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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1942)
i omiraaji 54th Year No 210 tMi wconn ciui JHtn I cur, MO. i. IJ mttttr 6lm. Oregon Salem, Oregon Thursday, Sen'"-' 3 JA2- 7 .. -off': Price Five Cents Bommb oribies Check A& Desert Drive !! si in pa .1 II J. nog S Jhielsen Quits As Secretary Of Chamber Cochran to be Manager Mrs. Rose Brinkley - Also Resigns as Assistant Resignation of Fred D. Thiel sen as executive secretary of the Salem Chamber of Commerce was announced today by Carl Hogg, president of the chamber, who said the resignation was received and accepted at a meet ing of the board last night. Mr. Hogg also said that Mrs. Rose jjBrinkley, secretary to the man ager, had announced her inten tion to resign October 1. She has been 'With the chamber sev en years. Mr. Thielsen has secured a position with the state public utilities commission which he will take over September 15. He came to the chamber as man ager four years ago, succeeding Charles E. Wilson. He held that office until about three months ago when the office of business extension manager was created and filled by Clay C. Cochran of Corvallis, and Thielsen became executive secretary. . Cochran Successor Much of Mr, Thielsen's work in recent months has been on new memberships in collabora tion with the membership com mittee, and President Hogg said today that the chamber mem bership this year has increased bout 25 per cent regardless of lieavy membership loss due to men going into the armed forces. In accepting Thielsen's resigna tion last night that board adopt ed a resolution in appreciation of his services. Mr. Hogg said tha Cochran will now assume the duties both of business ex tension manager and executive secretary. . . . Relative to future chamber policies Hogg said today that an effort will be made to gain another 25 per cent in member ship by the end of this year. This work will be largely in the hands of the membership com mittee, headed by Frank Doer fler. Membership Drive "I believe," said Mr. Hogg, "that any firm or concern in Salem that is not now support ing the Chamber of Commerce should feel an obligation to join, 3 especially because of the war ef fort, for the war has added many (Concluded on page 13, column 4) Japan Admits Change in Policy (Bt the United Press) Japan finally admitted, im plicitly if not directly, today that the resignation of Foreign -Min ister Shigenori Togo marked a major change in policy, regard less of the possibility that it might mean an early stab in the back at far eastern Russia. Berlin' quoted the official. Jap anese news agency that a new foreign minister would be nam- ion voi I soon and that the man named vould also head the new "min istry for greater east Asia." Tokyo had previously made It known that the new ministry, announced just after Togo's re signation, would work closely with the army and would con trol the personnel of Japanese embassies, legations and consu lates in the area affected. It was Indicated that regard less of anything else, the war lords were taking direct control of "political, cultural and eco- nomic" matters under the new ministry in order to squeeze every ounce they could, not only out of occupied territories, but out of Indo-Chlna, Thailand and occupied China, normally under control of a puppet regime, to support their war machine. 01 The third resignation in the apanese foreign ministry was announced last night when Shl geru Kawagoe, a veteran diplo matist, gave up his post as spe cial foreign office adviser. i Axis Offers Only Death to Youth, Says President In World-wide Broadcast President Says Cause of Allies Is Youth Itself . Washington, Sept. 3 (IP) President Roosevelt told ' young people of all the world today that German nazis, Italian fas cists . and. Japanese militarists have nothing to offer but death while, "the cause of the United Nations' is the cause of youth itself." , :,' His words were broadcast in ternationally and were directed to young men and women in the United Nations and in axis na tions and axis-dominated lands as well. But Mr. Roosevelt re marked he fully expected the axis to jam the airwaves to drown out his message. The president's . immediate audience was the international student assembly, gathered in Washington. 1 Hope for New Life The cause of the United Na tions, Mr. Roosevelt declared, is "the hope of the new genera tion and the generations that are to come hope for a new life that can be lived in freedom, and justice and decency." He added: "This fact is becoming clearer every day to the young people of Europe, where the nazis are trying to create youth ' organ izations built on . the nazi- pat tern. . . . It is a pattern devised by Hitler and imposed . upon youth by a form of mental forc ible feeding a diet of false facts, distortions and prohibi tions all backed up by the guns of the gestapo." Death Before Slavery Any who wonder what the decent youth of Europe think of this, he said, have but to con sider the grave young men in occupied countries who prefer firing squads to life long "slav ery . and degradation under Hitler." Throughout the world, men in America's fighting forces were listening to their commander-in-chief. Much of the address was directed specifically to them and he gave assurance that "we here at home are supremely con scious of our obligations to you," now and in the future, and "we will not let you down." The United Nations, Mr. Roosevelt asserted, have the technical means, physical re sources, courage, vision and will required to build and sus tain the kind of World order which lone, he said, can justify youth's sacrifices now. Mast Never Relax "But we must keep at it we must never relax, never falter, never fear and we must keep at it together," he said. "We must maintain the of fensive against evil in all its (Concluded on page 12, column 1) Joan Leslie, Menj ou, Pidgeon Here Tonight Members of Theatrical Local 613 were busy this morning put ting the finishing touches to the Victory Center for the personal appearance tonight of Joan Leslie, Walter Pidgeon and Adolph Menjou as part of their nation-. wide tour, "Stars Over Amen Long streamers of multi-colored flags hang from the Legion flagpole, and the platform is walled, with mulberry-colored velvet. Special deflecting lights hang directly over the platform so everyone will get an excellent view of the stars. North High street between State and Court will be roped off by the police department and ample room is guaranteed for everyone. "Stars Over America" is the motion picture industry's contri bution to the sale of war bonds. A score of top-flight personalities are touring the country this month, making hundreds of per sonal appearances. The appearance here of Joan fe1 - ii i - -y ; wflr !... Ah vj Commander Commanding the American B-25 bomb ers fighting nazi General Erwin -Rommel's renewed attack in Egypt is Col. C. C. Goodrich of Augusta, Ga., (above), it was announced in Washington. Associat ed Press Photo. Chinese Drive Nears Canton Chungking, Sept. 3 (U.R) Chi nese troops advancing down the main railroad line running into Canton from the. north have ad. vanced to within 15 miles of that important southern commercial city, front line dispatches report' cd today. Canton lies on the left bank of the Pearl river, about 80 miles from the China sea and Hong Kong. Another Chinese column re portedly re-captured several points in the vicinity of Sam shui. about 30 miles east of Can ton, including the town of Lupao In Chekiang province to the north, Chinese troops still were besieging the air-base city of Kinhwa, although the Japanese reportedly had reduced it to ash es. The Jap garrison, apparently resigned to the eventual loss of this base, were said to have kill ed 500 Chinese youths of the town. Ship Founders Off Manifou Island Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 3 (U.R). The 1699 ton ore carrier Steel- vendor foundered early today off Manitou island in Lake Superior. Announcement of the sinking came from the officers of the American Steel and Wire Co, which owns and operates the ship. A company spokesman said that all hands were saved except one sailor, as yet unidentified, The carrier was- loaded with 3000 tons of iron ore picked up at Duluth, Minn,, and was un der command of Capt. G. L, Kane of Buffalo, N. Y. Leslie, Walter Pidgeon and Adolphe Menjou may be fol lowed by others. Greer Gar son, Ronald Coleman, Irene Dunne and dozens of others are also out in behalf of the sale and may come this way. Tonight's program starts at 7 o'clock with a military band con cert. Don Black has been nam ed program chairman, with Sen ator Douglas McKay getting the assignment as master of cere monies for the occasion. Manager Carl Porter of War ner Bros. Salem theatres, issued the following statement today: "On the people of Salem and the rest of America depends whe ther the salute to the Stars and Stripes shall be replaced by a (Concluded on pate 9, column 2) Allied Planes Hit Jap Bases In Solomons Buka Island and Lae Bombed and Japs Fail To Intercept. By Don Caswell Gen. MacArthur's Headquart ers, Sept. 3 (U.R) Allied planes have made a heavy attack on the Japanese air base in Buka island, at the northern end of the Solo mons roughly midway between the United States marine posi tions in the southern Solomons and Milne bay, where the Aus tralians smashed a new enemy invasion attempt on New Gui nea, it was announced today. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said allied bomb ers in a night attack put five tons of bombs mto their target area in a raid on Buka island, at the extreme northern end of the Solomons, 480 miles northwest of the marine base oh Guadal canal island and 450 miles northeast of Milne bay at the southeast tip of New Guinea. Planes Rain Bombs The planes rained bombs in the airdrome runway and in stallations and in addition at tacked an enemy destroyer in the harbor with unknown results. It was believed that the attack marked the opening of an of fensive against enemy bases at the northern ' end of ; the Solo mons betause'of-indioitjqhs .that; thrown out of the southern part of the islands by the marines, the Japanese were strengthen ing their air bases on Buka and on big Bougainville island, im mediately to the south, Allied medium bombers, in addition to the Buka raid, made a punishing attack on the en emy airdrome and installations at Lae, on the north shore of New Guinea 550 miles west of Buka, and again put all their bombs in the target area. They met no interception from Japanese fighters which have been strangely inactive for days after taking heavy punishment for weeks both in MacArthur's zone and in the marine area. There was a lull in ground fighting in the Kokoda area, on the north side of the Owen Stan ley mountains 55 miles from Port Moresby, the allied base on the south New Guinea coast. Asks Drafting Of 18-19 Youth Washington, Sept. 3 VP) Sen ator Gurney (R., S.D.) demanded in the senate today the immedi ate drafting of youths of 18 and 19 years of age. The proposal brought a quick protest from Senator Bilbo (D Miss.), who said the "idea of sending tender boys into com bat" was "abhorrent" to him. Gurney offered an amendment to the selective service act which he said was designed to provide youths under 20 a maximum per iod of training before "they would have to go into combat." The Gurney amendment was referred to the military affairs committee, where democratic senators have professed distaste for lowering age limits for in duction, with one warning ag ainst mobilization of an army so large that it would endanger the nation's efficiency as "the arsenal of democracy." Major Jim Roosevelt Visits His Wife ' San Diego, Calif., Sept. 3 (IP) Maj. James Roosevelt, the president's eldest son, who was one of the leaders of a U.S. ma rine corps raid on Japanese-held Makin Island, Aug. 17, visited his wife at nearby Coronado Sunday and Monday, but is back on active duty. "I certainly was glad to see him safe and unharmed," Mrs. Roosevelt told reporters. , as mV-t . ' ,,kt'I3rA- " Yanks Parade In London U. S. troops march along Fleet street in London in their first parade in that English city since the AEF landed in Britain, The Associated Press offices are in the white building at the left. Occasion of the parade was an official welcome to troops by the lord mayor of London. This picture was cabled from London to New York. Associated Press Photo. RAF Hails Aid Of US Air Fleet ' London, Sept. 3 UP) The advent of the U. S. army air forces in the European theatre was acclaimed by the RAF today as one of the outstanding events of the third year of the war a year which the British army said had brought allied invasion of Europe with in the range of practical possibility. It was three years.ago today that Britain and France declared- war on Germany, two days after her invasion of Poland Commenting on the fact that American planes and American pilots in growing numbers now are helping carry the battle to Germany, an air ministry state ment summarizing developments of the last 12 months said: "Appearance of these forerun ners of the American air fleets of the fourth year of the war will perhaps be regarded by future historians as the most signific ant event of the period under re view." Among contributions which the United States already has made to the air war the air min istry merttioned specifically pre cision bombing attacks on Ger many by flying fortresses and the work done by American made Bostons, Liberators and Catalinas with the coastal com mand. The latter was credited with sharing in the "notable achieve ment" of convoying "every one of the American soldiers who reached this island without loss." The ministry also declared that Mustang fighters with the army cooperation command had "performed admirably" during the August 19 commando raid on Dieppe. Germany Asks Base at Dakar At the French Frontier, Sept. 3 (U.R) Germany was reported today in advices from unoccupied France to be seeking permission to station dive bomber squadrons at Dakar. The demand was said to have been placed before Premier Pi erre Laval by Otto Abetz, Adolf Hitler's emissary in France, last Thursday at a conference held at Nevers, just north of Moulins, in the occupied zone. , This was said to have been the reason for Boisson's airplane trip to Vichy early this week to con fer with Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. Laval's conference with Abetz was said to have lasted several hours. The Germans were represent ed as fearing that Dakar may be attacked at any moment by an Anglo - American expeditionary force. , Nazis Troubled In Baltic Areas London, Sept. 3 (U.R) Reports from continental Europe indi cated today that Germany was having trouble In new areas Denmark and the former Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. A Copenhagen dispatch broad cast by Berlin said the Danish government had appealed to Danes "not to lose their consid erable and correct attitude." British reports said Gorman newspapers in towns near the Danish frontier were complain ing that co-operation between Danes and nazi? was impossible because of the Danish attitude. They said that Finnish chil dren who visited Denmark were taught the phrase, "stupid Germans." Union Chiefs Demand Place at the Top Washington, Sept. 3 (P) Organized labor carried directly to, Donald M. Nelson today its demand for "a place at the top" in guid ing production policy and for labor representation on the war pro duction board itself. As an out- growth of representations made by the-leaders of 20 AFL and CIO unions at last week's Inbor WPB conference on materials shortages, WPB chairman Nel son arranged to sit down with a six-man labor co m m i t e e for what he called an afternoon of "the frankest kind of talk." Meantime, sources refusing to be quoted by name, predicted Nelson would grant labor a voice in drafting production policy equivalent to that of other board members. They also expressed belief the council table chair va cated by Sidney Hillman would be filled by Wendell Lund of De troit. Hillman lias not attended n board session since the labor di vision which he headed was abolished months ago and re placed by the labor production division under Lund. Hillman was associate direct or general of the office of pro Nazi Assault Presses Farther On Stalingrad Drives from North Halt ed, But Roll On in South n Dangerous Wedge By Eddy Gilmore Moscow, Sept. 3 (IP) The Ger man assault against Stalingrad from the northwest stood check ed at the very approaches to the Volga city today, but to the southwest the red army again recoiled before the massed tanks which drove a menacing wedge into the most stubbornly defend ed positions. Both the noon communique and field dispatches announced a further retreat in this vital sec tor, while 400 miles to the south west a similar retreat was made by the Soviet forces defending the Black sea naval base of No vorossisk. Dramatic Battle A dramatic battle was report ed northwest of Stalingrad where a Russian anti-aircraft battery leveled its guns against 50 Ger man tanks charging into the ap proaches to the city and stopped them until reinforcements i rived. The newspaper Izvestia said that German planes dive-bombed the northwestern approach to Stalingrad after which tanks ap peared suddenly and rushed to ward a Russian anti-aircraft bat: tery. Swinging their guns to hori zontal, the anti-aircraftmen halt ed the tanks, but two companies of German infantry trailing the machines closed in about the battery. Continuous Air Battles Until nightfall the Russian gunners fought, wrecking 17 of the tanks. The battery exhausted its supply of shells, but the crews captured a mortar and shells from the enemy and held on to their position through a night illuminated by rockets. They ef fectively blocked a German sup ply route and in the morning were relieved by tank and troop reinforcements. Almost continuous air battles were reported raging over the approaches to Stalingrad. The army newspaper Red Star said Russian airmen downed 23 ene my planes yesterday and dam aged eight. Red Star said 200 tanks, sev eral infantry divisions and large aerial and artillery formations had been assembled below Stal ingrad and Soviet troops were forced back in several sectors under a mass assault. Hungarian and Rumanian di visions were said to be speeding eastward to swell the ranks of the nazi shock troops. (Concluded on page 13, column 6) duction management and as head of the labor division gave labor strong representation. OPM was dissolved last January and WPB formed in Its place in an effort to simplify the administration ma chinery and establish one-man supervision over war production. Consequently, labor lost the power it had commanded in Hill man's office as the executive board creating WPB placed all a u t ho r 1 1 y. in Nelson's hand While reported willing to allow labor an equal voice on the board, the WPB chief was not expected to share his authority by giving labor "a place at the lop." Labor officials last week ac cused WPB of being "unbalanced and one-sided" in its approach to war production because they said key positions were held by men whose "experience and background are those of corpor ate management." Major Battle For Nile Fails To Develop British and U.S. Planes, Combined with Artillery, Halt Rommel's Drive With the Allied Forces In Egypt's Western Desert, Sept. 3 (IP) German tank columns with drew this morning from part of the stove-pipe shaped area into which they had been - pushing since dawn Monday. While the harrassing the Ger mans have received from British armor and artillery may have caused this withdrawal, there's no doubt the real object of Mar shal Erwin Rommel's present movements is to get into the best position for an attack. As enemy tanks withheld Brit ish tanks and armored cars moved forward a little, tighten ing the allied vise which has been drawn about the Germans on three sides. Cairo, Egypt, Sept.' 3 (IP) Cautious probing by Marshal Erwin Rommel's African corps has encountered a fury of air attack, artillery fire 'and harass ment by mobile forces, and four days' after the British expected an axis offensive the showdown battle for the Nile had failed to develop. British ground troops in strongpoints a n d .slit trenches along the 40-mile El' Alamein line had not yet come lntp action with the enemy. Only screen ing mobile forces were reported thrusting and attacking the Ger man armored columns which had filtered eight miles into the minefields of the Ruwelsat-Hi-meiat sector on the south. Artillery Barrage Whether Rommel was puzzled by the British tactics, was play ing a game of his own, or was made hesitant by the storm of artillery fire and the thunderous aerial bombardment of his arm ored and supply columns which greeted his first move, observ ers could not say. Today's communique said Rommel's axis army was sub jected yesterday to a record breaking bombing by RAF and American planes. Never before since the start of the North African campaign, a communique said, have so many sorties been carried out in the course of a day. Day-Night Battle From dawn until after dark allied bombers shuttled over the battle area, unloading high ex plosives on Rommel's communi cations and troop concentra tions in an effort to break up his preparations for an all-out as sault on the El Alamein defense line. At the same time enemy arm ored forces which had sifted through minefields in the Ru-weisat-Himcimat sector on the extreme southern flank of the line were attacked from the east and southeast by mobile British forces. Many Dogfights Considerable activity also was reported on the part of the axis air force, resulting in numerous dogfights in which, the com munique said, six German dive bombers and nine fighters were shot down. (In London, an unidentifiable British source said Rommel's failure to strike in full force aft er concentrating a great weight of armored equipment for a gen eral offensive might mean he had been surprised by the vio lent artillery and air bombard ments, which met his first thrusts.) Assurance that the axis forces had not achieved any important gains since they made their first offensive gesture Sunday was given by Lieut. Gen. B, L. Mont gomery, commander of the Brit ish eighth army, who declared last night at his field headquart ers: "In no place and in no part of the eighth army area have the enemy penetrated our organized defense area."