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I. Going AWay? '. Going away, en a Tact tion or to a war Job? Have The , Statesman follow yon. t keep yea posted oa event at home. Call fill for de- .- V. Complete : YealJ find ae newspaper cut give mora real saUsfae tlon than year local morn tar paper, with Its WORLD NEWS plas BOMS COM MUNITY NEWS. POUNDDff iCZX imirry -second teab Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning, August 12. 1942 Price) 5& No. 103 in Aleni .(BF Liiicmy mm Grocery Prices To Rise OPA Change to Avoid Squeezes From Price Act WASHINGTON, Aug. lHff) Widespread "adjustments i n food prices" which reportedly may boost the nation's food bill about 1 Vt per cent will be auth orized for retailers and whole salers by mid-September, Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced Tuesday. However, he warned, until theJ new OPA formula is worked out to relieve a price "squeeze" on hundreds of food items, prices - must remain at the March levels fixed' by the general maximum price regulation. Some pricing method, as an alternative to the general maxi mum requirements, was neces sary to avert any disturbances in the nation's food distribution system, Henderson declared. The advance announcement of OPA's plans will permit distributors to contract with food processors Immediately for next' year's merchandise. Officials; pointed out that the use of March as OPA's "ceiling price month" caught food, dis tributors with many selling prices based, on costs of stocks bought months before. Meanwhile, re placement f costs had risen for many items and distributors could not restock except at the risk of cash losses. Unless this "squeeze" were re lieved, - low Trice distributors, wholesale and retail, would have been compelled to drop important lines of food products, and food would have moved to consumers through distributors who had re latively high ceilings, they said. The general maximum price regulation requires each seller to use as his maximum the highest (Turn to Page 2. CoL 1 Schools See Bus Problems .... - . . f Faculty Resignations Accepted; Repair of . Grandstand Slated "Dimout" and rubber conserva tion orders drew attention of Sa lem school board Tuesday night as affecting football games and the transportation of elementary pupils" to school from far corners of the district Supt Frank Bennett said press reports indicated the district might be required to discontinue , hauling grade pupils to school in busses in cases where they live within two miles of their respec tive buildings. The district has , for several years provided this service for children J i v i n g in Capitola subdivision north of the city, who attend Washington school, and for pupils in the southwest corner of the district. who- go to Bush school. Anticipating no restrictions en transportation of pupils from '; outside districts, the board ap proved its yearly contract with MeCIean Transportation com pany. , Whether "or not school busses may be used to carry football and other teams to out-of-city games 'remains to be ascertained, the superintendent said. -Because use of the night light ing at Sweetland field will be forbidden under the dimout order going into effect on August 20, the board asked its building and (Turn to Page 2. Col. 5) ; Service Men Lawrence Blaisdell. soa. pt Mr. and ISrs. X A. Blaisdell jot Salem, has . been commissioned a second lieutenant in the army after gradaating from officer's .training at Camp Davis, North Carolina. He will report for duty this month at Riverside, Calif. BlaisdelTs brother, . Donald, Is now in the army air corps and taking his training la navigation. He is at Mather Field, Sacramento, and a his first flight the pilot was LL Dale Shepherd of Salem. The two are old hirh school friends. For additional sews about men from Salem and vicinity la the armed forces, tarn to page 8 of today's Statesman. Train for i Marines Open Door to Allies Invasion Rehearsals Conducted Under Live Bullets WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 The navy declared Tuesday in a statement detailing preparations for the marine landings on the Solomon islands that "the marines have opened the door to an allied offensive in the south Pacific. . Invasion rehearsals held day and night as a prelude to the at tack on the Japanese-held Tulagi territory of the Solomons included assaulting an objective under a barrage of live ammunition, the navy reported. The navy declared, however, that "now today, in hand-to-hand, combat with the Japs ' hr the Solomon islands, in close cooperation with other allied forces, the marines have opened the door to an allied offensive in the Soatk raclfle." With the explanation that "now it can be told" the navy said that reports to marine- corps headquar ters heretofore held secret Tor obvious security reasons" indicat ed that "Intensive jungle warfare training was being combined with marine amphibious tactics." "Details of heavy calibre weap ons are clouded in secrecy," the account continued, "but the fa miliarity of marines with smal calibre weapons is a fact estab lished through decades of close contact fighting. "On combat ranges hewn out of I cocoanut and banana groves the leathernecks s h a r p e n e d their shooting for the invasion, opera tions they have now practiced on the Japs. "The marines fired their rifles, their Tommyguns, Reising guns and Browning automatic rifles. They brushed up their training with .30 and .50 calibre light and heavy machine guns. "Marines pnt new twists and tracks to the business of killing Japs. Quick shooting at sur prise targets, knocking sniper dummies out of trees and as saalting an objective under a barrage of live ammunition were 1942 marine invasioa re hearsals. "During recent combat . exer cises lieutenants led their pla toons through and under barbed wire against an objective while expert riflemen ' fired live bullets 'just above the heads of the crawl ing marines. "In preparation for such strenu ous work, marines aboard trans ports -on - the long voyage over spent hours in-hand-to-hand com bat work. Knives, small arms and ju jitsu were important in ship board training in preparation for eventual jungle warfare. Kaiser Shipyard Safety Praised VANCOUVER, Wash, Aug. -11 (tf)-The Kaiser 'company's ship yard here "is one of the finest ex amples of engineering and produc tion and safety I ever have seen, Lew Palmer, vice-president of the National Safety council, ' said Tuesday on a west coast shipyard inspection tour. Solo? ,n Island .1ft. Exploding land mines give marines train at a southwest Pacific outpost for an assault such as they now are carrying out against Japs holding the Solomon islands. Boats at right are bringing a second wave of marines ashore after a storming force established a beachhead. This picture was taken by a fighting marine combat photographer. (Associated Press Telemat.) Gable Enlists In Air Corps As Private LOS ANGELES, Aug. ll-(JP) Screen Actor Clark Gable will be enlisted in the army air forces Wednesday rfternoon as a private, an army recruit- iflg-J Official an nounced. Tues day. for He said Gable, 41, had made ap plication for as signment as an aerial gunner. "He doesn't want to sell bonds or pour Clark Gable pink tea," the official said "He wants to be a regular soldier." . It was not announced where the actor would be sent for his preliminary training, which will consist of both ground and aerial instruction. " . '- Gable took his physical, ex amination Monday The; place of enlistment-was being kept" secret, the officer said,- to forestall the gathering of a gallery-of film fans. Gable announced last week he offered his services to the army air forces three weeks ago and had conferred with air force officials in Washington, DC. "He's an enlistee," the officer emphasized, "and he said he wants to go wherever the army wants to send him. He said he wants ac tion." Tax Increases Get Argument C2 Low or High Income Burden Stressed; Townsend Plans WASHINGTON, Aug. 11-(;P) Stiff increases in taxes on lower bracket incomes were urged and opposed Tuesday before the sen ate finance committee. ; Dr. Joseph J. Klein, New York city, former president of the New York State Society of -Certified Public Accountants, declared per sons with, incomes of less than $10,000 a year would not bear their full share of taxation, under the new revenue bill already ap proved by the house. Klein, who slid he was testify ing merely as an individual, ex pressed the opinion there was "no more tax gold in the corporate hills." He said little additional rev enue could be cbtained from those making $10,000 a year and up. , Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said he was convinced the house-approved till would permit $36,000,000,000 m earnings made by persons in the lower brackets to go untaxed. ' Taking an opposite viewpoint. Samuel C Greenfield, speaking! tor the teachers union ,. of New York . city, asserted the new JoSQ. would fall most, heavily on per (Turn to Page J. CoL 3) Monday's" Weather Monday's max. temp. SO, mln. 59. River Monday -iJS ft. By army request, weather forecasts are withheld and temperature data delayed, Attack . : . y4 a taste of battle conditions as they Swimming Pool Funds Sought Will Close August 21 Unles Board Would Meet Half saiems playground program, already cut to operation only the Olinger and Leslie swimmin pools, will halt on August 21 un less additional funds are provid ed, Gurnee Flesher, director, an nounced Tuesday. Letters addressed to the school board and the city council, which ointly finance the program, car ried the request of the playground board for an immediate decision as to whether or not the pools should be kept open at least until Labor day, September 7. Opera tion cost for the extended period would be $914.94, Flesher wrote. The Salem school board Tues day night expressed its approv al of continuance of the pools provided the city council would , meet half of th Mot. " w feel that the rMt:t for the swimming pools is yet to come," Mrs.. David Wright, play eround board chairman declared. D Our nrnutt Am had and nnr fnr rHnal fa- cilities is increasing rather than diminishing: Facing a crisis in financing the playground program, the govern' ing board late in July decided to terminate the kindergarten and other ground activities in order that th turn noni. ,,ih b wt . open through part of August. from the discontinuance of WPA assistance in providing personnel, Mrs. Wright said. The school board increased its appropriation for the season to $3968 to offset the loss of WPA employes, but the city council declined to match the .K1 I ; ..11 1 nw " only $2754.87 in its budget Women's Help To Be Asked Salem restaurant men decided T i i i i- .1 : l 'T' vu yr-i w u:eir ""'f" cusiomers to neip mem meex we At a meeting called by the ti JLZZFZZ !5! uoiui uodautaut aovuuvu tu food dispensers agreed to present notices to women patrons, inviting .J!."..." ments "as a patriotic gesture." A short training course in restau rant work win be offered to wom en who agree to report for duty on a call basis. 1790 a Second US War Costs WASHINGTON, Aug. ll-i) war spending, Jy the . United r States reached a rate of $1790 a second la July. The office of war information reported Tuesday disbursements " by the treasury , and ; expeadl-; - tares by the Reconstruction. Fit nance corporation ' and ' Its sub sidaries for war : purposes to taled $794,008,000, compared with the previous record of $4, 123,000,000 in Jane, Germans Advance On Wells Southeast Drive Nears Grozny as Stalingrad Holds By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, -Wednesday, Aug. l2-(ff,)-German troops striking southeastward in the Caucasus were reported officially Wed nesday to be only 200 miles from the ricfy Grozny wells aft er overrunning the devastated Maikop oil regionSnthe west A communique announce Germans had reached the Cher- kessk area. 70 miles southeast of Armavir, in a thrust down the Rostov-Baku railway into the Caucasian foothills. (Cherkessk. not shown on many maps, appar ently is a town often listed as Kursavka). The Germans have said their troops had captured Pyatigorsk, only 140 miles short of Grozny, but there still was no confirma tion here of that claim. The Russians were fighting "heavy defensive battles both in the Cherkessk and Maikop areas," the communique said, and the Germans also "broke through our positions" in the Krasnodar sec tor 60 miles northwest of Maikop. picked off 19 German tanks and 37 trucks, and killed 700 Germans before withdrawing to new posi tions south of Krasnodar, the Russians said. When German tanks managed to break through. . this... defense rone the Russians said "our tank- ists and Cossack units launched a counter-attack from the flanks and cut off the group of Hitler ites that broke through." The red army units, however, fighting in this area were in danger of being trapped by the nazi anits operating in the Mai- -kop area to the southeast (The Germans claimed they had cor nered Russian units in the -Black' sea coastal area between Novorossisk and Tuapse, west and sonth of Krasnodar, and . that their airplanes had sank 11 soviet ships which were evacu ating Rassian troops.) In the "grim fight for the ap- Iproaches to Stalingrad the Rus apparently still were hold- ing firm. " souln 01 aewaay At M X 1 I ure ri-. a.l a . c?at: " ." iioruiwesi. 01 ;ouuui RrUl, our iroups camea OUl BlUD- f1 Jates with tanks and enemy infantry," the communique said. "The Germans - are suffering tremendous losses. Bringing up reserves, they are attempting to break, through. One large enemy motorized column has been dis- persed by our troops, Northwest of KotehiikoyskL Staluigrad, the communique said ail types 01 weapons were in ac- tion, and "the enemy was forced to go over to defensive opera tions" in one area. The Russians said that during a large tank battle preceding this I j , .1 a j Iucvciuiiktiii 800 Germans. Far to the north on the up- per Don the Russians said their troops still held the western bank of that river in the Vo roneah area after beating off several German attacks. Th 'Rucctana fjfrhtinff craithAact Uf Armavir were favored some- what by rougher terrain. Dimout Deadline AKcrlnt P11" AUftUlUlC No Leniency The August 20 deadline on com pliance with the western defense command's dimout order; which applies to most of Marion county. is absolute' and no : leniency may be shown violators on and aftes. that day, Deputy Sheriff Kenneth L. Randall warned .Tuesday. . The order will be rigidly en forced,w Randall emphasized. "Ef. fective date of the order was made lar enougn ' in advance to give everyone time to learn what the regulations are and to comply, This office does not intend - to grant any " extension : of time to anyone.. . - s ' Randall said he did not believe there, would be much difficulty in obtaining compliance with the or der, which applies to outdoor il lumination other than automobile headlights and street lighting. MMiMMm Shore (km PI araes 'Flank -'Landin News Missing On Solomons; Japs Downed Raids on Pacific Isles Net Enemy Cargo Vessel, Planes By C. YATES McDANIEL GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Austral ia, Wednesday, Aug. 12. (AP) Allied bombers show ered bombs Tuesday night on the big Japanese hase of Ra baul, New Britain, in a valu able flanking attack to sap port the US marines who have established footholds in the Solomon islands and are holding their ground despite fierce Jap anese counter-attacks. A communique issued here Wednesday still avoided all spe cific mention of the continuing battle of the Solomons, across the Coral sea, but Prime Minister John Curtin said Tuesday "we are holding our own" in that action. Allied airmen attacked the Ra- baul airdrome for the fourth time in as many days, the communique said, and two and possibly five Japanese fighter planes were de stroyed north of Samarai, which s on the southeastern tip of New Guinea directly west of the Tulagi area where TJS naval air, Jand marine forces were m action againsti the Japanese Solomon bases. The remaining two Japanese fighters out of a flight of seven encountered in the Samarai area were reported damaged. Striking northwest and north of Australia, allied airmen agaia attacked Japanese shipping off Timor, Dutch East ladies island, where three Japanese ships, in clading a large destroyer, were reported knocked oat Monday. A cargo ship was sank la Mon day's attack, it . was saaoaaeed ' officially Wednesday, bat the result of the second raid was not known. - Direct hits on Japanese-held wharfs and buildings in the Kei islands northeast of Timor also were reported. It was disclosed, meanwhile, American troops exclusively were (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Secret Plane Is Unveiled Lancaster Made War's Longest Raid, Will Carry Big Bomb Load LONDON, Aug., ll.-iflVBritain took her Avro Lancaster off the secret list" Tuesday and British aeronautics writers quickly hailed the battle-tested machine as the biggest and fastest heavy bomber in the world. The newly unveiled giant, like its famous teammate in raids on Germany the Short Stirling carries an eight-ton bomb load, but its pace of 300 miles per hour and up is better than' the Stir line's. The Lancaster is armed with ten .303-calibre machine guns mounted : in four powered turrets. : , ' It has a maximum range of 3000 miles, a thousand more than the Stirling, and is thus the prime weapon for bold raids on selected targets deep in Germany. Its first officially disclosed operation was the daring daylight raid on Augs burg last April. 17.;. In July several Lancaster squadrons made the longest day light attack flight of the European war 1750; miles through bad weather to bomb the Danzig sub marine yards. - The : Lancaster's weight is 30 tons. It hasa wing spread of 102 feet and a 33-foot bomb com partment. - . , -. - Aeronautical writers reported it is one of the favorites of RAF crews because of its exceptional speed and maneuverability. Radio Set Blazes An overheated radio at the H. L. Stiff Furniture company Tuesday at 8:30 p. m. was the cause .of a call to the city fire department No serious damage resulted. Silenced . r.v.v. ,i. .v. .-. m-Mi: - Mrs. Kasturbai Gandhi, wife of the Mahatma, was detained by police when she attempted to address a meeting in Shiva-Jl park, Bombay, after the arrest of her husband. Whips Invoked To Quell India x' Bombay Police Mass ; 31 Die in Riots for Free India' BOMBAY, Aug. . ll-(iip)-The governor of populous Bombay province Tuesday night ordered massed police patrols and British arnsy machine-gunners to use the strongest measures, including lash ing, to quell disorders in this storm center of the Gandhi free India 'campaign. The stern new order came after troops' and police had fired into many unruly crowds. "I can not allow this disturbance of the life of the' city to continue," said the governor, Sir Roger Lum- ey. ' "I am going to maintain order at any cost. To those, therefore, who may be thinking of going on with these disturbances, I. now; give this plain .warning: The police and troops have or ders to take the strongest measures whenever necessary." In continuing clashes between civil disobedience demonstrations and the security forces, 13 more persons were killed and 30 injured Tuesday in 10 separate outbursts here, with troops following up their repeated actions of Monday in firing on crowds on one or two occasions. This brought casualties in Bom bay alone, since the first out breaks Sunday upon the arrest of Mohandas K. Gandhi, to at least 31 dead and more than 250 in jured. More than 500 arrests have been made. There was no accurate count of casualties elsewhere in the teeming sub-continent. At Patna, capital of Bihar prov ince, five persons were killed and 19 injured when police fired on demonstrators massed near the government secretariat this after noon, i ." Lumley followed up his broad cast warning Tuesday sight with a communique announcing invo cation of an emergency whipping act for Bombay province and the drartlnc of several hundred additional police into the city from other districts. The provincial police force (Turn to Page 2. CoL 6) Nazi Invaders " Poise oriJCerch LONDON, "Wednesday, Aug. . 12 Hn-A. Stockholm dispatch Ho the Daily " Express said . hundreds of nazi barges, flat-bbttomed boats, and coastal craft were concentrafe ed in the Crimea; awaiting a sig nal to transport a German inva sion army across the Kerch strait to the Caucasus.' --V- - - This invasion armyr supported by strong ; parachute formations, intends .to try to , prevent the Black sea evacuation of Russians from the Novorossisk area, the correspondent said.. " I 8s Enemy Vessel Sunk; Two i Damaged Surprised Japs Fire Ack-Ack Guns at Imagined Planes By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Anjr. H. (AP) A relentless series of air attacks and a single bom bardment by a naval task force have badly battered Japanese land installations in the Aleutian islands and re sulted in the sinking of one enemy cargo ship and dam aging of two others, the navy announced Tuesday night. The bombardment bv cruisers and destroyers first of its kind in the North Pacific so surprised the Japs they responded to tho nrst shells with anti-aircraft fire. It was carried out last Saturday simultaneously with initial at tacks on Japanese forces in the -Solomon islands, more than 4000 miles to the southwest. Tuesday's navy communique, dealing primarily with a review of Aleutian actions, had little to say of the violent fighting for possession of the Tulagi area of the Solomons except It waa continuing-. irf, . The communique, mttbefTJV" based on reports received up ta 6 p. m., eastern war time, said: "North Pacific area: "1. Information received by the navy department now makes it possible to report the following incidents in the Aleutian islands: "2 On July 22 army- bomhera dropped bombs through the fog ia me area or KisJta harbor. Resulta were unobserved. - t . 3. On July 29 navy natrol planes conducted a night attacaf on Kiska and army bombers at- 1 tacked shore, .installation and ships in the same vicinity. .,' "4. On August 3, Japanese air craft attacked the US destroyer Kane oft Atka island. about "305 -miles east of Kiska. No damaea- was mriicted. Army bombers (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) RAF Raids Nazis Again German Planes Visit London, Provinces As Annoyance LONDON, Wednesday. Aue. 12. -;p-British bombers attacked targets in Germany during tha night after a one-night gap in their offensive due to bad weath er, it was stated authoritatively Wednesday. German nuisance raiders mean while kept miUions of Britons awake with raids on our provin cial districts and a brief visit to London. One German bomber was destroyed in the provinces. In London the alarm lasted only half an ' hour. No eunf ire was heard. The raiders dropped incendiary bombs at points in the east and west midlands, on the east coast and on a town on the southeast! coast where a few explosive bombs were mixed with the in cendiaries. -T Earlier in the night nazi raiders flew in low from the sea an dropped, high explosives and in cendiary bombs on a' southwest coast, town. " . - . V" ' A number of direct hits dam aged buildings, including a church, in the brief raid. A num ber of casualties were reported. Fight of the raiders machine- gunned the town after dropping their bombs. Some persons were buried in debris. First . reports listed eight killed and many per sons hurt,' .'y- r -' ? 'V -, ; 1 1: ; i". Our Senators ttcaW y xi -