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Salem. Oregon, Saturday Morning, September 23. 1842
Price 5c.
No. 133
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.New
Picture
h
Sought
Demos Ask Writ'
For7 Use of FR
Cut in Pamphlet
Seeking writ of mandamus
to force Secretary of State Earl
Snell to permit the publication
of President Franklin D. Roose-
velf'a rnrtnr arul nn nprnm.
panying statement in the 1942
fall edition of the state voters'
pamphlet, petition for writ of
mandamus was filed at the .zero
Lour" as the county clerk's office
closed Friday, last day for such
action. . .
Petitioner and plaintiffs la
th case, an which ' a hearing
has been called for It aJn. Wed
esday, are Lew Wallace, demo
cratle v nominee for governor,
: Chairman Fred Fisk. Celia L.
Gavin, secretary William L.
Jesslin and C. A. Lucas, of the
democratic state central com
mittee. ': -
-v. The order Instructing the sec-
f retary of state to appear, Wednes
' day morning to show cause why
writ should not be issued order-
inir him tn nllrtw mihliation tit
' the ; picture and statement was
aimed ' Friday night by " Circuit
Judge E. M. Page, while Wallace
and the committee's attorney were
In Salem . ;
sons why the picture banned from
me pampniei dv sneii on ruling
in vuoraey oenerai i. n. van
" Winkle early this week, . should
be accepted and published, are:
, , "Thai - thaiemorrati? charter
. AAA... . IT T T
for Oregon ' referring to imtwd
lines of type prepared to accom
pany the photograph, of the pres
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Enemy Holds
on
Guadalcanal
WASHINGTON, Sept
The " Japanese are still holding
. several villages on Guadalcanal
island, principal American base to
the southeastern Solomons, ' the
navy disclosed Saturday In a com-
muni que reporting new bombing
; end strafing attacks on those and
. a a. a
omer enemy sxrons poinis ana
ahlna had damaged docxs and
buildings and scored three hits on
points attacked in aaaiuon- xo
; the centers of Japanese resistance
on Guadalcanal were liizo isiana,
:. 215 miles to the northwest, and
" Rekata bay at Santa Isabel 1s
- land, 183 miles , away. Docks and
buildings were damaged at Rekata
and one small -float plane was shot
down., inese acuoni were cameo
if' out by army Flying Fortresses.
J The three hits on an unreported
; number of transports were also
made by army Flying ' Fortresses
when on Thursday they discover-
ed the enemy transport force near
. Shortland island, in the western
v Solomons about 259 miles from
: the northwestern shore of Guad
f alcanaL 'The attack was opposed
. by about 20 Japanese fighters, a
' navy, communique said, and one
. uuicr was tuut uwwu.
Oregon JFire
Record Lauded
PORTLAND, Sept. 23-(ff-Re
gional forester Lyle Watts praised
Oregon ians Friday for "the splen
did record we have had this year
in the prevention of man-caused
forest fires." -k- '-"rt;;H
On the eve of the sixth anni
versary of the Bandon fire which
wiped out the city witli the loss
of 11 lives, Watts said:
Excellent work has been done
... by the forest protective agen
cies and particularly the , Keep
Oregon Green association, but In
the last anatyrls we have to thank
the general forest-using public . .
ur folks in Oregon Jen) v; the
meaning of freest fires 8Ed Uwy
certainly haye done their part.
i Official to Work ,.
Un iiuiidinj;
' WASHINGTON, SepL. 23 JP)
1 Cenator McNary said Friday that
a public buildings administration
- ivimeuwuvc win eiuvc in ua1
Jem soon to work on the proposed
i acquisition of . the American Le
building for USO purposes.
Villages
. n "
Ten days from keel-Iaytnr to laancblnr, the 10,500-ton Liberty freishter Joseph N. Teal (above) bit the
water In the shipyards of Henry
eeremonies. The amazing speed
The yard intends to have the boat
major carte vessel la two weeks.
Oregon to Fulfill Duty
Declared by Sprague in
Proclamation on Scrap
: ' Declaring Oregon would do its full share In the nationwide scrap
metal drive announced Friday for the two weeks of October 5 to 17,
Gov. Charles A. Sprague issued a statement proclaiming the period
"Oregon's Scrap Harvest Weeks." The full statement reads:., i
"Again 130.000,000 peoplegre
that. call. . w ii.i'ijixi" , y"tmf. "" . .-'-r i
"This time Oregon Is asked to produce 100,000 tons of .scrap
metals before January 1, 1943, so that the steel furnaces of the nation
will not be compelled to shut 'down lor lack of necessary and vital
iron and steel. '
"So may L Charles A. Sprarue, Governor of Oreron, pro
claim to the people of Oregon that we set aside the two weeks
period from October S to October 17 at midnlfht as 'Oregon's
Scrap Harvest Weeks' during which time may our million and ;
more population put their shoulders to the wheel and produce '
from home, farm, factory and business office the sorely needed
tons of scrap so vital to our winning this war.
- - During this period the newspapers of Oregon are Joining with
the press- of the nation in promoting and publicizing this greatest
program in the most critical period
ushers have a great task before them, but the people of Oregon Have
a still greater task--that of collecting these 100,000 tons of scrap
practically 200 pounds per person in this rich commonwealth. . ;
. - "Oregon has stood out well in front in the scrap salvage program
first, in waste paper, and then in the recent President's Rubber
Drive when more than 10,000 tons of rubber were collected. ; r Vt
"Again Oregon will repeat this time on the scrap metals :
; drive. . - ' r:.:ncV: V '""' ' ;'..-vrr,, i:
' "May I commend the newspaper publishers, dally ' and weekly
alike, for their wonderful patriotic spirit in this' great endeavor,
for only through their untiring energy and the full cooperation of
130,000,000 people can this struggle be won nd we will win.'
; ' CHARLES A. SPRAGUE,
'r . . , . . i ... "Governor."
rs -c'
Ganr Praise
Of President -
NEW YORK, Sept 03 -(-Ex
pressions of confidence ' In the
American free press came Friday
from President Roosevelt and sev
en cabinet members who .praised
the part newspapers have played
in. the war. effort. . :
The . chief executive said that
the observance of national news
paper week '"(October 1-8) V after
ten months of war affords an op
portunity to redetlicate ourselves
to the freedom that is as vital to
us as our daily bread the free
dom to think and speak and write
the truth as we see it." V
Our free press has not only
survived It is an essential part
of the steadying ballast which '
enables our ships to ride 7 the j
storm." Mr. Roosevelt added.
National newspaper week will
be devoted to acquainting readers
with the multitude of activities of
their free press in the war effort.
The expressions from public fig-
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Bridges Fighting
Against Deport
SACRAMENTO, Calif; Sept' 25
(T-In federal district court Harry
Bridges began a legal fight Fri
day to nullify the government's
order for his deportation to Aus
tralia as an undesirable alien.
Three defense attorneys, argu
ing before Judge Martin I. Welsh,
based their case on charges that
the CIO longshore leader had been
denied his constitutional -rights
and -that his defense had been
hampered by alleged- concealment
cf & iiy witness. -
newspape
Ship Built in Ten Days
J. Kaiser at Portland. This ' picture
record cut 14 days off the best
ready for the sea Sunday and If
Associated Press Telemat. , ,
calling; again Oregon will answer
- .. ,
of American history. These pub-
AlliedlC onvoy
s; RAF
Bombs Oslo
By The Associated Press'
On the seas which flank the vast
struggle in the Russia there were
revealing developments Friday: .
(1) The British admiralty's
announcement that an allied con
voy and its air and sea protectors
had "exhausted the strength of the
luftwaffe in the longest, hardest
battle ? yet fought on the; Arctic
supply routes (2) Japanese and
German announcements of Jap
anese naval action in the Atlantic
which were timed so carefully and
worded so curiously that they
seemed to mean just this: Berlin
and Tokyo ( at last have gotten
together on propaganda methods.
In the north of Europe RAF
daylight raiders reached out at ;
Germany's northern flank r and j
bombed Oslo, Quisling capital of
Norway, the first time In two
years. The crash of bombs broke
up a nazi party rally which the
traitor Yidkun Quisling was ad
dressing. The raiders lost only
one plane. -: V.
Meanwhile . the G e r man s,
through their Paris puppets, were
broadcasting 'another 1 "Dakar
scare." -A' nazi-paid cximmentator
on radio Paris declared "the al
lies are blockading Dakar," Vichy
held base on the west bulge of
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Dc r.Ioincs llns Snow;
DES MOINES, Iau, Sept SSff)
The -weather bureau- Friday re
ported Des Moiner first Septem
ber e snowfall since 1C3, when
snow measumnenLs - were , first
recorded ter.
I.
was made dnrmc the laonchtnf
previous", record for shipbuilding.
it succeeds will have delivered a
Drive Yields
50 Tons Scrap
Large Items Thrown
In; Residential
Campaign Set
Downtown Salem's three-day
scrap metal drive to build up war
plant stockpiles , yielded - nearly
100,000 pounds of assorted, sal
vage, it appeared as parking space
"depots" were being ,; emptied
Thursday afternoon. -.
City Engineer J. H. Davis an
nounced Thursday night his truck
drivers had hauled approximate
ly 38 H tons, or 73,000 pounds, of
scrap of all kinds to a central de
pot established on Trade ' street
adjoining the city water depart
ment's block. The cleanup is to be
completed today. s -
Huge discarded store and ho
tel signs, discarded : Iron beer
barrels and a four-ton safe went
far to add to the pile along the
water department property line.
The safe, a relic from the days
when a hardware store was lo
cated at the northwest corner
of State and Liberty streets, was
turned In by Warren Pohle,
" member of the county salvage
committee.
A bronze cannon which rested
for a time In one of the tempor
ary ; curbside depots .was hauled
back to the Salem armory corner
when it was discovered that some
one had removed it without au
thority from state officials. ;
. Engineer Davis said he consid
ered, the business district's con
tribution of scrap metals "mighty
good." He reiterated, however,
that the current drive Is not for
paper and tin cans.
: Results of this week's drive
and of next week's In the res
idential districts will be cred
ited to the city fat the national
competitive campaign an
nounced Friday, for October f
to 17, If at all possible,, C. W.
Panlus. .Ifarion county salvage
chairman said. ; ;-'. -s ::
. Next . Monday " through Friday
city trucks rare to collect scrap
metais in the residential areas
into which the city has been div
ided by days. Householders asked
by the salvage committee to place
their contributions on their park
ings for pickup by 9 ajn. Mon
day are those living in the area
bounded by State, 12th and Hoyt
streets and -the east city limits
line.
Army Commends
Lookouts i i
GRANTS PASS, Sept: 25. -ifi
Howard Gardner and Ed Conley,
Siskiyou national- forest service
lookout men, received army.'e6m:
mendation Friday for reporting an
unidentified : aircraft; over Curry
county; shortly before the first
bomb ever dropped on the contin
ental United States was discover'
ed September 9.
"The vigilance of these two ob
servers' is highly .commendable,"
wrote Brig. Gen. Barney M. Cues,
commanding the fourth air force
at San Francisco. The information
they furnished the fourth fighter
command was of treat value in
tie invcs'Jstion cf tlus incident'
Enemy
Pushed
Back
Vital Jap Bridge
Bombed; Rain
Hits in Guinea ;
GENER A L M a t A R -J
THUR'S HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, Saturday, Sept. 26
(AP) Aggressive allied pa-
rols fighting In heavy rain
hare forced the Japanese' to
fall back from outposts in the
Owen Stanley mountains
above Port Moresby while' al
lied . dire bombers" have de
molished one end of a .vital sus
pension bridge on ' the Japanese
supply -' route, General . Douglas
MacArfhur reported Saturday. ' .
The land fighters have brought
lght artillery, mcluding. some 25
pounder' -howitzers,' Into play
against the Japanese. ' -
Dive bombers have been snip
ing at the Wairopi bridge, over
which the Japanese have been at
tempting to move supplies across
the deep gorge of the Kumasl
river.' and Saturday t h e allied
command said one end was de
molished by . three direct bomb
hits. " ' 1 -
The bridge is suspended over
the chasm by wires and the Jap
anese have been making feverish
attempts to repair previous bomb
damage.
A spokesman emphasised that
the Japanese withdrawal from
their outposts near ; Ioribaiwa,
22 air miles from Port Moresby,
should not be Interpreted as a
general withdrawal. The enemy
still has strong forces fn the
mountain area, ho said. '
The communique disclosed al
lied forward elements were active
in the JSalamaua area some 180
miles north of Port Moresby, and
across the formidable Owen Stan
ley range . '
i The Japanese forced the allied
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Senate Claims
Compromise
Votes Climb
WASHINGTON,' Sept 25-(flV
After a day of energetic cam
paigning, senate - administration
leaders openly claimed enough
senate votes Friday night to re
ject the farm bloc's proposal for
new and higher farm parity prices
in favor of a compromise formula.
That done, ' they; foresaw the
speedy passage of a bill, empow
ering the president ;to stabilize
wages, salaries - and prices. - But
whether the' house, which has al
ready approved the farm bloc plan,
would accept the compromise, and
whether the finished , legislation
could be delivered . to . President
Roosevelt by October 1 the dead
line he set in asking for it re
mained in doubt
: While a series of , senate ;
speeches kept the surface de
bato going, the admhtlstratioa
leaders conferred busily wtth
wavering -.senators. . . One at ;: a ,
time; they , reported, votes were j
shipped . away -;fromte ; fairm !
bloc. Atthe end ofithe:day.;thej
senate adjourned -nmu joonoayi -and
Senator Barkley, the demo-1
cratle floor leader, thought the:
tote might be taken then, or
on Tuesday at the latest
The 'farm bloc : leaders were
busy, too, combatting this effort
to undermine their voting strength.
On the floor they " condemned
what i they termed "false state
ments' that they were endeavor
ing to torpedo", the president's
anti-inflation program by insist
ing upon higher parity prices for
farm products.
In addition they circulated cop
ies of a" letter signed by "officials
of four 'national -farm organize'
tions-the,,National' Grange, - the
National Council, of Farmer Co
operatives, the National Cooper&t
-ive Milk Producers association and
the American Farm Bureau Fed
eration outrichtly -rejecting the
administration's compromise ' of
fer. ' , . - ' ' - " " '
Thursday's TTeaUier
Thursday's max. t e m p. S3,
mia. . threr rriJay -4 ft By.
army request weather forecast
".-are wiihheU . and , temperature
data itlzjtlsy'f'-'i .'i'.v.' "
t Dimes t: EatsrSay'a tzsxzt
7:C2 pjn. Eanday's sunrise 7.-C3
Cease Firing t
Army Nurses
May Marry
i WASHINGTON, Sept 25-(ff)
. The war department has made
a concession to ciipid, but . the
" navy is holding out' :
Members of the army nurses
" corps may now marry without
losing their jobs. But not so the
navy nurses.
The war. department announ
ced Friday that in the discre
tion of the surgeon general of
the army, " nurses " who marry
after October 1 will be continu
ed in active service until six
months after the war. Inquiry
at the navy disclosed no pres
ent intention of following suit
Heretofore, army nurses who
married' were discharged from
"the - service, but in - recent
'months the army has been los
. ing from 100 to . 123 nurses a
, month to romance and the
army needs, nurses. -
. The American Red 'Cross,
which recruits the nurses,' said
the army had asked for 2500
nurses, a month, and, the navy
. 500 a" month. y
7;" The army still doesn't take
nurses who are already mar
ried, but it doesn't ask a re
cruit whether she is engaged.'
Usually, the Red Cross; nurse
h e a d q u a rters disclosed, the'
girls are fancy-free when Or
dered to duty and fall in love
on the Job. , : , .
Jeffers Directs
Coupon Gas
Amount of Ration
Left to Henderson; y
Slowing Asked Now
WASHINGTON, Sept H-JPf
Rubber Director - William M. Jef
fers Friday night issued a direc
tive to the office of price admini
stration . to institute - nationwide
gasoline rationing on. the, same
basis as the. coupon rationing sys
tem . now. enforced in . the 17 At
lantic seaboard states.
The rubber czar left up the price
administrator Leon Henderson the
decision whether gasoline rations
should be based on the four gal
lons weekly , provided in the east
or whether some other value
should be set for the coupons. :
; Pending formal Inauguration .
of the rationing program. Jeffer
appealed to motorists to ration
their, own driving and cut their :
speeds , to the 25-mile-an-houi
limit . recommended la last
week's . report- by the special .
committee headed by Bernard
M. Baruch. fc : . - v'-"Z
The directive appeared to set
tle once and for all the question
warmly debated : here whether
OPA or the office of defense trans
portation : headed by J oeeph B.
Easeman, should, be given, control
of the rationing program. ''-r ' .
At the same time,' it was dis
closed .Henderson planned shortly
to ask Jeffers to set in motion
a program under, which, motorists
voluntarily, would sell to the gov
ernment any tires in . excess of
five for each automobile.
Jeffers directive was as follows:
"L The office of price admini-
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Ration of Oil
fjWASHnioTONllv
Household i fuel oil- rations will
approximate two-thirds of normal
consumption in the 30-state ration
area this winter, instead of three-
fourths as previously, indirated.. .
In announcing this Friday, the
office of price administration said
its studies indicated a 25 per cent
reduction" would not- provide' "an
adequate margin of safety" , in
view of the limited supply.
FBI Seizes 53
In lottery Ring ;
,CHICAGO, Sept 25PrA mil-
lion dollar . lottery, -business has
been smashed and 53 of its oper
ators seized throughout the 'coun
try, the Justice department an
nounced Friday. , ; -
Arrests werer made by special
t gents acting 1 simultaneously,' In
S2 cities, J. Edgar Hoover,, diredor
of the federal bureau, cf investi
gation, said in a report released
here, and in Washington.
As the acsnts swept In, he said,
&e syndicate was '.preparing to
pour out- hundreds-; of thousands
of, tickets for a world series lot
tery. It also handled focttaU end
treasury. balance, pools,' Hoover
reported.
1500; of.Ekemy
Claimed. Slaini
Only Reds Gam
. y ..vi ,y
.. 33rd Day- of Fighting On i .
Soviets Take Toll of "
Nazis in Caucasus
MOSCOW, Saturday, Sept. ,26-(AP) Russian troojs
fighting amid the tumbled walls of Stalingrad captured
valuable position" Friday and
west of the city where soviet gains have ' threatened th
nazis' flanJC it was reported. Saturday. ' r - x 1 - .
Announcins: this heartening development Saturday on
the 33rd. days of Stalingrad's siege, the Russian high com
mand said another 200 Germans were slain inside the titya i
and a German munitions dump' and other military equfp
mentwere destroyed without any reverses for the gallant
red army garrison.
The Germans . . were reported
hurling fresh. troops, against new
ly: established Russian positions
northwest of the city, but the Rus
sians said three, of these - power
ful counterattacks were beaten, off.
- In addition " to the 1500 Ger
mans wiped out in that sector, the
communique said - that 12 tanks,
20, guns, and other aims were de
stroyed, and a number of prison
ers taken.
- Five German tanks and two ar
mored ; cars were put out , of ac
tion in another sector, the com
munique added. :
The Russians did not concede
any German 1 gains either at Moz
dok In the mid-Caucasus, where
one single. Russian unit fighting
to . keep the Germans from; the
Grozny oil field? was credited with
-destroying a battalion of German
Infantry, iz tanks, lour, armored
cars and other equipment In four
days' fighting. , . : JPy
- In three , days of . conflict
southeast of Novorosslsk oa the"
Black Sea coast the eenuauniaue
said ihat 200t more ' Germans
had been wiped out and more
than 100 rifles and other ar-.
mament captured.
Far to the north in the Lenin
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Tire Quotas
For October
Told, State-;
.- WASHINGTON, Sep t tt-JPl
October quotas for passenger car
and truck tires and tubes, below
September levels, Were1 made pub
lic Friday by the office of price
administration. Only in new tires
to .class A eligibles-i-to care for
taxicabs recently made eligible
for new tires under 2 restrictive
conditions was there - aj rise. In
quotas over September. ' y - y 'j
- Among: the. October quotas for
passenger-; cars-' for hew tires to
class A eligibles, grade : tires for
B eligibles (war workers only),
recaps to A and B eligibles, and
new tubes to A and B eligibles in
order,' are: ". '.,:T.-si-u.. -,y -.t'-y
Idaho 158, 189, 13 and 621;
Washington 736, 1587, 7320 and
4929; Oregon 662, 1385, 6383 and
43llr- ;-v--":: ":
Amcmg . truck quotas,' new tires
for' A' eligibles recaps for, A and
fa "eligibles "and hew . tubes f ; f or A
and B eligibles,'.inorder,' were: v
Idaho : 1203, 1352 and y 1277:
Washington 2844, 4226 and $688;
Oregon 3608, 4525 and 4153.'
Willkie
Soviet
MOSCOW, Sept 25-VP-Travel-
Ing by jeep over muddy roads,
Wendell II Willkie returned a lit
tle worse for ; wear. Friday from
a trip to the central front where
he". witnessed a thundering" artil
lery duel in the Rzhev sector and
heard from embattled red army
men the now familiar - query;
"How about second front?? y I
WUlkie's ; trip . carried - him to
within .aix, or. seven miles ;of
Rzhev, and from a vantage point
he looked Into this bitterly-contested
nazi-lield city, . some " 130
miles' west northwest ot Moscow,
where street fighting, raged un
der cover cf artillery cross fire. v
French Reds Held ,v JZ o,
LONDON,- Sahirday;; Sept 25
(.TV-The German ; radio Saturday
announced the arrest by Taris po
lice cf , 1 C C 3 French citizens - the
radio. described as communists.
killed 1500 Germans north
Army "to Lease
erty
Base
:'. CCC Shops, Acreage
To South Included
: In Approved Deal -
Lease covering the state for-'
estry department's CCC shops
and: 25.99 acres of. unoccupied
state land behind thelstate high
way shops units for use as anar
my motor repair base was 'being
prepared t at the forestry offica
Friday. , t ' '..'-.. T
. Minutes of the state board of
control showed that leasing cf the
property - to the federal govern
ment for this use by the army had
been approved Wednesday. Pro
posed use of the highway shop
also was not granted because they
are needed to keep the state's
road system functioning.
i; Other than six of the prop
erty Involved, no Indication has
been or probably will be given -.of
the sixe ef.tfco motor base,
which may also include school
ing facilities. ' -i
The vacant land to be leased.
including a right of way - atrmv
leading In th tAA !v?i;
vati'on corps shops, covers viiw
tually all of the area behind the
highway shops and laboratory
buildings, extending to airport
cutoff road on the east Shelton
ditch on the south and the city
limits and Southern Pacific right
of way. on the west and north
west;. - .
Bodies;
FoiiHd, Wreck
ROClLlX Md, Sent 25n
-Rescue workers removed two
more charred bodies Friday'from.
the smouldering wreckage of the
three-train crackup near Dicker
son, Md, bringing the total known
dead to 14, as state's attorney, Ben
G. Wilkinson heard testimony pa
the causes .of the accident . - 1
The "Baltimore U Ohio railroad
announced 14 bodies, six defin- -itely
idehUCed Hand three l tenta
tively identified, were taken from
the smashed . pullman car which
was at the end of the Cleveland
Washington night express,, when
tne Ambassador Express crashed
into its rear end early Thursday.
Raymond Rufus McOeUand, en
gineer of the Ambassador who la
facing a technical charge of man
slaughter, " meanwhile told state's
attorney Wilkinson he did not see
a red signal because of fog and
smoke from " the approaching
freight train. -
Congress Tries
Labor Solution
WASHINGTON, Sept 25
Legislation empowering the pres
ident to assign men. to jobs where
they are most needed waa pro
posed in the senate Friday, whll
a house committee wrestled with
ing shortage of farm labor. " i
rA national service act for sys
tematic apportionment of the. na
tion's ; manpower resources r be
tween the fighting forces and es
sential home front . 1 product!;
and including a "work or f:-V
rcT-irccr.tJcr nca H tha 12 -"
age classes, was Introduced I f
Senator Austin. (r-Yt)
State Prop
As Repair