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PAGE TWO Ib OZTGON STATESMAN. Scdanu Oregon. Tuesday Morning. August 18. 1342 Allies Assure Fight to Win Moscow Session Ends, Said Concerned on Second Front (Continued From Page 1) i velt to the conference, also was recorded as saying: "The president of the United States appointed me to aceom- pany the prime minister of Great Britain during this most important visit to Moscow at this decisive moment. The pres ident will be in agreement with ail the decisions that have been . taken here by Mr. Churchill. America will stand hand in hand at the front with Knssla." The scope of the conferences and the allied plans was evident . in '- the very personnel of the British-American delegation of 20, including Gen. Sir Alan Fran cis Brooke, chief of the British Imperial general staff; Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, British commander-in-chief in India; Maj. Gen. Russell P, Maxwell, US com mander in- the middle east; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, commander-in-chief of the RAF in the middle east; Brig. Gen. S. P. Spalding, US officer charged .with Russian lend-lease matters in Washington; Sir Alex ander Cadogan, permanent Brit ish undersecretary for foreign af fairs, and Loy Henderson, assist ant chief of European affairs in the US department of state. Churchill held four, long con ferences with Stalin at the Krem lin Wednesday and Thursday nights, while the British and US military authorities talked with .Marshal Boris M. Shaposhnikov, chief of the red army general staff, and Marshal-Klementi E. iVoroshilov, who is training the soviet union's vast reserves of manpower behind the Urals. The first Churchill-Stalin meet ing Thursday night lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes. A highlight of Churchill's visit was a state dinner at the Krem- lin Friday night. Persons who1 attended said both Churchill and Stalin -were in the highest of spirits. - , Moscow's corps of foreign cor . respondents got their first inkling of what was up last Wednesday afternoon when three big Ameri can Liberators appeared over the city, escorted by a cloud of Rus- . sian fighters. Subsequently it was learned Churchill's plane was piloted by two American members of the RAF ferry , command. Pilot Wil liam Vanderkloot, 28, Sarasota, Fla? and Co-pilot Jack Ruggles, 27. San Francisco. Looking down on Moscow as his plane came in for ' the landing, Churchill said: "The houses from the top look very thin." Once on the ground, he stepped into the sunshine with Harriman to be greeted warmly by Molotov and Russian military dignitaries. A Russian band played successive ly "God Save the King," "The Star Spangled Banner" and "The Internationale." Both Churchill and Harriman spoke briefly into a recording ma chine for later broadcast Church ill praised the Russian army, the beauty of the countryside. Harri mans remarks were likewise gen eral. . One. source close to the con ference said Ch archill and Stalin spoke very frankly to each ether as frankly a s strong - allied commanders can speak. Another such source intimated the Brit ish:' leader was not altogether ' pleased with every detail. Neith er of these informants would - permit himself to be identified. Stalin was represented as radi ating confidence in the red army in all his talks. Informed sources reported the initiative for the conferences came from Stalin himself and the Brit-J ish ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, was said to have taken an jmpovtant part in making the arrangements. Blimp Crashes Minus Grew I SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17.-i-The legendary "flying Dutch man," a ship that ranged the seas without a living man aboard, had a modern counterpart Monday in a navy blimp from which the crew disappeared. A derelict of the winds, it plop ped out of the skies here Sunday and landed, broken,' in a subur ban street after some strange mis hap while on sea patrol. The mystery is the- where abouts of the two-man crew. The two officers, Lieut. Ernest Dewitt Cody, 27, and Ensign Charles E. Adams, 38, were Vet-: erans in handling lighter than air craft. They knew the balloon tradition "stay with the . ship. There was no tangible evidence grave danger ever confronted them. Try ! VkUMa ri AjBuint success tor SM reus la CHINA N mUm with what aliaitat vwi at artUCT 0 41ftrdr tauitia. heart long, liver, IMmtl Mtiurk lu, - coMlti : circre tia, Imr. ikli 'ttmlf ialnu Chnrlio Cbaa Chines Herb C Offles Sunn Oary -." Toes, aad SaL, f .at f t ra d So an4 Wrt . f m hi IBM mjm 123 N. ComT St. Salem. umbers (Continued From Page 1) to assume" that the marines have "achieved their major initial ob jectives" despite .Washington's re luctance to give details because of security reasons. i (Speight suggested the Ma rines had seised control of the great Talagi barber and the big air base mm Gaudaleanal island and that the Japanese had about lost their last chance of driving the marines off the Sol omons.). ;; ;. The spokesman said the action in the Kokoda area was south of the village. The Japanese control the town" and its airport. Present skirmishing is in open, rolling country. This gives Japanese transport columns an advantage in bringing supplies and rein forcements from their base in the Muna-Gona area. The allies still must rely on jungle trails. WASHINGTON, Aug. n.HJP) The first phase of the American invasion of Japanese-held terri tory in the southwest Pacific has ended victoriously, the navy dis closed Monday, with marine oc cupation forces in the Guadalca-nal-Tulagi area of the Solomon islands holding "well established" positions. The victory was not won with out losses, a navy communique made clear, but the Japanese, in addition to being forced to relin quish territory of great strategic value, lost at least 36 aircraft, suffered damage to their naval forces and and had "a number" of troops taken prisoner. The navy carefully refrained from announcing 'the extent s of damage to' American forces, ay ing such information would be of value to the enemy, but ithad previously announced one US cruiser had been. sunk and two cruisers, two destroyers and jpne transport damaged. A naval spokesman said the campaign "is continuing," the marines' immediate problem ap parently being to make, their initial positions secure vigorous ly hunting down such scattered Japanese forces as remain in the islands occupied. These islands 'were not named, but presum ably included both Guadalcanal, with its airfield, and Tulagi with its excellent harbor. The Japanese, the communique disclosed, made their greatest ef fort to break up the American am phibious attack on the night of August 8-9, when they sent in a force of cruisers and destroyers to attack the transports and cargo ships backing "up the landing parties-. A naval engagement resulted rthe first on a large scale between American and Japanese warships' and ended when the damaged Japs went into retreat. The initial American attack had been ' delivered with "complete surprise," the navy related, on August 7 (Solomons time) and 18 enemy seaplanes were destroyed before they could get into action. The enemy put up "vigorous re sistance" but the marines, who had trained in beach warfare and jungle fighting for months, rapid ly overcame the defenses. It was at this point in its re cital of the hard-fought, 11-day battle that the navy said flatly "the shore positions taken by US forces have since been developed and are now weir established." During landing operations, US warships were thrown out as a screening force to protect trans ports -and cargo ships unloading troops and supplies. Other Ameri- can naval forces, according to" a navy announcement last week were engaged meanwhile in pro tecting supply lines, leading to the Solomons to provide a steady stream of equipment and possibly reinforcements. Transports and cargo ships and their warship protectors drawn up in the Guadalcanal Tulagt area were attacked by land -based enemy aircraft en the first and second days of the battle. But the Japs lest 18 planes in these attacks and managed to iuflict only minor damage on American forces. By that time, the Japanese had managed to get substantial naval units into the battle zone and on the night of August 8:9 they closed in to the attack. Their main ob jective was the group of trans ports and cargo ships. To have sunk them might have meant com plete" disruption of the offensive. "The enemy force was inter cepted and engaged by our cruis ers and destroyers," the navy com munique said, "The heavy fight ing which followed resulted in the enemy being forced to retreat be fore reaching the vessels engaged in the landing operations. "The close range fighting during the night engagement resulted in damage both to the enemy and to our forces. This night action is the only engagement between sur face forces which has been fought to date in the Solomon islands."" Nary men considered It signi cant the Japanese task force showed up at a crucial time without aircraft carriers U de-H liver the main blows. This lack was linked with the American successes la ' the battle ef the Coral sea and at Midway. la those twa engagements, the Japs lost the bulk ef their aircraft carrier striking power, and the nature ef the sea engagement in the Solomons was cited as evi dence ef the way In which those two triumphs are affecting the "whole course f warfare ia the Pacific . - . . ; The navy's -spokesmen, had no 24 Jap B Air Guard G Hit Moresby; ivento Marines comment on how the Solomon's campaign might develop in the immediate future, but the navy's statement that "shore positions" had been established suggested there was still considerable clean up work to be done. -1 2 Navy Planes Fall in Lake; Man Missing SEATTLE, Aug. 17-;P)-Two navy airplanes plunged into Lake Washington late Monday after ap parently clicking wings in flight, and the public relations office at Sand Point naval air station re ported one man missing. Lieut. Jack Westland said the identity of the missing ,man could not be revealed until after his next of kin had been notified. Lieut. Westland said the reports indicated that wings of a fighter and a torpedo plane hit in the Leschi Point vicinity. The fighter plane plunged into the lake. The coast guard rescued the pilot. Wit nesses said he leaped with his parachute. The torpedo plane crew tried to fly the several miles to the naval station but crashed into the water while proceeding at low al titude a short distance from the station. Two men were rescued from the torpedo plane, but one crew member was missing. The plane sank immediately, and operations for its recovery were launched promptly. Board Controls Only Minimum (Continued From Page 1) findings to Washington." Oakridge officials, in telegrams to Gov. Charles A. Sprague and J. H. Mapes of the state milk control board. Monday annealed for assistance in halting a threat ened fresh milk shortage in the Oakridge and Westfir district of Lane county. The telegram charged that the milk shortage, to become acute within less than 30 days, was due to a scarcity of milk in the Eugene area,' lack of an assigned quota to the Oakridge and Westfir sections, and arbitrary and unreasonable price control on the part of the milk control board. ? Oakridge officials branded ad ministration of the milk control law as absurd and ridiculous, on its face and charged that the pres ent unsatisfactory conditions' were due to the milk board activities. Governor Sprague refused to comment on the telegram. Senate Okehs Dependent Bill WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -iff The senate approved Monday a housebill permitting immediate payment of living allowances to dependents of servfce men, but delayed action until Thursday on legislation to allow soldiers and sailors -to vote by mail. Majority Leader Barkley of Kentucky raised doubts as to the constitutionality of the voting measure.4'- . The dependency legislation wip ed out a provision in the original allotment bill which barred any payments until after November 1 on the plea of war department officials it would be a physical impossibility to make necessary computations and write checks before that date. Aluminum Industry Strike Demanded PITTSBURGH, Aug. 17 -Jf) Nick A.nZonarich, president of the Aluminum Workers of America, declared Monday night the alumi num industry, vital cog in Amer ica's war effort, is "now confront ed with demands from the rank and file for a general strike" due to refusal of the war labor board to grant a wage increase. Berlin Says Tokyo Claims 17 Planes BERLIN (From German Broad casts), Aug. n-itfVThe Berlin radio broadcast a Tokyo dispatch Monday night saying 17 ; Ameri can planes had been shot down Sunday in aerial combat over the Solomon f islands, and that two Japanese machines were lost Berlin Reports New Raid on Osnabrueck BERLIN (From German Broad sts), Aug. 18-;p)-RAF bombers raided western Germany Monday night, directing their main attack against Osnabrueck, DNB reported Tuesday, f : Osnabrueck, railway center and manufacturing - c 1 1 y, previously was raided the night of August 9. Mainz Raid Thorough xajjhuun, Aug. 17 Day light photographs show areas of "complete : destruction'' - totaling 135 acres In Mainz, German city blasted by RAF rails the nights of August 11 and 12, the air min istry announced Monday. ; -' RightTurn Rule Okehed Gty Employes Pay Playgrounds Given ' 'Yes' Action ' (Continued From Page 1) base has previously been reached only after four years' employment at the beginning wage of $137.50. Two weeks' pay in addition to regular vacation-time allowances goes henceforth to civil service employes ot the ciity entering. the arimed forces of the nation for the duration of the war, and the resolution' declaring the. princi pie makes it retroactive. Ap proximately 10 men now in army, navy or marines will receive an additional paycheck' from the city as the result of the council's action, City Recorder Hannah Martin Hanzen said at the close of the council session. Held over for investigation was a resolution which would have raised minimum hourly pay of street department employes to 63 cents. Councilimen declared they had understood that the res olution was merely to place .on the books the currently-accepted minimum of 62 cents. To replace Russell "Slim" Maw as poundmaster, Chiief of Police Minto was authorized to hire a man at $125 a month. To replace Maw's car, which has been used as Sunshine division and pound vehicile, he was told to buy a secondhand pickup with the ap proval of the police committee." Properties purchased as site for' the city sewage disposal plant, held up until post-war conditions make building practicable, are to serve meanwhile as pound site. Airbase builduig activities at the airport have cut into the old pound yard. A blanket authorization to expend S100 for immediate ci vilian defense needs in the city was passed by the council with out dissent and with the under standing that defense needs would be further studied. Ac tion followed a report by Chair man Paul Hendricks of the city civilian defense committee of his experience at the defense school in Seattle. Cities may be asked to spend up to $1 per resident, which in Salem would amount to a tenth of the muni cipal budget, Hendricks said. ' Fire department services ten dered two weeks ago to Camp Adair by an arrangement which would provide services of the camp's fire-fighting equipment in case of a large fire here are to mclude.lso(,thei.army airbase at the municipal airpdrt, Cduncilmen voted; Ordinances assessing - cost of improvement of Madison street between the east line of Fifth and the west line of Church to abut ting properties, incorporating state highway commission rules and regulations on log and pole hauling into the city's statute and forbidding dumping of grass, leaves, limbs and garbage in street gutters were passed for first and second reading. Thirty delinquent street and sidewalk assessment' accounts to taling $1453.06 were turned over to the city attorney for collection. The annual report of the city water commission revealed a net profit of $15,981. The street lying east of 22nd and south of Mission was given the name "Ford" and thus made an extension of that short thor oughfare. ! Improvement of 15th street, re quested by residents near Pearl, was tabled, because of lack of equipment and labor, it was said. Mathison Bound To Grand Xury Leroy M. Mathison, 24, of Jef ferson was bound over to the grand jury Monday afternoon by Justice of. the Jeace Joseph Fel ton on a charge of assault with intent to kill, as the outgrowth of an alleged fracas early Sun day morning at the Boardwalk, eight miles south of Sal em. Jesse B. Bohannon, Fresno, Calif., soldier, whom Mathison is said to have beaten over the head, was "slightly improved" at Sa lem Deaconess hospital early this morning. Soldiers Bruised In Auto Collision Sgt. Bob W. Clements, Edmund Dyvig and James Fitzgerald, Tex ans from Camp Adair, were bruised but not seriously injured Sunday night when their car col lided with one driven by Lloyd FJroy Robinson of route one, Hub bard, north of Hubbard near the White school, state police re ported. 1. i Continue Frwa 1 P. M. - Last. Times Today "Kavy Blcis" .. .- With Ann Sheridan and Jack Oakle , PLUS "RAGS TO RICHES With Allan Baxter and Mary Carlisle """And Comedy. Etches l:10-4:15-7:30-llJ:i Lato Sports 4 PORTLAND, Ore., Aug.-17.-(P) -The Portland Beavers of the Pa cific , Coast league , defeated the Fort Lewis Warriors 8-5, in an exhibition baseball game Monday night J . .', -BUI Beard, former. Willam ette university athlete and later ' with the Spokane Indians and Seattle Kalnlers, saw a e 1 1 n with Fort Lewis. Beard was- law ducted at the Salem draft board, -but two weeks ago. K Fort Lewis 001 004 000 5 10 2 Portland -100 010 08 12 1 Smith, Greenlaw (8) and Beard; Loane, Fitzke (6) and Bergstrom, : ' - . ' Nazis Gross r Kuban River Maikop Fields Lost to -- Invaders, but Oil ; Well Wrecked (Continued From Page 1 the decision was not yet reached, dispatches said. ' , Pravda declared : the"; Germans launched three successive infan try attacks in one sector after tanks led the way. Russian artil lery and infantry fire from pre pared positions was reported to have turned back the drives.. The main problem of our fighting is to increase -' their counter-blows ten-fold so the enemy cannot reach the depth of our defense," Pravda said. The newspaper recited heavy German losses, but said ' the nazis still were throwing seem ingly endless reserves into the fray. Official secrecy for the most part veiled Russian operations on the vast front between Voronezh and Stalingrad where the red army tactically threatens the flank of the enemy's southern drives. Fights of local importance were reported in the Bryanck area where the German 694th infantry regiment was said to have lost 1450 men in an engagement Aug ust 13. In the Caucasus the Germans appeared to be trying to drive south from Maikop through the foothills to the Black sea in an effort to cut off the red troops fighting in the Krasnodar sector along the Kuban river. In the Voronezh area on the upper Don, a series of strong Ger man attacks north of the river captured a wood, Pravda report ed. But the Russians counter-attacked, drove the Germans out, then advanced to seize an impor tant height south of the forest. Berlin Claims Great Damage BERLIN (From German Broadcasts), Aug. 17-jP)-Berlin radio broadcast a Tokyo dispatch Monday night saying Japanese bombers inflicted severe damage to shiping, harbor installations and military supply dumps in raids Sunday on Port Moresby in New Guinea, and on the Australian coastal cities of Townsville, Cairns, Port Darwin and Port Hedland. (Direct broadcasts from Tokyo failed to support this axis claim, but an allied headquarters com munique issued in Australia Tues day reported a heavy Japanese at tack on Port Moresby - Monday. Some casualties occurred as well as damage to instalaltions.) The Berlin broadcast said a 6000-ton transport was sunlf and two Australian pursuit planes downed at Wyndham, and that storehouses were destroyed and a transport set afire at Port Mores by. B. Kantelburg Takes Life Despondency growing out of a back injury 'two years ago from which he had never recovered caused Ben. Kantelburg, 39, to take his own life early Monday night at the family residence, 545 South 15th street in Salem, offi cers who investigated believed. "I am fed up with the whole thing," a note declared. Kantel burg was- dead when his widow, Laura, : found him, a wound from a J3t automatic pistol shot in his head. Surviving also is a 16-year-old daughter. Kantelburg's back was hurt while he was working in the paper mill here, it was said. y 10c id mas Tax LAST TIMES TONIGHT kj va - wocj i:o?e'ZcrjA:.oori Flos 2nd Feature Allmrt DEXXE&. Suu HAY WARD Harry CARET Fnuiees FARXI1 ' Also Mickej Mouse Cartoon 'V.V' '-'; and News . i-, One German Plane Bagged Formation lleld for Whole Journey To Blast Rouen (Continued From Page 1) crews under American direc tion, although American , pilots 'participated in a brief raid on objectives in Holland July 4, and US pilots have made fight er sweeps with the SAF ever -France, : '. -.ot. - General Eaker in - conducting the attack aboard one of the pow erful B-17 fortress planes was liv ing up to his creed that "aid lead ers do not send. mexy they lead them." ;-;';.-c-Kv?;?-: ' . Ta 21-year-old Sgt" Kent L. West, BIttUn. Abu. "belly gan- -ner" in a fortress, fell the lienor . of shooting down the first nasi, fighter plane for the US Euro pean army. jva '' xV. . '. He was riding in his big ship, "Birmingham Blitzkrieg," , when the German pilot, flying a Focke Wulf 190 one of the nazi's new est warplanes climbed toward him. - Several short bursts from Ser geant Kent's 50-calibre guns end ed that menace. General Eaker termed the al lied -fighter escort "splendid pro tection. RAF Spitfires actually accompanied the bombers over Rouen, while American fighter planes participated in diversion ary flights. ' - Stepping out of the fortress "Yankee Doodle," square-jawed General Eaker tugged at a bat tered cap about his head and praised his youthful crews, say ing they carried out their mission "nonchalantly and coolly." "I watched the bombs drop through the open bays," the gen eral said. "Then I grabbed the oxygen bottle and went back to the waist of the ship and looked out and saw bombs drop right at the heart of the target." The bomber chief said bright sunlight outlined the target and the fortresses made only one run, keeping formation from the time they left the field to their . return several hours later. One American colonel piloting his craft, "Butcher Shop," drop ped the first bombs on the tar get. He was in command of the lead formations. General Spaatz and his staff, accompanied by a group of RAF officers, stood in the control tow er here as the sun was setting. They watched anxiously for the return of tKe big American birds. Down . on the field the ground crews also awaited the same sight. Then, three by three, the first black specks appeared in the sky. The groups standing on the field silently counted the images. As it became apparent all were sail ing back to their nests the ground crews broke into loud cheers. Indian Rioters Molest Yanks .(Continued From Page 1) be about 140,000. The regulations against which the publishers are protesting were announced by the government as intended to pre vent the publication of anything which would encourage the cur rent civil disobedience movement. KARACHI, India, Augl7.-( American, troops stationed in In dia were molested during recent disturbances connected with Gandhi's passive resistance cam paign for independence, Brig. Gen. Francis M. Bradley, their com mander, said Monday. There were no reports of Americans being- injured, how ever. ' Cm. Bradley did not explain the nature of the disturbances af fecting the US troops. As a result, the town in which the incident occurred was placed out of bounds for US troops and they were forbidden to enter it Steel Mill Scrap Piles Shrink Down NEW YORK, Aug. lT-fHSteel mill scrap iron and steel piles have shrunk to a bare two to three" weeks supply - compared with enough for more than six weeks operations at the beginning of 1941, the American Iron and Steel institute reported Monday. UILL D3 CLOSED TODM . o .Preparing ' For Dali Yearly : Sfcriirj - TccrrcT7! Fire Hits Dairy At Oceanlake Fire gutted the interior and burned . one end out. of a two story frame building at the Roy Church dairy in Oceanlake about 11 a. m. Sunday, according to re ports here. All equipment was saved by .volunteers. The! blaze was controlled by 11:45 by the Oceanlake and Taf t fire depart ments. .- The cause was unknown. The dairy is operated by Mr. and! Mrs. Hopkins, son-in-law and . daugh ter of Church. . 2500 Pickers Needed Today Requirements Grow in Bean, Hop Fields In Salem Area (Continued From Page 1 ers. Growers will be assessed SO cents an acre to pay for the advertising.-, ' In the West Stayton area 150 of the 300 pickers are wanted at one yard where there are new camp ing facilities for IS families. The growers will- move the pickers' camping equipment to the yards and return it -for them after the season ends. The 12 school platoons are now at work in the beans and no additional platoons will be or ganized. However, there - are some replacements to be made and boys or girls, -12 and 13 years or older who wish to Join a platoon are asked, te give their names, to the US employment service, 710 Ferry street A register will be set up and vacancies in the platoon will be filled from this register. It is also possible that I the platoons may be enlarged, slightly, W. H. Baillie, manager of the employment office, said. Meat Ration Is Probable (Continued From Page 1) now fighting and who will be in combat "when ' the second front opens." Our armed forces and our allies will require approximately 35 per cent of our federally inspected meat production. .The quality of federally inspected meat left for civilian consumers in this coun try will be about 11 . billion pounds. .That would be sufficient under, normal. . conditions. But with the,, national income", at a high-level civilians wiU.wantito buy 14 4 billion pounds. The , re sult:. A shortage of three billion pounds. , ' ' . Hendrickson said three things should be done: "1. We need to keep live stock production at high levels. ."2. We need price ceilings on . wholesale and retail meat prices to avoid inflation. "3. We need some system per haps rationing, meatless days, a combination of the two, or some thing else te assure equitable dis tribution of what will be a short supply of meat" Arms Output Five Billion DETROIT, Aug. 17.-P)-Pro-duction of armaments by the auto motive, industry has reached the rate of $5,000,000,000 a year, Al van MacAuley, chairman of the automotive council for war pro duction, said Monday, and "at peak, . assuming materials are available, the industry will be operating on a $12,000,000,000 an nual basis." "This is comparable to produc ing 15,000,000 passenger cars and commercial vehicles," MatAuley said, "or nearly three times the industry's annual output in its best peace-time years." MacAuley, chairman of the board of Packard Motor Car com pany, said the industry's output of tanks, trucks, guns, and other weapons was, at the rate of $13, 600,000 a day. TODAY I 1 Root , Norma I 1 Taylor - Shearer I " "Her Cardboard I Lover" I :v AND r "It Happened in ! -Flalbush" - ; flMI- riua jlvr: -ista-jasj Tax II TOS - lt:2 II U13 TODAY i Janes . .. lata Cagney - Hayworth Olivia deHarfflaad "STJIAWBERRY BLONDE" . AND SOUTH OF SUEZ" George Brent -1C.5 Tu Anytime 1 open Box Office Yanks Prepa re To Bomb Nazi Gen. Spaatz Says US Forces with British; Doolittle Orerseas London, a ug . lTv-cavMaj. Gen. Carl Spaatz declared Mon day night US -bomber crews were' preparing , to "bomb Germany as fast and as often as possible until we win the war." . V In a Joint press-conference, the commander of the US air forces in the European theatre and Air Vice Marshal Richard H. Peck, assistant chief of the British'' air staff, agreed "the main enemy of the allied nations Is in this theatre and : the only way ' to strike at him for the' moment is through the air.". : During the' day,' it was disclosed Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle, who led the US squadron, which bombed Tokyo April 18, had been here . ten days; on a special mis sion. He will return soon to the US. ,- . . Gen. Spaatz and Air Marshal Peck spoke -shortly after RAF fighters and. bombers flew at high altitude over the channel on an other foray; against " the Ffench i coast and after a one German raider had caused damage and killed five at a south coast Eng lish town. Spaatz and Peck both said the RAF and American' air forces were in complete agreement on bombing policy Sand methods of operation. "No one in these islands is more anxious to bomb Germany than the Americans," Peck said, "and they are making amazing progress in a short space of time." Gen. Spaatz explained Ameri can planes and crews will carry out both separate and joint mis sions with the RAF. He declared it was "unlikely" American crews will use British bombers, although US fighter pilots are now flying Spitfires. "We, will bomb Germany with our own planes," he said. American fighters are operating as "squadrons" and not flying singly with the RAF, Gen. Spaatz added, but some American bomb er crews still are gaining experi ence as individual units on British daylight raids. The US air force prefers day light precision bombing attacks, while the RAF has concentrated on night raids. "Only developments will be able, to show whether Germany can be bombed into submission," Marshal Peck said. "The Ameri cans and RAF are ready to make a powerful contribution; toward victory." 7 ' Aurora Principal Has Busy Summer AURORA Mrs. R a y Schantz, principal of the Aurora grade has returned from her summer vaca tion two months of " which she spent clerking in a store at Val setz and 10 days were spent in chaperoning a group of 4H sum mer school students. She is now picking hops in the Netter Bros.- hop yard. Her hus band has returned to his home frOm the Veterans hospital where he was confined in her absence. mm Air Conditioned Tool Now Tw Big Features Held Over Thru Continuous Every Day ; From 1:00 P.M. DOKOTHY LAMOUS WILLIAM HOLDEN . EDDIE BRACKEN JIMMY DORSET r a kaj A Nret ictvf ' PLUS . Spencer Tracy ' -. Hedy Lamarr Jeha Garfield In Victor Fleming's' production of John Steinbeck's , "Tcrliila Hal" with Frank Morgan . Akim Taaalreff ! Sheldon Leonard Sm Pins Taa 1 &W Tin S P.M.: MA A H Companion Feature 1 1 jisJuLi iZmmmi I 'it
