TAGS TYO
Tfei w.-ywJ.uAiu. Crra. Crecau Cizilay I .rrr7 July 13
Yank .Brabars'
Renew Blows
Against Kiska
, - WASHINGTON, July n-IJP)-The
North" Pacific command, in
creasing its pressure oa Japan's
Kiska island outpost, threw heavy
and medium bombers as well as
warships into the most . recently
reported onslaughts against the
- enemy garrison there, ' the . navy
disclosed -Saturday. -
An American warship, probably
a cruiser or destroyer, started the
assault, which . could -be in the
"' nature of softening up operations
. for a landing on Kiska, with an
attack on Gertrude L cove, south
- west of Kiska fcaxlxwv: --on Thurs
. day. Enemy iuns failed to return
I the fire possibly a bit of play
ing dead by the Japanese for the
purpose ci concealing their key
defense positions. ' j
The attack by naval, .guns was
. followed up, today Dumnunique
revealed, by a force f army Lib
: era tor heavy bombers, Mitchell
: medium bombers and Lightning
' fighters wfdch made i total of
I four raids over the mountainous,
.. fog blocked island, y . ' '
"Several fires were observed In
the vicinity' of the enemy. aircraft
i batteries," the navy said in the
only line in the communique
which gave a clue to the targets
- of our bombers.- .
. ; The aerial forays were the first
, against Kiska. since Monday when
three attacks' ; Were made. ; They
raised the total for the month to
18, whereas in April, the heaviest
month of attack to date," 140 as
saults were made. Navy men said
that fog and "poor operating con
ditions at this season forced the
reduction in the frequency of air
: attacks from the American base
at Amenities island, only 63 nau-
tical miles to the southeast of
Kiska.
AMGOT Rules
Areas Taken
In Sicily .
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would destroy'': the ''influence of
fascism," abolish the fascist party,
and make "no negotiations with
exiles or refugees? :Amgot,t it
added, ?wiH attempt to goyern
the people of 'occupied provinces
and cities through their own offi
cials who are not active members
of the fascist party.1 . ; , ?
Men have been trained !ecretly
for ; the task for months. They
were selected for special qualifiV
' cations doctors, lawyers, en
gineers, police and civil adminis
trators from the army or civil
ian ranks. They were given Iang
uage lessons, listened to lectures
by; experts on the history, geogra
phy, psychology, customs, and
government systems, of Italy.
When they went ashore, the
Amgot officers knew Italy as well
as they knew their own country,
or perhaps better. ;
Catania Battle
In Final Stage
O (Continued from Page i) "O.
captured Caltagirone, and farther
west the Americans had penetra
ted 30 miles inland in the allied
invasion only asweekold-4?j j
While . the Eighth - army rolled
up the axis coastal flank the
Canadians" p u s h e d on through
Caltagirone to hit the enemy on
the other, side. Caltagirone's faJl
denied to .the . axis a vital east-
west road, needed for mobilization
of German -Italian strength'
around Catania. y;::t-
' Advices from, the battle -area
said the British: warriors -were
mopping up pockets of Italian re
sistance north of Lentini .and
Scordia; - -
Other Italian units had cracked
and retreated, leaving the pockets
at the. base of the.; hills fringing
the Catania plain, and it - was
apparent that the allied forces
were within grasping distance of
the next of, enemy airfields of
Gerbini as well as Catania. Ger
bini Is 12 miles V southwest of
Catania. .' -. -
American and Caaadlaa troops'
to Montgomery's left strata-'
deer imto the heart of the
enemy's defeases ta central'
Sicily, ; saUI&r . their JL I a ap J
abreast of the Eighth army's. ;
The American Seventh army of
Lieut' Gen. George S. Patton, Jri
was reported to have struck far
north and west of Caltagirone,
reaching a distance of about 30
miles from the sea,: nd probably
was emerging from the screen of
hills fringing iU beochheads.
(A penetration of 39 miles in
this area would represent a dan
gerous spearhead aimed either at
Caltanissetta or Enna. communi
cation and concentration centers
in the middle of Sicily. The com
parative silence concerning the
Seventh army's movements might
be explained by the importance of
these i objectives. " Caltanissetta Is
28 miles from ' the coast and al
most due north of Riesf, already
in American hands.'
Strong allied naval forces.
Invader Chaplain
i
Y7iIla:r.2lo
Bridge Eyed
Guard 'Axis Prisoners
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!
: I
Lieut. George B. Wood J above), of
Austin, Minn, an Episcopalian,
was among -fear chaplains who
parachated to Sicily along with
Invading US paratroopers.
Reds Nearing
Orel Defense
E (Continued from Page 1) g
down a hail of fire to cover the
advancing Russians who, admit-;
tedly, were meeting desperate re
sistance but were ' not j being
stopped in their effort to unhinge
the entire German line in South-
central Russia. ' ' ; ,;?(
P nrhtiag also i broke oat tm, the
Caacasas where T ilia troops
reeaptared a Tielght of great,
strategical importaaee; aorta
east of Neverearisk the boUet
tn said. Jlore than Ctt Germans
were killed, some prisoners were
taken, and 25 mortar and ma
chine gaas were destroyed, It
added.
the coast, improvement " of the
Salem-Silverton hlway, recon
struction of the Padfk kihway
south of Salem, and completion
of the Wilsonville highway. 1 ""V
The Polk county court concur
ring la advocacy of the Hickreali-
Buell project, mentioned also im
provement of the road from Lin
coin , to 'McCoy, relocation and re
construction , of f the Salt " Creek
hlway, ? ini the
Buena Vista road, and reconstruc
tion of part of the Pacific high
way west. .:jr -';;
v Discussing the tour, which cov
ered approximately 1200 miles
and. was marked by conferences
with the. courts of 12 counties,
Oiairman Banfield of the commis
sion said: , .
- ."I am of the opinion .that the
courts of these counties are 100
per cent behind the post-wax high
way construction program .which
wiu do one ox too most substan-1 jtjr .jt ' -a
tial ever conducted in this state.? itlcLOrmtCAZ
. He said the commission expects
to have approximately 1,000,09 Jfgrion Iff TMoi n.
avaOablo in 'each of the three MYtHJ ClXLli lV61l7i
years Immediately; following tha s O r '
war, of which $15,000,000 will be IfCUI OOUTCB
acuv iiinm . ius two ' wesierq
Oregon projects - receiving- -endorsement
of , virtually " all .county
courts were the Pacific, highway
east and the Oregon Coast high
way, proposed for reconstruction
to standard. y'iA
f Chairman Banfield explained
that the tour's, purpose was that
of obtaining an over-all ' picture
of the needs and desires of the
rarious counties, and that the
commission was making no defi
nite commitments at this time, f
"It is our desire to have a well
balanced program," he declared,
"and one . that will .benefit . the
entire state."
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n (Continued from T:s 1) II
'An ua sototers ; (rtgnt sarvey sno iirss cenuagem oi axis prisoners
. returned from the battle of Sicily. The war department ordered the
Uotiiag oat of the prisoaers faces. (Associated Press photo ty
radto from TJ3 slgaal corps.) , " . ,
NEW YORK, July IT -iffy-CoL
Eobert B. UcCormick, publisher
of the Chicago Tribune, said Sat
urday that engineers at the
paper's pulp plants in Canada had
developed m converter ' engine
which could produce a gas capable
of powering commercial vehicles
and: "helping . solve the gasoline
Red Artfllery
Guns Found
In Sicily
AMERICAN SEVENTH ABUT
HEADQUARTERS CI i NORTH
ERN SICILY, July 15-(Delayed-
(AVHuge - abandoned . 240-milll-
meter Russian artillery field guns
shortage" without using any exit- have been captured by advancing
Agriculture
Pitch Hay
trolling the narrow waters off
east coast almost in the Shadow tTT ' J,LJ1 -
of Mussolinfs mainland air. basf Co
and with complete, disrespect tor
his navy, were paving the . way
for I Montgomery ; by,- throwing
shells' into axis, defenses at wilL
- Again 'allied motor gunboats
ventured into the . two-mile
Messina Strait in their war
cut the island's communications 1 ment. he heads are in
with the mainland and routed a
formation of Italian motor tor
pedo' boats, sinking one and
damaging two, oth
Oregon's haymaking secretary
7 Nip Ships
Sunk by Yanks
F (Continued from Page 1)
ping, a heavy force of Liberators J
and Flying Fortresses attacked
the nearby Kahili airdrome, start-
i ing early in the evening of July
16. The series of attacks lasted
ical materials.
; The machine was so successful,
he said in an Interview, .that the
Canadian government had taken
it over with a view to perfecting
tt.
The converter preferably burns
charcoal from wood that normally
has little commercial value, . CoL
McCormick explained, and gas
is formed which passes through
filter and carburetor of special
design.
CoL McCormick said that while
the fuel is not feasible for use in
private autoa, it would function
well in heavy cars and trucks. If
manufactured In quantity, the
production machines would cost
$400 apiece, he said.
trocps of the seventh army, which
hastaken more than 13,000 axis
prisoners since : invading Sicily
Saturday. . - '
The mammoth guns were ap
parently brought by Germans who
had taken them during the Russian
campaign. They were found on the
battlefield by infantry pushing
north of Gela. The artillerymen
manning, them had been forced to
flee before they could do, damage
of any consequence. The Germans
found that the huge guns, like
their huge 52-ton tiger tanks, were
of. no use against the sweeping,
rough-and-ready American tac
tics.
33-Year i
Sleep Ends
WkhDeath
JOHANNESBURG. Union of
South Africa, July.-17 - Anna
SwanepoeV who -"slept" for 22
years, died to a poorhouse here
Saturday at the age- of , 53.
he was.29 when a young farm
er with whom she .was In love
kmed" himself, - and ! hysterical
catalepsy, followed, by ; complica
tions, induced the long sleep from
which she partly awoke, occasion
ally ; murmuring a few words.
When the strange illness over
took her, her name burst into the
world's headlines as the "sleep
ing beauty" and some of the most
Skilled physicians became inter
ested in her case.
Doctors here, said they thought
no other person '.ever has been
similarly afflicted for so long a
time.
of grounded Japanese
wjda agriculture, ,L1 Peterson, and nine .hours, starting many fires WT R HlllSri sV -irlto
two executives from the depart- probaW fcnocldout a ;W JUO JKlUniffv
ittnnc ment. he heads are in there or , i .. - C '
May Decide
f Oosed Shop5
Layton Faces
2 Indictments
- C (Continued from Page 1) C
Roy Hewitt of Salem, and District
Attorney Bruce Spaulding. were
presenL Layton had been sched
uled to plead to the original in
dictment. The girl disappeared June 8.
Her body was found in the river
June 12 and on July 7 , Capt
Vayne Gurdane of the state po
lice announced that Layton ad
mitted f having " criminally . at
tacked the girl and having sub
sequently struck her in the face
just before she fell into the river.
Picnic Planned
By USO Today
For Servicemen
Police StiU
: Adding Ques
In Burglaries
Police of the area were putting
two and two together Saturday
but. weren't ready to believe they
had the correct answer in the
problem created by a series of
successful : and. attempted bur
glaries Friday night ;
At Bishop's store on North
Liberty street, where a heel was
stomped through a pane, of glass
in one display window to gain
entry," $12.50 in merchandise was
taken but the burglar left his
own money belt, city police said,
i No article was missing nor was
there evidence that Ogden's
Beauty shop, a block north of the
clothing store, had, been ransack
ed, but the glass was broken out
of the front door. J :
; The bolt was forced, but the
padlock held I and attempts to
enter the Smoke shop, 283 State
street, were unsuccessful, the
Janitor, who arrived at 4 am de
clared, f -Jy r--";: y;::'X;;':
Two attempts were made -before
access was -gained to Habby's
market, 1590 South Commercial,
officers said. Glass near the lock
of the front door was broken, but
since a key would have been re
quired, the burglar moved to the
back of the store, forced a door
and went in to eat a piece of
bologna, drink a bottle of soda
pop, pick up three cartons of
cigarettes and M cents in pennies.
there or
out theipitcrung -today. f ,
Peterson, who as a boy learned
to pitch hay on his father's farm
in southwestern Oregon and who
continued to do the job as a man
in vacation periods and when he
later operated the farm himself,
with Agriculture "Department
Cashier Glenn L. Hoar and State
Fair Manager Leo Spitzbart, to
day win help get in the hay crop
on! the Matthis place across from
Labish Center schoolhouse.
The trio answered the call of
the emergency farm' labor divi
sion of the county extension serv
ice. ,
number
planes.
In two naval actions against
the "Tokyo : express" since the
start of the current operations in
the Solomons, at least 12 and
probably 17 cruisers and destroy
ers have been sunk.
Buin is on ; the southern tip of
Bougainville island and Falsi ir a
tiny Island south of Bougainville.
'Franco Tells
JJIcll UJ-IJLS L
Policy
US Prisoners
Of Japs May
Get Supplies
WASHINGTON, July 17 -fly-The
state department announced
Saturday it was working on a plan
to send medicines and other relief
'Big Inch'
Celebration
To Be Staged
PHOENIXVILLE, Pa, July 17
I (fly-Big Inch is in the celebration
stage. :j j yi ;::,).; ": -
i At a ceremony at the .pumping
l station near this eastern Pennsyl
vania town,' high government of-
I fidals and executives of War Em
ergency Pipelines, Inc, win gather
Monday to signify- completion of
the 1341-mile line of 21-inch pipe
WASHINGTON, July 17 -F-A
case now before the war labor
board may result in a court inter
pretation of what congress had in
mind with respect to closed shops
and union maintenance agree
ments when it enacted the Con-
nally-Smith labor disputes law.
The case is a controversy be
tween the Atlantic .Basin Iron
Works of Brooklyn and the CIO
International Union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers. In line with
WLB practices, the board's ship
building commission has ordered a
union security clause written into
a contract between the company
and the union. This clause pro
vides that union members who do
not resign their membership with
in IS days must remain members
in ' good standing during" the life
of the contract as a condition of
employment. ;
MADRID, July I7-WVGen-
eralisshno' Francisco Franco,' ta a
long awaited statement on domes-
tie policy, said Saturday. that he
did not oppose the possibility of
a restoration of the Spanish mon
archy but added" that fSm toirin.
archy should never serve -as- a Larger Ration Sci
wot xor zoreign propaganaa.
High Argentine-
Executive Dies
BUENOS AIRES,' July t7 -iff)
Rear Admiral Saba H. Sueyro,
52, Argentine vice president, died
Saturday night after. a; two-day
illness. - ?
'Sueyro was chief of the mili
tary purchase mission which went
to. Washington last year to nego
tiate for arms purchases, e also
had served as naval attache 'to
the Argentine embassy , in Wash
ington. . ;. ...
The phalange party end Its pro
gram, he said, was "the only just
and t r n e solution' ; of Spain's
problems. -
'Franco also indicated , that the
question of restoration 'was be
ing used by foreign propaganda
in Spain, although he did not say
how. i" );:' '::,y-.y -
He made It clear that ha con
ceived of the monarchy's return
at the moment he decided it was
propitious, and then. it . would be
"adopted" by the phalange, party
movement which he heads.
He spoke to the national coun
cil of the phalange party.
WASHINGTON, July, 17 -kffVi
xna war rooa aaministration held
out hopes Saturday far-larger ra
tions of dried beans and peas dur
ing; the next 12 'months. It allo
cated civilians larger quantities
of these products than they .con
sumed in 1942. 1 '- :.-.
ctts - tsrscli ; re-T'Scrr.tei enemy
troops. Tracer bullets made the
effectiveness of the, fire visible to
the spectators.
Present for the occasion were
four'' division commanders: I'aj.
Gen. Gilbert It Cook of the Tim
ber Wolf division: 1.1a J. Gen.
Jomes L. Bradley of the SSth divi
sion; llaj. Gen. Willlaa G. Live
say of 'the 91st division and llaj.
Gen. John E 1 Dahlquist of -the
Trailblazer division. . Brig. Gen.
Bryant E. Lloore, assistant divisiort
commander, and Brij. Gen. Wil
liam C. DunckeL- artillery com
mandre of the Timber Wolf di
vision, also attended, and staff of
ficers of the other division-were
present as guests of llaj. Gen,
Cook.
'Yery Few9
For Qviliaii3
AKROtr, Ohio, July 17-V-A J
P. SelberUng, president of the
Seiberling Rubber company, in a
statement Issued Saturday said
there would be "very, very few
new all-synthetic tires - for civil
ians this year. ;
The rubber manufacturer de
clared that his Industry tad "not
yet licked ;, many problems of
synthetic tire production; although
the job of producing quantities of
raw synuthetic rubber;' has been
virtually, aecomplishect 1
Ribbentrop
Gets Decoration
The Berlin " radio said todav
that Rudolph Von Ribbentrop,
22-year-old son of the relch for
eign minister,, has been decorated
with the knight's insignia of the
Iron cross north of Belgorod in
Russia. v"' .
Legion Voting pyca
Vice-Commander Post
With ' the election of John Ol
son as commander a foregone con
clusion, principal interest in the
annual election of Capital Post
No. 9, American Legion, sched
uled for, Monday night, centers in
the office of first vice-commander.
B, E. "Kelly" Owen and Stanley
Krueger are the nominees. Con
tests for most of the other offices
are in prospect. The meeting will
be. held tor the Eagles' hall. .
Libor Leader Urges !
Political Unity
- PHILADELPHIA, July 17 HTV
Labor does not plan to form a new
political: party, but a move. ' for
'complete political unity in the
coming campaign' is under way,
Sidney Hillman, chairman of the
CIO political committee, told a
meeting here .Saturday. He said
that unified support of the AFL,
CIO and railroad brotherhoods
will .be sought. .
suppties through Soviet Russia to 1 5nkm Iview. Tex, and Lin- J JCniG&f lota
American war prisoners and in- iden NJ' 0x1 program are Sec- j atVCtJLdCl. . Od&
ternees in the far east, subject to retary Commerce Jesse Jones, ran OI
Japanese agreement, i Secretary of the Interior Harold I Hff 3 JllDS
; The Soviet government has ex- Ickes, and W. Alton Jones, presi- v JV
pressed its readiness to assist byaent ae tederally-financed
facilitating shipment through Sov-1 pieune corporaxion w&lch bunt
let territory Jo Japan if satisfac- ai 1060 n a cost of 585,000,000.
tory arrangements are made by the Already 100,000 barrels of oil
United States with Japan, the an- beinS pumped into the line daily
nouncement said, and the Japan-1 n norns crry, xil, junction of the
3 Oregon Men
Die in Prison
ese government has agreed to con
sider the proposal.. ,
eastern and southern links. To
day it is flowing at a steady three
PORTLAND, July 17 -ff-Hen-
ry Kaiser's shipyards, which al-1
ready have, broken about every
cargo shipbuilding; " record, will
turn on an extra spurt Tuesday
for Lord Halifax, British Ambas
sador to this country.
It'll be a triple launching a
WASHINGTON, July .l7.r(ffV
Names of nine - northwest
were included Saturday in an ad
ditional war denartment list of
US soldiers who have died of dis
ease in Japanese' prison- camps
since the fall of Bataan and. Ccav?
Cars leaving the Court street
USO at 2 pan. today wm take
Junior hostesses and " servicemen
to Paradise Island for. a picnic,
Badminton, aoftbalL swimming j 7ar Crime AlTCStS 147
and norsesnoe piicning are on ine
Nazis Bolster
French Defense
miles an hour beneath the farm- t XJa iL TfihriU. regidorThe names were obtained
land f ni.UmM. nt.. t. I Liberty sbsto from the Oregon I rrT .t.i t-a
lands of mid-southern Illinois. It
wm "not reach the Atlantic sea
board area for three weeks. But
when it does, military and civilian
users stand ready to blot up the
entire normal flow of 300,000 bar
rels a oay.
Shipbuilding Corporation, a tank
er from the Swan Island yard and
a vest-pocket aircraft carrier from
the Vancouver yard,
entertainment menu.
. .New eouipment at the Court
street club for servicemen in
cludes not only a recording mach-
' BERN, Switzerland, July 17-0P)
Nad troops are pouring into the
and a dispatch to the Tribune de OVfitei GrOWPrfl
Geneve said they now number two rJ, 1 . w " ,
complete armies. 1 old OI BriUnt
sons for war crimes espionage jgion, the d said, at first iBIiirket Fntlir
Mkubaj(c, kuiuwi auu uuure I uwutut wnc woe loiexjaea XO re-1 ;
register as foreign ajnts during lieva Italian eontinrentx. marr f I V" oysiers nave a
WASHINGTON, July 17 -ff-Arrest
and conviction of 147 per-
jfreat
in Kitt ntpntv et rwwrlt AHf
Thomas, director, said ; Saturday, the 11 month period ending June (which left for Italy. The Italians, I J? ep"'kt and those of
and ; servicemen are invited to
make recordings to send home. .
Fish Fleet Boost Seen
WASHINGTON, July 17 -ifli-
A 100-vessel expansion of the na
tion's fishing fleet was advocated
Saturday by Secretary of the In
terior Ickes. as coordinator of
fisheries, to boost the : annual
catch by one billion pounds, r
from the intomational Red Cross.
Ther included:
Jones, CsfL' Stanley moOier
Mrs. Naomi O. Ecker, route one.
Monroe.
KaspmrL Pfe. Robert V.; mother
Mrs. Ann Kaspart, tt SE lOttfSti
Pendleton, 'v'
Ring. Pvtv llelvin JS.; father,
George Ring. Gold HI1L- -
Too Lcte to Qassify
s Km. BASZjCCNT apt. tob nana
w w
Y2m
l a a a ' m a. a a mm a . . . . k
ai was reponea aauiraay oy ue I now ever, were unmecuateiy re-
! department of justice. (placed by other troops from Italy.
Blast Pill-Boxes on Sicily Hillside,
j
ranxnarrages laid Uown KaHaa pU-bexea en EleElaa kSslle precede the advance of Amertean tank
teoeps from the ra-ley belaw as lavasloa e the strategie axis LLmd gets atr way en the left Cask
wM-ftActri irww. vusoeiaiea rress phete from US slsJ- corps by raU4
ioos cay are produced imif.
ideal conditions of fresh water
currents and ocean tides. rb
Trevor y, RTncaid, tntematiany
known oyster authority, told
members of the Oregon Farmers'
Cooperative association, growers
of Coos Bay oysters, at their semi
annual meeting. Saturday nv Sa-
n Klncaid? spoke at the luncheon
meetirc of the association at VFX7
hall where, members were served
oyster stew.
At the business session, pre
sided over by Warren Gray, who
replaces George W. Potia sr, as
president, the association was told
that Coos Bay oysters have been
allotted the highest ceiling prices
given .any bivalves by the OPA,
that the wholesale ceiling on the
canned product is almostjfive
times that charged a year or two
aso."" ;v" -Vi.; r ; '
' W. V. Cate. Lebanon, was in
troduced as the new director, re
placing on the board Potts, who
has gone to Ilontana with his
wife because of her health.
I
DO yon lose out in Group Conversation?"
DO you miss lectures, sermons, movies ?. i
DO you fmd.it dii cult to carry :.on;busmes3?
DO yon avoid your friends end social functions
because of impaired hezriii?
Thes end oSier condlHons bcrva been crvercomewUh
fha usa cf the now SYMPHOIIIC AOOUSTIOOII Hexaring
aid based on U. 5. GOVERiainn' findings.
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