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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1942)
Twelvt The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Friday, August 21, 1942 Danger Seen In Uncontrolled Food Prices Washington.. Aug. 21 (IP) Price Administrator Leon Hen- derson predicted today that It the June 15-July 18 rate of in crease continued, foods over which the OPA has no control would cost housewives 30 per cent more a year from now. Uncontrolled food price rose 2.5 per cent between mid-June and mid-July, Henderson report ed, on top of a 4.8 per cent in crease in the month previous. This compared with an Increase of only three-tenths of 1 per cent in the June 15-July 15 period for food prices under OPA con trol. These had declined 1 per cent in the previous month. "The price Increases in un controlled food are drawing a dangerous pattern," the price administrator said, stating that his figures were obtained from the bureau of labor statistics. "If the June 15-July 15 rate of In crease were projected over a year, and this is anything but a fanciful projection, we would be paying an average 30 per cent more for many important food stuffs 12 months hence. "The effect of Increases of this magnitude on the average fam ily budget would be most de structive. Inflation, would have a large foot in the kitchen, even if OPA continued to succeed in holding the line of prices it has set for the things It Is empower ed to control." The price control law gives the OPA no control over direct farm foods, as distinguished from processed foods, or over farm products which have not reached the price levels at which congress has decreed controls may be applied. "Important gains" were re ported by Henderson in the bat tle to hold down rents. Of the 21 cities for which rent indexes are compiled, 13 were under OPA control, and the 21 showed an overall decline of .7 per cent took place in the period. In Baltimore, where rents were or dered cut back to April 1, 1941 levels, the average decline was about 7 per cent. Molt to Speak at Baseball Benefit Congressman James W. Mott, who has been touring his dis trict while the house of repre sentatives is in recess, will make a brief address during tonight's labor-sponsored baseball pro gram at Geo. E. Waters park. The entertainment' part of the affair will take place immedi ately after the ball game which starts at 6:15. Several musical numbers by the municipal band, vocalists from Camp Adair and by Miss Dorothy Reidel, state house employe, will be included in the program. The committee in charge of arrangements, all from the local trades and labor council, includes Herbert Bark er, Charles Crary, Art Peters, William Barnwell, Charles Vlt tone, Joe Prange, W, L. Duncan and Ivan G. Martin. Fifth Aluminum Plant in Operation Portland, Aug. 21 (U.RIA fifth aluminum reduction plant was operating in the Pacific north west today following energiza tion of lines to the Olin Corpor ation plant, the Bonneville ad ministration announced. The new plant, which will be gin actual metal production within 10 days, will bring the northwest's ultimate aluminum output to over $100,000,000 an- Chromife Depot For Del Norte Sacramento, Aug. 21 (IP) Im mediate establishment of a chro mite stockpile and purchasing depot at Gasquet in Del Norte county has been recommended by the state bureau, of war min erals production, and prompt ac tion is expected. Bruce McDonnell, slate bureau chief, said he had received a telegram yesterday from John E. Norton, consulting engineer for the Metals Reserve Corpora tion, indicating that action would be taken. McDonnell said that with a stockpile and purchasing depot at Gasque, the -Del Norte and Siskiyou chrome production could be rapidly expanded. He said 13,920 tons of good grade ore were easily available for pro production' and from 3,500 to 5,000 tons, much of it now in dumps, could be purchased im mediately. 'Commandos Return Home From Raid on Dieppe Tough British commandos, just back from their smashing attack on the German-occupied French coast at Dieppe, throng a pier in England after returning from the raid. This pic ture sent by cable from London to New York. (Asso ciated Press Photo.) Roosevelt Silent On Farley's Victory By D. Harold Oliver Washington, Aug. 21 (IP) Senators split today on the signi ficance o the nomination of John J. Bennett, Jr., for governor of New York over Senator James M. Mead, who had the support of President Roosevelt. School Remodeling Nears Completion While considerable work re mains to be done, Superintend ent Frank B. Bennett hopes that the new administration quarters of the school district will be in readiness for the first meeting of the board In September. The lower floor of the west end of the old high school building has been undertaken on force ac count. At present the administrative offices are housed in three sep arate building s the frame dwelling on High street, a one story shop building nearby and a portion of the old high school building. Under the new ar rangement the department, in cluding storage space for all necessary supplies, will be con veniently grouped. Public en trance to the new quarters will be from High street, while the service door will be from the areaway to the south of the building. nually, the administration said. The Olin plant at capacity, it was announced, will require 40, 000 kilowatts of power, bringing the total for the five plants to 600,000 kilowatts. Most legislators begged to be excused from commenting on the victory scored yesterday by James A. Farley, democratic state chairman, who had backed Bennett. But among those will ing to talk on or off the record were some who believed the state convention result increased Farley's political stature in the 1944 presidential picture and others who thought it would boomerang later against the for mer democratic national chair man. Farley managed President Roosevelt's 1932 and 1936 cam paigns, but balked at the third term and let his own name go before the national convention for the nomination. When asked at his press con ference today what effect Ben nett's nomination would have on the conduct of the war effort, President Roosevelt, apparently prepared for the question, read an excerpt from an article this morning by Mark Sullivan, news paper columnist. The article referred to a press conference held by Robert P. Patterson, undersecretary of war, in which a reporter sought comment on the commando raid on France, 'The question was asked in a manner which suggested that the questioner really did not have much hope of an answer," the president quoted Sullivan. "By thus setting his expectations be low his hopes, he escaped disap pointment. Mr. Patterson said merely that he had no worth while comment." Smiling, Mr. Roosveelt con tinued to read: ' "If Mr. Patterson has no copy right on those four short words 'no worth-while comment' they could be advantageously used by some other Washington officials who face press conferences." THE TASTE IT TOtS i STATES TO Senators Norris (Ind., Neb.), long a supporter of the president, said he thought the New York convention fight would have a "bad effect on the country" be cause it would be taken as a "very severe slap at the presi dent." "It means the democratic party will be badly split up," he added. "As for 1944 the New York delegation might be for Farley for the democratic nomi nation for president or be Farley-controlled, but that does not mean he would control the rest of the state delegations." All Crops Thriving Grand Island All crops are thriving and harvest of beans, corn, peaches and various other kinds of fruit and vegetables, flax and grain is in progress here. The flax is a hard nut to crack, one farmer expressed it Dimouf Order Well Observed With one or two exceptions Salem business concerns made full compliance with the dimout regulations which went into ef feet last night. Two medium siz ed electrical signs were left burning on State street after sundown, but in each instance it was an oversight on the part of the owners. So far the peace officers had learned there had been no intent to evade the regu lations which were issued by the war department. Where operators of service stations keep their establish ments open after dark, the wat tage of the lamps in the reflect ors have been reduced to the re quired dimness. However, light permitted is sufficiently bright to permit business without much delay. Western International league ball games at Geo. E. Waters park and Softball contests ' at Sweetland field will be started early enough to permit of their conclusion before lights are necessary. thus, because of the second growth and tangled fiber in some fields. At the George Asher farm, about one-half acre of sweet peppers are like a flower garden with the blossoms among the verdant green plants. Irs UNIQUE) Schenley alone offer the best from 4 great distilling tates Kentucky, Indiana, Penn sylvania and Maryland blended with finest grain neutral spirit! lor perfect mildness! Try itl $235 QT. I 5J25PT. SCHENLCY, 721 Grain Ntnlr.l Spirit.. BLENDED WHISKEY, 86 Proof. Schtnlor Dlstlllon Corporation, Now York City. Drink; ESCHENLEY Open Until 9:00 P.M. Saturday Anniversary Of Assault On Leningrad By Eddy Gllmore Moscow, Aug. 21 UP) Adolf Hitler launched his unsuccessful assault upon Leningrad a year ago today, besieging the former capital with 300,000 soldiers. After 12 months, the city's de fenders fight on. The soviet information bureau announced at noon that more than 1,000 Germans had been wiped out in 48 hours of local fighting on the Leningrad front and that Russian troops captur ed an important strategic post tion in a limited offensive. "We destroyed 10 machine- guns, three mortars and two am munition dumps and seven ene my artillery batteries were si lenced, the bureau said in sum ming up the latest developments of the struggle joined when the Germans struck August 21, 1941. Civilians called into action by Marshal Klementi Voroshilov from the population of 3,000,000 helped red army divisions to stem the onslaughts. "Stand firm to the end" was his order, and they did even more. The communist party newspa per Pravda said the nazi high command aligned 52 infantry di visions, four motorized divisions and four tank divisions against Russia s second city previously known as St. Petersburg and Petrograd. The Germans hauled up 6,000 big guns, 19,000 machineguns, 4,500 mortars and 1,000 tanks and supported these ground weapons with 1,000 planes, ex pecting to smash into Leningrad immediately. Income payments to indivi duals in the state of New York during 1941 totaled $13,854 mil lion, greatly In other state, the department of commerce reports. Major Battle Front Remains in Russia (Thii dally feature, conducted by DeWltt MacKenale, Wide World war analyst, ll written In his absence today, by Olen Babb.) Winston Churchill's dramatic travels and the magnificent ad venture of Dieppe have relegated the war in Russia to smaller headlines this week but has done nothing to alter the fact that the one major front remains along the Don and in the Cau- serious Denl- The tremendous casus foothills.' There is the one battle for Us Possession, already place that the fortunes of all!nearly a month old, goes for the United Nations are in the ward in an obscurity little re balance, where tremendous de- lleved bv .tne communiques cisions affecting not merely the!?"" nu5sla". or "erman out duration of the war, the cost of victory but the question of vic tory itself are in the making. Comparatively the other fights are training bouts pre liminaries. There is nothing preliminary or tentative about the battle of the Don bend. It is make or break for keeps for the two greatest armies in the world. Today's News Best Today's Moscow communique is one of the best for many days. It recites the usual list of bat tlefields where thousands of men are dying without any of the all too frequent admissions of retreat. But it would be a mistake to draw too much en couragement from a single half day's record. Only last midnight the Russians had to report a damaging series of setbacks: par tial survival of a German force that had crossed the Don above Stalingrad; south of Krasnodar "our troops were forced to with draw to new positions in one sec tor;" "he Germans advanced somewhat southeast of Pyati gorsk." Only in the Kotelni hovski sector, where the south ern claw of a nazi plncer is reaching for Stalingrad, did the stubborn defense continue whol ly successful. Stalingrad has become the symbol of victory in this cam paign. There is no blinking the fact that this great industrial city and communications center, whose sentimental value to the Russians is almost as important as its strategic importance, is in the broad outlines of the strug gle have been made manifest. Stalingrad's Hour From the northwest Marshal Fcdor von Bock, having con quered most of the Don bend, is engaged in a titanic effort to force a crossing of the river onltfh 40 miles from the city. Frorrr the southwest another powerful armored and Infantry force is attacking from the Kotelnikov ski area. The Russian admis sion that not all the enemy who crossed the Don have been wiped out is ominous. Stalingrad's hour comes just as her sister city of the north completes the first year of one" of the great sieges of history. It was a year ago today that Hit ler's guns took Leningrad under bombardment and the siege lines were drawn about the former capital of the , czars. Holman Returning From Alaska Ketchikan, Alaska, Aug. 21 (IP) Their inspection tour of AMt askan military installations con cluded, two United States sena tors were en route home today while two others of their party regained in the territory. Returning to the states are . Senator Albert B. Chandler (D., Ky.) and Rufus C. 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