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Xaleza, Oregon. Tuesday 1'omlag, September 15. 1S12
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No. 127
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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. :"
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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SEN. HARRY S. TRUMAN '
Hit at slow aircraft
Senators Aver
Planes Inferior
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'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,
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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
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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
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