Light Rules
The western defense com
mand's new refutations gov
erning outdoor lighting , an
nounced In today's States
man, are available at the
Statesman office for study.
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Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning. August $. 1942
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Sought:
Decision Left to
Military Staffs
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Washington, Aug. s-p
The w a r production board's
committee on cargo plan js has
recommended the doubling, at
least, of cargo plane production,
Chairman Donald M. . Nelson
announced Wednesday, but he
left squarely VP to the military
chiefs of staff the decision wheth
er to cut down combat plane pro
duction to make the increase pos
sible.' . -
Three major recommendations
called for:
1. An increase in cargo plane
output to at least twice the pres
ent program, through an increase
in : present procurement, and
through conversion of certain
bombers to cargo type.
2. Further impetus to develop
ment of longer-range land and sea
planes.
3. A "large increase" in facili
ties, for the manufacture and
transportation of aviation gasoline
to meet the needs of a greatly ex-
"If we now undertake to build
a substantially larger number of
cars planes than is already
provided for In our schedule, we
must of course cot down the
somber of some other airplanes
In onr program," Nelson said In
releaslnr a direst of the snecial
committee's report.
of staTfs to make, since it is es
sentially a matter of high military
board will continue to study the
situation to see whether it is go
ing to be possible to expand our
production oi cargo pianes
through new facilities or by using
other industries such as shipbuild
ers." -
In the latter connection, Nelson
. said -the committee's study indi
cated the giant Martin Mars 70
ton seaplane would be "very suc
cessful." . This is the type which
Henry J. Kaiser, west coast ship-
. building wizard, has proposed to
. build in shipyards. -
Fifty per cent of all military
tnnniin nul! Va oViinruw" nvor
w r -
seas by air, in the committee's
opinion, if .sufficient sky freight
ers were available. Twenty per
cent of all non-military commodi-
. ties which must be exported from
the United States in the next year.
including machine tools, concen
trated foods, chemicals, surgical
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Power Change
Would Save
State Much -
The . state board of control has
under advisement a new proposal
from the Bonneville admin istra
, tion, under which it would deliver
electric current for all state pur
poses in Salem through facilities
, of the Portland General Electric
company at a price of approxi
mately five mills of less per kilo
watt hour, plus the cost of deliv-
ery to be adjusted later.
State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott
reported that the state's electric
consumption here last year totaled
8.500,000 kilowatt hours at an. av
erage price of 11 4 cents. He de
clared that the new proposal, if
accepted, would result in a sub
stantial financial saving to the
state.
Two plans previously were of
fered by the Bonneville adminis?
. tration. under which the state
. would construct its local transmis
1 sion system. Under one plan the
cost of the , transmission system
was estimated by Bonneville ad
! ministration" officials at $122,500
and under the other plan $77,
500. ,-. ..
Under these proposals the Bon
nevflle , administration J, estimated
savings to the state ranging from
123,000 to $32,000 a year, depend
;.. Ing upon which plan was accepted
and the term of years over which
the" service was calculated.
; Scott said the board of control
probably would take some. defin
ite action in connection with the
electric situation in the near fu-
" ture. - V . - ':
The plan now under considers
tion is similar to that in operation
at Canby and Forest Grove.,
For Planes J
LT. GEN. HENRY H. ARNOLD
Army to Push Cargo Craft
West Salem in
Housing Area
Eligible Area Within
Two Miles of Bus
for Commuters
West Salem is included in the
defense housing area "commut
ing area" in WPA language re
cently announced as approved for
Salem through its proximity and
bus service to Camp Adair, Fol-
ger Johnson, federal housing ad
ministration director for Oregon,
said here Wednesday night.
Giving the first definition is
sued as to boundaries of the hous
ing area, in which permission to
build or remodel housing units
for defense workers may. now be
obtained, Johnson said eligible
sites are those .which lie within
two miles of the point from' which
bus for Aaair may be boarded,
That definition left It up to
the Salem chamber of commerce
transport committee as to how
large the "commuting area" soar
be.
West Salem is included in
the
construction approval area
be-
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Morse Urges
Wage Control
WLB Stabilization Said
. Impossible With no
Present Limits
,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -(ffV
The war labor board, applying its
wage stabilization formula, re
fused a general wage increase
Wednesday to 2750 General Cable
company employes in New Jersey
and advocated government control
over all general wage increases,
The board's present authority
extends only to disputed wage de
mands brought before it.
"It should be recognized by
all concerned," said Dean Wayne
L. Morse, who wrote the opin
ion, "that the , wase formula
adopted by the board will not
and can. not result In wage
stabilization if it is limited in
its application to wage disputes
which come before the war la
bor board for final determlna
tion.
If wage stabilization is to be
accomplished, the terminal limits
set forth in the formula must be
applied universally and uniformly
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Murray Asks
Strike Halt
CHICAGO, Aug. S CIO
Chief Philip Murray Wednesday
urged the American Federation of
Labor, to cooperate with the Con
gress of Industrial Organizations
in a program, .designed to halt
jurisdictional strikes for the dura
tion of the war.
Murray stated he was deeply
concerned by work stoppages
caused by such differences and
recalled that, in a letter to AFL
President William Green last Sun
day, he had proposed the creation
of a joint CIO-AFL committee,
with an impartial arbitrator, to
hn.i .it riMmnai
between the two ' groups. A;
Murray defined his views in a
speech before the . annual con
vention of the United Automobile,
Aircraft and'Agricaltural Imple
ment Workers union (CIO).
Tuesday's Weather
7 Tuesday's max. temp. SI,
mis. 9. River Tuesday -3.2 ft
By army request, weather fore
easts are withheld and temper
ature data delayed. -
lnlia
Wbulr
Be Atff
Demi Made;
Cripps .Declares
For Keeping Law
BOMBAY, India, Aug.
The working; committee of the I
all-India - congress, nearing i a
showdown with the British em
pire on the issue of independ
ence, Wednesday adopted a res
olution serving notice that India
would become an ally ot the
United Nations if granted free
dom.
The working committee's 1200-
word resolution demanded the
"withdrawal of British power so
as to enable India to become an
ally of the United Nations and
fight aggressors."
But, the resolution warned,, the
congress party was prepared to
launch a civil disobedience strug
gle if necessary to gain independ
ence. The working committee also
drew up a resolution to be pre
sented to the full committee
meeting here Friday recommen
ding that if Britain rejects
demand for Indian Independ
ence full powers to lead a civil
disobedience movement be riv
en to Gandhi. '
The draft of the resolution
dealing with India's role against
aggressor nations in the event of
independence said the government
'will wholeheartedly and unre
servedly declare itself on the side
of the United Nations, agreeing
to meet the J apanesa or .any oth-s
er aggressor ; with farmed resist
ance."
LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 6Jf)
Sir Stafford Cripps, . whose mis-
j sion to settle the Indian problem
failed last spring, declared m a I
statement Thursday that Britain
intended to "preserve law and or
der" in India until the war ended.
After the war, he said, the In-
dian people will be given an op-
portunity to attain the self-government
which Indian national
ist leaders are demanding be
granted them now and for which
they are preparing to launch a
civil disobedience campaign.
"We make no threats," Cripps
wrote, "but we must assert un-j
equivocally our duty to India, to
great minorities and to the Unit
ed Nations to preserve law. and
order until hostilities cease and
we can then give as we have.
promised . the fullest opportunity
for attainment of self government
by the Indian people.
"It is not yet too late for the
Indian people to decide upon rap
id and ordered progress. -
"I can assure them that the
British people are as determin
ed upon self government for
India as they are themselves.
We ask the great masses of In
dia to be patient for a short
time longer while the cause of
freedom Is being fought out, not
because we want to delay but
because the hard facts of war
make a complete change in
possible at the moment.
"I sincerely hope that we shall
all of us face these difficult ques
tions with calmness, sincerity and
mutual trust because I am con
vinced that if both peoples so ex
ercise their - will to solve our
problems there need be no vio
lence. -V.-v
"India has indeed a great and
free future before her in which
she can make her special contri
bution to the well-being of man
kind.' The first and indispensible
part of that contribution is to
work with the United Nations for
the defeat of fascism and of bru
tal aggression."
- PrintlW
Metals Called in
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-(ff)
The government moved Wednes
day - to round up critical metals
m newspaper, maga-
2.11 j C ituu vuki juuiuiit catauuaii-
ments by forbidding the sale of
new metal to those possessing ob
solete printing plates. - -
The war production board or
der, effective October 1, requires
that printers and publishers who
obtain new metal must certify on
their purchase orders that they
do 'not have; any obsolete plates
m their possession. Uia equip
ment should be sold to scrap
i dealers for use In war production,
I WPB said. -
Sapper. Dismantles Nazi Gun in
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An unidentified New Zealand sapper (engineer) b shown la this sound-photo packing a captured Ger
man gun with cotton to 'ruin the field piece beyond repair In the event that it should be recaptured
by the enemy. The sapper is performing a most Important task of desert warfare in which every piece
of equipment counts and is repaired over and over again. This gun is apparently one of the nasi
SS-mm. pieces that proved so effective In the early stages of Marshal Rommel's spectacular attempt
to capture Cairo.'
Raid Wardens
Enforce Dimout
Willful Cooperation
Sought; Fines up to
$5000 Provided
L A J.
SAN FRANCISCO,
The. regional office of civilian de-
fense Wednesday marshalled the
west coast's army of air raid
wardens for a new task that of
affecting and enforcing a nightly
dimout ordered . to begin August
20 the length of the -Pacific sea
board. Meeting in special session after
Lieut Gen. J. L. DeWitt of the
western defense command pub-
lishing 9,000,000 people, the re-
gional OCD's civilian defense
board recommended "plans and
policies" to subsidiary defense
councils in the three coastal states.
The board, headed by James C.
Sheppard, regional OCD director,
has been designated by General
DeWitt as the agency primarily in
I charge of securing general corn-
pliance with the proclamation.
As a first step in its mission, the
board arranged to send regulations
to all state, county and city de
fense councils within the 102,000
square mile restricted lighting
area, explaining the dimout .order
in detail and outlining .the part
local councils are expected to play
in its enforcement.
Sheppard said In a statement
that the councils were being in
structed emphatically to obtain
voluntary cooperation, wherever
possible. Air raid wardens are
to be trained Immediately In
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Allan G. Carson, Salem attorney
war veteran and republican
nominee for state senator. whs-
Wednesday received telegraphic
instructions to report to Miami
Beach, Fla- for Induction as
eantain In the ' US army air
corps. He served as a first lieu
tenant in four different army
divisions during the World war
with the 1st, th, tTtli and
42nd. He plans to leave for his
post within a few days.
For additional news about
men from Salem and - vicinity
In the armed forces, turn to pace
five of today's Statesman.
ImpcnrplMt
Held at 500
To Save Time
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5-h
The war production board Wed
nesday restricted imports into
the United States to some 500
items xwu-aa--.,emtrgency ship
ping priorities, Jlst?
Only items on this list will
be assigned shipping space on
vessels controlled by the war
shipping administration and
bound for - the United States,
with minor exceptions, WPB
announced.
In instances where shipping
.space has' not been entirely
taken up by listed goods, im
ports of certain low-rated car
goes, such as bananas, Scotch
whisky and rum, will be per
mitted from the Caribbean ar
ea, United States territories and
possessions, the British Isles,
Canada and Newfoundland.
The emergency priorities list
ing covers such items as oils,
wool, sugar, copper and other
ores, coffee, hides and skins,
rubber and spices.
The war shipping administra
tion will limit cargoes carried
on its ships to save shipping
time, it was pointed out, and in
instances where vessels unload
at foreign ports and are . un
able to find, cargoes of items on
the priorities list, they will re
turn empty.
Jury Convicts
Silver Shirt
11 Counts of Sedition
And Conspiracy Hit
William Pelley
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. S.-(P)
William Dudley Pelley, former
leader of the Silver Shirts . of
America, was convicted by a fed'
era! court jury Wednesday "night
on 11 counts of criminal sedition
and conspiracy.
Pelley's two associates, Law
rence A." Brown and. Miss Marian
Agnes Henderson, who were tried
with him, were convicted only on
count 12 of the indictment, which
charged conspiracy.
, Judce Bobert CJ Baltzell im
mediately set August 12 at 10 ajn.
for pronouncement of sentence.
Each count carries a maximum
penalty of 20 years' Imprisonment
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Eastern Yachtsmen
Refused Gasoline
, WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -JP)-
The office of price administration.
rejecting a plea of eastern pleas
ure boat owners for larger gaso
line rations, . nevertheless asked
them Wednesday - nieht to keen
their craft in condition? and ready
for Service, if needed, "against the
submarine menace." - -
Three Enlist in Navy
PORTLAND, Aug. 5 ($-Navy
recruiting headquarters , Wednes
day announced the enlistment. o
Victor I Kronberg, ML Angel
Llewellyn J3... Williams, Dayton,
and Paul Pierce, Salem. .
African Desert
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Coast's Plane
Needs Urged
Mott Says Aleutians ,
Taken Care of hy
Army and Navy
Belief that; the Aleutian .Islands
are , being well taken care or
by army and-naval air forces was
expressed here Wednesday by
Rep. James W. Mott, congressman
home for a brief stay following
an inspection of Pacific coast
naval defenses.
"The . Aleutians constitute an
immediate danger front," Mott
said. "Strong forces of army and
navy planes are there to prevent
further advances by the Japanese
from Kiska island, and the enemy
will be attacked and driven out
of Kiska as soon as we get planes
in sufficient strength up there to
do it"
Pacific coast bases from the
Mexican to the Canadian bor
ders were described by the-'
congressman as "in first class
condition to operate with a full
quota of planes patrol bomb
ers, fighters and Interceptors."
These bases, however, need
more planes than they now have,
and the naval affairs subcommit
tee of which Mott is -a member
will recommend they be provided
with a. full complement of planes,
he announced.
"Congress can't conduct this
war," Mott added, "but it has
been able to change policies, and
we hope now to be able to change
the existing policy of sending
everything out of the country."
East as well as west coast bases
should be more fully armed with
planes for observation and attack,
Mott asserted.
The congressman declared
planes from Tongue Point naval
air station near Astoria were now
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Bus-Train Crash
Fatal to Dozen
CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss
Aug. 5 (JP) At least 12 persons
were killed and at least 36 in
jured when a crowded bus and
a-passenger train collided at a
mid-town crossing here Wednes
day. .
One woman was killed and two
others injured when the heavy
bus hurtled through the air and
overturned on the sidewalk where
they were standing. Dead and in
jured were- scattered along the
tracks. ,
The train was not derailed and
its passengers escaped serious in'
jury. ..
State . Public Safety ' Commis
sioner ,T. P. Brady said , the bus
driver- stopped to let a freight
train , pass, then . started across
without seeing the fast passenger
train coming on another track.
Late Sports
; COAST LEAGUE ;
PORTLAND, Ore Aug. -(fl?-
Second night game 19 innings)
Seattle , . .' ,.000 001 C22-5 . 7 ; 1
Portland 000 000 020-2 6
Guay and" Kearse; . SchubeL
Stine (8) and Mayer, Leovich.
Envelopment Move
Goes East; Nazis
Claim Kropotkin
Ilying US GenejralLands in Moscow
, To Cheer Soviet; Parachute Troops
Force Russian Retreat, Caucasus
.By Tbo Associated Press ':'""
German troops which had
Tsimlyansk have driven 40 miles to Kotelnikovskl, 95 miles I
southwest of StaUn.Tgaffd, in a bold envelopment move
against the treat industrial city on the Volge, the Russian
high command said early Thursday.
The northern arm of the
immense weight against the
in the elbow of the Don in the
the northwest.
In the Caucasus where the
Night Raiders
Hit Germany
RAF Strikes Through
Storms and Snow,
Loses One Bomber
LONDON, Thursday, Aug. (HF)
Royal air force bombers struck at
Germany for the second night in a
row Wednesday night, authorita
tive British lourcei reported
Thursday. "
On the home front, a statement
said, there was slight german ac
tivity over the East Anglian coast
and a few bombs were dropped
"but neither casualties nor, dam
age have been reported."., ,
? Wednesday nUM's fiid fol
lowed one on the Knhr Iri which
bombers flew through thunder
storms, solid overcast and even
snow at the hlsher altitudes.
. "It was like flying through a
white woolen blanket" said the
gunner in a Halifax bomber,.
There was no indication of the
size of the attacking force, but de
spite the poor weather only one
bomber was lost.
One fighter" plane was lost on
sweeps against trains and other
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Young Boys
Admit Thefts
Money and Many Small
Articles Taken "
From Stores
The Salem police department
brought to a close a crime wave"
Wednesday morning when three
Salem youths, aged 9, 8 and o
years respectively, confessed to a
recent string of burglaries and
shoplifting. Officer H. Kiggins ap
prehended the three youths, the
eldest of whom acted as spokes
man in confessing.
Everything from hands-full of
pennies to toy balloons were listed
among the loot taken by the boys
over a period of approximately
two weeks. Most of . the money
taken was spent for movies, can
dy, ice cream and "treats" to
neighborhood companions.
Places admittedly looted by the
youths, according to police, were
the Acme Auto Wreckers, last
Sunday, pennies and a dollar
bill; Hei-rall-Owens garage,- ah
undisclosed "Sum of money; Wool
worths, money, chewing gum.
flashlights and toy balloons; the
Paramount Market , twice, money
and i cigarettes; Texaco service
station at South Commercial and
Bellevue two or three times, ob
taining money and empty pop
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US Prisoner
Relief Ready
WASHINGTON, Aug.
The American Red Cross reported
Wednesday that "substantial" re
lief for American prisoners held
by the Japanese now was en route
to Japan. . "-V - J
.- Chairman Norman H. Davis said
negotiations also were underway
leading to the tlispatch of.addi
tional relief . ships. Supplies sent
on the relief ship Gripsholm in
cluded 20,000 war food parcels.
clothing, medicines and tobacco.
Davis said, an additional cargo
of "supplies had "been assembled
and the Bed Cross waa ready to
dispatch relief ships "as soon as
safe ' conduct can be obtained"
from the Japanese government
crossed the lower Don near
great nutcracker pressing with
city still was reported stalled
Kletskaya area, 75 miles to
Germans said they had cap
tured the rail junction of Kropot
kin, 60 miles north of the Maikof
oil fields, .the Russians insistH
that ''stubborn battles" were car
ried out in the Belaya Glina area
deep below the . Bon, and Kush
chevka region, 50 miles belo-n
Rostov. " r
Even as the Russian, peril grew'
increasingly grave, MaJ.-Gen. Fol
lett Bradley of the US air forces t
landed a bomber, in Moscow and
declared he was anxious to fa
cilitate the flow of supplies to the
embattled soviet, despite increas
ing difficulty of German attacks
on supply routes. ' T
The German drive eastward
from the Tsimlyansk bridgeheadi
heralded in German commun
iques for three days was well to
the south p4 txe Don, Kotelnikov
skl,1 like Belaya Glina and Salsk,
all .are on the Immobilized railway
leading ; from Stalingrad to the
Black Sea. The Russians said the
advance was slight and made only
at the cost of heavy casualties.
"Soath of Kashchevsks. the
Germans are sustaining partic
ularly heavy losses." the Rus
sian commnniqae said listing
60s enemy killed. Another 1200
nails died In the Kletskaya ar
ea In the Don elbow where "re
peated enemy attacks were re
pelled." It was la the Kash
ebevska resiM that the eossseks
surprised and killed 3001 Ger
mans Tuesday night
Gen. Bradley declared in Mos
cow:
I am here to facilitate any
possible way to make aid to Rus
sia more effective. We are send
ing all we can, and would like to
send more. This is the focal point
of the war. There is great read-
mess in America to contribute ev
erything possible here."
German parachute troops
dropped behind the Russian lines
with baby tanks in groups of 100
to 150 men, attacked communica
tions. Frontal attacks of masses
of tanks and swarms of dive
bombers caused the Russians to
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Swiss Writer
Says Nazis
Prepared
BERN, Switzerland, Aag. 5.-(JPy-One
of a party of neatral
journalists taken by the Ger
mans on a tour of the occupied
channel coast told Wednesday
of "mighty fortifications of con
crete and Iron" prepared by the
nails against any allied Inva
sion of Europe.
These, the newspaperman
said In a Berlin dispatch to the
Zurich Die Tat are built tn se
ries, one behind the other.
The correspondent said sup
ply bases for the occupation
forces were placed close to the
front and there ; were under
ground airdromes for bombers
and fighters.
A Stockholm report to the
Basler National Zeitongn said
that the German : occnpaUon
forces la Norway were buildlng
extensiTe defense works on the
Lofoten Islands of northern 1
Norway along the allied rent
to Russian Arctle ports In or
der to make "a single tremen
dous bridgehead in Norway to-
gether with the fortifications In
other Norwegian coastal dis
tricts." . ; .
Gur, Senators
'ot,