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TAGS TWO TIia'CrJXECIICTATErr-iai:. .Ceiasu . Ot9on.:Ttidaj tlaxzlng. Jvam 12, IZiJ Germans Take 7tli Straight IliglitKaia 1 5 B (Continued from Page 1) . B , The air ministry- announced I imply - that RAF bombers at i 'tacked objectives at Cologne and ' elsewhere in the XUuheiand, but ' the attack was undoubtedly care- t ruiiy aimed to demolish-, recon- ' jet ruction in communications, am ' Jnunition . plants,, chemical , works, I power stations and other war- i m . a. - if i I . a I 1 : important operations la uw n- dustrial city. The foray by the heavy, bomb rs, coming after a Tuesday night i reak to the hammer Mows on ';Cerman -industry-,- cost 14 : big 'fplanes with one fighter also lost, : the air ministry said. r Returaing pUoU said that the fi attack m CelHerrlit the 1 city's defenses tff curd aad thst aati aircraft gams did aet epen up until -after- the first $ bombs fett. , , : The German - communique said bombs fell on residential qu iters, "especially in Cologne, caused losses anKMig mepopuia 'tion and damage to Buildings.' -4 In almost hourly offensive t's weeps over the - continent, RAF fighters shot down a total of nine German-' fighters during, the day. Two of the raiders failed to re- 'turn. Italy ReKef Plan Readied By US Group j'i NEW YORK, June 17.-(P)-Her-: fcert H. Lehman, director of the office of foreign relief and reha ' bilitation operations, - said here : Thursday night that plans are be ing made to extend relief and re . habilitation aid to. the people of . Italy as soon as the. Italian people are "released from axis control." .. Lehman saade the. statement la answer to a question after he ' t had finished a prepared address ; before the Foreign Pelicy as-; eeeiation. The question, submit- - ted in writing by a member af , the andience, asked: ; "Will relief and rehabilitation be extended ' to Germany, Italy ! and Japan in the same manner as ; that accorded other nations?" V: Replying, Lehman said: : , "I am not able to answer cate gorically. It wilt require a ded- aion by higher authority than Snmet'But I can say plansQre be ing made for the relief and re habilitation of the Italian people to be accorded when they are re leased from axis control." In answer to another auesUon, Lehman said the extension f rebabUltatian to occupied coun tries "from Norway down to Greece" was receiving, "careful consideration beeanse It Is of the greatest moment to us and al .. lies." ;; , "However, he continued, ,it Snust be recognized that any ship ment of supplies to enemy occu pied countries naturally affects the blockade policies of the United Nations. Competent military au thorities both here and abroad are convinced that the blockade is one f - our most effective weapons. Nevertheless, any aid we tan ex tend which will not benefit the enemy is now receiving the most careful consideration: ; Lehman said ' reiki work in countries freed from occupation forces would be controlled by al lied .military commanders. Nazi Losses "has 100 In Kiel Raid . LONDON, June lT.-(ffy-Ameri , can, a lying Fortresses destrovi probably as many as 100 German ngnters in the. assault on Bremen nd Kiel June UMa what "has been officially described: as the "American airmen's greatest sin gle oatue of the war" it was an Bounced Thursday. ' Warm praise came - from Gen. Henry-H. Arnold, chief of the US army air forces, and Lieut 'Gen. J acob L. Devers, commander of the air forces In the European theatre, t or the X o r c e Z which fought off over 200 German fight ers. at ruei. ; - (At Washington War Secretary Stimson earlier had . placed the ton of German - fighters in' the Bremen-Kiel raid at, 69, and said that it later ; developed that 24 Fortresses, not 25, were losCTwo returned to their bases late, he said.) . - Prison Built Tugs Laimched , TACOMA, June 17.-;p-Two prisoner-bunt' tug and recon naisance vessels virere launched Thursday at the McNiel island federal penitentiary, with 44. in- X ii a s ' cities as witnesses 10 uie cere- ir.ony.- ,j ; " -. ; - The I 65-foot long vessels are built of Douglas fir. The army transport service accepted the punched last falL ' ' 9T and Churchill Talks i v. a .Prime Minister Winston i . avvtsnssusaa . a4.l- x i isAiwin 1 : M rge C. Marshall (left), USarmy chief at staff, and Gen. Bar- fiara law Meatromery (right). allied planning conference at elated Press TelemaL s Quick Thinking Flier Uses Shoulder Bar to Repair Gas Pump on American Bomber WITH THE ELEVENTH AIR quick-witted-engineer used a second lieutenant's gold bar to save a four-engined bomber with a 10-man crew was told by a member of, that crew First Lt. James A. Ryan, 29, navigator,1 of 605 Rains Said Good for Cherry Crop I (Continued - from Page 1) I chards, will not begin arriving at the canneries until about June 23. However, canners aaid the harvest of ripe cherries around The Dalles would start next Monday and one or two days 1 a t ex at Yakima. Cherries from both those areas are shipped to canneries here -and it is possible that some of the part- time workers who recently volun teered, may . be needed, before the next week passes. ' Though wet weather is reported to have damaged some ripe straw berries on the vines,' its general effect is to prolong the ripening season and increase the total out put, canners indicated. Benefits especially to the production of the red heart variety of strawberries were mentioned.; The cane fruit crops without exception will prof it from recent rains, one veteran canneryman declared. , Early filing of requests: for cherry pickers will be helpful to the emergency farm labor board in allocating workers for this, ex pected to be the most serious har vest labor crisis of . the early sea son, it was pointed, out at that agency's office Thursday. First re quest of this type was received from Ben Maxwell of route four, who indicated that cherry picking in his orchards will start Tues day, June 22. Group Fights Jap Exclusion From Coast . LOS ANGELES. June 17-SV The - XMea congressional aab-cocn- mittee investigating Japanese re location centers entrained Thurs day night for a first-hand in spection I of the Poston. Ariz, camp after an eight-day hearing concluded by a plea for the im mediate return to . the coast of loyal American-born. Japanese. The plea was voiced by repre sentatives af the American civil liberties anion and broaght an infarmal bat sharp debate with v in evacuauon orders were a result ot race prejudice,' de clared A. L. Wirin, attorney for the eouthern California .-.branch of the American Civil Liberties Union and special counsel for the Japanese-American citizens lea guea. - i . ' He . asserted that Lt Gen John Lv DeWitt, western defense com mand chief who issued the evacu ation order, had said "a Jap is a Jap and can't be trusted" and that this statement shows DeWitt to be a victim of race prejudice. 1 Rep. John M. Costello, . (D Calif.) sub-committee : chairman, countered : that he knew DeWitt personally ! and had never , found him susceptible to outside pres sure.", i .' '-: y LaGuardia's Government stii NEW YORK, June 17 -P)- The administration of Fiorello 'La Guardia, for years the recipient of glowing tributes as a model-for municipal government squared itself Thursday , for the first full fledged investigation into its af fairs since the fiery little mayor became New York City's chief executive in 1934. - Councilman Walter R. Hart, sponsor cf the surprise resolution 2ated to Allied Generals ChurchUl (center) talks to Gesw British Eighth army enter, as North African headquarters. FORCE IN ALASKA-C-How a Water street, Bakersfield, CaliL, and formerly of Mooseheart, I1L . The plana Old 1091 had gone to Attu on a reconnaissance mis sion. While returning the gasoline tanks in the bomb bay would not drain Into the main tanks because the electrical pump refused to function. Fuses kept blowing out due to an unexplained short cir cuit r - I -t -rtnaily the last fas flashed ant aad there we were with Stf gallons ef gasoline and net one drop far ear motors," said Rr an. We had inst enoogh left ta take us within five miles of an - hland. : '. ; ' , ' "Radioman Ream. (James ! W 2264 North National, Springfield, Mo.), sent a message saying that we would have to make a crash wa tea landing. : i ; "I overhead Gunner ; Lorenz (Roland C 24, of 7218 Brinsmade, Cleveland,' O.) ask the ' photog rapher (Capt Bergert G. Specs, 39, of 423 South 8th street. May field, Ky.) if he was scared. You're damn tootin' I'm scared' sand Spees. . , j, Because of electrical trouble our bombs - would not release so to make the plane lighter for a pos sible crash, Gunner Lane (Ber nard D- 22. of Vincennes. Ind- RFD 4) and Seltzer (Charles IL, 21, of North Mechanic street, Cum berland, Maryland) manually lift ed the- 300-pounders and ' dropped them into the deep. 4 ' -;i "Meanwhile all of us put on our Mae WesU (life Jackets) and had our parachutes handy for the jump when necessary. Then Miller (Tech. Set John IL, 27, af 2005 Third Ave, Bib bing, Mum.) saw the gold shoul der0 bar an ear bombardier's ahoalder (2nd Lt George Maser. 24, af Chleac. whs is.naw an. the mainland la a replaeesnent, tTOttp.) "Miller unpinned it and rushed to the-fuse -box and used the-sold plated a&Ouider bar for fuae and. glory be, the pump began work ing." PUot Maj. Robert E. Speer of Eugene, Ore, a former University of Oregon student, helped himself to three large breaths of relief and landed his ship miles down the chain. Dayis Feels Nazi MacMne Is W3akenedi ' WASHINGTON, June . .17 (if) Informed American military opin ion tends to view the nazl slow ness m launching a J Jnne- offen stve against Russia as evidence of the straits to which Hitler's war machine has been reduced by con verging Anglo-American pressure. Elmer Davis, direct af the office af war Infermatloa, re eaUed Tharsdar that German offensives la. 1941 and 1942 started respectively Jane 27 and: Jane 2L Both of these affen atrea beeama winter-bagged; a lt seems ebrioas Hitler weald try ta get underway earlier this year t aiva him mora, time ta campaign before winter sets In. i Under thenazl theory of dy namics I think there has got to be a Russian offensive this ' year," Davis said. HiUer has to do some thing pretty soon: If he admits he cannot attack In Russia again and confines himself to the defensive, he will have great trouble with a sag In morale at home and 'even in the army.' t," v. V ' Coupled with London reports that a Hitler-scheduled offensive in Russia had been overruled by his military high command for lack of supplies and equipment, the Davis estimate is significant. which set up the council inves tigating committee in a stormy post-midnight session Thursday, told reporters the Inquiry would concern ' itself with all city ; de partments. W -i"- : V'. Reds Repulse German Thrust North of Orel C (Continued from Page 1) C rear line German bases, an offen sive jibing with f allied blows struck in the west to weaken axis war-making capacities. - Long-rangs Russian bombers 'started 161 big fires en German ' airdromes Wednesday night, a' ' special Moscow annonneement sa'ld. 'Explosions also were touched of f la ammnnltlaa damps, and hangars and parked planes were damaged m raids that cost the Russians two ; planes. . - - ": The effectiveness of these raids. in conjunction with the heavy British attacks on the Ruhr s mu nitiona factories, would appear to be borne 4 out in the p foreign source's report that Germany' summer offensive has been de layed by lack of supplies. Yanks Down 77 Jap Planes A (Continued from Page 1) A t sent by the Japanese com-: mand : Into the Guadalcanal, area since .April 7 ' when 50" bombers and 48 fighters attacked a convoy near the island. At that time 19 of the Nipponese planes were- shot down, while American losses -con sisted of seven planes, two pilots and three ships a destroyer, a tanker and an allied corvette. In ' the absence of further offi cial information, it was the gen eral expectation cere that new American thrusts are in the mak - ina in the South- Pacific. Secre - tary of the Navy Knox said only a iew aays ago at a press con-1 t- ference that it takes a long whilel111 Public; hearing the to nreDare for "anv considerable court may proceed with Ita tax movement" when he was asked wh. thr haH hm m.tn, fighting in the South Pacific for aovonil mnnthi One possible direction af sach a thrast to which the enemy would ef necessity give carefal consideration would be Berth ward from the Guadalcanal area. In that direction lie the bases of Rabaul, and still far ther to the north. Trek, which ; Is the enemy's main naval post tion la the South Pacific increased the total number of planes which the Japanese have ost in the Solomons and allied fighting since the American in vasion of those Islands last Aug ust A report from an advanced South Pacific base yesterday car ried ; an official announcement that 1337 had been destroyed . in that war theatre since last July 31. Methodists Name Salem Man to Post PORTLAND, Ore, June n-iP) Oregon Me thodist women Thursday night urged repeal of the Oriental exclusion act was it applies to all nationals e x c e n t those from any nation with which we are now at war. The resolution, adopted by the Women's Society af Chris tian Service, iaeteoed the bene have ceased "all Orientals may that after hostilities with Japan be placed upon the same lsa- nucrauon) basis aa people tr ther sections ef the world." The society met in conjunction with the annual Oregon Methodist conference, which in lay elections SlMtMi miA S?mi. a. f (hui, osien, as I one of three jurisdictional confer- ence delegates with Clyde IL wn. uanuon, Aioany, as an alternate. The annual conference rmnrt showed Improved finances despite a drop in memberehip . Membership of the 188- church decreased 793 to 24.498. Sundav school enrollment dropped 1,609 0 Z583, and the Woman Soci ety of Christian Service lost 739 members,-; reducing " enrollment to 8,302. Infant baptisms totaled 908, an increase of 295. - Church debU were reduced $101,260, and $67,699 was spent on building Improvements. Salar- es of pastors were upped $18,192 and superintendents pay 11.630. Salaries totaled $167,038. A 25 per cent Increase in contributions to benevolences was reported, $47,574 going for conference cau ses and $12,000 into the church's wartime program. Umvelcome f Gif V Awaits Honeymooner SANTA BARBARA, Calif, June I7rr-Charlie Chaplin has an un- expecter and unwelcome . wedding present awaiting him." L OPA authorities " announced Thursday that they wanted to ask turn where he got the gasoline for his elopement from Hollywood to Santa Barbara county and his marriage : in nearby Carpenteria yesterday to Oona O'Neill, 18-year old daughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill. They said he owns no automobile. - Samuel;; Leask, jr., southern California ? director for, the OPA, Rome Eadio Broadcast Says Allies Massed on Turk Border n (Continued many landing craft concentrating naval units in that bay, and against enemy convoys sailing This eastern Mediterranean another great worry for Hitler, ing that the chief of the German security police, Ernest Kalten- drunner, had been rushed, to and that the situation in Bucharest appeared "very tense." Many leading politicians were reported- hiding. A Home-broadcast, of a Bucharest ''official communique denied yesterday Ankara reports that Rumania Was seeking peace. 1 Before Start, j Attorney Rules Before Marion county can build a new courtnouse or enter into contracts Indebting it for that pur pose, runds lor tne construction must be on hand. or have been ac tually levied, Deputy Attorney- TV Harold Tomlinson , advised " the county court Thursday. In an opinion requested by the budget committee, Tomlinson out lined requirements of the law in the matter of financing, such project Notice must be given the electorate 70 days prior to the making of a levy for courthouse construction, describing definite ly the site of the proposed con struction, aproximate cost and ap proximate date , of building, spe cifying what the levy Is to be and over what period it.is to be col lected whether it is to be placed before the voters or is to be with in the six per cent limitation. l Tne punue wouia oe-auowed to 1 petition for other than the sped P1 building site. If no sucbpe- levy, Dui no sucn xax may De un- I posed beyond the six per cent hmitauon unless approved by pap- I Uiar VOie. FR Worried Over Serious Log Shortage said after a conference with Presi dent Roosevelt Thursday that the president expressed concern over the serious log shortage problem and this country s Inability to. ob tain logs from Canada. ' Jackson, chairman of a lum ber snb-eommlttee ef the house small business eenunittee. said be discussed with the president the log problem aad said he also told the president about the Ca nadian situation, under which exportation ef lags ta the United States - Is prohibited bat ship ment af lumber is allowed. He said the president seemed anxl aas that something be done about the situation. Jackson, whose committee rec- 1 onunended that government lum- ber purchases be unified under one head, also reported that war production board chairman, Son- aid Nelson, approved the idea. Ha said he discussed ' the plan with Nelson and Nelson agreed to es tablish, through voluntary action. coordination of the activities of the various - government lumber agencies. GOP Chairman TKf TTv a PVl.al.rl MA9 A' OOfJL ' --v.'-' ' ria sFV hnwrn rra I lia.ra -"y-Lvrx f CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, June lT.-iAVHarrisoa . Spangler, re publican national" chairman, as serted Thursday that "It is highly probable that next winter wa will not have any foods which we can ship to our allies, but also there r NEW TOWji Civilians are sine f tional food sTffta near fa tare. Chester C Davis, war food ad ml n Intra tar, said Thurs day as he declared blantly that the food supply weald be "large enough for health aad strength far all but net for waste." will be manyi hungry people in congested centers of the United States ;; :: v. . It "V; Declaring that the food situa tion throughout the east "Is rap idly becoming very critical, the GOP chief added in an Interview with the Gazette: "We now - have approximately 35,000,000 acres less in cultivation and production than we had In the last war. This Is the result largely of the philosophy of scar city which the new deal has md vocated over the last 10 years. In the face of that reduced acre age; we have in the United States approximately 14,000,000 .more people to feed than "we had In the last war." - said his investigators were trying to trace down reports that the mo vie actor and director used two automobiles to transport his party for the wedding and that he ex ceeded the 35-mfle-an-hour speed limit. ' ' ' from Page 1) II eastward from Gibraltar.' area apparently had produced with the Moscow radio report Rumania to reorganize the police. State Gkelis J (Continued from Page 1) J more than a year, ago, was once known to Willamette university students and faculty as ' "Willam ette lodge," when it was made available to campus organizations and groups by its elderly owner. New figures tor Installation of I additional fire - fighting facilities at the state flax ' plant on -the state penitenfcary property were received by the board. These fa cilities, aa now proposed, will cost $46,000 instead of $40,000 as pre viously quoted. The improvements will Include a pipe line, hydrants, well, tank and pumps. The board authorized purchase of a mobile diagnostic x-ray ma chine for the - -state ': tuberculosis hospital at The Dalles. New Products DevelopFrom Paper Plant v WASHINGTON, June 17.-(ff) The successful wartime : produc tion of alcohol for synthetic rub ber and explosives from sulphite liquor, formerly a waste by-product in the manufacture of news print and other papers, was an nounced Thursday by the Ontario naner company, a subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune. Keen government interest has been whetted over the broad possibilities of the new alcohol project by forecasts that ether alcohol sources may decline as growing food and -petroleum 'shortages become more acute. Three members -of the Gillette rubber investigating committee Senators Burton K. Wheeler (D- Mont), Raymond E. Willis (R Ind) and George D. Aiken R-Vt) planned to leave tonight and to morrow, along with Rubber Direc tor William M. Jeff era and several other high - government officials, on an inspection trip of the new plant located at Thorold, Ont. Ca nadian government officials will join the party there. ' - Company officials said that this freshly pioneered source of alcohol might . be 1 tapped as a supplemental automobile fuel In addition ta Its other wartime Scientists estimate that if all the sulphite liquor now dumped In lakes and streams by wood pulp mills in the United States and Canada were utilized, the annual yield would be approximately 85,- 000,000 gallons of alcohol enough for 94,600 long tons ' of synthetic rubber, or the equivalent of 35, 766,000 bushels of corn or, wheat' The - aovernment's alcohol pret grmm is usinaT 10,000,000 bushels of ETain monthly, while - additional production comes from petroleum. Official Says Ckal Outlook Is Uncertain WASHINGTON, June 17 -(P) H.. A. Gray, deputy solid fuels ad ministrator, says federal officials do' not know "whether we are going; to get 'the 600,000,000 tons of coaL the nation 7 needs . next winter. . , ;':'-:v?-' Gray attributed a probabls loss of 23,000.000 tons of coal produc- ce71revious1 to the strike, slowing down the mines," and the coal strike itself, He told - a senate- appropriations committee, in testimony . publish-1 ed Thursday, that his office was "working on a plan of allocating anthracite so each community will get its. share- of anthracite, . and we are trying to avoid the ra tioning coupon system if we can. He- agreed with Senator Hay- den (D-Ariz) that rationing would be a matter for, OPA and would "cost the treasury a tot of money." Tonight 3atarday Continuous Sat. 1 to 11:3ft p. m. PI OS ' . News - Cartoon Serial, Smflia'-Jack Purchasing i ON the HOIIE FR01IT Ey CATZL CXHLD3 No deal was made for the Chin ese lessons, although there was progress.; ,-;. ,; ;. ;.V But I did learn that there are foods . more rare than ; bananas. Water chestnuts, for instance, are raised in small juan titles fat Mex ico, but in the US (at; least In Salem ) we are still using stocks of canned : water chestnuts im ported from China before Decem ber, 71941. , . Those ; shipments, even then, were few and far between..- ' Bean sprouts, now, are nurtur ed In this country, and the mem bers of the Yee family. Sing; Tim, Wilson, FreSdy, and Albert, point ed out to me that they are not rationed. ' The meat ration should, mean little . to the Chinese, who . have always made a small plate of rich pork go a long way and who know how to do rare things with chick en, shrimp, and when they can get it duck.: r ; :v-; :.. ; If the water chestnuts and the lichee nuts in stock should run out before the war is over, the Yeea know they can still . serve Chinese 'food, but they hope- air man continues to come from the homeland. "; . .;,..., .4- -V-'. -' Letters . from the . relatives in distant Canton have been spaced aa far aa a year apart and, then. sometimes, they,, have come . at monthly intervals. And In the land early -invaded by a common en emy, the Yee family members are somewhat worried about their relatives in the United Suites, now that we, too,- are at war. . . Grass Cutting Program-Set Farmers who have equipment ! and time to assist with cutting ; grass and brush along 1200 to 1500 miles of county roads may do the work for the county court and expect to be paid for it, the court , announced Thursday. V Some of the grass will be valu able as hay and may be removed by farmers doing the work as salvage, court members suggested. The county has neither enough equipment nor enough manpower available on its regular crews to ! do the work. County Judge Grant Murphy said. .. Fairview Electrician Wires New City Hall FAIRVIEW Toivo Bantsari, the -local electrician, is rushed with orders. He is wiring the pew city hall at Carlton, replacing the one lost by fire last year. He is building electric lines for Irrigation at the Charles Ferguson and Morton Tompkins farms at Grand Island and has a great deal of work at the Newberg vicinity awaiting besides numerous other orders. ' .-. : NOW SHOWING SweeDimr the nation to 1 1 . a a m m .. tne jgreatesi iame ever accorded anv film! More than a motion pictui it's life itself! 'Saints with m CUmiitm CmHttmrrimg MICKEY ROONEY with FRANK MORGAN ltes "Bnsrs Bunny'' Carteen LA8T TXMZS TODAY "JIANILA CAIXING , Liard Nolan - Carole Laadla Cornel Wilde ; Janes Gleasea I PL.VS - TXat BOLT aa T "BANDIT RANGER' Coming Saturday ll 1 V MUM; 1 i V Y : II Ilia ' ' f f 1 J c a 4 M in " 'U.v- 1 ! ,. j I J ''J I If t j i 'I iL'crZy i'cp Planes Raid 2110 pun ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Friday; June lS(Jf) Forty. Japanese planes raided the area of Bena Bena, 83 miles north west of Lae, Thursday for the third straight enemy strike at that sector,' the high command an nounced. Elsewhere on New Guinea, four Japanese . planes raided t Port Moresby and one was hit by anti-aircraft fire. - Eight Japanese barges were de stroyed and 12 damaged by allied bombers near Tae.- ; ?; 1, : As on the previous two raids, the communique said little about the Bena Bena attack other than to -report IL The sector which has emergency landing fields haa not been mentioned prior to the raids. However, a spokesman at head quarters of General Douglaa Mac Arthur said there were no cas ualties and the raiders' bombs burned four native huts. Tuesday 57 enemy planes were sent against the area, 27 of them bombers. Wednesday, six bombers and six fighters formed the rald- from the north oast of New Gui nea, is considerably above the Japanese bases of Lae and Sala maua, long threatened by . Infil trating allied troops from the south whose front line Is at Mubo, 12 miles below Salamaua. C Five Die in K Plane Crasli RAPID CITY, SD, June 17 -ff) Five men were killed and five were injured in the crash of their four-engined bomber just west of the Rapid City army air base Thursday, it was announced by ' Major . Ellis E. Eno, commanding : officer. . 1 Today Thru Saturday I7i' . til l ii V f I 0RS0II WELLES Sin Swing Music Mystery j . . af C"pCd ft C3 b " V f xr , Im. asaaaaiMa 3 ' . ' Br 1fl.:' lzzi LESLIE DICK THACr In :iz n;c." ,1