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Going Away? Going away, - oa a wei ttoa or to a war Jebf Have The Statesman follow yon. . to keep isa potted en event ,k at home. Call till lor d- Complete Yeall find no newspaper can give more real satisfac tion than your local anorn la paper, with Its WORLD NEWS plat HOME COM &XUNITY NEWS. UNDI3t? XISTY-SECOND YEAH Salem. Oregon. Sunday Morning. Augual .16. 1942 Price 5c No. ICS TTTV IDS MClll . Xs . VWc. jTyM II I I I I I I I I I II A II II It II .Mew to III Germ Full ans Launch Offensive On Stalingrad Masses of Infantry and Machines Hurled East After Lull During Conquest of Caucasus Region . ' v . . By EDDY GILMORE :- - '! ...... ft , ' , . " . MOSCOW. Sunday, Aug. lV. full offensive against Stalingrad IVia North Caucasus, the Germans tanks and planes Sunday against skaya and Kotelnikovski fronts Russian reports efifrly Sunday County Drive Attains $40,000 Victory Program Said Success; Army Jeeps Haul Many Children Marion county dug deeper into its Jeans Saturday for war bonds and stamps to run purchases for the two "Victory Days' sponsored by the county war savings staff past the $40,000 mark. Chairman Frederick S. Lamport announced. Purchase of more than $1000 worth of war stamps alone during the day kept weight army jeeps busy afternoon and night hauling children 8t the price of $1 worth of the victory stickers that pay their. owners interest. To Friday's sales of $99f In , war- bonds and stamps at the Victory House programs 1 In downtown Salem was added more than $15,000. face value, tn bonds bought at the two Sa lem banks, Lamport said. Sales at banks Saturday were esti mated at more than $1,000. Top ! purchase at ' Saturday nichfs closing !Bonds for Vic tory" program at the courthouse square was- a $1000 bond. Anoth er purchaser pledged himself to 43 $25 bonds. Traeedv mixed with the pleas ure of spending a hard-earned 125 for war stamps at the Victory House Saturday night for Robert Jackson, lad living at 231 Mission street. He told Don Black, master f rpremonies. that he brought $50 . he had. earned picking beans with him downtown, bought his sav in rt stamDS and spent the remain ing $25 for a wrist watch, only to lose it in the Victory day crowd. Black broadcast a plea that the watch, a Omen, be returned to the (Turn to Page 2. cm. ei , Auto's Plunge IOlls White Funeral Rites Monday; Wreck Saturday . Near Detroit 'Lowell Ellsworth White,' 29, as aociated with D.. A. White i Son. Salem seed and feed deal 'ers, was killed early Saturday when his automobile rolled down m 100-foot: embankment - on the mahh Rnnti'anV hiehway five miles west of Detroit. Funeral services are to be held from the Clough-Barrick chapel -at 3:30 p. m. Monday. , Believed to have gone to sleep whcd. White, was found on the railroad tracks of the San tiam canyon by a railroad em- Dloye, His watch had stopped at s-07. L.ishts of the automobile were still burning. : White was returning alone from his summer home at Detroit. " Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Monita White, a ' son, Gordon; parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. White; grandmother, Mrs. D. A. White, and uncle, Floyd White, all , of Salem, and an aunt, Mrs. Blanch Doara of Los Angeles, Sorvico Men Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Arehart. $25 Union street, have received 1 word from their son, Dale Are hart, that he has been promoted to the rank of sergeant. "He Is stationed In the dental clinic at . Cam9 Callan, Calif. For additional new about men from Salem and vklnlty In the armed forces, turn to page 3 of today's Statesman. 9 - un - Apparently launching, a I after securing strongholds in hurled masses of lnfantrvmenJ Russian positions on the Klet before the important Volga city. said , the Germans had opened jp a series 01 attacks witn no re gard for losses, with German bod ies littering the ground along a ailroad east of Kotelnikovski. Fighting has been slow on the Kletskaya and Kotelnikovski fronts for weeks while they won positions in the Don bend and beat their way deep into the Cau casus. Now they appear to be put ting on the pressure again, with ' most of the North Caucasus in their hands. Coincident with the threat to Stalingrad was a drive aimed at Astrakhan from the Kotelnikov ski area. The Russian midnight com munique said that the Germans lost heavily In attempts to re capture lost positions northeast of Kotelnikovski, white the Moscow radio broadcast that the regrouped nazis fighting east of the city were trying to drive to the- northeast toward Stalingrad. A Kotelnikovski is 95 miles south west of Stalingrad. ' HOn the northern arm of this huge pinces novement against the I city named for Joseph Stalin, the Germans apparently were trying to develop and enlarge their break through to the Don river southeast of Kletskaya, which is 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad. "Southeast of Kletskaya the Germans launched several fierce (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Kaiser Going Ahead on Plan Will Not Rob Combat Planes; Must Find More Materials NEW YORK; Aug. 15.-(ffVHen ry J. Kaiser, west coast shipbuild. er, said Saturday in an interview he was going ahead with his plan to build hundreds ot 70-ton cargo planes and would do it in such a way as not to rob the regular air craft industry of skilled men. TO secure the necessary raw materials, he proposed the govern ment, the aviation industry and his organization jointly launch "an intensive drive for proper al location of the present materials we have." He- also declared, "we must make ao intensive drive on scrap materials." Citing Nickel specifically In this connection. Kaiser said he had "the best minds In the country at work ' on that problem. - "The thing to do," he explained, is to come to Washington with plans well laid out and formula - ted for new manufacturing resour- ces. "It not only opens the possibil ity of manufacturing more your self, but it stimulates the rest of the industry and production is in creased all' around. That's what we've done in shipbuilding. When we couldn't get materials we went out and made them. . ' "This is the hard way. The hard way takes a longer time, but, inas much as it must be done and can be done, well have to. do it the hard way if it's necessary.' ready has aa engineering staff of cal, metallurgical and process en- gineers and a small proportion of aircraft engineers, Kaiser said -i nave given oraen urn not a single man is to be taken from the aircraft industry w 1 1 h o u t a re- lease man nis organization.. 1 we wouia expect to get tne assist- ance and cooperation of the air craft industry, but not by robbing them. Or I'd be glad to join with them in one organization for the period of the war to get the job done: Kaiser said he planned to leave soon for the Pacific coast to con - ler with aviation executives. 4v 7 sA Gives. Estate HP" - r - 7 i DORIS DUKE CROMWELL HONOLULU, TH, Aug. 15 -iJP) The Star-Bulletin said Saturday Doris Duke Cromwell, tobacco heiress, was turning- over the use of the play facilities on her lavish -Kaalawai "Shangri-La" estate to the army and navy. Her millionaire's play ro and includes a lavish swimming pool with an automatic' elevating- spring board, tennis courts and extensive grounds. Army Activates Two Divisions 96th at Camp Adair, 91st at White Are Offense Promise By The Associated Press The United States army's grow ing might went on 'display Satur day with the activation of two new World war II divisions at Oregon camps. The historic "wild west divi sion of the last war the 91st was reborn at Camp White near Medford as MaJ. Gen. Charles Gerhards, the new commander, pledged: I promise you that we will train these gentlemanly soldiers into savage and efficient killers on the field of battle. I promise you, too, that we shall go forward with high hearts and grim deter mination, and with God's - help, we shall not fail." , r. Another division was activa ted at Camp Adair near Cor vallis aa MaJ. Gen. James L. Bradley, the commanding offi cer declared: " "We will stress attack, for only an offense will wire , the war. " ' He urged the need of thorough military training for -combatting a well trained, well equipped en emy who is a veteran , of many campaigns. ' " "Total wr requires total ef fort," Gen. Bradley warned. "We must be willing , to undergo any hardship for victory." At the Camp White ceremonies, greying veterans of the old 91st famed for its warcry "Powder River let 'er buck" took part as the colors were presented to the new outfit The new division will carry on the old battle cry, which veterans say originated with Montana cow boys from the Powder River bad lands, Reporting for duty in the last war, the Montanans were j asked where they were from. They shouted: "Powder River let 'er buck. At Camp Adair, men of the new army heard the heroic story of Lieut. Henry Rodney Adair, aa Oregon nu killed on the Mexican' border before World war I, in whose honor the camp was named. 4 Camp Adair officials made no advance announcement of Satur day s activation ceremonies be cause of the possibility of high way, congestion. The public not invited. . ,1.. CorvalllS Agrees U II SeWaffC JL 1311 1 , . PORTLAND, Aug. 15-wvCor- vallis has agreed, tentatively to build a sewage treatment Dlant J fCr protection of the Camp Adair J water supply, Harold F. Wendel, Oregon sanitary authority chair man, said Saturday. Mayor Howard Hand agreed conditionally to construct a puri fication plant, Wendel said, but the Corvallis city council must pass on the matter Monday. The cityv-has been dumping sewage intn the Willamette river, 1 which is Camp Adair's source of water. 1 Training Time Is eShortV Gen, Eisenhower Statement Leads To 'Front' Talk By ROBERT BUNNELLE LONDON, Aug. 15.-j!P)-Sig-nificantly speaking at a time when United States, Russian and British military leaders are continuously discussing di versionary action on a new Eu ropean front, US Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower declared here Saturday that "the time is short" and United States soldiers must be trained to stand the most "rigorous operations." His words at a press conference were regarded by many as a hint of the urgency with which the pro gram to beat the axis is being or ganized. Training in all its phases must be intensive," said the command er of all. United States army forces in the European theatre. "This is true first because the time Is short, second, be cause the problems we have de mand the ultimate in trained personnel, and. third, because our men most be toughened and hardened, physically to stand the most rigorous operations." He declared it was his convic tion that "we must form here the best army the United States has ever put into the field, if we are to perform our future tasks suc cessfully." The general's words were tak en as a reflection of the views of botlv the , British, .and . Araericejv governments that a second front in Europe is needed at the earli est possible moment; ' and that such a front can be created and successfully advanced only at the cost of great preparation and great casualties. , United States troops for some time past have been pouring into Britain at an increasing rate and their training is progressing rap idly with battle-hardened British veterans among the instructors. British and American experts, while realizing that a foil scale second front is impossible with out adequate preparations, feel that more positive action to aid Russia and hit the axis will not be long delayed. They think the formula has been decided or soon will be. Many believe that at the pres ent stage the main brunt still will have to be borne by British and Canadian troops with Americans playing a minor role until they reach a training and organization al peak but at the rate things are moving they think that wont be long. . " . -. Axis Relents Attack Qaim US Wasp Not Damaged In Mediterranean, But British Ship LONDON, Aug. 15 The German high command withdrew its claim that the US aircraft carrier Wasp had been damaged in the great western Mediterran ean convoy battle but officially reported that the running light was over with six British men o'war and 15 merchant ships or tankers sunk. Backing- down from their offi cial report of Friday that the Wasp was hit by six bombs and set on fire, the Germans said it was a British aircraft carrier of the Blustrinua type that was dam aged. . The axis, however, way unable to; get together on its broadcast claims, for the Italians told the world., mat the battle was con tinuing; that a destroyer and two cruisers had been damaged ' Fri day by, torpedoes and bombs, and that torpedo planes had. hit the prow of a battleship.- - Unofficial Italian reports furth (Turn to Pago 2. CoL 7) ' Our Senators it ttca 7-2 Allied Planes Disperse Mmines Where Allies AUSTRALIA While American marines fought Nations bombers smashed (plane hinder Jap reinforcements on the rt'-t---- 'iMi'-imii.--tiiiiriMiMt-Mi.M."ii.M.-.i."M. ''rT 'i' lattM uuu'UJIi MMIA - :H: :;-;:-;r:-. sf --"--: :4 4 equator, I "SS, S-J ADMlIAmfh''-, -'-" - - - I V ; A "-.0 I ami V --3 I SALAMAUAk TlfS - -- - i ------ - --- -- M 1 - SI - V- - iTTr-r w v V S- 1 :-: ":: :-- - - "i i: :- ! I y 1 ----" " " s-"A LOUISIADC: 3 cjo V l jjw ." -aacHimAco Y vv- : Coral Sea 1 first through The Associated Press to The Statesman. (Associated Gty Traffic Change Seenr: Right Turn Against Red Lights to Be Asked of Council Revision of Salem's traffic reg ulations to permit right hand turns against red signal lights will be proposed at Monday night's city council meeting, Alderman L. LeGarie, chairman of the po ke committee, said Saturday. The committee feels, LeGarie said, that traffic is increasing in the city to such an extent that steps must be taken to speed up vehicular movement along the streets. All business- district intersec tions controlled by automatic traffic signals will be included in provisions of a resolution being drawn to authorize the right hand turn against red lights, LeGarie said, and also the Capitol and Center streets intersection. The regulation, contemplated differs from the frequently-used plan in other cities in that mo torists desiring to make a right turn against a red signal will be required to stop momentarily, be fore making the turn. The committee expects in con nection with the rule to ask that parking be forbidden for dis tances of 80 feet from the Tjapitol and Center streets intersection on the east side of Capitol south of Center, the west- side north of Center and on the north side of Center east of Capitol and the South side of Center west of Cap itol, aa an. aid to motorists mak 4ng the right turn. .The proposed change has the approval of state highway de partment experts, Alderman' Le Garie said. i Strap-Hanging Boom Faced ; WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 More strap-hanging, longer walks to bus stops, and other inconven iences face the nation's growing anny of commuters, according to Joseph .B. Eastman, director of defense transportation. Eastman said today that local transport systems will face the heaviest load in their history by mid-September. . v . He added that -minor incon veniences" were "fast becoming patriotic necessities.; Crash Hurts Two : . ' - BCLOXL Miss Aug. 15-(A)-A two motored bomber cought fire and crashed Saturday night north of Pascagoula," Miss with injury to two of its crew. Search still was underway for the third mem ber, who bailed out. , Better Hit Japs and m iV --- "y."..'.;TfsoocAiMvaxs 1 ; - w- - to consolidate their positions in the symbols) at key points In the Jap supply line to the Solomons to way to the battle area. Reports on these dally raids reach Salem Ayres Ready For Service, Gets Praise ABILENE, Tex, Aug. 1S-A) Pvt. Lew Ayres has completed his basic army training at Camp Barkeley's medical replacement training center with the praise "excellent soldier bestowed by his commanding general. - The erstwhile pr. Kildare of the movies reported here in May after leaving a conscientious ob jectors' camp to enter non-combatant service. - Six pounds heavier despite his vegetarian diet and hard work under a blazing sun. Ayres awaits permanent assignment in the nation's armed forces with this Messing- from Brig. Gen. Key C Heflebower, commander of the medical center: "According to all reports reaching my of flee he has bees an excellent soldier and I (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Navy Assault Damaged Four Week-Old Kiska .Raid Sent One to Bottom, ; Destroyer Badly Hit WASHINGTON, - Aug. 15-Wr-Flaming guns of the US warships and bombs of naval planes severe ly damaged a destroyer and two cargo vessels and sent a third car go ship to the bottom in Kiska harbor in raids August 8 and 9 the navy disclosed Saturday. .More than 3000 shells were hurled from the big guns of war ships of a task force of the Pac ific fleet which hit hard at the enemy occupied island off Alaska. Shells striking the enemy's main camp set I huge . fire which still were burning when reconnaissance' planes flew over the harbor a day later., v f- A short distance to the south a secondary camp also was hit hard by the heavy bombardment, and anti-aircraft and shore bat teries throughout the island were silenced. :-iV; '';f ' Only resistance offered by the enemy was a weak seaplane at tack and desultory- firing by shore batteries before-they were put out of action by American big guns. When- the US forces hit they found a fleet of enemy vessels including submarinesin the Kis ka harbor. Estimates, were made that the fleet included ten cargo or transport vessels, four submar ines and a destroyer. - At the close of the surprise at tack on August 8, the destroyer was left standing and burning just outside the harbor. Patrol planes the following day added damage to two cargo ves sels and reported sighting a third sunk near the beach, presumably sent down by gunfire the previous day. .. , Shore Positions Hit Again SOLOMON.1S. ... iCcMOISCUL I VtUA5Yr-VT lAvtULArjTv KVv isAtn 1 ITULAGI AfLOIDA' J cuadjllcanalH- ALAITA I Tl 1. - SAN OHSTOSAl I. r....-z - o a. 300 A . STATUTC MHCS At tOUATOO Solomon islands (circle), United Press Telemat). . Save Business Plan Evolves ; Hard-Pressed Stores May Consolidate For Duration WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-JPJ- Some form of concentration of wholesale and retail, businesses and distributive facilities, as well as civilian industries, will be ne cessary before mid-1943 to save thousands of merchants from bankruptcy, informed government officials predicted Saturday. A tentative plan which would permit hard-pressed stores to dose "for. the duration," and re open after the war with a mini mum of financial loss, already is under study; it was learned. Officials in close touch with the general merchandise situation, who declined to be quoted by name, said the overall plan for wholesale and retail concentration now was little more than a "ba sis for argument" and a recogni tion of the economic restrictions which will be necessary in a long war. . Under '. the tentative plan, which draws on experience In England, merchants caught la the ."squeese" of price ceilings, or faced with business failure because of normal competitive conditions and abnormal lack of consumer goods to sell, would be able to turn over their stocks and their customers to s compe titor and close their doors. ' Their firm names, good-will and . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Large Army Plane Down PERU, Mass., Aug. 15F) A large army plane carrying prob ably as many as 24 men crashed Saturday night in this mountain ous Berkshsire hill town and ar my oinotais - announced meagre reports, indicated "at least four were alive and there , were some deaths. 3 - --:. -. -- y- ,: -i .Lieut. Harold Rosenquist, first service command public relations officer, in officially conforming the crash, said complete details on cas ualties were not available yet, but that some of the troops In the plane were known to have i caped. One soldier, badly burned was admitted at St Luke's hispital in Pittsfield. State Police Corp. Louis Perachi reported the plane struck Peru mountain, highest peak In this wooded vacation area. Peru itself has a population of fewer- than 200. . Friday's 7eather Friday's max. temp. 182, mln. 53. Elver Friday -3.6. By army request weather forecasts are .withheld and temperature data delayed, h- Convoy; o 9 Tans Admit TLS Forces Still on Solomon Island By C. YATES McDANIEL j nF.NPPAT Ufa A TJT-tiTTrj'a" HEADQUARTERS, Austra lia, Sunday, Aug. 16 (AP) tne Japanese nave recent ly strengthened their forces in the interior of New Guinea, an allied spokesman acknowledged Sunday after a communique disclosed the in- vadrs' vpr dill sTvHincr pressure in their attempts to break through the jungle-covered allied base at Port Moresby, only 350 miles across water from the , Australian mainland. The communique merely said "Enemy pressure against our for ward outposts , continues" and made no reference to the battle of the Solomons, now entering its tenth day, several hundred miles to the east la that struggle the United- States- marines wery be lieved to have captured important coastal bases. ? v VV The spearhead of the Japan ese overland drive toward Port Moresby was at Kokodo, and it was here the enemy had man aged to increase his forces! - The spokesman gave ho idea of the new strength, saying simply that the Japanese forces there. admittedly continuing to hammer at allied positions, had been in creased "somewhat." It was believed three weeks ago, when word of Japanese land ings at Buna and Gona, on the New Guinea north coast were first announced officially, that between 1500 and 2000 trooDs had rn in on the1 big island northeast of Aus tralia. They then headed inland' toward Kokoda and Port Moresby. aunaays communique said al lied bombers, operating off tho northwest coast of Australia, had attacKed Japanese installations on the southeast coast of Timor, on Saturday, making direct hits on buildings arid starting fires. ' uwi WL small Japanese convoy attacked heavily by allied bombers off New Guinea and New Britain on Friday and Saturday appar ently had been dispersed. The communique Itself made no ref erence to these enemy warships and transports, which apparent ly had been headed toward the Solomons to reinforce Japanese forces there.' : 4f ; - The first phase of the battle In the Solomons apparently had con cluded txhimphantly for the mar ines. . - . .- -v , i-r '- X The failure of Japanese Quarter to make any but a negative ref erence to, their land forces, cou pled with a Washington announce ment that the marines are consol idating shore positions in the Tu lagi area, led qualified observers here to the belief that the Nip ponese had been dislodged from ihe bases. V The Japanese controlled radio station failed to refer to ground forces on the southeastern Solo mon islands Saturday but an in .(Turn to Page 2, CoL J) - ! 4 lien of Action Pick the Navy' Fight for your country's -" freedom! Get action, ' training, advancement If you're 17 to 50. ' .choose the Navy nowl FOH ADDITIONAL ' nrroiATioN Turn to Page 3 Enemy Exerts Pressure