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reread the letters from home, hxious ' for every bit of news, they uhould know that their let ters home are read and reread nd passed around, among rela tives .rand friends. A few of them : . - -- . ' a. ft 2 ina meir way vao pruiu ana rnore 6f them deserve "such' recog nitiari. The fact is,' that people en the home front are keenly' in- : terested inJ the experiences and In the mental reactions of the 'Jnen on the fightings front. The attitude of soldiers to civil ian loafers and strikers and pro- t iteer is well known. If has been expressed in no uncertain lan- iruace. But the -emotional and f ten ? religious expressions con . . - r - 1 9 i.u , . : deeply men - In the service -Jiave been feeling ahd thinking, as they face the uncertainties, the reali ties fend the mysteries of life. i Today I am going to quote from letter written by an artillery , rnan,' sitting at the edge of his lit trench in North Africa on the last day of April to his bro ther who was then in a training camp - in the - home land. The uthnr.v Charles I. Wood. jr.. of plem whose father is employed at the state public utilities office, graduated at Oregon S t a t e in 1941, went immediately into ser vice and is how captain. His brother, Don, in the same branch f, the service, recently was sent overseas. The gist of Capt Woods letter is that regardless of how tnueh tniniM tamp mm u, am hardest lessons lie ahead: "How to do their job in the face of a ruaxed. heartless, armed intelli- Sfent experienced army." He goes on to savr Ji : "Some of r the simplest things that we don't even pay, any awen- tion to- any more are such things J as not having been in any sort f bed or had any mattress other than my roU for going on ix months. That goes for every tnan in the outfit from the Colonel l down to the last private and yaro: bird. Not having ami iresn zncati te M PAod. About . ftird roll at all. Just drop to your tracks and Jtleep a while, tnen get tip and go on. You eat when you can and at least half the time ftv ttrm ratitMi: 4 baths in six .A.4K' nn nr -i-tt hours at -water a-day. Blackout, marche- TOR? PAY in rain, ''sleet,, snow, mndand imuck up to .the heels. th .v m hw we did it but V '.m vnll in cr. Desert Sand I -: . , . I - - i they dropped at their posts. Cooks . .. . I and telephone (uonunuea on I Editorial Page) Local River Victim Found WEST SALEM, July 20 The i body of Lester McDaniel Fitch, 5, was recovered at 4. O'clock this afternoon from the wWillamette river after the child fell from -a drift of logs into a six mile cur rent The child was playing with two older brothers when the ac cident occured about 11- sum. Polk County-Coroner C. W. Henkle released the body to Rig- don's Mortuary. Services will be held at the chapel Thursday rooming at : 10 o'clock with Rev. Xdward Allen oixiciaung. inter- ment will be in the Lee Mission The child is the son of Mr. and Mrs.' John C Pitch, formerly of there June 11, 1938. . The family week ago, following the cherry harvest, and were living in an auto camp near the river. Sur viving besides the parents are a sister, Geraldine Varice, and four t -11 Tir:ii;nM tfnraon .TWenh BThe body was recovered by groundrm Gabrielson, chair Walter Gerth, Polk county depu- f toe festival committee, an- tr. sheriff. Chief of Police Fred ti. t xxrt caim tate nolice officers and members of the Sa -'J v " ' ' lem first aid crew, . 4500 Army Men To Be Released To Copper Blines ' WASHINGTON, July 20 - iFV - Helease of 4500 men from the ar- 'Xny to accept jobs In copper, zmc participants from the various na and malybdenum mines was au- tional groups in and about the thorized Tuesday by the army. Salem community presenting; their 'A statement by Robert P. Pat - fersori. acting secretary , ox war, said efforts to recruit additional miners, from civilian sources had KfflSlSiSSE Si tSJ&SS&S&i Sx vital mtjl.fi - p . --"" r " . - - .1 Ciileaa Archbishop Deplores Rome Raid SANTIAGO, Chile, July 23.H1 Archbishop Jose Maria Caro of Santiago said today he "deplored -the . bombing of - Rome although we recosnize the bombing was executed with care that churches, t nd rtliibus and artistic rr.cnu- . dents would not fce damaed.w i u Italian Mutiny British Prepare for. - v Smash Through to -.Vital Messina . " ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, jruly,-20 (ff)-With some . Italian : troops reported . in mutinies -- against German; officers and. surrender- m j to great-batches, American , eru1rmtf rfrr n. f ... . " v. mighty drive to chop Sicily rn two and are fanning gtjy aiong the ; southern . . i . . . Jta-r-rt-. - In the east near strategic Ca tania, British: troops shattered German tank attacks with bloody losses and Gen. Sir Barnard L. Montgomery was gathering strength for a blow to topple that fensiyeUr sustained to Messina - -V. - &e situation csaariy was crm V uaa. wn i.ji t mutinies - among - Italian troops mmmanXavl' Kw f!swmn avav J " " , . - Tuesday's war bulletin declared. German ' officers have been threatened or killed by Italians seeking to surrender, official re ports said, and the cleavage' .be tween the bitterly-resisting nazis and war-weary fascists has be come an inter-axis - struggle. Germany's manpower shortage induced" the" axis high command to make 1 what now, appears 1 to have- been the : mistake of . using Italian troops under German offi cers and non-coms without suf ficient German privates ' In the same units to dominate tneii morale, observers said. This was the over-all picture of invasion: 1 Western- (American) sec ton US Seventh army troops have dashed 10 miles . along the coast -from s (Turn to Page 2 Story B) 11 nry 11 . neil IO 1 allL A a. 1 L.:tAfl rA, UlUllU atlOnS t de Gov. Earl Snell is to . be the speaker and Irl S. McSherry, ex ecutive director of the Oregon War Chest, master of ceremonies for Salem's United Nations festival to uv - . irsons owmnz traoiuonai cos- man - icvtcouiAH w va. mj . v the United Nations are urged by the festival committee to appear in that garb and "make themselves known.1 Purpose "of the event, Gabriel son said, "la to help promote unity among- all peoples who are now, along with our own country, fight- ins: to defeat the axis. The pro- lcram is planned to be both edu- J cational and entertaining, with j own traditional songs and dances I in national costume.' I 5 No .admission is to be charged. Houoehold Goods Production Okeh .;' ; ttt 1 nimtnifintT All j m The war production board" Tues day authorized a resumption , or increase in the manufacture of number of household : articles, In cluding carpet sweepers, pot scour ers and food grinders. The agency emphasized, ; how ever that although greater produc tion is -mow permitted, It is not iffuarantieed because of the limited j jx.cunts of steel and iron avafl- latZs Troops nn. , n - . Astoria Fire 'Razes One Block, Perils . Entire West Eri& v Neigldoring:Fire Fighters Called; . . Coast Guard Clears Danger Zone ASTORIA, Ore., July 20-(P-Fire broke out in the Finnish disr trict of Astoria Tuesday, levelled a block of wooden buildings, left more than 200 homeless and threatened to sweep the' entire wtem end of the city. " . Fire-fighting j equipment was southland Hwaco, Wash, across the Columbia river to the north, but the progress of the blaze was not - halted until the coastguard and navy sent men in from near by bases to fight the flames. - Destroyed were a large room ing house, a hotel and eight houses. . ' " City Manager ' Brewer Billie said damage was more than $100,- 000. - :-Vi. " .':r':i 'f'U ' The district was Jammed with cannery ; workers, ' fishermen and navy ' personnel because of : the housing shortage. A ; number -; of shacks and former woodsheds in which, workers were housed, went up in the flames. ' ' ' Origin of the fire Was-undeter mined. - The blaze was controlled after a three-hour fight Several persons were overcome by . smoke, but there were no seri ous injuries. Those overcome were revived on the scene by first aid crews. . . . . r More than 200 combatted the (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Fifth Blaze Hits Building By LTLLIE MADSEN f SILVERTON, July 20 Light ning may not strike twice in the same place, but fire has struck five times in less than a year in the identical spot here the form er site of the Fischer flouring. mills structure. .The fifth .time was 4 tonight and . it was . a -, spec tacular blaze lighting up the sky and attracting spectators from miles about, but did no appreci able damage. Most of the possible damage war done in the-first fire last August, - ; ' ; Inasmuch as the fire depart ment is housed in the same block, it has been getting, a lot of prac tice "runs' - without wasted gasoline or rubber. It just pulls out and then pulls over, ' and Is ready to fight fire. " : Cause of tonight's fire was .un certain; some of the others have caught from smouldering embers of their predecessors. T. T. Leo nard, has been wrecking, the re mains of the flour mill building and hauling' usable lumber to the flax plant Some of the salvage able lumber was destroyed in to night's fire, constituting, the only lOSS. ', - -i AAA Puts Clamp On News Release To American Press WASHINGTON, July 20.-P-The agricultural adjustment agen cy has forbidden its 200.COO field employes : and state, ; county and local farmer committeemen to dis tribute information - about' AAA farm programs to the press, radio and 4 other mass means of com munication. e The agriculture department dis closed this today in making public an interpretation by its solicitor of a provision of . the new "depart ment appropriation act prohibiting the use of federal funds in paying salaries and expenses of any AAA regional, state or county informa tion employee. Array Prisoner Found Pvt Jose Aguflar, US army prisoner who escsped from an IIP here Monday, .ttes picked up last nl;ht by rendition police. LJ ,; , called from Seaside; 20 miles Ickes Asserts No New Dealers Running War NEW YORK, Juyl 20-0P)-In- terior Secretary Ickes said Tues day that drafted businessmen were running the war and . "if the war program has broken down at any point v v it t hasn't been chargeable to the 'brain trusters,' to the new dealers' or ; to the bureaucrats'. " ' " "It isn't the new dealers' who have been running .this war,, he said in an address before the Sales Executive club. I challenge any one to name names and fix . re sponsibilities. - If I know anything about Washington Jt is that busi nessmen, who have been drafted have been running the war men like Knudsen,' Nelson, Stettinius, and many others whom ! I might mention.' And while you are pon dering this fact, consider also that many of the most influential and busiest executives, m this admin istration were; never hew dealers. Nor are-weynow.'bi??' jv Ickes said the r toughest job" of converting to war purposes fell to 1 the federal government - and commented t h a t the president "did not turn the job of conver sion over to a new dealer 'bureau crat' such a myseuV. -"He summoned to Washington some of the greatest names in in dustry and put the owners of them to work. I have sometimes ventured to think all by myself of : course that this sudden - and great influx of men, who," while highly - competent in 'their em fields, were inexperienced 'and untrained and unsympathetic with government procedures, was not as well advised as it appeared to be." t 00 Men Study Gas Ration.Vl- WASHINGTON, July 20 A committee of the nation's lead ing oil men has undertaken a stu dy of the gasoline ration problem, William R. Boyd, jr., chairman of the petroleum Industry war coun cil, said Tuesday: night . Declaring that neither the in dustry nor the petroleum admin istration for war has authority to determine the rationing - system, Boyd said JOur joint responsibility has been and still is to supply the gasoline to be rationed, and that duty makes it only right that the oil industry should suggest ways to make the rationing system as effective as possible." , ; - ti-Trust Qiarge Aired WASHINGTON, . July 20.-(3-The senate small business commit tee said Tuesday it will investigate charges that chain store purchases of small meat packing plants have "cut off supplies of meat , from small retaflers.- - - -. " - - .. Senator Wherry (R-Neb) who will preside over the iaquiry, an nounced that the Federation of Nebraska Retailers and the Massa chusetts Retail Grocers and Provi sion Dealers association and other independent retailing groups spon sored the complaint I'll till nn- 1 t t 1 I : i .J 3-"More- .t'-Jk V "V '.,( . Nip Ships' Aire Slink. rEIockade Toll Hito " -?23 Vessels Bagged; t -..tiYe Probables ' t " v (;aIJJED ; HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,-Wednesday, July 21 -f-Tljree more Japanese. warships sank to a coral-fringed grave yard in the , waters' around New GeorgU m the Solomons early Tuesday morning victims of American bombs as air, land and sea forces maintained over-1 whelming; pressure to seal the doom of the beleaguered enemy at Munda. ; L JT American Liberators, 'Mitchells and Avenger bombers thus beat off the latest attempt by the Japan? ese ' navy' to fight assistance through-; to f their " hard-pressed comrades on Munda, and Gen eral MacArthur said! in today's communique: . t ::- ' : : -4The tightening investment of Munda "has; now rendered supply or' reinforcement of the enemy dangerous : and difficult A slow but constant: deterioration of his beleaguered: garrison can be ex pected unless our blockading ring can be broken." . . , ;: J . : Repulse of the fourth Japanese naval attempt to run the steadily tightening: American sea and: air gauntlet into . Munda brought the official - toll ; of enemy ? military shipping losses In Solomon waters toi:., -ri.Vf' -i" :r .v ' "y-t'4'i V:-v i. ' ..... ;!!.... .. ..,( s-v,if . ... - . ; Sunk Three v cruisers,'. 13 -.'destroyers, : one aubmarine' chaser, five cargo vessels and. one, tanker. ! . Probably sunk Five destroyers. ,U Damaged Five- destroyers and five cargo- vessels.' " 1 :. v. Details of the: American air at tack were lacking, but: the com munique . d eclared that surviving ships r of the convoy - withdrew without reaching : its objectives, I (Turn to Page 2 Story. C)' nBund'Triai -.1 Tesliinonv Is Heard t L SAN FRANCISCO, July 20-P) The, organization which later be came the German-American bund Included SO nazi . party members tn its Chicago unit in 1920 and the nazi party functioned as an organization in the United States until 1833, Peter Gissibl of Wau kegan, Bl, testified in federal court Tuesday. A ' ; 1 Gissibl was ; the government's first witness in its attempt to re voke the citizenship of 28 Ger man born naturalized Americans. All are charged with having held membership in the bund." - v. Rick's Son a Marine . 1 NEW YORK, July 2-TVDav- id Edward Rickenbacker, 18, eld est son of Capt Eddie Ricken backer, was sworn into the United States marine corps Tuesday. . LONDON, July 21.-J-The Berlin radio reported today that Came .had. been rtlltl a rain last 'xueht y allied planes. - . 4 Th ,fcreaicast recorded ty. Reuters, was, not tr"-ewLle!y " confirmed by any ether sources, however. - - - Observers here polUJ act " that leaflets drcppe3 by U3 air men "osday r-r-'.IsneJ the pes : slbUity tiat axis r zaes t-!;'.t : be used to Cray I o:xhm and : credit Illty tj rrcpxranua c!L:-3 that the aL :s irere CJzzzizlj dsstrcyirj tzl'.:zzl c:r;r:-'.i 1 t 1 - w.. . 1... j. .. . ...... : . . v . v . A '- ' ..... Allied AitChief s hay-:. Only. Military l P6ints;ipf:R : Catholics Regret Raid's Necessity; Bomb-Pocked Slalta Says iTnksV -Allied air chiefs, studying the photographs of the first raid on Rome, announced Tuesday that important Italian mmtary ob jectives were smashed hi the capital while from the axis, authors of total war,-came protests that Speculation on Hitler, Duce Meet Is Rife LONDON. July 20-ff)-; Adolf Hitler flew into Italy Monday for a conference with Premier Musso lini, the, axis announced, Tuesday night indicating: - the : nazis are gravely . concerned over --the Jate of their junior partner. .,: - w London sources said the confer ence, held, at an unnamed town in northern Italy, apparently was a last-minute attempt to whip up the Gagging spirits of Italy, whose empire has been lost, her Euro pean soil invaded and her capi tal bombed. r : V"':''; Choice of Monday as the meet ing day was a curious one for Mussolini ; While the dictators were discussing "military ques tions, Rome was being pounded by more than; 500 bombers in the biggest raid to come H Duce's way.' ' . - The meeting was .the first since the , dictators conferred at Salz burg April 7-10 while the position of .Tunisia, was becoming serious. The fact that Hitler went into Italy, was interpreted by .some as an indication that Mussolini is holding the whip hand at the mo ment and the only whip Musso lini could hold over Hitler would be a threat to make a separate peace. ; , " .. ; -;-: :, . "If Mussolini wanted to beg for Gasman tanks, guns and' airplanes, one- would have -thought he would have; run .to the fuehrer's, head quarters for ' them, one observer said. He pointed out that of their five meetings since Italy, entered the war,. two were held, at Salz burg, in German territory, one at the Russian front ahd two at Bren ner pass on the German-Italian border. ? 4--Vt-K ' . h' British observers said they be lieved the announcements of sim ilar German and Italian communi ques i that . "military: ' questions were discussed, but then doubted whether s Germany was in a po sition to send much help to Italy. UMW-AFI; Act To Af f iKate ' WASHINGTON, July " 20 ff ReafSHition of the United Mine Workers : of . America with the American Federation of Labor ap peared a step nearer Tuesday, fol lowing a three-hour I conference between John L. Lewis and exec utives of the AFL. ;s - T Lewis and his .United Mine Workers left the AFL'nore than five years ago, when the mine un ion leader started the CIO. His recently-filed application ' for reaf filiation is to be acted on by the AFL council when it meets next month in Chicago. Gen. Anderson JoPrc-o'ed - LCIIDCN, July 20.-y-The of ficial- London Gazette announced Tuesday that Ilaj. Gen.-XL. A. II, Ar.4!:r:cn ccrrjzznder cf the Drit ish first army, had been pre .ctsi to. the rank cf lieutenant renersl, datl.- z from January 22, 12 IX. Hi Ls teca actLtj wiUi a rrr.k r i 1 i , ! Mil! ill r In a aMr "M 'VnH' naaHHiS Eit ome. church, scientific and workers residence buildings were hit with leg persons, killed and 16S9 in jured. r i. -, . An American communique from Cairo s a 1 d the reconnaissance photographs showed the XJttoria marshalling: yards were complete ly; destroyed and an ammunition train blown up. ; A large hangar at a nearby airdrome was blown up. and planes on the ground de stroyed. - '. .- ,; That the : raids spread very great damage", was admitted by the Rome and Berlin radios, but they -spent , their time announcing that San Lorenzo basilica, Verrio cemetery, University City an d hospitals Of the i polyclinic . insti tute: Were hit as ;well as workers dwe;UnS. . In. the Prenestma " and Latina districts. 1 : Advices from Switzerland - said all persons not compelled to stay in Rome were warned to leave Immediately by the. fascist gov ernment The city, although with out adequate air raid shelters, has been filled with, evacuees from other cities bombed , more . fre quently." ' - German reaction was typified in a broadcast by a German foreign office spokesman who hinted that retaliation might be tried and the allies will "point in vain to cul tural monuments and institutions of Washington, New ' York or London. ' :- ; f'f ;:' T :'- : ,' Catholics in allied or neutral countries took a serious view of the. bombing. Some of the state ments: ? j r-::".!:IZ.:-.. FirePrime Minister Eamon de Valera's newspaper, the Irish ' (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Rev. Howard dole Garros Pastorate ; PORTLAND, . July 20.-(ff)-The Rev. Howard Cole,' a graduate of Salem high school and Willamette university, will quit his field, sec retary position with the Northwest Christian Endeavor on September 8 to become pastor of St John's Christian church here. . ' I Bdnibar&earZ Meet Hiss Helen Dennett 22, ap- plicant far two honors. First ta register ta the competltian for eeleetlen f Salem's. lllsw Eombar-Dear, she Is also an ap plicant 'for.. n.'zL'.zz'.zn .ta t'.e women's army corps (7AC). Already ZIlss Cennett Ls en gzred 1 work ta Lc? wla the wax, fr she la currently era ployed la a EaJem casery. Hzr parents re&I-a ta Espese. Ta morrew the jlctare cf t-stle r chtrrilzj yocrp wc;a ez!?rt J la the contest li ta frpeax la : The Ctatesm&a 't r : : :i sr. " w . CLt f aae f tie ariicers.from tla t!x txst, a isTpe Ls t" cera- rci::::a. J. .f- I 1 LJ ytU V I II II II II I i i . i .1 I LJ Gerinniaini Defense'-;;; Breaclkedl : Russians Strike for i Heart of Donets ; t Dasin Sector LONDON. Julv 21-PU Thm great Russian- summer offensive broke over a 450-mile ' front Tuesday extending f rpm the Or el sector, where that vital axis held "hinge" city was threat ened with encirclement to the Mius river, where . Red army troops breached German defen ses in front of Taganrog, it was announced in special Soviet com munique today, ; The Russians said their troops had broken across the Mius river and also the northern , Donets riv er, south of Izyum and southwest of, Voroshilovgrad, in . an area about 300 miles south of Orel, ap parently aiming at the heart of the Donets basin. Here strong German forces had thrust back Cp into the rich industrial, territory last spring to recapture Slavyansk and other steel and rail centers as part of their offensive that reclaimed Kharkov. - At least 50 more towns were re captured by the Soviet, forces driving on Orel, including Mtsensk, 31 miles northeast of Orel on the 32 miles north of Orel, the Soviet special war bulletin declared. It was broadcast by the Moscow ra dio . and . recorded by the Soviet radio monitor here. The Soviet midnight communi que, broadcast by the Moscow ra dio several hours after the special war bulletin detailed the new suc cesses, , said the offensive about ura wu conuniunc. wiiooui letup despite spirited German resistance a . 11 a a which was costing the enemy hea vily... r Another Moscow broadcast dis closed that in a prelude to Tues day's smashing land offensive. large forces of Russian heavy bombers smashed at German con centrations and airdromes south east of Orel late Monday night de strovine a "eon&iderahl number" of nazi air force planes caught on the ground. . . . : - -. Moscow's midnight communique listed more than 47C0 of the ene- my killed in : engagements about imi ana ueiforoa, witn anotner 1000 declared to have been killed or wounded and HO tanks disabled or destroyed, in addition to 53 ar tillery, mortar and self-propel ling Tgun batteries put out of action. Numbers of war prisoners and large stores of munitions ware tak en in the Russian advance, it was said. . .. ' V " An unspecified number of towns (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Funeral Held For Pioneer FOREST GROVE, July 20.-V F: J. Miller, 78, reputed to be the only grower of Bohemian hops In the United States, was buried here Monday. He died Friday at his home here where he has lived since 1SC3. Corn in a covered wagon on the Oreson trail, he grew up at Eilcm, where his father, Alexander' Mil ler, landscaped the original capitel grounds, and on a farm near Yam hill. In 1S23, he secured cutting from an imported Bohemian hop root and ei;ht years later harvest ed his first sizeable crop. City Firemen Quell Blazes - City firemen responded to calls to two smi.il fires Tuesday. At ZZ" Hickory street early Tuc -I:y 1' tcrnoon, tv-ey put cut a L:; 2 I 1 En old mattress which 1 1 f 1 cnei a tarn. A grm& fire v ' tied at Union and C;-"-l t.. . la!:r in the aii?rr.ocn. ! n r-T
