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Tfc OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon. Wednesday Morning. August 2& 1942
Large Naval
Plane Lost
Big Ship Disappears
In Alaskan Area
With 14 Aboard
(Continued From Page 1)
vous here with her husband, and
he was en route homeward Tues
day without having learned he
was listed officially as missing.
She came to Seattle last week
- after Lt (JG) Thomas G. Cheri
k kos, 24, wired her to meet him.
She became worried as day after
day passed without any word
from him. She asked at the 13th
naval district headquarters, but
- vis , 4nAMnnQtnn tv a a ' : a.l1
there on the personnel aboard the
missing plane.
Monday night she. received a
long distance call from her'moth
er in St. Louis. The latter in
formed her the navy department
had notified her there had been
a change In plans and Lt. Cheri
, kos would be unable to meet her
1n Seattle.. i - - ,
"Mrs. Cherikos took a train home
j f last night , . A navy officer ex
it pressed belief;. the-mother had re-
celved the navy's formal notifica
tion to . next of kin. ,
Traffic Toll Rises
, PORTLAND, Ore, Aug..25-(
Death of Inez DeLashmutt, 72,
Portland, Tuesday brought the
city's traffic toll for the year to
37. She was struck by a truck at
a downtown intersection.
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Air Blows Exchanged by Nazi,
British Fliers; Russ Send
40 Planes Over Helsinki
LONDON, Aug. 40-plane Russian attack on Hel
sinki and the passage of high-ceiling bombers over Lyon in un
occupied France to the accompaniment of a half hour's anti
aircraft fire were reported Tuesday along with the RAF an
nouncement of a strong force at
tacking Monday night on the
Rhineland.
London had a daylight . air
alarm, apparently as a result of a
single plane flying ovef the north
ern environs.
The piano dropped bombs at a
point in the home counties, caus
ing some damage but no serious
injuries, while a few German
planes raided the south coast. One
of the latter was shot down.
Late Tuesday night German
bombers were reported to have
scattered a large number of flares
and fire bombs over a wide area of
East Anglia and to have dropped
odd loads of high explosive bombs.
Observers said there was no in
dication of a concentrated attack,
and no serious damage was caused
by the bombs, most of which fell
In rural areas. .
-A shelter in a town on the east
Anglian coast was hit and two
persons were killed and others in
jured.
Announced RAF objectives
were Frankfurt and Wiesbaden in
the Rhineland, where industrial
and chemical plants were bombed.
and. German railroad concentra
tions in the lowlands, which were
crippled again. The German air
forces were described as virtually
grounded in the face of the new
attacks, and informed British
sources said the Germans still
were suffering from losses and
disorganization as a result of the
commando raid on Dieppe last
midweek and subsidiary opera
tions against nazi aerial power.
Although maintaining aerial su
periority over western Europe, the
RAF paid heavilyfor the assault
on the Frankfurt area, losing 16
bombers out of what was official
ly described as "strong forces."
It was the heaviest loss in a night
bomber operation since the raid
on the main area August 1
Vichy reported a great number
of planes passed over Lyon at a
height of six miles Monday night
taking an hour and a half to go by,
and that French ground defenses
sent up a barrage for a half hour.
There was no verification of the
French suspicion the planes might
have been American flying fort
resses such as those which recent
ly have raided German-occupied
France and there was no Roman
confirmation of the obvious specu
lation they might be enroute to
objectives in northern Italy.
Planes also were heard
Vichy.
over
The Russian raid on the Finnish
capital was reported on the Stock
holm, Vichy and Finnish radios.
The French reported it caused the
longest alarm of the year in Hel
sinki, Stockholm said anti-aircraft
put up "a colossal barrage of
fire," and the Finns said the at
tackers were driven off by ack
ack after the biggest raid on Hel
sinki since the summer of 1941
Helsinki added five persons were
killed, 10 were injured and some
buildings were damaged.
FR Stays Mum
On Bennett
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25,-()-
President Roosevelt parried today
a question whether he would
support John J. Bennett, jr., the
democratic nominee, for the gov
ernorship of New York.
"Bennett was nominated over
Sen. James Mead, who' had the
chief executive's endorsement.
The president was asked at a
press conference whether any
wire of congratulation had been
sent, either to Bennett or to James
A. Farley, New York state demo
cratic chairman,- who managed
the Bennett' campaign for the
nomination. Mr, Roosevelt said he
did not think anybody had time
to send a message.
He was asked specifically whe
ther he would support . Bennett,
and remarked with a grin he had
not yet been released by a col
umnist who had suggested public
officials go in more for silence
whenever they are unable to give
any worthwhile comment on de
velopments. T
Soldiers Save
Girl, Drowning
MEDFORD, Aug. 25.-(iiP)-Mary
Ann Grafton, 17, Klamath Falls,
was saved from drowning in Tjv
0Woods Monday br soldiers from
Camp white, camp officials tB'
ported Tuesday.
In . the collision of two boats.
the-girl was knocked unconscious
and: thrown into the water. Pvt
Edgar -Krohnke, whose home ad
dress was not revealed, iumned
from a nearby boat and held her
head above crater until his com
paruons maneuvered a boat to
their side. r ' s
Camp medical personnel gave
her . first aid. ' i " .
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Stopper Sought
President Says Plan
About Ready; Wage
Limit Proposed
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sacrifices the American people
most expect. His Hew plan has
not been pot into final form,
he said, bat he would give re
porters a sort of Idea for a story.
The theme of this was that fac
tory workers and farmers were
inter-dependent that if farm
prices go up, wages must rise, and
if wages go up, the farmer must
pay more for the things he buys.
He thought it would not be fair
to impose restrictions on labor and
not on agriculture, or vice versa.
Mr. Roosevelt ventured the
thought wages should be stabilized
at essentially the present level but
with the qualification the matter
should be considered from a common-sense
viewpoint. If food
prices rise 30 per cent, he did not
think the wage scale should be
held down; and if food costs are
held to where they are now, he
did not think labor should have
any advantages. -
The 30 per cent figure was men
tioned recently by Price Adminis
trator Leon Henderson as the ex
tent to which prices of foods not
covered by, ceilings would rise
next year unless action were
taken to strengthen the controls
over farm prices.
Mr. Roosevelt did not give a
definite date for announcing the
new program but said with a
chuckle it would be before, on or
after Labor day.
Gov. Olson's
Lead Narrow,
Early Count
By The Associated Press -
Gov. Culbert L. Olson, . seeking
renomination in California's demo
cratic primary yesterday, held
only a six to five lead over a re
publican opponent on the basis pf
i j. i " v '
cany returns.
The republican. Earl " Warren,
who had criticized Olson's handl
mg of state defense measures,
forged well ahead of three other
opponents meanwhile in his own
party's contest. . '
Warren, state's attorney general,
was permitted to run for both
party nominations under Call
fornia law.
Sen. Burnet R. Maybank of
South Carolina encountered a
strong challenge to his bid for re
nomination in the democratic pri
mary from Eugene S. Blease, who
told voters a champion, of "white
supremacy" was needed in Wash
ington. Maybank led with the
count two-thirds completed but by
little more than 100 votes. -
- Another incumbent senator,
Wall Doxey of Mississippi, was
running second in his race but
heading for a runoff primary three
weeks hence with former Senator
James Eastland.
California also held its primar
ies yesterday. There was no sena
torial contest there but several
congressional races were run on
the issue of whether the incum
bents' records before Pearl Harbor
merited their return to office.
Frank La Bell Named
Governor of Moose
MCOSEHEART, 111, Aug.. 25.
-(-Frank J. , La Bell, Boston,
was -elected supreme governor of
the Loyal Order of Moose, Tues
day, succeeding Mathew M.
Neely, Charleston, W. Va.
Other; officers selected at the
close of the organization's 54th
international convention Included
Mark R. Gray,-Indianapolis, su
preme Junior governor; Ben Hill
Brown, Spartanburg, SC, supreme
prelate; and Fred W. ZabeL Au
rora, 111., supreme treasurer.
Anti-British Riots
Flare Again in India .
AHMEDBED, India, Aug. 23 -(P)-Eight
persons were killed and
eight were wounded in the Go
rakhpur and Sahjanwan districts
Tuesday during renewed , out
breaks of anti-British demonstra
tions..; : ,.:;. If. - - . -
Police fired on the demonstra
tors who also attempted to set
fire to a postotfice. Twenty three
persons werr arrested.
W. L. Powers Going .
To Venezuela Soon
PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 25-(P)
Dr. W. L. Powers, secretary of the
state reclamation congress, was
granted a one-year leave of ab
sence Tuesday to work with fed
tral authorities in Venezuela.;
Frank T. Morgan was renamed
president by the board and Assist
ant Secretary Arthur King was
made acting secretary until Dr.
Powers return, ' -
Gigantic Sea
Battle Rases
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MacArthur Airmen
Attack Convoy;
Enemy Hurt
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At the outset they attempted to
repel the landing parties "and
brought aerial forces into play
against transport ships and their
protective naval units. In the first
two days of the .fighting they lost
36 planes.
Then on the night of August
8-9 - the enemy came in with a
force of cruisers and, destroyers
for an attack on the American
troop and supply ships. They were
intercepted by American warships
and the first strictly naval duel
of -the war between US and Japa
nese fleet forces resulted. Enemy
losses, the navy said, were not
accurately determined In the
darkness, but the US navy suf
fered a cruiser sunk and cruisers
and destroyers damaged.
The third big Japanese effort
was made on the night of August
21. By that time1 marine attacks
had scattered the enemy's garri
sons and sent their troops fleeing
into the jungle. The Japanese na
vy landed a new force of 700 men.
In fighting that night and the
next day this force was wipeoTout
with 670 killed and 3& captured.
the marines lost 28 killed and 72
wounded.
The exact part which raider
battalions played in these opera
tions was not disclosed here, but
a description of their arms and
training which marine headquar
ters released Tuesday indicated
they must have played a leading
role.
Raider battalions, the official
announcement said, are com
pact, self-sufficient battalions"
with a swiftness and a striking:
power comparable in amphib
ious attacks to paratroop actions
In land battles.
The raiders carry automatic ri
lies, sub-machine guns, Garand
rifles and pistols. They can cover
ground, half running and half
walking,: at a maximum speed of
seven miles an hour; can fight
with knives, daggers or bare
hands, and have been -taught to
shoot from the hip.
Night attacks are their special
ty and many of their operations
are of commando nature. It was a
raider battalion, with Maj. James
Roosevelt, the president's eldest
son, second in command, that
staged the successful raid on Mak
ing island, in the Gilbert group,
August 17.
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Reunite
. SEATTLE, Aug. 1$-1P)-A. moth
er of four will fly east Wednesday,
on her first trip by air, for a re
union with her . missionary hus
band, whom she had virtually
given up for lost in the orient
The Rev. Kenneth Campbell
was one of. the Americans who
arrived in New York from China
aboard the Gripsholm in an ex
change of prisoners with Japan.
? Mrs. Campbell and the chil
dren left China in January, 1941,
as war clouds began to grow dark
er. ,-
I hadn't heard from him since
November," the happy wife re
lated today. "Then a week ago,
I got a letter from Rio De Janeiro.
From it I learned that my husband
has been ill four months with
ameobic dysentery. It's very clear
that the Japanese didn't give them
much food."
"The Campbells first went to
China in 1923 as newlyweds. He
was a Presbyterian missionary.
Mitzi Green Wed
NEW YORK, Aug. 15(JP)
Mitzi Green, musical comedy and
radio actress, and Joseph Plevney,
actor and director, were married
Tuesday. The bride is 21; Plevney
30.
Steel Wages Raised
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-ff)
The war labor board Tuesday
voted a 5 cent hourly increase
for 250,000, employes of five US
Steel corporation subsidiaries and
made it retroactive to Feb. 15.
Odd Angles
On Dcry'a News
NEW BERN, NO-i-A man
told the gas rationing board that
he had misplaced his rationing
book and wanted a new one.
Board members said they would
have to think the matter over on
the theory that a rationing book
was- so important it was unlikely
a person would forget where he
left it '
But the man got a new book.
After he had left the board was
convinced he was. telling the truth
because he unwittingly left on
the table a wallet bulging with
money.
RICHMOND, Va.-(JP-The army
set in motion -a new assembly line
packing smoking kits for men
serving overseas.
V. Newton Miller, head, of the
overseas assembly branch ware
house No. 8, said the army has
asked 15,000 kits as a starter to be
issued free to men at foreign
posts. Each kit will: con tain a
supply of cigarettes and pipe to
baccos tor 200 men, the idea be
ing, Miller said, that smokes may
be as important to a soldier's
morale as beefsteak. " j
Hubby
Homemakers
Asked to Pick
Beans Here
Salem housewives are going
into the bean fields to lend a hand
with the hardest between break
fast and dinner time, W. H. Bail-
lee, of the US employment office
said Tuesday night. To accommo
date these women a bus .will leave
the employment office, 710 Ferry
street, at 8 o'clock and will return
them in plenty of time to prepare
the evening meal for the stay-at-home
workers, i J '
These women will help make
up the 600 bean pickers ordered
for this morning in the Salem
area. Any who miss the 6 o'clock
bus 'will also be taken on the late
bus. " ' -;
The response of the pickers to
the special appeal for Tuesday
morning was unusually good,
Baillie said. - Twenty two busses
with capacity loads were sent out
from the employment office at 6
o'clock. -
Another 600 bean pickers and
1000 hop pickers are ordered for
this morning. Many of these are
for replacements but a consider
able number are for new pickers,
Most of the hop pickers are want
ed in the Independence area.
Kaiser Looks
At Wood for
Huge Planes
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25.-iP)
Henry J. Kaiser and Howard
Hughes plan to build their 200
ton cargo planes of wood If they
can't get the necessary metal.
"I don't say definitely the planes
should be built of wood," Hughes
told newsmen today. "If .the metal
is available, it may be more ad
vantageous for various reasons to
use it."
However, the Los Angeles- air
plane designer and pilot said he
was convinced such giant planes
three times the size as any
ever built could be constructed
of wood.
"Up to this time," he said, "all
large planes have been built of
metal, and therefore most aero
nautical engineers probably would
throw up their hands in the air
at the thought of building the
largest feplane of all from wood."
Experts have claimed not enough
aluminum, nickel and chromium
would be available for the sky
giants without interfering with
the present construction program
on bombers and fighters. Kaiser,
who operates a string of west coast
shipyards, has countered he could
build his 4 planes without - handi-
capping present plane production
in any way.
Kaiser and Hughes held further
confidential discussions of their
projected construction program.
Sen. A. B. "Happy" Chandler
(D-Ky), just returned from an
8,400-mile inspection tour of Alas
ka and the Aleutians with his sen
ate military affairs sub commit
tee, commented meantime that
planes of the type proposed by
Kaiser and Hughes would be ideal
for use in that far northern thea
tre of war.
He suggested huge flying boats
for such operations, as few landing
fields for land planes would be
available in that area.
Tourists'' Negatives
Confiscated Here;
Snapped Bridges
Two California tourists, a father
and son, were released; by city
police but were labeled as sus
picious characters following their
brief retention, and confiscation
of camera films here Tuesday.
The motorists allegedly , took
pictures of at least one dam -and
various bridges en route north but
claimed ignorance of army regula
tions. Police said they had full de
tails concerning identification and
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toward the Black sea, and in the
Prokhladenski area, 85 miles west
of the rich Grozny oil fields.
Attacks In both these areas have
been, repulsed, tbe Russians said.
and in the Prokhladnenski sec
tor detachments of automatic
riflemen landed behind Russian
lines were said to have been
wiped -out. -; - 1
An indication of the intense
fighting around Stalingrad was
seen in Russian claims of heavy
tank and airplane losses Inflicted
on toe Germans. One soviet unit
was said to have destroyed 17
tanks in one day, another 22 and
a third 14. Soviet planes and anti
aircraft batteries "at the ap
proaches of Stalingrad" destroyed
92 German planes in two days.
The Germans were less than 40
miles from the city on both sides,
Derhans considerably ' closer in
places. With their axis allies they
were believed to number from
80 to 100 divisions in alL The
divisions varied in size from 9000
to 20,000 troops.
Russian dispatches said these
numbers on some of the approach
es to Stalingrad were "vastly su
perior." In one sector, one dis
patch reported grimly: "Fascist
tanks are fighting Russian in
fantrymen." Swarms of German dive-bombers
were dumping tons of bombs
on the defenders of Stalingrad;
German fighters were machine
gunning every objective they
could find.
Up to late af ternoon the military
dispatches did not mention any
Russian evacuation either from
Stalingrad or in the Caucasus it
self, where the battles are surg
ing toward the Grozny oil fields
and the city of Ordzhonikidze.
Grozny, in addition to process
ing a rich oil pool, has in the past
been a storage depot for more than
a billion barrels of east Caucasus
oil.
Stalingrad is the key to the
Volga which links the Caucasus to
the heart of the Russias, via the
Caspian sealanes. The Germans
are within 170 miles of the Cas
pian itself.
China Said Expecting
To. Be Base Soon for
Drive Against Japs
CHUNGKING, Aug. 25-flVA
government spokesman said Tues
day night the Chinese people ex
pect China soon will be develop
ed as a base of operations against
Japan.
He offered this comment on re
cent Chinese successes in Kiangsi
and Chekiang provinces shortly
after the Chinese high command
reported Lishui, important base
from which Japan might be
bombed, was under direct attack
by Chinese forces.
A communique said the Japan
ese already have' suffered great
losses and announced the recap
ture . Saturday of Tengpu in the
westward Chinese drive in Kiang
si province.
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SPOKANE, Aug. 25.-(ff)-The
"cable wedding of Eleanor Lu
cille Granlund in Spokane and
Benjamin Vaughn of Llbby, Mont,
a soldier -with the US army in
Australia, was recorded Tuesday
by County Clerk Frank C Nash.
The wedding, "first of its kind
ever recorded here, took from
July 13 until July SO to complete,
messages and testaments forward
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to marry. Chaplain Russell Blais
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acceptance and today Clerk Nash
had 'certified in his record the
wedding of the soldier in Aus
tralia and the sweetheart he left
behind in the states.
Tungsiang Retaken
CHUNGKING, Wednesday. Aug.
2 5 (Chinese troops have reoc
cupied Tungsiang; a railway cen
ter .50 miles southeast of Nan
chang, important Japanese base in
Klangsl province, Chinese sources
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ROSEBURG, Au 2$.(Jf)-A
home-made mole , gun, fashioned ,
of a gas pipe and auto parts; was
used Monday night by Henry An
derson, 37, Melrose . farmer, to
take. bis own life, Coroner H. C
Stearns said Tuesday.
' The coroner said Mrs. "Ander
son called the sheriff yesterday
after hearing shot , following her
husband's threat to kill himself.
When the sheriff arrived, the An
dersons were engaged In a quar
rel, Stearns said, the shot having
been fired into the air.
At night, after futile efforts to
talk with Mrs. Anderson,- who
had gone to the home of her . mo
ther, Anderson shot himself in
the chest, the coroner said.
Tobruk Raided
CAIRO, Aug. 25.--H e a v y
and medium light bombers of the
US army air) force, the RAF and
South African air force raided
Tobruk last night and attacked
axis motor transports on ; the
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