Three More Jap
Vessels Sunt
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-ertls failed to return 4 rem the
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" Bombs Lash Opposing "
; Ends of Jap Defense ' .
. ' By tbc ' Assoc U ted Ytcaa
" Two of' the longest bombing
flights' ever made 1 have brought
(' -Japanese defense positions under
''pressure in the Kurile islands of
"-the Norm Pacific ana at ceieoes
' Island in the Dutch - East Indies,
Nearly 4000 miles to the soutn.
The first American raid against
v i,the northern Japanese Islands was
t announced Tuesday Tithe navy
department along with a. disclosure
...that it is planning for the war
against Japan to last until 1949.
. i Bis American Liberators: struck
t Paramushiro , In the .Kurile is
. , lands on Monday, just a day .after
- mother Liberators .bombed ceieDea
4a a 2000-mile round-trip tugni
from Australia. . .
The Norm Pacific! flight appar
ently started from :! Amchitka or
aome other American base in we
s- western Aleutian islands. Para-
xnushiro is 861 nautical br 897 land
mil, from there. If the raid
Started from Amchitka it would
have required a round trip flight
of almost 2000 rnfles. -
:' ' In long distance bombing attacks
the two flights rank secona only
to the 2400-mile round trip bomb
ing of Wake island by craft based
0Jn Hawaii. Both distances are al
Lmast double the London 4e Berlin
U mileajce. .
Paramushiro is at the northern
r end of the Kurile chain about 1200
'miles north of Tokyo. A n a vy
- sDokesman said clear weather en
abled the pilots to smash' at their
.targets with precision. The island
.: j usually log-bound like the Aleu
tian. A number of fires were ob
' ' served and near hits were scored
: on ships.
I,- The northern tip of Paramu-
.ihiro, where the military positions
it 'are reported to be, is separated by
'; strait from Snumushu ; island,
' 'which is just a few miles south of
' the Russian Kamchatka peninsula.
Paramushiro is the Japanese base
that lies astride of the Russian
supply route from the Uni ted
States. "
Corres
Tells Lesson
Of
By JOHN GUNTHER
Xsprascnt. Combined American Press
(Distributed by ths Associated Press)
HEADQUARTERS OF 1 STH
ARMY . GROUP-(Delayed)-Lieut
Gen. Andrew McNaughton, com-
xnander-in-chief of the Canadian
army, visiting here today, told me
the chief lesson of the Sicilian
landings is the evidence they pro
vide that she allies, are now ca
pable of striking with tremendous
efficiency and force on any front
(It was announced -officially at
allied headquarters in North Af
rica Tuesday night that Gen. Mc
Naughton had been to the Sicilian
front and had returned to North
Africa; Gunther's dispatch carried
no date.) .-
: This correspondent, who is the
only American newspaper man at
tached to this advance headquar
ters, got a sharp impression that
the veteran Canadian general
spoke with Japan in mind. In fact
McNaughton said our invasion of
Europe, begun so auspiciously by
the Sicilian operation, is certain
to damage the morale of the Jap
anese as well as the Germans and
Julians, since the Japs now know
we can " marshal overwhelming
pressure to bear on any place, at
any time, from the four corners
of the earth.' . - J-
Early Oregon .
Resident Dies
PORTLAND, Ore., July 20flP)
Mrs. Julia Hall Powell, 83, early
resident of Oregon, died here
Tuesday. She came to Oregon in
1879, settling at Silverton. .
Surviving are two sisters. Mrs.
Agnes Jones, Marquam, and Mrs.
Roma I Hunter, Salem, and four
children. Funeral services will be
held in Portland and Woodburn
Thursday with burial at Wood
burn. ' : '
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- soldiers form a Sanaa chain as
blase caused by Jap Incendiary
Astoria Fire
Razes 1 Block
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blaze, and the coast guard blocked
off . the whole section which,, was
littered with 15,000 feet of hose,
Coast guardsmen forced resi
dents of neighboring districts to
evacuate their homes, held them
from the danger zone at gunpoint,
and then removed household
equipment from the endangered
buildings, Piling the streets high
with furniture, bathtubs and
dios. !--';-; . - .
Homeowners in a four-block
radius used hoses to put out roof
fires started by flying embers.
The buildings destroyed includ
ed the five-story Hannula hotel,
a landmark of the Finnish dis
trict, the Lopakka rooming house,
and several large buildings di
vided into flats.
The 'western end of the city is
comprised largely of a long-established
Finnish colony, many of
whom : have been engaged for
years In off-shore fishing.
Jphn i Lopakka,' owner of the
jdaUta . rooming house, saved
$10,000 in." cash entrusted to his
safe-keeping by- tenants. He
wrapped the bills in-sheets,
dashed from the doomed . build
ing, and left the - money with
nearby merchant. .
It was the worst -Astoria fire
since the December 8, 1922, con
flagration hat destroyed -virtually
the entire-, business - district ' at
loss of more than-$11,000,000. The
fire raged - for blocks, sweeping
under the pilings on which the
district then was built
The - district now has been re
built into a modern, fire-proof
business section. The western end
of town, however, is. old and
largely , of wooden construction.
The homeless were finding shel
ter all over the city Tuesday night
A Finnish steam bath house pro
prietor opened, the doors of his
establishment for 25. The USO
pavilion took in many, and others
found lodging with private fami
lies.
British Boys
To Mine Coal
LONDON, July 20-Py-Ernest
Bevin, minister of labor, told a
meeting of the Blackpool Mine
Workers federation Tuesday that
8 to : 18-year-old boys must go
into the mines to maintain war-
essential coal production. .
His announcement that Britain
must call the youth - to the " pits
ust as though drafting them for
the armed services appeared to be
the newest-phase of a government
solution of the' urgent war-time
problem of lagging coal produc
tion and an increasing . shortage
of miners.
Nary Declines Offer
NEW YORK, July 20.-jPThe
navy has declined the offer of
James C Petrillo, president of the
American Federation of Musicians,
to make records free for sailors if
t were considered necessary for
morale, he disclosed Tuesday.
they remove precious oU drams while ethers seek to Quench the fierce
bombs, IIN photo. ;
ONtbeHOUEFRONT
BT I3AESL CIELD3
He-was only 17 years old and
an almost perfect physical spec!
men, and ' when he was rejected
for enlistment- in. t h e 4 marines
there was genuine bitterness in
his cup, says Sgt Herman Doney,
Salem marine, recruiter, who re
layed the story of this Willamette
valley boy to us. ,
Reason for -rejection was the
fact that the hero of this column
gave as his occupation "farming.1
The marines will not accept any
man engaged in producing . food
for the war effort
So the lad returned i to his
father's farm near AumsviUe to
continue to milk eight cows a day
and to assist in raising 2000
chickens. He: likes farming and
before bis rejection - he had told
Doney that : he hoped to come
through the war alive, to return
to the task he. was leaving.
But today: he -carries a greater
burden than the pails of milk, the
bale of hay, the chickenfeed. For
with him ' wherever f he goes in
his home community is the heavy
echo of the word "patriotic"
neighbors ' are calling, him and
that word Is "slacker."
So, he has vowed as - soon as
he is. 18 to run away from the
farm to enter some other form of
work and to try again to enlist
in his nation's armed service.
- He is young and to . face-the
neighbors whose own sons have
risked their lives' or others draw
ing down .good salaries - in the
shipyards is to him more .fright
ening than to walk , through ma
chine gun fire.
Perhaps, oner ol the gifts h
will receive-on that 18th birth
day, which Is now only a few
months distant, will be under
standing. ' And he - will know that
to give one's life sometimes means
living it in unhappy surroundings
just as surely as it means laying
down one's body for a - country
or ; a set of Ideals. As for:: the
neighbors, they are, of course.
representative of that great cross-
section that does not know the
meaning of the ideals for which
their own sons .fight nor stop to
realize that for those who bear
guns there must be those who feed
the chickens and milk the cows.
Goyette Rites
Slated Sunday .
SILVERTON Funeral services
for Joe Goyette, 60, . who died
Sunday while at Bay Ocean dig
ging, clams, will be held at 2 p.m.
Wednesday from the '2 k m a n
chapel.
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TODAY AND TOURS.
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Yanks Ahoy"
TVCIUm Tracy
Joe Sawyer
COSIING FRIDAY
YOU'LL face death in a
depth-bombed submarine!
YOU'LL .., ashore
with a shoot-'em-cp Com
mands crew! . ,
hunt the secret'
Nazi- weapon . , the mys
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Deplore Raid
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Press, called the news "grievous
tidings - indeed1" and" suggested
that efforts be made to have Rome
declared an open city.
Britain VI s c o u n t Fitfalan,
Catholic nobleman,- asked in the
house of lords whether the bomb
ing had been necessary and
whether damage bad been to cul
tural or religious buildings. The
leader of the house, Viscount
Cranborne, replied, only that 'no
detailed information was avail
able.
United States The most Rev.
Edward Mooney, archbishop of
Detroit and ' chairman of the ad
ministrative board of the Nation
al Catholic Welfare conference,
expressed "surprise and regret"
but said the- Italian government
could have made- the bombing
unnecessary.
But from bomb-pocked - Malta
came' another type- of comment
Under chalked signs of "bomb
Rome" on the walls - of buildings
of this much bombed island ap
peared a postscript: ....
"Thanks.""
Axis Speeds ,
Reinforcement
To Dodecanese
IZMIR, Turkey, July lOHJPf
A new German brigade was re
ported Tuesday moving down the
Aegean sea in the direction of the
Dodecanese islands.
The , first unitsof 7 the brigade,
which was reported to Include all
battle elements, were said to have
reached Rhodes on the Dodeca-
The reinforcement of the Italian
Dodecanese islands in the eastern
Mediterranean Indicated that the
axis might fear a new allied as
sault from large allied armies re
ported stationed in the Levant or
perhaps a revolt of the Italian
garrisons there.... .
Draft Violator
Is Sentenced
PORTLAND, Ore- July 20 -C(P)
A federal court jury Tuesday con
victed Howard M. Agan, 19, a re
ligious sect member, of violating
the selective service act ,
no zauea to report to a con
scientious objectors', camp as or
dered by his Woodburn draft
board.
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Agrigento, front dispatches said.
Other units already about ZO
miles, inland bore a more danger
ous threaV aiming at Sicily's cen
tral lifelines. From captured Cal-
tanissetta, US troops with Cana
dian ': forces are throwing - a r pin
cers upon Enna, key . of the isr
land s inner defense astride main
highways:. and railroads east .and
west The Americans also - may
be thrusting 'northwest, toward
Palermo only CO airline miles dis
tant on the northwest coast''
.' Central (Canadian), sector: Dri
ving- north of Piazza Armerina
upon Enna,- 'c a n a d 1 a n troops
struck strong opposition from the
German 15th armored division.
but "continue ' to fight their way
forward."
Eastern (British) : sector: Qui
side the Ver gates, to Catania,
waves of desparate German, tank
attacks were blasted on the rolling
plains with heavy losses to the
nazl units, including the Goering
g r e n a d ier regiment, parachute
troops and infantry.
The famous British Eighth army
Is "gathering strength and arm
ored1 patrols are probing the de
fenses,'" said headquarters, end
observers here said Montgomery
apparently . was getting a ,' firm
grip on Catania plain as a spring'
board for a gigantic jump against
Messina. ..
The communique's wording in
dicated that the . methodical, tho
rough Montgomery was readying
a typical-crusher assault by tanks;
artillery and Infantry. His ob
jective would: be not only the
battered ' seaport of Catania only
three miles ahead of him, but a
pell-mell ; rush 50 miles up the
coast ' toMessina, some military
quarters said. -
The Germans were fighting as
though: with the realization that
on ! this battle depended the fate
of Sicily. Catania is the last great
natural stronghold below Messina.
Italian War
Prisoner Flees
OGDEN, Utah, July Yo-VThe
Weber county sheriffs -office said
Tuesday night an Italian prisoner,
of war had escaped from the Og
den internment camp. It was the
first escape reported at the camp.
Sheriff's officers said the man
was 28 years old, 5 feet 8 Inches
tall, weighed 159 pounds and had
black hair. He wore a blue shirt
and, trousers marked, with, the
large white T PW" symbol, mean
ing prisoner of war. t
Ramp to Be Feted
On 93rd Birthday
BROOKS B. JT. Ramp , of
Brooks will be 92 next Friday. A
picnic will be held in honor of the
occasion .at. the Brooks school on
Friday July 23. Refreshments will
Deserved.
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Gun for nire and the
death-on-rats gcniaan of
The GXzsa Key? Well,
Set set for new thrills
because that LadTs oa
the loose again . . . in a
picture all his own
and he's better than
ever!'
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Shcchonc:
SiitrZ Annual
fSun Bance9
FOT I1ALL. lZh, Jcly 3
(T)- raist-streaked redmea cf
the Eaanack and Shoshone In
dian tribes responded to the
thudding beat ef the tom-toms
to begin at sundown Tuesday
xught their annual sun dance.
Around skull-topped poles at
Eannatk creek 'and Bnf Isle
Lodges on the Fort Hall reser
vation, tLe Jtndlans began their
thjree-day shuffling' ordeal that
they believe will assure Csera
good health during the eemiag
year.-:. -
ZZlddle-aged men and a few
sqmaws participated, . replacing'
the usaal yeothf ol bucks who
tiis year., are la the military
. service ef their eoantry.
Conley Takes
6-7eek lieave
" Civil Defense Post
To Be Vacated for
deeded' Vacation
- A six-weeks leave from " his
duties as Marion county civilian
art Oil. .mV n w
ley by,:the;;; executive coarndttee
of thcrvflian dfni
Thm mtm w.. t.v. ,.nt
representatives announced Tues-
more time to devote to his home
and to be with his wife who Is at
Salem Deaconess hospital, where
she was brought the past week-
end following a harvest field ac -
ddent Helpin with the Jbaying
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members ' of the CD staff an-
nounced yesterday.
FR Deplores
Raee Riots
WASHINGTON, July ZQ.-&r-
President Roosevelt has asked the
attorney general and heads of sev
eral J other government - agencies
to give- special attention to the
problem" of race riots in this
country. .-
The president's action was dis
closed in a letter to Rep. Marc
antonio (AL-NY) who had written
the chief executive about riots in
Beaumont, Texas, and Detroit
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was taken in. an advance north of
Orel which , taw '?, ;G srmans
killed, and .23.,. enemy tsiJis. dis
abled, the midnrc-t rxrnr?iuniqpie
said, and ' the harried Germans
were driven out of -several strong
ly rfortmed-towns :;east of pre! af-
ter tna Red army forces smashed
across a stream to hammer at the
nazi (editions.' ,
The .-Jlussians ', said '-. they de
stroyed about a regiment of ene
my. Infantry, destroyed, or disabled
sj: German ,tanks-- and vaptured
Jarjfe quantities - of . yrs materials
xrpa Uie . uermans, - ciestroyed 13
tanks and Z2 gusv. ar: i-took a
great number of prisoners in-an
other sector , -. w.'; ' . ;"
'South of Orel, our troops, over
coming stubborn enemy resistance,
continued to 'advance," the war I
bulletin declared, with the Ger
mans losing more than 1000 offi
cers and men killed and wounded
In futile counterattacks. 7
Another 34 German tanks and
18. gun batteries- were destroyed I
and more prisoners were taken in
the fighting south of Orel, it was!
said. ' - .
Offering more detail on the Sov-!
let thrust In the Belgorod area.
Moscow said 400 Germans were
killed and 17 tanks - and three i
118 suns were disabled.
'W -f iS?? .,ou te
I miles were recorded in the north
i Or sector, it was declared, bring-
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""A, Peru, July 20.-ff)-A
new Peru-American agreement
Peruvian, mineral product. ,was
ined Tuesday afternoon by' W-
nnce Minister Julio
East and
American Ambassador Henry R.
Norweb.
" foUow toiilar agreement
"overall metals and
mineral, agreement- which was
I gQ( Jq 1942.
Fresh Fish Price
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WASHINGTON. July. 20
Maximum retail prices, on fresh
fish were prescribed Tuesday by
the office of price administration
in an action interpreted by some
officials as an effort to. end the
"strike" of many fishermen.
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man. was en hand to see he did
a good Jsb. . -
-ii ;1Tokom donned a. white wl?gs ,
uniform ' and,' ' witnessed 'by 'a"
victory." center crowd," give'" a
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It was 'the result- of a water
that Grant county wocll not
fsimi ilj Jane bead crcta. If
the qaota had been filled, Eccles
woolJ -have goao to Canyon
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