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Orators A Houso? : j Are yen looking for a place to live, er f er . a- lea ant? II m, tun-to "The Statesman classified adver tising page, where bayer and teller ret together. -1 PCUNDDB 1CZX HCL imim-cscoiiD yeab Salessu Oregon' Saturday Morning, Septeznbef S; 1S12" trie sd No. 119; 1 Affect 11 11 Parity-Plus Would Lose To FR Fiat ; By IRVING PERLMETER WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (AP) President Roosevelt, responsible sources revealed Friday night? has prepared for issuance Monday the most drastic order affecting the everyday Kfe of Americans In the ? Yi years since he be- iting all swages,-salaries and farm prices in the United States. At the same time, the or der, as presently drafted, will create an economic 'adminis trator to see that these and other policies to hold down the war-time cost of living are carried out. Wendell Will ke, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York and Bernard M. Baruch were among those men tioned as possibilities for the job. Aside from its impact on every -American, the order is deemed even by the president's advisers who helped him draft It to be al most revolutionary because the farm price section will, in effect, set aside an act of congress a ' provision 01 ine jjntc rouuui vi wb I e h specifically forbids any price ceilings on farm products at less than 110 per cent of pari ty. Some commodities are above this mark, but some are below it The president will assert his war time' powers and duties are suf ficient to Justify such unprece dented action, to prevent a threat ened, runaway rise In the cost of living. ":: As outlined by government of ficials who cannot be quoted;: by Dame, ine ' presiaem s muuu is : scheduled to do these things; Wages Any work paid for by an hourly rate, or ether per sonal compensation less than 75 per week. The president is expected to order that no wage rates be Increased above their January 1. 141. level by mere than the rise in the cost of Uv-' lug since then, which Is ronghly 15 per cent In the case of per sons working by the hour, this win not affect Increased pay resulting from working jnore hours per week. lc It was indicated that workers who had received more than a 15 per cent wage increase since Jan uary 1, 1941, would be permitted to continue on the basis of the in- creased pay. L-, v Salaries between $75 per week and $7500 per year a last minute decision is yet to be made, whether these will be frozen at '' existing levels or permitted to increase - with the same cost-of-living for inula applied to wages. Salaries over , $7500 no in . creases. .. ; Farm crices To be frozen at existing levels for the time being, subject to probable revision later in the case of some products. Cer tain of the revisions, it was said. . would be downward. : These are in general policies . scheduled to be enunciated In the order. Many details will be left to the administrator, including probably such questions as pay raises accompanying ; bona " fide promotions. ' - In some cases, enforcement win be indirect. Income tax laws will be used particularly to back the president's statement of what em ployers should do about wages. By refusing " . employers the usual "business expense' deductions for unauthorized w ag c increases, which would automatically in . crease the taxes of the employers, officials believe the government - can make it t o o expensive to evace ue wage poucy. mos em - mm a ployers, as a matter , of norma economy probably would abide " by the order voluntarily. -The order la not expeeted to take any direct action en other cost-of-living angles, but the nresldent Is " expeeted fa r Ms message to congress and radio " address to the public, to em Kshaslze the supplemental need of more taxes, more war bond purchases, payment of debts, avoidance of hoarding, more rationing and similar measures. Any setting aside by executive i flat of the legislative props for arm prices might be . expected to result in protests from the congressional farm bloc and from v additional members-, of - congress concerned with the prerogatives of the three branches of gov 1 eminent. It is apparently, in an effort to forestall some of this criticism md to answer some of the ob jections in advance that Mr. Roosevelt Is planning a message (Turn to Pass 2, CoL 4) (GeiRMaiis $,' NortLCest Oreanize From Congress Requested to Finance : Synthetic Rubber Factories to Utilize Surplus Wheat Harvest PENDLETON, . Ore., Sept growers Friday organized the Synthetic Rubber association to the rubber situation.:-.- Association leaders at once thetic rubber factories in the Pacific northwest. The organization was formed by approximately 300 Idaho, Two Vacancies Remain at WU New Instructor for Mathematics Hired; Enrollment Holds Only two vacancies remain to be filled in Willamette university's faculty as the institution enters its first full year of wartime instruc tion, Dean Chester F. Luther re ported Friday in announcing se lection of an instructor to take the mathematics classes taught by the late Dr. James T. Matthews. ' Principal gap in the university administration, . that of president, wajj closed this week With the af rival of Dr. G. Herbert Smith to assume the position. Since his arrival Tuesday President Smith has spent much of his time in the president's office acquainting him self with the problems before him. The new instructor ' Is Hiss Frances Doughty, graduate - of Stanford university with bache lor's and master's degrees m mathematics, and a professor at Clark Junior college, Vancouver, Wash since 1936. Her home Is In San Mateo, Calif. Yet to be filled - are the posi tions , of . economics, instructor, from which Graydon K. Ander son resigned to enter the navy, and of band director- and in' structer in instrumental music. which Maurice Brennan . relin quished to enter ' a defense in dustry;." J ; , " ." . ; ' Advance registration is not far behind that of last year despite inroads made on the enrollments of higher institutions by the war. Walter . E. Erickson, director of (Turn to Page 2, CoL.l) Three Hurt In Ireland ; BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Sept 4 -Ph Three persons, one an 8-year-old girl, were wound ed in a series of gun fights be tween police and : the outlawed Irish republican army in the past 24 hours. A man was struck by a bullet fust before Duck in Lesson street, Belfast, in the latest play of vio lence. ' - The girl, 1 Rosaleen Houston, and James Bannon, 21, were wounded during a fight between police and IRA adherents in the Falls Road area. The battle start ed when six IRA men, one arm ed with a tommy-gun, challenged three . policemen. - One of the IRA men' was vcaptured.- Two bullets hit Bannon. The girl was only slightly wounded. ' - : This battle followed an attack by guerrillas on a police barracks at Bellech, County Fermanagh, on the border of Ulster and Fire and escaped after police returned their fire. -Officials meanwhile searched all vehicles along the border and made travelers produce identifi cation cards as ithey pressed the hunt for the men, who placed time bornV xrutside a .police. bar racks -at ; Handalstown, Northern Ireland. -- Nazis Lose Airmen MOSCOW, Sept 4 -( The Moscow radio said Friday night that the German air force had lost CO.CCO men in Russia and that Hitler was forced now to send trained aircraft workers 'to the soviet front as reserves. Fight Farmers 'Rubber Grain' Group 4-(P)-Pacific northwest wheat Tri - State Industrial Alcohol and promote the use of grain in easing ' . asked congress to finance syn Washington and Oregon -farmers in a meeting sponsored by granges of the- three states. - - - 3 Leaders said surplus , wheat could best be used in manufac turing alcohol and synthetic rub ber and estimated there was a 600,000,000 bushel carryover of wheat and a 900,000,000 bushel crop coming up. A resolutions committee claim ed less money and fewer critical ARLINGTON, Sept Twenty three grain growers of eastern Oregon have formed the Grain Products, Inc., for eon- version of wheat to rubber, three of the Incorporators dis closed here Friday. Capitalisation Is for $100,000 and the plant will be located here. Property and some equip ment already have been ob tained. metals would be needed to build plants producing synthetic rubber from grain than from petroleum. The committee estimated first costs of rubber ' from grain would be 12 cents a pound.. It could be cut to f cents a pound when plants operate regularly, the committee said, adding that rubber from petroleum costs 18 to 24 cents a pound. E. T. Taylor, Coeur : D'Alene, master of the Idaho state grange, chairman of the conference, named 17 .farm leaders to organize the association. RAF Bombs Guns Blaze LONDON, Sept. 5-ff)-British bombers were over Germany again Friday night for the fourth- sue cessive night it war announced Saturday, . The Berlin radio said points in both northern and eastern Ger many had been attacked, indicat ing , Russian raiders might also have been active. The broadcast acknowledged some damage was done in a town on the north Ger man coast by. high explosives and incendiaries. . " ; f German planes were over the south coast of Britain during the night but there were no reports of bombs having been dropped. FOLKSTONE, England, Sept (-rerman and British - long range guns exchanged fire across the Dover strait Friday night German batteries near Cap Gris Nex opened up with two salvoes soon after nightfall and the Brit ish coastal cannon replied imxnedi ately, 3 Portugal "Wolfram - Mine Said Afire LISBON, Portugal Sept 4 -UP) The second largest wolfram mine in the world, owned by , the Brit ish and producing almost half the total of Portugal's wolfram out put was reported on fire Friday. - Dispatches from ; Fundao said the fire broke out in. a firewood warehouse of the'; Parasqueira mines. The cause was not report' ed.: ' - ; - Wolframite is important in the manufacture of munitions. . Thursday's TTeather Thursday's max. temp. 75, min. SL Civer Friday -34 ft By army request weather fore- easts are withheld and tempera- tar data delayed Germany rive Calls " ;; .;:.: . ' ...x . PAUL V. McNUTT Says more women to werk Cliapels Ready Dedication. Sunday at Adair Attests to Liberties Still - CAMP ADAIR, Ore Sept The first of Camp Adair's chapels will.be dedicated on Sunday "as mute but powerful reminder to all who see it 'that our religious liberty still exists." , The quoted words are from a proclamation hi CoL Gordon H, McCoy, post commander, whose daughter, Beverly McCoy, 10 years old, will cut a blue ribbon as the signal for entry into the building, and as a sign that it is "open to all faiths.'' ? The constitution of the United Camp aiaies guarantees religious uoeriyif- m g- to all,w CoL McCoy will say in his I CiTeWmen proclamation as ie aoors as the- doors are opened. "This is a vital part of the total ; liberty for which our forefathers ' gave their lives and for which we are fighting today. It is something more precious than life itself.- Capt. Lloyd v. Harmon, camp chaplain, will dedicate, the chapel "to - the training of men in .faith and knowledge and to the sum moning of youth and age to a life of service. The preacher will be Chaplain Ma.' L. JL Elson, of the ninth service, command, coming from his . post at . Fort Douglas, Utah, for this event In effect the service will be one of dedication for all: 11 chapels of the. camp, (Turn to Page 2, CoL. A) Amed Planes Attack Jap ; Cruiser ' " " -.' - -. - .- .- Z - -V.. . GENERAL Wac ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia,! Saturday, Sept S -Wr-Alliedj bombers have' attacked a Japa- nesee cruiser, joff ' the southeast coast of New Guinea but results of the raid were not known, Gen eral Douglas . MacArthur an nounced Saturday. An allied command headquar ters communque said that an lied reconnalsance unit shot down a Japanese Zero fighter r plane in a fight at Lae, New Guinea. The I Zero was attempting to intercept I the allied unit, the report said. i There was - no change . in the Milnebay sector, where, the' allies administered a severe defeat to the Japanese. ...... BERLIN (from German Broad- casts),Sept 4-WVThe Berlin dio quoted a Tokyo' dispatch Fri day night as saying that Japanese troops sent from Timor had. oc cupied several small Sunda is lands. - : (The lesser Sunda islands lie between Timor and the Dutch East Indies, such as Ball, Lombok, Soembawa, and Soemb.) - East ' - .- - ; . .- - Added ,i'oinen ;' To Work: . ... . ' . . .... ( . One Out of Four: Must Take Place Of Service Men1 WASHINGTON, Sept 4P) Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt.-WlledjFTiday for V big , increase in the number of women at work in the war in dustries "and named" a cornrnit- tee to consider policy problems involved in training and re cruiting of women workers. 'Increased ' participation . o.f women in our all-out war produc tion effort is essential to its suc cess," McNutt said. "War produc tion alone employed about L400, 000 women last December. This figure will jump to 4,500,000 by December, 1942, and -will climb to 6,000,000 by the end of 1943, By then, women will represent at least 30 per cent of the labor force employed in war production. "Over 18,000,000 women must be gainfully employed by the end of 1943, so 5,000,000 women must be added to the total num ber new employed. . To this McNutt. added a state ment that:: - 'One but of every four house wives, perhapsone ,out of every three, betweenvthe ages of 18 and 44 will be eniplpvjedL-. In connection with McNutt's jplea for more women - workers, it was recalled that Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hersher, director of selective service,' said recently that quail lied men working in the war fac tories must be drafted and their places filled by women and older men. " . ' : ' . . McNutt appointed - Miss Mar' garet A. Hickey of St Louis to the chairmanship of the policy committee.' She is . vice president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Wom en's clubs, a lawyer and a mem ber of the Missouri bar. In addi tion, she is the owner and direc tor of a school for secretaries in SU Louis. - - ' ' Die; Captain Imprisoned .'By The Associated Press . . . Twenty four seamen perished in the submarine-Sinking of a Lat vian merchantman in the Carib bean, the navy announced Friday, in the wake of additional reports from Lisbon disclosing that an other ship's captain had been im prisoned aboard the raider which destroyed, his vessel ' about 1000 miles east of Baltimore. . . : The captain and the first en gineer of the 4573-ton Greek freighter Leonidas - M. both were taken aboard jthe enemy U-boat 8TOCKHO L If, Saturday, Sept 5-CP-The -Swedish sub marine Sjoeberren was sunk off the coast after being rammed by a , snerehant ship v fat shallow water, It was announced offi cially Saturday. One crewman fa reported. missing. . ;f dispatches from Lisbon said, fol lowing the attack on their ship in mid-July. Crew ; members of the neutral Portuguese vessel San Mi- (Turn o Page 2. Col ) : Milk Rationing I TT7 P;VAn M ciAaaaaa wva PORTLAND,' Ore., Sept 4-) Gov. Charles A. Sprague warned Friday that milk rationing may become a reality: in the Portland area 'soon.;" . ' ? . . i It is Quite- possible there . will be a shortage in retail rnHk due to increased demand of. a rising population and a decrease brought on by labor shortages hampering the producers,' he told a women's milk price study committee. . ' The committee said the threat ened shortage could be averted by removing milk board reula tics which prevent some producers from entering the Portland mar ket Ill Lauds Planes CAPT. E..V. RICKENBACKER N ' JeBa how fighters Jly"-. Fighter Planes Of US Praised Rickenbacker Dislikes Kaiser Plan; Tells Why Spitfires Used CHICAGO, Sept -(Capt E. V. "Eddie" Rickenbacker, EWorld war. flying ace, said Friday, night that two American fighter planes --the liquid cooled twin . engine. 38 Lockheed and the air-cooled P-47 ; Thunderbolt had -.proved superior "in actual tests, to Ger many's new Focke-Wulf 190 fight er. - - ,' ..'- Asserting that America was "on the road to air superiority, the first road to victory Rickenbacker told an audience of army radiQuiechni cians that to date, 'American air force planes have destroyed twice as many of the enemy planes as (Turn to Page 3, Column 5) ; Close Control Of Inventory Slated Soon WASHINGTON, Sept, -JP) The s war production, board an nounced approval Friday night of program to control inventories of , civilian merchandise in .the hands of retail stores and whole-, salers. , ' ' :.Vv; i The plan,-which probably will become effective , sometime early In 1943, is an attack on the prob lem created by heavy buying by some dealers. "Such purchases have raised the threat that some' stores and even some regions " of ' the country might be unable to get sufficient supplies to serve their communities. ' i . WPB Chairman Donald M. Nel son said the program would con tribute to "an equitable distribu-; tion of inventories throughout the country," and could', be, accom-; plished "without .unnecessary hardships or difficulties' for the retail and wholesale trade..- Tr ,: ' ' The . program, ; prepared by a special committee after , confer ences with hundreds of merchants and manufacturers," also calls for an immediate -' investigation into advisability of the' limitation of manufacturers inventories. Two broad classes of manufae hirers and merchants would be exempted from the plan. Any con cern whose business for the , 12 month period ending; September S04142 was less: than $100,000 6r' whose Inventory on that- date was less man sza.ouu cosrvaiue, (Turn to Page 3, Column 3) AlaaiiyArmy: Hit Censors - JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept4-fl) Gov.1 . Ernest Gruening, upon his return Friday from San Francisco, said Lieut Gen. John I DeWitt permitted him to quote the, west ern defense command as saying the postal censors', policy of clipping news from Alaska-bound news papers is "unnecessary and tin justifiable."!-: kv';;V v . The governor said the western defense commander asserted there was no purpose in censoring for Alaska - any . news which was printed in the states. Gruening said he considered the clip-cen soring as injurious to the morale of Alaskans and members cf &e armed forces in the territcry, end he will "continue to the utmost my . efforts to cause its abrogation.' - JLL Stalingrad Stiffens Against Pre-W inter Push - Offensive in Egypt Seen Diversion -To (Hmean Assault; US Forces l- " Do Big Part in Tanks, Planes " ' By FRED VANDERSCHMIDT '- ' ! ! . - " Associated Press War . Editor . Z : The, Germans were throwing afl their of fensire weight . Friday, night into ; three drives to successively isolate, by pass and cross the Cancasos and thus, make good Adolf Hit ler's master plan of taking the middle-east via the historic land. bridge.' . .-. , .; ;H v:; "f K - ! , - " This ; beeame , increasingly, evident with German an nouncement of the long-awaited assault from the Crimea, across Kerch strait to the western shores of the Black sea and with a strong new nazi push into, the mid-Caucasus at the height of the battle of Stalingrad. ; I ' The midnight .Moscow commu- mque indicated ine soviet armies were stiffening somewhat at Sta-! lingrad, halting the nazi advance from the southwest and ' fighting furiously elsewhere, but there was nothing to really relieve the gen eral military crisis. -' In this situation - the ' curious ROmmel offensive in Egypt took on the appearance ot a diversion ary action intended, in the main, to Immobilize allied land, air and sea forces west of Suez. 1 Rommel's tanks, which started last Monday morning-through the Br itlsh minefields north of the Qattara depression," already had gone into reverse, . Moreover, the German desert marshal's strange shortage " of support coincided significantly with the German high com mand's disclosure that a major air operation ' was Involved In the leaping of Kerch Strait, and with Russian reports of the ar rival on the Stalingrad front of aircraft from Rommel's Egypt command. . Tiie British eighth army kept up its pressure on the axis forces on the , southern sector of the desert MOSCOW, Sept 4A?rElght nazi planes were destroyed by. seviet. fighters and anti-aircraft fire Friday in an attempted raid , on Leningrad, Russian sources ' said Friday night. The other raiders fled. - front stretching from El Aiamein to the Qattara depression and by nightfall was reported to have thrust the enemy farther back In the west. ' . -. . ' k. RAF . and Australian "air- force bombers and torpedo planes ' lo cated an enemy convoy - in v the central . Mediterranean f Thursday night, it was announced, and tank ; merchantman, " damaged '' and probably sank a destroyer and started. a fire on a third ship: . ... In addition to the sa per b worka done all ; week by US twmbers and fighters flying with the anted EsTptUn sna4 rons, it i was 7 disclosed Friday (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) ; , EditorsWiU Find Scrap WASHINGTON, Sept 1 Warned that the steel mills have only. a. fortnight's supply of scrap, 200 r newspaper, publishers and editors agreed Friday to under take, a; concerted salvage collec tion' campaign " throughout "; the country'- ''i ' V V --,v -1;-.'' Chairman: Donald M. Nelson of the. war- production - board - ad dressed : to the executives at a meeting here : the government's first.: direct ' wartime -appeal to newspapers for emergency ..action. Nelson's report on the . gravity of the steel situation was supported by.IieutGen Brehon SomervelL 'We haven't won this war yet and well be a long time winning it," said the chief of the army's services of supply. This time It's not a' question of how long, but if." - . - . OunSeriatbrs m w. m Defense J Budapest Feels First Air Raidi Planes' Nationality ; Not Known;. Bombs : Dc?xlared Few ; BERLIN (From German broad casts), Saturday, Sept 5 -JPy-Th Hungarian capital of Budapest had Its first air attack, of the. war during the night and a few bombs, fell in and around the city, the Berlin radio 1 announced. . early fSaturday." The alarm sounded-at 11:30 p. m. Friday and the all? clear was given at 120 a. m. reports xronl tne city: said on heavy blast was heard outside the capital about midnight .. 1 These dispatches , further said few bomb hits nad been noted in Budapest' ; - I There was no official commun ique immediately after' the raid and reports said it was not known, whether the attack was carried ' out by British or soviet planes. (Budapest ; is 900 ' miles from ' London and about 973 miles from Moscow. It was probable, . how ever, that the planes -were Rus- sian for the red air force has been ranging far over eastern Gen. ir many, Poland, and over Finland in recent days. The Russians like- -ly have bases closer to Budapest than, their capital.). ' ' i 1 1 - ;. i - am Ships Home; 1 Attack Seen 1 By Th Associated Press . In the tense western -Mediter ranean area Friday the ,' Spanish ' government's purge of Ramon Ser rano Suner, the super-fascist, was followed quickly; by. a hint that Spain Is keeping ber shipping at home. Havana heard a report that one Spanish steamer; bound for . Cuba and New York was recalled to Vigo. Although loose mines - around the Spanish coast may have) ' caused the recall, such orders usu ally come when , a neutral na tion , fears the imminence of at tack. Just what kind of attack Spain might expect was, perhaps, not even clear to Generalissimo Franco himself. The axis has been shout ing about allied designs on Spain's Canary-islands, on the South At lantic -ship lanes west of Africa. Yet if Germany' Intends to take possession of Gibraltar and north west Africa, aha : must' march through Spain on her own. : . Friday, the German radio indi cated that Hitler - waa awaiting Franco's reply to some sort of a demand for explanation of the Ser rano' Suner ouster. From Spain, Itself, the only ."explanation" was an outpouring of the meaningless totalitarian double-talk by the of ficial 'paper of the Falange, the party from which Serrano: Suner drew his following. ' :.; ' v ; i Sp Elidwsy; Films Set. . WASHINGTON. Sept , 4 T) The navy -department announced , Friday it would release for gen eral public exhibition In theatres throughout the ; land . beginning Thursday an action picture of the battle of , llidway." The pic ture, in color, . was, filmed -by a naval ofUcer in the thick of ti.a r: action-. . . ...