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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
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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
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