Eugene register-guard., July 21, 1942, Image 1

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LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER
TODAY'S NEWS TODAY
EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1942
ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 5c
NO. 21
iggest' War
Nazi Tanks Push Southeast
W Rally
Of Voroshilovgrad; Matruh
Gets Third Shelling by Fleet
I (or Friday
innea rui -..7
tory Luncneon
toe promises to have its big
far bond inMle5 "1
,r TL. .nH n general
' of' Eugene who have taken
' i. the sale of stamps and
,iU be honored by citizens
and noted visitors.
i ..ill he a com-
P-7.u hntel. honoring all
S .hose sale, in bonds
. u u ? u MISS THEIR MARKS IX RAID ON DUTCH HARBOR OUTPOST U. S. forces at our Alaskan
Dutch Harbor base were no easy "marks" for Jap bombs and a flock of them fall harmlessly in the bav-wav wide of
v targets as the raiders unsuccessfully attempt to silence machine guns spitting back at the attackers. Official U. S.
mmsW Plans More
Inflation Curbs
WASHINGTON. July 21 P
President Roosevelt told reporters
today he hoped to send a message
to congress in a few days on the
question of new inflation curbs.
He added it would go into the
cost of living, which he described
,rchandise during Jury,
Starred
i rnsram will re
f,ons by Suzanne Jure., 13.
is known a v,,ls,"" :T
Girl." and by Carol Worth.
943 Centennial Girl who is
the nublicity for the
I anniversary of the Old Ore-
Trail in isnj-
Under To Speak
talk on Oregon s piace n uic
t drive will be given by
t es Robison, prominent Port-
i.hnr attorney and an "ex-
Lit speaker," according to Ford
M, general cnairman mr mc
Robinsons m
merited bv a few brief re-
Bs from Allan Rinehart. !ep-
jdministrator ot Dona saies in
kn.
Itrchants who have met the 4
silt quota in Dona ana smmp
i this month, as compared to
r total merchandise sales in
1941. will be presented with
lr certificates at the meeting.
t. so honored have made a
!ar achievement. Mr.
pointing out that Business
for July, 1941, were exceed-
h hi!h. due to the fact 'hat the
rn Trail Pageant was present
ihere during that month.
lory Luncheon
Inday's victory luncheon is not
wic club meeting, although
tsentative. of all civic cWWT-WASHINGTON, July 21. (U R
Big Catalina Flying Boats
Do Yeoman Service in Alaska
Battles with Jap Invaders
By KEITH WHEELER
(Copyright. 1942. Chicago Times, Inc.)
AT SEA WITH PACIFIC FLEET, June 18 (DELAY
ED) Someday when the Japs are driven out of Kiska and
the Aleutians are blocked as a road to conquest, the people
concerned with such things will find time to hans medals on
as the first real domestic problem i the men flying and fighting this command's Catalina flying
in carrying on the war.
The chief executive let this
be known after he was questioned
regarding steps that might be
taken to control wages in an effort
to make price controls more ef
fective. "Do you intend to freeze
wages?" He was asked. He replied
with a flat no.
He then was asked whether he
would ask congress to freeze
wages, but smiled and Interrupted
his questioner, asking him to wait
a minute. He added that if' any-
Hand i thing was said on that it would be
saia in a message to congress.
boats,
be there, Mr. Hand said. All
.en's clubs, civic clubs, veter
ortanizations, and the general
i.:c are invited to the event.
raimunity luncheon. Eugen
m who have attended enter
fcients sponsored by Portland's
ty Center in front of the
and post office will have a
t idea of what to expect in
!?s entertainment, Mr. Hand
ad.
i I means of promoting the
'. I large supply of ncv post-
ana display material advert-'s-
ar bonds and stamps have
B received by Dale Cooley at
ire. nir. tooiev asks
all interested merchants call
'e material at his office, then
k it ready for first-time display
'Sales Engineers' Hit
By House Measure
Many Pickers Needed
To Harvest Beans
The cooperation of Eugene
business, the press, and organiza
tions which made possible the
handling of last year's labor situ
ation in harvesting the bean crop
will be needed more than ever this
season, it was announced at a
meeting of the Lane County Bean
Growers association, this week.
Production is greatly increased
this year and the growers will face
a labor shortage again, it was
pointed out. A group. of 120 grow
ers attended the meeting.
Picking price has been advanced
from the 1941 base level of $1 per
In a war where bravery is com
monplace there has been nothing
to excell the stubborn courage
Lumber Auction
To Be Held Here
More than 100 lumbermen will
convene in Eugene July 28 for an
rrmy lumber-buying auction to bej
held at the Osburn hotel, H. J.
Cox, secretary of the Willamette:
Valley Lumbermen's association
revealed Tuesday.
The auction will be under the
direction of R. L. Hennessy, head
of the West Coast lumber office
of the war department, working
with which this handful of tpen j through the office of the chief of
drove the brash Jap back from
Dutch Harbor and is now pound
ing day and night at his bases on
barren Kiska and Attu.
There were few Catalinas here
when the battle began nearly two
weeks ago and if there are more
today the reason is not that crews
made pruden use of their lives
and planes. Every day new planes
arrive to replace the fallen.
They may as well prepare to
make many posthumous awards.
Losses Heavy
As might have been expected,
the losses have been heavy
heavier than the censor would
care tp let me say. Everybody who,.
engineers
Many millions of board feet of
lumber are expected to be pur
chased at the auction. It will
start Tuesday at 9 a. m. and w'Ul
continue until orders are filled.
entinUOPosf
ssion Increases
'enrollment at the Unl-
v w uregon five-week post
01 tUmmer cnhnnl
that of last year, it was re-
tucMiay alter the first
classes had been held,
'enrollment, which be-
Frf 1,, i an seven Pr cent
P 0t last year if .......
f '? .M(lay 'temoon by
The house today passed and sent
to the senate a bill designed to
stop the flow of public funds to
so-called "sales engineers" by
prohibiting payment of commis
sions or contingent fees in con
nection with the negotiation of
government contracts.
The measure also would make
it illegal for a businessman to be
represented before a government
agency by any person who had
been in federal employ during
the five preceding years.. Viola
tions would be subject to a $5,000
fine, five years in prison or both.
The bill was sent to the floor
by the na'al affairs committee
after a series of hearings dis
closed that many of the "defense
brokers" and sales engineers had
enjoyed profits as high as $1,150
a day, all of it ultimately charged
to the government.
May said he had a list of 20;
"defense brokers who had real
ized commissions totaling almost
$2,000,000 on $16,793,858 worth of
war contracts.
against anti-aircraft and Jap
Hunting planes.
The Catalina is the navy's PBY,
a huge, magnificently durable and
far ranging airplane, ideal for long
patrols and rough landings in
these uneasy waters. But you can't
have everything. They're big and
slow too and big slow airplanes
hundred to a minimum price of ; knew "anything about it knew the
$1.75 per hundred with a 25-cent : Catalinas would have tough going
A large part of the heavy pack
this year is going directly to the
government requirements, all of it
being needed in the war effort, it
was announced.
Picking of the bean crop will be
underway generally the first week
in August. Some gardens will be
gin earlier, but the large group of
picksrs will be needed from about
the first on.
i Truman A. Chase, president of
the bean growers: E. A. McCor
nack, manager of the Eugene Fruit
Growers association; James
Bagan, head of the U. S. employ
ment ofice here; and Mr. Mac
Donald from the agricultural di
vision gave reports at the meeting.
Officers elected are: Truman A.
Chase, president: Roy Coram,
vice-president; Elbert Cox, secretary.
SEE
BIG 'CATS'
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Portland Population
To Be 650,000 in '43
Price Regulations
To Be Meet Subject
Richard G. Montgomery of
Portland, state president of the
Office of Price administration,
and other OPA officials will ex
plain details of the general maxi-
Mtnr at the
university A total mum Price regulations to cham
3 had registered at the close i er ' commerce secretaries of the
..business Monrtav ,-.fS Iix western Oregon counties at a
Morse Sees Drastic
Action on Strikes
WASHINGTON, July 21 M
Wayne L: Morse of the war labor
board asserted today that if labor
failed to settle its own jurisdic
tional controversies and insisted
PORTLAND, Ore., July 21 iP)
Portland's population will be
650,000 by next February, Wil
liam A. Bowes, city commissioner
of public works, estimated today
on the basis of U. S. employment
service predictions of future labor
needs.
On July 1, 62.609 workers were
employed in strictly war produc
tion work in Portland area plants,
the employment service reported.
These-plants will require an addi
tional 153,664 workers by Feb. 1,
the service continued, and 90 per
cent of them will have to be re-
Two Seamen Rescued,
Set Adrift by U-Boat
By the Associated Press
Two young seamen from a
United States cargo ship,' the
torpedoing of which was an
nounced Tuesday by the navy,
told a story of being taken aboard
the attacking U-boat and later
being put afloat in a lifeboat.
Cornelius F. O'Connor, 19, of
Norfolk, Va., said the submarine
was forced to crash-dive to es
cape navy planes shortly after it
took him and Raymond Smithson,
24, of Galveston, Tcx aboard.
Their ship was sunk June 3 in
the Caribbean, the navy an
nounced, with 15 seamen still
missing from a 45-man crew.
The sinking boosted to 391 the
unofficial Associated Press tabu
lation of United' Nations' and
neutral merchant vessels lost in
the western Atlantic since Pearl
Harbor.
The seamen when put afloat
were stocked with water and
hardtack. The hardtack, they said,
was "unfit to feed a dog."
50 Axis Planes
Destroyed on
Ground by RAF
Axis-Held Port
Blasted By Methodical
English Pounding
CAIRO. July 21. A) The
third and heaviest naval bombard-!
ment of the axis-held port of j
Matruh in three nights, and two'
aerial assaults which destroyed
more than 50 axis planes on the
ground in a single day were re-1
ported by the British today, alii
part of a determined campaign to!
destroy the enemy's African air
force and ruin his reinforcement
efforts.
Buildings, jetties, schooners and
other craft in harbor at Matruh j
105 miles behind the German-Ital-
ian lines were hit by the naval
shells early Monday morning. Ex
plosions could be heard for miles, j
Harbor Blasted ,
Salvo after salvo covered the
entire harbor and the adjoining!
shore in a well-defined geometric i
pattern. j
One small oil tanker was seen
to have sunk, either in this bom-j
bardment or in those on the two
previous nights, naval officers
said. I
British planes scored their
smashing blows yesterday at El !
Daba and Fuka, 25 and 60 miles
respectively behind the lines. The
raids were the second and third
in two days. j
Other long-range fighters
Klactcrl nvii Hnr!Tf.c nnrthf.net rtf i
Sidi Barrani, 185 miles behind the Andrew jacKson MiRgins, New cr
imes. Land operations on the 'eans shipbuilder who wants to
Vontion frnnt Wr. rnnfinorl In Start maSS production Of hUgh tly-
pairols while the British concen- inK boats, charged today that his
tratAH nn ann hilatirm nf M.irShril U IM S K'nunti ill Uimu
going liDerxy snips was ranccuca
because of the "short-sightedness"
of $l-a-year federal officials.
Meanwhile further support de
veloped at the capital for plans to
mass produce aircraft, modeled
after the huge Glenn L. Martin
flying boat "Mars," at his New
Orleans plant.
An urccnt call to Lane county Rep. John M. Vorys, R., O., urg-
housewives, to save their kitchen i ed that "immediate and careful
fat and creases and to take them consideration" be given to Higgms'
to their butchers for use in the ; proposals. He said on the house
war program, was made Tuesday , floor that while "these boats will
by Judd Stauffcr, chairman of the , be expensive to build, the speed j
local salvage campaign. ana economy in oasing mem ior
Kitchen fats are seriously need- use a big argument in their
cd for extraction nf glycerine, a favor."
necessary product for the manli-l Higgins said before he left New
fscture of shells to smash the axis, I Orleans last night that he planned
Mr. Stauffer said. Houeswives i to confer here with President
255 'w the sam, ! fecial meeting planned for the
i parlor of the Eugene hotel Thurs-
f!mination f. . ,. . M8 morning at 10. it was an-
tr helH ii , "lc,llr5 ses-i nounced Tuesday by Fred Brenne,
"X !turt... K- A total Eugene chamber secretary.
,.nu tended, a de- On hand for the event tn aid
"fgistraf" Crnt fr0m Iast Mr- Montgomery in 'his dclinea-
h, r iion oi urA aims ana powers win wiivmic, wvj mc juno-
' u3h L. Plarlr J: ... . .. K t it j fj j: ... - .u - rlitinnal 4icnntf nr u'hat thev
r-. unecwr or the I wc lunmun, aun-iui ui iiic ...... ........ w
KSSirm - -i .1. . .. I 1 rmi r: 1 . .1 : 1 Bia o.-,- Ihnv ctmnlv hat tn
. mm mat the in- wr 01 lice naving juriMiii- , v. , ....... ..... ...
"'ration for the nost "n
on wartime work stoppages, the crunea from outside areas,
public would take drastic action Bowes said that on an average
"even to the applications of the I basis. 97,000 of the new workers
laws of treason if necessary. wouid be married and have fam-
"The public is not being taken jjes
care of in these jurisdictional dis- "
putes," said Morse, University of
Oregon law school dean who is j
one of the four representatives of j
the public on the 12-man board. 1
"As we go further and further I
into this war it becomes clearer I
and clearer that we cannot permit
any stoppages of work, I don't
care whether they are over juris'
Thermometer Climbs
To 92 Degrees Sunday
Preventing Eugeneans from
believing summer was over
because of rain and so forth
last week the thermometer
gave notice Sunday the season
was only beginning when it
shot up to nearly 92 degrees.
The official reading was 91.7
degrees, reports the U. S. wea
ther bureau at the airport, but
such fractions are counted as a
whole. Therefore, the record will
show the day to have a maxi
mum of 92 degrees.
Bulletin! ;
WASHINGTON, July it '
The navy announced today that
I'nitrd States submarines had sunk
three more Japanese destroyers in
the vicinity of Kiska, In the
Aleutians.
This brought to total of 18 the
Japanese warships announred by
army and navy sources as sunk or
damaged In the Aleutian activities. !
The navy communique added
that several air attacks atainst
The enemy-orcuplcd Aleutian Is-:
lands had been carried out through j
combined efforts of the United i
States army and navy airrraft.
The communique. No. 99, said: I
"North Pacific area:
"1 United States submarines
have sunk three Japanese destroy
ers In the vicinity of Kiska In the
Aleutians.
"2. The sinkings are in addition
to those previously announced In
navy department communiques.
"3. Several air attacks against
enemy occupied Kiska Island have
been made recently by long range
army bombers. These attacks have
centered In the enemy encamp
ment at Kiska and on ships In
Kiska harbor. It has been Impos
sible to observe and appraise the
results of these raids.
"4.1'nited States army and navy
airrraft are continuing Joint op
erations against the enemy forces
occupying islands In the western
Aleutians."
'Air Freighters'
Much Discussed
WASHINGTON. July 21.tU.RV
Erwin Rommel's air force.
Housewives Urged
To Save Grease
anxious to participate in the cam
paign should put their clean.
strained, and clear fats (free from
water) into a two-pound coffee
can and deliver it to their butch
er on Mondays, Tuesdays, or Wed
nesdays. The butcher will pay the
housewives four cents per pound,
and in turn sell it to the salvage
committee for five cents per
pound, or one cent for handling.
Butchers and housewives of the
Lane district, for the most part,
will shortly receive detailed infor
mation of the drive, which is the
first part of the current "Butcher
and Bolt" campaign to reclaim fat
and steel products from "Amer
ica's mine above the earth."
Roosevelt and with Henry J. Kai
ser, of Oregon. Kaiser suggested
Sunday that a fleet nf huge flying
boats be built to transport men
and supplies tn all parts ot the
world.
The flying boat proposal has
touched off a great, new contro
versy here. As yet there is official
silence Vin the plan, but officials
SEE FLYING STORY
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Rumors of Lack of Firemen
Dispelled by City Officials
Like a fifth column whisper limits have been altered to take
campaign, rumors that the Eugene i in a much larger group of appli
fire department has lost so much 1 cants. Now, any male in sound
of its personnel it would be unable, health, who is betwepn the acc nf
. l . Ttnn IHIH nn.a rnnul inn nf lha i SIOH. ! . - .. . : . V- - , . I 1 ,o I . - . . ,
Tn..,j 1 " uie post . f" ... ..... . . ,, l muse lire hhe urai :o ana 1.1 years, nas a gooa cnance
due tr.5 i.. inv n...ie.n rknffnn Mn.,nt; 'And if nur nlras to Mr. Green t . . ... .
lent nf j'"' 10 me en- ,? -""""-. " ;,,," . t ,,f,,.in. 1 running inrougn tugene ine iasi vi noiaining a position in tne dc- ,
EAin. 7w ,u"rn in classes memoers oi nis ouice. rtiicr . ... .. ...... y ; two weeks. . I partment. I
1 them for enlistment in , ,he meeting, the chamber of com- to Set them to setttle i he dis- The ,h(, mMpT Lke a busj Mayor Large
J?. wrve officer nm. I " secretaries will attend a pules. I haven t any doubt but .. I )d . - H'
nKlTXZ 'but : ' of .questions presented to city j ha, found it necessary to alter the
...ill v.-l. ... in .h,lM. .et. Officials.
I . . ' tlements we decree,
Non-Stop RAF Bomb
Attack Continues
41 Japanese Planes
In Port Moresby Raid
KHore-m- . lera,ea Pro-pr-nedical
training.
:t lift
teX"'.1 V bt 30 feet
M to tail ,Trm trom the
'lely fn . d ' P
i "treme,y large
'inl e head were
intact. e ln
e those of
'tempting into.
luncheon In the hotel.
Mountain States Power
Has Revenue Decrease
PORTLAND, July GWs WAAC Wants
urviw.c Ul .Ui.l Jll IKI
income of the Mountain States TOU TOCDIISt
Power company for the year end
ed May 31, was reported today in
a letter issued by the company.
The net income of the com
pany up to May 31, 1942, was
$6Sfi.588.47 compared with $691.
609.B8 the previous year, and op
erating expenses increased to $2.
621,758.69 from $2,473,578.79 in
the same period, the letter said,
attributing the increased expense
to additional power purchases.
! prc-requisites for employment in
! First, there is a shorts up of Der- I the face of the war. He invited all
sonnel. But it is not serious. Tues- qualified men who would be in
day afternoon, one of the two! terested in a fire department posi-i
vacancies in the department was tion to apply to the city recorder's :
filled. Another was to be !:!led office. ;
before Wednesday, so that a full j An additional relaxation of the
the WAAC wants
FORMER EDITOR IN NAVY
PORTLAND. Julv 21
Ensign Philip N. Bladine. former
editor of the McMinnville Tele-1
phone Register, assumed duties as 1
navy public relations officer fori
Oregon yesterday.
Girls,
you:
The local army recruiting
office Tuesday put out its first
call to jeeruit girls and wo
men for the women's army
auxiliary corps, which will act
as an asenry to give women
important positions so that men
may be released for service on
the fighting fronts.
Prime qualifications are that
women be between 21 and 45
years, in good health, and with
n o deptndents. Application
blanks and full information
may be obtained by calling at
10 Post Office building, Wil
lamette itreet at Fifth.
force will be on hand for any
emergency during the remainder
of the week.
Second, there is the prospect
that as many as four more fire
men may be called into the armed
forces. This picture is not as
bright as it could be, but it is not
l hopeless situation. Mayor Elisha
Large said. The wages for fire-i
civil service rules governing the
hiring of firemen and policemen
has been made. Formerly It was
required that an r.pplicant be h
resident of the city proper fur et
least six months before he was
eligible for a civil service position.
Now, it is possible for persons liv
ing outside the city to obtain the
positions, provided they move
GENERAL MAC AriTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA,
Tuesday, July 21 (U.Ri Forty-one
Japanese planes attacked Port
Moresby, New Guinea, last Allied
outpost north nf Australia, yes
terday, but caused only light dam-
t nvnnii' T,,t )! isn Th. "Kr 8 United Nation s communi-
swelli'ng British air 'might slasTied """""need today.
ni Nazi, installations on the t i...cn i Twenty-six heavy bombers with
i.,..!.. ,n.t nH the nrin,. in. an escort of 15 Zero fighters,
dustrial targets of northwest Ger- 'wped down on the Port Mores-
many yesterday and last night in "". "' emmmnqu,- 5rtiu.
another demonstration of things ,.'" 'he northwestern sector. Al
to come. . 'lr" activity was limited to recon-
The four-cngined RAF bombers naisancc.
which scattered explosive and in-1
cendiary bombs on the shipyards
and U-bont nests at Vegesack,
Germany, Sunday night had
skimmed In from their nicht's
work onlv a few hours before; By United Press
some 200 Spitfire fighters roared, Rl'SSIA Germans report pow
.across the English channel. Cr'"' attacks from three directions
Ranging up the coast from Le launched against the Caucasus
Havre with American F.agle gateway city of Rostov which is
squadron pilots manning some of "aflame." Nazi column pushes
the planes, the Spitfire squadrons ' southeastward to within 85 miles
swooped down on military targets of Stalingrad. Russians redouble
is far north as Le Treport. They I counterattacks In Voronezh sector,
f hot up the radio m.ists at Fecamp, BRITAIN American and Brit
iittacked gun posts and lactones, ish leaders, including Prime Min-
. Ister Winston Churchill, recon-
I.F.GION MAN CALLED ! sidcr possibility of opening second
PORTLAND, July 21 -iP) ; front to relieve Russians; Amer-
Peril to Rostov,
Stalingrad
Increases Daily
Germans Claim Key
City Already In Flames,
Under German Assault
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, July 21 P The
forward wall of German tanks
and motorized infantry pushed
southeast of Voroshilovgrad to
ward Rostov- today down the rich
Donets basin coal field region,
left ablaze and wrecked by the
Russians falling back for a new
stand at the northwest gate to the
Caucasus.
At the north of the curving
300-mile battleline Red army for
ces were battling hand to hand
with the Germans on both banks
of the Don river in a fight to
sweep the nazis from the last of
their bridgeheads and trap those
holding on in newly fortified posi
tions between the river and Vor
onezh, 10 miles to the east
Rostov is Goal ...
The Germans apparently wer
massing their forces in the great
grain area between the Donets
and the Don from Boguchar to
south of Millerovoi for an all-out
effort to take Rostov from three)
directions and Stalingrad from
two.
(The German communique said
Rostov already was aflame and
under assault from the west, north
and east, and that German forces
farther north have pushed about
50 miles closer to Stalingrad,
watchdog of the lower Volga).
A dispatch from the Bryansk
front, southwest of Moscow, to the
army paper Red Star said Soviet
bombers made a highly effectivt
attack on a large railway junction
deep in the enemy's rear.. The
airmen said they destroyed 500
railway cars, including 28 carrying
ammunition and 200 loaded with
trucks, and estimated they killed
or wounded more than 1000 Ger
mans. A Moscow radio broadcast said
the Germans were losing 3000 to
4000 men a day on the Voronezh
front alone, and that 3000 Ger
mans were killed in two days of
terrific fighting in a single sector
south of Millerovo.
Red army seizure of the initia
tive in the Voronezh area, how
ever, was accompanied by a fur
thur withdrawal of the Soviet
left flank southeast of Voroshilov
grad to escape encirclement, a
fighting retreat into hilly country
of the lower Donets basin.
Pravda, the communist party
newspaper, said the Russians left
the coal mines of the abandoned
Donets basin region in ruins as
they withdrew to the southeast.
Movements in the battle of
Voronezh were so swift, a dis
patch said, that one Red army
group which had driven back to
the Don plunged across without
waiting for extra support, swim
ming and wading to grapple with
the Germans on the western bank.
The principal crossing still is in
Red army hands, although many
places on both banks have chang-
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PAGE 2
War In Brief
men, ranging from $115 per month within the city limits as soon as
for beginners, to $140 per month I they take up their posts,
for three-year men. are admitted-1 William Nubaum, fire chief,
ly low, he said. Nevertheless, the 'aid that the city has never been
security offered in a fireman's job, in serious danger due to a scarcity
and leisure which gives an appli- oi personnel. He Joined the
cant much time to carry on a study mayor and City Recorder John
program make these Jobs attrac- Field, however, in inviting appli
tn e. I cants to investigate the opportun-
For the duration of the war, age i lues for firemen s Jobs.
George L. Koelin, Portland, com
mander of the Oregon American
Legion in 1336, ill enter active
duty as a m.ijor in the army
quartermaster corps r.cxt Monday.
leans reported favoring action:
British naval units damage and
turn back enemy convoy off
French coast.
EGYPT British aerial attacks
renewed as lull continues in land;
fighting.
C HINA U. S. bombers sink two
Japanese ships on Yangtze; Jap.
RI IIRER TOTAL
WASHINGTON. July 21 0IR1
President Roosevelt annunced to
day that the recent collection anese recapture port of Wenchow
drive brought in 4.-.0.I35 tons of Al'STRALIA Japanese squad-l
scrap rubber hlrh will he added I rons of 41 planes bomb Port,
to lb government stockpile. I Moresby. 1
U. S. Planes Sink
Jap Ships on Yangtze
CHUNGKING. July 21
Fighter-escorted United State!
bombers sank two Japanese ships
yesterday at the Yangtze river
port of Kiukiang, southeast of
Hankow, in a raid which chal
lenged Japan's long-held control
of the air over her waterway
supply route into China.
Not one of the United States
planes was damaged, said a com
munique from the headquarters of
Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. StillwelL
It said the Japanese ships were
of 1.000 to 2,000 tons each.
Presaging an ever-increasing
aerial challenge to the invaders, a
Chinese government spokesman
said the United States would be
asked through Laughlin Currie,
special adviser to President
Roosevelt, for more planes, along
with a "rather long list" of other
military supplies.
Currie returned to China July
18 with a message of undisclosed
contents from President Roosevelt
to Generalissimo Chiang Kai
shek. Gen. Cheng Tseh-Jcn, director
of conscription, said China had
the manpoyer to carry out a plan
for calling up 2.000,000 new
soldiers a year for the next threa
years tn put those arms, and
others of her own production, to
uit against the JapancTe