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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1942)
V. PACE TWELVE Tbm OEECON STATESMAN. Salem Oregon. Thursday Morning. October IS. 1812. The War News . By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst for The SUtennta ' Wherever else the allied diversion offensives against the axis may be building up, it seems obvious that the nazi leader ship expects the first blow to fall in Egypt and is making frantic efforts to bolster that front. . . ai , The presence of Marshal Rommel in Berlin recently in- Vited conjecture that he was there . to demand reinforcement, par . ticularly in air power. His African corps, stalled 'for months - in the : ' narrow Egyptian corridor, is in a perilous trap. The growing allied v air superiority emphasized ' by - Churchill the - same day that Roosevelt spoke has been nowhere more clearly demonstrated than in the Egyptian Mediterranean theatre. . ; . Tending to confirm the view that Rommel's mission to Berlin was to make, urgent personal ap peal for help, even at the cost of withdrawing air or other forces from Russia, Cairo now reports a furious and sustained new axis air assault on Malta. A record one-day bag of enemy planes by Malta's defenders was one result. Seventy five axis ships were downed or damaged against five British. . v That is a ratio of 15 to 1, a staggering loss. It seems clear that with the longer route across the eastern Mediterranean from Crete or Greece to Tobruk under constant blasting . by . long-range American as well as British bomb ers based in Egypt, the axis is again resorting to the short line from Sicily ' to supply and rein force the African corps. . , If that is true, and if a trans fer of German air force to Africa for either offensive or defensive use is in progress, it must be from the Russian front they are being withdrawn. That might" account for the change, in tactics at Stalin grad foretold by nazi broadcasters. Moscow accounts of the ;gh lng at Stalingrad for several days have made virtually no mention of German dive bombing. Berlin versions have stressed air opera tions not against Stalingrad itself; but against Russian communica tions across the Volga and in the Don-Volga corridor west of the river supporting the soviet relief off ensive. (;, ; v-i'J-C.:f There is at least a suggestion that some part of the German air force concentrated against Stalin grad, particularly dive bombers have been switched elsewhere. Their most probable destination would - be Egypt, where allied preparations to take the offensive are well advanced. V Board Hears : Proposals To Halt Fire ? Several croposals providing a more adequate water system, for J protection of the state flax shed area at the Oregon state peniten tiary, were received by the state board of control at its meeting here Wednesday but definite ac tion was deferred. The proposals, prepared by the state fire marshall's office and state utilities commission, esti mated the cost of this protection from $18,000 to $28,000. One pro posal included a pipe line around the entire flax shed area and in stallation of additional hydrants.. Fire fighting equipment was in cluded in other proposals I ; State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott suggested that a sprinkler system be installed In the flax mill. The cost of this improvement was es timated as high as $20,000. r The flax" mill is the center of the state flax operation, Scott declared, "and It should have ade quate protection against fire." M. jD. Wooley, superintendent of the state training school for boys, ; appeared. before the board and suggested salary Increases for a number of-his employes aggre gating $4500 for the remainder of the current biennium. - Keeping some - boys - at - the school for more than five months, the present average, and opening a fourth cottage at the school at the beginning of the next bien nium also were discussed by the board. Wooley said such a pro gram Iwas necessary, in event a large number of the boys were to be rehabilitated. He estimated that0 per cent of the boys would be kept in the school more than five -months. t : - Wooley's suggestions were re ferred to the state budget officer and secretary of the board of con trol to prepare' a' definite report for consideration ' at the next board meeting. Lumber Board Opens Hearing SEATTLE, Oct. 14-P-In' an informal atmosphere,, the war la bor board's new- Pacific coast lumber commission heard repre sentatives of both labor' and em ployers Wednesday- in the first of the wage dispute cases to come before it ! ? : JThe; case Involves the North western Dishlct Council of Lum ber and Sawmill Workers (AFL) and the Employers' industrial Ne gotiating ' Committee, 'affecting 1 A M ..1-V approximately u,uw wuiA.ua. , j- Both sides agreed to limit the aeanns xo two on est ions: wneun er wages In the industry should dc raised irom km cents an nour to a minimum of 11 05. at ' the! - union, is asking, and, if the raise V broad powers." whether it be re i troactive to May 1 or September . To expedite the hearing, our-. man groups were named by each tide to carry on - the discussion of the Issues. ." :' J: ; . -, . CHILD'S mm ni3c:i Believe misery dlwy . - -without -ioglr, m . VAPORU8 MO V St GET YOUR SHARE 0? THESE VmUES! 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