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Capital Journal Weather Partly cloudy tonight with llcht showers; Tuesday fair; cooler; gentle westerly wind off coast to night becoming moderate northwest Tuesday. Sunday max. 95, min. 55. Rain 0. River -3.4 ft. Know Your Neighbors of the Willamette Valley and what they are doing by reading the Capi tal Journal. Sevcnty-tlve special correspondents report the dally hap penings in as many near-by com munities for this newspaper always first wltb the news. B Monday, U0 53rd Year, No. 172 matter at Salem, Oregon Salem, Oregon Price Three Cents On rralna uid New Struid--Plva Cento f 11 fl -11 .1 Nazis Report Six Divisions Are Annihilated Russians Deny German Stories; Stalin Changes Staff of Commissars Berlin, July 21 (U.R) Offi cial nazi reports claimed to day that six Russian divisions have been "annihilated" and that a "larger number" of Soviet divisions are trapped and in danger of being crush ed in the area north of Vitebsk. The German reports claim ed that the luftwaffe is hea vily supporting operations for the encirclement and destruc tion of Soviet forces which the high command said are proceeding "ac cording to plan." QThe official DNB news agency aid German low-flying bomber and destroyer planes heavily blasted the assertedly trapped Russian divisions north of Vitebsk and, operating east of Smolensk, inflicted heavy casual ties, destroying 340 trucks and 26 tanks. On the far northern front a Sov iet warship of 3,000 to 4,000 tons, a Soviet destroyer and a 2,000 ton merchant ship were said to have been sunk by German bombers and the wireless station near Murmansk was said to have been shelled and set afire. The official news agency reported that a Soviet division was "com pletely, annihilated" by a nazl di vision in a bitter battle In the region of Mogilev, 80 miles southwest of Smolensk, on Saturday. Steady Follow-Up Claimed On the northern front, DNB re ported, the "remains" of five Soviet divisions were wiped out with the r apture of several thousand prison. Qrs, Including many troops which deserted to the German lines. DNB said that German-Rumanian, Hungarian and Slovak troops were steadily pursuing Russian fore es on the southern front against weak rear guard resistance. The high command said opera tions for the wiping out of encircled Russian troops are proceeding "ac cording to plan." "The vast Russian spaces and the masses of troops involved inevita bly extend the time of operations," one informant explained. He added that the splitting up and encirclement of Russian forces con tlnued "Irresistibly" and that the Russians were suffering tremendous losses as they sought vainly to break out and retreat. Stalin Changes Staff Moscow, July 21 (U.R) Heavy fighting was reported today in the Polotsk-Nevel, Smolensk and Novo. grad Volynsk areas and Josef Stalin made more changes in the Soviet Dlefense organization by appoint' ment of four new vice-commissars of defense. Outside of the main German drives in the Polotsk-Nevel, Smo. lensk and Novograd Volynsk regions it appeared here that the Russian German front had become early stabilized with only desultory com' bat in progress. The latest change in Soviet de fense organization followed closely upon the assumption by Stalin of the post of defense commissar in ad (Concluded on paite 9, column 8.) Salem Boys Tip Police, Slayer Under Arrest The Dalles, Or., July 21 (U.R) The murder of John Kar- len, 77-year-old retired Wasco county sheepman whose bat tered body was found in an alley here Friday morning, has 3een solved by the confession of Ir- U.ln Jones, 20-year-old Canby, Ore. youth that he "beat up" the aged man and left his body beside a loading platform in an alley here, according to Malcolm W. Wilkinson, Wasco county district attorney. Jones was arrested Saturday at Canby and has signed a confession admitting the assault, Wilkinson said. The Canby youth was brought here and placed In the Wasco coun ty Jail Sunday afternoon. Also brought here and held as material witnesses are Dick Drin non, 16, and Peter Schweigert, 17, Salem youths who provided the tip that resulted In Jones' arrest. Reading a description of murder suspects as broadcast by state po lice. Drlnnon and Schweigert walk ed Into the Salem state police head quarters Saturday and told their story. They had been in The Dalles wlth Jones Friday, and all had been ir Inking, they said. About 10 o'clock Friday night Drinnon and Schweigert retired to a room and Jones went to a beer parlor to get more liquor. Jones returned later and announced that he had "rolled" an old man and had obtained W, 1 r Vrfl Bringing The World To Salem's Door, the new United Press high speed transcontinental wire was plugged In at the Capital Journal office this morning. News Editor Steve Stone (left) and Dick Nicholson, of the U.P. Salem bureau, look over some of reams of teletype copy 50,000 words In 14 hours each day this wire pours into the Capital Journal. Fast UP Capital Journal Capital Journal readers were moved closer to European news centers today when the United Press stepped up its tele type service to the newspaper to high-speed circuit will pour news room at the rate of 60 hour, 50,400 words a day. For the- first time in history a Salem news- paper will be on the transcontinen tal trunk wires of a major press as sociation. From 1 a. m. to 6 a. m. the high-speed trunk wires will bring ' news from foreign capitals while the news is happening. At 6 a. m. a special wire, pro cessed for Oregon clients only, will start to give the state, country and world news that Is breaking while the Capital Journal is getting ready to go to press. It will not stop Its steady flow of news until 3 p. m. each day. Already the Capital Journal Is the only newspaper in Salem with two major news services, the United Press and the Associated Press, and now becomes the only newspaper with leased wires running Into Its news room almost around the clock. Never before has an Oregon news paper outside of Portland been on a trans-continental news wire trunk. The results to the readers of the Capital Journal are obvious a more complete coverage of war, politics, peace, sports and every day hap penings. Whiskalanfes in Noisy Raid Here Fifteen strong, a group of Eugene Whlskalantes boosters and prop agandists for the University city's Oregon Trail pageant and celebra' Hon, which opens there Thursday descended in a noisy, fun-spreading visit to Salem yesterday to pro claim the attractions of their three day festival. Parading with a sound truck through the downtown streets, the visitors proceeded to the state fair grounds where, before a crowd of 250 persons gathered from 13 west ern Oregon counties for the annual picnic of the Willamette Production Credit association, they staged series of mock sessions of their "Court of Missing Hairs." Among those tried, convicted and sentenced were Morton Tompkins, overseer of the state grange, and John Ramage of Woodburn. the Salem youths told officers. Acting on this information Ore gon state police, accompanied by District Attorney Wilkinson, went to Canby and took Jones Into cus tody Saturday night. Jones admit ted knocking Karlen down and kicking him in the chest after he had found but little money and Karlen had refused to write out check. Jones said, however, that he did not know that he had killed his robbery victim. At an autopsy performed by Dr. Joseph Beeman, state police path ologist, it was found that Karlen died from the results of a ruptured liver and hemorrhage of the brain. Four of the aged man's ribs had been broken. In his signed confession Jones de nied premeditation, saying that he merely had intended to "roll" the old man, who reportedly had been boasting about having a large sum of money on his person. Karlen at one time reputedly was quite weal thy. , It ' is expected that first degree murder charges will be filed against Jones, according to District Attor ney Wilkinson, Wire for a 14-hour a day basis. A new copy into the Capital Journals words a minute. 3b00 words an Six Lose Lives Oyer Week-end (Br the Associated Press) Drownings and traffic accidents claimed the lives of six persons in Oregon yesterday, and two others died of week-end injuries. Two Donna, Ore., brothers, Wil liam Scott, 16, and Lloyd Scott, 6, plunged into a swimming hole in the Mohawk river near Eugene, and failed to emerge. Their bodies were recovered. Another--Lane county swimmer, Ruth Martin, 13, Springfield, disap peared In the Willamette river three miles below Coburg. Lifeguards at Seaside sighted Mr. and Mrs. Elmore Lyle, Portland, in dlflculty far out in heavy surf. Be fore they could give aid, Lyle, 33, was washed to sea. HU wife was rescued. In Portland Mrs. Elizabeth Bud well, 83, injured In an automobile accident last week, succumbed at a hospital,' the city's 20th traffic fatality of the year. Injuries from a fall off a 40 foot cliff while fishing a week ago prov ed fatal to Fred Hill, 51, at Marsh- field. A. L. Bashor, 60, Portland, a pedes train, was killed by an automobile just outside the city limits last night. Robert M. Mulvey, 26, em ploye of the district attorney's of fice at Oregon City, told police he did not see Bashor. Near Salem, Merva Rodenbcrger, 28, Lebanon, was fatally Injured in the collision of an automobile in which she was riding with a truck, Conduits for Airport Get OK Installation of conduits under the paving now being laid on the north south runway, at the Salem airport which will be necessary to lighting of the other four runways to be Improved by WPA, has been author ized by the civil aeronautics author ity, according to word brought back from district headquarters in Scat- tie today by J. H. Keeffe, resident CAA engineer. The authorization Indicates a fu ture CAA appropriation to install surface-flush runway lights on all runways at the airport as soon as they are completed, according to Keefe, who estimates the cost of the additional lights at $16,000. Paving operations on the north south runway, which was to have been started today by the Warren Northwest company, sub -con tractors, was delayed by the non-arrival of a carload of asphalt. Davies to Set Up Pacific Coast Bureau Portland, July 21 (U.R) Lawrence E. Davies, former Portland news paperman and graduate of Willam ette university in 1921, stopped off here today enroute for San Francis co, where he will establish a Pacific Coast bureau for the New York Times. Davies, who married the former Edna Gilbert of Salem, was In Paris for a while with the New York Her ald, but for 14 years has been Phila delphia correspondent for the New York Times. Silver Quotation London, July 21 VP) Spot and fu tres bar silver were quoted at 23 7-16 pence an ounec today, up 1-16 penny each. The Bank of England maintained its gold buying at 168 shillings per fine ounce. (Roosevelt: To Extendi Tea Kettles And Milk Pans Stand in Stacks Millions of Utensils Go For Airplanes as Alum inum Drive Opens Washington, July 21 (IF) Headquarters of the office for civilian defence, which opened its "tea kettles for airships aluminum collection drive to day, said early reports from volunteer canvassers indicat ed "better than hoped-for suc cess" in the nation-wide cam paign. Some officials in Director F. H. LaGuardia's office said they now believed the drive might return 30,000,000 or 40,000,000 pounds of salvage aluminum, in stead of the approximately 20,000, 000 pounds earlier hoped for. Telegrams have been coming in from "cities all over the country," reporting enthusiastic response, an OCD spokesman said. Typical of the early reaction, it was stated, was that in Frederick, Md., where a survey of the expected donations started today. A chicken wire inclusure into which the metal is to be dumped when action col lection starts'. Wednesday Is alreatiy half full of worn out pots and pans, Washington officials were told. Million at Work In urban centers and cross-roads village more than a million volun teer workers set out to get pots and pans and any other articles, such as old automobile parts and fittings, which may be smelted down and turned to defense uses. Plans' for prompt employment of all metal gathered were so far ad vanced, officials said, that In a few months the little stew kettle In which Mrs. Jones boiled her hus band's breakfast egg and the skil let in vhich Mrs. Smith fried her morning bacon would likely be part of an American-made plane drop ping British bombs over Germany or perhaps part of a tank in this country's own mechanized forces. Knudsen Sets Goal The aluminum campaign was or ganized Jointly by the office of ci vilian defense and the office of pro duction management. William S. Knudsen, OPM chief, set the 20, 000,000 pound goal, saying that amount would be needed to sup'pl ment normal aluminum supplies to meet defense requirements the rest of this year. The civilian defense office said all old aluminum would be turned over to the treasury's procurement office for allotment to smelters partici pating in the defense program. A small start toward the collec tion of old aluminum utensils to be used in the construction of air planes was made today on the courthouse lawn. The county coun cil of defense is supervising the project which, it is hoped, will re sult in several hundred pounds of the metal being collected. A high fence, constructed with steel posts and chicken netting is being erected just to the north of the spruce that is used each year as an outdoor Christmas tree. Persons having old worn out aluminum pans and simi lar articles are requested to bring them to the courthouse and t them Into the pen. Officers of the Junior Chamber of Commerce shortly after noon to day stretched a wire fence for stockade over a portion of the courthouse grounds where o 1 d aluminum will be dumped . The fence is at the west entrance to the courthouse building. Boy Scouts were gathered at the building this morning preparatory to their drive ringing door bells to gather up the old metal needed for defense. Another Milk Price Boost Requested Portland, July 21 (Pi An I fcddl- tlonal increase In the price of milk. recently boosted a cent a quart, was asked by millc producers ot the Portlr"d area Saturday. Dairymen listed the growth of army camps, British and defense orders and the hot weather as rea sons for the Increase. Milk Board Chairman C. E. Orelle said he would call a hearing soon. Woman Dies After Crash On Cut-Off Mcrva Rodenbergcr, 28, of Leba non, died about 10:30 o'clock last night from Injuries received four hours earlier in an automobile-truck crasn on the Twelfth street cut-off a mile south of the city limits. Les ter P. Logsdon, 23, Beaver Creek, driver of the car, was uninjured. The Logsdon automobile plough ed into the rear of a truck loaded with heavy planks and driven by Dothan Eisly, Salem route 5. He re ceived severe face and hand cuts and a light concussion while Charles Merrell, Salem route 6, his passen ger, received a cut right hand, pos sible broken bones and severe shock. All three injured were treated by the Salem first aid car crew and taken to the Deaconess hospital. Both the automobile and truck were headed south around 6 o'clock with the accident occurring Just over the first hill south of the city limits. Logsdon was attempting to adjust his rear view mirror and apparently failed to see the truck. Miss Rodenberger was thrown through the windshield, receiving deep face and neck cuts and a frac tured skull. The two men in the truck were jolted out and the truck left the right-of-way. Logsdon is not being held by state police who investigated the accident. Exporters Gel Blacklist Names Portland, July 21 (U.R) Portland exporters have received a 50-page volume containing approximately 1,800 names of firms and persons with whom they are asked not to do business, Howard E. Waterbury, Portland manager for the depart ment of commerce said today. The blacklist is known under the police name of "the proclaimed list of certain blocked nationals." The persons on the list are to be regarded as German nationals and not article covered by the export control act may be shipped to them except under special circumstances, Waterbury said. Waterbury said the list is of little value locally since exporters here were quietly advised not to deal with Nazi firms some time ago. Naples Bombed During Night Rome, July 21 (U.R) Fifteen per sons were killed and 24 wounded in a British bombing raid on Naples during the night, the Italian war communique said today. Five anti-aircraft militiamen were among those killed. The communique said the popu lation remained calm. It was announced that beginning tonight the blackout will begin half an hour earlier throughout Italy, at 10 p. m. British planes also raided Ben gazi, on the north African front, and axis planes bombed Malta, the communique said. British attempts to "reach the axis lines" in the Tobruk area of Libya were repulsed, it was said. Enoch Winslow Ross Dies Near Molalla Enoch Winslow Ross, 91, pioneer of the Silverton district, died last night at his home at Molalla, route 1, where he had msde his home since coming to Oregon In 1880. Mr. Ross was born In Ohio, June 18, 1851, and came to Oregon in 1880, marrying Charlotte Porter March 16, 1882, who died September 10, 1928. Five sons and five daugh ters survive. They aro Custer Ross and Dr. Dick Ross, both of Salem; Donald Ross, Silverton; Orant Ross, Ontario, and Errol Ross, Silverton; Dora Ross, Portland; Mrs. Amy Bristol, El Hambro, Calif.; Mrs. Dercy Haggerty, Alberta, Canada; Mrs. Kate McCleary, Molalla, and Mrs. Jennie Oingcr, Seattle. Funeral services, not yet com pleted, will be held Wednesday un der the direction of the Ekman Funeral home at Silverton. FDR Nominates Wilson Washington, July 21 (Pi Thomas M, Wilson of Tennessee was nom inated by President Roosevelt to be commissioner to India with the rank of minister. Asks Army Service British Claim Success for V Campaign Propaganda Battle Said To be Impressing People Of Occupied Countries (By the Associated Press) London ( July 21 A Brit ish Broadcasting company ex ecutive asserted today Brit ain's "V-for Victory" cam paign to raise an underground army against Germany was the first pitched propaganda battle of the war" and the British apparently "are win ning it." The executive, European news editor, N. F. Newsome. said the V drive was one of a scries of experiments to test the readiness of peoples of occupied countries to accept leadership from London. "There will be other things to worry the Germans," he added. Newsome said there would be other leadership experiments "until one day we feel able to give the word to the underground army in Europe to go over the top for us in the final offensive" Britons claim a "V" army of mil lions are mobilized' throughout Ger man conquered nations in a whist ling, tapping sign-painting cam paign aimed now at nazl nerves. Germans Quickly React Newsome said the best indications of how the victory-V was catching on came from the Germans them selves In a "feeble counter-attack' by attempting to embrace the V as a symbol for the old German word "Viktoria." The British, he added, are turn ing this against the nazl propa gandists by broadcasting word that, since the German government ap proves of the chalking up of V- signs. nobody need hesitate about joining the campaign. (The German radio broadcast to day a 500 word account of how V signs had appeared throughout oc cupied territories, attributing this to "the tremendous Viktoria cam paign." The broadcast was record ed in New York by CBS. Nazis Use Wrong Word ("The German motto," it said, "'Viktoria for Europe' has taken Holland, Belgium, Norway, the pro tectorate (Czecho-Slovakia) , the government general (Poland) and Prance by storm." (In the various territories, it cit ed the use of V on official cars trains, street cars, banners, pamph lets. ("Pins of the German symbol have been distributed for the Red Cross" in occupied areas, it said, "Thus the German Viktoria cam paign is off to an excellent start.") Britons insist the proper German word for victory Is not "vtktoria, but "sieg." More Aggressions Planned by Nazis Washington, July 21 CP) Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, said today that the United States had Information that Germany was planning new steps of aggression against remaining independent countries in Europe. He made the statement at a press conference but did not go into de tails. His comment aroused specu lation, however, on the possibility that he meant that Spain and Por tugal might be due for attacks. At the same time Welles disclosed that tho United States had prom lsed full support to Bolivia in the event that an International incident arose from an alleged attempted nazl coup in that country and from the ordered expulsion of the Ger man minister there. Corps Headquarters Moves to Albany Eugene, Ore., July 21 (U.PJ The army construction quartermaster corps today was being moved from Eugene to Albany in order to be closer to the projected Corvallls cantonment. Capt. T, E. Dittcbrandt said ft survey crew was busy at Albany and preliminary work was under way. An office will be- maintained heie to handle remaining developments In the Lane county area, he said. Congress Poole Tears Through Log In Fast Time Stay ton, Ore., July 21 Obert Bergland, Silverton logger, came here Saturday to watch the log bucking contest and left with third place in the competition, feature of the closing day of the second an nual Santlam Bean festival. With shoes borrowed from i friend in the crowd and a saw ob tained from a similar source, he sawed through the 32-inch red fir log In 3:20.5. Alfred Poole, 45-ycar-old Stayton logger, cut through the big timber in three minutes and three seconds for first place which brought him $25 cash and a new saw. Raymond Branch, Mehama logger, was second with three minutes 15 seconds. His efforts brought him $10. Alfred Poole was his own filer while James Poole filed for the other two contestants. The festival netted aproximately $1000, H. C. Saalfeld, general chair man, announced at the close of the dance Saturday night. The mon ey will go into a community cen ter building fund. Over 75 children took part in the afternoon races sponsored by the Salem Cooties, Marion post No. 661, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in charge of Oliver Michaels. Warner Backs Mr. Roosevelt Eugene, Ore., July 21 (U.R) Pull support for President Roosevelt's re. quest for extension of the period of service for selectees and national guardsmen in the army was advo cated today by Milo J. Warner, na tional commander of the American Legion. Delivering the opening address of the annual state Legion convention, the national commander declared "we can't build an army and have the members come and go like the snow. "Songress should work out some system to keep the majority of the selectees and guardsmen in, so that the organization and effectiveness of the army is not disrupted," Warn er stated. "We of the Legion feel that this Is a god time to enact legislation putting into practice the principles or universal military service. ' Warner also advocated the passing or laws providing some tyne of bon us for selectees and guardsmen at the end of their service. Meanwhile the 40 and 8 com pleted its one-day march yesterday evening with election of Mrs. Marian Somerset, Astoria, as president. Oth er officers named by tho group arc jjucuie Freeman, Portland, first vice president; Eva Grey, Portland, sec ond vice-president; Hazel Alden, Seaside, historian; Pauline Lcnne villc, Portland, chaplain; Helene Warner, Portland, scrgeant-at-arms. Indian War Vet Dies at Tillamook Tillamook, July 21 fP A veteran of Indian -wars, Minny V. Stillwell, 84, died here yesterday. The form er Tillamook county deputy sheriff, born in Yamhill but a resident here since 1872, Is survived by two chil dren, a sister and a brother. Swarms of British Planes in Day Raid London, July 21 (U.R) Swarms of British planes raced over the Dover Strait today to make one of the greatest day light raids on the French invasion coast, and soon the sky seemed tilled with bombing and fighter planes flying In all direc tions and at all altitudes down to chimney level. Tho dramatic daylight raid came only a little more than three hours after a great fleet of British planes had made a five hour raid on the defenses which thousands of Ger man troops are building urgently along the French coast apparently In the belief that Britain may at tempt an invasion. During the night also the bomb er command had made a raid in forco on the Rhlncland and had bombed docks at Rotterdam. The air ministry said the bomber command planes made ft sustained attack on Cologne and started large fires In Industrial areas. Fighter planes attacked German airdromes in France throughout the night, it was added. In the daylight attack on French Gravity of Situation Told By President Warning Sounded That Military Force Must Not Be Allowed to Crumble Washington, July 21 (P) Declaring that America was in "infinitely greater" danger than a year ago, President Koosevelt asked congress to day to authorize extension of the one-year period of active service in the army of selec tees, national guardsmen and reservists. Unless the extension is granted, Mi. Roosevelt said, the nation will be taking a gravo national risk and disintegra tion of the army will be under way within two months. Responsibility for maintaining the efficiency of that army, the chief executive said in a message to con gress, rests solely with the legisla tors, . Mr. Roosevelt dramatized his request by trying an Innovation. He transcribed the message on rec ords so that his words might be broadcast to the nation and the world, The president emphasized that conditions had changed since a 12 month limitation was placed a year ago on the service of selectees, guardsmen and reservists. Situation More Grave "Today it is imperative," he said, "that I should officially report to the congress what the congress un doubtedly knows: that the inter national situation is not less grave but is far more gravo than it was a year ago. "It is so grave, in my opinion, and in the opinion of all who are con versant with the facts, that the army should be maintained In ef fective strength and without dimi nution of its effectivo numbers in a complete state of readiness. Small as it Is In comparison with other armies, it should not suffer any form of disorganization or disinte gration." Therefore, he said, it would be taking a grave national risk unless congress were to make possible the maintenance of the present, full, effective strength of the army dur ing the coming year and give training to as many additional Americans as possible. Ho added that it would be a "tra gic error' to eliminate about two thirds of the trained soldiers and three-fourths of officer personnel. Opposilion Strong The steps which the chief execu tive took to underscore the admin istration's desire for extended ser vice during a period of world crisl3 was considered to some extent an acknowledgment of a strong oppo sition existent in congress. Com promises have been advanced. But Mr. Roosevelt said he was not asking congress for specific lan guage In a specific bill. He said that he hoped the legislators "will (Concluded on piiRO 10, column 7.) occupied territory today heavy bombing planes with strong fighter escorts attacked industrial targets In tho Lille area. At least five German fighter planes were destroyed during tho raids and four British fighter planes were missing. At 8:15 a. m., the British daylight raiders began racing over toward Calais. Soon it was apparent that the British planes were striking far inland, apparcnty without opposi tion Torm tho German fighter planes they wero challenging. More and more planes joined in tho flight toward Franco until the sky was thick with t)"m. As suc ceeding waves of planes camo back to tho English coast, new waves swept over to the attack. There were planes of all sorts at all alti tudes and In all directions.
