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IT SEEMS TO ME that the
state police have done remark
able piece of detection in locating
the man who adtmits he is; re
sponsible - for-; the drowning of
;Miss, Ruth . Hildebrand. The clues
!with. which to start work were
.few-For days the Identity of the
,girl pulled from ; the waters - of
Ithe Willamette was unknown. Lat-
. er her clothes and a bus . ticket
.were found; her name was learn
ed and her movements traced. The
step-by-step process of elimina
tion and search proceded, and fin
ally the suspect confessed the dual
crime of -rape and striking the
girl so she fell into the river' and
.was drowned. : The success of the
police officers- makes them rate
with Scotland Yard and the de
tectives of Conan Doyle's fiction.
1 But what a sorry story this Is:
' man of mature years, 38, power
ful in stature, , who had served as
a police officer in two towns in
Oregon, so debased that he made
vit; a- practice of picking up girls
.r i women -; and assaulting .them.
.This Hildebrand girl was only 17.
.And what business, one may ask,
did she have ranging around the
' countryside alone, late at night?
If the rapist had been a sol-
dier, the . whole army - of - soldiers
.would be in disrepute. If he had
. been a negro his race would have
: been blamed and in some sections
- a necktie-party would be arrange
ed. But here we have a white man
of enough intelligence and stand
ing to get a police job in at least
one community where he - must
have been known. "But the white
; I race, as a race,! feels no guilt be-
cause of one man's misdeeds. The
affair ought to. teach. the lesson
'that rape and murder are not due
to race or occupation, but to moral
. lapse, ' a common sin of . all hu
manity. 1 '-
Bomb Load
osion
Tl 1
amages noatt
RED BLUFF,: Calif v July "8.-Jpy-A
trailer-load of 1 00-pound
j fragmentation bombs exploded
with an earth-shaking roar heard
20 miles away Thursday, starting
a small forest fire and tearing up
' huge chunks of highway. " .'
TThe track drfverari; Dan
' Neal of San Francisco, grabbed
; his fire extinguisher when he
vi discovered his trailer en fire,
. ' bat he was uaable to halt the
1 fluKt which menaced the li
sten lead f explosives.
Neal unhitched the trailer and
: drove away in the truck, itself
loaded with six tons of bombs,
and waited for' the explosion. He
' - didn't have to wait long. :
: Bomb fragments set a fire in
trees bordering the Red Blvff
Sasanville highway - and t the
Mast itself wrecked a large per
' tioa ef the road 23 miles east
' t Bed Bluff. "
Neal blamed - the fire on some
, mechanical difficulty in the trail
er's brakes or wheels.
- The load
Seattle.'
was en route to
First Kaiser
Carrier Is
Commissioned
; ASTORIA, Ore, July t
- The first aircraft escort vessel
'.launched by Henry J. Kaiser ship
yards was commissioned Thursday
and turned over to its captain,
;CmhviS. W. Callaway, and this
crew. -The vessel was named the
Casablanca.;
Capt J. D. Barner, commandant
of the Astoria naval station, com
missioned the ship on behalf of
: Vice : Admiral Frank J. Fletcher,
commandant of the - 13th naval
district.
- Cmdr. Callaway, his officers and
men arrived here Wednesday night
by special, train from Bremerton.
The ship's executive officer is Lt.
Cmdr. T. Ashcraft,
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Rains Bring New Crisis
In Local Cherry Harvest
By RALPH C CURTIS
Recent showers have preciplta
l ted ba- pun intendeda new
crisis in. the cherry- harvest. . The
! utcome . depends qnk- largely
vpon -subsequent weather, but
the advent of rain serves to em
phasize the need for sustained ef
fort : toward completion of the
-community's cherry-picking
chore, ' : ''"
Contrary to any Impressloa ;
that may have been gained from ;
: reports that the demand for ad- j
- illtisnaL new pickers was slack
' eslsg cff. the cherry, harvest as :
a whole is not on the wane, Ae-
cording to Robert tt. Shlaa ef .
: winamette Cherry, Growers,
: tie re still are as many cherries ;
. cn the trees as have been
picked.
If there Is tuf further rain In
tle near future end if the weather
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Foe Infantry Unit
Cut Off by Reds
And Badly Beaten
LONDON, Friday, July 9-(JP)
German tanks drove still an
other wedge . into Soviet lines
in the Belgorod sector below the
Kursk-1 Wlge Thursday in his
tory's f greatest armored con
flict, but Moscow declared ear-;
ly today that the Red army
stood firm elsewhere and even
had recovered some lost ground
to the north.-: : ;
. -Russian fire smashed 304 more
German t tanks and , downed , 6 1
more enemy planes for a four-day
toll of 1,843 tanks and 810 planes,
je&Ls, Q-.ty - ulidnight - bulletin .
corded by the Soviet Monitor.- , -
GernuB easoaltles had. passed I
the . 35,000 . marav the eemmiui- ;
lqae said. Five themsaad enemy :
' treepa fell ' Thursday in a sin-!
gle narrow sector, ef the Kursk
Orel front where the Germans;
hurled 90,000 men against Bed
arsay' lines - withevt -achieving a:
breakthrMiata, tt said.
In the Belgorod sector the Rus
sians' said 1 their troops had al
lowed the raxis tanks to get
through,' cutting off the enemy
infantry and. "inflicting devastat
ing blows on thenV, while Rus
sian anti-tank gunners and tank
crews i began whittling down the
enemy armor in the wedge.
- This statement offered some
hope that the German wedge soon
would ! be wiped out in this sec
tor, where the Germans have ad
vanced lour times in as many
days. : ' - : - '
' In' the Kurt k-O r e I sector
Kassian eaatexaiiaeka-r.c t p
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RAF Bombers
Over Reich
Last Night 1
LONDON, Friday, July
RAF bombers returned to the as
sault on Germany Thursday night
after a four-night lull in the al
lied aerial offensive against the
reich, the British announced to
day -jn J 77:77:
As asaal, the preliminary an
aoaacemeat aid net disclose the
specific target of the British
raiders. There were indications,
however, that the attack was
carried eat in some strength,
observers on the British soath
, east coast reporting that con
siderable nwnbers of bombers
were I heard I heading, eastward
across the channel last night.?;
The operation was aided by fa-
vorable weather, the skies clear
ing last; evening after a day of
thunderstorms.. ' I''
It was the RAP'S first assault
on Germany since last Saturday
night, ! when Cologne, Hamburg
and objectives in the Ruhr were
subjected to a heavy attack.
Sikorski Remains
Talien to Britain
p MADRID, July 8-P)-A Cifra
(Spanish news agency) dispatch
from Algeciras said Thursday
night that polish destroyers with
the body of Gen. Wladyslaw Si
korski left Gibraltar for Britain.
The Polish premier crashed to
his death in a passenger plane
taking off from Gibraltar Sunday
night
does not turn warm again too ab
ruptly, these latest showers pro
bably ; wilt, have dona- no serious
daHU;- and, 'despite- allUW setbacks-
eberry- growcrsr hcv-- suf
fered, the district's total tonnage
for the season may equal lhat cf
last year.
At no time to date, growers re
port, has the supply of pickers
been equal to the demand
though in making that statement,
they point out that they thorough
ly appreciate the help given by
city-dwelling volunteer' - harvest
ers who in many-cases have been
motivated primarily by a - desire
to help in this harvest- rather
than ' monetary gain. All things
considered the response has been
gratifying nevertheless it hasn't
fully met the need.
BatM cherries have been
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iPo- -. ' l " - -.;."- "i'-- munddd. 1651- , - -
imimr thisd yeab
18
eress
Recess i:.;.;
Greet Move to c H' l
Gp Home' .' s i '
WASHINGTON, July ; 8 -(ff)
With a swift burst of activity.
congress -wiped ' its - calendar
clean of rnajor? peridinif legis--
iion ; and i recessed " Thursday
night until September 1 4 tho
first lengthy vacation it has taken
since the war's utbreakvi , f r
The legislators, in clearing the
way to go' home,! swiftly approved
$4,302,12034 :7 in appropriation
and dropped a half : dozen con
troversies including the "quarrel
with 'the administration over
whether subsidies should be. paid
to .froll back retail food prices.
At 5:48 pjn. (eastern war
time) the senate approved the
: reselaUoai te recess and at C:ZZ
. avas. the hoase followed ' salt,
vetmg amid cheers and whis
tles. There were only a' tew
scattered "nees." The resolution ;
acroally took effect at :33 pjn.
when the hoase - knocked off
work, the senate having , dene :
so soma mlnntes. earlier. . . ..
It was agreed" that the mem
bers could , be'J called back to
Washington at any time by Presi
dent Roosevelt, congressional' of
ficers, or the. democratic1 and re
publican legislative leaders, t
The sehate had to yield : point
after point to .the house in order
to get the vacation which already
had been delayed a week by dis
agreements - between ' t he two
chambers.. -, h--i
First of alL the senate aban
doned by a vote of 14 to S3 Its
demand for Inclaslea of a baa
en food subsidy payments la a
' resolation conUnamg the com
modity credit corporation ; an til '
Janaary 1. The hoase ' had re
rased to accept ' this i senate -amendment
and ' leaders j had
warned it weald ' bring a veto
from President Roosevelt. ; The
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$50,000 Loss
In Mill Fire
Near Dallas
DALLAS, July 8 Smoldering
sawdust piles, a planer and. stacks
of lumber were all that remained
Thursday of the $50,000 -Fern's
sawmill following a ' lire which
was discovered at 11:20 p.m. Wed
nesday. ; ; - . '- J '- '
Firemen from : Dallas and sol
diers from Camp' Adair with their
chemical truck, together with men
from Polk County Fire Patrol as
sociation, battled i flames which
swept through all the buildings
in approximately; half an hour.
The mill was located six miles
from Dallas on the . Falls City
highway.
Either a hot box which had
caused difficulties during the af
ternoon or repair work done with
a welding outfit late in the day
might have left the sparks which
started the fire, Walter L. Young,
Dallas fire chief, stated. ,
Six years ago ' this coming fall
the mill burned out, flames spread
by a heavy windstorm.
Albert - and William Fern, co-
owners of the, mill, were unde
cided Thursday about rebuilding.
Part of" the loss was covered by
insurance but new equipment and
many recent improvements were
uninsured. Chief difficulty block
ing rebuilding was obtaining prior
ities, Albert Fern intimated. ; .
With the burning of tho- mill,
C3 men in the mill crew and a
number in the .wood crew were
unemployed, but Preston Dough
ton, US employment service rep
resentative in Polk county, was
placing the loggers with other
firms during the day,' ;"
Fighters Sweep '
LONDON, July JMVForma
Uons ' of allied fighters ' swept
across , the channel in the direc
tion of northern France this morn
ing only a short time after . the
RAF's heavy bombers had return
ed from a night assault upon Ger-
Con
Votes
PAGES
Sod
Where
Aerial view ef Rendova island (top photo) la the New Guinea groap,
' shows the island, five miles from the Jap Manda air base, which is
- the center of operations against enemy forces In the' Solosnons. The
; Island had a small enemy garrison which was wiped eat within two
hours after the Jane 30 landing. Vira harbor, only navigable har
bor m the New Georgia groap (lower photo), Is located on New
: Georgia Island. It was one of the first points taken ever by Ameri
can forces. The harbor Is St miles frosa the Japanese air base at
Manda. :
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Allied Preparations
Create New Alerts
A t A xis Outbosis
:tM. v :r'lcilb,
- LONDON, July ft-Fear
alert to axis outposts Thursday night along the gun-studded rim
of Europe as the Germans reported menacing activity by allied
warships in the Mediterranean and inf erentially expressed an
xiety that Britain and the United States would coordinate their
blows with those of the Red army." i " v; ! '
r-. "A synchronization ot the
the present time woul be a r very dangerous experiment said
a German broadcast.
The nazis, in a broadcast by
bureau, a propaganda agency,
and aircraft carriers had arrived
ranean fleet and that several hundred thousand tons of allied
shipping had been concentrated there. j ' Y j , ' i ' 1
Greece, Crete Bolstered
"' -'44 -.V-' '7 '7 .:-7'J -
This report dovetailed with
unrest and defense preparations
especially in Greece and Crete.
- A Vichy broadcast rcorded
ters said that the axis defenders of Crete fare always ready for
the zero hour" and that axis naval forces ef Crete were "ready lor
the attack at a moment's notice.
dispersed all over the Island." coasts. ; ; , ; '.'0'
Dingle M. root,"rjarliameiitary secretary to the ministry for
economic warfare, did nothing to ease axis nerves with the state
ment in commons that the ministry, had been assessing the re
sources of various parts of Europe for-use- ef invading allied
armies.' vr . -,, 5 -
"For the last 12 months .at
has been mostly concerned with certain areas on the continent of
Europe," he observed.- -
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Germans Name Allied Strength
A German broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, said
the allies had 44 infantry divisions and 15 to 20 tank formations
between Morocco and Syria along the southern shore of the Med-
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em. Oregon, Friday Morning. July t. 1843 '
Pacific "Battle Centers
;4 . L-:x7 1 - .! ;j l-
of allied invasion sent a new
allied command with Moscow at
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their "international information
declared' that American cruisers
to bolster the allied Mediter
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dispatches telling, of heightened
in the eastern Mediterranean,
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by the British news agency Reu
German air fields-were reported
least our work in this "direction
McNaiy Told
Victory Ship
Program Set
'Assurances from the war pro
duction board j I that - the Victory'
ship -program , for. Henry , J, Kai
ser'f Oregon Shipbuilding, corpor
ation will not be cancelled, were
received Thursday by . S e n a t o r
Charles' I McNary. . .;
The senator, ' vacatloaing ; at
Us farm home .north of Salem,
.said the information was tele
graphed by his office, which had
.been notified by WPB. ' Mc
Nary did not elaborate. . '
Edgar ; F. Kaiser, general man
ager, of the Oregon yard at Port
land, was informed Tuesday that
the plans for construction of the
new type ships was being held up
pending an investigation of their
feasibility. . - -
The Oregon yard has been pre
paring for a $5,000,000 change
over, authorized by the maritime
commission, from-Liberty ships to
the larger, faster Victories. . v
: Kaiser' said Thursday night he
has not been informed that WPB
will go ahead with Victory ships.
Dependency
Pay Increase
Is Approved
WASB3NGTON, ; July t -(ff-Legislation
increasing the. govern
ment's cash .' contributions to . de-J
pendents of service men - waa
passed by the senate Thursday and
sent to the house.
Approved withoat debate.' the
measare ' woaM increase from
$62 to fit the total monthly al
lowance for a wife and eae
.child and weold boost the al
lowance for additional children
from fit to $11 a moath.. . :
In addition, it would "provide
that the : government pay all of
the first month's dependency al
lowance although after that time
a service man could contribute $22
and the government $28 toward
the basic amount of $30 allowed
for a wife without a child, t
Final congressional action will
be had when congress reconvenes
September 14. ' -"
Flood, Breaks
Water Mains
STSShfTI J.rT O July ifT)
This city oT 33,000 rWsav without
normal .water supply -.Thursday
night after hit water washed out
supply lines from the pumping sta
tion to the filtration plant. -
Emergency crews worked to re
pair the break but water for do
mestic use was cut off meanwhile
to conserve the supply for ; fire
fighting purposes. State health de
partment officials at, Columbus
made preparations to immunize
residents against typhoid fever.
Dim out .
Fri. imgct 9 :03
Sat. sunrise 5x30
jlV.'eather cn Tage 8)
Pries) Se
Ho. 3
Blast
US v Steel Cancels t
; 3 Fire Up' as 12,000
-p- Rliners Swell Strike
PITBURGII, Vuly 9 -JPh
The 1 United States Steel cor
poration abruptly cancelled
plans .to iire up . three closed
blast furnaces as roving pickets
swelled the ranks of idle miner;
in tb southwestern Pennsylvania
apve, mine fields to 12,000. '
. The, furnaces were the last
ones remaining idle, of 14 which
.had been shot down sooa after
the third general walkoat of
miners' began on Jane It. A
company spokesman said' the.
coal shortage aloao was' respon
sible f or the closings. - "
"The pickets, termed by John P.
Busarello, president of the United
Mine Workers Pittsburgh district
5 as "outlaw miners,' centered at
tention on more : than ' a dozen
mines whose output goes directly
to steel mills. Until their activities
began yesterday, officials said less
than 5000 miners were idle." .
The first violence was report-
, ed Thursday sught at the coloa
- lal 1 snhw of Um H. C. Frlck
: CToke company, where Lawrence
dun, it, ef West Brewnsville,
. conductor on a freirht train, said
ho was hit on the nead y Iate
, thrown from a groap of "aboat
5 Pickets." .
' Blum : suffered a bad cut and
was taken to the Brownsville hos
pital. He' said the slate " knocked
him' face forward' into a car which
had been shifted into- the mine
yards.; Y : !:; l - y-' :' M
" The ! pickets, milling about en
trances to , the mines, announced
they were going, on a "24-hour a
day" basis. Women stood locked
arm-in-arm . with men ' blocking
the roadways and pathways to the
tipples.
Jap Flares
ForYcmks :
CAJWP, ABBOTV Jaly t-P)
One j after another arachato
flares fissled after they were
lighted by army officers daring'
recent night maneavers. ; '
Investigation disclosed . that
each flare was. stamped: "Made
la Japan. They were parchasod ,
before Pearl Harbor . from an
Ohio fireworks firm. .:
ton to ;
Get Transfer
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Richard Harry : Layton, con
fessed slayer of Ruth Hildebrand,
will be brought back, to Dallas to
day to await hearing, Sgt. C Ema
hiser, state police official, revealed
Thursday night. . . . '.X''':J?':"
.:. Sgt, mahiseri . who , has been
working on the Hildebrand; case
with Lt R. G. Howard,, will Jour
ney to Hillsboro lodayto.. bring
back Layton. "
Eiiriiaces
Lay
OP A : Okehs Price Boost
On SoniG Grscerv Itemc
WASHINGTON, July, t.-W
Price ; advances on some grocery
items: were authorized by, the of
fice cf :; price adaainlstrstion on
Thursday, althouglt officials osa
phasized that the . ceilings would
not rise beyond ' price levels - cf
April I, date of President Roose
velt's ; hold-the-line -order. . I- f 4 .;
The ehaases wiU result from '
three new fixed mark-ap rera
latlons' eoverlag . most .loos,
both dry and perishable, soil
by Independent and chain
grocers and by , wholesalers.
! Effective, August 5, ' the new
margins were adopted primarily
to meet food dealers' demands for
a simpler food - pricing system.
They are percentage mark-ups
which dealers will add td their
net costs. '., -On
most canned goods the
housewife will not pay more, an
aaasasa -
Erien,y DirgeLanain
- - At Dugiri Island
Driven Off
ALLIED HEADQUABTEI12
IN AUSTRALIA, Friday, July
-(iT3)-American marine and ar
my ground patrols pushed for
ward Thursday from "the land
ing beachheads they established
on New"4 Georgia to feel out the
Japanese defense -- perimeter
around the" Munda air base.
vWhyeNthe main forces which
landed north and east, of Munda
on u Monday were consolidating
positions, advanced patrols beat
off the Japanese ms dash which
occurred near: Elelo . only t h r e e
miles east of the Munda . airfield.
r Its, seizuro would give the Ameri
cans a . base withm fighter . range
of : theenemy air fortress ; of Ra-
bauL NewsIWlainx - : - ?
The only attenSptty by the
Japanese to loosen the V??9
lng American sqaeese on the ;
Maada - area Tharsday ' were a
llcht air raid mm Xaadova IbUsmi,
-held by UaJUd . SUtw forces
within artillery shelling, distance -
f the air base, and a fatfle
effort by a small party of Japa
nese to land frosa a. oar re
Bagirl Wet, jast'efr Kendovaa .
, northeast coast.. , ,z '
The battle for control ef the air
over New Georgia, where enemy
losses to date approximate 190, !
slackened in intensity Thursday
but the American planes main
tained punishing blows against
Munda's -sources - of supply and
air support on bases in the Islands
above' it" t V, '
At tha other end of the 7C3
mile are of the allies' -offensive
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McMinhviUe
ration
Plant Okehcd
McMINNYILLE, Ore., July a.
-(-Federal approval of a vege- 1
table dehydration plant here was
announced Thursday by C C
Wright, Yamhill county orchard
ist who returned recently after
serving eight months as vegeta
ble dehydrator inspector for tha
food distribution administration
in Idaho and western Wyoming.
Wright said he would convert
his walnut dryer into a plant to
process 4,000,000 pounds of
Klamath ' county potatoes an d
Yamhill county beets for lend
lease and the armed services. .
He said the plant would start. 1
operation by October I and , em
ploy about 60 persons. -
Silverton Man
WASHINGTON, July -(AV-
Namea. of 16 Pacific northwest
men were included Thursday in
a war department list of 224 US
soldiers held as prisoners of war
by Japan.' The list included:
Canning haas, Pfc 8heldoa W.;
another,, lira, Jeaa Caaaingham,
212 Lewis street Snvertoa.
Martinsen, Pfc. Frank IL; mo
ther,. Mrs. ' Wilamina Martinaen,
9241 NE Hoyt Street Portland.
Steele, Pfc. Vestie G.; mother,
Mrs. Bessie Steele, Lowell.
V Wilson, Pvt Vinton J.; sister,
Mrs. ' Harvey Smith, lone...
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OPA spokesman said. However,
ho estimated the new pricing sys
tem would, allow an increase cf
1 to.la ents-a pound on rica- et
IndcendfBt storso owdi.se;. 1
cent in chain stores; somo in
crease in frozen fruits' and ve-
tables in' chain stores'; a boot t cf
abouM cent each for No. 2 cans
of berries and. fruits (except
pineapple, peaches, peas and
juices). In"; chain stores; . and a
slight chain-store increase ? in
pickles and relishes.
't Chanres wi:i le "; mmd la :
commonity - wiJe .cllars-and-cents
ceilings .where necessary. '
to reflect: the changed mr St
eps, bnt the eommsmJJy-v " s
eelHng system wiU be ecnt!- J
and extended into ctLer c'7.'.:t,
OFA salJ.
No change from rresent dealcj
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Dehyd
Jap
JO