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1 17 Days- VoloF ' i Registration for the ; No vember 3 election closet Oc tober X, Don't faQ ta reris ter. Tetlor if a privilege are fighting for today. ' Grid Calendar . ' Attention, football fans! v Watch The Statesman this week for fall page Matins; . i r ; , ef major football schedules, , nationwide - 7 PCUNC30 iCIi '.".V i. - 'I xnrsTYrcoND yeaii Xaleza, Oregon. Tuesday 1'omlag, September 15. 1S12 IMc Sc. No. 127 w 1 v - - ; f . 1 Russians Stave Masi Assaolfe Tobriiik Maided : Stalingrad Fight in 20th Day; Troops, Ships Strike Jn Africa; Convoy Is Hit By FRED VANDERSCHMTOT . Associated Press War Editor , I Fighting through their 20th day of assault with an rninons lack of fighter aircraft, the Rnssiainis were draining their last resources Monday night to save Stalingrad. Bat by their bold offensive action elsewhere, red army and air force alike gave proof the loss of Stalin's city will mean no collapse of Russia's furious resistance to Germany. A small contingent of British troops, supported by light tiayal forces and heavy RAF held Libyan port of Tobruk Sunday night and inflicted cas-1 naltie8 and damage on the enemy before withdrawing,' the admiralty announced Tuesday, , "Our force landed in the face of Strong opposition," the communi que added. "The withdrawal was not carried out without losses, which in view of the strength of the defenses, were to be ex pected." . The Italians said a violent bom bardment by a large number of RAF planes preceded the landing, and "immediate intervention of Italian-German defenses frustrat ed the attempt" , . . . British parachutists, Rome said, also participated in the raid which "was supported by six naval -units, made up of cruisers and iJestroyers." ;.r..... , ' British eolanuis progressinf ; ateadlir into Madagascar were : reported Monday nlcht to have accomplished more than half - their march and to have ad vanced to within 100 'miles of Tananarive, Inland capital of the big French Island. - t . i In the unending North Atlantic battlo of ships, there were two of ficial reports of U-boat ' action versus convoy-, passage, without any immediate connecting link. The Canadian government re ported loss of four merchantmen and an escorting Canadian patrol Vessel from a convoy somewhere off the dominion east coast, f The Germans, who first report ed attacking a North Atlantic con voy last week, upped their claims to 19 merchantmen, two destroy-: era and corvette sunk, and chant ed their usual formula: "Only email scattered remnants of the convoy were able to continue the Journey." "Persons familiar with German communiques know these "small scattered reruianta. usually turn out to be astonishingly large. ' . The Germans said the attack began last Wednesday and con tinued until Monday, i At midnight (Russian time) the red armies- at Stalingrad were reported officially to have repulsed two additional attacks from the southwest of the city the sector which has been bardV ' est pressed In the last few days. However, the communique is sued at that time acknowledged a German tank advance In the Ter ek valley of the deep Caucasus, and said the Russians fell back in one sector on the rugged ap croaches to the Grozny oil fields. Prior to issuance of the mid night communique, the Russians story of the 20th day of Stalin grad's storm was one of unyield ing resistance on north and west DDroaches to the city and the slowing up on German penetration from the south. ; , Bat the Russians, exposed t merciless " and constant "f, dive ' bombing and strafing on their high plateau before the Tolga, were admittedly limited In anti- , aerial defense to AA tans and ifles. The Germans, who say they are already Inside the southern limits of Stalingrad proper, felt able to claim pos session of hills dominating the center of the city from the northwest. The two-front air war against Germany and her Junior part ners achieved its broadest scope thus far when hundreds of RAF bombers assaulted Bremen and other targets in northwestern Germany Sunday , night and un counted Russian bombers fanned wide over eastern Germany, Ru mania and Bulgaria. RAF Bombs German City . BERLIN (From German broad casts), T.u e s d a y , Sept 15-") British bombers attacked a harbor town of northern Germany Mon day night, DNB reported Tues day. -v;.v - v"--.-,7 "Fires were started and some damage was caused to buildicg3: Ts.Inly in residential districts,' t 3 ES7.-3 t-cscy reported. :" o 9 attacks, landed at the axis- Jap Carrier Possibly Sunk Jrlanes Damage Utlicr Ships in Solomons9 Latest Battle ; By CLARK LEE PEARL. HARBOR, Sept It-iJPi The United States is nearing the halfway mark in its fight: to de stroy the Japanese navy's aircraft carrier strength, which is the most important Immediate objective of tte war In the Pacific. it can now be reported that a small 7500-ton Japanese carrier first identified as the Ryujo pos sfbly was sunk in the big battle between carriers off the Solomon Onr pilots got four bomb hits and one torpedo hit en this ship. Patrol plane pilots several hoars after the battle saw the carrier dead in the water and listing. ' Our pilots who were on the spot also believe two Japanese de stroyers and one submarine were damaged in the battle, in which our own losses were minor. In addition two Japanese cruis ers, one battleship and, one trans port were severely damaged. One of the cruisers and the transport later were seen abandoned. All these facts were Compiled (Turn to Page 2, Cot 7) Dr. Looney Dies Here Of Illness Dr. Walter Winfield Looney died Monday afternoon after an illness of two weeks. He had been on! the medical staff og the Oregon state hospital for 25 years, and was stationed at Cottage Farm, south- east of town. He was born at Jefferson, July 22, 1 8 7 5. He attended Oregon State college - for two years and was graduated from the University of Oregon medical school in 1907 He practiced medicine in Vale and at I Bridal Veil, before coming to Salem. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jessie Looney; a brother, Victor D. Looney, Albany; a sis ter, Mrs. Mildred Allen, Mill City: Dr. Looney was a charter mem ber of Capital post of the Ameri can Legion and a member of the Legion drum corps. He was a member of the Pacific lodge 50 of the AF & AM. Funeral services win be held Wednesday at 2 o'clock from Rigdon's chapeL Burial will be in Bel crest Memorial park. Bombers Hit 2 Jap Ships GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, Australia, Tuesday, Sept 15-P)-Allied air units con- tlnued to strafe Japanese positions in the Owen Stanley mountains of New Guinea and patrol activity increased, but the general situa - tion remained unchanged for the fifth day. the allied noon com munique said. , " . X Tuesday's communique men tioned no bombing except an at tack on two enemy cargo ships ai Saumlaki, In the Tenimber is lands north of Darwin, Australia. This action was carried out by medium bombers, which attacked both with bombs and machinegun fire, but results were not observ ed. Two ether Japanese cargo vessels were attacked in this area the previous day and one of them left s!kl22. ijap Wwe BosheIq) . -II so' I 1 i , Committee Passes Huge Revenue Bilfy 43 Million Final Bill Would Boost Direct Tax By 6 Billions, Includes Credits; Corporation Levies Increased ' WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-(55)-A gigantic new revenue bill geared to increase treasury collections to more than $25,500,000,- 000 annually from corporations payers won approval Monday mittee. In addition to regular individual income levies and surtaxes the measure contains a 5 per cent "victory levy" on individual earn ings 'over $624 yearly. The measure was sent to draft- gwa mIawiVm aao 1ot-Mintf4A AMW. mittee action lopped 5 per cent off the previous-approved rate of 45 per cent on normal and surtax earnings of corporations. . The committee also provided some relief for individuals in the middle brackets by restoring the entire house schedule en indl vidoal surtaxes. Previously it had cat the surtax below $2000 and raised the rates from $2000 to S8000 to bring in $33,000,000 more revenue. As it finally was referred to technical experts who will, spend the next 10 days drafting changes in the measure, the bill was un officially estimated to provide a minimum of $6,774,000,000 more direct tax revenue than the $17,- 000,000,000 obtained under pres ent laws, which it supplements. This compared with $6,271,000,000 in new taxes voted by the house. In addition, the treasury would collect $1,800,000,000 yearly which it would return to taxpayers ; in the form of credits for debt pay ments or in post-war rebates. Of this amount, $1,100,000,000 would come from individuals through operation of the victory tax. Under terms of this tax, which would be collected at the sonree fat the form of a withholding levy, single persons could get a rebate of 25 per cent of the tax paid and married persons 40 per cent, plus 2 per . cent for each dependent. Other changes which the senate- committee approved bill would make in present tax laws Included Individuals: 1. Present normal income tax rate increased from 4 to 8 per cent, with surtaxes now ranging from 8 to 77 per cent boosted I to range from 13 to 82 per cent 2. Personal exemptions for in come tax cut from $1500 to $1200 I ior married couples, from $750 to I (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) 450 Japanese Prisoners in Solomons PEARL HARBOR, Sept 14-6T1 -raciuc neet neaaquarters an nounced Monday night 450 Jap anese prisoners were taken in the Guadalcanal and Tulagi island areas of the Solomon islands and have been removed to a port out- side of that area. US marines landed on those is- August 1 Jn the first major offensive action of the war in the Pacific. ' The fleet announcement said: "Four hundred fifty , Japanese prisoners - of war were taken in the Tulagi and Guadalcanal the atre of operations. "The outstanding feature In the caDture of these prisoners is that each one exnected to be kfllod. Humane treatment, including the furnishing of medical attention and clothing, was so surprising to the captives that many expressed a desire never to return to Japan. 1 This attitude Is understandable. since according to the Japanese code any man missing after a bat tie Is declared legally dead. His family is paid- a death gratuity and he is posthumously raised one rank. He becomes a man withou' a country. Capture by United States forces of a large number of Jap anese prisoners is the first step to ward balancing the losses we suf fered by capture at Wake, Guam and Bataan. It is hoped that our kind handling of prisoners will be watched by the Japanese in their treatment cf crscnnu.,, to Pay oy and 43,000,000 individual tax night of the senate finance com . Inflation Curb Bills Presented Senate, House Plans. Similar, Direct V Presidential Act WASHINGTON, Sept 14-(ff) Divergent - measures .for dealing with Inflation, which may require extensive efforts to reconcile for final enactment, "were introduced in the senate and house Monday in the face of the October 1 dead line set by President Roosevelt- The senate bill was a broad resolution nuthorizinff' and divert ing the president ; to stabilize prices, wages and salaries and other factors in the cost of living at the levels of August 15 so far as practicable but stipuiaung farm prices should hot be fixed below parity or the highest mar ket price between January 1 and September 1 5, whichever was higher. ' .-- The house bilL on which farm bloc members of both branches were consulted, would authorize and direet the president to stabilise "maximum salaries and Industrial .wage s" so as to "maintain a fair and equitable relation" between them and crop prices and would authorize (bat not direct) the setting of price ceilings on crops at parity or the highest price so far com manded in 1942, whichever was higher. The house bill also would put a floor under farm prices at parity from the present time until three years after the war by requiring the secretary of agriculture to make crop loans and purchases for this purpose.- This floor. feature not in the senate bill, would apply to non-basic com modities 'regardless of the pur pose for which such commodities are produced or used. Moreover, the house bin, ap parently leaving farm wage rates free of contrpL stipuated farm labor costs be taken into account in determining parity prices, something Chairman Steagall CD- Ala) of the banking committee said was not done at present ' It directed, parity prices "be; de termined so as to include all costs of production, including the cost of labor, with all labor Included and the wage rates used for all labor to be the same as the general aver age of wage rates for hired farm labor." ' Chairman Wagner (D-NT) of the senate banking committee and Senator Brown C (O-Michl, who sponsored the senate resolution. said the president was familiar with It and Indicated it was ac ceptable to him. WfflMe Goes . JLo leiieran TEHERAN, Iran, Sept 14- Wendell L. Willkie, personal rep resentative of President Roosevelt arrived : Monday . from Baghdad, Iraq, by plane. . He was welcomed by US Min Ister Louis G- Dreyfus, jr, and the heads cf the US military com mission. Others present were rc? resentatives of the Iran govern ment, the British minister, the soviet charce d'affaires and the Chinese minister. Willkie told reporters he was "deeply moved when I left Bash' dad. where the people hzea t. streets and crowds came ta tha airport to say gooiiye." t1 CDFe"& bmo) icbomniiQecL Criticizes 1 V . SEN. HARRY S. TRUMAN ' Hit at slow aircraft Senators Aver Planes Inferior f . ,";l". 1 v r',:f.' v-.;"' ' " .r-'- ' '' 'Brass Hats9 Qiarged With Failure to ; Provide Best WASHINGTON, Sept 14-W Army and navy "brass hats" were accused In the senate Monday of sending some American pilots out to meet the enemy In slow-mov ing, inferior planes, -including one navy ship - which" Senator Wall gren (D-Wash) said he regarded as "a Joke." Bristling debate was touched off by Chairman Truman D-Mo) of the special defense investigat Ing committee, who criticized not only fighter planes used by this country, but steel distribution, handling of the rubber program and allied failure .to eliminate "waste" in construction of army camps and war plants. Truman blamed "perfectionists' in both army and navy for delay In producing better fighting planes as well as ships and landing boats. "Something had to be done to shake up the brass hate and get action, and obtain the best planes obtainable, even if we nave to go to some other coun try to get them," Truman said, , (Turn to Page 2, CoL S) Balkans Hit Back at Axis Oppressors LONDON. Sent 14-UrVA new wave of axis terror and anti-axis revolt were reported v spreading throueh the Balkans Monday night following redoubled efforts by Hitler to wring greater tribute for his war machine from occupied but still recalcitrant southeastern states. The Germans themselves con tributed to the account of trouble on their hands, reporting revolt in Bulgarian Macedonia and execu tion of 800 persons, described of course as "bandits." captured in Bosnia, mountainous western area of occupied Yugoslavia. , A state of sieee was clamped on the district and city of Skoplje, a part of Bulgarian Macedonia and formerly a part of Yugoslavia, aft- w tVi Vfllinw at tnanv Bulgarian 'officials by Yugoslav patriots, said Balkan ' dispatches received m Switzerland. One account- said these disorders - were set off by efforts of Germans, Italians and Bulgarians to loot the district of its fan harvests. ; t One Sofia dispatch .told of the appearance of mysterious planes over the Skoplje area from which were dropped- leaflets 'addressed to the population and ammunition for Macedonian Insurgents. At one stage of the outbreak, dispatches said, an attempt was made to assassinate Peter Grabov sky, Bulgarian interior minister In two villages every last Bul garian official was declared slain by Macedonian bands. Sunday's 7eallier Ennday's max. temp. Zl, mln. 52. River ZIonay -3J ft By army request weather forecasts are withheld and temperature : Elsort: Today's tzr.tit 7!; r;c: -y's siiLa c.:z ts. Believed. Coast 1 Spots Plane Soars Over Brookings Fog BROOKINGS, Ore SepL 14 (AP) Eyewit nesses told . Monday night of the incendiary attack of an unidentified ; seaplane, presumably Japanese, that winged in from the sea last Wednesday. t - Residents of this coastal town heard the plane cir cling in the mist at dawn, and a few caught glimpses of the ship. . :. .- f . Mrs. W. C Crissey. wife of a Brookings - real - estate man," de scribed it as a small plane with out distinguishing marks. She said it circled over the beach at 500 feet,- its pontoons clearly discern ble. Then it beaded. Inland. Asa carpenter, - operator .; of a sawmill several miles up the Winchuck river, said he heard the plane circling' around Mt Emily shortly after 6 ajn. Harold "Razz" Gardner, forest service lookout on Mt Emily, saw the plane . circling and later fire broke out i Gardner hiked to the fire and brought the flames under con trol - . . , L He reported to ZL R. Dewart Curry county air raid chairman, that he found bomb fragments and a "sizeable" crater. The bomb sheared a six-inch tree and set fire to a stump, he said. Vy V Ed Marshall, ! federal forester, dug In the crater and extricated what he said was the nose of an incendiary bomb. Attached was steel shank bearing Japanese characters. Nearby were approximately 50 square pellets. ' , Where they fell, the earth was fused Into slag, Marshall added. L. L. Colville, assistant super visor of the Siskiyou national for est, who was with Gardner, said "we didn't spot the fire at once because of the fog, which didnt lift until noon. Then we had a hard time getting to the scene be cause, the brush and trees were so thick. "The bomb struck on a steep mountain slope after being de flected by an oak tree. After we put the fire out we noticed the In cendiary pellets. We didn't know what they were at first After we realized what they were we searched around, but couldn't find any others in .the area. This area Is well known to Ja panese, although why it would be (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Walters Dies In Accident LEBANON, Sept 14 Ferdin and Walters, 68, died Monday morning at the Lebanon hospital as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident Satur day near, the Tord mill near La- comb, i.' -- Mrs. Mattie .Williams, who was In the ear with Walters at the time of the accident, although badly shaken up, was able to return to her home. ". ' - The accident happened when Walters started- to turn into the main logging road. He saw the truck approaching and ' backed down on the side road, but . the driver of the truck, in order to avoid a collision, swung his truck abruptly and the trailer - broke loose, tidcswipir.g the car. The driver cf the truck was uninjured but the truck, overturned by the sudden change cf direction and speed and the breakins away cf the j" trailer, overturned and burned. . s ' - The state police, who hver'J- csted, tali the trucls driver v. :s During J T. TP) 'Jap Raid? V 1" At the extreme southwestern eor aer at Oregon, particles belier ed to 1e from a Japanese , in eendlary bomb were foond ta the Carry county forests, the . western defense eommand dis closed Monday. The porported attack occurred last Wednes day. Approximate area where the bomb was dropped and where an. army piano bombed a submarine off the coast la marked on the above soap with a cross. Britain Base For Offense Avers FDR WASHINGTON, ! Sept 14-(ff) President Roosevelt disclos ed Monday ; Britain is regarded as "an offensive base for the fight ing men of the United Nations, but is sharing equally with Rus sia in American lend-lease weap ons flowing across the seas to the European war theatre. Mr. Roosevelt sent congress his sixth- quarterly report . on lend- lease 1 operations and, : breaking down export figures for the first time in a year, showed about S5 per cent of the weapons ana war supplies are' going to Russia, 35 per cent to the United Kingdom, and SO per cent to ail other re gions, r ;5:v't!";; ; ' '": i,r: Total lend-lease assistance through August was $6,489,000, 000, the report said. Yet the pres ident declared that so far the United ' States ""has little more than : passed the i halfway mark towards maximum possible war production." - , He emphasized I this production still must expand.'- The value of i exports alone through August was $3,525,000, ADO. with onlv 30 ner cent of this goinff to the middle east Austra lia, China, and other areas, the re port commented on the fact heln for China had been limited by transportation difficulties, but said "the development " of other means of transportation .will re lieve this situation." ' - - British Sub Score 300 lDrJDON, Sept 14 Ad miral Sir Max Horton,, chief of Britain's - submarine service, said Monday British submarines have sunk 203 enemy supply shljs and sunk cr damaged E7 German and Italian warships since the start of the war. . Speaking at the launching of a new British submarine. Admiral Horton said more German sub marines had been destroyed fcy Eriikh andrrsea craft so far tlin 'Ja all tla V.'cili wan. Tl . Tl MssiM tarts Meted Pieces ! Found Near, : Big Crater SAN FTUNofecO, Scpu 14. (AP) -i- Eridenc that a Japanese seaplane, possibly operating from at submarine, may have at tempted to set southern Oregon forests afire in the first air bombing of the) continental United! States was reported by the west ern defense command Blonday. . . f A communique Issued by Lieut Gen. John L. DeWitt, western de fense commander, said: 'V A small seaplane was observed over the area of Mount Emily, nine miles northeast of Brookings, Ore, September 9. 4 A submarine was later sighted! . and bnTnhcwl etvail M n, .M . . www juv - ivufl m i uure uj an army patrol plane, with unobserved results. A forest fire was started near Mount Emflv and that marlrW M what appeared to be fragments of an Incendiary bomb "were Jap anese.. . . , ... . Forest patrols, which extin tlngnlshed the blase, discovered a foot deep crater, the commu nique added, and about 49 pounds of metal fragments ami small pellets, . ! - The fragments bore Japanese ideographs... '- ; t ; j : Apparently, the Japan, ff they made the attack. elMt mi of the mort heavily wooded sec- nons ox the coast, .frequently threatened by forest fires. A few years aco a fire In fh same general area swept out of control and virtually wiped out the Oregon coast town of Bandon. Japanese submarines have twice shelled the Pacific coast at nw leta in southern California Feb ruary, 23 and near Seaside, Ore, June zz, nut this was the first re ported attack from the air. The Goleta shelling caused, slight damage to on well instal lations. -The Seaside shells burled harmlessly in a beach. I c i; Shells were also fired June 29 at a lighthouse on Estevan mint BC, on the west coast of Vancou ver island, by either a Japanese submarine or surface craft with out damage.' . General DeWitt's communlrm read::;. The western1 defense Teem fa Investigating the circum stances surrounding the discov ery on September t ef frag- ments of what appears to have been an incendiary bomb. These fragments were found by - per sonnel of the United States for estry service near Mount Emily nine miles northeast ef Brook (Turn to Page 3, CoL 5) "SKILLED MEW Here's Your Chsnce to Serve Your1: Turn to Ncto Read rAbcntltl .Blase . i