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7 YcaTl flu j co newspaper eaa givs tzzrt real satisfac tion than yer local mora 1"? raper. with Its WORLD I.Y.3 piss i:0U3 COIi- iiunxti uznz. i.MirrYwCCirD yzah o Reds Report ; Attacking Along Volga By TRED VANDERSCHMIDT . ' Aaaoeiated Prs War Editor Ccrxnoa taililary spokes ruen cknowlecIgel -TTiur-Czy ' night they . had lost hope of occupying all of Stalingrad by stornv and while ' soviet reports con tinued to tell of ferocious tank and infantry fighting in one factory outskirt, the tiszis intimated their shock troopi eoon would be spared and heavy artillery and dive bombers depended upon to lay waste to the city,' German broadcasts revealed the admls- ion. V. ---J' V. f i Moscow tnldnlght eomnjunl- ijue said, the Germans had lost four Vinfaotry battalions and 18 nit of. SO tanks in occupying two streets of the . factory district. V However, these particulars con- tained in soviet communiques fre quently are hours and even days behind actual developments. " ' ' The Germans, who had strengthened their embryo win ter Use across the steppe north west of Btalinrrad with elite Prussian troops diverted from - the city Itself, apparently were maklnc a treat effort to weak en the force of the soviet relief offensive afainst this flank." In s o m e sectors they were . . counter-attacking against the red relief armies, Moscow said. : ; The curious German announce ; ments, coming at the end of . 45 ...(Turn to Page 2) , Chest Drive At 850,000 : OOfd Day Fiftv- thousand dollars, a goal Calem Community, Chest tried for weeks to attain in each of four annual campaigns and never quite made. ' was iust the third day's rnilepost to Salem United ' War Chest The day's collections of $5330.34 brought , the total up to t;0,C04.E9. . . f But that was neither a reflec tinn on the old arency since riv ers have this year the added in eentive of support for many war causes or did it spell victory. Tor the coal this year is $63,000, ttiU almost $15,000 away. And if that is reached there will be need fnr any additional sums generous Calem folk give; for the budget (Turn to Page aj (65,00a. .t6QO0a p.i50.ooa 1 To, Use n ia ) 11 Wach on: Recruiting Tour Lt Emily Hathaway, San Lais Obispo, Calif, one of two officers of the Women's Army Auxiliary cruiting office, who spent part 'of Thursday In Salem conferring with state officials, photographed as she posed with Secretary of State Earl SnclL Lt, Hathaway said she was spending much of her time enrolling members fat the corps and giving addresses In which she explains the details of the organisation. The other women's corps officer stationed. 1 Portland Is Lt. Margaret Horn. Sgt. Angus Slewton, recruiter and front Klamath Falls, accompanied ' III I ' IS'iir a! i srap "ifci ye , . Oregon in Valley Gathers Metals to Vie For Honors! Across the length and breadth of the Willamette, valley; Thurs day, rural residents . harvested scrap.. In -Marion, county; where and . intensively organized uro gram has been mapped out, school boys and ! girls," church workers and the farmers whose contribu tions a r e expected to' far out weigh, those of other contributors in' the area worked to make sure that' every item of usable salvage on their own property was ready for the truckers." ... - '. -Without - waiting,., for. instruc tions, the residents of; the: $89 neighborhoods in Marion county were working,- their :.representaH uvea - declared. Tasks ox some neighborhood leaders in the new countrywide community- leaders' organization will thus be lighten ed, enthusiastic scrap hunters de clared. - . In SUverton, whore the (Turn to Pago 2) Dernnark May Be Fully u LONDON, Oet 8-(ffV-Evidence was accumulating Thursday night that Germany is about to make Denmark a completely subjugated state. - , - : . German-occupied for 2 years. yet nominally self governed and maintained as a show-piece of nazi influence at its "best," Den mark was believed marked down now - for forced nazification for these purposes; " 1 Suppression of rising'. rebelr i lion against , so - called German r benevolence; '. . u 2 Tight defense against allied invasion; r" ; . : 3 Crystallization f . a fSer manic federation" prelect which is to be used for nazi home pro paganda this winter. 7 It was , reported that the Ger mans wm insist , xnat Denmark also declare war against Russia, rearm and hand over to the Ger mans control of what Danish ships remain in Danish waters. Across the Skagerrak in Nor way, the uermans execuxea nine more patriots, making a three-day total of 34. The Oslo radio said the death sentence of a tenth per son - was confuted .to, 15 years at hard labcr. The reason for tb 'latest executions was not given. Subj gated A. corps stationed In the Portland re prominent it et t society member Lt. Hathaway. 1 ' 1 ' . Third Kansas Forges Into National ' Salvage Lead " 'rJl ;r:.r TT: rr v ged' ? lead by naroL work as tne 24 top tatM in th national acran mj1 salvage drive led by the newspa- t pers reported they had collected more than one billion pounds of iron and steel junk. The tonnage being gathered across the country .mounted hour ly and the tremendous flow of old metal to the junk yards was Illus trated by figures released during the day by the newspapers' united scrap metal drive committee. At noon; the . committee an-l nounced Utah was In the lead and mat up unm xnax ume total cot- ection or 385,223,, tons 790,450, - mv t icyw vcu vj the top 24 states but later in jOie "J w,uc w:rev . IJffl.- n"1 10 "08'390 tons 118,780,000 pounds a per cap average xor mo , group 01 19.5 pounds. Most of the figures given the committee w e re estimates and by state salvage leader who saidj h ttV mta1 . mmf in . fact inn tt tn man nninf, that actual weights could not be ob- talned quickly. The drive started SeDtember 28 and end- October 17. Kansas, with a collection of 85,000 tons, had 72.1 pounds for every man, woman and child Inline rat stock juagmg coniesx 01 the state. Utah, now in second place, had gathered 17,000 tons el." pounds per capita with a population of only 550,000. The third state In the nation al ranking compiled twice daily by the committee was Oregon, which was first Wednesday and up to date has collected 25,869 tons, r 45.5 pounds per capita. The total tonnage collected by the leadin ten static km 434 2S9 -. -i an average per capita salvage of 32 pounds. Belfast. Has Third Night of BcniLin BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct 8-)-For the third night in succession a bombing occurred in the neighborhood of the Culling- tree road police barracks in Bel fast Thursday right A bomb was thrown and a po liceman was seriously wounded in an exchan;-2 cf shots, app'ar- cnuy wiui rcpuucan trey events. tcuucnn ICZl Cclca. Oregon. Friday l-!cxs!s Orfcbcr C. K 12 Senate Meiects Bond- Ta 2 State, Municipal Issues , Unhit; : V Tax Next -.VI By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Oct. MP) I The senate, voting 52 to 34, re- fused to tax the income from future issues of state and mu nicipal securities Thursday alt er an extended debate, which stressed assertions such an im post would violate state rights and , produce insignificant reve nues.',.-'" - In making its decision, the ate for the first time In its con sideration of the new war-time tax bill, disregarded ,- the recom mendation of its finance -commit tee. ' -; ' ; -.' I " . The vote, however,- brotight it to the point of discussing one of the bill's major controversies. the eommltteVs proposal for a S per cent victory tax on all In dividual incomes In "excess - of $624, with additional credits for Insurance premiums, debt pay ments and other . fixed obliga tions. The tax would be levied in action W 1h usual Bormal , tax and surtax." - :A deci;othCw:ntL over unta Friday, with members of the Cianco 'credict, ing mat ine senaie wouia approve, Several amendments were pend- than overcome the decrease of the The nvy department announ ing, in particular by Senator counV outside thevMpital dty. d in a conmiunique Wednesday Tlv0 Total olt th county, was 35,524. r ""P tax the second $1200 at 5 per cent, all above $2400 at 10 per : c . km sp wuiaiiy u xuu day debating the Jssue of the tax exempt bonds of the states and uiiuuuiiiuCT--join wuv - nuw l-2C), "to keep inviolate I can the right of the states to immamnr:ai 17 .V . 7. . ;r.' . axiena xo xneir own axiairs ana - - . . . central government- not w dc over-ioraea Dy n great Tax exemption, said Senator LaFoUette (Prog-Wis) was "like a eaneer eatinr at the vitals , of the democratic process." Sen-, ator Lee (D-Okla) charged that ed that the wealthy - were obtaining' ; were obtaining a . runa?toVtu;: special tax vesting their free securities, mo ever heard Of a dav la- borer buying a city water works bondTTbo asked. - . 1 . fhatrtrmn Ceonre fD-Ga) of 1 uie linance committee said he had I no serious - doubt the ' "supreme i cwurt would hold that congress has the power to tax stateand munid- paj bonds. irH, CA1,. T U.JJ.C V O LU Uik l4itll'a ' if 111 sjusih IT an : . h rVTr ' State college! lannu ma bandry Judging team oeleated I Muu W sity of 1-t Wyoming,! Washington State and University, of Idaho hi I the Pacific . International Live-1 I stock exposition Thursday. The team Included James Ap pling, Corvallis. In 4H competition. Reed VoH stedt, Albany, won the grand championship for single fat hogs with a Duroc, and David Oliver, Corvallis, showed the grand champion lamb with the reserve rhamnionshin roinff to Floyd Fox. , i i r oiivFiTon. Other first places included: Ivan Thornton, Brownsville, for Poland China sinse her. Arthur Spencer, WUCaiiCl AAUii0VU - j other medium wool breeds, ; " TSTeJaesJaj's max. ten:?. X&ia. iZ, river Tiurs-ay, -4 ft. - Et amy re".:::t weaker forecai'.i s.re uLUdJ &"J Ua peratare ata delayed. Er.-.o-l: rriJjy's sunset 8:23 V. I L j i 3 ( T S House Adds ! To Gudyule WASmNGTOK, Oct. X ! -4JP Advised that gmaynlo promised to' exceed expectations . aa " a wartime somrco of natnral! nb- her, ths house quickly vsted.l Thursday to expand plantings f this shrub . from 75.0SS o tCO.eea acres. It approved a I1S.CC3.C8I ap- 'propriatton for- cultivation -of gvayvle by the arricnltore de partment on plantations In Cali- M 9 A SUM . B "f". T m C IX. Granger, assistant chief of the agriculture department's forest -' service, asking for' the f lS.SOI.SOO for oulck expansion of guaynlo cultivation, predict ed, that rubber production front this shrub would bo 13,000 tons 14 the fall of 1844 instead of the ' li,l8t originally expected. 6 SighupiGains Salem Increases 201; RepubUcans and - Men in Majority . ; 2 A gain I 183 registerea voters J .a.- -i-iA- : --'A- lamarion county owr umm. w Peaing e timng prunar- i , ;.xu. Thursday Eakins rWistSoM r , 15-, i,---m--WwW- rmn .-J county t zi?n of tte total registration -s l compared with" the democrats' 13 W In the woina- jor ,partIes the nwsoilhi. regis- 1 tration totaled 1&218 to the fem - inine 16,932. - However. women's e4v4ldl4Aav'Aj4 ' mam(o Im 4Va 1 city, where 5318 republican worn en were: listed ai compart with I ureu, buu umwuiw wuu- I en numbered 3028 as compared I ,.t - - ' . . i . . .. . wiin zus men. -.....--.if . Salem's total registration . was (Turn to Pago 2) T rwnZ Wu I lJlJJbl , r -i-: Lannery IT fA AA. JUU55C yimLJfV I Unionization of the Paulus Bros. cannery In Salem lost, bv a vote of a to. 44 m ine nauonat laoor re - lations. board conducted election Beta Thursday. ; : 'i ' First such election in an Ore- gon canning plant outside of Port land, the vote was taken between 2 and 12 p. m. in the building just north of the Elsinore theatre, and was conducted by an official of the NLRB. Representatives of the cannery workers local : of Salem, an AFL aiiiliate, consented to the .elec- tion. waiving , their previous re- .t , ttt 1 r- Quest for an NLRB hearing and I riy.jrmta v-:- tv Paulus nlant a fow wccki affo to j jted in strike there late in June, Striking emoloves of the plant were returned to the payrolls by the management at that time. El-1 frHrSls fn pPKsiiFui?a-ur,oi "staWf nm wsr I 218 soen- snd women who had worked a total Of 22 weeks in the year just prior to the strike. I Many of this number have en- j tered the armed service, defense industry or have moved away be- cause of other reasons,: represen- tatives of the union and the rOant v. v". I iiiimi;mian bcuu wu r via. flJvy pown TTliifo "V?! V3111? W mi C GAMP Wlim; Oct 8 -C?h A former national guard clficer, Brig. Gen. Amos Thcrr.ss cf Oma r.a, x.cd., r.rs cccn r:r"i ccn mandcr cf Ccp Whits..- succc-ei- I ing Col. Owen MeredMh, trtiis- Gcr.cral Therms saw servles 3 an officer in World war X, and i came here from Victorville, Calif. i v.'hcre he szs ccrjrar.dzr.t cf tha Eouthcrn d:fcr.s3 area. Plantings Gountv allot 0 FiveVessels YankMaids . may V iliZXiliJLiCl Canadian Navy Force Helped. In Andreanofs By -WILLIAM L." WORDEN HEADQUARTERS ALASKA DEFENSE CXMMAND, Oct. 8 (F) - Officers , disclosed Thurs day' from aerial reconnaissance pictures that the Japanese : are building feverishly, amid . great activity on Kiska island in the Aleutians. - - - - The Japanese are so busy that they apparently , haven't had time to repair, bomb damage or re move the wreckage of nlanes hit b- American aerial raiders. I - - . .r,J - AUa jsiands : the west, by trast, fall; to shew: any sign I -T" - " ' - -i ? Officers deduced f rom, the pic h" tt favders Phably n,.,?:iT -T,c "T'T !,iasl0n . although fte deduction is not 1 TOHUX1 "" the harbors and no signs of en emy planes ? when! the pictures were Uken in late September and early month i , , . I nrrAw rw. is - Navr I ' - T- f- m Minister Angus MacDonald . an I nounced Thursday night that a Canadian naval force of five war ships cooperated with the United States force which effected the recent landings -,. In the . Aleutian islands. "MacDonald. said, he could give no' further details because, of se curity ' reasons.';,'.'. 's-U -.-.J-'. The US : navy , announced in Washington October 3 that pbsi tions In the" Andreanof. groups of I islands in the Aleutians had been JUtf WithAiit onnonitionl bv 1 American armed troops with;, na Val support The date and the ex tent of the operations was not an pounced, although It was said it It was known prevtousiy that (Canadian airmen have been takmg part In operations against the Japanese la the Al eutian area. It was aloe nade known .previously that Canadi an t warships have been work ing with American naval units faT the Aleutian area, : In reporting a Canadian naval I v, - in tn tiro MaclVnald added lt was but j an forces are cooperating with other forces of the United Na- I tions. KjAtU.4.XA ii-f.Li.XZ Pay Campaign Homer Smith, manager of the Oregon Farmers Union Co- cpcruTe isovu.uon, auj night was named manager of the Marion county campaign for the measure which would increase the pay of state legislators. An aggressive mobilization of voters prior to November 3 when 1 the measure corses before the I electorate Is planned, members cf - 1 the committee declared Thursca 3 l-.cy teniauveiy. set .. ear.es- Cay, October 14, ts d-ta fcrr I mass meeting at the Ealeia Chan bcr cf ccinmerce. C.-rllh, who ov.tj ..-..3 crcrstes' farm ia the. southern r 't cf the county, was a re;-.;Jer.t cf Jtf- f:r:c:i Izl I k:t jeir. Jdane I ! M , j ! h vy y S W Tin Carrie e Solo DID Loss; -Field: Bombedl Enemy - Heavy Craser y Of Surprise Attack rMoriday; ' Eight . Jap PJanes Riiined ' : ; By JOHN M. WAinNGTON, Oct. rier task foire, striking violentlr into the heart of Ja pan's deiense area in the) north Solomcrr islands, hat damaged an enemy heavy cruiser and four other ships, destroyed eight aircraft and blasted . an airfield, . the) navy announced Thursday . The operation conducted in unfavorahleVcclher, apparently caught the Japanese completely hy! surprise) ' GENERAL MacARTHUR'S. day, Oct HfhWtth ground operations in, the Owen Stanley noun- . tains at a standstill and no opposition apparent in the whole New Guinea area; allied air forces have returned to the attack on enemy shipping at outlying points, a communique said Friday. ; .1 , t -One group -of reconnaissance bombers struck-at an enemy veiwel at Koepang n Dutch, Timor across the Timor sea from northwestern Australia.' . -- . t - - . -.--...,-, '-f A second unit, attacked Saumlaki and blasted a medium sized transport-at . the breakwater. In assaults were unobserved.' ; at one of their most vulnerable point. Jt was carried through without the loss of damage to any ship. , J A navy communique, 37 Axis Ships Sunk or Hurt American Bombers' mediterranean Toll Released-by Army WASHINGTON, 6 c t . t Cff) The growing destructive power of American air forces in Egypt Was credited bfiiciaUy-Tursdaywitti Sinking ' or badly danging; 27 axis warships "and other vessels since early June while"; harassing the ports and supply lines of the nazi desert mts.:yy't MaJ . Gen. - Russell LT Maxwell advised the war department dam age from "near misses of Ameri can bombs and other unobserved destruction ' probably raised mis total of the havoc wrought on the enemy., .. In -a report -snnunarhwd by rndersecretary Robert F.f Pat terson the American army com mander In the middle east said the airmen had loosed 3,161.009 pounds about 15 J 9 tons of bombs In the past lit days. Of these 16t.00S; pounds were dropped during September alone ... r ' t ;'.".';'.' 'The American air fighters oper ated with Britain's Royal air force in support of British forces bat tling Gen. Erwin Rommell's desert army, but the report Indicated they operated independently In many of their far-ranging attacks in the eastern Mediterranean on enemy shipping and supply ports. Under the immediate command of MaJ. Gen. Lewis 1L rrereton. chief of American tir forces on the Egyptian front - four-engine B-24 Liberator bombers carried out 77 missions between June and the close, of September;--y Medium bombers, 11 orlh Amer ican B-25 two-er.-'ne crsft of the type used to raid TcT.jo, carried out 13 missions J.v scourging, axis suoply lines la Africa.' ', : Freht vesrcls l.-.clu'cd la the s'-J-pirS tell xtr... . 1 n tizs frcra :::D t,T 1D,C:3 tor.s, Maxwell said. In aditlcn, attccks cn Tcbruk, Lcr.-sa tza cvrxr .pcr rcru::ca ia destruction cf nr. all axi3 boats r -1 lighters, along with v. are- !,:::--', r.trr.f::ca dur-.s c!l i'.::::2 t:.r!s. ' Art yea lvl!-i for a place to L've, er far a ten act? U s:. t?a to Toe fJtatesia tlasiiriea' adver tising pare, where buyer and seller ret together. ' No. 141 . - ." . . -If, ....... i ' 1 ; " ' . Jl - - - ' Force HIGHTQWE3 8 - (AP) An aircraft car 1 nighu 'l ; HEADQUARTERS. . Australia. " Fri both instances' the results of -the .-. - . - a man or plane and without -..i -;h-. . ; , ; . . B reporting the action, said the ships attacked were In the Shortland Island area. Just south - of the island of BouganvQle, the main Japanese base in the Solo-. monsV The airfield attacked - was ' Kieta, on the northern coast ol Bougainville, 4V miles north 'of ' -Shortland.' 1 ''.!-.,?: For several weeks, the' cons "v munique said, enemy Ships had , . been observed concentrating ha the Shortland area. Ibis was au- 1 thoritatively Interpreted to mean not -that 'a - great armada . was massing . there but - that on fre-' quent occasions large numbers of enemy vessels put in. These pro bably were engaged In the work of supplying and reinforcing en4 emy troops on Guadalcanal is land, site et the-main American baso- 259 miles- to the south, as .. well as On Japanese islands nearby.- ' . ' VS . On Octobcs 5, the carrier tasx . ... force under general direction f : ' -Vice Adm. B. L. Ghormley, navy chief la the South Pacif- - le, moved In to the attack, ' : . which was coordinated with at- tacks on ether Japanese centers r ta the Southwest Fact tic by heavy, bombers froin the Aus--' , tralian command of Gen. Doug las Mac Arthur. Meanwhile, a p p a r ently in a ; maneuver, designed to prevent a Japanese ' counter-attack by air ' from the : field vat Kleta, other planes struck there and damaged ' the field with (bombs. It appeared significant that the - communique did not describe any damage inflicted by plane-borne torpedoes. The assumption here was that the weather, which the communique merely described, as favorable," was , so bad 'the w (Turn to Par 2) TUA Denounces Levis C3 Menace - SPOILANE, Wash, Oct. 8-(,T International Woodworkers rf America (CIO), reaffirmed the ."r faith In and support of President Rocsevelt, denounced John L. Lewis as a menace to tha r.:'r a and tabled discussion of the Ilrry Bridges case for two years in t. e closing sessions of their rixth an nual convection here Thurr;!cj. : Already a fullj day over t'.-::r three-day schedu.c.Tieated disc; -sions frenvthe f.ocr fcept tl.3 c- -ventkn in se$tic,i ta well r :.;t i -nertime and tiiew t'.a t executive mectlr.g over u..i.r.:. 3-