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Tin " ??- r: r ' 1 1 n n l 1 L 1 n 3 W .HJ' In'i I . CM n 3 -r : , '-"ll" u J e j ' uvi ljl : 'V 7 ! t Dimout ; mmm .... T7ed, sunset fl:46 Thur sunrise 5:50 (Weather on Page 6) I . Nil' V,l Jl filJl' I m m. mm mm i t IRQ NINETY THIIID YEAR 12 PAGES Salexou Orecjon. Wedneaday Morning; July 23. IS 43 Pric 5c No. ICS In ..I ' ' 3 '"J"' ! ' LJ ' V-i f I ' r , - "v , I J 1 M i S ' t . M I 1 ' . X 1 -L . 3 lj . - p. . .- ... . ' . . - U Up- -s, r v i "1 f fj U ' f IT SEEMS TO ME that Vice Resident Wallace in his speech in Detroit Sunday painted a picture in which lights and shadows were in too sharp a contract. It was St. George and -the dragon; or the battle of Virtue against Vice, just is clear and simple as that, with Mr. Roosevelt as 4St George de fending Virtue, and the wicked American i "fascists' lined , up on the other- side. Intoning the phrases of ten .years of new deal Ism, he declared: "Sooner or later the machina tions of these small but powerful groups which put money and pow er first and people last, will in evitably be -exposed to the public eye." - . ' : - i The American political scene is . not so simple as that. All the op ponents of Roosevelt and Wallace re not Lucifer and the fallen, an gels seeking to mount the battle- ments of heaven. The new deal, as Mr. Wallace himself" should know, from his recent experience in be ing purged, has passed on to power politics, with an entrenched pal- ace " guard, composed chiefly ; of southern politicians, seeking to re tain" its grip. The old shibboleths jwill be used, but they are echoes of past campaigns. Roosevelt seeks a new "rendezvous with destiny." He has tasted global ' power, and wants to climb a higher rung on the ladder of fame. The blown-in the-bottle new dealers are already Scratching Roosevelt off their list. : Mr. Wallace does occupy a. role Which is entirely worthy that of tb voice of conscience. A nation needs a monitor to stir it up lest It become crass and, calloused. The secret of the American way of life has - been the privilege ' of aspira tion," of lifting, oneself, of giving children 'a better chance in life.; Wallace with a deep relig ious -feelius, .witK? a sincerity hat no one q u e s 1 1 tm t, tn .. Coniinued on Editorial Pge , Hurricane Hits Texas Storm Smashes Houses u In' West Coast Areas - - ; HOUSTON, Tex., July 27 -JF) A tropical hurricane struck the Texas coast .Tuesday, blew down small houses, tore off roofs, shat tered plate glass windows and dis rupted some power and communi cation lines. Damage at Galveston was esti mated at $1,000,000. Electric pow er was off and : most Galveston telephones were out of order. Water was two feet deep in the street in . front, of the Galveston News-Tribune building - and got deeper toward, the waterfront three blocks, away. . ; -; - v - The wind velocity at Galveston reached 70 miles per hour at the jweather bureau station before-the gauge went out of operation. . i f ' The weather station at the Hous ) ton municipal, . airport recorded 55-mile-per hour gusts of wind and a steady force of the storm t 78 miles. Three Soldiers in Lost t' ...;-- s -i-. ...... ...... - :t . . . j V. ........ .... -." Platoon Die in Desert . CAMP YOUNG, Calif., July 27 (A1)-Army authorities today - an nounced that searching parties had found a platoon of soldiers missing several days In this desert area, with three members out of 39 dead and one still missing. f Temperatures in the area of the army desert training center have been the highest for several years, with recordings of 124 Sunday at Imperial and 116 Monday. . ; The unit had been on maneuvers in the desolate, waterless -Ogiloy 'area. Names of the dead and mis sing were not made public pending notification of relatives. ' ' Army " officials ' said the . three died of thirst Their 5 bodies will be removed to Yuma, Ariz, where a military board of. inquiry has been convened to Investigate the tragedy. " The office of the chief of staff reported that the group of soldiers became lost from its supply depot last Saturday. Officers said some of the 25 who were rescued suf fered hardships but they would recover. . Sheriff T. H. Newman said six cf the soldiers in an exhausted condition were able to make their way to a Southern Pacific raflway elation and flag a train that took tl:cci to Yuma. Yanks Mnieda Drive Through Stiff Defenses ; Salamaua Hit by Bombers By. MURLIN SPENCER . ALLIED : HEADQUARTERS IN tTHE SOUTHWEST PACIF IC, Wednesdayv July - 28 JP) Green-clad - American soldiers and : marines, . slugging steadily forward through the jungles of New Georgia, have scored new advances which have carried them to within less than mile and I one-fifth of the strategic Japanese air base at Munda. -v! The t jungle veterans drove through strong J apanese defenses to the .east of the airdrome yes terday I in the second consecutive day , of advance. A spokesman at General v Douglas MaeArthur's headquarters said the new thrust took the Americans to within 2100 yards of tbe airdrome. ; .0 Priving forward in what spokes men called "a considerable ad vance" all along the battle Une, the Americans passed, the - coastal village of Tetere (sometimes spelled Terere). , ", j - - General ixacArthaVa,' e e. . aannla. said they "continued ' their presmre assinst the enemy, eeaten . ef . resistance." These . e eaters probably are dogoats. placed se that machinegina fire can cover advances against each pest. -m-i Allied bombers . again attacked the Salamaua area in New Guin ea, dropping 123 tons of high ex (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Rumor Mills Play With Duce's Story By th Associated Press European rumor factories play ing .with the greatest mystery since ' Rudolph " Hess r landed in Britain have been : working at maximum "war production" on the whereabouts of Mussolini dur ing' the past 4 hours: I ? -'t. I A Stockholm dispatch said . II Duce was trying to enter Switzer land. A dispatch from Bern, Swit zerland,' reported him in . Madrid. ' A story from Madrid said trav elers from Italy reported II Duce was in 'a villa outside Rome. , , Rome, the one place where pre sumably there are authorities who know where Mussolini is, was si lent. The soldiers became lost about 30 miles southeast of EI Centra, an area remote from sources of water supply.. ... ... ? An officer at Camp Young, who did not wish to be quoted, said the infantry platoon under direction of a first lieutenant, was. on six-day endurance test, training under des ert combat conditions . near the Arizona-Caifornia line: .. ; . . j. From early, meager reports, the officer; said the platoon presum ably ran out of water Saturday and. the-, lieutenant left to obtain a fresh supply. The - officer stated - his reports showed only two men had been found dead, with one missing, but that his information was not corn Plete;. :!:"": ,;,"' yt : He said the ? three, " evidenUy thinking the lieutenant had be come lost, ."became frightened and straggled - off from the others to seek water." . However," the. lieutenant re turned to his platoon with water. - The desert training center, of which Camp 'Young Is headquar ters, streaches for vast areas over the southern sections' of Califor nia and Arizona and is approx imately the size of Pennsylvania. Secret Task ' " -' " . ii i . Mai. Geav Geerre E. Strateaaeyer, chief 1 air staff I the United States army, has been given "an andiseleaed ' assignment . ef ex- . treme Importance," It .was re vealed Taesday when MaJ. Gen. Barney M. Giles, prevleasly as ' slstant chief ef staff for opera tions, was. advanced t the pest Stratemeyer has held. Rap. Fascism Not Benito's Poor Ileal lli, Say Nazis - - By th Associated Prsss - Axis propagandists, still seek ing to explain Italy's government al . upheaval to the satisfaction of their peoples and the fuehrer, de cided Tuesday that, the failure of fascism rather than failing health forced out Benito Mussolini. . They seized upon the new line in itself hardly complimentary to related naziism after 48 hours of fumbling. : , ; Mussolini's regime failed . "to bring about the concentration of forces necessary f to fulfill ' war tasks," ' the German-' transocean news agency said, quoting Radio Rome.' Therefore , the former , regime had to hand the fate of Italy to others, who are now t collecting the forces needed to save Italy," it was stated. - ' Transocean declared that ' ."So long as the enemy is : at Italy's threshold, the Italian people have only one motto: The war will go on.".-, ';- - t rf :-? v''l; .. Suggestions that 'ill health caused :" Mussolini's . resignation, which earlier had streamed from axis- transmitters, were dropped. Although riotous Italian groups have torn 'down fascist symbols and demonstrated against fascist offices, "no official decision have so far been made" as to the future of the party," Transocean said. The : demonstrations were de scribed as "insignificant disturb ances which have been, complete ly suppressed.": ' . j "Competent; Italian quarters" were quoted as , saying J "The change of government was neither a revolution nor a coup d'etat, but a constitutional crisis solved con stitutionally.". r This .obviously appealed to the nazi. legal mind. Transocean devot ed 300 words to the idea. Fascist Head;- Of Senate Resigns Post , LONDON, July 27.--R o m e radio announced Tuesday night that King; Vittore Emanuele had accepted - the resignation of the fascist ; president of .the Italian aenate. Count Giacoma Suardo, and had appointed Don Paolo De Velle in his place. ; t . Suardo was one of 'Mussolini's minor henchmen. ' i f ; - He sometimes 'deputized for H Duce in public appearances. The last time was March 23, 1941, when he addressed the - fascist youth's organization in front of Mussolini's residence during the Italian-Greek war. . ' , , - ' - The king met the new cabinet la. audience Tuesday, Rome also an nounced. . ' Propagandists On Orel. Important Heights ' : j Captured, Numerous ? Towns Are Taken By LYNN HEINZERLING f -. LONDON, Wednesday, July 28-(3- Soviet troops stormed heights "of - great tactical im portance, - pushed the Germans back: with triphammer1 blows front position after position and brushed back repeated German counterattacks Tuesday- as they moved from two' and a half to four miles closer on Orel from three directions, taking more than 50: populated places. " . . The midnight soviet communi que, j recorded by the Associated Press, gave this picture of the re lentless Russian sweep on the Ger man j bastion, key p o i n t of the whole Russian front:: $i W.'.'V.;: North of Orel The . Russians moved in, capturing several popu lated places and a number of heights of tactical Importance. On one, inf . these, soviet -artillery, and infantry killed 400 Germans. Fourteen .tanks' and four armored cars were , disabled . or destroyed. In another sector, one strong point frequently changed 1 hands "but "byi march by the Russians routed a battalion of German izxfantry and firmly dug in at the strong point East ; of . Orel - The Germans flung: down" an - artillery barrage and Sent their 'men forward time and again with counterattacks to halt the Soviets. But all were re pulsed and in the fighting: around two j populated places 800 Ger mans were killed , 18 tanks wrecked and six self-propelled guns destroyed. A number of pop (Turn to Page 2 Story F) ' FDR to Talk Tonight, 6:30 Italy's Status and ETar in General to . ' Be Touched Upon r. WASHINGTON, July 28-(fl?) President Roosevelt will make a radio address." to the ) nation at 00 p. m. Pacific war time, .to night, and .he Indicated Tuesday he would talk about the. whole sweep of the war effort, both at home and on the battlefronts. The chief 'executive's ; first broadcast to the nation since Italy ousted Premier Mussolini will give Mr. Roosevelt a chance for any j appraisal he cares to make of that development ; : But the president made it clear at a news conference that he did not expect to confine himself to the Italian situation but would cover the war as a whole. Re took pains to make : it plain that .he considered : the home ; and over seas fronts to be interlinked ; in separably and a part of the whole picture of trying to win through to victory . : ' While aaany. people go, in for slogans-and try. to simplify things tod much, he said, you can't draw a line down the middle of a "piece of paper and put the war abroad on one side and the home front (Turn to' Page 2 Story X) Rent Inquiry . Is Requested. WASHINGTON, July Tt-VP Senator - Bone's office reported Tuesday , that he had -. asked the office of price: administration to investigate the rental situation in Skasit county. " 1-: ; The announcement; said the senator took the action at the re quest of educators in the county on the basis of a report that high rentals 5 were being - charged In Mount Vernon and Anacortes be cause the proximity cf the navy base at "VThidby Island created an abnormal demand for accommo dations, f ' Conquered SicUians Wa When American troeps entered Falerme, capital ef Sicily and the Island's largest city which fell te the allies without a shot being fired by Its defenders, the population greeted, the Yanks so enthaslastlcally that one even carried the Stars and Stripes, as shewn a the above pletare. Others clamored" for a chaaee te carry ike flag; still ethers teased frelt and flowers to American troops, shewn te the pletare. Allies Mold Judgement As :Fe Takes RAF Shatters Nazi Attempt at Reinforcement : - By RELMAN MORIN , ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July . 27 (ff)-Deadly RAF Spitfires have shattered -. another . - desperate German ' attempt to reinforce their troops In Sicily, knock ing down 21 giant transports ov er Messina as the nazis took Kto the airways to stave off the fall of Sicily a. little longer.. Aground, - US ? : and i- Canadian troops hurled back nazl countey- attacks and ' then drove deeper into f - the bitterly-defended j but slowly- dwindling northeastern corner of the Island, allied head uqarters announced Tuesday. - - The ' 21 - Junkers-52 transports were blasted front the skies Sun day) along with eight axis fight ers, ' and RAF Beeufighters In an other? action' downed two ' great German 323-Meroeburgs. Tlie lat ter: can carry more than 100 men apiece, but if was not reported (Turn to Page 2 Story -B) Lnev Isham. -. 725 Thompsom - stree typist la the efflees ef the secretary ef state, pretiy dark haired, entry la the eempe tltloa f or title ef Iisa Eomiar . Dear, U tilrodaced today te JDUtesraan ; rea'ers. Te aeesn moate the lacreaslrj ureters of jrottcj women la teres tJ la the contest. Elshop's stndlo Is welcoming then threuzheal the day Instead ef ILl'.'zs te after noon hours only tLe time for photo rraphinr members of t!U croup ef clianslas e-iiisets, IA. .-.'.Lilian Carried, MAC, cLs. .ef the tcari cf-alrlass Jaijes, announce 1 Tcesliiy. (ZJetails of- contest on rare ) American War - ..'... Wounded Back Attu Casualties in . 'Home Hospitals Xbt dajoel marston ... - I, SEATTLE, July 27.-P)-The first - American casualties i in the battle of Attu reached the comfort and care of Pacific coast hospitals even before final Japanese organ ized resistance on the Island was overcome, the Seattle post surgeon has disclosed.,- i--:: ;S ?i Tuesday,: CoL Louis Brecheman jr, said nearly all the wounded have been brought more than 3000 miles back-to the states from the fog-ridden beaches of the Aleutian OUtpOSt ' -: . . u :? -; ; ; ' y. i v-1 should say that close to 85 per cent "of them are down- here now," Colonel Brecheman said, In. an interview, "Few may remain In well equipped garrison - hospitals in the Aleutians,' but most have been brought south, cither on transports or flown down."', '5 . r Colonel , Brecheman, veteran of many years in the service, and his staff, meet, all transports bringing wounded? A hospital train was at the deck when one arrived this month and stretcher cases, and the "walking wounded' immediately were placed aboard to be taken to northwest hospital, V 'T'l: (The war department announced at Washington on June 4 a total of 1533 CAttu -casualties; ,-342 dead, 1135 wounded and 55 missing. : '. (Contrasting with the care given American wounded, V. Associated Press Staffer William L. Worden told in a Cories Lake, Attu, dis patch on 'May 30 how a Japanese prisoner ; said seriously " wounded Japanese were shot by their own officers, before the last final des perate counter attack.) ' - Anti-Berry YZine Order Severe Blow SEATTLE, : July . 27 - PP) - Two spokesmen, for the state's wine industry i expressed belief Tuesday niht that the war food adnLw, iriraticn's bza srinst valc.2 fruits and berries, 'except grapes, for alcoholic- products - would be a severe, blow to Washington's wine industry, y-1: , ;Xr::. v ; ..." Describing the' order si feed ing out of a clear sky," J. S. Sams, president of the Washington Wine council, f sid: "OfUiand, I should s;y that it will mean the fcnne- dlate closing of all wineries ex cept t-ose handling grapes." " XLSs Nezv.Bi&w Churchill Warns Italian People To, Decide . 1 By LEWIS HAWKINS ' LONDON, July 27-tfVWith-holding judgment on ' the new Italian regime of Marshal Pie tro Badoglio, Prime Minister Churchill warned the - Italian people Tuesday that they must yet" decide whether thej terrible war power of the allies bring them "relief from war and free dom: from servitude'!., or a holo caust In which their . peninsula will be "seared and. scarred and blackened", from end to end. V t In a restrained speech free of gloating over the, ."shame and nun" of Benito Mussolini who of ten 'had been, a-tazget of bis choic est barbsr the prime minister told a crowded house of commons that so far there had been no peace ap proaches from the new Italian gov ernment and he : clearly implied that allied. terms are still the un conditional surrender of . all Italy. Apparently knocking down any suggestion that Badoglio may have been the. allies choice as head of an Italian surrender regime. Churchill declared, "I 'know little or nothing of the new government I express no-opinion on it" v But he dearly, expressed a hope foe: Italian surrender ? j -w-(Turn to Page 2 Story D) ' r. Grand Jury Set to ' Hear Evidence on Six. CaGso Two soldiers charged with high-, and Doyle Clark McCann, will de- way holdups, perpetrated the past week ' In the- Willamette ; vallet countryside,'" with three' and -possibly four convicts' involved In recent penitentiary breaks, go be fore the. Marion county grand Jury in the session , called - for 929 Thursday morning. District " At torney Miller B. Harden revealed Tuesday. Zi-'Ti. .r. '! Kermit Barkhurst - a n d Carl Bates, ' soldier who returned to their home' community allegedly without leave -from a parachute b a se . in " North " Carolina, . are charged with assault and rcthcry while anned . with " a dar.ercus weapon.' They have been virtual ly exonerated from ' any impli cation in a. shooting in a I-IIlwau-kle tavern last Thursday, accord ing to state police. Upon the condition of It. E. Shields, Mehama mill r employe, shot through' the abdomen when he refused to open his house to escaping Merlyn ', Gene Kensler ; Milan Slrule Said ; Smsll Civil 7cr ISTANBUL, July 27--It-aly's new foreign minister, Ita faele Guarilia, conferred with Turkish Foreign Minister Nu- man Menemencioglu Tuesday is what was believed to be an at tempt to lay the basis for Turk ish mediation between the allies and Italy. The two foreign ministers met on the Italian embassy launch in the sea of Marmora. Guariglia, who : was ; the Italian ambassador, to Turkey until his appointment as foreign minister following Musso lini's downfall, . was expected to leave for Italy at once. , Menemencioglu returned to Is-, tanbul after the talk. ; . The meeting may be one of the . By Die Associated Press LONDON, Jaly X7.-Ia a Bern Ms patch Tisesday nlsht IUlhut Treaaler rtetre Badosllo was reported ilseessla arnl stice conditions with allied represen tatives while the Homo radio told the world thai- Us Italian people had rejected fascism. Wltheei confirmation from allied e.varters er from IUme, the Swiss telegraphle acency said haforaaation from Roane -sUted that Benito Mussolini's seeeesaer was talklsg terms and thai It was "generaSr believed" . the contact waa made thronsh the Vatican. most significant developments la the European war since tv red nation of Mussolini i The. fact that the meeting XtJk place at all is a demonstration cf its extreme urgency, since the me ticulous Turkish foreign minister usually refuses, to see -foreign rep resentatives except at his minis try in Ankara.. The fact that It was held aboard a launch at aes with only . one unidentified wit ness aboard proves that matters . (Turn to Page 2 Story C) , Scotts Mills High to Close Approximately 20 high school students In the Scotts Mills dis trict will be looking for a new alma mater this fall, Agnes C Booth, county school superinten dent, announced Tuesday when she revealed that voters in ' the Scotts Mills district bad decided against continuing a high school there at a special election last week. The nearest hlh . school now: will' be Bflverton. " -Scotts Mills high school has' been operating at a cost of tic per day- per student, comparative ly high as others operate for tSs to 75c, Mrs. Booth pointed out. The unusoally high pupil cost and small number of students were factors' in the voters decision, Mrs. Booth explained. Voters " made no provision for transportation for : the students, who will be classified as non-high school district students snd may enter any high school in the county. . A bus may . be provided this faH. . rpend . charges to be b r o u g h against the convicts, Hayden saii. Shields, who was returned to Ca- lem Deaconess hospital last week when complications arose, was re ported In -"good condition" Tues day, night. A portion cf the hear ing may be postponed until ha ii able to appear as a witness The shooting occurred the last week end in May. - : .-Albert Doolin, 32, penitentiary inmate, charged with knifing Eel Worden, inside guard, in an at tempted break Sunday,1 July 13, which resulted la the death cf Convict Kenneth Ilouham, will also be brought before the Jury. " Charges may be brout s.:.ainr.l John LaCore, convict who threat ened a . guard at the state 1 ; i tal, where he wes a patient re ceiving sinus treatment," an 1 si- legedly burglarized a rroccry store here early CiturcL-y, July 27. IJ-ture cf thr:s cI-..-.r;.:s I;r;I not been dflermi.--1 Tv :y, ec cordlr.3 to Ilaydcn. 1