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PAGE TWO Ihm 03EG03 STATESMAN, Salens. Oregon, Thoradar Morning, August 13. 131 Fire Destroys Housing Units War Dormitories at liremerton uurn, . Also 90 Tirca (Continued From Page 1) . saved in th- face r a brisk wind ud a weak water svpply. Farm security administration authorities, under. whom the dormitory project was operated, said the loss would be at least $50,000. The units were called "duration dormitories, bum lightly in expectation of razing them after the war emergency. Fire Chief Yett said a small fire broke out in one of the unfinished units and was quickly extinguish ed. Fifteen minutes later the sec ond blaze broke out and soon was out of control. The high leaping flames were fed by tar which was on the grounds for roofing. It contributed to a smoke blanket that covered much of the city. The destroyed trailer tires, aaany sf them virtually new, tan aUml In the hwnlMlt mt the James Boe residence, which burned. They had been taken from trailers which are ased as family Uvtnr units the pro ject None of the trailers burned, bat two eld automobiles were consumed, About 60 trail er tires were carried to safety. Virtually all of the personal be longings of the occupants of the old dormitory that burned were saved by volunteers. After the fire was checked,! scores of Brem erton residents offered sleeping quarters to the 207 men who lost their, homes. The capacity of the razed dorm- There were no reported injuries in the fire. Weather Good For Oregon Harvests PORTLAND, Aug. 12.-P)-Weather conditions favored crop harvests throughout Oregon for the week ended Tuesday, the wea ther bureau disclosed Wednesday. Some damage by hail was re ported in some wheat areas, with rain and high wind contributing. The grain harvest is nearly fin ished! in some earlier areas, and corn is thriving, albeit somewhat later than' usual. Edward L. Wells, meterologist, Teported general conditions as fol lows: Bartlett pear picking will begin this week or next. Early peaches and apples are being marketed in quantity. Prune prospects im proved and some early varieties will be picked this week in Uma tilla county. t Southern counties will start picking early hops this week. Su gar beets are thriving. Flax pull ing continues. Pea canning is fin ished and bean canning is pro gressing. The second cutting of alfalfa and clover is well advanced. Wild hay is being cut. Pasturage is scarce in some eastern counties because of drouth and range fires, but elsewhere is- better than us ual. Soldier on Trial, England SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Aug. 12-yp)-Pvt Travis P. Ham mond, on trial before a United States army court martial on a charge of assaulting a 16-year-old English shipgirl in an air raid shelter, testified Wednesday that the girl consented to his advances. When he took the stand, Ham mond said that after parting with the girl he went to a dance and before returning to camp had' a fight with another US soldier whom he accused of calling him names. .. In the fight,, he said, he re ceived a blow on the left side of his face which left a mark.. The trial adjourned Wednesday before the prosecution finished questioning Hammond. Sold the Shirt Off His Back EUGENE, Aug. l-P)-Ray Mc Innis is the kind of guy wholl give the shirt right off his back or anyway, sell it. At a victory bond rally Tues day night the secretary of the local Building Laborers' union sold it for a $500 war bond purchase. Sales during the two-day rally totaled $ 9 0,0 0 0 in bonds and stamps, Dick Williams, chairman,, said today. V Chest Group to Meet .' At noon - on , Friday the V War Chest executive committee will meet at the Marion hotel. Jesse J. Card is chairman of the commit tee, --v --':'"'.- Iloiicc lo Salem Hop Pickers We will haul pickers from Salem' to pur Lake brook hop yard by school bus Those wishing to pick please reg ister at once.. Registered pickets will be notified where to meet the bus. Picking will .begin August 24th. T. A. UVESLEY & COMPANY 1107 First National Bank Building , , ' -,:.' Telephcnii 9133 .. Wat S pear-carry Inr natires do t war dance Mraewher la the Solomon islands, where United States forces have landed in an offensive action to drive out the Japanese. (Associated Press Telemat), Atlantic Ship Fight Widens British Admit Carrier Loss; Nazis Claim Convoy Attack (Continued From Page 1) sore loss, since convoys in the Mediterranean have to depend on carrier-based planes once they are out of reach otshore-based fight ers. The extension of axis offen sive operations Into the South Atlantic was noted by naval sources as a further step in the hot battle of supply. That ocean is the chief route from America to India and Egypt as well as an important line to Russia via Iran and for British meat and wheat shipments from South America. These naval sources cited Rio de Janeiro dispatches and axis claims as indications that surface and submarine raids already were in progress. Rio reports said two or three ships had been attacked by a surface raider since Satur day, SOS messages giving the lo cation 1000 miles off Brazil. Also noted were German claims to have sunk more than 45,000-tons of shipping bound for Egypt off the American and West African coasts recently. Mainz Raided Second Night (Continued From Page 1) tion described Wednesday night how the bursts of hundreds of tons of bombs flickered" across the target like "lights of a pin table" and started more fires than they could count The air ministry news service's report of the stories related by these specially chosen observers said the bombs, including more than 50,900 incendiaries, blasted and enflamed the city, an import ant center, and river port which handles most of the grain traffic in the Rhine-Mainz area. An RAF commentator said the raiding force was made up of "between 250 and 400 bombers.' Hundreds of high explosive bombs and thousands of incendiaries left a 15,000-foot pillar of smoke over the city as a testimonial of havoc The observation, crews hovered over the city for 48 minutes while plane after plane roared in, dumped its bombs and 'streaked for home. xneir task was to obtain a co ordinated picture of the attack. Copper Labor Probe Begun WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 A broad attack by five top war agencies on the manpower short' age in the copper mining industry was disclosed Wednesday- night. shortly after the national war labor board announced it would consider wage and union shop demands of copper, lead and zinc workers on an industry-wide basis. A WPB official, who declined to permit use of his name, said a five-agency committee was de liberating a .sweeping but tenta tive plan to bring fresh labor Into the copper mines and prevent present workers from deserting their jobs in favor of ' shipyards and war plants, where they can get higher pay. Mighap Hurts Etzel Pete Etzel of Liberty was in the Deaconess hospital W e d n e sday night as a result of an accident with a grain separator. He was suffering from a broken jaw and a badly lacerated face, according to hospital attendants. Dance In Solomon V; i ' - Late Sports COAST LEAGUE PORTLAND, Aug. 12-P-Sec-ond night game (nine innings): Los Angeles 010 110 010 4 11 2 Portland 001 100 1 6 14 3 German, Mallery (7), Oobernic (8) Davis (8) and Campbell; Or rell, Fitzke and Leovich. SEATTLE, Aug. 12.-(VSec-ond game (7 innings): San Francisco 000 000 00 2 0 Seattle 000 100 1 5 0 Gibson and Sprinz; Fischer and Kearse. GOSHEN, NY. An. IZ.-4JP)-BI11 Strang-, the Brooklyn stor age and tracking man who has spent a small fortune seeklns a Hambletonlan winner, reached his objective Thursday when The Ambassador led 10 other three-year old trotters home in the rich "busty whip derby" at Good Tune Park; AP Writer Missing in Aerial Trip GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 12 -(iP)- Vern Haugland, 34, Assoc i a t e d Press staff man J Since jyjo, was reported missing . nn . ?T Wednesday just as he was about t o realize his ambition to seel. action on a Pa cific front. He thus be came the second Associated Press; correspondent to Vera naacUnd be listed as miss- - ing in the Pacific war. D. Witt Hancock, 33, has not been report ed since March 3 when he was attempting to escape from the Japanese advance in Java; Haugland was listed as missing five days after a plane in which he was flying from Townsville, Australia, to the New Guinea front disappeared in a storm, By a coin toss, Haugland won from an Australian reporter the opportunity to board the lead plane of a formation making the trip. The Australian reporter board ed the second plane in the for mation. The group ran into a storm and the first and second planes were not accounted for when the storm was passed. Later the' second plane reached a New Guinea base but nothing has been heard from the first Haugland had been in Towns ville several days awaiting trans portation. Before his trip north ward, he had put in four months' work in the Melbourne bureau. during which he reported the ar rival of the first United States troops, the dash of General Doug las MacArthur from the Philip pines and the organization of the southwest Pacific allied command. Albacore Tuna Given Ceiling ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. ll(J?) The spectacular climb in the price of Albacore tuna was halted abruptly Wednesday by the office of price administrator, which damped on a ceiling of $398 ton. ' This ceiling is $17 a ton lower than the prevailing price paid to fishermen.' Packers were advised also that a ceiling selling price of $16 a case will be imposed on canned tuna. Postal Sales Drop In Salem in July . The July postal sales were $30, 857.83, Henry R. Crawford, post master, announced Wednesday, This was a drop from $36,106.83 for July 1841, explained in part by the fact that drivers licenses were mailed out last year in June and July, Crawford believes. Held in County Jail Elaine Ethel Gurtigcs of Latish was held in the county jail early today charged with being drunk on the highway. She was arrest ed by state . police on the Port Islands Bombers Hit Enemy Ships Marines on Three of Vital Solomon Island Croup (Continued From Page 1) "bitter fighting," a fact suggest-, ing that the Japanese had rallied powerful ,air and surface units to the defense of their beleaguered troops. Those troops apparently were already In a Strang- defensive position. The navy said there was substantial evidence that the Japs "had well nnder way" the development of a base in the Tulagi area presumably at Talarf harbor, which Is a fine natnral naval base. The navy's report on the cam paign in the Solomons was given m communique 104 on the sixth day of the fighting. The ' com munique made no claim of de cisive success as yet and clearly eft open the possibility that many days of hard fighting are ahead before the avowed American pur pose of driving the Japs out of the vital Tulagi area can be at tained. The disclosure of evidencehat the Japanese had well under way the development of a base in the Tulagi area recalled to naval men the fact that Tulagi offers one of the finest naval base sites in the southwestern Pacific and a major installation there would haYe constituted a direct threat to Aus- traliaand islands, guarding -;Uie United' States - Australian supply line. This was brought out by A dm. Ernest J. King, commas- der-in-ehief of the US fleet, In a statement earlier this week in which he said that the enemy "have been in process of, con solidating their . positions'! u the Solomons with , the purpose of using them "as a base of of fensive operations against oar positions which cover the line of communications to Australia and New Zealand." The navy gave no information as to the sequence of landings on the three islands or whether they were carried out . simultaneously. Previously disclosures on land- ing operations had been given out here only in King's statement which said merely that "planned i landings" had been accomplished. Indian Youth Admitted, Bar PORTLAND, Aug. 12.-JP)- George E. La Vatta, 23-year-old Indian of the Shoshone tribe, was admitted to the Oregon state bar Wednesday. La Vatta, a graduate of Will- amette- university in the class of 1942, is" the first Indian attorney admitted, to practice in the state in years. The oath was admin-, istered by Municipal Judge J. J. Quillin. George La Vatta is the son of George P. La Vatta of Portland, field agent for the Indian service. A member of Sigma Tau fra ternity at Willamette, he has received-orders to report August 31 at Notre Dame university. South Bend, Ind, for training in the naval officer reserve. He has done some private flying at the Salem airport and may go into naval aviation. Building Workers Families Aid Crop MEDFORD, Aug. 12-(ff)-Rogue river valley fruit growers and packers reported Wednesday that the harvest labor outlook was brighter. , Families of newly arrived con struction workers at Camp White are applying for work in packing houses and orchards. Enforcement Slated 5 - PORTLAND, Aug. 12 Richard G. Montgomery, 1 state OPA director, disclosed Wednes day that maximum price regula tions will be enforced shortly in Oregon. He and several aides have been called to San Francisco' for Violence Less In India City Party Declares Small Group Presses Riots; US Keeps Hands Off (Continued From Page 1) year-old Omaha radio an nouncer, won - the - democrstie participation in internal troubles there, the state department said Wednesday night : v -i'rj . The presence of. A m e 1 1 e a n forces in India, the- department revealed, is" primarily"" t5 aid China. ' In the event of disturbances where they are stationed they are authorized to resort to de fensive measures only, "should their 'own personal safety or that of other American eitisens ' The announcement pointed out that the policy of the United States government in this emer gency already had ; been made part of the orders issued to Amer ican forces who have been In India for some time. (Full details of American mili tary dispositions in India have not been disclosed. It has been revealed, however, that they con sist mainly of aerial personnel and ground crews. The ferrying command has been engaged m piloting planes and materials to China via India. In addition. American planes using India as a base nave raided - such enemy bases as Rangoon, Burma.) Canadian Ship Captures Sub 32 Germans on Board U-Boat Appear Glad To Be Prisoners (Continued From Page 1) they'd had much to eat for a day or so, for they were hungry as wolves. They seemed very sur prised that we had butter and canned milk. They'd pass the but ter around and look at it as if they'd never seen anything like it before." The Canadians had no trouble with their prisoners, the seaman declared. "We were waiting for them to start cutting- up rough. said Crotty, "but most of them seemed darn glad to be aboard. Most of them were youngsters. One kid came over the side pointing- to himself and Baying-, "Me clad, me clad. Some of the Mothers . wouldn't m & 4 anything to do with us at first,' but there' Was one vhn had hem in Canada. He must QaVe told his mates they were lucky to be with Canadians, because they warmed up a little later." Pelley Given 15-Year Term INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. ll.-(JP) William Dudley Pelley, spruce lit tle goateed founder of the Silver Shirts of America, only shook his head in federal court Wednesday when asked if he had anything to I say in his own behalf and then drew a 15-year prison sentence on charges of criminal sedition. "I don't know how long the war will last," Judge Robert C Balt zell said in pronouncing the pen alty, "but the sentence should be such that we will be assured that no further harm will be done for fee duration." x Pelley's secretary and co-defendant. Miss Agnes Marian Hen derson, sobbed out a promise to disassociate herself -from the Pel ley activities and received a two year suspended sentence. Law rence A. Brown, associated with Tb11w in TtrnklaevillA Tnf mitv- ,:ch5n f ' ",. Inc waa sentcnced to years: imprisonment and the firm itself was fined. $3000. Five RCAF Pilots Die in Collision . : WINNIPEG, Aug. 12-(P)-Five of six RCAF crewmen aboard two twin-motored Anson training planes were injured fatally late Wednesday when their craft col lided nd crashed one mile north east of the Armstrong, On t, air- port A search for the sixth man was under way at the scene of the crash. The names of the airmen who died were not disclosed im mediately. . The planes, being ferried from Winnipeg to Ottawa, had refuel ed at Armstrong, 390 miles east of here. The collision apparently occurred just after they left that airport . . Continuous From 1 F, M. Last Times Today "Swing u Scldi:r"; With Ken Murray and Frances Laagford " -PLUS Ronald Reagan f'v-iii'tf -NINE LIVES ARE r NOT ENOUGH" ' With Joan Perry . News and Novelt y On the Inside In Washington By JOHN M. HIGHT6WER Wide World War' Analyst for Tbm 8tatmac-' - The chances for a successful conquest of the Tulagi area Af the Solomon islands appear better than ever, despite probable heavy American losses, but even J ...... . . . . . tion at this time snouid give rise the progress of the war. Four great issues which bear directly upon the final outcome of the conflict are .now being de cided on the battlefields of south ern Russia, and from-there the news is grave. - -A -victory In the Solomons would go a , long. way toward (1) Securing the approaches ! Australia and its supply ' lines from the United States. (2) Fnr nfehinr ene starting point for the future general offensive m the Pacific and (3) Shewing the effectiveness of American preparations to make that of-, tensive. " ' At best, these are limited ob jectives despite the relatively great .cost in men, ships and planes necessary 1 to accomplish them. But the enemy's objectives and the allied stakes in the battle of the Caucasus are far-reaching and. at worst, may decide the ability of the Russians to keep the main strength of Adolf Hitler's armies engaged until the crushing weht of British and - American power can be thrown into decisive action against them. A Russian defeat in the Cau casus probably would mean that a large part of the red forces would withdraw north and east of the Volga river, where their posi tion would be almost entirely de fensive, for the time being at least The Germans, having gained a huge. wealth of natural re sources, would, need comparative ly small 'forces to hold the Rus sians behind the Volga, and the bulk of their strength could be turned in some other direction. If the Caucasus and all that it stands for in United Nations in terest is yet to be saved or even partially saved, it would seem that the Russians or their British and American allies must produce quickly resistance so effective as to fall little short of a military miracle. Mishap Fatal To Reiling Of Silverton ALBANY, Aug. 12 Joe Reiling, 33, died Wednesday forenoon as the result of an accidental cut received while boning a fore quar ter of beef at the D. E. Nebergall Meat company, where he was em ployed as butcher. He was holding the knife toward him and it slipped, cutting a deep gash in the groin, ile died from loss of blood while on the way to the hospital, according to E. C. Fisher, county coroner. Reiling had been employed at the Nebergall plant for 18 months. He is survived by his widow and two sons, Kenneth, 3&, and Larry, three months. SILVERTON, Aug. 12 Joe Reiling, who died Wednesday as the result of an -accident in Al bany, is the son of Mr and Mrs. Gregory Reiling of Silverton. His wife is the former Naoma Zwieck er of Salem. Besides his widow and two sons, and his. parents, four sisters and three- brothers survive. The sis ters -are Kathryn Tuttle, Salome, Ariz, S e 1 m a Reiling, US navy nurse at Pearl Harbor, TH, Ger aldine Reiling, Silverton JEulalie Reiling, St Vincent's nurses, train ing school, Portland. The brothers are Ed, Tom and Gregory, jr, all of Silverton. Funeral services will be held Friday. Eleanor Answers 'Front' Queries NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-VP-While Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was answering at . a Hunter college forum Wednesday, several persons submitted queries asking why there was a delay in opening a second ' front " At first the president's wife re plied only that she was not a mil itary expert but when the ques tioning persisted she said emphat ically: . . "All right How much do you know about distances? About the ships available to transport sup plies? About the ammunition, the guns and the supplies necessary for such a second front? Do you want a second front to begin be fore you are sure about all these plans? Do you want a Dunkerque of American soldiers?, Last Times Tonight ? GREAT STARS IN A 4 STAR TRIUMPH! Charles BOYER Olivia deHAVUXAND Paillette GODD ARD PLUS : a complete victory in that sec- i - i! i .1 4 u no wave oi gpuuuau avuut Clark Gable Takes Oath . ' . Very Happy About Enlisting, Wants To Be Gunner " LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12.-P) A nervous Clark Gable put aside the wealth and fame' of " Holly wood Wednesday to enlist in the army as a buck private. : What may be the last public appearance for some time of the idol - of ; thousands of feminine movie fans was an auspicious af fair. It took place high in the Federal building, with half a floor roped off and guarded to insure privacy. It was an Intent ' Gable who listened as Col. Malcolm P. An- druss, in charge of recruiting for southern California, read the army oath. The screen stars hand was shaking noticeably as he raised it to say "I do." "I hope you will serve with honor to yourself and your coun try," Colonel Andruss said when it was over. "I welcome you into the United States aixnjr."' ' "Thank you, sir," Gable replied. with a wide smile and a hand shake. The screen star, 41 and wid owed with the death of Carole Lombard in an airplane accident several months ago as she con cluded a bond-selling tour, was to leave Wednesday night for Miami, Fla., and three months' basic training, after whicfi he hopes to enroll in officers school. "I am very happy about it all," he said, as photographers snapped him from every, angle and news reel cameras ground away. "I have made application to be a gunner and I'm going to do my very best There's nothing else to say." He was inducted alone, but no sooner had he finished than Colonel Andruss read the oath to the star's cameraman and close friend, Andrew J. Mclntyre. They hope to see service together. - Gable, a consistent" top movie money earner for more than a decade, has for months been ru mored planning to join the army air force. u' Lack of Cooks f Nonexistent9 Arthur Peters, representative of the Salem culinary , alliance, took issue Wednesday with the state ment of local restaurant men that a shortage of cooks and .waitress es existed here. The union spokesman asserted nearly 100 applications for spare time work Were received by his organization Wednesday. Many women, he added, are now work ing in canneries rather than res taurants because the packers pay higher wages.- j; The Salem Restaurant associa tion -with the assistance of the Sa lem - chamber of commerce, is working out plans to invite inter ested women to register for rush hour work. Bogus Checks on Salem Bank Pass PENDLETON, Aug. 12-)-Bo-gus checks totaling 1900, drawn on a Salem bank, were passed here last week. Police Chief Charles Lemons said Wednesday. The checks were cashed by Pen dleton . merchants for three - men representing themselves as of ficials of a contracting firm. Lemons said similar losses had been - reported at Portland and Boise, and were believed the work of the same men. Jackie Cooper Benita Granville "SyncspaHSii" AND Gene An try -CALL OF THE CANYON I, 4:4. 1M, lt:ll Caayea: 1:, I. C J, so 5v :jui I TODAY ' Errol Flynn i ' Olivia dellavttland ! "Santa Fe TraiT - - .AND James Stewart Rosalind Basse II -No Time for Comedy J, Box Office IwIavI 22c i5 R ni i y Opes 6:45 FishVictoi: In New York ' Isolationism Charge Fails to Defeat; Taylor Leada, Idaho (Continued From Page l)v nomination for the senate seat held by George W. Norrls, in dependeat It was a seven-man field Including Kep. Harry B. Coffee, whose opponents called !( hk pre-war attitaae , obstruc tionist Kenneth Wherry, mid west director of the republicans, won Jus party's nomination. N orris has not said he will ran assln bat friends expect him , to enter the rsee as an inde pendent I. v In Ohio, all Incumbent con- gressmen were renominated ex cept Sweeney. They Included two republicans. Reps. Charles H. Els ton and John M. Vorys, whose pre war policies, their opponents said, impaired the war effort John McSweeney, former house member, was . nominated by the Ohio democrats to oppose Repub lican Gov. John W. Bricker's third term efftnrt v Glen Taylor, radio enter tainer of Pocatelta, Idaho, led a field ef five for the democratic senatorial nomination, and his nearest opponent acknowledged defeat Sen. John Thomas, re publican, who had been called a pre-war Isolationist by his op position, won renomination in a walkaway. Rep. -Compton L White, democrat, who was a tar set of similar criticism was re nominated also. In Arkansas, former Rep. John McClellan piled up a big lead over State Atty. Gen. Jack Holt for the democratic nomination for senator, and Holt conceded defeat his first in 14 years. Germany May Have Reached 1942 Goals ISTANBUL, Aug. lO-(Delayed) (JP)-The possibility Germany may already have attained most of her 1942 objectives in Russia and may be ready to halt her offensive on the eastern front and -consolidate her positions for the winter was indicated Monday by a neutral of ficial who, demanding anonymity, claimed, direct fGerroan. informa tion. propaganda "inspector" i visiting Turkey on official business, this neutral official said Germany plans. tcv erect an eastern wall" before the." winter , -and retire be hind it with a peace proposal. The nazi functionary quoted operates under Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, nazi party chief of foreign propaganda and a reichsniinister in charge of occupied Russia. The new German east wall, it was said, would run across the northern C a u casus mountains, which the Germans have just . about reached in their drive down the Caucasus, and along the Vol ga river from Astrakhan through the regions of Stalinerad and Voronezh and thence roughly along the present front to the Leningrad area. The German was quoted furth er as saying "We know we can not defeat America, .although it was not clear why. this remark was made. 'However the German was said to have -added, "we hope by using our submarine weapon in conjunction with Japanese plans to keep America so disorganized as to give her the impression she cannot win the war." YM Board to Convene Salem YMCA board of direct ors will, meet today noon; at the YMCA building. Paul B. Wal lace, president of the board, will be Jn charge. ' " IBTJT WAK STAMPS BONDSf 3 t HITS; Plus News Pictures ef Lacal Scrap Drive "aaai'K BTsttSsSMMaTiBTsaraTBTBTiSaMMt Tsday a Friday - 2 Rite John Steinbeck's r "The Grapes cl Uralh" i With Henry Fonda; PLUS Flus Tax til 5' p.m. 1 POPCLAS 4j-4l - COMPANION FEATURE - 1 land highway. Anytime' a conference. - Continuous Frani 1 P. M.