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Jfl Houco? .! V Art 1 yon locking for a place to live, r, for a tea ant? If so, torn te The Statesman classified adver tising pare, where buyer ui seller ret together. , . v Complete TobU Hod no newspaper can give more real satisfac tion than roar local mc ru in x paper, with Its WORLD NEWS plus IIO&1X COM MUNITY NEWS. POUNDDD ICZ1 inriSTY-ercorn) yeah Section I, Pages 1 to 20 Salem, Oregon. Friday I-Iaming. Septembor 4. 1342 Two SocSos, 3 Pages Price Sc. Wo. 118 Oosfe Pro-Nazi: C1M F I Bl'ii i - a v . . - - ' - Spain Mm Jordana Suner Replaced as Foreign Minister; Victory Seen in : Keeping Spain Out of Axis ' MADRID, Sept. & (AP) Ramon Serrano Suner, brother-in-law of Generalissimo Francisco Franco and avowed admirer of the totalitarian system, was replaced as foreign minister and Falange leader Thursday in the greatest gov ernmental shakeup since the Spanish civil war. ' lie was succeeded as foreign minister by Count Francisco Gomez Jordana, long-time soldier-statesman who was for eign minister in the old Primo De Rivera dictatorship and held the same post when the United States recognized the Franco regime April 1, 1939. Logging Aided By Overtime Price Determination Set by Mill Wage Requirements WASHINGTON, Sept IMJPf In an effort to combat the short age of labor in west coast logging, Price Administrator Leon Hender son Thursday night . ordered im- portent revisions in the price reg ulations governing the industry, Including the establishment of an. "overtime addition" system. - Describing the shortage of la bor as a major contributing fac tor to the critical shortage of lum ber, Henderson- said the "over time" system would permit over time operations and stimulate ' maximum utilization of, available nuniiowr. - ? ' - ' U ' The "overtime idditon" sys tern permits graduated, increas es In. the- maximum prices for , logs, in aeeordance with the ex- tent of the Individual company's overtime operations. In addition, "Henderson ordered an upward adjustment In the ceiling price of hemlock, white fir, and no il fir logs. " The order also included the es tablishment of maximum prices lock and noble fir logs. The order becomes effective September 9. "These measures," Henderson ? said, "are a part of a series of ac tions on supply, labor, transporta- Won and other factors being un dertaken by the office of price ad ministration, the war production fcoard, the office of defense trans portation, the military services and other organizations to meet the lumber shortage. Th serious ness of this shortage is seen in the fact that the war production board : estimates lumber production dur ing the current year will fall short of probable demand by six ciwion feet." ; Henderson said studies In the northwest area had demonstrated (Turn to Page 3, Column 3. nr net: 1HU vintcisj Hurt in Eire Bomb Blast BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Priday, Sept 4 -(P- Two police ; officers were injured early Fri v day by the explosion of a time bomb , outside - the Randalstown police barracks in County Antrim during tne eariy . morains - " out. . Police said they believed the .-bomb had been placed there by J members of the outlawed Irish republican army; Precautions against terroristic acts have been in force, especial ly in Belfast since before the execution on Wednesday of Thorn- as J. Williams, youthful member of the IRA, for the Easter slay- ina of I constable. The precau tions were ordered after explos- . ; Ives and arms caches were found by the police. BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Sept 3 -VPy- A heavily-armed po lice guard stood in readiness , around Lisburn courthouse Thurs day when five men, arrested loi lowing discovery of. a huge ex plosive dump of the outlawed Irish reDublican army, were brought before a magistrate. .Police have arrested nearly ICO suspects in a drive in the nation . Slist .districts of Belfast Tetmesday's JV7eather Wednesday's max. temp. fS, mlii. 47. River Thura. -3J ft By army request weather fore ' casta are withheld and tempera ture data dslairad. Placed. Franco himself took over Ser rano Suner's place as chief of the political junta of the Falange, Spain's only authorized party. Two other important cabinet changes also were made, Gen. Carlos Asensio-Cabanillas becom ing war minister succeeding Gen. Jose Varela, and Bias Perez re placing Col. Valentin Galarza as minister of-interior. The position of vice-secretary of the Falange was raised to cabinet rank and given to Manuel Mora Figueroa, succeeding Jose Luna Melendez. General Varela, who resigned, was one of Francos earliest co workers, leader of the Cadiz gar rison revolt in the early days of the civil war. Mora Figueroa, who becomes leader of the Falange under Fran co,, is a former governor of Ma drid and recently returned from service with the Blue division (Spanish force fighting Russia). The bare r announcement of ; the Spanish cabinet chanres, when , clothed with the known Inclinations ; of the protagonists ' and east agaWt the background of. recent events and. reports, surgests that the United' Na tions may have won s diplo matic victory in keeping Spain from going over actively and openly to the. axis side in the war. The opportunistic Serrano Sun er, a slim, intense, gray-haired man of 40, is outspokenly pro nazi and pro-fascist. An unknown attorney before the Spanish civil war, he climbed rapidly by cap italizing on his connection f with Franco until he has long been considered the No. 2 man in Spain, second only to El Caudillo Franco the chief. Serrano i Suner's loss simulta neously both of his foreign min istry portfolio and his powerful position in control of the Falange, indicated, on the surface at least, that the canny Franco might have chosen to cast off his ambitious brother-in-law in order to keep Spain on - her uneasy perch" of non-belligerency. Other possibilities not to bo overlooked Include that of ma neuvers for restoration of a Spanish monarchy, mere ges ture to conciliate domestic un rest and a strengthening of the share In government of Fran co's trusted army friends In ex pectation of future need. - - RICHMOND, Va., Sept 3 - (fl3) Alexander W. Weddell, former ambassador to Spain, said Thurs day the replacement of Ramon Serrano Suner by Count Francis co Gomez Jordana as Spanish foreign minister "might be fairly translated as an Indication that relations with the United States would be examined with more moderation." Union Head Drafted NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-CWohn Santo, national director of organ ization of the Transport Workers union (CIO), has been inducted into the United States army, it was learned Thursday at Gover nor's Island. Santo, now on fdr lough, will report to Fort Pix September 13. Boys Like Cookies Have you a recipe for . the cookies that were favorites of the boy who has gone marching away? Does anyone at home now appre ciate your apple pies as Johnny did?, How about the cake that he likes best? To mothers, - wives, sisters, sweethearts and daughters of ser vice men the plea of Mrs. Walter Spaulding, hostess in charge of Salem's new USO canteen which opens Saturday offers an oppor tunity to bake again for appre ciative consumers. To every Sa lem woman - who has the use of a kitchen, it provides an avenue of service. ' . SERRANO SUNER Fro-nazt minister out Armored Force Expansion Told Four Tank Divisions Ready; Mechanic Need Great WASHINGTON, Sept 3 m i a .. (....... a. .... l An increase oi more man one third in the size of the army's armored force was disclosed Thursday by Secretary Stimson with the crisp explanation . that "our views have very; greatly ex panded since the war began.'' Four more tank divisions have been organized or ordered form ed, the war secretary reported, to give the growing land forces a total of 14 such units. Whether further expansion is planned was left unsaid at the war secretary's press conference. The German army has been cred ited with as many as . 80 panzer divisions, of which a number were believed organized last printer for resumption at the drive to con quer Russia.'- '. ; Creating of a third armored corps and of the 12th corps of infantry troops was announced at the same time. A corps is com posed of two or more divisions. To cope with the mounting na tional shortage of manpower, Stimson announced that the war department intended to rely heav (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Three Ships Lost; More Subs Sunk By The Associated Press - , Disclosure of the loss of three more British merchantmen to un dersea raiders in the Atlantic was balanced Thursday by an an nouncement in London by first lord of the admirality A. V. Alex ander that July and August were peak months in the allied destruc tion of enemy submarines. . Sinking of one British cargo vessel in the Caribbean in mid August IS miles from land, was announced by the navy. Three seamen perished, but 41 survivors were picked up some time after the encounter by a British naval vessel. - The two ' other British merch antmen the 4393-ton Penrose and the 4182-ton Hollinside were torpedoed .and aunkout of a five ship convoy off-Portugal late last Wednesday, announcements from Lisbon revealed. . ' . Five of the 45-man crew aboard the Penrose , were lost The Hollin side was reported to have been carrying a crew of 46 men, in ad dition to 10 survivors from the Avila Star, a 14,442-ton British passenger ship torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the Azores July S. 'Sinking of allied and neutral merchantmen off the Azores and European and African - coasts is not included, in the associated press count of announced western Atlantic, sinkings, but the Carib bean sinking boosted the total to 453 craft For Mrs. Spaulding has prom ised that foods donated to the canteen will not be sold but will be served' free of charge to the khaki-clad men who are expected to rush the place for its Saturday opening. Only charges at the USO canteen, she declared Thursday, will be for goods the canteen has purchased. . , - Pies, cakes and the cookies to keep the oversize cookie jar in constant service may be 'delivered Saturday morning to the new USO center, located in Legion home at the corner of Chemeketa and Cottage streets. ; (Turn to Page 3 Column ?) - Rommel Allies Bombard Colin Battle Not Yet Heavy; Aerial Raids Success By Th Associated Freaa CAIRO Egypt, Sept. 3 Under constant bombardment of British artillery, German tank columns fell back Thurs day from part of their newly won positions in the western desert and British tanks and armored cars immediately re took the abandoned strong holds. Both at the front and in the rear, Ve axis has been under going American and British air attacks on a scale unprecedented in the western desert, plus the continuous cannonading. British tanks in taking advan tage of the German withdrawal thus tightened their hold on Ger-r man armored columns which now are gripped in a tightening vise moving in from three sides. ' Reports from- the battlefield said the Germans left nine dere lict tanks. Two were unusable, six were blown up by; British engi neers, one was towed in for pos sible use by the British. Several minor clashes -were re ported on the southern sector of the front but the Alamein area, at the top of the battlefield re mained quiet. . The major battle for the Nile still is to come. The allied air campaign con tinued with undiminished vigor. Reports from the field aid 14 enemy planes were shot down Wednesday to a loss of 10 allied planes. . United States and British head quarters announced that medium bombers of the US air force suc cessfully attacked the enemy in the daylight battle Wednesday, destroying and damaging enemy vehicles. - The British described the bomb er action as of "record' propor tions and said satisfactory results were reported. This aerial action, plus the fury of the artillery fire which broke (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) - WmtermuteV Heroism in Alaska Told Award of the distinguished fly ing cross to Capt Ira F. Winter mute of Salem for extraordinary heroism was made on the basis of the following experience in the Aleutians. I ' '. By The Associated Press . Captain Wlnternrate was forced to land in Icy waters of the north Pacific His airplane sank with two members of the crew. Be and the rest of his crew floated on rubber rafts and were rescued 18 hours later. : . The citation continued: "While withdrawing from a tar get area the left wing of his plane was. struck by anti-aircraft fire. A few seconds later he was at tacked by six fighter aircraft fir ing explosive cannon ammunition which punctured the fuel tank, causing gasoline to spill over a wide section of one wing, which gave off profuse smoke but did not ignite due to lack of com bustible atmosphere at his alti tude." - . (Turn to Page 2. CoL 3) Our Senators UC3- 2-1 -I-- ,-tll.l- Nazis Break Through Stalingrad Defenses ;fe"ygy. t ;U SJ S R. OTOZOVSK POlOGOEj SSSPOTENWNSKLSSSSSS 2- n Moscow, reported that German tanks had effected a breakthrough deep Into the defenses southwest' of Stalingrad and thatlhe enemy sending tanks directly against the Russian fortifications drove a deep wedge . Into the red defenses north of the city. Moscow admitted the situation was snore des perate than at any time la the week-long German assault en the Volga city. lined area Is German ' held. Associated Press Telemat . Bombers M arihes Hunt Enei Seapl anes. Fuel Dumps Hit by Yanlcs GEN. MasARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Friday, Sept 4-(i)-Allied bombers, blast ing Japanese bases in the upper Solomons for the second straight day, damaged two enemy sea planes and started large fires with four direct hits on fuel dumps, a communique announced Friday. The seaplanes were hit at Falsi, the fuel dumps destroyed at Buka, and enemy installations at Kieta also were attacked "with unknown results," the announcement said.' (A Washington navy depart ment communique said U. S. ma rine positions in the Guadalcanal- Tulagi .- area "are steadily being reinforced and strengthened," al though small detachments of Jap anese, troops .have landed at var ious points" in that southern- Solo mon region- The marines and tend- based American aircraft are en gagiLOthese Japanese, groups, it said.) '-' - Allied fighters also bombed and strafed Japanese lines of communi-. cations in the Kokoda" area, 60 miles east of Port Moresby, but the communique did not mention. any ground fighting. - ' . . In the Milne bay area of south eastern New Guinea "figbtin f . wmilntiM . with allied ground troops still mopping up the - remnants, of a thwarted Japanese Invasion parry. - Chinese ;Piish Encirclement In Qiekiang CHUNGKING, China, Sept 3 (&VChinese armies pushing the Japanese back in Chekiang prov ince have encircled Kinhws, pro vincial' capital and one, of the last good air bases In the province held by the Japanese, and are heavily engaged with reinforced Japanese troops, the Chinese re ported Thursday night " . A front-line dispatch of the Central News agency said the Chi nese had drawn their ring about Kinhwa Thursday.. - The . high command also an nounced that Lupao, an important Kwangtung province highway and river center about 23 miles north west of Canton, had been recap tured from the Japanese 'last Tuesday.- , " The communique did not men tion Kiangsi province, where the Chinese have been reported fitt ing in the outskirts of Nanchang, capital of the province, but unof ficial reports said- the Chinese were making a determined at tempt to recapture the city . - ; ..." - ' - - 1 Qive Blast Solo: Jobs to Hold Attention on Labor Holiday By The Associated Press Workmen across the land for the most part wOl stick by their production jobs next Monday in the nation's first wartime observance of Labor day in a quarter-century, heretofore tra- : ditionally a holiday for millions of Americana, i t There- will be some parades but most cities will supplant the all-labor theme by a more mil- . ltary motif and in virtually ev ery case war production work ers not normally off duty will continue . their labors ' in the mills and factories. The Idea that "free labor will win" was underscored by the "navy in announcing that 150 ' warships, many of them small vessels, "Would be launched or their keels would be laid in shipyards of 27 states on Labor jlay. : " President Ro o s e v el t will, broadcast to the people some time in the evening on govern-, ment plans to check inflation and possibly other matters rela ted to the war effort , ' The leaders of the two Am-' . ericmn labor groups, Philip Mur ray of the congress of iadas trial organizations, . and .Wil- - 11am' Green, of r. the. American! . Federation of Labor, both are scheduled to speak.; Green will address an Omaha labor day rally, while Murray wOl speak! . at New Kensington, Pa. Paul W McNutt federal security admin- ' lstrator, also will speak at Om- Nationwide tire rationing pro bably wOl serve as a brake on the customary ; American pas time, of making Labor , day a motorists's nightmare and in the gas-rationed east the effect doubtless win be even more se- vere. " Itars Popular -;Hei1 . Salem residents saw three of the screen's popular actors in new roles here Thursday night when Walter Pidgeon, Joan Leslie and Adolph Menjou came to town to sell war bonds. " , The three stars, touring under the motion picture industry's Sep tember drive for cooperation with the United States treasury's effort to increase war savings, did little entertaining as such In their ap pearances at Salem's Victory Cen ter. . , i. ..,-. . Instead, they pleaded the Cass of Axis vs. America, for the defense, so well that tie day's bond sales total was swelled ts STATUTE MILES on Bases Five Enemy Ships, Sunk In Pacific WASHINGTON, Sept 3-Cff) The navy disclosed tonight that a few "small detachments' of Jap anese troops had landed on islands of the southeastern Solomon group but that marines who wrested that area from the enemy several weeks ago were hunting down these groups. ' ; The communique reporting this action followed by a few hours an announcement that United States submarines in the western Pacific elsewhere than in the Solomon theatre had sunk five more enemy ships, including a Japanese light cruiser, and damaged three others. This report brought the total of Japanese ships sunk or damaged by. American ' submarines since December 7 to 99. " The Japanese were matching their amphibious operations in the Solomon area with what the navy called "periodic attack by aircraft. One such' attack oc curred Wednesday, the navy said when If enemy bombers, accompanied by fighters, raided - American installations at Guad alcanal. That raid . cost the enemy three bombers and five - - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Furniture Firms To Make Gliders NEW YORK, St 'i-(ii-Or- ganizations of American Aviation corporation to produce plywood planes and gliders for the US navy "by making use of the facilities of a group of furniture manufactur ers' was announced Thursday by President and Board Chairman It N. Webster. Webster said a "large special designed" assembly plant already under construction at Jamestown, NY, probably would be completed about January 1. fi:i,CC3, the city's motion pic tare war savings committee es timated. . This was the largest single day's sales, aside front city and state investments In war bonds, yet re corded. - . . ' A . ' To Menjou, the war means Americans must 'wake up and dig down, he told his big Victory Center audience. The bluest of war bond pur chases are insignificant besides the "gifts" being made by the na tion's soldiers,' sailors and ir.a rlnes "of arras and legs tr.l eyes" Pidon told the crowed - (Turn to Paje 3, Cc!uma 5) Groups m On Yolga Nazis , Edge Near On Southwest in AU-Out Effort By HENRY C. CASSIDY - ' MOSCOW Friday. Sept. 4 (AP) Massed German tanks and-Infantrymen have ' cracked the previously . Im penetrable Russian line north west of Stalingrad and forced the sovieta to retreat there. while other German forces continued to edge closer to ' Stalingrad from the south west the , Russians reported Fri day. - -1 t! i - . - A Russian retreat northwest-of Novorossi&k. threatened Black sea fleet base, also was acknowledged oinciauy by tne Soviets In their : midnight communique. - . Retreat Forced Jtne break in the Russian lines above Stalingrad represented- the first gain' for - the. Germans there -in some time. The Russians; had stiffened after being folded back -to the , approaches - of the Volga -city. The peril to the key Volga city . thus- increased by- the hour as the Germans closed In steadily with both arms of a strong pincer movement. i . . The midnight communiqjia tald the first attack by German , tanks and Infantry was ' burled back by soviet artillery . and anti-tank rifle fire, leaving nine disabled and burned Ger man tanks and about 400 dead on the field. "Two hours later the enemv r sumed attacks on our positions and pressed our units back." the communique said. i " The extent of the German gain was not disclosed ' but it wag known that the battle i tht area is being fought on the north-1 west approaches to the city. In a strons? bid for viVtnr th Germans Thursday threw masse. oi pianes, . tanks ? and troope . against Stalingrad from the south i rurn to Page 3, CoL 1) F, Tliielsfe Post At Chamber 1 - - r it i ( -A Resignation of Fred D. Thiebten. executive secretary, and Mrt Rom Brinkley, secretary to the mana-" ger oi tne Salem chamber of com merce, was announced Thuntrinv by Carl W. Hogg, president .Mr. Thi risen, who became manager of the chamber four years ago succeeding C. E. Wilson,- is ' taking. position with the state public L utilities , department on -September 15, Hogg said. : ; The chamber's board of direc tors is understood not toi Intend to appoint a successor to Thielsen immediately.. 4 Thielsen became executive sec retary late last spring .when the new position of, business- extnv. sion manager was created and Clay C, Cochran was employed to wore out Camp Adair transporta tion and bousing problems. In his new caDacitr. ThMun mn. trated his efforts on membership played an important nart in in creasing the chamber's rolls by " approximately 23 per cent . President Hogg said a further gain In members would be sought under the direction of the mem bership committee headed by Frank Doerfler. Churchill Plane Near Nazi Lines LONDON, OnL, Sept t.-i&f-John Affleck of London, senior Cight engineer for the aircraft which took Prime Minister Chur chill to Russia recently, said Thursday that the plane at times flew within 63 miles of the Russian-German front lines. "Our ship would have made a real prize for the Germans if they had known about' us," he said. Fortunately, we didn't sight a sin gle euemy aircraft" , - - .