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Sif-foJ I) )" Y X rp , q.r"") V : v- (Vrei'Jicr cf Tt-Zi ) -zY 4r " IT SEEMS TO ME that the Sa lem Chemeketans are making good "scouts" of themselves this 'year boy scouts and girl scouts, ' because they are doing a "good "turn." Prevented from holding their -annual outing in the high mountains they are taking ' over the operation of a forest service 'lookout station in the' Cascades 'the one on Battle Axe mountain 'This mountain is one of the prom inent peaks of the "old" Cascades, -the range with an altitude of around 4500 ft which is far older than r the snow peaks like Hood, Jefferson? theCThree S isle r s, which stand out east of this older range. Battle Axe rises above Elk lake. From its western base flows : Battle" Axe creek, chief tributary .of the Little North Fork, of the Santiam, and from its south side i flows Humbug -creek,' one of the tributaries of; the ; Breitenbush. .The climb up Battle Axe has long been a favorite of parties camp ing at Elk lake. - - - ; - To get back to the Chemeketans memoers wui uie niros man- . -A -A. L sing the lookout tower; on the mountaintop during . the forest fire season. As is 'always the case with this organization the plans ?are carefully worked? outSiiT'ad vance Next Saturday";-night' they will camp at Elk lake . and next "day will pack tup' -Jthe' "trail the -foodstuffs' and other supplies' for. theduratiou." i IT h e n teams of r young women .will serve! as fire- - "spotters!; a w e e k or two" af," "stretch; or a' man and . wife may -take a turn.,In this way the Che- sneketans, or a: few of them will 'get their taste of mountain air, and ? the usual t h r 1 1 1 of camp chores rustling - wood, building fires, . carrying water. This ; time they, will not, have Pop Crary to do the cooking, they'll do it them selves, for "Pop is in the navy now, acting as chef for the apt-prentice seamen at Lausanne hall. :f The "arrangement has T been 1 A , ' XV. ll. M A woikcu oui wiui uw xoresfc aerv ice. whose ' office for the area is -.. volunteer lookouts have been vis ' Sting lookout , stations learning ..how to use range-finders to de ennine -the location of fires. . Chemeketans -are ? 1 o v e rs " of Woods and mountains. "They will ; 3o a . good. Job in protecting the . -wilderness of the Santiam. coun ; try where they long have ranged. Giant Daily !War Cost Seen $265,000,000 a Day I Is Expectation of Capital Experts -..r "WASHINGTON, July 12 -P-tJncle Sam's war expenditures, which for the last three years have averaged about $90,000,000 daily, re expected j the treasury de partment to reach the great sum of $265,000,000 for every day dur ing the fiscal year which started July 1. ; This was disclosed . Monday night by Chairman Cannon (D ' Ma.) ; af the hens appropria , tions committee on the basis af : report from Daniel W. Bell, : vndersecretary ef the treasury : Actual expenditures on the war program during the three years f ronv July 1, 1940 to July 1, 1943, Bell disclosed, were $104,421,000,- C00. . I From a modest beginning of $8,301,000,000 spent during the fis cal year 1941, expenditures on the war activities program ' amounted (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Committee rom County's Budget J- Net cut of $398 from the previously-approved $722,166.90 bud get for Marion" county's 1943-44 fiscal year, already - underway, and a recommendation that ' re serve be I built up : for i use as postwar courthouse building fund came out of Monday's final bud get committee Monday. i ; The decrease was brought about ty dropping the entire salary of cne deputy in the tax collection cfrice, which has been operating . . . 1 I V,a t leasv one nuu uuik,e'" resignation of Ted Brabec last vinter. Others lh . the office have teen moved up so that the va - cancy remaining was in the place cf a lesser deputy; A portion of the money thus saved was added to salaries In other offices in, an "cif ort to equalize payments for similar work.-;' ;.; i V.: - i j Kay Glatt, Woodburn, represent 1Z the citizens of the budget ' ccrr-rrJUee,; presented the recom ; ncclation concerning the court- out 3 construction-plan. A brief '. 1 1 : ' ' :nt, it lays out no scheme, lut r.-nests that the county court 'itt to buQd iip a.. reserve for n v;r ceurthouse.-. corrtte . :;t wiUi a vir. t Cj- inrnnr txssd yeaii 0 . .... . taka Juislt Alley Cat ft ; LW In Action CAPT. ROGER MILLER Mott; to Probe; Oregon School Tax Losses v IV. 'By RALPH. C, CURTIS Investigation 'cf Oregon counties' and - schooH distrl cts - tax losses due to" f e d e r a 1 acquisition of some ' 217,000 acres for military and other .' purposes will : be . one of. Congressman James W. Mott's tasks- in the current congressiAial recess, he ' reported Monday fol lowing his return from Washing ton, DC. He introduced a bill on the subject, last winter and is a member of a pu blic lands t sub committee -assigned to rewrite legislation" combing the features of this ' and other similar measures. CengTeasmaa Mott alse, aa a sesaaer ef the naval affairs eoamittee, will " check on the . progress being made "by the Kaiser company tn eonstraeUen f aircraft carriers and en the. impeslBg task ef eemmlsskming. these carriers for; service. V There is excellent cooperation, Mott observed, between this com mittee and the navy department, which ? has kep t the committee fully advised on all naval activity, . . It Is probable, rather than merely possible, j that the Jap anese will attempt to set Oregon forests ablaze wit h incendiary bombs from a. submarine-based plane, the congressman declared, ding that txtrcm e alertness against -such an attack should be encouraged. As a result of efforts in which he participated, pro vision for forest lookout service was augmented but not to the ex tent he proposed. . On matters directly related to .4 r (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Drops, $996 taining matched monies ' for the Job if such funds are made avail able. Leo N. Chjlds, Salem, and M. G. Gunderson, Silverton, work ed with Glatt in drawing up, the recommendation.' ' I Advised that legality of a sink ing fund for postwar market road construction might well be que tioned, the committee withdrew its $50,000 allocation for such a purpose ; and placed the entire $1CO,C03 sinking fund in the gen eral road funds classification, thus utilizing taxes collected ; outside the city of Salemr - " Salary increases approved in cluded $4 -month to Clifford Lewis, second deputy in the tax assessor's office, to bring his sal ary to $150 a month; a $6 rise to one ' of ! County Clerk Henry Mattson's deputies, an advance to the machine bookkeeper ' in the office of Tax x Deputy Harold Dcmosalla to bring the salary to $ IE 3 month. The general 12 r er cent increases made at earlier r-ee tings had failed to rectify, and in some ; instances had emphasiz ed, minor maladjustments,' bud C; -ers said as they approved the 10 PAGZ3 Flier Y IC Local Man Says A-36 Best Dive Bomber Built. Ta first deUHee story f the crack m (It AM aiT kMikce. a actloa gates the uls im Ul im th fUw- tng eispatch writtca fr tke AnociAted Pre hy Cantata Kcer l MUler mi 1SS tlertk Cttas atrcet, Salcoa. Or wkttt AM MoaSroa , has -kcea as- tcaee to five air sapport to the allied trM fit htiac ta SlcUy. . Cttaasared to the aw acreaaiter A-SS, ta a- rca Graiaa staka siid llk M alley cat, Cap. Miller teserves.) By Cap t. Roger L. Miller- i AN ADVANCED AIR-BASE IN NORTH AFRICA July 12 hope our gang has as much luck against the enemy in Sicily in the future as it has had up to now. We are flyinie the best plane for, dive-bombing in the world and- any German or Italian in action against us will ! probably back us up. The scream of this plane when it -comes down-with dive brakes on would shake any man. It's like IS Boris . Karloff shows rolled into one. Compared to an A-36, a Stuka sounds like an alley cat. - x ' "" . ' Operauag in Sicily Is far frem , easy. The eevatry Is moontsln- us and ragged and where the ; alluneter may shew a, few then- saad f eet front the target It Is asaally mach farther; away . dawn in a eaayen er gorge We always have eae qvestiea: Hew abet these hiDsT . The ships peel off to dive on the target in line dropping, their bombs. Then the leader, pulls -out and clears a j hill if , he's lucky. Each- succeeding plane, gets lower and lower. When poor rear end Charlie comes along he may be pretty low. One of our boys didn't make it the other day,; But that doesn't mean well stop trying. - Our specialty is supposed to be "intruder" work.; That means we range far- behind, the lines if necessary smashing true k con voys, trains, bridges, lines of com munication, power line s, radio stations and a hundred other things. Once we drop our ; bombs we become one of the best low altitude fighters in the world. : zr'. We don't dive as fast aa most people think bat aetaaily ; we have gone so fast that wc have caught with ear ewa ballets ricocheted back. Net long, age we chased a Bf essersehmitt with a flve-aaile : start aad eavght him within J5 nules. He looked p and must have beea startled to death when he feand as eat ting huide him. Oar baHeto broke him tip at the top ef a Normally;! we come ' over i the target pretty high, ; say a small prayer and let her ; go straight down. The brakes hold down; our speed and we keep sight on the target ' for several : thousand feet. It's uncanny.! You know you're In a dive because ; you r stomach wants to come straight up. ; . When we get t& the bottom we ust say a prayer for the Germans and Italians and push the button. Then we pull back on the , stick and start looking for fighters or something to strafe. In other words we change from the best dive bombing plane in the world to a fighter Jn a few seconds. ; When ! flying ; threagh heavy flak coming the target aBd yoa have to look down on anti aircraft gans, I always close my eyes and think 'well beys this (Turn to Page 2 Story C) FDR Signs Silver Bill WASHI NGTON, July 12 -JT) President Roosevelt sent 1 the treasury's huge stockpile of silver to war Monday by a approving a bill "which authorizes the treasury to make the greater portion avail able at 71.11 cents an ounce for war uses and civilian production. Allotments of this silver are to be made by the war production board and the amount is limited to the surplus not need for re demption of outstanding silver certificates, , - . si ... -J- j . .' ... ........ Fishermen Net Deer, Hqnestly! ASTORIA, July lt-yp Thi boat Kincheroe pat eat for sal mon and came home vfth a deer. ... The deer was far eat in the Colombia river, near exhaustion when crewmen threw oat a net and hauled Mr. Horns ashore. . Before they . reached, shored 1 the deer recovered his strength and Cap t L. R. Fletcher said they 'had a strenuous time keep ing him eaaxht. ,:-v,, '...rv In the end, they didn't. The state game commission, ordered the back turned loose. And that's another Big ena that ' got ' away Bombers Roar Over Germany During Night LONDON, Tuesday, July . -Vlrman air raiders made a sharp attack en a British east eeast ' towa shortly after mid night Monday ' night, caasiag seme casualties and damage. Later a few : enemy i aircraft flew tn ever the southeast eeast, bat apparently caused no dam age. ' - - ' . ' Oae nasi plane was reported shot down daring- the algal. L LONDON, July ISHJ-A great force of heavy bombers was heard roaring across the channel -early today in an hour-long parade and alerts in southern Switzerland a few hours later suggested the pos sibility that -northern Italy was being bombed again. ; ' ' Starting last night and continu ing by moonlight until after mid night, Britain-based heavyweight bombers headed toward the con tinent in a steady stream which coastal residents, to whom the noise of hordes of planes has be come familiar, said sounded like the heaviest force to go over in some time. . " The last raid on Italy by British-based bombers was on May 18, when the naval base at Spezia was attacked. ; Nowwith North Africa in allied hands, it Is pos sible for ; bombers from England to batter: Italy and land in North Africa! :l Such a shuttle service was tried successfully June 20 when Frled richshaven in Germany .was pounded., ' i The Vichy radio in a broadcast heard by the London Daily Her ald eaJd British and ' American planes flew over Bulgaria Monday night and ack-ack guns were in action.- Road Commission j v Begins Tour f TILLAMOOK, Ore, July 12- The state highway - commission opened a six-day tour Monday in which projects will be outlined for a post-war, high way construc tion program. ... The newly appointed commis sioners told Clatsop and , Tilla mook county, courts the program probably would call for expendi ture of $19,000,000 annually in a three-year-, period, of which ' the federal government would pro vide $15,000,000. " Fund are yet to be voted, how ever, they said. , , , -C The commissioners, T. K. Ben field, Portland; Merle Chessman, Astoria, and A. W, Schaupp, Kla math ; Falls, all ; recently named by Governor Earl Snell, said their inspection Monday., indicated numerous highways, especially log-hauling ; routes,, were de- teriorating rapidly and might have to be rebuilt at the end of the war. Italians Uc2 : Wooden Guns1 " ArTf X..-AI2 QJik aS in Kcr.Tii Arr.iCA, Jiy 12 (,T-A felly acilestlcated siate mect ti!J Heresy, tiat seme Italian - eeastxl Czfrsse gss ea C!:'y were f:c3 ta te rzZs f Cclazsu Oregon. ToasJoy Homing. July. 13. SIB - Cruiaer;' 3J Destroyers Smashed in New Kula Golf Naval Battle ' By C. YATES McDANIEL ; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Tuesday, July 13-(PyToir J anese warships a cruiser and three destroyers "- were sunk last night : and early today in the second battle of the Kula gulf by United States naval units. .. The battle may still be in pro gress, first preliminary reports an nounced today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur indicated. The latest enemy losses raised to at least 13 the number of cruis ers and destroyers Japan has ex pended in frantic attempts to car ry aid. to . Its- beleaguered, garrison at the Munda air base en New Georgia island J2 miles below the gulfs coastline. p Twa ether destroyers were re ported as probably sank in the new flaming night eagagemeat, aceordmg te advices which made, no meation ef any TJaited States ' losses. Enemy warships - sank might well total 17 for the two feaities inasmuch s the reports1' after the battle ef Jaly ,- plaeed Japanese ' losses as at least nine aad possibly XI ships. -Advices received by General MacArthur - from- South Pacific headquarters of Admiral William F. Halsey stated that the new force of enemy cruisers and destroyers was first - attacked northwest and then : northeast of Kolombangara Island in the Kula gulf Monday night and early today. . At sea, on land and in the air, powerful blows were struck by the ; (Turn to Page 2 Story F) FR Deplores Supply Act .Crop Inauranee Plan , Urged by President lit Signing Bill WASHINGTON, July 12.-P)-President Roosevelt Monday de plored the action cf congress in abandoning federal ' crop insur ance, ' and expressed hope : that someday this ' system will be as popular as RFD mail service. t Signing the $USV29S,883V.agri culture department supply bill Monday, Mr. Roosevelt said, fl regret exceedingly that congress failed to provide funds" for crop insurance. Suggesting that t h e CO 3 V ALUS, Jaly 1 12.-- Tbe federal. crop insurance gram, thoagn . killed by gress, wlU eontlaue in effect this year," Clyde Kiddle, state AAA crop ' insnranea assistant, said .Monday. Funds for this year were voted earlier. Kiddle said, adding that mere than 4. Ot wheat farmers are partici pating la Oregon. ; Idea be revived this fall, he said: - "If we can make crop insurance work, it will, In my opinion, prove one of the greatest steps ever tak en by the government t o ward making farming a sound and pro fitable occupation." 1 . That it has not worked was the contention of f congressional op ponents who said the government lost $30,CS3,C3J on four years of wheat insurance and an estima ted $415,CC0 on cotton in Its one year; Premiums were paid in the commodity insured and claims were likewise settled in kind. 3 " f- The reason assigned for put ting an end to crop insurance is that it was too expensive," Mr. Roosevelt said in a statement. "It was to be expected that in rsr fecting. '.program cf such rrag citude that government would have to go to much expense, ttsd it would take several years ta ive it a fair trial. I do not feel that the department of tricultura Las been 'given .suflicier.t tl;:r.a ta' cl: ra crstrste the rrs.ct !".'.. V.f cf t.. : .7 i:.-r.;2." ' ' ; ' ' '' ' f Seels:; IC3 SOS I i Dastia 'rAi : icq ; Alghcro- : : ; ; !D P tBSARDINIA:S :: $ .V ,V; . : rc '-u t -: : -- .r. .-'- v ' ; f"" CJr -b - tl j - ' " r In the greatest amphibious operation ia history, a erowaiag basalt te the Italian fleet, wars on wave cf aUled relsforeemeats and sappllea are pouring into SicSy (arrows from Tanliia).-A tenuous ' Swiss -' report stated that H Dace's navy had sailed , from" La Siesta, $89 miles te the north, which- promoted one aCied observer to say. "The Italian fleet is stSl beating Its way threagh the Alps." (Xs notes Well, Tfsanfhal did it!) AsooclaUd rreas war Map. Eisenhower: 'At Batik.' -Front As '8th Arzpy Mrivet 4Ike' 7atclie8 Cruisers Shell . Enemyi Positions (natters note:' Joha Gnatkor. reoro- emUns tko coonM Amorlcaa Prvao, teUs tat tko (Uowta topateh f tht trip to Sicily mt Gem. nwlcM D. Kteca- kwr, tmm Uie imummmmmi. Tho lrt port of the Steooteh u im ta traauaUssloa from Mortk Africa.) By JOHN GUNTHER ncpreaoattng the combined American (Distributed by too Associated Pren) SOMEWHERE IN SICHaY, July 12 Our first sight of Si cily came near Gela just before dawn after a quick, secret voy age across the Mediterranean. When Gen. E i s e n h o w e r stepped ashore astonished sol diers stared at hum We found an officer and Eisenhower said: "How do you do? I am Gen eral Eisenhower A i Our first stop was the scene of great activity. Cruisers were fir ing on the invisible enemy behind the hills. Their angry guns crack ed, echoes boomed i across the beaches and yellow smoke slowly lifted. '.V- ,;;;:; r; .; 4 .! .v;, v Elsenhower watched the scene : with close attention and then, ; assisted by. his naval aide, Com-' ; mander Carry ? Catcher, held a . breakfast conference with Lteat, : vGen. George S. Fatten, ft Vice Admiral Henry S. Hewitt, coat.,, mander ef the amphibious fores -of the Atlas tie fleet, and other high ranklag effleers. . Wo then steamed - along the (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Russians Assert German Beginning to. Brop in "Driving Pgz: LONDON, Tuesday, July 13.-VFy-Th great week-old German offensive in central Kussia, after costing the n a a i s "tremendous losses', in men; and materiel, has begun to diminish in power, the Russians announced today. All along the" 165-mile Orel-Kursk-Belgorod front Monday the n a z I s attempted repeatedly to smash through to new positions, but each time were ground down by ' rock-solid soviet "defenders, ssid the Russian .midni'sht com munique, recorded by the Soviet Llonitor. '.. : . Finally, at many pomts the at tackers despaired of their hepes cf crashir-3 the red lines ti iti about bolsterln3. their ir.ill;.! po f't'ens, wLIIe' the Rusi-Iars'lir'". :i Tj Woods Labor Is DotUeneck j;;TaiiIt7Ptecticet Gel i! Blame for Some, o , j , , " Lumber Trouble' It - ! . : f y i SEATTLE, July 12-(iS- Lack of manpower in the woods is the principal bottleneck that Is. hold ing 'up lumber production, a con gressional subcommittee on small business was told here Monday. . jj But faulty practices; in logging operations are responsible in at least some cases, E. E. Benedict, executive secretary of the Inter national Woodworkers' of Ameri ca (CIO) told the hearing. ; 1 1 "Some "operators Benedict said without more detail, are by-passing good timber areas, where pro duction would be high, to log scrubby timber or bad hillsides. Gv (Continued from Page 1) G Beef Shortage Said Passing i CHICAGO, July 12 -ffV The worst, phase of the nation's beef shortage may be past, at least for the summer, packers said Monday as cattle receipts at the Chicago stockyards set a new high for the year. -, '.?' , - -,l T."V. S U- Eighteen . thousand . head .were received, three times the low of June 21. It was the largest, run since last November 39 and the heaviest for any July. day . since 1938. ; The Russians said that in to day's fighting, the nazis lost 122 tanks, bringing to 2,C22 the num ber of tanks the reds destroyed since the offensive began.' The to tal of German planes, destroyed was -put at 1,123, 18 shot down yesterday, and 43 additional craft accounted for on Sunday. ! ; Red troops repulsed numerous nazi attacks on the Oril-Kunk sector,' the communique, said, adding:-:;; ;-; - .: The enemy launched his at tacks with less strong forces than in preceding days." ' l -. Soviet counter-attatks, : grow ing greater 'end creator In fero city ss the day wore en, were sn-r-cuncei earlier ty the Moscow rr :!:o,'and then the 'Berlin radio fa a troadepit record j.i ty tl.a .r.-tt!:-J r.r-s rT'-'l id rr I t 1 .'rf' ' O XitUlkU Aii:kU JUlt - Canadiana Center British on Right By RICHARD McMUTJIAY Aaaociated Rtcmt Wr Editor . r General Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery and his British Eighth" army drove with customary dash up the east coast of Sicily Monday night from captureT" Syracuse 'toward Catania and Messina 4traiU while at th-s western end of the ICO -mil j invasion beachhead, a nevr American seventh army ,undcr Lieut Gen. George S. Patton, jr- shattered the heaviest of seven axis counterattacks and advanced north of Gela. i Ten major towns were captured. The prisoners' cage held COCO. A bridge of 2000 ships poured stea dy streams of reinforcements ints the Italianlsland. Cairo reported the allies had complete air suprem acy and toe aerial offensive con tinued apace. The astonished ene- . LONDON, Tuesday. July 13 Jf)- Three more !c!!iaa towns have, been capture! by allkj invading forces ia 1 aUlon to the li announced officially, the Dally Mall said today la a re pert from Algiers. my - regrouped. lie slujsJfchly moved men over bomb-torn roadi The Italian fleet was nowhere in sight Increasing numbers of Ccr-' (Turn to Page 2 Story n enozvo es of reserve including crack guard units, Lito the counter fight ; The nazi .broadcast descr.l 1 the .counter-offensive as extend ing over a CO-mile front in t' s area of Eelev, Ilirov and Sukhin ichV midway between Orel f nj Smolensk, where the pressure to the southwest on the flank of t:.3 nazl thrust miht force the Ger mans to disscrrJnate their force 3 and weaken their" summer Irie. The communique sail that it one point enemy tanks end in'; 1 try several times trici to cut v c l ges into the. defending lines U.t soviet trocps hurled them 1 t their initial jciltk r.s. About l.CID 1 i :.!, 1 -men were tt t. i I' ' .t ; 1? 11 x -1 : "- 1 a 1