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Stars lo Shino. ' On Salem Thursday night! Weather may fce censored, but Movie Clara Joan Les lie, Adolphe Menjoa and Walter riJreon are to sp . pear at Victory Center, 7 . v ' ... i JiTTiriirii n UriralfrQ)T!T;il: ' TouTl tin J no newspaper , can riv more real taUxfie lion than year local mora tat Paper, with Its WORLD nlws pins nous COil- ItUNXTS NEWS. ' ll ill r V POUNDS tCZl inrnTY-crcorfD teas Serosa. Oregon. Wednesday Morning. September 2. !Si2 IMce 5c No. 118 rm QOJCl Xf What's Happened in Three Yeara of War Si XL) - M -I'. ' ' .. " ' v. ' Closer He .voilg si Nazis 3 aps - .. - I-. r Of Kokoda : Bdmbiir H Scrap Around IVIilne Bay Remains , Light in 'Mopup'; Great Fires Set at Buna, Salamaiia9 Lae By C. YATES McDANIEL GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Wed nesday, Sept. 2-P)-Japanese ground forces fighting their way overland in New Guinea toward the big allied base at Port ' Moresby have attacked allied positions at Kokoda with increased strength and as a result ground fied, allied headquarters announced Wednesday. Allied air fighters gave effective support by twice straffing the Japanese h e a vi 1 y, a com munique saia. d - I The opposing forces were fight- lr Mist of the towerlntf Owen Stanley mountain range which af fords a natural barrier to the Japanese" troops which drove incrland 0 miles from their in vasion base at Buna. ' r In the Milne, bay area la ; aontbeastera New Galnea "seat tered jwnsle flchtinf of guer- rilla )jpe contlnoes in the al lied attempt to annihilate the 4 last remnants, of that thwarted Japanese invasion A spokesman here said Japanese casualties at Milne, bay were be lieved to have been heavy, but there still was no estimate Of the number of Japanese still fighting there. " He also said there was no in ' dication that the Japanese . were preparing , for k big push in the Kokoda sector",. -''i-'" '; Kokoda is only a small native settieihent where a makeshift air drome once eryed peace-time ' needs;? The Airport novj has been : smashed by allied air attacks, and Australian bush fighters have been holding the enemy at that point for weeks." ..' Increasing Japanese "pressure there apparently was , the result cf the- sound enemy reversal at Milne bay. The Japanese had in tended to establish another foot hold at the latter point in a grad ual, attempt - to encircle Port Moresby, or at least cut the sup ply ljnes to Australia. For. days now allied bombers and fifhters have pounded Bo na, feeder Mint for the Kokoda,' . aaUoat. Many froanded Jap- j aneso planes have been smashed, and precious supply and fuel damps destroyed In an allied at tempt to pmeh off tho Kokoda, lavasloa lost ai thai at Milne bay was thwarted. " . Japanese bases at Salamua and Lae far 'to the north along the astern New Guinea " coast also v have been attacked, ! and allied patrols still are operating outside Ealamaua-in the jungles. Thus all five Japanese lodgements in New Guinea have been hard hit as General MacArfhur's air force in creases in strenifth. Communications with the Milne bay fighters .was arduous and scant, but the situation was sum med up .late Tuesday thus: The last Japanese survivors of the latest enemy incursion on the extreme eastern tip of "the island were compressed into a narrow peninsula north of the bay. Planes - were straf fins them 'juid land forces were mowing them down turn to Page ?. CoLO J. Williams to Head Pastors 4 .Hev. W. Irvin Williams, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. was elected president of the Salem Ministerial association at t he meeting Tuesday -morning. Other officers named are Rev. Edward L; Allen, pastor, of Calvary Bap tist church, ; vicr president; Rev. C. O: Goodmani pastor of theJn- glewood United Brethren church, secretary-treasurer, More, than 1200 children look part in the week-day Bible classes conducted for thai pupils nv the public schools, according to re ports filed with the association Tuesday. The Instruction Is spon- sorea py ine ussociiuun iau wm be continued this year, it was de cided. - - rcrrcst son of Mr. and .Itrs. Harold D. Torrest has ibeen rronoted to first sergeant rf the VLtZlah detachment at Fort Stevens, Ore. He was for merly staff Serjeant at Fort (AillUonal senrice notes ea r-.-rs five.) m . - I Fight; eavy fighting there has been intensi w t- ; f "W I IcfAl TlJIPPIl UIuHaI i. XftlVil Out of Bounds IRA Arms Caches Are Found to Eject AEF Troops' BELFAST, Northeni Ireland, Sept. 2-P)-Thoniat J. Williams, lS-year-oId member of the out lawed Irish republican army, is hanged Wednesday while the county stood on guard aralnst the exeentloa belnf signal for widespread violence. BELFAST,' Northern Ireland, Sept l-WVUS military authori ties, taking extraurdinary precau tions to avert trouble following discovery of two illegal caches of arms and explosives . allegedly in tenaea zor insn retei.attacJU am American and British soldiers, Tuesday night declared . this Uls ter city out of bounds for the AEF. The order was Issued as the hour drew hear for the execution of Thomas Williams, 18-year-old member of the outlawed Irish re publican army, and northern Ire land police drafted police from the surrounding countryside for patrol duty, in the Ulster capital to put down any violence. , Police who said they believed the explosives and arms were (Turn to Page' 2, CoL 4) ACtlOH MayPutUSO In Quarters . Today's moving day for the Sa lem USO It L. R. Durkee, chie engineer for the WPA in this dis trict wires- from Seattle this morn ing to USO Director R. R. "Bob' Boardman the information that Boardman and his committee ex pect to receive. ; ; Durkee-was asked Tuesday aft- ernoon by telegram to inform the Salem committee of the orgahiza tion whether he knew of any rea son why the' organization should not accept the American Legion's offer of free rent for one month in the building generally supposed to be acceptable to federal author! ties as a service men's recreation center here. -':- If. such a move is likely to slow what .the committee declared Tuesday has already been a "too slow" process of securing definite action on selection of a structure to house United Service Organiza tions activities here, the commit tee' favors sitting back without a center and allowing army; pres sure to influence the federal bu- t (Turn to Pago 2, CoL 8) ; 7ill, lllcll i By ISABEL CHILES, Mr. Smith' came to Salem yes terday. Quietly, without ceremony or celebration, Willamette univer sity's new president walked into his office in Eaton hall Tuesday morning and Salem's own "Hoos- BpWina-tor- waa it hom- Dr. G. Herbert Smith, who pre fers to have his name used Just that way because "there must be some system to distinguish one Smith from' another," looked out of his window" at the old univer sity's rolling green campus and the state's ' new capitol building and expressed his satisfaction with his new home. That he and his family, which consists of a wife and two daugh ters, Sara Louise, 13, and Margaret Alice, 11, would enjoy Willamette valley scenery, climate and resi Today vv m F orces Battle Artillery Blasts : Axis Forces, as Bombers Spear ; By HARRY CROCKETT CAIRO, Sept. 1-VPhVS land and air forces fought grimly Tuesday night alongside Bri tain's army of the Nile against a new and perhaps the supreme German offensive . to wrest Alexandria, Egypt and the Suez from allied hands. Preceded by the heavy dive- bombing attacks typical of Ger man attacks, the axis forces under Gen. Erwin Rommel opened . the drive just north of the Quattara depression - flank of the El Ala mein line at dawn Monday. Tank columns of Rommel's African corps, supported by Elite light infantry, soon thrust for ward and made some initial pene trations Into the British mine fields about Qattara, but a push in the center by the Italians was stopped almost as it started. US fighter planes were in the thick of the battle, routing two flights of Stuka dive-bombers which were forced to jettison their bombs. At . least seven were shot down without allied loss. The B-25 bombers, of the type which other Americans used ! to bomb Tokyo, continued their ceaseless attacks upon' the long -and tenuous com munication lines through the des ert sands. i .,'-? - . Bat . this .was the f irstj Jime . US land forces had come to grips with tho enemy in Egypt, and the Americans and British were ready. ' The attack in the southern sec tor of the El Alamein line, 75 miles west of Alexandria, had been expected and the German armor was shelled heavily by ar tillery and bombed from 'the air as it pushed ahead. '-4 - ' - (Reuters reported 'from Cairo the Germans advanced eight miles into the southern minefields. Lon don estimated the axis strength at 141,000 troops.) Rommel's 90th light infantry north of the .impassable salt marshes tried to push . ahead si multaneously but became tangled in , another -minefield and was shelled heavily . by British artil lery: Then allied forces attacked. That was a signal for action along the entire 30-mile front extend ing from' the depression to the Mediterranean.' ' , Rommel had shifted his . ar mored forces and many of his best, troops to the south flank for a major concentrated attack. - The two German armored di visions .had . been m o v e d 14 miles to the sovta daring San day flight and they rumbled In to battle after great artillery barrages and bombing attacks were directed against the allied lines. . : Information ; was scant in : the communique from headquarters of the new commander of the Eighth army, Leut Gen. B. L.. Mont gomery. : . ;' - ' : The axis advance In the south was reported i slowed when the Germans made contact with light mobile British xorces, tanks, ar mored carss and infantry. Dust storms interfered with air support in the early stages of land fighting, but when the desert sun was high, the ' RAF and USAAF were pounding German spear- (Turn to Page 2. CoL 5) .ette -University President Conies dents was a foregone conclusion ' before they thought of coming here, he declared. . -A Mrs. Smith and the girls will arrive - earl next week, he an ticipates. With Mr. and Mrs. Stan Church of Salem, they left Green castle, IndV Saturday, - to motor here by way of Rushmore Memor ial and Yellowstone National park. ' ; As for the new post a glance into the background of the 37-year-old president of the 100-year-old school. Indicates that It Is the type of task he dreamed of when, he was an Indiana hih school lad. - ' ' ; Perhaps the desire he nurtured even then to become an adminis trative . educator was - inherited from a 'grandfather who was for 27 years a country school teacher or was acquired from an aunt who held a bih place in the boy's af- him wk?mmSr. igprfeggi V M-Jif Jbl: . ..If Atlantic 'ftO00H0, I 'r :" ;. JiftcMTu ocean 'I 7" ' I " . $i ' -- ' ' - WOO 2000 IQftO I . S!L. ' f S HAU1ICAI MUt I yg - UO - " W CAIM0BN 4 kicaws rsQjtcnoHp'' To jo Replaces Togo ui Japan Neutrality 'Signer Makes Way1 for Speeded Action TOKYO, (From Japanese Broad casts), Sept l.-WVJapanese For eign Minister Shigenori Togo, who prepared last year's soviet-Japanese neutrality pact, resigned Tues day fcr personal 'teaswTlMd Ms post "was taken over by War Pre mier General - Hideki Tojo. Togo was a former ambassador to both Berlin and Moscow and had held the foreign' ministry of fice since formation of the present government last October. Premier Tojo presented Togo's resignation to Emperor Hirohito Tuesday night at the Imperial pair ace. . " ' ' Shortly after the broadcast an nouncement cf the cabinet change. Premier Tojo said in an interview he proposed to create a. "greater Asia ministry' aimed at speeding reconstruction of that area (Jap anese-conquered territories.) " s "The premier said the recon struction of East Asia must be a materialization of Japan's lofty ideals' with; " particular emphasis upon reinforcement of the war ca pacity of the empire,1 in the broadcast Cardenas to Head Defense MEXICO CITY, s Sept l-flV President Manuel A vila Camacho Tuesday night appointed his pre decessor in. the presidency, Gen. Lazaro Cardenas, as minister . of national defense as the first move toward a large-scale expansion of the army, navy and air force. General Cardenas, who . has been in charge of the Pacific coast defense zone since, the US went to war with Japan, succeeds Gen eral Pablo Cicias Valenzuela in the ministry. Monday's "Weather . Monday's max. temp. 17, mhv 48. River Tuesday ft By - army request weather forecasts are withheld and temperature ' data delayed. ' - DR. G. HEREERT S1HTII - - i i i I ! i ; i i I t i i i i Here are the highlights of the first began with the German Invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939. Dur ing the first year, Germans conquered Poland, throagh into Den mark, Norway and the lowlands and hammered France late seb soissioa (1), aided by Italy's -stab in the back." Then began the aerial bllts against Britain. Ia the second year, Germans thrust east driving hate tho Balkans (2) and invading Kassia (S), m Jane, 1941. Meanwhile Libya (4), began to grow actively Important as a theatre f war. 2a the third year of war, Japan attacked Hawaii (5), bring ing United States Into the war. , The bitter straggle continued on the Russian batUefront Japan moved into the Philippines, Malaya, Burma, and the East Indies (S), and eeeupied two islands at tho western tip of the Aleutians (7). The United States launched a smashing counter-offensive In the Solomon Islands (S), after vic tories la tho CoraJ sea and at Midway. The year marked the growing- air mirht of the allies and the pounding of the continent by separate US air forces. Supplies streamed from the United States to the world's battlefronts. Black areas are held by the axis.' Fin land, at war with Russia, is striped with whiter-Associated Press Telemat , . - - ". i Three Group As: Y&nk Divisions: Slngl M Admiral Declares lany Fail to See l War Seriousness CINCINNATI, Sept l-WVRear Adnu C H. Woodward predicted Tuesday Americans soon -would fall into three groups-fighters, Domei said4waf producers, and women, chil dren, the aged, and persons "ab solutely essential" to maintain homes and national institutions. ' ere will be no others,' the chief of the navy's industrial, in centive program told the 43rd en campment of the Veterans of For eign wars. "And the final test for any individual in. any group will be the answer to the question: Are you making your utmost ' effort for American victory? ;tV, ; ? U--; TTje outcome of. the .war will depend on our answer J -At present Admiral Wood ward said, there are two classes, "those who know the fall mean ing of the' words "sacrifice and 'eoerage; and : those who have not yet been brought to realize ; what war Is actually like of the tremendous responsibility which war places on every per son who would call himself a true American. " , He listed among the latter! - Those o who fail to realize that . unwillingness to sacrifice (Turn to Page 2. CoL 1) fections, Dr. Smith suggests. But from that desire he never wav ered. : . v- " 'XXX:--:: Although every .phase of his education and his professional ex perience has been turned toward such a position, Willamette's new president smiles as. he maintains that until recently it was beyond his dreams.'; - ''Xz ?;. "..J v ' ' - . ..... -1 : : v -V ' ' X Tive years of work at Univer sity of Illinois with Dean Thom as Arkle dark, first dean of men in the United States, brought Him in contact with freshmen raerf in groups , of 230 0 a year,; DePauw University, where he was gradua ted in 1927, and where since IS32 he has been a member of the ad minisixative staff in almost con tinually growing capacities, limits its enrollment to 1450. J am con vlnced," President Eith said i Tuesday, "that - a university of three years of World war IL which Seen s en First Hershey Orders j Quota Balance - ; In Draft Call WASHINGTON, Sept Hff) Draft headquarters.Tuesday issued orders . intended, generally speak ing, ; to I call all available . single men to the colors before the sys tematic induction of married men is begun. 1 " . - Heretofore, -state selective ice. directors have called upon, lo cal boards-- for ' men withoucr re gard to the proportion' or married and unmarried men -in? those --dip-" tricts, .CMequently thr levies on some, districts have exceeded ' the number .of unmarried , registrants and quotas have been filled out with married men. -In other dis tricts, meanwhile, unmarried men were left still awaiting call. - -. ' Tstesday, Mat Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, -national draft director, - instructed state directors to ar range their calls for men in a way that will "place the heaviest load right now ea hoards having the most single men, or men with collateral dependents only." Collateral dependents are broth ers, sisters, parents and grandpar ents or wives and children with whom the registrant does not live. Men with collateral dependents are to be called ahead of .those (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) to' Willamette's size has the most to offer to its students." ,f without weakening its back bone of liberal arts training, he had Indicated earlier la the day ia Portland, Willamette ran, and. if called open wflV assist with army and navy ; training . pro grams. ' -X X :XX XXl-; ;- - . That Willamette has been ac credited as a navy V-l, army ETIC and marine candidate training in stitution is his imderstanding, he said. To cooperate in providing trained leadership is no more than the . wartime Job cf every college in. the country, he declared .X- ; Pride in the record of the law school ; and ia -lis opportunities were expressed , by .; Smith, - who also spoke highly of the reputa tion the university's school cf mu t ic carries. 'And, he added, "Willamette is certainly widely : - Salem, Better Busses To Yards Seen Dollar Lines May Add Trips to Ferry In Portland Possibility that a speedier, more comfortable toeans of transporta tion to and from Portland's ship yards may. be made Available : to resident Salem ' workmen ' within the next 30 -days " developed "at meeting in the rose city Tuesday attended by bus line, utilities de partment, shipbuilding and cham ber of . commerce representatives. Tentative agreement was reach ed on a proposal that the Dollar Lines provide limited bus sched ules for Salem shipyard workers between a local 'terminus" and. the ferry station soon to' be construct ed on Portland's Front avenue ex press highway.-. ""-V-, -v-. ' . This service, Ray J.- Stmmbe, ' chairman - of r the Salem trans- - - portauon committee, said, would -. - provide ' shipyard workers with a service offering a maximum -travel time of two hours, avail able oa comfortable bosses and deluxe ferries, at a cost of ap proximately . $L25 . a roandtrip. . W. H. Egger, representing Dol . (Turn to Page 2. CoL 1) . Ship DeKvery New7 Record J 3f . ; " . i.. ' ' P r i j.,.--. ... i- : PORTLAND, Ore, Sept 1-VP) Oregon , Shipbuilding corporation delivered a Liberty freighter to the US maritime commission Tuesday night 31' days; after keel-laying, trimming 15 days off the national record. -i . :- The Pierre S. Du Pont went down the ways -August 2J, 26 days after her keel a was r laid at that time a national record for launch ing which since has been shaded two days by another Henry J. Kaiser yard at Richmond, Calif. The Du Pont was at the out-fitting dock slightly less than five days. The previous national delivery record was established by Oregon Shipbuilding Maritime . day, May 22, when the Thomas Bailey Aid rich was turned over to the com mission 46 days after her keel was put down. Likes -It publicized because . of freshman glee- Pleased with a ship model in his office at the university, Dr. Smith said he would add some ship pic wres oz ma own to the room's decorations. . : ; - "v-l Hobbies for him have been largely connected in recent years with his work In national frater nity circles.; 'He is general secre tary of Beta Theta Pi, an office which has sent him into universi ties over the nation and given him an opportunity to inspect plants and meet educators. - - . rishing? Not to date, but he proposes to investigate, because the fport in Ore son offers as many lures to the outdoor lover as the fisherman offers to fish, be inti mated. - Gcirir.g he enjoys, but won't re- (Turn to Tzz? 2, CoL 1) Drive1' - - ,. - - i . " Wedge I Supreme Try Would Take Russia -Out9, By EDDYGILMORE ' MOSCOW, Wednesday, Sept i 2-P)-Huge German tank forces have driven still closer to Stal ingrad in advances on two sec tors southwest of the key Volga river city in their supreme f fort to knock Russia out of tha r, , the Soviets acknowledged i Wednesday.,-' r ". ' . In an unusually gloomy mid night communique the Russian! . said their troops were fichtinav fierce defensive battles northwest of Stalingrad, but had to withdraw "to new defensive positions" on one sector in the southwest as the -nazis drove "a wedge into our defenses" in another. 'Emphasizing the strength of the attacking nazi tank forces south west of Stalingrad, the daily bul letin said: I : ;. ' . ' "After concentrating large tank forces on one sector, the Germans -launched an . attack and ' drove a wedge into our defenses. Our units are waging fierce battles with a group of enemy forces which has infiltrated into our positions: On " another sector our. troops by order of the command Withdrew to new defensive positions.fw "A' farther Russian retreat also was acknowledred s o a t h of (Turn to Page 2. CoL 7) - Bond Quotas ; Loweried for Septeiiiber ' JL. ? '.,-.'. -v.;-- WASHINGTON, Sept; l.-V The treasury Tuesday set its. Sep tember quota of war bond sales-at 1775,000,000 considerably lower than recent months but disclosed an intention to. build up to a goal of nearly $2,000,000,000 -in Jajiui ary. "VK.,:i,f ; u;-.w -. vi: :l: Film, stars, who are leading, the September, campaign, have set an ' unofficial: goal of g 1.000.000.006 for this month, and the treasury hopes they are right But the offlr , cial quota was set lower by $225, 000,000 because- in past years Sep- h tember usually was the poorest month- for selling either baby bonds or defense bonds. - However, the same officials re- Iterated the treasury's intention " of averaging $1,000,000,000 a month on a yearly basis, and ex plained quotasof more than $1,- 000,000,000 a month are in store this winter to make up for slack" months. . The "slack to be taken up this winter has been accentuated by inree successive ianures w maxo (Turn to Pago 2; CoL 3) , ' Bus Employes , Get Increase ' SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 1-VPi Wage increases - were granted Tuesday to employes of the Paci fic Greyhound Lines under a new contract which ended a dispute of several months. , Omar Hoskins, federal concilia tor, said the contract' would . ex tend 22 months from date: Its' signing by Greyhound and repre sentatives of the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Em ployes' association - precluded t a threatened tie-up of the seven- state1 system.; - t It , was ? understood wage ' in creases ranged from 10 to 11 pea cent for" station employes, . aver aged about $1 a day for long-run, bus drivers, and called for. an ad ditional 5 cents an hour for driv ers on local runs. ' Our Senators - hull C j 3-2