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V '"" j IT STCSMSTQ ME that the Sa lem Hunters? and Anglers dub is auaing at a good target I in its lesblution requesting an extra ra tion of gasoline for hunters. In a Series of .whereases" the resolu tion , points out that there Is a shortage of domestic meats; that rthe woods,' plains and fields' of Oregon? abound and . teem "" with game, animals and game birds' and that "many thousands of Ore ton : hunters are willing and an xious to stalk, hunt and kill deer, elk and antelope during the 1943 hunting season.' That's true .ex cept f or the "teem" L part. " . t The petition of the Hunters and uuw ' futa muuiuvm the allowance; of the extra gas; applicants must be bona fide li censed hunters, in groups of three to share transportation and wl . are willing to, dispose, of hid And feathers', to the government, and limit days spent to the mini mum to reach the hunting grounds f Why isn't this a sensible propo sition? If victory gardeners are allowed an -extra spoonful of gas why shouldn't hunters get. what they need to bring in some meat? Deer - ar a crop, the. same as poultry and cattle, and the pres ent deer-elk-antelope population i ahnut as heavr as the - moun tain areas or range uplands can , well carry. -The annual kill" by hunters Is necessary to keep the animal population within reason able limits; ; otherwise many - of " these animals die in severe , win ters when feed is scarce, and they rob the 5 feed of domestic herds and " flocks.- 1 -1 : y j ' The amount of meat available in the form of game animals and birds will run into the thousands cf pounds. Surely if ever there was a time when the harvest of that crop was ; needed it is now. So I'd like to put an "Okay on the petition signed by Jim Loder as president and Fred Krepela as Secretary. I Besides, if our' hunters, can't tiave gas to . go after deer, how Will some of the rest of us get eur venison .next fall? T -. Council Mulls t : ' Bugs, Burner, In Dry Session s . By . ISABEL, CHELDS -- Bicycles and t h e fr licensing preblems were kept in the back ground while bedbug extermina tors and the' new sawdust- burar in the city hall took, the center ot the stage at Monday night's Salem council session. The bedbug exterminator, des cribed by Alderman I Lw ; T. Le Garie as a horse and buggy day" type of insect r eradicator, con sirting of drug and dram, which together with transportation, had coat $S 1.04 waa. purchased witb out council action or call for bids. Ia i - similar manner the new sawdust, burner was installed in the basement of the city hall, Le Garie, chairman of the committee on accounts and current expenses, said as he explained to the coun cil why bis, committee had. re- . fused to approve - the bills. On the other hand, he said, the city . had received the merchandise and in both cases it was needed and it should pay the bills. , " -, When the council, 10 persons strong, split evenly on the ques tion of paying up immediately or conducting an investigation i be yond, the council chambers. Mayor " I. M. Doughton . cast the deciding vote in. favor of immediate pay ment. "The sawdust burner and ' its installation, together -with the cost of moving a water tank up stairs, was billed at 1321.30. In cluded was cost of re-installation after an' error in operation had (Turn to Page 2 Story E) i iib mm -mrm - mm mi m r mtrm 1 n Lesion Election iH ere B. E. "Kelly Owen was elected vice-commander of Capital - Post -9 for the coming year, defeating Stanley Krueger in the only active contest for a major office in the -post's annual election, held Mon day, night. John Olson, first vice commander this year, was un opposed for the commandership. lie-will succeed Ira PttcJxec: Likewise without opposition, X. N. Bacon wm elected second vice - commander, - Ralph - Camp bell adjutant, Harry Caldwell finance officer, ' Irl S. McSherry ' historian, C. V. Rishardson chap- . lain, E. - M. Phillips quartermaster, Frank Wilhelm sergeant at arms, C. W. Starr to the building com mittee. vL:-vfi ':. , -" ;:. There-: was ' competition . for places on the executive com mittee, which went to Ira Pilcher, H J. Scellars, Fred Paulus, Art Johnson and Mem Pearce. ' ; t Delegates to the department convention at Baker elected. Mon- . - y EJSHt were Irl McSherry, S. ?. Ctarr, B. E. Owen, George Averett, I. N. Bacon, Hay Ctunbo, rred Paulus, Brazier Small. Al tutld. yeaii 1 A Mies i Montgomery's Troops Within 3 Miles of Catania Base . . ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 19 (Jfy-AxW resistance - in . central Sicily tottered Monday night as American and Canadian troops raced -down the 10-mile road leading to the vital communica tion hub of Enna after over running : Caltanissetta . and Pi azza Armerina. . - . .The British Eighth army, on the eastern coast was battering at Ca tania's doors r ; ' - - ; (The Moroccan radio' -reported that ; "American ' and -Canadian troops-have reached" Enna," and radio France at Algiers said aer ial reconnaissance had noted the enemy's "general movement of re treat' ; toward Messina in north eastern Sicily. ("By road and rail enemy forces are (ailing back on Messina with heavy and light equipment,- radio France" said. , - , . ("All around this port,. report speak of ' considerable defensive preparations. It appears -everything is being done for a final, prolonged ' stand.) i " , The prisoners toll had mounted to 35,000, of which 23,000 were in American- hands. Gen. .Sir Bernard I Montgom ery's British troops were within three miles of Catania, 40 miles to the . east from the American and Canadian columns converging on Enna. 1 German troops" fought savagely to save Catania, a port prize half way up the coast to Messina, the best possible point for the enemy t (Turn to Page 3 Story B) BlacpMarKet Candy Sold v In Northwest PORTLAND, Ore, July !.-) Black market candy of -inferior quality is being; sold at exorbitant prices--in Oregon and . southern Washington, - OPA investigators 1 reported Monday. ; Chocolates ordinarily priced lat 75 to 85 cents- are beinsTshipped in and sold at from $U9 ,to $1 pound, 1 District OPA Director Richard G Montgomery said. V He charged that approximate ly 100 retail stores in the Port land OPA district have taken ad vantage of the sweet tooth of this war-boom area and asserted they will have to sell the remaining candy at a loss.-' , mj m m w lmt v ternates elected were Al Crose, Stanley Krueger, . Dr. O. Van Winkle, O. F. ; Campbell, Leon Brown, Burson , Ireland, . Walter Kirk, Ralph Campbell and A. S. Tussing. 'Xi-:--iOr?Zv---J' The legion post made a profit of $321.50 on its Fourth of July celebration. Chairman Harry Holt of the celebration commission re ported. He spoke appreciatively of the assistance of the various com mittee chairmen and other work ers. -,yj;j ,i':H . x j'v.; ' Neil Allen of Rose burg, former department commander, said the legion as a national organization should revise its charter so as to make eligible the veterans of all wars, past, present and future, in order that the men who have done the fighting may have a voice - strong enough to convince the nation that certain pilicies are necessarry for self-protection. ; Jerrold Owen, state coordinator of civilian defense, called atten tion to the effort which win be made August 1 to 7 to enroll ad ditional aircraft warning 'service wcikers. - - . . 12 r-cza NT L..J 1 LJ r i I - .. i 1 - - K Leader of a nasi welfpack is target ef a plane frem a United States escort carrier with a phetegrapher abaard. The t cameraman, ridlag with the bombers ef the fourth torpedo besaber attack grenp, cap tared' this remarkable etose-v ef the sea-air aetioau One bare-legged Bast en the deck ef the leader type U-boat staada in awe ef the towering spray while another dacks against the conning fewer, A ( depth bomb (center) can be seen abeet te hit the water. (See page nine fee farther pictares ef the . aeUea.) UN Fhete. . - R ussian Pincers Threaten TolEngulf Germans at Orel Munition Train Fire helL ? Ohio Village 4 MONROEVILLE, O, July 6P)-Burstinc shells fell on this village of 1200 for three hours Monday night following n : ex plosion of two derailed munitions laden freight cars which set fire to 12 oil tank cars and caused the death of one man and injured at least two others. .' . The explosion' and fire occurred when a Wheeling and Lake-Erie car left the rails and pulled 12 others with it, sheriffs deputies said. Firemen were hampered in fighting the blaze - by exploding shells. ; : : V : r- Villagers r e p or t e d shells screechinsj overhead as flames spread through the two explosive laden" cars.", i ; H: '. Conductor' Ernest Gosser said the r victiaor was transient, one of three he had seen, on the train shortly before;the explosion? The victim was burned beyond recognition.""- ; r t ' - -- Alfred - Workman 'of - Cleveland, who said he was riding the train with another man looking .for work" was taken to Norwalk.City hospital. Workman added he did not know what became of his companion? : Federal bureau of Investigation agents - from Cleveland and To ledo were at the accident scene. Cause of the wreck was not de termined immediately. Newest OPA . Officer Set WASHINGTON, July lt.-i&h Prime Administrator Prentiss Brown, Monday announced - of ficially that Chester A.' Bowles, Connecticut director of the office of price administration would take office in .Washington on July 27 as senior deputy administrator 'of OPA with the powers of a general manager. ' ; For 7ater Post The name of W. L. rhfllips for water commissioner to succeed Chandler P. Brown, who has re signed to enter naval service, was presented to Salem city council Monday night as a sussestion by the water commission. "The coun cil voted to wait two weeks before naming anyone to the vacancy, " US Plane in Portugal ; LISBON, Portugal, July 1-?P) An ; American bomber : made a farced landing at the Lisbon air field Portela Monday. It had a crew of six. Cc2ju Crs-cau n . ' uu Cameraman Catches Sure Kill - . . ..-. Red Troops PusK T7edge Deeper 'i; ; Into iLnemy - f IX)NDON, Tuesday, July 20 (Jy- Russian armies pounding on a ' semicircle around - Orel captured . 130 villages and popu lated places in advances, from four to six miles Monday to the north, east and south of the great German base 200 mile south of Moscow, the soviet command an nounced today. - . Earlier reports from . Moscow had placed ; the red army ' within 12- miles of Orel and said the Soviets were! wheeling up artil lery within range of the city, Ber lin reported the whole Russian front ablaze with red army at - tacks an the way from Leningrad to the western Caucasuh. Among the towns captured was Malo-Archangelsk, 25 miles south of Orel on the railway running to: Russian-held ' Kursk. - Another 72 German tanks and S planes were destroyed, run nings the toll of Attrition exacted from the Germans since their at tack of July 5 was converted into a ' counter attack to 3S1S tanks and 2094 planes. These German losses were suffered -Sunday. -:The midnight communique, re corded by the soviet monitor from the Moscow radio, said the Ger mans were fighting back deter minedly, mounting a dozen coun ter attacks during Monday. All were declared repulsed with heavy losses.- Troops pounding down from the north achieved the greatest suc cesses, scooping up 70 populated places, the communques said. Those pressing up from the south toward a junction with the col umn atop and behind Orel were said to have captured 20 popu lated places. A Junction of these columns would pinch off the Orel salient and trap large German forces in the base. Other troops moving' in . front ally from the east were credited with seizing 23 -places.. :! The 225-mile front from Bel gorod to Sukhinlchl is formed like an S with a German bulge in the ; Russian lines around Orel, and with a Russian bulge pointing out from Kursk. It was in the Kursk area where the battle was Joined July 5. , Auto Industry Arms T7ork High ; DETROIT, July 19 The automotive ; council for - war pro duction reported Monday that arms output of the car industry during June reached a total of $725,000,000 compared with $7C5, 6C0.C00 in May and with $3S3, 8C3.CC3 in June a year s;o- .The industry now il producin at an annual rate of 13,7C:,CC3,c:d. according to Geor r.cmsey, managing director cf tie council. Tu:2z7 I IciJ J J 11. r ir U - -.: ; Northwest Cbal Famine Is Predicted i CINCINNATI, : July 19 -iffy- A shocking coal famine" will be inevitable in ' the Pacific - north west next - winter unless- 10.000 men are taken from the army to di coal in that region, Eugene McCauliffe of Omaha, president of " the Union Pacific Coal Co, declared Monday.- 'a"-.- Speaking' before Ahe American mining- congress, McCauliffe said this famine will mean strict rationing of domestic fuels, sharp j curtailment of railroad operations and an inadequate supply of coal for war industries and our armed forces. 'Action must be taken' at once to bring 10,000 men from the, armed forces into our mines. , He declared increased fuel de mands ' ef the great industrial empire of the northwest and Alaska, coupled with the : labor shortage, makes the coal famine inevitable "unless' army aidv Is given. ' y i ' ' " "The mines of Colorado,' Wyo ming; Montana, Utah," New Mexico and Washington have equipment to produce. 32H million tons of coal this year but the shortage of miners, an abnormal labqr turn over and excessive voluntary ab senteeism will . cause us to fall short of, this amount, Of Synthetic Rubber Seen LOS ANGELES, July 19 -( F. B. : Davis,' Jr., board chairman of the United States Rubber Co, predicted Monday that ty the end of 1S44 American': production of synthetic automobile ' passenger tires, will have reached .the rate of one every second. - However, rationing still wCl be necessary,' even if military needs remain static, he stated during an interview. ' . . -, -In'1942, he stated, 22,CC3 tons of synthetic rubber was man ufactured by the-entire industry. The production tM month alone July- win equsJ that, "This year 275,000 tons of syn thetic wU be produced ' by tlie industry, and in IS 44 an estimat ed E50.CC0 tons will be made 100.C20 tons more than all t.e rubber used in the peak Arerican production year, 1341.' r J; Bennc!t3 iictuni ? ? "City" Schools CupC and : Mrs. Frank B. rcr.r.ett returr.ei to Sa lem Sundry cftsr a week's vaca tion at Firjcist, Ce. - OutpU " . n n v Not One liberator -Iteported Lost in Large Scale Raid , CAIRO, July lMAmeri- can airmen, including those of the Catholic faith, from Libyan bases, bombed the Littorio freight yards in Rome for 75 minutes Monday . without any fighter opposition, and up to a lite hour Monday night not a single Liberator had been re ported lost on the successful ex pedition. . 1 - r ' A few planes" had landed at other than their home bases,' how ever, after dropping 350 tons of bombs on their target As . many Catholics as possible were chosen for the raid on the military objective in Rome in or der to counter any-possible axis propaganda lies, it was disclosed here.'.'",- - "'T J r- ' "Now remember, said an offi cer who gave his men a final brief ing before they took off, "these NEW TORS, Jalr It riff) The London radie tall' more tau-SS9 An3eriea planes teek part In the raid Same Mon day. The broadcast, recorded by NBC and CBS,neted report frem anted headqnarters ia North- Africa, . ;-y-'AJ military objectives are sandwiched between some of the most' sacred and ". historically . important spots in the world. - ; xl'-' S- ."Fly low, if you must, and 'en " (Turn to Page 2 Story C7) Gty Pbstvar Plans Group Is Named - Salem's postwar planning com mittee, authorized at Monday night's council session and named duringr the meeting by ' Mayor L M Doughton, Includes ; Aldermen Daniel J. Fry,- David OUarr and Tom Armstrong; City Residents Hedda Swart, C .B.- McCuUough, Carl Hogg and David Wright Swart, m former county engi neer,' is resident engineer here with: the -state- highway depart ment, a member of the city plan ning commission and other post war planning boards. Dr. McCuI lough, assistant state highway en gineer. Is likewise, on . other plan ning commissions. Chamber of Commerce ' Presi dent Carl Hogg and David Wright, divisional superintendent for - the Portland General Electric com pany, : represent other business and engineering interests. . The committee is charged with studying the city's needs which might be met with postwar con struction, plans for obtaining funds for such construction and preparation of plan outlines for presentation to the council and other interested bodies. Sco tho Firct Hcmbcir-Dccir' FIxoto Wednesday Che may be l".,s Eambar Dear, r C.a girl with tl.a tzost ' seem -er-even-the. neaXest per seit jsb ta the Ealem area, the pretty girl whose pic tare Is to . appear ITefnesiay ia Tt t2tr:u.a. First cf tie- cca tesUnts in the all-fan eocpetl tion (with flSS forth ef prizes promised by Stevens - & Eon jewelers),' she is one cf several who t77iTtl Monday at r:L,ips stsa . to l ave Ltr 1 pkiare' entere i " ' - The rris winners will I 5 i nornesJ frcn the stars cf lis Gr&ni tLealre at the close cf tie ma cf Eontardler Acrcst i:. acccrLur ta T7AC Lt Lil lian Carried ha!rmaa ef tie" tcari'cf i.'Z-ts, wis t" irti i-:.:..Z L:: rj s tt Flames Met": . ; y1 c . ".' n n Killed ICENNETH LLOYD "HOUGHAM Prison Guard's Condition Is Said Better Condition of Sol Worden, vet eran : guard captain at the state penitentiary - who was stabbed Sunday forenoon by two convicts as they attempted to escape,1 was reported as "'better' late Monday night at the Salem General hos pital. Hospital attendants said he was "resting comfortably. - Kenneth Lloyd Hougham, 22, making his second attempt to- es cape from the ' prison, was shot and kiUed; by Guard Bert Dun ham. A -coroner's Jtiry Monday allemoon returned a verdict that the shooting was done Min - per formance of duty. -'T-i Legal action which may be tak en against Albert Doolin, 32, the other convict participatinV in the attempted: break, will depend upon - the outcome ' of " Worden's wounds, District Attorney Miller B. Kayden said Monday. i Doolin has served less than one year of i 25-year sentence im posed under a section of the ha bitual criminal act dealing with two ,, and three-time offenders. Busy-with the- inquest Monday, the district attorney had not been able to check up 'on Doolin'i sta tus. If the attack upon the prison guard was his fourth offense,'- a life sentence would be possible even though Worden recovers , Armed with knives, one of which had been stolen from' the prison kitchen end" the other pos sibly from a work shop, the two' i (Turn to Page 2 Story A) British Cost ; LONDON, Tuesday, July 2M) Britain's cost of living index Mon day was officially .reported as .two points higher on ' July lr than it was the previous month. - f '.The chief reason was given as an increase in the average price of new potatoes. V',, '1V ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Tuesday, July 20-yT-Sharp jun gle fighting, some of which was grim hand-to-hand combat, cost the Japanese more than 2S9 dead Monday , as ; allied . forces pressed their attacks throughout the far- flung Southwest Pacific . battle area. . " Near Munda, New Georgia, Ma jor immediate objective of the of fensive launched June 33 by Gen eral Douglas MacArthur, Ameri can troops made a limited . ad vance, to enlarge their beachhead at Liiio. Today's communique said 179 enemy dead were counted in the dripping jungle after the Americans consolidated their Cains. :. t ' . ; . ." : "Our losses were Hht, the announcement said. . , - Au-trti:: . s continued their ad vance Li I'cvr Guca,.( ":'- ll.s Jsrr.cre Li tl-rp tr.;- , --',:ts c i the ilc-cs cf'i: :..t T.. lu, about seven cules from the Lis Japanese eirtass at Ealamaua. Ei-hty two Jepanese dead were left cn e.a tatilcrround there. - Ccrr.lcrs frcn - both-the south tid scuwest Pacific areas not Of IivmgUp Jungle Figk Wh'Mutidw n .iiesiviiliv .Briefed: Romans TTcrned That AltacZi Comir:; Destruction Ili'-Ii ALLIED lIEADQUARTEnS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 19 O-Specially trained American precision airmen dropped hund reds of tons of bombs on rail and airfield installations at Rome Monday In the first attack of the war on the Eternal City. The first "bombs away" caU of flying- fortress bombardiers came at 11:13 a. m. (2:13 a. rx PWT). -i Leaflets first were dropped, ad vising the inhabitants why certain sections of the city were military objectives.-,-' - . , ; Tons of explosives. then smashed the San Lorenzo railway yards four miles east of Vatican city. That was the target nearest to the STOCKHOLM, Tuesday, July 19 -iffy" Fires were still burn ing la Kama early toJty fol lawlor the American 1 j aa mUltary targets tlere. aisi an f the popmlaCsa mt tls I'.AlIj.a tizVfti net csseet!:! ta'Slj tctlr ity has been erred to evacuata the city, Kama dispatches ta the Swedish press said. Vatican. The ards are those ia which axis troop trains are made up for. dispatch southward to 1-. cily and the southern mainland. The Littorio yards farther east and the Campino airfield also were bombed heavily by airmen using the highly - accurate ' American bombsight. Fortresses, Mitchells and Ma rauders from the North African r . (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Liquor Slore Hour Sy st Is Changed PORTLAND. Ore- Julv 19-r State liquor stores will operate under shorter hours cn a firtW come, first-serve basis starting Tuesday, Administrator Ray Con way announced Monday, The store will open at noon in stead of 10 a. m, with a supply of all types of liquor available placed . on sale at the openin hour and at 5 p. m. each wetk day." The S p. m. closing hour will remain ' the same. Conway said the changes were made because of liquor and employe shortages. ting Flare Battle Front only gave powerful support to al lied ground forces but carried the fight to enemy bases far removed from the jungle battlegrounds. . A strong force of Liberators during the cisht between July 13 and 19 repeated their near-record flight for , land-based bombers to bomb Macassar en Celebes island. Huge fires were started, soma of which were visible by pilots 3 miles away' on the 'homeward l:p of .the 2tC0-mIle round trip flight. The mission to Macassar ranks Lsecond in long-distance bomtins flights only to the bombing cf Wake, Island by Hawaii-based air craft, i . . -The attack, directed at the waterfront, the factory area, ani airdrome installations, srrareni' caujht the Japanese by surprl?3 because the town was well light ed when the first bombers wt .t into action. The attack lasted fi.3 hours. Reports from the T'unJa tri i were confused as to r .- lu l rf) sltions. The communi- ; ' ! ' ' that "cur vr ' : made a 1.' - ' purpese if t ; ; - hesd at LH