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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1942)
Complcto YonH find no newspaper tu rive mere real satisfac tion than roar toeat mora In paper, with Ita WORLD NEWS pins no&IS COM MUNITY NEWS. - X ; Young i :cn I J - The Unite. rmy i I I I ' neat priviJejres for 'young 1 I I I- , X8 and 19 years of axe. Ns . , The announcement appears .- - . en pace three. 1 - - r PCU ND3t7 tCZi ksizty-cixjoiid yeah Salem. Oregon. Saturday Morning, October 10. 1342 Prlcsj Sc. No. 141 aU Bad I fflLlM. G1 Convict 6 Q ettiia fate Flax Sheds Confession Clears Two of Recent Fires at Penitentiary; Three-Year Sentences Meted : Mystery of at least two of the three recent state peni tentiary flax plant tires was solved Friday when five in mates of the prison pleaded guilty to arson charges before Circuit Judge E. M. Page and sentences. A sixth convict, who in the fires but is alleged to have caused them, will be taken before the county grand jury, officers said. - Unexplained by the confessions was the ' third fire, which destroyed shed number six and the greatest quantity . I USS Oregon May Be Scrap. Governor Agrees to Disposal if Needed ; Stote Ranks Third NEW YORK, Oct S-iV-Scrap metal piles throughout the nation) grew in size Friday and there was! a possibility that even an old nat-j tleship might be cut up to feed the country wartime steel furnaces- .... "'v-v'- k'ri ;The committee- charged'' with conductini the American -news papers metal drive, reported 705,- J 61 tons had been collected m tne yp 24 states reporting for a total of 325 pounds per person. , -. ' ' Meanwhile the; navy reported The old Battleship Oregon probably the state's moat cher ished naval possession will be turned over to the federal gov ernment for scrap, provided an eh action Is desirable. Charles A. Sprague reiterated here Friday In a letter to James Forest!, undersecretary of the navy. that an earlier, decision not to scrap the old battleship Oregon, now a historical relic in the nar bor at Portland Ore, probably would have to be reconsidered. Undersecretary James V, For r petal wrote Gov. Charles A. Sprague of Oregon that pressure exerted upon - the navy, to make -every possioie ,ward the building up of an ade- quate stock pile"made It neces- sary to review we earner juug- ment. I think we both may be able to take some comfort out of the fact that the act itself may, serve to emphasize to the general public the urgent need for adding to our scrap reserve, Forrestal added. Tbe potential change of policy! might bring about the scrapping I eon, and heavy weekend collec of old ships in various ports. I tions are expected to. bring the The urgent hunt for , scrap re - vealed itself in many other ways. at Plain TWlinr. school chil - dren dug along the banks of the Red river for buried river boats heavy with metaL. Among their finds was an old pad&e wneei (Turn to Page S) War Chest jes,ooos)o .r6QO0a .5Q00a J45.00Qo M0,O00P .20.ooa .(;Q00a i V A A mni 11 I ALVl iL JJLiL JL Fires Inr were given added penitentiary refused to confess any part spread the propaganda that of flax burned in any of the con- flagrations. The three fires result ed in a loss of approximately $215,000. The convicts involved were:.-.; William Bowen. 40, serving a 10-year sentence for . robbery, by force and violence in Multnomah county. Received March' 2V 1937. Eugene Taylor, 27, serving 15 years ? lor assauu ana rooDery with a dangerous weapon in Multnomah ' 1 county. Received February 1, 1937. . ' - Wilbur F. Brown, 24, serving three years for burglay in Mult; nornah county. Received May 6, 1942. Harold W. Manning, 21, serv ing five years for burglary in Clackamas county. Received April Leland E. Thomas, 22, , serving five years from Columbia -county. Received July 26, lMt i ? ' " AH the convicts with the ex ception, of Brown were charged with . arson ' and received ad ditional penitentiary ' sentences of three years each. Brown, charged with - conspiracy, was sentenced to a term of two years. Immediately following passing of sentence the convicts were re turned to the penitentiary. Both District Attorney Miller (Turn to Page 2) Chest Grows To $56,035, 86 ber Cent . x ... Subscriptions to Salem United War chest mounted to $56,035.07 on Friday when division captains reported an addiUonal $6038.07 at tte iuncheon, heldjointly with Salem Realty aboard, Retail Mer- chants association, and the Salem Ad club. This brought the fund up to 86 per cent of the $65,000 go!.'. : ' Next report luncheon-will be on Monday at the chamber of commerce, - in V connection i with that organization's regular lunch- 1 total much nearer to the goaL- I Division reports Friday includ- 1 ed: Automotive $26 U contractors $323. general gifts $830. eovern- J ment and education $1894, mer- 1 cantue $1313, professional $409, utilities $293, women's division $500, West Salem $53, rural di vision $151. The industrial divi sion made no report though its solicitors are active. Professional division Is nearest its goal with 92 per cent attained. Bv-nrndurt- nf ,,r, fTurn tn P. i ' k... School Girls Go Farmerette Salem high school lasses who wore -work clothes" to c1mm I Friday as part of . their Girls' n l i'fa2TOfttf ,m.fest' mual frolic in honor of sophomore be- UI,tu . mcy it ouioone male mmr IU WUCU MJU Ml Not'only did they don Jeans, but rolled them halfway to the knee and in numerous cases chose to top those logger-type "stagged pants" with plaid shirts in cotton or flannel. No calked boots were seen at the school, however. Short bobby socks in dainty shades and soft sports shoes provided the feminine touch to the feet of young misses whose tresses were tied with gay ribbons. amaged Zero Fixed by JUS WASHINGTON, Oct t -VP) The navy reported Friday that a Japanese Zero fighter, forced down In the Aleutians, had been repaired at the naval air station -at San ' Diego and would soon be flown across the country to the air station at Anaeostur (Washlnrton), DC, where ex-' haastlve tests will be made of its performance characteristics. Already, however, prelimi nary tests have been made en the west coast and have ahowa ap both weaknesses and strengths la the f anions enemy fighter. . : ' , - la these preliminary exami nations, the navy said, the Zero developed a top speed of slight ly less than Set miles per hoar, . less than: the speed of the best American fighters, bat this may be Increased somewhat la later teata, - ' . a . Security Tax Rate Sticlss . Senate Disregards FDR Appeal to ; Double Levy - , WASHINGTON, Oct (-Disregarding a direct appeal -from President Roosevelt, the senate voted 50 to 35 Friday, to continue social ' security pay roll taxes at their present rate, instead of doubling them on January 1, 1943, as originally planned. ' . , During the day Mr." Roosevelt addressed '. a letter to Chairman George (D-Ga) of the senate fi nance "fommittee saying the in crease from one : to. two- per cent each on employer: and em ploye wa necessary. ; It' is "not only in accord with the necessities of the social se curity system itself," he said, "but at the same time would contrib ute . to the non-inflationary fi nancing of the rapidly 'mounting war expenditures." vJ Senator Vandenberg ; (R-Mich) led a successful fight against the proposal, asserting socuu secur ity funds already exceeded the legal minimum. He presented fig ures to . show a social security tax of one per ; cent would yield as much revenue next year as the treasury . had originally ex pected to .derive from the two per cent rate. ' Earlier, tlfe senate adopted a 5 per cent "victory tax" levied on all incomes of more than $624. The tax, effective January 1, 1943, would be deducted from pay anyalrkrAoV ait9 ealaw rKovtVo om4 paid directly to the government by the employer. It would be col lected in addition to the usual normal ' tax and surtaxes. -The house has yet to approve the levy. j War Prisoner Controversy Adds Nations By The Associated Press -LONDON, Oct 9 Military and propaganda spokesmen . in both er"n axsa ome ; appued new uircaia J w xne unsavory nerve war which - the Germans have begun over the treatment of prisoners of war, and the con troversy widened to the point where it may affect the future well-being of hundreds of thou- ""f L Pe- Germans, xraaing on tne jfact mat they hold some 115,000 onusn prisoners as compared to -3,000 Germans in British hands, I AV.. I suuwuuwu uiat iio omoni DM been shackled, noted the : British decision to fetter a like number of Germans by noon Saturday. and said if that was done three times that number of British would be placed in bonds. The Italians broadcast charges, 1 1 j 7 i -m . . . - ... which recently raided Tobruk had isn oraers, tnat commando forces fccted toklll al 1 (Turn to Paee Yi r resiue Kaai Set for Monday f 3 WASH! NGTON, Ouct fl -JP) Monday at 10 p. m, eastern war time.: was fixed br President "Roosevelt Friday as the time for his fifth radio "fireside chat" to the nation since Pearl Harbor, He told reporters he had not yet decided what he would talk about, but that he would talk for half an hour. Mied H avoc on Tliree Greatest Raid Yet Drops 60 Tons, Rabaul Attack Widespread; Japs Encountered In New Guinea By MURLIN SPENCER GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Satur day, Oct. 10--The largest force of allied heavy bombers yet hurled against a Japanese base in the southwest Pacific dumped 60 tons of explosives on Rabaul, New Britain, scoring j direct hits on Jetties, machine ; shops, supply dumps and other ob-' jectives, it was announced offi cially Saturday. Not a single allied plane was lost in this and other devastating raids throughout the island area above Australia, the communique said.... - ? On the groand, Australian patrols pushed oa into the Owen Stanley mountain "rap" lead ing down the northern slopes to the Japanese base of Ko- koda. Contact with tbe . Japa nese patrols for the first time m days was established In the Myola-Templeton's C r 0 s s 1 ng area the bulletin said, but further details of .thai actWa . were - given.' '; The , huge aerial offensive ap parently .was part of a fhaster j plan designed to aid US marines. battling the Japanese m the Sol omons, 'v. ' ; - General MacArtnur .airmen not only struck at Rabaul in their biggest night raid, but also dump ed 16 "tons of bombs on Lae in upper New Guinea where Japa nese supply dumps on the water front were destroyed amid debris that flew hundreds of feet into the air. . Buka, in the northern Solo mons, also was hit again and numerous fires were set there. ..Attacking Japanese-held Saum- laki in . the Tanimbar islands north of Australia, allied, airmen pounced on a Japanese ship they: previously had crippled. They de stroyed it this time, the com munique said. ; Over St. George's channel an allied reconnaissance unit, also turned In a neat performance. Attacked by,, three Japanese- Zero fighters, it shot down two and the third fled, the commun ique said.-- 1 ..V Of the big attack on Rabaul, the communique said: . . vThe attack penetrated a bar rage of intense anti-aircraft fire and was delivered from a low MA preliminary incendiary sweep by allied medium units lit up the target area, starting many fires and exploding fuel - dumps whose flames," visible for. many miles,- led our main attacking force to the target areas." Record Crops Not Yet Sure WASHINGTON. Oct The federal crop reporting board heavy crop yields mat nave been in prospect for r several! months were now in sight but not yet "in the bag," : warning vthat far mers were showing less assurance that the "tremendous job" of har vesting can be completed In sea- on Repeating previous forecast the record production of food and fibre crops, the board said nev r4Vi v a urot fall nr an early whiter would probably catch a big volume Of CTCpS Stm JO the a eig voiume i crcps sua field. Officials said shortages of ,i ;, Am rT'. - ; T Lrrrr v' . J2Z?JJ Th. aggregate ' crop trodactiok - . Such letters rill be forwarded ly," caused the headquarters of a spectacular dash across the pri .. " . . . r .. I . ... ,L rj rvM. 4a 1 4V. raetpm defense ccmniand and I son vard durintf the afternoon X- whicn included the jargesi crop of corn in history was expected I internauonai .ilea cross crannuv w- v v i ' i va ie?-.lt ct nnpm. i which' win trans- 32 -HrL -ht i-vp1 bv 23 -Der cent. planes m Pounds Khka Japs, Fire Vessel WASHINGTON, Oct. The army air forces dropped IS tons of bombs on the Japan ' ese base at KIska j island last Tccsday, the navy announced Friday, indicating that a sys tematle campaign had been na dertakea to redaee ' to rabble and rain this last enemy strong hold In the Aleutians, . - "The navy communique said r that the Tuesday raid was car ried eat by the army's B-24 liberator bombers j escorted by ' F-Sf Alracobra and P-3S Light ning fighter planesaQ .oper -; atiag from tbe new! advance air base In the . Aadreaaof islands. Eight tons of bombs, were dropped on the enemy camp ; area,' starting fires, and seven tons were released, aver the vi-" clnity of the seaplane hangar : with unannounced results. . In addition a cargo ship la the harbor was . attacked and left afire and sinking, the ra dio station was damaged by t strafing and two; seaplanes - were - hit," one being destroyed and the other damaged. Along with the report of the operations at Klska the com munique disclosed that a re connaissance flight also was made ever Attn . and . Agatta island the same day and thai . sign was found of any ene my activity on either place. The Japanese apparently withdrew from l those ; Islands several weeks ago. J. . L t ; . Manpower Up Before House Temporary! Frcezmg Of Farm Workers Asked of Draft WASHINGTON, Oct 7 -P)- Proposals all the way from a ftill the soil or fight order to cash subsidies to farm labor confront ed the house agriculture commit tee Friday as it set about writing ita answer to one of the war's most pressing economic questions: 'How you going to keep em down on the farm?" Meanwhile, emphasizing the ur gency of the farm labor situation, 15 farm state senators petitioned selective service to. freeze dairy and livestock workers on the farms for the net three, months, to., prevent "irreparable 'Injury" to food production. . Still another proposal was con tained rin a bill introduced by Senator Taft (R-Ohio) to -create a new office of manpower direct tor with authority over recruit tog - for the armed services, in dustry, agriculture, and other oc cupations. The present war man- nower commission would be abolished-. 11 " f ftr 4 - Chairman Fulmer (D-SC) said Army the house committee, after a six Mi-ACiirnPII I ifif (vol.), Xee Weldon Walker, Ger months study of the farm luor LA l.WUintAi aid Lancine- Gregson,.LaVere roblem. would file its report early next week.1 : : H Specifically, the 15 senators asked selective service to hold labor on the farm for 90 days, while a general manpower pro- gram Is being worked out. Man- power chief Paul V. McNutt row 1s writing proposals for such leg- islaticm. and an - administration 1 bill Is expected , to be presented The house agriculture commit I lee. was expected to declare that labor" scarcity menaces , the : na - tlon's wartime food and .ewe supply, and make detailed recom- mendations for a' remedy. Japan Internees of f r, n' Tor muai h iiiv TOKYO (From Japanese Broad - casts) Oct -pEnemy and neu- irai civuiana iuw:icvi i . . - . Japan or Japanese occupied terrl- I tnr-r mat a l a it t writing letters fvtober 13-but they must write in the Japanese lan- it announced Friday, j oj urn iixuxsv v-v- . late and forward the communica "tions. ; ! - Fronts' 600 in Force Strike Lille .War Plants Four Planes Lest; Many Nazis Sent ' Crashing Down . By WES GALLAGHER WITH THE US BOMBER C OM M AND IN ENGLAND, rwf .: oipf Att tfan ifln American Fortress and Libera-1 Wf WIDMC1I.W1UI WJ VI I 500 'allied fighter planes made the greatest single daylight aer ial attack of the . war on Hit ler's industrial and transport sys tem Friday at Lille in occupied France. The raiders directed . by Ma. Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander of I the USAAF in the European thea tre,": smashed factories and rail road yards against strong nazl op position and came home with only four of 600. planes missing. In operations beside the battle- tested Fortresses were the Amer ican Liberators, triumphantly Dassms their . first tests "in this battle zone. Both are f our-mot- ; ored planes. The 'raid was . greater, than anything thrown by the naxto , against England In the dark days of the Battle if Britain, before the luftwaffe called off their daylight attacks aed eon- centra ted on: night" raids. In numbers of offensive planes I involved, Friday's mass raid top ped the. climax day. of Britain's defensive ' war,-. ; September . 15, 1940, when the Germans sent 500 machines over and lost upwards of 185 of them in a single day. The official communique - an nounced the great allied fighter escort knocked down at least five German fighters Friday in wide spread aerial dogfights but no at tempt has been made so far to total up the number shot down by bombers. The L Liberators alone claimed an unofficial total of seven Focke wulf 190's destroyed. . American . airmen in . the raid told this correspondent that nazi fighters, including Reichmarshal Goerings proud Yellow-nose squadron, had machine-gunned the rrw narachuting to earth I front one crippled Fortress. The greatest American aerial . exploit of the war came two days after the warning from the United States army by radio to the French people to move away v ; from factories producing - for Germany. It also brought from the uer- radio the threat tonight of "reprisals" - for raids . "instigated by Roosevelt." . Guard Cutter A WA5Hlu-xu. JZZZ coas su - possw w w - aboard, has been overaue in ine Atlantic "for some time, the na - vy announce t-j, be presumed lost. ; The vessel, third coast guard ghin lost on anti-submarine duty m the AtlanUc, was the former - 1 steamship lines and had been put J into service by the navy only last 1 juner she, war commanded r jjeut. Com. Charles Ernest Toft, 35( ot gouth Portland, . Me, a veteran of 12 years in the coast guard.- ' - Other coast guard ships lost in the Atlantic were the cutter Alex ander - Hamilton,': torpedoed off Iceland, and the tender; Acacia, which was sunk by enemy sub- 1 marine action in the Caribbean. mT v i i 1 1 Wevf York AlCTlcd . I f NEW YORK, Oct. 9 -OV The approach of an "unidentified" plane, later identified as "friend ITr , i uxst kbj - - - for seven minutes in the New! They fled in a small green - York City and New Jersey areas 1 Friday niht - Coming Home C7 WENDELL, WHJL3QX 71 1 1 rik fwiicc AC Enemy Attack j Emissary Leaves for llome; President Says All Okeh CHUNGKING, Saturday,' Oct, IMAVWenden WUlkie, per sonal representative - of Fres tdent. Roosevelt .on a tour of war fronts, left China . Friday, flying, homeward. WITH THE CHINESE "ARMY IN NORTH CHINA,. Oct.. -Uf) The Japanese have failed again In what appears to have been a de termined effort to get Wendell Willkie. - , TMrty-fiyeJapanese plane bombed " the - Honari province city of , Xoyang U Thursday and ma chmegunnTa,,raiJway cocht,?n a siding ; there . which evidently they believed was the" one carry ing President Roosevelt's personal representative on his tour of - the north China battle rone. But Willkie wasnt in it; it was t even Willkie's car, although was painted the same blue as the special sleeper which had been used for part of the journey on the Lunghai line. Willkie did not learn of the at tack until he had finished his tour of the Chinese front, lines on. the south bank of the Yellow river where he missed enemy shelling by only a half hour. The fact that the raid was the (Turn to Page 2) , 1 Draft Group To Report Here Monday A new, list of men ordered to report ta the . Salem .armory - at 7:15 Monday morning for induc tion was released Friday by : the Salem selective service board. The abbreviation "vol." in the list appears after the names, of men who volunteered for service I through selective service; the ab breviation -tr.7 indicate those transferred from Salem to another local board. "r ; .s From the Salem board go: Fred erick John Noeske, Clare Ruth- ven Palmer, Davis Irwin StaB I Weesner, LeRoy Harley Mize, Ed Albert UoydV George Edward d a y, Wesley Raymond wnlte. jgme- Daniel Lepley, Charles Ed- ward Duncan, Jr Alfred Joseph 1 Domogalla, Ronald Arthur Nopp, I Edwin Leslie Jones, Gilbert Earl Redinger,- Willis Henry Olden- burg, Ralph Donald Meyers (voL), James Francis Martindale (tr.), Give Wilson Smith, Stanley Wil- 7 Desperadoes if ennna Pn c fin J-wv-tpv JOLIET, Bl, Oct. 9-U(y-Seven convicts, including two top men In the old "terrible Tenby" gang. fled from ' Stateville prison . Fri day, leaving one : penitentiary guard shot and wounded and an other slugged. Four of the escapees, led by Roger Touhy, 44, ringleader In the gang I that once ruled Chicago northwest side, and Hugh Basil -The Ol" Banghart, 41. Touhy - lieutenant, made their break in . ZiZ - ' dan parked outside; the penitenU "ary, ppWniltimn NoSig hs in Attack Nazis Reported; Advancing on Astrakhan By HENRY C CASSIDY MOSCOW, Saturday, Oct. It (-Stalingrad's defenders wera reported officially Saturday; ta hllTft tnucluil tnrA i in .4 tempts to break through to the) Volga cast of the city, but dis w patches said a new threat had ' developed, in a nazi advance w . m toward Astrakhan on the Caspian Of Letup sea. -" :.:- ;i-. . The midnight -' Russian com munique did not mention the Kalmyck area south of Stalin grad after the government news paper Izvestia told for the first there. ' ' " 1 . Nazi seizure of Astrakhan at the mouth of the Volga would spare the Germans further costly losses in frontal attacks on' SUlingrad and at the same time control that vital Russian- communications artery. f -U ; : -! v-i tv-:. ' There -was no launediate evi dence here to bear out the Ger man radio reports that the naxls were counting oa their artillery and dive-bombers Instead of their Infantry thenceforth In the ,; battle to reduce Stalingrad. ' - ; .' Nazi infantry still is attacking;"- ttl li. 1- lil.il 1: it would be a tacit adm? jionSet the Germans it A-iifijiscalcu-lated the sti . u U 1 soviet re- -sistanee as if did In the battle ' for jMoscow-6t "Jtai.- " As far as an artillery iduel at Stalingrad ' is concerned the Rus sians probably would welcome it for soviet artillery still Is referred to here as "the god of war," and always has given a good account of itself. v 1 - Both tank - supported German efforts to crash through Stalin grad toward the' Volga were crushed oft the . city'a outskirts, the communique said. One Ger man infantry company was wiped" out, it added. I .- One red army unit fighting In the same general area, a workers settlement in the northwestern outskirts, was re ported to have killed 300 Ger- nr. womoi WW VI WI- man ring which had been closed en n 1 or several uays. . Northwest of Stalingrad where soviet relief offensive has sought to ease the ' pressure on Stalin grad, the Russians "fortified their occupied positions and on sepa rate sectors engaged in battles of ocal importance." : . Thus, aSr Stalingrad entered .its 47th day of siege, the general po sition was one of stalemate, . the communique .indicated, , r But on a sector of the north western front, presumably 'near Leningrad, the Russians acknowl edged that German Infantry .sup ported by 30 tanks had ousted the red 1 army : from two noDulated places after losing ten of their . 1 , . . . ties.. - ...... ' r. , :: - - I (Turn to Page 2) Allies Wbuld Yield Rights WASHINGTON, Oct fl-MVTo an embattled China on the eve of Its national anniversary, the United States Friday night an nounced its willingness to abol ish promptly by treaty the sys tem of extraterritorial' rights ft has enjoyed In that country for nearly 100 years. f Great .Britain, the state depart. ment added, "shares this govern ment's views and is taking simi lar action.. -. The .United States decisionfwas communicated to Chinese Ambas sador Wei Tao-ming by Sumner Welles, acting secretary-of state. Welles told the ambassador the United States plans to present a draft treaty to the Chinese gov ernment for its consideration In the near future. Y' - VTeaibcr: x Thursday's nax. temp. IS, win. 44. Clver Tr Hay -4.1 ft. Cy : army request, weather forecasts ' are . wilhhclJvai terrrrstrre data " delayed.' ! -i ; , Dimout: Satsrajr's susrtt tUt p. in. Essay's series 1:Z 3 a. m. - ' : ? S-ma