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... ,4 Keep. Posted ; Momentous events occur In i!J part of the world, while yon deep feat also while Tho Statesman new services are reporting them. Keep pot tod; read The Statesman. . ' : . Lights Out . Floodlights, neon sirns and then affected by the dim- -at rales are U b doused . by 1:09 tonight, official time : for the son t ge dowa be hind the Ceasl range, . i POUNDDD tflMXTY-SECOND YEAH Salem. Oreaon. Friday Morning, August 2L 132 Price 5c No. 1C3 Fulfil n in v f in v i I i i J i i i i 1 1 I III Am From JiMWffll Holds Host Third U-Boat Sunk in South By US Plane; Convoys Set By Brazil; Sixth Lost ; RIO DE JANEIRO, Friday, Aug. 21 ( AP) Dis patchesfrom Porta Aleza indicated Friday that a United States plane had sunk another axis submarine of f the Bra zilian coast -the third undersea raider reported sunk in these' waters in recent days. United States fliers were credited with one of the two previous sinkings. At least two other submarines have been reported attacked and two others sighted since last weekend. RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. aboard two repatriation ships Jurors Direct Galvez Release Two Not True, Five i' True Bills Brought Iii by County Body Bringing in two not true - and five true bills, Marion county grand Jury Thursday ordered the release of Lucas Galvez, who had been under bail for the shooting of a fellow. Filipino laborer in the Labish truck gardens, and held for trial Charles Edgar Adams for the knifing of a Salem bartender . .Released along with Galvez, who 'was charged before the grand jury with assault with intent to kill, was, Darrell Arthur Buell, who had been bound over on charge of pointing a firearm at a hotel clerk In Salem the night of April ... : ; - , . Ralph JBurton, from- the West Stayton transient labor camp, and Roy E. Warwick were each charged by the grand jury with Contributing to the delinquency of a minor. - Frank Ernest Munsell,, who al legedly .' took two leather coats from the stock of a Salem depart ment store August 8 was indicted, as was also Robert A. Parker on charge of larceny of $58.50 be longing to Warren H. Swigart. Few Lights Showing in New Dimout The air raid warden of a down town business block who left his company's large neon sign blaz ing after sundown Thursday night and then, according to city police, "disappeared," the businessman who thought his beautifully spot lighted windows.no brighter than Salem's newly-dimmed cluster streetlights, and his neighbor who was ready to turn out all the lights in the place if necessary represented fairly the capitol city's reaction ot first night of en forced dimout, officers declared. No infraction of the new regu lations was intentional, they be lieved, pointing out. that the plea of carelessness or ignorance is not to hold good after first 'warning. In rural areas, civil patrol workers reporting in to the Mar ion county sheriffs office found most lights properly dimmed, they said. ' -v.-" ; ; . PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 2(Hfl Portland responded " to the first night of dimout with few viola tions reported to police or civilian defense headquarters. f ;,;;: In the downtown district street lights and store windows offered the only illumination, no electric signs being observed. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2M) -Civilian defense officials sought Thursday night to smooth out the rough spots in enforcing the Fac lfic coast's new dimout order, and reported that the first night's ef fort was excellent. Bullitt Returns From "Mission" ... " :'".v. ,'"'. v; NEW YORKj Aug. 2H4VWil liam C Bullitt, traveling as Spe cial assistant to the secretary of the navy, arrived Thursday night aboard a trans-Atlantic clipper from a "special mission to the British Isles. v -. - . ; - Also aboard the I- clipper was Walter Nash, New Zealand min ister to the United States, who was returning from a three week's "Visit to London, where he attend ed meetings of the British war cabinet, . Sunk -SI. 20 (AP) German nationals were seized Thursday in the harbor as hostages . for interned Brazilians in occupied France as Brazil announced the loss of her sixth ship to axis torpedoes in the new outburst of U-boat raids and allied counter-action in the south Atlantic. A presidential order declared the Germans must remain in Bra zil "as hostages for our country men held at Compiegne," the fa mous French town where the ar mistices, of both 1918 and 1940 were signed with the French first as victor, later as victims of the Germans. (The nazis have a concentra tion camp at Compiegne for Am ericans whose countries are at war or have broken relations, as Brazil has done, with the Ger mans). - Thursday night President Getulio Vargas announced that henceforth Brazilian merchant men moving through the usual sea lanes would be convoyed by the navy and air force "in co operation with the ITS navy and air force. - The hostage o r d e t 'excepted only those with drl6nllc status among the Germans awaiting re patriation via Lisbon on the ex change ships Bage and Cuiaba. The two ships nad been scheduled to sail early this week but were held in, port when the submarine crisis flared up. "Departure of Germans who had exercised any diplomatic functions here should be permit ted," President Vargas' order saicH, but there was no mention of how they might get home. The sixth announced victim of recent submarine attacks was the small coaster Jacy, sunk Wednes day off Port Itacare in the north eastern state of Bahia. The submarine commander forced all n board to abandon sfcto in small boats, then sank the Jacy. While the announcement brought a new crisis to the unde clared war off the South Ameri can coasts, maritime sources re ported that still another submar ine was sighted this morning in the western South Atlantic. Wage Raises For JJusmeh Meet Okeh SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20() A tentative working agreement whkh union leaders said would mean pay raises of $400,000 a year was reached late Thursday by the Pacific. Greyhound lines and AFL bus drivers and station employes in seven western states. R. E. Hasselman, chairman of the local unions of the Amalga mated Association of Street, Elec tric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America, announced that k the agreement, subject to approval of the union member ship, would run for 22 months effective September L Under the proposed agreement, Hasselman said, bus operators would receive increases in their mileage rates from the present 3.25-4.25 cents a mile scale to a minimum of 3 61 and a maximum of 4.75. Station employes would receive . - pay increases averaging , 10 per cent of their present scale. Hasselman said a number "t of improved working conditions had been included in the4 pact also. Our Senators Lcsl 6-1 (Ilome Tonight fer Union Labor Night) Mad at Axis Y PRES. GETULIO VARGAS Brazil to hold Germans Flax Queen's Fete Tonight iCdelene I to Rule Over Ceremonies At Ml. Angel MT. ANGEL, Aug. 20 Despite war restrictions, Mt Angel will be gay Friday night with some of the lavishness of former festivals seen in the coronation of the flax queen, Adelene I, on the steps of St Mary s school. The queen's ball will be held in two halls im mediately after the 8 o'clock coro nation. In anticipation of the dimout which went into effect Wednesr day night the lighting effect to be used were checked and timing considered in , planning final de tails of the program. No flood lights are to be used and immedi ately after the coronation cere monies the crowds "will repair to the dance halls. ;. The queen and her. nrincesses will be escorted by six Flaxarians to the scene of the coronation, where Salem Cherrians will take charge. Three small girls, Judy Ficker, Marlene Diehl and Mari lyn Schwab, will act as pages for the queen. Jim Fournier of ..MV Angel will be master ", of cere monies. - George H. Rawlinson of Port (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) n Harvest Need Not Yet Dire Some More Pickers Asked Now; Busses Scheduled Today The bean and hon Tjickine sit uation for the Marion-Polk coun ty area was well in hand Thurs day but an additional 150 bean pickers are to be sent out this morning to fill in,- those yards which can use additional workers. The busses will leave the em ployment office, 710 Ferry street. at 7 o'clock, and a stop will be made earlier at Highland ave nue and- Fairgrounds, road. -. L t. No large unfilled' orders for pickers were on file in the em ployment office but on a trip through the entire district, W. H. Baillie, manager of the Salem of fice, said he found growers ad mitting they could use a few or in some cases several more pickers to advantage. - The beans coming in are of ex ceptional quality and few are be ing culled out for size. : oersons in close touch with the canneryl situation state d. Considerable more beans will go into the cans this year than last year, even up to 25 per cent according to esti mates from reliable sources Thurs day. This is in contrast to last year when a large amount of the . ; (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Unions Have t" at Ball Park Declaring that 4her anticinated an attendance of 4500 persons at George -E. Waters ball park .to night for Union Labor night in spite of dimout ; regulations, of ficers pf Salem's : central labor Council " Thursday worked on last minute preparations for the bene fit game between Salem and Spo kane clubs and the accompanying program of entertainment Top attendance at the " park, 4863, opening night in 1940, would have been topped tonight had not the dimout rules come into being, labor and baseball officials said. The game, called for 6:15, is to precede the program of entertain ers and speakers, "ranging from a clown to a congressman, and in cluding men from Camp Adair as well as civilian residents of the area and professional talent. A percentage of the gate is to become part of Salem's contribu- Ition to the USO. Plates Bombers Slash y IS,,.- , : J" " . ' i imor Marine Action In Solomons "Mopping up" By C. YATES McDANIEL GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Austra lia, Friday, Aug. 21 (AP) Allied bombers scored hits on the target area of Maobisse in the center of Japanese-held Dutch Timor Thursday and "large explosions indicated that fuel or ammunition dumps have been hit, a com munique announced Friday. "AH our planes returned," it added. This attack followed Wednes day's attack on Japanese - war ships at Faisi, a Solomon island port 350 miles northwest of Tula gi where US marine operations are centered. A headquarters spokesman here said that no inference should be drawn from the lack of activity in the northeastern sector, the New Guinea-New Britain area. Japanese allied troops still face each other In Kokoda area, midway between Gona and the allied base ef Fort Moresby, although there have been no re cent clashes. Allied reconnais sance continues over the entire northeastern sene. Tokyo radios were silent- Fri day as they have been for almost a week about the fate of Jap anese forces .which fought' the American landings in the Tulagi and Guadalcanal areas. . . ' But Japanese-Controlled radio stations throughout southeast Asia maintained a blare of victory propaganda which concentrated on taunting the allies for disclosing the "crushing magnitude of their naval losses." Falsi is near Bougainville, a strong Japanese base at the north ern tip of the Solomons. It was the first hint that Japanese naval units might be reforming for a renewed assault on Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley's fleet, which chased the Japanese war ships from Tulagi in the opening hours of the Solomon offensive. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2t-(A5) United States marines were pnt- ting a period one phase of the battle in the Pacific Thai by "mopping op" remnants ef ' Japanese forces on islands In the. Solomon archipelago which the navy officially reported as "cap tured." The operations apparently were confined to those forces left stranded when Japanese warships were i destroyed or forced to with' draw . , The navy said that while the leathernecks were busy , with this task, Japanese aircraft, destroyers and submarines engaged in a cas ual . bombardment of the newly won shore positions. They Inflict ed only minor damage,' but a Jap anese destroyer " or cruiser was bombed and set afire by American aircraft. Thus, the navy's first communi que in three days on the offensive in the Solomons brought word that it was continuing with uninter rupted success. It also brought evidence corroborating the general assumption that the marines have installed themselves in positions from which they will not easily be dislodged. .-- NW May Face Oil Shortage ." SEATTLE, Aug. 20 -F) A warning of probable gasoline and fuel oil shortages . this winter in the Pacific northwest with pos sible rationing came Thursday from Clarence j- S. Bessemyerg, chairman on the marketing' com mittee for the fifth district under the petroleum coordinator. t - The . increased needs of - the armed forces in Jhe Pacific and the possible ; government com mandeering of tankers may pre cipitate the trouble, he said. - "Every ; Industry, school, pub lic building and home in this state using fuel oil zhould fill, their fuel tanks immediately," he admonish ed. "This is not hoarding. What we need now is more storage cap acity while we can still ship in oiL" , Plans Trip WENDELL WILLKIE WASHINGTON, Aag. 29 -UPl WendeU WUlkie, the man who opposed President Roosevelt la the 1940 presidential election, Tharsday night made plans for his second wartime journey to the fighting fronts on a per sonal mission for the president Although Willkle stressed the fact that his projected trip U Rassia and the Near East was his -own idea, he came, out of a conference with the president with the statement that he would "perform certain serv ices for the government" while abroad. When the man who made a trip to England last year to observe wartime condi tions leaves la about three weeks he will be accompan ied by two top officials of the office of war information, mak ing the trip at his reaaest. e lake Two Cities Japs Lose Control on 60-Mile Stretch of Kiangsi Rails CHUNGKING, China. Friday. Aug. 21.-P)-Chinese troops com manded by "Little Tiger" Gen. Hsueh Ueyh, hero of Changsha, have captured Kweika and Shan gjao to wrest from" Japanese con trol a 60-mile stretch of the east ern Kiangsi railroad, dispatches said Friday, This development, combl ned with the f recapture of Wenchow port in southeastern Chekiang province, marks a definite turn in the hattle-of eastern China which began 13 weeks ago, Chinese quarters said. The Japanese pri mary ob j ecthre had been to re move the menace of air. bases within range of Tokyo. Kewilci was retaken Wednesday afternoon and the walled city of Shangjao that same night field dispatches said. Chinese troops rushing northeastward along the railway "reached ! a n d passed Kwangf eng which was reported set afire by the Japanese." ; ; . Because of the Japanese failure to send counter-attacking - rein forcements Into' the Wenchow area, . some observers here be- lieved the Japanese might be withdrawing their tr o o p s in southeastern China preparatory to a strike at Siberian Russia. Farley Wins Nomination Battle, NY N EW YORK, Aug-O.-iffV State Attorney General . John J. Bennett, jr., was unanimously nominated democratic candidate for governor of New York-Thurs day against the wish of Presi den Roosevelt to give James A. Farley one of the outstanding vic tories of his political, career. ; . . Nomination of B e n n e 1 1 . over United States Senator James M. Mead, who carried , presidential approval, came on the first ballot at the democratic state convention in Brooklyn. : Hie official vote, later -made unanimous, was Ben nett, 623; Mead, S93, with 509 votes required for nomination. ; State Chairman Farley, who managed "two of Roosevelt's three presidential campaigns, s t e e r ed Bennett's candidacy for the nom ination through a long and titr struggle1 for delegates -climaxed Thursday afternoon in the- par ty's first convention floor fight in nearly a quarter century, - . ' y ' if v . 'A i 'I P lUiines All of 500 From Baylight OJfemse Allied Triumph Might Require Nazi Diversion Attack FuU Surprise; Valued Knowledge Gained at Dieppe By DREW MIDDLETON A SOUTHERN BRITISH PORT, Aug. 20 (AP) The smashing allied triumph over the German air force over Dieppe in which 269 enemy craft were destroyed or dam aged will force the nazis to divert bombers and fighters from the Russian front to western Europe, qualified ob servers said Thursday night. These observers, who must re main anonymous, declared i the German losses consisted of 81 planes certainly destroyed, 38 probably shot down and 140 dam aged. The "mounting strength of the RAF and the United States army air corps plus the new assurance won at Dieppe by Canadians and British commandos and US rangers make It imperative for the Germans to strengthen the western ir frontier, it was said. Analysing the allied moves in , the Dieppe raid, It was clear 'that the British and Canadians made the greatest prorresa . en the left flank where they de stroyed a six-Inch battery. After a partial success the al lied ; force was checked in the center while on the right rem nants of the . original landing party were . partly able by skill and ingenuity to put another six- inch battery out of action. Nevertheless, the German coast al defenses showed the enemy has the wind up, and valuable ex perience and information were gained by the allies in the cen ter, where the blow was aimed at the heart of Dieppe. The Germans stiffened that po sition with fresh troops kind new material. Nevertheless the allies made considerable gains against (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) . Street Dance Is Tentative Up in the air this morning, . it may be down on the paving by Saturday night Salem's first street' dance of the current war is tentatively scheduled for High street between Court and State streets this, weekend, R. R. Board man, USO director here, said Thursday. : i ; ,. Should services of an army band expected to be in this area at that time be obtained, the dance is to be held Saturday free for all com ers, Boardman said. " ? Financing the -undertaking, of - which Kiwanis, Lions, UHA and . USO are joint sponsors, is handled by Loyal Warner and E. J. Scellars as a committee from the organizations. Reynolds Warned On India Stand WASHINGTON, Aug. 2HflV A suggestion by Chairman Rey nolds (D-NC) of the, senate mili tary affairs committee that Great Britain consider granting immedi ate independence to India broucht a warning Thursday from demo cratic leader Barkley against con gressional expressions . on "such delicate matters." v. "r While Reynolds said he sooke his own, rather than the views bf his committee, Barkley, Senator George CD-Ga), Norris (Ind-Neb) and Bridges (R-NH) all told the senate that the axis powers would interpret Reynold's remarks as an indication of "disunity" among the united nations. 7ednesdayV Weatlier . Wednesday's max. temp. 84, min. B9. Eiver Wed. By army request, weather -forecasts are withheld and tempera tore data delayed. Over Frarace osition FoimAMMe ......... ...... .... . . "-" - :-' . .. ' .a--' Here! Air Fortress 4 1 .". Pl Sffuadi Ml .1 I:::::::::: . S ENGLANDYJilll ifn'Hna'c'HSi'i LONDON tHrassji! DOVIR. rhaaelH!in!nr!nJsr PAI OCCUPIED r ST. NA2AIRE NANUS British commandos, (black arrow) stormed the German-occupied ; French coast at Dieppe in a full-scale raid which included the use of hundreds of planes and tanks taken ashore en spe cial landing barges. Berlin said their forces (white arrow) were . applying counter measures. (As , seriated Press Telemat). ' RedsDestroy, man Force Constant Assaults in Don Bend Repulsed; Nazi Ship Sunk MOSCOW, Friday, Aug. X.-4JP -The fed army defending Stalin grad was reported officially early Friday to have wiped out a Ger man force which had crossed the Don river while other soviet units fought off constant German at tacks Inside the Don bend itself southeast of Kletskaya. In the southern and western Caucasus the Soviets acknowled ged slight German gains against Russian defensive forces fighting east of Pyatigorsk in the Caucas ian foothills and south of Kras nodar on the. railway leading to the Black seaport of Nvorossisk. "Southeast of Kletskaya," the communique said, "Our forces fought several engagements against enemy forces attempting to cross the Don. An enemy group which crossed was almost com pletely annihilated, 500 Germans being killed.' . The fight southwest of Stalin grad in the Kotelnikovskl sector swayed without decisive results to either side, the communique said, but the nazis .were admitted to have made slight gains at high cost east of Pyatigorsk and south of Krasnodar. 1 -The Russians said -they sank" a 7000-ton German transport in the Black sea. Keezer Told To Quit or PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 20-WP) Dr. Dexter M. Keezer . was told Thursday by i the , Reed college board of regents that he : must either resign as an OPA aide or resign as college president., ; ; - .Keezer has been on leave from Reed since January a,nd he asked that the leave which expires Octo ber l .be extended the next June. He is director of the consumer division of the OPA. s C The " necessity of .having the president on duty to meet war time problems was cited by the regents Jn refusing the leave ex tension. -; ; "- v-.-'r " Keezer . was not . available Im mediately for comment He has been president of the college for six years. .-. ' v. . ; ' Negro TTork Probed ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-v?V-A - committee to ' investigate the "problems of equality of oppor tunity" for negro workers in in dustry was appointed Thursday by Philip Murray, CIO president PORTSMOUTH it Ger o on flits v Largest Day Foray Shows Losses of Nazi Luftwaffe IilNDnV Am 90 im In the greatest daylight aerial offensive of the war, 500 al lied fighter planes raided the invasion coast of France Thursday with a four-way sweep while United States flying fortresses bombed the Amiens railway yards. Previously the allies have limited the number of planes iugax udumc operation to a continuaUon of the daytime use ' "t u American four-motored bombers, a - 1 vvm iuuut '"VII. J - , , , . . i . I The fact that not sLsia . --e,- aacaaav was reported lost and only slight vyosiuon was encountered was-regarded by the BriUsh as further indication of the severe mauling the natf air force took in the air battle over Dieppe. n c, some- taarters In Lon don believed the German losses Wednesday Included at least a e-t h I r d of the nasi fighter strength . In the western occu pied sotoe of Europe. The operations extendi t . - - ..viu Le Havre up the French coast to rumes, aoevt Dunkerque. - The British declared wero ikaij - . oviiu va numerous targets- aiwcjiea Dy tne raiders. The intensity of the raiding was disclosed by the story of the Bel gian pilot of an RAF Sniffir. plane. ; T CQU7 1 K txs. a.ii and most of the. hits Were on yards and locomotive depots," he Said. "Clrtxa : ' MiuMuwiua ox gray smoke went up after -the bombs were dropped. " , , One German ForW-w,, ia . . v plane was shot into fee sea and outers were damaged. -; An allied planes returned safely. VS. army air force fighters and bombers struck the rail way at Amiens and made sweeps with the KAF and oth er allied fuers w a swift fellow up to the "dellghtf ol shew" over Dieppe which cost them five casnalUes afalost three " probable victories. -American fiirhtrm - .1. . huge flying fortresses to Amiens for a daylight. precision bombing: One German fighter was shot down and all the Americans re turned safely, a joint US-British communique disclosed. eng. Oen. Frank O. Dt Hun ter, commander of tho tt r., command, issued a statement . praising his pilots in the Dieppe ovuuii wmcn ne caued a "hell of a hot Show." f To maintain an umhniia M.. . a fixed point miles away from our A. 7 . . wuon required the greatest dar ing and skm," Gen. Hunter said. "After receiving reports of our lads' behavior under such diffi- cuii circumstances, I know damn well they'll take care of thrm selves. 1 trust them to the ut most They Uy and fight like vet erans. Our fighters claim three probable victories over the Focke Wulfe 190's and four damaged." Between patrols, the young pi lots who saw their first action in the biggest air battle in two years, told how they, fought off death In the skies over Dieppe but that they "would be scared to death to be on the ground in all that fight ing." . - ' ' - Oregon Men llnrt - On Texas Patrol - PORT ISABEL, Tex, Aug. 23 -(ffJ-Frank H. Seal of Eugene, Ore, and Dr. A. Holman, Port land, Ore, attached to the Browns ville base of the civil air patroL were, seriously . injured Thursday when the plane they were piloting crashed on the beach near here. Both are in a Brownsville hos pital. - Arniens