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Z Z ; - IT 17 V 'Or ziGii U'L '1- -. GJ-li i:";UWU-bLi L l r, ! in 11 (?, BeacMlhiesids' ' . - I U 1 1'iTi ' IT SEEMS TO ME . that the four northwestern states, Oregon, .Washington, Idaho and Montana, which have ' common interest in the Columbia basin, ought to get together, la conjunction with fed era! agencies, and work out a Miniurt rlatintf trt tho waters' of the Columbia river. v At present the army engineers ana sonneviue rower uauiui' tratktn - are ?' seeking to ; increase power production at Grand Cou lee and Bonneville by putting in storage dahis either on the Flat head river in Montana or the Clark's fork at Albenl Falls in Idaho. Montana and . Idaho resi- flooding of farm land s which would result. They claim, these waters ? should be used for the benefit of their states and not to their detriment for the benefit of other states. , : - ; - The problem is similar to that which arose regarding the Colo rado : river. The southwestern states there formed a compact Arizona, the' hold-out, has finally greed to -it; and a ' general de velopment of the river i for" irri Cation, power : and domestic uses has resulted, i . Gov. Bottolfson of Idaho has called a one-day conference of governors at Boise for July 12 to consider post-war. development. .The Columbia ; river - is the geo graphical tie of i the ; four north western states; and in many ways their greatest asset : The meeting on July; 12 would Justify itself if It set .in motion plans for an in terstate compact covering the use of waters of the Columbia river. In this - connection : recognition should be given to the priority of : water .for irrigation in states like Idaho - and Montana, whose fu ture depends so much on appli - cation of water; to land for agri culture. We who live in the lower portion of the Columbia basin should not stifle the development : .of ithe interior by robbing . that section of its waters for. other and less important uses. The : proba bility is that with study, adjust' for the highest beneficial use of - the waters of the Columbia and its t r ib u t a r i e s the. life- stream, of th- great- northwest. Copper Mine hutdown Threatens BINGHAM CANYON, Utah, July 7.r-(P)-A complete shutdown of operations of the Utah Copper company, which produces a large portion of this country's supply of the war-vital red metal, was threatened Wednesday because of a walkout by 100 members of the Order of Railway Conduct ors (AFL); . . Approximately f.000 men are employed In the e m p a n y's . open cat mine at Bingham Can- - yen, largest in the world, and - Its mills at Arthur and Magna. The dispute centered on the question of retirement benefits for the conductors. A union spokesman said these were in Jeo pardy; the' company denied the claim. The men walked out over de mands that the company recognize they a reemploy es of the Bingham and Garfield - railroad,, not the copper company. " Bert H.- Rich ardson, union spokesman, ; said the company's refusal to classify the men as railroad employes caused ' them to lose benefits of the railroad retirement act Liquor Supply Problem More Acute As : Nation Girds far All -Out Effort By FRANK CAREY ; ' WASHINGTON, July T-rVlt's going to be a longer time between drinks for the nation's elbow benders from now until' possibly . the end of the war. With production of beverage al-' i cohol now banned by the goyern I ment, estimates of bow long the available liquor supply will last vary, from two to four years. Most Industry spokesmen set it at three years on a rationed basis.''"- , . . A sarrey f the liqaar sitas-1 ' tion mu!( hy g- the Associated ; press- tibmwnti 1. There is no immediate likeli- fcood of lifting of the ban on mak ing beverage alcohol." ' y J. The office of price adminis tration (OPA) says no rationing " - 1imini im nrMmtl. rnnfpmriTat ed by the national government considering liquor a luxury item but evidence gathered through- , cut the nation indicates that vir tually the same thing wuTbe ac complished either by state laws c r voluntary ; rationing ! systems, ; ' x -ny of which now are in effect. 3. For ' some tastes, . the situa t" n may be s; eased but only; t 2y through increased im 1 : Is of Puerto Rican and Cuban Woini Near TT ey Air i m Kida Gulf Naval F'oW Expanded to at 9 Enemy Ships Sunk ALLIED HEADQUARTERS; IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday, July O (AP)- have won two, beachheads near 'the Japanese air base of Munda, Gen. Douglas MaeArthur announced today in a communique which also expanded our naval vic tory in the Kula gulf to at enemy cruisers and destroyers sunk. I Victory all along the of fensive .was reported as week Australian jungle fighters seized a vital hill on the approaches to Salamaua, new Guinea, after the bewildered Japanese defenders had been pounded from the air by 108 tons of bombs and allied fighter planes dealt more crushing blows against challenging Japanese air forces over the Solomons. - J In a pincers movement on Munda, American, troops landed above it atBice Anchorage before dawn July 5, it was disclosed, the same date that American warships were shelling the nearby Bairoko Anchorage. Other American troops landed at Zanana six miles east of the Munda" airdrome and now have contacted the enemy along the Barike river, ' ' ' ', ; ' Jap Destroyers Sunk Latest accounts of the Kula gulf victory accented the light ning character of the blows dealt the Japanese ships in the dark ness of July 5-6. Within five minutes after four or five Japan ese destroyers were encountered, all of them either had ben de stroyd or set afire. Fifteen minutes after our warships came upon light enemy cruisers, the group, estimated at'three and possibly four, were f'sunk or afire" the communique said. p The other Japanese losses -came while rescue operations were in progress around the American cruiser lost in the battle. Two out of every three enemy warships were intercepted and sunk as they ; attempted to flee the narrow Kula gulf and still another, was damaged. ' r . ; 'J-;VT ; 'I The heaviest attack ever unleashed in the southwest Pacific area ok a ! ground target preceded the capture of Observation hill which lis bet wn Mubo and Salamaua. The 1 06 tons of bombs burst among the Japanese defenders in a 45 minute period. " ' " The delayed reports on the New Georgia activity now can be pieced together into this chronological pattern: on the night of July 4 and in the predawn of July 5, American warships in the Kula gulf j battered Bairoko Anchorage which supplies Munda, 12 miles below it. American troop landings at Rice Anchorage followed immediately. At the same: time, other troops secured the Zanana beachhead with patrols fanning out quickly to find Japanese forces and engage them, f ' "J Helena Only US Loss ' ' The night after these operations, Japanese naval forces moved into the Kula gulf and were decisively defeated with the only American loss the light cruiser Helena. This account was given of the new landing operations: ; "Our forces landed at Rice Anchorage four miles northeast of Bairoko harbor before dawn on the fifth, operations were pre ceded by the bombardment of the enemy base in the Kula gulf by our surface units (it was in this bombardment that the US de stroyer Strong was lost). "During the same night, elements of our ground forces from Rendova secured a beachhead at Zanana six miles east of the Munda airdrome. Patrols made contact along the Barike river." The . communique announcement on amplification of the Kula gulf naval engagement said - the "enemy naval force was decisively defeated with the loss of at least nine warships. . i "In the first phase of the engagement, four or five hostile de stroyers were struck by smashing broadsides that within five minutes destroyed or set afire the entire group," it said. "Three or possibly four enemy light cruisers were then taken ., ' . (Turn to Page 2 Story E) , i . ; rums, Cuban and Mexican gins. But imports of Scotch and Cana dian whisky may be less as time goes' on. ' " : ,--' , 4. More and more tipplers are shifting to beer, some to wine.' With - distillers peratinr eat - the aasvsapUoB thai what they , kave .la warefaavses new, may be all they'll have iuta the war ta ever, they have raUvaed "" wholesalers b u attempt to stretch eat the supplies. The wholesalers, ta tarn are ration ing the retailers, with this re- salt: , , The pinch already is such that some package stores, : bars and taverns have closed- in certain sec tions of the country, the highest mortality so ' far being I in Ohio where 10 CO bars and taverns have locked their doors due to lack of supplies. ' 7,'! ""- ? - i 4 The survey shows the cut in supplies now : available varies by sections, ranging from a drop' of S3 per cent in some parts of Lou isiana to a 25 per cent lowered supply In New York state. Of an the states only little Rhode Island reports anything resembling a normal supply. . CfflcL&i cf the war prolac- Jap- Ba :': : American landing troops least nine and possibly 11 - - 700 - mile are of the Pacific the drive entered its second tion board (WPB), who weald have the say ea whether the nation's distillers sometime daring- the war coold resume at least limited predactioa of al eohol ; for beverage ; pnrposes, decline to" make - a flat state- , ment en the matter, declaring that much depends en the ag ricultural situation how much eera there la and the (demands of war machine for alcohol, used la making gunpowder and ; syathetle rubber. : V: You could mix. a lot of Tom Collinses with 72,000,000 gallons of alcohol, but that is the gallon age- estimated as necessary to turn out the synthetic rubber sla ted for ;? production in a year's time at Just one government-su pervised plant the big one at In stitute, W. Va. : And WPB men shudder at the mere thought of what would hap pen IX a serious corn . shortage should develop " while 'corn was being used for making liquor. ' .. In the majority of the 17 mon opoly states, , formal ration sys tems already: are in operation witn purcnasers compelled to register for permits. (Turn ta Tare 2 Ctcry D) IICiETTT THZ3D YEAH 12 PAGX3 Crete 3Iove Comes as Bold f : Surprise ; Many Say ; Invasion Started : . : ANKARA, Turkey, July 7(jp) The bayonet-like jab of I Brit ish forces against the " thin is land of Crete which lies as a heavily fortified bastion guard ing the smaller island stepping stones ' to - the ' Balkan peninsula has heartened allied and. neutral observers here. . -- The Germans ' appear : to have centered their defense on .Crete, supported by a crescent of outer islands from Rhodes to the Greek mainland and making a continu ing . defense line with fortifica tions along the Adriatic coast. The inner islands sf the Ae gean are lightly garrisoned by troops which ". in some cases al ready : are showing unmistak able signs of shattered morale. For the British delivery of the first-blow, in what aaaay here believe may-be the epeaiag of a . major campaign against the heart of German defenses, was a sarprlse. j-'-'-r- ; Unofficial strategists pictured the drive' as beginning with an attack on r Rhodes with a quick mop-up of the Dodecanese and the inner - Aegean which inltiaflrf would by-pass Crete but quickly open it for a many-sided attack. Only after, that island's defenses have been neutralized can the al lies sweep on into the valleys of the Vardar and Strouma to strike at the heart of the German-infected . Balkans. -; u The Germans have attempted" to make Crete Impregnable with deep defenses along its whole (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Pickets Keep . Miners From Starting-Work PITTSBURGH, July 7-ff) Nearly 5000 soft coal miners who planned to work Wednesday were kept from their jobs , as roving pickets;! including, three women. closed eight southwestern Penn sylvania mines. Across the state in the anthracite region the last 4500 holdouts against union or ders of June 22 to end their strike returned to work. . The picketing In the soft coal district around Brownsville in- creased the number of Idle min ers to about 7000. Most of the 11 mines remaining closed are owned by steel corporations. John P. Busarello, president of United Mine .Workers district 5, said the pickets were among the insurgent miners who at a three- hour meeting in Brownsville yes terday decided ; to try j to enlist other miners in their "no contract, no , work" campaign. , Busarello described It as aav outlaw meeting by aa outlaw group of miners. , ; - Federal agents and army offi cials , were known to be in the field closely watching the situa tion, but a spokesman in . the of fice of US Attorney, Charles F. Uhl said any action in' connection with- the; recently enacted , Con-nally-Smith anti-strike bill would have to be initiated in Washing ton. ' - . - Well; Mates, It s This S v Blasted War ) - WClamette" university " nary mea Impressed ' by the aaval tradition of a gal In every port era a little worried about keep ing up naval standards because they : have only ' one port and that Is practically , gal-less. Only S coeds are aboard at Willamette with mere than 2f5. seamen' who fear naval tradi tions will, be reversed ta tie polai where coeIs will Lave a sailor ta every class room. 0 . Ex-Policemaii i ' . - v - To;, ffiHebraimd. Clues From Oilier Assault Case Led to Rape-Slayer ; Washington County. Charges Followed ; , By, Investigators -' Six days before the nude bo dy of Ruth Hildebrand was dis covered floating in the Willam ette, lit. R. d. Howard and Sgt. C Emahiser were seeking Rich ard Harry Layton,' : confessed slayer of the Hildebrand girl, on charges of assault filed with Wash ington county police officials, the two state police officers revealed Wednesday night ; ".-'ill-: - la cheeking en Layton for the Washington county attack, they discovered that ; he had been - (- cnici oi pu 11 . jaguimui, uuu -a ear. nao oeea regisierea to him at Independence bat that his whereabouta were unknown, all or which led them to con nect hiss with the Hildebrand case after the discovery of the girl's body, IA. Howard stated. . ..The trail led from two minor girhv friends of the murder vic tim, who informed Lt Howard of repeated rides from Monmouth to Pallas withLayton in the early hours of ihe moniin,' to the sold ier whom' Miss Hildebrand visited at Camp Adair on June ? and to whom she remarked that she had a friend at Monmouth who would take her '.home. 1 - - Layton was selected as' chief of police at Monmouth ; in J anuary, held the position until early March, when he. resigned to take six weeks' similar employment at Sweet Home. During his employ ment at Monmouth, he drove the night prowl car, and according to the I Hildebrand girl's friends, made a practice of picking them up at the. conclusion of his shift and taking them to Dallas since no night bus ran between Mon mouth and Dallas. , ' ? r f ' Acting upoa the Information of the two girls and of the sold- , ler at Camp Adair, the two of ficers confronted Layton, new arrested and serving six months in the Washington county JaU, with ; their : suspicions . and he "talked very r e a d 1 1 y," 14. 'Howard revealed." ' -L.'-i- ' Layton: admitted that he had picked up Miss Hildebrand on the night Of June 7 at 11 p. m. and had driven her "to Independence, claiming to have business there. He made another excuse, accord ing to his ' confession, ' continued toward Buena Vista and, in the wooded spot known as Lover's lane, attacked her.' ; (Turn to Page 2 Story FV , Normahdie Salvaging . Near Over , NEW YORK, July 7 -fjPlr One of the greatest salvage operations of all time, the righting of the former French ' liner Normandie, apparently n e a r e d completion Wednesday as workmen - started construction of t an observauon platform from which the righting operation will be watched by na val and other offfcials " ; i ; Workmen were under orders to have the 40t-foot deck, ea the southbound roadway of the west side elevated highway be tween 4tta aad 4Sth streets, completed by July 15. The Man hattan borough president's of fice gave the navy permission to construct the observation deck ea city property. Further evidence leading to the belief that' workmen, had almost completed salvage of the'old Nor mandie was aeen in the removal of many little shacks and - tool houses : which -have adorned - the vessel's hull during the reconstruction. Dimoui Thur sunset 9 :03 FrL siinrbs 5:29 (Weather a Taje 9) I i N. , . ' s 1: I ' i I I .... T. 1 i pcuNon 165! Cctleo Oregon Tatxrsdcry X-Iorxlncj, July t. .-On ; v.- - ' - . r-sr RUTH HILDEBRAND 'Jf v.- Tieup Break i Is Expected WASHINGTON, July l.-iJP Def inite signs ' of a break-up ! ap peared ' Wednesday night In , the deadlock, between, the house .and senate T on r ' appropriations, but prospects of an early summer re cess, were still clouded ..' by dis agreements on the question of subsidizing food price rollbacks. ' ' The biggest ; change la the outlook cum late in the : day when senate conferees agreed to reeommend to their branch Thursday that It recede from; its stand and allow federal crop Insurance te die. , . j Representatives of both houses, however,' woe still i uncompro mising on the subsidy' question. Conferees met for ' nearly j six (Turn to Page 2 Story A) D. Go-Speaker Says Foe Not Behind Riots WASHINGTON, July 7 Although ' It has no Intention of making any general public state ment to that effect, . the federal bureau of investigation takes' the view that there has been no direct connection between enemy agents and recent race riots In this coun try. . . . ' , . i -.;'. . " That was the assertion Wed nesday of D. C Speaker, myth ical capltol observer who rep reseats authentio : bat unquot able sources v : - . - !" ' "Because such riots - obviously made good axis t propaganda," Speaker said, "the FBI naturally watched for any sign of enemy ac tivitybut it found little or none." On . the , contrary, he said. In some instances the G-men learned that varied forces which were at least partly, to blame, for, start of the riots had deliberately fostered the Idea of enemy activity - to take the finger of suspicion off themselves. , V D3ath Goss Native' -, A bespectacled, middle-aged bachelor stamUes .'ear a colony of : gifted bat temperamental white people ea one of the lesser Islands of , the Hawaii group. There's a murder and every one Inclcf lag the -newcomer has a rlauslite motive. There's color and excitement yeaU eagerly I await each chapter. . Death Goes Native" ;. ia the CiZst Hmx Long ts-the author, and it starts next week la The CUtesaaaa. Vatch far tL!s cx lilz3 sew serial. - . -. ! ; aoS Subsidy I 5 w 1S13 Frlca 1 se Tells How Girl - Screamed When Thrown in River . - .j -PORTLAND, Ore, July 7-(JP) A " burly six-footer, ; Richard Hanyif Xayton,V 36, 'i who once served as police chief at Mon mouth," Ore., confessed the rape slaying of Ruth Hildebrand, 17, Dallas,! last June ?,r State '.Police Captain- Vayne M. Gurdane dis closed .Wednesday. ; ... -Layton, itinerant town and farm worker who boasted of his prow ess with women, told Gurdane he struck jthe girl: and knocked her into the Willamette river after the assault;. j...';; ' . ' U did not attempt a rescue, he said,' because be could net swim, Gurdane said be signed a confession Tuesday night. j - The Hildebrand girl's nude body was recovered -from the Willam ette river by. three fishermen on June '20, IS days after she bought a bus i ticket at Dallas for Camp Adair and disappeared. . j Investigators found her blood stained clothing on the river bank near Wells Landing in Polk coun ty. Dr. Joseph Beeinan of the state police crime laboratory said an autopsy showed Vthat she had been" rapedl5utnthat" she was still alive when thrown in the river. Death he ascribed to drowning. ; Gurdane quoted, the -- former Monmouth poUee officer aa ad mitting he picked up the girl la the Monmouth bus depot ea her retura from Camp Adair where she had visited a soldier ; friend. He said . he agreed te drive her te ; Dallas where sho resided with 'her mother, Mrs. . Martha F. Hildebrand. The at- tack took place en route. ' ; j, Layton was In he Washington county jail serving six months on a simple assault charge when the Hildebrand investigation centered suspicion on him, Gurdane said. This charge grew out of an un successful attack on another girl, the state police captain continued. No formal charge has been filed against! Layton, who has been re turned to the Washington county jail at HUlsbord pending a Polk county application for his, ' release for trial. j Miss Hildebrand's father is Abe Hildebrand of Woodburn. The par ents are divorced. j . - Layton said he became frighU' ened after be knocked 1 the girl In the" river. ; : Sae screamed - as' she strug gled la the water," . Lay ton was quoted by Gurdane, But - the water was deep IS feet right hby the bank at that point aad I couldn't swim! I got scared, ran back to the ear and went Com munity s tannery Under Way; InstaUation At Bonesteele Bui ldih& ', Installation of equipment for. a community cannery in Salem, one of 12 projected throughout1 the state, already is under way In the Wallace Bonesteele ' building at 3060 Portland road, at the corner of Lana avenue, it was announced Wednesday by Neal Craig, Salem high school agriculture Instructor. Priority problems are . Involv ed lav the aeqakliioa of seme . equipment net yet ea hand aad ; for this reason ' a definite , date f or commenclsg eperatlaa eoclJ act be set Wednesday. Jt was i Indicated that . the- cannery j might be la operatloa wUhia j IS days., .-v- ' . ' . The project Is sponsored by the Salem school district and financed by the federal government through the state department of vocational education.'.'.. -.i -,- Canning of produce for Individ ual families Is the . purrse. OPA hrs limited the quantity to be canned for any one person to 1C3 Ha. CJ l IwulOlJ 30, m Jll)nrr7rll firm j 1 ' 1 r 3 Mays ' A . . . 1 Red Force Attacking ! To Reestablish Old f Line Positions ; J , ; : LONDON, July 8 The German army in three days hag suffered' the most Staggering losses in its history 30,000 dead, 1539 tanks destroyed or damaged, and 649 airplanes shot' ' down and has failed to achieve a major ; break-through in Its gi gantic gamble in Russia, it was announced early today in Moo-cow.,.- -' , . ..r . '-'!-.' i The axis hurled 30 divisions, or approximately 430,000 men. Kursk-Belgorod . sector, but "did not catch ; our troops unawares," sold a Mcial anvit annnimrib.' ment broadcast by Moscow and recorded by the soviet monitor, j : "Only: in a few sections of the Belgorod area has the enemy, at. the cost- of enormous losses, suc ceeded 'in driving, insignificant wedges into oqr defenses., ,1 The regular midnight bulleJ tin had acknowledged the Ger- "' man capturq of an t'VMomA j ."tew villages" WtZlAj' la - the Belgorod "sector at thi" end ef4 the flaming' I0S-mIle front where two vOlages alreadvld . been taken by the enemy dar- Ing Tuesday's fighting. ; : 1 The later soviet announcement J . ' m ; r i . 1 power of the German threat, but said flatly that "In the first three days the Germans, despite the size of - their offensive had met with no, success." j - i "Hitler's headquarters' . 11 a t s". also were taunted In this confl-. dent - Moscow broadcast for their original, assertion that the red (Turn to Page 2 Story B) inn C7 Iridustrv FiCes 1 -... . ' - ' ! e lisijute WASHINGTON, July 7 j Representatives of employer and employe groups in the nation's private shipbuilding industry clashed t Wednesday at : hearings before the war labor board over whether a general pay' Increase for 'the workers is . warranted. The board, m its first wage re-, view: under the nationwide ship-' building : stabilization agreements, is confronted' with deciding whe ther the government. In persuad ing the' unions . to - surrender the escalator clauses In their contracts in 1942, assumed a moral respon sibility r to guarantee wage in creases if the cost of living was not held down. - cans. Those bringing their Victory garden or other produce will do all of the work except the cooking and sealing,: which will be done by an experienced operator. Own ers of the produce will do the blanching or other work of preps- A ' . .1 M - rauou ana put nm prouuee miu the cans. However, an instructor, probably a her; a economics teach- -er in the ilem school system, will be on l and to direct patrons of the cennery In this prepara tory wcik. ; : 7 . 1 The ever-all cost to those, having canning tone. Ineludlag . ' ; the cost of cans and overhead, ,wUl be 'cents for each No. X . can " and 7 cents for each No. Hi can.;; V. : The room In which tha cannery is being set up, formerly a mar ket, is 32 by $9 feet, has a con crete floor and drain and is con sidered, Craig said, aa excellent location for the project. Sc Shipbuild Was