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ll ? 1 1 i 1 ,r ?PAGS TWO Allied Mediterranean Moves G Jive Axis New A (Continued from Page 1) A iierranean and that parachute troops and air-borne divisions were standing by to force "one or more bridgeheads.' " The Morocco radio, recorded by Reuters quoted roundabout reports that German troops reinforcements were constantly ar riving in southern-Greece and the Dodecanese islands. .. Foot reporting the destruction of large quantities of axis supplies, asserted that enemy blockade-running had been brought to a virtual standstill and that 700,000 tons of enemy shipping had been sunk since the occupation of north Africa. Fortress Redd Effective . " T Illustrating the effectiveness of allied air attacks against Germany proper, he remarked that the Hylng Fortress raid of last month on the Huls synthetic rubber plant would keep it out of operation for many months. , '.'- - He said it appeared from recent information that the Ger mans were taking All moveable equipment from the Ruhr. 'If this is so," he said, "it is extremely significant because it shows that they themselves know that the battle of the Ruhr is lost." - " -I' iYank Patrols At Munda D (Continued from Pas 1) D I t where ground patrols have been pushing toward the Japanese air base of Salamaua, Kew Guinea, to the ' second time, in as many '' 7 days a great" weight of bombs Nf blasted ,a" path v for? . the jungle ; ''.fighters. Mitahell bombers drop- Lped nearly. ,50 too ot high ex ! -' plosives on' enemy troops, build ings -and on Jungle tracks cpn-- A! - : t ;n - ... i Enrage Jans Becung ouujins .vtuagea WHO jrSalamaua. Only the 07 before 58 it-tons of bombs wjra concentrated '4.-n a junerea, facilitating the A WnfaSNrUi an Important hill po- . f 'ition ,v Allied bombers struck at the ti sources of supply lor Monda by dropping' 21 tons - of bombs a Vila, a Kolombaagara island, and 23 tons oa ihe Boln-Falsl !! sector of the nertbera Solomons. 1 At the other end of the 700-mile :;.tarc of the battle front allied land iX' 'and . air; units struck heavily at Japanese barring -the way in the iij-Mubo area of New Guinea to the air base? of Salamaua 12 " miles I?- above it-' ; (The Tokyo newspaper ' Asahi :f -was -quoted in -Berlin as conced j log that" the allies are 7 pushing - forward in the Solomons and also -' are exerting heavy, pressure in Kv Five Japauaeoe Zeros were de stroyed ever 'Keepaag, Dateh Timor, and over th Bona Bena ! area 99 miles northwest of Lae, j . New- Gamea.!V'H r V American two-engined Mitchell " bombers heavily raided the Japa- nese at Salamaua. Two of the Japanese losses were : sustained ; among 10 . inter cepted by allied fighters over the Bena Bena . area. The interceptors sad no losses.. In support of premare by V Aastratlan aa American jangle lighters on SalamaM, attack " . Mjl " " jf Matted enemy ground lastalla i tions at Kela peat, ; Malole vil lage and along the Jmtgle tracks la the Leg a la area. They dropped M tons of bombs.! - unj :nra ; were scored on buildings and numerous fires were sianea. ine attacks were 5 made despite rain and poor visi Ability. , ? On Timor, Mitchell' medium bombers. started fires in a night " attack on the Japanese, airdrome ;x : of Penfoei at Koepang. Some of the fires appeared to be burning Z planes.- - r -' v : After the MltcheUs came big j four-engined bombers at dawn to start more fires among barracks i and in the hangar. Smoke from I 'i' these fires coidd.be seen for 50 aniles.- -.s:-,. - sj Fonrteen . Zeros roae-to inter- Jr eopt and-three. were .shot down ''Into the sea. Two others were listed as probably destroyed. They were amokiag aad t alUtade when last aeea. I ' In the New Guinea area of -. WUJMUH .1111, U LLlll fltb- s tacks were L .troops and made on Japanese installations In the I t vuigap creex sector. . . . ; . Five - miles from' Salamaua : at Bobdubi and at Orodubi between 1 , Mubo. and Salamaua, there were patrol cJasWa.;-;j"" '.i oC, Avenger torpedor and Dauntless ; dive bombers, with a fighter : es ; cort a term growing, more f a- uiw ior : uk auies as ineir air t. bases move iforward--entl their t bomb loads intp the-supply dump '' i and bivouac areas 1 at Vila, on ;'Kn!nmhsnffan VTIs' fa thai main supply depot for Munda, across Ithe Kula gulf on New Georgia. : The bombs for the Batn-Fsis! sector were delivered apon the KahfU airdrome of the enemy which Is on the soatbern tip of Bougainville.; Oae of o,ur beavy - bombers in 'the raid failed to return. The communique ' added ' no further details to the navy' vic- - tory in the "Kula gulf above Mun v da Julyj .5-6 in i wlUchj the, Jap- " anese were reported to have lost' at. least nine .and possibly 11 de stroyers land cruisers at a " cost . to the United" States of the 9700 ton cruiser Helena. ' 1 (In Washington, the navy' an nounced that American - subma rines in the Pacific have sunk. 10 Japanese transports and supply ships tad :damased f our others.) Invasion Alerts UMW Prods For Vacation Pay Increase WASHINGTON, July S.-W)-John I. Lewis' United Mine Workers have declined to sign a contract with the coal operators as directed by the war labor board but, the WLB said Thurs day, one of Lewis' lieutenants is asking the board to prod soft coal operators into-making the $50 va cation payment which that con tract provides. - Saying that some operators have! I been slow irtDeeung the WLB' i-- j , it oruer ior an increase in vacauou pay from $30 to $50, the UMW district president in Illinois, Ray Edmundson. wrote WLB Chair' man William H. Davis: We definitely feel that it your duty along with Secretary Ickes as custodian of, the mines to enforce -compliance with the di rectives of Mr. Ickes and the war labor board under dates of May 25 and June 13." Votes Recess F (Continued from Page 1) F reselatioa was - then speedily sent to the White Hoase, Next the senate bowed to house wishes and dropped its insistence on continuing government crop Insurance. This permitted final passage of a $253,256,000 "catch all" deficiency appropriation. This carried money for over-time -pay ments to federal workers, emerg ency funds for President Roose velt's use in conducting the war and $15,000,000 for loans to re habilitate: farm lands damaged by this year's Hoods. Meantime, the hoase agrieal tare committee get rid of an other controversy by simply pigeon-holing a senate -approved bill to raise the eeOlng price ea corn from $Ls7 to $1.4t a basnet. Chicago basis. Here again, an expectation that the president weald veto such a biU fignred in the decision, reached oat a t to C vote. - ' Finally, ' the senate dropped its demand that it be allowed to pass on the quauflcauons of any em ployes of war agencies who are paid $4500 a year or more. Spon sored by Senator McKellar (D- Tenn.), this would have required nomination and senate confirma tion of such employes. Its backers asserted the war agencies are full of policy-making officials on whom the L senate should have a chance to pass. Opponents said it was a patronage grab. i ' The bouse not only rejected the proposal bat voted down, 26v to 6s, a proposed compro mise to set the salary flgare at $550 and apply the provision only to newly-hired employes. The senate's recession from its demand cleared the way to the White House for a $2,911,69724 appropriation to ; run the v war agencies in the 12 months begin mng July 1. The bulk of the big appropriation is for the merchant shipbuilding program, but funds also are ; included - to"; run such agencies as the office of price ad ministration (OPA) and the office of war information (OWI). It set a precedent; too for the sen ate to withdraw a similar amendment it had attached to the $1,137,167,010 labor-federal secur- ty . supply bill. When this 1 was done the measure was shot on to the White House, , clearing the congressional calendar of all ma jor appropriation bills. Steel Output ; Hits Record NEW .YORK, July 8ff)-The steel industry, established a pro duction record in ; the first halt of 1943 with an outturn Of; 43,- 866,912 net tons, K the American Iron &1 Steel Institute reported Thursdayv:.;;,::"vi:' , : : This : peak was VachWed,r the Institute said; ; In the i face of a sharp- decline in production In June due ;to the ..coal strike. Too Late to Classify FRIGID AIRX, apt. stoe. $113.00. Hor ten elect wash; aaach. S40. pa. S5J? or 4641. - ... , ... ; . .. , : iiimi Congress Faces Charges JUNE HOPE WEST Marital Tangle Embroils June Hope; West LOS ANGELES, July t -) Temporary custody of three-year- old Tamara West was awarded by the Juvenile court here to her mother, June, Hooe-WestTUSO" ea terWher, who faces extradition to Colorado on a charge of having kidnaped the child June. 25. At the . hearing followlag which Jadgo. Kobert H. Soott mads the child a ward of the conrt, the father. Li. Willis West, who Is stationed with the army air force at Colorado Springs, charged that his former wife had had Improper . relations wtta Lawrence Carroll, St, a hair dresser. This Mrs. West denied. Carroll .also faces a kidnaping charge in Colorado. Ho and Mrs. West will be retaraed there eat the abduction charges, preferred by L4. West. The father said an Oregon di vorce decree awarded Tamara's custody to him, a contention the mother denied. , Jane Hope West was a danc ing teacher in Salem for several years prior to 1939 daring the period when her hnsband, Wvillis West, was an attorney for the state public v tllities : commis sion. Mrs. West also appeared here as an entertainer freqaent ly. Willis West is a native of. Salem and attended f penile schools here. Later ho was Clat sop eoanty district attorney. They were married ha 193$. f, I AP Argues for In Government By ThO; Associated NEW YORK, July 8 The Associated Press argued Thursday for an open trial of the government's anti-trust suit against it, declaring that to open its membership "to any newspaper wishing its service would destroy the foundation upon which the- cooper ative enterprise has been ere ated." Attorneys for the department of justice presented arguments to a three-judge federal court that there were no ' uncontroverted facts and on that basis the issues should be decided in a summary judgment verdict without trial on documents alone. The court re served decision after listening to the day of arguments. I The Associated Press tered that there were at least seven major facts It had chal lenged and the ease was one for trial at which testimony eeald bo presented. "The government "charged rthat The Associated Press' member ship structure denied access to Its new report to all newspapers and claimed this was monopolistic. - 'The government, has sub mitted no evidence' that AP has monopolized the gathering--and dissemination of news," said The Associated Press brief filed in answer to the request for a summary Judgment. . t "AP was organized as a mem bership corporation, but: neither in fact nor in law would AP con tinue to act within its charter powers If it were obliged to admit as a member every newspaper owner who so desired, j tj -i Try as.it will, the government can not torture - an analogy- from any of the decided cases (a num ber Were cited . in . the. govern ment's brief) In Its efforts to' con vert AP Into a quasi-public util ity . . . It (the AP. has not dis couraged competition in the past - -1 Featarlag Keith Nash and Ills 18-Pleee Dance Cand Every Friday at P. M. Sponsored by Capital Pest No. t, American Legion German Tnnlis TTTT. TVT; ' T7T 1 "" oit in cw ease At Great Loss E : (Continued from Page-1) E said U have -dislodged the enemy from a number of pop alated places- eeeapled during the first day of the off enstve.1 This was the first soviet admis sion that the Russians ever had been poshed back la that area. - -' Nazi : Field Marshal Guenther Von Kluge' was said to be using nearly : 500,000 men, supported by thousands of tanks and 'airplanes. In his-ambitious effort to crush thecentral Red army. - , German , propaganda - accounts -which. Incidentally also' told of the appearance, of i "secret new weapons" placed the focal points of the swaying battle 12 miles south of . Orel i and v; 3? . north -I of Belgorod. German columns strik ing southward -and northward were trying to pinch off the mid dle point of Kursk. : . - - One Bertta broadcast record ed by the Associated Press ack nowledged the Kassians still . hoU their deep Karsk salient, bat said that the Germans had expanded the ; "depth of their break-threagli ea a wide front," The Kursk salient, the Germans admitted, still runs as far west as Sevsk, 65 miles from Kursk. They are hitting it on the northern and southern sides, r--':-i-: 'i German announcers broadcast dispatchesf saying the Germans were using ."super Tiger" tanks superior to the 60-ton Mark VI machmes, and also a "projector" artillery weapon whose fire lev- mmA m fiMroet and made "th wnole terrain "Wok. as it a giant steam roller , had gone over it." " - The : Kassians made ne saosi tloa of eneenntering any . sack new German weapons, report ing bluntly: ; The Germans are- suffering enormous losses in manpower and equipment. Hundreds of disabled and burned out enemy tanks are left on the battlefield as well as many smashed trucks and .Ger man planes." V Japs Lost 187.860 Men CHUNGKING, Friday. July 9 -Jpy-The Japanese suffered more than f 187,860 casualties In the sixth year of the Chinese war, a Chinese army spokesman reported Thursday in an annual review. The spokesman said that dur ing that year, which ended Wed nesday there were ' four ' major battles, 71 important engagements and 34 minor engagements , and 1043 guerrilla clashes. " -: The Chinese took 2809 Japanese prisoners and captured consider able ; quantities of war material. the report said. Open Trial Monopoly Suit and does not threaten to discour age competition In the future. . . "It would Indeed be a strange result If newspapers were free to condaet their business as a strictly private enterprise in every respect bat the gathering of news, wlthoat which there weald be no papers to publish." Barber Rate Vote Still Undecided The question of whether 70 per cent, of the barbers of Marion county cast their ballots In favor of ; establishment of a Tninimnm price scale for their trade within the county , at Thursday night's meeting In . Salem chamber of commerce rooms ' is one which will be decided by the state board of barber I examiners before ' re sults of the election here are made public, officers said ' Thursday night" J'" ' ; v'-- . ' More than 100 barbers from various communities of the coun ty gathered here Thursday night to discuss the minimum price plan made possible by , a bill passed by : the most recent state legislature." Under - that- law, 70 per f cent of the barbers of the county .must .petition the I board before the minimum' price sys tem, becomes effective here. represeniauve oi xne , ooard attended to explain the plan.' OlitfieHOUEFROllT . Ey lSAESL CHILD3 Mid-valley folk who have won dered about the - strips : of white adhesive tape (in a few ca stripes of white pamt) running from front door to nose' of hood on si dozen or more "squirrel" cars around Salem, may e Interested to know that some - of the - stripes were coming off .Thursday. Youthful owners had learned, we are told, that they were copy ing zoot-suited Pachucos .of south ern I California : and- at the same time branding themselves to : the young women of the community as off the market : : J To the initiated, one stripe (us - ually running from the center of the I windshield j down X the center of the hood) . signifies "going steady," two stripes- (which run from door to nose of hood form ing a V) mean "engaged," and all three stripes delcares the car's owner to be a married man. My Informant hasn't got around to finding out. the full meaning of the. little numbers painted on the vehicles. What does "squirrel" car mean? If s police parlance for what we once called a jalopy usually a tinny, repainted small ear whose owner or the one who is buy ing it on terms drives aimlessly around and around, merely to be driving. Usually, he cuts corners, runs red lights and nicks ud au-ls.1 But a number i of "squirrel" carl owners nave never done anything worse in the eyes of the taw than turn on horns, full blast at night I j CIO Condei tVaHdatioIl, '-i v- - - ' ' :. Law Passage i WASHINGTON, July 8-tfTFThe ormally condemned, as "legaliz ing collusive agreements . . . and Inviting a wholesale establishment of company unions," congress ac tion in decreeing that; the nation al labor relations board shall not NKfT TOEK, July t -4P)-The National Maritime anion at Its f earth eenstUatlonal eonventloa adopted a resolatlon Thursday which called upon the attorney general to Invoke: the sedltloi 'UC laws aa-alast John L. Lewis, enemy prating . prsw. de- iw urn ncsmw nm AJnencaJi way of life." : ' Invalidate any employer-employe agreement of 90 days standing. inis promomon was made a rider to an appropriations bill now awaiting the. president's signature nd its limnuHaU !Wu : fa o freeze the AFL contracts with the Hnrv KaiiM ihhvnH. Th. NLRB had ; considered possible cancellation of these agreements after the CIO had complained that they were entered t Into when Kaiser had, few employes, and that therefore many of bis pres ent thousands had no choice of their collective bargaining repre-f sentatives. The' Montez To Marry HOLLYWOOD, July 8.-JP- Maria Montez, . the .West Indies gift to . the movies, and Pierre Aumont, French i actor, will be married next Tuesday, a studio announcement said Thursday. Aumont Who was In the French army . before the fall of the re public, said he plans to rejoin the Free . French forces after the completion , of a film based on the Invasion of France.' TODAY AND SATURDAY 1 "RED StCEUON L UST9 K3XS rrr-t i News Serial . - Cartoca ' V t. A 1 V: V JLiKAiiina ( -"K V L 1 "A l) lcf A- - ! 1 1 Faces Crisis C, (Continued from Page 1) C lest by becoming over-rise and the latest rains If they de not continue, will have served ' to keep the trait In good condition and prolong the period la which It may be salvaged. . The emergency farm labor serv ice reported Thursday that ten sion among lowland cherry grow ers had been somewhat relieved since several orchards had possed their; picking, peak. Twelve" pla toons of , children have played a major- part in harvesting in the larger orchards, thus releasing J groups' of Independent pickers for J work- In the smaller orchards. 1 During a slight lull in the cherry j harvest two platoons shifted over to cane berries but they, are now back in. the cherry orchards. . " Platoon members who have '"made notable picking "scores" this week are Delvia Bankoos ki. S&ly Keen, Edna Jodd, Del mon Asher. Jaane Graham, Douglas Brown, Jackie Johnson, Darlene Gardener, 'Marjorlo WUtsey, Jim Armstrong. Lola Mae Pope and Kenneth Griffin. ; Children wishing ' to join . pla toons may receive appointments by telephoning 9267, the United States employment service office. It is expected that some pla toons will begin cane berry work the first of next week. The emer gency; farm ' tabor: service, with I headquarters at the employment ervice -otnee, it now taxing or- der irotn growers for cane berry and bean picking, platoons. Grow- who anticipate : their needs and place requests for platoons early wiU be among the-first sup- Dlirf .with help, officials point out ' Grocery, Price Boost Okehed B (Continued from Page 1) B In consumer prices will be made at present In most of the canned goods of heaviest sales volume corn, green beans, peas, tomatoes and tomato Juice, peaches, pears. pineapple and fruit cocktail. .- OPA said those items still were "under study," but that no In crease could be granted on them without violating the ; hold-the-llne decree. ' Veronica, Qtk iSOtil Doing Well HOLLYWOOD,? July t.-UPr- Film Star Veronica Lake and her three-pound f son, born Thursday two months prematurely, were re ported 4 doing well at a hospital. where the baby, had been placed On mcuOatOT. Her doctor said it would be several days j before- the child could be r pronounced safely out of danger. :' i c Injured when she tripped and fell on a motion picture set, the actress was taken to the hospital last Thursday and was. g I y e n blood transfusions in an effort to prevent the premature birth. The 22-year-old actress and her husband. Major John Detlie, have a daughter, nearly two years old. Major Detlie is in Seattle with the army. . , "'i : . America's Favorite Big Show ONLY MAJOR CIRCUS To Visit Salem This Year J 2 Gala Days f Moa, a A T Tnes, 1 f -! Jly IL Jly 11. ! Hoars of Novel and Marvelous Areata Exhibitions Circus Grounds 1 ; LESLIE SCHOOL , TWICE DAILY 2 and P.M. Doers Open at AND WILD ANIMAL nCNACCRIE I ! TOPS of fholr THXIIUNO ITST e HUNO&Kos os ssons amb amimals O TONS Of StRFOKMINO KU HANTS O SCORES Of MASNimSKT NORSSS 'ectowws CAioas o acsrs or TtwTf I $XXXZK rT0WTE I8 SZSaf l i al If i jnnf Aariai Acwlrtit- 4 w Arkim m4 Aaha aataial ca a Urlnzlnz Joy and C.ir f 9 Trouafa. won a ; laad 7 P.M. OCEAT 3 RINO ' m - IStaCll--' 2 Friendly Bog, Bite J7orce ; Than Bark - PORTLAND, Ore, July 8.-T) Corp, Gordon Sherbeck of Camp Adairj Orei, played with a friend ly? little cocker spaniel while on furlough here last week. Thursday the army, learning that hie had been nipped, decreed he must . undergo the long Pas teur treatment unless he can find the dog and prove it 'doesn't have rabiesJ - ' J - -4 ,, " ' ; Thei Portland police department Is helping in the search. j - Giraud Talks Toj President In Capital : . WASHINGTON: July HP) General : Henri Honore ; Giraud talkedi Thursday with. President Roosevelt arid high military offi cers who are- as eager as he Is to sed his French fighting men armed and equipped to take a full share i in driving the Germans from ,yrance.--:'i j"" 'if -i-? - The French commander, who shares the - leadership . of the French i committee of : national IlberaUon la Algiers with Gen eral Charles de Gaulle. lunched at the White Hoase with Presi dent Koosevelt General George C Marshall, army .chief of staff, and Admiral William D. Leahy, the president's , chief of staff who; formerly was. ambassador to Vichy France, Daring the af ternoon he called en Lord Hali fax, the British ambassador. The bringing of Martinique Into the war effort against, the .axis. !y - dlffplaiugrAanui yGeorgei Robert 'Vichy French high com missioner In the Caribbean, was described In naval quarters mean while as well on the way toward accomplishment . China Hero Exhorts Men CHUNGKING, July 8-P-Gen- eral Chen Cheng, hero of the re cent, victory over Japanese forces on the .upper Yangtze, told troops Thursday that China had "passed from the defensive to the counter offensive stage" and exhorted them to complete their mission. 'As the hour of victory draws nearer our responsibilities will be increased correspondingly." he re minded his men in an order of the day marking the sixth anniversary of me conflict with Japan. a3BB8&0 1 Harry Today and Sat. MUSICAL HIT! Joan Davis - Dick Foran - Mills Bros. "Hen My Guy" Last Times Today The Greatest Thrill Spectacle Ever ' , With the aLAJr. "ONE ' OP OUR r- AIRCRAFT "IS UnSSING" Co-Feature X i-Xfs a Kuler -'T-' Thriller! ' ! ZJoyd Notaa -i Marjorio Weaver f JUST OFF BROADWAY COMING SATURDAY A thriCinc: team foe a ery thriUinj picture! OAS IVAOm HUSTOHNWJCY OJIEHAH USSMHiSTOIC - CO-FEATUR from secret archives! -.t nu:3 - . : i captured from the enemy! Greater Than Any i Drans Ever Filmed! UNITED WE STAND i iii m . j a Bit i- IT Being PORTLAND, Ore, July 8-D More Mexican farm laborers are being brought! into the Paclfio northwest and many of the 37C0 now in Oregon, Washington and Idaho are' being shifted to meet harvest needs, the war food ad ministration's labor office s a I d Thursday night A group of ISO Mexicans left Stockton, CaliL, L Thursday for' Burlington, Wash., following movements of ISO there from Em metf, Idaho, earlier this week. Burlington may get additional workers from Athena, Ore, and Dixie, Wash, later this week. Transfer of 110 from 13 Centro, Calif, to Stanwood, Wash, has been set for Saturday to harvest peas and 100 will go from The Dalles, Ore, to Pomeroy, Wash, ( to work In the wheat fields. A group of 40 left Milton-Freewater, Ore, Wednesday for Colfax, Wash, to harvest peas and wheat Bus Doubles As Ambulance PORTLAND, Ore, July tP) An Oregon Motor Stages bus be came a private ambulance Thurs day for Mrs. Vernon Chancel Mo- Minnville. .-r She suddenly was taken fil as . she -waited at the bus depot Quickly she was put into the bus and rushed to the hospital. She recovered sufficiently a short time later to return homo. - V jFred Snite. ; Better CHICAGO, 'July - (2)- The stomach disorder of Fred Snite, Jr, infantile paralysis victim who has been encased in iron lungs since 1938, is Improved, his father and physicians reported Thursday. The 33-year-old Snite asked for breakfast cereal this morning. bringing . smiles to the faces of his parents, and wife, Teresa, who expects their second child next month. After receiving some oxy gen and returning to his large iron lung, Snite has shown Improve ment In the digestive upset which caused him severe nausea. V. 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