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. : if tf Fall In Complete WASHINGTON. Sert It 1 XP)-Autumn will berin ta ' the northern hemisphere on September IS at 9:17 a. nv (PacLfie war time), the na- a 1 observatory reported Thursday. - v ! I I t I I I I YuH find ne newspaper- v can rive more real satisfae- tioo than year local mora Ins paper, with its WOKLD v NEWS plos HOME COM MUNITY NEWS. beuNonDi 1CZ1 irS.TTY-CICOND YEAS SoImu Oregon. Friday Morning, September 11, 1342 170.124 t EDK..A.pprde British Battle. (.i!- i hid V-i - Ate" 7J- V-"M GoMfoL '' ' i'V. :: 'V V '' .4J t i Gasdliiie,7 Milea Baruch Committee Fav Nationwide Limits, Mot Synthetic Rubber Making ' ! " 1 By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Sept 10(AP) The Baruch commit tee proposed and President Roosevelt i immediately approved . Thursday, the imposition of nationwide gas rationing and other risrid civilian motoring gerous" robber shortage from p "both a military and civilian collapse. " Asserting" that the ; naked c facts present a warning" which the country dare not ignore, that the choice is "dis comfort or defeat," the committee recommended: Workers Must Return to Jobs Lumber, Metal Labor : Freeze Effective j Last Sunday PORTLAND. Sept 1HJP) Workers who have left Jobs in logging, lumbering and non-ferrous metals industries since mid night Sunday, Sept 6, must re turn to them, Maj.-Gen. H. G. Winsor, war manpower regional director, declared Thursday. , Meeting with Oregon and Wash ington representatives of large in dustries, military -'if services, the maritime commission, US employ ment service and the war produc tion board, Gen. . Winsr outlined provision of the recent order hy - Chairman Paul V- McNu'tt 'of Ih ' war manpower boird freezing the workers on thejr present Jobs in ' certain occupaUons in 12 western ' states. f-', 4 I "" All lotting and lumbering tn- ' dustrlei and activities are cen . ddered essential to war prodne ' tion, he said, and workers In them cannot quit one job and go to another '.without a certificate f separation from the TJS em ployment service. If a worker has Quit since midnight, Septem ber C, he most return to that Job, even though In the mean- 1 time he has obtained another, if he wants employment of. any kind. ' : To clarify the order : affecting : the non-ferrous metals Industry, Gen. Winsdr kaid 'that gold and silver as well as iron industries - were excluded. The order applies, he said, to mining, milling, smelt ing and refining of copper, zinc. lead, tin, antimony, arsenic, alum inum, magnesium, mercury, tungs ten, molybdenum, vanadium, man - caneso and chromium. "1 ''. The office of war information here said that this brought under the - order all workers in the ' aluminum reduction plants at 1- Troutdale, Ore, and Vancouver, i liongviewr Tacoma and Spokane, 1 Wash.: the ferro-alloys company plants at Tacoma and Wenatchee and the American smelting ana Refining company plant at Ta . coma, among the larger organ! ' rations. " - - The purpose of the order, Gen. f Winsor explained, was" to halt the nractice known in the . trade as - "scampering" workmen shift' in from one Job to another, leav Jug critical Industries crippled by Labor shorUges or by employ- i roent of inexperienced help. The employment service, un der McNutt's order,, may issue , certificates of separatka when the workman is qualified to per form higher skilled labor than his" current : employer can pro- . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Wednesday's Weather . Wednesday's max." temp. 72, " rain. 54. River Thursday -S.t ft By army request weather fore easts are withheld and temper ature data delayed. , 4M Fat -"Market Auction Today The 4H club show, all that Is evident of the state fair this year, comes to an end today, with cli--rnax to be the third annual state "".fair clubbers' fat market livestock auction, starting at 10 a.m. - Attendance at the other two , days of the' club fair has been . discouraged, but everyone inter- . ested in bidding on a choice ani - r-al for the family food locker 1j vrjed to attend the auction sale. Ten Sudtell, Albany, has volun t:rred his services as auctioneer. , . Lar.ts, beef and hers wiU ge : tJ i llsci, each division start peedl9 restrictions to keep a "dan At nation-wide speed limit of 35 miles per hour. " Reduction' of the average an nual mileage per car to 5000, with the mileage of the "less es sential drivers" cut far below that point . . 4 The allocation of rubber and thiokol (a substitute) to maintain essential civilian driving by re capping tires ana making new ones. . , . " ' ,. ' - Compulsory periodic - tire In spection.; .' .;. . . A voluntary program ' ol rub ber conservation, until these con trols can be established. Nationwide applications of all restrictions.! Bluntly criticizing administra tion of the robber pro tram for "overlapping- and ' confusing authority, . insufficient reliance upon technical advisors," and procedures . "bordering on . the chaotic,' the committee recom mended the creation of a' single robber administrator to have ompleto charge of, . the pro-: gram under the chairman of the war production board. "One example of the inexplain- able administration that we can mention," it said, "is the failure to obtain detailed technical in- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Grange's Head Asserts Price Move Politics BOSTON, Sept 10 Albert S. Goss, master of the National Grange, asserted Thursday that President Roosevelt's promise to impose new farm price ceilings by October 1, if congress did not act before then, was "purely po litical." "I don't think there's any emer- he said at a press conference af ter conferring with New England grange leaders. . Declaring that the country was in no danger, "of. blowing up" in the immediate future, Goss said that Price -. Administrator Leon Henderson already had the power to. regulate farm prices. - ' "Of the 22 farm commodities which comprise 75 per cent of all agricultural production," he said, "thirteen already are selling far below, parity prices, while Henderson already has the power tq restrict prices on the eight items which now are selling at prices far- above those set by law.1 Goss said the administration hesi tated to act on those commodi ties ; because cutting . prices on them would result in production's being cut oft ;' - S-''' This, he . said, left only one commodity - chickens between parity and 110 per cent of parity, Pointing out that the October 1 deadline which the president set for congress to act' was only five weeks before the November elections, Goss said it was cal culated to put many 1 of Mr Roosevelt's congressional antago nists "on the spot" by forcing them to take a position on the price issue which may appear to be contrary to the view of either labor or agriculture or both. ing with the grand champion, reserve champion and then en down the line In that order. About 90 animals will be sold, approximately half the number handled last year. ; ' . 4t , Judging on all exhibits had been completed Thursday night, v but not all awards had been com piled... ' - - , ;: . ' In the livestock classes, grand champion honors in the beef di vizion went to Rodney Chase, Springfield, and reserve honors to Donald Michael, also, cf Eprirg Cdd. First place en liht steers r i i HENRY L. STIMSON Reservists Needed Army Reserves To Be Called College Men Subject Wben 20; Women in War Work Help WASHINGTON, Sept 10-() Because , of the "exigencies - of war,". Secretary. Stimson an nounced Thursday the war de partment's intention to call. to act-. ive military duty all college stu dent members of the army enlist ed reserve as hey reach the draft age. ' . : Students in more than 1000 col- eges and universities have joined the reserves under an arrange ment whereby they would : con tinue their studies, although they were subject to call if needed. "It is now expected that by the end of the college term or semes ter beginning in September those student members of the- reserve who have reached selective aerv- ce age will all or for the most part be called to active duty " the war secretary said in a statement 'Those reaching that age during S"1 tCrma WiU shnilarly caiiea. , The ; new policy, ' officials said, applies also to students who have joined the army air force reserve. The navy, however, reported no change in its announced intention ta permit its - student reservists to continue their studies as long as possible. The present minimum draft age is 20 but the war department has urged that it be lowered to 18. Noting that . "we are running short of army manpower now, Stimson also announced that sev eral ' thousand - members : of the regular army reserve, enlisted re serve corps, and the national guard, who have been deferred thus far because of dependency, would be recalled to active' duty in October and November. All are former servicemen. Their 'recall was made feasible, . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Kaiser Plans Give First To Skyboats WASHINGTON, Sept 10.-ff)- Donald M. Nelson, - chairman of the war production board, indica ted Thursday that primary con sideration was being given ta fly ing boats in connection with Hen ry J.' Kaiser's proposal to build giant cargo aircraft f;: t yff i ft Nelson talked with the .west coast ship builder for the second day,' and told reporters Kaisers proposal required "some further checking., V 1 Among the unsettled questions,! he said, was whether the aircraft should have one or two hulls.. To the suggestion that his re mark indicated that a flying boat was under consideration. Nelson replied: "That's what Mr. Kaiser I has : been talking about all the time." - He altered his statement, how ever, to say that land planes were not out of the question. - : went to Rodney Chase and first on heavy steers to Donald Meier, JewelL v Young Chase also won "the top honors In beef showmanship, with Donald Michael, Springfield, sec ond. . XTavfd ouver, CorvaUis, ex hibited the grand champion fat Iamb, and reserve was shown by Arthur Chlinr, Albany. In the fat Iamb entries, first place la each class went to: Eampshlres, Bobby Etroda. Monroe; Shrop- slires. Dor;Lxs Decter, Tort (Turn t Pass 2, CcL 4 i V C: -. ' ' --' - - , y On SealainLe ISiisiang i Retreat Fonir tb- Straight Bay US Harvest to Top Record of Prospects :Wickard Warns Fighters Take First Claim WASHINGTON, Sept. 10-( Prospects for an aggregate crop production of. unprecedented proportions Continued , to im prove during the past month, the agriculture department re ported Thursday in estimating the total harvest would be 13 per cent higher than the peak year of 1937. ! v"s ' : v Secretary Wickard hailed the report as a "tremendous victory over the axis" but warned that in spite of ' the . great production "demands : upon American food and . fibre" are so great " that we will not have enough to give every one all the, food he or she wants." . j . . ? . "It behooves as te conserve this amount carefully in : view of . the great needs and demands vpon ns by our soldiers and our allies an ever the world," he added In a statement, "These demands are tremendous, so tre mendous that even the produc tivity of the American farm ersmnnot meet all ef them;f In its report, the department said that with average weather the rest of the seasori, final sur veys should show record produc- tion of grain, hay, oil seed, beans, i. . i peas, sugar, uutt aiiu vegcutuica, also a large cotton crop and about average crop of potatoes, sweet potatoes and tobacco. "With record! numbers of live stock and poultry on hand, with milk and egg production continu ing substantially above previous levels," with ' record supplies of feed grain and also of hay. and forage in sight and with the best fall pasture since 1915, there seems every reason to expect the production of livestock and live stock products to continue higher than in past years," the report declared. The large farm production was attributed toj record: acreage yield for many commodities and favorable .growing' conditions. There' was . only one dull note in the report . "The problem ahead will be U meet the fall labor peak In harvesting the big crop ef corn, cotton, soybeans, potatoes, pea nuts and ether late crept,", U said. Wickard : said farmers must keep in mind! increasing produc tion difficulties. "Labor Is getting scarcer ev ery day." he declared. "So Is farm machinery,- Insecticides, fer tilizers and other materials need ed for production., - Bright spots, in. the report were grains oL? seed; needed for the reDlacement of vegetable oil 1m ports - cut fofi ; by the cwar,?Jahd j beans, the Utter needed for, ex- ( port and as a substitute for meat I with civilians confronted . by I shortage' because of military, and I lend-lease requirements. . The report said that If pres ent, prospects materialize, total production of grain should reach 153 million tons, or about eight million above the ' 1921 record high- v Prospects for other crops:. -Sugar beets and sugar cane- about the same as a month ago and moderately higher than pro duction in any past year.' Later fruit crop , favored by good weather, Bears, grapes and commercial apples Improv ed slightly, with production per cent above average but a little below 13 U. .: " - Vegetables! grown for market- higher T September yields tnan either last year or-the average. , I, 1 r State to Purchase Blillion in Notes The state 'board commission Thursday authorized the invest ment of $1,000,000 of state funds in United States treasury notes, paying 1 per cent interest The state now, has S7,cco,ucu invested in govermaect securi ties. .- - . i,- 1937 if Continue 4-, x A) H t y ::- CLAUDE R. WICKARD Likes Harvest Outlook City Salvage Drive Sets All-Out Week An all-out war salvage drive September 2i and spread to the week was outlined at a meeting of representatives of the city and county salvage committees and of the two Salem daily news papers Thursday night Pickup service to all parts of through use of city and other I trucks on specified days, - C W. Paulus, county salvage chairman, announced.' Mr. Paulas deelared a com plete roundup ef all metals not '' in use was essential to keep steel nulls and ether war Indus tries m full production this wmter. ; Salem homes should produce at least 459 tens, en the basis ef national estimates, he said. , Steel, cast .iron, brass, bronze and aluminum are espe cially wanted. Tin cans, hew ever, are not being collected in the Impending drive. ' Salvage . collected in this .drive. as with that being left at the six city salvage depots ; opened last month, will be sold under the di rection of United War Chest offi cials and the proceeds retained by their agency to help finance its program for the coming year, the committee emphasized. The program as outlined Thurs day night calls upon; downtown business- houses to comb -base- (Turn to Page 2. CoL 6) Hitler Seeks French Fleet Si ' - . " LONDO N, Sept 10flVThe British Press association said Thursday that Adolf Hitler has re newed his demands for control of the French fleet since the allied raid at Dieppe in order to bolster his European coastal defenses. :' . The Press association said some reports claim that Hitler renewed his demands in a personal mes sage to Marshal Petain, and that the fuehrer , was ' so anxious to press his arguments he was "pre pared to see Petain personally. - The naxis were also said to be putting pressure on Vichy anew to supply Marshal . Erwin . Rommel In North Africa with food for his troops from the stores in the French, colonies. ; , .. Wire President, 7est Game Men JACKSON, Wyo, Sept lMP) Frank B. Wire of -Portland, Ore gott - state game supervisor, was elected president of the Western States association of game , and fish commissioners Thursday at a concluding convention session - at Jenny Lake lodge. : ' 1 4, The game and fish officials of 10 western states voted to peti tion Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes to ; "institute a policy of wildlife management In the na tional parks ' and monuments,' conforming with management practices in territories adjacent to parks and monuments, - to Md-East Pacific Women Pilots To Ferry for US Transport WASHINGTON, Sept The first military squadron of women ' pilots in the United 'States was announced Thurs- -. day - when the air,; transport . command set . up - an - expert-' mental organization to ferry -small ; army . planes within the ' country Under-the leadership of Mrs. Nancy Harkness Love,' 28," of Boston, an experienced pilot and the wife of the deputy. chief of staff, of the . transport command, ' about ; 50 - women' fliers will be inducted into the . women's auxiliary ferrying squadron with headquarters at Wilmington, DeLV V - " Qualifications for the women pilots will be substantially the same as for men age 21-35, high school education, posses sion of a commercial , license. at least ' 500 ' hours certified 'flying time, American citizen' ship and crc-coxintry ; flying - ' experience. ? .'. At the outset members of the squadron will be paid at the rate, of $3000 a year. ' to start in the business district residential areas the following the city will be made available RAF Bombs West German Cities Again BERLIN (from German Broad casts), Sept l-UFV-British bomb ers attacked several places in western Germany Thursday night the Berlin radio reported Friday. Twenty one of the raiders were shot down by nazi night fighters! and anti-aircraft batteries, the an nouncement said. ' LONDON, Sept 10 - (P) - Rus sian bombers ranging over wide axis areas from the east in their part of a great allied air offensive touched: off scores of fires and explosions . Wednesday in Berlin, Budapest and Koenigsberg the Moscow., radio announced Thurs day night It was the second time within a - week tnat tne red bombers spread alarm over nazi and axis areas. This time the Russians said two bombers failed to return to their bases. Thirty eight fires, 12 of them large, were observed In Budapest and eight explosions were caused in the . Hungarian capital. In Berlin, 12 fires and four ex plosions-were ni vert observed. ' There 1 fires in Koenigsberg, east were Prussia.. The Germans acknowledged Thursday that' Russian -planes penetrated again to the environs of Berlin Wednesday night and attacked Budapest - City Employes Seek Raises Ways of. obtaining more - pay for city employes to meet war time. living costs Iwere discussed at a meeting reportedly .amended oy is memners ox tne . rare ana pouce cepanmenTj ai. me xasx Salem fire station Thursday night The group decided to call a mass meeting of city government work ers to be held in the city council chambers on Monday '. night of next' week.. ' Proposals being considered vary from an outright request' to the council for higher wages to sub- muung . measure iot me purpose nz aahn Vol-a ' BEKLTN Sept 10H?)-(From German Eroadcasts)-The Berlin rsdio said Thursday riht that a - - A 1 ermaa n corps naa reacnea eiarH i,-riir,m , teavy Cusiiaa coux.tcr-t1.UicL. A Hies Halt A t Efogi;. Heavy in Jungles Indian Ocean Action Satisfactory; ; Japs Felt Planning New Actions; ; : Churchill Denies India Compromise . " " By FRED VANDERSCHMHJT '' . ' ' ' AsMciated Press War Editor jh. ; -The United Nations nndertookrThursday night another major operation .to 'secure the global war, reaching out with superior seaair-Iand forces to control all of the fourth biggest island In the world, Mada gascar in the Indian ocean.- ; : " fv This operation was related equally to the war of Europe, where the Russians still are barring the way to Stalingrad, and to the war in Asia, where a major battle is impending I for possession of Port Moresby, the important US-Australian outpost in the. south west Pacific Jslands. 4 . I Although , Stalingrad still - was Russian, its, defenders were under terrifying pressure, and the mid night Moscow communique ac knowledged another retreat ' and the evacuation of three more ham lets on the west side of the city. It was the fourth retreat in four days, and since Wednesday, the Russians had lost five populated places. The communique also said that fighting was raging In the streets of ' Novorossisk,- on the Black sea front, a -.'former 'naval station which. ; the Germans claimed as captured last Sunday. xne Japanese firming : incur way over . the ' Owen Stanley ., mountain range ef New Guinea toward Port - Moresby " were checked at Efogi, General Mae Arthur's headquarters; in Aus tralia announced Friday, after having reached this area Wed nesday in an advance from Myela. However, "bitter fighting con tinues with : casualties reported heavy on both sides," the com munique said of this front where the allied defenders . must cope with' green-painted J a p a n e s e fighters specially trained in jun- J gie warfare. The British, .who last May oc cupied, the Diego -. Suarez naval station at the top of Madagascar and subsequently penetrated some distance down the east coast, now have sent . major naval, : air and landing 'forces against three im portant ports' along 700 miles of the west coast The first British report said' the operation was proceeding satis factorily, 4 : Madagascar's 'west coast faces mainland Africa across the bread Mozambique ehan--A net which Is the seaway for afl the ( heavy L'S-BrUish traffic bound for the middle east, for the Persian gulf route te Rus sia and for a good deal ef the military" supplies efr India. f The new offensive has the full approval of : the United - States (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) I "T?t r - CJ laiHeS OWeCP mmm, ENID Okla Sept ll-ff) Flames, started by an explosion on a tank farm swept through the refinery of the Champlhl Oil company Thursday. The cause of the blast was not determined. ..f ' me names xirst spread to a tank car loading rack and six tank cars of gasoline, standing on the siding, exploded, aiding in spread- ling the flames to the refinery lt- I self. .-..i'fr':M-yM'- Rant officials were unable to irnmediatelv sav if there had been : any deaths or injuries or. the extent of damage. 974 Italians Killed On AnMi:t Fi!iti ! -' 7 :a.i J ' ROME - (From ; Italian broad' ca$ts)t - 10-)-August cas- uaxues ci uie lianan annj. navy l llr Xorce totaled 9734-874 4-3 wounaea ma missing, the government an- nounced, Thursday. I . Greatest losses were in Egypt v. here .casualties tctallr 7C-7 iwcra 11.' :i Fronts; Japanese Fighting main eea passages of thia Senate Eases T New Surtax Schedule , Strikes $8000.Plus. . . Group; -Work Done WASHINGTON, .Sept Id '-tyf The senate , s finance J!; committee Thursday eased ' ; the impact, -tf proposed individual income taxes in . the lower -brackets and in ' creased tax liabilities somewhat ; in the higher levels by adopting a new schedule of surtaxes ,f or net incomes up to $8000 a year. The new? rates, for Incomes below S2000, would be . Impos ed In $5009 income bands la stead of one $2000 bracket as under present law. This made possible a more gentle gradua tion of the rates, and Imposi tion ef a II per cent rather than 13 per cent surtax rate en the first $509 ef surtax net income. - :y . ; ;;m ... ;i-" From $500 to $1000,; the rate was set at 13 per cent as pro posed in the house bfll, but from $1500 to $8000 the senate voted rates ranging from one to five percentage points higher than the house. Above $8000 the rates would be unchanged from the house proposal, but the total sur tax would be larger through the - cumulative effect of the $1500 to ' $8000 bracket increases. ! ;' Treasury officials estimated the change would add $33,000,000 : a year revenue, v ;-.- q During the day Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau told a press Conference that war : spending made ; inevitable some form of 'forced savmgs;w-.-:;lV;-'.;i.;";.;; Chalrman George. (D-Ga) said Thursday's action virtually wound up the work on individual in -come, tax sections of the new revenue buX No action was taken ' on President Roosevelt's recom mendation ' that r. rAa-rTm indi vidual , incomes be - limited, to $25,000 a year after payment cf taxes." ' : ' ' . .. ... '--fii!-;' In combination with' the 5 per cent Victory" tax adopted Wed nesday dh gross income, in ex- income rates present a formid able financial challenge to most taxpayers. :; .,C-1. I Where a married man with two dependents and ; a ' $3009 annual ineome would ewe $58 . under present law, the house raised his liability to $172 and the senate te.$2?5. v- . ' The senate committee approved the house exemptions of $1200 for married persons and $500 for sin gle persons (compared wltn sisGO and $750 under present law) but voted to cut the allowance for dependents from $400 to $300. -The committee also ratified the house action in raising the nor mal tax on Individuals I from 4 per cent to 8 per cent' ' Scrvicolcii llr, asi Mrs. XL F. Durhara have received .word' that their son Clark has been rrcrackl to grade cf captain. Ca;U!a Durham, stationed at Gray fielJ, Fort Lewis, VTaslL, b at presert atiesdlsg t!.s atrlil gxzrtry school at Los Ye cas, Nev. Aii:":ril servlee r.:3 ci para Cts. - laxes