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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1943)
7TOTVTIT1 aft cAtMMUQM f v r ' l rJ yu ffOS t irnrr tiiisd yeah io, pages Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. July 27. IS 13 Price Se ll.- 1C4 Hi U) 16 . f PQUNDDD t051 . : i It is just about a year ago that 'I went over orie Sunday to attend the" barbecue at Carl DeArmond vlace in Polk county. : Carl was one of the farmers , whose lands were taken over for the canton tnent, and he cave this barbecue as a farewell to his friends ' and neighbors, after . living on . the .farm for several decades and de veloping it into one of the finest : -tlaces in the valley. There was 'general feeling of regret that this fine farm and others like it were to be taken Out of production. Last Sunday I . rode past Carl'i ? former "place, saw the weeds ' growing in its once well-kept ; fields, and the fine! residence emDtv and boarded up. X rode in an army command car, with oth er newsmen to a knoll about two General Cook's division' doa broblem: capture of a fortified position,' which was the ridge at -the head of a junction of two At zero hour artillery began to speak, the 105 mm howitzers, J 7mm anti.tanlt mint and the rat I ?:.", JV7 7h. ri. der f attack and the red parabola f r tracer bullets - made - the: action t more- realistic. - Then from the i carefully .camouflaged foxholes in f the .larger valley footsoldiers em- erged, a small group at a time, I ran forward, dropped to the t ground,,got up and ran forward gain. Belund s tnem nvervis other squads movrfjp in sup- i port. They passed through barbed ZSrS. Sf U1VU -V. wmrv- mr plosives, and through ; log-constructed barricades ' ripped open by tank destroyers, up to the en emy strong ' points,, which . they tl7wt with bavonet woik in meiv.f -mm, foxholes, tossing grenades into the enclosures ana using uune-1 throwers. One after another the strong points were "taken"; then l ing iandton ina t uri m .is. a. hiv 111 ic l. 1 J l side o the knoll for the critique by Majl.Gen. Gilbert R Cook, di vision commander tcont. on ea- 'itorlal page) , Kiska Takes Air Blasting Ten Flights Pound Enemy Landing Strip WASHI NGTON, July 26 -JP) I The 4 greatest series of bombing ' raid aimed in any one day at Kiska, where the Japanese gar rison estimated at 10,000 men seems marked for destruction, was reponea Dy. xne navy jvionoay. Roaring over the bleak, rocky Islanrl in th- North Parif ir Almi- tians, ten flights of planes blast- . A nrinrtnal Janans nositinrm on Saturday, tearing holes in the la- VUI1UUS1J UUU , mXlJL AJCAU , IUUWJ and causing much other, damage. Bombs also found their marks , in enemy gun emplacements, pre ; aumably knocking out more of the ; steadily decreasing supply of heavy : weapons carefully guarded by the 'Japanese as a defense against in- vaskm. . " : .- . , . Army Wildcat fighters, ' used with increasing frequency as light bombers, carried out the ten Sat urday raids. They dropped their bomb loads and swept back over v (Turn to Page 2 Story C) r Munda Attack Renewed With 500-Yard Gain ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Tuesday, July 27 Driving ahead under the support of a hea ; vy bombardment from sea and air, American .' troops . pushed - their -front line 500 .yards closer to .the core of Japanese defenses at the strategic Munda airfield Monday. - It was the first general ground advance reported since the begin 'ning of. the battle for New Geor gia island in the central Solomons, r , Official .reports failed to give any details of what apparently is the start of the long-heralded drive which shouldering Ameri can troops to grips with the enemy In and along the firmly-established and stubbornly-held perimeter de fenses of Munda. Following a softening-up cam paign that probably was achieved by American planes, which rained an unstated number of high explo sives on enemy positions last week, an unstated number and : type of allied warships Sunday afternoon delivered what a spokesman for General Douglas MacArthur de scribed as a "heavy bombardment einst Munda's defenses. Formidable units of ; United W mihs 70 More Villages Taken FoeV Supply'; Line In Deadly Peril (tfVRed armies personally di- reeled by Marshal Joseph Stalin ' nt . '":j"si' miles and killed 5000 enemy troops ; Monday in their steady gemi-encirclement of the big Ger- base at Orel where thousands 0j f Axl troops risk entrapment, it was announced early today in Moscow.- ' I r ,Q.v; , miles of the ci- northeastern, gates, a. special that other units J a the Oka river erectly above the base in a wide wheeling, movement threatening to cut the last supply line Into Orel (Turn to Page 2 Story F) JtXOIllC HBCllO , . . . .. . , , . C I Oct VS. X lgLMAl. t - NEW YORK!, July 28-Cl-Elab- o rating on Marshal Pietrp Badog- lio's assertion that "the war con tinues," the Rome radio said Mon day night in a proclamation broad cast to wounded : Italian soldiers that Italians ""are lighting exclu sively to defend their own respect and save their own future." . Issued as Italy's future role in the war remained obscure,' the proclamation, recorded - here by CBS, said that "war continues be cause no condition of inferiority can force resignation upon a peo ple who have a right to justify their own errors." - The import of the proclamation seemed to be that Italy,: rallying around Badoglio and King Vit torio Emanuele, was ready to sal- vage what it can from its present position and perhaps sue for peace Russian Relief I .. - PaSSCS MilllOll NEW YORK, July 2-(fl-More than a million dollars worth of re lief supplies a month have been shipped to Russia from the United States during the first six months of this war, officers of Russian War Relief, inc., announced Mon day. V ; ;: During the six months period in which a total of $6,249,541 worth of shipments were made, . Ameri cans contributed $5,628,897 in mo ney and gifts for Russian Relief, the officers reported. . States navy Dauntless and Avenger bombers covered by Wildcats and Corsairs, joined in the bombard ins process Sunday evening, and followed up Monday morning by further Avenger and Dauntless waves which braved Intense ground fire to dump 82 tons of bombs on pin-pointed gun posi tions and personnel targets around the big alrbase. .. , .. ,5 ..t ' ; While American naval and air units concentrated on opening gaps in the Munda perimeter for advancing infantrymen, Liberators of the army's '13 th airforce, es corted by a strong formation of fighters, attacked the airdrome around Buin-Faisi where Ameri can airmen reported a concentra tion of enemy planes. . : After fighters had swept the Ka hili airfield with cannon and ma chinegun fire, liberators . bombed the dispersal and bivouac areas from a high altitude.. Coming on the scene after the attack, 30 ze ros made an unsuccessful attempt to break up departing 'American formations. We lost one fighter in this engagement 1 sgss Mais War f Problem9 at Adair LikelReal Thing .: ' . . mm- - --. - ". - 'r V , ' . : - - . X . .x,.:.W Churchill to Name Terms . Commons Will Hear Aims for Italy LONDON, Tuesday, July 27-(ff) The London, Daily Mail reported today that Prime Minister Church ill would tell the house of , com mons "and the world" - without delay the terms j on ; which : the United - Nations are prepared . to meet any request Italy may make for an armistice, n 2 -: The newspaper said these terms probably would include "the un conditional ; surrender of all the armed forces of Italy, free use of Italian territory by allied forces for pursuing the war against Ger many, dismissal of all fascist min isters and disbandment of all fas cist organizations." ' r -It is not the intention of the British : and United States gov ernments,", the ' Daily Mail said, "to allow Italy to' offer honorable capitulation which . means t h e same thing as unconditional sur render but sounds nicer and then withdraw ' into a ' state of neu trality. Both governments are de termined to insist on the severest terms before granting an armis tice.". Vinson Orders Living Cost Probe WASHINGTON, July 26 - Economic Director Fred M." Vin son Monday night designated three federal court jurists to make a study of the labor and living cost situation" of workers on transit systems of the Pacific coast area, with special attention to the Los Angeles district where wage dis putes have occurred. n n . r -A i " u , 1 r 1 ii',1 1 .i " . ' " . r , - . 'i ''- " ' 't - t ' ' s , . ' - , - ' ."' - '- i " " . " . i: ':- 1 ' . v i n - : ' k. k sifi 1 ' 11 " " ' 1 ri niB "i,ir " "ri 1 Timber 7olves ef Camp Afiair crossed the TiHIamette river at dawn , and consolidated a bridgehead en the eppesite bank, in ana ef sev eral "problems" conducted Sunday nnder eeaditions closely approx ' wfhg aetnal eembat. Upper picture shews a barge-load of sol- - Clers shovtag off te - cress the 1 by rwe companies ef engtaeers infantry. Middle picture, MaJ. . mander Fourth corps, USA (left), and MaJ. Gen, Gilbert R. Cook, : commander ef the Timber Wclf camonflaged ia its firing position daring exercise lavelvlag cap tare of a fortified position. Lower picture, Infantryman la foxhole tosses hanJ grenade In a training See "If Eeems Ta Me" col eras a 'A .. J , A A river. This problem - was conducted assisted by an assault battalion ef Gen. Alexander M. Patch, com' division, inspect 185 mm. howitzer exercise Pculie Eclatlszs t botes. at left) m. Italian Ketreats . 7th Army Aims for ; - Blessina Bridgehead ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH .AFRICA, Jily 26 (JPhr American Infantry - and tanks swept' along 1 the north coast of Sicily Monday in close pursuit, of the Italian military rabble falling back with hardly a fight toward the ' Messina bridge head. .-. ... ' : V, Marshal Pietro 1 Badoglio's re-, assumption of command of Italian forces under King Vittorio Eman uele caused no pause in the flight of remnants of his Sicilian gar rison toward' the two-mile-wide strait ' separating the Island from the. mainland. V .,", . ' . ' US Seventh ' army, units have captured Termini, 20 miles east of Palermo it was officially announ ced, but. are already far east of that ' north coastal port in - their dash toward Messina, and have taken 7000 : more . prisoners, " in cluding' six -Italian generals 'and one admiral, in their mopping up of western Sicily. - " " Nazi Field Marshal Getu Albert Kesseelring . threw a resurrected 29th , motorized' division ' into the hopeless struggles in eastern Sic ily, apparently hoping that it and two and a' half other . German, di visions, already engaged would be able to - delay the , allies long enough to establish a new defense line. -for. besieged Europe. -;, '. Whether this new line would be in southern Italy despite Mus solini's collapse or be somewhere north in., the Po valley,-Hitter's headquarters itself may not yet have decided. ..... -, . . The ' new American advances on the, northern - flank - promised (Turn to Page 3 Story D) ' liS FaceDealh 5 - - ''-"--- " - ' " - . . ' . f . f- - . -. --!-- " J"-- 5 r iTreason Trial Hails v 4 SeycnGtizens 1 Sj WASHINGTON, ? July 264P Eight Americans accused of turn ing , their backs on their - home land and joining forces with axis radio propagandists in. attacks on the American, war effort were in dicted . Monday for - treason charge that may carry the death penalty..- ; ? Attorney :; General Biddle, . de- Iscribing the District of Columbia grand Jury's action as a warning that the US "will ; not tolerate traitors at home or abroad," promised that they will be brought to trial as soon as they are appre hended - - '. - . v - ' ; Seven are-alleged to have sounded off regularly on the eth er waves . from Germany . while the eighth Ezra Pound, 57-year old modernist poet who won some attention in international literary circles has broadcast from Rome. The - indictments, rounding . out more than a year's Investigation by the Justice department, accuse all of "giving aid and comfort' to the enemy through propaganda broadcasts aimed at ; persuading US citizens to "decline to support the United States in the conduct of the wJ!Li.i;Sw. :''v-:i fit should be clearly understood that these Indictments are based not only on the content of the propaganda , statements the ! lies and falsifications which were ut-t tered but also on -the simple fact that these people .have freely elected. : at a .time when their country I? at war to devote their services to the cause of the en emies of the United States," Bid- die said. ."They have betrayed the first and most sacred obligation of American citizenship." i . ; In addition to Pound, who has spent most of the , last 30 years abroad, the defendants were iden- (Turn to Page 2 Story E EaBJble Dimout . Tucs. sunset C:47 7ed.- sunrise 5:49 (.Weather on Pase 5) II DuceV Portrait, Fascist Signs Torn Down by Angry Dempnstratoro LONDON, Tuesday, July 27-r-A Reutem Stockholm dispatch today said preliminary negotiations for an armistice between Italy and the allies began in Vatican City last night. The Bern corres pondent of Svenska Dagbladet was the source of the report. There was no confirmation whatever, v ; ' r While negotiations were going on in the Vatican, It was said that the German ambassador to Rome, Hans Georg Viktor von Mackensen, was holding a series of talks with Marshal Badoglio. An Italian and German communique on the von Mackensen Badoglio talks is expected shortly, the dispatch said. Joy Greets Fascist Fall BERN, Switzerland, July 28-(-Italians poured into the streets of Italy's biggest cities last night and all day Monday with cries for peace and shouts of joy and spontaneous parades celebrating the downfall of Mussolini, who is reported held under a strong guard at his villa near Rome. ' -These demonstrations occurred in Rome, Naples; Milan, Bolog na, Turin," Genoa, Comb, and other cities. Many of these points had suffered heavily through allied air attacks. r Stunned German propagandists offered their Berlin-inspired official, attitude that Italy would remain in the war, but allied circles here were increasingly convinced that it was the beginning of the end for Italy. ; ' One Italian source here said the Italian capital expected 'an armistice with the allies would be asked and possibly obtained by the end of the week despite Marshal Pietro Badoglio's vague assertion last night that the "war continues." . ' New Party Cleans House i Although' the fascist' party had not' been officially ' proclaimed dead, Badoglio and his new minister "immediately set about cleaning house, taking over party headquarters and the youth organization, ousting the Italian chief of police and installing a new one. Newspaper dispatches from Italy now are halted, and Rome radio provides the only direct information from the Italian capi tal. But political and diplomatic channels still are open, and this is the situation in Italy: ; v t : Three fascists were killed in Milan Sunday night but otherwise there have 'been no ' serious disorders,"1 ai though r Badoglio has moved swiftly for fear there will r a he miiiuii v in nrii uvcx slli. ations everywhere are disappearing quietly. No blackshirts ven ture on Italian streets. Mussolini's portraits and fascist signs are torn down. . . One crowd on Milan's streets Monday morning carried red flags and shouted "long live socialism." rw ui mo i cuicu LONDON, July 28-(P-Marshal Badoglio and a new cabinet rule turbulent Italy under a martial law imposed to prevent civil war between joyous liberals who want to make peace immediately with the allies and discredited terious and sudden exit of Benito Stockholm and Bern dispatches reported the broken Mussolini had been arrested while trying to flee to German sanctuary, from the nation he brought to the brink of disaster after 21 years of dic tatorship. M;The fascist-appointed chief of the Italian police was replaced by Carmine Senise,- Geh. Quirino Armellini was named com mander of a "volunteer militia for national security" to aid the military in preventing any revolt. Crowds Praise King - t 0m i ' s a t LI. 1 night, and surged through the empty halls of the Palazza Venezia from Whose balcony Mussolini had stormed and ranted through the years. They shouted long life to king, country and Badoglio. j (The Rome radio in an English-language broadcast to Eng land also said that "enthusiastic crowds" filled the streets of Rome, Bologna, ( Milan, "and all the other towns of Italy" shout- :V VY .'.(Turn to Page 2 Story B) - ' Fixing Forts Nazi Industrial Citie I LONDON, July 29.-ifl-S Fortresses returned in force Mon day to batter the" saturated ruins of ' Hamburg and attacked three other northwest German cities of ; H a n o v e r," " Wllhelinshaven - and Westermunde In widespread day light . raids which cost : the Ger mans upward of 54 planes and the allies 23 bombers and three fighters. -. : ;."' j jLesser American and British bombers and fighter-bombers set upon German airbases In , France and Belgium by daylight in a tor rent of explosive fury which fol lowed up a 2,000-ton assault on the German Ruhr Industrial cap ital'of Essen and its Krupp arf eenal. 1 "" ;f--. In three? Bays, Europe's great est port f Hamburg had shud dered under history's most violent assault On Saturday night, ; the RAF dropped 2300 long tons of bombs or 2571 tons of bombs on Hamburg in the heaviest air at tack the i world : has" known. On Sunday, Fortresses gave Hamburg the heaviest daylight raid In his i be further bloodshed. uuulc aifluuiio suiah ui aaiii&v . fascists left leaderless by the mys Mussolini and his ministers. ; r I A n.. o 3 Batter tory, and today they followed unj that attack. . Asserting the crews "have mads history"- in the last three days, Brig.-Gen., Frederick L. Anders son,' head of the - US air force bomber command, revealed they had flown more than SCOfKmile and destroyed approximately ICO1 enemy fighters. During the round-the-clocl raiding Anderson said the crewi had been through five hours c aerial, combat,, penetrating dees( into the heart 4f industrial Ger many "over , five of the heavies flak areas in - the world and through the fiercest of enemy fighter opposition without fighter escort" "' , "They have ' destroyed the pro duction of a huge aluminum fac tory, damaged submarine facili ties in Norway, brought Uie threat of destruction to the rubber tre output for the German army and airforce,. destroyed considerably of German Submarine -Lui: V : capacity, damaged eircr:.'i s and assembly plants, : said. .