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PACS- TWO
Tio CZZGCII CTATZZ:LJ:. Zzlzzu Crs-ca. Tuciirr
IJear.Totteriq2
D-J. (Continued from Pag 1) ;B
irf'aa entered battle to stiifen the
lUUans. ; "'r ...-.. -'
c'peared to e tottering. The
tasking ef third - treat Tie-
cnd urf Tunisia appeared te be
- shaping vp swiftiyr-T- '
Wlifle, American, British , and
Canadian dianiiicored -victory
at. Sicily,,, the .wholes fortress t
- Europe" wu on the' alert "for, a
.new, riift,-alIied';fluieosixi
Ciounted to Rome-and on the Ital
ian, mainland,: Swiss reporta said.
Berlin was ;fairlycalf: Italy,; not
Germany, waa immediately threaU
: cfcied. ; j ; ' "r- 'v
Tor ;i some y reason, t Mussolini
. messaged the Sicilian- defenders:
; am with you in spirit in your
magnificent fight - for, defense of
the fatherland -and with it, Euro
pean liberty."
The ancient eity, at Syracuse
and its IMH lahabttaats fen
to the British at t p.' sa. Sunday.
' Other allied prizes of conquest
were Licata,'50 miles west; Cela;
Pachino -on Cap Passero; A vola
and Noto, midway between Syra
cuse and Pachino; . Scoglitti, Ip
aica , and ' Rosolinl; . and; Pozzalo
with its important air .base. One
report said Florida -also had fal
" lan; tbreoffoccOi-radio, said the
great Catania. airfield " almost in
the shadow of towering ML Etna
thad been seized. - 4 ,
.pen. Dwight t Eisenhower, - su
preme allied commander, " visited
Sicily during the day..
,,Axis broadcasts admitted the al
lies had won. a . coastal strip, 30
'miles Ions; between Syracuse and
' Cap Passero, from three - to six
-miles deep, The allies were said
lb have" seven r' divisions two of
'ihein American '.'ashore,, and . the
Berfin radio added wryly that
Cen Eisenhower undoubtedly
'can if he so , desires.' 'double 'the
'forces already "landed." " t
The sizzling allied air effea
"slve proceeded with sanitary oh
Jectives all ' arer'. the island
aOJided7 Allied flier shot dawa
'5 'plaaesat' the feast "of nine.
'Captared Slefllaa airdromes al-
ready were aeing ase. Catania. :
a Prime, objective 3v airlines
' miles above Syiaeese, Was in !
- flames ' visible far 148 - miles.
- Pilots reported the Germans ap
parently were evacuating what-:
ever plaaes they had left. They
destroyed asJs vehicles,
The Americans': were "anchored
on the left, the Canadians were
advancing in the tenter and the
- British Eighth . army ; was beating
-ip the east coast over, the BO miles
.between Syracuse and the Mes
sina straits. Berlin gave this ver
sion of allied strategy; to encircle
axis forces in the mountains of
southeast . Sicily or - force them . to
retreat beyond Catania and Palma.
Allied casualties were declared
- light. Some 400 wounded aboard
a sunk hospital ship, were saved.
Ira Pilcher
3yommated
or Award
Comander Ira Pilcher of Capital
Post No. 9 of Salem is the Oregon
department's n.o mine e for .the
.national- American,. Legion c o im
munity service award, it was an
nounced Sunday by the depart
ment community service commit
tee. Commander Pilcher's record
will be submitted k competition
for the Rosenstiel award of 41000
the winner to be selected"-at the
national convention, .
, .The selection - wa , made in
recognition of Pilcher's activity
In arranging send-off programs
for men leaving' for the -armed
services, In .directing drives to
collect phonograph records for
service men, raising vy - relief
funds and promoting navy " en
listments. It, Was pointed out that
inr the r past yfar Pacher had .de
voted 1500 hours, or' an average
20 hours a week, to community
service related to the-war. effort.
Bethany Folic I
- Go to Illinois
- BETHANY Mrs. Olaf Ordal
and two I children, Olaf, Jr, and
Janice, left this week for Glen
view; Illinois, where Mrs. Ordal
will Join her husband who is in
the service. The three have been
: staying at the home of her parents,
'Mrs. and Mrs. C E. Jorgenson
for the past few months.
Mrs. Carl Froude her heturned
to her home at Tigard, after a visit
with- her parents, the Edwin Over-
' lunds. ' ---h - V--:T;'-
Mrs. Nels Nelson left Tuesday
for an extended visit with her par
ents in Kansas.
Mrs. Elmer Erlckson and two
daughters of Seattle are spending
several days at the home of her
sister, Mrs. L. B. Scharback.
Jack Gatton ; of Portland Is
er ending the summer as a guest
cf his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
C A. Carpenter. .:'K '
Tco Lr.:? to Classify
cncr.r:irs: Royal Annea. tmberts.
-tomt) fst t-"""i. bring containers. S 4c
4 ct lo. cw pick. Come ut River
I on4 to Ke"er tu tiool.' turn rint 1
i . -. T. O. IutixlJje, EC X, box 103.
GE Suznmer Conference Set ;
At-TurneryAuguGt 24-29
The annual Christian Endeavor summer conference, spon
sored by the Oregon Christian Endeavor union, will be held at
Turner, Oregon, August 24-29, Delegates are expected from
airparti of'tfie sUte, officers saibj Monday. '':;Jr-:'7rl'l w
1 Mornings will be devoted to classes, in Christian Endeavor plans
and methods, afternoons to recrea
tion, and evenings to inspirational
meetings. Tha ReV. C. P. Gates of
Portland will be the speaker in the
early evening pUtform meetings.
Following the indoor ? evening
meeting the delegates go to a- fa
vorite spot and were around a bon
fire .thej. sing; hymns and choruses
and tell of experiences' and pur
poses in - theChristiaxr life.Tha
Rev. Howard C "Cole, Northwest
E. C. Field Secretary, and Dr. Wal
ter I 1 Myers of .Beayerton will
conduct the bon fire meeting and
Mrs. Cole will lead'the iinging.
Dr. Walter I. Myers of Beaver
ton will be dean of the conference;
Mrs. Ross Guiley of Eugene, dean
of girls ; the Rev. ' H. X. Bronson
of Tulelake, California, dean "of
boys- and in charge of recreation;
Miss Elcy Walker of Forest Grove,
business manager; Miss Viola Og
den of Portland, registrar; the Rev.
W. H, Lorman of Salem, speaker
in the Bible study ; period; Mrs.
Howard CI Cole, of Salem, song
leader; Mrs. Walter L. Myers of
Beaverton, hostess; and Mrs. Mar
tin Lee and Mrs.. William Bish of
Portland in- charge of the kitchen.
Teachers of the morning classes
Include I Vernon Fishback of Rose
burg; Mrs, H. L. Bronson of Tule
lage, California; the Rev. James
Aiekn Smith of Salem.; fr. and
Mrs. Howard . C Cola of Salem;
Dr, Walter lu Myers of Beaver
ton; and the Rev. C P. Gates of
Portland.. Mrs Bronson. will "also
conduct a daily children's hour for
the children on. the. grounds.
The conference will begin Tues
day morning, August 24. Delegates
may coma Monday and have sleep
ing quarters-for that night The
conference ; will - close in the early
afternoon, Sunday, August 29
j
Chaplain
Really Passes
Ammunition
HEADQUARTERS ALASKA
DEFENSE COMMAND - (fl3) It
was Mpraise the. Lord and pass
along the- boxes for Chaplain
Joseph M.' Appelgate of Los An
geles during a ramy Aleutian
landing. " -r ' - "
' Appelgate, Just 'appointed chief
-of chaplains In Alaska and -raised
Ur rank of major Tas 'learhed
there 1 is more 'to hii 'profession
than 1 Istenfng to" - a soldier's
troubles; i
He was part of an? infantry
landing party on anr Aleutian is
land where Japanese activity- was
suspected. W h i 1 a scouts looked
for the enemy who happily wasn't
there, all f hands were . ' recruited
for hustling boxes of supplies off
the boat . .
Applegate juggled 9 boxes until
the cry went up ,who can operate
a winch?'! 'I J ?
."The winch seemed like a bet
ter deal than the box Juggling.'
he said, besides I had worked my
way . through college- doing ..that
type of work, so I volunteered.
Eighteen hours later I was so
exhausted; I almost, regretted it,
but the essential cargo had got off
and at least we could pitch some
pup tents in the mire, get a little
C ration to eat and start the
bull dozers plowing through the
muskeg to level the new air
field." 1 ,.
V-Gardeners
Lose: Bout
To Bulldozers
PORTLAND, July 12-()-Vic-
tory gardeners irately watched the
fruits (i. e. vegetables) of their
labors being carted : off by bull
dozers and trucks. Saturday,'
" Thejr had planted the gardens en
10 vacant lots in St residential dis
trict Then the city sold the lots
to a contractor, who is carting pff
the topsoil to a. housing project
City officials expressed their re
grets, but pointed out that the gar
deners had signed agreements to
give up the gardens if the property
were sold.
Local l Librarian
Takes Office in
National Group ' ;.
Eleanor ' S. Stephens, - state li
brarian, this ' year becomes a
member of the executive ' board
of the American Library associa
tion. She is also vice-president of
the association's library extension
division. Miss Stephens has been
state librarian of Oregon since
1941 and previously d i re e t e d
braafch library service In the Los
Angeles county free library. -
New officers of the association
were inaugurated this week at a
dinner in Chicago. At the dinner,
Miss Althea Warren of the Los
Angeles public library, became
president of the association, and
Carl ViU of Minneapolis, Minn,
became vice-president
Inauguration of officers usually
takes place at the association's
annual conference, which f was
scheduled this year for Toronto,
Canada, but cancelled because of
wartime . transportation ,.c q n d 1 -tions.
' - - . .- -.
General Tours
Sicily Battle
Front Areas j .
(Continued from Page' 1) A
coast and made a landfall near the
extreme southeastern end of Sic
ily. We passed various naval units,
some of them American, and '. to
all Eisenhower signalled the mes
sage: ongra tula tions and good
We saw black bomb bursts on
the shore but could not tell what
they were. For the most part the
coastal villages looked peaceful
and deserted.
Two aircraft were spotted far
overhead and the :, crew . took to
their battle stations - until the
scare proved.' to be a false alarm
it was dawn patrol Spitfires. -
' The yeathfal eammaader at,
ear destrayar, who was wearing
na hlae tartleaeek sweater and
white shorts, talked U Eisea
hewer aa the bridge whue the
Jamler efieers, most ef tbesa la
long beards, watched. ; ; :
Eisenhower was most eager, to
visit .the Canadians and4 greet
them and .we disembarked near
one of their beachheads. But the
word : disembarked doesn't give
the right impression. -"
Wa left our destroyer in what
is known as an "amphibious
JeepT and had the rare experience
of driving right through water
and -straight upon the beach.
.The troops had no idea that Eis
enhower was coming. Some were
swimming off the beach, others
were cooking, laying roads, . build
ing jetties or organizing watch
posts and sentry boxes; : f I
. The commander-in-chief walked
through thick dust and found the
beach commander, a British col
onel, who said: the Canadians
were further up. Eisenhower bor
rowed a jeep and we followed in
bur amphibious craft, which nev
er had . a rougher passage on wa
ter than on the Sicilian road. Near
a tomato" patch, I saw my first
enemy Sicilian. ' ,
w fA'biy ef 14 en a bicycle, he
grinned and waved sad wanted
to have his pictare taken. .Bat
"aae sheald ' net deduce from
tlus that all Sicilians are
- jfrrendly,- ' ;
' Last bight three British, sold
ferl on senfry duty : had their
throats cut v.
The persistent 'EisenhoWer
found a Canadian Captain J. E.
Moore of Vancouver, after a hot
and dusty search. He gave Moore
a message to transmit to the Ca
nadian general ahead.
' Snipers were active in this area.
The general's agile jeep and our
water wagon wheeled around, got
separated j and, roaring . through
the dust found our way separate
ly back to the beach. ; ; i
Eisenhower chatted !1 with I the
men 'near the landing stage and
then said, pointing to our unnat
ural craft:.. ' ,
"Is ear flagship readyr '
A' naval affleer ; grinned and
' "Are yaa prepared to set sail,
sirf , - ; 'rl t.-r.i
The , general clambered aboard
and we ground down to the beach
and smoothly-entered the water.
It's a wonderful way to travel on
both land and sea, and Eisenhow
er enjoyed being the guest of the
Royal navy.
We then visited the headquar
ters ship of the British admiral.
had drinks during two -air raid
alertsand finally got back to our
destroyer. . .- - ' -
General P a 1 1 o n and Admiral
Hewitt and other officers gave
Eisenhower the up-to-the-minute
picture and fUled him in on many
picturesque details.: For instance,
the guns of one American cruiser
broke up an axis tank attack yes
terday and destroyed several
tanks single-handed, though many
miles away. This must be one of
the first recorded instances of a
battle between a ship at sea" and
tanks oh land. ' -
American ships roam offshore
like floating forts. Further up the
coast one village was literally
captured ' by two destroyers. I
asked one officer when the luft-
waffe had been operating and he
answered briefly: "Constantly."
Eisenhower was delighted to
have personal confirmation from
the men who partook that our for
ces "hit almost every beach on
the button in the Initial phases
of the operation.1 rt - r ;;:;-
In one sector four Italian lieu
tenant colonels walked up - and
surrendered and b 1 a n d 1 j ex
plained that the reason they were
caught" was that they ; were
making "personal first line re
connaissance. -
Liberty Ship
Tanker Ready
rvKiiuANU, July iz-ypf-. A
liberty ship and a tanker will hit
the waters of the Willamette river
Tuesday. The ;- freighter, to be
launched by Oregon Shipbuilding
corporation, will be named ' the
William C Lane, after the first
mayor of St Louis. The tanker,
from the Swan Island yard, will
pe namea Uie stony Creek, after
a batUa in the war of 1812.
. ' Jj
ONtho H0I.IE FRONT
. Most newspaper folks go to din
ner parties to meet lions. But
Pasha II came to see us 7 . . and
without any promise of dinner.
either. - " , - ,
V ' ''
Just now he is running around
the office, snooping; under desks.
snarling ar closed doora, meowing
now and then because he ia bored
in . this new sort of junglv :nd.
when he finds himself beneath
pounding typewriter, backing off
faster than he can run forward.
. A black-maned African Hon, ha
is only six-weeks old, and his legs,
tail and low-slung body are be
ginning to show what, a' freshly
oiled floor can do to a cream-and
black fur.
. Pasha .II, - grandson of Pasha;
the 500-pound lion . hare in 1937
with Russell Bros, circus, is get
ting his rearing - on the road,
brought up with a ' wire-haired
terrier as companion and greatly
loved companion, too, acording to
his master. Bill Antes, public
lations man for Russell Bros.
. Fact is. Antes says the little li
on's restlessness now .Is because
he wants the dog to trot along be
side him investigating the new
world of office desk, overflowing
wastebasket, filing cabinets, lin
otypes and linotypers. -r--s
Already his head has leonine
proportions and the paws on which
he. pads around, his: legs bent al
most double, are monstroua-things
for so small a : body. And when
he yawns, no one of us who so
willingly petted or .held the plump
but ; sinuous little body a moment
ago. would i wish- to - put even
hand, to say nothing of a head.
inside. . ' J
, We thought him like a puppy
when Bill brought him in, scuddled
mto the crook of his left arm:
once he was on the floor we rec
ognized him as a cat But his walk
Is that of a king. ; V''-.;--
Jungle royalty, true, but the
undulating walk, waving tail, low
ered but never hanging head are
beautiful to see. And Pasha's eyes
areaofti as any dog's. :l
Tonight lie is learning to growl.
His voice is changing, I think, for
he seems astonished as we at the
low rumbling which now and then
comes fpom beneath the thick fur
of his throat-. -- -
Not yet as large as a full-grown
cocker spaniel, Pasha II exempli
fies what part heredity may play
He bluffs and backs away, sneaks
silently (when he crawls over ob
jects rising a-few inches from the
floor he scrambles like a puppy
stilly snarls, - poisesldmself if ,in
the dark as f or d leap. Yet from
the day of his birth he has been
with a friendly, funny .little dog
and : with human beings and not
with lions.
Giant Daily
War Cost Seen
E (Continued from Page 1) - al
to $28,111,000,000 for 1942 and
172,109 JM,00Q for 1945. 1
During, those three years, ap
propriations aggregated approxi
mately $212,000,000,000. for war
purposes, the actual spending not
keeping abreast of appropriations.
The treasury department esti
matde that actual spending during
tne current fiscal year will amount
to $97,000,000,000 for war pur
poses, or about $10,000,000,000 less
than actual appropriations.
R. J. Rogers
Succumbs
- Word was. received Monday In
Salem of 'the death of R. Jay
Rogers at Ord, Nebraska, where
he was on a visit Rogers was
bora? at Ord, 87 years aga For
the past three years he has been
living -wit h the F. T. Bishop
family at 11 Chemeketa street
On a visit to his old home, Ord,
he was taken ill and went to the
hospital at Kansas City. Mo
where he died. The funeral win
be held in Ord.
. Surviving are three daughters,
Mrs, Robert Hitt, Gilchrist, Ore
gon, Mrs. L a v e d a Marsh, St
Joseph, Mo, v and Mrs. Audrey
Graybauer, -Rural Avenue, Salem
and four grandchildren.
Fairview Home .
ICids See Circus - - - 'A
Spending money they had
earned salvaging tin cans for war
time uses; , . 87 children of : the
Fairview home here attended the
circus Monday night "They en-
Joyed it tremendously, said Dr.
H. G. Miller, superintendent of
the state-operated Institution.
last Timrs
Circus Grounds Leslie School
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Is year tars saw. tHaa wiU
- eaeae ia- a salaaieJ ' ! ;" : ,
'Most of us have our. guns wide
open "way; en' down and seldom
have to strafe afterwards because
one "good dive wines out the tar
get" W missed only three targets
recently- that I-know ef - and -not
Jong ago we completely ,obliterat
ed , a locomotive.' We: came" back
afterwards arfi there was no sign
of it "You1 caa have all the high
powered bomb sights in the world
if youll give me a good steep
dive. - -
Before' the war I was studying
English literature .-at Willamette
university,- Salem.- Now- I'm- fly
ing one f of ' the most - proficient
killers ever devised; I was think
ing about the big difference only
the other day." Bat .It seems to
boil down ; to one ' thing. - They
started it . didn't they? , :
- Capt Rdger L. Miller who
wrote the above account of action
m the invasion-' of Sicily -was
graduated from Salem high school
in 1838. He enrolled the follow
ing fall at Willamette ; and spent
four years in the university. After
leaving Wiuamette,:MiUer direct
ed his own orchestra here-up to
the . time' of his enlistment two
years. ago. " .r .
His: mother, Mrs. xy K.MUler
lives at 780 North Cottage street
The family has made residence
in Salem for the past 18 years.
Gobties Set
Picnic
On Saintiam
Future ' activities planned by
Carry On Pup Tent No. 8, Mili
tary Order of uie Cootie, at Sun
day night's meeting included
picnic' scheduled for Sunday, July
23, at Cootie George Fellers cabin
and reserve j on , the North San-
tiam. The Cootiettes will partici
pate in this event Cooties Dave
Furlough. . Arwin Strayer and
Frank MUlett " were named as
committee on arrangements. '"
, Several "atoms wes inducted
Into the . sublime : degree of
"cootie." ..
; Hungry Nit (Adjutant Dave
Furlough reported on ! the Cootie
convention held In Portland June
25, at which the principal action
was creation of a Grand Pup Tent
for Oregon. Seam Squirrel Frank
L. Prince of Salem ; was elected
grand - commander.- and several
other. Salem cooties were elected
to offices. The full staff of officers
for the , Grand Pup Tent follows:
James F, Dewey, Portland No.
1, senior vice-commander; Stan
ley Tripp, Corvallis, junior .vice-
commander; William j O. : Rogers,
Portland, quartermaster; tWorth
ington BUckman, Portland, judge
advocate; : Leon Hanson, - Salem,
surgeon;' Lloyd Martyn, Portland,
sky pQot; Virgil . Bolton, Salem,
keeper of the lousy record; Wil
liam F. Newell, Portland, adjut
ant; Charles Hunt Salem, chief
of staff; Ira Canfield, Medford,
inspector; Earl Birchard, Bend,
shirt reader; Dwight Alderman,
Portland, provost marshal; j Joe
Baker, Eugene, jimmylegs; Lester
B. Davis, Salem; Monty. Walton,
Portland; Allen R. Kuhns, Toledo;
Robert W. Brown, Bend, and J. B.
Brunson, Medford, trustees. ;
The meeting closed with a mock
trial of Cooties Frank Bates and
Joe- Horneff er on charges of eon-
duct affecting the morale,, and
discipline; of the order ia "which
Coot! e s Joe Stirnlman, Drew
Lambrecht and Arwin Strayer
served as jurors and Cooties Les
ter B. Davis and Ctarles' Hunt
acted as counsel for the accused.
Nuts Double I
For Banned
Oil Sources f
I - ;
NEWBERG, July I2.-(V-War-
time salad oils, ! margarines, .- li
noleum and printers Inks are the
nuts. I I . . -
literally, they are, speakers
said at the annual meeting of the
Oregon Nut ' Growers here- Sat
urday.:; i :- J-: Ul-;;-1 : ::;;-::
Imports of cocoanut oil have
been reduced sharply by the war,
and filbert and walnut oDs are
finding new uses, they said, add
ing that nut shells are being con
verted now into fibers for plas
tics, "-v
Speakers-included W. H Derry,
national farm chemurgic - council
secretary - for Oregon; Ernest W.
Welgand, Oregon State -.college.
and Howard Wall, Portland
chemist ' .....
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Sinking!
PCr.TLAl.T), . July 12-V
all very boring, this - being suck
at sea, says Dean Dexter, 19-year-cld
survivor of six war sinkings.
Dexter, a native of Detroit who
first shipped, out ' four years ago,
listed them this way for an 'in
terviewer: . ' ' ; : '
L British ship sunk by torpedo
In thehorth Atlantic. Spent a week
on a raft before rescue, v
LjJXorpe4oed in. fee. Mediterjrsn-
ean.' Fishermen rescued him after
severafc weeks."
i "17 Dive bomber got ship in Med
iterranean, then strafed 'lifeboats.
wounding all but one man." Hos
pitalized on Malta with hip wound.
.4, Norwegian ship torpedoed off
English coast
" 5. British refrigerator ship tor
pedoed - in Atlantic. Remembers
details ef this one because it "was
my worst experience . . v Twelve
of us spent 28 days In a lifeboat
and nine died. I went down from
138 to 55 pounds before we . were
picked up. I don't like to talk
about It".:. " ;. !"
8. American tanker In Carrib-
bean. "A torpedo nit the ship and
about one-fourth of the crew" got
away in lifeboats. We were about
100 yards away when the ship
blew up with the rest of the crew."
Woods Labor
Is Bottleneck
(Turn to Page 2 Story G)
timber now. and they're saving the
good. stuff for peace time. But the
They - can. make a profit on this
production of cutting crewa is
sometimes halved by the practice.
However, Benedict, officials and
lumbermen agreed generally' that
the -much- publicized "back to the
woods' movement ; which devel
oped in the northwest tins spring
to lure loggers back, to the indus
try from defense jobs, had failed.
F. A. Brundage, lumber coor
dinator for the war production
board, and W. B. Greeley, secre-
tary of .Jhe West Coast Lumber
men's association, both suggested
that the use of prisoners of war on
non-skilled; woods Jobs be inves
tigated. A number of lumbermen
immediately opposed f the plan as
invrting' sabotage, . however. . 4 . v
Oregon Green
Sub-Oiairmeh
To Be Named
Selection of a ; "Keep C Oregon
Green" chairman in each cUy and
town, of Marion county, to assist
in publicizing the campaign against
preventable forest and farm fires,
was decided upon Monday night
at the first meeting of the county
committee, recently appointed by
Gov. Earl SnelL
County Judge Grant Murphy,
chairman of the county commit
tee, will make the -appointments
after obtaining recommendations
from the. various communities. A
county chairman to promote the
Green Guards ' organization also
will be appointed soon.
The committee outlined a pro
gram whereby Keep Oregon
Green will be publicized through
the distribution of posters and
through ' press, 'radio and organi
zations:; meetings. "' i; ;; r. ;
Members of the 'committee in
addition to Chairman Murphy are
Dr. A. W. Simmons and "Henry
B. Pritzlaff of Silverton, Justice
James T. Brand of Salem and
Ralph C Curtis. of Turner. '
DiIaaniiev
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PORTLAND, Ore, July 12 -)
Dr Alfred C.1 Kinney,- 82, - known
as the, "grand old man of Oregon
medicine,'; died here Monday.
Kinney was. credited w 1 1 1
stamping . out typhoid . fever In
Oregon. He organized the, Oregon
State Medical society and waa its
first president In 1875. Four times
he was ; a member .. of the state
board, of health.
He also was instrumental in es
tablishment of the first hospital
in Portland and of the state asylum
for the Insane at Salem.
Kinney, . who also once was
mayor or Astoria, obtained nis
first medical training te be of
service to cattlemen in the early
days.
Reds Name Atrocity
LONDON, Tuesday, July 12-W)
The Moscow radio said today in a
broadcast recorded by the Soviet
monitor that a Soviet state com-
rnission Investigating German at
rocities had found that the nazis
had slain more than COCO persons
by poison gas in Krasnador. ,
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prosecution of the war. Congress
man Mott observed, there is
Controversy in . congress. But in
dealing with domestic: 'i?ue's.f con
gress has become.-; for the v first
time fn s Cscif sr-TT funct'nicg
legislative "body. There ' is a bi-
partisatvmajority-ef -members dia-
pcaed,to'act-in-!eriid?ntly ef the
executive, end. Lv , lie ene instance
of the anti-strike bill it amouniea
to -a twothirc's majorify.
' This :U aslltatauU be," Matt
: decUred, "and rl. am'. PMrm
that this li the way the people
want It U!iLm:-
After the summer recess when
-select -committees .report -on their
investigations into bureaus usur
pation of the lawmaking function.
legislation to curb this abuse will
be-forthcornlRg, he predicted.
- Though partisan 1 ab a Is now
count little m congress, jockeying.
for 1844 position will start early,,
the' congressman said. As . for the
democratic presidential nornina-
tlon; a fourth, tenq attempt is al
ready e, Tsettled-matter, he de
clared.-. :"4 . : .
Army Truck
Crash Fatal
When the army truck he wis
driving? overturned oh 'a- curve
east of the state penitentiary Sat
urday, Pvt Paul Gregor, said to
be from nalTisburg, Lin county,
was killed almost instantly, per
sons arriving on the scene shortly
thereafter said here .Sunday. ;
Inf ornutlUonrfroni. official army
sources was lacking Monday.
Police
Ellqf vite 5;
Missing since Saturday
night
fron her thome here, Ella Swartz,
15, . was 1 taken , Injta custody ; by
Washington, state ; patrol officers
on a wasrurjgTon . nign way woo
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dsy night and 'was held at Van-
couverfor her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel. Swartz,. 2112 Trade
street. Salem city police , were, no
tified, early, this morning.
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centrs.1 Colonions. .
At i l, Li SwJItioh b'ts litest
achieveraentj la the Ku!a culf,
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and annihilated 1J mllz tzrih-
east af llanos. . ' 1 -In
the air, American ' planes
pounded Munda and its rwfply
points in- the northern ' Solomons
and fought off the latest challenge
of zeros to our air-supremacy over
New Georgia.
On the New Georgia coast which
borders on the Kula gulf, a Jap
anese garrison trapped on the Dra- .
gon peninsula between Unocal in
let and Bairoko has been de
stroyed, a communique from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur reportetL .
Over the Japanese air base of
Munda, on New Georgia, five out
of 20 zeros were shot down in an
air battle.
United States warships made a
night bombardment upon the Mun-
da air base. They were followed :
in daylight by torpedo and dive
bombers, escorted by fighters. The
new; raiders heavily bombed anti
aircraft positions and bivouac
areas. .
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URBANA - CHAMPAIGN, HI.,
July 12 Salem is represented In
the enrollment of the special full
semester wartime summer session
at the University of -Illinois by
John S. laughlm,; son of Dr. and
Mrs. S. B. Laughlin, 17C5 Court
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