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Newspaper Page Text1M1 blY EDITION CITY EDITION TWO SECTIONS-1J PAGES LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. Uerson Says y Prices jlllncreasing Lis Needed To Lent Possioie w Cent Rise w-TnV. Aug. 2!-u CTWminiitrator Leon Hend" FJZn ppiid Pressure Ifmpaign for greater con F..l nrires by warning ?m of uncontrolled food ipnco . current L to n . LTpercent more for im-C-t foodstuffs a year from EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21. 1942 ON STREETS 3c; TJEWS STANDS 5e NO. 52 Lumber Workers Deemed Essential To War, Will Be Deferred Say Officials Men employed in the logging and lumber industry have the same rights for deferment from the draft as workers in the shipyards, airplane plants and other war industries because logging and mill work are considered essential to the war effort, L. C. Stoll. state director of the U. S. employment service, told a group of 60 Willamette Valley lumber operat ors Friday morning in a meeting at the Osburn hotel This means that if proper pa- More Changes In WPB Urged WASHINGTON, Aug. pers are filled out by employers, showing that a man is essential to the operation of their logging operations or mills, deferment will be granted to permit the men to continue their jobs. However, it was explained that a man must stay with the lob he ii ,r. now holds in the lumber industry. Blaming "certain dollar-a-year .. .,., ' ,,! ' . .ffect of increases or mis v wi kind of work, he immediately be- ! ..,., family for shortages of critical war ma- n.n. . .. I .Xw iMterial. CIO members of WPB's : " lur " arau ca"' "Ti would Thave a labor advisory committee called ...ALn, peaking at the meeting V-.h. kitchen even if, upon chairman Donald M. Nelson " "'cRannac. rep. Ameocaini Landing on Gilbert Islands Reported by Nipponese L ' ' rlV-(' 'VSri -.1 Engagement Mi 'Commando Th Observers Belie nurfm holding the line a h.. set for the things mpowered to control." cited fipir released by the , ctatist cs which j 01 " , . Li tot prices of uncontrolled foods ejiciu. ....... Ictkis pnee cuim". - a siaiuiuij k1 " i ceilings on farm com- K, prices until they have L 110 per cent of parity 's per cent dciwccu uu..c t'i July 15. The same items .(corded a 4.8 per cent ad- in the previous month. a price rises, Henderson ire "drawing a rf.iimifnt was regarded as Ei for public support in his ipirat the congressional bloc nd farm organizations oirceeded in writing the per cent of parity limitation lie price coniroi jaw. Irftary of Agriculture ciauae ckard already had Been won n Henderson's view, at least tt Ke mid in a speech Wed- ij night that the time had ! when the 110 per cent pro t ihould be repealed in favor 10 per cent parity. inHav for ihoir dismissal riming me war department As WPB officials disclosed that 17shln,".n- D; c-Hf ' ting as Nelson had directed a review of '""f " l'!'ct m the lumbenn ln personncl and elimination of exec- dus,ry ,or the war department, utives considered unsuitcd to their i statfment Presented jobs, the advisory committee's' Presented to the meeting was a three CIO members made public joint statement from Col. E. V. a resolution protesting that the wton. director of selective serv war effort was "being paralyzed" ,ce ln Oregon, and Mr. Stoll. The as a result of inefficient nlan-1 statement, which is to be in the nine. The petition was signed by Clin ton Golden, assistant to the presi- form of a poster: "Attention loggers and sawmill workers: The war manpower No Word On Attack Given By U.S. Navy AMERICAN SOLDIERS AGAIN ON FRENCH SOIL IN COMMANDO RAID Air view of the harbor at Dieppe, on dent of the United Steel Workers commission has just issued a list I of America: John Green, presi- iof essential activities. Your Job is I of marine and shipbuilding work-1 "Forestry, logging and lum- ,he French Channel coast, where United States, Canadian, British and Free French Commandos carried out the biggest ers of America, and Walter Reu- i bering: Timber tracts, logging 'sucn rad of the war. Is was the first time Yankee fighting troops had gone into action on French soil since 1918. ther, vice-president of the United camps, sawmills and veneer, lath, Automobile and Aircraft Work- shingle, cooperage stock, planing, ; a ers of America. box and plywood mills, fire Pre- Mjll I fACCinfl "Every effort to expand steel vention, pest control, forest nur- HQx vIvJjIIIU Production facilities anH n nun series, and reforestation services. v Engagement Might Be " rust,' eve By ROGER D. GREENE (Associated Press War Editor) The Japanese enemy reported today a landing attack by United States forces on Makin island in the Gilberts, 2,400 miles from Hawaii, and the wording of the communique amused speculation that the action had been a task force raid in strength. Imperial Japanese headquarters said the landing was made by about 200 troops four days ago and that they were "completely repelled" by the Japanese garrison. This, for maximum utilization of present 1 "This means that the federal steel production facilities," the government considers that loggers resolution asserted, "has been ani sawmill workers are employ- Diockea by vested interests in the ea ln an essenual war industry. steel Industry. ee Stars To Be e For Bond Rally It one itar but three Holly- headliners Herbert Mar Joan Leslie, and Walter l-will visit Eugene for six a on Thursday, Sept. 3, to sell find entertain residents at fly of events being plan- a Be stars' Honor. fcouncement of the stars' n came Friday morning from otonneiL manager of the fnald theater, who had previ- rnreaiea mat at least one toiH pay Eugene a patriotic Ihe Sept 3 events are part "Stars Over America" cam- t bj which the motion picture r-iet ol the nation plan to tds amounting to at least a dollars. rrt Marshall, who for more 11 jean has played leadine COUntletS mmri tiMrnina. or!d war veteran. Hi first :mcei in America were on Enndway stage. Among his rales have been as father 'na Durbin in "Mad About Greer Carson's philander saband in "When Ladies L d husband to Bette Davis urue Foxes.' "lie first flashed to fame the Dlavri r: r f-7 sweetheart in "Sergeant She was seen here re- coed in "The Male ltt STARS STORY AGE Z rniamr in ,u. .i .. . . . I UIC SnaVa U'AliM nlrAH .'anAn ' Th. V,' .Bonn.ev,U T" drafting of men with.de- oln tlOTino .... FUt h . 1 pendente, he said, would follow " , rJ when it was limits ,!. In- i (UP) President Getulio Vargas to- truh and grass fire, I 1. Single men with secondary I dy tc Brazil's first reprisal ac- vimiinnniie j . . . : tifin nffaiiui I irminv tor me inr- nun onxnaenu. sucn as agea or crip-1 t-. constant smarrl i 9 irriA m t.,ith na rhll- zi ian coastwise vessels, oy oraer-1 - uisu." h..uiiii. vu.u.n 7 lince th. ;..!?r,. i , 2- Mamcd men W1,h n0 Ch" , .hnnt ton German, held in 1 n1 othr P" ttie unit which raided Dieppe). ! th trails h., w 7 dependents, su 1 and . ' bWn mde Pled relatives. ,n i constant miarrf i t f ij . Lj-p-since the outbreak 'dren. r Celt depth of th k Married men witn cnuaren. ' of ir. , '""u-ands of to "r in the r:re On.i u-.n: "H. The men Sfil! Guard wins Fill Fire "wnen spent another ten Slav Patriots Wreck Express Train, Kill 21 LONDON, Aug. 21. W A fresh wave of sabotage by Yugo slav patriots was climaxed Satur day by wrecking the Zagreb-Belgrade express train, with 21 per sons killed and 32 injured, Yugo slav sources reported today. The German field commandant at Nis, named Von Bothmcr, of fered rewards for arrests of per sons who recently cut the Belgrade-Salonika railroad at three points, they said. The report added that Serbian villages near the scene had been "severely punished" and two Bul garian regiments were coming to the area north of Nis in search of Chetnik forces. The Vichy radio said the wreck Saturday occurred 40 miles south east of Zagreb. Yugoslav sources In the middle east said Croat guerillas also had blocked rail traffic between Zag reb and the Italian border for two weeks. It means that your 'government wants each of you to remain on lyour present Job in the mill or jcamp. "The logging and lumber indus try is doing most vital work for the war effort. The workers will I be given the same deferment rights as those accorded employes in any other essential war indus try. It is a patriotic duty of all '. employes, whether loggers or mill I men. to remain on their present I jobs.'' Of Don Smashed Use Of Parachute Troops, I Dive Bombers Would Have Made Raid More Successful MOSCOW, Friday. Aug. 21 (U.R) German forces have stormed across the Don northwest of Stal- By EDWARD W. BEATTIE LONDON, Aug. 21 (UP) A detailed study of the Dieppe inerad for the second time within i raid in preparation for more bin-scale attacks on the continent 24 hours, the Soviet high command convinced many observers today that the Commandos would have achieved a smashing victory instead of a moderate suc cess if they had employed dive bombers and parachutists. Although the nine-hour aitacK War In Brief announced today, and Russian de fenders of the east bank, after wiping out the first band, "al most completely destroyed" the 3CHJI1U. , A, the battle of the Don-Cau- ' ' "T . T. L ' . , constituted the hardest-hitting, Call Of 3-A Men May Come In November Ihursdi J guarding against EVANSTON, 111.. Aug. 21 U. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service director, said today that "on the basis of present factors" draft boards "might" begin calling men with dependent wives In November. Hershey made the statement while elaborating on a speech he had made earlier. He declined to estimate how ever, when married men with children would be called. He gave only a general defini tion of "the present factors" which would determine when married men would be called. He said this depended, among other things, on the army's need for men, and the number who enlist in the navy, marines and coast guard. Men whose wives work, he said, WMC Moves To Keep Miners On Vital Jobs WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt announced today a program designed to keep miners of metals vitally needed for war production on their jobs by mak ing the appeal of the Jobs "more nearly comparable with those in other war industries." He said the program would also include steps to recruit and train more miners through the U. S. employment service facilities and to prevent contractors from "pir ating" metals miners for jobs in war plants. McNutt reported these actions to make metal miners jobs more attractive: 1. The war labor board, now considering the question of in creased wages for mine workers. has made arrangements for "early and combined action on 'e large ! number of non-ferrous mine cases j now before it and for retroactive payments of any wage increase which may result." 2. The selective service system is advising its local boards to con aider occupational deferments for mine workers. 3. Tire rationing boards have been asked to give special consid eration to transportation require ments by mine workers between their homes and jobs. casus flared to new intensity, the Germans were reported attacking heavily on both wings of the pinc ers drive against Stalingrad, and admittedly scored new gains south of Krasnodar above the Novorossisk naval base and south east of Pyatigorsk on the road to the Grozny oil fields. The midnight communique of the high command reported fierce end bloody battles along he Don southeast of Kletskaya, where "considerable forces" of Germans strove to smash across toward Stalingrad. Equally savage strug gles raged northeast of Kotelni kovski, it said, and at one point the Germans were thrown back after wedging Into the Soviet posi tions. Twelve hours earlier the high command had announced the first German crossing ot the Don loop northwest of Stalingrad, and said the force was '"annihilated." Re vealing the second crossing, it said Soviet tanks and infantry "almost completely destroyed" the group. It was unclear whether the Ger mans retained a toehold on the east bank of the river a scant 40 to 50 miles from Stalingrad. "Southeast of Kletskaya, Soviet unite fought fierce battles with considerable forces of the enemy aiming to cross the Don," the com munique said. U. S. Navy Casualties Now Total 12,487 by the British, an analysis ot the raid revealed that its success was limited,,, particularly., because, ot amea losses. .. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (U.B Strong Polnte Dangerous The navy today added 130 names Dive-bombers which constitute j to its casualty lists, raising the one of the chief offensive weapons total of casualties among the U. S. of the Germans would have been ! naval forces since Dec. 7 to 12,487. highly effective against some Gcr-1 The totals by categories now man strongpointe along the six stands: Dead 3.M6; wounded Brazil Holds 100 Axis Hostages As Reprisal Diepe beaches where the raiders landed, it was said. It was these strongpointe that accounted for a large proportion of the allied casualties. Observers also pointed out that parachutists dropped around Ger man artillery batteries back from the beach could have taken the gun crews by surprise and could have seized control of bridges and junctions, preventing the enemy from rushing up reinforcements to the beach. Despite the deficiencies, how ever, all observers described the Dieppe raid as a worthwhile con tribution to preparations for the ultimate offensive that will carry the war back to the continent. Fortresses Vital United States army Flying Fort ress raids on German occupied territory emerged as a vitally im portant feature of the Dieppe raid and as a portent of new, early at tacks on the French invasion coast. Allied quarters, pointing out the role of the giant bombers in the "second front rehearsal" attack on Dieppe, said they were the greatest threat to the German; after the l.OOO.scale plane raids of the Royal Air force. Fortresse In a raid which was clearly a follow-up of the Dieppe operation and a hint at other. bigger combined operations made Chinese Recapture Kwangfeng From Japs CHUNGKING, Aug. 21. OP) An official Chinese military report today said Chinese forces had re captured Kwangfeng, which, the TBnsn. V. n 1 1 . of their most powerful strongholds i 8 deva5tatin8 t,at'1 yesterday on j Two of the plane's engines were ; '' Premier Joseph Stalin. n.l. itdu VHIHI . d-JI JITTIIB. 1 1 WTTTU, I - - 500 Allied Fighter Planes Raid France 944; missing 7,947. Additions an nounced today included &5 dead, two wounded, and 73 missing. Covering personnel of the navy, marine corps and coast guard, the preponderant share of the casual ties announced today resulted "from direct action with the en emy." Natural deaths or accidents not connected with operations against the enemy were not in cluded. . The navy pointed out that some of those classed as "missing may have been rescued at sea and land ed at isolated spots. Flying Fortresses Shoot Down Six Nazi Fighters LONDON, Aug. 21 ') Six of German's new Focke-Wulfe 190 fighters were destroyed or dam aged over the North sea today by a flight of eleven U. S. army Fly ing Fortresses, U. S. army head quarters in Britain announced. The 20-minute battle, in which one Fortress was damaged heavi ly, started when 20 to 23 of the speedy German fighters swarmed to attack the American planes, a communique said. The damaged Fortress returned to its base. An enemy shell killed the co-pilot and injured the pilot. By UNITED PRESS TOKYO American troops land on Makin, Gilbert Islands; force estimated at 200 men being "driven back"; American marines still on Solomons. MELBOURNE Australia's hopes for success of Solomons at tack rising; allied bombers attack Timor island again. MOSCOW Germans drive across Don. 40 miles west of Volga, but most of the Nails are wiped out and remainder forced to with draw; Nazi attacks toward Stalin grad and into Caucasus progress ing. . LONDON .Experts believe dive bombers and parachutists would have widened allied success at Dieppe; Flying Fortresses revealed in major bombardment role around Dieppe. r WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 OP) The navy said today tnat "any comment that may be made on the Japanese reports of onera- tions at Makin island will be made by the commander in chief of the Pacific fleet." Makin, in the Gilbert island group, is ln the area under the supreme command of Admiral Chester W. Nimlti, Pacific fleet commander. The navy here declined to amplify in any way its reference to Nimltz of all inquiries about Makin. Tokyo has reported that 200 American troops effected a landing on the Japanese-held Is land Aug. 17, but were repulsed. Vichy Says 3,500 Allies Killed At Dieppe VICHY. Aug. 21. (VP) Fernand De Brinon, Vichy representative in Paris, told a French cabinet meet ing today that the Allies lost 3.900 men killed and 1,800 captured at Dieppe Wednesday. The majority were Canadians, with a few De Gaulle French, De Brinon said. He came here to give the German report on the coastal raid. The German high command gave no figures on Allied casualties but said 2.095 prisoners were taken. (There was no confirmation from any Allied source of either claim.) On the second day after the raid, Vichy still was pouring out ac counts and explanations and hold ing press conferences on the sub ject, which continued to occupy the main place in all French news papers. The conferences were to support the official position, taken since yesterday afternoon, that the land ing really was an effort to start a second front which failed after "ten months of careful prepara tion." There was a seeming contradic tion of a previous assertion that it was a "hastily improvised" re sponse to an ultimatum from Rus- hnwever, was the usual Japanese formula for beating the opponent to announcement ot a Japanese reverse. Meanwhile a British radio re port said American Flying Fort resses had made a large-scale at tack on Japanese. warships off th Solomon Islands. However, this report had received no elaboration after several hours and it appear ed likely it was merely a restate ment of General MacArthur communique of Thursday, an nouncing such an attack on enemy naval unite off Faisl, at the north ern tip of the Solomons. Seized by the Japanese at the outset of the war, the former SEE GILBERTS STOEY PAGE 1 Inspectors To See Truck Body Model Captain H. R. Jacobson and Capt. Racoosin, Detroit inspectors for the U. S. motor transport serv ice, and three engineers from their department will be ln Eugene Sat urday to make a final inspection of the new truck body model, which the Lane county war indus tries pool is to manufacture, ac cording to Fred Brenne, secretary of the Eugene chamber of com merce, who has been devoting part of his time to the war pool pro gram. Final approval by this group'of men will be the go-ahead signal for construction ot 500 of the truck bodies, to be used by the U. S. army. The three engineers will also in spect the plant facilities of th pool, Mr. Brenne said. in Kiangsi province. It was stated the recapture had dispelled the threat of the first overland Japanese Invasion of Fu kien province. The Chinese were said to have retaken the city yesterday morn ing after bypassing it In the Kiangsi campaign in which they destroyed. 'Be Strong In The Lord' Padre Told Commandos 'Giving Minor Liquor Brings Jail Sentence i nr,ii ho.ti.cr-. for 11 nr7,l,n. Japanese me control or a eo-mile detained by the Germans in Com-; :rn rviangsi rau- piegne, France. j ro ' The Germans had been ready to' sail for Lisbon on the Brazilian Band Concert BeQtnS diplomatic steamers Bage and . . .. . B Cuayaba together with about 40 At O P. M. In Pork rimlnmatji hearirtl bv the former! German and Italian ambassadors. I The regular concert of the Eu Kurt Prefuffer and Ugo Sola, and gene municipal band will be given fol- it,...T"'r -"4 ire next ht 4k. . ''re burn tti d.- - cn.;nn(i.M twistant rruard sentenced by Judge John Bryson Nicholas Horthy, Jr., lormer Hun- '""7. " " '- P" of the Eugene justice court Friday ganan minister. to six months in jail on a charge The departure of the two ships visor of music in the Eugene pub- of giving liquor to a minor. The had been held up by government i.c jenorus uei conauc.or i,. . i j tu.t v.. .,,.. an ..-tinn Mondav night while offici-l Mr. Orme has chosen tn days of the sentence and then a Is studied reprisal action for mellowing program: placed on parole tor a year. isinKings. Gage was found guilty by a Jury uniy me aipiomau now win u permittea lo leave unaer uie var gas order. It was believed that the Ger man ordered to remain In Brazil will be formed Into labor bat- t" rM of the fun Air Raid 3nuna C; 1 al- 14- Thursday afternoon. It was leged that he gave beer to a i year-old girl on July 19. Notice of appeal to the circuit 'court rm fill hv r.aoii immed-. lately after sentence was pro-, talions to work in the interior of The Peerless March" by Huff; "Egyptian Ballet" Luigini; "Em peror Waltz," Strauss; "Strike up the Band," Gershwin: "Barber of Seville," Rnini: "When Day Is Done." Katvher; "The Man I Love." Grhwin; "Stout-Hearted Men." Romberg: Star fTh authni nf iYim follnwln coast. The first British Com-; By BOB BOWMAN ZrVr V"" T.C'T ' . ''c' iU"' 't 'rom the Commandos. ri . , nd """ "objective attained -LONDON, Aug. 21. UThe co..te batteries wiped out." padre called the men in the tank-1 Machine gun and artillery on landing boat about him while they; ,hore roared and chattered, and still could see the dark English wn,n AKr,oh, rRrn- the batteries quay behind them. aiart,wt inkhms .h-n. n,,r ka. i Standing in the bow in front of; rw ,..j,. ..,,, ,..i.j , Flying Fortresses which attacked ; a tank, he read the sixth chapter : ,nd we w,jt(.d fnr ordpr, t0 inl r"llw" J""1" Amiens In their j of Ephesians, holding his Bible af!,n at another beach, foufi lhrd foray of the week against oc- in otir nana na a msniigm in Focke-Wulfs dived at us, but two "" " the other. went down in flames. Again we! Tn L ',r ministry revealed, Then he prayed, the last prayer Ioun() it impossible to get 10 uie i """nwhllc. that the Germans some aboard would ever hear. j beach and were ordered to retire 1 """1 UP " ln plane reinforce Most of the men aboard they ju,t thpn we ,lw one of 'menti they could muster in west were members of the Calgary :mo,t g,n,ni ,jghts of the whole! m Europe for the Dieppe battle. lana oroppro ni ro nrrp as uie action. A British ship sailed al-l"1" lnr' w're m ' strong Al- LONDON, Aug. 21. U American and British planes. striking nut in the greatest force ever seen over western Europe in daylight, smashed again this eve ning at the German defenses near Dieppe, scene of Wednesday's sec ond front rehearsal battle that cost the Germans 273 planes destroyed or damaged. Today's raiders, .VM) strong. In cluded fighter-escorted American boat ploughed on toward Dieppe. They were awakened Just be fore dawn by rumbling explosions on the French coast. The explo sions were of bombs dropped by It was still most Into the mouth of Dieppe 1"d 'nrmation Including, Czech Spangled the Royal Air fore. harbor and lay there 4 minutes blasting away with all guns. Houses frumbled. We could see BEE COMMANDO STORY FAGE S Norwegian. Fighting French and Polish fliers as well as British Imperils and Americans who ran up an Impressive victory margin despite losing 91 of their own Sa lt's The Truth! 5:00 P. M. Saturday (NOT 11:00 a, m.) Is the Deadline For SUNDAY Want-Ads DON'T BE SHY COME IN AND TRY OUR 7 TIMES WANT-AD DEFT. W-tlesr signal I Banner.- 1 dark. nounced. the country, craft.