Keep Posted Momentous events occur .fat all parts of the world while t yon sleep- but also while The Statesman newt services are reporting them. Keep petted; read The Statesman. Going Away? 1 Going - away, est a Uon or to a war Job? Hart The Statesman follow - yon, to keep yea posted en events at home, Call 9101 for. de tails. .. "; ; . .- ' " ' j- - -; t . ' r '. t "" NINETY -SECOND YEAR Salem, Oregon .Thursday Morning, August 20, IS 12 Pric 5c. No. 107 pi. ' fb mmaiiidios SICK , IdTOm Sim SI am flj ) 1 m m 1 ed- Planes Hv'Jap:-WjmiSK Australian Cruiser SiiiMng Told Krasnodar; Fight On Bon Unchanged Retreat Made Toward Sea; Battle Rages From Caucasus North to Leningrad; Soviet Planes Raid By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Thursday, Aug. 2 0-(;P)-Riissian troops have abandoned Krasnodar in the western Caucasus in an apparent retreat toward the Black sea1 base of Novorossisk, but the Soviet communique early Thursday said there was no material change In the Don river bend lines west of Stajingrad. " Forty four German tanks were reported destroyed and more Draft Class IB Is Eliminated All but Totally Unfit To Be Available for ' , Military Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -M The selective service system Wed nesday abolished its "limited ser vice" class 1-B, the group with minor physical defects, and or dered -all but the totally unfit, re classified as available for military service.. . - " '". ' Nearlng exhaustion of the pool of 1-A registrants, those free of any known physical handicaps and not deferred from active duty for any other ; reason, the army-re-cently' called for induction of men from the 1-B class. This decision, resulting in fUlinr local draft quotas with 1-A and 1-B reentrants, has made the latter classification . meaningless for all 'practical purposes of the selective service system, and its members will either be placed In f-F, if total ly unfit for service, or shifted (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) ' Movie FUni Is Frozen WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -P) The war production board Wed nesday froze all moving picture film in the hands of manufactur ers, effective at 11:59 p. m. Thurs- dav night, and. announced con trols which will limit the movie industry to the amount of film used last year. . No standard-size, 35-mm film will be available henceforth for commercial advertising pictures, WPB ruled, and all other users, including the big movie studios, will have to apply to WPB, for permission to buy unexposed film. The 35-mm film for still cam eras the "candid camera" type was not covered by the .order because production already had been controlled through allocation of materials, WPB said, and a new order affecting film for amateurs 'will be Issued shortly. Bouglas Sharp Decorated WAJ5HINGTON, Aug. 19 -(ff) Nine army fliers who would not quit fighting until their huge bomber was a crippled, flaming wreck headed for a crash have been decorated for exceptional ' gallantry in a spectacular bomb ing raid and running air battle over Burma two months ego. The war department reported Wednesday that Brig. Gen. Earl Major Sharp Is known in Sa lem as Douglas Sharp, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Sharp, Evergreen avenue. Ac counts of his Burma flying have appeared In The Statesman previously. T. Naiden, cmmanding Ameri can air- forces In India,- had awarded the silver star to the pilot, . Maj. . Frank D. Sharp of Salem, Ore, and the eight mem bers of his crew. One of the awards was pos thumous to Pvt. First Class Francis J. Teehan of Footeville, l than 119 0 Germans killed in fighting extending from the Cau casus foothills in the south to Leningrad on the Baltic "After stubborn battles .during which heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy in men and equip ment our troops evacuated the town of Krasnodar," the com munique said. The Knban river stronghold of Krasnodar, which the Ger mans claimed August 9 is about 6S air line miles from Novoros sisk, soviet Black sea naval base, and Russian troops also were fighting south of Krasno dar in an apparent westerly withdrawal from the abandoned Maikop ofl fields. r The communique located the Stalingrad battle scene as still "southeast of Kletskaya" in the Don river bend, and "northeast of Kotelnikovski." Kletskaya is 75 miles northwest of the Volga in dustrial city, but unofficial re ports nave saia tne nazis were threatening the western bank of the Don which is only about 50 miles from Stalingrad. Kotelnikovski is 95 miles south' west of Stalingrad. The Russians said the Germans concentrated more than 100 tanks on one sector southeast of Klets kaya in. an effort to crash through the soviet ' lines. Thirty" one of these were reported destroyed as well as 25 trucks filled with nazi troops. Altogether 400 Germans were killed in this single; sector. the communique added. ; The fighting on both approaches to Stalingrad continued through the night In the Caucasian foothills Russian troops still were bat tling grimly to check the Ger man sweep through Pyatigorsk toward the Grosny oil fields be yond. Thursday's communique indicated the Russian lines for the moment were holding in this sector. '. ' Local fighting was reported on the Leningrad-Volkhov front near the Baltic. A German attempt to cross a river in the area was de clared to have been repulsed by soviet artillery. The Russians still had time to lash out by air at Germany prop er. An announcement Wednesday night said that soviet bombers had raided Danzig, Koenigsberg and Tilsitt on the nazi-held Baltic coast, setting a large number of fires in all three cities without the loss of a single raider: Wis., . who died beside his gun in the side turret Second Lieut Herbert E. Wun derlich of Williston, NY, the co pilot,"1 stayed with Sharp to help him in the crash landing, and both,, although, wounded, made their way back to their command. The six otters of the erew had bailed out on Sharp's ord- . ers, and presumably are prison- ers of the Japanese. Despite the decorations awarded . them, the department would not make public- their names on" the -chance that they may have eluded the Japanese, and the disclosure of their ' identity would spur a hunt for them by, , the enemy. . : "" v ' . Despite hazardous Weather con ditions, the plane had carried out a bombing mission over Rangoon and was headed back to Calcutta when more than 20 enemy fight erg attacked it Four of the Japa nese craft were shot down, but the huge bomber was so badly damaged that it finally burst into No Army Crop Help Unless Need Dire WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. It (-Soldiers will not be allowed to help harvest crops until all sources of labor are exhausted, the war department said -Wednesday. Replying to a suggestion by Senator McNary of Oregon that soldiers at Camp Adair, Ore., be forloughed to help pick hops in the Willamette valley. Secretary Stimson said: , j "If it should develop that the American people are confronted with a food emergency which cannot be met by existing sur pluses, the use of military per sonnel may be considered, bat only if all sources of harvest labor have been exhausted and the military personnel is em ployed as units and not as in dividuals. The secretary added that' the department is confronted by the necessity of training men In the shortest time to be -"more high- ly proficient' in the science of warfare than our eenmies." Dimout Begins Motorists Limited on Coast; Floodlights 7 Most Affected Residents of the Salem area in doubt as to dimout regulations were early this morning: invited by the Marion county civilian defense council to make use of that organization's information service by calling 3349. Mrs. J. 'I McNeil is to be .on duty there Along Pacific from 8:30 a. m. to 12 noon and j The communique said the re from 1 to 5 p. m. today. ' I suits of the attack were not de SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. lO- The shadow of war settled over the west coast for the duration Wednesday with a blanket dimout of lights from Puget Sound to the Mexican line. As night sports had their final fanfare, air raid wardens and vol unteers spread out; all along the 1200-mile shoreline to issue final the warnings that by 12:01 a. m. great glows of - coastal cities and highways must fade. The dimout, in varied stages. extends over 100.000 sanarc mflea of the three coast states, and inl places reaches 150 miles inland. It was ordered by the r western de- fense command two weeks ago, I Turn" to Page -2. Col 3) Service Men Another graduate of the 1941 class at Salem high school has been promoted, according to a letter received here from War ren B. Ling by his mother, Mrs. Flova Ling. Ling was promoted July 4 to the rank of corporal. He is now file clerk in the regi mental quartermaster's office. Additional page 5. service men on flames and was forced down near a British-controlled village. A brief report of the exploit I was issued by the department on I July 20, but details became avail able only with General Naiden's report of the award of decorations to the nine members of the crew. "This personnel said Naid en's citation f the men, "has. in these accomplishments and in the forced landing of the plane under such difficult sn chanical conditions, exhibited outstanding courage, coolness, quick and precise decision In action and gallantry ef the highest orders r i'-1? 5-17 Ing Fortress, took off near Cal cutta to bomb objectives in Ran - goon, flying toward the Burmese city througn. ; heavy ram and clouds. Finding Rangoon hidden under a large thunderstorm, Sharp turned to Bassein to bomb the airdrome there. Spotting a large freighter on . (Turn to Page 2, Cot 4) , bersFly Over Large Most of Canberra's Crew Saved; Figbt Reports Scarce ' By C. YATES McDANIEL GENERAL MaeARTH- UR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 20 (AP) Allied planes attacked Jap anese warships in the northern Solomons Wed nesday in continuing sup port of the US invasion for ces in the southeast, and the loss of the 10.000-ton Austra lian cruiser Canberra .was dis- I closed officially Thursday. The Canberra apparently . was sunk in the first stages of the al lied naval-air-land invasion of the southern Solomons. She carried a full complacement of 816 but most of the crew was saved. Seventy four men were missing and be lieved killed, another 10 died - of wounds, and 109 were wounded. the communique said Among those fatally wounded was the Canberra's captain, Frank Edmund Getting of Sydney. The Methodical Tight for the Solomons" was- continuing witS General MaeArtltur's Flying Fortress crews combing 'the Solomons for any signs of Jap anese reinforcements. The latest attack was on Japan' ese warships encountered off the ; little island of Falsi near Bou- j gainville, 400 miles north of the Tulagi area where US marines were exploiting footholds obtained early in the invasion termined. The allied planes weathered a heavy curtain of I Japanese anti-aircraft fire and re- gained their bases. Australian-manned American- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Portland Japs To Be Moved; . Orders Change aci&cu, Aug. xv-Jr) Some ;S500 Japanese now at the PortlanoV Ore, assembly center wU1 remoed to tj camps in luauo anu njfuuuug within three weeks. The wartime civil control ad ministration announced Wednes day that 1100 Japanese who for merly lived in central Washing ton would be transferred about August 29 to the Heart mountain relocation center at Vocation, Park county, Wyoming. Another 2400 from northwest ern Oregon will be moved start ing September 6 to the Minidoka relocation center at Eden, Jerome county, Idaho. Both groups have been at the Portland assembly center several months. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1M) The Western' defense command announced Wednesday night it I does not tatend any further mass evacuation of enemy aliens or other groups ". from the Pacific military area, but will exclude "dangerous or potentially danger ous persons' as individuals. The statement from the head quarters of Lieut Gen. J, L. De- Witt, Western - defense comman der, appeared to indicate- beyond doubt that no effort would be made to move German and Ital ian nationals collectively out the coastal strip in which all persons of Japanese ancestry already have been rounded up. Three Girls Missing From Salem Homes 1 Three teen age girls were re- ported as missing from Salem, sc- cording to state police late Wed j nesday; A. W. Geddes, r 60 North High street reported to police that the girls, Vivian Klukis, 16, Alice Weston, 17, and Donnie Geddes, 18, were missing from their homes Bo Territory I since 4 p. m. Wednesday. Kaiser Sets Record; Asks More Women PORTLAND. Aug. li.-(flV Give a big hand to Susie, the beautiful welder, new heroine of the booming shipyards along the Pacific coast. - Officials of the vast yards managed by that unorthodox prodigy among shipbuilders, Henry J, Kaiser,- Wednesday made two startling announce ments, both involving SvsieV I First, Kaiser will toss off an other record in the annals of shipbuilding on August 20, when ' liberty ship No. 567 is launched, Just 27 days after her keel was laid. Never ; before, anywhere in the 'world, was a cargo ship of such size. In ex cess of 11,000 tons, built so fast. This record breaks Kaiser's own previous of Si days for con struction of the SS , Thomas : Bailey Aldrich. The new liberty, to be christened the Pierre 8. DuPont, wffl be delivered to the maritime commission four months ahead of the contract date. :-,r - - Announcement number two: '.Kaiser wants more and more girls like Susie, who are wining to dirty their hands for S 62.40 a week starting wage. - Kaiser's were the first yards to employ women in actual eon (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) s Uutput To Pass Goal WPB Boosts Slate; Kaiser Yards Get New Recognition , WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 MJP) Thc. war production, board - ex pects - to see President Roosevelt's shipbuilding goal for this year 8,000,000 deadweight tons not only achieved but surpassed by about 10 per cent. On the basis of a record-break- ing periormance oy tne nation's shipbuilders and. the increased need for cargo space, WPB has boosted its schedule closer to C UUKI HI dtascead 9,000,000 tons for the to 8,000,000, it was an official who asked that his name be withheld. This is about the equivalent of a month's extra production crowd' ed into the last five months of the year. The best shipbuilding record so far achieved was July's! world record output of 71 ships weighing 790,000 deadweight tons. - Henry J. Kaiser, pace-setter for the west coast and father of the plan to build huge 70-ton cargo airplanes in shipyards, got new recognition from the maritime commission Wednes day for outstanding ship pro duction. - Kaiser's Portland, Ore., plant, the Oregon Shipbuilding corpora tion, received its . third merit award. The yard received first of the commission's pennants in April, got a second gold star for the pennant in July, and the new star for continued speed in production. 2 More Subs SunkyBrdzil Ships Called RIO DE JANEIRCvAug. IMff) Two submarines ; were declared sunk of f the Brazilian coast one! .. . . . . - Ship ouer was auacxea ana two moreifflowtru simiucsc ocoiauc, " were sighted in the waters of the perhaps three. : western sou in nuanuc m receni A. ; at- ill Al nesday as Brazil cleared, the sea lanes of all her merchant ship- ping The most recently attacked submarine was sunk early Wed nesday near Bahia where it was sighted by planes of Brazil's coast- al patrol. The sinking occurred T'Cr liZZn battled " vo!ay night Oty firemen, battled shortly after announcement of the destruction of a U-boat by United States medium bomber, piloted by Capt Jack Lacey, USA, off the coast of Sergipe. The submarine sunk this morn mgT was one of two -reported sighted in the western south At- lantie earlier, and the other was! (Turn to Page X Col 8) Our Senators Uci 12-10 Rehearsal for. Invasion Involves 9-Hour Fracas Germans Claim Allied Forces 1 estroyed t. e.sj tr . t irauspuru oam rwcpi Back ; Many Ships Averred Sunk- BERLIN (From German! Broadcasts), Aug. 1M)-The German high command said in special bulletin Wednesday night that the allied forces which attacked the French coast near Dieppe Wednesday were "destroyed without the calling up of reinforcements of important strength." The allies suffered "very high casualties in killed and wounded,' and German defense forces cap tured 1500 prisoners, including 60 Canadian officers, the communi que said. The allies also lost three de stroyers, two torpedo boats, four transports, one speedboat and S3 planes in this "invasion catas trophe,' the Germans said. From 300 to 400 landing boats participated in the first wave of the attack, the communique said, protected by 13 to 15 cruisers and destroyers. A reserve of 32 transports also were concentrat ed in the channel, but "probably the great mass of landing forces were not sent into action, the Germans said. The Berlin radio announcer in giving these details of the Dieppe fight said: The Churchill landing attempt near Dieppe was made under Stalin's pressure desDite all ob- lections by Churchill's military experts and advisers, states offi- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Jap Cruiser Sunk by Sub In Aleutians WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -(JP) I (The navy announced Wednesday that an American submarine bad ; sunk a Japanese cruiser or de stroyer in the western Aleutian area. Prevalent weather conditions, which long have prevented i curate observation of the effect of bombings and surface raids. made it impossible to determine exactly which type of enemy war ship had been sent to the bottom. The submarine attack reported' the today brought the total of Japa M" nese ships damaged or destroyed in the Aleutian area to 23. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 19 65VThe story of a mammoth duck hunt by three United States ar- , price control -log-jam" by giv my pilots who substituted Japa- ing up provision of the price nese pairoi pianes ior aucxs was revealed Wednesday by officers oi we air lorce ueienamg Aiasaa. Tne nun i iook piace in we cloudbanks over the Aleutian is lands several days ago, with two vicious army interceptor fighters uu a' " ""r"VT: nd an army bomber as the bird I dog. The bag was least one four- i j T i . a it . . i Firemen Battle Trestle Blaze The old gravel-loading trestle a i fiooa ana roni iixccls was ue - A . - X A I J stroyed by fire supposedly start ed by a careless smoker Wednes-1 the blaze and watehed its embers for more than 2 Vi hours.' 100 Attackers Down CAIRO, Aug. 1H)-The RAF announced Wednesday night that about 100 axis planes were known to have been shot down or were listed as probably destroyed dur ing attacks on the recent British convoy moving through the Medi terranean to Malta. Tuesday's" 7eather Tuesday's max. temp. 91, mln. S4. River Tuesday -1.7. By army . request weather : fore- easts are withheld and temper ature data delayed. . Commando Sidelights LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 29 (JP)-The British press Thurs day hailed the allied attack on . " - and all agreed It was a prelude to the establishment of a sec- , end front. The News Chronicle said "the raid, though obviously planned independently of Moscow deci sions, was thus psychologically most opportune. We look on it an earnest of still ' bigger things to come." : The Glasgow Herald asserted that the "relatively prolonged nature of the daylight attack and the very exhaustive provi sion of air cover in addition to the use of tanks pointed to a test of "preparations made for an invasion of the continent on an immensely larger scale." The Manchester Guardian suggested that the "hysterical -tone' of the naxi announce ments and the "wUdness of their claims' provided "the best as surances we could have that they fear our pressure and the losses, especially air losses, ins plied for their thinly strung out forces."-. .i OTTWA, Aug. 19.-fl)-Cas- ualties were heavy in the Dieppe raid. Defense Minister J. I Ralston declared Wednes-; day night, but the commandos : "battled their way forward. reaching . objectives which included- the destruction . f many of the enemy's defense works. Be said reports from military commanders overseas Indicated that Canadian troops who made up the main part of the attack ing force "bore themselves with stout - hearted resolution and matchless courage." LONDON, Auf. Lt.-P)-A Californian flying a United States Mustang fighter (North American P-51) shot down a German Focke-Wulf 190 fighter during a sweep ever Dieppe, the British ministry of Information said Wednesday night The pilot was flying Officer H. H.-HU1, an RAF pilot firing in the army cooperation eom : mand in connection with the - landing at Dieppe. TM was understood to be the first F-W 190 destroyed by a Mustang. : Wickard Asks Yielding of Parity Plus WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Jfy- Uvrtarv rtt A rri m?tirr Wirkarri rflllwi limn farmpr- Wednesdav 5ht u. th lead in breaking control law nrohibitin ceilings on larm prices at jess than 110 per i parity. "Today the 110 per cent pro vision is being pointed to by other f or more than their fair share," he said. "It is being used las an argument to slow down economic controls in other fields.' , "Under present circumstances," i --wM """ I the secretary-' said, "I believt it wmiM M rm. I , . r . r i visionJ u v , wwa a vvvuuiiuiuauviif made in a speech prepared for broadcast over the blue network. orice ceOinss on farm Trradurta k established at a naritv I W "W 1 ieveL Declaring that he was not for- ettin bundt production ftn mvHni virkan! was all important "Wickard advo cated the payment of government subsidies in cases where parity prices provided an insufficient in centive. Fullctin LONDON, Aug. ZO-WVNlne-ty German planes were destroy ed and 93 British planet were lost during Wednesday's Dieppe raid, combined operations bead quarters announced Thursday, ' . This increased by nine the number of German planes pre viously reported destroyed and added three planes to the RAF losses announced Wednesday night Thirty RAF pilots are known to be safe. - Air Fortresses Join Raid to Get Answers - Shore Artillery, Radio Destroyed; Losses Admitted Heavy By WES GALLAGHER LONDON, Aug. 19 (AP) Commando forces . and tunica nf tli'j allies! Americans. Canad- ' ians, Britisb and fighting rrtrncn, myaoea and lam basted Germany's ironclad zone of coastal forts ag Dieppe Wednesday and withdrew as planned after achieving an all-day assault on the enemy shore of tne English channel, something Hitler never dared to try. , ;. Nine hours after the first forces landed " the reembarkation wm completed, just six minutes be hind schedule. A communique Wednesday ' night said losses on both sides were heavy. But -it was AinderA sxooa mat every, one of the prin cipal allied objects was achieved. The size of the force still was an official secret hours after the. mission was completed hot seme of the returning troops told how a mile-long string of invasion barges set out for (he raid at twilhrht Tuesday. The barres. escorted by destroyers and cor vettes, moved nnder their own! power, made up of crack Canadian com mandos, aided by picked units of British American and fighting French. The American : trooo. chosen from specially trained bat- talions called "Rangers.' Were said to have been attached indi vidually to Canadian and British units Instead of operating as sep arate units. There was no indica tion how many US troops partici pated m the attack. Preliminary roeulf . ported up to early Wednesdair night, were these: , . destruction of a six-gun shore artillery battery, an ammunition dump, an anti-aircraft battery and . a radio location station. The city of Dieppe itself was. left "in flames,' the Daily Express said. Allied fighter planes, making p what perhaps Vas the great est aerial canopy yet sent aloft, , shot down at least 82 enemy sir craft and probably destroyed or damaged mere than ISO others, in addition to a number smashed by naval vessels. , v Some 95 allied planes out ' of i total force of approximately 1000 were lost In some quarters it was be lieved that the German plane losses represented close to one- third of the luftwaffe's fighter 1 strength in the western occupied zone pf Europe and it was con sidered likely that the Germans would have to move fighters west from other areas, possibly even me Kussian front, v . Important in the allied air ac tion was the work of 24 Ameri can flying fortresses, which, it -the' start of the Dieppe action, raided the German fighter drome at AODevuie before many planes could leave the ground. r' All these fortresses returned home, after all bat . one had . dropped their bombs en or near the target Three were damaged by ; anti-aircraft shell splinters. A radio operator aboard one of then was tbe only easnalty. B had an Injured kneecap. ; . Runways, fuel dumps and plane ! dispersal areas were hit .Abbeville is 38 miles from ; Dieppe ' and Rouen, . which the fortresses raided Monday, is about the same distance from Wednes-, day's scene of operations. ; " Wednesday night the first of the allied wounded were being landed In Britain. There was no. immediate disclosure as to their number. - V; -' -:t-- J -k '. Some of the allied tanks Trero lost in the fighting on shore! oth ers were reembarked.' ;, . For the first time these ma chines were landed from new, se cret British tankAanding vessels. The landings were, made a (Turn, to Page 2, Cot 1)