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Saturday, August 15, 1942 The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Nine c o i Locals i Friday: Max. 102. Min. 53. Today: River -3.6 ft. David A. Wind, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wind, of Mc Minnville, is here on furlough from the radio personnel of the U. S. marine corps. He enlisted September 20, 1941. His broth; er, Robert Z. Wind, a corporal in the special weapons battalion, who enlisted in November, 1937, and was first on the list for pro motion to sergeant, was drown ed while swimming on a Cali fornia beach March 27, 1941. ' For Home Loans see Salem Federal, 130 South Liberty. Lloyd David Ringland, of Sa lem, an ordained elder of the United Brethren in Christ church, has enlisted in the U. S marine corps and is now on his way to San Diego for prelimin ary marine training. He was enlisted in the Portland district Another enlisting Friday was Henry H. Schultalber, Wood burn. Lutz Florist 1276 N. Liberty. Mrs. Martha Harrington has received word from her son Robert Thomas Harrington, that he has been assigned to the Las Vegas army gunnery school Harrington was inducted in early July and reported to Fort Lewis. He was then transferred to Sheppard Field, Texas, where he received his new assignment It costs no more to use the best. Re-roof now with Pabco J j; Roofing. No down payment. 12 months to pay. Ph. 9221. R. L. Elfstrom Co., 3.75 Cheme keta St. Capital Post No. 9, American Legion, will hold its August . meeting at the Legion hall Mon day night. Complete reports are expected on the Fourth of July celebration. This will be the last meeting of the old of ' ficers, those elected earlier in the year to be installed at the September meeting, Ira Pilcher succeeding Fred Gahlsdorf as commander. Savings insured to $5000.00 are earning 3 at Salem Fed eral, 130 South Liberty. ' Enlisting in the navy in Port land yesterday were Robert Lee McCracken, Mack Stamen Snair, Victor Merwin Koop, Lawrence Alfred Webb, Loren Evergard C Benjamin and Wayne Cecil Per- v-' due, all of Salem; Thomas Am- ' brose Tallon, Dallas, and Ber . trade Franklin Layman and Robert LeRoi Weaver, both of Corvallis. Night school, $6 a month; of fice machines, bookkeeping, & stenography. Capital Business College, Phone 5987. 194 The state highway commission awarded a contract today for oil ing 1.14 miles of the Sherman highway in Shaniko, Wasco county, to Babbler brothers, Portland, on a low bid of $4,500. The commission said work would start within a few days. Dance Saturday night at Stay ton's new outside dance pavil ion with the Top Hatters. 194 The gardens at the YWCA have been equipped with lawn furniture and the YWCA is in ("viting working girls, who bring " their lunches to make use of the gardens during their lunch hours. Eagles' dance Sat. nlte, four piece orchestra. Good floor. 194 Tom Medley, son of Edythe Medley of this city, who has been stationed at Ft. Warren, Wyo., has been transferred to Ft. Crook, Neb., where he is attached to the advanced motor mechanics school. This school operates on a 24 hour basis. Tom was fortunate enough to become attached to one of the day shifts. Bob Medley, a brother, who played basketball at Willamette during the past two years, is at ump urowder, Mo., where he is one of 25,000 youne men tak ing signal corns work. Follow ing this course it is expected he will be transferred to Ft. Mon mouth, N. J an officer's train ing school for signal corps work. .Wanted $3000 on 1st class in come property, close in, Will pay 6. Box 136, Capital Journal. 194 Following reports of O. E. (Mose) Palmateer, of Salem, and Levi Miller, Woodburn, regard ing sendoffs for selectees leav ing for service, it is planned to adopt some similar plan at Stay- Townsend Clubs Club No. 2 will meet at the Leslie Methodist church Monday night at 8 o'clock. ton, it was decided at a meeting of the Marion county council of the American Legion at Aurora last night. Charles Johnson, Palmateer and Irl McSherry, secretary of the council, were named a committee to work out a new schedule of meetings. The next meeting will be at Wood burn the second Friday in Octo ber. Mrs. Emma Pearce, Salem, president of district No. 2 of the Legion, outlined her plans for the year before the assembly Mrs. Fred Lucht, Mt. Angel, is assemly president and Mrs. Anna Powell, Silverton, secre tary. All posts of the county were represented and after sep arate business sessions moving pictures of war subjects were shown by Hollis Ransom, of Aurora. Refreshments closed the meeting. Canning peaches, you pick Aspinwall Orchards at Brooks, Phone 21261. 194 Places for room and board are being sought by C A- Guderian, local supervisor of war produc tion training, for students from outlying districts who will be in Salem on Monday morning to begin training for radio mechan ics. This class is set up to meet civil service requirements and is sponsored by the ninth corps area signal corps, and will con sist of men and boys between the ages of 17 and 45. Further information may be obtained by calling the local training center, 6737. 90 FHA and other loans, Rich. L. Reimann, 167 S. High. 194 A Sunday visitation of two gardens is the program which members of the Salem Men's Garden club will present tomor row. The group will meet at the W. A. Scott home, 1625 Court street, and from there will move to the Dr. Daniel Schulze gardens on Hansen avenue. At the latter place refreshments will be served. ' Moles, skin blemishes removed by sunshine. Dr. Marshall, Or. bl. 194 Mrs. H. R. McWhorter, 590 North Summer, stepped from her home for a short time and while absent her purse was tak en from a table, she reports to the police. , . Dr. David B. Hill's dental of fice will be closed until Mon day, August 24. 194' Two grass fires called out the department Friday, one at 330 East Miller and the other at 1155 D street. There was no dam age.. We will not be operating be tween Aug. 15 to Aug. 30. Shop will be open. Woods Cleaners 970 Union. 194 Miss Eva Serree, who was painfully injured at her beach cottage at DeLake recently, has been in the Deaconess hospital and is much improved. She may now receive callers.. Slappy Peaches now ready. Open Sunday. Puritan Cider Works, West Salem. 194 B. M. Collins, who has been in the Salem General hospital since suffering a heart attack Sunday, is now receiving visi tors.' Mr. and Mrs, Fred C. Collins of Seattle motored to Salem to see him during the past week. Mrs. Ben G. Woelke, 701 North Church street, received word from her son, Willard F. Grant, Yeoman 3C U.S.N.R. that he has been transferred to the University of Indiana at Bloomington to take a four months course in advanced Yeo man training. He was one of 30 boys chosen out of 1,000 to take the training, Enlisting on Jan uary 6, after completing his preliminary training at the Na val Training station in San Di ego, he was sent to the newly commissioned receiving station on Terminal Island in February. While there he attended night classes and completed a stand ard Navy Yeoman 3C course and worked in the office of First Lieut. Comdr. Kilgrove for three months and in the office of the provost marshal and transfer unit, having complete charge of the office for the past two months. Lieut. Harold B. Sav. USNR. executive officer in the navy of fice of public relations in Wash ington. D. C. stoDDed off in Salem to visit with friends for a short while this morning. Lieut. Say is on a tour of duty along the Pacific coast, after which he will return to Wash ington. He is on leave of ab sence from his position as di. rector of the tourist informa tion bureau of the Oregon state highway department. ' $250 Offer for Salvage from Old Flour Mills H. William Thielsen, county land agent, advised, the county court today he had received an offer of $250 for salvage from the old flour mill buildings at Scotts Mills which have been taken over by the county, from the same concern which is now wrecking the old frame build ings of the Fischer Flouring Mills company at Silverton. The offer is both for the mill and warehouse. The buildings have corrugated iron roofs and are also corrugated iron on the south side. He said there is consid erably more lumber in the ware house than in the mills. A pre vious offer of $50 for the ware house portion had been rejected. The matter of the offer is held in abeyance pending possibility of getting a better one in the near future. The offer does not cover a six-room house on the land at Scotts Mills. Incidentally, Thielsen yester day inspected the remains of the brick building on the old Fischer mill property at Silverton which was destroyed by fire earlier in the week and says that the build ing is a total loss. Parts of three walls are still standing but bulg ing so they must, be knocked down. The county has an equity of $2,185 in the property, which is otherwise owned by the city of Silverton. Insurance on it is $6,500. Deeds were made by the coun ty court today for the following properties: . Land in Gates 100x100 feet to Albert P. and Hattie H. Mill sap for $50. This is the site of the old Santiam Mercantile com pany store destroyed by fire a few years ago and never rebuilt. It is adjacent to land already owned by the Millsaps. To Alfred F. and Esther A. Moon, lot 5, block 7 of the Ben Hall's addition to Woodburn for $20. Private Alvin W. Beardsley, son of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Beardsley of Route 7, Box 427, of Salem, Oregon, has been Court Circuit Court Virginia Kidd has filed action for $2000 damages against Marion coun ty for injuries allegedly received Au gust 17, 1941, at the Macleay road crossing over the Southern Pacific tracks. She stated at that point the pavement had broken down on each side of the rails and when the car in which she was riding as a passenger with her husband, Dr. A. E. Kidd, hit the place the car bounced upwards and she was thrown to the floor, suffering a vertebral fracture and other in juries. She states she was dam aged to the extent of $5000 but that the law in this instance allows no more than $2000 damages. Complaint by Investment Service company vs. Harry P. Fowler seeks to collect $276.45 and interest al leged due on a note and $25 attor ney fee. Complaint for divorce by Imo gene C. Smith vs. Eldon Clarence Smith asks custody of a minor daughter and $50 a month support money. Cruel and inhuman treat ment is charged. They were mar ried October 25, 1941, at Bend. Reply making denial has been filed in the case af Adaline F. Eas tern vs. Edward Schunke and Grace Morgan. Return on execution from Yam hill county in the case of Credit Service company vs. J. F. Converse shows $9.84 collected. Complaint, confession of judg ment and satisfaction of judgment for $350 have been filed in the case of Ralph Kenncy, minor, by Clara E. Kenney, guardian ad litem, vs Leila Johnson. The matter is out growth of an accident at Franklyn avenue and Kingwood drive in West Salem, June 19, this year, In which the plaintiff sustained injuries. Request for an execution has been filed in the case of Sylvia vs. Vir gil Harnar. Default decree of divorce has been Issued by Judge McMahan in the case of Lyman E. Coslett vs. Emma Irene Coslett. Probate Court Brazier C. Small, as guardian for Gerald K. Allen, has been author ized to invest $500 of estate funds in war bonds. Closing order has been granted Evelyn M, Autranc as guardian for James Alvan Green, final reporr. showing receipts of $141.93 and dis bursements of $112. Fourth account of Minnie M. Schoneman as administratrix of the estate of Martin R. Schoneman shows $605.98 advanced by the ad ministratrix personally. Walter S. Lamkln, Ruby W. Em ery and Bessie M. Elofson have been named appraisers of the es tate of Ruth E. Hornchurch. Final decree has been, issued tt Jcnkle C. Simpson as administrator of the estate of Nellie B. Simpson Inventory of the estate of W. T. Rlgdon shows a $1000 Oregon Pulp Paper company gold bond, nine shares of Columbia River Paner company stock and a contract for promoted to the rank of corpo ral this past week at the Davis Monthan field in Tucson, Ari zona. Corporal Beardsley en tered the service December 29, 1941, at Portland, Oregon. Private James A. Green, of 3655 State street, Salem, Oregon, has been graduate from Scott Field, 111., radio university of the AAF, and received his diploma from the director of training along with other radio opera tors and mechanics and will soon be assigned to duty with one of the air forces' tactical units. A county road crew is grav eling what is known as the Duck Pond road north of Mar ion, graveling covering a space of about three miles starting at a point about a mile north of Marion and extending to the junction with the ' Crawford school road, with exception of a short distance about at the mid dle of the stretch. Log hauling permit has been granted to Webster Williams by the county court. Says Spain to Join Axis War Mexico City, Aug. 15 W) Spain's quick entry into the war on the side of the axis powers was forecast today by Diego Martinez Marrio, one-time pres ident of the Spanish republican legislature who still is regarded by many of his fellow refugees as the legal head of the Spanish state. Should his forecast be fulfill ed, Martinez Marrio declared he would attempt the formal estab lishment of a Spanish republican government-in-exile in Mexico and seek its active alignment with the United Nations. He recalled that of the 470 members of the republican leg islature 130 now are in the west ern hemisphere and some of them possible could be assem bled here. He made it plain, however, that no action would be taken without the approval of the Mexican government, which never has established re lations with the regime of Gen eralissimo Francisco Franco. . News purchase of 80 shares in W. T. Rig don company for $8000 with $2286.27 remaining unpaid. Carrie Wolf has been named ad ministratrix of the $2400 real pro perty estate of Sarah Wolf and Mar garet Ross, J. C. Evans and C. B. .Bates appraisers. Ronald C. Glover has been nam ed administrator of the estate of Josephine A. Brizas and Walter S. Lamkln, Bessie M. Elofson and Ruby W. Emery, appraisers. Petition by John A. and Margie F, Storm asks that names of peti tioners be changed to John A. and Margie F, Long. Hearing has been set for 10 a.m. September 16. Final account of Alvls DeGuire as executor of the estate of Louisa De Guire shows receipts of $640 and dis bursements of $614.19, final hear ing being set for September 21. In heritance tax on the estate has been determined at $91.90 and an order authorizes the borrowing of $400 on a mortgage on Salem real pro perty. The estate of Albert C. Johnson has been appraised at $1000 in real property by Sam F. Speerstra, Eve lyn Jones and Anne M. Wlnslow. Justice Court Silverton A justice court case transfererd from Salem for prelim inary hearing Thursday by Alf O. Nelson was that of Robert A. Park er alleging larceny by being in pos session of $61 taken from a Camp Adair soldier. He was put under $1000 bond which was not furnished. Police Court Pvt. Durward A. Nopson, coast ar tillery, Camp Callan, Calif., held for army authorities on charge of desertion. Violation of basic speed laws charged to Lemuel A, Wassom, 339 Court; Kenneth H. Owens, Silverton and Glen Carl Stewart, 1805 South 12th. Earl Junior Bonney, Rt. 4, failure to give right of way to pedestrian and car held for defective brakes. Gale Clinton Gault, Portland. Il legal reverse turn. Ball $2.50. John Sturgeon, Rt. 1, Box 257. Vagrancy. Richard June Harllng, Rt. 3, and Adrian Edward Ward, Tcnmlle. Drunk. Marriage Licenses ......... uuBk.iv ..vbu, .I, cuniii, naval reserve, Dallas, Texas, and Ada Patricia Otten, 21, stenographer, 051 S, Church, Salem. Faster D. Clabaugh, 37, engineer, 248 D, and Christina Hcttlck, 34. housewife, both Salem. Arthur L. Goss, 40, cook, 348 N. 13th, and Alma A, Fanning, M, teacher, 384 N. 13th, both Salem. Jack M. Helton, 31, box factory, and Esther Uldlne Utz, 17, box factory, both Bridal Veil. Norman O. Barnes, 23, coast guard, San Francisco, and Betty Jeanne Cochran, 18, domestic, route 2, Canby, 96th Division Activated at Camp Adair (Continued from page 1) Because of traffic conditions in and around the camp, the ac tivation ceremonies were almost exclusively military in nature. A small group of civilians, ex clusively newspapermen and photographers, were the only outsiders. The situation was just to the liking of General Bradley who openly declared that the occasion was one of solemnity, "taking on the as pects of a religious ceremony." "We are here to dedicate our services to our country and pledge ourselves to gain the vic tory we shall achieve." Flag Displayed A beautiful American flag was the sole insignia during the ceremony which took place un der a warm August sun and which did not consume much more than 60 minutes. It was explained that the presentation of regimental emblems would be held at a later date. When it was all over the men marched back over the top over the clov er field to their customary tasks and the job of writing the first pages in the history of the 96th division was resumed. A hint as to the rapidity with which General Bradley believes the men at Camp Adair will be prepared for the serious job of fighting was given during his speech when he said that "a year hence it is expected your flag will be enscribed with battle lines." Ready to Meet Aleutian Raid Headquarters, United States Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 15 (U.R) Japan's bases in the Al eutians are a potential threat to both Alaska and Siberia but the Japanese will get a surprise if they try a major offensive from them, a high naval officer said last' night after a tour of the fog-bound islands. "Right now the Japanese have not much in the way of strategic positions," he said. "The fact that they have toe holds constitutes a threat east and west. But key American bases are strongly defended and the immediate enemy menace is not great." In the first eye-witness de scription of the Aleutians sit uation by an officer under the command of Adm. Chester W. Nimilz, chief of the Pacific fleet, the informant said that because of the heavy unpredictable wea ther, operations at present were a sort of Indian warfare in which stealth was the chief fac tor. The informant, reporting on developments in the last month, intimated that the Japanese were working to develop the bases, chiefly at Kiska, 600 miles west of Dutch Harbor, but he declined to speculate on possi ble specific enemy moves. He agreed that the Japanese might have 10,000 men in the area. Deadline for Mailing Gifts Overseas Washington, Aug. 15 (U.R) The war, navy and post office departments today agreed on Nov. 1 as the deadline for mail ing Christmas parcels to serv ice men overseas. Existing restrictions on over seas parcel post of 11 pounds weight, 18 inches length and 42 inches combined length and girth will not be changed for the present. The public, how ever, was urged to voluntarily observe these limitations: vol ume not to exceed that of an ordinary shoebox and weight to be not more than six pounds. All mail matter will remain subject to- censorship. Bergen Off for Alaska Hollywood, Aug. 15 (U.R) Ed gar Bergen and his two wooden companions, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Sncrd were en route to Alaska today for tour of army camps. Bergen will leave Seattle Monday. Robert Gcnlzkow will leave Thursday for Santa Ana, Calif., where he will enter training for the army air corps. Turnover by Sheriff Burk for the 1939 tax roll shows $4,- 003.75 collected out of which $529.97 goes to Salem school dis trict and $594.24 to the city. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Arcliart, 925 Union street, have received word from their son, Dale Arc hart, that he has been promoted to the rank of sergeant. He is attached to the dental clinic at Camp Callan, Calif. Ski Troops Become Mountain Regiment . By Edwin K. Dowell Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, Aug. 15 (U.R) Uncle Sam's first ski troop battalion, organized early this year as an experiment, today has been expanded into a full-fledged mountain regiment and its 1,41)0 men are undergoing rigid and highly spe cialized training. So popular with men in other branches of the service is this mountaineer infantry regiment that its complement has been doubled within the last two months. At present, the regiment is taking its mountaineering train ing under simulated conditions, but soon will move to the heart of a wild, rocky region for the further knowledge so important in making swift, demoralizing Salem Cases At Silverton A number of Salem cases were up for disposition yesterday be fore Justice Alf O. Nelson in Sil verton justice court with Dis trict Attorney Miller B. Hayden present. Charles Dishman was released from a charge of threatening to commit a felony at a bean yard near Jefferson. After the state had submitted its evidence At torney Herman Lafky for de fendant moved that he be dis charged on the ground of insuf ficiency of the evidence which the court granted. The case of slate vs. W .R. Donovan charged with non-sup port was up for consideration and defendant turned $80 over to his wife, agreeing to pay $10 a month and the case was con tinued for 60 days. If at the end of the time it is seen he is making the required payments the district attorney indicated dismissal would be asked. The case of Warren W. Chas- tain, also charged with non sup port, was set for hearing before Silverton justice court next Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Staylon justice court came to Salem yesterday when Albert W. Dunn, who had been arrested on an old warrant charging rob bery not armed with a danger ous weapon, appeared before Justice Walter H. Bell at the jail door and paid $55.40 to make restitution and was released. Lewis Bergerson, who had been arrested at Idanha by state police on a charge of burglary not in a dwelling was turned over by Sheriff Burk last night to the Tillamook sheriff to be returned to that county. 4,000 French Jews Deported by Nazis Vichy, Aug. 15 (P) The Paris Press reported today that 4,000 Jews previously arrested in the unoccupied zone of France were deported Friday "to regions where under good supervisions they will be be able to do labor of use to the European col lectivity." The papers said police In un occupied France were "watch ing pitilessly" for Jews attempt ing to escape across the demar cation line from German-occu pied territory because of the new strict anti-Jewish regulations in the occupied zone. "Concentration camp follows their clandestine arrival in short order," it was asserted. Limit Use of Steel In Kitchen Articles Washington, Aug. 15 VP) The war production board limited to day the use of iron and steel in the manufacture of kitchen uten sils and household articles. For the period from August 1 to September 30, use of iron and steel in the manufacture of kitchen ulensils was limited to 70 per cent of the rate of use during the year ended June 30. A previous order had set the limit at 90 per cent. For the same period, iron and steel used in kilchenware and other household articles was limited lo 50 per cent. Previ ously, the rale permitted for this group was 70 per cent. Salem will be well represent ed at the Young Republican Federation executive board meeting in Eugene tomorrow. Attending from here will be Marjorie Price and Georgia Clark, vice chairman and sec retary of the local club; Doro they Cornelius and Don Black, members of the state board, and Steve Anderson, executive sec retary of the federation. A num ber of candidates, headed by Earl Snell, will be introduced lo the members. Key item for consideration by the board is the drive to back the legislators' compensation amendment. Final plans will be laid to promote the measure. jabs at the enemy. The regiment's commanding officer, Col. O. C. Solph, inaugu rated the ski patrol and now per sonally supervises every phase of the three-sided character of his men's training. "We're supposed to operate in regions which cannot be tra versed by motorized equip ment," he said. For that rea son we are the only infantry re giment in the army equipped solely with mules and horses for transportation." During the summer months, when snow and ice have yielded to dust and heat, a reconnais sance patrol of 51 men, mounted on horses, operates as a scout and advance force in the stead of the ski unit. Most spectacular phase of the regiment's current program lakes place behind an innocent black and white sign that reads: "Mountain infantry mountai neer training area." Here every man is familiar ized with all the aspects of Al pine work with only a minimum of danger. The course is gruel ling. Every precaution is tak en against accidents which could happen easily here were it not for thorough safety measures. Labor Board Rules on Wages Washington, Aug. 15 VP) The war labor board announced to day that it had granted an in crease of 714 cents an hour to 61,000 workers in 40 New Eng land and 11 southern textile mills, and denied a $l-a-day in crease demanded by 32,000 em ployes in 10 plants of the Alum inum Company of America. A request of 900 workers in the Buffalo plant of the Ameri can Magnesium company, sub sidiary of Alcoa, for an increase of 15 cents an hour also was re jected by the board. The board applied a wage sta bilization policy which it had announced in deciding the little steel case and found that the aluminum workers had received average hourly rate increases sufficient to compensate for the 15 per cent rise in the cost of living between January 1, 1941, and May, 1942. The unions in the aluminum case, however, were granted maintenance of membership clause which provides that mem bers of the union will have 15 days in which to resign if they do not want to be bound for the duration of the contract. The clause will apply to the New Kensington, Pa., Detroit, Edgewatcr, N. J., Alcoa, Tcnn., Bauxite, Ark., and Badin, N. C, plants represented by the Alum inum Workers of America; the Vernon, Calif ..plant represented by the United Automobile Work ers, and the Garwood, N. J., plant represented by the Die Casting workers. Wool and Mohair Freight Rates Probed Washington, Aug. 15 VP) The Interstate Commerce commis sion has ordered an investiga tion of wool and mohair freight rates, the office of war inform ation announced today. Ihe investigation will cover the reasonableness of rates on commodities moving by rail roads, or partly by railroads and partly by water, between all points in the United Stales. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, who requested the in vestigation, said the rates on wool and mohair products were out of line." He said hearings probably would be conducted by the ICC this fall. 300 French Escape From Martinique London, Aug. 15 M") The fighting French press services said today that 300 French men and women, who escaped from Martinique have arrived at the nearby British Islands of Domin ica and St. Lucin to await trans portation lo a place "where we can fight." Most of the men fled In small boats at night and the last three lo arrive were picked up by British fishermen 10 miles ofl St. Lucia, the news service said One young sailor was quoted by the service as saying "lite in Martinique is hell" and assert ing that the Vichy Governor Ad miral Georges Robert and naval authorities were spreading anil allied propaganda. Persons lis tening lo foreign broadcasts were sent lo Jail, the sailor said, according to the news service. Tulagi to be Base for Allied Raids on Japan London, Aug. 15 (U.R) The London Evening Star reported from Svdnev tnriav thnt Indira. tions are Tulagi harbor rapidly will be transformed into an al lied advance base as a "inmnlntf off place for major excursions" against Japan. The Star's correspondent said that substantial ooulnment was expected to be concentrated at Tulagi although furious fighting still was in progress in the sur rounding islands. Despite the fighting, the Star " said, Tulagi already is a center for allied activity in the Solo mons. "There is reason In vnirt It will be a jumping off place for major excursions later," said Ihe Star. "It seems likely that be fore the Solomons fighting ends, allied land based aircraft wilt h using the airfields which the Japanese worked so hard to pre pare." The Star expressed belief that reports of encounters nt at allied and Japanese naval units were premature. The Tulagi report followed an admission by the axis radio that the American marine landings caught the Japanese by surprise and that Hie marines now hold at least two positions in the is lands. The reports came in German dispatches from Tokyo which were broadcast by the Berlin ra dio. These evidences that the Unit ed States forces were driving to ward victory wer el when Japan began fishing for imormauon in a tacit confession that it did not know exactly what the American doing, what its power was and wnat it was going to do. It complained that the navy remained almost completely si lent whereas Japan had made a full statement. This transparent technique has been used freely by axis powers in attempts to induce the British and the Amer ican navies to give them infor mation which they needed. Nazis Admit Mainz Damaged Badly Bern, Switzerland, Aug. 15 Wl The Neuc Zuercher Zeitung's correspondent in Berlin said to day reports in the German presi gave the impression that th Rhineland city of Mainz, bombed twice in heavy force by the British this week "now belongs to the list of German cities which suffered great damage." He said numerous buildings were hit, including the Maimer dome. 1,010 U.S. Planes Fought 1,459 Japs Washington, Aug. 15 VP) Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold reported today that 1,010 Amer ican planes had engaged 1,459 Japanese planes In seven months of warfare and had definitely shot down 190. In these battles 104 American planes were lost. "This doesn't include enemy planes damaged, probably des troyed, or lost on the ground," the air forces' commander told a press conference. The American volunteer group, fighting for China, shot down 218 planes while losing 84 before disbanding recently when the army air forces took up the air warfare burden in that area. Recruiting French To Work in Reich Vichy, Aug. 15 VP) Joan Lu- chairc, president of the Paris Press Corporalc Association which Includes technical and mechanical employes, asked As sociation members in Paris to day to leave their newspapers in whole crews and go to work in Germany. At the same time, Luchaire ac knowledged that "some indus tries lack personnel and work in the fields demands man pow er" in France. French workmen today were refused the usual Assumption day holiday as the result of a government request to prevent further production decreases. Russian Sub Sinks 7 Nazi Transports Moscow, Aug. 15 VP) Two Russian submarines have re lumed lo port after sinking sev en German transports one ot them a 16,000-ton ship loaded with men and munitions in the Baltic, Ihe newspaper Pravda re ported today. A brass bnnd grcclcd t h crews, it snid.