' 1 - " . -i -r., - A Hounb? ;; Art yea looking for a place to live, or for a ten ant? ' If so, turn to - Tho Statesman classified edrer Using pare, where buyer and seller ret torether. Coxnplcto I . , TonH find n newspaper can give more real satisfac tion than your local morn- ; tt paper, with Its WORLD . KSTYS plus DOMZ COSI r ' tlUMTY NEWS, FCUNDOD iCZl nznrrY-crcoriD yeah Soleto. jOreibn, Saturday Morning' September 12. 1942 Price 5c. Ho. 125 BSB if Lack it k Shuffling g Fire To MeeJ JVor f Aim Vork-Leavers Reclassified Army Rejects s"'- Services to Require Release From. Jobs For Essential Men . .... . . - ' . " Oregon draft boards have teen directed to make, available lor immediate induction regis-' trants engaged in the produc tion of lumber, copper and crit ical non-ferrous metals if the workers leave their jobs after having been deferred because of their Importance to Such Indus tries, CoL Elmer V. Wooton, state elective service director, an nounced here Friday.. - i ; Action of the selective service : system was taken In- connection " with the war manpower commis sion announcement of September 7 that workers engaged in the production of lumber, copper and . Critical non-ferrous metals snouid -C' be frozen" in their Jobs. V :.f . Colonel Wooton guid the 41- reetive to local, boards did not ' mean that a worker in one of : the' indnstries eoold not leave ' ' one Job for another in the same industry If he eoold, prove to his local board that the chanre did not adversely affect prodnc- Any registrant employed in. one 1 of the critical industries mentioned who nbwivQldj a,classIIo. or a '; class II-B classification will, be re- classified to class 1-A ifhe leaves ' : , such employment. If the registrant ' ; is now classified in class III-B he can be reclassified to class III-A, which means that he will not be 1 immediately inducted but will be available for induction sooner than otherwise. Younger Draft Seen for 1943 ; WASHINGTON, Sept 11 The army and navy Friday night formally announced they,, would refuse to accept' volunteers who were deemed of greater use in lheir lobs in essential war indus- Jries and in federal agencies. -t This was the second devolep- (Turn to Page 2. CoL- 7) . A. Walling Dies, Action - 1 KEIZER,' Sept 11 Mrs." Del- WVTTO . ISxT c pha 'Walling haa-: received word .; ' . from : the navy departments that - her 'son, "Lowell Arthur Walling, f I 31.' died as the result of wounds received in action. He had a rat ing as first class seaman and gun - pointer. "- Lowell Arthur Walling was the oldest son of Mrs. Walling and the late Chester Walling and was born on South Prairie, near here, September 14, 1911. He attended school in SilveTton and enlisted In the navy-January 23, l94I.,He had not been home since he went to sea In March 191. Hit last letter home ; was written July , 184Z. . . ' ' . Anomer sou vi fna. nwum, Glenn Alvin, is in the coast ar- tuiery ana siauonea -as. wmp wcwuaiae, uaiu. uuier survivors Include his granomouier, jars. v - m TT! J - jaura J. nowise. - nut KrttUUAisul UurZ: -aid 'stsSr iauicr. VJICU1KC LfOCUI. - dian war veterans. - Lowell Walling was a shipmate of Charles Henry Meithof, re ported . missing in . action, and Frankie. Diem, both from- neigh boring communities. Scrvico Hen Comer. Smith, jr., until re cently supervisor- for the air raid precautions . district ' for ... which Salem is headquarters. has' received notice to report next . Tuesday as , a volunteer candidate for army officer trsin Izg, he said Ftidayne has sp ped'for Irainlnj as an officer ef infantry," Smith directed or ganization of the air raid pre cautions C!?trict here and over caw the st'.tlzg up cf lis control center, which has received ap proval cf army authorities (a:: i. :l service cea ea Baby Buggies Lacking, but Mart Rising - HEW YORK, Sept ll--Now It's a shortace of baby car riages that is threatened by the As the birth rate climbs like the war debt, demand for baby, carriages becomes heavier. Also. -the curtailed use of automobiles adds to tho consumer's . desire for prams as a means of riving baby an alrinr. Their , best business m years finds manufacturers least able to supply their customers. ' Un der war production board edicts the oatput volume' Is held to a quota based on the year ending with July 1, 1941. More drastic Is the restriction on steel used in the manufac ture of the ' Infant pushcarts. Only six pounds of steel may be used per carriage whereas formerly from 15 to 4d pounds of the metal went Into each. In addition, only the steel already cot by Jone 12 may be used from whatever stockpile - the soakers had. .--..'"f" UAL to Cancel Dealf Continue Lease by Army Not . To Stop Flying Unless Needed ; . United 'Ah Liner will consent to cancellation of its 25-year con tract for use of the Salem munici pal airport allowing the US army to make with the city a new lease for exclusive use of the port for uration of the war, but such ac- Ufon does not mean that the air lines win cease uieir aaiem opera tions, members of the system's le gal staff indicated at a confer ence with city officials here Fri day noon. That the army is ' willing and anxious for the air service to con tinue here under existing condi tions and requires the new con tract ' largely as a guaranty that it could exercise full authority immediately in case . of, emerg ency and without any later reper cussions was the impression - re ceived by the city's representa tives, Mayor W. W. Chadwick de clared following the meeting. Although the lease with the air lines apparently is to be cancelled. since, the army can require such action if it is not forthcoming vol untarily, Chadwick said, the UAL proposes to continue to pay to the city the regularly established rent al while it operates here. It would abide by conditions of the lease, while operating under an agree ment with the army, he saicL.. The army's proposed . lease would grant to it exclusive use of the airport for the duration of the war and six months thereafter, joint and concurrent use with any other concerns having lease agreed ments for a -period of 25 years I after the close of the. war. It Is the same lease proposed to ether airports In strategic places along the coast according" to John T. Lorch, Chicago, member of the United Air Lines legal staff, and E. S. Maroney, Portland UAL (manager. , onierring wita t"wn were Mayor Chadwkk, Qty Attorney Lawrence Brown and City En i gineer J. H. Davis. I -apfc f TT Ur ortiand Has Defense Trial PORTLAND, Orel Sept 11-flP) Portland tested its civilian defens es Friday night and army officers termed the operation a success. Approximately 60,000 air raid wardens, fire-watchers, messeng ers and auxiliary police took part In the drill, In which an air raid was simulated. There was no blackout however, and no sirens blew those features being caved for the real thing. -MaJ,. Joseph W. Ilensel, army officer attached to the office of civilian defense, said, ' "Portland stacks up well with other, cities. Lost Flax Burns' A load of flax which had slipped from a truck and fallen in the angle of the 12th street junction with the Pacific highway burned I at 9:33 Friday nl-.t, acccrdirj ia ztite police. . . 48-Hour Week Slated for Lumbering ' Industry There Now When Able; Yards Unloading Surplus WASHINGTON, Sept. ll-JJF) Production C hie f Donald M. Nelson Friday ordered the Pacific northwest lumber indus try placed on a 48-hour week to avert a lumber shortage re sulting from lack of manpower. Nelson telegraphed Frederick H. Brundage, western log and lumber administration at Portland, Ore., directing him to. "take all necessary and appropriate action" to establish the 48-hour immedi- -PORTLAND, Ore Sept. 11-tPJ-Oreron A FX. and CIO lead ers Friday endorsed the WFB order placing the Pacific north west lumber industry on a. 48 hour week. ' : - l Worth Lowery, president of the CIO , International Wood Workers of ' American "district ; council, said that approxlmate ly 7i " per cent of tho lumber operations still are on a 40-hour week. ' J; V;;- Bert Sleeman, secretary of the AFL. district council, said, "our organization V advocated that weeks ago, and wo wel ; come It." ' J ately. . He old Brundage that a substantial number" of employers had failed to comply with a pre vious request to lengthen the Work week voluntarily. - - ' - Time and a half overtime must be paid for work over 40 hours. SEATTLE, Sept XI (PO The order of War Prod action Chief Donald Nelson for a IS-honr week in "the lumber' Indaatry brought from representatives of management and labor here Fri day the assertion that the indaa try already is on that basis In sofar as the supply of logs and labor permits. ,. -,;' " C o L " W. : B. Greeley, general manager of the West Coast Lum bermen's ; association, said em ployers had ."very largely adopted a 48-hour week since the first of the year, but a considerable sum ber of mills have not been able to work even a normal five-day week because they can't get logs. The industry is whole-heartedly for the 48-hour week.''-- - Pirating Reduces ' Coast Labor Pool . 7- SEATTLE, Sept U Iaj. Gen. H. G. Winsor, regional war manpower director, reported Fit day, the formulation of plans, to reshuffle the Pacific northwest's manpower- from: overmanned to undermanned war Industries..-.. At the same time, the Post-In telligencer reported it had learn- (Turn to Pago 2.- Cot C) Suspect Held Id Burglary Case Here Elmer E. Zimmerman, . said to be a "five-time loser" from the Oregon state penitentiary, was ar rested Friday night by dty off! cers' and held on an open charge as a suspect in one burglary and in an attempted burglary of member of the Salem police force. Zimmerman was released from A. ; M. .4? ft . J uie : pemienuary nere m miu- August after serving five years for burglary on top of four other peni tentiary stays, police: said. "The burglary of the William Schlitt dwelling at 1191 North Capitol street, from which considerable Jewelry was taken, occurred Au gust 30. That same night a city officer surprised a man who was attempting to enter his home near the Schlitt residence. . . - . The ' would-be burglar : bid window screen unlocked when he was frightened away, , but " was seen by the officer, Who said Fri day night that Zimmerman, to whom some of the Schlitt jewelry had allegedly been , traced, re sembled the man . he had sur prised. Historic Order Is - Invoked ...!: - 1 Novorossisk Lost To Nazis; Allies Push on Island By FRED VANDERSCHMIDT Associated Press War Editor , The Russians of Stalingrad, responding to Joseph Stalin's revived civil war commands, braced Friday1 night against the German onslaught on two sides of the city and 'passed to the counter-attack in one ! southwestern sector. ' 'J Moscowa ; midnight , com- muniqnef however, announced the evacuation of Novorossisk on the Black sea somewhat . of a foregeme .conclusion, - si nc e "the Germans had claimed its tapture lastc Sunday. ,V The same communique left no doubt that the defenders of "Sta lin's city" had taken .his historic ordeiv-"there is no way back from Stalingrad'Vin grim earnest. Besides making the counter-at tack on .the southwest, the Bus- j siahs brought. tQL. a I halt , their re-i - CAIRO. Sept : ll-CSVAostra- lian heavy and medium bomb ess attacked Tobruk and near by targets Thursday night while the :. Egyptian desert front re- mained relatively .quiet T b e coast road was strafed and fires were started among installations. treats on the western face of the I city, where they had withdrawn tour times in the! previous four days. . - They were standing and dving Friday as Stalin commanded.. On this basis, then, the Rns- sians 4 were . making their su preme defense of the ' dty on the Tolsa, nnder assault by a record German foree ef more than 500,000 men. The German high command says Stalingrad now Is encircled from the river (Turn to Pago 2, Cot 1) to Reerealibii : Rooms, Camp ; The war detSaiiment has iffrd to provlde'funds to furnish need: ed day rooms and recreation hall at Camp- Adair removing neces- sity:for:Whimiedia4e: raise tuch niwm - in th tv counties surrounding the cantbn-J Army ment Judge George Rossman,nw PTOrn as a ure ana mue Marion county. Red Cross chair- age.ratkming -system and not. as man MnrmmA vta J - Comlnff from San Francisco of- fices of the Red Cross, the tele- Id, of limiting mileage by per gram to Judge Rossman was first lic readings of each motorist's information" rfvt hrt bv mileage meter. However, he add- either army or Red Cross offi- dais as to the 'change of plans. John Scott field man f or the Red Pm b Hictnno Mmfimc Friday noon learned that the news had been t relayed here an mai mowrisia are uisregaru h'our after it was received on hig previaus appeals to. saye tires the coast and that army men in this area had hot been notified to date. '. v . Just . what the army's agree. ment to "furnish? the numerous day rooms and one large recrea tion hall may mean In the way of supplying minor items must be learned before the camp and hospital council of the camp area can function, Scott told the Mar ion county Red Cross executive: board. ' I I I 5' k Jl .J 1 II . i lUaJ Buy,ii2:c!l3 y. POr.TTJS.?.T) st)L ll-6TVPort- land fuel dealers are organizing a dooI to buv wood from mills the Willamette valley, David tc - des, state fuel administrator, said that Licnwetfter l-ewis ana vu Fridc. "i : I liam Clark, who first pioneered He '.said an' additional "ll.CCO cords cf sisbwocd could be cb- fciziJ cctLly Csc-cji the pccL'tlcz." Officers Who f Lieut Gen. BV L. Montgomery discusses a tactical problem with hand Is Lieut Gen. Horrocks. It was the British eighth army which fort to reach the Nile valley International Dustraated News photo. Rubber Gzar; Gasoline Ration Not : . Immediate; Method ' Not Yet Gimplcte ' 1 WASHINGTON,- Sept. 11 -iT) President -Roosevelt -said Friday that the new rubber czar would I he named soon, probably on Mon I day, and that most of the recom- mendations of the branch com- mittee which .investigated the i rubber v situation ,would . be put i into eiiect -sunultaneously. Moreover, the nation-wide gascn line rationing Is not expected to become . effective' until later, due to the necessity of preparing ra tion books. , - In .addition - to rationing and other measures to reduce the mileage of the civilian motorist, the committee proposed the ap- xraior, neiegaung to jum iuu ana - complete authority in all. matters related ; tov rubber, lncluding.;re- search, development construction and operation of plants.1 Reporters quizzed. the president at Friday's .1 press -conference ' as to who 'the appointee would be. bt received no indications: He U to be appointed by Donald.M. I Nelson, ; chairman of the war pro- auction poara . aner consuitauon with thejpresident . ' Mr. Roosevelt made it clear that he preferred to think of .the I a gasoune rauonmg proposal. Anere naa Dcen uscussion, ne had been decided that too man7 drivefalqMWilic.A.tofix their meters. : i . : The president .went on. to say that he had eterminedfor him- by keeping to low rates of "speed. : He recently drove his own car 12 miles along the Albany post road,.- at exactly 35 - miles : per . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) College Named Lewis, Qark PORTLAND, Sept' ll-iffV-Al-bany college trustees announced Friday night the Institution wSl be known In the future as Lewis and Clark, college ; r' Trustees -of the ' Presbyterian school, which moved to Portland from Albany several years ago. announced their .intention- last month of finding a new name. ini Of the selection, Dr. Morgan S. 1 uaeii, preaaeni, saia, -we ien j the culual ' development cf tho J far west, deserved this raesnl- Ymga R Stopped Rommel's Latest Drive r a.jafc (bareheaded) . : com mander of -the British eirhth.srmr in North Africa, his officers at the front Standing behind Montgomery's upraised JapsDiscovefj TangltEneriiyz In Pacific ; " ; WASHINGTON, Sept'lMA'), Just- back: from an Inspection of t h e Pacific fighting area. ; James V. Forrestal, undersecre tary of the navy, said Friday it -would "be a tough Job" for the Japanese to recapture Guadal canal fa the Solomon islands. ln the marines he added, they have met equally tengn and alert people for the first time.,.., ; .. .. ... . ; -The nndcrseeretary . described " his experiences at a press eon ference held Jointly with See: retary . Knox. ; The conference also produced the following: . Knox will visit Rio de Janlero within .the next two months and inspect ' American . outposts . en root.' V : ; - - y. The .. secretary said ship laonchings are now greater, than ship sinkings, but clear through - to the end of the war there "must be constant viiilanco against enemy submarines, -i' "iH -Forrestal ?r h 1 g h 1 y.'- praised. American - planes . 'an d " their crews. -The 'Japsiw e rt, ni soaiched in the air, he both Jn the quality of .'planes and the skill and courage el the t who fly them.' Plane Craslx FaliltdSix In Building " BUFFALO, NY, Sept ll-i?HA flaming Curtis-Wright airplane plummeted Into the roof of a building at the Curtiss-Wright airplane division plant late -Friday -killing six workers and in juring 47 others. The pilot J Bertrand PurnelL S3, a Curtiss test flier since May, parachuted to safety two miles from the plant He suffered burns. 'One of the dead was identified by: the - Erie county medical ex aminer's office as Francis Ryan, 37, Kenmore, but the name of the other had ' not been established more than five hours after, the crash." ;''.--I' Lester Glenn, a civilian employ ed as a US army- inspector died six hours later in a hospital Martin Till, Frank Warda and Carlson , Rauh" died in hospitals seven hours after the accident Davey said ; Purneirs - plane caught fire at. a high altitude,' froni air unknown cause. Dams- to the building Into which the ship plunged as very slight 1 added, and production contin Tharstlay'g 7eal2ier . Thm tec?. 71, XUver rtiay -34 fl. Ey army request weather fare easts are withheld t-i t:.:- r - $ S L - 0.--' i. forced back rammers latest ef - . ..- ; FDRPHposed AsM&dHeadi Mil' Alilitary Dictatorship Urged as-HIeans to English Victory , OTTAWA, Sept 11 -(ff)- W. D. Herridge, former Canadian min ister to Washington, Friday urged I that President Roosevelt be pro claimed supreme leader,, of the EtuUshrspealcing people with; the power -of a dictator and with the advice r of a .general staff- com posed of the best minds' in the British ' and "American democracies.-'. : .. . ' ' ' '-' : Speaking before a: luncheon dub, Herridge . said Mr. Roose velt, must be prodaimed leader by the acknowledged leader of the British empire, r.' C3mrchill (Prime. , Minister Churchill f Britain) spieaking on " hehalf :of the emput mvedare. thatvic- wry aemanasr a , leaaer ior uie foglish-speaking" people and that leader Is' theV president of the United" SUtes." mal- Mf; Churchill do "this?!! Herridge ' asked. He added that the British prime-' minister would do .what 1 the people willed . him to do. The trouble Is that up to now the ' people have never -had t iwjlL :,w have- let - tipoo " the -1deltees-'and watched' Winston do ib .lutaipoij j ne nu Hica, wis gallant EnglisJmia.-r '.Nothing short of a military dic tatorship - would ' prevail in .. this war,- he said, because nothing dse would have the independence and ruthlessness i to liquidate Ineffi dency and timidity , in the high places and in the low and the power . to . capture the offensive from the enemy. Japan Qaimi Riue-iy)idiiig: BERLIN (from German broad-i casts), Sept 11 HP The Japa nese government In a note hand ed the Swiss minister in Tokyo, nas rejeciea American accusa tions that, Japan "Is ignoring the 1929 Geneva convention regard ing treatment of war prisoners. tae Berlut radio said Friday night m a Tokyo dispatch. . r. ,The imperial government en ergetically protests against the at titude of the United States the dispatch said, "as well as against rumors spread by radio snd other means to the efrect that the iin perlal government refused to let U3 war prisoners"li3ve. their mal ana ctaer parcels.". -. v - . The note, dated September said Japan had never ratified the Geneva convention, ; but ' even " so notified ''the- Unit:! -.States -.when war broke out that the conven tion's stipulations regarding pris- ' it - it Mreat Japanese Halt At Efogi Ship Left Going Down; Another Gets Near Miss V By MURLIN SPENCER GEN. Mae ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Austra lia, Saturday, Sept. 12 (AP) Allied bombers fired a Japa nese destroyer and left her sinking off e a a tern New. Guinea and also blasted Buna,, the enemy's supply base for the overland art ye toward Port Moresby, a communiqua said Saturday. V : ' L. ' "The enemy has made no fur ther 'advances,' the communique said, in the Efogi area, 44 miles j- short of Port Moresby, where bay- onei-wieimng ; Austrauans were fighting the Invaders, i ' t. ' A very near miss" was scored on, a second Japanese destroyer which was probably damaged, the communique said. Both ships were encountered off Normandy Island which is north of Milne bay, scene of a frustrated: Japanese invasion. t .Allied heavy bombers,? the an nouncement said, ; "attacked two enemyj destroyers,. obtaining a "di rect hit -on . one which was ob served afire . and sinking by the stern. . - -.- . , V Rafts and personnel were seen in the water. "Our medium bombers . scored very near 'miss on .the second warship, probably damaging, it All our planes returned." Both Australian and Japanese troops .fighting the shadowy war at Efogi on the ' southern slopes of the' Owen Stanley mountains were believed to be reorganizing their positions. l ' - ' y Allied airmen continued ; to strafe the Japanese, but also " streaked ' across the mountains to make two heavy raids en the', airdrome at Bona 'where the Japanese first landed late .In July for the cross-country strike at Port Moresby. -.; -:: --".: - AH- bombs hit hi1 the target area' the communique said or the attack on Buna. "Three' grounded aircraft and a number of trucks were destroyed; several fires were started. Heavy anti-aircraft fire was encountered There - was no mterceptjon. . ,: i" i- ; .' .Buna Is 78 air line miles behind the Japanese salient at Efogi, and considerably farther by u n g 1 trail through, some of the roughest ' country In the world. The Japa nese and the allies defending Port Moresby; are .using native porters to carry; food and arms to the Efogi front ". ; :'- ', :. . ' The supply problem Is one of the main factors ' in the present Japanese : halt ' but allied head quarters announced Friday . that : dose combat had checked the invaders,- too, with heavy casualties on. both sides. . . ' Allied bombers eeaeentratei t mainly en . New Guinea, bul ' some nnlts operating ever the seas northwest of Australia at tacked a building and. a small-; -vessel, "with nnobserved results" at the island ef Teoen. . Teoen (Teun) Is In the Damar group of the Dutch East Indies northeast of Timor.' r , x . Less than 20 miles south of Efogi is a rubber plantation; kowa as Itiklnuma. From there a hard surfaced road leads on down to Port Moresby. But to reach iIU kinuma the Japanese still must cross several mountain ridges as higbes tZiO feet' 4. -.'The Austria navy minister declared "flatly Triday that the al lies would held V. v Guinea. s Stti-c Over ALTON," . Sept ll-iT)-TLa four-day " paralyzing . strike at Western Cartridge company huge East Alton plant was ter minated Friday night as sever! thousand employes gave-,tr.rr.i-rnous voice approval of an f n ; ment to return to work at 8 o'u : (C7T Saturday, xaornir. .