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Scrvico Men Oar boys of Salem aisj vlclnitj ars la uniform wfla. Unci Sam over the (act ef the rlobe. Follow them daily la. The SU teaman's Servlee S2ea -eolanuu - . A Hcucd? Arc yea looking for s place to live, er tor a ten- ' tat? If g tsra la - The -- i Statesman elassIHei adver - ' Using page, where- buyer and ' eUer get together. . V1" nzimr-cicoirD YEA3 i t'. ; Scdraou Oregon. Tuesday I'cmlag. September 8. 1S12 I7o 121 I ftl M TT) o rrem i OF Nazis Try Assault on Claim :Nov6rossik Wedges Move Toward Stalingrad, Black Sea Coast; Soviet Troops Counter Attack in Mozdok Area - " By HENRY C. CASSIDY . - ' MOSCOW, Tuesday, Sept 8P-The German army, turned back at the northwest and southwest flank approaches to Stalin grad after two days, of violent fighting, has attacked frontally and driven a wedge into one sector west of the Volga river city, the Russians announced early Tuesday. Numerically superior German Rommel Pulls Forces Back Nari General Killed In Fighting; Land ' ' Front Quieter CAIRO, Sept. 7-JP)-Thrown In t to reverse after losing his secqnd supreme bid for the Valley of the Mile, Marshal Erwin Rommel withdrew his battered axis forces further toward the west Monday under ceaseless assault by allied artillery and air forces. , ' s At last accounts the position of the slowly but steadily back-track log : Germans ' and Italians was . given . officially as west of the British minefields which they en tered last week. Indicating Rom !jnel had been forced beyond his ' Starting point : , .jThree- MessersehnaUta, were shot down la dogfights over the : central sector this afternoon, one by. a flight lieutenant ' from' Dallas, Tex who Is a member - of the Canadian air force. He ' damaged another axis , fighter . before his ammunition gave oat, and evaded a third who at tacked him later. The land front was quieter Mon day. Behind Rommel lay a. battle field strewn with the wreckage , of many of his big tanks and also ' his shattered hopes, confidently expressed Just a week ago, that "well be in Cairo .next week.' Also left behind was the body of one of his trusted aides Gen. George Von B(imtrck, whose death In the recent fighting was disclosed - by -German prisoners brought here. ' Von Bismarck was identified as . one of Hitler's abler generals and a distant relative of the great iron chancellor, Count Otto Von, Bis marckv who created the first Ger- . man reich in 1870. Young Bis- . . marck was said to have- taken command of an armored division in the desert after service in Rus sia. Most of the continuing action Monday was below the central ; sector of the 1 Alamein front where the Germans were fighting determined rearguard action to cover withdrawal of their main force. The main British lines, strung out for some 45 miles from the Mediterranean coast to the Qat tara depressicav remained solid. At Alexandria, headquarters f the British fleet. UMvneed that British - submarine have rusk five Urce and two ne- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) New York Has Air Raid Alarm NEW YORK, Sept. 8 -()- An Unfamiliar airplane which sub aequently proved to be a friendly army bomber spotted off the east coast early Tuesday, prompting a bine-minute air raid alarm throughout .the New York metro politan area. Startled citizens tumbled from their beds. Thousands of a rec ord influx of holiday visitors seeking pleasure In night spots rushed to the streets for a look at what appeared to be the real thirg, and 50,000 air raid wardens in the city proper took their posts. Gur Senator 3 G-l r Volga, forces also hammered a wedge . into Russian positions at Novoros sisk on the Black sea coast "de spite heavy losses, the midnight communique said. (The Germans claimed Novorssisk's capture Sun day). Extent of the German gain on the Stalingrad front was not dis closed, but it was indicated the Germans had shifted their weight into a direct frontal attack on the cixy aiier oeing siauea nortnwesi and southwest; of the city. The Russians' said their coun terattacks in the Mozdok area of the Caucasian foothills forced the Germans to retreat. Fighting on the northwestern approaches to Stalingrad was not mentioned in the midnight com munique.. It was in this area that Soviet troops were reported Mon day to have bettered their posi tions in a series of counterattacks The single soviet unit which re treated "to new positions" im mediately west of the Volga stronghold the first time this area has been mentioned was said to have 'repulsed, f our jiazi attacks before Vieldine rrouncL - Southwest of Stalingrad the red army beat off a series of German attacks, one unit destroying eight of 30 nazi tanks which attacked a soviet artillery battery. A surprise red army counter blow in the Mozdok area of central Caucasus "dislodged the the Germans from an inhabited lo- cality, destroyed an artillery bat tery, and smashed the headquar ters of a German unit," the com munique said. "Having lost 23 tanks in these engagements" it added, "the enemy ; was forced to retreat northwards." - Russian troops southwest of Stalingrad already had blunted two German salients driven into soviet 1 positions, and while the Russians were reinforcing their positions all around the city the general situation still remained critical. Bill to Lower Draft Age Is Introduced WASHINGTON, Sept 7 -UPl Lowering of the draft age from 20 to 18, which would make from 2,500,000 to 3,250,000 youths subject to military service, was proposed Monday in a bill In troduced by Representative Wads- worth (R-NY), author of the original draft act. "For several months past the reduction of the age range has been inevitable," the representa tive said off the bouse floor. "The sooner it is done the better." ' Inclusion of the 18 and 19 year-old youths, he said, "will operate to lessen considerably the domestic and economic dislo cations incident to drafting large numbers of married men." he added: "History teaches us that these young men will make most el fective soldiers when given thor ough training and the army will be the better for their being In it" Secretary of War Stimson, in a letter to the house military com mittee last December, said "the traditional age for liability i for military service In this country Is 18 to 45.". At that time he recommended that the draft age be lowered to 19, but congress instead put it at 20. The legislation - Introduced by Wadsworth would make no change to the present maximum draft age, 44. It would make a special pro vision that youths called by se lective service during the las half of a school year be deferred until -the -end of the academic year.-' . " Sunday's Weather Sunday's max. temp. 81, mta. 7. Wver Konday -3.8 ft Ey army request weather forecasts are withheld and temperature Bitter Siege ?'.tX..'I I L v ) RUSSIA SSjM- Krasnodar ' ySiiMliilii illAC Kiiiii!!' n:;;::tttn:Ki::::::: ::;::.:;; Stalled In flank attacks on the Volga stronghold of Stalingrad (1), the German army Is attempting to from the west, At Mosdok (2) a pushed the Germans northward. driven at Novorossisk (J) by the port s capture Associated Press Japs Lose InKokoddA dvance Fail in Solomons i Allies Yield To Strength., Use Planes GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Tuesday, ept. 8-P)-Jrapanese troop at a cost of more than 1000 casualties have thrown allied troops back in the Kokoda-Myola area less than 60 miles east of the big allied base of Port Moresby in New Guinea. Using both frontal attacks and encirclement strategy the enemy has pushed westward toward a pass in the Owen Stanley mount ains "and is now in contact with our defense positions," an allied command communique said Tues day. Allied airplanes struck heav ily at the Japanese, scoring di rect hits on native huts used by the enemy, and sweeping low to machinegaa the creeping Jungle fighters. . The communique said of this fight: "In a series of frontal attacks, combined with envelopment the enemy has made advances forcing back our troops in forward areas and is now in contact with our defense positions. "His casualties are - conserva tively estimated at more" than 1000. "Our air force continues to ha rass enemy lines of supply and installations. Direct hits were scored on huts and large fires were started, while the area was machine-gunned in extensive low level attacks." The . advance to Myola, about eight miles south of Kokoda, Is an uphill drive for the enemy. Myola Is about 600a feet above sea leveL and below "the gap leading through the mountains. Kokoda is only 1000 feet ' The communique did not state the period, in which the Japanese casualties were inflicted, nor were allied losses given. The Japanese first landed in the Gona-Buna area July 23 to begin the hasty drive to Kokoda. Supporting the overland Jap anese drive the enemy sent 28 s (Turn to Page 2 CoL 7) Hitler, Mussolini Schedule Session BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 1-JP) The Budapest correspondent of the Basler Nachrichten reported Monday that Hitler and Musso lini had decided to call a meet ing in Vienna about September 15 to consider the dispute be tween Hungary and Rumania over Transylvania. He said the conference would deal with complaints , of Hungar ians in the Rumanian-controlled part ' of Transylvania regarding alleged seizure of their property. Arnold Cancels Tails'- WASHINGTON, Sept 7 -O1 Lieut Gen. Henry II. Arnold can celled a speaking engagement in Philadelphia Monday, the war de partment said, because of what the chief of the army air forces termed "a vital and unexpectedly Waged storm the city la s frontal attack sorprise Ked army eoonterblow The Russians admitted a wedge nails, who Sonday claimed the Telenut. . 1000 Men Reiiiforcembnt Of Islands Forces Misses WASHINGTON, Sept,'7-ff) Desperate and repeated attempts by the Japanese to reinforce the isolated remnants of their shat tered forces ' on Guadalcanal ' is land in the Solomons have met strong American aerial resistance, the navy, announced Monday night, . and they have suffered heavy , losses In troops and small, boats. The navy communique did not say that all Japs have been pre vented from landing and it was presumed here that some almost certainly had succeeded in getting on the island but the air attacks apparently had been so devastat ing that their usefulness probably would not be very great The latest reported enemy attempt at a landing was made last Saturday. The fleet of small boats was discovered by aa air patrol, which attacked in company with Cnrtiss army pur suit planes, making the first an nounced army operations in 'the Solomons. Three of the enemy's boats were- sunk and several then damaged, and . a - large munber of troops were killed. ' Prior to that the navy had (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) 25 in Jail to Top 4-Year Mark Residents in the Marion county jail totaled 25 Monday night as the number of weekend commit ments reached eight and previous figures for the past four years were topped. Number 25 on the register of those remaining was Elvin Ander sen, brought in by a Silverton of ficer on a charge of being dis orderly on a public highway in a state of intoxication. Listed as James Smith, Jack Kenworthy and Tom Brown, a trio charged with using profane language was entered at the Jail Sunday . by Sheriff A. C. Burk. The. charge allegedly grew out of a squabble at a Woodburn auto camn. State police had left Harvey Sullivan, Portland, at the jail fol lowing his arrest at Oregon hop ranch on a reckless driving charge, Also charged with reckless driv ing was Lynn Povee, entered there by Deputy Sheriff Denver Young. Arrested by Young on an NSF check charge, E. A. Woolsey of Stayton came to Salem from In dependence, of his own volition and was registered at the jau. ; Scheduled to acoear at 10 o'clock, this morning, Robert M. Duncan, charged with larceny and use of profane language, was re leased Sunday by order of Juce L. II. McMahan after $153 bond had been posted. State police arrested Louis Ery nan Bauman on a warrant from Woodburn justice court, charging him with threatening to coiarait a County Migrant Lo era Stopped Pacific Area Is First Critical;; Region Set Up i WASHINGTON,. Sept. I workers in the non-ferrous metal and lumber industries in 12 west coast states Monday were forbidden to switch - to other jobs' without first obtain ing specific permission from the US employment service. . losses which said already had reduced production , of i copper, other non-ferrous metals and lum- ! the war mannower commis- sion, designated the 12 states as a "critical labor area." . "t-fr said it was designed to . halt wasteful pirating and migration of workers engaged in the pro- Some elements in congress re duction of essential non-ferrous belled at once. The president had metals and lumber. . . "virtually placed a pistol at the The order directed all depart- menu ana agencies oi uie uoera government to "take all steps which may be necessary or ap- propriate" to insure observance of the regulations. . The "critical labor area," me first to be established In the country, . Is composed of Ari sona, Colorado, Idaho, Mon tana, Utah, Wyoming, Califor nia,: Nevada, Oregon, Washing ton, New Mexico and Texas. All non-ferrous metal mining, milling, smelting and refining and all logging and lumbering- indus tries and activities in the area were designated as "essential war production activities." No employer in the area, wheth er engaged in essential or non essential ' i production, ' may hire any . worker employed In any of the critical occupations, effective Monday, except, upon presentation of a "certificate of separation" from the US employment service. The Dlan was said to be based upon an anti-pirating policy de- veloped by the war manpower commission's national manage- approach to the inflation problem Dul tnere were no reported bomb-ment-labor policy committee, and J would take the form of an Im-1 ms to the metropolitan area. approved by McNutt July 16. Fast Chinese Drive Frees 25 Villages CHUNGKING, Sept s 7-ff)-A strong Chinese offensive in the , vil- la v a central China province of Anhwei has liberated 25 villages in 20 days .and still is gaining ground. the Chinese high command , an nounced Monday night i This drive was matched in the south by a thrust which the of ficial central news ' agency said had resulted in recapture of a number of important places near Samshui, terminus of the Canton- Samshui railway 25 miles west, of Canton. Among the Anhwei points lib erated were a number in the vi cinity of Kwoyang, a town in the northwest part ot the province, the high command said. More than . m . , . . .. i 400 Japanese were auiea in one battle, a war bulletin reported, and a number ot troops of a Japa- nese puppet army surrendered, The high command said troops of the regular Japanese army had attacked headquarters of the pup- pet army at Luiliang, on me Yangtze, and both -the Japanese ftnil th ntinntji lost lieavi It added that toe puppet commander, One Outa-Chang, had fled to Nan- to .f. ioud Protest to WK i-I' JapaDeSe-6Pn- ":: T . rV iue nntu 1 umunaiiu uc .liipaucse were making futile counter-at- tacks against Chinese forces which have driven to the suburbs of Kinhwa, provincial capital and strategic air base for air raids on Japan. - - Explosion I wills Two, Closes Plant . TEXAS CITY. Tex, Sept 7-tfP Two men were burned to death, two others were injured and a $30,COO,CCO oil refinery, carbide 1 of farm price ceilings at less than j men t3 and heavy military con and chemical plant was shut down 110 per cent of parity. , . istruction, the WPB estimated the indefinitely I.Iond3y by the ex- plosion of vapor and a naphtha tank over a 200-square foot area I without in the next or the same j of meeting this year's require at the Pan-Amcricaa ccony sentence callir? for ws-a sliZi-jmenta cf . 23,CC0,CC3,CCD fccard Beadlime . Before Some of Solons Rfthftl nt Plnn Of FRMove , Price SlaLilization by' Congress toBrin Tage Results WASHINGTON Sept. 7- ( AP) f President Roosevelt told congress Monday the war fort WM arply imperiled by a growing; threat of inlla yon demanded legislation X .Oeober 1 to permit stab- lishment of price ceilings for gJl farm products. Unless con- t by that date, Mr. Roosevelt finnly asserted, he will take the necessary action himself. head of congress," objected Sena- tor LaToliette (P-Wis), Senator Taft iR-O) quickly asserted Mr. Ttnnvn aA iAn luUonary and dangerousn doctrine m gaying that under wartime pow- era he could abrogate laws pre viously enacted by congress. " ': In asking for the legislation, Mr. Roosevelt linked wages closely with farm prices as the factors responsible for: the In flationary pressure. If congress . weald act to stabilise farm L prices, he premised Jte weald stabilize wages, a general siiua tion of the cost of living was en tlrely possible, he said, bat tt coald not be accomplished with oat firm control of alt lnfla enees involved. Mr. Roosevelt said he had con sidered meeting the problem him- self "without further reference to the congress' but had decided in- stead to consult with congress. In advance of Mondav's nresi - dential message, some government officials had said Mr. Roosevelt's mediate executive order. Last Friday, an official who could not be quoted by name informed the Associated Press an order had been prepared for issuance today limiting all wages, salaries and farm prices and the Associated Press so reported. In connection with the presi dent's request for congressional action by October 1, Speaker Ray- r"" II Vv uti I house to return to the capital . . . m . burn called all members of the next Monday. The house has been , in informal . recess. In addition to Ms aati-lafU-tioa request Mr. Xoosevelt ask ed congress to quickly enact (he long pending tax bllL Taxation, he said, was "one ef the most powerful weapons in our fight ta stabilise living costs." I "At the same time lie reiterated previ ous demands that taxes be so levied that no individual could retain a spendable Income of more than $25,000. ' And be asked as sin for the elimination f tax exempt securities. dm inieresi cenierea primaruy i . . . . r, 1 ! iiui Vita Vtlnnt -VioTl Antra 4a Via i -i'"" - powerrui congressional larm dioc. ln Presenting this challenge, Mr. Roosevelt offered the farm state congressmen a single concession, r B,we" teujI1.8 Wi"lu esiaousnea ior larm prices, ine " sna " I icvv aut ch downward price ught enn to the infllar; nri mcasel- tte Uidt xaid; "Second, tn ret th. rWulrnd Auction .7 nrv ' . . . . . . T farm Products. Third, to main- tain , the principle of parity for agriculture." ' - ed at parity, or at a level of some receni uaie, wnjcnever is Eisner, he said. And in estimating parity. government benefits paid to the farmers should be included. Par- ity prices are those designed fc give farm products the same pur- cnasing power tney r njoyed . in some past period, usually 1SC3-14. 1 Present laws prohibit Iir.pcsit.lcn Eut almost never did Mr. Eoose- Jvelt mention farm price ceilings US Bombing M France Protested i "VICHY, Sept l.-VPr-Thi pro- : axis government of Pierre La-. yl protested energeUcally to; the -United.: Stater Monday be cause 'American Flying Fortresses - and Bostons' had bombed .cities in occupied France, held by nazi -troops and important to the German war effort. . The protest was- lodged per sonally by Pierre Laval, chief of government and foreign minis- ter, in an interview with the US charge d'affaires, S. Pinkney Tuck. Previously, the govern ment had expressed displeasure after the Americans bombed 'Rouen shortly before the mass ' raid on Dieppe to disrupt com- ? anunication lines -over which' the Germans shuttled reinforce iinents to the coastal -garrison.; : T 1 - A - ' " 1 1 ITlflnri AtPH -wllvtlJll I mX XAX .Flying : Fortresses : Held Key to Air Superiority LONDON, Tuesday, Sept -) Nuisance raiders dropped flares in the London area just before mid night during a 'short air raid alarm, but .heavy anti-aircraft fire drove off the planes before any bombs were dropped. . However, bombs struck In two areas of the .home counties outside London. German planes flying over East Anglia also dropped heavy ex plosives , and incendiaries in one district damage was believed to be minor, most of the incendiaries j Durning out in fields. 1 4 neu Dursis ana tracer ouiiets .leaked the skies over London, and searchlights roved, overhead, LONDON, Sept 7-tWMaj. Gen. Carl Spaats,. commander of US army air force In Europe, (Turn to Page 2, Cot 7) Nelson Urges Labor to End es CLEVELAND, Sept. 7-ifVFlat-ly declaring we will lose the war unless we quickly develop and use "the overwhelming strength that free men ; have when they are completely, united and complete ly in earnest'' Donald M. Nel son asked labor Monday to t end "quickie strikes" and needless ab sences from work. " Addressing thousands of work ers at a Labor day rally broadcast (MBS) nationally , from . Cleve land's public hall, the war produc tion baord duel said we are re lyintf m abor. n kwn ite I .... . ... - . no- striae pieage ana we are also re- lyg on management not to take advantage of labor's agreement to keep from 1 We expect i equal amounts of restraint from both sides." Nelson, saying the axis powers had put winnmg the war aheadof everything else, asserted: . Tt nAm,Mv .tL unless we fight with the detennination and unity of purpose, we are going to f8. War" ying ' w lose war. I'm I are.going to lose (Turn to Para i frl . g 0i- ' - Increased LfUlIlber OllDStltlltC AellCU The war production board urged manufacturers of brick, tile and gypsum board Monday to prepare for an increased demand forth. materials for use in clace of lum. ber. 1 because of lend-lease recuire- available supply cf lumber would j fall 6,CC0,CC0,CC0 board feet short Germans Bomb Stoppag Becrei Wage and Farh Prices Vital; Dangers of Inflation Spiral Described; i .Hero Praised vBy RICHARD LI TURNER .. WASHINGTON, Sept. ' 7. -(AP) President Roosevelt carried hi battle for stabiS- . War Reviewed ttion of living costs to tfc people Monday night with si radio address asserting that v immediate action was necea sary to Avoid a "serions dev. nestle economic crisis, "that "if we waiCfor two "or threi , or four or six months it may' be too late." ' . During, the day he sent -a met ' sage . to congress . demanding leg . Islation by Oct. ..: 1 ta bring . farm l prices under control. Unless con-i ' gress acts by that date he will act himselt he saW. Firmly he reiter a ted this statement, of his. in ten- -tions in, Monday, night's- address." Wim farm prices 'Stabilized, ha himself . would act to . stabilise wages, herpromised. - The radio address, contained also front-bynfront, summary1 of ' the progress 0 the war, which closed with a statement that , in Europe the "aim is an offensive against Germany,' toward which. ; preparations are on progress .: In ' both the United States and Great Britain. The power of Germany must be broken on the battlefields of Europe," he said, adding that:! ' 1 ' "Certain vital decisions have been made. In dne time yon ' will knew .what these, decisions ' ' areand so' will oar enemies. I can say new that all of these decisions i are directed toward taking the offensive." Paragraph by paragraph he re- viewed the war on each front Russia: Hitler is still unable to claim the. "smashing v i c t o ry" which almost a year ago he . an nounced had already . been achieved. Important Russian ter ritory has been captured, but Hit ler has not been able to destroy the Red army. The Russians are "killing more nazis, and destroy ing more airplanes and tanks thanr are being smashed on any other front?r The German army . must spend another "cruel ' and bitter winter? on the Russian front "In spite of many setbacks, Russia win hold out nd with the help of her allies will ultimately drive every nazi from her soil.' I The Pacific area - One major Japanese offensive has been stop ped, but the enemy still possesses. . great strength, seeks to retain the Initiative, and will strike hard ' again. Don't over-rate the vic tories In the Solomon Islands, which were- "local operations." and dont nnder-rate the victory at Midway, for "there we stop ped the major Japanese offen sive." Mediterranean and middle east: A "desperate" battle has been Joined in Egypt for control of the area and the domination of the Mediterranean and Indian oceans; "We are well aware of our danger,' but we are hopeful of the outcome." - In the nine months since ' Fearl llarbor, Mr. Roosevelt said, America has sent three times as many men overseas at went to France fat the equiva lent period ef the first war. - "And every week,", he added, "sees a gain in-the actual num ber of American men and wea pons in the fighting areas. These reinforcements in men and mu nitions will continue to go for ward." ."...- 'V ' " - Bluntly,. Mr: Roosevelt told the American people "we are not do- . ing enough" toward winning the war. The economic situation with its inflationary dangers was proof enough, of that he thought : lie-, described his ; . message to congress and - repeated his de mand that present obstacles to controlling farm prices be re moved. Present law -forbids farm price ceilings at j less than 113 per cent of parity, he noted, ask ing that '-this provision le re pealed. Other restrictions prevent a ceiling of less than 116 per cc-.t. . of parity, he contended. (Tum ta Tecs 2, Cel. 1) : Cita delayed. calitd eenfmaee." felony. vzil hcra. ' (Tum ta Till 2 Cel. I) lf;ct