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- s"asslBnnnnjB Sun, sunset 0:41 r.Ion. sunrise 5:55 ' (Weather on page 0) "U1D OTOLB "(ft "."V " ''.J;. " " .PCUNDnp 1651 ; ; . ' The soldiers can say they have a divine example for it, and qfcote scripture ! to prove it. Doesn't the book of ! Genesis say something about "the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day"? So when the soldier strolls about town arm-in-arm with his best girt or his newest girl in the cool : of the evening, who should criticise? ' They certainly are doing it You see the j men in summer khaki walking with their girls, in vary ing degrees of embrace. The little linger lock is quite popular, also the standard, forearm wrap; and not infrequently there 1s the body embrace as the manly arm drapes around the maiden's waist. It isn't always a khaki arm either. The tailors who came . to town and docked at Lausanne hall along side Mill creek, in their blues and now in their : summer whites they ; had the local situation in band so quickly one would think they" were marines, veterans of many an engagement 1 It is . new for this period, this open-air love-making, although' it was common at the turn of the century, at the puppy love stage. The automobile put an end to such foolishness, or at least to its visi bility. The current revival is just another by-product of the war. There was a Latin poet Ovid, who wrote: The, age that is meet for the wars is also suited to Venus." Mars and Venus are certainly en gaged in a bold, flirtation in this round, f!-.', -v ...... .-. In the jazz age of the 'twenties love was cheap. Movies and torch singers made commerce of "love.' Frederick Allen was correct when fee wrote Y in 'Only s Yesterday": "Romance cannot be put into quantity production the moment love ' becomes casual, it becomes commonplace." Romance did be come casual as the quickie di vorces a'ttested. . ' . j ' But there is nothing ' casual bout the current epidemic. There Js something so. fresh and healthy, so 'sincere and pristine about these military romancesr-of which, the strolling is but the; preliminary algn, that the greybeards and baldheads who might be inclined to scoff, remain to cheer, or may be just to give a knowing wink. 1 For these young men and young women are " living in reality; crowding into moments the pre cious distillate of youth, draining the cup of -love's ambrosia. Both the man and the : woman ' know that" ahead lies f uncertainty, or the certainty jat separation of un known duration. The clock is tick ing off 'the hours of, youth, the springtime when the sap of de sire fills the veins. There is some thing beautiful and sweet as sol dier or sailor and girl go strolling, : perhaps just as good, company, perhaps for mating. "Oh lovef oh love whose shafts i of fire Invade the soul with sweet sur- . prise Through the soft dews of young - desire Trembling in beauty's azure eyes." Let the cynic stand aside, and the prude and the . gossip, with only the caution of parental coun sel, while Mars waits upon Venus. Milk Policies Of OPA Hit y Rationing Unneeded i 1 If Facts Faced Is . t Peterson's View f H. , If OPA and other federal agen cies would quit -calling the sig nals in the i dairy . industry and give more attention to the facts, there would be no need even to hint .that milk rationing may be necessary, Director E. L. Peterson of .the state department of agri culture said, in effect Saturday : In a statement prompted by OPA's -refusal the previous day to grant an. increase in the price of milk to central Oregon dairymen, ' 1 The entire dairy price struc ture is, at the present time, too low to prevent very sharp :. de clines in production, both of fluid milk and of milk for factory pur- , poses," Director Peterson's state ment said. "In spite ' of the em phasis being put on all-out pro duction of food, the OPA appar ently does not consider agricul ture to be an essential . war in dustry,, , . r , t The government has, up to uow,1 made food commitments which cannot be kept namely: ' . The promise to industrial and city consumers that the war can fee " fought without making : sub- (Turn to Page 2 Story D), More Later On AWS DescriptiTt Items dealing, with the aircraft warning service la the mid-Willamette valley ' ap pear , today pace "H." " Jost Inside the' front cover, and on page "C Just Inside the back coyer of the main section. C Aircraft warning servlee week continues throughout - the next six days and since the story conld net I all fee U1J in the space available' today, ; addi tional descriptive article wd a r pear several days la the com ing week. . - NEJETY THIRD YEAH US Fliers t . t ' : . . f. . . . . t -'::.. i -. i i Munda S :: i "',!'-' ' ' ' 1 ' . ' - 1 ' -r'' :' ' j - No Progress Ground tTroops Reported; Planes Blast Jap Ships By C. YATES McDANIEL ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIF IC, Sunday, August J--Unit-ed States army and navy, wax planes delivered a series of smashing f attacks against Jap anese positions in , the central Solomons yesterday, concentra ting their bombs around the Munda and Vila airdromes.' 1 Torpedo and ,; dive bombers dropped 52 tons of bombs on Bi bilo : hills, a mile northeast, of Munda airdrome on New Georgia island. - Escorting . fighters drove off 30 Japanese zeros which at tempted to interfere with the op eration. I Two : of ' the : American fighters were shot down but one pilqt was saved. :) Across Kula Gulf, ' Flying For tresses,' Mitchells, Dauntless and Avenger bombers with a strong fighter escort ' pounded enemy camps and positions around the vila airdrome on Kolombangara island. Sixty tons of bombs were dropped on the target area. Strong anti-aircraft fire was encountered in ' this 'a ret, the : communique from General. 'Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters said, but all the American planes returned. ; There were no reports on the progress of the ground assault by American troops against Munda. The heavy pounding from the air indicated there still were a num ber ' of enemy strongpoints that had to be blasted out before the infantry : could move forward. ' ' I ' Meeting the enemy's increasing use of barges to move men and supplies from New Britain to New Guinea, allied, planes made a series of "day and night sweeps along ; the coasts' of the two is lands, sinking at least 14 barges and starting large fires among a concentration of 12 barges hidden in a small bay at the tip of Huon peninsula, v Light naval units, on night patrol in Black ett strait between Kolombangara and Gizo islands sank two small , enemy auxiliary vessels and possibly sank two barges. :tV . ; '.. ' - " ' : Seven barges were destroyed off the western tip of New Bri tain and a supply dump ashore was blown up. Heavy , bombers Flying For tresses or - Liberators made the long haul to the Netherlands East Indies, attacking Soemba and We tar. islands, west and north of Timor. .Large fires were" started at; Waingapoe on Soemba island and "substantial damage" was caused the communique said. A spokesman at General Mac Arthur's headquarters said the absence' of reports on ground activity , around : Munda did , not necessarily ' mean there was - no fighting around the perimeter. ' Use ' of I flamethrowers around Munda was disclosed Saturday for the first time, indicating an in tensification of American pres sure against the airbase. - Bean Pickers Iii Demand : Recent warm weather having caused the rapid maturing of pole beans, the demand for pickers Saturday morning considerably exceeded the supply and some growers who called at the em ployment service office with their trucks departed without pickers. ' Spokesmen for the emergency farm labor service predicted that by Monday the demand would be still greater. Trucks call at the employment office, ! Cottage and Ferry streets, at 6:30 o'clock each morning. Anyone wishing a spe cific assignment should telephone the employment office the day be fore he Intends to start work, but for. those who do not make api pointments the farm labor' service anticipates plenty of opportuni ties for bean picking in the next few weeks. ' . ' 4'v--:U-" li The bean crop is reported to be generally good and satisfactory daily earnings are reported by pickers already rt work. Valla 7alla Area Has First Grain Fire i WALLA WALLA, July . 3 Walla Walla county's first grain fire of consequence ; this season was confined today to 200 acres of standing - barley, between 300 and 400 acres of grass lands and an uninhabited house and a barn. 32 PAGES Kisha Bombed Again After 2-Uay Respite WASHINGTON, July Jl -(ff) A new one-two pmnch fey sea and air has been ; delivered against Japanese positions on Klska bland In the Alentlans, the navy reported Saturday, to end a two-day respite from at tack which weather gave the enemy.' : An American flying fortress ' bombed Japanese ' installations Thursday and a ; warship force followed op with a bombard ment yesterday in actions "an nounced in the " first conunani ae on nre-invasion ' fighting around Kiska since Wednesday. The last previous bombing of Kiska had oecwred July 27. Thus the enemy was without at tack for two days at - least so far as navy reports go. Specu lation , here that' bad weather prevented air operations appar ently was borne oat fey the fact that today's war bulletin said . that results of the single fort ress bombing were not observed -because of. clouds. The bombing waa the Cist raid on Kiska daring Jnly Enemy batteries made no re sponse to the warships assault abvioosly preferring , to remain hidden and retain their asefal ness for actions of more Impor tance, "ii'l' :SV'i''''M: : Assessment Values Rise Improvement on Real Property Given ; as Cause of Increase -By ISABEL CHILDS Assessed valuation ; of Marion county real and personal taxable properties rose $133,116 during the past fiscal year to a total of $43,324,268, - a summary of the assessment roll released Saturday by County Assessor; R. "Tad Shelton, taken together with pre viously disclosed .state tax com mission utilities ; assessments, re veals, -i?:- i .;; J; ."'iThe increase of the" whole ap pears still larger when it is un derstood that business inventories dropped during wartime 1942-43 a full $128,505. Farm : improve ments and rising values of real properties overbalanced this de crease by the first sum mention ed in the first paragraph. ' Marion county's real . property valuations rose by $147,460, and this was after $245,160 in veterans' and widows exemptions had been subtracted. Those exemptions rose right along with, property values from the previous year's $239,130. All of this - real property in crease was in platted lands and in structural improvements. The 511,116 acres of Marion county lands are valued at $14, 840,420, of which $52,280 worth are exempted from ' taxation un der te widows' and : veterans' provisions, making a total of $14, 788,140, compared with the value of $14,789,020 placed on those same lands last year after the ex emptions had been figured. Structural improvements on un platted lands (after the exemp tions have been subtracted) total $4,080,390 this year, compared with $4,001,140 last Platted lands this year represent a taxable value of $4,710,880, while last year they were listed at $4,709,520; structural improvements are as sessed at $8,769,760 after the ex emptions have been figured, com pared with last year's valuation of $8,700,910. - 1 ' Taxable improvements on lands of the United States ; increased from $4500 to $5520. - Large increase in the personal - (Turn to Page 2 Story C) j 1944: State Income , By RALPH C. CURTIS Applying the "Walker plan" yardstick to the state's fiscal po sition as of June 30,-the Oregon tax commission Saturday, determ ined that' there shall be a flat discount of 75 per cent on. income and excise taxes payable in 1944 upon 1143 incomes. , j y j ; Noting a surplus : on hand of $ 15,887,9324, the i commission added to that 419,835,000 estimat ed receipts for the coming fiscal year for a total of $35,72232.94 which would be. available for ex penditure. From that figure it sub tracted $20,554,74 L43, which is the sum of these four items: $8,935, 899X1, the year's general fund re quirements and the amount of the general fund property tax which will not be levied; $2,041,71950, the theoretical proceeds of . the 2-mill elementary r school tax, which likewise will not be levied against property; $3,000,CCd for the state school support fund, and $5,000,000 for reserve in the prop erty: tax reduction account That. left a balance of $J4,7C3, 191 which, the commission esti Salem. Oregon. Nazi. Blow In Bonets - . .. ." - - -.j i. i - - . . " , Parried--'. Almost 100 Tanks Smashed; Advance ' Near Orel Continues , LONDON, Sunday, Aug. l(Jf) Russian big guns smashed al most 100 German tanks Satur day as Soviet forces fought to a standstill: another major axis blow in '.the Donets Basin of southern Russia, while in the Orel sector Red troops rolled on slowly to take several popu lated places, killing 1400 Germans in the advance. " The German push southeast of Voroshilovgrad, powered t; w i t h tanks, planes and shock ; troops reeled ' back under ; concentrated Soviet shelling, said the Moscow midnight communique recorded by the. Soviet monitor.: , ; ' ; ' In one sector . 45 German tanks were knocked out . - In another, ' the bulletin said, German infantry divisions, cov ered by a large number, of tanks, attacked the Russian lines. So viet troops separated the enemy infantry from the tanks by ma chinegun r and .. rifle fire,' . forcing the troops to turn back. Then red artillery and tanks picked off the axis armor. By the end of the day 50 wrecked German r. tanks studded the battlefield.'::: S: German aircraft,: used, in. great number in this drive,", were ttar gets for Russian anti-aircraft fire and fighter planes which brought down 28 of them. .: , j An earlier special bulletin said that on Friday, the first day of the German attack in the south. 95 tanks were wrecked in the area out of 103 disabled or destroyed on the entire Russian front Fifty eight : enomy ' aircraft . also were shot down on .all fronts on that day. i ',-v, ... ' "- r..;; . ' The. German Donets basin moye was an attempt to otvert Russian strength from gravely . menaced Orel, 325 miles tothe northwest But ' the - soviet central' armies, (Turn to Page 2 Story E) er lnut lite . Utilized ' APPLETON, Wis., July 31 -) A new attack oh the 60-year-old problem of sulphite waste liquor and ' the resultant stream pollu tion near pulp mills : was taken today when a full scale pilot plant embodying the trickling filter pro cess was placed in operation. - In the trickling ! filter process, raw liquor discharged from paper mills is diluted, and hdtrients add ed. The liquor then is sprayed over rock on which micro-organisms have developed. The biolog ical action, oxidizes , the sugars present in the liquor, forming cell material as a by-product . This cell : material, or sludge, has value as a. fertilizer, and" majr- provide a return of part of the cost of operating the fUter to the indi vidual paper mill. - The plant is the result ot" re search carried on in behalf of the sulphite pulp manufacturers' com mittee on waste disposal. Experi ments were carried on at the in stitute of paper chemistry at Ap pleton. ' - In 'addition to the trickling fil ter process, several others-are be ing evaluated in the institute' lab oratories. ' .- . - mates, the state would have on hand in unallocated surplus next June 30 7if there were no dis count The Walker plan provides that for each million dollars or major , fraction ' of such ' surplus, there shall be a 5 per cent' dis count in the coming year's in come and excise tax ' payments. That figured out to .75-per cent I Income and excise tax collec tions for the' first half of 1943 amounted1 to '$13,415,997.34. It is estimated that . the total" year's collections will amount ' to $20, 473,062. Thus it is apparent that, the tax commission estimated a slight reduction for the first six months of 1944. But it will fall come out in the wash, for any difference between : the estimate and actual receipts will show up in the discount or lack of dis count lor the following year. : v Though i the Walker plan pro vided a yardstick, the tax com mission was eft considerable lee way for exercising judgment in estimating the year's receipts. Its judgment measured against that of authoritative outside observers. ran . a SulpJ Sunday Mornlag. August 1, .Rome Hiete Feace Goal B j "Nazis im " lital j Ware, of '(ErasMiiiE Mr Offensive Montgomery Talks to r ' Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and his British Eighth army made "good progress Friday for the first time -to. two 4 weeks toward Catania and Mt Etna. He is show Ton the rlcht talking with two uidenUfled Italian generals who surrendered to him. (British official photo.' AT by OWI radio from Algiers.) , - -.... , . y . r . . : ' ' - : Future Army Costs ;Ixwer : Bat Navy Estimates : " Higher in Budget' Summary by FDlt By DONALD KOVACIC : . WASHINGTON, July j 31 -flP) A strategy-born $6,000,000,000 re duction in army estimates most J of it to permit greater j emphasis oh sea ; warfare was disclosed Saturday nigh t by President Roosevelt although official sour ces insisted the' cut will not affect manpower requirements nor the over-all pattern for waging global war. V Mr. Roosevelt at the same time announced .that .America's war bill for the fiscal year that start ed .July , 1 remained unchanged from January estimates of $100, 000,000,000 He cautioned, how ever, that failure to hold the line oh 'prices and wages would send it; higher, and he voiced anew his demands for a "truly stiff pro gram of additional taxes, savings, Or both." ' j , H To the $97,000,000,000 estimated for. specific war' accounts was added $3,000,000,000 as net opera ting costs of war activities of government -corporations, such as defense plant corporation, defense supplies corporation, metals re serve company and others . .The similar' net costs ' last ' year ex ceeded $2,975,000,000. ; , . '? J .This .huge ($100,000,000,000) bill," said' Mr.' Roosevelt in a statement' accompanying the sum-' mation, . "reflects the , military -re- q u I r e m ents of 'our' aggressive (Turn to Page 2 Story B) 'Tax to Be was slightly but not markedly on the conservative side. Conservatism-was dictated by" these con siderations: (1) With the 75 per cent discount' income and' excise taxes will assuredly - not be op pressive; (2) A more liberal es timate, resulting in a 90 per cent discount or even total elimination of - these -taxes for -1944,: might even in that year result in a deficit in the $5,000,000 achool support fund and the next year bring back into existence the state property levy. . 4 - .' .'. Z-rJ'Y-, -YrI . Making the . decidedly hazard ous assumption that earning pow er in - Oregon, in tthe : aggregate, remains stable lor the next year, it is probable . that- a year- bence the commission w&l Hoe" able ; to announce a ' 25 per : cent discount on .1945 ; taxes : based . upon 1944 income.- -, -.fyy ; . Meanwhile, the unusually heavy Income and excise tax collections of 1942 and 1943 will have created approximately these savings to taxpayers lor , the current fiscal year: .The : 73 per cent discount amounting to something like $15,- 1S - 13 Ballet Dancer On US Payroll; Dies Objects " - WASHINGTON, July 31-fl)-A ballet dancer is working for the office of economic warfare (OEW) as a $5600-a-year economic ana lyst, Rep. Dies (D-Tex.) declared tonight, adding that he intends to call the attention of Leo Crowley, OEW chief,1 to the appointment i If no action ) is taken I will bring the matter to the attention of congress," said Dies, chairman of the - house committee on un American affairs. . " . Dies identified the appointment as ' John Bovingdon and asserted his "record and career as a ballet dancer is well knowrv" - Neither Crowley nor Boving don' was available for comment David B. Vaughaii, OEW 'admin istrative officer,' said that Boving don had been recommended by the 1 civil service commission and is "doing a good job." He added that he knew little of Bovingdon's activities but that "dancing may have been an avocation." Diplomat Corps Back in Moscow MOSCOW, July rSL-W-The Russians showed complete confi dence today in their ability to protect Moscow from the axis when, the foreign commissariat announced that the diplomatic corps had been authorized to re turn from Kuibyshev, for nearly two years headquarters for the foreign colony in Russia. Reduced 000,000, the $2,000,000 : "forgive ness" of the elementary school tax,, and the $5,000,000 relief in special . school . district taxes re sulting from' creation' of the state school support fund. - ' - ' ' - The - discount announcement of Saturday is the sequel to a pro tracted struggle which all ; but monopolized attention in the 1943 legislature. The .lower house, af terits taxation and revenue com mittee had devoted weeks to the problem, battled for two days over the amount of an arbitrary- reduc tion, with the additional' issue of instituting that reduction this year or -next; the : senate v committee made use. of. the house commit tee's findings of - fact but totally ignored the bill which .the house had passed, bringing out instead, as an amendment to one of the "school support fund. bQls, the plan devised by Sen. Dean Walker whereby Income tax collections in future might be regulated, with out further legislation, more or less automatically depending upon the amount of surplus in' the state treasury. Allied Week's Aerial: Score Is High j Is Most Concentrated i To, Date; North ! - France Latest Target '; By RICE YAHNER LONDON, July 3H-A week of the most ' concentrated, sus tained attacks ever made on Ger many's "third front ended today with hundreds of allied fighters and bombers roaring over smok ing, axis-held Europe by daylight A joint American and British communique said tonight medium and fighter bombers smashed at German airfields in northern France today. : US Eighth air force mediums struck - fields at Poix, Merville, : Tricqueville and Abbeville, while "r, RAF mediums and fighters attacked others at St . Omer, Amiens and Lille. At the same time. Thunderbolt squadrons swept over the French coast in further raids.: Two axis fighters were destroyed and one medium bomber and two .fighters are missing. ' . ' j . " German fighters offered : some opposition to one section of American, medium bmbers and its escort of 250 Spitfires. Heavy antl-ircraft' fire was reported in the vicinity of some targets. i The daylight fleets attacked af ter a saturation assault last night by the RAF on Remscheid a pre viously , untouched key town ' in the German -industrial system, -r-i Matching t allied 1 efforts else where "in the United Nations' greatest month of the war; the shattering aerial offensive from Britain attained new fury in July, with-the great German port of Hamburg apparently marked for obliteration.' y A reconnaissance pilot - flying over H a m b u r g -at noon today found great fires still j burning' from the last 2300-ton attack 36 hours earlier, s Smoke stretched for 50 miles south of the dock area, he said. - :: Two Million' -WASHINGTON, July j Zh-iPf-The army ' transportation corps, rounding out its first year of op erations, reported Saturday , it had moved 2,000,000 troops overseas to more than SO countries and United States possessions, y These are some of its other ac complishments: y. ,y y j j Moved 20,CCO,CSO tons of army cargo overseas, exclusive of lease lend tonnage. ";'y r Supervised movement of 25, CC0.CC3 troops by domestic ; car riers, four-fifths of them by rafl. V Moved 7.C0O.O0O inductees by rafl. - Ho. 1C3 Meld Uiu) Leaders Bombing Vim Resume, Cities Of Italy Told British Eighth Army , Advances Yanks , Push Toward Messina "By THOMAS P. HAWKINS BERN, Switzerland, July Jl (JPy- Strong indications came from Rome tonight that peace was and is the real goal of Mar shal Pietro Badoglio, but that presence of German' troops fighting on Italian soil is the main obstacle.' A statement from the govern ment clarifying the issue was ex- l pec ted within the next three days, possibly within the next 24 hours. Axis diplomats had waited for it last night -A Rome dispatch to the Basler Nachrichten, passing through of--fidal Italian censorship, said ne gotiations of growing dimensions were in progress within Vatican walls and within the capital it self. They were declared to have Involved Italy and the allies, and Italy and the Germans. The initial two requirements of the allies, the dispatch said, were the overthrow of fascism and put ting out of German troops. The first demand has been met and "perhaps the second also will one day be "fulfilled," it added. But many Italians were worried that even if the Germans could be prevailed upon to withdraw from southern and central Italy, the ax is war machine would insist upon trying to maintain a stand north behind the Po. The Neue Zurecher Zeitung re ported from Chiasso that German reinforcements continued to arrive in northern Italy by the Brenner pass. , (Quoting the Cairo radio, a Reu ters f dispatch to London reported that German troops had begun "to disarm Italian troops In the neigh borhood of Larissa" In Greece, in Thessaly province some 70 miles southwest of Salonika.) By RELMAN MORIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 31 P The grim warning that crushing new air offensive against the Ital ian mainland, is coming immed iately was sounded by radio to night to the people of Italy. ' The allied command in north Africa declared that tho. blood of every Italian struck, will be on the heads of the men in Rome. Advising Italians to stay away from railways, factories, depots, German barracks and all military targets', the allied broadcast ac cused the new Badoglio govern ment of giving Germans time to strengthen their hand in Italy and said the new regime in Italy's hour of decision had temporized instead of acted for honor, peace and freedom. (The first Italian broadcast af- ' ter the allied warning of bombs to come was a broadcast by Rome ' (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Bomb ar-D ear? . EiHoo Photo Dimpling- Niwae A IcVmaa e-' 1 Frlc 5e win a beauty prise anjrwfccr. WEI sbe be Eilea's JIIss Cs -- bar-Dear? OtLer . e&tracts, I i creasing la CBcSxr Cil'f t Eishop's studio, where t:W. .1 contest amazements are ' and cf.'Icers at iht Ealert sr: : airbus who i:";e S"; contest wIU be tie Cetlzz fir tors. (Details cf conkit ca jr;s O