'tentionl
Sports!-
Dependency It not longer
ground for draft deferment,
gee stories oa this page and
pace 11 explaining statu of
married men with families.
-Big Lake" CrOSIwhlt. '.:
tar pitcher of the state ,
penitentiary "Greys,! has
been signed by Salem's Sen- -ators!
See story sports
paxe.
FOUNDEXt?; 1631
NINETY -SECOIID YEAR
Scdem. Orecjon. Friday Morning. August 7, 1942
Price. 5c
No. 104
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Arm
Aired.
Family Men
Face Call if
Not Essential
Facing possible call to mil
itary service in 1943, every
married man between 20 and
45 years of age in Oregon
should, ascertain now wheth
er or liot he is engaged in an
essential war occupation and
whether or not he Is readily
replacable if he has such a
job, CoL Elmer V. Wooton,
state director of selective service,
advised in a statement issued here
late Thursday.
(Complete text of Col. VFoot
on's statement and the full list
of li essential industry classi
fications, with subdivisions, ap
M.r an cue 11 of today's
statesman.)
The government faces as a fact
that the supply of physically fit
men of military age is not suf
ficient to meet the demands of
the armed forces, war production
industries, agriculture, and essen
tial civilian activities, "i the
present ratio of men in nonessen
tial activities is maintained," Col.
Woo ton's statement explained.
Essential activities, he empha
sized, are not confined to - jobs
building ships, airplanes or manu
facturing munitions. Rather, there
are 34 industrial classifications,
each with , many occupational
subdivisions, that are considered
as essential to the war effort
The field is much broader
and includes activities support-
I ine -war vnvi, '
nrodnrtion of foodstuffs, mininc '
and processing of critical met-
au, production ana uprreuou
at lumber' products, and many
then," CoL Wooton pointed
at i
I ne coiunei swinucui ,t3
sued in clarification of a Port
land newspaper t story in which
Maj. George Sandy, field inspec
tor for selective service, was quo
ted as saying that "married men
...;v. fhiiHrwi smug hr their de-
itimi , b
ferred draft thus far had better
quit hif.ing Denina me -wuv
kiddies and get into essential war
.... . . . : r - 3
production work."
This statement, maae oeiwe
... J . - V. -
state manpower advisory commit
tee in Portland Tuesday, raised a
fifw vr anviAuv .innii rr i x um
UUl l J Vi eas.wss
both employers and married era
' timrs in oairn and other' com-
Feinting out that "ultimate
Induction of married men with
children.- H not Improoaoie,
CoL Woo ton's statement said
that "at the present rate f In
duction, it will probably be sev
eral months before this class of
registrants is called for service,
" possibly early In 1943, and "In
the event congress sees fit to
make IS and 19-year-old reg-
, intrants avail Die lor wrvict,
th ran for married men with
- - . ... - a . m t,
children Will pe, iurwier re-.
irdee" . .
Col. wooton. said inai u uuui
found that he was not employed
In an essential activity or could
fee replaced in a job of that type,
"he should be able to resolve for
himself the course to follow in the
Interest of the national welfare
and this country's freedom."
Tongue) Point Naval
Station Said Best
ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. MS)
The Tongue Point naval air sta
tion was termed Thursday "just
about the best equipped station I
have seen" by Reo. William S.
Jacobsen of Iowa. .
- Jacobsen and Rep. James W,
Mott of Oregon, members of the
house naval affairs subcommittee.
concluded an ; investigation of
west coast, naval operations ta-
tlons.
Service Men
George William Raff man, Jr
tSSI South Cottage street, Sa
lem, was commissioned ftee
nd lieutenant la the US mar
ine corps reserve tills week
when lie was graduated from
the US naval air station at Cor
pvt Christ, Texw the 13th naval
district has learned.
A former student at Oregon
State college, Lieut. Huffman
received preliminary flight
training at the naval air base In
Veattle. -
For additional news about
men from Salem and vicinity
la the armed forces, turn to page
nine of today's Statesman. .
Gandhi
i
Pleads
Again
Mass Moveme 0
Ready If Appeal
Fails, Freedom
i
By PRESTON GROVER
BOMBAY, Aug. 6-P)-Mo-handas
K. Gandhi declared
Thursday night he would plead
with the British once more for
avoidance of conflict before be
ginning a "mass movement" to
drive British rule from India.
He said he would address his
plea to Viceroy Lord Linlithgow.
The nationalist leader made his
statement to American newsmen
on the eve of the opening here of
the .all-India congress committee
session from which he is certain
to obtain authorization for any
course of disobedience.
Meanwhile, Manlana Abul
Kalan Azad, president of the
all-India congress party, was
reported to be drafting letters
to . President Roosevelt. Gener
alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and
other allied leaders asking sup
port for the congress' demand
for freedom and emphasizing
that the congress was prepared
to offer armed resistance to ag
gressors.
Gandhi said he could give no
assurance -that he would not deal
with Japan if the Indian provis
ional government is established
M, he added:
"I should do so in the interest
burelT of the allied cause. It mav
the eifortand iopCmlstn ofi a
visWnary but it can' do jno harm
to the war effort. It will discredit
Japan if a friendly gesture on be
half of groaning humanity is re
pelled."
The nationalist leader said he
had no thought of waiting for in
dependence after the war because
waiting is harmful."
"Attainment of independence
after the war would lose its
charm," he said. "India would not
feel that it had made any real
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Two-Day Bond
Sales Planned
Truck-Trailer Booster
Outfit Slated Here
August 14, 15
"Victory House," an elaborate
truck-stage and trailer-b o o t h
sales -promoters for US war bonds
and stamps is to make a two-day
stop in Salem next week, August
14 and. IS, Chairman Frederick S.
Lamport of the Marion county
war . savings staff was advised
Thursday-
Oregon is the first state to be
visited by this colorful sales unit.
and we want to make a big event
of its stop in Salem," Lamport
said. "I am asking civic groups
to send representatives to a meet
ing at the chamber of commerce
at 10 o'clock next Monday morn
ing to discuss plans for the occa
sion."
Lamport indicated that Friday
and Saturday of next week prob
ably would be designated as "Vic
tory days and a lively celebra
tion, centering on sale of bonds
and stamps; arranged. - i 1
"Victory House" was built as a
mobile unit at the request of the
federal treasury department by
the Standard Oil company of
California, according to George
H. Austin, sales development rep
resentative for the company
whose services have been loaned
to the war savings campaign
staff. Austin, who served as an
nouncer at the state fair here in
1935, was accompanied on his call
at Lamport's office by E. C,
Grady, Salem district manager for
Standard.
Oregon Tops
Job Upturn
PORTLAND, Aug. l-ipf-Or
gon led the nation in employmen
increase during the first six
months of 1942 but had the low
est upturn in industrial accidents,
the office of war information here
reported Thursday. : - ;
; A survey announced. by Secre
tary of Labor Perkins put the
state's increase in employment at
40.3 per cent Injuries in indus
trial accidents were up only , L7
per cent.' ;
OSC Prexy
V - ' . I -
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X'.r
DR. AUGUST L. STRAND
Scientist is president.
Strand Named
College Head
Entomologist Recent
Montana State
President
ALBANY, Aug. e-C-Appoint-
ment of Dr. August LeRoy Strand,
43, an entomologist of national
note, as president of Oregon State
college was announced Thursday
by Willard L. Marks, president of
the Oregon board of higher edu
cation. . I ' " A
Dr. Strand, president of Mon
tana State college since 1937, suc
ceeds Frank L. Ballard, resigned.
He will assume his duties at Cor-
vallis about October 15.
Oregon State has been without
president since Dr. Ballard re
signed and Dr. F. A. Gilfillan was
named acting president a year
ago.
Dr. Strand, nominated for the
presidency by Chancellor Fred
erick M. Hunter, was interviewed
along with other candidates by
the board at its meeting in Port
land last week. ; .
The New! Oregon State, presi
dent moved to the" presidency of
Montana State from the head of
that institution's department of
entomology. He is listed in Who's
Who in America, ; American men
of science and the educational
blue book. He is a member of
the American Society for the Ad
vancement of Science and Sigma
XI, honorary scientific -fraternity.
He served with Dr. Donald M.
Erb, president of the University
of Oregon, as a member of the
board of trustees of the northwest
regional educational council.
He was born at Victoria, Tex
February 12, 1894, and was grad
uated from Montana State in 1917.
He served in the navy's aviation
branch in the first World war as
an ensign. Alter tne armistice, ne
returned to Montana' to become
assistant state entomologist
In 1925 he was awarded his
master's degree and in 1927 his
doctorate, both from the Univer
sity of Minnesota.;
Dr. Strand is married and has
three children: James Allen, a stu
dent at the US haal academy:
Patricia Marilyn in high school.
and Roy Douglas, a fifth grader.
Alaska Said
Offense Base
SEATTLE, Aug. 6.-lfly-Alaslta
is the strategic base for a poten
tial offensive.; against Japan and
cur forces ther should be under
an aerial high command, Maj. A!'
exander de Scversky, aviation ex
pert and World war flier, " sail
Thursday- right .
"Our military problem there is
an aerial prolJem," he added.
"To we air men Agattu and Kls
ka islands have long been known
as the best points for direct bom'
bardment of Japan," be said,
"Japan has them now so we can
not use them.':
RAF Raids Again
, LONDON, Aug. 7 -tfV Royal
Air-4 Force, bombers returned
the 'attack on Germany for the
third successive night -Thursday
night an authoritative British
source said Friday. - .
3 An
y
Units
Formed
Air Preparations
Pass Germany in
Air-Borne Men
WASHINGTON, Aug. Hff)
Army preparations to take the
offensive advanced Thursday
with disclosure of the forma-
tion of two divisions of troops
to be moved into battle by
planes and gliders, and creation
of a new American-Canadian
super-commando unit
The air-borne infantry divisions
each will include some 8000 men
and thus will be about half the
size of convention triangular in
fantry divisions. Undersecretary
of War Robert P. Patterson said
they "very likely" would be re
inforced by others.
The elite American-Canadian
force, composed of picked men
skilled in parachute and marine
landings, and in mountain and
desert fighting, is training at
Helena, Mont. Designated the
First Special Service force, it
is commanded by CoL Robert T.
Frederick, and is under strict
supervision of the department's
deputy chief of staff, Lieut
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney.
The Canadian contingent, uni
formed and paid the same as the
American soldiers, is the first to
serve as part of a United States
army unit.
This force probably will be the
pattern for others, Patterson told
his press conference. . i
The two air-borne divisions,
the 82nd n? the 101st, will fight
as ground troops.
"We've had air-borne units be
fore but these are the first7 such
entire divisions," Patterson said.
"They will move all their wea
pons and other equipment by
planes and gliders."
Their formation f 1 1 o w Ing
months of Intensive preliminary
training and experiments p n t
American air war' preparations
a step bexond any known to
have been taken by Nasi Ger
many, military quarters said.
The nazis are credited with
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Dairy Co-op
Charged as
Monopoly
PORTLAND, Aug. 6.-JF)-The
huge Portland Dairy Cooperative
association and 10 of its officers
have been accused of monopoliz
ing milk production and distribu
tion by a federal grand jury.
Charles S... Burdell of Seattle,
special assistant to the attorney
general, disclosed in federal court
Thursday that an indictment car
rying the accusation was returned
by the March grand jury. The' as
sociation has 3200 producer mem
bers in the Portland, Salem, Van
couver, Wash., and adjacent areas,
and sold nearly ZVi million dollars
worth of milk in 1941.
Federal Judge Leon R. Yank-
wich of Los Angeles, presiding
here in the absence of local jud
ges, set arraignment for next
Thursday.
The Indictment accused the
association of opposing meas
ures which would repeal or
modify the Oregon milk con
trol law, af Influencing the milk
control board U adept policies
furthering association interests,
f employing threats and coer
cion to Induce producers to sell
milk through It and af requir
ing distributors to purchase all
reqmirementa from, the assorta
The indictment charged further
that federal : agencies, including
the veterans hospital at Portland,
have been required by the associ
ation to "expend an arbitrary and
non-competitive price for the pur
chase of fluid mflk." : ; v ' " I
f The association wag said in the
charge to control 70 per cent - of
all milk consumed in the Port
land area. - " .' i
Defendants Included; Will W.
Henryt Portland, , secretary-man
ager; Lewis Minoggie, Portland,
president and board chairman;
Arthur V. Ireland, Portland, vice-
president; Directors A. Malar,
Sandy; Henry Hagg, Reedvflle;
David Saucy, Salem; J. C Ferguson,-
W o o d 1 a w n, Wash.; Otto
Blumqulst . Battleground,- Wash,
and Grover C Poe, ' Vancouver,
Waslu, field man, and Gene Kel
ler, Vancouver representative.
Nazi War Machine Cuts Path
4
7
A nasi tank unit is shown in this Soundphoto moving forward in the
batUefront The picture was brought to New. York via clipper. Its
members of a German tank unit stopping "in front of a church
along with the surrounding dwellings." (UN Soundphoto).
Airport Work
Contract Let
Taxiwayv Drainage
Construction May
; Be for Salern
- WASHINGTON, Aug. - W)
The war department " announced
Thursday award of the following
contracts by the army engineers:
1 Between $100,000 and $500,000:
Natt McDougal Co, rortland.
Ore., construction of taxiways,
apron, drainage and under
ground ducts, Marion county.
Ore.; Portland engineer office.
Sam Bergesen, Wick and Dahl
gren, McChord field. Wash, con
struction of temporary frame
buildings,-Pierce county, Wash
Seattle engineer office.
Between $50,000 and $100,000:
A. G. Homann, Olympia, Wash.,
construction of temporary frame
buildings, Pierce county, Wash.;
Seattle engineer office.
Whether or not the Marion
county airport contract announc
ed by the war department Thurs
day applied to the Salem airport
now under lease to the army, was
hot disclosed.
That the Salon airport was to
be improved through widening
and lengthening of runways -and
construction of small military
garrison facilities was announced
last May by the Portland district
office of the army engineers.
An audit showing the city's in
vestment in the airport is now in
the hands of federal officials with
the understanding the field may
be bought by the government
Two Sinkings
Told by Navy
Educated Torpedo Gets
Merchantman in
Mexico Gulf
By Th Associated Press
The navy disclosed Thursday of
the destruction of a medium-
sized US merchant vessel with
the loss of 25 lives late last
month in the Gulf of Mexico
boosted to 415 The Associated
Press count of , announced allied
and neutral ship losses in western
Atlantic - waters since December
. The vesseL victim of an "edu
cated torpedo, was approaching
an American port after taking
aboard 270 seamen and passengers
who had lived through other U-
boat attacks.
i. The navy - also announced
Thursday that a medium-sized
American cargo carrier had been
sunk June in the Indian ocean
-Dossiblyi by a Japanese sub
marine, the ship's skipper said.
' At a gulf coast port survivors
Of the Gulf of Mexico sinking said
they ttw'i .torpedo skimming
along parallel to their ' ship and
thought at first it-was Csh-
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7edne? day s "Weather ,!
Wednesday's max. . temp. 12,
sniau 58. Elver Wednesday -2J.
By arsay request weather fore
casts are withheld and temper
ature data delayed.
'
Gen. Cook
Arrives
In Salem
Brig. Gen. G. R. Cook, whom
the war department in Wash
ington, DC, has announced as
the commander of the 194th di
vision which b to be activated
at Camp- Adair next month, has
arrived -Ik Salem and is resid
ing temporarily at the .Marion
hoteL . .J.
. Wth the generat who la boob
to be advanced to- the grade of
major generaL are his daugh
ters, CeCe and Patsy Cook. They
are considering making Salem
their residence city while the
general is stationed at Adair.
All three are already veter
ans of the war with Japan, since
they were in Hawaii at the
time of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Gen. . Cook's . home city is
Texarkana, Ark.
Nazi General
Warns Dutch
Told Not to Aid Allied
Invaders; Exiles Call
On Homeland Help
LUONDON,' Aug. 8 -&)- A
"most urgent warning' that those
Dutch who aid landing parties or
as -much as show themselves on
the streets in event of an allied
invasion will be given a blood
bath was sounded by German mil
itary "authorities In the Nether
lands Thursday. -
The stern- proclamation of Gen.
Fried rich Christiansen, nazi com
mander, was read over the Neth
erlands radio as informed British
sources, deeply impressed by the
gravity of the situation in south
ern Russia; asserted they were
"working : zealously"." with - the
United States in preparations for
an i ultimate continental front
while seeking means .to increase
immediate material aid to the Red
army.
The German counter-prepara
tions to the second front threat
came less than 12 hours after
Premier Piter S. Gerbrandy of
the Dutch government here. In a
broadcast' to his homeland, had
urged the people to wait patient
ly until the call came from Lon
don to take "an active part in the
destruction of the tyrant"
It also came a few days after
it - was ' announced that . Prince
Bernhard, husband of the crown
princess, was preparing to "re
turn to the 1 jvetheriands" pre
sumably in his capacity as an ar
my and navy officer.
Declaring the British and
Americana "count on the popula
tion's help in event of an inva
sion. Gen. Christiansen's procla
ma tion said:
"If ever an Englishman or any
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Our Senators
Lc:i
C-l
of Destruction
in
it
Donets .region of the Russian
caption Identified the soldiers as
Just long enough to set it afire
Fire Destroys
Huge Sawmill
$300,000 Blaze 3rd
In Cottage Grove;
Sabotage Suspect
COTTAGE GROVE, Ore., Aug.
6-iJPy-Tire virtually destroyed the
J. H. Chambers & Son sawmill,
one of the largest in Lane county;
late ! Thursday and officers im
mediately launched a search for a
firebug. : 1 "
It was the third fire here with'
in two weeks.. The first destroyed
the 175,000 home of Walter Wood
ard, . Cottage Grove lumberman.
The second did $40,000 damage to
Woodward's mill. Chambers esti
mated the lews in Thursday's blaze
at S300.000.
Federal bureau of investigation
agents, state police and the state
arson squad went into action im
mediately, ' suspecting sabotage. -
Charles Pray, chief of state
police, Mid all Indication point
ed to a "dangerous maniac' be
ing loose. He said the Cham
bers', mitt, blase and the other
two were .considered- a. single
case. Pray said the entire state
police Investigation department
was working en the fires. '..
Thursday's fire started on the
green chain ana spread rapiaiy
beyond - the control of the mill's
firefighting" facilities. '
The Chambers' mill had a daily
capacity of 150,000 board feet j
Myron Perry, Cottage Grove
police chief,' disclosed that Cham
bers had received a letter which ;
threatened that his home would
be burned. . Perry said Chambers
received the letter July 26, the
date. Wood ward's residence burn
ed.?. The letter .was . turned over
to the FBI, he said.. .
Perry disclosed also that evi
dence of gasoline or kerosene
waa discovered Thursday niffht'
la the vicinity of the Chambers'
mill green chain. The mill's fire
hoses had been cut be said.
Perry reported that the fire
damaged some box cars on & sid
ing beside the mill and that flames
Jumped . the Pacific highway.
which passed by the milL Traffic
was detoured for a time.
The fire swept the. mill, dry
kiln, planing mill and destroyed
5,000,000 feet of lumber, OilHanks
a -block distant were threatened.
Allied Planes
Bomb Japs .
. GENERAL MacARTHURS
HEADQUARTERS, Australia,
Friday, Aug. 7 rff-JUlied planes
bombed Japanese airdrome and
dispersal, areas at Lae and Sala-
maua. New Guinea, Thursday, al
lied headquarters announced m
its daily communique' Friday. ; -
- The situation at the Gona-Suna
area of Mew Guinea's Papuan
peninsula, - where ' the Japanese
have landed i small but compact
jungle-trained fighting force, re
mained static, the command said.
The commurJque reported that
allied medium bombers success
fully bombed airdrome runways
and dispersal areas In the Lae
and Salamaua actions.
Naz
IS
Drive'
Wedge ;
Enemy Still
Holds Upper
Hand, South
By The Associated Press
German tanks drove a
wedge Jnto the Unssian lines
on the Volga plains at Kotel
nikovski Thursday, forcing a ,
fresh retreat to new positions
less than 95 miles southwest
of- Stalingrad, a midnight
communique from Moscow
said early Friday.
The northern arm of the
massive German pincer squeez
ing toward the great industrial
city, however, was driven back
in the Don elbow, south of Klets
kaya where counter-attackina
Russians captured an. "advantage
ous defense line" and prisoners.
Other Russian reverses on tba
Caucasus were reported.
The midnight communique said
the Soviets .withdrew to new po
sitions on .several sectors of the
front south of Belaya Glina, 100
miles southeast of Rostov.
In that fighting, the com
munique added, a .German at- :
tempt to land air-borne soldiers f
behind the red lines was frns- '
trated and the entire force waa
annihilated or captured. , . f ;
Eager soviet reserves were
hurled into the battle - for the
Caucasus and were reported hard
ening the lines now perilously
close to the Maikop oil fields.
The Russians reported the;
were standing lirm south of Kush
chevska, 50 miles below the Don'
city of Rostov. p
Here the Russian communique
declared the red forces had pene
trated enemy . formations several
times inflicting heavy losses. K
was there that the black-robed
Cossacks were standing heroically
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FDR Appoints
Rubber Board:
Barnch Heads Croup to
Get Facts; Agency
Bill Gets Veto
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -UP1
President Roosevelt Thursday ap
pointed a committee headed by
Bernard M. Baruch to "get the
facts" on the confused and much-
disputed rubber situation. He in
structed it to make a thorough
survey and to submit, as quickly
as possible, a report which is to
become the basis . for j action on
the manufacture of synthetic and
the question of nation-wide gaso
line rationing. ' .
The chief executive made this
announcement in a message to
congress vetoing a bill; pushed
through by the farm block, under
which an independent rubber sup
ply agency would have been cre
ated and directed to provide an
adequate supply of rubber, using
synthetics made with alcohopro-
auced from farm and forestry .
products. V
Establishing - such an agency.
the president said, would, have
infringed the principle of unified
control of the war production pro
gram, and would have used up
critical materials in building syn
thetic rubber plants, regardless of
me needs of the army and navy,
until civilian motorists, Including
J37 riders," had received an ade
quate supply of tires, v
"The approval of this bill would,
in my opinion, block the progress
of the war production program,
and therefore the war itself," Mr.
Roosevelt said, "v:s;
In naming Baruch to the chalr-
manshin .'of -de committee. Mr
Roosevelt drafted the services of
an old friend and . Intimate - ad
visor, as well as of one who la
versed ; in war time industrial
problem. - Baruch was chairman
Of the war industries board in the
World war. . The other members
of the comrxiittee were axmounced
as "Dr. James B.: Conant, presi
dent of. Harvard, imiversity and
Dr. Karl F. Compton, president
of Massachujetta Institute of tech.
nology. ". '- "
Two of the principal backers c
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