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raoiomon usies
U.5. Bombers
Spur Chinese to
Continue Fight
V
War Effort in Gear with
New Faith in Leaders
Many Munition Plants
By Morris J. Harris and
J, D. While
Returnlnn ("War correspondents
Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 11 VP)
United States bombers have gone
to China and spurred her to a
new faith in the sixth year of a
war she has fought alone until
now, and still fights with unwav
ering sacrifice and devotion.
Ammunition dumps and
camps in China and China's 400,
000,000 have new faith in their
leaders and the long-range
course they follow. Didn't they
predict that China and the Unit
ed States together would whip
Japan?
Puppets Wavering
Even Japan's Chinese puppets
have begun to waver. They have
told American missionary doc
tors in the over-run areas how
they and the forces under them
now are holding on, playing at
cooperation with the enemy
because non-cooperation means
death for themselves and all the
Chinese around them until the
day comes to strike.
To sympathetic American
ears they whisper that they have
learned that there is no such
thing as cooperation with the
Japanese, only slavery under
China's war effort is in top
gear. Behind the lines, far from
smoke of countless daily battles,
millions of Chinese men, wom
en and children toil in thous-;
ands of small factories.
China's War Plants
China's war factories, bombed
by the" Japanese almost without
opposition for five years, are
scattered and camouflaged in
hundreds of mud-walled villages.
Not only are they the arsenal
of China's struggle for survival,
they also are the pattern of a
new China. They raise commun
ity living .standards and spread
employment and wealth to the
impoverished laboring classes.
When the war ends they will
make ploughs Instead of swords.
At the front, huge armies
continue to play .heir old game
of walt-and-pounce, a wily
scheme which has kept the in
vader at bay despite his wealth
of armament. -
millions n.eep uoming
The Chinese pay heavily In
men because the Japanese know
the game now and blast at the
inexhaustible manpower which
flows against them: But China's
millions keep coming.
More millions of communist
and other guerrilla forces harry
the., invaders' communications,
ambush his transports, massacre
outlying garrisons and sabotage
his political and economic
schemes in the dominated re
gions.";' Even poorer armed than the
regulars, the guerrillas show a
morale and courage which flam
es more passionately today than
ever. . -. i
Last spring and summer, the
Japanese sent division after di
vision against the communists in
north China in what was an
nounced as the final anti-guerrilla
mop-up. The JapaneM an
nounced, as usual, that the guar
lillas wara annihilated. Tha next
r st tea hit-and-rrn Ureters
' i :iina e-'- -1ti Ailed
r - ? jut had
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Laval Calls
Troops, Fears
Coup d'etat
London, Aug. 11 VP) A Reu
ters dispatch from Stockholm to
day . quoted the Vichy corre
spondent of the newspaper
Svenska Dagbladet as saying
Pierre Laval had called up
police and troop reinforcements
to protect the Vichy government
against a rumored coup d'etat.
(Vichy dispatches said that
Laval was at Compicgne today
to greet 1,000 returning French
war prisoners released by the
Germans in return for French
workmen going into German industry.)
1,000 Strike at
War Plant
Bayonne, N.J., Aug. 11 VP)
An estimated 1,000 workers
struck today at the.. General
Cable Corporation to protest the
refusal of the management and
the war labor board to grant
wage increases and vacations
with pay.
Michael Petrakian, strike
chairman, who made the esti
mate, said the walkout was an
independent one and not spon
sored by Local 868, International
Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers, AFL, of which the workers
are members.
The strike started at midnight
and picked lines were formed
immediately at the plant gates.
No attempts to pass through the
lines were made by employes
due at 8 a.m,, Petrakian said
He said the strike was "100 per
cent effective."
. Petrakian said the workers
seek ten-cent-an-hour increases
over undisclosed present rates
and two-week vacations with
pay after two years' oj, service.
Insane Patients
Bomb Victims
London, Aug. 11 VP) Several
patients and staff members of
an East Anglian mental institu
tion were killed last night by a
direct hit from a German plane
during raids on East Anglia and
southeast England.
Emergency squads toiled
through the night to recover the
dead and rescue the injured at
the institution. By noon 12
bodies had been brought out of
two flattened wards.
The Germans scattered a large
number of their new phosphor
ous fire bombs in the surround
ing district without causing dam
ages or casualties.
(The German radio said Hast
ings, on the English Channel,
and Colchester, 50 miles north
east of London, were the main
targets of the night raiders.). -
London's air raid sirens shrill
ed early this morning but the
all clear followed shortly and no
bombings' were reported,
Kaiser Told, to Draft
Cargo Plane Plans
Washington, Aug. 11 (U.R) Henry J. Kaiser, west coast ship
builder who wants to build giant troop and cargo-carrying flying
boats, today was told to draft his final plans and submit them to
the war production board rind-
the navy department for ap
provai.
WPB Chairman Donald M.
Nelson gave Ka.er a letter au
thorising him to prepare engin
eering plant and data on what
ha would heed to build 500 plan
ar Previously WPB officials had
talked about a "letter of intent"
under which Kaiser would
have had the government's word
to back him up if he could build
the planet without interfering
with the military program laid
down by President Roosevelt.
Apparently Nelson backed
down somewhat, however, be
cause he could not get navy
notion for the first proposal.
Kelson, in hit letter, stressed
Nit Kaiser wis to satisfy both
ttn and the navy that the cargo
'ana program would not inter
Anti-foreign
Turn Taken in
Indian Rioting
Strike Paralysis Creep
ing Over Country Hits
War Industry
By John R. Morris
Bombay, India, Aug. 11 ttl.R)
Rioting, strikes and independ
ence disorders in which an an
gry crowd set fire to a Delhi
municipal office lorry and
slightly injured three officials
continued to spread today after
police again fired on demon
strators in Bombay and Delhi.
Government officials issued a
warning that the sternest mea
sures would be taken against
rioters.
Police, bolstered by troops,
who took part in some clashes,
were still unable to control riot
ing in Bombay and Delhi, the
seat of the British viceroy, and
the riots were more serious this
afternoon in northern Bombay,
where trains were attacked, traf
fic paralyzed and fires started.
The Matunga post office was
forced to close.
Death Toll Grows
Disorders and fighting which
added to the earlier toll of ap
proximately 20 dead and more
than 200 injured also were re
ported from war industrial sec
tors, many of which were closed
by strikes, and provincial cen
ters, especially in the Lucknow
'area;Jn "thainorUjV'-'-'ii.-.rvf
Renewed disorders in Bom
bay, where the crowds displayed
an. anti-foreign attitude as well
as shouting demands for the
British to quit India, were most
severe in the north part of the
city.
The task of fighting the riot
ers was still in the hands of
police although troops had been
called and stood by at strategic
points and sometimes helped dis
perse crowds. But the govern
ment warning that persons re
sponsible for disorders would be
sternly punished and the
spreading riots suggested that
the military might be forced to
take more active measures.
Police fired on thousands of
student rioters outside the great
Bombay municipal hospital,
killing two and wounding many.
The death toll here had reached
17, and 209 persons had been
wounded before today.
There were casualties so far
unestimated when police fired
on rioters at Poone and Luck
now. Bombay Unsafe
The students demanded the
hats and neckties symbols of
their white race of their pro
fessors and burned them in bon
fires. In fact, Bombay's turbulent
northern suburbs, where police
had fired 10 times on rioters yes
terday, was unsafe for anyone
wearing western clothing.
(Concluded on Face 12, Column 7)'
fere with the president's "blue
print for victory" calling for 80,
000 war planes. WPB officials
admitted yesterday that there
might not be enough raw mater
ials even to meet this schedule.
Kaiser has said that he could
get the needed materials from
sources outside the normal ones
supplying the war effort. Work
ing with department of interior
geologists, he says he has uncov
ered possible new sources of
many critical materials!
Nelson also told Kaiser to go
ahead with designing of a 200
ton flying boat which would be
nearly three timet at big at the
Martin "Mart." The WPB chair
man said he would appoint a
committee of experts from the
aircraft industry to work with
Kaiter. .
pet
Gandhi's Followers Defy India Police Mohandas Gandhi's "do or die" zealots defied po
lice bullets time after time in Bombay and elsewhere in response to the all-India congress
campaign of mass civil disobedience against British rule. Here Gandhi (center), confers with
leaders of the all-India congress: Maulana Abdul Kalan Azad (right), the party's president,
and J. B. Kripalani (left), general secretary of the party. Gandhi and Kalan Azad were un
der arrest. Associated Press Photo from March of Time.
Nazi Gun Squads
Kill 100 Hostages
(By the Associated Press)
Second-front talk increased in Europe's conquered nations
today as nazi firing'squads took nearly 100 more Jives and the
an uprising in the 'event of an allied invasion of Europe. Ninety-
three Frenchmen . wore executed
in .old; Czecbo-Sl6vakia, the latter
Seek Annex to
Legion Building
Advised that the northwest
vital area board has shelved the
proposal to remodel the Ray
mond garage building for use as
a permanent USO center in Sa
lem, for which $18,700 was al
located by the federal security
agency, and that $12,000 had
been approved by the board for
renovating the American Legion
hall,, sponsors of the recreation
center project were today rush
ing plans and estimates for a 2
story annex to the hall to com
pletion. ;
Indications are that the board
will approve the allocation of
an additional $5,000 .to defray
the cost of- the annex, v ,
If the proposal is formally ap
proved the USO will move , im
mediately in the Legion- build
ing and function from there un
til the. annex is completed, ac
cording to R. R. Boardman, di
rector .for Marion and Polk
counties. r
It would require three to six
months to. make the- Raymond
building ready for occupancy, it
is estimated,. ;, , , !
Under the new plan the Le
gion would, be paid ' $200 a
month for rental of the building
which, with the annex, would
be turned ;over to the city ,for
use as a museum or public gath
ering place after the war, .
Nuns and Priests
Train in Aviation
New Orleans, Aug. 11 VP)
Two nuns, a priest and five re
ligious brothers at Loyola Uni
versity of the south here have
actively joined the war effort to
defeat the axis. .
With tome 40 other high
school teachers, Sister Mary
Elphege and Sister Mary Aldan
and the priest and brothers have
begun - training In a v I a 1 1 o n
courses heretofore not included
in the curriculum of the reli
gious. The course is . jointly
sponsored by the civil aeronau
tics authority and the United
States office , of , education to
train high school teachers Who
will in turn teach their students.
Studlet in meteorology, navi
gation, general service of air
craft and aircraft regulation are
being taught thii month. .
epr mm
Bar mmWmmi- '.:;
in Paris and. afrleaSt' Siit , Czechs
r:pri charges of "high treason and
; favoring .the enemy." ; France
seethed with' ' bitter . uhrest.
Roundabout reports from Vichy
said pro-German Premier Pierre
Laval had. called up police and
troop reinforcements to protect
the hated Vichy regime against
a rumored coup d'etat. '
Simultaneously,- the Dutch
news agency Aneta quoted Swiss
reports that the Germans had
seized 200 more Dutch hostages
to be "held responsible with
their lives for the conduct of
The Netherlands people in the
event of a British invasion of
Holland.'! . , ,
More than 1,500 prominent
Dutch clergymen, physicians and
business men had previously
been, taken as hostages by the
Germans, Aneta said, in their
attempt to forestall a bloody re
volt when the allies attempt to
open a second front in western
Europe. . '.
Dispatches from Bern, Switz
erland, said the Germans had
threatened reprisals against ev
ery man, woman and child in
occupied France as an aftermath
of new antl-nazi . outbreaks
which sent the ,93 more French
men to their deaths before Ger
man firing squads.
The German military com
mander in Paris was quoted as
threatening to "take measures
for which the whole population
will suffer" unless those respon
sible for attacks on German sol
diers were brought to light.
Underground reports from
Belgium arid Holland told of
new preparations' by the Ger
mans against a possible allied
Invasion, i
One report said a high nazi
officer in Belgium had been au
thorized toi apply 1 the torch to
everything 'in. sight if. the Ger
mans were, forced to retreat be
fore allied armies.
British Aircraft'
Carrier Said Sunk
London, ,-Aug; ll.() The
German radio, , in a social an
nouncement, reported that the
British aircraft carrier Eagle had
been sunk by a German submar
ine today, in 'the western Medi
terranean. Four -torpedoes hit
the ship, the radio laid.
The Eagle, wat in a ttrongly
protected convoy ' and., was at
tacked "at midday," according to
the Germans. .
The Eagle completed in 1MB.
hid a displacement of 22,600
tons With a eomDlemftnt nf 74R
land carried 11 aircraft. ,
Ask Army to
Save Russia
Moscow, Aug. 11 (P) The of
ficial mouthpieces of the red
army, the communist party and
the soviet government appealed
the, fighting forces today to
save Russia,.. acknowledging in
the plainest 'words the gravity
of the position as axis armies
ground through the smoking
Maikop oil fields and the scorch
ed wheatlands near Krasnodar.
"The fate of our country is
being decided in the violent bat.
ties on the Don and the Ku
ban," declared Red Star, organ
of the red army.
It quoted the-Russian 18th
century general who told his
troops: "we are surrounded by
mountains ... to retreat is
shame . . . we cannot expect help
from anybody ... we stand on
the edge of the abyss."
Izveslia, the government news
paper, asserted "the danger
hanging over our country has
increased" and said "the en
emy,, despite tremendous losses,
continues to rush into the depths
of the nation. In the name of
freedom and independence of
the fatherland, of your people
and your children, halt and re
pulse the enemy."
Pravda, the. communist or
gan, urged: "by iron firmness,
bar every way to the German
hordes." The newspaper said
"the enemy drives deeper into
the country. Disregarding losses,
the Hitlerite fascists summon all
their, forces to occupy new, im
portant districts." '
The German drive into the
Caucasus placed the red fleet's
Black Sea naval stations at Nov-
orossisk and Tuapse in grave
danger.
Hankow Bombed by
American
' Chungking, Aug. 11 IP) Fighler-cscorlcd American bombers
In-a low-altltudc attack on Hankow and vicinity bombed newly
constructed warehouses and other objectives yesterday, Lieut.
Gen. Joseph W. Stilwcll's head-
quarters announced today
Hankow, Japan's greatest in
land base in China, is on the
Yangtze river and has been a
frequent target of the American
bombers.
The headquarters bulletin said
there was no anti-aircraft fire
and no air opposition,
"Incendiary as well as high
explosive bombs were dropped,"
it said. v"A number of hits were
scored in the town and on new
ly-constructed warehouses. At
least two large fires were start
ed." The Hankow raid followed one
Sunday by American airmen on
Haiphong, French Indo-Cliina
port where a Chinese army
spokesman said today Japanese
reinforcements for Thailand and
Burma landed around July 27,
Germans Launch
New Offensive
On Leningrad
Use Volunteers from Oc
cupied Lands Drive in
Caucasus Continues
By Henry Shapiro
Moscow, Aug. 11 (U.R) Large
volunteer legions from Spain,
France, Belgium and Scandina
via are being thrown into Adolf
Hitler's offensive threatening
the red fleet's vital Black sea
bases after overwhelming sov
iet defenses around the Maikop
oil fields, according to front-line
advices today.
In a new offensive toward
Stalingrad on the Volga and its
important war industries, Ger
man armored forces were re
ported attacking Russian posi
tions in the Kletskaya sector to
the northwest and striking with
masses of tanks in the Kotelnik-
ovo region on the south.
Legionnaires Used
Front-line advices said it had
been disclosed by the testimony
of prisoners taken during the
last 10 days that fresh Legion
naires from Spain, France, Bel
gium, Norway and Denmark
were being rushed into the
battle to fill the gaps caused by
the nazis heavy losses.
German advances in the Kras
nodar and Armavir sectors of
the North Caucasus threatened
the Maikop, oil fields, and the
Russian Black Sea fleet's main
bases. '
The Novorossisk naval base
lies only 65 mile.i west of Krns
nodar and Ihc port of Anapa is
only slightly northward near the
Crimean straits.
German Claims
(The German high command
said that Russian troops were at
tempting to escape by sea from
the ports of Novorissisk, Tuapse
and Anapa just west of the Kras
nodar-Armavir battle area under
constant nazi aerial bombard
ment that has sunk 11- trans
ports totaling 12,500 tons and
damaged nine other transports.)
The reports from the Caucasus
front were serious inasmuch as
they showed the enemy rapidly
approaching the Black Sea
coast, apparently attempting to
cut off the Novorossisk naval
base some 65 miles from Krasno
dar, but the danger to Stalin
grad also was greatly increased
following two weeks of heavy
fighting in which attacks had
been repulsed,
In Maikop Oil Fields
Around Maikop, it was believ
ed, the Russians were fighting
almost in sight of the derricks of
their valuable oil-fields.
At Krasnodar, Armavir and
Maikop, the Germans followed
by strong tank assaults on nar
row sectors to split up Russian
detachments and drive them
back.
(Concluded on Fakc 11, Column 'I)
Planes
These enemy forces and others
which arrived at the same lime
at Saigon, farther down the In-do-China
coast, possibly will be
used in an attack on India or
Yunnan province in southern
China, this informant said.
Japanese troops were report
ed also massing in Formosa with
Japanese warships again active
off the southeast coast, indicat
ing a possible new invasion of
Fukicn province, it was slated.
The Chinese high command
said its troops had dislodged Jap
anese forces entrenched in the
western suburbs of Linchwan
(Fuchow), forcing them to fall
back inside the walled city in
central Klangsi province,
A Japanese sortie at the south
ern outskirts of the city was ro
ported repulsed.
Marines Beat-off
Jap Attacks in
5-Day Battle ;
Allied Gains Greatly
Outweigh Losses New
Supplies Arrive
General MacArthur's Head
quarters, Australia, Aug. 11 OP)
The allied forces which ac
complished their planned land
ings in an air, land and sea
borne attack on the Solomon is
lands are under strong Japanese
counterattack, but "we are hold
ing our own," Australian Prime
Minister John Curtin announced
today.
Curtin said that American Ad
miral Ernest J. King's Wash
ington announcement yesterday,
despite its listing of the loss of
one allied cruiser sunk and two
cruisers, two destroyers and one
transport damaged, indicated al
lied gains so far have greatly
outweighed losses.
First Offensive
Admiral King spoke of "a
large number" of enemy planes
destroyed and "surface units
put out of action," and referred
definitely to the Tulagi opera
lion as "our first assumption of
the initiative and of the offen
sive." The prime minister's brief
statement was' the first word
from an oflicial source in Aus
tralia on the main operations
in the Solomons. Communiques
issued by General MacArthur's
headquarters have dealt only
with air support given the inva
sion thrust directed by Vice
Admiral Robert L. Ghormley,
supreme commander of allied
naval forces in the south Pa
cific area. 1
Rahrul Assaulted
Today's communique told of a
third destructive assault in as
many days upon Rabaul, main
Japanese flank base in New
Britain, and attacks on Japan
ese shipping below Timor, more
than 2,000 miles to the west, in
which a heavy destroyer and
two merchant ships were knock
ed out.
It also was disclosed that Aus
tralian land forces were not
involved in the Solomon islands
attack, but that Australian na
val units participated and Aus
tralian air forces were cooper
ating in the increasingly-powc
ful attacks on Japanese bases.
(Concluded on Page 11, Column 6)
Russia to Fight
On Says Molotov
Moscow, Aug. 11 VP) Russia
is convinced that its army will
remain intact and that if it loses
the north Caucasus, it can stand
Indefinitely on the Volga or, if
necessary, in the Ural moun
tains, Admiral William H.
Slnndlcy, United States ambas
sador, said today after a talk
with Foreign Commissar Viach
cslnv Molotov.
Standlcy saw Molotov yester
day and informed him that Ma
jor General Follett Bradley,
President Roosevelt's newly ar
rived special envoy had brought
Premier Josef Stalin a letter
from the president.
As the result of his visit here
from Kuibyshev, where the dip
lomatic corps had had its head
quarters since soon after Rus
sia was invaded, Standlcy has
received the impression that the
Russians realized the seriousness
of their situation but do not
think developments In the north
Caucasus before Stalingrad are
decisive.
"The are convinced that the
Red army Is Intact and will re
main Intact," he said. "The
Russians may continue to with
draw but there is not the slight
est indication thnt they have the
slightest intention of quitting."
Standlcy said he had not
heard any complaints by Russian
authorities regarding allied de
lay in starting a second front,
but he added that the Russian
people were naturally disap
pointed.