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1 I apitaljpJ SttJEToSlK, Two Sections-16 Pages Salem, Oregon fl (H . H Jour n al Lost Your Cookbook? Well no matter you will nave no Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, little change In temperature, gentle northwest wind. Wednesday max. 17, mln. 54. Rain 0. River -4.1 Jt. need (or It 11 you read the recipes and cooking hints In the rhursday wumen's section ol the Capital Jour nal devoted exclusively to the In terests and problems ol women readers .f4H4qn -Q JO -ft H Thursday, August 21, 1941 53rd Year, No. 199 Pr!-A TUreta fin On Trains and News .- .cilis atand-Fl ont. Clerk dTell ems an ers ave oean to HelpS I3 Crop Germans Near Leningrad, City In Dread Danger Reds Call for Ail-Out ''Defense by Citizens; Russians Not Alarmed (By the Associated Press) Combined German and Rus sian claims late today listed a staggering total of 7,000,000 men killed, wounded or cap tured in the two-months-old . conflict on the eastern front, while afield, nazi troops driv ing from the south were re ported within 13 miles of Len ingrad, the old czarist capital. The Russians declared offi cially that German losses ap proximated 2,000,000 killed and wounded; the Germans said 5,- 000,000 red army troops had been killed, wounded or captured. In Dread Danger A Soviet spokesman said more than half of the German losses were slain. The Russians acknowledged that Leningrad was in "dread danger" under a three-headed onslaught by nazi and allied Finnish forces. A Swedish broadcast quoting the Berlin correspondent of a Stock holm newspaper said the nazts were advancing via Gatschina, about 22 miles south of Leningrad. Adolf Hitler's high command re- port a tnat uerman columns naa Psmashed three main bulwarks of Leningrad's outer defense system. No Alarm in Russia Despite severe reverses at both ends of the 1,500-mile battlefront from Karelia to the Black sea, Sov ietlet official Spokesman S. S. Lo zovsky declared in Moscow: "There Is no alarm or pessimism in our ranks. Even Hitler and his ad visers understand that the war in the east- has only begun." Lozovsky conceded that the Ger mans had won considerable suc cess, but, he said, on th basis of Russia's vastness only a compara tively small area has been taken and that has been left "without pro visions, containing only wrecked cit ies, ruined factories . . . guerrilla warfare and local hatred. . . ." Total red army losses of 5,000,000 . (Concluded on pane 7, column 8) Slash Made in "Auto Output Washington, Aug. 21 W) The of fice of production management an nounced today that passenger car production will be curtailed 26 '4 per cent during August, September and October. The curtailment will be progress ively greater In subsequent months, officials said, with the expectancy of a 50 per cent curtailment for the model year ending July 31, 1942. The production quotas were form- ' ulated by the OPM and the office of price administration and civilian supply. A substantial Increase must be made in motor truck production, officials said, in order to meet vital transportation and military needs. During August, September, Octo ber and November. 817,000 passen ger cars will be made, compared with 1,113,000 during the same months of 1940 and 1,560.000 during U the four months ended July 31, 1941, The larger companies General Motors, Chrysler and Ford will make a reduction of 27.6 per cent while the other companies, stude, baker, Hudson, Nash. Packard. Willys-Overland and Crosley will cut 20.2 per cent. Sons of Legion To Offer Program The civil defense program over radio station KSLM to night at 9:15 will be put on by the Sons of the American Legion. The speaker will be William Blevlns of Capital Post No. 9. Musical numbers will be Joe Hassenstab, direc tor of the Junior Legion band, Daryl Woodward and Norman Potter. These will Include two saxophone trios. "Hall Columbia" and "The Star Spangled Banner." Bobby Hagedorn. soloist of the Junior band, will sing "God Bless America" and Jerry Hassen stab will play "America the Beautiful" as a sousaphone solo. President Tells Congress About Epochal Meeting Opposition to Principles Adopted Compromise With Naziism, He Warns Washington, Aug. 21 (fP) President Roosevelt, report ing to congress on his epochal meeting at sea with Prime Minister Churchill, said to day the declaration of princi ples agreed upon there were so clear cut that they would be difficult to oppose "with out automatically admitting a willingness to accept compro mise" with naziism. These princinles, the Dresi dent added in a brief special mes sage, also would be hard to oppose without admitting a willingness to "agree to a world peace which would give to naziism domination over large numbers of conquered na tions." "Inevitably," Mr. Roosevelt assert ed, "such a peace would be a gift to naziism to take breath armed breath for a second war to expand the control over Europe and Asia to the American hemisphere Itself." Mr. Roosevelt said It was perhaps unnecessary to "call attention once more to the utter lack of validity of the spoken or written word of the nazi government." He added that it was also un necessary to point out that the dec laration included "tne world need for freedom of religion and freedom of Information." 1 4 Clear Gains Made He said: "No society of the world organiz ed under the announced principles could survive without these freedoms which are a part of the whole free dom for which we strive." The president reported the mili tary and naval conversations at the north Atlantic conference "made clear gains" in furthering the ef fectiveness of lend-lease aid to countries east and west. He and the prime minister. Mr. Roosevelt added, are arranging for conferences with Russia to assist It 'in its defense against the attack made by the principal aggressor of the modern world Germany." The declaration of principles, the president continued, presented a goal "worthwhile for our type of civilization to seek." Written with pencil and scratch pad In the president's study last night, the message contained a copy of the official statement released by the White House last Thursday covering the eight general aims agreed upon by the prime minister and Mr. Roosevelt. In fact, this copy, furnished to congress In the nature of a new re port, constituted most of today's message. Only six new paragraphs were Included. Since the Joint declaration, con gressional critics of the adminls. tration's foreign policy have charg ed that the president and Churchill reached an offensive and defensive alliance, basing their case in part on the fact that the declaration gave as a prelude to the desired peace destruction of "the nazi tyranny." Mr. Roosevelt Ignored this In his (Concluded on page 8, column R) School Book Case Argued Before Court Testimony was taken today on mandamus proceedings instituted by Floyd D. Moore against Earl Snell as secretary of state in an attempt to require Snell to place on the ballot a referendum directed against the bill of the last legislature tending free textbooks to parochial and private schools. Judge McMahan before whom the record was made up said the matter would be taken under advisement. Witnesses Included Mrs. Ruth Tooze of Salem a petition circula tor and Floyd D. Moore, plain tiff In the case and execuUve sec reary of the association which handl ed and had curculated the refer endum petitions under controversy. Much of the testimony of Moore was as to the time the petitions were certified and verified In re lation to the time when the state supreme court handed down a de cision holding that the original ballot title on the referendum was insufficient. Contention of State Senator Rex Ellis and Representative Allan G. Carson, who filed a petition In In tervention in the case, and who sponsored the original bill In legislature, was to the effect that a RAF Strikes Hard at Nazi War Bases London, Aug. 21 (U.R Big forma tions of British bombers smashed at north France and struck toward The Netherlands and northwestern Ger many today, and an authoritative source reported that Britain now had more planes over German cities at night than the Germans ever had over England "in the darkest days of last winter." Replying to a question whether the present British air offensive was living up to the promises of several weeks ago that British attacks would be heavier than anything the Ger mans ever produced over Britain, the informant said: "There will be far more in the future." He declined to estimate the num ber of planes involved in the night operations. Reds Say Nazis Lost 2 Million Moscow, Aug. 21 (JP) Germany has lost nearly two million dead and wounded in two months of war with Russia, S. A. Lozovsky, Soviet vice-commissar for foreign affairs, said today. He conceded that the Germans had won considerable successes, but he declared '"there is no alarm or pesslmisim within our ranks." Compared with European nations. the foreign vice -commissar acknow ledged, the German-occupied areas or Russia are large. But compared with Russia s vast ness, he declared, only a small area has been taken and erne "without provisions, containing only wrecked cities, ruined factories . . . guerilla warefare and local hatred . . ." "We know the enemy strength and potentialities. There is no alarm or pessimism in our ranks. On the contrary, the latest German suc cesses south and north compel us to close ranks still tighter.' Lozovsky declared Germany would be beaten "no matter" how many months or years we have to fight" and added that "it couldn't occur even to a crazy Hitlerite that the German army is capable of smash ing the U.S.S.R., Great Britain and then the United States." He denied German claims to the seizure of eight Soviet warships. He quoted Chinese sources them selves as denying that China would participate in the forthcoming war supply conference among Russia, Britain and the United States, Nearly half of all German cas ualties, he said, were killed, add ing: "Mankind has not known such losses in such a short time." Germans to Start Winter Relief Fund Berlin, Aug. 31 IIP) Germany's winter relief campaign will open September 1. one month earlier than usual, DNB reported today. The news agency said that In addition to street collections "voluntary contributions from salaries, wages, etc., will be retained" for direct payment to the fund. Princess 11 Years Old London, Aug. 21 U.R Princess Margaret celebrated her 11th birth day at a simple teatime party in the country today. large number of the petitions were circulated, checked and verified prior to the time the supreme court held the ballot title Invalid and that these petitions were Included in the referendum filing and as such were not proper filings, and that without them there was an Insufficient num ber of names U warrant the secre tary of state to accept the filing of the referendum petitions which he refused to do. An array of counsel were present at the hearing today including George W. Neuner for the attorney general: Randall Kester and Robert L. Maguire for the Intervtnors, and Robert G Smith, Elton Wat kins, C. C. Schnieder and Floyd D. Moore for the plaintiff. A considerable time was used in amending the pleadings to conform to provisions in an amended com plaint, Judge McMahan allowing all of the amendments and asking that the attorneys prepare their record so the.lt could be submitted to him for perusal at leisure. Cry Raised for Land Attack Against Hitler Beaverbrook's Newspap er Joins in Clamor for Move in Enemy Countries London, Aug. 21 (Un official English, Polish and Norwegian strategists raised anew today their cries for a British invasion of the conti nent as the only way to defeat Germany. British military leaders were called upon for all-out war against the nazis. Current RAF bombings of Germany and occupied territories were deemed insufficient by these sources. Frank Owen, editor of Min ister of Supply. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, demanded "a second front and not only in the air" In a slimed editorial. Owen sug gested a British offensive against Italy, long favored by some military sources as the spot where the Axis could be hit hardest. Many Polish and Norwegian mil itary men have urged the British to attempt landings at a number of points along the European coast line in an effort to find the weak est point In German defenses. One Spot Needed Once a weak spot were found. these imsH believe, enough British and Allied forces could be landed to overcome local resistance to dig in and open a new front. Most of these men believe RAF bombings have smashed German communica tions and therefore the Germans would find it difficult to concen trate enough troops to counter a British invasion at any one point. Favored particularly by Poles and Norwegians is a landing in Norway north of Narvik. They offer three reasons for such a landing: 1. Norwegian troops in England are said to be better equipped to fight In that territory and they could be helped by Scots and Poles trained in mountain fighting. 2. Once a landing had been made, a corridor would be opened through Finland to Murmansk, Soviet Rus- rla, cutting off the Finnish port of Petsamo. Over this corridor troops and supplies could be moved to bolster the Red armies in the north, it was said. Rebellion Ripe 3. Norwegians at home have been reported ready to rebel against the Germans at the first sign of out side help. The Germans would be unable to concentrate a large force against the Invaders in the north, it was asserted, because it has been reported garrisons have to be main' tained now In every Norwegian hamlet and town. If the British have contemplated an invasion of the French coast. unofficial observers agree there have been no signs of it in London. Ask Women to Cut Skirt Lengths New York, Aug. 21 (JP) A clarion call to American women to "cut skirt lengths several inches' was issued today by the national worn en's undergarment manufacturers' association. The members of the association indicated they would cooperate by shortening up on their own speci alties, just how, they didn't say. Delegates to a meeting of the or ganization said their suggestion should result in a saving of at least 10 per cent in women's dress and underwear fabrics. They said such a saving would total millions of yards of cloth. Italian Troops Occupying Croatia Stockholm, Aug. 21 (U.fil The newspaper Aftonbladet reported from Berlin today that, according to private sources, Italian troops were attempting to occupy Croatia and were meeting Croat resistance. (Croatia, formerly part of Jugo slavia, was reorganized as an inde pendent state by Germany and Italy during the breakup of Jugo-Slavia). Reds Bomb Berlin Moscow, Aug. 21 (IP) The Soviet air force again dropped high explo sive and incendiary bombs on mili tary objectives In the Berlin area last night, snrtlng fires and ex plosions, it was announced late to- day. No Soviet aircraft was lost, It J was stated. Drillers Work On Shasta Dam Jackhammer men are drilling dynamite holes to blast out rock high up on the wall of the Sac ramento river canyon for the west abutment of Shasta dam. They are operating drills powered by compressed ajr which is conveyed to all parts of the construction area by steel pipe and rubber hose from a central compressor plant, Associated Press Photo. Nazi Troops on Turkish Frontier Ankara, Turkey; Aug. 20 (Delayed) (P) Foreign diplo matic sources reported today that advance units of two Ger man army divisions had arrived in Bulgaria and that Italian patrols have been scouting the Greek-Turkish border. At the same time fresh groups of German aviators were reported to have arrived In the Bulgarian cap- ital of Sofia during the past few days. The portent of these reported ; developments opposite the Turkish front'er was uncertain, but one com petent source said they could have only two purposes. 1. To take over from the Bulgar ians certain policing duties in oc cupied areas in southeastern Eu rope. 2. To undertake aggressive action against Turkey with the object of opening the Dardanelles to permit German ships to enter the Black sea with supplies for Nazi troops now fighting In the Ukraine. The same sources said Italian garrisons on Greek islands adjacent to the Dardanelles had been in creased. The foreign diplomatic sources also said they had been receiving reports for several weeks of exten sive preparation of airports in Bul garia, even though German troops there during the Greek campaign were removed northward before the war with Russia began June 22. The German troops now reported arriving in Bulgaria were described as fresh and well-equipped and ob viously from reserve area rather than from the Russian front. In - ciuaea among tne advance units were said to be a number of elite, S.S. troops. Pounds of Pennies Pay for Glasses Words and music of the song "Pennies from Heaven" must have been visualized by Dr. Will J. Thompson, optometrist in the Ore gon building, when he received pay ment from a patient who had ob tained a pair of eyeglasses. The patient, a postal employe, presented Dr. Thompson with 1800 of the copper coins. He was consid erate enough to have these wrapped in 50-cent rolls but it was a task for the doctor to take them to the bank. Out of curiosity Dr. Thompson placed the payment on the scales and found that they weighed 127 pounds. Tough Joe Mandick Bad Man to Death New York, Aug. 21 (U.R) Tough Joe Mandick lived up to his sobri quet to the end. A detective bent over Tough Joe as he lay dying of a bullet wound in Gouveneur hospl tal today and asked if there was" anything he wanted to say. Tough Joe spat In his face and died'. Say Reds Lost 5 Million Men Berlin, Aug. 21 (yp Total Russian lasses estimated scmt-officially at 5,000,000 men topped Germany's box score tonight as the Russian war rounded out its second full month. Other claimed items included 14,- 000 tanks, 14,000 cannon and 11,000 planes captured or destroyed. The 5,000,000 manpower lass was figured by DNB, which noted mili tary claims of 1,200,000 Russians captured and the repeated high command statements that the Sov iets "bloody losses" amounted to several times the number of cap tives. The official news agency report ed in vivid terms that "thousands of Russian dead" littered the battle field at Gomel and that the Russian flight from Odessa was "more hor rible than Dunkirk." "I flew over Odessa at a low level," one German pilot was quot ed. "I saw Dunkirk and Calais but 1 what happened at Odessa was much more horrible and terrible. I saw Soviet soldiers frightened by prev ious German dive bombers stand as if paralyzed. "One warehouse crashed under bomb hits and covered hundreds of exhausted Soviet soldiers under Its ruins. Dead and wounded lay In tne streets." Airport Bonds Win By Large Majority Only about 16 per cent qualified to vote turned out airport bonds, but the 2611 aDout nine to one in lavor oi tne' bonds. The totals were 2350 for and 261 against. By wards tho vote was: Ward 1, yes 382, no 27; Ward 2, yes 283, no 33; Ward 3, yes 200, no 17; Ward 4, yes 263, no 34; Ward 6, yes 431, no 61; Ward 6, yes 439, no 56: Ward 7, yes 352, no 33. The vote authorizes the city to issue $75,000 In bonds. The money Is to be used to purchase some land in addition to the present airport area so the runways may be extend ed and an administration building erected for commercial and federal offices. It Is proposed to buy about M7 acres at the southeast end of the field so the new first class runway. 6000 Paris Jews Arrested for Opposing Nazis More Round-Ups Under way; 2 Executed for Activity Favoring Enemy Vichy, Unoccupied France, Aug. 21 (P) French and Ger man police arrested 6,000 Jews in Paris yesterday in a round-up of persons suspected of opposing German troops, it was disclosed today. The arrests were made in a single aggrandizement of Par is, but the movement started to spread to other sections of the city. Even in unoccupied France police were stopping travelers on roads and exnmining their papers but there were no ar rests. The a nests yesterday were made In the 11th arrondlsement. Arrests were being made in the 20th arron dlsement today, reports from Paris said, but there were no details on the number of persons rounded up, Two Executions! The new operations were the first mass arrests since May 15, when 5, 000 Jews were rounded up and sent to labor camps. Jan Barthelot, secretary for com munications, tonight warned against sabotage of German freight trains in the occupied zone and told rail way workers: "I resolve, whatever it costs me, to strike at certain ones among you." He pointed out that under the armistice terms the right of way in the occupied zone is granted to German trains. At the same time It was learned that two men had been executed by a firing squad for alleged parti cipation in a Communist manifesta tion against German occupation au thorities. They were condemned, presumably by a German court martial, for "activity in favor of the enemy," it was said. House to House Hunt Both German and French police were reported to have taken part in the arrests. All approaches to each of the four quarters comprising the work ing class eleventh arrondlsement were blocked off and subway sta tions closed to prevent any escape during the five-hour clean-up. French and German police then swept through the district, stopping all on the streets, conducting house to house searches and going through identity papers. Those arrested included every body who could not show he was an Aryan, Those arersted were from about 17 to SO years of age Reply from Iran Held Unsatisfactory London, Aug. 21 UP) An authori tative source said today an oral reply made by Iran officials to a recent Joint British-Russian com plaint about the number of Ger man technicians In that country had not been received favorably here. The Iran government's written re ply to a British note delivered Inst Saturday outlining a plan to replace Germans employed in key comma n teat Ions industries is expected shortly, it was said. The source said he had no know ledge of reports that Germany had assured Iran of support In the event the British and Russians attempted an invasion. of the people of.Salem who are yesterday to cast ballots on the who voted gave a majority of now practically complete, can be lengthened from 4040 feet to 6000 feet, and to buy as needed about 44 acres at the opposite end of the field. The bonds to be issued will bear Interest at not over 4'i per cent and principal and Interest will be paid by levy of a special tax. A false alarm was spread about the city early in the week to the effect that the election would not be legal unless tho number of people voting on the bonds was at least 25 per cent of the number who voted In the city at the Inst general elec tion. This was found to be er roneoua. Stores and Banks Close Monday To Aid Farmers Employes to Don Overalls And Flock Into Fields; Gram Asks Action With Salem merchants and bankers going to the rescue of the farmers, stores and banks will be closed all day Monday so their employes, men and women, may don overalls, slacks or old house dresses and go out to save the bean crop. They will give two days for it Sun day, when the business places would be closed anyway, and Monday. This was voted at a meeting called hastily at the Chamber of Com merce tills morning because of the emergency situation In the bean fields where the crop is a bumper one, ripe for the harvest with the laborers few. The meeting was called by Dr. Henry Morris, president of the Sa lem Retail Trade bureau, at the re quest of Charles H. Gram, state la bor commissioner, and the bankers readily consented to sit with the merchants. 800 Go Out Commissioner Gram was out of bed at 3 o'clock this morning work ing, almost at his wits' end, to five relief to the farmers. And althoh about 800 workers were sent out' ab an early hour, many of them carried by 22 free buses which were furnish ed, hundreds more were needed. Among those going out today and also yesterday were a large part of the Capital Journal's newsboys and members of numerous families who arc not on relief lists and who are otherwise regularly employed. The first 800 were sent out at 6:28 o'clock this morning. Yesterday a large contingent sent out under pol ice escort for traffic protection, was an hour ahead of time In reaching the fields. Journal Carriers Twenty-six Capital Journal news paper carrier boys who got up early and did a day's work before report ing on time to make their afternoon deliveries not only did a good turn for the owners of bean acreages who are in dire need of help in harvest ing their crop, but they did right well financially for themselves. With several of the boys receiving bean picker checks for as high as $2.50, the entire crew averaged a little under $2 for the day. Some picked only for a few hours and all were returned to the Capital Journal of fice by 2:30 o'clock. Forty-eight carrier boys left by truck this morn ing. State employes, going out after hours, arc among those working In the beans. The merchants want their custom ers in town and country to know of the arrangement so they may make other plans for the shopping ordin arily done on Monday. Rush Fortifications In Dakar Area Vichy, Unoccupied France, Aug. 21 M Reports in German-occupied France todny said improvements were being rushed on coastal bat teries and air fields at Dakar, the French colony on the most westerly point of Africa nearest America. This information, purporting to come via Tangier, said the work was being hastened while French Generals Maxime Wcygand and Au guste Nog ues were inspecting shore defenses farther north in Morocco. Meanwhile, Governor Pierre Bois son, defender of Dakar against the British and Free French thrust of last September, has Just returned there after an inspection of de fenses through out French Equator ial Africa. Army Morale Hurt By Controversy Denver, Aug. 21 (U.R) Gen. George C. Marshall, U, S, army chief of staff, says the army's morale was "splendid" until it became a sub ject of national debate. "Naturally It has been affected by the public discussion of the length of service," he said last night in an interview. He would not say whether moralo now Is improving. He and Secretary of War Henry L. Stlmson planned a motor trip through the mountains before con tinuing their flight tomorrow to the Pacific northwest to observe army maneuvers.
