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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1942)
ss:. if: Jf Keep Posted : Momentous events eceor In all part of the world while too sleep bat also while The Statesman news services are reporting them, Keep posted; read The Statesman. ' Save fo Win 7 Sixty old toothpaste tabes? They'll provide all toe tin seeded .for soldering elee trkal connections to a Firing- Fortress. Save scrap for TJacle Sam. IHKETY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning. Angus! 2S, 1842 Price 5c No. 112 d. Prison Flax OlOEiniOEIlS o 9 Braiding- Borns Loss I $6O,0 IB il-U t i I V 111 . TiV Y I iV X ., A 1 I T'iA I All Janus Biive AgaiEjili; W 7 II :--.--: 9 TFaC TOT1 S IMIOF -4- l I I I Harrisburg Fire Costs $25,000 " Second flax! fire in five days at the Oregon state peni tentiary and fifth for the month in . Oregon destroyed the number seven shed at the prison late Tuesday afternoon and left burning as a beacon throughout the night 900 tons of flax straw. Loss in the Tuesday fire, ' reported fire days to the min nte a f t e r the $6500 blaze which destroyed the number four shed at the penitentiary flax plant Friday, was estimated at $60,000 by I L. Laws, superintendent. - No avenue - of information . would be left unscoured in an in- vestigation to learn source of the : two fires, now generally accepted by firemen and officials at the in stitution as of incendiary origin, Warden George Alexander de clared. ' - ; Possibility that free labor may be substituted for convicts in the Unloading of trucks at the flax sheds the rest of this season was suggested with the indication that request for that change in opera ' ing plans might be made at to day's meeting of the state board '. of control. " ' ', ; : ' A convict employe of the flax plant Is said to have told f - fleials that the fire Tuesday had ' Its start in the southwest corner of the shed. As In the ease of Friday's fire a truck stood near 4 the -boilding waiting f to dis " charge its load of Cie fibre straw, although en" Tuesday It was the f a 1 1 building's length sway from the point where the blase was first reported. The sheds are valued at $5000 each. Straw of varying grades is deposited in different sheds. Laws estimated that the number seven building contained 900 tons. The first fire had destroyed shed number four, in 30 minutes but smouldered on Jn the 25 tons of straw until 10:30. Although the building was burned to the ground rapidly in Tuesday's blaze and most of the city fire depart- ! ment eauipment had been sent back to the fire hall by 8 o'clock, the light of burning flax conUnued Salem's eastern sky until r to light dawn.' ' Burned also this season in Ore-"'- gon were stores of flax, uv the .Eugene area, Silverton and Har ' risburg, three sheds having burned in the last-named town Tuesday morning. HARRISBURG LOSS ESTIMATED AT $25,000 Harrisburg, Ore., Aug. 25-(JP) Damage to the Harrisburg flax plant from a fire which destroyed two buildings early Tuesday night, was estimated by Manager Harold Edward at $25,000. He said much of the damaged machinery would.be difficult to repair until parts could, be ob tained after the war. Cause of the blaze was undetermined. United Wants To Remain United Air Lines officials are hopeful that ioint use ofthe Sa lem airport may continue, no mat ter what lease or ownership ar , rangements the Jwar" department may make with ' the city, W. R, Thigpen, district traffic manager, said while in Salem on Tuesday.- Though, lacking direct informa tion that any change Is contem plated, Thigpen was in Salem checking up on reports concern ing the war department's plans. "United Air Lines service has been carried - on, using , airports Jointly with the army, in num ber of cities and we are hopeful that this arrangement may be continued here" Thigpen , s a i-d President W. A. Patterson of United Air Lines has said within i the last week he wants to see service to Salem continued." Service Men Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Laws re ceived a cabled message Tues day afternoon from their, son, Eft. Ekhard Laws, anti-aircraft, reporting his arrival in island. ..-' (AZZl lions! iervlce notes ca rage five.) X I ;:. ; :.. Dies in Boots X. ; England's young Duke of Kent, air commodore, killed in flying .boat .crash on mission to Iceland Tuesday. V- 1 er OUgilt 1J President Says Plan About Reaiiy; "Wage Limit Proposed WASHINGTON, Aug. After long study f the. cost of living problems, President Roose velt indicated Tuesday he was just about ready to unfold a new anti-inflation plan involving re strictions on wages and farm prices. r ' ' The program will be announced soon, he told a press conference. j roUDly fc t,-. a gunuitaneou. mes- country sage to congress,: : He said be cud not believe any, new legislation would be . necessary, leaving the impression the message to con gress would be ; merely a report and an explanation of action he plans to j take in his executive capacity. -. . X .-. In a long discussion of the cost of living situation he prefers that term to inflation Mr. Roosevelt hinted . strongly the forthcoming action would be designed to limit both wage increases and the price of farm products.; The president mentioned tough (Turn to Page 2. CoL 3) 2d Blackout Finds Gotham Not on Guard , NEW YORK, Aug. tS--Air raid sirens sounded without pre liminary warninr at 9:25 p. m. eastern L wartime) - - Tuesday nighty plunging the metropolis into its. second surprise city wide blackout of the war. Wailing sirens caught the city's 74 residents , com pletely elf wd C Although it was indicated by ffkials the alarm was another test, the man In the street had ne such comforting knowledge. Excited pedestrians scurried to shelter scanning the skies for enemy planes aa they J ran. Others were calm. Despite official warnings re stricting the use of telephones during a blackout, police and' newspaper flees were .flooded with calls from citizens seeking an explanation of the alarm. : The "all clear was sounded at 10:11 p. nv In Manhattan. The 4 l-mlnute blackout was the longest yet held. . v: ' " " All clear signals came a few minutes earlier or later in other sections of the city Watchers from Jersey City said only ene light was visible high in the darkened towers of Manhattan's famous skyline ia the financial district. . I I -J- Infl Stopp J i' " " " ' - : -XT , English Another Big St W-fck .' m I:::::;::: :: :::! u A Kill A hrr.ii mmmmm 1 I Ri B . I t:::::;:::r::: :: :: Miviiieu i8piifii( ii i c::::::r i:::::;w.;.;::::TmK:; 1 . I . I t::.:e Jt::::;:::::::::n::::::::::::::::::: Popular Young Duke of Kent ' Plane Victim LONDON, Aug. 25-flVThe Duke of Kent, 39, youngest brother of King George VI, was killed Tuesday in the crash of a ! Sunderland flying boat in northern Scotland while en" route to Iceland on active ser vice as an air commodore. The entire crew of the war time mission died with him. : .The duke died on an official RAF business trip in his capacity as a staff member of the inspector-general of the air force. A brief announcement from the air ministry gave no details of the crash, and official circles main' tained a strict silence. The most air-minded of the royal family, the duke was closely associated with the RAF and was seen frequently at fighter and bomber stations conversing with the men. He always wore his uni form of an RAF officer.-. " His Was the first death of a member of the British royal fam ily 'in an airplane accident. King George and Queen Eliza beth, the Queen Mother - Mary, and other members of the royal family 'were notified 'immediately of his death. The news also was cabled to the Duke of Windsor in the Bahamas. No announcement had " been made yet tonight concerning court mourning. The funeral is expected to be a private service in view of the ne cessity of war-time secrecy con cerning movements of the royal family. ; 7 Nine or ten crewmen were be lieved to have perished along with the duke aboard the four-en gin ed 20-ton flying boat. J The duke was fifth in the line of succession to" the throne. . Prince George Edward Alexan der Edmund Windsor, born De cember 20, 1908, would have been 49 years old next December. He married' Princess Marina of Greece in 1934, and three child ren were born to them. - The children . are Prince Ed ward, 6; Princess Alexandria, S, and Prince George, who was born on July 4, the last. 'The youngest son also bears , the name Frank lin, for President Roosevelt The duke visited Canada and the United States exactly a year ago, stopping . in Washington as the guest of President Roosevelt, and making an extensive tour of warplants. in both countries. 8 Innocent Plea Made to Court . PORTLAND, Aug. 25-P)-The Oregon Dairy Cooperative associa ; tion Tuesday entered , in federal court a plea of innocence to charg- i of violating anti-trust laws. Judge Leon R. Yankwich de nied a defense demurrer to the federal grand jury indictment, re turned a short time ago, but con sidered the defendants request for a bill of particulars. The court, indicating the trial would open late in September or early in October, said the date would be set within a few days. Several - GripsholimL JERSEY CITY, Aug. 25-( Government authorities announced Tuesday night several persons dis- i embarked during the day from the diplomatic exchange liner. Grips- holm which brought more than 1400 repatriates from the orient had been sent to Ellis island where cases' concerning enemy aliens are investigated. ; Officials would give no figures on the number of persons in volved in the investigations. It was said about 389 had been cleared ' through various civil and" military investigators 11 hours after the liner docked at the end of a voyage from Lonr enco Jfairques, Portuguese East iHii&iiiiii m.. ......... .j a a am a I: :: ::: : Vf ,7 w::t:S!: ' t rrt rr;;r"i";in -iitfjr-i ; '"-r it--. t m;: ??::: f x W . S ALICE ... 4 qpHis K w Defense springs Highway ii Jap sea and air ferees have run into a hornets' nest ef bombs and salvos la an attempt to regain the - Important Solomon island bases (B) recently wrested from them, by Yankee marines, sailors and sol diers. Tuesday night the battle closer to major bases, theirs around Trnk In "the Caroline islands, but Gen. MaeArthur was sending on fliers out to attack Nip conveys, effectively, and diverting attention from the Solomons with raids Timor and Jap-held New Guinea stations (A). American ferees had to depend for support from dis tant bases, possibly as far away as Nazi Hordes Press QU IL. UIVLIL UJ( Gen; Marshall: Again Talked ' as Second -Front Commander LONDON, Aug. 25-P)-A swift allied coup to relieve Russia with a hard, weighty smash at the axis was predicted by competent allied circles Tuesday night as Prime Minister Churchill disclosed to his war cabinet associates details of his epochal talks with Joseph Stalin. Reports persisted a united com mander-for a British, US and Ca nadian continental invasion . al ready had been appointed, but there was no such announcement Unofficial British and Ameri can commentators, who declined to be quoted by name said Gen. George C Marshal. US chief of staff, was one of the most likely choices! particularly in view of the growing number of US troops and fliers fighting under British commanders in the Mediterranean theatre.- ,V- If Marshall were the man to lead the invaders-his selection might be oner of the reasons for the imminent return to the US of W.' Averell. Harriman, Presi dent Roosevelt's personal repre sentative at the Churchill-Stalin conversations. Harriman, in announcing his return home a day after flying in from Egypt with Mr. Churchill, declared: "I found the same determina tion and confidence in the out come of the war among the Rus sians as I did on .my trip with Lord Beaverbrook last year." Our Senators Lcsi 9-4 Africa, where the Americans j were exchanged for Japanese and Thai nationals. ; The coolness of dawn spread over the white painted liner as it paused in the lower . New York harbor several hours before dock ing to take aboard 13 US coast guardsmen. :: From a companion way a sleep eyed woman, Mrv Htrmtn Scholtz, Louisville, Ky- awakened by the ;,. stopping of ;; the v ships, emerged and paused with tears welling in her eyes as she saw a sturdy guardsman with an Ameri can eagle on his cap: ' ' "Are youare you an 'Ameri can?" she asked. ::s::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::v::::::r iiiCAROLlNE IS.eIIIII!!1II1IhIB !iiH!jli!!H!Bi!!!l!illMHl M AKIN I .p7r .mi a. bk. y a. . ...... ... SOLOMON HilHill!!l!;IH!:!!l!!l!!ll! iillliliH IS. IHiiniuiHjIHIiniH; for the Islands con tinned. The Jap New Guinea and the FIJI islands. y4?7. F TJJlJ T I llltta 18 .JL iVWltsWU, ll( jLti vitf . Senate Favors Helping Yank Soldiers Vote WASHINGTON, Aug. z5.-(P) The senate voted 47 to 5 today to pi i wit boi and women ip the US armed forces throughout the world to vote by 'mall for senators, representatives' and presidential electors without registration and without pay ment ef poll taxes required ia eight southern states. ; The voters, however, would have to meet any other require ments of state laws such as those respecting lenrth of resi dence within the . state, mini mum voting ages or property qualifications. An amendment exempting ac tive - members of the services , from payment ef poll taxes re quired by Tennessee, Georgia, AUbama, Mississippi, Texas, Vh-sinla, South Carolina and Arkansas carried 33 to 20 over the opposition of a group of southerners. - Labor Asks War Board Tie WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.- Labor unions climaxed their drive for greater participation in guid ing the war effort by demanding Tuesday a ; labor representative on the war production board. Board . Chairman v Donald , M. Nelson, addressing a meeting of 20 high union officials on the ma terials shortage, was confronted with a resolution : setting forth four specific demands, of which membershio on the board itself was the chief. Nelson assured the AFL and QIO leaders it was his policy to give fair hearing to any Ideas, wbether from labor, management tor other sources. . Passengers "Yes, Ma'am," he replied. "We came to take care of you from here on in." . In this and In hundreds of other little heart-tugging, dram as did more than 11C0 Ameri can repatriates from the orient express their pentup emotions at the end of an lS.COO-mile voy age from tyranny of Japan. . They were the Americans who first tasted the bitter fruits of war, the hardy missionaries, news papermen, business men and dip lomats for whom the months since Pearl Harbor have been difficult and in many cases painful. ' Harbor lights had scarcely given way to the sun when scores of re O 500 - t i - . STATUTE MILES :::it ::::::::: mm ill NAURU IS. Hi 1! NEW CALEDONIA! armada had h advantage ef being Stalingrad - ' T ; Mca uispaicu -oiei r 1 H,nemy s rrogress; in J 40-Mile Zone 9 ttpmpv rf. A ecmv MOSCOW, Wednesday, Aug. 26 1 said today the red army had made seven counterattacks at one point northwest of Stalingrad, but f it mentioned that industrial city for the first time in- a communique. indicating the 1,000,000 Germans who were smashing at the defense walls bad made some progress. The communique, however did not mention any Russian with drawals, either northwest or southwest of Stalingrad where the German were threatening the city with , ponderous masses of tanks, parachutists, air-borne motorcycl ists and endless masses of infantry. But it did say the situation northwest of Stalinrad, - where the Germans were pouring rein forcements across the River Don, had "become complicated.'' This apparently referred to the give-and-take nature of the fighting caused by the numerous Russian counter-attacks. "Our troops are repulsing ene my attacks and - inflicting huge tosses, the communique said. The high command said heavy fighting also was continuing in the Caucasus south of Krasnodar, where -the Germans were driving (Turn to Page 2. Col 6) Late Sport VANCOUVER, Aug. 25.-(CP) Three runs in the seventh inning tonight gave Vancouver Capila nos a 5-2 win over Spokane In dians in a Western International baseball league game here. Hurler Bob Henrickseit allowed the In dians only six hits, striking out four of the visitors and walking seven. ' Spokane L 2 6 1 Vancouver S 0 Bushman and Myers; Henrkk- sen and Sueme. Detained patriates lined the railings sing' ing "The Star-Spangled Banner as they sighted tne - statue of Liberty. A devout Presbyterian minis ter touched the arm ef Max DUIL former chief of bureau ef the Associated Press In'Tokyo and : said of the coast guards: "Don't forget to say how damn rood ' those boys in uniform looked to us." First to leave the ship was Am bassador Joseph Clark Grew, 62 y ear-old veteran " of , diplomacy. who strode down the gangplank to tell reporters of the "inexpres- title anticipation." with which the passengers had awaited their re turn. Wage Gigantic Buttle for Ides Mac Arthur Airmen Attack -Jap Convoy; Half Dozen Enemy Vessels Damaged WASHINGTON, Aug: 25 attempt to break the American apparently was developing into Tuesday night with allied planes seeking to destroy enemy attempts to reinforce its huge armada. ; : 1 - 1 I While the navy reported Japan's counter-attacking fleet, ters announced an air. attack on voy approximately 600 miles to The attack off southeastern MaeArthur communique said, transports and destruction of a First reports made public not indicate extent of American a half dozen enemy shins had torpedoed with these results: One large carrier otherwise not identified, hit four times by army, bombers. One smaller carrier, the navy carrier-based aircraft. One battleship hit by carrier-based planes. . beveral cruisers hit by . - t One other cruiser and one aircraft Monday In what appears to have been preliminary phases of the battle. Both ships were left burning fiercely. I ni0 l 51 V51 1 Plane lost Big Ship Disappears . In Alaskan Area With"l4 Aboard WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-P) The navy announced Tuesday that a large navy plane' with 14 officers- and enlisted men aboard was missing on a flight from Alas ka to Seattle. . 4 Next of kin of the 14 have been notified, The plane disappeared between Kodiak and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Three planes started on the trip and . were forced, by the weather to f 1 y by instrument shortly after taking off. Navy aircraft have been search ing for the plane and other agen cies have been asked to cooperate. SEATTLE, Aug. 25-(ffr-A navy plane's disappearance on a flight from Alaska to Seattle with It aboard dashed a St Louis wom an's hopes for a .happy rendez- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Moon Eclipse Draws Gazers Eclipsed on the pages of daily newspapers by war dimouts, Fri day nighfs total eclipse of the moon attracted stargazers in the Salem area by the rich orange-red shadow cast by the earth, across the face of its satellite. Most colorful view of the new moon during the eight and a half hour performance came betweeoJ 10 and 10:30 o'clock when a per tion of its face was snowy white. g portion , red and the rest black moved out of the shadow. 6:02 P-fiL, Pacific war time, the earth began casting the sun's shadow on the moon, and at 8:48 pjn. the moon was completely blacked out This meant the rays of the sun were cut off by the earth from reflecting against the moon s surface, : ; r v; ? The eclipse ended at 11:34 pjn., Pacific war time.;:. Pacific coast" residents ' missed the first stage of the phenomenon, as the eclipse began before the moon had risen. Jn the early stage the moon appeared only slightly grey. r.Ionday'8 ,eatlier, ' Monday's max. temp. 75, min. 3. Ey army reqnest, weather forecasts are withheld and tem perature data delayed. (AP) A violent Japanes hold on the Solomon islands la gigantic sea and air battle inflicting damaginr blows on Gen. MacArthur's headquar an castbound Japanese con the west of the Solomons. New Guinea resulted, the in straffing of two Japanese gunboat. from the fighting zone did losses but showed more than been effectfrelv bombed or Byuzyo, severely "damaged by carrier - based planes; enemy transport hit i by US The Solomons campaign burst campaign Into violent fighting after a peri od of desultory activity marked Aug. 23 by an enemy air attack on Guadalcanal : island in which 21 Jap- plane were shot down while American forces suffered . only minor damage. On the same night enemy destroyers bombard ed marine shore positions. ' Naval forces under Vlce-Ad-miral Robert Lee Ghormley, commander In . the New Zea land area, and army air forces of Gen. Donglas MaeArthur la . Australia, had been prepared for strong- Japanese eounterat- v tacks, and presumably were ia position to deal the enemy pow erful blows. " ' A naval communique announc ing the battle was under way said It was expected our occupation of the; important enemy: base of '' Tulagl would be countered by a violent attempt on the part of the enemy to recapture their? shore , bases in this area: I "This ,; counter-attack has de veloped and fat now being met" Indications were the first ac- . ' tions were of the plane versus warship variety which have be come bo familiar in the amphib ious warfare of the Pacific Whe- - ther there has been any fighting -directly between' warships was not known. - The enemy armada, when en gaged, was bearing down upon the American-held southeastern Solomons from the northeast There was some speculation In Washington that the enemy ar mada had been concentrated for the attack at Japan's Irak Island naval base and 'moved against the Solomons in a sweeping maneuver designed to i gain the advantage of surprise if possible. : v:;: But the concentration' mlcht have been made at any of a num ber of other bases in the enemy's, mandated island xone- - end sent against the Solomons with equal -facility. One thing that was dear from the communique was that this i represented Japan's major effort to break up the American offensive and recapture the Tu lagl area of the Solomons where construction of a big enemy .base was well advanced when the ma rines began their invasion two and a half weeks ago. T : ? . It Was on Aug. 7 the navy ex ecuted a surprise attack and the marines, possibly led by their secretly-trained, heavily-armed raider battalions, creation of which Washington disclosed only today, landed on the beaches and swiftly drove inland against vig orous opposition to win and hold dominant points of the terrain. ; Prior to the present battle the Japs made three main efforts t break up the American campaign. -v. (Turn to Fase 2 Col. 4)