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A Houso? ' Are you looking for ft place to live, or for s len - ant? If to, turn to The Statesman classified adver tising pare, where buyer and seller ret torether. Drama! VT - Don't fall to read "Sub marine . Sara" in Sunday Statesman the copyrighted tory of the undersea- es cape of a small, group of Americans from Corregidor. POUNDS tCWll UBIETY-SECOND YEAH Salem, Oregon. Saturday Morning, August 29, 1342 Price Sc. No. 113 nick . vim 1 I 19 I I .4 ! f I- I I invaaers Lacking Allied Bombers Set Fires in Target Area GEN, MacARTHUR'S HEAD- lUARTERS, Australia, Satur day, Aug. 29-3-Heavy . f ight- g between veteran Australian and newly-landed Japanese troops in the tortuous jungles i surrounding Milne bay in south eastern New Guinea was report ed today by allied headquar ters." ., A small number or us ser vice troops - also were in the area where the Japanese ' first landed early Wednesday. Low-flying allied bombers were giving heavy support to the de fenders by attacking the Japanese positions. : "AH bombs fell in the target area," the communique said of the aerial action. "Numerous fires were started." A spokesman said the fighting was on the north shore . several es .from the head of Milne bay in extremely difficult country here the enemy was hard to lo cate and pin down. . The allied troops doing the actual fighting were divided between veterans of the Acs? tralian Imperial force and Aos- tralian militia. Australian air men using American-built P-40s also were among the allied air men giving needed sky support. No Japanese aerial support was (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Solomon Area Remains Quiet WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.Jf)- Bombed and battered Japanese . naval forces have failed for 48 hours to renew their counter-at- A l . A. M , 1 - Air Aid r lacxs against American jana. sea IV .''and air units occuovinff the touth- eastern Solomon islands, the navy I 4ndicated Friday night A navy spokesman, requesting . that his name not be used, issued this statement covering the south west Pacific war sector where fierce fighting raged this week "Up to 5:40 p. m., Eastern war time, no reports have been re ceived in the navy department to Indicate there have been any new - actions in the Solomons area. -One of the nation's highest au thorities, who1 also preferred tha his name not be used, described - . the American successes in hold ing the Tulagi-Guadalcanal area of the islands as only minor vie ', tories for the United, Nations, .. however. ; Tillamook Logger I; Dies in Collision TOREST GROVE, .Ore, Aug. 28 . ta .Tamoa fny 52. a Tillamook Llogger, was injured fatally Fri- day night in an automobile col- i lision seven miles west of here 1 i on the Wilson river highway. I Coroner F. J. SeweU said Cox's I -. car and another driven by Theo- l i dore Roosevelt Heuer, Glenwood, side-swiped. Heuer was injured. Service Men Daniel Joseph Mcaellan, 23-year-old Salem civil engineer, ; who has Just . won his lieutenant's tars in the US marine corps and Is preparing for a platoon command.- See story in Service J.len column on page six). . - Chinese Recapture Chuhsien A irfield, Enter Walled City CHUNGKING, China, Saturday, Aug. 29-(JP-The huge Chuhsien airdrome, within three and a half hours bomber flight of Japan, and the walled city itself have been recaptured and Chinese troops axe pursuing fleeing Japanese soldiers to the east, Chinese news dispatches today. The Japanese were said to Vegetarians May Get Break Weekly Meatless Day May Be Asked Soon, Says Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -(JP) President Rocsevelt indicated Fri day that Americans might be ask ed to do without meat one day a week to save shipping space for war cargoes. Meanwhile . the foods require ments committee of the war pro duction board,' headed by Secre tary of Agriculture Wickard, stud ied the meat situation with a view to allocating civilian sup plies to eliminate inequalities in distribution among various sec tions of the country. ;. , The committee reported that " it had reached the tentative con- ' elusion i Jhatppfoximatcly a fourth of the nation's meat sup ply - would be needed to meet requirements of American mili tary forces and the United Na tions. Mr. Roosevelt, discussing meat less days at his press conference, made it clear that the possibility was still under study, with no in dication how soon a decision might be reached. He explained that it had not yet been deter mined how much shipping might be saved. Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) War Board Okelis Reconstruction Of Flax Sheds - The war production board Fri day, authorized the state board of control here to purchase materials for reconstruction of the peniten tiary flax shed which was de stroyed by fire last Tuesday night The r reconstruction operations will cost approximately $9000, as against $5000 for the original shed. Tuesday's fire loss, includ ing 900 tons of flax straw in the shed, was approximately $59,000. Work on the new shed will be gin as soon as the materials are received. Can Pickup Planned PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2-(fl5) Burton M. Parks, head of the tin can division of the war production board, disclosed Friday night a plan has been set up to have bot tlers throughout the country col lect tin cans" for war use. Two Ships and Two Legs Lost But 'Mac' Still 'Navigates' By ISABEL CHILDS . Twelve months ago Edward "Mac " Wilson, who visited Sa lem' Thursday and Friday, was a Canadian buttermaker com pleting his course in radio school. Since that time, two ships, and both legs have been lost beneath him but he continues to; be a seaman although how he "travels on land. , '-SVh Vf For smiling 27-year-old "Mac (perhaps . you saw him as he limped across a street aided by a cane) is a traveling salesman for the US merchant marine, sell ing to shipyard workers the neces sity for speed and workmanship in turning out Victory vessels. V-f To all lovers of freedom he carries a message in his dra matie and simple story: To win a war there must be goods. To move those goods there must be ships, enough ships to float ' the war materials needed on every front and to meet the ttrpesrs cf still nnsunk axis submarines. -When brown-eyed, brown-hair : r , , ,.,.... .... -. ; . ' pb ' from the front reported early . be withdrawing toward Kinwha and Lanchi, with the Chinese close on their heels. ' The Chinese central news agency said the recapture of Chuhsien gave the Chinese control of nearly 220 miles of the Chekiang-Kinagsi railway. Street fighting broke out in the walled city Friday when the Chi nese broke in after capturing the big coolie-built airdrome. The: second most important airbase In Chekiang province, at Lishui, some 65 miles southeast of Chuhsien, also was said to have fallen to the Chinese eotm terthrust which in the past few weeks virtually wiped oat the gains of the Japanese May and June campaign In the Chekiang and Kiangsi sector. The Chinese central news agency said a Chinese force had bypassed Chuhsien on the southeast and had occupied Changshutan five miles to the east - : ' Flexible Price HoldingPlan Fit's Verdict WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 28.-(ff-Congressional circles heard Fri day that President Roosevelt might invoke previously-untested war powers to assume - control over wages and farm prices in an effort to check the spiraling cost of living. t . The president told his press conference that the program which he will present to congress on ' Labor day and explain that night over the radio would in volve a flexible stabilization of farm prices and wages which would keep them within a fixed ration of living costs, and that no rigid freezing order was contem plated. ' -'. i While the president let it be known that he considered infla tionary and dangerous a provi sion of law which bars the impo sition of price ceilings on farm products below 110 per cent of parity, few legislators thought he would demand immediate repeal of this section. One usually well-informed leg islator who preferred not to be quoted by name expressed the be lief that the president would draw upon his war powers to create a super board and clothe it with ex ecutive authority to keep both wages and farmrices geared to the living cost index. ed "Mac" Wilson, .. who has brother overseas in the air corps, a sister somewhere on that front as s nurse, went to war, he was doing what most of the other fel lows he knew already had done or were preparing to do. Of: the 1500 residents of his home town of Forest, On t, approximately 350 have enlisted i and . another , 134 have' been s drafted, according to Wilson. "I'Jv Of course, "Mac" is not listed in either category.. He wears no uniform. When he finished radio school in September, 1941, he was a member of a class of 23 men preparing for ' merchant marine service. Today or Friday, at leasiwd and one half! mem bers of i that . class had survived, he said.' Because both legs, were amputated I early this tyear, : Wil son mentions himself as "a frac tion." , : . . r ;V ' : V? y When "the war is over, and merchant vessels are allowed to carry radiomen who cannot move about speedily, he expects (Turn to Pago 2, CoL 1) ; . ' irermanv Pounded braf 32 of British Bombers Fail To Return LONDON, Saturday, Aug. 29 yPt-The RAF hammered Ger many again Friday night in raids which the Berlin radio in dicated were equal in scope to the mighty assault unleashed the previous night on Kassel and Gdynia. A broadcast from the German capital said that high explosive fire bombs had caused damage to several towns in southwestern and southern Germany and asserted that 32 British planes were shot down. Such losses have been suffered by the RAF in the past only in raids in which several hundred planes have participated. The first British announcement concerning the night's operations said merely that RAF bombers were again over Germany, but did not mention specific targets. The German air force, mean while, made scattered 'raids on Britain's northeast coast' Nazi bombers in short but sharp attacks also hit one town in East Anglia High explosives and fire were unleashed, by the raiders end our persons were reported killed along the northeast coas. 1 Six persons were said to have been trapped under the debris of a smashed building in one town. - Two of the nazi bombers were reported shot down. But the German raiders appear ed tiny beside the mighty efforts of the United States and British forces. The approach of longer nights when the air war may be carried deeper and deeper into the heart of the reich was signaled when the big sluggers of the RAF winged hundreds of miles to attack the Baltic port of Gdynia, the former port of Poland, and the Prussian locomotive-building center of Kassel. - Then, nearly at the end of a day -which saw British and American Spitfire squadrons, along with fast Boston attack bombers, sweeping the Ger (Turn to Page 2. CoL 3) 11 Czechs Die By Verdict of German Court BERLIN, (From German Broadcasts), Aug. 28.-(F7-Eleven Czechs, including one woman, were executed Wednesday after a German court found them guilty of high treason, an official an nouncement in Prague said Fri day night Eight of those condemned, in cluding the woman, "played a prominent role in a secret organ ization plotting against the reich," the Berlin radio said. "The other three were found guilty of espi onage against Germany." (This group apparently includ ed nine former Czech general staff officers which the exiled Czech government in London said had been executed at Prague on similar charges.) Consumers to Pay . Added Produce " " Pack Costs WASHINGTON, Aug." 28 The office of price administration Friday authorized retailers and wholesalers of the 1942 frozen frutt, berry and vegetable pack to pass along to consumers the exact amount by which packers maxi mum prices were t recently 'in-r creased. : ' , .'-Jr ; . : . The OPA warned, however, that the increase . to consumers , must not exceed the amount of the in crease, in the 'packers', maximum Thursday's Weather ? Thursday's : max. temp. $, mln. 50. River .Friday $.7. By army request weather forecasts are , withheld and temperature data delayed, :----' Hitler's Drive Besieges Stalingrad 6 so too 200 v. Y - s r This International Illustrated News map' shows how Hitler's 1942 Russia is possibly approaching by fierce defenses around Stalingrad and severe counter-blows to the north on the front west of Moscow. Friday the Red army spokesman indicated a nasi tank spearhead northeast of Stalingrad (upper arrow) was being sorely . pressed by the defenders, while powerful German drives were being fought around Ketelnikovskl and Prokhladenski by forces heading for Astrakhan and the Grozny oil fields. - . : Kaiser Plans 18-Day Ships Builder Taking Cargo Plane Proposal to Washington Soon RICHMOND, Calif., Aug. 28-CT") The master shipbuilder of the west, Henry J. Kaiser, predicted Friday that within a few' months his yards will be launching 10,000 ton freighters within 18 days aft er their keels are laid. Kaiser made that prediction in a speech just before the record breaking liberty freighter "John Fitch" was launched today, only 24 days after keel-laying. This broke a record established only yesterday in one of Kaiser's Ore gon yards when construction time (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Wadsworth Named Head Of Insurance Agentss , PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 28.-(fls) -Leslie Wadsworth, Salem, was named president of the Oregon Association of Insurance Agents at the annual meeting here Fri day, He succeeds Harry Hollister, Portland. ,. . Lounging Robes 'Out WASHINGTON, Aug. ZH - Of) Th war production board Friday prohibited the manufacture of woolen lounging robes lor men and boys, - .. - Court Asked to Monopoly Alleged by US Attorney General NEW YORK. Aug. 28.-WVThe government Friday asked federal district court to order the Associ ated Press, world's largest ;news gathering organization, to open its Tnembership roll to any news paper willing to pay, its propor tionate share of the cost of gath ering news. The suit was filed with Herbert Charlson, deputy United States court clerk Friday afternoon, Charlson - immediately issued a summons to US Marshal James E. Mulcahy for service on the As sociated Press An answer is re turnable within 20 days. Named as defendants were the association,, a non-profit cooper ative corporation under - the laws of New York state since 1900, the 18-member board of directors; the publishers of the press with which the directors are identified and the approximately - 1400 other members in the United States as a. grOUp. -V - ''-..-- While the AP serves more than 2000 newspapers throughout the world, only members in the conti - - " climax, a climax that the Red . j ; Woodhurn Sailor K Iissing9 Action, Iother Advised WOODBURN, Aug. 28 Thomas George Jones, a gunner's mate first class, is missing , in action, according to a telegram received by his wife, Mrs. Delores Jones of Woodburn, from a navy admiral. , Jones has served in the navy for the last 13 years. His wife and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Jones, are Woodburn resi dents. Teamster Strike Threatened in i - PORTLAND, Aug. 28-(ff)-The possibility that a major teamster strike might develop in Portland appeared Friday when a few pick-up drivers of the Inland Mo tor Freight, Inc, left their jobs. v-The drivers demanded increases from $7 . to $8 a day. Attorney James M. Scudder, representing the employers, said. . V Officials of the AFL teamsters union and of the Truck Operators league took immediate steps to prevent the spread of the strike into a general walkout Lad, 14, Missing ? Bill Allison, 14, was reported missing by the Children's Farm home 3 at Corvallis, early this morning, according to state police. Allison had gone to Hood River to visit and the home had sent him money for his return. Enioin Associated Press: nental United States were named. Commenting . In his own be- : half, Presideat Kobert McLean of the Associated Press made this statement Fridaynight: "The Associated - Press has made every effort to meet the , legal views of the government, enladnating ta the action of the annual . meetinr - last April at which the membership adopted radical revisions of the bylaws. The membership was, however, unwilling to : elect applicants ' under duress, and I believe' fa not willing to aeeept the status ; of a public utility. This would affect Us control ever lis own. affairs and the inestimable val ues which arise from its form as a membership cooperative." ' ' -' In v substance, the petitioner claimed that; y- . ; L Those provisions cf the (A1) by-laws which competitors of ex isting members from membership and the news report, illegally restrain and monopolize interstate commerce in news and illegally restrain the interstate commerce - , - " ;., - MOJHCRMtl drive for possession of western army is disturbing, if not upsetting, Army Chaplains Chief Believes so ; Story , Told by Reports WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.-0P)-Army Chaplain Richard E. Car berry, Silverton, Ore., was listed Friday as a possible .. Japanese prisoner of .war as the official re ports of -24 chaplains added an other chapter to the chronicle of Bataan and Corregidor. . Months after the Japanese took the bitterly defended positions on Manila, bay, the chaplain's reports for last December, January, Feb ruary and i March have reached the office of chief of chaplains, W. R. Arnold. . "So far as is knowns, all' of these chaplains stayed with their charges and became prisoners of war of the Japanese, said a war department announcement "Efforts to trace them reveaL according to the office of chief of chaplains, that none reached Aus tralia with the few who escaped capture In the main, the reports were" terse official forms showing the number of services each man per formed in the month baptisms, masses,- prayer meetings, and fu .nerals. But occasionally a sen tence or a paragraph tells of some unusual circumstance, such as the generosity of a regiment on Cor (Turn to Page 2. Col 8) of newspapers which are prevent ed from obtaining (JP) news. 2. The provision of the (A) by laws requiring each of approxi mately 1400 members to furnish local news gathered by its own staff exclusively to the UP), illegal ly restrains and monopolizes inter state commerce In news. Additionally, the petition, filed personally by a special assistant to the attorney general, Charles H. Weston,' alleged that the acquis! tion by the (ff): in 1941 of, the stock of Wide World Photos, Inc, a news-picture - service formerly owned iy the New York Times, was an illegal, acquisition of stock of a competing corporation. tc The petition asked that the As sociated Press be permanently en joined against, further enforce ment of the by-laws provisions referred to and also required to divest itself of the Wide World stock - President McLean in a state ment issued for the board of di rectors, said: (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Rev.Carberry Held by Nips? Rum Press' Stalingrad Spearhead Threatened By HENRY CL CASSIDY MOSCOW, Saturday, Aug. 29 (PhA nazi armored spearhead 1 northwest of Stalingrad was re ported fighting for .its life today against encircling soviet mortar and ; anti-tank crews, while a Russian communique said the red army still was battling the Germans In the outskirts of Rzhev in the offensive west of Moscow. .t A total of 2808 Germans, Ru manians, and Italians were re ported officially to have been killed in the grim fight northwest of Stalingrad. The midnight communique in dicated little change in the criti cal fight around Stalingrad and deep in the , Caucasus, but said several more localities had been overrun in the effort to reduci the Rzhev-Vyazma-Gzhatsk tri angle held by the nazis west ol this capital. Soviet airmen were credited with sinking a nazi transport in the Baltic and an enemy sub marine : was declared : to have been destroyed by a red war ship in the Black 'sea.;, .. ; . ; German' " r ' Were ' reportedetreaming across the Emhi river In the assault on Stalingrad and other soviet positions defend ing the Volga river. "Northwest of - Stalingrad our troops fought fierce engagements with enemy groups which r bad penetrated into our defense," the communique said. "German troops as well as Italian and Rumanian are ' suffering enormous losses." "One soviet unit during two days' fighting repelled numerous enemy attacks, then -passed to a counter attack , and dislodged the enemy from one important inhabit ed locality. "In the course: of these engage ments guardsmen - annihilated about 2500 enemy "officers- and men.- Soviet tankists of one unit surrounded a hollow where enemy forces were concentrated and In a violent engagement destroyed nine German tanks . and annihilated about 300 Hitlerites." - , , Of the fighting, southwest ' of (Turn to Page 2, Cot -2) Idaho Democrats Reject Isolation Condemnation BOISE. Idaho. Aug. 28.-PV- The Idaho democratic platform . convention Friday I night refused to " adopt a Dlatform plan con demning isolationism "as a na tional policy. - The action was taken after Sec retary of State George H. Curtis carried to the floor of the con vention a fight that he had lost in the platform committee for in clusion of a plank asserting that "isolationism, physical or mental, is dangerous and must be opposed at all costs as our country returns to peaceful pursuits." . Comptori L White, congression al representative from the first congressional district led the floor fight against adoption of tfie Curtis plank. . , Cuthbert Appointed -- PORTLAND, Ore4 Aug. 28.-(ff)-Appointmcnt of Frederick A. Cuthbert, University of Oregon ' professor of landscape 'architect, ture and city planning, as hous ing specialist for i the national housing - agency 'in Oregon was announced Friday. Perjury Charged S -Indicted secretly; F r I d a y by Marion i county grand jury on a . charge of perjury, .George Andrew,- Salem wood dealer,- was committed to the Marion county . jail Friday night in lieu of $1000 bail. Our Senators Uc3,4-0
