fcnd Marion county should begin
to anticipate the ending of the
war, the return of soldiers ' and
War workers and resumption - of
.'peacetime .living. fplanninjB is a
' sadly overworked word, but there
Is no other that quite fits, as the
community looks ahead to the in
evitable, period of readjustment.
'( With reference J to , post - war
; planning so far the emphasis has
-been largely on having the gov
ernment do 7 something- mor e
-public works., with the danger of
boondoggling and waste and def-
' icits. So it is gratifying tot note
that business itself is shaking
ae and undertaking some plan
ning of its own. A national com
mittee oft the subject is headed
by Paul : Hoffman, . president of
the Studebaker corporation, wim
. XL- C. Sammons as state chairman
and Keith Brown serving as local
rhslrman. Tranklv ( this effort is
' a challenge to - business which
!9tM nnr dMl thebrv of COV-
1 ernment-takeover, to "put up or
tshut up." Business, which 4 has
been screaming - for preservation
?f private -enterprise, must exert
f Itself co its own steam, with pri-
'vate capital,- to provide' jobs ? for
1 soldiers as they come home ana
;to keep employment for hundreds
' rt thousands of war workers who
will stOl need jobs. This doesn't
?mean that business can operate
like an eleemosynary institution.
'but- it does - mean that - business
. should seek to produce and mar
"ket; goods" on a scale which will
T provide full employment .at de
cent, wages.- - A -' ;
' . TY,rmr mriw k- however, an' ac
' cumulation of public works which
have been deferred through the
war. The state has quite a build-
?" program. Marion, county needs
a new courthouse. Hignways ev
erywhere will 5 need reconstruc-CtionV-
Schoolhouses will need re-
f placement. Salem has money m
i the " bank for a sewage disposal
I plant (or in' bonds readily cash
able). . It does seem that Marion coun
ty should organize its plans some--
what as Lane county has, with
i it theorv i of "well .look after
" (Continued on Editorial page)
Allied Bombs
; VMtle Down
&ns Macliin
LONDON, July .10 -VP)-" Re
i sources of the axis war machine
. straining to break through" the
- Russian armies and to stand - off
s allied invasion in: the Mediter--ranean,-were
whittled down- Sat-
r-tmdayiby: fresh, bombing; of fac-
tories in the JRuhr and air fields
in France.
-Big British bombers exeealed
verr heavy attack" m , the
eeatral Kahr valley of Germany )
Friday night. Among the targets -
was Gelsenkirehen, ftbattered
v e41 refinery. Iron and eel eea- -
ter, authorities vannMueed. .
Both United States Fy 1 n g
Fortresses and RAF light bombers
pressed ? the offensive - Saturday,
attacking enemy - fighter bases at
Caen and Abbeville,; in western
j ranee, wnere ultccv uiis mc
-observed. ''
, Ten British bombers were lost
during the night . raid, and three
Flying Fortresses from -the day
flight operations. The compara-
tively small toll was seen here as
a possible indication of weaken
"jng of. enemy fighter forces under
the - strain of three-front aerial
.warfare. . -.
An eighth air . force , head
r aarters statement said that the
Caen airfield is one of the air
dromes used by -Reichsmarshal
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Post-War Planning Here
lMay Have Its Genesis
In Courthouse Project
yy :y:y'yy-:,..ry:y . ' .' - '-t
, By BALPH C. CURTIS
44 Post-war planning," conspicu
ous to date in Salem and Marion
county for its absence, may have
its genesis in 'the county budget
hearing at the courthouse on Moo
ay. Appointed" members of the
budget committee Ray Glatt of
Toodburn, M. G. Gunderson of
Eilverton and Leo N. Chllds of Sa
Jem were understood- Saturday
to be prepared to recommend -at
tl-t time a program for financing
a new Masiow-county courthouse
1 1 harmony with provisions of
i r e state budget law. - J
11. prcrram. would provide
frr te setting of a reserve
f-nJ for the purpose, starting
, not this year but next,; out of
: r ormal county revenue within
tZit 6 per cent limitation. Ac
cording to to opinion- recently
prepared by District Attorney
Ililler B. Harden, flnancinr by
tls means Is possible without
submitting the matter to a vets.
The possibility was' foreseea
however that an election cilLt
be called "la Jhe, event that
"match money", should become
av-"-l!s , ca2er conditions re
' '-7 r "t It t s rtilf 3 r 5
r
i
1! i
TFvd Jap
Gmisers
BoMiIbed
US Troops Blockade
r Enemy; Supply Road
From Bairoko. " ;
: ALLIED - HEADQUARTERS
m THE SOUTHWEST PACHfr
IC, ' SyndayV juiyli-lUni't4
of the Japanese army have been
limbed near New Georgia is
land, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's
headquarters announced today. :
. Two direct bomb hits were
scored by American planes on a
force of enemy cruisers and
stroyers. rsJr?
la an iateaslfleatlea -,of the
gTOd fightlnr for : the - Jspa
Bese air base ef Manda on New
Georgia, American treops have:
, threwa a road block which has J
closed enemy access te Its' searee
of supply to the north at Balro-
fco Harbor. : ;
The attack on the enemy war
ships occurred in the darkness be
fore dawn. Since then their posi
tions have noi been "reported. . M
': Mitchell medium' b omber s
heavily attacked the Japanese; on
the, jungle ..approaches to Sala-
maoa, New Guinea,'" on-Hhe "other
arm' of the: Pacific war. - rsf
' The ' appearance 'of elements '
of Japanese naval .anits la the
eeatral Solomons war sene was j:
the first since the enemy lost at ;
least nine and possibly 11 of Its
cruisers aad destroyers la the'
pre -dawn darkness of July la
the Kula gulf 'above Newt
Georgia oa which Balroko is
situated.
- The Japanese troops defending
"Munda, reported to be in consid
erable numbers and prepared for
a bloody last ditch stand, exhibit
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Algiers bays :
Sicily Defense
Is Reinforced
LONDON, Sunday, July llt-(P)
The Algiers radio said early Sat
urday in a broadcast recorded
by; the Associated Press that
German reinforce ments had
reached Sicily a short time ago
and .the announcer declared that
their presence Jean - not ; be r taken
lightly.kf - ix : I ;Ay y Q,
. The broadcast, did not elaborate
upon this statement. ' "7 'j.' ' "
In general,- the: radio declared,
the allied invasion operations In
Sicily are progressing -favorably.
speedily than this program:
would permit. . The program
may Involve a SSO.OOt Item la
the 1944 budget aad $75,000 an
nually fer several years there
after. - ...
This project by itself assuredly
will not constitute the sum and
substance of "post-war planning"
for Marion' county. But in it
there- are elements which may
bring to a. focus the need for, and
result in the creation of machine
ry for, such planning, j.. ' ,
. Though . detailed plans for a
courthouse to replace the 70-year-old
present structure are in exist
ence the plans themselves are at
least seven years old and may not
be acceptable now. Furthermore
the question of the courthouse
block's better utilization is bound
to come up and that brings Sa
lem as a community Into the pic
ture. Before this project assumes
definite form some planning will
have to be done. ,
Qualification of the statement
that there has been no post-war
planning hereabouts is necessary.
This courthouse matter. has been
discussed informally --for some
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Red Army -TroqparAttoclz
Aeeerdlag to the Eusslaa captloa, the above picture shows aa attack la the Kubaa valley sector of
the loar soviet fightlag front (Both Rossiaa and German sources have reported severe battles rag
ing for the past several months ia the Kubaa region e the western Caucasus, across a narrow strait
- from Kerch fat the Chrimeaw Associated Press Telemat. .. . " .
Bombardment
Firids ffiska -Shore
Guiisj
.WASHINGTON, July 10.-()-Blasting
shells from an American
warship, pounding onto Kiska for
several hoars, .have forced' the
Japanese ; to reveal location of at
least some of their shore batter
ies, '"'ini
This, naval sou rees said,
should help prepare the way for
. the anticipated landing of Am-
erlcan ground troops to drive "
. the enemy, from , that Aleutian
. It was disclosed ' Saturday - In
meager reports of the bombard
meet, carried out -during the ear-
ly morning hours of Friday, when
a light surface vessel moved into
the waters off the southeastern
shore of Kiska. . 1 ; t
Standing off shore, the war- r
. ship. Mt Identified by type but
presumably - a light cruiser or
destroyer, sent shell after shell
screamiag' toward enemy posi
tions In the Gertrude cove area.
Then the Jaanese .opened : up
with shore-based artillery, appar
ently, unable to take the pound
ing without attempted retaliation.
But their fire was ineffective.-
, The navy reported .that shells
of .the shore batteries ''caused no
damage."
Cologne
Honors .Dead
By th Asaoeiated Press
The citizenry of t bomb-blasted
Cologne assembled on : the Hay
market in the center of the city
Saturday to honor their dead and
hear - the ' funeral , march " from
W a g n e r's Goetterdaemmerung,
the Berlin radio said. ;
: A minute's silence was observed
after which antl - aircraft : guns
were fired and the still-remaining
church bells were rung in
tribute to victims of recent bomb
ings, added the broadcast.
Tax vs. Savings
Showdown Looms
InConsrcc3 -
WASHINGTON, -July lO.-A
The administration and congress
are headed 'for a showdown on
the issue of compulsory savings
vs. direct -taxes .when . the. law
makers ; return from a summer
recess. v . -: iX -'- V:,';Y'
Leaders said Saturday the con
troversy may be one of the hottest
that has marked enactment of any
revenue tbilL . , ,,v
Without disclosing his view
point. Democratic Leader, Barkley
cf Kentucky said be thought a
projected new revenue bill, on
which the house ways and means
committee will go to work Sept. 8,
win present the major issue be
fore congress uhen Jt returns.
ran . .
Lw v ' i V
C
a
Banzai!
Melican-
,.- - -. .- ' ' -1.
TijUtJcip. .
EOLXDES, Colo July lv-(P)
Armed with the strangest of '.
war weapons . the Japanese
laagaage a class -of studious '
' sailors graduated Saturday treat,
the navy's oriental laagaage
school at Colorado university.
The , school song was . suns
la Japanese.: . vV y :t p - .
And the valedictorian deliver
edrhis oration in the enemy
; toague. , j ' .. .i 4"-c'i -:
The number of - graduates and'
their identities is confidential
.Information. But it can bo said;
that ; wheat this class gets . into?,
action shortly, its members will'
be j translating " Japanese short
wavf broadcasts, decoding mes-1
sages,". ' interviewing Japanese '
prisoners, or carrying ea aavy
affairs ba occupied territory. - v
Cherry Tree . :
Fall Fatal :
X. H Ryan, Assistant .
State Engineer Since -.
1930, Succumbs
J. Herbert Ryan, 52, nationally
recognized ' as ; outstanding in , the
field of reclamation engineering
and assistant state engineer m
Oregon since '1930,' died last Sat
urday afternoon fat a Salem hos
pital from injuries received when
he fell from a cherry tree in his
garden Saturday," July 3.
i:f Bora la FortlandV Ryaa was
a 1 graduate of University of
Oregon in eivO engineering with
the class of 191C Following com
pletion of his collegiate work,
- be was employed by the state,
highway " department " and then'
entered the construction end oT
reclamation, coming to the state"
engineer's: office" about 1915.;
' From 1930 to the time of his
death, be was there Jn charge
of hydrographle work aad dls-"
trtbaUon- of waters involving
a mUlton acres of
'An amateur : photographer of
talent, ; he had gathered an un
usual collection of colored scenic
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US Naval, Air; .
Force Bolstered
WASHINGTON, July
More thun 6,000 r naval -craft and
9,000. airplanes were added to the
naval ? forces - in the lirst halt of
1843 the navy reported Saturday.
Landing craft accounted for
substantially 1 more than half r.of
the added vessels.-However there
was. greater tonnage of newly
completed combat ant ships
battleships, aircraft carriers, crui
sers, destroyers, destroyer escorts
gnd sutsiarines. ; .:
n
n; :
.y
p
; VT '
Enemy,
1
Ste6l Plant
Qbses 9 TJore
- PITTSBURGH, July VHJPHTh
US " Steel 'corporation . took nine
more' blast furnaces out of pro
duction and slashed operations at
its - huge f Oairton ' by-products
works 60 j per cent Saturday as
insurgent coal atrikers ' ignored a
federal Investigation of the third
mine - workf stoppage in V two
months" '!'-f" .v.i-: v l ;;V
" A company spokesman, who
said 12 of the district's 37 f ar--1
naees now are idle, attributed
the curtailment of operations to
a shortaxe of " cokins coal re-'
suiting from the , mine : shut
downs, i ' :. "
At least 26 southwestern Penn
sylvania mines were down with
18,000 men Jdle, including 18 steel
company-owned ''captive, ope
rations. The daily loss in coal pro
duction was " estimated by com
pany officials at 87,000 tons. : 1
. US Attorney Charles T, Uhl was
in constant touch with the attor
ney ' general's office In Washing
ton but remained silent on what
action other than a federal grand
jury investigation scheduled ': to
start, Wednesday is pending. - :
- rickets, who had previously
. remained off ' government-ope-:
rated name property; entered the
H. C. Frick Coke company gates
property near BrewnsvlUe this
- morning and" prevented' some 4
S9t men from going to work. -
It was at this mine that miners
bolted picket lines Friday to go
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Mme. ChiahgV
Plane Misses
Capture
CHUNGKING, , July 10.-P-Mrs.
Chiang Kai-shek said Satur
day her plane strayed on one leg
of her journey home from Ameri
ca a Week ago and, but f or
hunch of the pilot, "We Would to
day have! been the state guests of
the Imperial Japanese go vern
ment." , f
. The petite first lady of Chi
na told a prese eoaferenee the
aircraft accidentally picked up
the radio beam of a Japanese
air field la Burma while it was
groping toward a base far In
dia and 'almost landed on ene- -my
-occupied ierriUayJ'-:'.i''i
But the pflot suddenly decided
something was wrong and pulled
away.,;. ; - ' , ; -'-X ' '. "
f Mrs. Chiang said seven hours cf
flying at -24,CCa feet had t.rr ..ia
such a state she didn't care at
the time where she landed. ; ,J
-.Tvas so. ill I couldn't r e,"
She tt'ld. .'
? it was her first press c c ..;.r
ence since her return to CI
kir.3 after seven and a Ls!f
mor. ' s in the United Clctcs end
Can a. ... - ...
I
n
r- j
; ' , - I '.
I'M Mi iMr,
. rCbstv tot Germans
Proportions
-i
MOSCOW; - Sunday, July, 11
(jjifyfi "Pouring tremendous ye
serves of tanks and men Into
srnall; wedges .driven into., the
southern anchor of- the Russian
central front near Belgorod af
ter six days of desperate fighting,
the Germans Saturday -smashed
again ' into rock-like Soviet resis
tance which all but - immobilized
their savage attempts at a clean
break-through," it was officially
announced today. - -,'vf--'
All along the 165-mile front the
battle raged : on-unabated from
Orel through Kursk to Belgorod
at the south with Red army men
standing off repeated tank and infantry-assaults
as often as ten
times a day. ThcReds used massed
artillery, dug-In tanks and incendiary-hurling
infantrymen who
inflicted, tremendous, losses on the
nasi invaders, the Soviet midnight
communique said. ' j ' ' ':
J'. V The" cost to the Germans in
' theb tU to flatten the 'Kurslr
. bulge . . meantime ; mounted 'to'
; something . over 42.tC ; killed, t
, 13S3 tanks destroyed or dam-1
aged and 1C37 planes lost wiih
Saturday's toll t atone . .1889 i
kCled, Z72 tanks hit or burned
out aad 83 planes downed. tr i
The" communique described In
this manner the tremendous strug
gle at Belgorod where, what breaks
the Germans had made were be
ing . sealed pff and liquidated by
the Red, army's elastic defense:
The Germans brought into , the
battle large reserves and are; at
tempting to develop the offensive
Where the enemy tanks were able
to break through our defenses, our
troops by 'determined - counter-attacks
are paralyzing the enemy
and inflicting tremendous losses on
him." - 'j;.-rV;. 'i l
V The communique .; announced
that the . nazis - were - held at a
standstill again in the Kursk-Orel
' fighting in the ; northwestern
part of the bulge despite as many
as 10 attacks in a single salient
in one day. The Germans, lost 1500
men in the day's fighting in this
sector' sJonev'---:';-'r ': ;.'
f y.f- .-
: ; y
-, v4 n. .
a.
Made' Public
Naval Officer Aims
Verbal Blast at i-X', .
Chairman Fly :
WASHINGTON, July 10 XH
The special house committee in
vestigating the federal communi
cations commission made public
Saturday criticism from a naval
officer of rCC Chairman James
L. Fly for pre-war opposition to
wire-tapping and to banning Jap
anese language broadcasts -in Ha
waiitwo moves, : the . officer i ad
ded, which might have prevented
the Pearl Harbor disaster,- .
The criticism was contained ;
ia a xaemoraadom prepared by
Bear Admiral Stanford C noon-.
er, now returned, hi ay, 1942,.
while he was a naval intelll-
geace executive. Cooper was
setting forth reasons why he
' though Fly should net be elalr
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Salem I4
Geto" Contract :
T7ASIU:;GTO:r, July 10 HT)
IIalversonConstruction company,
Salem, has -- been awarded f two
contracts, ; to be .1 supervised by
anr.y cn-r.ecrs at Portland, for
less, than $33,CC3. ry; ;': -,' -. -
, One jcb i the construction cf
teirycrary frtme buildllr-s in Jef
ferrcn cc-unty, the ether Huth!r2
hrdrr-'j Li r::::.u'.:i ev-Jr.
mm
Critique
Steady Stream of Troops.
Vehicles and Guns Pours
Ohio JuMcinls
- it
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NOItTn AFRICA,
Julr-'IO ( AP) Tli'e, allied force tAwt&dins Sicily
landed along 100. miles of the -big island4 soutnesst
coast, overcame resistance in three hours and 90 min
utes : later began .adTancins inland under a powerful
aerial coVeiy Gen. Easenhower's Head cjr u a r iers an
pounced triumphantly Saturday:ni5!xt.- -: y -
- An allied communique officially pronounced tlia
opening blow at Europe a : gu'eeeas'-' r.-: '!
- Hitlingthe precipitous southeastern coast, the al
lied troops appeared lo be aiming northward clong the coast to
Isolate the rnajor'f erry" torminals-linking Sicily with the Italian
rnainland.'.. u ' .1,:. V - '
-:, "By 6 s m. this rnoramfcsaid the first detailed official ac
count, "enemy opposition had been countered and the success of
all landings was already assured." I , .
! ' The mighty invasion armada first struck at 3 a. m.
f The warships of six united nations, stretching for miles over
j ii AT AN ALLIED FORCE COMMAND POUT IN
NORTH AFRICA; July 10 (AP) American-British
assault forces completed their initial landings in Sicily -without
the loss of any ships; it was stated here tonight.'
'i The vessels . completed their ." hazardous mission
:j across the 1 Straits of Sicily to ' the beaches without
iencountering.either submarine or air attacks.
the Mediterranean, turned the
and fired the first terrific blast
ress."v.':Jv.:-r;-'
vancing and our artillery was being put ashore. " ,: .
; "Fighting continues and more troops, with their guns, ve
hicles, stores and equipment are being landed by the Royal and
US naviesr ' :?-- :. .' ' ,' - ".
' -. . . : - -. r . ..- . - . .. - - .
Fo4 Reports 'PaMro6n;Ol- ry. ! )
(llany'rVsplendidly equipped" 'American and British para
chute troops were dropped behind axis positions in Sicily, the
Rome radio said tonight in a broadcast recorded by NBC. The
Italian station declared that they landed in well-fortified areas
and either were wiped out or captured. There has been no allied
statement on the use of parachute troops.)
One returning airman of the hundreds also aloft during the
assault-7-compared the naval salvoes to "a volcanic eruption,
said the entire ocean path to Sicily was clogged with allied ship
ping of all kinds; and declared that the enemy's air, power ap
peared to be paralyzed. . . . '
The direction of the allied land attack, and the quick land
ing of motor vehicles suggested this strategy: .
itA northward rAOvement along the eastern .coast of Sicily
toward the big"ports of Syracuse, Catania and finally Messina.
The latter is only a few miles from the Italian mainland across
the Messina strait. A good 90-mile-long coastal road runs te--tween
Syracuse in the south and Messina in the north, ' . - -
A spearhead driven along this coast would 'seal off Sicily;
from Italian mainland arsenals and make it ripe for quicker con
quest. ; -C' " :" !..
m . (A Vichy radio-broadcast said the allies had landed between
Syracuse and Catania. These two cities, below Messina, are about
I : . (Turn to Page 2 Story C) - ;
irirtarieEirniM ccuseil
M.
DS
i WASHINGTON, July 10 -VPy-
In a report charging delivery of
defective airplane engines to the
army and navy, the senate's Tru
man committee Saturday called
the Curtlss-Wright - corporation
"guilty of gross negligence" about
inspection practices designed for
the safety of airmen. ; " ; .
; The company replied in a state
ment .by its "president, " C 7.
Vaushan that it has never jrdi rr
delivered "to the government.; or
WAEISXGTCN, Jtly 11 HT).
The Truman ; committee S-.U ,
Eatarday that ; althocrh the
giant" ; WUlaw Kan (Illch.) ;
bomber plant of the Ford Motor
company has made "great pre-
gress" recently it was not unt3
recent months it had prefaced
a' plane cajtUe" cf : Ese.at tie
frost. ; v '.'
' "Substantial .n a m b e r s " ef
Consc'.'Iated C-2I borr.ljers tow
:fre tiL-g 'rro'aceJ tt Y.l" '
Ilea, tie. ccsinlliee trrtci-',,
anyone tlse, products kncTi'n to
the ccpnry to hsvt Ctrl: 3 !t-
Of
Negl
Ann
rauzrles of their guns shoreward
against the Italian-German fort-
y -: 7;;"; -Jr .":'V.: ... ' "-. ' -
igence
fectlve or sub-standard parts. lie
called any such chargs "false and
unwarranted.'
Terming Curtiss-Wriht's P-43
fighter "at best a second choice
plane among American and allied
fighters, the report said it wci
"relativtly obsolete when Ameri
ca entered the war but that the
ar-yecniinued to order I-4Ts
Li novv it saidt ; .;. J ' '
':"TT. srrr.y l.s d : r ' I i r" ' ?
.'c lilies- mil gredjt-53 c? f!,:"J-'
. i exec; t f.:r re;!acec:eEts srJ '
trailers, ax 1 msst of tl s Clrt
bombers now produced at Cur-,
tlss-Wright aad have it ca
eentrste primarily en .the C-43
(commando) carre plane, which
has proved successful."
The committee said the defective
engines came from tha Locklrr l,
Ohio, plant of the "ii0!.t Atro
nautical corporation, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Curt! -Wright,
and it said the re.; r i
bility for "net esccrtah-Ir.s t: 1
correcting the situation re. : 1
with t!ie parent firm.
Tatcri
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:ry