T2io CnTGCI! LWJI. Cdu Oroon. TAdaj Uoznlaq, July I TAGS TWO . 'h ' 5 MS ! r i i t - i Yankee Guns Destroy 101 -a lap Planes ; j A P (Continued-roinTage 1) B In the ground fighting," allied L fcatrols, killed at IesjOPn I V eieN and wounded many-other at 'J.lalolo and, Orodubt In the Sala ua: sector. ? - Uii Over Rabaul, which felt the Im- 'pact of nearly tons of bombs ) ?1 Wednesday, nearly 2S 3M were ; dropped yesterday on ts'U three ; airdromes,' Iakuhai, Vimakanau - ?-3and Rapop. r;- rr :4:i ;,': At Nassau bay,- "Our 4 ground I forces are! consolidating their po- - sitions along the bay according to plan, the noon communique" said. . "Attack planes in close support ij bombed and strafed enemy de i S f eases atjJPuall from low alU- hide." '."-"- Twe Honrs aner we kbmjvv boding forces bad debarked from their ships "ear shore bat teries opened flro the eomnuinlqac disclosed. ; "The enemy count 9. k-uu.afewtt fh Ist with' medium j .wmv . J - - ' . T- nd dive Domoers. lorpeao pianee lnd fighters. Latest advices do not indicate f the total number involved In the action but ilOI enemy pianes were !X destroyed in air combat and . by anti-aircraft fire. ; Seventeen of jsi our planes are missing.' ' 1 C 1 it: I (Reports from Washington v bad i placed the number of attacking i : planes at 101 with.W downed el J ther by anti-aircraft or fighter ' C opposition. Our losses were' stated i as the same, 17.) yV f Headquarters aawoaneed that h f greoad f oreos had captured 5 . "the enemy barge baae at. Vim I harbor" da New Georgia uuaaa after hard ffehtiag. ;-,. f-' (In Washington, announcement "& previously had been made of the ?A caDture of Viru harbor, only 30 K nautical miles from Munda.) While there was no further mention of the unoDOOsed OCCU 0 patioh of, the Woodlark island and -T; the Tobriand group off the south ' 4; eastern tip of New Guinea It was V assumed that operations there also ? were proceeding according to long 'V arranged plans. - i' Tli mf !r MtcntiMU , for the first time, far, the yrr V combined under the aapreme t command of Oeoeral MaeAr than ; j '-V.-'--, . v- - 5 v His air fqrees roared out in far reaching sweeps aimed at pinning . t down as much of the enemy air ; force to the;grouffd as possible. - - In addition ..tfa the strikes at Rabaul and SaUmauai allied long I KrhariMH(.,nr th air, i L-f drome on - SelaryJaland in - me !., : Tanimbar group some soo miles above: Darwin. ? Japanese . In the fj- villages wrt attacked and a boat sunk offshore. . , .f Over Buka passage, in the nor j-. k thern Solomons above the scene I ; f the Rendova-New Georgia ac- tions, an allied plane damaged two out of three Japanese float planes which attempted , to inter cept it. ; In the St. Matthias group of is lands north-west of New Britain, 1 four-en eined bomber 'attacked 1 MtnA 'iflittHMfr mimimu inVIntf one and leaving , another -burning. In the I fighting around Sala i, maua, Ausirauan povruis woraea :. m a a . . a. i 1' - i their way toward the beach which i r American forces took after un- t j - dergoing a heavy battering in the reei-studded sun on snore - ot i'!, Nassau bay at 1 a. m. June 30. : Other Australian patrols. out of the Mubro area, 12 miles south -of Salamau, attacked "enemy for i.i ces at inaioio um uroauoL j v . The southwest and south Pacif- Ic have seldom seen such conceo ., trated aerial,ground and sea ac uf . tion as -reported yesterday from :.i"rfr tin in finintt . ' -.S-. -. sy ' While ithe Rendova garrison of p Japanese was being' destroyed. amps and planes aneuea : ana bombed the Japanese bases at Vila and Munda while :other sur fact craft went further to bom- bard Japanese installationa in the JJ Balance-Faisi area, Churchill Says Allies Asked For Giraud D (Continued from Page 1) D fll's sUtemeht Wednesday ?. that heavy fighting would occur before fan, in tne Mediterranean, tne ; statement served to confirm last I Sunday's authoritative analysis by r Kirke Simpson,' Associated Press - staff writer in Washington, of the view uuv uio uo oauue-uiraua - differences would not be permit ted to threaten the success of any allied milita ry opera tions - in the ' Mediterranean area. ' Berry Growers AskLecs Uce . 1 PORTLAND, July 1-V-Berry ; growers i appealed Thursday to Portland residents to reduce their ! consumption of berrier so there will be enough for, the armed for ces. Thev ' - iitHe"Gresham area t crop woul J be only about one ' fourth cl last year's 003 tons processed. Portlanders were 're ported Cockin to the fislds of- ritisli Corresponilent Tells Story of nsrican Attack n Nev Georgia, Rendova MariLS v. A - (Continued pose was to knock out likely Japanese parties, enabling the main landing to go ahead immediately-the transports arrived. " The dawn's early light was just beginning to filter through low hanging clouds and misty rain which continued to fall as' the transports swung into anchorages : The land on either side of us scured by. the rnist. Four destroyers dropped astern and another four, including the can, proceeded west,f heading into Munda point with the object of drawing . Clouds wreathed the peak of tain and hugged the slopes of mountains behind Munda s jungle- fringed shoreline, which was forbidding in the half-light Battle Is Joined rThe can waa second in line as we swept in toward the reefs, waiting for the Jap to show he was still around after the terrific aerial battering he received in the last few days prior to the landing. A quarter of an hour later a loudspeaker connected to the battle circuit of ships participating in the operation crackled with the calm voice of a destroyer captain. He announced: . j They're shooting at us. They're shooting at us." : The quiet drawl didn't seem to cance, but all looked toward the shore batteries. . Eager eyes scanned the rain-swept waters of the channel in or der to observe shell splashes. Several shells fell around th lead ing destroyer. Then the commodore spoke over 'the battle J cir cuit: ; ,4 ?W can outrange them. Move Immediately our guns opened fire. The blast and concussion of the salvo shook the ship and bent at the knees. Within ten minutes the first shore battery to open up had been silenced com pletely, . while the second ; kept quiet in order not to give away its position. As we circled back on Rendova splashes like those made by ma- chinegun bullets striking the wa teri took the eye. We were at that time closing in to the machinegun rangeJ The bullet splashes, how ever, were distinguishable within a few minutes as the light strengthened and as leaping fish were scared out of the water by th concussion of the guns. The cease-fire order came at 7ilf sum. as we observed anti aircraft fire from Manda. Six planes were, then over the field. Two I destroyers thereupon : be gan laying smokescreens aromnd the transports, bat as later events proved, there waa little necessity for this precaution, the Japaaoso shore batteries havtes; far too short a range. ; Again the 1 destroyers on the stern flank edged up to .Munda, again attempting, to get the enemy to fire. "The move was successful. The Jap felt he couldn't resist, and resumed fire, and that battery, too, was silenced, for good.; We could easily see-the shells tearing up the beach, causing clouds of dust, grass and trees to fly high into the air, The bad weather, which for us was wonderful good fortune, still held. It seemed like a second in vasion of Guadalcanal and TulagLJ j As the destroyers fa the west mndcr commas of "The. Can dealt wtth tho Maada batteries, others ta the east also patrolled between atendova Island and the New Georgia mslalsad. lac or air attack, There were small landing boats. dozens upon dozens of which plied between ship and shore,- weaving: their way . through the channel of Rendova harbor, itself so small that one expected to measure it in feet rather than in yards. t Three times more, tn the course of the ; jnorning, we on the de stroyers were under fire from Munda beach but the Japanese had no more luck and each of these batteries was knocked out. From one destroyer came the ra dio .call: "I got a good bead on that third. This to the command er of the destroyer, division. f'Good, go ahead," went back the permission to open fire. Ten mjnutes, later that particular bat tery was knocked out In; the course of the morning two air raid alerts were sounded and the trans ports ! screened by destroyers. weighed anchors and grouped into formation - in preparation to beat off an air attack. This delayed the unloading a couple of hours but although- few enemy, planes came overhead they were downed by our magnificent day-long fighter screens before they could make the attack, v Oat of the eloads easae what appeared to be flarea. This roased oar cariosity bat the ex plsnatloa waa forthcoming sov- ; era! miaates later whea one of ear flgaters shot throosa ever ' the coast la flames with the pUot stnargliag to Jama clear. Do did and . laadoi. safety m the sea where f ho was aabseeoeaUy picked oa, . lt waa-beginning to look as if I wsarjioiag 4or get very little news otner than an enthusiastic report on the success of the operation but trouble waa beading our way. By 3:15 the job was done. Every man, j Featuring Keith Nash and Every Friday Eponsored by Capital Post D)A from Page 1) -A outside the entrance was still a black mass largely ob Japanese fire. the 3000-feet high Rendova moun five the warning its due signifi beach and saw flashes from two over. every piece of equipment was on the beach and we were off. on the return voyage to base. v; We crossed our fingers as some one soberly said, "It's too' good to be true. Within the shortest While thereafter came the third air raid alarm of the day. ;" ; ' Twenty-five torpedo planes, flying low, were reported; to have been seen at 3:31. Flght ers swooped down la hot par- ; aaU of the Japaaoso , machines ; as they roared over the main land of New Georgia from the ; direction of Monda and drop ped below the hills fronting the ' shoreline. Within seconds there were sharp, short dorflfhts which were barely dlseerafble at this low alUtade. 1 The next moment I saw no more taaa 2t enemy planes rearing oat the water. Antiaircraft from ; the s hips which closed formation to 'repel air attack opened fire. From that moment on the din was terrific. The racket from the machineguns and the roar of the big guns al most burst my eardrums , as the violent concussions from the; blaz ing muzzles drew the cotton out ,of my ear,' " , r - , Two Japanese torpedo planes were hit and were downed. With in a few seconds they crashed into the sea above which they had been flying at little , more I than 200 feet which is the normal alti tude for torpedo attack.- I looked around at those gathered; on the bridge. Every face was calm with out any sign of fear.. Every lip was firm. Every eye 'steady, The guns now might have been firing over open sights trained ai most parallel with the water at the Japs came on. The mournful sky, which at one moment was pitted with myriads of ' ack-ack bursts waa" ; quickly obscured by spreading smoke from a shell burst - on the deck. Shell cases, still hot were being tossed out of the - gun ; turrets at lightning speed and smoke was still drifting out of them. : y - :4 '- " The battle reached Its ffaU fary.aa the plaaes closed Into : effective raagea for dreppiasr their deadly torpodooa, la that half-Ucht of a fool weather aft eraooa they looked moastroos la the agliness of their daa-col-ored whorled eamooflage "aad rod broach of the rlslag sn of Japaa oa the foselaaa.'- T 1 Fire from the guns of our force now reached an ear-splitting cre scendo and it seemed as. if there was nothing else In the world and had never been anything else but noise. The majority . of. the planes shied from pressing their attack on the empty transports. Instead they came at the destroyers which; were spewing flames from turret; guns and thousands pf tracers from au tomatic weapons,-; . : i The first plane charged the de stroyer I was on. As it rushed to ward us, the sound of its motors beyond hearing because of the thunder , of the guns, I could see two head- in the nilot'x cocknit It "seemed incredible that-- : men could keep rushing into such wall of Game and' flying shrap nel which was' bursting and scat tering in neatly ruled lines along the water' tearing the sea. apart in ugry splashes.-. ' - Four, planes were coming our way strung out behind one anoth- er. Tracer bullets were pouring In and shrapnel now seemed to' burst right In the faces of the men in the planes. The first machine was within, 150 or 200 yards when it dropped a torpedo. Orders to turn the vessel were shouted sand sweating helmsman who had been working like a dozen ; men spun Els ls-Fieee Dance Cand at t P. L . s No. 9. Amerlcaa Lerloa the wheel but the ra&fe was too short too short for us to worm our way out and too short for the torpedo to arm Itself to the point where It would explode on con tact It crashed into the port bows cf the sturdy little vessel. Arala I reeled. Jast lag to regain my balance. Thea came a series of dsll .tlos and : Jars as the torpedo deflected la Its coarse sad ' bamped and boaaood against the side of the ship to the beam where it start to slip onder the keet A few more .bompa aad It cleared the aaU. stia , anexploded. But. there was still wickedness In the air. ; One plane : continued its course and I was sure it was crashing into the bridge, but the pilot banked as he - reached us, just lifting the t starboard wing ever the-wheelhouso ! as he bare ly cleared the forecastle. He went down In flame ;Two more tried the same trick on the bows but their torpedoes missed and they, too, roared over the : forecastle into the black 5; StooakiagTever ? the - deck ta aa iastaat tracers were aoorod Into them. They were so close the gmnacrs coald aoi yet they weald Bat as they rushed away the gaaaers kept ; after taeaa, of thesa barst late A fourth plane came on the star board beam. His torpedo rushed underneath the ship. These were hectic moments. It was impossible for any one of the men to tell who was doing effective shooting or see anything like all that was hap pening. But I did see another destroyer smash ; right into j the flaming wreck -of a Japanese plane which hurtled into the water directly "In its path.': There was a big explo sion and some one who had only that yelled: I :: "Destroyer hitT 1 But ft was a false alarm. The little ship passed through the filming, ; exploding ; wreckage un scathed. . : Jast how long the attack last ed I doat know. I forgot to look at the tune, bat It was not more than 1 minutes, possibly less. Bat la that time the ship's anti aircraft downed 12 Japs. The can ran past one of these, still v floating, at a Ze-yard distance. In it I could see one of the pi lots still alive ' but - obviously wounded.. Another; four of 1 the crew, their shaven heads black with : oil, were swimming away from itrV;; -;. S -v' t K-t- The convoy steamed on into a slowly gathering rain squall aa our fighter screen was pursued by other Japanese aircraft But for us on the ships tne day , was over. although there were plenty of enemy planes stni trying to get It They were beaten off by fight ers. - N I. ' r UL i A r .;? v.; i After which black alght agaia fell aa we steamed back to base, battle-scarred and battle-weary, a few holes ta the bridge from strafing Just to shew we thing, aayway. ' Carnival Still Without Five Closed Games C (Continued from Page 1) C corned, so far as police are con cerned, Minto declared. ; Such a test might be forthcom ing, at least one , member of the Legion's committee suggested. The games have been declared legal by Attorney General 'L.'HLs Van Winkle,; committee members maintained, pointing to Rex Kim- meU, assistant to Van (Winkle, as their source of information! ' Women's Wear Prices Stable WASHINGTON1 July l.-iP) Prices on women's, girls and chil dren s outerwear will be held at about' the same level' as last fall, the office of price adnimistration said Tuesday.; : . ; --' A revised "price 'regulation for manufacturers, issued today, will insure keeping prices on dresses, suits, coats, blouses and similar apparel at levels "approximately the same as last year." the vOPA said, r v ; -.u-1- :'-: ; MMlllvMlTl I Today ll-IHUIALiLi sat. All i - cm M J . lias "little Aaalo Cooney". with Shirley Temple - XYm. Gargaa - dui: :ose Benefit f.IOOSD HALL t 121h and Leslie Slav -Vi'ayr.s C train Ordiestra , : ! : -r 'ay Nljht. July Srd Ai: :n Tr, lacl jdag Tax If L. I m mil VS THE BRlTmi SmTntB FIGHTER PLANS k bsoa dosoriaoa u Qoom'oI the Sky." It ptsysd a vital part m the oslomo of Britain m 1949. Mny Spitfiros wore iaaloaoS astoaf ao o7S airplanes which, as has aooa fOBsatly o gift so tao the Brkisk wore pSets of aa Spitiro Uses Million Pounds Steam Hour Tarns steam power Into war power This steam-powered "windmill. ahowa receiving flnlshlag . toochoa bef era assembly at the steam dlvisloa of the Westinghoaso Electric Jk- Msaafactarmg Cw drives 260-ton generator that la adding lMOS kUowatta to the electrical " power supply ta the war-bosy area where It Is new Installed. Spia aiag at 1309. revolafjons per mtnate, the i tips of the longest vaaos or blades of this huge rotor travel 1241. feet a second as the blades extract the heat energy from . M00.00I, poaada of steam raaalag ' throogh the tarbine every lwar. International. 'I' Cherry Crop' LabbrBetter F- (Continued from Page 1) F abort aa had earlier ia the week.-..':, - Even . ' more : encouraging, said Walter Snyder of the farm labor service, was the volume of In quiries from groups intending to pick neat weekend.' Also a num ber of 'groups of store and office employes : were reported to have signed, up ; definitely - for . cherry picking Sunday and Monday, and in some cases also Saturday after- Gov. Earl Snell added his voice to others . requesting city dwell ers aid in the harvesting of cher ries and -other crops, in a stated ment issued Thursday: , ' hae aooa a truly re-, ; spfrtt of cooperation shown by the people fa the dttes J withia the Tarsi ; districts la their efforts to harvest the crops, j Their attitude baa set the pat tern for: the entire nation. Bat ; new even this fine record of the past saast be surpassed or thou sands of teas of foodstuffs wCl never bo preserved for feeding 1 soldiers overseas or the people here a t home. "The " employment agency ' and tne extension service , nave per formed outstanding service. I urge everyone who is physically able to-do so' to enlist in this war to save valuable Oregon crops. This Is not only a patriotic duty, but it serves a dual purpose of assur ing those who help to save the r MORRIS SUtllVAN I f . r - i T p-y- , f II ) m r ) s ; Btt Hi I 'I . i ( r ; r- iriMf. i i I i Fliers Get 'Sky Quean' Uattod Statm iram mo Brisim Royal Av fowa ay AsMriom pilots ia tko iavmioa sqaaaroa to thoir plasoaj 1- . 5 crop their share of food for the winter, . and' more . funds for' the purchase of war bonds. , - "To march in the army of cher ry pickers, report to the employ meat, office la your community and add your, name to- hundreds whoso efforts bave. proved toj- be an inspiration to farmers, to con tinue to grow crops- in- the 'face of labor shortage." ' ; Some ': cherry growers are- find ing oa their own initiative other sources of harvest labor when the supply, "of pickers from Salens is Inadequate. One. grower who came ; to Salem on Tueoday morning re- turned home with an empty truck but he ; wasn't . licked. During ; the day he did some recruiting among friends and neighbors end the ; next day bis cherries . were ( being saved although dishes land j other, household duties in the.'1 vi cinity had to wajt undone. : . I Among notable earnings among , Junior high achool student volun teer: dierry pickers on Wednes day, these were reported: Duane Graham, $3.40, Don Shaft $7 Eve-; lyn'Robmsod iSJ.a, Teddy How $5, Richard TJeener AJS2, Dougi las Brown 4.1, Kenneth Free, a high school student earned in;n: 'Xast E-Lsode - j- . . thc moS r hits fr-.Or j' Forco. Uao BMOoroa odbtv of North Airim aloao. Taw putoro Ey CACIL CXHLD3 ! - "Let's go to the carnival!" Mar tha suggested as I had known she would at the mere mention or tne Legion's street party. - .; . ..,; V - ? ' r ; ' Where' there Is fur and music, laughter and motion there would be Martha in the midst of it.- i "Get names" is a cardinal pre cept for reporters, so my pencil and. half-size copy paper reposed in the big handbag. But I forgot to ask the name of the nice-look ing MP at Martha's who comment ed on the bag as being about the same size as that carried by his wu4v,;-!wi. ,;;;: i 'i';-;v ' !. And I suppose . one really shouldn't publish . the name (al though it was easily learned) of the plump and good-natured cor poral-who sat at the other counter of the coffee shop trying to spend his month's pay j while utilizing his three-day pass; He had al ready 'done 'well ! at places less circumspect than Martha's. ' ' Once we had Impressed the cor poral with the fact that we would be back and that we did not need his staggering support on - our Jaunt to the carnival, Martha and I were of f i . . We're a pair of dvilians just as' Mutt and Jefish as any tall and short coupla of. soldiers you ever saw.. - - Once we had passed the win dows where ; the I buggy whips stand in;lS90 splendor we could hear the music and see the crowds. But the bright lights wore ttias tag. "''. :-- ',:?;v f ;;- 1 Once i again names - eluded ' us: The two lads in striped knit cot ton shirts we thought surely were twins denied such a ' relationship and did not tell us their names. I Once not very long ago Mrs. Charles Ctaggett and Mrs. Glenn Woodry (they were Maxine and Yvonne ' then) went to carnivals together, an anxious parent of one or the other in attendance. Last night they were there with small daughter and still smaller so There,' too, were Clarice Malson and Michael and a hundred and one other mothers plus 202 chil dren. - : ' 1 r T : v r ; ; '.;- ; The soldiers held the horses for three pretty girls who rode the iherry-go-roundV and there, rlf'ere birds oer sucks nd kewpiedous not to be won by throwmg. 0au it milk botUesr-but the lights wefedim. r;.;,iu:: n: I -.'il'M'tfiptjIf Tnej' vs. Criiae,. Inc.! i;oveJ Over V. T7) OHtheHOilEFRONT Giv i I ... : -tencj Thursday nl-'-t fr i t t j fmr-i wLkh ta v.;j Friday and ccnur.utrl. I 3 t to life isiprlsorjcient. - - ' Tie 12-year-! Z ' G a rt J a n -tern, farmer rt .2 "--: wfc C3UT..- a KrEa r.&il fr v' e :;a?eJ "'from.a Caai'aTJ-ca mada tis way to- E'ri and i finally, w&s rec;jireJ La n ' Antonio, Texas. - ;'. Mr. Roosevelt dccliad Cat the death sentence was too severe, since Stephen's treason 'twas net part of a preconceived plan." IThea a warea tIJ tie sews to - Stephen at the telnl cor- . . fnetloaal tastltsiloa at IZllxn, . gUelL. the pri"' bent- and t tea fid the warden's hand.' thea coXUpseJ on a chair and berst -Into tears. A White nouse statemeni sia Stephen was guilty, was properly rnnvlcted of treason, ' end there was no Question In the chief ex ecutive's mind that he was, ana probably Is pro-German or pro- nazi. -. ' . - ' ; McNary ta: Be ; Hbme Monday WASHINGTON, July l-CV Hoping for his most complete va cation in years, Senator - plenary IR-Ore.) left Washington Thurs day for Fir Cone, his farm home near Salem. He will reach -Portland Monday. He . was accompa nied by Mrs McNary . and their daughter, Charlotte. Blrs. Niemi Undergoes Operation in East 1 TURNER A telegram to Mrs. Maude Bones from her daughter, MrsV Francis Neimi, the ' former Ruth- Bones, states that ' she has had an operation for appendicitis at the Murphy Memorial hospital at Rome, NT, but will "be able to return' to her home there the last of the week. CpL and Mrsl 'Neimi are residing there temporarily. where he Is stationed, at the air base. - , : , k . mm K'jIL.JC PWII W.H11 Bay. War Etoads liTmWlr.rJu, La. . ..u i4 alalTl . I r Jr. a it Uiic y O-jriATURD- na nr j r c::::i cs 7 Kill V - . PACIC UP YOUII TROUBLES! ... TIT.IC UUI rO K LAUC IIS I Andy's hi -fJiaT. tsfcra towu frcn tha fartOy! . wi:cl3 V I . w w . . k ,s 1 W : r- - -N r " .i I j- j NOW SHOWING. f .