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No Hunting! The Oregon state game commission, called off the antelope season and lndefl- 1 nitely postponed opening of deer and elk hunting. See story on sport pare. - 0 Days Void ' Registration for the Ne ember S election closes Oc tober S. Don't fall to mis ter. Voting' Is m privilege ye. are fighting for today . PCUNDDO lCSl rnrrmr-CEcorrD yeab Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning September 25. 1S42 CLCTIOn 1-PAGL3 1 TO 13 Frlc So. No. 133 j sj lwiu it mi i 3 Stalirigradr City of Steel Men rri TT ' " -r .':::' T'r-vV -j-- v'r . :VTT .4 .v.-? ;. t Gate Sector i i. - -n Gains Modification Of Ceilings Aim of Bill Tydings, Reed Sign : Proposal; Brown Sees Sure Veto :- By RICHARD L. TURNER .-. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24-Cfl3) 'A revived compromise propos al covering the hot issue of farm price ceilings attracted support among senators Thursday night, and administration leaders be lieved there was a possibility of perfecting an anti-inflation bill acceptable both to President Roosevelt and to a majority, of the senate. They ,- were, however, . by . no means certain. Thirteen members ef the agriculture committee had ' rejected 1 the compromise earlier in the day. In addition, the par liamentary situation was such that , the senate had first to vote upon the. farm bloc's proposal. This calls for an increase in parity prices by the inclusion of farm labor costs. : The president then would ., be forbidden to set price ceilings below these 'parity fig' urea,-'- . ' :":- . Conceding this amendment ' would . be adopted, the adminis tration leaders claimed they then would be able to command enough votes to substitute the compro mise for it, the end result being that . the farm . bloc amendment would be eliminated from the bill. The compromise, bearing the ; names of Senators Tydings (D- -. recornlxe labor, costs as a fac tor la. fixing celling prices. It ,. contains a direction to the presi dent to modify any established price eelling If they , "appear" to fail to reflect the increased I cost of farm labor. ' . Parity is a farm price level cal ' eulated to vivo farm nmdiirts tho same purchasing power they had uunoi . previous seieciea penoas ' tion economists estimate jthat i figuring farm labor costs, a new factor,- Into parity, would ' mean a 5 per centrise In living costs. 'President Roosevelt has express ed ' his unalterable ; opposition I v (Turn to Page 2, CoL; 1) . j;. -" J ' . 1 - !AIU:'Troojps; Contact Japs In Guinea v GENERAL Ma c A R.T-H IJ KS READ QUARTERS, Australia, PrldayV Sept.; 2HFAlli.ed .'pa trols have made contact witn tne enemy ' m the "Owen, S t.anl'ey mountains' of New tJuinea? a com munique- reponca- r naay,; out vie "general situation in tnat: area is , ' The "report, of renewed, activity in ' the rnountairl Jungles through which r Japanese have . advanced upon Port Moresby was the first In more than a week. There was no Indication whether it presaged a large scale resumption of the enemy - push southward , again the big allied base. ' . While the land fighting was re activated. General ' MacArthurs air forces continued to press their relentless attacks on - Japanese centers behind the front in New Guinea and on outlying islands. : Bombers probably sank a medi um. Japanese merchantman at Rabaul, - New. Britain,' the . high command said, while other allied slanes bombed and strafed Buna and Kokoda on New Guinea, as well as Buka at the northern tip the Solomon Islands. . ; Striking also toward the wes for the first time in receiit: days, the. allies : raided illLia. Portu guese xunor. xnere,'. me jvar re port said,, another Japanese cargo ship was bombed by a reconnais sance unit "with unknown re sults. Hesse: Olielis Iloiisins ; WASHLN'GTON, Sept 24 HT) A measure "authorizing expendi ture cf an tddlUonal $e::,CC3,C to provida housir.g for tproxi- xntXT l Z 7.7 Z $ war worR'r r ,ws 1 tsit ta th Y.Lltt Hour. z- enate: SiiiBBorl ' . merits On Parity In Nutshell WASHINGTON, Sept 24-) The nab of the farm price con troversy Is the farm bloc's in sistence that the costs of all farm labor, be included In the parity formal for determining the "fair price", of agriculture products.' Here Is the rist of the area meats pro and con: . The farm bloc: Because of low prices, the farmer cannot com pete with Industry for hired workers. Farm workers, in larre numbers, are being lured to the city by hlh wares fat muni tions factories and other Indus tries. This threatens a disas trous drop In agricultural' pro duction which will not only ruin many farmers bat 'will deal a . severe Mow to the United Nations war effort. Administration ' supporters: Parity as now calculated brings farmers into a fair relationship with other groups because It meiades - the labor cost incor porated in the price of things the farmer bays. To change the formula now would add 13,001, Ofl,M to UJiOO.eOO.OOi to the cost of living and destroy all possibility of ' averting a ruin ous Inflation 'which ; would greatly, hamper the trar effort. Scrap Pickup Today in City Residential Drive for Metas Next Weeki Rural Plan Set Salem's downtown salvage de pots were filling steadily Thursday as G. W. Paulus, county salvage chairman, announced that the business districts drive for war- needed scrap metals had . - been continued, over into today and County Agent Robert E. Rieder disclosed plans for a county-wide collection program. . J: X ':: - Paulus said the slow-to-start business district drive had picked up markedly Thursday morning. He urged all business house pro prietors and ' building owners to make thorough cleanups' of their premises In search of metallic ma terials for, the war stock pOes so badly needed. - i : City trucks are to start picking up. the scrap donations at the 08 downtown salvage depots this aft ernoon.' " '.' v: The capital's residential scrap metal drive will start next Mon day;' with pickups from curb-" sides' to be made en specified days in each of Jour sones. - - I- Rieder, offering use of his tele phone number, 4all, to persons reporung in on availability of large amounts "of scrap, said the rural drive would get under way on October. 12. --.:.-' : Every tenth farmer in the coun ty .Is to- be asked to remind the other nine in his group that scrap' metals .are. needed and to urge them to haul their collections from their farms to salvage depots in nearby, communities, where possi ble. Use of WPA trucks Is being sought for collections where the farmers are unable to make deliv ery. Among scrap dor a lions noted in downtown Salem Thursday was a World war No. 1 shell of approxi- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) XJS-Afgtntine Ties Weakehv BUENOS AIRES, Sept 24 -(fl5) Socialist Deputy Nicolas Repetto told the chamber , of deputies Thursday night that, because of her neutrality Argentina' was "a the point of breaking relations with the United States." ; ' ne explained this by saying "we can be neutral, but. we can not under pretext of that neu trality serve the Interests of to- taUtariantigv "j ' Hepetto's ' romarks ' supported the opposition's - demand tha' Presidtnt Ramon J S. Cast!Ho's rtateef siege,; which' bans put!!e ccnsEscit ca fctsrnitioiil. rt'-i- Argu tons, ha lLted. " JL JL . Employe Pay Problem To Be Solved Mayor Appoints 12 To Recommend Increase Plan Assurance that the matter of requested pay increases for city employes "will reach an in telligent ; solution in the spirit of sound municipal govern ment' was given Thursday by Mayor W. W Chadwick in a statement issued in connection with his appointment of a com mittee of 12 to work out the prob lem. . Named on the committee, which Chadwick instructed to convene in a special meeting to propose "ways and means to satisfactorily solve the problem of wage adjust ments for the personnel of our city firemen and policemen' and to present a report and recommen dation for. consideration of the city council at that body's next meeting are: Alderman I F. LeGarle, chairman; Aldermen David O'Hara and Ross Goodman: George Arbuckle, Carl Hoar and W. L. Phillips, representlnr bus iness interests of the city; Chief Frank Mlnto and Officers. Charles E. Dalton and Stanley E. Friese of the police depart ment; Chief Harry Hatton and Robert Mills and Walter Eber. hard of the fire department. '. This committee shall . have my full cooperation and assistance as well as the advice and counsel of the city attorney In assisting them In working out. this .entire prob lem, Chadwick's statement de clares.' " - T' . "-i. Tending the results of this pro cedure and the action of the com mon council in session on their re port, I ask all who will be affect ed In the service In the city of Sa lem to remain at their posts, and I assure them that this matter will reach an Intelligent solution in the spirit of sound municipal govern ment, the statement 'concludes. That a committee report at the next regular cou n c 1 1 meeting would be too late to make use of the November ' general election ballot to secure an expression from the ' city's v otcri pn whatever measure may be proposed was ap parent .Thursday. Last day such a bill could be placed on the ballot will be October S, by a provision of the city, charter requiring coun cil action on an ordinance related to such a proposal not less than SO day s prior to the vote. - - , . However, i n e c 1 1 y councu, w h I c h recessed ; fast BXonday nhrht so that mljrht meet on short call should the antlclpa (Turn to Page 2, Cot 8) Civilian Meat )rops21per Cent for FaU , WASHINGTON, . Sept 2i HP) The government told civilian con sumers Thursday . they would have to get along with about 21 per cent less meat during the next "three , months, although slaughtering of livestock was ex pected to reach record levels. ; Secretary of Agriculture Wick ard' said civilian meat consump tion during the October-December period would be restricted to 79 per cent of the amount available in the same period last year. ; Thia restriction is designed, the secretary said, 1; to conserve sup plies for the armed forces, for lend-lease orders and to hold over some meat for. civilian use 'when slaughtering drops to a seasonal low-level next year. The October-December limita' tion . will - bo followed, Wickard said, ' by , consumer rationing al lowing 2H pounds "a week per person. The office of price ad ministration has been . asked, he said,' to work out rationing plans. The announcement 'cf the ' re- strictlon was followed Try an agri culture, divisioa livtuxk report forecasting 23 per cent mere hc3 would be sold for sv,usMer dur-in- .tha'.tijii-riclii period tLn a jtix a; RUSSIA RAILROADS AMMfcj! STATUTE MILES Geographical details of the Stalingrad area arji shewn- -fat this map depicting the scene of a tremen ; dons nasi effort which today enters Its second month. The arrows show, how the German armies are tryinr to pierce thronrh and isolate sections of the city; the planes represent nasi craft which -pound the city and its lines of supply (line of tanks) incessantly. The Volga river courses through the east side, below the bluffs en which WPB Offers Scrap Prizes ' States and Counties .To Get Awards Army Contribute WASHINGTON, Sept 24-ff) The war production board Thurs day added new aest to the news paper-directed scrap drive by of fering awards of plaques and pen nants to states and counties piling up the. biggest heaps of food for the blast furnaces. - , As the big nation-wide drive caught on rapidly with the. pub lic, WPB announced t h a t the three states collecting the most scrap per capital would get hon orary plaques - from : Chairman Donald M. Nelson. Each county producing 100 pounds or more per capital will receive a salvage vic tory pennant; ; ? i . v. r WPB's . eonservatlon division, ta announcing rales o the "con test emphasised that only scrap metal or rubber which had been; welxhed and delivered to vic tory stockpiles, official salvage, depots,' or scrap dealers yards,; would be used in computlnr the' totals. . " ": ' Only scrap collected during the three-week newspaper drive, will be Included in the 'final 1 tabula tion of the contest", The state sal vage chairman- will have final judgment in all matters conCemra ing the. competition figures. . - jWPB said it had been suggested that each state chairman1 appoint a committee of three leading citi zens to assist In 'Judging, the "con-' test ' ;-'C'r4!;&r Plaques for first 'second .and third state prizes will be suitable for installation In state capi tola. The pennants fcf counties may be flown from county, courthouse or from staffs on on near large county-Victory stockpiles. - : f : ; ;5 Not only the civilian public, but the army as well, has Joined the scrap drive. ' Secretary : Stimson said Thursday that at Fort Knox, Ky they're digging up, copper, nickel, lead and steel beneath the firing range targets. - Hamilton -county, Ohio, - which embraces ' Cincinnati, in nine months collected 280 pounds of scrap metal per capita, a total of 238,885,341 pounds. Harold W Nichols," committee chairman," at tributed this vast total, to trer mendous publicity in the news papers. In Nebraska, 104 .pounds per capita was collected in three weeks. Blast Hurts Axis Troops in Athens: BERLIN (From German broad casts), Sept 24 HTJ- An explo sion in a house in Athens Injured an unannounced number of. Ital ian occupation troops and caused the' Italian command in Athens to order the execution of three persons, a dispatch frca Athens reported Thursday " night " " ' ...The personal responsible for the explosion cave not" fctea ccptur- ea, ua cuspatca sav3L Va777777777Z7777 777 Stalingrad Is ba lit Associated Press Telemat. Stalingrad War Ruins Depicted: MOSCOW, Friday, Sept 25(ff) .The sky flames above your head and the earth Quivers un- - der your feet . in Stalinarad, . Konstaatiai .' Simenov, ' Russian - author and n e w a p a p erman,' wrote Friday , in describing; his visit to the. beslered Yolra river ? city, : . r - " -' There U wreckage every where, and .' everywhere the,' choking ' smell of smoke -and' hlrh explosives,- he said. vOn the river beach are the corpses f . women ' and children killed by German bombs. The Stalin-' rrad water 'front is a great, patch or rains. - "By nlabt fresh soviet troops cross the river on barres and boats. The wounded are remov ed the same way." "The medical service Is Work- - - (Turn to Pago 2, Cot ' . Two Vessels In Atlaritic- - . ' - Sub Victims : Five seamen, ere w . memDers aboard an American merchantman and' a "Panamanian cargo carrier, perished ! fat' new' submarine ' en counters which' sank both ships, the navy revealed .Thursday but 83 others were rescued ana iana ed safely at United Nations ports. Latest, victims of enemy U-boats In .'the western Atlantic raised to 475 .the 'Associated Press tally of announced sinkings in that area since I America's" entry Into the war.' Forty eight survivors of the Panamanian; vessel were landed at an east coast port One seaman was killed in the attack which oc curred to the North Atlantic last July. i - " - . The United States ship was tor pedoed In mid-Atlantic last month, with the loss of four crew mem bers. Fifty others were picked up by a friendly rescue craft almost immediately - a ft r abandoning their "stricken ship. " - Destruction of the 5244-ton Swe- dlsh'motor freighter Lima by en emy submarine action boosted that neutral nation's merchant marine losses in a three-year period erd Ing: Friday Jo at least 154 ships, totaling -41?i368 tons, the Ameri can Swedish News exchange an nounced, -..j-;-.. .: . At least 832 persons were killed in the sinkings, a report received from the London. bureau of the Asne saidl '. 3 . -: ,- . - Sweden's ! shipping , losses were estimated at abnut J75,CC3,C03. . ' Disclosure; of the Lfca's torpe doine wps made by the Swedish lesstirtt in Lcndon, la a report t its ioreizn ''efflce in Etocica. J?either,dste nor location of -the attack was i revealed Ja the dis patch,' V. . 1 J;;;;!: RYNOK 3-Train Wreck ..... -. ,:. ToU Climbing 20 May Be Dead in Alaryland ; 5 Sleeper '.'I-- DICKERSON, Md, Sept 24-() Toiling rescue , crews Thursday night had removed. 11 bodies from the twisted wreckage, of two pas senger trains and a fast freight in which 20 -persons were believed to have died. - ; '. --; A '- State police and railroad offi cials said 11 persons were known to be dead nine of them having perished in a flaming Pullman car. Nine : still were unaccounted for and feared dead, they said. .', In the eerie light of spotlights and carbide, lamps, wrecking crews attacked. the Pullman, pull ing it away bit by bit until the twisted hulk bore' no resemblance at all to. a railroad car. Rescue workers planned to work all night "' ' ' ' I '. Tne entire area was '.encircled by rifle-bearing Maryland;! Sta.te guardsmen who challenged,; any one 'approaching the wreckage No one without credentials" was allowed on the scene. -- . , ' J The bodies which had been tak en from the wreckage were tso badly, burned Immediate Identi fication .was: hnppssible. I,; Th sleeper car earriedj sot (of the victims when death . struck swiftly, Thursday mora-.;' tna hi" s deep tullr' along- the' Baltimore ! ; and Ohio; rafiroad tracks. V One passenger express plowed Into another, and tossed the kSaOinaa Into a frelrht roar- .big along the adjoining track, j : Wreckage of an - three trains jammed Into ' a' small mountain of crumpled steel in xne narrow pass, and fire . from i spilled fuel, oil ... Turn, to Page 2, CoL 6) . Kaiser Halts; NY Employip NEW ' YORK, Sept 24 Michael sillier, head of the Van couver shipyards of the Henry, J. Kaiser interests;-: said Thursday that with 4000 New York; work men- set to leave far th west coast yards "we now have? more than enough men for ttellinme diate needs of the yards.";' . Recruiting ; of , v workers was halted - Thursday . night.. fir ; at least a week to pennit tte ;Caiser offices to catch up on .the-men already "screened'' by. the'JJS em ployment service. In a wejjc. an announcement will be made as to when workmen wCl be registered i.M . tM 1V.11I-. llJf AJ.T . t.er. esia. uiai Lie jurss u&.. i 2. wver jl. zz-zj it of employes, would leave for Port j E j" ny ' request weatLer f are land.Fricisy fron IIclx&ctL' An-f tt''i are wl'.lhcll al fci:r?r ctherrsiawa.lve Cusiiyi t Yzizrtteii Czlxjtl, .; v; third: llondsy," endva-fourth.."CTt.-,.EjBtt''lTlday,a sunset ,77j Ttiesiay," Wlll3"'aif-i" fcraivwiL t' 'pV; ra. Cairriay'r suarija-" t:S I 3 cut liter, U tlii. V i a b.- :" ' ' Meld Off From Willkie Finds Over Lack of bhips Aid Witn Big Guns By FRED VANDERSCHIHDT Associated Press War Id! tor . A risins hope for the survival of Staliosrad took oa Sweater substance Friday as the their relief soldiers had beaten Germans could muster in the jrround on the northwest sector.;' ; , ..V j! iVr;1; Stalingrad went into its siege Friday with the Germans apparently no nearer vie- lory than when they broke into Ships of the Volga river German masses striving to and the fire, the Bussians an-! nounced, destroyed eight German guns "and a large group of enemy troops, -. . Soviet guns. threw down a bar rage of fire in the city and wiped out two battalions of enemy in fantry, and guns and ammunition, the. Russians said. -.; . ' ; .. " , - To . the .northwest, where the Soviets are bringing Intense pres sure to bear to help their be leaguered fellows within the dty the communique said "our troops engaged In. active operations, and In some sectors advanced some what ; The Russians held those gains against seven enemy counter-at tacks. The; Germans suffered heavily; 35 German tanks were destroyed and about a : battalion of Infantry was wiped out' -; But In the Hosdok area deep ! fat -the Caucasus, the Russians fell .back from a populated place after exacting a fearful toll of and guns from . the. CSer- One; soviet artillery crew, as an Illustration of the price the Ger mans are paying there also, "al lowed the -enemy to come within a close distance and, opening fire. disabled 12 tanks and wiped out about a company of German cav alry." r. ; . , ; In the Slnyavino sector of the northwest front south" of Lenin grad, the Russians s t o o d fast against German attempts to drive f wedge into their, positions. ? ? But it was of the greatest sig- nificance that Stalingrad has tak en once more the worst blows the Germans : "could ..- crowd into .the day and night and had even bet-, tered its position. In the terrible battle. ; - -;:,r;" 'V: : .- Deep seated,' complications, ' however, velouded the w hoi e" oestion of unified. US-Brlti&h-sovfet a4rflon to, win the, war.; Wendell WClkle Mr. Koose-' veirs emissary, received during - the course . of , his . Moscow, visit ; t a disturbing impressloa of sov iet coolness, and. dissatisfaction, over the. lack of a"seond. allied front In Vrestcrja . Europew' -i . This came to Mr. Willklev from vrorkmen and. high pffidals aEke and, whfle he obviously 4 was not m. a position to quote Joseph Sta-, lin after meir. two-hour ;lfrernlin. conference, ' the big Indianan said nothing to- indicate.'ihet me" Rus-. sian leader. bad yaried- from "iiua, imiversal Russian' attitude of frig id disappomtment i-v-- I American correspondents who have worked in Moscow , since .the Washington-L o nd q n. announce ments of last : spring . which re-' ported fun agreement with Russia on the' ' "urgent tasks", required for the opening of a second front in 1942, cabled their own expert. fences witn -outspoken -Russian criticism of both the US and Brit ain on the. non-appearance of a major diversion in Europe. " .-, They said that Stsllnrrmd and ' the Caucasus had oome as hard blows to Muscovites and that ' the soviet people ' were, saying I resentfully now thai they were I; earrytna;. the . whole . burden' f the war aramst KJIei.'-v:ir--:'': In no caseC however, waa there fany suggestion that the . Russian resistance is Cashing because of this troublesome , international misunderstanding.' - ' - - Uetlncsday's cllicr 7tintsZxj' rtaT. A : p. 5, I i V I W-l , tl victory. Disappouitment Second Front: if: i)- Russians off icially reported down the best assaults the city itself and had regained. second month of ordeal of the dty proper last week. flotilla poured shells into the advance on the city's streets US Destroyer ears ' 250 Believed Lost '; From Jarvis and Ly Transport little v Wietmfflivsw SiM The 1500 -ton .destroyer Jarvis, with possibly 172 men aboard, ha vanished in the southwest Paclfif and Is assumed to have been sunk by Japanese submarines or air uay, ana xne speeay . auxuisry j transport Little also has been lost xqc cuuuij jusi m sou tn sela was believed to total about . 250, since, hi addition to the men who disappeared with the Jarvis, the. navy said that approximately : half of those on the - Little died, , The Jarvis; normal, complement ; was .172. and the Little, a con verted . destroyer, usually carried 150 to 200 crew members and troops. , rv?" '' " I ' .sou ships had been engagef . " (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) , STi oi .v-'-':-S1 C ' ''-If a ForWarWorIx 1 CLEVELAND, - Sept - 24 4!&l pcoooi ciuiuixu, uouacwivca uiii aid In essential war activities bi fore the war la won,' MaJ. Geo. 'w a . a oh . iiCWlfl Mm AAffAeVU'C v UCUeUCU iWU : day nightxrr.;-...;;-;t. -r; xne. nauonai. seiecuve servico l". . ----- n rrruiT; . anna in w in iiuuiic iuu. IA . ara1f - ' is Va laahffi MkkAl ii Ti Tl rf i r IaIm anina aaAarft : oTre foW keuri :i aoay. ana gomg ,u scnooi as me- aametime.vv'r.- - tern- ix.K.. . v - tCJ. . present imtapped . labor souroos Vill remain untapped. If wa wait too iste in making replacemeni Z. Gen. Hersney. . warned hvfus. - mantis to stari planning now to?, . bor and .members ' of minoritr Krouns.' a wi--,. ;".'. V He ' criticized ahences frost work,' ' 'slowdowns, and'r atjief . ueuaous or wruca rroauc.ica.-ij jMiriier m. kue cult ne DranounB ed, unsatisfactory tiie rate ot vt imtary. switchovers from' non-oe sentlal to war Industries. . M m. m Ml - mm m.m A A i T .tat " v 5 : JTV-ThO 'TinnlsH rnfflrreatlnn hum reau Thursday tdght issued an of- f a " " sl lm ii j uciai ccrasiuniqye ss Washington " had 'intimated fin-f tssl wsj ye&ij '. for a stparatt ; peace with : the soviet union. " ' ' -The connualeue explaine-l tao TinnLh 1:: Ttlca L-.:t week t;IJ k rrc:j ccrJ to correct hat it called ti e erroneous and" mis' Isadtg izr-nritlca spoilt' condi tions n ri-land, CJ I7 the fewi Situation; vhich It i.ld had bn a p p e a r 1 n g Utdy in Americ&a r-iv i.. ''.;''"' Disapp Says Hersliey