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enemy fleet of 47 which attacked
Darwin. No Allied planes were lost.
The Navy reported the Marines hold
on at least three of the Solomon
islands is now well estbalished.
When 700 Japanese counter-attacked
on one of the islands 670 were
killed and the other 30 taken pris
oners, Pacific Fleet Commander
Nimitz reported. The Marine losses
were 28 killed and 72 wounded. Ad
miral Nimitz also announced a force
of Marines made a successful land
ing on Makin Island, killed 80 Jap
anese, wrecked various installations
and then withdrew.
U. S. Army headquarters, Euro
ean theater, announced arrival in
Britain with the largest U. S. con
voy of the war, with more men and
material for the American air forces
which had already begun precision
bombing by daylight of Nazi-occupied
Europe. U. S. flying fortresses
bombed the Nazi transportation sys
tem at Amiens and Abbeville. In a
battle over the North Sea, four fly
ing fortresses shot down three Ger
man fighters and damaged nine
others, while all the U. S. planes re
turned safely. A U. S. Ranger bat
talion joined with Canadian and
British forces in a nine-hour raid
on Dieppe, France. The Navy re
ported U. S. submarines operating
in the Aleutians and in the Far East
sank a cruiser or destroyer and dam
aged a destroyer, sank two cargo
ships and a transport, and damaged
another cargo ship. The torpedoing
of seven more United Nations mer
chantment by enemy submarines
was announced.
Foreign Relations
President Roosevelt and Secretary
of State Hull sent messages of sol
idarity to Brazil as that country be
came the first South American na
tion to declare war on Germany and
Italy. The President said Wendell
L. Willkie will tour Europe and the
Near East as his special representa
tive in order to correct the impres
sion in those places that U. S. pro
duction is not all it should be. Mr.
Willkie will carry messages from
the President to foreign leaders, in
cluding Premier Stalin. The Presi
dent issued a statement that the per
v petrators of "barbaric" acs in' occu
pied countries "will have to stand in
the courts of law" in the same coun
tries in which barbarism now rages,
' and answer in those courts for their
crimes.
Selective Service
Selective Service Director Her
shey said draft boards will begin
calling men with dependents before
Christmas. He said single men with
"secondary" dependents, such as
aged or crippled relatives, will be
called first; married men whose
wives work,, next; then men with
dependent wives; and finally men
who have wives and children. He
said the reservoir of 1-A men
throughout the country is "practic
ally exhausted." Selective Service
headquarters said class 1-B (men fit
for limited military service only)
will be eliminated, and beginning
September 1, all registrants who are
not totally disqualified will be class
ified in 1-A, while those not suited
for any military service will be
placed in 4-F. In the case of men
reclassfied in 1-A, the Army will
determine after induction whether
they will be assigned to full or lim
ited service.
Army and Navy
The War Department said it will
inaugurate this fall a voluntary pre
induction training program utilizing
a Sat CSV HQ7
existing facilities of schools and col
leges to meet present and future
needs for properly trained personnel
in the armed forces. Out of every
100 men inducted into the Army
about 63 are assigned to duties re
quiring specialized training, the De
partment said. The Army said it is
organizing and training port battal
ions (composed mostly of former
stevedores) for duty overseas to in
sure prompt handling of U. S. mil
itary equipment for forces stationed
throughout the world. The Depart
ment said checks inpayment of al
lowances to dependents of enlisted
men of the Army, covering the first
applications to be approved, will go
out shortly after September 1.
The Navy announced recruiting of
enlisted personnel of the Women's
Naval Reserve will begin September
11, and training will start October
9 at the University of Wisconsin,
Indiana University, and Oklahoma
A. and M. College.
Stabilization of Farm Prices
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
said he would approve a plan of live
stock ceiling prices which "must not
permit abnormal profits to anyone
. in the industry at the expense of
the producers and consumers." Mr.
Wickard alp said he now favors re
peal of the provision of the price
control act "that prohibits ceilings
on processed farm products if the
ceiling price reflects a farm price
of less than 110 percent of parity."
He said farm prices "have reached
parity on an average." The WPB
Food Requirements Committee ask
ed the armed forces, the Lend -Lease
Administration, and the War Pro
duction Board to collaborate in
working out a program for alloca
tion of all government meat pur
chases as equitably as possible am
ong federally inspected packers.
The Agricultural Marketing Admin
istration bought $137,900,000 worth
of foodstuff during July for the
United Nations and other require
ments, including 80,000 pounds of
dehydrated beef.
Rationing
Tire quotas will have to follow
a downward trend the rest of this
year to keep within the amount of
rubber earmarked by the WPB for
the purpose, the Office of Price Ad
ministration said. The Office asked
local rationing boards for the strict
est possible interpretation of a re
cent amendment to tire rationing
regulations restricting truck eligi
bility to vehicles essential to the
war effort or public health and
safety.
Oil and Gasoline
WPB Chairman Nelson appointed
1 Under Secretary of War Patterson,
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes and
Price Administrator Henderson as a
committee to determine whether
fuel oil should be rationed in the
East Coast area this winter. Because
of the shortage of fuel oil in the
area, Mr. Ickes prohibited the haul
ing of automotive gasoline by rail
in 20 middle western and southwest
ern states in order to divert enough
tank cars to carry 100,000 barrels
of fuel oil daily to the rationed
area. If the withdrawal of these
5,000 to 7,000 tank cars creates a
shortage, rationing should be ex
tended, Mr. Ickes said.
Harvest Ball at Open Air pavilion,
Saturday, August 29. Music by Mer
rill's orchestra. Sponsored by Ladies
Altar Society.
Copyright 1942, B.P.O. ELKS
Wheat Surplus in
Northwest- Remains
Puzzling Problem
The 1943-44 wheat market outlook
is complicated and difficult to weigh,
despite important known facts, ac
cording to the annual wheat out
look report of the Oregon State col
lege extension service. "With the
supply of wheat at record-breaking
proportions, the old questions of
what to plant on surplus wheat acres
and what to do with the surplus
wheat on hand are still problems,"
says the report.
The United States supply of wheat
is so great that less than one-half
will be needed for all known uses
during the 1942-43 marketing season,
unless more is used for feed and
for the manufacture of rubber or
other products than now seems pro
bable, data in the report reveals.
The Pacific northwest wheat acre
age in 1942 was 25 per cent less
than the average from 1930 to 1939,
and Oregon's acreage 30 per cent
less, yet production this year is
greater than the average owing to
good yields. The carry-over is also
very great, both in the Pacific north
west and in the country as a whole.
Production in four principal wheat
exporting nations (United States,
Canada, Argentina, and Australia)
combined will be slightly larger than
last year and the carry-over is the
greatest on record. Very little wheat
can be exported under existing con-
ditions.
The report states that Oregon does
not produce enough of such feed
grains as barley, corn and oats, but
ships in corn and some other feed.
Wheat is good feed for the produc
tion of pork, beef, lamb, milk, eggs,
chickens, and turkeys, all of which
are needed in the war effort. By
using more wheat for feed, trans
portation will be conserved and stor
age space relieved as less corn and
other feed would need to be shipped
in.
In considering what to plant on
surplus wheat land there is need to
consider various crops, including the
hay situation. Preliminary estimates
indicate that in relation to the num
ber of animals on hand, Oregon's
hay supply may be 15 to 20 per cent
less than last winter, partly owing
to increased numbers of livestock,
and partly to there being less hay
harvested.
Grain Bins, Elevators
Supplied in Counties
Commodity Credit portable wood
en grain bins are proving an "ace in
the hole" for Oregon wheat growers
in their efforts to provide storage
for their second successive bumper
wheat crop. A total of 280 bins have
been ordered through county AAA
offices, and more bins are being or
dered by growers who underestim
ated their crop or were unable to
obtain materials to provide enough
farm storage.
Forward-looking growers tire or
dering bins to take care of next
year's wheat crop in anticipation of
shortage of materials and labor ev
en more acute than this year, the
state AAA office reports. To assist
growers in getting the wheat into
the farm granaries, 33 portable grain
elevators have been shipped to five
Columbia basin counties. These el
evators will be available by loaito
farmers on application to county
AAA offices.
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1. They provide authentic war in
formation for news-starved peoples
around the globe, entertainment for
U.S. forces abroad. These G-E short
wave stations . . .
3. Theyprovided theonly U.S. pro
grams that reached Bataan. People
in conquered lands risk their lives to
listen. Smuggled letters say they
Dnng hope ot release.
General Electric believes
good citizen is to be a good soldier.
General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
GENERAL
NON-SHATTER GRASS GROWN
Junction City One of the first
fairly large lots of the new non
shattering strain of tall meadow oat
grass has just been harvested on the
farm of C. B. Flanagan, a local far
mer who raised V2 acres of this
grass. The original seed for this
field was obtained from the Oregon
experiment station by County Ag
ent O. S. Fletcher in the fall of 1939.
Leonard Freeman, another local far
mer, has just harvested one acre of
a special strain of creeping led fes
cue, the seed of which was origin
ally imported from Wales.
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2. ... have special antennas
"pointed" at Australia, South
America, China, Europe making
reception there almost as strong as
from local stations.
4. Some announcers are regular
G-E production employees, working
on war work. They tell people in
their native lands that America is
determined on victory.
that its first duty as a
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STAR Reporter
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
Twilight on the Trail
Bill Boyd, Brad King, Andy Clyde
You'll get a kick out of Hopalong
Cassidy and his pals, masquerading
as Englishmen in order to seek out
some cattle thieves!
-pius-Privatc
Buckcroo
Andrews Sisters, Harry James and
Orchestra, Joe E. Lewis, Dick
Foran, Shemp Howard
A glorified vaudeville show with
musical numbers including "Nobody
Knows the Trouble I've Seen,"
"Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree"
and "Three Little Sisters."
SUNDAY-MONDAY
Cecil B. DeMille's Greatest Triumph
Reap the Wild Wind
(In Technicolor)
PauJctte Goddard, John Wayne, Ray
Milland and a cast of thousands.
Based on the serial story that ran
in the Saturday Evening Post. She
wrecked her boat and broke her
heart to prove that her lover was
not a traitor.
Slightly increased prices for this
show only. Sunday Matinee 40c,
Evenings 55c, Children 15c any time.
All prices include Federal Tax.
1
TUESDAY Bargain Night
Adults 25c ' Children 10c
I Was Framed
Michael Ames, Julie Bishop,
Regis Toomcy, Patty Hale
A two-fisted, thrill-packed action
drama.
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY
Dangerously
They Live
John Garfield, Raymond Massey,
Nancy Coleman
He's a one-man army when he gets
going against Uncle Sam's back
stabbing foes!
Also "CALLING ALL. GIRLS" a
musical short subject with lavish
dance numbers.