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Newspaper Page Textk EDITION CITY EDITION LANE COUNT HOME NEWSPAPER. TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1942 ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS So NO. 113 Allied Offensive Near, Says Smuts; McNutt to Ask 'National Service srs . trom nonoimu to aan rrancisco. p Collection Decrease bl-time low" for scrap col- since the Lane county Eugene Tuesday, when 1050 pounds were weighed . I I . as revealed Wednesday 1 1 h. Tuesday's fimire Is the m any day during the n. and it indicates a pos- j temporary "slacking up" ptary contributions, he fcad a very successful the city Sunday," Mr. said, "but a irreat many leem to believe that the ps I 'clean up' and that i rest on their laurels, e is going to continue as there's a war on. The P'ates can't fight a win- j Monday. from beinff rparhni pons throughout the coun- f'n, are being delayed by h undertaken by . many Sidents, who leave ihir narrow anrt man. ;.-.. fie roads where large N It impossible to go. f.tnbutors of machinery, ri, will hav t 4-1.. aP to arterial anri fttw Mi and to central points P'ns to be picked up by I" available. y "wage this m,ans " IntenriM f E SCRAP STORY f ; OriWng Less, 9 More, MptPr Ffs Indicate ther 'mng kit : "t"aln why 'month Vnty Ird. "urer A. E. l""tmniMK FW to ri -V?1 tor WT 'th "-jinoer, 1941, F! Flip te.nc,',m7T,- WS?.h!- .". city" F ch,;-Mpi" re- munrji , ' 1 which candidate Raid festal "t raid KZ- 'on, .1,,,,. "Mr tift,,!. wis 5 f. Rwra' IRINES MOVE UP TO ATTACK JAPS ON GUADALCANAL . fcf Guadalcanal island to get into position to attack Jap Yank Airman Answers Kiska Radio 'Ultimatum' With Blast Of Cannon-Fire For Japs HEADQUARTERS, Alaska (UP) Have a laugh with American pilots on the JaDanese soldiers defendir.tr Kiska island. .' ' F (toil 1IIUI1UI UKtl Wd l- I i ,. , . ,. ... . it the federal salvage , soldiers defending Kiska island, i iimnpr i nmirmtinn ,. ! VV MrfrflVII To Meet in Portland PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 21. M Headquarters for the Pacific Coast lumber commission, the fed eral agency controlling wages and working conditions for 150,000 woods and sawmill workers in five western states, is now in Portland. Thomas F. Neblett opened of fices yesterday and said hearings on wage-hour cases started re cently in Seattle would be resumed nie u tney dont have ihe first four cases scheduled armament and ammuni. i for comDletion invnlvp 70.000 tthey can't havt arma- ! workers in the Douglas fir indus ammunition without an ! try' Neblett said. amount of scran to1 1 nomas Tongue, formerly of pre it with." He pointed Hillsboro, Ore., and a University fount? quota of 7000 tons I? reSn graduate, recently with me wdgc-jiour aivision or ine de partment of labor in Seattle, is Neblett's assistant. Sfrider Construction Bans Made by Nelson WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the war production board annodnced today he would limit government of : construction to projects "directly 1 i KCOnlial" 1 .U. q , 'rraP campaign I Nelson notified the heads of r.vm at . "".-vuiiK gvjYcniiiiciuai agencies max I aid O'burn, Mr. ; he had given instructions to re- atien 5 ,h0!:e '"- 1 voke Prior'ty assistance to a large " " are E1 C. PaDe. ! Part of non-mllitarv rnnstnintinn or me leaeral government, and said a review now was under way of all military projects of the army, navy, and maritime com mission, .with the same end in view. "As things now stand," Nelson said, "facilities and construction, including any projects not related to the war effort, programs for 1943, with the carryover of un completed 1942 projects will ab sorb between one-fifth and one fourth of the total war effort." New York Times Writer Killed GENERAL ' MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS. AUSTRALIA, ... esaay jci. zl.-(U.Pi-Byron ; New rk Times corres- Funeral announcements will be pondent, was killed Sunday at an I made later by Veatch-Hnllings-aavanced operational area, it was worth chapel, announced officially today. ' Feci d 'frms 'o three Darnton was killed .crirfentnil. in omciai announcement said t fte i, fiuncil ! ,Ve GuinM- I General MacArthllr' heaHnnar. ters announced: "It is with deen rcm-et that Gen eral MacArthur announces the ac- cidental faQ(V. 1- ilj r-..: - . Iu w uuinn ui Lu(me um win pre-iormea snapes; complete pias- Byron Darnton, war correspond- Thursday evening, October 22, at j tic houses, requriing only few nt of the New York Times. j 6:30 o'clock at the Osburn hotel. ! minutes to erect." "He served with gallantry and j Dr. Victor P. Morris, dean of the I Tyrt is no danger, according to aevotion at the front. With dis- i school of business administration ! cXi (hat the war demand will de tection. Darnton served The New at the University of Oregon, will P the forcstt. Under the new York Times for about nine years. ; be the speaker. His tnpir will he arid enlightened policies of forest He formerly was connected with , "America s Place in World Af- industries, timber resources will tne Associated Press." lairs," never be exhausted. United States Marines move through the tropical forces entrenched on the Mantanikou river, Defense Command, Oct. 21 A440n;ll. 4- Ul... .U... ,l,tiiiK W..UIUH lueil. .way uul ? wouoie, Japanese lurnea on meir powerful Kiska radio a few nights ago to issue an ultimatum" to American troops in' tne Andreanof bases to ne wrote Chairman Reynolds abandon the islands within 24 (D-NC1 of the military affairs hours or be destroyed. committee that a "bone dry" The "ultimatum" came after amendment by Senator Lee CD American fliers observed the ab- 1 Oklal to abill to draft youths of sence of Japanese Zero fighters in 1 the skies, obviously denoting that the enemy was without fighter protection. The ultimatum was re peated the next morning as a formation of fighters on a strafing mission were flying along the An dreanof chain toward Kiska, with an excited announcer shouting "You all die!" and repeating the phrase several times. Silenced by an order' which re quired them to keep their radios off the air, the American pilots worked their imaginations over time attempting to dream up ap propriate answer to the enemy broadcaster. When the flight reached its ob jective, Lt. Clyde G. Rice, San Gabriel, Cal., had the last loud word in a manner which the Jap anese have found sadly typical. Lt. Rice located the radio shack, peeled off in -a power dive, and sent a long burst of cannon slugs and incendiaries to its roof. The Kiska radio has issued no further ultimatums. Eugene Man Killed In Auto Accident Clifford L. Lyons, Eugene, and Ray Leeman Johnson, Checkasha, Okla., were killed Tuesday morn ing when their gravel dump truck left the Santiam highway about a mile east of the Salem-Albany junction. The two were employed by the Concrete Construction Co. of Portland and were on ineir way to their job at Redmond. The wreck was discovered about 11 o'clock by the state police pa trol. The bodies were brought to Veatch-Hollingsworth chapel in Eugene. Mr. Lyons. 32, had mane nis home in Eugene for a number of ; material, and the lumbering. In years. He was the son of Mr. and i dustry will hold an important Mrs. Walter Lyons, 836 Lincoln j place In post-war economy, H. J. street, Eugene. Besides his par- j Cox of Eugene, Ore., secretary ents, he is survived by one son, manager of the Willamette Valley Larry B years oia; ana a Dromer, - Harry, Marcola. No relatives or Mr. Johnson h.ve b.n located T.kc' fnnfaraai-a Bana'uet Thursday The banquet of the Lane county teachers' conference, which meets 1 i at the Wilson funior hiffh school in ,1.:. l. ill U k-M ' . This picture was Support for Dry Camps Claimed WASHINGTON. Oct. 21. )- Secretarr War stlmson today ired defeat; of a proposal to pro- " ."H . "ll hll.ll .... I - -11 II.... ln-l..JlK llarht wltl unit ftMl' In mytA ari- : jacent to army camps, saying that U would "seriously undermine morale" and encouram bnniler onerations. and 19 would prove "destruc- i live rather than constructive." WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 M Mounting support was claimed by Senator Lee (D.-Okla.) today in his fight to ban liquor from army and navy camps. As both sides took advantage of a ona-day recess to marshall for ces for a possible showdown to- ,,,. v.. i u.j, j mucMuiuciii m urn luwemiK me "K" lu 'i JKian..mBn I rold reporters that some of his senatorial supporters were "peo ple who don't favor general pro nriat citnnnrtnra uriira "nan. i hibition." "But," he declared, they ' are for my amendment." The author of the 'teen age draft bill, Senator Gurney (R.-S.D.), said for his part that he hoped noi "controversial amendment" would slow up its passage. Opponents of Lee's amendment, which would bar the possession. sale, gift or use of any alcoholic beverage, including beer, in and around army and navy posts. viewed it as a possible entering wedge for a return to national prohibition. The dry zones around camps would be delineated by the secretary of war, and, opponents said, might embrace large popula tion centers. The bill also would ban prostitutes from the designat ed areas. I j : Maui UAArl I If 6. rT3 illCW II UUU UiC LI Q Coming, Says Cox SACRAMENTO. Cal., Oct 21. (U P) Partly stimulated by the war, scientists are discovering many uses for wood as Bn enflineerinff Lumbermen s association, said to- day before a meeting of northern California lumbermen. 1 More than 90 per cent of the nation's lumber shipments now are going into war work, he said. I Much nf it is being used where I five in the past, particularly In airplane and glider construction. "Tomorrow that is in the to- ,.yo(J wjM felljng 2 by lhst' vmi ran tie in knot' liimk. thai .iii nt in .1 . . . . . New Cruisers To Be Named For Lost Ships WASHINGTON, Oct 21 U.B The navy. has assigned to four new cruisers the names of the four cruisers lost in the Pacific Houston, Vincennes, Astoria, and Quincy. The Houston was lost in the Java sea battle late last Febru ary and the latter three were sunk in the Solomon islands on Aug. 8. The new Houston was to have been the Vicksburg; the Astoria, Vincennes and Quincy were to have been the Wilkes Barre, Flint, and St. Paul, re spectively. Nazi Sub Base Hit by USAAF LONDON, Oct. 21. Flying : Fortresses of the United States !army air forces bombed the Ger man submarine has at T .orient nn ,he soutn coast of Brittany, today. it was announced officially to. night. Three of the big bombers were reported missing after the raid. An enemy air base near Cherbourg also was attacked. The following communique was issued by United States army headquarters for the European theater and the British air minis try: "United States air' force Fort resses (B-7s) bombed an enemy submarine base at Lorient and an airdrome at Maupertus, near Cher bourg, this afternoon. . "Bombs were seen to burst on both targets. " t y ... "These operations Were support ed by squadrons of Allied fighters. Some enemy -opposition was en countered by the bombers, three of -which were, missing. VICHY, Unoccupied France, Oct. 22. M) Lorient, on the German occupied south coast of Brittany, was bombed today by the RAF, and French sources said more than 100 persons were killed and 350 injured. Chile May Break With Axis; Cabinet Resigns SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 21 (U.ra President Juan Antonio Rl acts today or tomorrow on the resignations of the cabinet, which quit yesterday as a result of the charpp nf Amorman iT j t . n ... .. utiy oi awie sumner Welles that axis agents are operating from Chili against the United Nation. The cabinet resigned to permit Rios to replace Foreign Minister trnesio Barros Jarpa, who ad vocated maintenance of dinlo- matte relations with tha axis. i-uuucai leaders said the resig nation was a step toward an open break with Germany, Italy and Japan. The resignation, which was agreed upon at a meeting of all ministers at the office of Raoul Morales, minister of Interior, had been expected. Rumors had circu lated since last Friday that the cabinet would resign. The cabinet, which was formed April 6, 1942, was composed of five radicals, three socialists, two independent liberals and two dem, ocrats. . Following the minister's meet ing, they visited the president's of fice where they tendered their col lective resignations. It was learn ed that Rios has not yet decided to accept or refuse the resigna tions and the ministers are expect ed to continue their duties until a decision has been made. I Welles, speaking In Boston Oc tober 8. praised the 18 Latin Amer. ican republics which -either have I declared war or have broken off relations with the Axis. He said that the two remaining republics (Chile and Argentina he did not name them) still maintainnig dip lomatic relations with the axis had let their territory be utilized by subversive agents responsible for sinking of ships. On Oct. 11 President Rios care- celled an omciai goodwill visit to the United States. In a note hand- mnassador Claude u. ! Bowers, Rios expressed his regrets i for the .circumstances which trip but added that his decision ! "does not change Ihe firm dispo sition of my government to con-1 I tinue cooperating with the United ' States and other sister American j I nations in continental defense." I REFUNDS TO STUDENTS I i SALEM, Oct. 21. - The Wil- ' lamctte university board of trus- tees voted yesterday to grant re funds or credits to students called I iota the umed forces. Problem Getting Too Complex for Voluntary Action WMC Director Says Acute Labor Shortages Hamper War Work WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (Pi- War Manpower Director Paul V. McNutt announced today he would present a national service bill to President Roosevelt with in two weeks as the army indi cated disapproval of proposals re vealed by the president to release older men to take jobs in indus try as a means of easing the labor shortage. McNutt told the senate military committee that the manpower problem was becoming "too com plex for effective voluntary ac tion" and that "acute shortages" of all types of male labor existed in 40 major war production cen ters. Robert P. Patterson, undersec retary of war, issued a statement saying the army would release 4000 miners in an attempt to re lieve a shortage of copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, tungsten and other critical materials which was holding back war production, but saw "no need at this time for furloughing other troops." Army Takes Issue Yesterday Mr. Roosevelt said that a number of soldiers 35 and older probably would be released by the army to take jobs In muni tions factories, but Undersecretary Patterson said: "The release nf these men (the miners) is designed to relieve a shortage of metals that endnngrrs our war program. .. -VThe army sees no need at this time for furloughing other troops in iiimilar manner. The Job of our soldiers is to fight, not to work In mines, mills or factories. An exception is being made In tills case only because the striking power of our army Is at stake." McNutt disclosed that Ihe pro posed national service bill would arm the administrative agency with three weapons: 1. The power to require em ployers lo hire all workers through a central agency as a means of channeling workers into essential occupations. 2. Authority to control methods of labor utilization to prevent transfer of workers from a plant BEE MeNUTT STORY PAOE 2 All Serbia Reported Under Martial Rule BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 21 W) All Sprbla was reported un der martial law today as a tide of unrest and uncertainty con tinued to sweep occupied Europe from Norway to France and the Balkans. Private advices from France pictured that unhappy land as en tering upon her most critical pe riod since the 1940 armistice. Only 11 days remain before chief of Government Pierre Laval Is expected to try compulsion to meet Adolf Hitler's demands for French workers. Martial law was decreed by the puppet Serbian government at Belgrade, said a Budabest dispatch to the Basler Nachrlchien, after the Nazi military commander in Serbia, Gen. Bader, announced numerous arrests had been made because insurgents had attempted lo organize a revolt against occu pation authorities. The Basel Socialist newspaper, Arbeiter 7-cltung, recently report ed that the Gestapo had put to death 500 to 600 Serbs who plotted j revolt. Swedish newsp .per correspon' aenis reported from Norway, ac- cording lo the Swiss telegraph agency, that Vidkun Quisling had ordered 25 more clergymen to leave their homes as a result of a pastoral letter read In Norwegian pulpits Sunday calling latest Quis ling measures a new attempt against "liberty of the church." iiit -r- n INKie I O RepOTf fjn Tour h Radio i Speech Monday Night NEW YORK, Oct. 21 P Wendell L. Willkie will report on recent tour of United Nations war fronts next Monday from 10:30 to 11 p. m. EWT (7:30 p. m. PWT) over the networks of the Columbia Broadcasting sys- tern, the National Rrnadrastlng company, the Blue Network com pany, and the Mutual Broadcast ing system. War In Brief By United Press MOSCOW Germans on defen- I slve at Stalingrad, handicaped by ! bad weather. I LONDON Gen. Charles De- 1 Gaulle calls on Frenchmen to re-; sist Vichy efforts to obtain work ers for Germany; Jugoslav gueril las reported fighting biggest bat tle with Axis forces in Bosnia. CAIRO Widcscale air opera tions in progress over desert area and Malta. MarARTIIl'R'S HEADQUAR TERS U. S. bombers re-enter j Solomons battle with attack on Buin; Australians in New Guinea, push back Japanese in Owen Sta'nley mountains to within six air-line miles of Kokoda. SANTIAGO Foreign Minister Ernesto Bnrros Jarpa, advocate ol continued relations with Axis, may be dropped from Chile's cab inet. U.S. Planes Hit Japs in Pacific WASHINGTON. Oct. 21 W Allied domination of the skies In the vast Pacific battle front ap neared growing mightier today as American bombers slugged Japa nese invasion bases from the Aleutians to the Solomons. The fury of the allied bombing nf enemy troops and supply con centrations in ' the Solomons seemed thus far to have stalled, nt least temporarily, ihe full force of a Japanese thrust to retake the American-held Guadalcanal air base and win control of the south-, west Pacific. While a large force of Japanese warshios and auxiliary vessels in ihe Solomons and reinforced ene my troops on northwestern Guad alcanal still held an expected at tark In leash, United States bomb ers dropned explosives on the em battled island's invaders on Oct. 18 and 19, and started fires at the Japanese Rckata bav' base Santa Isabel Island, 150 miles to the northwest. At that same lime. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Australian command reported last night, allied bombers were believed to have Inflicted ex tensive damage on the Japanese airdrome and shipping at Buin. Bougainville Island, about 315 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. All allied planes, meeting no attempts at Interception, returned safely from the Buin night raid, the communique said. The navy's report yesterday of the latest Apierlcan assaults In the Solomons and AleutiiTns made no mention of any enemy planes rising to coun terattack. Possibility that the southwest ern Pacific skies may soon become a hornet's nest of allied planes was seen yesterday In an assertion by Secretary of the Navy Knox that the number of navy land-based planes was "steadily Increasing." In the north Pacific, the navy announced that on Oct. 18 the army's heavy four-motored Liber ator bombers smashed again at the Island nf Kiska, the last nf three Aleutian bases once held by the Japanese. 15 Mm Dollars More for War Okeyed WASHINGTON, Oct. 2I-M") The house completed lis work to day on a supplemental appropria tion bill authorizing expenditure of another $15,000,000,000 to build a greater navy, and senate ap - prnval later In the week was ex- White House. Royal Air force aircraft. The house approved a senate- I "Medium bombers of the U. S. house conference committee re.larmvdesertalrta.sk force nnernt- P"rt which struck from Ihe bill ' senate amendment providing use of certain funds for construction of the proposed Florida barge canal. The conferees retained a house provision making appolntmenta to the war manpower commission paying $4,500 or more a year sub ject to senate confirmation. As finally reported for senate and house action, the measure In cluded approximately $15 000. 000.000 for the navy and 60o' 000,000 for war housing. Noti School Children Collect 25 Tons Of Scrap Metal In Drive NOTI The Notl grade school has completed its scrap drive with nearly zs tons of scrap collected, j The school children contarted all families and gatherer! scrap Into i piles. Jack Moorehouse used his j pickup to haul it to the large pile in front of the schoolhouse. Nazis Bleeding To Death in Russia, He Adds South African Prime Minister Speaks Before Parliament kONDON, Oct. 21. W The Allies are at the threshhold of "the offensive phase of the war," Field Marshal Jnn Christiaan Smuts, prime minister of South j Africa, told 1,000 members of Britain's parliament today In a session described by Prime Mln- lster Churchill as "In many ways unprecedented." The meeting, kept In strictest secrecy in advance, was an infor mal gathering. It was attended also by representatives of the dominions. It was the flnst time a British empire statesman ever Had broad cast a speech before the combined membership of the house of com mons and 1 ords and Churchill hailed Smuts' message as "invalu able." While the British common wealth stands "unshaken by tha storms and setbacks" of the war, the South African prime minister declared, the German army is "bleeding to death" in Russia and "Ihe stage is set for the last, the offensive phase of the war for the United Nations." While this technically was not Joint session of parliament and the ban on broadcasts from parlia ment meetings, therefore, was not violated actually millions of ra dio listeners In the United States had their first opportunity to hear a speaker addressing the assem bled members of Britain's lcglsla- ' ture. There was no broadcast to listeners In Britain by the BBC, however. - Smuts said the 'appalling blood letting which is necessary for Hit ler's ultimate defeat is being ad ministered by the Russians." Although he said "they alone can do it," he urged 'whatever help ... we can give to Russia . . . In the fullest measure and with the utmost speed." Russia, Smuts said, Is "bearing more than her share of the com mon burden" and he urged that "whatever help In whatever form we can give to Russia to sustain her In her colossal effort should be given In fullest measure and with utmost speed." In reference to the second front. Smuts said the defense phase of the war for the United Nations had ended. "The final alignments both of the allies and of our enemies have been made," he said. "Resources have been developed and mobil ized on a very large scale. Ours are still on the increase, those of the enemy are on the decline. Our manpower Is still growing, that of the enemy Is getting depleted, SEE OFFENSIVE STORY PAGE t American Bombers Hit Axis Harder in Libya CAIRO, Oct. 21 Bin Ameri can bombers stepped up their at tacks on enemy installations in the Egyptian desert battle area yesterday, United States army headquarters in the middle east announced today. Direct hits were scored by the bombers on grounded aircraft and troop concentrations, the ! communique said. The forays ' were made by medium bombers Ing In the middle east stepped up the tempo of Its attacks against enemy landing grounds and in stallations yesterday," the com munique said. "In a series of attacks co ordinated with aircraft of the RAF direct hits were scored on grounded aircraft, revetments, aod tent areas." The communique supplemented a. United Nations announcement reporting that 11 enemy planes were shot down in large-scale air operations yesterday. The joint statement also reported that al lied heavy and medium bombers attacked shipping and harbor in stallation at Tobruk, "causing explosions among the ships." ELEVATOR COLLAPSES LA GRANDE, Oct. 21 OP) An elevator of the Grande Rnnde Grain company collapsed under pressure nf an over-load and dumped 500 bushels of wheat on the Union Pacific tracks at Im bier, It was reported here yesterday.