Scrvico Men 1
Our beys ef Salem . and
Tkizliy are la uniform with
Uncle Sam ever the fact of
the globe. Fellow them dally
la The Statesman's 'Service
Ilea column. .
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Warship". -:
Lost In '
Jl ilvillv
- Destroyer Blue,
Trail snort Sunk:
Oregon Man Dies
. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -ffl
; ine aesiroyer oiue ana n smaii
. armed transport have been sunk
in the South Pacific, 'the navy
disclosed Saturday,' bringing to
, 48 the number of American
warships 1 whose loss has been
announced since December 7.
At the same time the navy told
of severe damage done by fire to
the "tender Prairi,' mother ship
lor a group oz aesurayers, at Ar
gentina, Newfoundland, May 27.
The Prairie has now been re-
conditioned and restored to ser
vice. And another entry for the
black side -of the ledger was the
program Xor the launching or
keel-laying of 150 naval vessels
Labor day, described by the navy
as a world record Xor .the ship-
. building industry. r .
' Twt enlisted men lest their
lives fat fifhtinr the tender fire.
Casnaltiea in the twe Pacific
' . sinkings were announced aa few,
the exact number net being re
j ported The Blae bad a normal
complement of 17S men and the
. transport, the 1068-ton Celhoan,
, " eonld have carried 200 men in-
rinding a skeleton crew and
troops.
A communique on the sinkings
Said; ". '
. "South Pacific: -
"L The US Destroyer Blue and
.fhe small auxiliary, transport Col
Juaun have been sunk during the
past two weeks in the South Pa
'ciCe as a result of enemy action."
The lime of the sinkings-r-Mdur-"ing
the past two weeks" indicated
.that the ships were not casualties
of the big sea battle off the Solo
mon islands. Whether they were
sunk singly or while operating
: together was not disclosed. They
: could have been engaged in the
; continuing task of carrying sup
. plies to United States forces in
the Solomons. ,
' A 40-knot gale sweeping over
r Argentina ' war - responsible to
.great extent for the damage to
t the - 9450-ton Prairie. She was
. taking on supplies .when a- fire
'started in a ship moored direetly
.lactcm. Tanned- by the gale, ' the
flames . swept along the dock - te
-the tender. -- v .
C Capt R. VT. Fleming, Cam-
- bridge, Mass skipper of the Prai
rie,, broke his ship away from
the dock , and the flames were
brought . under' control after . she
bad been moved well away from
'other craft The flames were
stopped Just as they reached i
"compartment filled with muni'
Itions. Aboard the Prairie were
-COO -tons of, high explosives, 300
depth charges, 103 warheads for.
" (Turn to rage z, coi. oj - r.f
tCargo Planes
Decision Left
To .Army, Navy
"WASHINGTON, Sept 5 -(P)
,WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson
Chairman Donald M. Nelson of
the war , production board ; was
reported authoritatively Saturday
to have left to army and navy
chiefs the final decision on Henry
J. Kaiser's proposal to construct
a fleet of cargo planes. :
' A war production board spokes
man, who withheld .use . of his
liame, said a special committee
of four aircraft industry men had
made a "somewhat unfavorable
but not necessarily fatal 'report
to Nelson on the proposal of the
west coast shipbuilder. " Shortly
after this, friends of Kaiser said
Nelson had told them he would
be governed by any decision the
army and navy officials made at
a showdown conference here Wed
nesday... . - '.-
Nelson is expected also to con
fer - next week with Kaiser and
bis associate, Howard Hughes,
California aircraft designer.
Amy and navy officers were
represented as reluctant to , em
bark on any program of cargo
Diane construction which," be-
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Friday's 7cailier
frlJay's max. temp. SI, mln.
3.
River Saturday -3.8 ft By
-y re'jest weather iorecasts
! c! J anl temperatore .
Dedicates
Ov
Chaplain Major I R. Lumhi, ef
the ninth service command, Fort
' DenrlasUtah. whe Is te preach
- the sermon at services at Camp
' Adair today dedicating the post's
11 chapels. The services will
take place In the pest station
ehapeL Army Slnal Corps
photo.
Nation Faces
New Sacrifice
- Solon Says President
To Ask Congress" V
For Actions ..
. WASHINGTON, Sept -iffy-
President .Roosevelt, in advance
of his eagerly-awaited anti-inflation
decree, warned Saturday
night that the nation faced "sac
rifices of wage increases, crop
price : increases, profit, increases,
bodily comforts." ,.-, .
Thia indication of - the program
he will, announce Monday in a
messaged to- -eengresa and .an d-
J , A'W A.1 W ' .
uresa tu uie people was given in
a Labor day statement which said
mat "all this is little enough for
free men to sacrifice in a world
where freedom is imperiled." v
Government officials who could
not be quoted by name reported
that the plan Contemplated the
setting up of an economic admini
strator to supervise the program
and. an executive order limiting
wages, salaries and farm prices.
In this connection. Senator
Brown (D-Mich.), whe spon
sored the administration's price
control law In the senate, said
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4H Fat Stock
FeRemnant
A. fat- stock show and .auction
sale will be -the-main features of
the abbreviated 4H club exhibits;
only remnant of the 1942 state
fair, scheduled to open at the
state fairgrounds here Wednesday
and continue until Friday, state
agricultural department officials
announced Saturday: V - - ""-
The auction sale-, wilt be .held
Friday, September 11, starting at
10 a. m. A committee of the Sa
lem chamber of commerce , head
ed by G. A. Vandeneynde, is as
sisting in building up the auction
feature. -
No effort is being made to en
courage attendance of the public
and only 4H youths slated to come
to the ; fairgrounds . will be the
owners of the fat stock.
, ine : usual exmoits - in : crops,
garden, home economics and other-dub
projects win be limited
to winning displays from- each
county, and these will be judged
on Thursday. - ;X - - -
Boys who accompany the ani
mala for the auction will be bous
ed in the grandstand exhibit
quarters. They wm -engage in
some showmanship and-judging
contests while - on the grounds,
but these events wfll be on an
individual rather than a team
basis. '."v.': , .
11 Army Men
Die, Crashes
FORT MYERS, Fla, Sept 5-OPi
Six army fliers were killed Satur
day when a medium 'bomber
crashed shortly after taking off a
Page field here.
: The bomber had left the run
way, and was gaining altitude
when it suddenly fell to the
ground, army officers said. 1
TAMPA, Fla., Sept &-A-Thc
entire crew of five army men was
killed when , a medium bomber
from MacDill field here - crashed
into Tampa bay Saturday, army
officials at the field announced.
Aircraft ;
Bombard
Barges Smashed .
At Buna; Yanks
Hit Continent;
By -MURLIN SPENCER ;
GEN E R A L MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia,
Sunday, Sept.. 6 -( Allied
air forces smashed at Japanese
bases in New Guinea Saturday
with three destructive raids on
Buna, in which numerous land
ing barges, . -boats and other
equipment' were ' destroyed, . and
with other attacks, on Japanese
ground forces at Kokoda to the
west and Milne bay to the south,
a communique said Sunday.
Buna, the enemy base for the
land thrust to Kokoda, 60, miles
east of the allied base at Port
Moresby, suffered the heaviest
attacks.
A fuel dump was blown up,
an - anti - aircraft ; position , si
lenced and huts, motor vehicles
and gTeanded aircraft destroyed '
without the loss .of a single al-
lied plane. The Allied planes
strafed enemy positions heavily
after unloading their bombs.
The communique said allied
ground forces, continued mopping
up the remnants of Japan etc
troops still holding out in the Jun
gles near .Milne bay, at the south
eastern tip of New .Guinea.. One
allied plane-, was- lost w hile ma
chine-gunning Japanese positions
near . Kokoda.
LONDON, Sept- MP-Ameri
can airmen in flying fortresses,
Boston bombers and fighter
planes, made their biggest assault
yet on Hitler's transport system
Saturday, the bombers , smashing
at the Rouen railway yards and
the Le Havre docks in France
while -the fighters escorted - the
bigger planes and engaged in di
versionary sweeps.
An authoritative announcement
said there were no American loss
es but the wide activities cost the
allies six fighter planes.- Two en
emy planes were destroyed. ' '
The attacks foUewed a night
of Intensive allied action against
Germany. A powerful force of
hnndreda of RAF planes start
ed big fires in . Bremen, while
the Knesian: scattered . noma
aa eastern Germany and as
tacked Badapest for the first
A German war bulletin men
tioned the Russian raids without
naming the 'cities other than Bu
dapest but the British radio quoted-
Scandinavian dispatches from
Berlin as saying Vienna: in Aus
tria Koenigsberg in East Prussia
and -Breslau in German Silesia
were- among the places hit ,t , '
Sub Reported
Of f Coast .
. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. C
(Snndar)-jF-Tne Western de
fense command said Sunday it
was investigating a report that
a submarine was surfaced close
to shore In the vicinity ef San
ta Barbara, Calif, and so far
had found nothing to confirm
the report
The statement said that both
military and civilian defense
aathorities had been placed "on
fall alert" and that an Imme
diate search for possible sabo
teurs was started la the area,
The report of the submarine
eaaae from a eivilia railroad
, guareV the Western defense
command announced. AU high
ways In the Santa Barbara ter
' rltery were ; being watched
closely.
Crash Kills Three .
FAIRFLAY, Colo Sept 5-4P)
Three persons were killed and
another injured Saturday when a
private airplane crashed on - the
eastern slope of Kenosha pass, Jn
mountainous central Colorado.
Our Senators
Lc:l
G-55-2
Enemy
r?SH s
Labor Bay Means More
Labor day has a deeper meaning
and the treaeherons Japanese In
tanks and ballets te help fight the
' Citixen, the average worker, does
line. ;.V j. -. :
America to Labor on Monday
Stores to Oose .
Here; Workers
Help in Crops
Salem business- houses generally
are .expected to -close Monday,
Labor' day, as usual. Dr. Henry
IL Morris, president of the Salem
Retail . Trade , bureau, . reported
Saturday.
Gov. : Charles A. Sprague and
State, county and city offices
also are to close for the day.
Secretary of State Earl Snell are
remaining, jay Salem ever the- week
end, while State Treasurer . Leslie
M. Scott plana te spend the brief
holiday .in Portland. - ..:".X..r-
Many state employes. are plan
ning to work today and Monday
la the bean fields or hop yards.: :
USO Program
w .. ... fc'
Sup
ervisorr v: ; ;
Arrives
To serve as program director of
the city's new USO and as R. R.
"Bob Boardman's associate gen
eral director for the service men's
recreation organization here, Roy
Kunz arrived in Salem on Sat
urday afternoon from San Fran
cisco. IV- 1 ; :: , X. - 'f
A graduate , of LaCroese, Wis,
State Teachers college with a
bachelor's $ degree, in ' education
from that Institution's college Of
physical education, Kunz has had
school : and ' orphanage coaching
and teaching experience. -
For.-he past 8 years he has
been employed with the social
security v- aides rand during i the
past month has worked with the
program director of the YMCA
at the presidio in San Francisco
to gain experience in the specific
type of work he is to handle here.
: Mrs. Kunx is driving west, ac
companied on the trip by her
parents. - -
Oregon Flier Gets ;
DSC in Australia - '
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, A u s t r a 1 1 a,
Sunday, Sept 6-P)-Second Lieut
Henry J. Rose of Dallas Tex,
was awarded the. Distinguished
Service Cross .Saturday for hero
ism In guiding an allied striking
force to a Japanese aircraft car
rier in the Coral sea battle May 5.
: The Distinguished Service Cross
also was awarded to Capt Robert
G. Ruegs of Boring, Ore.
LAG
f
this year aa America fighta for life
the Orient ; War plants are hamming, turning ent the guns, planes.
enemy. Labor has gene all-out for the war effort. . And John Q.
his bit at home while his sen, relative or neighbor mans the fighting
--,v - - - .
FDR Asserts
Yankee Arm
WASHINGTON, . Sept S rvffrr
President Roosevelt issued Satur
day night the ' following Labor
day statement:' '
V There has never been a Labor
day as significant as thk one. In
a great many countries free labor
has ceased to exist; a blackout
of freedom has darkened Europe
from theTtip of Norway to the
shores of the Aegean and sturdy
working moj who once- walked
erect fat the sun now stumble and
cower beneath: the lash f the
slavemasters. The rights of free
labor and free men have vanished
in the conquered lands. They, are
threatened and besieged ' every
This is indeed labors . grave
rbour as it is the grve hour f
the farmer,-, the mdustrialist, the
teacher and preacher, the aproned
housewife, the smallest child In
the cradle. AH these are the ben
eficiaries and heirs of the demo
cratic system, and It is demo
cracy itself that the evil men of
west and east hate and seek to
destroy.-' : r V?'
. Happily, our good right arm Is
strong and growing stronger. In
our own country, in the countries
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Cuba Tabes
Noted Spy
HAVANA,. Cuba, Sept $Wl
Arrest of a 3 1-year-old German
whom Cuban police described as
"one of the most important spies
vet caDtured in America," was
announced Saturday. The author
ities indicated he would escape
the firing squad by becoming a
government witness.
. Police Identified him as Heinz
August Luning, alias Enrique
Luni, a native of Bremen and for
some years an export and import
merchant in Hamburg. He . ar
rived in Havana September - 29,
194 lr: they said, on the steamer
Villa De Madrid as a transit pas
senger for. Honduras, traveling on
a 'passport issued by the Hon
duras consulate. in Hamburg.,"
" Maj. Gen. Manuel Benitez, chief
of the Cuban national police, said
Luni had made a complete con
fession of participating in wide
spread espionage activities,
Stronge
This Year
against the axis powci m Europe
Labor to. Help
Launch-Ships;:,;
In Portland .
PORTLAND, Sept SPV-Labor
day win be just another labor day
in war industries here Monday.
Labor, witt take, part in three
Ship : launching ; ceremonies; - but
dtherwise it -wUl stay strictly on
the Job, foregoing the usual cele
brations, picnics and parades.''"
The Oregon Shipbuilding cor
poration wiU launch the: James
Duncan,' named for an early vice
president of the ATL, . and Mrs.
Tom Ray wife of .the Boilermaker
union secretary, win sponsor it !
Commercial iron i work win
launch a- pair of subchasers, -lay
keels; fox: two more and for two
navy tugs." It wfll alee dedicate a
$1,000,000. marine railway.
'Comm.
Work Fails
fflTB i THI BstiTisn
EIOnTH A1UT IN TDX
mSTEXN DESERT," Sept S
(AMasselinr warriors pat ea
their first eemmande raid Fri
day and for their tremble got
arrested by British mUitary
police.
r An effleer and 13 men landed
from rabber beats en the desert
coast before dawn. They were
armed te the teeth. They crept
te a railway line and placed
high explosives under the track.
A train passed ever the spot bat
the explosives did net explode.
- Then the eemmandoa hid to
the. desert Four military po
licemen surprised them and cap
tared them... '
' The commandos offered no re
sistance. Nails Released;
For Peach Boxes
The war production board has
released - a supply cf nails for
boxmakir4 to relieve an inune-
dlately threatciiiE she-'ajre cf
peach containers. Gov. Charles A.
Sprague announced Saturday af-
ternoon. ; , :", ";c
The governor said he was ask
ed Friday night by local peach
men to help get nails -, for the
Salem ; Box company, on which
they were depending .for their
supply of boxes. He asked WPB
Saturday morning for release of
the needed nails.
'Verdun
Macks in:EgyA
Ovenvhelming Forces' Fury
Held Back; Casualties Said I
Hug
;e; Allies Keep Air Hold
By RICHARD
Associated Proas
yuwHuj a; u( auauj iMuaailcu .OTIMI ,lXICrCiXlJZ '
fury- against the strengthening;
day, but for the second day.
tbe historic battle, already called a Tied Verdun, .
' -The soviet midnight communique said the red army re
pelled all attacks both northwest and southwest of the be
leaguered Volga river city, despite numerical superiority ojf
the Germans. . i . . : "-
' The only German advance acknowledged by . the Rus
sian high command was in the Black sea area northwest of
Fuel Dealers, ;
Users togn )
Possible Rationing
Gets Preparation
- Here This Week . ' '
In a voluntary, registration
which employes of the office of
price administration hope will ap
proach 100 per cent 1 fuel deal
ers and users of Salem are asked
to provide information' this week
to be Vv.ed as basis for possible
rationing of fuel this winter.
, Dates for the registration run
from Wednesday through Satur
day, John F. Vaughn,3 executive
secretary for the Salem rationing
and war, - price administration
board, announced Saturday.
- 'Place of registration is to be
the office of the ' board, in the
city hall council chambers. -
Registrants wfll be asked to in
dicate ; on especially-prepared
blanks the type or types of fuel
they aeU or use, the amount used
last seeaonv the amount now- on
hand, how much additional they
estimate they will need this sea
son and the type or types of heat-?
ing facilities, in their homes . and
places pf business. They will also
be asked . whether they have fuel
on order and if so how much."
? By cooperating fully in , this
registration, -which 'is to be han
dled only in specified population
centers, the fuel consumer and the
fuel dealer are likely to protect j
.i . e : - ' - W
wemseives, , vau&nn sugegsiea.
Price, transportatioa facilities
and possible ration may be baaed
on information thus gathered.- - -
Sociologists Fear,
Future 3Ianpo wer
Being Depleted
WASHINGTON. ; Sept '
Sociologists, noting that hundreds
of thousands of .'teen age boys and
girls arc going into wartime jobs.
expressed apprehension Saturday
lest the nation cut too deeply now
into the undeveloped manpower
reserves intended : for tomorrow."
Katherine F. Lenroot chief, of
the labor department's children's
bureau, said twice as many boys
and girls between 14 and 18 years
old " went to work In 1941 as In
1940, and the numbers have been
mounting to 1942 n ? s.
VWt are all keenly" ponecious,w
she said, "that .whatever Is neces
sary to do to win the war must be
done, but before permitting an ex
odus of children from school for
work we must be- certain that
what we gained in labor for pro
duction now is not lost in needed
equipment of future manpower."
Bureau records showed that in
June of this year, approximately
100,000 boys and girls between 14
and. 18. received employment cer
tificates for work. About 18,000
were .14 or 15 years of age. July
and - August have ; swelled these
figures by thousands more. The
figures show the trend was wide
spread,., both csographically.- and
occupationally, the bureau said.
18 to Be Executed
BERN,, SWITZERLAND, : Sept
5-t?VP'Coprts of death sentences
for 18 persons in nad-occupied
territories on. charges cf treason.
illegal possession cf arms or black
u Ttam
XXUtl&Ck IU1U w "
Saturday,
Bub City
; Axis
McMURRAY
War Editor ,
defenses of Stalingrad Sun-i
were fought to a standstill la
me soviet naval base at Novoroa
sisk. Hee the Russians retreat-
ea to new nositions" r k. r5i-
mans thMo. .4 .
- - iuwij remiorcemenv i
against tired Russian forces who
already had routed two German
companies and a squadron of Ru
manian cavalry. .
Northwest of Stalingrad the"
Russians not only "defended their
positions," me communique said,
but In some sectors they took the
initiative "to launch counterat
tacks. . ' , - , . .
;on.
' the second - 'ptnr , auL
southwest of the city, the defend
ers, met aU German onslaughts
, firmly," . the f jmmunique said.
.r,uepi considerabie-rtjamert-1
superiority, the Germans
failed to advance, t Our : artillery
and trench mortars decimated the
enemy ranks." , , i -
. The Germans grudgingly duB
bed the: city the "Red vrrf..
and said it would be hrA
although -its fate is sealed." They
; usn press reports
that a million Russian troops and
thousands of civilian. .
fending the city with a bitterneaa
uxiuiaicoea ur uie war.- r -
The aossians, placing ha
fTum to Pair 9 r.i it -
v vw. f
Oregon Men
Write From .
Jap Prison
PORTLAND", Sent S-Un-T
mer Govt-.Ben Olcott said Satur
day he had received a letter from
his son, Ensign Chet W. Olcotsr
wno was. captured on Wake Mi .
Tr r. aoayo and
dated June 18. ' v ;
Young Olcott said he w.V fn .
prison on Sblkoku Island In south
era Japan and that the Americans
were -oeing rightly treated." -'
f T His fathenaaid the typewritten ,
letter was not in the style usually
written by his sen but that the
signature appeared genuine.
Food in .- the prison camp the
letter said was "sufficient but no
vel, consisting mainly of soup,
vegetables and rice.",
ALBANY, Sent s 5 - Wani n
and Mrs. P.' A. Glewer. Ratom
day received the first letter from
weir axav W- David D. Kliewer,
marine corps flyer, since his can-
iurc at w axe island.
The letter was written t.
Shikoku Island, Japan. The lieu-
xenant said his health was good
and he was "doing OJC" The par
ents said the letter , was typewrit
ten, but the signature and the
style was that of their sons, j :
CHe Meithof i
Di-o in Action
Charles Henry MeiUioL fireman
second class, U. S. navy, as been
killed la action, according to In
formation received bv his narenfct
Mr. and Hrs. Joseph Meithof,
route one. Brooks. K -;; u . ;
Meithof .was 19 years, old on
July 5. The' last letter received,
from bin by his family was one
written . on . his birthday' to, his
sister, Lira.; Ted Nolan of Wood
burn. lip . enlisted . in the , navy,
January . 8, 13il, and was home
on leave in March, 1941."
; Other i surviving relatives are
four sisters, Mrs. Lawrence VTarg
nier, oi GerVais, Mary, IIat-1da
and, Margaret Meithof, ' Crocks;
three brothers, John Menhcf. Ea-
I lum. nfl Edward and Albert I.Iei-
r
t thof, Brocks.,