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Joan's Coming Jean Leslie, levely young " ' movie star, Is coining to S- - lent Thursday, Willi Adolpa f Menjoa and Walter Fidgeon, , 4 to sell war bonds: Victory ' Center, 7 p. m, 't- Complete YeaU find a newspaper . can give more real Mtlif ac tion than your local morn-, bit paper, with its WORLD NEWS plus HOME COM MUNITY NEWS. I V 1 . PCUNDDff IZ21 iniTY-CLCOND YEAB Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning. September L IStZ Frlce Sc. Ha. 115 4 Meats' Marion . I U 111 .MT II II Civilian Use Cut to Guard Military Need WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-Jf) The government Monday night decided upon nation - wide rationing- of meat in view , of what Secretary of Agriculture Wickard called 'ah abnormally large demand . arising from "record high civil buying pow er." : ' . r-: The decision took the form of a ecotnmendation' to the war pro duction board by the food require ments committee, composed of representatives of the army, navy, lend-lease admiiiistration, WPB, ; the office of price administration, board of economic lomic warfare and I .gricuito, depart- the state and mints. i i Inasmuch as the committee Is the top food control agency in the government, its recommendation was considered tantamount to a final decision. V ; i Under the recommendation, the rationing would lake effect in v about four months, or as soon as rationing machinery can be let UP. !- . .-: i In . the meantime, packers J sales for civilian use will be . ear bed by . a 'war produetioa ; beard order assigning- quota for civilian sales. The order, 'ex- pee ted in about two weeks, will apply to beef, veal,' pork. Iamb, - mutton and sausage. . A i' government : campaign for voluntary reduction in civilian vuiiuiu, t""j . "'v-""'" i shortly to cut average consump tion to about 24 pounds per, per son per' week-about the average of the last ten years, "The (food requirements com- ".inittee unanimously agreed that consumer rationing is the most , equitable method of assuring each civilian his fair share of the norr mal total supply," said Wickard, chairman of the committee created some -weeks ago by WPB Chair man Donald M. Nelson. 44 "uwt' tAiituv. "l t....in i takes several months to develop, print and distribute the material required to put into effect a satis 1CUUUIU U UUI UiW CUCVk ta MUd- factory system of raUoning to in- Uliwuw vviinuiinB. -.,Wi.n . - tmm ii i.-j 4i : of price admixustrauon to speed up-ite preparation for the institu- uon vi consumer i tnniiiiiig, ui iuc 1 ' & arlv nossible.' , l.Ij - 'LLL'-'"m ; wiara civilians : would 'be about normal, but would be insufficient to satisfy the "abnormally large current de- mand, caused by record high civil ian buying power,' ; Actually, r e e r d-shattering applies of meat will be going into- packers, warehouses - this . fall and whiter, bat It has been estimated 25 per cent of it would be required for use of the armed forces and for lend-lease ship ment Rationing will be necessary to Insure the remaining supplies are distributed equitably, rather than aold.to those best able to bu, Wickard said. - The committee's action culmin ated six weeks of Intensive study. The WPB' conservation order es tablishing sales 'quotas . for pack ers already is being drafted. It wUl - . j . a V SO ameu w ocuu tary and lend-lease needs durmg (Turn to Pago 2. Col 6) Fuel . Signups Checks Needs tvttt iun Am tyrt? jstratioa to determine fuel needs I Smith has been dean of admitiis-lnow has dared to announce, hist carried out more than 100 offen .v. . j...-v.:h - 1 tratinn. - I death." The radio auoted an An-1 sive sorties against the enemy In Mini Liiu ii i inn i n 1 1 i . . r mx uuiii i mz this winter will be held Septem ber 9-12 in Portland, Salem, Cor- oer v-i ia roruana, oaiera, w vallls, Albany and several other Oregon cities. SUte OPA Director Richard G Montsomery said 'this rcslstra tion will be only an effort to learn the - facts,. Up to now no one knows that we will have a fuel shortage or how bad It Is. The registration will be only explore tory, cf course, and- OPA cannot Guarantee wood for fuel.' tuel." : V The registration- he said,, will be made at local price rationing boards. Volunteer help will be used.' Sunday's "Weather Sandai's max. temp. 39, mhv 43. River Monday -S.7 , ft. By tray request weather forecasts sre. withheld and tem;cralare Cil delayed.- .Raftmel Toes in East; MZssians Push at Kletskaya Italian Material Captured Before Stalingrad; Rzhev Fight Rages; r: Invaders Held in Caucasus By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Tuesday, Sept. 1-(AP)A new, German wedge has been driven into Stalingrad, but the red army flank to the northwest near Italian detachment, the Russians announced officially early Tuesday. The Germans advanced in the cost of "very heavy losses," Northwest of Stalingrad rivers the Russians said their losses in men and materials" on ar'l T-. tihinese r ress Jap Pursuit Burma Bases Struck; Offense Gains More Railway CHUNGKING, Aug. 31--The Chinese "made further advances in pursuit of the retreating Japanese In western Chekiang province Monday after annihilating more than .half the enemy forces occu Dvine ! Sunevang which fell late last week, the high command said Monday night As Chiang Kai-Shek's men con tinued their offensive which has I neueq more uuui w uiun ui i can bombers, itrudc' threes sharp blows at the Japaneseray base in northern Burma at Myitkyina. The RAF attacked river craft at Akyab. With the Burmese : monsoon drlnninff tnwarrf it finish, the Myitkyina base could u d. fectively should the Japanese at tempt an invasion of the southern province of Yunnan through which the Burma road courses. Chinese intelligence places the Japanese - naerowint " :;. ' ana growing. , v Thf communique mentioned no no locations of fighting Chekiang I - . i of. Kiangsl eastern !Ca.nor laid 11 xeicx W i llla vvu- .. - . .. i I tinn in ' Kwanetune - wnere ine "lIt w wiuun m xp I n.trnnr.li of the south. ' . : 1 , J MMnmnnar n tK ITS' air f nrrM in TT" ' tZf'Zen P"? t ."r- were1 a"ea in Myitayma aunoay. New College Head Arrival I CI r f fmA ' UlOlU Dr. George Herbert Smith, pres ident-elect of Willamette univer pw- r "T" . ' . . saiem later m ine w C ; Harrison, president ox tne board of trustees, said here Mon day night Mrs. wnun ana uhut . wg as M M A . V daughters, are corning to Salem a abort time later by automobile. short time later oy lUHwwut. Dr. Smith is to be met at the McCullOCh, DJ an H mMnha. of Today Portland attorney and member of I . BERLIN (From German Broad the Willamette board. ; I easts), Aug. 31-VThe Berlin University house, the presiden - tial residency on the Willamette campus, has been made ready for the institution's new first family. Trustee McCulloch's ; daughter was eraduated a year ago from I DePauw university, or wmcn or. . . A a a - - ' - t n ii rp NO Jt Oil 1 SIX IU Soldiers' BiU WASHINGTON, Aug. house sent to conference Monday I th service men's absentee voting - 1 Kill containina . controversial I amendment . permitting members of the armed forces from poll-tax j 8tates to vote by mail . without paying those taxes. 1 The unanimous action, brought an immediate charge, from the na tional negro councu thai u was "a maneuver to sabotage" the anti- poll tax amendment r Meantime the legislation was criticized by Representative Rankin (D-Miss), I who described it as Man attack on1 1 the southern states." soviet positions southwest of continued to gain on the nazi Kletskaya, overwhelming an the Kotelnikovski sector at the communique said. between the Don and Volga troops inflicted "enormous i a German group which "had infiltrated into our defense posi- tions" and also routed and partly destroyed a German reinforce ment column which sought to ex ploit that salient. t Of the situation inside the Don I river bend Itself where the Ger man north flank is being men aced the communique said: 'In the area of Kletskaya our troops carried out active opera tions and advanced. Italian troops which were defending this sector attempted to resist but were overwhelmed. The following booty was captured: 38 guns, 365 ma chine guns, 1,500,000 rounds of M"0" ?d a at number V4 AAUCOa M.UVO CU4U VkUCl TVCU materials. Prisoners were taken." The Russians also reported the i capture of three populated places! and 800 German casualties on the I Kalinin front northwest of Mos- rnw T ro..-; fA.tvni 200 na2i, de. stroyed seven lanks, the common' iques said. - ' - . 4 oouin oi - Axasnooar .. wnere rea troops were aciraaini um approaches to the Black sea na- val base of Novorosslsk, the Kasslans said their troops still were beating off enemy attacks, and that Cossack, cavalrymen had wiped oat 200 German par? achntists who landed behind the ' soviet lines. - The Germans still were mov- ing up strong reinforcements on the Stalingrad front in a supreme) I . mm km. i a A . . eiion "capuir. t ry jum " - wr- uneSof 52-3 I V,". f I the Germans gains by declaring aiong xne enwre ironi, oui . again emphasized the numerical super IftHt f th MI) MM han. -Jl at Stalingrad. t. The r situation as summed up by the-Russians Monday night was: -The fall rams which first bog- ,.flktnM i Jir rged Hitler's machines in the bot tomless Russian quagmires al ready" have started in the Rzhev sector 130 miles ' from Moscow. . "r.--- JZZZ: offensive"' in that': area continued to drive west, have passed the city on the north and south and are fighting in Rzhev itself. The north ! bank of the Volga in its upper f reaches : has been cleared com pietely of the foe, The Germans likewise were J Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) c.i v--. n-L O U1HJLIU11U V UCU III i - Jl T I j Uaimetl, oerllll 1 radio said Monday night, on the I seventh anmversanr of the Stak hanovite labor movement in Rus- sia, that its originator. Alexe! G. Stakhanov, had been killed In ac- I tion last fall on the Moscow front I mmu. M A . A a m i -dui me soviet government oniy kara dispatch . of the Tranocean news agency. No Russian announcement of this sort had been received else- where at the tune of the Berlin radio statement Stakhanov, a young TJonbas miner, wun me aid ox outers in i I his mine, reorganized the work of bis night shift seven years ago. I Because of ' a vast improvement I m output, worsers inrougnout tne 2oviex union in au mausmes nave I had him for an example. Our Senators I G-5 A ' a - raw.TQl 117-. 9 JL IclJLIUCS JLPlcilSIL iliM(Cliil US Air Hitler Appeals For Sacrifice . I Asks 1 People to Help ; . Axis Meeting Said Scheduled. Soon NEW-YOR K, Aug. Adolf .' Hitler, in his annual win ter help campaign plea, broad- east over the Berlin radio, Mon day called on the German peo ple for the "fullest sacrifices. CBS, which recorded Berlin's summary of the appeal, ; said it was largely a - repetition of nazi nronawnda affainst . "Jews. dIu- toat- commtmists., but em- ! " ' 1 phas crifices-Ger. man soldiers are making .' at the front.-;' ; : Hitler "noted ' he was speaking "at the Start of the ; fourth year i . . m; to be, and that German soldiers their -health" in a world 'wide front' "If today the American and ,Zt . Z .r5Zr want to build a new and, better world than the one they used: to have . then it ' would have been unnecessary to attack - the German rdch of all things. Fortresses! Record Lauded LONDON. Tuesday, Sept M) Colin Bednall, air correspondent of the Daily Mail, declared Tues day the success of the US Flying Fortresses in Europe was likely, to start race between the United Nations and the axis to produce a plane "akin to an aerial battle ship." ; : tiv., ..k. "Just how well It has established itself within the short space of a fortnight Is now - the subject rof close study .by startled experts on both sides of the English channel, I he wrote. I. nwmm a 9 3) i xne onresses, ne saio, nave daylight without loss of a single s - plane. . ; "No other bomber has such record in Europe," he wrote. OPA Tftlls PlfttlS for balCm UlllCe tniiTTjnrn. Auir. 31-tffV-Plans qpa to pen an office at l Salem- were- announced Monday by Richard G. Montgomery, state director. 5 v r 'f " At the same time, offices will be opened at Klamath Falls and The Dalles, and offices ' at LeGrahde and Eugene will be closed. Mont gomery said a congressional cut of $100,000 from the national bud get made retrenchments necessary, and the closures would have that result. V-n Attack Batters Smoke rises from Tanambogo b- - land ta the Solomons after, aa attack1 the Japanese-held base by 17$ carrier-based ah forces. .Japanese gun emplacements and antt-airermft batteries were hit. Gavnta Island, another point at- .tacked and taken ever by Invad ing marine,, supponetx oy ra ciflc fleet forces, lies Just beyond Tanambore across the eaaseway (left). (AsaocUtetf Press Tele mat) ' .; Seriate Group Okehs Profits Tax Rebates WASHINGTON, Aug. t-P) The senate . finance committee voted Monday to rebate to cor porauons after, the war ; 10 per cent of the amounts assessed against mem through surtaxes and excess profits levies. Winding, up its consideration of major business levies in the new tax bill, the committee approved the rates of 45 per cent on normal and surtax earnings and , 90 . per cent on excess profits which the house voted. It placed a. limitation of 80 per cent of the net income calculated for the payment of excess profits levies' as..' the maximum amount of tax that, m i g h t b e assessed against a corporauon. xnis was designed to aid firms whose busi ness has boomed since the war; At the same time, however, the committee reduced to $5000 the flat $10,000 exemption which the house allowed before the excess profits i taxes become operative. Thus a company could have a nor mal and surtax earnings, plus $5, 000 additional .taxed at the same rate, before the 90 per cent ex cess profits levy would be fan posed. ' . , . Chairman George (D-Ga) said the vote for the 10 per cent rebate was 12 . to 8. He explained that a company, ' after, figuring its sur taxes and excess profits liability, could take 10 per cent of tha amount to, purchase non-negotiable and non-interest bearing bonds which would become cashable in installments two years after the Wilhelmina Feted . i NEW YORK, Aug. " Sl-ffV-The 62nd birthday of Queen Wilhel mina of the Netherlands was ob served at a celebration in the Ho tel " Astor Monday night attended by 1000 persons many of whom had. -been exiled like their queen from their native land by the Ger mans.. -- ,' : .. . AP. Treasurer Dies . FREEPORT, NY, Aug. 31 -VP) James Randall Youatt, 79, who saw : almost half ' a , century of hewspapering from office boy to treasurer of the Associated Press died Monday at his Long Island home. n HP Jap Base Salem Ration lOigibmty May Cause No Change in Cars Tires for Month1 i Addition of one entire new elaMifieatinn of elipihlea for auto - T-l ' : t -1 rrT . , " rZ.. mos uncuangea rauons pt uose iwuu uCT .wTO . sovptemoer, -jonn xieixzei, county ixationing board chairman, axues iudu7. , . , iniormauon to tne eneet tnat a heavy decrease in the number of tires' alloted over? tiie; country could be expected In September had; been received by Salem of- fice1 earlierj piameo., w rrs : Uinmt men 'who with their fanW im make t$eir:homes in Salem; but j have their work t Camp Adair,, are eligible lor rations of new cars ana ures, accoramf to a recent announcement irom wasn- ington. Salem rationing board al- ready serves!!! in addition to firms operating out, of Salem and resi- uic ;juuwiuiui . - . : Only:cut in tire rations for Sep- temberl over those allowed for Augiistlare p the truck category, it was said at the rationing board's office, Monday. Salem--area re- ceived k ration of 136 -truck tires -: (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Teias Storm Damaee High CORPUS (CHRIST!, Texv Aug. 31-(P-The I Texas coastal coun- try : from Houston . to Corpus Christi Monday j night counted in the millioni property and . crop losses from a weekend gulf storm which spent its dying fury hv the upper Rio Grande valley. The death Joll ; remained - at three, y . J z i y Hardest bit on the water front I was the town of .Matagorda, 75 miles southwest of Houston. Pa- lacios. Port Lavaca, Rockport and Refugio also caught much of the storm's fury. Pilot iailed. Near Olympia t&te hL v8 P crashed and burned five and one - half miles northwest of the Olym pia,.Wash, airport ; Army Officers at McChord field, where I ccntrating hi strength somewhere c unusual places but one instruct the plane was based, said Lieut I behind New Guinea, the dlsnatch or and bis pupil made a forced Noble was making a routine train ing . flight when the mishap curred. , . , The pilot's address was given as San Angelo, Texas. He is survived by his father, Jose Noble, San Puree, Puerto raco. eBay Jap Assault On Airfield Proves Weak Objectiyes Blasted At Buna, Le, Salamaua GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,, Austral- j la, Tuesday, Sept. AP) Australian troons who neatlv trapped the . Japanese in vaders of southeastern New j Guinea Tuesday were report ed "mopping up scattered enemy units" left in the I jungles of the north penin sula ; on- Milne bay; while other allied ground forces clashed with the Japanese at Kokoda and Sal amaua. Allied planes supported these far-flunc sround ooeratiM I dumping explosives on enemy Dases at Buna, Lae and Salamaun. I and machine-gunning the Japa nese In the Kokoda area, a com-- munique said. . Three Japanese tanks Were de stroyed, in the Milne bay sector, an allied spokesman said, but It was not believed the i enemy had landed more than- a half dozen because it was found they could not operate . them .effectively in the muddy terrain. No sizeable force was engag ed in the groond battle at Sal anuna and Kokoda, ha said, al though the clashes were more extensive than - those hitherto reported In those' areas. : Seven Japanese fighters ."made a weak attempt near the airfield St Ml'lno hatr Vint tA ama'TA m ,r"" ..-! . ' " I tlllTsVI mm 1 ! toWt holmiawtaM TW: the first disclosure tther wa an alrM .K where the'ranhants of a Japa- nese mvasion force ned down to narrow north peninsula to face annihilation by l Australian ; troops. . under Maj 1 Gen.. Cyril Albert Clowes. . : (Turn to Page . Col. 2) iXJ'.'i 1 " KeCl LiTOSS i :-i"r. k fi Tl"ll i2 - J J i. 1TJL1JJJ.UI1S WASHINGTON, Aug.; Sl-flV The - American Red Cross re- ported Monday mat' in the three years since the war broke out In i uuu,uuu ui . ituu suuuua ' nave been distributed in Europe,; Asia 1 and Africa to aid 20.000.000 suf- tertr'' .;;i--c;:;- Aid- to Russia 'has 'passed the $4,000,000, mark, the -agency. re-. ported, and included the dispatch of 300,000 warm garments for wo men and. children refugees from the fighting areas and more than z,soo,doo pounds of toiiet and iaunory soap. - E?!' wcn to aid England, ,uuu,uuu navmg oeen spern jor the most part to aid civilians bombed out of their homes in the j battle of Britain. Relief to China totalled $4,000, 000 for aid to 445,000 Ipersons, including 1,800,000 children. . Food packages for: prisoners of war- fa EuropeVwere reported to have constituted a large ; item in the program. The Red Cross said it had sent.500,000 food pareels Geneva -v for"; distribution along with' tS.7Sfl.nh(I; efftrtfj SO MM) boxes of tobacco. 58,130 pieces of underwear, 44,000 shoes, '320,800 i ban of soap and 12,000 sweaters. New Jap Attack. Expected Soon us marines -411 the .Solomon h - j. r - 1 - ..itKin a f-w davs. a " - k jananese naval farces are eon. - aM. ddin that vio Arfmimi c - 1 rtobert Le Ghormtev mi "aw.it ing the probable Japanese thrust, expecting that he may for the first time come to grips with the full strength of the Japanese 'navy. , v eaoasesu ; a : Thrust's wnknown "Move Made 6n: QattaraEdge; Italians Fail i ()-After a two months' pauso Field Marshal Erwin Rommera desert a r m y, ; reinforced and rested, has begun an advance against the southern flank ol the allied defense lines in Ezvot which may be the start of the long-expected pffensive, the Brit- h V" office announced Tue- day. Using armored units. Rommel , "pushed forward" early Morlday in' the moonlit desert near El Hinvei mat, a prominent peak 200 feet high at the fringe of the salty quattara depression 25 miles south of El Alamein, where the sweep ing nazi advance toward Alexan dria and the Nile was. arrested' early in July. . - .: They were Immediately engaged by aUied forces, the announcement ala. and fighting was continuing when the communique was Issued J k mionigni luesoay. This- was the first axis thrust against allied defenses on an ex tensive scale since Rommel was halted darfng the first week In July when he was scarcely 7t mfles ; from the i British Medi terranean base at Alexandria. At that time British eounterat- tacks drove the axis forces back about tea mOes to their present positions. . Increased air activity and troop , . movements, during te past week - or two indicated Rommel was pre pared to open a new1- offensive. The war office communique refer- v red to the axis advance as an "of fensive," but said It was too early to tell whether it was on a major scale, f.., -j .:-. v The British, meanwhile, threw back a weak thrust1 by Italian troopr on. what was described as the "main"- front .This apparent- -ly .meant . the 'northern . sector1. w,-m UOHrav " around 11 Alamein, where .Rom- . . " drive -along the coastal road.' Some radio said an Italian correspondent the Egyptiaa front' telegraphed that ' Italian, armored detachments "made - a thrust is depth against the Brit ish Hues, crowing vast mine fields and repelling' enemy ele ments which, tried U prevent aetiott. This apparently was, 4he same aettoat . mentioned by the British war office. V :c, The . war office i communique. dated :Mcidayinight:.'f 'l4;'.. ; For some days past there have iTt .XZ on early ? this morning (Monday) ,. the German forces, mduding armor, pushed forward against our southern (Turn to Page 2. CoL 8) People-Need TY - Tp fTl "l J XO BexOlClJ I PENDLETON. Ore.. Aur. SWA The rreatest nrrmrr in thm 1nitA fsuteSf Associate JusUce William q . Douala. of th US .judthm court said . Monday, Is for- the people to be told what is needed, what needs to be done, . 1 If they are told, they will sud- ply what is needed and they will do what should be done, he told a1 war bond dinner crowd. . ' We; hear that America is. not awake, that it Is playing war, that toi ZTJXZSTZ EI 1 r'V 1 wrf ' .JOe JUgUCe Said, ; , "Those who think America is complacent about these matters do not know America, The four mil lion American families who have contributed sons and f athers to the armed services have a flesh-and-blood stake in this war. They know what the issues Bit," T;W .:.- ; .; ; ' In Nudist Camp .. - r- I '' LONDON, Tuesday," Sept RAF planes have landed in a. lot landing- In r a midlands nudist - f camp. ; s;-i.-' '."The pflot and passenger looked surprised, said Mrs. S Burgess, who runs the camp; "But they stayed for lunch, went for a swim I and joined in our activities. ' f
