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Ccinplclo ''" - Toa"3 find m newspape can five mere real satlsfae tiaa thaa rout local mr 'In paper, wia lis WORLD NEWS els COU EIUNITY NTVFS. :. jcr fcsys cf . CiiJ 123 viciaity art la oaL'ona wlih . Unci Cant ove th fae af . Us f lobe. FaSaw lita di2y. ' ta The CUtessua's Ccrrir XZeaT aloaia.- - if? i:n yeab Salem, Orogon, Tuesday Morning, October 27. 1342 Pric 5c. ITo. 151 iT '; , v U W' . : - ; - : : ' - i 1 i 9 v Willhie Talli Demands Plans to Free World's Races .j. ' .... . .. ; . 2nd Front, Sending Of More to Allies - Seen Essential NEW YORK, Oct. 26-P)1 Wendell I Willkie reiterated Monday lilght his demand tor a second front in Europe and as , serted that the record of the war to date was not such as to inspire "any sublime faith in the infallibility ot our military , and naval experts.' . Beporting to the nation on his recent globe-girdling air tour of . allied and neutral nations, Willkie described as "misdirected censor ship' the idea that non-military experts or persons unconnected with the government should re frain from i making suggestions ' about the conduct of the war "military, industrial, economic or political." . - "Let's have no more of this nonsense," ' Willkie - declared. "Military experts, as well as oar leaders, must be constantly ex posed to democracy's greatest - driving- power the whip-lash of public opinion, developed from honest, free discussion." The speech was broadcast throughout the United States over the four major networks. It was not censored. At another point, Willkie said. "I. reiterate: tW And our allies , Dust establish) a second fighting front in Europe. I also hope that shortly we can put the consider able force in India to aggressive use in an all-out attack on Bur jna, as General Wavell has urged.' After describing what he term ed a "reservoir of " good will' existing in the nations he visited on a trip which took him to the middle east, China and Russia, ' the titular head of the republi can party asserted that this reser voir, nevertheless, was leaking "dangerously" through holes which were not punched by Hit ler, but by us. ' One of the leaks, he said, was the "tragically small! amount of war material reaching the em J battled legions of the United Na tions, and warned that "if we continue to fail to deliver to our (Turn to Page 2) . Nelson Wires Appr eciation 1 To Newspaper Appreciation "for The States man's aid in carrying on the na . tionwide : scrap drive was ox pressed by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the war production board, in a telegram received Monday by Gov. Charles A. Sprague as president of The Statesman Publishing company. The wire also - asked the news paper's cooperation in a continu ation of the campaign. Nelson's message read: "X feel that the nation owes the newspapers a debt of thanks for the invaluable service that they have rendered through the news papers united scrap metal drive. I am reluctant to call on you . further at this time. The results of the newspapers' campaign how ever have been so great and more . industrial scrap is so essential to solve the nations winter supply problem that I am asking you to gjve what effort you feel is ap propriate toward its collection alenavtho lines outlined recently x 10 your duwiu vmM. Adinirxj Kalbfus Qiange3 Duties BOSTON. Oct 27.-(3VThe navy annc.nced Tuesday that Adm. Edward Clifford Kalbfus (ret), president cf the naval war college ar. J ' commandant of the naval operating base at Newport, HT. would be ordered to duty on the general beard of the navy on November 2. lie will be succeeded In New vrt v I'ice Adxn. William Sat ter Lee Pye, recently transferred from the Tacific srea, said the rnniincr"P!lt. L'SUed bT flTSt tavsl cLl-trict headquarters. Flay3emr Yank Bombers Raid Canton And Hongkong WITH THE US AIE FORCES IN CHINA, Oct. 26 -P)- Hit ting the Japanese . In a new quarter, American bombers de livered a des traction one-two punch against Hongkong early Monday and Sunday in a spreading- offensive which now has carried the air war to the enemy the length and breadth of occupied China. Monday's raid flattened Hongkong's main electric power plant a few hoars after the col ony's sprawling waterfront was set aflame Snnday afternoon by the greatest assault yet execut ed by airmen of IX Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's China command. The second Hongkong attack was coupled with another at tack on the enemy's Whitecloud 'airdrome near Canton, some 90 miles away, and there big fires and explosions were set off. The Japanese, caught flatf oot ed at Hongkong, lost 10 fighters and probably five more out of. formations which challenged the Americans after they had loosed their bombs in the first attack. Against these enemy losses the Americans lost one bomber In their initial sortie; none In the second. McKay CaUed To Army Duty Plans to-Take Leave From Legislature; Named Captain Marion county's second repub lican nominee for state senator ai tne ixovemoer election was Monday called to active duty with the army, and Sen. Douglas Mc Kay announced he was dropping the legislative title only tempor arily to accept the military rank of captain. "Under the new law passed by the most recent session of the state legislature I am entitled to con tinue in the senate, asking only a military leave after qualifying. The county court then must ap point a senator pro tern, "McKay said, suggesting that Allan Carson. if elected, probably will follow the same procedure. McKay holds both democratic and republican nominations for reelection. Carson, nominated by republic ans at the spring primaries, is now stationed at Fort Knox, where he is attached to the air service as an intelligence office official. He pre viously had served in the state house of representatives. McKay, a first lieutenant in the last war for a period of 30 months, was wounded in the Argonne. He was a member of the 91st division. He has been ordered to. report to the service command at For Lewis on Saturday. Nazi Raiders Bomb England LONDON, Oct 26HVGerman raiders struck at England from the cover of low clouds Monday, killing at least eight persons along the south , coast and inland, and giving London two raid alarms, the first there in a week. Two of the bombers were shot down, and others were damaged in dog-fights over the English channel with an interception screen of Spitfires and Hurri canes. Anti aircraft batteries along the channel coast were In action sporadically through the day, and guns on the outskirts of London fired at one plane which was hid den in the clouds. . ' No bombs were reported in London, but there were some at tacks in the home counties. Sever persons were killed and others injured in a town In south eastern England. One was killed and six were hurt near a town in the home counties. 145 Firms Fail NEW YORK, Oct 3.-yTVBusi ness failures for the week ended October 22 numbered 145 against 132 in the preceding week and 1783 in the like period last year, Dun it Bradstreet reported Mon day. Reds Maintain Volga Lines, Oust Wedge Fighting in Factory Area; Battles Heavy In Other Regions MOSCOW, Tuesday, Oct. 27 By HENRY C. CASSIDY (P)-The red army, supported by fresh reserves, maintained its lines in Stalingrad Monday in see-saw battle in which the Germans drove a wedge ' into Russian positions in one sector and then were forced to with draw, the soviet midnight com munique said Tuesday. The main fighting took place in factory area in the northern part of the city, presumably around the red October Foundry works, and consisted of both tank and infantry assaults which con tinued without a halt five hours, "The Germans succeeded in driving a wedge into the soviet defenses," the communique said. "but were attacked from the flank, overwhelmed and forced to withdraw." In this engagement about 750 Germans were said to have been killed and three tanks destroyed. (A German radio report heard in London said the Russians had launched attacks both north and south of the red October Works in an effort to relieve German pres sure against the soviet strong hold.) Northwest of Stalingrad fight- ng continued on ( number of sec tors. The communique said the Russians in this area had wiped out three companies of German infantry, destroyed lour enemy ammunition dumps and ten dug outs. . There also was heavy fighting in the Black sea area, on the Leningrad front and Around Voronezh, about- 300 miles above Stalingrad. Northeast of the Black sea port of Tuapse, the communique said, (Turn to Page 2) Three Killed In Crash of Auto, Truck Truck , and private car colli' sionS on highway 90 north and south of Salem so similar as to be declared "startling" by state police resulted In deaths of "three Olympia, Wash young people and sent the Richmond, Calit, women to a hospital with serious injuries Sunday, and left a 10- months-old uninjured. Shirley Prior, 18, and Eddie Ball, 16, were trapped in the light car which met a truck headon mile north of Woodburn shortly before 8 o'clock Sunday morning. When the car's gasoline tank ex ploded the automobile and its oc cupants were wrapped in flame. From the blaze, residents of the area dragged Ban D. Bentley, 17, driver, who died three . hours later in a Salem hospital. Bodies of the other two were not identi fied for several hours. The trio were said to have been en route to Eugene, where Miss Prior's father is a veneer plant employe The car in which they rode was registered to Thomas Bartley, route one, Olympia. Driver of the truck was Wil liam John Kelly of Oswego, who officers believed was completely exonerated of blame by condi tions of the accident. A witness reported having driven behind the truck for several miles, using its lights as a ' guide,' declaring; to state police that much of the time the heavier vehicle had traveled approximately 15 miles an hour, (Turn to Pago 2) Legion Commander Lauds 7ilIIde Tdk INDIANPOLIS, Oct. 2 t-OPt Roane Waring of Memphis, Tenn, national commander of the Amer ican Legion, said Wendell Willkie's report Monday night to the nation on his world tour for President Roosevelt was a most magnificent exposition of the present situation, the present war aims and our failures so far to take a broad, definite stand cf America's job in trinslrig about our victory." U Carrier Wasp Torpedp'esi Destroy 3rd In Pacific Most of Complement Saved; Ship on Way To Aid Guadalcanal WASHINGTON, Oct. 26,- (AP) The navy announced Monday night the aircraft carrier Wasp was sunk in the southwest Pacific while cov ering reinforcements to Guad alcanal on September 15. Attacked by an enemy sub marine about 2:50 p. the afternoon of - September 15, the Wasp received three torpedoes near her magazine and gasoline tanks, resulting in many explo sions and serious fires. The fires could not be brought under control, the ship was abandoned three hours after the attack and about 8 p. m., an American destroyer sent torpe does into her, completing her de struction when all hope of saving the carrier had been abandoned. The navy said the carrier sank at a 'time when there was no enemy forces nearby, and for this reason the announcement of her loss was delayed as long as there was any chance the Japanese did not know of her sinking. A navy cenuniiniqne said the 14,700-toa Wasp was part of a task force covering the delivery of supplies and reinforcements to the anny-navy-marine corps' force in the Solomon islands. - About 90 per cent of the men on board she had a normal comple ment of 1800 men were rescued. The commanding officer, Capt. Forrest P. Sherman, 45, of Mel rose, Mass, was not a casualty so far as navy officials now know, officers said. The Wasp was launched April 4, 1939, at the Bethlehem Steel company, Quincy, Mass., and was commissioned at Boston April 25, 1940. She was 688 feet long, had a beam of 80 Ieet eight inches. and normally carried at least 72 planes. . Early this year the Wasp was used to ferry planes to the island of Malta in the Mediterranean The Wasp la the third aircraft carrier whose loss has been an nounced by the navy since the start af the war. The 33,000-ton Lexington was sunk in May, in the battle of the Coral sea, and the 19,500-ton Torktown was lost at the battle of Midway ta July. That leaves the fleet with four known carrier the 19,900 ton Enterprise, the 33,000-ton Saratoga, the Hornet of 20,000 ton and the Ranter, about the same she as the Wasp. , . The carrier : was - the seventh vessel in the navy to bear the name "Wasp," the first being an eight-inch schooner of .the contin ental navy which was part of the first American squadron to put to sea during the revolution. Poll Tax Ban Given Okeh : WASHINGTON, Oct 2Mff- Opponents of the poll tax won a round :Monday when the senate Judiciary committee approved, 13 to 5, a bill banning the tax as a prerequisite to voting in primar ies or elections involving federal offices. ' Senator Connally (D-Tex) whoso state is one' of the eight collecting a poll tax, issued statement in which he called the bill unconstitutional. "This bill means federal con trol of elections," he" said. "Dont let the states or the people forget that fact. However obnoxious may be poll tax requirements, they art net as bad as federal bayonets af the voting booth.' There was some indication the bill's opponents might stage filibuster, if necessary to stall its passage in the present session of congress. Weather Sunday's max. temp. 5, min. 34. River Sunday -4.2 ft. By army request, weather forecasts are withheld and temperature data delayed. Bixoct: Tuesday's sunset C:C5 p. m. 7eaesJay's sum is. 7:13 a. nsu ' ' Q'O-WV'H MPwll.niLl1lnilluIW.wWiWWMLjw,,m,iiML.l..WM., llmwn,vv,lluww L ,.,.ii,i,,U,ii,UI.. a . . ,. . . . t - . ? - ... ' , s - '. ' -. 1 , i . " - :" S- "r -' r: : i& - ; The Wasp. US aircraft carrier which only a few months ago broke Malta island in the Mediterranean, was sunk in the southwest Pacific September 15, the navy an nooneed Monday. She was launched three years ago. TSS Photo. Coffee Ration Inaugural Set November 29 to Start Program; Consumer News Revealed WASHINGTON, Oct 26.-fl3r- Coff ee rationing starts Novem ber 29, the government announ ced Monday, but it . will be more liberal, than the bugaboo which h ax., friflhtened housewives in man .'cities Into hoar ulng . ajidTnystery ship.'' into the Col urn-;! over-buying . t. One pound every five weeks will be allowed for every person who was 15 or older when sugar rationing started last May. This works out to slightly more than one cup a day, and in households where children 15 or older do not drink coffee, the grownups can have the children's share as well as their own. Moreover, it will still bo pos sible to get a cap of coffee in a restaurant regardless of how much Is nsed at home. Details of the rationing for restaurants are still to be announced but It probably will follow that of su gar, restricting commercial users to a certain percentage of their former consumption. And those who care to substi tute tea, cocoa or other beverages for coffee at certain meals can drink all they wishNo rationing (Turn to Page 2) Puerto Rico LegisL ators Flay Tugwell SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Oct 26" () Gov. Rexford Guy Tug' well appeared briefly Mondaf be fore the opening session of a spe cial legislature and 18 representa tives, and nine senators promptly walked out to the raucous jeer- ings and catcalls of a packed gallery. . ..,- The legislators, members of an opposition coalition, promptly cabled President Roosevelt that they had abandoned the Joint ses sion in "protest to the mis-government" of TugwelL In' earlier days of the New Deal, Tugwell was a presidential advisor. "Desirous of cooperating in the most decided manner in the war effort, we must seize this occa sion to remind ' your excellency of the emperious necessity of re moving Gov. Tugwell,' the angry legislators cabled to Mr Roose velt . Their walkout, incidentally, dis closed that parties favoring his administration had a safe though narrow margin since 21 of the 39 representatives in the lower house remained to hear Tugwell's brief address. In it he asked the, legislature to maintain the island's buying pow er, to twaintgfn a minimum of im ports of necessities, to broaden a program to stimulate local . food production, to fix just price levels and to provide public works re lief for the unemployed. Bolivia Leader Dlc3 LA PAZ, Bolivia, Oct 2S.-T)-Arturo Molina Campero, ' former foreign minister end former presi dent of e senate, died Monday. Honor to Navy Set in Ships And Programs PORTLAN D, Oct M-iJf) Shipyards In the Portland-Van eoaver area maintained their one-a-day launching rate Mon day and three more ships win go down the . ways Tuesday as part of Oregon's observance af Navy day". -. Henry J. Kaiser's Vancouver yard slid another ..tank-landing bia river at noon, following ap the lauBchinr of the Liberty ship . Charles Goodyear at his Oregon i Shipboildlnr corpora tion Snnday. Tuesday,. Commercial Iron (Turn to Page 2) Hershey Asks Longer Honrs" Competing Wages Get Blame for Shortage, McNary Informed WASHINGTON, Oct 26 MaJ. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, se lective service director, declared Monday that "we are not getting the -maximum from our ? man power" and suggested more effi dent industrial : management - and longer working .hours as a partial answer." "Every person in - the - nation must give of his maximum abil ity to the war effort," he said in testimony before the senate mjli tary committee . considering com pulsory manpower: legislation. - Hershey - opposed, any drafting of manpower for civilian tasks, at least for the present He took the position that further steps could be taken under the existing setup. In addition to more efficiency and longer hours in industry. He sug gested that unnecessary - absences of workers be reduced, that unes sential agriculture , be curtailed, that labor pirating and discrimin ation against women be ended and that voluntary recruiting be abandoned by the armed forces in favor of inductions through se lective service. , On the other hand. Secretory o: War Stimson contended that la bor shortages did not result alto gether from the demands of the (Turn to Pago 2) . 'Goody' Prices To Be Higher WASHINGTON, Oct 2S.-AV Christmaa "goodies" may be slightly higher this- year, the of fice of price administration said Monday. - OPA authorized distributors to use the same percentage markup over cost in 1942 as they used on the same articles during 1941. Be cause cf higher material and la bor costs, OPA said, prices may be slightly above those prevail ing last year. The authority applies to such food products as minced meat, plum pudding, Christmas cook ies. fruit cake, holiday -canay, glazed or candied fruits, shifted dry fruits, and pitted and mace rated dates and date products. Lost through to land reinforcement on British Pierce Rommel Lines Air Battle Fierce Over Desert; Axis Prisoners Taken v - By DON WHITEHEAD U CAIRO, oct ZB.-ttfVThe ar mored force of the British eighth army was : in fighting position Monday night well inside the axis El Alametn liner and at the end of -three fiys of attack" it ap peared certain that' the" imperial and allied troops had successfully accomplished the first phase of the battle. - , . ' The allied ' infantry had bat tered holes in the static defenses of the Rommel forces, at the same time attacking with tank support on both flanks. The closely fol lowing armored divisions of the eighth army- rushed through to positions behind the forward Ger man and Italian troops. Enemy counter-attacks failed to dislodge them, and. 1450 prisoners fell into allied hands. The allied air offensive was pursued with undiminished vig or Monday though the bombers 1 found fewer target. Edward Kennedy, Associated Press cor respondent with the air forces in the desert, cabled late Mon day enemy formations seemed more dispersed than ever. The Germans who have been strangely weak in the air put more planes aloft Their bombers overnight dropped anti-personal bombs and the Messerschmitts were more active in the forenoon. Consequently, Kennedy report ed, there were more dogfights and by noon six axis fighters had ti reported down, with the loss of five allied planes. On land, the Germans are con centrating their own tanks for the major battle which is expected to bring the main armored forces of both sides Into direct conflict (Unofficial dispatches received in London said that the allied ground attack had overrun two axis defense lines In one sector, advancing two miles, or half-way (Turn to Pago 2) Navy Casualty list Has 408 WASHINGTON, Oct 28 The navy issued its 15th casualty list of the war Monday, reporting 408 men from 43 states and Hawaii, killed, wounded or miss- in, y Most cf these casualties, said the navy, resulted from combat with the enemy. Some1 cf. those listed as miss- ine. the! navy said, may have been rescued at sea. or landed at . iso lated spots from which they could not communicate with naval oi fkials. The list covered navy and marine corps, but not coast guard personnel, and Included men from all states except Delaware, - Ne vada, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wyoming. The list 194 dead, 142 wound ed and 72 missing brought to 15.8.14 the total casualties an nounced since the start of the war for the navy, marine corps and coast guard navy: 3788 dead, 1CC9 wounded, 7752 missing; ma rine corps, 630 dead, 615 wound ed, 18:3 missing; coast guard, 35 dead, nine wounded, 120 missing. US Force Hi ! Position Destroyer Sunk ; By Jap Planes; : Jap Ships Hit WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (AP) The Japanese have launched a full scale,, land, sea and air assault against American positions on Guadalcanal, the navy an nounced Monday night , and American forces in the Solomons area have lost one destroyer sunk and an aircraft carrier severely damaged. ' The damage to the carrier Is in addition to the loss of the carried Waspi which the navy revealed. . earlier in the night had been sunk in the Solomons i in September: . In two day of fighting in the Solomons beginning Sunday (Sol- , omons time) American forces ' have shot down 22 enemy , planes and damaged three enemy cruis- ers and two Japanese aircraft carriers. " Severe damage, the navy said, was inflicted on a Japanese heavy cruiser and a Japanese light cruiser, but the extent of damage , to the other enemy ships are not known, ' t-- . - r . j i ..... v .-v. . ' , .. The big Japanese attack oq -Guadalcanal began ! San d a y (Saturday ' here) with army' troops and marines - holding -their j positions r osf the Island ' against a determined drive. o thefr soother flank, while en-, emy cruisers and destroyers shelled them from the sea. , i The next day, an aircraft car rier task force of the US Pacific fleet exchanged aerial blows with the enemy northwest of Guadal canal, with one - American car rier severely , damaged ' and ' tho destroyer Porter sunk in this ac tion. "Other US vessels have report ed lesser damage," a navy com munique reported. "Two enemy ' aircraft carriers were damaged in this, action, the detail! of which are still incomplete." , The eomnranloae said , thai during the early afternoon of October 25, following the Jap- 1 anese attack acainst the Amer ican sonthern flank and the shelling by enemy surface ships, American . Douglas j Dauntless dive-bomber attacked fore of enemy cruisers and destroy er north of Florida island, -scoring a, direct bomb hit which damaged and stopped ion en emy heavy cruiser. J . Shortly after this action, IS Japanese dive-bombers attacked . (Turn to Pag 2) - . ARP Declares Response to ML Dimout Good Response to new dimout regu lations in both business and resi dential districts . of i Salem was ; close to satisfactory and viola tions were because of lack of un derstanding and minor, members of the city air t raid precautions board declared as they met Mon-; day for luncheon ' ) Block wardens are assigned the duty of - spreading information -concerning dimout orders and a--, sisting householders in their dis tricts with checking to make sure they are obeying them, i Super Visor C E. Guenther declared. Enforcement of the regulations within the city is handled by city police, who on Monday had list-Y ed on their blotter the name of only one violator. Strict enforcement with tho county has been ordered by Sher iff A. C Burk. Deputies from his office went on the alert to an swer complaints Monday night. Dionne Quints Have t First Pcnnancnts : TORONTO, Oct 28-WVThe Di onne quintuplets experienced the thrill every small girl, looks for ward to Monday when they had their first permanent wave. "Is that going to happen to me!1 asked Yvonne as she watched Marie's hair put up in curlers. olding '4