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Tb OZZGQU STATESMAN, Solan Oregon, Thursday Morning, October 15. 1S42
Flag Raised
Over Plant
Employes Make Gift
For Defense Work, '
Making Houses
(Continued from Page 1)
their flag rose to the top. of the
mast bad planned for and given
the banner and pole, they hand
ed over. to others in uniform the
privilege 'of the actual raising.
American Legionnaires pulled the
rope and unfurled the stars and
tripes while members of an army
band provided the musical salute.
Proprietor Keith Brown, speak
ing s briefly, . declared himself a
fellow employe," proclaiming
his pride In the organization
which had envisioned and carried
out the project.
Master of ceremonies for the
flag-raising and the banquet
which followed it was Charles
Crary, business agent for the Sa
lem Building Trades Council.
Harry Cochran. F. D. Van Swer
tngen and J. W. Goebei were
members of the committee in
charge 'of the day's events. A
Portland General Electric line
crew contributed its services in
raising the pole.
At leC UMes fat the marine
room ef the Marlon hotel Wed
nesday night, those ef the 45Q
Keith Brtwn empWyes who
eoald leave their tasks gathered
to compliment members af the
army hand that had performed
throughout the afternoon's cere
monies. In turn, the band chose the oc
casion as one to do special honor
to Warrant Officer James L.
Young, director, whd has been
7 notified that the army is retiring
him.
I Twenty three years ago the
nucleus of the band he now di
recti was organized as a Boy
Scout band in a Baptist church,
Young said, in expressing his re
grets at departing.
Rev. Irving A. Fox of the Salem
First Baptist church delivered the
Invocation and spoke later of the
relationship between Christianity
and the American flag. Speaking
briefly were Gov. Sprague,
Brown, and Crary, while a im
promptu entertainment was pre
sented by the army guests.
The employes of the Brown
plant are in the service, too. the
governor declared. Joining their
employer to eeagratnlating
them em the record they have
set. ; ' '
Now searing completion is, a
1000 house order, for Utah: a
smaller contract for i housing
project in Vallejo, Calif., was pre
viously filled by the plant, which
currently works also- on an order
to supply 2000 doors to the Evans
cedar plant at Marshfield, manu
facturing prefabricated houses.'
Excess Tires
Buying Will
(Continued from Page 1)
certification will be required or
continuous use of coupon books.
, OPA said the maximum penalty
for false certification was a fine
of $10,000 and a ten-year prison
term. Except in . the east, regis
tration for gasoline rations will
begin in schoouhouses November
I, with rationing going into effect
November 22.
Administrator Leon Henderson
asked each car . owner to keep
his five, best tires and to sell or
give the rest to the;' government,
regardless of condition, '
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14-iJV
Motorists who sell tires I to the
government will' receive prices
ranging from $1.50 to $11.15, de
pending upon size and condition.
The prices to be paid will be
governed by OPA ceiling prices
for used tires. The . cost of neces
sary repairs will : be deducted
from the amount ; paid to the
seller. .r;.
US Casualties
991 in
WASHINGTON, Oct 15
Navy, marine and coast guard
casualties totatilng 991 from Sep
tember 22 to September 30 were
announced Thursday.
The navy said the list included
161 dead, 238 wounded and 592
missing. Seme of those listed as
missing may yet be accounted for.
The list No. 14, brings the total
of navy, marine corps and coast
guard casualties reported to next
of kin from December 7, 1941, to
September 30, inclusive, to a
grand total of 15,423, of whom
4260 arc listed as dead.
Enemy Subs
More Active
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them the 23,456-ton British lin
er Orcades and the 20,110-ton
Canadian Duchess of AthoU,. both
according to the German version,
."engaged in transporting troops
to Egypt in the middle east
. The German-controlled Paris
radio reported 249 survivors from
topedoed Bitish ships had" been
landed at Freetown but the names
of the vessels were not given.
Begin
Today
Observe 56th
If
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Mr. and Mrs. Pv E. Roberts, U2t Breyman avenue, this week eb-
served at their home the Mth anniversary of their wedding.
56 Years of Wedded JLife
Noted by Salem jCouple
'Observing their 56th wedding anniversary Monday, Mr. and
Mrs. P. E. Roberts greeted friends and relatives who called at
their home, 2329 Breyman avenue, and 7 6 -year -old Mr. Roberts
took a day off from his work in
18, 19 Draft
Call May Be
In December
, WASHINGTON, Oct 14 -iff)
Speeding hearings on the bill to
draft . IS and 19-year-olds, con
gress heard the American high
command disclose plans Wednes-
day to begin calling up these
youths in December, to weed out
present soldiers considered inca
pable of carrying the terrific bur
den of modern war, and to raise
the .' army'a . total strength to
7,500,000 men in 1943.
It -was also disclosed that se
lective service plans to call up
100,000 men with dependent
wives next month, but hopes, if
the new bill to draft youths is
passed, to put off -drafting mar
ried men with children until late
in 1943.
From .Secretary of War Stim
son, from Gen. George C. Marsh
all, chief of staff, and from Adm.
Ernest. J. King, fleet commander-in-chief,
came urgent appeals to
senate and house committees to
approve the new draft bill quick
ly. It was Stimson who revealed
the 7,500,000 man goal, which
compares with an army of 4,
250,000 men at present and which
would be almost twice the size
of the army at the end of World
war No. 1. I
General Marshall told the sen
ate military committee the army
would send home men considered
physically unfit, Jnd was invest!
gating the possibility of releas
ing numbers of older men when
the youths enter the service.
The average age of the combat
army, he warned, "has risen to a
point not at all acceptable to the
war department" One division
he cited had an average age of
26 in June, 27 and July and 30
in August. .
On a recent visit to a 2500 bed
hospital at Fort Bragg, NC, he
said, he was shocked to find so
many "old men" there.
Guinea Feels
Heavier Figbt
GENERAL Mac ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia,
Thursday, Oct 15 Heavier
fighting has developed in the
Owen . Stanley mountains, where
Australian troops are engaged in
driving toward the north shore of
New Guinea, an allied communi
que ' said Thursday.
The increased scale of the action
amid the jungle covered peaks
north of Myola was accompanied
by air attacks in the Wairopi area,
behind the Japanese front lines.
and: against Lae, an enemy shore
base on New Guinea some 150
miles northwestward from the
scene of the principal fighting.
The latter took place, the com
munique said, in the vicinity of
Templeton'a Crossing, marking a
further advance by General Mae
Arthur's troops.
Report
andos
.. BERLIN (From German broad
casts), Oct 15 VPh The Berlin
radio broadcast Thursday a DNB
report that a number of British
commando raids were made last
month on the northwestern coast
of France.
' It asserted that they were in
preparation for "a British land
in on the coast of Normandy "
(The last raid on France that
has been announced was the Aug
ust 19 attack on Dieppe. After the
Germans had disclosed a small
scale raid. co the channel island
of Sark, however, the .British
acknowledged the Sark operation
and said it was only one of a
number of small operations that
occurred from time to time which
were not ordinarily announced.)
Minesweeper Launched
PORTLAND, Oct , 14-(-Wfl-Iamette
Iron ic Steel cornontim
TWedne3day launched -the USS
Candid, first of a- series of mine
sweepers being constructed for
the navy. j 7
Anniversary
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the laundry at the state hospital
For 22 years, ever since the
family moved to Salem from Sil
ver ton; he has been employed at
the hospital in various capacities
at watchman, attendant and now
in the laundry. In Silverton, Rob
erta was for 15 years with the
SUver' Falls Timber company.
They had -previously lived for
eight years in Pullman, Wash.,
having moved to that state in 1909
from Tennessee.
In Washington county, Tennes
see, October 12, 188C, Mr. Roberts,
soa of a Civil war veteran who
had been wounded in action, took
as his bride a daughter of that
state whom he had met in his own
native state of North Carolina.
Of the five children born to
them, ' one died in infancy and
another lost his life in the first
World war.
Tall Mr. Roberts spent a portion
of his two . weeks' vacation this
past summer shingling, without
aid, the roof of the house which
tiny Mrs. Roberts keeps spotless,
also without help, although she
approaches his age, planning to
celebrate her 76th birthday Jan
uary 3. He passed that milestone
August 25.
Oregon Called
Critical in
Labor, Homes
WASHINGTON, Oct ' 14 -jp)
Oregon and Washington, along
with 10 cities of the nation, were
designated Wednesday by Man
power Chairman Paul V. McNutt
as areas in which labor and hous
ing problems had reached critical
proportions. : ,
The cities designated were
Portland, Ore., Buffalo, Akron,
Louisville, Mobile, Oklahoma
City, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Phoenix and St Louis.
The designation means that the
areas will be. avoided so far as
possible in the awarding of war
contracts, commission spokesmen
said.
MaJ. Gen. H. G. Winsor, re
gional manpower chairman' in the
northwest was named district di
rector for Washington and 'Ore
gon with orders to see that local
labor available in the states was
used to the fullest before labor
was brought from outside.
Lee StolL employment service
director for Oregon, was named
director for the Portland area.
r Battle
Thought Near
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- So far as has been announced
they have not heretofore suc
ceeded; In-: actually - bombording
the airfield and main Installations
in the American portion of the
island, although there have been
sporadic attempts to do so by
submarines and occasional de
stroyers. Another. fact which the
snaalaae naade dear was
the troops landed this
easne frsaa transports covered
by naval anlts -which andeobf
dly meant the Japanese get
net only men bat also artillery
and supplies ashen. Lack 0
artillery Is reverted to have
ef their main weak-
Some previous landing had
been made from transports, fre
quently against American aer
ial opposition. But most of the
men sent: ashore by the enemv
in the two months since the mar
ines Invaded the Solomons had
been landed in small stood
from barges and similar light
craft -
U0 Loses 14 per Gent
x.uuiE, Oct. 14-MVUniversi-
tj of Oregon enrollment was re
ported Wednesday to be 2925, or
14 per cent less than last fall's
total .of 5407. , The freshmen class
shows a 2 per cent increase, hut
aH others are below last year's
totals. . , .
Apply for license
Application was made for a
marriage license by William G.
Todd, S3, and Althea McAdams,
32, both of Albany, at Seattle
Wednesday.
Majo
Yffllde Sticks
To Front Talk
Asserts Allies Will ,
Win; Tells EDR
His Conclusions.
(Continued From Page 1)
to have to stretch our muscles and
our minds before we win.
He said he based his appeal for
a second front on an analysis of
the recommendations of mHitarv
leaders of Britain, Russia, China
and the United States. And he
told reporters he had had consid
erable experience in judging rec
ommendations of . technical ex
perts. -
He had his own ideas where a
second front should be opened, he
said, but he kept it to himself.
The man. who opposed Presi
dent Roosevelt In the 1949 elec
tions, as the repabUcam party's
. presidential nominee, circled
the world in 59 days as the chief
executive's personal representa
tive. He visited the middle east,
Russia and China, arriving fat
Washington in the late after
noon. Then, for an bean and a
half, he gave what he described
as very frank observations and
conclusions to the president. He
would not say specifically what
he had reported and he pre
ferred that Mr. Rseaevett say
whether the president was sat
isfied with his mission and with
his report
To a question what he thought
of the cause of the United Na
tions, after inaking his tour of 14
separate countries, Wfflkie replied
that there were some things he
wanted to comment on only after
more deliberation.
But without qualification, he
declared:
"Sure, we're going to win the
war. We have the power and the
resources on our aide."
He added, however, that he was
concerned over what the cost
would be not in money but in
human lives and human values.
And, he said, he was concerned
whether we were going to win
the peace.
He preferred not to answer a
question whether he thought that
there should be a "more intimate
agreement with the Russians" on
that point The republican leader
indicated- that he still thought
one-man . control of our armed
forces was desirable. He recalled
that as early as last February he
had suggested a single head and
that Gen. Douglas MacArthur be
picked for the Job.
Despite the fact that military
men in Washington said s lay
man should make suggestions
on military affairs, Wills said,
"I think a great body of people
In the United States, Including
seme military men, thought it
would be a good idea."
"Now, on a second front" he
went on, "you understand I talk
ed to military men all over the
world, in Egypt all the coun
tries in the middle east with
Russian, American, British and
Chinese generals before I made
my suggestion on a second front
May I say without boast that I
have had considerable exDerience
in judging recommendations of
technical men.
"I applied my judgment to the
various opinions of the experts.
Most of the leaders of govern
ments ot the United Nations,
Willkie said, followed a similar
procedure in determinin courses
of action. That was what he did
in reaching a decision that a sec
ond front "is feasible and possi
ble.
He said he had said that la
Moscow and was say lag it again
today. Be remarked that Mr.
' Roosevelt had told him that
any report that the president
had criticised him while he was
abroad was "entirely mar "
The republican chieftain said
some reports had reached him
from newspaper correspondents
abroad - he implied that they
had mentioned presidential criti
cism but that he did not know
what actually had been said back
here.
Kaiser, Labor :
Set Up Board
PORTLAND, Ore, Oct 14-(ff)
Executives of the KaW .vi
yards and the Portland Metal
Trades council (AFL) agreed
Wednesday to the establishment
of a labor-management board to
stabUke shipyard employment in
the Portland -Vancouver, Wash,
Creation of fhm twta vtL
- , wwui
will have a neutral chairman. Is
designed to nmml tK . w..
shifting of employes from one
yard to another, said a statement
issued by Edgar F. Kaiser, vfce-
presiueni ana general, manager of
the yards, and Tt v. .
- unwiL
executive secretary of the Oregon
suite icaerauon I laocr. :
"The unions. which are parties
tO the ihiCTlrd ITTMnwvt
undertake, the recruiting of labor
for expansion," the statement said.
Borchers Guarded
SANTTACrY fhft. . ; ,
Dr. Hans Borchers, former Ger-
uuui ctihiu general in new York
Who turned im ifrnn. win .
OlDlOtnatlff nt mnmTa i j
- vicuenuan,
was reported Wednesday under
c r me. seaside re
sort of Zapallar where US Ambas
sador Claude G. Bowers usually
spends his Chilean summer vacations.
ON THE HOME FRONT
By tSAEEL
There is a strange connection
between the service flag in the
window and the war bond in the
safe, X find, as I wander among
friends, acquaintances and the
news sources who may eventual
ly enter either classification.
V
When Mrs. Lena Blackwell in
Walla Walla, Wash, received the
insurance which represented the
life a marine son had laid down
at Wake island on February 17,
she put a large portion of it Into
war bonds, it is said.
But that wasn't the only invest
ment Mrs. Blackwell, German
Jewess, had made in her adopted
country. Her two oldest sons had
lost their lives in World war L
Deckhouse
Crashes
Freighter
VANCOUVER, Wash, Oct 14
(AP)-The prefabricated superstruc
ture of the liberty freighter Sam
uel Colt crashed down on the ves
sel's deck Wednesday while being
lowered into position in the Kai
ser company yard here.
Mike Miller, assistant general
manager, reported the damage
was slight and was confined to
the- lower portion of the deck
house. The ship, launched five
hours previously In the . Oregon
Shipbuilding Corporation yards,
yards, was not harmed.
The huge superstructure was
suspended from an overhead trav
eling , crane. Suddenly one cor
ner of the deckhouse gave way
and precipitated the structure on
the deck. The ship rocked pre
cariously, but quickly righted her
self.,
Two men were riding the deck
house. George .Walker, a company
guard, suffered a seriously in
jured leg. Stanley Bergman, rig
ging superintendent was not In
jured.
The accident occurred during
ceremonies demonstrating th e
new method of lowering prefab
ricated structures onto wartime
freighters, a precedent-breaking
shortcut developed by the Kai
ser company. Newsreel camera
men, press photographers and re
poaters were in the crowd watch
ing the Innovations. T
Several score workmen were
on the deck when the superstruc
ture crashed down and it was at
first reported several were pinned
in the wreckage. First aid crews
took charge and. disproved the
report
Miller said the deckhouse
would be jacked up and repaired
on the ship-. Repairs will be
relatively simple matter, he
said.
Heavy Cruiser
Made Victim
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these results without telling how
any of the actions occurred:
Sunk A heavy cruiser, med
ium sized cargo ship, small cargo
ship, small tanker and small
trawler.
Probably -sunk A niedium
sized cargo ship.
Damaged A large tanker and
a medium sized tanker.
Navy aeea expressed the :
eprnlea that there waa sndoabt-
ediy a dramatic story behind
the destrscttoa ef the eruber,
which Is considered a snest
formidable target for submarine
attack. Ordinarily several tor
pedoes weald he repaired to
sink such a ship which 'tender
tesaal ctrcaaastaacea weald nave
a strong destroyer escort
The other attacks which 'made
up the total of 18 ships sunk or
damaged were carried but chiefly
by American ships and 'planes
against a Japanese force of cruis
ers, destroyers and transports
which sought to land reinforce
ments on Guadalcanal in the Solo
mon Islands last Sunday night
Results of these actions were an
nounced by the navy Tuesday
night a few hours after it had
disclosed mat aircraft attacks last
Friday had damaged two enemy
cruisers.
School Gets Scrap j
MryjtxiLtAnij, Oct. I4-Linn-ton
may be Portland's smallest
school but it has big ambitions.
Its 140 youngsters have gathered
more than 30 tons of scrap iron
m tne current drive and the
school hopes to excel! its bigger
Portland neighbors. -
Tins Actioa Feature
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CHUDS
as they served in the US army in
France. .-; -'V
, August 17 in China, her "baby,"
the lad .who would have" been 21
had be lived three days longer,
was killed. - "
The oldest living .son ii an in
structor at Gowan field; the oth
er is at the Great; Lakes naval
training station, and one daughter
is a nurse with the army in Aus
tralia,1::; V- :C. :r.?-: ? r
H Last of 'Urs.-- BlackwelTs dvfl
ian' childrer: attractive and" viva
cious Mayrtle Blackwell, works in
a Salem dress shop but looks for
ward to possible overseas duty as
a Red Cross nurse's aide or with
an ambulance corps.' ' "
- And Myrtle BlackwelTs , sons,
Dick Johns of Willamette and
Jerry Johns at Oregon State col
lege, are preparing for the armed
services. Dick,, a pre-medic stu
dent, is a member of the univer
sity's new naval reserve, , while
Jerry trains in the ROTC
v - . ;
To those "sturdy Americans"
who would urge no further ac
ceptance by this , country of the
"immigrant horde," I would rec
ommend a study of the sacrifices
made by. such families, as that of
Lena Blackwell, born in Germany
and reborn in America. Her sis
ter lost seven sons in World war
I and. I find nothing of old world
militarism in the attitude of these
women. '.
Their sons fought and continue
to fight not because they love
warfare but because they see
ahead of one generation to a time
when their children's children, or
those of their brothers who sur
vive, may cash in on their invest
ment in freedom.
V
How small indeed they make us
fed who have only 10 per cent
to invest ,
Radio Classes
Stage Open
House Here
Students of the two army signal
corps radio classes being conduct
ed in Salem held open house in
their rooms at the city school of
fice building Wednesday night for
the interest of training leaders
and sponsors.' 1
Among we speaxers called on
for remarks before a battery of
"rigged" microphones that talked
back and performed other trick
feats, were Frank B. Bennett, dry
superintendent; Julian Burroughs,
director of signal corps schools
for Oregon; Harry W. Scott, ad
visory committeeman for the Sa
lem classes; C A. Guderian, Sa
lem war training program direc
tor; Stephen C. Mergler. manag
ing editor of The Statesman; the
local instructors, Louis du Buy,
JC F. Header and Ray Morrow.
A new class, to be taught by
Morrow, is to be opened next
week, it was announced. 7
The signal corps classes train
young men. progressively in ra
dio theory and servicing under a
civil service schedule of salary
leveia.
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Reds Repulse
Tank Attacks
No Ground Yielded
In Stalingrad or
Caucasus Areas
(Continned rrnra Page 1)
Northwest of the city onlx "bat
tles of local importance" occurred,
with the Russians, fending off an
attack by two infantry companies
which lost 10Q men, the communi
que said. Nazi prisoners also were
taken in tbis area, where one dis
patch said the red army had dis
lodged the enemy from hilltops.
In the Mozdok Jarea of thi cen
tral Caucasus where - a , snowy
mantle was descending the moun
tain slopes, the ' Germans also
were contacted, the Russians said.
- Several German tanks support
ing a German infantry regiment
broke through the red army's de
fenses. They were destroyed,"
the , communique added,'
". Along the Black sea coast
southeast of Nbvorossisk "our ar
tillerymen destroyed two trains
loaded with ammunition at a German-occupied
railway station,"
the bulletin said. . ;
The Russians had reported
Wednesday that the Stalingrad
area was consolidating its posi
tions within the city, and likewise
were containing the enemy's
thrusts in the Caucasus.
The neoa eenunnhrne, deal
ing with the Black sea area
southeast mi Nereeosslsk. said
an enemy feree which had pene
trated lata the rear ef a Sar
rba urit had been eat tt trmm
Its main foree by eeaater-at-taek,
with 44t Germans killed
'and considerabie material can-
Marine raiders landed from the
ny,mcxor launch cfesxroyed a
German cavalry force, blew up an
ammunition dump, destroyed a
radio station and captured staff
documents in a populated place
in mis area.
Milk Rationing
Not Board Right
The state mUk control board
has no authority to make and en
force regulations governing the
rationing or apportioning of the
milk supply in the Portland mar
ket to distributors because of the
present shortage of fluid mUk,
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of CoITege Life
Attorney General I. H. Van Win
kle ruled here Wednesday.
The board previously had sig
nified its intention to issue a ra
tioning' order governing the dis-
a. re a m m -
inouuon 01 roiijc xrom producers
to distributors.
Van Winkle said the power of
the board is limited by the terms
of the statute creating it and to
act ,- contrary T to t such i statute
would be outside the scope of the
power delegated and amount to
attempted legislation. 7
RiftThought
Widened by
Axis Partners
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recently aeesaa to have
bothered the Germans consid
erably. ' '.
Another possible explanation of
Hirnmler's visit was a reported
revolt In axis-created Croatia. A
Bern dispatch quoted Yugoslav
circles as saying followers of Dr.
Vladimir' Macek, Croatian peasant
leader, had put a peasant army of
4000 in the field against the mili
tla of the chief of state. Dr. AnU
Pavellc, and that bitter fighting
wasraginf.
This new army was said o be
operating Independently of the
Yugoslav insurgent army led by
General Draja Mihailovig.
This is a time when the Ger
mans are doing their utmost to
move reinforcements of troops
and material from Inly to Africa,
and are trying again at the cost
of at least 65 planes in four days
to knock out Malta. J J '
Elsewhere the world news high
lights included: - - 7 f
Middle Zast Twelve US fight
er planes, in the first major des
ert dogfight for the USAAF In
Fnmt vnmitha4 tY ChtV, am
axis fighters with the help of a
south African formation.
West Europe The RAF "sat
urated" the Kiel naval and U
boat base with a force of more
than 100 bombers.
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