If v . Complcfo Tho Insido , Year complete moraine newspaper. The Statesman, offers yon pertinent- com ments on war newt of the day by Klrke Simpson, Washington analyst - - - tTzirrr-crcoND year 1 1 aia Ffi ' , -"-.-' "'-,T'i' vr-v ci ! -" -". 777) .F. T Nazi Tanks S jBerl Glai in Piercing of City Frontal Assault Cains Headway; Soviets Claim 73 Nazi Divisions Routed in Four 31onths; Peril Great . By HENRY C. CASSIDY " MOSCOW, .Thursday, Sept.-10--Massed German tanks , nd infantry smashed in a frontal assault toward the' western gates of Stalingrad forced the red army -to give tip' two more ' populated places in the third Russian retreat in as many days, ' in official announcement said early Thursday. German troops also "broke BERLIN (From German Broadcasts) . Sept. $-iP)Som Ger man troops before StaitngTad have advanced In one ares to the -. city Itself, the German Trsnsocean news arency reported Wednes day nliht Just where the advance was made waa not stated. Knsslan Troops were reported helding en the southwest ' approaches to Stalingrad, but In the Caucasus the naxis were acknowledged to have , broken Into the northwestern entskirts of Nevoressisk on the Black sea coast. --..-,;. i ' ".The news arency's dispatch, broadcast by the Berlin radio, - v said-the Kusslans despite reinfercementa and stronx defenses have . . ' not. been' able to chanre the situation anywhere in their favor - and fMrhtinc continues aeeordint to the German schedule. " - :1 - - - . .. -. f' No vorossisk, . soviet Black Which the Germans claimed capturing Sunday, despite "tremend 4TE&c!siiToId v 'I A. ; ExLiiier Alanhattan Gutted by Rapid Firc'atSea WASHINGTON, . Sept -tfP) ). Tales of cool heroism and" daring ' rescue were told Wednesday by ' survivors of. the navy transport Wakefield once the $10,000,000 v liner Manhattan gutted last Thursday night by fire which swept through that great vessel as thought it had, been "a barn full of hay - " First word of the fire, which . occurred somewhere on the At lanuc wnue the transport was - travelling in convoy to . an east ; coast port,-was given out by the : navy here. It -said a preliminary i checkup indicated that all. the crew and passengers, totalling , about 1600,. had been saved,- al : though several were injured. - . The passengers included civil- -tans, and. presumably sailors, '. while . the - vessel had. a normal crew of 600 to 700 men. She was kippered by Comm. Harold ; Gardner Bradbury of Port Ange i ies, - Wash. After escorting war ' ships in. the convoy bad taken all (Turn' to Page 2, Col. 4) . Oregon1 Sends 70th f ; ; ' liberty Down 7ay : PORTLAND,. Sept -P!hThe . George' H.. Thomas, the Oregon . f Shipbuilding -corporation's - 70th liberty'; freighter;-slid from" the I ways WrdnetedayS 34 days after the ; keel was laid. George H. Tliomas ; was Union general in the Civil ! war. - The wife of a rigger, Mrs. . ; Frank W Richards, christened the - i vessel. . - all' Mie Sale: i . Eighteen thousand? enthusiastic Salem residents did not "Walk or 1 drive through the white gates at the state fairground for Salem .day Wednesday. - i Minus the throngs that ordixvar :liy characterize fair events this week in the year, Oregon's war time miniature state fair, devoted only to 4H club exhibits and fat livestock events, opened at .the fairgrounds Wednesday , f o r . a three-day run. . -.. f One section of the fat stock show at the livestock barns, how ever, bears near semblance to prewar fairs, for Fair Manager Leo G. SpiUbart has seen to it that flags and banners "are float ing above the judging rings. Other exhibits of clubbers are displayed in the grandstand exhibit quar ters and make a good showing In fJs ter3 area. . Tiveaiy seven counties were Xrjrrrff:! La the,projects re- , "1 ; rrnT .alii mash; m Is into the northwestern outskirts" sea naval base in the Caucasus ous losses in men and material,' the .communique acknowledged. . While , the, fi ht , f or Stalingrad roared fen, the "tovie bureau of information in a summary of the summer fighting said 73 enemy divisions, . including 54 German, Were routed by the Soviets be tween May 1 and August 31. On the Russian side, . a special ' an nouncement said, 42 soviet ' rifle divisions and 25 brigades suf fered considerable losses in the same period. (The Germans had broadcast a statement Monday, that 58 red army divisions and " 93 brigades had , been smashed ' by the nazis from May 1 to August 3 1 the same period covered in the Rus sian announcement) -. Courageous red army men try' ing to make a "Red Verdun" of Stalin Tad were reported fighting against tanks with only rifles, but the tremendous German armored columns attacking fron tally were creeping closer daily to the im periled Volga ' river city. (The Berlin radio quoted a dispatch as saying that some German-troops had reached the city, itself.) ' Southwest of Stalingrad the Russians said their troops were repulsing constant attacks and that at least 21 more hazi tanks had -been destroyed, and three German-Rumanian infantry com panies annihilated. The Russians fighting against 'numerical'1 and mechanical odds west of the city ha4 fought two days to bold the two populated : places before yielding, the com- m unique said. One rifle unit was said to have destroyed 10 Ger man : tanks,' 14 : guns ' and 300 . enemy j troops' In . this ' losing battle. v Vi.,. r;.;- ' Nazi seizure of Stalingrad would imperil the; whole red army mill tary structure, since it dominates the Volga river- supply line to the middle east and is the link between Russia s central and southern armies. ' ceived up to Wednesday night and more may arrive fa . the sails this morning. This show ing State Club Leader. H. C Seymour considers remarkable in view of prevailing conditions. Club boys and girls from eight western Oregon counties and the city of Portland are participating in the fat market livestock judg ing and showmanship contests, which are the only events of this nature. Counties represented i in the stock division are Linn, Lane, Benton, Clackamas, Marion, Clat-1 sop, Multnomah and Washington. r Thirty two boys competed : in the fat stock judging contests con cluded just before 6 o'clock Wed nesday night .Each boy. judged eight classes of market animals three each hogs and lambs and two beef steers and then pre sented both written and oral rea sons for their platings on two of these, classes. ---.7. ! 7TJ7 , , . . : : : " "V" ' , ".'. : " - I ! ?mue 2 -Tone Shoes Lose to War WASHINGTON, Sept t-W Some of those fancy shoes, In cluding the two-tone jobs, be-' came .war casualties Wednes- day Te'sare leather, the war pro Auction " board . prohibited: the manufacture' of t w o - colored footwear, and reduced the va riety of colors and styles to be made for next spring and sum mer. No ;: restrictions were placed.' however, ' on the total , number of shoes to be produced. ; Colors were limited to the' foilowinc: 'Black,- white, turf tanv. army . russet, town brown and blue. 1 Except . for blucher cut laced boots and cowboy utility boots, the order prohibits the manu facture of , leather boots of any' kind, effective October lh Europe Cities Feel Air Raid Radio Stations off Air; Budapest : ' . -Said Bombed LONDON, Sept 9 PK S- den; radio shutdowns Wednesday night in .Berlin, Paris, Budapest . and 4d Czechslovakia indicated thai allied bombers were ranging", oyer 'great areas of German-occupied Europe from both British and Russian airdromes. ' ' t- The evidence of air raid was BERLIN, (from German broadcasts), Thursday, Sept' 10- (if) Russian bombers raided ' Budapest capital of Ilungary," during the nlcht DNB dis patch reported early Thursday.- most positive in Budapest where the announcer in his last words before going off the air . told of an alert (Turn to Page t. Cot 7) Kaiser Finds No Verdict On Planes - " WARTTTNrriTnw snt Henry J. Kaiser; said Wednesday night that a conference with Don- aid M - Nelson," war production I chief, -had produced "no verdict"! on hi& proposal for the mass con struction of huge. cargo carrying! airplanes. - . Nelson had - previously told newsmen after the conference that "we are going to pursue this thing lust, as rapidly as- possible to its i logical conclusion. He diefnot say, Just what he! implied by "logical conclusion. Kaiser said the conference was handicapped by the fact that nei-1 ther his own engineer, Douglas Albert nor K. K Ridley, engineer for his associate, Howard Hughes, was present The engineers,. he said, , were in-possession of all the complete and final details of plans for the cargo ships : and little progress could be made without them. He is prepared to use either aluminum or . plywood in con struction, he said. Vernon Flanagan, 17, six-year clubber- from Junction City, emerred as grand champion for all classes In the Wednesday Judging. He scored SIS of 1C possible points only 19 points above Loren Fisher, Albany route two. Third place in all classes went to William Rich- ardson, Albany route one. rnmni.a i I.-,'- t(:; i;V;; ' -? tt,,. 'i . JwUrmuH . en x isner, Ainany, route two, w, second, amy uietz, Can by, route route two, 351; fourth, Art Ohling, AiDanyr route inree, 344; nnn, tie .between Donna McKinley,! Shedd, 342, and Merlin Marsh, Al bany, rcui.. three, 242; seventh, William Hichardson, Albany, route one, 337; eighth, rttty Jean Curt- (Turn to Ps v, Cclumn fi) 5 fa . pDay'ThFong FOUND Salem, Oregon Thursday Morning, -.V Grain Bin Buildinff OPLumber To Fabricate . Sections Here . Contracts to fabricate wall sections lor 250 emergency emergency grain storage bins being purchased b y federal agencies for distribution among wheat growers - has been ob tained by the lumber division, formerly the Charles K. Spauld ing Logging company's Salem sawmill, sash and door factory, of Oregon Pulp it Paper com" rny. it. was disclosed .Wednesday by E. A. Linden, manager of the di vision. Value of the contract was not revealed. , .' " ... , . ,Vt Linden said production probably would get under way next Mon day on the order. , . The demounted wall sections will be out and drilled to speci fications in a temporary 41 by 164-foot roofed I pavUoa built on the ,lumbef, plant's eld retail yara - property, across . Ton street to the east from the sash axtf doer plant at the rear of tLe Salem Feed and Seed company building. ' ' " .2 ! - V The initial 1250 units constitute more or less a trial operation, with orders for "ten times that many" being available if the pre-fabrica tion plan works out well, Linden indicated. C. D. Johnson Lumber company of Toledo, Ore., is the in ventor of this particular type of bin and the holder of the prime contract " The bins involved are 11-sided, approximately 20 feet in diameter and .15 feet high. ' No metal is required -. for their erection and only short lengths six to eight feet of two-inch grain-proof fir lumber are required for their con struction. Each unit holds 3400 bushels. They are held together by interlocking ends of -the wall planks, reinforced by wooden tie- rods. . " ii.suiiicient lumber can De od- "fSnt at vita"- from the OP&P company sawmill here, it is planned to run the bin plant three eight-hour shifts day, 12 to J5 men per shift, Lin den said. . . , , . The management hopes to complete Its 250-unit order, re quiring approximately one mil lion feet of - lumber, . within month's time. -'. -'. V . : Aside from the crews to run the bin plant the mflL sash and door and box - factories operated : on j front street by the OP&P lumber division is now employing 200 men j More than 90 per cent of the three units' output is going into war and closely related construction, Land en said. Calls Strike By The Associated Press Workers -of Luxembourg, the tiny steel-making grand duchy crowded between Germany, Bel gium and France Wednesday went out in the first- general strike to be called in any German-occupied country, even' though the gestapo told - them -that" any convicted striker would be shot Thus Luxembourg, first to feel the might of the May 10, 1940, blitz answered Germany's 10-day old. decree which mcorpprated the grand duchy into the reich and made, its youth subject to Ger- man military service. Hitler has. fully exploited Lux. embourg's blast-furnace and steel wnich rank among tue ten most productive in the world. bOtVlCO r 110X1 Ilenry Cutler, son of Herman Cutler' of. Salem, has been wounded In action And is being sent back to the United States from Australia,. according to i cabled - message-received Wed nesday by his father.- .. Awarded Luxembourg no ICZ1 September 10, 1S12 Amends SEN. ROBERT TAFT Asks savings report . Forced Saving To Be Studied Victory Levy Added. To Revenue Bill In Committee WASHINGTON, Sept 9iTVA congressional survey ,t compul sory saving pla"8 to meet a sub stantial s&are- xa war coats was approved 'Wednesday by the sen ate iinance. committee . after It formally- added to the- new' rev enue bill a 9 per cent "victory" levy on all, earnings bove 624 yearly. . : . f Taking cognizance of a recent statement by , Secretary Morgen thau that the treasury could not rely beyond the end of this year on voluntary financing, the com mittee wrote into the measure a provision setting up a 11 -member committee . to study .compulsory savings and report to congress by January IL Senator Taft (R-Ohio), who sponsored this amendment, - told reporters voluntary bond purchase was "wholly inadequate" to pro vide the future billions needed to supply the nation's war machine. (Turn to Page 2, CoL S) Auto-s Wreck Kills R. Ogle; ; 2 Women Hurt: INDEPENDENCE, Sept 9 Richard Frank Ogle, 62; was in stantly killed and two women were . critically injured when the Ogle car . was hit broadside by an Oregon Electric freight train on a private crossing four miles 'east of town at 6:30 Wednesday morn ing.."" : The ' injured . women, - Vernie Ogle, the dead man's wife, and Mrs. Leota ' Hubbard Williams. were takpn o Salem General hos- piiai py, jr, ueorge inoiu. .-, - The three the only passengers in the car, were on their way to' pick hops at the Hugh; Nelson yard.' known 1 also as the Winn yard; The private road' Into" the yard crosses the railroad track close to the entrance. " - Mrs. Ogle was said to be In a critical condition and may have a fractured skulL' Mrs. Williams has a. fractured skull and was un conscious when taken to the hos pital. - - v "Mrs, .Williams , husband, Larry Williams, is in the US military service, and is believed now sta tioned in California. r Ogle's body was brought tq In dependence and is at the Smith Raiin mortuarr. ' The accident happened on the Marion county side of the Wil lamette river and T. A. Golden, deputy county coroner for Marion county, visited the scene of the accident a short time, aft a: it happened. . --: - Full Vcc!i Hequircd SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9 -OP) A new rule requiring longshore men to work at least 40 hours a week has been put into effect to secure additional manpower for handling shipping, the Pacific coast maritime ndustry board an nounced .Wednesday, ( 1 W" . . - - " H o -- I .V, . o iinday Pay 7th Consecutive "Day Unaffected By FDR Order WASHINGTON, Sept. Mff) President Roosevelt signed an executive ' order Wednesday eliminating payment of double- time rates for work on Satur day, Sunday, or holidays, as such. The order permits double time for a seventh consecutive day of work,- but not for any par ticular day of the week as , such, The days of the week lose their identity -for w a g eetermining purposes. - - S , Tho; action, tthe .White? House said, la In line with pledges given the president-jeverai. months ago by AFL President William Green and CIO President Philip; Mur ray. . : --.. .. ' ; "Many anions, said the an nouncement -C.Th a t e! already modified then? contracts to put this pledge Into effect' and fas order to make tho practice anl vertal the 'eirr 'has bee'a h ed. . 'i '-.7,M'X:l . -"-','.-' - The CIO United Auto, Workers, at its C h t e a'g 6 convention last month, served notice it would not be bound by its promise to waive double time rates unless all other unions : complied Within 50 ." days. - In a recent national labor rela tions board case, the United Auto Workers complained that a rival AFL ' union had ; campaigned against it with an argument that the UAW had needlessly waived double' time rates 'against the best interests of the workers. The White House announcement said the double 'time for the seventh day of work was to en courage. In the interest of effi ciency, one day of rest in seven. The ' order permits payment for work over 40 hours a week at the rate of time and a, half, as pro vided in the wage-hour act Tliackers Buy KuKn Dwelling Sale ; of the .895 North Cottage street dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Kuhn to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thacker 'for an': unrepealed .sum marks the transfer of one of Sa lem's larger residence properties. Built by them 12 years ago, the house is', to be - vacated, by the Kuhns sometime 'this fall after they have secured another place to live, they said Wednesday in dis cussing' the sale; of the' property and some of the furnishings. The Thackers, now living at the Thack er and- Wiliiamr htP ranch 1 on roXite : two; ' expect -to make the Cottage street house their home. After the war 'the Kuhns plari to build on Winter steet property, they said. - ers About India - When the , All-India congress party meets it conducts its bust ness In English although the ob ject of .the meetings is to separate India from England," Dr.- George Allen Odgers told Salem, Rotarians Wednesday. Dr, Odgers has taught for many years in India and is now dean of Multnomah college, Portland. He spoke of the many religions, which go to make up the population of India and the conflicts which re sult from these groups. - He ventured the opinion that if India falls to the Japanese it will lengthen' the war but said he was not a prophet US Buying T.Iilk ' CHICAGO, Sept 8-OVFrank E. Rice, executive secretary of the Evaporated Milk association, said Wednesday , the federal depart ment of agriculture has accumu lated more than 25,CC3,CC0,CC cases cf evaporated mule BdtiMe Qui h ff VVV.VV.VV. - , NEWS pins- CC: - .. , . UUNITY NW& . - - TAzk la. worn t , 7T Mi 7771 if Invasion Sldlled FiglitersFlai : v Allied Troops on Trail; Other Action Said light ; GEN MacAUTHURfS HEADQUAllTERS, AUI TRALIA,; Thur sdy, !Sept. 10. (AP) Japan troops have pushed through the Owen Stanley moun t tains and now are less than 44 miles from the big allied v base of Port Moresby, keystone of New Guinea tlefen i ses, an allied communique The enemy "successfully outflanked our position! : at Myola" on the northern side of the mountains,' reach ed Ef ogi on the southern side only 44 miles from Port Moresby,' and did still another outflanking mofementi " - the allied command Announced .; - fighting is now to the 1 Yanli Offense Rolling Again Airmen Bomb Glxo in Solomons to North : Of Guadalcanal . WASHINGTON, )S pi; 9-(ip) American air forces,. turning once mors' to the cf;.ensi?e in the Eolo4 raon islands bombed and strafed Japanese shore Installations on GizO" Island, 213 miles northwest of the US base on ' Guadalcanal, the navy 4 reported Wednesday night -r The 4 operation was carried out last Sunday without any resist ance from the enemy' and ap parently marked the start., of 1 a whole new phase of offensive ac tivity in the conquest of the Solo mons. Ever since the Solomons, invasion started August 7, it has been expected that, consolidation of American positions in the south eastern section of the islands would be followed by attacks on Jap positions to the northwest The navy communique disclos ing the aerial assault on Giao said that the process of mopping up enemy units in Guadalcanal : was continuing.; Another disclosure of the com munique was that on September 5 a navy patrol plane shot down large Japanese four-engined flying boat northwest of the Solo mons. No details of this engage ment were 'given, but the, loss of the flying boat brought to at least 123 the number of planes which the Japs have had destroyed in Solomons fighting to date. " (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) " Lease Proposal , : S Presented For, Ghrome SKmrig . " Proposal to lease three .40-acre tracts to tidal beach': sands in southwest' Oregon for chrome ore extraction operations' at a return to the state ischool-irreducible school fund of 7 per cent of gross sales was presented to the state land board .Wednesday on behalf of the Oregon.Chrome company. The board, took the pro posal under consideration. ' ;-. -1 'Should the lease be granted and the operation prove out as antici pated, the return to the school fund would be substantial- board members indicated. Two . corporations : are working on chrome operations on Coos county beach sands above. . tide level. The state's royalty, rights extend only, from the high tide level westward into the sea. Drink IsFatal, HtAngel Lad MOUNT ANGEL, Sept Eiht-ycar-oli . John Meissner went exploring in an old cannery buildlzg here Wednesday, - He found ft bottle, drank part of its contents, and died ew hours later in a Silverton hos pital. - - . - , The bottle contained a weed killer. , . He was the son cf Mr, and Mrs. Peter Meissner. YeaH Cad as ewr?s?et . can (ire more real sa&fae , Ilea than vcrr loci, tzar? - 11 12 said Thursday. . . I ; . i south along a narrow trail U: i, C'D'- 'I " ?' MdAQ(B' which leads across a mountain&ui f divide," the ominous communiqui said. v .-, . - : - ' ; Allied airplanes bombed and strafed the enemy in cooperatioii with ground forces Which werifr : fighting -"tenaciously an! gall an V " ly under conditions of extraordj nary hardship and difficulty thf war bulletin 'said. ' . . The allied defense forces wcr commanded by Lieut Gen. 8. F. ' Rowell, former deputy chief 9! tli ; Australian' general staft- . ..;-',' The drive to Efogf represented A 16-mile "t-vrcpf; front' Kokoda whereithe SmatU t;xa' tleiy drive-feveraJkday ago. - . Zispatchei from-I'll Iroal . ,sald: that the -enemy, already .- ."has covered the tougltest part of the tortaoas trail lesdiag t " ; Port Moresby,' . J - - " : ,J . . . .. Efogi Is 44 aaOes by air from Port Moresby and IS or trait The enemy faeea several mown tain ranges before reaching ' comparatively level g r a a i leading to the allied base, ' -While acknowledging that ,thf - fighting was under the worst post sible conditions, officials here alio pointed out that the Japanese thuf far had shown a particular adapt ability to this type of fighting. . The enemy Is reported . usinf special Jungle fighters who par ' ticipated In the overrunning cf Malya and Singapore, and thd -' tactics are the same a steady in ,:. filtration and outflanking of al' '. lied defenders who are supplied over muaoj mouniainous pains .,- . from Port Moresby. ' " tj ' Port Moresby's seLraro would - - deprive ' the allies of Its only : ' well-developed b a s in New : ' Guinea, and open the way to a Japanese Invasloo) of Australia Cape York e the horthern tip - of Australia Is snly US miles from Port Moresby widen Is equipped with- an . airdrome ' whence allied bombers have been; striking, at enemy bases . In p p e r and eastern New ' ' Guinea t V". "; - - 7 The .atrength" ot the; Japanese forces now menacing the, base was . not known,' nor have any figure been released-on the size of thf v PortIoresby garrison. . vvrfn tne Japanese first landed .;, at! tuha-Gona mission on th 3 ' eastern) side of -the Papuan penin suia utie in Juiy weir strengta was estimated is high as 2501) i men. Reinforcements of undis ', closed number have Ueen landed '"- JTurn to Page 2, CoL I) ' wr - -. vater limes Ashed For r Fl Sheds ' Installitlcn St a pipe line tndt ' several hydrants, for the protec tion of the state penitentiary flax sheds, 'was recommended by the state board of control Wednesday. ' The cost of the project was es timated at S 20,000. , The board deferred action en the report until the next meeting. Recent fires destroyed two cf the prison flax sheds and content! with a loss estimated 8t ?S3,C33. , Warden George Alexander's re port, having to do with Ldw ths fires started, was not completed la time for Wednesday's maetir.g of the board but wEl be prc::r.tci ' next week, he said. The trsca squad of the state police depart ment'Is assisting Alexander li V. 3 investigation.' .-.-.' . Both flax !.c2s are to 1 1 rtV-Hi