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. IT SEEMS that our village
lapo, beaded by Chief Minto, bore
4own on the Salvation Army and
shooed its members away . from
their Sunday . morning prayer
meeting on State street. The Army,
" Which through the- week holds
forth on State and Court-streets.
Just off Commercial toward the
1 xiver, last Sunday ; exercised its
privilege under. the city ordinance
to sing; pray and exhort on State
street on the east - side of Com
mercial. Or they started to, and
Were' stopped, which is what this
.column is about today. - J -4lt
Was the Army's choice of lo
cation Which"; drew the weight of
' the law, misapplied, on its head.
- For the Army set up its; flag and
hook its tambourine right in front
f Frank - Marshall's rPioneer
C3ub,; which is one of the more
popular of . the drinking, and eat
ing, resorts in the city. Marshall
didn't like it. But instead of sug
gesting to the S. A. that its mem
bers go across the street and tere
nade George Hull at "the Smoke
Shop,! or go l up the tstreet , and
i ming and ' pray in - front of Jess
Tirorrs BUgSBiliards, ;ror over
on our own "Rue d Brew" of
South Commercial,' "he called the
chief of police, to invoke the law
on the missioners setting the po
lice on the Army, as x were.
While Marshall is no longer on
the i city council, the chief re
- cponded as though he were, pdq,
that is; and directed his bluecoats
to rout the Army bluecoats from
their stand in front of Marshall's
tavern, and supplemented his as
signment with a personal call, by
way of emphasis. Whereupon the
Army, - which fights - not : with
words but; with Book, song and
prayer, broke up its bivouac on
State street, and moved to a less
contentious area. AndV presum
ably, the routines at the Pioneer
Club were resumed without fur
ther disturbance.
. "This isn't the first time that the
Salvation Army has met opposi
tion. , In fact, if, you look - in the
files of Salem newspapers,, back
In the 20's when these "queer"
people in uniform first came to
Salem, you will find they were
hooted and jeered at, and their
meetings were.: interrupted with
- (Continued on editorial page) '
yeteran Drowns 5
PORTLAND, July MP)-T h e
body of Clark Knaggs, 68, Ore
gon City, was recovered from the
Willamette river Friday.
Snell Assures - Support
Eqr States9 Rights Act
- By RALPH C. CURTIS
; Any movement in . support of
state's rights as a general policy
which may emanate from the con
ference " of northwest governors
next Monday at Boise will have
the unqualified support of Gov.
Earl Snell of Oregon, that official
said Friday as he prepared to de
part today for the Idaho capital.
, I firmly believe ' the 1 states
. should defend the rights they still
have, and seek to regain those
which, have been taken away,"
.-Goy. Snell declared.. .
Explaining that he had re
ceived no extensive Information
: . officiary as to proposed agenda;
of the meeting. ; Gov. SneU said
ho would participate with an
pen cilnd, but would be wary
f any commitments on speclTIe
policies : which might be con
trary to Oregon's Interests. -
Gov. C. A. Bottolfsen of Idaho,
ia inviting the governors of . Ore
fon, - Washington, Montana and
7jcTains, mentioned only the de
ilrttility of discussing "post-war
j-lanning. ':'-' v1-: . 's' "-- - -
It is known however that Idaho
tJL I.Iontana interests are array
c 1 ia c r position to the Bonneville
tJL-ir.Ltr&tion's proposals that
it ii
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More Than 70 Tons
.' Of Explosives Rain
On Jap Air Base ;
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN THE' SOUTHWEST PA
CIFIC, Saturday, : July 10-VP)
Over i 100 .; American , bombers
teamed with destroyers and ar
tillery Friday in giving the Jap
anese air base of Munda and its
perimeter of defenses on New
Georgia Island ; three-way
pounding, j ' z f : v
- The heavy attacks were intend
ed to soften up that key base in
the central . Solomons f o r our
ground forces which already, have
landed on f New Georgia on two
sides : and now are consolidating
positions prior to applying a pinc
ers. I " ;.-
' AvcBger t r p e i bombers
'aad Daantless dive bombers m
great foreej loosed j9vT ? s
ef bombs rancinr P to
pounders on Japanese bivoas
aaWI soyply damps. - 4 ";:'C ; "
ft The destroyers maneuvered in
treacherous waters just off Mun
da base before dawn Friday, sub
jecting r the Japanese to ' an in
tensive shelling : of the kind the
enemy dislikes most. . " ' .
On the ground our patrols fil
tering through . the jungle fre
quently contacted the Japanese on
the Munda side of the island and
to the north near Rice Anchorage
where one of our two landings
was made.
Koat of 45 Zeroes seeking to
raid ear positions below Manda
on Rendova island, allied aerial
pounding of bases above Munda
which might supply it air. rap
port, and continuous bombing
of Japanese Jangle' positions
before Salamaua, New Guinea,
were other highlights of today's
reports .from the far-ranging
twtUefroats. A
The softening up process
against the Munda area started
shortly after dawn yesterday.
Flight after flight of Avengers
and ; dive bombers swept lover
green jungle positions to drop all
types of bombs. '
k General MacArthur's - spokes
man termed it the heaviest bomb
ing made thus far against Munda
a base which has been pounded
so repeatedly from the air that it
has been of little service to the
enemy in recent weeks.
dams be installed in those states
to provide additional storage for
Bonneville, Grand Coulee and the
proposed additional Columbia riv
er power dams. Objection is based
upon' ' the .. removal of Inundated
lands from the tax rolls, and upon
the premise that ..Montana and
Idaho Waters should be used for
the j development of those states,
not for further industrial expan
sion on the Columbia. '7k
That the Issue may soon come
to '.a head Is suggested by the
fact that a rab-ceauaittee of the
kwn bouse of eoagrea Is to
come west next week to study ,
the Bonneville proposals. :
Gov. Snell pointed ; out that
Oregon, as much r as any other
state, has a stake in the over-all
utilization of northwest waters.
and declared that his purpose In
attending the conference would be
the safeguarding of Oregon's in
terests. : v.,- -.. i i. r- -c-
"i He considers the conference of
such importance, and represents
tion of Oregon so necessary, that
he is planning to attend even
though it means absence from
home on his birthday, which falls
on Sunday, and on his wedding
anniversary which occu rs Llon-
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Boniilbers
Batter
Gplpgne;:
RAF Lashes Ruhr
CtjaTr'ilhiMorc
. Than 1000 Tons ."
' LONDON. Saturday. July It
(ffFoc the secoad : successive :
night. Royal air ' force bombers
roared ! eat ever Gcrmaay Frl-"
day algal, it waa aaaoaaced to
day.
LONDON, July 9-ffr-The RAF
cascaded more than 1000 tons of
bombs on battered Cologne Thurs
day night, ending the temporary
relief which , storms had : given
Germany this week from whole
sale air raids. The blasting; of the
Rhineland -industrial center Was
smaller in scale than the last two
British attacks on that city June
28 and July 3, but still constitut
ed a heavy assault. '
The new aerial battle mount
ed Friday as the Germans gave
London Its first air raid alarm
since Jane ' 27. Tea nasi air
craft . approached y the capital,
dropping bombs In the greater
London area, while ' others ;
caused damage and casualties at
scattered " points in ' southeast
Tw6 German planes" crashed. '
Fighter formations stepped up
the pace of the new offensive Fri
day, sweeping over the English
channel ' toward northern France
soon after the big bombers re
turned from their mission.'
7 Firemen
Die in Crash
Of Building
CHICAGO, July JHV Grim
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rescue i crews, spuring ine aan
ger of weakened walls and spurred
by agonized pleas for help, dug the
bodies of the living and dead from
the wreckage of a building Friday
in the aftermath of a fire that cost
the lives of seven members of the
fire department. . J l J" !ii
Five of the victim perished
In tons of rubble after the roof
and floors of the structure col-'
lapsed. Four others were extri
cated alive after being- trapped
as long as 11 hours, bat two of
them died later. f Ia addition,
foar other mea were injured
seriously, ' ' l
The tragedy was ' the - worst in
Chicago, from a standpoint of de
partment casualties, in 19 years.
iThe fire fighters turned out at
2 a. m. to combat a blaze in a four-
story,' factory-garage building at
419 W. Superior street About 20
of them were inside most of them
on the stairs between the third and
fourth floors when the roof fell.
Then the topmost one fourth of
the front wall toppled ; inward.
Next, the stairways bumped down,
story by story. Finally the three
top floors caved in. j
Timber, plaster, brick and steel
cascaded down 'to the street level
and basement. Some men scram
bled out quickly. Others freed
themselves and escaped. Five oth
ers were crushed to death, Four
were entombed alive.
County Jail
Hits New- Low
With four men in the county
jail, population there was down
to a depth never previously
plumbed during the sojourn In
office of Sheriff A. C Burk. For
104 years Burk has sat in the
sheriffs chair; a month ago there
were only five prisoners and he
thought a record had been set for
the century, he said. ,
i- Burk said Friday he wasnt
worried because he thought any
one was "getting away with any
thing," pointing out that ."when
folks are busy they don't get into
trouble, but he was wondering
how he was going to pay a cook
on a per diem allowance for four
prisoners.
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Deadly Poison
Lost Near
Dallas Pool -
: DALLAS Whea Vera . West,
fall, department of Interior em
ploye, returned to the dressing
room after taking a swim la the
city park pool ' he t discovered
that a bottle of sodium, cyanide
aamarked, had been taken from'
his clothing. The chemical Is a'
very deadly poison and will km
en contact .
- Westfall, an eatomologist with
a cruising party working up the
the LaCreole, carried the bottle
for collecting Insect specimens.
The 'ehemleals are encased la
plaster of paris which, allow the.
fumes t escape , Into, the bottle.
It Is feared that bottle may have
been thrown away and may be'
t picked up by children playing
fat the park. v
U-BoatToU
Hits Lowest
In 19 Months
WASHINGTON, July -ff)-In
the wars most optimistic report
on the battle against U-boats, the
British a n d American ' govern
men is; joinuy arsiouncea, frlaay
night - that allied ship losses In
June" were the lowest to 1ft months
and . U-boats so scarce on convoy
routes that the hunt for them was
turned to axis home waters.
"Sinkings of axis submarines
were substantial and satisfactory-
It was added.
Guardedly, . the announcement
refrained from "saying; even by
implication, that the anti-submarine
war is won, but after review
ing the June record it succinctly
observed t h a t " "anti-submarine
vessels 'and7 aircraft are coming
into service In considerable num
bers.' Coming en top of a highly
successful record of ' anti-submarine
operations In May, Frl'
day night's announcement made
It clear la any event that the
war against U-boats Is going so
well that the allies can sub
stantially Increase the ' flow of
weapons from the North Amer
ican continent to the Invasion
armies striking at Hitler's Euro
pean fortress." "
FCC Inquiry
Data Refused
WASHINGTON, J u 1 y - JP
The war and navy departments
and the budget bureau, acting on
presidential orders, refused ' Fri
day to give data to a house com
mittee investigating the federal
communications ' commission, and
its chairman protested the action
as interfering with congress.
Documents, ' and testimony by
officers, had been asked by the
special committee headed by Rep.
Cox (D-Ga.) in an effort to sup
port charges that the FCC has
interfered with military Intelli
gence. Both were refused on the
grounds this would not be in the
public interest " -
Hop Growers ;
Hold Crops
PORTLAND, July MVKop
growers generally continued to
refuse to contract for their 1943
crops despite unusual offers - by
dealers, -the department of agri
culture disclosed Friday. :i.
Some . dealers - offered ceiling
prices at time of delivery with a
bonus covering any advance " in
ceilings up to the first of next
year. . .v
Crop conditions were fair but
recent . rams and high humidity
increased the danger from downy
mildew. - - - -
Dimout
k Sat, -sunset 9:02
Gnn. Etinrise 5:31
(Weather on Faje 2)
Reels Y
Repels
AttttacEi
Orel-Kursk Front
Sim noIdaFakt;: ;
-Naad Loss Blounte V .
By LYNN HEINZERLXNG
LONDONSaturday, July 10
(-The Russian armies of the
center bloodily' beat off savage
German attacks all along; the
Orel f and Kursk fronts Friday;
held their own In the Belgorod
sector to the south, and destroyed
193 nasi tanks and 94 planes In
the great battle of attrition, the
soviet command announced early
today.
The German ; dead, in two bat
tles specifically mentioned were
nearly 5000 for the . day, Moscow
declared. In the Tegular midnight
communique recorded here by the
soviet ' monitor, thus bringing to
about 40,000 the total German
casualties for five days of violent
, , Germaa losses In .material
also were rising - to tremendous
proportions. (Friday's : destruc
tion raised to tc:i the number
if .enemy tanks thus far listed
m kicked out. and to tli the
number of .nasi planes smashed
smce the beginning of ' th4 of
fensive. - f:' t
In, the Orel-Kursk sector, said
the bulletin, the nazis after four
days of heavyt losses had "gained
no success and had been forced
to shift the weight of attack to
other areas, i reinforcing ? their
"battered .troops' by; nine Infan
try 'divisions and one tank di
vision. ' , .
Jury Indicts
Lay ton for j
Murder
DALLAS, July A special
Polk county grand jury called by
District Attorney Bruce Spaulding
Friday : indicted Richard Harry
Layton on a first degree murder
charge, Layton will bo defended
by Roy R. Hewitt of Salem. Flea
will be entered July 17 at 10
o'clock. Circuit Judge . M. Page
of Salem has been assigned due
to the absence of Circuit Judge
Arlie G. Walker of McMlnnville.
. Howard ILHall, foreman of
the grand Jury, read the Indict
ment; vt- "first P, degree murder
' while attempUag to commit the
. crime of rape. Bo killed her by '
knocking her Into the Willam
' ette . riven", AAxAA ?';K
- Appearing before the grand ju
ry were Sgt C Emahiser of the
state police and Layton. Lt Rl G.
Howard of the state police said
that Layton had admitted raping
Ruth HBdebrand near the bank of
the Willamette on June 7.
Bennett i Eyed ,
By Portland
j PORTLAND, July 9-ff-Ralph
E. ' Dug dale, superintendent of
Portland public schools since
1837 offered his resignation Fri
day night and it was accepted by
the. school board. r - : I .
;The board voted to pay him
one year's salary of S10.CCO in
settlement of his contract which
had 4 years to run.
; Frank Bennett, - superintendent
of ; schools at Salem, has been
mentioned in school circles as a
possible successor. -
Lane County Plans t
Public 7orks Program
PORTLAND, July MV-Road
building . and reconstruction, , a
sewage disposal plant, 'traffic and
parking control, water system
changes and elimination of over
head power' and telephone wires
comprise Lane county's post-war
public works program, William M.
Tubman, managing editor of the
Resister-Guard, told the Portland
chacber cf ccrr-sserce ThursJry.
Powrful Air, Naval Bombardmeato
Precede Actual Landings on Big' I
Island; Base Softened by Bombs -
WASHINGTON, July 10---(Saturday)--(AP)--.AlIiccl forces leaped ccrc
the Mediterranean from Africa base today and climaxed Weeks of aerial pound
ing with a major invasion of Iulian soil, the island of Sicily off the Italian boot.
Powerful air forces, aided by naval bombardments, preceded the landing cf
soldiers on the big island 'which had been aoftenedup by precision and area
bombings mounting in intensity over weeks.' '. x p
- .The United States war department issued a 50-word communique to dramatic
ally disclose first details of the drive by forces under General Dwisht David Ei
senhower. The announcement coincided with a r a d i 6 broadcast from Algiers
which gave the basic announcement of the momentous
Canadian, British and
SARDINIA
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SicUy, the -blocking tackle" m the way ef the IUllan Beet, was ht
; vaded early this morning (Nerth African time) by English, Amer-
lean and Canadian troops - aader ; the ; personal dlrecUsa ef Gen.
. Zrwtght D. Elsenhower. The: actaal inYasioa was immediately pre-
: j eeded. by heavy air and sea bombardment. The island bastion had
- been ander almost constant air "softening ap attack sues the fall
of Taahla-AssecUted Press
Moon Lighted Way for? Attack
The lightning-quick invasion was launched In good weather
by a light moon as troop ships escorting warships defied mine
fields and strongly placed enemy guns to reach the objective.
Italians,' bulwarked by elite German troops, were expected
to offer bitter resistance despite widespread discontent among the
Italian population on the bland with the course of the war. !
. The Italians already had engaged in a scorched earth pro
gram, destroying harbor installations at Trapaai, which is the
closest important Sicilian port to Africa - -:'V ":y V-Lk V .,;; 1
General Eisenhower aimed the bold thrust with an announce
ment to the people of axis-dominated France that their turn was
coming. He said this was the first stage of the "liberation of the
European continent" but emphasized in a broadcast ' that the
downtrodden French would be wise to lay low and not "expose
themselves to reprisals. - - 1 ;
The jumpoff to the big Italian island went a long way toward ;
cleaning up the Mediterranean. With Africa in the hands of the
allies, Sicily undergoing man-to-man attack, and Sardinia so
close it scarcely could escape a blow soon, a large area of the
"soft under-belly? of axis-held Europe was under direct fire.
Strong Resistance Expected
Nevertheless, the possibility
resistance by Sicily's defenders
German-Italian forces had
and its outposts recently; with an anti-invasion army or perhaps
as high as 300,000 highly-trained men poised for the test.
Although possession of Sicily would vastly improve the mili
tary situation in the Mediterranean trouble spots still exist, -One
of them is the axis-held island of Crete near the eastern
end of the sea. Seized when the
Balkans and sent air-borne troops
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Sale m Bej: Short qge: A cute
By ISABEL CHILDS -Salem's
fresh beef shortage may
be described as -critical but the
Word should not be : applied to
fresh meat :ln all categories,
wholesalers and retailers alike
agreed Friday night , f ;-
John M. Lansinfer, secretary ef
the Oregon Food Merchants' as
sociation, who used the term- re
ferring, to a fresh meat shortage
here, as be reported Friday night
in Portland on . an inspection of
the capital city's markets, saw the
situation from only one angle,
representatives ; of packers ; and
market men declare. ! ,
- There Is troth la that angle.
Ne one denies. Even beef stew
Is a laxary this week here, and ,
may be even more difficult to
cLtala before the month Is ever.'
Edwards and 'Drakeley,-slaugh
terers and wholesalers, have sus
pended operations, although rea
sons quoted ty Lansinger and the
firm's customers vary slightly. ,
However, they have been kill-L-.j
ttcf tcuLt ty the gtsta fc?
American troops comprised
rlettS ,ALC'
Coscasi
Sicily
too
War Map. .
if not probability of spirited
existed. - vi. j. -
been reinforced in southern Italy
axis surged south through the
out to play a major part in the
institutions here, using their own
slaughter permit Lansinger said
the firm's quota had been made
available to the state penitentiary,
according to Associated Press dis
patches. Representatives of the SS
markets Edwards and Drakeley
had been supplying said simply
They said there wasn't a living
in if U ... f: A '
Cther meat . men estimated
that the firm ssppiled a twen-,
tUia ef the meat soU la the
. EsJem'' area.-" :; -V' J ".iC--
lZo . applications for . additional
slaughter, permits had been made
through the Salem War Price &
Rationing board, up to Friday, al
though in exceptional cases such
permits are said to be available.
; Still ; plentiful t were lamb and
niutton and pork. . The latter may
net be the average person's choice
for summer days, but it will be
a mainstay until September, ac
cording to John lladlgan, head cf
e s national OPA meat division
li V,Tashington, DC, who predict
ed recently cn a lIt to Cr c;n
step.
the invasion forces.
Pass:1
Picket lines
t to Y7ork
PITTSBURGH, July 9 -ey- A
federal; investigation of insurgent
work stoppage at Stell company
owned mines gathered speed Fri
day while in the mine fields south
of Pittsburgh miners shattered a
tradition by passing through pick
et lines to go to work.
" ' A special meeting of a grand
Jury Was called for next Wed- i
nesday apea petition of US At- 1
terney Charles F. Uhl, who had
disclosed he was making a com
plete report on the anti-work
campaign by pickets, at the re- :
aest of the attorney general.
Uhl's peUtion saU that tba
grand Jury would inquire into
"matters " of great - mportahce,
and hf would not elaborate but
the step presumably dealt wit3
the revolt in the southwest Penn-'
sylvania field which today kept
a score of mines idle or working
with skeleton crews.
The 'department of Justice has
been studying the new federal
anti-strike law, which makes it
Illegal for any person to "coerce,
instigate, Induce, conspire with or
encourage any person" to inter
fere with operation or property in
the possession of the government.
One year in jail and a $5000 fine
are the maximum penalties.
Gen. Emmons
xn juonaon T i
LONDON, Saturday July 1 0(yO
Lieut, Gen. Deles C. Emmons, un
til recently commander of the Ha
waiian department of the United
States army, has arrived in Lon
don, it was officially announced
today.; t
General Emmons relinquished
his Hawaiian command June 1.
' At the time of Lt Gen. Em
mons' transfer from command cf;
the Hawaiian department therS
were inferences that he might re
place Lt. Gen. John L.I DeWitt
as commander of the Fourth army
and western defense- command
with headquarters at San Francis
co. A California congressman had
predicted that Lt Gen. DeWitt
would be relieved of that pott
because of war department dis
agreement with his policies in con
nection with relocation of Japanese-Americans
on the Pacific
coast '
that meat rationing would work
itself out successfully if , buyers
would stop insisting on beef and
take what was available.
. That according to Salem meat
retailers, is the sad part of the
picture here. There is all sorts of
beef available, but permits to kill
it are lacking. When fall rcllj
around, and a pork roast would
brighten; .any dining table, wH
be eating lunch meat they pre
dict. ;
Permits are few because re
quirements for them are high.
Small retailers, asked to sign affi
davits as to their beef kill in
194 1, - told OPA representatives
their records were incomplete, de
clared they " would make t2ieir
statements conservative, which
they did with, the approval 1 2
OPA, they declare. Now, tf ' re
permits are issued on the '41 r
any other basis,. apparently, 1 -
are asked to bring out the rec : ?.
There aren't any . record s. 1 j
arent any permits. Tut V : .
lamb and there is r-oik.
Bac!