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Salem. Oregon. Friday Morning,' August It, J 942 , Pric 5a No. 103 Dies at 68 E v7? '.last i u ii ti .11 ij iy 0) KHIETY -SECOND YEAB 1 Wmt Hares Germans 50 Miles Nearer Grozny UiL . By EDDY GILMORE , MOSCOW, Friday, Aug. 14 (AP) German troops in a swift 50-mile advance into the Caucasus have reached Mineralnye Vody, only 140 air line miles from the rich Russian oil wells of Grozny, iha cwiofs nrknnwlfdVed of ficially early Friday as heavy fighting broke out on the long-dormant front northwest of Moscow. A nazi column swinging south eastward along the Rostov-Baku railway rolled through Russia's positions in the Cberkessk area to reach Mineralyne Vody. By road Gozny lies approximately 180 miles farther. '.' The midnight communique otherwise indicated little change in Russia's situation. The red army still was battling the nazis tvof r.r Vnt1niknvski below gllMfcUCM vr the Don and in; the Kletskaya . t ' .1 .1 vilTAK Vllfl area jnsiae me uuu Both areas are bulwarks to the approaches to Stalingrad on the Volga and Astrakhan on the Cas pian sea. In the western Caucasus the Soviets said their troops still were fighting in the Maikop-Krasnodar sectors in an effort to prevent a German break-through to the Black sea, ' ; ; Fighting on the banks of a rirer (perhaps- U,Cuban) in the v Krasnodar area the Bus- , clans said their troops killed SBOt Germans. , destroyed 30 tanks and 84 trucks, and , knocked oat two enemy bridges 7 across we stream. - The Russians again referred to the "numerically superior enemy forces" in both the Don river loop and the Mineralnye Vody fight ing. The latter appeared still be the most dangerous German drive of all lor the nazis were half-way across the Caucasus in the. drive to the Caspian sea. While the Russians pictured their troops as beating off con stant attacks in the Don river loop, they said the red army still regions south of the Don in the Ketelnikovski sector. v "One of our detachments," the communique said, "repulsed an enemy attack about one battalion strong, then launched a counter attack 'and forced the Germans to retreatV . - ' w. .i---'- ' At Veronesh en the - npper Dm Ike Russians said the 222nd German infantry regiment ef the ttth nasi division was rout ed and that the red army had occupied another populated .petal Supporting soviet airmen were said to have wiped out an entire German battalion. -Aside from the reported fight ing northwest of Moscow, , the Russians also were engaged on the Bryansk front, 220 miles southwest of the soviet capital. The red army was said to have crossed a river near Bryansk to dislodge the enemy from several localities. A dispatch early Friday said that soviet troops had "occupied a - strategically imrortant. popu la ted place" on-'the northwestern front that the Germans had; held for more than a year after a fight in which the nazis lost 300 killed. The place was not otherwise identified. Fiftli Child Born To Lindberghs ..: DETROIT, Aug. 13 -VP- A nine-pound daughter was bom Thursday at Henry Ford hospital to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife I Charles A, .Lanooergn, me troit Tree Press says. .The. child was .the fifth born, to the famous flier and his wife and their . second ' daughter.' Their first child. Charles A- jr, was kidnaned ' and slain in 1832. vr' Lindbergh now is employed by Ford as a consultant at the wu low Run bomber plant . Our Senators L::l 7-5, 13-G . SAM BROW a Sam Brown Succumbs Colorful Politician And Gervais Fanner Dies in Portland PORTLAND, Aug. 13 -&)- Sam Brown of Gervais, Willamette valley farmer prominent for many years in Oregon political life, died late Thursday. A member of the state house of representatives in the 1915 and 1917 sessions, the 68-year-old farmer served in the state senate from 1923 to 1933, was candidate for the republican gubernatorial nomination in 1934 and 1938 and the US senatorial nomination in 1936. . j His statement that he was cam paigning with f$40 and a Ford" in 1936 attracted attention and num erous contributions of gasoline when he said on the trip Til walk if I must." Always referred to aa Sam Brown, his fall name was Sam uel Henry Brown. Be was born at Gervais and in entering poli tics in the footsteps of his fath er, , also Samuel - Brown, who was a sUtejsenatolwiB the 1868 .and 1872 sessions. ...jf,,;1- In addition to his 'activity-in politics, which had been slight only in the past two or three years, he was a pioneer in improved agriculture. He was one of the first Willamette valley farmers to grow loganberries extensively and was the first to irrigate with wat er pumped from driven wells. At one time he was president of the Oregon reclamation con gress, a director of the North Pa cific Nutgrowers and a member of the board of regents of Ore gon State college. . " Survivors include the widow and two sons. Tax Declared Boeing Knell Low '36-'39 Earning And New Equipment Hazard Future WASHINGTON, Aug. U.-iPy-An airplane manufacturing offi cial testified Thursday - that un less excess profits tax provisions were lightened the proposed new revenue bill "probably would end the existence" of the Boeing Air craft. Corp.j which, developed the army's flying fortress bombers. This gloomy forecast came from H. E. Bowman of Seattle, treas urer of the Boeing company, as the senate finance committee worked late to hear the last of 50 witnesses in an effort to end pub lic hearings on the house-approved measure. T; Bowman said the threatened plight of the Boeing company which was shared by other air craft 'manufacturers arose from the fact that it had spent most of its earnings in pre-war years to develop new types of equipment. . Because its invested capital was relatively small and its earnings in the 1936-39 base period were low, he said, 96.6 per cent of its net income .would be subject to the proposed 90 per cent Excess profits levy, with- the result that (Turn to Page 2, CoL I) ISurrlvors Land I From Sub 'Attack LONDON, Friday, Aug. 14 American and British survivors of ships sunk "in an intense at tack by a large pack of subma rines : m an Atlantic convoy" were landed Thursday at a Brit ish port, the New Chronicle said Friday. ; ' -. "Losses were suffered, -the survivors were quoted as saying, "but the Germans are known to have lost some U-boats." . Our ; convoy ? suffered, heavily but the action was by no means one-sided," Sunn ingham . was I quoted by the newspaper as say ing. Anssies . Bombers Hit 3 Cruisers, Fly Channel , Germans Claim US Carrier Wasp Sunk In Mediterranean By The Associated Press AEF fighting men aloft, ashore or afloat were at the at tack in force Thursday night on at least four fronts across the vastnesses of W o r 1 d war II, while their red army allies struggled in a lonely, desperate defense to save the Caucasus for Russia. From Dover to the steaming jungles of the Solomon islands the enemy knew the Yanks had come to stay. None of the world's great active fronts lacked their direct force save Russia. American participation in a furious new conflict 'in Mediter ranean waters and the first west ern European action on a large scale by US army fighter pilots rivaled America's first Pacific of fensive in potential importance on a globial war scale. American fighter' squadrons roaring over the English chan- Jel on 31 sorties ended the first i boors of great activity by United States army air forces in the European theatre Thursday just as 250 to 400 RAF bombers were returning from a second consecutive night of destructive attacks . on Mains in the Rhlneland. The disclosure that all-Amer ican fighting squadrons, flying British Spitfire planes,1 had chal lenged the German air force over France and. the channel came as huge American, four - motored bombers were poised on takeoff aprons over the country, likewise ready to participate with the RAF in the aerial destruction of Ger many's 'war foundries and her bases in occupied western Europe. With a -big allied convoy appar ently still fighting its way through the western Mediterranean under constant attack from axis submar ines and aircraft, long-range US army bombers crossed , the sea to Pylos, Greece, and rained bombs on threo of four Italian cruisers there, severely, damaging them. This followed the pattern of last June's Mediterranean battles, when US action against - Italian battleships and cruisers kept the main fascist fleet out of the attack on two allied convoys. The German, who already have sunk the 'British aircraft earrier . Eagle with u-boat tor (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) , Queen Adelene To Rule Fete Brief Ceremonies Set At Mt. Angel for Flaxarian Court ' (See Picture on Page Two) MT. ANGEL. Au. 13. Miss Adelene Bochsler of Mt, Angel was chosen queen of Flaxaria for 1942 at the dance Thursday night honoring the six candidates, at the ML Angel auditorium. The announcement was made at the intermission when the choice of the dancers was voiced bv the balloting results. The 3udges and candidates had voted previously. At 6:3 pv m. the ; girls - were feted at a dinner at the Mt Angel hotel. . ; ..- r: ,i Queen Adelene will be crowned next .Friday, night, at ceremonies equal to that ! pre-war festivals and will reign briefly but glori ously; at the queen's ball that night, This will end the wartime version of this year's flax festival The other five contestants - for the royal crown will act as m-in- cesses of the ; royal court. They are Carol Mae J Martin, St Paul, crown princess; Louanna William son. Salem: Jeannette Schneider. Portland; Jane Irish. Silverton. and Marjorie Sealy, Woocburn. Wednesday's Weather v Wednesday's max. temp, 80, s min. 49. Hirer Wednesday -3JS ft 'At army request weather forecasts are withheld and tern- 1 peratare data delayed. b Planes- Strike Foot Fronts Sink 2 'Victory Days9 On; Lintertainment bet In Downtown Areas War Bond and Stamp Buying Object Of Home Talent Programs Slated Afternoon, Night, Saturday, Too "Victory Days," proclaimed for Salem by Mayor W. W. Chadwick and for Marion county by Judge Grant Murphy, will be observed in Salem today and Saturday with varied programs in the heart of the business district in the after noons and on the courthouse grounds each night. Intended to stimulate interest in the purchase of war savings bonds and stamps, the two days' programs are to con sist of local talent entertainment brief talks, war bond "auctions," with prizes offered to the highest bidders to buy boads, military parades and musicrcfaiWren's events and' display of "Victory House," a mobile war savings promotion truck and trailer. Each afternoon's' series of pro grams will open at 1 p. m. with a parade by soldiers, an army band and public officials from the capitol building to the North Lib erty street block between State and Court streets. Army jeeps will be stationed at the court house grounds and available to civilians for rides ' provided they (Turn to Page 2, Cot 2) Navy Ordered To Work Plant Workers Ballot to Continue Outlaw Strike, Jersey WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.0iP) President Roosevelt ordered Navy Secretary Knox Thursday night to take over and operate the plant of the General Cable corporation at Bayonne, NJ. This action followed a vote of a thousand workers at the' plant which has orders for cable vital to war operations, to continue a strike which began Monday. - Presidential Secretary Stephen Early told reporters: "The president, at 6 o'clock to night, signed an executive order directing the secretary of the navy to takeover the plant of the Gen eral Cable corporation, and oper ate same, at Bayonne, NJ. The workmen at the plant stopped production, although this , step- was not ordered by their onion, in protest against a deeisioa by the war labor -board adverse to their demands for a par increase. The president issued his exec utive order after receiving a let ter from Vice Chairman George W. Taylor of the war labor board, which recited a history of the case. It said that the board, meet ing Thursday had "decided by un animous vote to. notify you of the serious situation-'. which exists at the Bayonne plant of the General Cable company. and, respectfully suggest that,. you, proceed with such action : as you deem appro priate." The chief executive's order fol lowed the language of previous ones and provided for termina tion of government possession and operation of the plant as soon as Mr.. Roosevelt determines that it will be "privately operated in a manner consistent with the war effort" '..-" - ; -. A spokesman for. the navy said the department' ?will - carry out the president's border and take over the " Bayonne "' plant , tomor row. ' . - -' Polish' Destroyer Sunk as Escort ;: tv -V" -- - .... . ; - v - . si " C LONDON Friday. Aug.-14 rW) The Polish ministry of informa tion announced Friday that the destroyer Kujawiak was sunk while on ' convoy escort duty , in the Mediterranean ; recently. ' It said she went down . when her destination was m sight. - The Kujawiak was in a strong convoy which first -was attacked from the air, it said. The destroy er shot down three planes in the first day under attack. : . German It's Sure MAJ. GEN. MARK W. CLARK LONDON, Friday, Ang. If -jpj Haj. Gen. Mark W. Clark, chief of the United . States Infantry force la Britain, said Friday that "KBssia's armies most for ever be in a position to ham mer at Germany from on side while we hammer at the other." "Wo have bat ene plan over here ui that is to take offen sive -as soon, as feasibie," he said in a broadcast tan to .be beard In United States- ; day night. He saM, that tho aestion of shipping and sapply was the major I problem for a , second front. "An army mast have a steady flow of aacm aaaV material to bo ioiiiii in fill la actWaV a osa phasised; Patriots Get Nazi Warning Bombing of Lowlands, Annihilation of Slavs Promised LONDON, Aug. 13 -By- The German-controlled -; Netherlands radio Thursday night threatened the people ; of i that country With "widespread bombing, devastation and starvation in the event of a United Nation's second front in vasion,' Aneta agency said. ' The "Yugoslav government here also announced that the Germans had threatened to wipe out all of Serbia, if guerilla . activities force the nazis to send more occu pation troops into that Balkan land. Aaeta reported the nazi an - noaneer fat Holland ' as saying that t the . Germans planned to make " . their , principal stand -against a prospective Invasion behind a wall of big fortifica- Uons. The area betweest this , "wan and the sea woald udergo thoroagh devastation "disat ' trans for the thickly populated. '.Netherlands' fat the event of a German retreat, be was emoted aa saying. ... . Two hundred or more promi nent Netherlands already are held as hostages by the Germans, to be executed if Dutchmen join any second front forces,' Aneta said. , , v - These developments came amid continuing disorders and report ed executions in German -occu pied Europe. The refugee govern- -; (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3 Is 9 Vessels Rommel Loses Rhodes Raided Egyptian Front Said Ominously . Quiet; New Troops Many By EDWARD KENNEDY CAIRO, , Egypt, Aug. 13-(P) Light bombers of the Australian air force Thursday attacked enemy motor lighters used to supply German Marshal Erwin Rommel's army and sank two in an action several hours after medium RAF bombers carried out a series of attacks on the axis islands of Rhodes. The two lighters brought to 13 sunk and two probably sunk the total bag of this squadron against the enemy lighters, which have been increasingly used in the last montn. The first plane scored three direct hits on one lighter. "There was a terrific flash midships and Its guns ceased to fire," the pilot said. The pilot of the next plane said he saw the vessel sinking rapidly in the midst of a ( widening splotch of oil on the sea. As the squadron departed the second lighter-also was observed going down. -. N The main feature of Wednesday night's air war1 was the thrust at Rhodes. . Bombs Straddled-30 axis planes at Calato airfield and four fires' Were' started; 4 The RAF also attacked Tobruk and Salum harbors. Meanwhile," the ground sitna v tion was ominously quiet in the desert with the allied defenders of Egypt, ' wending American tank writs, tense and ready for action. Their numbers have been in creased by new arrivals, mostly from the United Kingdom, and material, . especially - tanks and anti-tank guns. House Passes Benefits Bill Plan Makes Possible Payments Now to Dependents WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-JPh- Over war department opposition, the house passed and sent to a less-receptive senate Thursday legislation empowering the army and navy. to make benefit pay ments available immediately ; to dependents of the nation's service men. The original, allowance and al lotment act passed last June pro vided that payments to depend ents start accruing as of June 1 but that actual delivery of checks be withheld until November 1 to allow time to set up administra tive machinery The withholding. provision, complained ' Representative . Ran kin (D-Miss), sponsor of the leg islation passed, Thursday, was causing hardships in many needy cases. Rankin's amendment sim ply made it permissible, not man- (Turn to Page X CoL 4) Goering Fears Revolutions MOSCOW, Aug. 13,--Con-cemed over the possibility of an allied : second front in .Europe, Reichsmarshal Hermann ; Goering was reported Thursday night in a Tass dispatch from Geneva to have ordered German - agents in occupied--countries to wage t" resolute and merciless ' strug&le against all attempts at revolt" . .The official 'soviet news agency said Goering called, a conference of rekh ministers and officials at which be discussed problems con nected with such a war front. Tass said the inevitability of an anti German revolt in the occupied countries was mentioned and Go ering urgently called Vidkun Quisling, Leon Degrelle and An ton llussert, nazi leaders in Nor way, Belgium and Holland, and other agents to receive instruc tions, - - Supply Ships Meinj Into 1 Solo Two Zero Fleet Escorts iioiuoTOas .transports Hit; Marines Advancing GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,, Australia, Friday, Aug. 14(AP)i-Japane8e wareliipa and transports apparently intended to reinforce the Solomon island garrisons under ailack by American marines were attacked three times Thursday by allied bombers "in the New Guinea area," it was announced Friday. - . . The communique issued here indicated that the Solomon battle was spreading rapidly in scope now that the American marines had. gained secure footholds on three of the islands 600 miles east of New Guinea, and that what began merely as an important task problem naa now widened into a into a battle I of major proportions likely to in fluence eavily the turn of war on tho whole Pacific war scene. Three Japanese fighter planes were shot down and three were damaged in unsuccessful efforts to fend off the flying fortress and other bombers that pounced on the Japanese ships. Results of the allied daylight attacks could not be determined immediately be cause -of bad weather, the com munique said, but all the allied pianes . returned, aitnougn some were damaged - i , In an attack Wednesday on baui, the big Japanese New Brit ain base northwest of the Solo mons, -allied planes had knocked out four Japanese ships in contin uing their support of Vice Admir al Ghormley's air-naval-land for ces attacking in the Solomons. Six Zero planes escorting Jap . anese ships Thursday tried to : Intercept the flying fwtreas and . medium allied bombers hi their .first sweep. Two of them were shot down and three were dam aged. .- . . Seven more Japanese fighters engaged the allied craft during the second bombing run, one of them being destroyed. No aerial interference- was met in the third at tack. ; "We sustained some damage, but all our planes returned,' the communique- concluded. ; '. , The destination of the Japan ese warships and transports ap peared to be the Solomons. They were sighted somewhesw at sea between New Guinea and the Sol omons, the communique indica ted, because this latest raid ad mittedly was not on stationary targets in a New Guinea or New Britain port, as previous attacks have been. It was the eighth successive day that General MacArthur's supporting fliers have carried out long-range attacks, but until Fri day those attacks had been con fined to Japanese land bases above and west of the Solomons. The attacks began the same day as the main allied thrust at the Solomons last Friday. Latest reports indicated that , the leathernecks, spear-heading an assault which may develop into a United Nations grand offensive to drive the invaders oat of the South Seas, were making steady progress against better resistance. . Unconfirmed advices said Am erican parachute troops, making their first historic appearance in battle, were used as shock forces in the attack. . " . - -., " E Strong American reinforce ments were said to be pouring into the seven-day-old-' battle as the Japanese lought desperately to hold their strategic bases 900 miles northeast of Australia. (Turn to Page 2, CoL 9 ' Buy Turn to. - " 'Hurries orcennents mons $10,000 Fire Hits Building At Silverton Flax Process Plant Destroyed ; Other structures. Saved SILVERTON, Aug. 13.-(Spe- ciai;-rjre hreaking out at 0:15 p. m. swept through the city owned brick building housing the 'Virtar FTvfrnm ' flaw plant on South Water street in SUverton Thursday night to cause damage expected to run well above $10,000. The flames few a time threat ened the city hall and civilian de fenseoffice nearby and fine res idences across the creek from the plant, which was housed in the, brick section of the old Fischer Flouring mills, now city property. Spread of the flames- to near by buildings and to the adjoin ing wooden section ef the old flonr mm,' part of which had been torn down with the sal vaged lumber stacked around Ai, was ptmilU by the -strenV efforts- mt Silverton fire men, aided by men and eeaip ment from the Mt Angel and Stayton departments. jvmpioyes expressed a belief tho fire started in one of Elvstrpm's processing machines used in mak ing upholstering materials, butltf (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Japs Destroy 35 Ally Ships TOKYO, (From Japanese Broadcasts). Aag. 14.-t?)-lm-perial headqnarters said In a commaniqne Friday that Jap- r anese naTsl forces In the battle ' or tne soiomon islands had unlr 13 British and American ervis- ' era, nine destroyers, three sob- marines and tea transports. ' j ' (These figures were withont confirmation from any sonree). The war baUethi said that la ' addition one ember, three de stroyers and one transport were severely damaged. ' v " It said that two Japanese cruisers were slightly danaaget, but remained In eonnrfssiom. - i Twenty one Japanese planes , were stated, to have been. lest fn soJeide dives by their pilots onto their obJectivesL . . War Bonds and Stamps . AitV". Their Story- Today