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r-nns n n n, a r5. i i u. Sees Allies Scrvico Men J Out bo 7 of Salem and vicinity art la smiforat with Uncle 8am ever the fact of the do be. Follow them catty in The. Statesman's Service Ilea column, " . On Grade Upward Hints Diversion ; - Of Enemy From Russia, China NINETY -SECOND YEAB Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. October 13, 1942 Price 5c No. 14? I L-J C N ' W W u VJU LJ LJ 1 " " mV: t ...... rrrvn 'ATT II wee (U (EfM . i ! By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Oct. 12L ( AP) President. Roosevelt, asserting that allied strength was on the upgrade and the enemy growing nerrous, Mon day night urged the drafting of 18 and 19-year-olds so that : an army with the spirit and hardihood of youth may shorten the war with annihi latinz new offensives. , At the same time, the 1 president called for ' the ra tioning : of manpower. Work- ere must be kept from chang ing jobs at will, he said. Pirating of one employer"! labor by anoth- ed must be forbidden. The objec- tive jnust be "the right numbers af people in the right places at ' the right time.' er Russia and Malta Fighting Flares; Nazis Beaten Off German Tanks and Infantry Attack In Stalingrad; Malta Fighters Knock Down 37 Enemy Planes VMW Admits Women; AFL Flays Arnold CINCINNATI, Oet It-VP) John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers Man day formally opened their doors to women and workers outside the coal Industry, possibly to 50,000 mine bosses, and set up a (and to fight a post-war "movement to crash labor" predicted by Its leaders. - . The midnight Russian communique reported a sudden resurgence of German tank and infantry attack inside Stalin- And he held out a possibility a which may or may not be sustained. e?lnLL ZT e Enemv troops supported hy 50 tanks made three at- lanners supplied with hands to tacks on positions held by the elite Russian guards. They harvest the nation's food sup- -.wa t. defenders back a little in one block, Dui the fe, ?S,ef Germaw lost 20 of the tanks and about two battaKons of infantry, the communique saio. Simultaneously the Germans were making 14 attacks 0r,inst an imnortant point held by the Russian relief armies , a. m were said to have been beaten off with 800 German dead. The Russians reported, renewed fighting on the Leningrad front, killing about 600 Germans. On both Caucasian fronts there was hot action; the Russians made some advance in the Mozdok area of the deep Caucasus, the mid night communique said, and they were counter-attacking below no vodossisk on the Black sea coast, where the Germans apparently hope to maintain operations and supply lines well into -the win- added, will guch action should it become ne eessary. The president was delivering his second radio report to the na tion in five weeks. It was, gen erally speaking, an optimistic re port of what he found on his re cent tour of defense plants, army posts and naval stations. Already, he said, America Is getting ahead ' of thek enemy in the battles of transportation and production. , In addition there was another, hint at second front gains. The officers of the general staff, he , said, were In reneral agreement that It was necessary to divert V "enemy forces from Russia and China to other theatres of war -: by new offensives against Ger many and Japan, v . The objective of today is clear and realistic," he said, "It is to destroy completely Ihe military fSZS-i K W : statemendoclaring, were "straining ad- w tv w-m sr r --,7 threat against us and all the oth r united nations can not be re- Willkie Avers No Reply Need Arrives in Alberta. With Information For Americans snMON TO N. Alta- Oct 12 Wendell Willkie arrived here Monday night by airplane as he ter months. n eared the end of his round-tne- xer announcement on the world tour as-special represent- Moscow -radio said the Germans ative of President Roosevelt had brought up fresh divisions Mr. Willkie issued a- S50-word f and tank columns to the Mozdok detmit.w roprlatetor- vmce." "THer .tteck torn. Bv TORONTO, Ont, Oct VHJf) . The American Federation of Labor asked Monday for an In vestigation of Tharman Arnold, US anti-trust chief, to determine, whether he has used the pres tige of his job for personal ma terial gain, signaled a fresh at tack upon the national labor relations board, and offered-an Immediate armistice to the CIO pending negotiations for fall ... reunion. The delegates whooped and -clapped again when Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Teams ters, read a telegram from Pres ident James C. Petrfflo, presi dent of the Musicians onion, in forming him that a federal court in Chicago had dismissed Arn old's civil anti-trust action against the musicians. Chest Attains $62,533 Total Goal May Be Reached Today; Women' : Part Featured ' " vived a generation hence.' He pictured a Jittery lot of axis loaM narvniKlv watchinS! the trnffth of the united nations front grow and their own diminish. ."The strength of the united na tions is on the upgrade in this war," he said. "The axis leaders, on the other hand, know by now that they have already reached their full strength, and that their steadily mounting losses In men and material can not be fully re placed. Germany and Japan are already realizing what the in evitable result will ,be when the total strength of the united na certain public officials concerning cast said. the expression of my opinion In Russia on the question of a second WUlkle's statement in Russia, urging speed in opening a sec ond front and saying that per haps, the military leaders need ed prodding by the public, re sulted in widespread repercus sions in the United Nations. President Roosevelt replying to Questions at a press conference, said October 6 that he had read the headlines on the Moscow dispatches but had not the stories worthwhile reading, Cm still another front the Mediterranean the axis was striking new blow. Swarms of nad-fasclst aircraft were de scending on Malta, sometimes 70 at a time, sometimes SI, and that little sentinel island was striking back hard. The Malta (Turn to Page 2) Italian Alien Not Enemy Restrictions to Be Removed, bnt Maybe Not Here NEW YORK, Oct 12-ff-US Attorney General Francis Bid- die announced Monday night that effective October 19, Ital ian aliens would no longer be classed as alien enemies, " be cause, he said, "from that time on the exoneration which they have so well earned will be) granted them." - l This does not mean that dan gerous or disloyal persons are no longer subject to apprehension or interment" the attorney general said in a Columbus day address at Carnegie halL "We still will take no chances. It does mean that' the regulations applying, up to now, to alien enemies, no longer apply to Italian aliens. They will be free to participate in the war effort without the handicaps that have hampered them up to now," Biddle said that his office had investigated thoroughly all. Ital ians in the nation in an "unpre cedented exercise ' of wartime vigilance.' ' ; "We find that ont of a total of eei.000 persons, there has been cause to intern only ZZa, "or fewer than one-twentieth of Awpcf cent' ho said. - " Brddle' said that he had recom mended also enactment of a bill in congress . which -would grant to an alien, otherwise eligible, Walking Home on Scrap i Allies Occupy ie Moscow I Tp TT,,, considered liuSCS 111 t 111, tions hits them at , additional He added that he regarded the JVj U p Un gi nlaM nn hiT .jirtVi surface. I rtM s mirolv mMKnilative. J 1 V VV M.A.KsMJM. Majority Of Crews Rescued Initial Attack . .Takes Toll in i Oose Battle ' By WILLIAM F. FR YE 1 WASHINGTON, Oct. (AP)-The loss of three heavy American cruisers in. a fierce, night-time naval battla " fought daring the initia phase of I the attack on the ; Solomo n islands was an nounced Slonday by the navy. , Covering the landing of re inforcements in the Tulagi Guadalcanal area, the second night of the attack on the 'islands, the ' cruisers ; Quincy, Vincenne . . and Astoria were outlined in the j glare of enemy searchlights ' and star shells and were sunk by a Japanese force of cruisers and de strovers. t ..j . i- v : ;i- v-yz;": Hen dismantling the wrecked Narrows bridge at Taeoma, Wash, for 1 In the same -action, the night scrap, walk along suspension cable high aoove wo water, ine i Cf August 8-9, the Australian, .- cables of the bridge are expeetea so yieio uwo ion w ci- 1 cmiser Canberra was hit by shell Associaiea rresa xetenuu. , -.. . lana Toroeaoes. neavur. aamacea and set afire. Abandoned during the night she sank the morning of Ajigust 9, as already announced by the Australian government, r ,., Although a majority of the crews of the three cruisers was saved, a navr eommualquo re ported, the, loss of f life was heavy, and the 'commander of the Quincy, Capt Samuel N. Moore, of Alexandria, Va, was .' one of those I lost Capt F. L. JUefkohl, of Manna bo. Puerto Kico . commanding the Tln cennes, and Capt; William G. Greenman, of Watertown. NT, skipper of the Astoria, , were ' saved. . -The ' action began about 1:45 , a. jtL, August 9, as transports and PORTLAND. Ore- Oct. 12 supply ships were pouring rein- ineasuxc, wmuu, , . MOre Ulan u,vwv . . I ii.i.ui. fnrMmimtf .cW. fnr th morinM . nose remove the greatest single diffi- metals m stock pUes throughout ruiaer oe w area of the Solomons attack August '7. - , . j j m m. navy I xJiemy pianes aruppea uarea difficulty in placid any sum above Uave made this country meir vage committee; cha .i ii- tmmm wn.ii mw ) nm imn wmimiiwi!wmiw '' " j ' ' - v , ' " I !r, f ' f , ' i - ' " " f ' y ' - - r 1 - - - weg on 30 Tons Ndlionmm Estimates of Scrap; Million Victory was in sight Monday campaign. Subscriptions amount- J citizenship - without taking i the j Ural JJlStlTlCtS inff tn S6533 were renorted at tne 1 1 iet nmvidni . he 11 SO I : . regular campaign luncheon, held yearg 14 or older and provided he Begin dampaignj in connection with the chamber came to the United States before 0 of commerce weekly luncheon, jy if J924, and has lived in the Albany. dOllCCtS bringing the total up to $62,533 country continuously since. " J . . ' which left less than $2500 to go. I This: measure, would, I think,! More than 30,000 tons of scrap Unless subscriptions take a nose remove the greatest dive today, the $65,000 goal will culty that has stood be reached at "today's luncheon. ' 0f citizenship for a 1 However the campaign will con-1 cf the older generations tinue for the Chest will have no ians, who, in all other respects, I derway led Claude L Sersanous, IBattleship Set For Scrapping; Rites Planned ulaces on the' earth's surface. "The war of nerves against the united nations Is now torn v ing into a boomerang. For the ' first timei the nasi propaganda - machine is on the defensive. . They begin to apologlxe'to their - own people for the repulse of their vast forces at Stalingrad, and for the enormous casualties - they are suffering. "They are compelled to beg their overworked people to rally their weakened production. They even publicly admit for the first time, that Germany can be fed only at the cost of stealing food from the rest of Europe.' stories as purely speculative t. rviiinslrfnif . Willkie told . VUMfc.l I . . A -J. newspaper correspondents all the WASmwuruix, , uct. n-w statements- he had made on his The navy disclosed fa its corn trip contained only his personal unique on the Solomon ands I area Monday that the united na- Vhen I speak for myself." he nf ZT. JfleZ S jand MiSS W about July revealed enemy activity in nuwvi I it.. 1m 4Va mmimiina (Turn to Page 2) RAF, Nazis 6:30 p in, PDA, and will leave by plane Tuesday morning for Min- neaoolis. In a verbal interview, Mr. Will- (Turn to Page 2) said, and this together with in creased' action in eastern New Guinea, "clearly indicated that the enemy was attempting to that total, where it will do a great deal of good. The victory luncheon is scheduled for Thursday. A special attraction on Mon day was the appearance of jueau Martin Eider, navy Give- . fV 1 -bomber pilot who scored a dl- raUC KaiGS ship In the Solomons on August 24. Despite his extreme modes ty, Lieut FJder managed to give his audience' a fairly clear pic ture of the event while Insist ing that another pilot who was oa the same- foray. Ensign Ro bert T. Gordon of Nebraska, entitled to more credit to predict that W-egonwouia - r -J JT: " P of cruisers and destroyers skirted A its OUOta Of 10U.UUU XOIIS VJ I uc " . ,!, f Rav l1,n W LONDON, Oct 12.-(ffV-German raidera annroaching under a cloud MVP attacked towns on the south coast of England Monday, killing five persons and fbttenuvj a number of buildings and shopt.j Amnni the victims was a boy killed by a bomb which fell in the yard of an institution for crippled the first of January. Many locali ties, he declared have already ex ceeded their quotas. In addition to Mapleton, little southern . Oregon n 1 g n scnoui where .,48 students in two cays ALBANX. Ore Oct 12 -P) Scores of Albany businessmen took-Monday off to scrap iron and Monday night .v 1 MTOio- rM h the south coast of Savo island, s?ti rstdin. Mid headed for the supply ships. Finding a screening force Nazis Remove United States fighter . planes children. Several others were fa tablish and maintain control of compare favorably with those of juxed. One British fighter was lost the air and sea in the Solomon any other belligerent, ueut. juaer 0n patrol but the puox was saveu. islands area. said in response to a question. , j "Establishment of such control Plane design Is matter of com- BERLIN (From German Broad would have put the Japanese in promise between factors of speed, casts), Oct 12.-(r-Three Brit a position to launch a sea borne maneuverability, load, fire pow- ish planes were shot down over thrust at Port Darwin and Aus- er, range and protection; Japan- Denmark after they had Down 1 1;- j u v...- 4ti m nianM hv mnre cnecd and Into 5 the western and goutnern ITBUa WiU .UUH1 IWII KtnnuiJ 1 . - . . , . svumsVkT t JltK I 1- 1 . 1 . 1 , I iniMmrmM (T hilt Trtlien - less 1 BCCtlOIUI OX irriIMUlJ, vuuu i AiviAJii. ut.s. 'A m ui m rim ibii-u uu r muliui w utiaa a a i mm w j - and Norway to the Islands of the I Germans lifted a state of emer astern Mediterranean. I gency aiong They are proclaiming that a iwAnit fmnt t imnosuihle? but at the same time, they are desperate- Vri"iCf 41 nniTI ly rushing troops in all directions, 1 1 Ul Bs V4XCiii p and stringing oarDea wire an me way 'f ream the coasts of Finland they bad; assembled ' more than SW tons. ;v ; . Only two. freight ears were available, and these were filled to the tops, an estimated 4 tons. The overflow was damp ed on a field and covered an area as large aa city Mock. Robert Shje, funeral ; director, aid more than 4M men donat ed services. scores of visitors. Custodians said the ; number was far above 1 the average. Farewell ceremonies were planned by navy officers, state officials and the Battleship Ore gon , commission, which - has charge of the vessel, now retir ed and ' serving as a . marine nuseum here. -; . MarBu N. Dana, commission chairman. : said - - the ceremofiies might be held on Pearl Harbor day, December 7, combining re cruiting and bond sale campaigns. Secretary of the . Navy Frank Knox will be invited. Lieut Com." G. F. De Grave, district navy recruiting officer, proposed that the - ship's wood work be made Into gavels, plaques and other souvenirs to be told southeast of ; Savo, the enemy opened fire immediately with' n guns and torpedoes, smashing thd Canberra. After a brief engage ment the Japanese headed for the passage northeast of Savo, wherd they met a second screening force of destroyers and cruisers and began a' battle at close range. ' V "The actlem was fought with guns and torpedoes, with tar gets Uluminatcd by searchlights and starmhens," the eomnmnl ue reported. "The enemy fire (Turn to Page 2) collected 70 tons of scrap metals, in the bond campaign. Allies Fight Jap Troops itdern Mediterranean. I gency aiong uw uuiva w aiwi- i weii as vo our lsiana oases ia uic i wireu ' i y . . - 1a- v i Keeaspon m u- - - 2Vhile!ttey are driven to wegian coast between Trondheim New Hebrides, New Caledonia and and Its pilot are "out for . good." were dropped iomffa- declared over the top Monday. rTurn tn Pare 21 and Bedo Monday and the Moscow the Fiii Islands." said the com- he pointed out I"'6 were no wu- , j (Turn to Page 2) - ...f-it- w . : .. fir nnr ud Dfotedion-and radio uid lloniUy "''" S-i in Take county and The date for the scrapping has! GENERAL MacARTHUHl - well as to our Island bases in the when a plane Is down, the plane Copenhagen dispatch. BombM been seC The navy, an- HEADQUARTERS, Australia, (Turn to Page 2) (Turn to Page 2) War Chest v i$65.ooa 360,000 .v55.boa JS0,OO0P .Mo,ooa i and Bedo Monday and the Moscow radio said the Puppet Premier Vidkun Quisling had taken charge of the state police after ousting Jones Lie, their chiet ... Informed Scandinavians, who may not be quoted by name, pre dicted intensified sabotage against electric plants, food warehouses I and military establishments in re venge for the 34 patriots shot by the Germans during the emer i gency. the Fiji Islands,' said the com munique. (Turn to Page 21 (Turn One of Ships Lost in Offensive on Solomons w- 1 I troops m we vicuury ox me g; 1 1! fill Sir V r flfll 1 leading through the Owen Stanl "UU3lA; X V mountains of New ' Guinea, Tuesday, Oct 13-tff-Allied force are skirmishing with Japanese troops in the 'vicinity of the gad S.r3Q00a .ooa00 ILsio.ooa00 Explosion, Fire Destroy War Blill "PrrrSBURGh, Oct 12-(aVA spectacular fire which followed a dull explosion - destroyed big I mill of the National Supply com pany, Spang-Chalf ant division, in nearby Etna, -Monday night caus- Ing damage estimated by works Manager S, w. Bremmer at $500,- Mine workers fled for their lives as molten enamel, shot from a baking oven by, the blast, igmtr l ed the building. One man was burned on the hands. :; V ; ' , xne piani, woiJtm u - - - v , . men. T-e maJartty were ders, was wrecked byhe flames, cs 52:540a cruiser Qalncv (above), launched ia 1S2S, was cse earrlel tavx airplanes. Is -t " . which were visible for miles and j 0f the ships the navy Monday reported sunk la the attack on the reported saved-Associaiea rcss attracted thousands of spectators. .. Solomon islands.' - The normal complement of the vessel, whkh Chanp: es southwestern . Pacific comma reported Tuesday. General MacArthur's Austral- Salem's industrial pool ' being I lan mountain fighters made some formed by a group of machine and I gains north from Myola .Monday. woodworking plant operators with I a communique said, and now are the assistance of the chamber of approaching Templton's crossing, - commerce voted Monday night to I about 12 miles south of the en change its name from Marion- emy a advance base at Kokoda. Polk to Pacific War Industries, Bomber and fighter planet Inc. , - , . I helped in the renewed allied ad The change was suggested by vance, bombing and strafing the Lee U. Eyerly, chairman of the I tlim Japanese supply: lino to Ko chamber's industrial committee, J koda from Buna to the nortl to cover possible extension of con-1 shore of the island t v--; trading activities to, other, parts Committees from the group are KllSSianS tO JtlelD to circulate stock subscriptions to- T ,L v 1; A day among plant proprietors who Make liUDDer I were not present Monday night. 7eatlier : Sunday's max. temp. (1, mhv 49. River Monday -4.1 ft By army request weather forecasts are withheld and temperature data delayed. Dimout: Tuesday's sunset 6:31 tua. TTedaesai'i gnnrise 127 WASHINGTON,, Oct 12 -r Russian experts ! are coming ti the United States to help get I synthetic rubber 1 production 1 go : Ing, William M. Jeflers, rut be X 1 director, said Monday. . . Jeffers also told the senatl agriculture committee that Hus 'sian-made rynthetic tires v.eri being sent here for exc: I'M 4