The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, November 01, 1942, Page 1, Image 1

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    i-jinnccola 10, Ilorilivcctcrn 7
Georgia 2L Alabama 10
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Ilolro Dame 9, Navy 0
-Elicbigan 20. Dlinokv 14
lova 18, Purdue 7
ritaiii
Guns j Bombs
Hit Crowded
B
Canterbury
By GIAI3WIN tttttt i
LONDON, Oct. 31
, (AP) Fifty German
bombers smashed with
bombs and i machine-guns
. at Sontbeastcrn England
Saturday in the i biggest
nazi attack since the 1940
v battle of Britain, concen
. trating their 'assault on
shopper-crowded streets at
Canterbury ; where Mrs.
',- Franklin D. ! Roosevelt was
t a visitor only Friday. :
.". . Roaring in at dusk, the raiders
1 ' dropped bombs in haphazard fa
shion and machine-gunned a
working class , area" and . then I a
shopping street. :':3;v'
They , chose! a time when the
' streets would be full of shoppers,"
. said the air ministry, which also
announced that nine of the planes
participating in this attack and
-other raids inljEast Anglia Satur
' day were shot down. j .
: Informed of the Canterbury
raid, Mrs. Roosevelt - expressed
- deep concern and inquired whe
ther several places she visited
had been hit . I .
. During the activity an air raid
alarm was . sounded in the London
area Saturday night. , ('-,
" OpenUIng with their eld- ;
r - time . efficiency despite the long
lull la large-scale battles ever
i Britain, RAF fighters shot
" dawn six of tne attackers with
- a loss of two of their own
planes, while grenncl artillery '
aecoiuited for the ether 4hree
1 ' - .Ten persoas were v. known to
have been killed at : Canterbury
and some were injured. Six per
sons were killed in a crowded
bus, hear which a bomb explod
ed. ; Another j bus was machine
. gunned," the driver being killed.
, The air ministry; said the day--
lieht attacks in East Anelia caused
: little damage land few casualties.!
In one of the East Anglia at
1 tacks 13 raiders participated. An
other group of 20 : roared across
the countryside " at zero altitude
- and machine-gunned coastal
... bound express train hitting the
k engineer. , C . ; x y T i :: ','
Meanwhile, 'American " pursuit
- pilots shot upi a- freight train near
Berck-Sur-Mer, France They
. said steam was spouting from
.. cannon holes jin the boiler of the
engine when they left. ; . !
Factories and industrial ob-
Jeetlves in northwest Germany
- and Belgians were raided dur
ing the morning and afternoon,
r t n eat r ministry announced.
Seven - planes , were . lost, three
of them bombers. Many hits
were observed, r-
Other RAF bombers and fight-
- ers blasted Industrial objectives
' and. railways! in northern France
Exemptions
Listed to
Raise Ban !
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 H&)
The national war labor board an-
- nounced Saturday; wage and sal
ary increases made in compliance
"with state toinimum wage : laws
. are exempt from the salary frer
. ing regulations issued J-y-the di-.
' rector ; of economH toilization,
, James F ByrnesT"?, - r - i
The board alsovJ L 1 n &
. ; that adjustments ii. ;tages fend
; salaries, over! which Vl board has
Jurisdiction, jean be without
.approval of the board XHey are
paid in any territory or pi, -on
- of the United States, except Alas
ka. !., "
. In another order the board
- ruled that salary increases put
Into effect on or before October
27 do not . come within its juris
' diction even though the raises
" might be paid iniUally after Oc-
The beard also said it would
not have jurisdiction over the aa
- justment of salaries up to $5CC0
a year for! those employes who
are "employed in a bona fide
executive, f. J.ministrative or pro
fessional cr, . city" uho are not
" represented Ly rtccized unions.
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KOIETY-SF EAS
r 4?
5f
i rairo iff
Ouster
Sought
Teen Age Draft
So Come Again
efore House
WASHINGTON, Oct Z-4JP)
The adrninijtration laid the
groundwork Saturday i for an
attempt after next Tuesday's
election to eliminate a provision
of the 'teen age draft bill re
quiring a year's training of 18
and :. 19-year olds before, they
could be sent into foreign com
bat service.
In the background of the efforts
was the Boston 1 speech. October
29 by Undersecretary of War Rob
ert P. Patterson in which be said
that . "if cripplhig" ' amendments
were added to the legislation "it
would be as well that it should
not pass at all"
.There' was some talk .that
, President Roosevelt might veto
the bill if it won final eon-.
sressional approval In the form
In : which it passed the senate,
bat this report lacked confir
mation from administration
leaders at the capitoL
' The senate added the training
amendment which previously had
been, rejected by : the house, - and
Rep. Bank in (D-Miss) has moved
to accept thesenatev changes - in
4ewn.-v--: - .., "
Sponsors of .' the jbill hope to
defeat ' the " Ranking proposal !in
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Willkie Urges
GOP Ballot i
Aecusea LeadershJp
Of Nation With
Lacking Courage
NEW YORK, Oct 31-P)-Wen-deU
Willkie, urging the election
of "a large' number of liberal and
enlightened republicans," accused
the national administration Satur
day night of a "lack of courageous
leadership."'
This lack; Willkie asserted fin a
three-page statement released to
the press, "is nowhere more plain
ly illustrated than by its con
tinued 'recognition of the vicious
and subversive Vichy govern
ment :
WmUe who retained, recent
fly H from a rlobe-eirelmr ' tonr ;
: 'daring w h 1 0 h he performed
several dnties f or President
: KoosevelW said ' that he would
m vote the republican "state ticket
' beaded by gubernatorial candl
l date Thomas E. Dewey, next
" Tuesday. -CQ:-:h -V ( K
"Those ' republicans who sin
cerely subscribe to the party's re
cent , declarations of : principle on
questions , of the war ' and peace
and have a liberal approach to
our domestic r problems, I sup
port" he added. ... ....
The 1940 republican presiden
tial - candidate declared ; that re
tention of ; "an effective opposi
tion arty" is "of. more than nor
mal value ' at : the "present time
when the administration shows an
increasing impatience with criti
cism, behind a gradually tighten
ing wall of censorship." fj;H;;
. " Anyone . who has made any
study of conditions at home and
abroad - must know " that the ad
ministration of o1ni&ar"ei0ktij
confused and in many respects in-"
efficient" ,he observed.
: . "Nothing can do more to drive
the government to correct this
state of things than the election
of a large number of liberal and
enlightened republicans.
' ,"ThOM wno.feel mm I do abont
,te necessity ef America's tak
tasr Its true position la .world
affairs which incidentally t
the tradition Of the republican '
party and who were for a
while disturbed abont the atti
tude of some members of the
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Sueiter Posts Bail
PORTLAND, Octt 31-)-Fha-lip
Suetter posted 410,000 bail
Saturday and was granted liberty
pending appeal of his conviction
last month on a charge of violat
ing the securities act in financing
a southern .Oregon mining ven
ture, lie had been held in Mult-
nomah county jalL . .
Baylor 10. Tcirca CLr!rUi
Wisconsin 17, qtiio Stcto 7
Georgia Tech 2G; Dulro 7
, - . ,
Fordham 7, St Mary's 0
Penn 19, Army 0
Election
Tuesday
Another w a r 1 1 m election
rolls around Tuesday.
Vote!
Then tone in radio station
KSLM at 7:3S . m. tmr reports
oat new thoivotc in Ore-
gen and nationally. The States
man if train proTidisf Its
speedy election reporting serv
ice to Uie pabllc. to be pvt ma
the sir direct from tne Bows
paper's offices over KSLM. The
broadcast will continue as long
as there are returns of Interest
to report. , f . .
- See story; below on election
in Oregon. For story on other
contests, and for list of Marlon
comity polling places, tarn to
pace ten.
On Tuesday i
Oregon to Name Five
For Congress, Also
New Governor
By STEPHEN C. MERGLER
.While many sons, brothers and
even fathers of the 'nation are
fighting on the world's combat
fronts' or training in American
military camps, those who remain
at home will go to the polls Tues
day to express themselves in the
democratic way, war and war
time civilian, controls notwith
standing: Mr- ;Vr -;-.:.'
In Oregon the voters " hav a
United States senator and four
congressmen to "elect on ; th ; ria
tional ticket a governor, a secre
tary bf stete and labor commis
sioner, to mention the contested
positions, on the state ballot They
also have before them four con
stitutional amendments; two ref
erendum measures and an initia
tive petition involving the law of
the1 state. There are threeupreme
court judgeships to be filled, but
the incumbents are the only can
didates on the ballot
i Beading the ballot Is the ITS
senatershipY with veteran Sen.
Charles I MeNary of Salem
as the republican nominee and
deabttess the-winner over Wal-
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First Lady
Ignores, -
Raid Alarm
LONDON, Oct l.-(JP)-Calmly
ignoring an -air raid alarm, Mrs.
Franklin D. . Rcosevelt; made an
unannounced i ncognlto . tour
through blacked-out London Sat
urday night without her official
retinue to see for. herself how the
forces enjoy tnemselves In Lon
don on Saturday. night
' - She was : chatting with ' soldiers
and their girl friends at a leave
and transit hostel .operated by the
YMCA when the alarm sounded.
She paid no attention to it and
made a trip to the next stop while
the brief alert was still on.
: The American first lady crea
ted a sensation at a dance at the
Red ' Cross service men's club
when she was recognized early in
her tour.
i At the Red Cross club an elder
ly doorman did not recognize her
and asked for her card of admit
tance. While she fumbled in her
purse: a nearby soldier shouted:
; "My vgosh! It's Mrs. Roosevelt.
i Theodore Buttel, of Detroit the
club director, spotted her and in
vited her to watch the Hallow
een dance then in progress. ..
' For Hallownen stunt the dance
floor: was bladked-out and a
whiteclad "ghost inade of a pil
lowslip and false face fluttered
overhead on a troney ?
The jiost got stuck i and the
first . lady laughed -heartily as the
soldiers tried-Urxaake"the device
work and one of them said "the
ghost won't walk."
-Asked for a speech, Mnc Hoose-velt-
said: '
"I am glad to see that you are
having a good time and X hope
you will all make many friends
with the English. I'd like to take
back the knowledge that you have
a : real feeling for cur British
friends. Miope our soldiers every
where will feel closer to men of
other countries.
v "We can't fio on having wars
every 25 years or so. We are go
ing to win this one. It will take a
great deal of hard work, but it's
worth working lor..
iNation
Votes
I?ccifcc GdscC' Scores
' i California 20, Oregon 7
s . ... . . .
waciungton 13, usi; 0
Villamcllo 33, CPS 2
Idaho 21,
UCUl 0,
Salem. Oragon.
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Carrier '
Identity Held
On Ship Lost; ;
To Bombing
Attacked in Same j :
Engagement. With t
Sunk Destroyer ; I
WASHINGTON, Oct.! 31
(AP) A! United States
aircraft carrier, aa yet uni
dentified,' has been lost in
the south Pacific as a re-
suit , of a bombing attack,
the navy; announced Satur
day night..
The carrier was attacked
October 26 near the Santa
Crux Island and about 260
miles northear of .Cuadal-
Sr - I i -.Urn.
cahaLWvm "iKm
It was the same engagement in
which the USS Porter, a destroy
er, was iosticj-:! -' : -; "
The carrier was presumably one
of these four vessels, the Sara
toga, a 33,000-ton converted cruis
er, the Hornet 19,000-ton, the
ranger, 14,500 tons, and the en
terprise, 19,900 tons. , - j
Those four carriers, with .three
Others, comprise the carrier group
of the United States fleet as listed
in Jane's naval register. The
others were the , Lexington, lost
in the Coral sea May 8, the York-
town, sent to the bottom in the
battle ef Midway June 7, and the
Wasp, lost i September 13, in the
Solomon islands engagement
The navy said; the first attack
on the carrier reported lost Sat
urday came In the forenoon,
causing heavy damage. She was
taken In tow in an attempt to
salvage her. , Bat the enemy m
came back; and this time a sec
ond attack eaased farther dam
age below-tne waierllne and she -began
to UsC
Personnel -.' were removed,' the
navy, said, tt-: v5r--i "
She sank ia short time later. : :
The ' navy said there were few
casualties and that the next of
kin of those lost would be noti
fied immediately upon receipt of
information ;
French Women
Win Against f
Labor Order
1 - . .
BERN. Switzerland, Oct 32-(F)
French women, barricading tiny
town halls , against German doc
tors sent to ' examine their men
for the Hitler labor draft, have
won one of the first victories in
the campaign in the unoccupied
zone against forced work in the
reich. r ' ' T
A new series of strikes was re
ported to j have broken out es
pecially in the Haute-Savoie pro
vince adjoining the Swiss border,
and every t neutral dispatch - de
scribing the incidents said high
feeling and. discontent were clear
ly, apparent - j
The strikes' in every case fol
lowed orders to factory owners
designating the number of work
ers they were expected to furnish
in the deal! made by Pierre Laval
for exchange of workers for wax
prisoners.-:7
. The men, - upon " receiving the
announcement" simply quit work
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Dimout
Sunday's sunset 5:57 p. m.
Monday's ' sunrise 7:53.
Weather; Friday's max. temp.,
55, mbx, (43. XUver Saturday
-3 f tEy army request weather
'forecasts are withheld and
temperature data dtlayed.
Montana 0
Stanford 7
Sunday Morning, lTormbr 1
Marines Tpke Jap Gujv Emplacement
il
This stranr' nolnt. ' eenmlete with camonflared " ssas : was taken xrom the Jans when the US naa
. rlnes made their first assault on. Guadalcanal. Here a marine gun crew has tnmed It interna em
placement for their lield gun in battle now raging in Jap atempt ta wipe eat US forces and seise
strategic Henderson fields UN
a
Soviets Drive
- Offense at Nalchik
Grows;. Positions Jj
. Taken on Volga
MOSCOW, Sunday, Nov. 1
The Germans ; made new . gains
Saturday in their of tensive across
the Nalchik plains at the foot of
the Caucasus mountains, the so
viet midnight communique ' said
Sunday, , but the red army seized
the initiative ; inside Stalingrad
and won new : successes north of
the Volga city and on the Black
sea front - . . , ,
.The. fact the Russians had gone
over to the . offensive in Stalin
grad was . indicated by -a state
ment in the communique that they
had ; fought "battle " to improve
their positions after beating - off
a number of German attacks.
(A Moscow broadcast said "the
Russians in Stalingrad have gone
over to the attack and they have
already dislodged .the enemy at
one point the London, radio re
ported in a broadcast heard Sat
urday . night , by CBS. Northwest
of Stalingrad, the broadcast said,
the Russians are "slowly but sure
ly pushing the Germans bdtk.'
The Rome radio broadcast that
the Russians have launched a new
mass counter-attack in the last 24
hours against " the - Germans I at
Stalingrad.) :v":rl; ' j;--The
midnight communique slid
that about a battalion of German
infantry had. been wiped out in
Stalingrad and that ten tanks and
five blockhouses had been de
stroyed. . Northwest of Stalingrad
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Gibraltar L
Crash Fatal
-'-i-.v -..' t ' .- -.:-.-..f:f-.-r
- - S '
MADRID, Oct SIHTV-rifteen
persons were killed and 11 In
jured Saturday when a four-motored
plane from Malta hit a bhl
op on the eastern part of Gib
raltar, whirled in the air and fill
into the sea, dispatches from ;La
Linea reported Saturday , night!
The; reports from the Spanish
town on the Gibraltar border skid
there were 32 persons aboard the
plane, : ten of them members1 of
the crew. Some of . the 22 pas
sengers were women and chil
dren. ,
Several passengers still had
wounds from bombings of Malta
that had not healed. . r !
Aside from the dead and injured
there were several others miss
ing, it was reported.
Germans
ari-r'a--
IIzr7icl 10, PriccTcn 1
'Zzdkzzikz Z2, Indiana G
till 10,; Camcgi'o Tccli G
: ; Tenner-o 3, LSU 0
Yalo 27, Brovn 0
1941
Soundphoto. ' - ;
Oregon Yard
Leads Field
With Ships . i
FOKTLAN D, .' Oct Sl-iff)
Oregon Shipbuilding corpora
tion claimed national leadership
Saturday with 12 Liberty ships
lannehed, 12 delivered and 12
i keels laid during October. ;
Company officials said they
believed Oregon's record topped
California Shipbuilding V cor
poration's ' total of 13 launch
' ings, 13 keel-laying and 12 de
liveries because the local Henry
J. Kaiser yard has only 11 ways
while his Wilmington, Califs
yard has 14. y -.. -J.
J This would give Oregon Lit
ships completed per way against
M for California. ' ! ' ; ;!
I Oregon officials - said they
assve launched a total ef SI Lib
erties, delivered Sf and laid
111 keels, compared to IS, tl
and 104 for California; .
freshmen Lose
Fight to End
i
Initiation ! i
-i Freshmen of Willamette uni
versity will continue initiative
subservience' to the sophomores
until - Thanksgiving as result of
the homecoming bag-rush Satur
day, one of several events which
marked the passing of the annual
celebrating for alumni, students,
faculty, parents and ; friend of
the -university. vV----'--"'-j
The rush took place on muddy
Sweetland field between halves
of the homecoming f ootball game,
which Willamette won from Col
lege of Puget Sound by 33 to 2,
Another Victory was announced at
the ; performance of "The Phila
delphia Story, Saturday night
when Lausanne ball, received the
oup for first place in the sign con
test among living organizations.
Delta Phi sorority placed, second.
Alumni in a morning meeting
of the executive board of the or
ganization, passed . a proposal for
the Willamette fund of living en
dowment - fund which is sub
scribed by alumni and friends,: to
be' .directed toward " educational
purposes. Directors of the fund,
composed of the president first
vice president "and- secretary-
treasurer' of the alumni , associa
tion, the six trustees elected by
the alumni, the president of the
university, six members at large
to be chosen by these,; and a rep
resentative for each class, shall
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JJsip
im
Pric
1
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British Hold
Desert Gains
No Major Battles
i Reported ; Allies - ;
Superior in Air -
CAIRO, Oct 31 (P) ; The
British eighth army methodically
whittled , down " German strength
Saturday in the. western Egyptian
desert, consolidated its newly won
positions and, repulsed . counter
attacks while maintaining air su
premacy with the help of Ameri
can planes.
' (The German - radio- said : - the
British resumed'' the- attack early'
Saturday, wheeling up" reinforce
ments especially of artillery and
tanks? The assertion by DNB
came 'only 12 hours ' after the
nazis had claimed the " offensive
had' collapsed).-' "D - ?r y - t
1 Still there was no major tank
battle and the German . counter
attacks were made only with in
fantry and light armor. : ? v :
The Australians rep a I s e d
four waves ( of axis ; Infantry
Friday. Attacking : new lines
which developed hundreds of 1
square yards of territory wrest
ed from the enemy Thursday
night' - -
Two attacks were supported
lightly by tanks, but heavy cas
ualties were inflicted on the axis
in each instance, delayed - dis
patches from the front saicL An
other 200 . prisoners were taken,
some of them conscripted Poles,
Dutch and Czechs. Others were
formerly Jn the French Foreign
Legion. .:c v; -r "':
. The battle, now in its second
week,- was one of attraction and
the British were determined to
"destroy Rommel and his army"
as their commander, Lt v Gen.
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US Bomb era Said
At Gibraltar
LOJtTX)N, Oct " 3 1(J) Reut
ers Saturday night. reported that
the Vichy radio broadcast a dis
patch from La Linea, Spain, say
ing 40 American bombers landed
Saturday at Gibraltar.
. The Vichy report as carried ty
the British agency .- added the
British; battleship Rodney, ' the
British ahtaraft carrier Furious,
14 destroyers and 13 seaplanes at
present were anchored v in the
port Where, the report said, sev
eral merchantmen have landed a
large contingent of American
troops and big quantities of war
material.
I.2ohigan Slato-7, Tcm-Ia L
Greiit Lahca 17, I.IIcrcurl C
Columbia K, Cornell 1C
Ilcbraeha' IC'ilcneas V.
5c.
No. U3
(TO
Third Day Raid
Strikes Four
Other Shi
P
s
All Planes Return
- lrom Buin; Raids
Are 7idespread 1
". GEN, MafcAllTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Aix
tralia, Sunday, Nov. 1-
(AP) Allied bom b e r aC
striking for the third suc
cessive day j at Japanese '
shipping in ; the 1 northern
Solomons and , New Brit
ain sank a heavy cruiser,
severely damaged a light
cruiser and scored direct
hits on at least three rarr-
chant . Vessels, a communique said
Sunday;: - ' v 'p "..., '.; ,.
Most of 'the damage in the
latest raids was done at Buin, in-.,
the Solomons, but 21 tons of ex
plosives were dropped on , the
harbor area of Rabaul, New Brit
ein,i where the results could not
be fully .observed because of low
clouds. -
The allies did not lose a plane t
in either raid.
l Ia the attack on Buin, some 300
miles northwest of Guadalcanal, 1
the bombers came over the tar-
get area just before dawn as they
did in Saturday's, large scale bom
bardment and dropped 18 tons of
explosives. -
' A direct hit blew up a heavy
cruiser, the sixth Jap warsh!
sunk or believed sunk by Mac
Arthur's bombers In a month ef
operations. :-"t
; A light, cruiser was damaged
severely and a . direct hit was
scored on a merchant vessel. Near
misses Were believed to have
damaged other ships. . ,
. . Only the day, before, three
waves of bombers damaged a tig
warship, believed to be either a
cruiser or a battleship, probably
damaged an aircraft carrier, also
another cruiser, a destroyer and
set ablaze an unidentified vessel
in the Buin-Faisi area.
. The communKiue referred to
the previous raid, notins that re
ports . had come in. hitherto not
announced, of , the results of
bombing by medium units which
made up the second of the three
waves of that attack. These bomb
ers scored a hit with a. 500-pound
bomb on n heavy cruiser t or bat
tleship. The communique did not
make clear whether this was the
same heavy cruiser reported hit
by the first wave or t was another
vesseL : '"
Sunday's pre -dawn attack
was made at low altitude. De
spite heavy anti-aircraft fire '
and searchlight opposition, all
allied planes returned safely to .
their bases. K1 .
For the second, straight time,
planes "struck . at DillL harbor
town in Portuguese Timor. The
medaum bombers attacked with
unobserved results. .
Abo In tv.; , cit cf the c:ncr;l
Solomons""' operation, a force cf
heavy bombers dropped 21 tons
or expiocives nearly match:.-. z
the 27 tcr.s - drcrped on Euin i.i
the pre-dawn of Saturday en
shipping at Rabaul, on l'ew Brit
ain Island northeast cf ITew Gui
nea. A covering cf c!uuJ3 pre
vented accurate observation cf re
sults but direct hits- were L
served on" two vessels which we re
swept ty flames. .II p'.-r's re
turned from Rctcul.
A daylight reconnal fa
was attacked by II Ztr: i.. ..'
near. Rsbaul. It thot c'
completed its mission, ; cr.i i .
turned.. Evidencing the : ' : I : c
fort cf ?.IacArt!.::r's r-''
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