assault troops surrounded the Japanese-held stronghold of Lin chwan (Fuchow) and stormed to - its very walls Tuesday after the invaders defenses were pounded hard by US bombers in China. A Chinese spokesman said the American raid Monday had been of invaluable aid to the attack since the Chinese forces lacked the heavy equipment to batter down the defenses of the city in central Kiangsi province. ; Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters announced quarter ton explosives smashed Japanese barracks and blasted to bits docks nd waterfront installations along the Fu river through the city. : One 550-pound bomb was said (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Service Men PORTLAND. A Sf. N a t y enlistments announced Tuesday included Thomas I Claim, Amity; Charles M. Ilig ginbetham, Canby; CarlJC Wi thers, West Salem. For additional sews about tnea from Salem . and vicinity In the armed forces, turn U page nine of today's Statesman. I still fighting the nazis at Kush chevka, SO miles to the north, and eftable the Germans to control large segments of Russian rail ways in the western Caucasus. German reserves succeeded in punching a hole in soviet posi tions in the Don river elbow some 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad "In the Kletskaya area and oath of it," the midnight com munique said, "our troops re pulsed many enemy attacks and Inflicted many blows on the enemy. "Fighting in a large populated place has been in progress for several days. In one sector the tankists of our unit attacking enemy infantry crushed with their caterpillars 270 German officers and men. , ' V J - "The Germans threw in many reserves and only at the cost of heavy losses pressed back some what our troops." The push to Belaya Glina rep resents a 125-mile thrust into the Caucasus by the nazi salient which crossed the Don near Niko- laevsk, bridged the Manych river to reach Salsk, then turned south westward toward Tikhoretsk. "In the area of Belaya Glina,1 the communique related, "our troops fought heavy defensive en gagements against superior num bers of enemy tanks and motor ized infantry. The Germans are sustaining' heavy losses." Already threatened with en circlement, the Russians in the Kushchevka area were falling back slightly under a German drive southward along the Rostov- Tikhoretsk-Baku railway. "In the Kushchevka area," the bulletin said, "the. German fascist troops continuously at tack our defense, lines. Most of the attacks are repulsed. In one sector only the enemy succeeded in pushing forward. Fierce fighting with varying success (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Gandhi Galled Appeaser to Jap Enemy NEW DELHI, Aug. 4-jP)-The British government charged Tues day the greater majority of the all-India congress working com mittee are appeasers of Japan and that the nationalist leader Mohan das K. Gandhi favors prompt ne gotiations with Japan for the in dependent India he seeks to es tablish. . The government cited docu men ts seized in a raid on the all- India congress party's headquar ten at Allahabad, in particular the original draft of a resolution put forward by Gandhi advocating Indiana wage a campaign of civil disobedience to win immediate freedom from British rule. Gandhi admitted the substance of the charges, but said he had taken his position for bargaining purposes.. H'-fe- Gandhi's proposed resolution stated in part: Japan's quarrel is not with In dia. She is warring against the British empire. India's participa tion in the war has not been with the consent of representatives of the Indian people. It was a purely British act. . . vw";- "11 India were freed, her " first step would probably be to ne gotiate with Japan i . . "This committee desires to as sure the Japanese government and people that India bears no enmity either towards Japan or towards any other nation. India- only de sires freedom from all alient domi nation.'' Roose ipfs Nam ff'iven To y valtv I Ow, Aug. 4-Ktf)-Presi- de. jsevelt gave his first name nd his sponsorship as godfather Tuesday to the young est of the British royal princes at a christening ceremony on the 42nd birthday of the Infant's aunt, Quene Elizabeth. The prince, born July 4 to the: Duke and Duchess of Kent, was named Michael George Chares Franklin, and wUl be known as Prince George of Kent, as was his father. Labor Merger V Parley Slated Green, Murray Name Groups to Study CIO, AFL Move CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-P)-The American Federation of Labor and the congress of industrial or ganizations agreed Tuesday to consider merging their forces in one huge unit at a historic peace parley. A conference to study steps to close the seven-year gap between them and to bring approximately 11,000,000 workers under a single standard became assured when AFL President William Green re ported the federation's standing committee was ready to meet a similar group appointed by CIO President Philip Murray. The AFL chief reported the date and site of the meeting would be fixed by members of the committees, expressed the hope the negotiations would be finished this fall and stated be was confident "the conferees win be able ttf wach a settle ment fair to all concerned.' Murray, in a letter to1 Green ast Sunday, advised he had named a committee to discuss "possible establishment of organ ic unity between our organiza tions." Green regarded the note as the CIO's "official acceptance of the AFL's suggestion last May (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Girl Escapee Dies in Leap Tries to Elude Captor; Five Others Still Away From School Rachel Ball, 18, Klamath In dian, who escaped from Hillcrest, the state industrial school for girls, here Monday night along with six other inmates, was killed Tuesday when she jumped from an automobile driven by Martin Berg, engineer at the institution Berg had captured the girl and was returning her to the school Officials said Berg found the girl and Dorothy Mostert, 18 Portland, near the feeble-minded home and ordered both of them into his automobile. They had proceeded only a short distance when the Ball girl jumped out of the car. Coroner L. E. Barrick said her head- struck the pavement and she died a few minutes later in the feeble minded home infirm ary. The seven girls made their es cape at 8:30 p. m. Monday after being ordered to their rooms on the second floor of the school They were reported to have come down another stairway and walked out of the front door. Police and school officials were conducting a search for the other five girls. They are Josephine Volkman, 17, Grants Pass; Doris Wagner, 15, Lebanon; Martha Carroll, 16, Oakland, Calif.; Ra- chal Crain, 16, Indian, Chiloquin, and Elizabeth Johnson, 20. - In dian, Klamath county, - President Plans Veto on Rubber ' " 1 v . ... - "' - WASHINGTON Aug. A-iJP President Roosevelt disclosed Tuesday he hoped to send con gress a message by Thursday ve toing . a measure to establish a separate government agency to make rubber from grain. While it is generally expected he will ' take occasion to deal at some length with problems aris ing from the rubber shortage; Mr, Roosevelt remarked he did not think any human being in ? the country could make an exposition of the rubber situation. There are many more experts on rubber than there are varie ties of pickles, be asserted. Jap Sub Strafes US Crew Merchant Vessel Sunk Off West Coast Recently WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (AP) The navy department announced Tuesday night a small US merchant ship was shelled and sunk by an enemy submarine in the North Pa cific several hundred miles off the west coast more than two weeks ago and that sur vivors have been landed at a west coast port. SEATTLE, Aug. 4-P)-How a Japanese submarine crew ma-chine-gunned survivors of an American freighter, which was sinking' in flames after severe shelling in the North Pacific, was told here Tuesday by members of the crew .evacuated recently from a hospital in Alaska. They were interviewed with approval of the 13th naval district staff headquarters. They said eight members of the crew died in the attack the night of July 14 two of gunfire and six succumbing to exposure on ife rafts that two others were wounded by shell fragments, and that all 24 survivors were suf fering from exposure when picked up after drifting four to eight days in a lifeboat and two rafts. The dead and available home addresses: Anthony Amundsen, chief en gineer; Bernard Rodman, .seaman, San DiegvCalif.; Rudolph Petter son, seaman; Emil Nilsson, sea man, Seattle;' Lloyd Carlson, sea man, Seattle; Martin Knudsen, seaman, San Francisco; Thomas F. Ware, seaman; Alexander Heit ner, seaman, (missing). The wounded: John Walter Gae- kel, seaman, Boise. Idaho, shrap nel in legs; Donald Erickson, sea man, Seattle, shrapnel in legs. Survivors said that Seaman Rodman was struck in the Jaw by shrapnel during one period of shelling, and later was shot in the back when the Nipponese machine-gunned the survivors attempting to leave the flaming vessel. They said that one man threw himself on the deck when the shelling started and was killed by a shell fragment All the other fatalities were caused by exposure. The vessel was described as a medium-sized cargo vessel owned by a Pacific Coast company and commanded by Capt Christian Evensen, San Francisco. By The Associated Press The navy reported Tuesday the (Turn to Page 2 CoL 6) Five Oregon Men Missing Navy Lists Oceanlake, McMinnville Men As Casualties WASHINGTON. Aug. i-W) One naval officer and four en listed men from Oregon were re ported missing in the navy de partment's casualty list No. 9, re leased Tuesday, covering the period from July 11 to July Z5, inclusive. They included: Vernon Elwood Alcorn, signal man third class: mother, Mrs. Ed na Alcorn, Walnut apartments. McMinnville. Darwin Albert McLendon, phar macist's mate third class; father. Ernest E. McLendon, Ocean Lake. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4HP) The navy, releasing its ninth cas ualty list of the war, announced Tuesday that dead, wounded and missing men reported to next of kin from the start of the war. to July 25 totaled 1242. - ; The recapitulation showed that of 3541 dead reported to date 3251 were officers and men of the navy, 260 were marines and 30 were coast guardsmen. Our Senators. Lc 4-1 State to Aid 14 Counties In Dimonit Compliance 'Sea Visible' Lights Said Shielded Now Governor Asks Meet Of Officials for Instructions Gov. Charles A. Sprague moved immediately early today to see to the enforcement of Lt. Gen. DeWitt's new lighting re strictions in 14 western Oregon counties and Jerrold Owen, state civilian defense coordina tor, issued specific instructions governing motor traffic over the Coast highway. Accepting responsibility for en forcing the new order. Gov. Sprague said the state's regular law enforcement agencies, such as state police, sheriffs and city police, would be expected to give full cooperation. The governor also requested Mayor Earl Riley of Portland to call a meeting there Friday morn ing at which city and county offi cials, illuminating engineers, law enforcement and civilian defense agency representatives may be in structed as to local application of the western defense commander's order. Defense officials from Mar ion, Polk, Tillamook, Yamhill, Washington, Clatsop and Mult nomah counties have been asked to. attend. Other counties will be invited to a later .meeting . at Marshfield. , ; The Oregon defense council and the northwest OCT sector office will provide technical as sistance during the 15-day pre paration period and after the lighting proclamation takes ef fect on August 20, Owen said. Outdoor illumination in Oregon visible from the sea has already been shielded in compliance with (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Commons Has Secret Meet US Military Courts Okehed in Britain Over Criticism LONDON, Aug. 4-PhParlia- ment held an unheralded secret session Tuesday in which the gov ernment may have dealt with the implications of the Russian mili tary position and British plans to give further aid to the hard pressed Russians. Tuesday's closed session was called without previous, notice when Cripps, lord privy seal and government spokesman in the house, announced a private state ment would be made by Clement R. Attlee, dominions secretary and deputy prime minister. After Attlee gave his statement, commons in public session opened the way for establishment of American military courts throughout the British isles by passing the "United States of America (visiting forces) bill." The unprecedented measure placing American forces in Brit ain outside jurisdiction of British courts went to the king for as sent after sharp criticism by a few members. The bill provides American sol dier defendants shall be tried henceforth by their own military courts. J The British government thus gave up the age-old right to try any case regardless of the na tionality of the accused. Home Secretary Herbert Mor rison's promise American punish ments would be "no less severe" than, the British was answered by the criticism it was not the bill it self but the manner in which it had been requested by Washing ton. '. , - .--V- . .- .., Rear Admiral Tufton Percy Beamish, conservative member, declared Washington's request for jurisdiction over American sol diers billeted in this country was an ultimatum. Monday's Weather : Monday's max. temp. 81, mln. 57. River Monday, -3.2. By army request, ' weather fore casts are withheld and temper ature data - delayed. , Where Dimout to Apply trfK " vWA s hi n g to n v r Nn.iimi - - fiAZ f " J ki..,.rk . fesd- k JjjJ M 0 R E G 0 N ) r 1 L- O - ( yjy , v X ' V v-J J -f jS) t MM -. I . - (won V Map above, issued by western de fease command, shows Pacific coast counties to which new lighting restrictions apply be ginning August 20. Oregon coun ties included in the restricted sene In their entirety are Clat sop, Columbia, Coos, Carry, Lin coln, Polk, Tillamook, Washing ton and Yamhill. Eastern bound ary line of the tone in Marion county Is the Willamette na tional forest boundary; In Clack amas and Multnomah counties, the ML Hood national forest boundary, and. In Douglas and Lane counties, the eighth guide meridian west of the Willamette meridian. Top Military Honor Given Bnlkeley WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-(P)-Lieut Com. John D. Bulkley, a "gallant" seaman who rode swift motor torpedo boats to fame in the Philippines, received the con gressional medal of honor Tues day from President Roosevelt For four months and eight days, the young naval officer led a torpedo boat squadron against Japanese invaders of the islands, and his - country's highest mili tary honor was awarded him for "extraordinary heroism, distin guished service and conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty." Staxiding at attention beside President Roosevelt's desk in the White House, Bulkley heard his commander-in-chief read a cita tion for a "remarkable achieve ment' believed to be without pre cedent in operations of the deadly mosquito boats. Bulkley. was a lieutenant when he accomplished his feats, but the navy disclosed Tuesday he had been promoted to lieutenant com mander. Omitted from the citation was any reference to the part Bulkley and bis torpedo boat played in slipping Genera Douglas MacAr thur and the Philippine President Manuel Quezon out of the Phil' ippines, so that they reached Aus tralia safely... Big Bombers Strike Again RAF Raids at Night; Nazis Try to Keep British Awake LONDON, Aug. 5.-(iT)-Britains big bombers were back over Ger many again Tuesday night, the first time this month the weather has allowed the RAF to send out its night squadrons against" the nazis. - - Details were not disclosed im mediately but the Berlin radio broadcast that a small force of RAF bombers raided western Germany, causing damage to buildings at some places with high explosive and incendiary bombs. The German report said one British plane was shot down. LONDON, Wednesday, Aug. 5. -ihGennan night bombers dropped explosives on towns in southern and southwest England early Wednesday and flew over other parts of Britain in raids which were believed designed to keep the greatest number of Bri tons awake with the fewest num ber of planes. " " Heavy anti-aircraft fire met the attackers. Six German bomb ers were shot down, it was au thoritatively stated early today. During Tuesday naVd raiders damaged two English towns in scattered- attacks, and British Spitfire fighter-bombers .struck swiftly at the Calias area of occu pied. France. - Many' nazi planes were , heard over one coastal town this morn ing heading in a northwesternly direction, and in South Wales nu merous anti-aircraft guns were in action. . ' ." . Night Sports, Display Signs Extinguished SAN FRANCISCO; Aug. (Wednesday) (AP) The army today called . stop to baseball and other outdoor sports at night on the Pacific seaboard, or-5 dering every electric sign and theatre marauee ex- tinguished and ' prescrib ing some form of shielding for irfually all other types of exterior lighting. The regulations, defined in a proclamation by Lieut. Gen. J. L DeWitt, commanding the fourth army and western defense com--mand, will become effective Au gust 20 and continue as long aa the war lasts. Covering a strip of western Washington. Orexon and Cali fornia at some points as much as 150 miles wide, they have the ef- feet of extending and tremendous-, ly augmenting the "dimout" or der requested by the navy last spring for certain oceanfront see- f tions of the coast and administer ed by the office of civilian de fense. ' The proclamation created a "tone of restricted lighting." N which Genera DeWitt said the present situation requires as a matter of military necessity. "The armed forces of the enemy have made attacks upon vessels of the United States traveling along the Pacific coastal waters and upon land installations,? the proclamation said. "It is necessary tp provide max imum protectioafor war utilities, war materials and war premises located within the states of Wash ington, , Oregon and California against enemy attacks by sea and air." The army order provides for three degrees of darkening. Completely blackened are "il luminated signs, ud ornamental lighting, of every descriptioa which are visible out-of-doors, floodlighting which illuminates buildings or signs and Interior signs and ornamental lighting immediately within nnobsenred window areas." It is this clause which bans after dark athletics and bill boards, display lighting, building outline lighting and the like. Ex ception is made in the single case of ordinary store show-window lighting "or normal intensity," unless such illumination is visible from the sea. A second phase of the procla mation requires the shielding of certain types of lights in the re stricted area so that they are not visible from above. In this category are: "Illumina tion of all outdoor ground areas such as service station yards, parking areas, recreation areas and entrances to buildings: all light sources for industrial and Mrs. Gee. E. Waters, owner of the Salem Senators Baseball club, stated early Wednesday that as far as she and the base ball club were concerned, the coastwise dimont command Is- sued today would net force the Salem club's abandonment front the balance of the Western In ternational leagne schedule. If necessary, well play the rest of our home games In the twilight before darkness," she said. protective purposes and light from industrial processes;" traffic signs and signals; street and highway lights; industrial fires, such as kilns, furnaces and refuse burners. With regard to oat door ground areas, the reclamation farther specifies that, In addi tion te the , top shielding, a llrhlla .ti.tt" ..... J - tA - candle si ta j Mat" regardless of the direction of the rays. - Cognizance is taken, on the other hand, of the practical im possibility of eliminating all up ward glare - from shipyards and other outdoor war plants If night operations are to continue at ca pacity. The order, in this case, calls for shielding to as great an extent as may be practicable to reduce to a minimum" the amount of vertical illumination.- , . - ' A third section of. the prociama- covers jignis visible zrom the sea, and In this respect parallels the earlier dim-out order. '';) It provides ( for shielding .f street and ' highway lights and industrial fires, on their 1 westerly side, and requires the draping or shading of residential, commercial -,. (Turn to Page x, CoL 2) - s