UVyU,-AU
UNA
r i
AN ADVANCED AL
LIED AIR BASE IN
NORTH AFRICA, June 12
( AP) The Italian fortress
! island of Lampedusa sur
rendered Saturday to a ser
scant pilot of the Royal air
force who landed his am
phibious plane at the air
port during an allied bom
bardment after being
forced down on a flight
from Malta.
The Italians came running
out, l waving ' white flags and
of the explosions had apparent
val bombardment.
coastal artillery area destroy
field but a rather shallow har
SICILY .'V,TAM
crying:
"Can you stop it?"
Instead of trying to stop it.
ly jarred his plane's engine back
A white flag was raised at
ing : all without either air or
bor. -
into flying order.
6:25 pi m, (9:29 p. m. PWT),
ground opposition.
A third of the town area'
on the tiny 20-square-iniIe
-island also was wrecked, a .
boat in the harbor smashed.
Smoke blanketed the entire
Thus Lampedusa became the
Mec7erroneon 5eo V...: . wPlnw Mtuina
He then took offundeterred
by the lonesome Italiansand
landed safely at a Tunisian field.
the same means of capitulation
second bit of axis territory to
surrender to the overwhelming
iirviiiy j -sv f r
the sergeant, named Cohen, was
effected at Pantelleria Friday.
forced to join the Italians in a
foxhole shelter where he was
kept two hours by the contin
uous heavy bombing.
The bombardment was ter
rific," he reported. "The island
shook from end to end. - ,
During a lull in the afternoon
might of allied air power. '
' British ships pumped occa
Allied troops - - waiting off
shore ; promtply began : land
ALLIED HEADQUAR
TERS IN NORTH AFRI
CA, June 12 AP) Ita
ly's island fortress of Lam-;
pedusa (see arrow and ship
on map at right) surren
dered Saturday to the allies
after a 24-hour air and na
W sir rl ttfauta
ingOccupation was complete
at 7 p. m. (10 a. m. PWT.). !
, L. a m p e d u a a's instal
sional shells into riddled Lam
4 r A BluTtlltfill
area when British naval offi
pedusa, but it was air power
which once more shattered the
cers spied a white flag ashore.
lations were demolished as were
They landed, conferred with the
occupants into submission and
MALTA
those at Pantelleria. Allied air
men "walked" their bombs at
Italian commander, and then
troops took possession of the is
gained 'experience for bigger
things to come. ;
Koirouon
tlAMPCDUSA
50
Cohen found that the vibration
will over the entine harbor and
land which has a, small landing
(Turn to page 2 Story D) '
SlAfVtf Hl)
. . I'. -J , i
Eixerte
TOME
: The : question "now before the
house is this: Shall we import
Mexican labor into the Willam
J ette valley for assistance In crop
harvests this summer? 7 :
; Mexicans have' been brought in
and dropped off at various parts
f kthe state already: Pendleton,
. Hood River, and Grants Pass. The
Farm Security administ ration
brings them in under an' agree
ment .with the government
Mexico which protects them as
wages a and working conditions.
The workers are given temporary
admission papers, and must ' re
turn to Mexico after the harvest
season.
The arguments for bringing1 in
Mexicans to the valley to help
the bean, prune and hop harvest
Is that they will be needed to in
sure the saving of these.- crops
. that 'available local labor will not
be sufficient, that these crops are
needed and should not be allowed
to pensn lor jacx i -picKers. r 11
in unsatisf actbrv - to - depend -on
part-time labor 'recruited by high
pressure -methods. -
Mo this suggestion , the immed
late response of many people will
be this:. We do not want anjr for
eigners in here. Oregon hasTeen
free of any large foreign element,
the people here like it that way,
and do not want an influx of
Mexicans. . ; - Y'
' But there are other arguments
against bringing in the Mexicans.
If theyOome in, the force of the
- appeal patriotism will be blunt
ed to say the least. Will we then
" be able to muster harvestOabor
as we have in the past f ronv the
., cities - and towns of the valley?
Will the ; housewives, the ' , City
' workers on vacation, and clerks
cn off -hours go out in the "fields
to save, the crops 7 we need in
the Marion-Polk ' district some
30.000 ' to 40.000 workers at the
peak of the late summer harvest
By importing say a thousand or
two thousand Mexicans may - we
not cause some four or five thou
sand workers to stay home and
a a y . "let t he Mexicans
(Continued oh editorial page)
Third Loan
Drive Slated
September 9
; KINGSTON, NY, June 12-iJP)
Asserting individual investors may
have to contribute about twice as
much the remainder of this year
as the seven billion dollars : in
bonds, so far recorded, unless the
government gets more from taxes,
Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau announced Saturday the
third : war loan drive will start
September 9.
"It will aim at raising the
larrest ameant ef money from
, Individuals that any drive has .
' raised In ' the history - ef : the
world," ho told a Hudson river
valley audience. r -
At the same time the secretary
said "From now on we're: plan
ning and attacking and pi fervent
ly hope that we can continue to
work out financing plans together
and keep them on a voluntary
basis. , y
."Our goal for individuals in this
September drive will be toget a
substantial part of the necessary
money, he continued. "In a sub
sequent driye, and during the four
months in which there are no war
loan drives, we will aim to get
the rest through a payroll savings
and other continuing sales.
Sflverton Man
Lost at Sea
SILVERTON . Allison Con
rad, 15, son , of Mr. and Sirs.
tteTlln Conrad, was killed in
action ia the South Seas area
en - Juno 8. according to word
received t by his parents late
Friday nlfht. lie was a second
class radio operator and tail
gunner on a torpedo plane, and
according to the cablegram re
ceived, the entire crew was lost
f.X sea.
- Conrad was born at SUverton
an 3 his father was In the navy
Oft
NDIITY THIRD YEAR
Congress
Idt
eg i s
Outlaw
Conhally Says Measure Is
Aimed Only at tHe Labor -Wrongdoers,
not Everyone
WASHTNGTON, June 1 2 - (JP)
proval on legislation to outlaw strikes in government-operated
war industries and to curb walkouts ' in privately-controlled
plants. . ; ;
Denounced by its opponents
Heavy Buying
Wave Swamps
Shoe Stores
, , ,.Bj tht Associated Press
-' The 'biggest shoe buying-wave
in American history was on Sat
urday,-1 with - everybody and his
brother, wife and the youngsters
apparently " out 'to -use ration
stamp No." 17 before it expires.
i :i Some' dealers said the baying
approaebed - a stampede and
looked , for it to become that
Monday and Tuesday, the last
shopping days before the eoa-
' pon becomes void. - '
; A survey of 'major cities indi
cated ( shoe , stocks, rapidly were
being depleted, but:- customers
were j described as , being ready.
for the most part, to take almost
any kind of footwear regardless
f style.
In Washington, meantime, the
office of price . administration
(OPA) annnced that stamp No.
18 (in the coffee-sugar book).
which : may be used in purchas
ing shoes beginning Wednesday,
will be valid through October 31.
: This means the ' stamp will
last fevr and one-half months
11 days longer than stamp 17.
Translated into family terms, it
means to many-parents that the
children will have to go through
the summer without getting addi
tional shoes if they are to have a
new pair with which to start
school, or else that papa or mama
will ha ve to turn over, their No.
1 8 stamp. The regulations permit
transfer of shoe stamps within a
family. '
OPA said the four and one-half
month period for use of No. 18 is
in line with its policy of allow
ing an average of , about , three
pairs pf shoes per person per year.
The OPA a a n o a a e e m ent
saaelched reports wbkfi had
circulated widely that the rationing-
agency would encourage
aso of stamp It to buy ' white
summer shoes. - -
Kaiser Yard
Builds 200
PORTLAND, June 12-flVThe
first hundred are the hardest, and
Henry Kaisers Oregon Shipbuild
ing Corporation workers proved
it Saturday by shoving hull No.
200 down the .ways and starting
on their third hundred, i-
The launching came less than
seven "month after Liberty ship
No. 109 was completed, cutting
In half the time it took to build
the first hundred.
Even as the launching took
place, workmen in the record
breaking yard rushed, ten other
Liberty hulls , toward completion.
But they ; won't reach - No. 300
mm
32 PAGES
To
ion
- Cot gress sUmped its final ap
- r .
as a bill intended to "crucify la
bor, the bristling Connally-Mar-
ness measure won 55 to 22 appro
val of the senate , adoption of
conference - report composing pre-1
vious differences between the two
houses. The house had passed the'
measure 219 to 129 Friday."
The bill authorizes the govern
ment seizure of strike-threatened
war plants and prescribes delay
ing regulations before walkouts
can be called in facilities not tak
en over. ' ; ' c
It now goes to the White
Bouse where President Roose
velt must decide whether the
legislation shall become law.
There have been Indications
that parts of the legislation, at
least, have White Bouse appro
val. -V-l ;iv; ;j-u:-v I
Senate passage came after more
than eight hours of debate, three
of which were consumed ty Sen
ator Angef -i (R-ND) ' discussing
political controversies. ' V t 'r k
. Thirty democrats and 25 re
publicans favored . the measure
while IS democrats, 8 republi
cans - and a progressive voted
against ti. -,
; Admittedly aimed directly at
providing new machinery to deal4
with the coal wage dispute,'" the
measure clothes - the- War Labor
Board with statutory, power; to
settle all' labor; controversies in
war industries and . gives it the
subpoena power it thus far has
lacked to compel President John
L. Lewis of the United, Mine
Workers to submit to its arbitra
tion efforts. : " j ;
The bill authorizes government
seizure of mines or plants where
. : (Turn to page 2 Story E)
China Urges
Red to Join;
War on Japs
CHUNGKING, Sunday, June IS
(JPy-A "sincere demand, that Rus
sia declare war against Japan and
open a second front in Asia was
made today - in ; a special ; article
in a Chungking newspaper; by
Chow Lu, member of China's
supreme ruling body, the stand
ing committee of the central ex
ecutive committee of the Kuomin-
Chow Lu, who also Is state
councillor of the national gov
ernment, also suggested three
other measures against Japan:
Intensification of the American
offensive in t h e north ' Pacific,
large-scale supplies to China, and
launching of immediate opera-'
tions for recovery of Burma.
1 t
Albany Officials
Get Pay Boost
A YB ANY, June 12 -VPh- The
municipal budget committee - has
increased the, salaries of Albany's
six tity councflmen and the mayor
by 67 per cent, but the taxpayers
hardly, will feel It.
Salaries of the councilmen were
upped from $1.59 a week to $2.30
and the major's stipend from $2.50
to $3.75, which adds $348 to the
POU NDOD; 1651
Solem. Orcon. Sunday Moraine;, Juno 13, 1943
Two US :
Subs
Lost
Amber jack, ; Grampus
Listed a 'Missing --
In Navy Report
' WASHINGTON, June 12-47)
, Two American, submarines, pre
sumably of the Pacific fleet of
undersea hunters that has tak-
. en heavy toll of Japanese war
and merchant ships were posted
. on .the navy's missing ship list
Saturday. '
A navy communique said the
: US . submarine Amberjack . and
Grampus have failed; to return
fiom patrol operations . and must
be presumed to be lost.
Each craft carried about 60 men.
. Both boats were new, the Am
berjack launched in March 1, 1942,
and the Grampus commissioned in
1 Ml, Their disappearance - brings
the total of . American submarines
lost since -Pearl -Harbor to seven.
Including ; one - destroyed in ;the
Philippines to prevent its falling
into' Japanese hands,' but not: in
eluding another lost by accident.
Against these losses are balanced
the sinking, probable; sinking or
damage to 240 Japanese ships by
the United States undersea fight
ers. . . f-.-' f: - - ;- ' -
VThile the navy did not give
'the location In which the Am
berjack and Grampus were mak-
ing patrols when last, reported,
! Most American submarine oper
; aiions are la the Pacific; - . .
It was presumed, therefore, that
the two vessels were in that area
on their last mission, s : :. .
The commander of the Amber-
jack was Lt. Comander John Ar
chibald Bole, jr, 37, of WallkilL
ny. . ' - : -
The 'commanding officer of the
Grampus was listed as Lt Com
mander John Rich Craig, 36, of
Jacksonville, Fla. '
Two Ration Books
May Bring Grief
PORTLAND, June 2-JP- I
you made a mistage In your first
application for ration book 3, and
then filled out a second applica
tion, it's possible you will get two
ration books. : ' ' : 'T
So said William R. Edlund, as
sistant OPA rationing officer Sat
urday, adding' quickly, that any
who do receive two books will be
called to account later unless, the
extra book is turned in promptly.
$l(teiOOfoQOOi;O0()
War Budget-
US 1
- WASHINGTON, June 12 - (iiP
$100,000,000,000 this year for war. '
The vast scope of the American
report on production progress
m a d e by the . War . Production
Board CThairman Donald M." Nel
son, to President Roosevelt this
spring and summarized Saturday
night by the Office of War In
formation. ' - -. ; ;
The 1943 - program. Nelson re
ported, is 80 per cent greater than
1942's $59,000,000,000 totaL It in
cludes arms ' outpuL Vsr con
struction and the paying, feeding
and , equipping of the armea
forces. In his letter of transmittal
Nelson i told the commander-in-
chief: r ' " ' -
;?The record certainly makes
it clear that the American in
dustrial, system can be Justifi
ably proud of an astonishing
display af economic muscle. .
OWI's condensation of the se
cret document omitted, for rea-
( -fffvK Nil"
U . i 'V-.X SrIJI I I I'll
Does He Have
To Remember
9,
' WASHINGTON, June lt -4P)
la the middle of war secrets and
world strategy. President Roose
velt - remembered his war 'ra
tion - book ' three ; application
when It had been overlooked
by everyone else, tt was learned
Saturday. ; ---::V ' :r -, " ;v :.
At luncheon Wednesday, 'ene
day before '.the deadline, the
president asked his - bousekeen-i
er. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbtt, if she
bad seen his and Mrs. Roose-'
vclt's application. ; ' ;
A" hurried search r- revealed
that of the batch of forms that
had come to the White House,
none was left for the boss.' Ev
eryone had thought' somebody
else ' was taking care ef Mr.
Roosevelt's blank.
: An argent , appeal shot down
from 1600- Pennsylvania avenue
to OPA headquarters. OPA officials-rushed
a 'blank to 'the
White House the morning of the
deadline, Thursday. -
WLB Chairman
Urges Caution
e
SEATTLE, June 12 -UPf- J3r.
George B. Noble, northwest reg
ional War Labor Board chairman,
Saturday warned northwest can
nery operators not to act on wage
increase- matters' on the-basis of
general policy lines' laid: down by
Director of ' Economic Stabiliza
tion Fred Vinson.: -
Higher pay ? for 4M 7 ean-
cry workers In Washington
and 20,000 in Oregon have been,
approved by the regional board.
but final decision has not yet
been received from Washington. -
DC, Noble said. . -
Vinson asserted there could be
no lifting" of ceiling ' prices for
four cost of living items" green
peas, snap beans, sweet corn and
tomatoes despite increases of
raw products or of wage increases.
Increased production costs will be
absorbed through subsidies to the
canning industry - Worked out by
the - commodity- credit association,
he- said.' ' -
- The United SUtes .will spend
war effort was disclosed in a
in 1942 and prospects for; 1943,
Highlighted in the report were:
Recommendation . that civilian
manufacturing and much whole
saling be eliminated from critical
labor shortage areas, to free work
ers" for war plants -W . if
;An ..urgent plea for planning
the transition back to a peacetime
economy after the "war, lest the
war effort be held back by wide
spread concern over post-war
economy. " , ,, : '-. ' :
- A , warning that leaner days
for civilians , are hist ahead.
Civilian goods and services la
the last three 'months of this
year will be 20 per cent under'
the end of 1942, and inequali
ties of distribution will "arrra
vato the harden on eonsBmers."
Actual war production "in most
On Was
Faces
G1jDS)SIji)S
Red Air
Heavy
; 600Tons of Bombs j
; Dropped by 700
. Russian Planes.
- . . - - " i
- LONDON; Sunday, Juno IS
(JP)r-R4 'army airmen poured
'more than 00 tons of bombs on
German airdromes Friday night
In a powerful new blow upon
the nasi ah fleet, the traditional
spearpolnt r of ' German . attack,
Moscow announced early today,
and smashed back three enemy
ground attacks Saturday.
, "Large formations, of Russian
long .range aircraft showered the
nazi airdromes with explosive and
incendiary .bombs Friday "nigh
and early Saturday morning, the
Moscow , radio : announced, , in
quick follow-up to the .record,
700-plane raid against similar tar
gets Thursday night. .,
More than 600 tons of bombs
were ."dropped on - parked enemy
planes, hangars, fuel and ammu
nition dumps, said the broadcast
recorded by The Associated Press,
ana a great number ox enemy
aircraft were destroyed or dam
aged.- Russian losses .were put at
two planes, compared with 19 the
night before when 150 enemy
planes were reported wrecked.
" Three , German Infantry at
tacks Saturday In the Rostov
and Usichansk areas , were beat
en back with heavy losses to the
.enemy, the soviet ml d a I g h t
eimman) que said, ; with the
strongest ' attack' launched west
of Rostov., '
A. - German; . broadcast . declared
that the Russians had ..launched
repeated infantry v attacks north
east of . Orel on ,a broad front,
breaching the froain German line
line in some places.'! But the Rus
sians were "thrown out in imme
diate counter thrusts in hand to
hand fighting, and. suffered heavy
losses in dead,; wounded and pris
oners,'; the radio said., ;
The ; Russian ; communique did
not mention this area.' : - -x
Liberator i?Z
BombspS;;;
Largo ohip -
ALLIED' HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Sunday, J u'n e 13
(flrA Liberator damaged a 2000
ton Japanese cargo ship-Saturday
off Kaimana, Dutch New Guinea,
the high command announced in
today's noon communique. .
' ' Long range firhts destroyed ;
six Japanese float planes at their.'
naoorings in an attack on the
Aroe Islands. Two others were
damaged and one was s h o t
down trying to Intercept the al-'
lied raiders, : 2 : 1
Four allied raiders over , Ma
dahg. New Guinea, were. swarmed
upon by 20 Zeroes but fought
them . off, downing one.. Another
of the 20 was listed as probably
destroyed. , i' ,. r
The allied planes in the lladang
action were Lightnings (P-38s).
To' the west ef the action .
against the float planes on the
Aroes, big allied bombers at
tacked the- airdrome e LaQg--goer
on the - Hal islands. Clght
enemy flgbters attempted Inter
eeptionand one was believed to
have been destroyed. '
On Dutch Timor, K,o e p a n g
which on Friday was set ablaze in
a heavy raid in which 42 tons of
bombs were dropped, was visited
Attack
soft
1
(udnUnentM
Striking Power Believed 1
To Exceed 1250 Used in
2000 Ton Cologne Raid
LONDON, Sunday, June 13-(ff-RAF bombers struck at Ger
many Saturday night, it was reported authoritatively early to
day, renewing the assault after Duesseldorf and other German
arms centers had been pounded the night before by. the greatest
air fleet ever assembled. " " - ' . ' 1 i " - '
i The RAFs foray completed the second 24-hour cycle of renewed
Kiska Bombed
In Invasiori'
Softener Blow
WASHINGTON, June 12 -UPk-
The third phase of the campaign
to break Japan's hold on the west'
era Aleutians appeared " Satur-
aay 10 nave gotten under way
with resumption of fairly heavy
aerial attacks oiL the enemy at
Kiska Island. k
. A navy communique said that
on Tbursday afternoon' army'
medium -and ' heavy - bombers
with fighter escort made four
attacks on Installations at Kis-'
ka. scoring bomb hits on the
runway and on gun emplace
ments. Fighter planes ' strafed
barges found along the beaches.1
This was - one of the heaviest
days of action since the American
conquest of enemy-held Attu is
land and probably marked the be
ginning of ; intensive . efforts to
soften up Kiska for Invasion. -
The navy communique also said
that on Attu -66 Japanese strag
glers were killed and one . was
captured Tuesday night in the ar-
between Sarana bay and Cape
KhlebnikoL These two points
mark the .northeastern tip. of the
bland. "There is no enemy activ
ity on. other parts of .the .island,"
the war bulletin reported. . ;
:4 The-Japanese casualties la
the - Tuesday : night fighting -raised
their total knows looses
for : the Attn campaign to 1411
dead and 21 captured. ,
Blast Rocks :
Charleston
Carbide Plant
CHARLESTON, W. Va. June 13
(Sunday )-ff)-A roaring explos
ion at the plant of Carbide and
Carbon Chemicals Corporation on
Blaine Island shook homes
throughout a wide-area of South
Charleston at 1:10 a. nx. today but
company spokesman said nine
ty minutes later that apparently
inly one worker was Injured and
there '.were no fatalities. '. ;
- A 2:45 a.m. flames were stSl
leaping 289 feet Into the air
above the north end of the Is
land. Firemen used six lines of '1
hose to cheek the .blaze, which
foilawed the'. explosion in a
storare task between two ef the
operating butldlnrs.
The company rpokeman Vaid he
did not believe property damage
would be heavy. U . 4 !
The blast occurred at the same
Dimout
Sun. sunset 9:02
Blon. sunrise 5:19
(Weather on Page S)
Pries Sc.
No. 7
LJ .
rmada
ases
day and night bombing j of axis
held Europe, with US and British
planes sweeping, over France by
daylight Saturday. j
The Friday night assault . on
Duesseldorf was an hour-long
pounding that spread over Muen
ster and other nazi industrial cen
ters in the Ruhr and Rhineland,
with more than 2,000 tons of
bombs dropped in the shattering
nid- ' ' I
WhUe the RAF announced
neither the total number of
raiders nor the tonnage of the
bombs, the formation was said
to be the greatest fleet of heavy
bombers In history.! 1
Its striking power Wat believed
to exceed that of the ,1,2 50 RAF
large, medium and light bombers
which attacked Cologne the night
LONDON, Sunday, June IS
Uty Several German fighter
bombers attacked ..the London
area early today la a brief hit-and-run
; raid la which a few
persons were Injured and souse
houses .were. damaged.'
The alert was brief, and only
a few guns opened up. Enemy
activity likewise was slight
throughout the country.
of May 30, 1942, and the weight
of bombs undoubtedly .surpassed
the 2,000 tons dumped on Dort
mund last May 23. "
Roaring across , the English
channel for the first time since
May 29, the RAF heavyweight
took, up their part in the pre-in-
vasion aerial bombardment of Eu
rope from the west which waa
resumed yesterday after a lull of
nearly two weeks when more than
200 American heavies blasted
Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven.
American and British planes
renewed the t daylight blows
against axis Europe with wide
spread sweeps over Franco late
Saturday.'
Venturas and Bostons, escorted
by. fighter planes; bombed enemy
airfields at Caen and other tar
gets near Rouen. Later In the ev
ening RAF Typhoons bombed the
airfield at Abbeville.
Thunderbolts of the . 8th U.S.
air force carried out diversionary
sweeps across a large area of
northern France. They downed
one enemy plane and another was
destroyed by a Canadian Spitfire
squadron.
The air ministry said one of the
RAF bombers failed to return and
A1 A. ' . ' V A r V . . .
ui.b iig.iier was missinx irum
forenoon activities. 1
Saturday nlxht's record as
sault cost the RAF 43 big bomb
ers. Althourh ' the. loss was
heavy, it Was not regarded here
as excessive In view of the size
of the railing force and the vast
destruction -achieved.
"Preliminary reports Indicated
great damage v. ;.s done,", f sid the
air ministry corr.munSque, whklx
disclosed that the heaviest hit of