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EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1942
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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
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f E SCRAP STORY
f ; OriWng Less,
9 More, MptPr
Ffs Indicate
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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-
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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-
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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.
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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."
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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,
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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.