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n .f W GapatalMloE Buy War Bonds Keep 'Em Flying 54th Year, No. 191 matter at Salem. Oregon Salem, Oregon Wednesday Price Five Cents -,' 17 n n amines Contonue e no oiomon usres Batt Death Toll of 0 Indian Rioters Mounts to 60 Many Injured by Attacking Crowds Says Picture Distorted Bombay, India, Aug. 12 U.R Serious new rioting in which police repeatedly fired on Inde pendence demonstrators was re ported today in dispatches from Wardha, Lucknow, Delhi, Poo na, Nasik, Cawnpore, and Ma dras as the total death roll mounted to an estimated 60 in spreading disorders. ' At Wardha, a center of the all-India congress party, police fired four rounds after charges with their batons failed to dis perse a meeting which had been declared illegal. Police Attacked Many constables were injured when attacked by the crowd, which hurled stones at them aft er a student had addressed the meeting and urged the people to disperse. The crowd refused to leave. Wardha is only six miles from the home ?f Mohandas K. Gandhi, Interned congress lead er, at Sevagram. Revised casualty tolls showed at least 31 dead in the Bombay area up to noon today and 12 killed at Delhi, where fresh dis turbances were reported this afternoon on the aprpoaches to the New Delhi section in which British and American -homesl-and: offices are located. .Troops and ) armed police are guarding the New Delhi sector. Police fired on a mob at Cawnpore and 60 persons were arrested. Disorders also were reported at Foona but details were lack' ing. . "Completely in Hand" London, Aug. 12 (U.R) The sit uation In India is "completely in hand" and any picture of wide spread disorder there is utterly distorted, the India office here Aid today In an official state ment. "Reports from the authorities in India state that the' situation is completely in hand, and it is emphasized that any picture of widespread disorder in that country is utterly distorted," the statement said. "The latest of ficial information from India leaves no room for doubt as to (Concluded on Page 7, Column 8) May Close Some War Plants Washington, Aug. 12, (fl) War plants which are running far ahead of schedule may be clos ed deliberately or slowed down for a time to ease the drain on scarce materials, under plans now being considered by the war production board. The production cuts would be brought about by curtailments in the allocation of materials to such firms for the last three months of the year, it was dis closed by an official who re- quested that his name be with held. In any cases new or converted war plants are discovering that their output exceeds earlier ex pectations, with the result that parts they produce He idle for weeks or months before they can be Incorporated in the fin ished product. "There is growing recognition that it is just as wrong to tie up materials in the form of com ponent parts as it is to tie them up In stockpiles of unprocessed metals," the WPB source said. WPB's requirements commit tee, which allocates materials among industries, is expected to request the army and navy to , furnish lists of their contractors who are in excess of present . need, either because of unbal (ance in the production of parts lor a weapon or because strateg ic developments have made the weapon itself of less immediate importance. Say Formosa Bombed by Sky Dragons Chungking, Aug. 12 W It was rumored here tonight, with out confirmation, that allied warplanes bombed Formosa to day. This Japanese island off the east China coast is one of Ja pan's principal troop staging areas for offensive operations. United States fliers yesterday bombed , the Japanese airdrome at Nanchnng, shpt down one ertemy plane in combat, prob ably destroyed another and re turned to their base without loss, a communique from Lieut. Gen. Joseph H. Stilwell's headquart ers announced today. Five hits were scored on the field, one directly on a hangar and another between two han gars in which Japanese planes were known to be housed, the bulletin said. Bids Called for Flight Strips The first two flight strips to be built in the west will be con structed in Malheur and Lake counties, the state highway com mission announced today in call ing for bids on nine projects, costing $650,000, to be opened in Portland August 27. The strips, which will be used for landing fields, will be 6,000 feet long and 500 feet wide. The paved runways will be 150 feet wide, and the rest of the 350 feet of width will be gravel They will; cost $200,000 each. ""One' will be 1 located on the' 13- aho-Oregon-Nevada highway 50 miles north of McDermitt. Nev., while the other will be on U. S. highway 395 at Alkali lake, 60 miles north of Lakeview. The' highways will run down the middle of each strip. The commission said it is con sidering at least two other flight strips, but it declined to say where they would be built. Pelley Draws 15-Years Prison Indianapolis, Aug. 12 UP) William Dudley Pelley, founder and leader of the Silver Shirts of America, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison in the first major sedition case since Amer ica's entry into the war. Federal Judge Robert C. Bait- zell imposed the sentence after denying a 'defense motion for a new trial. The dapper, 52-year-old Pel ley, whom government attorneys called "a Benedict Arnold" and "an Aaron Burr" in their prose cution, was convicted a week ago on 11 counts of criminal se dition in connection with publi cations of the Fellowship Press, Inc., which he headed. In passing sentence Judge Baltzell said he believed Pelley should be imprisoned "for the duration." Says Steel Industry Refused to Expand Washington, Aug. 12 m the senate defense committee today attributed the steel short age which he said was hampering America's war production to a lack of "real expansion" in the steel industry, Senator Truman, after more than six months of Inquiry, told reporters he had concluded that there was no real expansion in the industry, but merely an "in tegration" of the plants of he big companies, while they "choked" the smaller rolling mills out of existence. . He said Donald Nelson, direc tor of the war production board, "should exercise his authority and reorganize the iron and steel division of WPB" to get action. The blunt-manner Missourian said that so far as his committee had learned not a single new iron or blast furnace had been built in any new place, although Lower California, the state of Washington and British Colum bia contained an abundance ,of Japs Lose 21 Ships in Thrust Into Aleutians U. S. Task Force Raid By Warships at Kiska Demolishes Bases Washington, Aug. 12 W The price Japan has had to pay for occupation of three western Aleutian islands stood today at 21 ships sunk or damaged, an undetermined number of air planes lost and important shore installations blasted into use lessness. This record of destruction has been run up by American army and navy bombers, surface war ships and submarines, whose lat est exploits were detl' .ed by the navy in a communique bringing the Aleutians campaign up to date from July 22. The official account brought naval surface craft fully into the story of Aleutians fighting for the first time with the dis closure that- last Saturday a task force raid by cruisers and destroyers on Japanese-held Kis ka harbor had so surprised the Japanese that' they replied to the first shells with anti-aircraft fire. Batteries Silenced In the course of the raid, the navy said, shore batteries were silenced, fires were started in the enemy camp area, a cargo ship apparently was sunk and ;',thernly- resistance' ''Encounter ed was from aircraft. -., Following up the raid the next day naval patrol planes damag ed two cargo ships and observ ed the sunken hulk of another lying in the harbor waters. This vessel, said the navy, Is believ ed to have been sunk" during the bombardment. These ship losses raised the Japs' total for the Aleufians to nine sunk, one believed sunk and 11 damaged. Kiska Main Base All the actions reported by the navy were in the Kiska area except for a Japanese aircraft attack August 3 on the U. S, destroyer Kane off Atka island about 305 miles east of Kiska. The destroyer was unharmed, Kiska is the Japs' main base, al though the navy has reported tHeir occupation of Attu and Agattu, at the tip of the island chain. Sam Brown in Critical Condition Portland, Aug. 12 (U.R) Con dition of Sam Brown, Gervais farmer and well known Oregon political figure, was reported as "critical" today. Hospital attendants said Brown spent a "poor night." He has been seriously ill, suffering from an illness of two years complicated by pneumonia, since last Sunday. Chairman Truman (D Mo.), of untapped raw materials. . He added that he was greatly impressed by the story of a west coast promoter, Henry J. Lan dahl, who told the committee yesterday of trying for 40 years to raise money for a blast furn ace in the Pacific northwest, only to be constantly balked by the United States Steel corpora tion and the J. P. Morgan bank ing interests because the project would compete with their prop erties. , The larger steel corporations such as U. S, Steel and Bethle hem, had "integrated" their own facilities to handle the war or ders, Truman said, while the testimony of small Independent rolling mill owners showed a shortage of raw materials that was threatening extinction. y v, A ' xrt ' Pacific Ocean HiammiK' Jib siwSswuriNe BMfejj2oIRABJ--i-ii--ii!iii!S JAVA'-g VQV' JVarWIN J V AMi.l JT.. SAMOA , J0 , Indian JT CJ 7.f' rm.sw: J" BROOME v JCARDWELl p 1 i ' Jr x - ' t ' T V VAltCt li;-:!:-;::!:-:!::l:-!tl:;!i:-i; CALEDONIA i:!-!:-1"- J? S A V H., V ,,S8ANEi j,'lO '" ' ADCIAIDE OMV MELBOURNE. -J mmammmmmm TASM ANI Ajmob.hi O 300 IOOO I I MILES u I V I AT EQUATOR I O Why Solomons Are Worth Fighting; For Defensively, the Solomon islands would give the United States a base for defending industrially valuable east Australia and the supply line to Australia from the United States (arcs). Offensively, the Solomons could provide a spring board for attacks (arrows) on the myriad Jap-held Pacific islands which provide the Nipponese with hundreds of "unsinkable aircraft carriers." Associated Press Photo. Hurl Grenades At Nazi Fliers . Vichy, Aug. 12 (U.R) French patriots -killed: or- wounded - 20 German ""WaV pll'dls " With hand grenades as they trotted around the cinder track of a stadium on the outskirts of. Paris, it was reported today. There, were 60 fliers in the exercising group when the pa triots, hidden behind a hedge, tossed two grenades among them as they trotted past. One German was killed in stantly. Another died en route to a hospital. Eight were wound ed gravely and 10 others suf fered less injuries. In the con fusion, the patriots escaped. The attack occurred last Wed nesday and climaxed a week of outbreaks and sabotage that in cluded dynamiting the gates of a barge canal and the bombing of a pro-German newspaper, plant. The attack on the fliers in Jean Bouin stadium was one of the most audacious ever made by the French underground movement' and observers fear ed it would touch off a new wave of German reprisals. The Frenchmen reportedly trailed the Germans when they went to the stadium to exer cise. They had been following this practice for some time and the patriots knew they prob ably would jog around the cin der track past the hedge. - Po lice and the German gestapo and storm troops immediately sur rounded the area. Liberty Ship Harry Lane Launched Portland, Aug. 12 (U.R) The Harry Lane, 60th Liberty ship constructed by Oregon Ship building corporation since be ginning of the war program, was launched late yesterday at the company's yard here in the spir it of Russian friendship. Alexandra Danilova, premier ballerina of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, christened the ship. Joe Reiling of Silverton Dies Silvcrton, Aug. 12 Joe Reil ing, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Reiling of this city, met death by accident while employed at the Nebergall Meat Packing company at Albany this fore noon, according to information received here. A knife which Reiling was manipulating is said to have slipped and entered his abdomen, resulting in his death from the loss of blood. He is survived by his parents and sev eral brothers and sisters. Ocean Japs Keep Yanks In Damp D : . - l By Riohafd v- ' - (Formor U. 'P. MAnwier nt Mrf ila) ' Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 12 (U.R) Filipipis who refuse to submit to Japanese domination in the Philippines are being executed on sabotage charges, and Americans outspokenly anti-Japanese be fore Pearl Harbor still are held in the. damp dungeons of ancient Fort Santiago. American repatriates from Manila with whom I renewed acquaintance aboard the Gripsholm en route home from the Orient, said Filipinos had been executed for "failure to cooperate with Japan's new order." A smuggled copy of the Manila Tribune reported 13 na tives sentenced to death for cut ting a military communications line. Whatever the Japanese plan for the Philippines, my friends from, Manila said their arro gance had made the average Fil ipino more staunchly attached to the United States. The army of occupation hasn't made friends with the natives; thou sands of Filipinos are jobless, their currency is inflated and prospects of obtaining funds for rice and other, necessities are poor. Japanese officers have taken over the best homes, and have been particularly harsh in deal ing with such Americans as Roy C. Bennett, the former Lexing ton, Ky., newspaperman who was editor of the Manila Bulle tin, and Ford Wilkins of Minne apolis, who was his news editor. Both are among those held in the fort dungeons. Carl Mydans, staff photogra pher for Life magazine, and Mrs. Mydans are in the civilian camp at Santo Tomas university. American business men Who joined the navy and subsequent ly were captured, are interned on Ccbu island. Among them are Sam J. Wilson of Philadel phia,. William Pearce of Chica go,, branch manager for the Palmolive Pcet Co., and Hubert McGowan of Seattle, who was with the American President lines. Former Manilans said the day after Corregidor fell the syste matic looting of American shops and homes started. Seven Jap anese steamers were docked at Manila and into their holds went electric refrigerators, washing machines, radios, household fur nishings, and thousands of tons of rice. Diabetic Deaths Increase Washington, Aug. 12 (P) The census bureau today reported a steadily increasing death rale caused by diabqtcs, Total deaths in 1940 were 35,015, the greatest number ever recorded, the bureau said. The death rate per 100,000 of 2B.6 was the high est in 40 years of census records. , HAWAIIAN "'. IS HONOLULU Q 7 7 NtW -'ZEALAND ungeon C Wilson Mainz Target Of Mass Raid London, Aug. 12 (n Mainz, German chemical industry and rail center on the Rhine, was heavily attacked last night by the RAF in a raid which was "particularly successful" and left fires still raging this morn ing, the air ministry announced today. Sixteen bombers were miss ing, indicating a strong force participated. (If previous losses of 4 to 5 per cent of the at tackers is used as a basis, the number involved would be up to 400.) The Coblenz docks at Le Havre and air fields in the low countries also were attacked. The Mainz raid followed a one -night, weather - enforced gap in the RAF offensive against Germany. This was the fourth time that the RAF picked Mainz as its target but the city had not been raided since November 28, 1940. Other RAF squadrons hit the French coast in an assault which began at Calais and spread southward. British residents along the southeast coast watch ed the fireworks from this side of the channel. Germans Apply Torch To Caucasian Cities By Henry Shapiro Moscow, Aug. 12 (U.R) Every occupied city, town and hamlet in the north Caucasus was reported in flames or In ruins today, as the outnumbered Russians fought desperately and thus far vainly to stop relentless German drives toward their Black Sea bases on the west and the val uable oil wells of Grozny on the cast. Indications that the Russians had fired their own oil wells came from radio Vichy, which broadcast that "fire fighting armies" were marching behind German troops lr the Caucasus, "fighting fires that the Rus sians had ignited ' in their oil wells." (The Germans claimed today lhat they had taken Slavynnsky sa, 20 miles northwest of Kras nodar and 30 miles from the Black Sea mouth of the Kuban Germans Claim 01 Red Army Assert 35,000 Prisoners Taken Other Reports Say Defense Stiffens 'By tlin Associated Prrss) Adolf Hitler's field headquar ters claimed sweeping new suc cesses in the battles of the Don river and the Caucasus today while the Russians acknowledged a new German advance toward Slalingrad on the Volga and de clared whole cities were aflame on .the trail of the nazi invaders. Soviet dispatches said huge masses of German tanks sup ported by planes ripped into the Russian lines northeast of Ko telnikovski, 95 miles below Stal ingrad, and broke through the red army defenses. The assault was finally stop ped, Red Star said. Despite the nazi boasts of - spectacular successes, British military sources declared that sovict resistance was stiffening on all fronts. Claim Annihilation These quarters said red army counterattacks in the Voronezh and Rzhev sectors, south and northwest of Moscow, respec tively, were beginning to worry the Germans. Nazi claims were discounted as greatly exagger ated. Gorman headquarters flashed a 'series 'of bulletins asserting that the bulk of the Russian 62nd army and the 1st tank army had been "annihilated" in the Kalach sector, 50 miles northwest of Slalingrad, with 35,000 red army soldiers taken prisoners. Since July 23, the Germans said, the Russians have lost 57,000 "prisoners and more than 1,000 tanks in the flaming Don river bend fighting. The German high command declared 1,044,741 Russians had been captured since January 1 along the whole battlcfront. Reds Counterattack A nazi commiquc conceded that Marshal Semeon Timoshcn- ko's armies had launched new counter-blows northwest of Vo ronezh, 300-odd miles above the Stalingrad battle area, but de clared German armored columns were sweeping Inexorably deep er into the Caucasus. Axis-allied Rumanian troops were credited with capturing Slavyansk, 25 miles northwest of Krasnodar, while nazi war- planes attacked Russian troops attempting to flee at Black sea ports between Tuapsa and An apa. The German command said nazi bombers sank two more transports and damaged six oth ers along the Black sea coast. Illnck Picture The Russians themselves painted a black picture of the vast struggle except In the Klet- sknya sector, 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad, where the Ger man onslaught against the big Volga steel city was said to have been definitely slopped. river.) The Russian position in north Caucasus, it was said peared to be irretrievable. What the Russians had not destroyed in their scorched earth campaign, the Germans now savagely demolished. The fertile Kuban valley, a few weeks ago filled with golden, waving wheat, tasscling corn and peaceful Cossack villages, was in waste. Not a hamlet, it was said, es caped the torch of the Germans, apparently venting their anger because the Russians had des troyed most of their crops, Enemy Rushes Reinforcements To Oust Yanks Allied Planes Assist Leathernecks in Fighting Way Inland London, Aug. 12 The London Star said today that "reports suggest" United States marine landing parties . in the Solomon . islands "have been strengthened and are making some progress." : The paper said the marines, "who arc believed to have tanks and landing barges and special types of artillery, still hold bridgeheads they established Friday and Saturday." By Don "aswcll Gen. MacArthur's Headquar ters, Australia, Aug. 12 (U.R) United States marines are fight ing their way into the interior of three key Solomon islands l against a desperate Japanese de- fense and under a furious at- j tack by enemy bomber and fighter planes, reports indicated today. Details of the fighting were awaited eagerly at headquarters especially because of a belief that the marines, in effecting their first landings, used para chutists. . On the sixth day of the first great American offensive in the Pacific, it' was indicated that the Japanese" were fighting a des perate delaying action while from bases all over the south west Pacific they rushed every warship, troop-ship and plane they could in a determined at tempt to break the foothold that the marines, in a combined American naval, land and aerial attack, had won at the southern end of the Solomons. Allied naval and land based planes were reported fighting a wild battle with increasing num bers of Japanese planes, includ ing Zero fighters. Fight Way Inland The American forces had no land-based fighter planes and their only land-based bombers were those of the United Na tions forces in the Australian zone, based 1,000 miles or more from the nearest allied flying field to the battle area. The marines, landed from their commando invasion boats, were bcltevcd to have secured their footholds on Tulagl, Flor ida and Guadalcanal island and were fighting their way Inland (Concluded on Page 8, Column 4) British Carrier Eagle Sunk London, Aug. 12 W) The British aircraft carrier Eagle has been sunk as a result of U-bout action in the Mediter ranean but a largo part of the 22,000-lon warship's crew has been saved, the admiralty an nounced today. A German broadcast heard here Indicated the Eagle went down nt the start of a battle which may be continuing be tween a British convoy and axis submarines and warplancs. The broadcast, quoting DNB, said a British "capitnl convoy," escorted by the bulk of the Mediterranean fleet, had been engaged in the western Mediter ranean since last evening. The original German report said the Eagle wos sunk at mid day. Adding to the scope of the reported action, the Italian high command said that one of its submarines scored two torpedo hits at dawn yesterday on "a largo warship of unascertained type, strongly escorted." The admiralty said at least one enemy submarine operating in the same area as the 24-year-old carrier already hod been sunk, Indicating that the Eagle went down fighting. German broadcasts last night said four torpedo hits sent her to tile bottom in the western Mediterranean. r