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Going Away? ' Going away, oa ' vaca tion or te a war Job? Have The Statesman follow ' yaa. 'te keep yoa posted on events st homo. Call 911 for de tail. The Inside Tear complete morning newspaper. The Statesman, offers yon. pertinent com ments en war news of the day by Kirke Simpson, Washington analyst. inNETY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Orecjon. Sunday Morning. August 9. 1942 Price 5c Now 104 First Allied ;;0i& ma ap Where Highicay S J Ordered to Prevent Accidents Attacks? out Isle Fn ... . . V. , .... .... ... ..... W&. shies Near Maikop, Gain Toward Stalingrad By HENRY C. CASJ5IDY "'MOSCOW, Sunday, Aug; 9 (AP) Two German col umns were reported converg ing on the Maikop oil fields Sunday after cracking Rus sian defenses in the Krasnodar-Armavir area 60 miles above that prize at the foot of the Caucasian mountains. Red , Star announced the German break - through toward Maikop whose wells supply 7 per cent of Russia's oil, and the mid night communique gave this ver sion of a reverse at Armavir: "In one sector after bloody fighting during which 14 enemy tanks were destroyed and 500 Germans killed our troops with drew to new positions." The red army defending the southwestern approaches to Sta lingrad "fought with varying sue cess" against a German tank and infantry wedge into the Russian positions northeast of Kotelni kovski. The phrase "northeast of Kotelnikovski" indicated the Ger mans were gaining ground in that area. too. A communique Saturday had lo cated the fighting as "north" of Kotelnikovski, which itself is about 95- miles southwest of in dustrial Stalingrad, Thousands of German rein forcements were hurled Into bat tle both above and below the Don river in the effort to reach Stalingrad, and another omin - on development reported la the latest communique was that the nasls had concentrated a hate tank force south of Kletskaya, which is 15 miles northwest of Stalingrad in the Don elbow. The Germans were said to have left thousands of dead nazis in , the wake of their advance, but their reserve flow thus far has filled the gaps. The German drive on Maikop apparently stemmed mostly from the northeast Kuban river bend because the Russians said their troops, also were fighting the nazis in the Kropotkin sector, 50 miles northwest of Armavir. These Kropotkin fighters may bo the remnants of the Russian di visions which had been fighting at Kushchevka farther to the north on the Rostov-Baku railway be cause today's communique did not mention the Kushchevka sector. (The Germans claimed their - troops had crossed the Kuban river to capture Armavir, then - seised Karg-annaya SO miles to -the west on the Laba river, in ' the drive toward Maikop. That would place the naxls only SO miles from the oU city. (The soviet plight in the Maikop area admittedly was so critical " that it was possible the Russians already had planted demolition forces in the oil fields.) Red Star spoke of failure in the "Kuban river loop,' an implica tion that the nazis had , bridged that neutral Russian barrier al though there was no official word on such a development, The Don and Kuban Cossacks and the red army regulars fight " ing in the Kropotkin sector appar ently had only one avenue of e cape if the nazis have solidified their hold in the Krasnodar-Arma vir area. That would be westward toward the sea in the . hope of . being removed by soviet warships. The battle in the Kletskaya .sector of the Don loop was a give-and-take affair with both "' tides registering small gains. The Russians admitted a slight Ger man advance "on one narrow sector," but said red counter attacks had thrown the nails back In another sone after kttl- faur 000 Germans. There has been , no indication that the Germans had reached the .easternmost part of the Don river, " the last big natural barrier before e Volga and Stalingrad. The Russians in this pocket were fight ing with their backs to the Don curve. " ' ' - Our Senators , , " Lc:l G-4 It ftktCPt o, sjii '. vk. h . AaV i .? I vtrepareV TDST0fy FIRST SIGN SCOftfl-omCnssinfl . .. SECOND 3S0 ft from Oregon state highway map above shows principal railroad grade crossings that have been designated as highway stops in a war inspired move to avoid accidents that might hold np military and other defense shipments, according to R. II. Baldock, state highway enginere. Thirty two such crossing points, at which motor traffic must halt before proceeding ever the tracks, are shown, designated by X-marks, on the map. A series of three highway marker signs is to be set up at each stop crossing, as indicated by replicas above. US Bombers Destroy Big Axis Transport; Atlantic Toll By The Aanedated Prass The destruction of a. 10,000-ton axis transport and the damaging of other ships in attacks on two Mediterranean convoys by Amer ican bombers and the torpedoing of another United States mer chantman in the western Atlantic by an enemy submarine were re ported Saturday in two separate announcements. The headquarters of MaJ. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, commander of the United States air force in the middle east, described the -medi terranean forays, in which Amer ican B24 bombers participated. In a bold daylight attack on one of the convoys, comprising three large transports escorted by eight destroyers, American airmen scor ed two direct hits and numerous near' misses on the target. The submarine-sinking of an American merchant ship raised the Associated Press score of an nounced allied and neutral sink ings In the western Atlantic to 419 craft since December 7. Thirty nine seamen survived the mid-July attack, which occur red off the South American coast After sailing six days through heavy rainstorms and squalls, an allied merchantman picked them (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) v Cannery, Pickets Expected to Withdraw Soon Early withdrawal of the picket hoe established over the Paulus Bros. Packing, company operations in Salem by . the local cannery workers union was foreseen by union spokesmen Saturday. The local received instructions from William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to stop picketing at any time that the Paulus plant's war goods out put Teaches 80 per cent of its pro duction. ; . "That is expected to come with in ta few days," said William L. Carver, one of the men who has been acting as spokesman for the union local. MAP OF OREGON PROPOSED STOP GRADE CROSSINGS TATE HIGHWAYS MAIN LINE RAILROADS RAILROAD STOP .CROSSING, THIRD SIGN At Crttm3 - SfGN Crossing 419 Kaiser Tops Oregon Yard Delivers Quickest Vessel, Best Average WASHINGTON, Aug. 6-GP- West coast shipyards operated by the Henry J. Kaiser interests set the pace for production of emer gency cargo ships up to August 1, the mwiUme X commission an nounced Saturday. The commissions report detail ing the performance of all yards building Liberty ships showed Kaiser's Oregon shipbuilding cor- porauon yara ax -ortiana as building the most ships, the most ships per way, constructed a ship in the shortest average time. Oreroa shipbuilding had de livered 54 Liberty ships from 11 ways, an average of 4.909 ships per way with an averaxe een strnettoBt time of 108 days. Richmond shipyard, No. 1 and 2. Kichmond, Calif., also under Kai ser management, had an average production time of 113 days for second place. Third place for average produc tion tune went to Bethlehem-Fair field ; Shipyard Inc., Baltimore. with. 13 days. The average pro duction tune for ptber shipyards Included: . i ' California Shipbuilding corpor ation,- Wilmington, Calif- 152 days; Houston Shipbuilding cor poratJon, Houston, Texas, 276 days.' ; . -The California - Shipbuilding corporation ranked second to Ore (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Names Postmasters - WASHINGTON, Aug. t Nominations for Oregon post masters sent to the senate by President Roosevelt include Tracy Savery, Dallas Henry Aim, Sil verton, and - Grace . Neibert, Stay ton. , Ship Building Six Nazi Saboteurs Die in Chair; Two Gi ven- HardLabor White House Announces Verdict After Execution; Case Closed Nearly Two Months After Deed By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -i&h day snapped short the shadowy who sneaked ashore from enemy the American war effort by lire, Two others, adjudged equally guilty by a military commis sion of seven generals, escaped law of war for their intended crimes, by tattling on the rest. Because they helped the govern ment prepare its case, they were given prison sentences, one for life, the other for 30 years, both at hard labor. At boob, the first of the axeata of destruction to pay with his life was led from a eell at the District f Colombia Jail to its execution chamber. In grim suc cession the five others followed. The six were: Heinrich Harm Heinck, Richard Quirin, Edward John ' Kerling, Herbert Hans Haupt, Werner Thiel and Hermann Otto Neu bauer. Ernest P. Burger was sen tenced to prison for life, and George John Dasch was given a term of 30 years- Just before 1:30, the White House, several miles away, an nounced that President Roosevelt had approved the findings' and recommendations of the . military commission and that the six had been executed. . The record of the case, containing much information of an important military nature. it was said, would be sealed until after the war. . So, nearly two months after the arrival of the eight men on Amer ican shores, their cases were end ed. They, were dosed, : however, only after exhaustive legal pro-- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Uruguay Sends Nazis Protest ; MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sun day, .Aug.; SMffV-The government dispatched a formal protest to Ger many Sunday over the sinking of the Uruguayan freighter Maldon- ado, which was torpedoed by submarine while en ; route from Montevideo to New York. - ' The protest Was filed with the Swiss legation for delivery to Ber lin aat anti-ha4 ' demonstrations flared in the Uruguayan - capital and steel-helmeted police Jnf orce- ments were called out to preserve order. - ? .. The Uruguayan protest specific 1 ally demanded an explanation of why the Maldonaldo's captain had been taken aboard the attacking submarine as a prisoner. J Death by electrocution Satur careers of six nazi saboteurs, men submarines bent upon crippling explosion and terrorism. the death penalty fixed by the Europe Lands Said Tensed Nazis Prepare Against Invasion, Bolster Propaganda Line LONDON, Aug. 8 The peoples of Europe were reported Saturday night to be in a state of mounting tension as their nazi conquerors took strong prepara tory measures against the threat of an allied invasion and at the same time tried to persuade them a second front would fail. A Czech government source said the tension was particularly acute in Bohemia and Moravia because the Germans were sending more and more workmen to western Eu rope to labor on fortifications. Prague reports : showed a belief among v the - people, this source said, that "decisive events will take place this year." "Travelers reaching Istanbul, Turkey, were quoted as saying the nazis were so fearful of a possible ; Invasion somewhere along the extensive coastline from Norway to the Pyrenees that they had established large aerial Intervention points ' far behind the probable front Uses from which veteran parachute troops could be swiftly, carried by transport planes. fThese concentration points are scattered. . through. Westphalia in western Germany,, the Rhineland district and J southern! 'Norway; Planes -and troop are held in con stant; readiness. - v, ;? (A report from Ankara, Tur key. Friday night, said that be tween 150,000 and 180,000 Ger mans and Italian in Greece, des tined, for service in northern Af rica, were being held .there tem porarily - lest a second front be, (Turn to Page. 2, CoL ) FridayV7caiher.-".. -1 j! -Friday's max. . temp. . M, mhv 5J. Elver Friday, -IX By army- meanest, weather forecasts are 'Withheld . and . tempcratare data delayed. : KMdmdde . r." ; I- . . . . Solomon Islands "'. ' . -- ' v-v; Kaicled : Turning Point in War Not Just Sharp New Jab By MURLIN-SPENCER GENERAL Mac AR THUR'S HEADQUAR TERS, Australia, Sunday, Aug. 9 (AP) The first allied offensive fn this southwestern faciiie area was smashing Sunday against Japanese bases in 1 rt m islands north of Australia. The battle appeared still to be in its early stages. United States and Aus tralian warships were believed participating and the wording of a United States naval commun ique in Washington indicated ground forces were in the fight on the southeast Solomons. Air forces stationed in the southwest Pacific also were lend' ing . their strength to the wide spread operation - making heavy raids on New Guinea," the Solo mon islands and New Britain. . In . Melbourne, Prime Minis ter John Cartin declared the operation In the Solomon Islands "is definitely offensive In con ception and reveals the deter mination of the commands in this theatre to wage a. fighting war J He said the action represented the "consummation of a series of preparations on the part of the United Nations, including Aus tralia, which had been proceed ing for some weeks." The action represented the first extensive operation by allied nav al forces in this theatre since the Coral sea naval battle in May. - Allied air forces, however, had made attacks against Kieta in the Solomons on July 27 and also had made a heavy assault on Japanese installations at' Kukum on the north shore of Guadal canal is land on August 8. The first Japanese landings la the Solomons were made at Kie ta on January 25V while the ' enemy move Into Goaoai eanai southernmost of the croup on June 19. Reinforcements were moved to (Turn to Pago 2. Col. 7) Crosswhite Signing Is Prohibited The "affaire Crosswhite" ended for the Salem Senators baseball club late Saturday forenoon as abruptly as it had started. Business Manager Al Iightner received telegraphic orders from W. G. Bramham, minor league commissioner, not to sign or play Keith "Luke' Crosswhite, Oregon state penitentiary) inmate-pitcher. "nor any other convict" Then Warden George Alexand er announced he had decided not to let Crosswhite out of the prison to play in the scheduled navy re lief game against- the Silverton semi-pro Red. Sox Monday night, "or any other game," " ' TThat ends it," said Ughtner. "Well abide by Judge Bramham' s ruling.' I - Gov. Charles A. Sprague said he was leaving the matter "entirely in the warden's hands. . , ' , The governor bad issued a state ment earlier in the day declaring the" state penitentiary life-termer should be used only in "one or two benefit games in this-vicinity '. . . and not be exploited as a per manent, pitcher for Salem or any other nine. - Light&er said Warden Alexand er was approached Thursday with a proposal to let the senators use Crosswhite in benefit games, "and it ended tip in our signing him for our home games." v - Arrested An MOHANDAS K. GANDHI Congress approves campaign Indian Leaders In Custody as 17 Reported Taken Early on Sunday; Meetings Banned BOMBAY, Sunday, Aug. 9(JP) Mohandas K. Gandhi and other Indian nationalist leaders were arrested Sunday within a few hours after the all-India con gress party had approved a res olution authorizing a mass cam paign of civil disobedience to support its demand for immediate Indian independence. Among those taken into custody were Maulana Abdul Kalan Azad, president of the congress party, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Gandhi's secretary, Miss Made line Slade. No warrant was issued for Gandhi's wife, who was told by police that she could accompany (Turn to Page 2. CoL 4) . Yank Planes Destroy; Japs Airdrome, Docks Hot In China; Troops Retain Campaign CHUNGKING, ' Aug. 8 -JP) American plaries inflicted exten sive damage on White Cloud air drome, docks and harbor buildings and destroyed several Japanese planes' in a raid oh Japanese-held Canton Saturday morning, Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's head quarters announced. ' The fighter-escorted bombers were challenged by at least nine Japanese fighters, but only after they already had . dropped their bombs, said the communique. Two enemy planes were reported shot down and others , destroyed aground. . (The Japanese ; claimed five American . bombers were driven away from the Canton airport and tnai two were snot down over Samshui, 30 miles to the west) Chinese troops continued their comeback - campaign in Kiangsi province. Linchwan (Fuchowl was still being besieged and the Japa nese were being cleared out of the region of Huwan, southeast of Linchwan, the Chines high command said.- Ineffective Japa nese attacks , from 5a base . at Kwangfeng, a station on the C3ie-kiang-Kiangsi railway, were re ported. . " Natl Lead ion 8 era . WASHINGTON, Aug.. t P President Roosevelt . and other leaders of the war effort will tell the nation Sunday, about the exit ical needs of war production. ' f They will 'speak In connection with a "army-navy production award program on CBS from 11 to 11:30 ajn. PWT. The president's message will be read by Elmer Davis, director of Plan Approved the ofiice ox war iniormauon. Air ture Bases" Is Goal Ground Forces In Operations For Recapture By WALTER B. CLAUSEN PEARL HARBOR, TH, Aug. 8 (AP) The first American offensive in the Pacific, aimed at rolling' back the Japanese invaders and recapturing the bases they seized, is under way. This was disclosed Sat urday night in a communi que issued by Admiral Chester W. Ninth, com mander in chief of the United States Pacific fleet and Pacific ocean areas. He said forces of the United States Pacific fleet, assisted by. units of the southwest Pacific area, launched offensive opera tions Friday In the Solomon isl ands simultaneously with an at tack on Japanese-held Kiska in the Aleutians;1 " : r v r Great battles are raging.' The admiral significantly said operations were progressing fa vorably "m spite of opposition by enemy land based aircraft and garrisons. , His reference to garrisons and his dlsclosare of the combined, natnre of the American forces indicate landinr operations and the recapture of enemy -held-position are laTolred. Admiral Nimltz . communique said: . "Forces of the United States Pa cific fleet and Pacific ocean areas, assisted by units of the southwest Pacific area, launched offensive operations in the Tulagi area of the Solomon islands n August 7, east longitude time. These operations. are prigres sing favorably in spite ef opposi- . tion by enemy land based aircraft ' and garrisons. , "On August 8, east lorigitude time; a task force of the Pacific fleet bombarded enemy ships and installations In Kiska." Snch an offensive marks a tuning point In the Pacific war. ' W7 AS A A AT SBBr in1 BUI , KIT IHamiM February 1, the naval raid on Japanese-held Marshill and Gilbert Islands and Americas operation in the Pacific have been the harrassing technique of war f attrition te chop down Japanese trfklna' power." This culminated in the decisive American victory in the battle of Midway island, early in June. That battle cut heavily into the Japanese striking power. Today,, powerful- American forces are on the move' talrino anese. ' , -C y: : ' - For reasons rf trot(r irJ !m CUritv. only mearre . inf nrmstirtn - w about these offensive operations, the composition of forces or the scone of areas invn1vt l KaStio ..U..J li .... . asm v... cicutu. out x can oe saia xnac these are in no sense raids siml- 1.. 4h. Al . . . iai w uic imav opera uuns ox naval forces in the Pacific. , The Tulagi area of the So1m mons, mentioned by Admiral Nimitz, Is no strange field for American sky and sea f orces.r It was there last May, Just before the battle of the Coral sea,' where American naval raiders 'took a toll of nine and possibly, It enemy ships. '- - '-yx i The retnra now of American . farces ta this and ether areas Is (Turn to Page 2, CoL ) f Sorvico Men v j ' Mrs. Frank IL Spears, Jr, re ceived word Saturday that her husband has 1 been promoted from second t first lieutenant, lie Is stationed at. Cams Mc Clellaxv Alabama. . . ' Far additional news about men from Salem and vicinity ta the armed forces, tarn te page 14 ef today's Statesman. Lap