Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1942)
TAGS TEl The OniGOil STATESMAN, Solera Oregon. Wednesday Morning. September 9. 1312 Slate Guards Slate Combat : Over Weekend The combined forces of cavalry and Infantry of the Oregon state guard will hold a combat maneuv er In the vicinity of Portland, Eeaverton, Forest Grove and St Helens on Saturday and Sunday, tinder the command of Brig. Gen. . Ralph P; CowgOL - - - The following cavalry troop, un der command of MaJ. E. R. Errion, from the Upper; Willamette val ley will move from their' respec- tlve communitici and combine with troop A of Portland troop C under Capt' H. Hofstetter from Salem; troop D under Capt Alan Wright, from Dallas and Mon- mouth; troop E under Capt Paul Blackmon. from Mt Angel, SUver ton and Aumsville; troop H under Capt Richard Barton, from Sheri- - dan: troop I, under Capt R. Don nely, from McMJnnvflle, and troop fc, uhaer , Capt Jack Swanson, from Lebanon. . Horses and equipment .will be transported by trucks to the mo bilization -.: point " near Jortland, and 'forced night inarch will be " made to the bivouac near Beav erton, from which point the com- bat maneuver starts. - The operations staff will con sist of Mai. H. C. Tobin, USA re tired, as cavalry-coordinator; MaJ; Errion, squadron commander; Capt Kenneth Hay, executive of ficer, and Lieut Gray U. Munjar as liaison officer. . The assumed -general situation la that enemy troops of unknown strength have landed at daylight . between Fort Stevens and Tilla t mook and have a beach-head, throwing forward at least one bri o fare, traveling east on Columbia rvier highway and the Wolf Creek cutoff. The mission of the cav falry being to delay these enemy ' troops until reinforcements arrive from regular army forces. Tacti "' cal distribution of the troops, in these maneuvers will be up to the various troop commanders in their ; specific sectors. i. i j Hughes Sells Wool, Auction I SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 8-(ff) San Francisco had its first wool auction Tuesday and. J. W. Hughes, Forest Grove, Ore, auc ' tioneer, sold 700,000 pound? ap proximately 17 per cent of the wool offered. " . The sale, sponsored by the Pa- . cllic Wool Growers association, continues Wednesday when an ad lUtional 60 per cent is expected to Considerably less wool Is up for sale than was offered last year at Stockton, Califs Hughes said, be- cause eastern firms, anticipating Imposition of a price ceiling, pur- - chased large amounts earlier this year. Prices offered Tuesday ranged - from 10 to 54 cents a pound on . 12-month wool, about the same as the -span of prices offered at an auction at Portland last week, Hughes said. Supreme Court Hears Argument, Wallace Appeal First case to be argued before the state supreme court, upon re convening here Tuesday after its annual vacation, was that of Wil , liam Wallace, under death- sen- ' tence for the slaying of Ben Fink- : ell in Portland. .. i The court heard the appeal last spring but later ordered a rehear ing. , Wallace is seeking a new trial on the contention that the Mult nomah county circuit court erred in refusing to permit him to change his defense plea to insan ity after the trial was under way. - Five other appeals will be heard by the supreme court this week, including suspension pro ceedings against Guy O. Smith, Salem attorney. The board of governors of the state bar has re quested the court to suspend Smith from practicing law in Ore gon because- of unprofessional conduct' ; . . "' ;j The . appeal Involving Wallace was . heard by, the supreme court Tuesday afternoon. Prune Harves t ' To Start Soon : CLOVERD ALE The local prune harvest is ready to start about Friday of this week. In a cumber of the orchards. Some rill wait and begin Monday if weather remains - favorable. AH prunes are being sold green this year, to canneries in Salem and Ctayton. ; V v' ' The prune orchards are being cttlvated this week as plans for the picking are underway, v Furkey Tilarliet v Same db 1941 rcr.TLAND, Sept 8-.TV-Ore- i will have approximately !, 7. '.CCD turkeys to market this f: r tni rovers pian to move i earlier tlian usual, the US -rt.cr.t cf ccrrjncrce reported '7 ' " tctsl h about the same as .-, tut 3 per cent above ; " !-C3 'aversse..' ":: i : , j ircver.ber kill is in Cadets Present 1 f - , , Month-eld babies of air heroes who died in battle ever Java received wings from Lieut Ekhard F. Cayweod on behalf of aviation eadets of Randolph field, Texas. Left to right: Mrs. Marjorie Bar ney and son Rocke Weldon Burner; Mrs. Mary F.Laughlin and daughter, Jackie Thomas Langhlin, Jr.; Lieutenant Caywood. Lieot Willis Weldon Barney, .Flying Fortress bombardier, was killed near : Bandoeng, Java. Jack Thomas Langhlin, B-17 co-pilot, was killed near Sarawak, Borneo. Both babies were born at the Randolph Field station hospital. Sonndphoto above was transmitted to San Francisco by International News Sonndphoto, Treasury War Bond Quotas for V S OREGON . . ? v. J 55,000: 1 5,600 - KJOOijrT , i U. ttreesWy OfRcte) War toad' Quotes lot SeaWnir 11 Washlngteii, D. C, Sept l-Septembe War Bond Qaotas for the 1,070 counties in the nation were announced today by Henry Morgenthaa, Jr., Secre tary of the Treasury, to make op the national Sep tember total of f775,000,0, , . . The September quota for the State of Oregon Is SS,750,000. ' " -v: r - - .T - -''r I- ' In fixing the county quotas, the Treasury has con tinued its announced policy of setting the monthly quotas Ja line with the seasonal distribution of in " By KIRKE L. SIMPSON . . - Wido World War Analyst (or Th Statesman' Sifting the Roosevelt and Churchill war summaries for their dominant note, there can be no doubt that it is to be found in the conviction both men expressed that hard-pressed Russia can and will hold out to shatter Hitler's- That necessarily is the bed-rock foundation of Anglo - American planning to destroy Hitler's power "en E u r o p e a n battlefields," as President Roosevelt said. It is the keystone of the arch of offensive action being built; the, vital ele ment of decisions already taken in1 Washington and London. . . ''I T can now say," Mr. Roosevelt said, "that all of these decisions are directed toward taking the of fensive.' - '2' ?" - The element in the struggle in Kussla, aside from Russian en doranee and , fighting genius, ' which appears to have made the biggest impression on President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Chorehm la the nasi time loss. ; Millions of . . German ; troops seem doomed to spend another cruel and bitter Winter on 1 the Russian front," said President Roosevelt - Tho' Russians are killing more Germans and de stroying more airplanes and .tanks than are being smashed on any other front , : . ; It so happens that the Churchill summary came on the first anni versary of naii Investment of Br. Syflnsy Pan! tcvczqj " 7.V ' -" VETERINARIAN . . ': . 'Announces the Reopening of ; I: Salem Veterinary Hospital Tho Dedicated to the care and treatment at largt Wings to Babies of Dead Air Heroes ,. . v.. . - come with the erro as the annual roaL Tha national went on the biHlon 000,000. For June July it Jumped to was X8l5.OQ0.ftOO. considerably to . ;v conquest dream. Leningrad. Berlin announced it had been "completely cut off on September 9 last year; yet today it Is free of encirclement and Its garrison ceaselessly on the attack. . The Germans wee reported last September tn the suburbs ox Len ingrad with only 15 miles of flat country between them ,and their goal; They were as close to Len ingrad and its embattled popula tion as they now are to Stalin grad; but they never reached it That year general rains along the whole Russian- front were re ported by mid-September. Th e nazi war machine ground forward, nevertheless, to take Kieve. close ly threaten Moscow. ' On October 2 Hitler bugled from his Russian headquarters that" "today ' begins the last great decisive battle of this year.". ThV next day in Ber lin ho "uttered the famous boast that Russia was already broken tod will never rise again." - Twenty days' later Etler bul letins wero noting snow and freesing weather to excuse fail ure to take Moscow; but be had overruled his' generals to take SCO J 4- , , September bCIlon - doIlar monthly, national av ouota for May. when the nation - a - month annnal basis, was 600,- the quota was 1800,000,099 ana lor $1,000,000,000. The Aagust quota so to maintain the billion-dollar annual monthly average, the qaotas for the Fan and Winter months must necessarily be stepped up reach the objective set. U.S.TnotmrjDifrtmit supreme command himself and press on against all such winter portents. By November 22 his troops wero in Rostov, the "gate way to the Caucasus", now far behind them; but Just a week later his armies were in general retreat :- It is that bitter German experi ence of 1941 which best illustrates what both President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill had in mind in noting the time element in Russia. Hitler Js now holding vastly more extended lines than he held, last September or in No vember when the winter halted him.' He needs more men, more planes and more supplies in Rus sia now than last year; nor is there any prospect he e a n disengage them for use in the west or in Egypt ::-v: Former Newberg Man Takes Life . PORTLAND, Sept 8-(V-The body of Emery Belanger, 51, for merly of Newberg and more re cently of Portland, was found Monday night by state police in a car off the Wapinitia highway near Frog lake. A hose led from the exhaust pipe into' the car and a note dated August 26 asked for giveness for his act":': 7 N : His .widow," Minnie,'' survives; 5 VssrW 'BBiirirsrersBB&B uriiTPiD AIR LIMES FO R fnAVEL jtlFOn A A Tl O " ' ;. '- ' v ; scuEsvas to fCJtru:.'3, sJsi nwiasco, lot awcuij. OSCAOO, KIW TOM, WASKN3T0N ; ' UNITED Aid LINES Slm Alport, TL 37.41 VIA Colonel Find What WAAC Stands for By MARGARET KERNODLET 'Wide World reatures Writer FORT DES MOIME5, la. NO- body else . ever, did what Lieut i CoLT5avid Jennings, ot ther uniiea duies army u uulu. un- til now nobody couia. He is the first man In Ameri can ; history to command troops of men and women soldiers in the same army. outfit ' Until November hell command mixed: troops, including three companies of enlisted men and two companies of WAAC's. Later the women, wm as;e over , me work the men do now. From now until; November they'll under study the men. - o'iV '3-- This man Is good stern army stuff, the sort of fellow who gets called "a real army man." From the frown of his eyebrows to the straight set of his mouth and the you-do-it voice, he has what WAACs call ."the army lesjlv-rv-;--' Colonel Jennings insists - he can throw rocks better than he can shoot a rifle. Maybe that makes him more the man to command the mixed troops because law won't allow the women to carry rifles anyhow. Besides, - he was picked to direct the academic bat talion of Fort Des Moines not be cause of his shooting ability but because of his splendid army training and experience. He Is an outstanding example of the care the military took in choosing men to direct the first woman's army of America. Sure, he thought he was- being demoted when he got orders to train wom en. He didn't even know what WAAC meant because he'd been too busy in camp to read news papers. At this fort he has a say-so in everything that goes on except I the actual training of the women. I . Headed by Lt CoL R. H. Cros He's got good background for this. I by, the gunnery department trains He's even a lawyer. The colonel 1 attended the first officers' training I course in : this country at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana in the first world war. (He's a na tive of New Castle, Znd.) And he helped organize the first officer candidate school of this war. y At the TJnfrersitr of Wiscon sin he was a halfback, but he quit school for the war. In Chi cago before returning to .the army, in which he's been a "re serve officer since 1917, he was an investment banker. His. golf used to be tn the high SO's. In the past year he played only three times although he had a game every weekend until then.' Housing , proved Colonel Jen- ning's '-big g e s t headache here. Mess rnaniiedito be a pile of 4 iJiJji v . .1 v- at the post, he plans three messes in town for. women who will get special training while living in Des Moines hotel barracks. Among the post personnel he directs are the cooks and bakers, the butchers and kitchen police. ; ; He's married, has no children. His black hair is graying but he has plenty of it He came here from the field artillery training center where he'd been to army school again, at Fort Bragg, NC There he saw the army movie, "Method of Teaching," three times because he considers it so good a visual Idea of the excellence of army instruction. That's the kind of man' he is, all for the army. And as long as his Job ' is directing ; women to work with the army, you can bet your academic battalion he's go ing to do it right ' - . . , - Move to Affect - . ... - .s..-. . Oregon Little PENDLETON, Ore Sept 9.-VP) -Wheat grower s of this area would be affected little by stabU ization of farm prices at parity, as a s k e d by President Roosevelt, A. R. Coppock, Umatilla county AAA chairman, said Tuesday. ' Government loans are now be ing made at 83 per cent of parity, Coppock, pointed out, with the re maining 13 per cent , being paid grain producers for soil conserva tion practices ; R DO no 8 Vift r Qwl V lUC : XvJLwlX Mr., and Mrs. Ellis E, Ellwood of route two, box 54, have three sons in the service. Eldon M. is In San Diego with the quarter master corps; Staff Sgt Kenneth C. Is at Ephrata, waso. In ' an air force gunnery school and Staff Set Jack is with the air force in India. A ; letter from the latter was received recently by his par- - nts. All three bovs are eraduates iqi Salem high school. W. "Harry TVledmaief a d. Fred Sullivan, Salem men who left early in the simmer to take basie army "training at ; Camp Roberts, Califs preparatory to entering officer; e a n d I d avt e schools, are expected, soon to enter the latter, according ' to word received by friends.' Sul- , livan has left for Camp Hood, Tex, to train for tank destroyer officership. Wiedmaier Is at tending NCO school before go ing to officer training, at Fort Bennlng, Ga4 infantry school. ' Second . Lieut Del K. Neider baser, former employe In the state industrial accident commission of fices here, returned to Salem Monday night for a brief visit before reporting for a new as signment at an air field at On tario, Calif. He recently finished a two-months schooling at the Normoyle motor base, San An tonio, Tex. - PORTLAND, ' Sept s SHy-Ma nne corps recruits announced Tuesday included John C Ker- rick, Salem. FORT KNOX, Ky. Acting up on orders Issued ; by MaJ. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, chief of armored forces,. Sgt Clarence H. Adams, son of Mrs. Clara B. Adams, Bligh hotel, reported Tuesday for a spe cial course of instruction in the gunnery aepartment of the ar mored force school, the technical war .'college of that hard-hitting -blitz" branch of the army. : the necessary skilled experts who maintain and repair the thousands Of .weapons use d by 1 armored units. Included in this streamlined four-weeks course is practice shooting at both stationary and moving targets, as well as from moving tanks on an outdoor range. FORT KNOX Ky Sept i Ready to begin their basic, traln- i mg course which, when complet ea, will . qualify them for. duty with the armored force, the fol lowing , newly-inducted selectees have" arrived at the armored force replacement training center here preparatory to duty with the new est and fastest-moving land force of the army'. For the first six weeks of the HSS?0 m i win be taught the fundamentals Of flbldiering. They will study the organization of the army and ar mored force; , lnsignlas " of rank; military courtesy and discipline care of doming and equipment; map reading and many other courses. ' :; - - r.vV - During the second six-week period, the men may find them selves in any one of the follow ing companies: special training, light tank, medium tank, seottt- t- k J ill-. u xx 'it - Here Is theklnd of stunning " . . - . . . punaea young Americans are going ior in oig wji o im ply styled with clean cut lines and refreshing lack of orna mentation that reveals the beauty ot the solid oak wood. , Quality construction throughout Large plate glass mirrors. Includes full size bed. chest of drawers, and lovely vanity, Upholstered vanity bench 13J9 extra. . - . ' ' Wtcr The7 Art What TWr Doina ing and patrolling, mortar, anti tank, machine, gun, assault gun, reeonnaisanee. v . '. Pvt .Qetus J. Annen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Annen, route one, Mk Angel; Pvt 'Percy. R. Calkins, husband of Mrs. Gertrude By Calkins, route one, box lis. Dallas; Pvt William E. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Smith, St Paul; Jvt Charles A. Woodruff, sori of Mrs. Effie Wood ruff, St Paul; Pvt Hugh Ector, son ox Mr., and Mrs. Ecjor,1 route two, box 31V Salemj; pVtfLaw rence R. ! Anderson, v son jff Mr. and Mrs. Theodore C. Anderson, 607 Whittier street SUverton; Pvt Glen A. Nealeigh, son of Mrs. Gladys Vi Mahan, 101 Tavern. Tillamook; Pvt Wylas V. ; Fxeel man, son' of Mrs. Louise Free man, route one, box 139, Wood- burn; Pvt Lyman R. Dehut son of Mrs. Benita Dehut, 44 Gatch street, Woodburn. . Lt S. A. Stone, Jr- was a brief visitor to Salem recently, during his transfer from Paine field, Ev erett, Wash., to Mines field, Los Angeles. Lt Stone is with the ar my air corps. . 1 The following interesting letter was received - by The Statesman Tuesday from First Lieut Ralph E. K i r c h o f f,' now stationed at Greenville, Miss., army flying school: "Dear, Sirs: t . -. ; ' 4 "I have been receiving your pa per daily for the last three .weeks and have enjoyed reading your column "Service Men" as I rec ognize many of the names. -- "My first promotion came Sep tember 1 when I was promoted to the grade of first lieutenant I have been flight instructor- at the basic school here since Feb ruary and recently passed the 1000 hour mark in the air as an instructor in a basic trainer. "I also attended Salem high school and Willamette university. "Sincerely yours, 1 "RALPH E. KIRCHOFF, . "1st Lt-Au Corps." - Eugene E. BothweU, private first class, completes two years in the US army today. He enlisted at the Salem office on September 9, 1940, he reminds his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. BothwelL 1385 Jefferson, in a letter just received. He is at present stationed ' at Fort Ord, Calif. Since his enlist If I an bed for bjiricLi an add cccideal, do I have, lo pay His expense cf defense? CHUCK u Oregon9 s Largest Upstate Agencf - ' Scrlein cmd 129 N. Commercial modern furniture that future ' . f . . 1 . ..Ml Convenient Credit Tercia ment he has been home just three days OH leave. INDEPENDENCE Earl Har mon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Harmon, is home on a short leave from his station at San Diego ca- i val base.' . r. . : ; i Staff Sgt and Mrs. Melvin Boyce and son from Fort Lewia have been Visiting relatives here. Mrs. Gussle Calef has received word that her son, Ernest, has finished his training at Dartmouth college and will soon be assigned, as an instructor in naval duty. Ho has been commissioned a lieuten'4 ant Fred Calef is now at Camp Carson, Colo. ' fJ- . r ';'. rr-;- LINCOLN Frances Beem, for merly of Lincoln;" has recently been transferred from Hawaii tj another post Pr evl ou s to his transfer he-was in the same com pany as three other men from Lin coin, Sanf ord Clark, Bob ; Cherry I .Mrs. Lois Crawford has receiyc4 a letter from her nephew, Claude Edward :Smith. wn'o is stationed at amp Bradford, Va. This la Smith's third attempt to enlist f li the navy, having started out first when 16 yearf old. This time he enlisted at Portland August 12. I Pvt Kenneth - Edwards, son cf Mr. and Mrs. W. R. -Edwards,! is stationed , at Xas sVegas, Nevada, He has been joined there by his wife who is working in a store in Las Vegas. . . Plane Plywood Output Spars SEATTLE,. Sept 8.-()-Within the next two weeks the Pacific northwest will start the produc tion of a million square feet of aix craft plywood a month for inva sion gliders, training airplanes and convertible sections of combat air craft; R. S. Watsonv of the Los An geles bureau of the war produc tion boardV said Tuesday. ; Watson, chief of the bureau's' wood aircraft division; was hero to arrange a supply of from four to. six million square feet of ply -wood for California aircraft plants by 1943. W-:-.;: ; .The United States Plywood com Lpany factory in Ballard, two plants in Portland and one in Belling ham will turn out the initial sup ply but .Washington and Oregon wilt probably bo asked to produce tremendously larger quantities in 1943, Watson said. mil . O CHGT insunANCE I I Marahfield . Salem Dial 44C9 - 3 - Pbco Suite "I' t:: rertiand Toa4 " ": i Calem, Ore. ' . Thene 411 CO.