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47 Survivors
Reach P6rt:
Directions Given by
Sub False; 32 Days
Spent in Boat
By The Associated Press
Torty seven men who wandered
32 days at sea, after the sub
marine which torpedoed their ves
sel gave them false information
about t h e , nearest land, finally
reached an east coast port, the
navy disclosed Wednesday.
They were survivors of the sec
ond United States ship whose loss
was officially reported during the
day. Added to the sinking of a
British essel also announced,
destruction of the ship raised the
Associated Press tabulation, de
struction losses since December
to 414. ;
Fourteen men were missing and
95 saved from the jtwo ships an
nounced earlier. Six were missing
and believed dead, of the crew
, of the second American ship, and
: two more died while the survivors
suffered 32 days of hunger and
thirst in a lifeboat
.The survivors said the subma
rine surfaced after the attack
June 27, helped pick up survivors,
and gave the crew information
about the closest land informa
tion which proved false. However,
Second Mate Frederick Sorenson
said he gave the nazi commander
false information about the ship
and its destination.
Crewmen said they had no navi
gation ' instruments, and Capt
John LaPoint of Baltimore steered
by the sun and stars. For the last
- IS days they had no food or water
supplies left, but they caught fish
and ate them raw. Once they
landed on a Caribbean island in-
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"We followed the jackasses to a
water hole," said Allen Holmes
Jackson, the third mate. "It was
a stinking hole of brackish water,
but it saved our lives."
Later they reached an inhabited
village and were taken to the
bahamas aboard the yacht of Bet
ty Carstairs, noted English speed
boat enthusiast and owner of
Whale Cay, a Bahama isle.
The United States ship an
nounced earlier burst into flames
after one torpedo, struck at 200
miles off the New England coast
early in July. Ten men were lost
and 47 rescued.
. Hit by, three torpedoes July 21,
the British ship sank within ten
miles of a Caribbean port. Forty
eight men were saved and four
killed.
. BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 5-()
The Argentine tanker i Juncal
radioed , Wednesday night that it
had rescued 30 survivors of the
Norwegian ship Havsten, which it
said ' had been torpedoed in the
Atlantic north of Trinidad.
., Lloyd's registry of shipping lists
the Havsten as a 61 61-ton motor
tanker, built in 1930, registered as
of Tonsberg, Norway.
Tillamook Mill
Accident Fatal
TILLAMOOK, Ore., Aug- 5-P)
-One man was killed and another
- injured in a box f actery log car
riage accident here Wednesday.
" .Oscar Effenberger, associated
with his- brothers in operation ' of
the Tillamook Box factory, was
- crushed to death and Alvin Van-
. a t m i , :
ueimcp, vvx. laciory employe,
suffered crushed legs.
Effenberger was the republican
nominee for state representative
from Tillamook county in the last
election, and was prominent in
. local and state Elks' lodge affairs
, and had undertaken many civic
activities.
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US Commanders in London
Ma J. (Sen. Dwight Eisenhower, left, commander-in-chief of U. S.
forces in the European theater of war, is shown walking In London
with Ma J. Gen. Mark Clark, commander of the U. S. ground forces,
US Maritime
Body to Build
for Portland
WASHINGTON, DC, Aug.
-Decision of the US maritime
commission to undertake a build
ing program to ease the Portland
area housing shortage was an
nounced Wednesday by Senator
McNary. .
The commission has agreed to
construct 6000 additional apart
ment units in Portland immediate
ly, and if it is found that more
are needed when the last 2000
units are 80 per cent complete,
they will be built, the senator
said in a statement.
McNary disclosed also that the
commission hopes to stabilize em
ployment in Kaiser shipbuilding
plants at about 80,000 workers as
of next January 1. This would in
clude about, 25,000 at Oregon
shipbuilding corporation in Port
land, 28,000 at Vancouver, Wash.,
and about 20,000 at the Portland
Swan Island yard, with about 7000
moving from one job to the other.
Construction of the first 2000
units in the project, to be in ad
dition to 2000 temporary apart
ments, soon to be available, will
be started within 10 days, the sen
ator said, with construction to
start on additional blocks of 2000
on September 15 and October 15.
The project will give Portland
housing facilities for approximate
ly 30,000 additional shipyard
workers, said Fritz Slade, Port
land, a member of the citizens'
committee. He added - that this
will care for immediate needs but
suggested that arrangements for
future heeds be made at once.
West Oregon Honey
Output Reduced
Portland, Aug. S-fjTVWestern
Oregon honey production has been
reduced about 50 per cent because
cool, cloudy weather cut down the
nectar flow in fireweed, President
II. J. Moulton of the Oregon Bee
keepers' association estimated
Wednesday.
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Fighter Squadron
Gets Credit for
54 Enemy Planes
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5-0P)-A
single squadron of navy fighter
pilots was credited officially Wed
nesday with having shot down 4
Japanese planes and probably 18
others to help win the great air
sea battles of Coral sea and Mid
way. The squadron lost "only four
planes, two to enemy fighters and
two which ran out of gas.
In reporting the squadron's
score the navy said it was made
in four actions one in the Coral
sea and three at Midway and
called these "the most decisive
series of individual aircraft ac
tions in the war to date."
Among the enemy planes re
ported as certainly shot down
were at least 22 Japanese "Zero"
planes, long regarded by Ameri
can military and naval authorities
as the enemy's best fighters.
After participating in the Coral
sea battle the fighter pilots were
transferred to the aircraft carrier
Yorktown- where they formed
fighting squadron number three
under the leadership of Lieut.
Com. John S. Thach, 37, Fordyce,
Ark., one of the navy's most noted
squadron chiefs.
It was his squadron which last
February brought down 16 of 18
Jap bombers attacking an Ameri
can carrier in the western Paci
fic. He won the navy cross for
that victory and one of his pilots,
Lieut, (now a lieutenant com
mander) Edward O'Hare won the
congressional medal of honor for
single-handedly getting five of the
16 planes.
Liberty Sliip
Speed Nears
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 5 HJP)
Pacific coast shipyards soon will
hit their stride in the production
of Liberty ships, making deliv
eries about 50 days after keel-laying,
S. D. Bechtel, president of
the California Shipbuilding cor
poration, Los Angeles, predicted
Wednesday. "
wQst trirr m.A vmi, umtt
ahead of the original schedule,"
he said in an interview, "Calship
now is delivering ships4 between
60 and 70 days after keels are
laid." , .
Bechtel is a director of Oregon
Shipbuilding corporation here,
holder of . several national rec
ords for Liberty ship production.
Oregon recently has been deliv
ering ships on an average of about
55 days after keel-laying. s
Onion Harvest
Labor Planned
Useof children and women to
pull onions, but need for men for
handling and loading the bulbs
was decided upon at a Labish
onion growers meeting Monday
night with W. H. Baillie. manager
of the Salem branch of the US
employment service. .
' Harvey Akers presided at the
meeting. A committee named to
keep in close touch with harvest
conditions and. with Baillie com
prises Akers. Joseph Burr and
Nathan Kurth. ' , '
It is expected the harvest will
begin late in August and extend
well into September. The group
will meet again August 12 to es
tablish wages for day labor and
the pay rate for onion pullers. :
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Engineer Tests Set ? ,
PORTLAND, Aug. 5-)-Exam-ination
for registration of profes
sional engineers in Oregon will be
held here September 11-12, A. B.
i-arter, secretary of the state
board of engineering examiners,
OUTGOII STATESMAN. Salem.
Labor Leader
Gets Rebuke
Mrs. Roosevelt Says
No Indorsement for
Political Stand
"NEW YORK, Aug. S -UP)- In
a rebuke to Eugene Connolly, left
wing leader of the American la
bor party, Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt declared Wednesday that "I
do hot wish to be . controlled ; in
this country . by . an American
group . that, in turn,4 is controlled
by Russia and Russia's .interests.".-
-' . -
: Mrs. Roosevelt asserted te a
letter to Connolly, that she was
surprised to find that another -letter
she. had written indorsing a
statement she believed to have
been made by the party" as" a
whole, had been used .as a leaf
let in the present primary fight
between the right and left wings
of the party.
"I do not wish, you to use. my
name or my letter again in any
publication whatsoever," she said.
Adding that she had no desire
to take part in the primary cam
paign, Mrs. Roosevelt pointed out
that "I did not think there would
be any doubt in the minds of the
left wing group that while I in
dorsed the statement which the
entire party, I. imagined, would be
united on, still I was certainly not
indorsing primary candidates .in
opposition to what I consider. the
regular American labor party."
"I am, and always have -been.
much more in sympathy with the
stand of the American labor par
ty as represented by what I con
sider is the real leadership under
Mr. Luigi Antonini, state chair
man," Mrs. Roosevelt said.
She stated that copies of her
declaration on this question had
been sent to Antonini and Alex
Rose, state secretary of the labor
party. Antonini and. Rose have
accused the left wing of being
dominated by communists.
"I have no illusions whatsoever
as to the state which the Amer
ican communist party has taken
in American affairs," she said- "I
admire Russia and (the marvelous
fight which Russia is putting up
. but I do not wish to be con
trolled in this country by an
American group that, in turn, is
controlled by Russia and Russia's
interests."
Conrfolly commented that "Mrs
Roosevelt has been misinformed
we nave never authorized nor
sanctioned use of her letter for
any political purpose whatsoev
er."
"Her comment on the New York
county committee's win the war
brochure was released to the
press on May 15, with her specific
permission, granted in writing,
through her secretary," Connol
ly declared. "It has never been
published or mentioned by us on
any other occasion. We still be
lieve Mrs. Roosevelt is a most
gracious lady."
Army Orders
Home Woolens
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5
To bolster the price of domestic
wool and encourage increased
production, the army decided
Wednesday to place orders im
mediately for "several million
yards of cloth" made of domestic
fibres instead of waiting until the
normal purchasing season.
Through this preferential treat
ment of domestic producers, as
against foreign wool growers, the
army will acquire the bulk of the
domestic wool clip now available,
the war department and war pro-
auction Doara announced in a
joint statement.
"The program just worked out
with the war department means
mat aomesuc wool growers are
assured of a fair price and a stable
market for their wool," said
Frank Walton, deputy chief of
WPB's textile, clothing and leath
er branch.
The supply of fabrics for civil
ian apparel has been taken care
of through arrangements for pur
chase of imported wool and do
mestic wool not required by the
armed services, and through
WPB's program for the blending
of wool with rayon, cotton and
other light fibres.
Rubber Totals
56 Cars a Week
PORTLAND, Aug. S-CPV-Fifty
six freight cars, each carrying 30
tons of scrap rubber collected in
the salvage drive, are moving out
of Oregon, each week, Cliff Rad-
cliff, shipping director, .said Wed
nesday.
The rubber goes to Fort Snelling
at Minneapolis where it is sorted
and routed to reclamation plants,
he said. -
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Appearing before two senate com
mittees in "Washington in connec
tion with conversion of bis west
coast shipyards to production of
giant cargo airplanes, Henry J.
Kaiser, Oakland, Cal., "miracle
shipbuilder, la shown as he told
his listeners at one hearing, that
he could turn, out the first of such
ships "within 10 months after re
ceiving plans." . Kaiser declared -he
had from "50 to 60' engineers'
working on the engineering fea
tures of flying boat construction.
Ask Damages
for Flooding
J. M. Devers,. state highway
commission attorney, said Wed
nesday a complaint for. $50,000
damages against California-Oregon
Power company, Southern
Pacific and Central Pacific rail
roads had been sent to the Mar
ion county clerk for filing, based
on the flooding of the upper
Klamath lake drainage lands in
1940.
The highway commission
charges that the defendants fail
ed to maintain in proper condi
tion a canal which was construct
ed to serve certain farm lands
adjacent to upper Klamath lake.
Approximately a mile and one
half of the highway roadbed was
washed out when waters broke
through the bank of the canal,
the complaint charged.
Cost of repairs to the highway
was estimated at $50,000.
Bergesch to Head
WPB in Oregon
PORTLAND, Aug. 5-(iP)-Ap-
pointment of J. Fred Bergesch as
manager of all Oregon' activities
of the war production board was
announced Wednesday.
Bergesch will continue as dis
trict manager of the WPB priori
ties division and in addition will
have administrative authority
over the production and salvage
divisions and the office of the
western log and lumber administrator.
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58 Dairymen
to Get Bulls' '
--Presentation by Jersey-
Club Slated Here
August 22 : . A ,
- Names' of 58 Oregon dairymen,
who will each, receive, a .rVictory'T
bull : on ; August 22- - were tenta j
tively selected Wednesday by the
executive committee of .-the.Ore
goh ? Jersey 'Cattle club "-meeting
In' Sa3fcnu;" , V f
" The dairymen were picked, from
among more . than 500; who- apf
plied om the basis of individual
responsibility and ; upon h the op
portunity which will -be given to
justify, the use of a good sire on
their herd. - - . v -
They.; will be, notified to" pre
sent themselves . at the Oregon
state fairgrounds to receive their
"Victory bullsi Gov. Charles A
Sprague will make .theTpresental.
tiohs. It will be held on the" fame
day as the cattle club state pic-
i The 58 must be present to re
ceive their bulls or others on the
alternate list will' be given the
prizes. In case it is impossible for
any dairyman to be present it may
be arranged to have a representa
tive receive the bullj T. J. Law,
jr., president of the club said. The
committee will be the final judge
of the dairyman's inability to at
tend., -ir,. " ' . . - I
' Presidents of the 12 county or
district 'clubs compose the execu
tive xommittee of the. Oregon,' Jer
sey Cattle club of which Laws is
president . Henry Werner of Sil
verton is president of the Marion
club. Others are M. N. Tibbies,
Independence, Polk county;
George Johnson, McMinnville,
Yamhill; Fred M. Knox, Gaston,
Washington; T. J. Law, Jr., Gresh
am, Multnomah. Other clubs are
Clatsop-C o 1 u m b I a, Tillamook,
Rogue River, Baker-Union, Mal
heur, and Clackamas.
W. C. Leth, Polk county agent,
is the newly appointed director of
the American Jersey Cattle club.
George Johnson succeeded Leth
as secretary of the Oregon club.
Return Urged
on Teachers
An appeal to certificated teach
ers to return to the classroom as
a patriotic duty, was issued here
Wednesday by Rex Putnam, state
superintendent of public ins true
tion.
Putnam said the teacher short
age in Oregon is rapidly becoming
critical largely because of higher
salaries offered in war industries
and demands being made by the
military. County school superin
tendents have been asked by Put
nam to conduct a survey to de
termine the number and qualifi
cations of teachers available for
employment.
Putnam urged that certificated
teachers, now retired, register
with the county school superin
tendents.
Weds SL Paul Girl
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 5 JP)
Fresh from action ut the Coral
sea and Midway naval battles,
Lieut John D. Lorenz of the navy
is home to marry Delight McHale
of St Paul, Ore.
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Sam, the. cruiser U. S. S. Balti
more, la shown being launched at
the Tore River shipyard, Quincy,
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Canada Sends
Prisoner Aid :
SAN FRANCISCO,' Aug. . S.-if)
Sixty nine freight cars with food,
clothing, drugs and tobacco for
shipment to allied war prisoners
in the western Pacific, arrived
here Wednesday from Canada.
The relief packages, donated by
the Canadian Red Cross, will be
placed aboard the Swedish "mercy
ship," Kanangoora, if the Jap
anese grant safe passage to the
liner chartered by the American
Red Cross.
The Sam Francisco Press club
announced receipt of an addition
al $12,450 from Salinas for its
special Bataan fund, as proceeds
from auctioning a single carload
of Salinas-Watsville lettuce in
Chicago.
Two commission firms in the
Chicago auction paid a top price
of $1100 each for two crates of
lettuce worth $5.60 a crate. Six
others paid $600 a crate. All buy
ers were commission merchants
dealing in the South Water street
market
Buckeroo Eelects
MOLALLA, Aug. 5-)-Sidney
B. Power has been elected presi
dent of the Molalla Buckaroo, al
though the event has been sus
pended for the duration.
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13 Jap Zeroes
Shot Down by
Yank Planes
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -iff)
American warplanes, battling su
perior numbers of enemy aircraft
over China and the Pacific, in
three different engagements, shot
'&6hi' H enemy planes, including
13 of . Japan's -vaunted Zero
f$ghrters the -war. department re-pdrted-Wednesday.,
t
.? A ; lone i army .bomber of the
Boeing ; ;B-17 type,'; on . a photoj
graphic "mission oyer the Pacific,
waa ""attacked Vby i six." Japanese
fighters ' July 31 near : Wake
island. The huge bomber's guns
destroyed ;fourr of , the attacking
planes three Zeros and one be
lieved to be a Heinkel 112 and
the two remaining enemy planes
fled. ; ; : J ; : ; "
; At least ten" Zeros were destroy
ed by American army pilots when
the Japanese attacked Hengyang,
airport in China, July 30 and 31,
the department said.
The first day, a force of 27
Zeroes attacked Hengyang. Unit
ed States pursuit ships shot down
four of the Zeroes without loss to
themselves.
The following day, said the de
partment, : 33 Zeroes repeated the
attack, but 15 American pilots,
flying Curtiss P-40 pursuit planes,
shot down six of the Japanese
aircraft, destruction of which was
"confirmed, and probably account
ed for three others. Again,' the de
partment said, no planes or pilots
were lost.. .., I "... ' ;
"These results," said Lieut. Gen.
H. H. Arnold, commanding the
army air forces, "speak for them
selves and give ample answer to
those who maintain-that our ene
mies have better flying equip
ment than we have."
(A communique issued by Lieut
Gen. Joseph W. Stil well's head
quarters in Chungking August 1
said that in the July 30-31 battles
over Hengyang, the - American
pursuit' pilots downed 13 of the
improved type Zeroes and four,
Japanese bombers, losing four of
their own planes but no. pilots.
Four more enemy planes were
listed as probably destroyed in
the two days fighting.)
Langlie Urges Halt
on Large Gatherings
OLYMPIA, Aug. 5.-iiP)-fVolun-
tary discontinuance of public
gatherings, among them the Long
acres race track, was recommend
ed Wednesday by Gov. Arthur B.
Langlie. He urged groups, and
persons sponsoring large public
events to close up to save auto
mobiles, gasoline and rubber.,
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