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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1943)
I HP i 7 o o tf i - . . .Nil --y y. vy M mm v. IT SEEMS TO ME that Salem has a good chance to be nelgh t orly ; today! when the highway commission comes to town, com pleting its tour of highways in western Oregon. The commission is building its list of projects for post - war construction, , about a fifth .of a billion dollars' worth; end at every stop has been fur nished with long lists of urgent hichwav needs. Mavbe its moner is all spent by the time the com mission arrives. So we can do the grand gesture here and tell the commission we don't want any of its money, ' . , V- xou see. people, are entirely satisfied Just to live in Salem. It's a bee-uutiful city. It has just everything good stores, ' schools. university, churches, street buses, paving, electric lights and telephone, manufactured gas, sev eral ; service - stations. In fact people like it so - well in Salem they, postpone dying just as long as possible. They're not sure that heaven - will be much improve- gnent - iy. v V"'? i Well, with that frame of mind in our citizens, what do they want roads for? The .only reason ,1s so thiw ran drive out a wsn and m&m for themselves what' bliss it is to jive in Salem, and then " hurry back. , But do we realize the great de si re on the part of people in other parts of Oregon to get to . Salem. JSvery two years, swarms of poli ticians yearn to get here, and if possible to - remain . here. In be ' tween times '- people come here just as often as" their conscience, and purse, - and " gas -: rations will permit The people of Salem, fin desire to-be neighborly, want to help these people to get to Sa- )emu comfortably and as quickly as , possible. -This point should be emphasized to the highway com- nission today. We. don't -i want anything for ourselves, just want to help our mends: - - - .There-are the people of eastern Oregon, - for , example, fort them the quickest access to the state capital, is over the North Santiam highway, which has a bottleneck ' in which the corkscrew got stuck. r2orc Highway Requests Made . , Coratniisioir ioEnd ; Inspection, Tour 7 . ; Here Today t EUGENE, July 1 -P)- Lane county added its nominations Fri day to -the growing, list of - postwar- projects under consideration by the state' highway commission. - The ceounlsaiea. Bearing tbe- end mt Its westera Oreiea tear . in which the projects are being . Uaed vp, heard reqsests for s " $50.t job to improve the Pa- , cifle highway 'fro ssEvgese to, .Soriagfleld jancUoa. Also pro ,. . posed were - improvement pro . Jeets for the WiUaatette- high- 5 way hetweea Eageao sad. Oak , ridge aad the McKemie high-! .way. ;:- v ; ;tH..r-,'' - MJy:.:Ju : . Highway commissioners attend ed a luncheon here in which they formally accepted a deed from Ben F. Dorris, ; prominent Lane county; resident, for a state park site on the McKenzie river 30 miles- east of Eugene. . ' . " ': The commission will : complete it tour tomorrow, proceeding through Corvallis.to Salem. The Linn county court made only three proposals, although it indicated more might follow. In cluded , were improvement pro jects for the Pacific highway on each side of Albany, the South Cantiam route ; between Sweet Home and Cascadia, and a sec ondary road between Lyns and J.IU1 City. The highway commission (Turn to Page 2 Story B) t JJ arm Machinery, Ration cBugs9 Being Alleviated WASHINGTON, July 18 -P) Farm machinery rationing . re strictions, which, plagued farmers iiito a nationwide chorus of irate squawks, are expected to be re laxed almost to the vanishing point. " I. ;v'';.-L:vV v: . "'-'.-; I ' "Supply and demand, those rvppc- i'T: 4-F economic - twins, I ave been reclassified 1-A and drafted to iron out grievous kinks ! in the farrn . equipment ;distribu , t-'en system," said D. C Speaker, ' trxlficial authority, who speaks ' for authentic but unquotable sour- CCS. r f- l' ' ' The firm equipment program rtsw iaTthe TTA works tea f .lively ca"s for anrationedi sale fa larro percentage of the - r l.lr tty output la the stepped - i prr 'action year, which fce illis J.Iy l, Speaker dlscloseiii , lie outlined the situation this vay: 1...V.TB, on recommendation of ,TA, made .avsilabla SOO.CCD tons f crrLon steel for farm mach-,-r-, r.-lus sufficient critical to re production 3 I.. S w keiety nunD yeah 10 ash Ill ve . Germans Frantically; 5 Strengthening Orel- f : Bryansk Defenses " LONDON,; Saturday, July 17 - (Jf) - Smashing through new German reserves hastily rushed into" the threateneol TOrel area, Russian forces added six to ten miles Friday in their advance on the vital city which the Ger mans have been fortifying 'for a year and a half. . v ; The : Soviet midnight com munique and a special bulletin earlier said the. advancing Soviet troops met 11 counter-attacks with concentrated; fire power and : re pulsed ; the Germans with heavy losses, p i-.v; "ip i f ? $ 1 1 -fi I : ;jw i t Previous announcements had told of gains of IS to 2 miles on the Orel y front, and one .Russian broadcast, - recorded by- Reuters, said - the . Soviets " bad . reached a point within IS miles of the city as they pushed in from three sides. (The British radio said that the plight f Ore! was so des perate the Germans were form- lag' a ftaxleab army las ev ery typo of track aad aatomo ; bile . .to rash ' troops northward aad eastward of Orel ia aa at tempt to steat the Kasstaa drive. 1 The broadcast was heard by the United States forelsa broadcast IntclligeBce service.) The ; Germans were - reported frantically - strengthening their lines ; oo-; the Orel-Bryansk" rail way, 'Which also was menaced by the Soviet counter-offensive, l-'ri - The Reuters Moscow, corre spondent said that Premier Stalin made a special visit 'to 'the Orel front recently where he personal ly directed the plans for the pres ent Soviet drive. J ; The midnight bulletin recorded by the-Soviet monitor said that in one sector - of the Orel , area the Red army shattered 36 of 80 tanks flung.- at them - by the Germans and routed two enemy regiments. An "advance-to some-extent" In the Kursk area south of Orel was reported ' in the ' special -bulletin while the midnight communique said the Germans lost 2,000 men in a Russian attack that resulted in the capture of an enemy defense sector. Grocers Get " Price Lists ' Lists of : the., uniform ceiling prices on staple grocery items, lacking .in some eases for more than 24 hours, after .'.they became effective in Salem on Wednesday, now have been received by all grocers m the area, it was an nounced Friday. The Aprices are uniform only within each of the four classifications of stores, based on-annual volume of sales, per.cept of the 1940 farm equip mentout put . (Farm, machinery ; n e e d s for 1942-43 were underestimated In WPB, by official admission. Out put was originally set at 23 per cent of 1940 totals, but hastily re vised upward to 40 per cent, when the food . crisis ' became apparent in March. A "supplementary al location of materials - also per mitted additional manufacture of harvesting equipment during the July 1 -October quarter.) " 2. The WFA program for the next crop yea r calls . for "un limited" production of spare parts, end unrationed distribution via supply -end-demand channels. . 3. Only two relatively minor checks will slow the : "free dis tribution "of the four-fifths nor mal farm machinery output First, 1942-43 county quotas, still un filled under the present rationing allocation must be met. , Second, a fraction of the total output. after these quotas, have been, fill ed, will be held back as a cushion sr.:nst unforeseen requirements of ti e next crop years, . IResei pages Calexa. Boiinibin, Lasl&es Munda-.- Over 100 American -! Planes Drop 82 1 Tons of Bombs , - ft ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE : SOUTHWEST; PACI FIC, SaturdayvFJuly -17(P) Over f 100 American planes droppedK82 tons of bombs' Fri day on the Japanese air base of Munda, Gen. DouI;s MacAr thur's headquarters . : announced Friday. ' , - , , -: The 1 aerial oi. ; aught was 'in tended' to soften. t the- Japanese foxhole and log "fcu ker defenses now being approached cautiously by American jungle fighters. " On the other arm of the Pacific offensive In northeastern - New Guinea, allied planes bombed Ja panese positions at Bobduri, which is only five miles from the ground objective' of Salamaua, enemy air base. ' ' Tb ground situation around Munda, which is en New Georgia in the central Solomons, was re ported as unchanged. - - Above' Australia on ' the Aroe islands, .-Hudson bombers started large fires at the -enemy seaplane base - of Taberfane. z i , I. The night raiders on Taberfane were followed in daylight by long range fighters who strafed barges and villages in the area. . One en emy floatplane tried . to intercept, was damaged,, driven off and its rear gunner was believed killed. ' The air raid on Munda, virtual ly a daily performance in the Sol omons sector, exceeded in extent even that of July 10, when over 100 American planes plastered the air base defenses with 70 tons. McCormick Takes fClup' From WillMe - NEW YORK, July t-ifif-CtlL Robert R. McCormick, , editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, replying h to Wendell Willkie's challenge to run in , the Illinois preferential primary next April, said , Friday "I don't think that foreigner can ' carry, the state of minoisr , , r Willkie disclosed" Thursday that he would be 'a candidate for the 1944 republican presidential nom ination provided CoL McCormick entered the Illinois primary. t Arriving here by plane- from Montreal, CoL McCormick said of the Willkie report: , T i won't pay.' any attention to that story and advertise that joke. X just won't talk about him. -. "He and his backers only couple his name with mine to get it in the .newspapers.; Why,.' anybody can beat, him - in Illinois. J just won't say another thing." Duce Purges Party Ranks " MOCSOW, July 16HAVA Tass dispatch from Geneva Friday, re ported that; the Italian eovern- ment had effected a "mass purge of. officials i of 'state institutions, cooperate organizations and the fascist party in northern Italy. I- The dispatch said " that In the past few days -hundreds of offi cials had been dismissed, many if whom until recently were regard ed as loyal adherents of the fascist regime. It said strict police sur veillance had been placed over all more or less important state officials and fascist party func tionaries. Moscow Airs Plea' ; Given to -Italy . . , NEW YORK, July 16P)-The Moscow radio Friday night broad cast In full the Roosevelt-Church ill manifesto asking the people of Italy to rise up against their Fasc ist leaders, the British radio said lin a broadcast recorded by -CBS. pcundlo ICS! Oregon, Saturday Morning, July .. .... . - , I 1 . : , I i Post Changes Hands i it CHANDLER P. BROWN It was LL (jg) Chandler P. Brown who. Friday night submitted his resignation to the Salem city water commission, which he has served as chairman this year, for Brown was last week commissioned in the navy and plans to leave August 3 to enter, naval officer's sup ply school at Wellesley, Mass. ' ''''' Howard Jenks, member of the commission since 1941, was elected to replace Brown as chairman. The resignation from the commission proper goes before the city council at its meeting Monday night . Brown has been a member of the commission since his election in 1940. He is "a partner with James G. Walton In the Bosler Electric company, and associated with the Clifford W. Brown wool and mohair business here; Son of Mrs. Clifford W. Brown of Salem, he is a gradu ate of Salem high school and of University of Oregon. -' :.. . A Hied E 2 Italian: Map it ulation - i " - j-:.--" WASH1NGTOTC Jultloj-On the point of a Word, Pres ident Roosevelt : and- Prime Minister Churchill , Friday pffered harried Italy the choice of "honorable capitulation" or utter de featand the world watched eagerly Friday night for any sign Gang Battle Fizzles Out One Youth Held in County Jail After Youthful nareup'-, 1 By " ISABEL CHILDS What threatened to become "Salem's little gang war", flared and "then apparently fizzled out Friday - night, leaving one youth in the county jail and a deputa tion of law 'enforcement officers on guard-against , threatened, mass action to gain access to the pri soner. R-s.;-.-;- r':y-'iy ' 'rf "- R. J. Alforde; 20, Portland ship fitter, more .'generally, known in Salem,- where he formerly made his home, as Jean Tolecat" Turn er, is the prisoner. Charged -wth disorderly conduct as one element in what was allegedly planned as a gang battle met for the fray at the Capitola rink, he was arrested by City Pollct . Officer Wayne Parker, acting in capacity of a private . citizen, - and was lodged in the county jaiL ' Alforde previously here known by the 'name of a stepfather, was said f to be - one- of a group of young Portlanders who allegedly joined Salem's Wolf pack here Friday night after the "Wolves" reported that a gang , of "high school secret society members' had interfered - with their activi ties by pulling white , adhesive tape stripes from cars belonging to members of the . pack. v The trouble ( flared Thursday 1 aight oa. S o a t h Commercial street and a ehalleage was Is- (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Gas Coupon Endorsement Requested ? PORTLAND, July KHTJ-The district OPA warned Oregon "mo torists Friday that all gasoline coupons in the new A books must be endorsed on the. face. The endorsement division - has been ordered to - examine books making gasoline purchases after July 22. .At present coupons are endorsed on the back as they are used. The coupons must contain the license number and state of regis tration of the vehicle. Similar en dorsement will be required for class b; C, D, T-l tad T-2 books, regardless of date cl isue. r 17, 1943 . . . Pries Sc . If 1 1 f Iff ;: '1 I I i HOWARD JENKS a ders Ask of .a crack-up. in Mussolini's gnne. y lSsrJ'i:. ,11- " Few expected an immediate general uprising in a land ridden by black shirt militia and German Gestapo. . But as time goes cvand allied armies drive closer -to. the heart of Italy,' the high command hopes the Roosevelt - Churchill words will .hear . fruit among a people already , bereft . of ' empire, pounded . by blockbusters .and re treating before invasion. The : Roosevelt-Churchill roes sage to the Italian 1 people was beamed to the beleaguered penin sula from many broadcast stations and showered in printed - leaflets upon1 Italian cities' from allied planes. . ' "At this moment," the snes sage began, "the combined arm ed forces of the United States aad Great Britain ander the eommaad of . General Elsenhow er aad his" depaty, Geaeral Al-;, exaader, are carry lag the war deep -into the territory of year . eoaatry. ... r' . . - ? "This is the direct consequence of j the ' shameful 'leadership to which . you have been subjected by Mussolini and his Fascist re-ghnet-jf . r y -:u - -53.-:; , ; Almost as the message went out, allied bombs were laying the Ital ian cities of Naples, San Giovanni and Foggia in niins. y i : -: Huge aerial bombs drove home the words of , the allied leaders: , "Mussolini carried you Into this wsss the satellite : of : a brutal destroyer of peoples and liberties. "Mussolini plunged you into this war which he thought HiUer had already won. In spite of Italy's great - vulnerability f to attack by air and sea,- your fascist leader sent your sons, your ships,, your air forces to distant - battlefields to aid Germany- in-her attempt to .conquer' England,' , Russia . and the' world." - Prime . Minister Char chill, ' -when last la tVashiogtoa," pre dicted ' that ."we .shall - operate bbob the dinkey, ta the case of Italy, with a carrot as well as a stick.- Here was the carrot: " - "The sole hope for Italy's sur vival lies in ' honorable capitula tion to the overwhelming power of the military forces of the Unit-J ed Nations." ; And the stick: ;."Hjrou continue to tolerate the fascist regime which serves the evil power of the nazis, you must suffer' the consequences of your (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Dim out Sat. sunset. 0:57 Sun. ennrice 5:C3 "(Weather on Pae 5) :V , ? . i i -f I M ::o. n f 1 I ECOFl Carriers . Beat -Subs ,z - v 7olf-Pack Attacks Driven off by 1 Scout Planes . , 4 WASHINGTON, July. lt-Vfy ''Baby flat tops'" are playing a major, part in driving axis sub marines from the Atlantic the navy revealed Friday in telling how fliers from a single escort carrier beat off two- nazt wolf--pack attacks on convoys, probably sinking .ten .U-boats: ; j "v Two "certain kills1,'---submarines from which a total of 41 prisoners were picked up by US destroyers were credited to planes from the sturdy, and ugly little carriers. Eight other U-boats disappeared after ,' being , straddled by bombs. Presumably they sank without tangible evidence of destruction. ' Thrrashoat the bottles agatast . the : two: wolf-packs approxi mately Sg hoars of flghtlag merchaat - vessels gaarded . by the little -carrier B" - aad Ms .planes plodded slowly, eastward with vital war sapplles. Not a ' merehaatman was damaged.! Navy Secretary Knox, speak ing at a luncheon in honor of Bra zilian, journalists, declared that the campaign . against'' the submarine menace in the north Atlantic has tendeoXTto' orlve. - the J underseas craft souths rHe! said.tbe-United States and - Brazilian navy now are operating as a unified force off the coast of Brazil "which, has become one of the fighting fronts against the, submarine. - w. - Dead' ahead j of the convey a submarine was attacked, by planes in j the - semi-darkness.' Anti-aircraft guns barked as a plane' dived . (Turn to Page 2 Story D '. Post-War - v Planning: Set ; ; By ffiaxiiBer Appointment of a Salem cham ber of commerce post-war plan ning committee o by Carl Hogg, president, was authorized by' the chamber's directors at this-week's meeting,' the beard announced Friday. President Hogg said be would not make the appointments immediately inasmuch as this is to be a permanent 'committee whose task will continue for sev eral years. .';' v-t r- ' ''-.? - The directors completed ar rangements whereby the junior chamber of i commerce will: have headquarters in ; the chamber : of commerce, utilizing the Chemawa room. - . r- . :. .'", .; , Resignation of 1 1 d a , Bingen heimer ' as ; membership secretary was accepted. The position will be .filled in September. Mean while the membership committee Frank Doerfler chairman, -will carry on the membership solicita tion., Rome Reports British Ships'; LONDON, Saturday. July 17 (r-The Rome radio in a broad cast heard by the London Daily Mail said today that six British battleships and four aircraft car riers and ; two -. American - battle ships had entered the Mediter ranean for an "attack on Europe." There was no explanation of the phrase ''attack on Europe," but the Italians frequently have speculated on allied attacks other than those on Eiclly. Oregon ; Pioneer. Talien by Death - NirVVBEIlG, July leHn-Cus tave J. Kramien, 94, pioneer resi dent of the Ladd hill district,- who was .credited with founding Ore gon's -first flour mill at Cham poe, d:ed here Friday. .He was brought across the plains to Salem in 1SS4, when five years clJ, later moving to Charrpocj. Neishtcrs said he was the first to grow grspes in Oregon. Funeral services will be held here CunJay. Yanlca Take Six More Tot vns; Captive Stcore Hits 20 ,000 As New Gains Driven Home ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHT AFRICA, Saturday, July 17--A desperate battle raged late Friday within 13 miles of strategic Catania, whose fall would give the allies control of much of Sicily without the immediate necessity of occupation and threatens the axis defenders with another Cap Bon disaster. Catania was reported in flames. - -- ' Twelve more towns' have been overrun by the allies, six of them by the hard-driving Americans in the interior, more than 20,000 prisoners had been bagged, and gains were scored all" along, the front from the Agrigento area on the American left flank to the Lentini sector 13 miles below Catania, where the British collided with the nazi Hermann Goering division and repulsed it with severe losses. " i (A Vichy radio broadcast said Agrigento, an important axis .troop center; had fallen; Rome radio, heard, by NBC, also said that the Americans . had reached I that city in a 10-mile gain in the extreme 'west; and Rome radio also said the battle' of the Catania plain -probably , would decide the issue in Sicily. ' ' . ' -r''": (In London,' the Daily Express said that it had learned that Am erican and: Canadian .troops- were pouring, into the Catania plain af ter the capture of Vizzini to attack the main, axis flank defenses while the British Eighth army: continues its frontal assault.) - virtually all German forces . thes far officially IdeatlOed as being In Sicily new aro eoa eentrated on the Catania plaia, seeklag to otavo off the stratesie caUstropae that would he Im plied by the nkk. fall of the : city !ltself.'v;,:, :f ':S:j. :,'f . '." ; Unsupported by their' own air units, the Germans were reported NEW YORK. t Jaly lt-ff) The Kome radio said ' Friday alghi that.alUed forces In Sicily had reached Agrlgeato, aa ex tension of about 1 mCes along their western flank. i The. hroad east was heard hy-'NJ5i'-v fighting doggedly against grow- ing.odds. ; ,.; t '.;;: Encountering units of the Ger man . Goering division north of Pen tini, where they, had gathered to attempt . a counter-attack, the battle-wise eighth army 'veterans of Gen. Sir Bernard L.j Montgom ery hurled them back and inflict ed severe losses .to. continue their northward surge up the island's east coast to the edge of the Ca tania plain. . ': ;x:S.r' " H" ;' ; , After dumping, hundreds "Of tons of -high, explosives on Sicily and the-Italian mainland, allied planes Friday dropped, leaflets bearing the ; message of - President Roose velt and - Prime.. Minister Church ill, who told the people the time had , come "to decide whether Italians shall die for - Mussolini and Hitler or live -for Italy and civilization.'. - V !' .."' I . Handreds of theasahds of the leaflets, carrying to the Italian people the vlrtaal altimatnm of . the t allied leaders , to: ' surrender - honorably or be blasted oat of 'the war, flattered down from the skies now largely! dominated hf allied. air forces.. . ;. , Observers who believed the enemy had staked everything on ther success of a counter attack, were confident that 1 the allies. with an appreciable number of tanks' I already in Sicily, could deal "successfully with the ar mored forces sent by Hitler to help the Italians resist invasion. Thereafter, observers .declared, .i (Turn to Pago 2--Story. C) . Observers Say Wallace TfoougMin Politics - WASHIN GTON, July 16HT) Soma - members of congress com menting, on President Roosevelt's reorganization of the economic warfare set-up, wer ; ready Fri day i to write . off Vice President Wallace as a 1&44 political factor "whether or ; not Mr. Roosevelt should agree to seek; a' fourth ternv';-'.'C'' ..'Jl'."' ' ' 1 "Henry Wallace was already dead politically,. Senator Eml'.h ' (D-SC) toIJ reporters,' 'but this , thing buries him." ' . Senator Nye (R-ND) comment ed, "It looks to roe like the end of Wallace's plans for milk routes all over the world, j . Nye also said he regarded the appointment of Leo Crowley, the alien' property custodian, to head a newly-created office of econom ic warfare as tantamount to a vic tory for' Secretary of Commerce Jorrs in the latter's 1 dispute with Wallace oVer purchases of foreign war materials, y . ."To rny way cf thinkLis, Nye J, ' "Crowley represents the more conservative element In the Central State : Tarming up' CAMP ABBOT, Ore ," July 1 (ffV-Troops from all army camps in the Pacific northwest were trickling into a huge triangle of rugged, central Oregon country Friday to start the biggest war maneuvers ever held in this sec tion ot the west " ' 1 The area m which the war games will get ander way Is be tween ! Sisters, Redmond and , Bend, and comprises mountain, valleys, : timber and sagebrush country, hattes aad lavs flelis. It Is a variety of terrain chosen as a proviag ground for almost any type of false J v.trf ire. - " The headquarters of Ma .-Gen IV T 4,.. ... lucMuuct ju. i null, vCLcm:i the maneuvers, announced todayt that the first problem would take about four weeks. Ultimately the war games .will draw several di visions and spread over millions of acres of central Oregon's varied country. In places, the army will test out innovations born on actual battlefields but in need of refine ment Practically ' every typo of troops will participate. ' Headquarters warned civilian motorists that roads would soon be L congested. with ; .: convoys of trucks and urged particular care after dark, since many units wCl move at night under blackout con ditions. ; , : v.,... ;,; : . . Two units already have been stationed on the outskirts of Bend. Headquarters r aro located here. Offices Set To Open bays Salem - Marion- county civilian defense headquarters Monday go onto a full-time -basis. In opera tion on a ! night schedule since July, 1941; the offices are now to be open from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m." daily, 'with the exception of the noon hour. County Coordinator Bryan H. Conley announced Fri day night - In charge of the headquarters during the day .will be Miss Hazel Harper, who leaves her position with the office of the secretary of state but -retains the post ct county block leader. administration, the same element that Jones represents. Za creating tla" office of tco ' nonils warfare, llr. r.ocsevt'i abolished t!.e board cf ecsuo: j warfare (rr.7), fceafeJ ly Wallace, anJ also place J nzlir Crowley's new sgency a rrcr? of sv sMlartes Of the reeocsircc tloa flaance eorporallan, t r vised by Jones, wl.lch Live I t u coDceraeJ with fortlra r r . chases. " - - On second reading Friday cf Mr. Roosevelt's order, many st the capitol and In the govern ment were impressed with the grant of power it gave to Jarnes F. Byrnes, the war mcl.:iizat3o;i director. . . . A spokesman for the now-abolished BEW, unwilling to be quot ed by name, said it appeared Ij him, in fact, that Byrnes woulJ have most of the powers former ly exercised by Wallace and that Crowley would be in about the position formerly occupied ty Milo. Perkins, xli-ln 1 mm io Wallace.