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-PAGE TWO dombing Will Resume, Cities Of Italy Told it A (Continued from Page 1) A radio which said that the Italian people had no choice but to con tinue the war. (The broadcast, which was re ported by the OWI in the United States, came three hours aftertthe allied message and may have been too soon to constitute a reply, t ("The entire Italian people, in the name of its honor and its in terests, has no choice but contin nation or Hie war with all its for ces,", the broadcast said.; The al lies, it added, were making "not an offer of peace but an offer of ..war.") -. J The allied . proclamation said: , Italians, you know that on July ' 25 we let up on the aerial bom bardment of Italy," the proclama tion read. "We hoped thereby to . give Italy a breathing space where In to unite for peace and free dom." , I But the Germans, too, had used the time, it said. ' "And for that full and sole re ! sponsibility rests with the new 1 government in Borne. Had that i government acted speedily Ger i manjuby "now would be in full retreat. - "But instead, the new govern ment temporized. It missed the Opportunity. It permitted, the Ger mans to recover. . - j "Italians, we cannot tolerate this and i we issue you this solemn warning: The breathing space is ended. Be prepared." . , I The stern reminder was broad cast to Italians at 1 pjn. and was to be followed by a -similar bar rage from London -and Washing ton. : - "; 4 ' " - " A preview of the renewed on slaught was given Friday when American Mitchells swept to with in 11 miles south of Rome to bomb the Practica Di Mare air drome, and Flying Fortresses rained sledgehammer blows on the Grottaglia airport near Ta ranto iri - southern Italy. The warning came as it was announced that both American and British armies in Sicily had made good advances behind ter rific artillery barrages which blasted out areas 400 . yards deep at a time for the infantry mop-up. Three more Italian islands. Favignana, Levanzo and Marret-timo-roff Sicily's west coast, ac cepted the unconditional surren der formula of the United Na tions and ran up the white flag. The British Eighth army of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery for the first time in two weeks made "good progress" Friday up the Sicilian east coast toward Ca tania and Mt Etna, while the American Seventh army of Lieut Gen. George S. Patton, jr., driv ing to a junction with the British at Messina, plunged deeper into the intervening mountains fring ing the north coast. The Canadians, at the central pivot position, smashed through Agira after an air and artillery barrage described by German vet erans as worse than anything they bad lived through in ' Russia or Korth Africa. (Acting Secretary War Patterson in Washington announced the fall of Agira two days ago.)" ' - While today's communique gave so new positions for the allied rmiee, it was , believed the Amer icans and Canadians were mov ing on Mistretta, on the road just aouth of the seaside city of San Stefano, and Troina, vital road junction 12 or 15 miles east of Nicosia. T1i OnZGOII STATESMAN. Sdcxa. Oregon,-Sunday Morning. August 1. IS 13 Future Army Costs Lower : B (Continued from Page 1) B : SPOKANE, Wash-, July Zl-iJPi Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, paid tribute to the folks behind the planes" the war workers in the airplane reoair shops who will toil to Jteep 'em flying, in an address' Satur- operations in various far-flung theatres of war. It will provide our armed forces with the crush ing superiority in equipment which ltsneeded for successful lUHtinn with minimum sacri fice of the lives of our fighting day before im estimated 7000 "such mm." J-;,.:.;- The ' budget i bureau, comment ing in a statement that; "when this amount was announced (last January) some persons thought the program fantastic," pointed io war expenditures of $7,700,000,000 in June, equivalent to an annual rate of over $90,000,000,000 and added: "The American people are proving it feasible." For non-war activities, earlier budget estimates "were scaled down more than $1,000,000,000 to roughly $6,000,000,000,. nearly half of which represents interest on the public .debt. Assessment Values Rise Halifax Lauds Ground Crews Veterans' Board Is Organize j PORTLAND, Ore, July 30-(tf)- ine newly created Oregon Vet 'erans commission held its fint meeting here Friday. Eugene K. Oppenheimer, Portland, was elec ted chairman. The commission was named by Governor Earl Snell to aid vet erans in presenting claims to the government or in finding jobs Other .- members are Dow V. Walker, Portland, and Ben F. Uorris, Springfield. C (Continued from PageUp C property classification is in the value of farming implements, ma chinery and equipment; which rose from $555,560 to $666,600. - Taxable value of movable ma chinery and equipment - dropped from $1,168,860 to $1.159,555.. . Merchandise and stock in trade this year is booked as $1,827,070, compared with that of last year at $2,055,575. ' - s . ' .. : . ". The county's stock of horses and mules, i swine,, poultry ' and fur bearing animals dwindled, but the number of cattle increased by ap proximately 19 per cent, the num ber of sheep and goats slightly. . Total ' of the personal property assessments this year is $5,181,610, compared with $5,197,310 for the previous taxing period. Martin Rites To Be Sunday v DALLAS Funeral services for William Sherman Martin, were scheduled for Sunday at the Henkle & Bollman funeral home. Rev. Clyde Rhea officiating, with interment in the I OOF cemetery. William Sherman Martin was born at Newport, Ore, February 4, 1892, and passed away July 29, 1843 after a lingering illness. Except for five years spent in California,, he has lived all his life in Oregon; He was married to Miss Olive Hudson February 1 V, isie, Mr. and JWrs. Martin have been operating "Martin's Cafe for some years. Surviving are his widow. Olive Martin; one son, Cecil Martin and one grandson: two sisters. Mrs. W. L. Bush and Mrs. L. E. Mathe- ny; three brothers, Frank Martin of Neskowin, David Martin of Dallas and Merritt Martin of Falls City. workers who gathered in a huge hangar at the Spokane army air field. :i -rt:: "I do not think,?, Halifax; said, "that in this war enough credit always has been given to the men and women who have been doing this vital repair job." Lord Halifax said that in 1940 when Britain first realized that at any moment the full weight of the German air force might strike in 'an all-out attack,? Britain learned "the importance of air power, the great airplane fac tories and the job of servicing these planes. - "We learned what was the im portance of repair, we who were in the cabinet in those days. We used to see day by day the shops. the charts of production of . new airplanes and also' the repair of airplanes wounded in war and the many hours 80, 90 and 100 hours a week that our people put in. "That. the ambassador r said, "was largely responsible for sav ins Britain and winning the bat tle of Britain.' and also, in that moment.' of savins! the cause of freedom. throughout the world. v Portland Yards Deliver Ships J ; PORTLAND. July ZV-UP The Clinton Kelly; Oregon Shipboild- ign - corporation s 226th liberty shin, and Commercial Iron Works' navy tug, Zuni, slid off the ways Saturday.- y - yy - Gunderson Brothers' yard com missioned a tank lighter. Willam ette Iron Sc Steel set forward Tues day the scheduled launching of two subchasers.' The liberty ship Ed ward B. Baker will be launched tomorrow. . Allied Ships Pass Gibraltar NEW YORK, July 31.-(VA Madrid radio report said ' today that 147 allied merchantmen had passed through the strait of Gib raltar yesterday "with more war material to reinforce allied gar risons in the Mediterranean." Madrid quoted "news from Gib raltar" as saying; that the fleet included "large- transports and tankers' strongly escorted by warships. The broadcast was re corded by United States foreign broadcast intelligence service. "Friday afternoon." it con tin ued, "various American mer chantmen of 8,000 and 10,000 tons anchored in the bar of Gibral tar. Almost all of them carried on their decks great boxes contain ing airplanes, tanks and light ar mored cars." Too Late to Classify 30-40 CRAIG carbine. If -out model IS Winchester pump. IS gaug Bem- intoa : automatic. Shells for ma. ra. 7082. . Frcs ; ExannuIIca pll IBM -V-! Hi.ll K IMIli I , ! y.- -'i . '"' , - Dr. Uenry E. Morris. . Optometrist . The headaches and irrita bility from which you've been suffering may be due to eyestrain! Don't permit it to get so bad that youll feel you have to be absent from your job because of it! Have your eyes scientifically ex- i amined by a REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST . . . HERE . . .' TODAY . . . ? . V- .-- . ' ' He can accurately prescribe for and fit your eyes with : the i eyewear : you . require. : Our selection of frames and ' lenses includes heavy duty models for war -industries, and. entirely new: safety . types.'- - t ' Low Weekly or; Monthly: Terms MORRIS ibPTICiLL 444 SUte Street i'-.-',- Phone 5523 . . , Saleiai - Silverton - Eugene ONtheHOlIEFROirr : -- By CAESL QELD3 Plagiarized from LL Bill Hynes' "Observation Post News:" Down in Oregon City the chief aircraft" warning service observ er; Henry Hodes, is an elevator operator in the courthouse, and serving him on the post are some of the high ranking county offi cials including the 1 county clerk, the sheriff, district attorney, as sistant La , etc., so the elevator man outranks his superiors in this particular instance. - Then there is the case of Mar garet Snavely up at Hood River post, who served a shift from 9:30 pjn. , until . 8 ajn. when the big snow ot last January made travel virtually impossible. 'She entered on the log book . the following: 920 ' pjn. to midnight ... no planes; midnight to 4 ajn. . . no sleep; 4 ajn.to 0 ajn. . . . no" feeling. V , ; All of which Tarings up the sub ject of our courthouse and sleep. We wonder how our anti-gamb ling sheriff : can sleep . with all those crap ; games going out on the courthouse lawn. Men On Maneuvers Ask for Recordings ? -Men leaving this area for cen tral Oregon maneuvers nave ac quired a ' record player and loud speaker and need good records of either classical or . popular music for the : few and scattered hours of relaxation that are s theirs, Red Cross personnel " here - announced Saturday. Scratched and worn out records : should ; be turned in for the Legion auxiliary's ; salvage campaign, Olive Doak Bynon, Red Cross executive secretary, said, but good recordings -in satisfac tory condition are wanted by the army Jfere, early , this week. They may be taken to Red Cross of fices, McGilchrist building, above the Woolworth store, Monday and Tuesday. Milk Policies Of OPA Hit D (Continued from-Pagevl) D stantial sacrifices in the kind -and cost of food. ; 'The promise to farmers that they would "be given the incentive and materials with which to meet crop production goals .in excess of any production heretofore achieved.'"-. " "The promise to supply the peo ple of our allied nations during the war with great supplies of food . , Heavy liquidation of livestock must take place for the reason that feed . supplies will be , short 20 per cent, Peterson said, adding that Oregon is 'short 45,000 tons of corn. Relative to the argument that tcorn prices must be kept down to avoid increasing costs to the dairymen and poultrymen, he declared" that today both groups are using, when they can get them, substitutes for which they must pay still higher prices. Forest Fires i ....... i Controlled; Wheat Burns By th Associated Press Several large forest fires in the Pendleton and Eugene areas were reported under control or nearly so Saturday but large crews bat tled a new grass and wheat fire in .Umatilla county nea Holdman. Supervisor. Carl Ewing of the Umatilla national ' forest : said flames which raged for three days In the John Day river country near the Grant-Morrow county Una were out The fire mantled 2500 acres of range and timber land but little commercial timber was destroyed, v " j ' ; More than 200 : fire - fighters tamed the Triangle lake fire near Horton after it burned over ap proximately 380 , acres, mostly fresh slash. Another western Lane county fire near Creswell was re ported checked after sweeping some some 200 acres' of second growth timber: ; . ' Train 'sparks were reported to r i r eft? Gdftll 1 In v Tl . f I y : A ( .A A F an enemy air raid on this area is attempted- as rankinr Army officers arc 'convinced it 1 will be it will come with in conceivable suddenness. There'll be no time to study up on your air raid inft ructions . ... no time te get 'prepared. And it will be t tat tm with you bmd been ALERT. All the- air raid precautions you see about you will have beea justified a thousand-fold if a raid does come. Thats why "several thousand volunteer workers devote their time un selfishly, as loyal Americans, in the various activities of the Air "craft Warning Service. .3 a it , You, too, are needed to help keep this area constantly on the alert. There is something Im portant you can do. The in struction, under military per sonnel, is brief, interesting and educational. - Sign up tomorrow SURE! v V TlTN lUHt "EYES ALOFT .N B.CNeiwork, ? ' Mondays 6p. n. , t - F0R INFOIWUTION PERTAINING TO THE! Allt CRAFT: , i ' WARNING SERVICE ; ; . Phone Salem 6753 : or Call atthe Civilian Defense Officer .: v Ladd & Bush Bank ; EallJins : " ' - vf "St.. J. C. PENNEY CO., INC. have started several amall fires east of Eugene." ' ... More than 3000 acres of range grass were consumed by two fires Friday near Pendleton. A spec tacular blaze west of Pendleton which : covered : 70 square rniles between ' Barnhardt and Yokum was extinguished Saturday by county crews, volunteers and 200 Pendleton field soldiers. : ". -.. De Gaulle, Gitaud Achieve French Unity Yanli Airmen Dive Bomb E (Continued from Page 1) E slogging through knee-deep mud around .Orel, gained, steadily in theirsemjncirclementef .that big nazi base. ,v ,, .-. -y, . : The Russians said the 'desperate Gerniandefehders, hurriedly - re inforced by airborne troops from France and ' Germany, launched four counterattacks which were beaten down by soviet troops near the gates of the city. Six hundred r.-mans were' killed in one of ALGIERS. July 31-;P)-Gen-erals Charles De Gaulle and Henri Giraud achieved t o d a yjiese futile charges. - unification of all the French fighting forces under a single command responsible to a central government in a forceful bid for recognition by the United States as an equal partner in the allied war", effort. . ', ' t ,J Decrees . named' Giraud cbm . mander in chief of all the French land, sea, and airforces in the world. and gave De Gaulle pre sidency 'of ja .new committee of national defense.' ,v '. . Tests for Armyv Navy Academies Taken .Preliminary congressional civil service examinations, for designa tion of candidates to US military and naval academies were given to three Salem youths at the post office here Saturday. Engaging in the 7 -hour mental hurdles were Joe Formick :and Ernie Hobbs, West Point aspirants, and Richard Page, interested in the appoint ment to, Annapolis.- T'o Eccsp Frcm Stste Insiitullcn3 As the month in which liberty loving Americans celebrate Inde pendence day drew to a close Sat urday night. Inmates of state in stitutions here kept up their rec ord for July no weekend withn out some escapes Louis E. Lillie, 32, sent up from Deschutes county last November 11 to serve six years for larceny,, led the parade, escaping from the state prison annex sometime dur-: ing the afternoon. Samuel F. Wiley, 25, made his getaway from the. state hospital for the insane through a window! at 11:30 Saturday night . '. Commencing Ucdnoday, hn gnsl 4ih, Peacock Cleaners roll cccopLcivilian cleaning. For the past 7 months we have been doing annjr work exclusively. We have now added new equipment and commencing August 4th will again accept civilian cleaning. :'! 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