The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, August 07, 1942, Page 2, Image 2

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    The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Friday' Morning. August 7. 1942
3 Army Units
Air-Carried
New Divisions Pass
Nazis; Canadians
In Commandos
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four or more parachute divisions
mirh am figured In the Invasion of
Crete, but air-borne infantry em-
nlnved wm believed to have been
in the role only temporarily.
The 82nd division is command
ed by Brie. Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway, and the 101st by Brie.
Gen. William C.; Lee, who last
March was put in charge ol the
heading up training and operation
of paratroopers as well as infan
trymen who travel by air.
' Another specially trained out
fit, the new engineer, amphibian
command, at . Camp Edwards,
Mass, will have as it first
, commander CoL Daniel Noee,
of the, engineer corps. It was
Patterson also reported:
A new army transportation
corps has been created, headed by
Brig. Gen. Charles P. Gross, to
take over sill military rail, water
and highway transportation func
tions, Its status was described as
comparable in importance to the
quartermaster corps and. the ord
nance" department. '
The Alaskan highway across
Canada is miking "very good
progress," moving , ahead faster
than was anticipated.
RAF-(ierman
Aerial Score
Even in July
LONDON, Friday, Aug. 7-)
Britain's aerial offensive against
the axis during July showed prac
tically an even score despite
bomber losses over Germany and
occupied territory, the RAF an
nounced Friday in a review of
operations for the month.
In all theatres of operation
Europe, the Middle East and the
far-flung shipping lanes the RAF
destroyed 420 axis planes and
lost 432.
Attacks against land targets in
Germany and the occupied coun
tries cost the RAF 250 planes,
while in defending Britain, the
RAF destroyed 113 nazi planes
S3 of them over this country and
58 over the continent
The review said weather condi
tions in July were "unexpectedly
unfavorable," but the bomber
command operated against Euro
pean targets on 18 days and 16
Bights, the RAF as a whole 23
days and 18 nights.
The Germans were reported
over Britain on 18 nights and
there was a slight increase in their
daylight activity with 19 raids.
The review said the special fea
ture of the month was increased
attack on rail transport in north
ern f ranee and Belgium and ad
ded that nine freight trains were
destroyed in Belgium on July 25.
' It made special reference to the
first European bombing offensive
by the United .States air force
July 4 on nazi airdromes, planes
and pilots on the' ground in Hol
land and on of f shire shipping. It
i said the American national holi
. day was "suitably celebrated."
In RAF attacks on shipping dur
ing July, the review said, 19 ships
were .either sunk or damaged in
northern waters and 38 in the
Mediterranean.
El Salvador Quakes
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador,
: Aug. 6 -(JPy- A strong earthquake
" eVi skr ir 1ert?ie ohiuit a mfniiia Uros
felt here at 5:30 p. m. (4:30 p.
m. PWT) Thursday, causing hun
dreds Of people to leave churches
and theatres. No damage or cas
ualties were reported immediate
ly. " '
. Guatemala Shakes
GUATEMALA CITY. Guate
mala, Aug. 6 HPfc- Thi capital
. city was shaken by a severe earth
-tremor at 5:35 p. m. CST (4:35
p. m., PWT) Thursday, lasting 5u
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branch ef the US navy to be known as the "Waves.' It Is little
known that women In uniform are already assisting the navy's
London office. Mrs. Pamela Rank, pictured in this Soundphoto, to
one of the comely drivers attached to the US navy department In
the British capital. Note arm Insignia on her smart uniform. (UN
Soundphoto).
Bombers Drop
New Missies
Phosphorus Fire Bombs
Loosed; Hospital in
Southeast Struck
LONDON, Friday, Aug. 7.-(P)
German bombers were reported
to have dropped their new-type
phosphorus fire bombs in a short,
sharp attack on an East Anglian
town early Friday.
The ministry of home security
has just warned Britons of the
new-type bomb.
A number of high explosive
bombs also were dropped by the
attacking planes, which flew
through an intense anti-aircraft
barrage.
Raiders also were reported
over the southeast coast of Scot
land early this morning. High ex
plosive bombs were dropped near
one town.
Two German raiders bombed
and demolished a section of a hos
pital in a southwest town at dusk
Thursday night, causing several
fatalities and trapping a number
of patients.
Nurses and physicians dug in
the debris in an effort to rescue
the buried patients.
Other property in the town was
damaged. The clock on the church
tower was hit.
One of, the raiding, planes re
turned, swept low over a resort
town . which was crowded with
vacationers and machine-gunned
the streets. " Several persons were
injured.
Search for the hospital victims
continued after nightfall.
Paper Asserts
Kaiser Gets
Plane Job
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 W)
The Washington Post says Henry
J. Kaiser, west coast shipbuilder,
will leave Washington with a de
finite understanding that high
speed production organization will
be given a part in a new program
for building big cargo-carrying
airplanes. .
., The new program, which rep
resents a substantial expansion of
present plans for building air car
riers, will utilize not only Kais
er's facilities, but those of some
of the country's biggest airplane
manufacturers, the paper said.
Kaiser, it was reported, will be
given an assignment for manu
facturing planes of the type of
the giant 70-ton flying boat, Mars,
designed by Glenn L. Martin, and
at the same time will be com
missioned to proceed with the de
velopment of a revolutionary type
of "flying :- freighter" weighing
200 tons" and capable of carrying
a 100-ton payload.
Donald M. Nelson, war pro
duction board chief, indicated to
reporters upon, leaving White
House conference Thursday that
new plans for planes to carry sol
diers and weapons to the world's
battlefronta could be expected
soon. -. ' -' i
. He was asked whether he
thought the xoruicoming an
nouncement would be favorable
to Kaiser and he replied in the
affirmative.
Sugar Cards Voided
PORTLAND, Aug. t-i-Cet-
tificates for canning sugar be
come invalid 60 days after Issu
ance, William H. E. I Cox, state
OPA food rationing official, warn
ed housewives Thursday night
Call to Colors
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Hoyt Declares
War Situation
Not Disclosed
SEATTLE, Aug. 8 -(- De
claring that the government does
not have the confidence of the
people to the extent essential to
all-out victory, Palmer Hoyt, ed
itor of the Portland Qregonian,
called upon military and naval
authorities Thursday night to be
realistic about the facts.
. "The strangest handling-of any
major Incident of the present war
has been that involving the Aleu
tian islands," said Hoyt, one of
the speakers in a radio forum
(town meeting of the air) on "The
Role of the Press in Wartime."
"Certainly the strange method
of reporting the occupation of the
islands ill-conditioned the minds
of the American public -for the
serious potentialities that such an
occupation might hold," he added.
Gardner Cowles, jr., assistant
director for domestic operations
of the office of war information,
who spoke from Washington, DC,,
as the government representative
on the program, admitted that the
job of getting news from those
who "hesitate to relaseiit" is dif
ficult. : "
He called on the press to as
sume responsibility for telling the
American people "the war Is not
being won" and that "the war
must be won."
Hoyt said during a question
period that he blamed military
authorities rather than the pres
ident for misinformation:
Other speakers were: Robert B.
Abel, Tacoma attorney; Sol H.
Lewis, Lyndeu, publisher; Alfred
R. Rochester, representative of
the office of war. information and
Frank L. Taylor, assistant publish
er, Seattle Star. George V. Denny,
New York City, was moderator.
Three Wages
Boosts Called
WASHINGTON, Aug.
The war labor board Thursday
unanimously directed three lum
be ring companies in the Marsh
field, Ore., area to grant wage in
creases- of 7V4 cents' an hour to
their 740 employes." ,
The award made . the increase
retroactive to April 1 last The
CIO International Woodworkers
of America had asked boosts of
HVi cents, an hour.
The increase - awarded was
identical with that allowed 35,000
Pacific northwest lumber and.
sawmill workers in a recent ar
bitratkm award. ,
The board also ordered mainte
nance of m. membership clause by
an A-lifvbte, H, D. Horton, em
ployer member, dissenting.
Companies affected are Coos
Bay Logging, Coos Bay Lumber
and Port Oxford Cedar.
Wheat Pool
Plans Ready
WASHiNUTUN, AUg. .-tA-
Agn culture experts and diplomats
of five nations have completed
organization of an international
wheat council to facilitate estab
lishment of a 100,000,000 bushel
grain pool for the relief, of war-
stricken areas. ' ' j
- The state department announ
ced Thursday that Paul Appleby,
American undersecretary of agri
culture, had been named council
chairman at a meeting attended
by representatives of the United
States, Canada, Australia, Great
Britain and Argentina.
FDR Appoints
Rubber Board
Baruch Heads Croup to
Get Facts; Agency , j
Bill Gets Veto
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the bill. Senators Gillette CD
Iowa) and Thomas (D-Okla)
agreed that any movement to
override the president's veto
would be held in abeyance until
Baruch, Conant and Compton
completed their studies and made
their report to Mr. Roosevelt
Gillette said the president had
appointed "outstanding men in
whom the public has confidence"
to make the investigation, and an
nounced the records of the senate
agriculture committee's hearings
on synthetic rubber would be
made available to the president's
board.
Both Gillette and Thomas fore
saw the possibility that no effort
would be made to override the
veto if the board recommended
constructive steps to end the rub
ber shortage.
- Baruch Issued a statement say
ing: "The president's command
has been received. The committee
has organized itself and is in ac
tion." -
' The president chose this meth
od of bringing order out of a
chaotic situation. The develop
ment of the acute rubber situa
tion with the outbreak of the war
and the stoppage of crude rub
ber imports from the Dutch East
Indies has been accompanied by
an intense controversy.
This dispite involved the ques
tion how much synthetic rubber
should be made from alcohol pro
duced from grain and how much
from petroleum products and
what exact processes should be
used.
Tangled with this some-times
short-tempered argument has
been the question of enforced con
servation of the present tire sup
ply by strict nationwide rationing
of gasoline.
"In recent months," Mr. Roose
velt said Thursday, "there have
been so many conflicting state
ments of fact concerning all the
elements of the rubber situation
statements from responsible gov
ernment agencies as well as from
private sources that I have set
up a committee of three men to
investigate the whole situation
to get the facts and report them
to me as quickly as possbile with
their recommendations.
"This committee will immedi
ately proceed to study the pres
ent supply, the estimated mili
tary and essential civilian needs,
and the various processes now be
ing urged; and they will recom
mend processes to be used, not
only in the light of the need for
rubber, but also in the light, of
critical materials required by
these processes. T
"In a sense, this will require a
review of the program now fol-
owed by the war production
board. It will form a basis for fu
ture- action not only with respect
to synthetic rubber, but also such
matters as nationwide gas ration
ing and motor transportation. The
responsibility for the distribution
of critical materials wll continue
to remain with the war production
board; but the board, as well as
the American people, will have a
complete statement . before them
of the facts found by the com
mittee." A letter to Baruch defined the
functions of the committee more
briefly:
"In short," it said, "the pur
pose, of your survey and investi
gation is to recommend such ac
tion as will best produce the syn
thetic rubber necessary for our
total war effort, including essen
tial civilian use, with a minimum
interference with the production
of other weapons of war."
Government
Tells Wheat
Sales Price
WASHINGTON, Aug. .-)-
The agriculture department an
nounced Thursday prices at which
it would sell 125,000,000 bushels
of government-owned wheat for
feed to encourage greater produc
tion of livestock, dairy and poul
try products for the war.
The prices range from 74 to 99
cents a bushel for August deliv
ery. Officials said these prices
were on the "upper side" of 85
per cent of the parity price of
corn at the selling point
The prices generally were high
est in areas distant from the mid
western grain producing area, re
flecting transportation and other
costs involved in moving the
grain.
The wheat is being offered un
der the recently enacted agricul
ture appropriation bill which au
thorized the sale of not more than
125,000,000 bushels at not less
than 85 per cent of the - parity
price for corn.
The prices announced Thursday
were on a state basis. Local mar
ket prices will be determined on
the basis of the state quotations,
taking into account transportation
and other factors affecting prices
within a state... --.-
The prices will advance half a
cent a bushel in September and
another half cent in October. The
October : prices, the department
said, are expected to closely ap
proximate 85 per cent of ; corn
parity and consequently be very
near the government corn loan
rate for the 1942 crop.
Holman Declares
Confusion Reigns
.. .
PORTLAND, Ore Aug. 6.-P)
-Sen. Rufus C Holman (R-Orej
returned Thursday from his tour
of west coast defense and charged
that "well nigh every operation
under the executive branch of the
federal government can be chai-
acterized by the word "confu
sion." . --- v - -
Holman, a member of the sen
ate military affairs committee, at
various points on the tour char
ged that there was a lack of co
ordination among military serv i
ces and that coastal defenses were
inadequate.
Holman will Join a subcommit
tee junket to Alaska next week.
Warns Dutch
Told Not to Aid Allied
Invaders; Exiles Call
On Homeland Help
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of his allies enters Netherlands
territory, either the coast or the
interior, the Netherlands people
must obey these instructions:
"Stay home, try to find shelter
against air raids and actual fight
ing. Those walking out in the
streets take a great risk of being
shot Those helping the enemy
will not escape the consequences
of their action." !
Meanwhile, British Ambassador
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr joined
Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley of the
United States air force and Am
bassador A dm. William H. Stand
ley in conferences with soviet
leaders reviewing the immediate
soviet military and economic po
sition and evaluating Russia's
ability to exert pressure in the
east should an allied force land
in western Europe.
Some quarters believed it nec
essary for the British to make
some drastic move as emphasis of
British-American sympathy for
Russia's plight lest soviet morale
lag.
Emphasizing the political im
portance to the allies of confront
ing the Germans with war on two
fronts, this source said "the Ger
man government has promised
the people there will be no two-
front war this time. They also
promised the people they would
not be bombed in this war, and
the failure of the nazi govern
raent to make good this boast has
been very harmful to internal
morale. Opening of a European
front in the west probably would
be even more damaging."
Subdividing of
Valley Farms
Given Study
A partial answer to the ques
tion of how many additional
farms can be developed in Ore
gon by subdividing present farm
lands is given in a new bulletin,
"Land Settlement m the Willam
ette Valley, with Special Refer
ence to Benton County," just is
sued as OSC station bulletin 407.
The bulletin embodies the re
port of an intensive study made
in Benton county by Vernon W.
Baker of the bureau of agricul
tural economics, ' in cooperation
with the department of farm man
agement at OSC. Because of its
fertile soils, mild climate and
general reputation as a region that
can support additional settlement
Willamette valley has been ex
periencing a steady infiltration of
new farm families, the bulletin
points out
While the future is heavily
clouded by the present war and
uncertainty of coming conditions,
the situation at the time the study
was made showed that only about
7 per cent of the present farm
ownerships in the county are ruf
ficiently large to permit ubdivi
sion into two or more adequate
sized units for full-time farm
ing. ."Most of these, in fact lie
along the flood plains of the Wil
lamette river, where both clear
ing and flood control protection
will be necessary before subdivi
sion and further settlement could
safely be encouraged.
-About one-third of Benton
county's present crop land in the
main valley is devoted to grain
crops, even though it is well
adopted,' under proper manage
ment, to the. production of more
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Dutch Queen
Has Big Day
Says Tulips Are Gone,
Receives Sub-Chaser .
On US Lend-Lease
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6-W)
When Queen Wilhelmina of The
Netherlands finally put her royal
head on her pillow at the White
Souse Thursday night she could
say "whew, what a day," con
scious that she followed through
on a heavy program that ranged
from C tulip discussions to com
missioning a new submarine chas
er. ,. . . y---,', :-- :
The 61-year-old monarch, the
world's senior ruler, was the first
queen to address congress, to hold
a press' conference here; Aboard
the presidential yacht, she went
with the president and Mrs. Roose
velt to Mount Vernon where she
visited George Washington's home
which had puzzled her daughter,
Crown Princess Juliana, because
it didn't seem to ; have enough
cupboard space. "
With the Roosevelts she drove
to the Arlington national ceme
tery where she laid a wreath on
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
of World war L Later she gave
a dinner at The Netherlands em
bassy and held a reception.
She did it on four changes of
costume, and two changes of spec
tacles. Wilhelmina, who kept The
Netherlands out of World war I
but wasn't that successful in
World war ILtold congress that
"no surrender" remains the motto
of her people, suffering though
they are. For her appearnace On
Capitol Hill she wore a deep
green chiffon embroidered with
squares of J e t In patterns of
squares or blouse and skirt Her
frock was floor-length. Her nar
row-brim black felt hat trimmed
with a mass of felt loops at the
back and a small Jewel ornament
at the front would have got a
nod of approval from Britain's
Queen Mary.
Around her neck was a slim
platinum chain set at intervals
with pearls and diamonds. She
put on gold rim spectacles with
which to read her speech.
From the Capitol the queen
drove to the Washington navy
yard. There the president acting
under the lend-lease act trans
ferred to her a 173-foot sub-cha
ser as a "tangible expression of
our admiration for all that The
Netherlands navy has done, and
is doing."
The stars and stripes were
hauled 'down from the mast while
the national anthem was played,
and then the colors ' of The Neth
erlands were hoisted while The
Netherlands national anthem re
sounded across the water.
The queen then commissioned
the vessel, declaring it would op
erate "in close collaboration with
the United States navy against our
common enemy.
At her press conference, she
spoke of the suffering of her peo
ple, and their determination nev
er to submit to the invader.
Asked about tulips, the tradi
tional flower of Holland, the
queen said news had reached her
that the tulip fields "are no more.'
The bulbs have been used for sub
stitutes for tea and coffee and to
make bread. But after the war
she expected the tulips would
bloom again.
Mrs. Roosevelt said that in the
White House gardens there are
fine tulips one is -called the
"Pride of Haarlem" and she
promised the queen that after the
war the .White House would send
back bulbs that Holland's flowers
might get a start again.
intensive crops. With possible fu
ture irrigation and drainage de
velopment these lands possess
vast store of additional potential
productive capacity, for which
new markets are also essential
before they .could be considered
for commercial subdivision.
Those Who made the Study Con
clude that regardless of the pat
tern of future settlement in west
era Oregon, it la desirable that it
be controlled and directed to some
extent by means , of educational
programs, coordinated credit poll
cies and subdivision control. -
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Tribute to Lowe
Given by Paper
LEBANON The Trooper, pub
lished by and in the interest of
the cavalry squadron of the Ore
gon state guard carried in the last
issue an appreciation of the work
of El na than Lowe who had been
active in organizing the Lebanon
troop and had been named cap
tain. ;;; : c .
Members of the Lebanon troop
attended the funeral in uniform
and stood at salute . while taps
were sounded and. Trooper Bruce
Spencer laid a Coral tribute In
the shape of a horseshoe on the
casket Captain Lowe's horse with
the stirrups crossed, was led in
the funeral procession.
Gandhi Will
Plead Again
Mass Movements Said
Ready if Appeal
Fails, Freedom
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effort to win independence and
it must be humiliating for a big
nation like India not to be able
to help . . . critics will never un
derstand the urgency."
He declined to .outline, in ad
vance, any of the steps he would
take- as generalissimo of the non
violence campaign.
He did, however, permit him
self to be . quoted as saying that
a general strike, to bring the pas
sive resistance movement to a
speedy conclusion, "is not outside
my contemplation."
"But seeing that I shall take
every step In the terms of my
oft-repeated declaration that a
mass straggle is not conceived
In any Inimical spirit bat in
the friendliest spirit I shall
move with the utmost caution
and If a general strike becomes
a dire necessity, I shall not
flinch."
He closed his statement with
these words:
History will record what
amazing restraint will have been
exercised, now over forces which
history would also record are
within the control of the con
gress.' Albacore Tuna
At New High
ASTORIA. Ore Aut?. 8W4
Albacore tuna was moving into
the class . , of - luxury A foods here
Thursday with the nostinff 'of
new record high price of $413 a
ton In heavy trading. "
Thursday's figure . was up $7
from the previous hleh. " which
was reached in private sales and
was not posted on the fishermen's
exchange board yesterday after
noon.
Packers expressed alarm over
the trend, pointing out that tuna
already has become higher priced
than fancy Columbia river Chi
nook salmon. The possibility was
seen that since the federal gov
ernment is not buying tuna, the
fish might be considered an un
essential product resulting, in
confiscation of fishing boats for
war purposes.
Two Sinkings
Told by Navy
(Continued From Page 1)
but that the missile suddenly cut
over and smashed into the vessel,
the ship, sank in IS minutes, after
381 persons escaped.
In the Indian ocean sinking,
the 48 persons aboard abandoned
ship and were picked up by t
British-vessel that landed them
at an east African port Other
ships- took them across the At
lantic to an east coast port
tight of those aboard were sur
vivors of another sinking.
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Enemy Retains Upper
Hand in Caucasus ;
Battle for OH
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against the full might of German
tanks and dive bombers. '
Heartening though the lim
ited Rassl&a successes were la
the Don elbow and Caaeasaa, -the
threat to SUllngTad grew
graver with the new Kosslaa
retreat at KotelnlkovsU. , The
Germans there were thrusting
east from a crossing oa the
lower Don near , Tslmlyansk,
and the flat and treeless plains
- of the Vol were advaataaooms
for the mechanised and motor
tied German army. ' ;
At Kletskaya, the Germans
were only 75 miles from the city
named for Russia's premier, but
the Don river as well as the red
army was a barrier and the Ger
man ' momentum not- only - was
stopped, but in some cases thrown
into reverse. The greatest peril to
Stalingrad and the Volga, along
which supplies pass from the Per
sian gulf, was in the Kotelnikov
ski region where ' the4 terrain is
level and treeless and only the
stout hearts and well-aimed guns
of the Russian troops barred a
German sweep. !
' It appeared that at long last
the Russians had,- reached points
from which they j would make a
supreme stand because the very
fate of Russia and with it much
of the allied cause rested on the
success or failure of the red army
to hold the Caucasus and the
Volga, the Russian main street
The loss of either would greatly
impair the Russian ability to
fight on. J
Men were dying by the thou
sands in the wake of bombing
planes, rumbling tanks, chattel
ing machineguns, deadly flame
throwers and charging infantry
Germans and Russians alike.
Japs Occupy
Three Isles
For Full Arc
GEN. MacA-RTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, Friday,
Aug. 7 .--Japanese occupation
of the islands of Kei, Aru and
Tanimbari in the Arafura sea
north of Australia has been dis
closed by allied aerial reconnais
sance, an allied headquarters
spokesman said Friday.
The occupation gives the Jap
anese a tight arc north of Aus
tralia with only Port Moresby,
New Guinea,- Jutting into the
Japanese possessions.
There was no mention whether
the terrain was suitable "for air
bases. Tanimbari is about 200
miles closer to Darwin than Koo
pang, (from which Japanese
bombers have flown to raid Dar
win.)
The Tokyo radio reported the
occupation of the three islands
was completed July 30.
The allied spokesman said the
islands were not defended.
The allies had no troops there.
A recent communique men
tioned the bombing of Kei.
The islands lie about 373 to 500
miles north and northwest of
Darwin.
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