t r i f "in minus 9 ' There will be general rejoicing over the state, and special re joicing in Salem, over news that the Portland high schools will re- loin the state high school athletic association, malting ; possible re newal of competition between the high schools in Portland and those upstate. Salem's special interest lies in the basketball tournament. which for many years past has lacked the spark of Portland com- . petition. . ; : It was just one of -those dis putes In which each side felt it was right, and refused to budge. ,The result was a division between Portland and the rest of Oregon that was disappointing both ways. ."While the Portland high schools are -". larger than those upstate, Still there was real competition , when teams from the; city and the country met The fact is, there are some good-sized high schools upstate, like, Salem, Eugene, Klamath Falls, ; Medford, : schools .which have for years turned out fine athletic outfits. The last time Portland participated in the bas ketball tournament -i little Bell fountain with its team of finished players beat Lincoln high for the , title. That was in 1837. - There is no question but what there will be greater ' interest and larger attendance with Portland represented in the basketball tour nament The short distance be tween - Portland and Salem , en ables hundreds of Portland bas ketball fans to get up for the games, particularly if Portland has a top-notch team. And with Port land schools Holding out, , any championship "title would have one-third nick in it. ' The reunion will be a good thing for Portland too helping to acquaint the metropolitan schools with the -hinterland." The city kids : get something besides ; knowledge of geography when they go up against their country cousins. And the Portland school that can top its city championship title with a state title will know that it must be good. - This year is a good time for . interscholastie -competition to be resumed, because with college football perforated ; with . enlist ments and; inductions the high schools can capture most of the public attention. The time would seem favorable for a real game this fall for tha stetec football championship. . tu.v.'U'" Just what the terms of the treaty of peace are we do "not know. It took a world war, to reconcile the two scholastic groups. It is to be hoped that peace and the return f a few Portland coaches doesn't end the truce. : R. Harrington Dies in Action The death of Staff Sgt Robert T. Harrington, 19, Salem youth in the air corps in North-Africa, be came known here Monday when his mother, Mrs. Martha A. Har rington, 594 North Liberty street, received a telegram from the sec retary of war stating Harrington . had been killed in action July 16. 3t was presumed the youth died - during the Sicilian raids. Letters to his mother and sister dated July 11 had just been received. . Harrington was : born Septem ber 31, 1923, in Tillamook, son of Mrs. Harrington and the late C T. Harrington. The family moved to Salem in 1S23 and he attended school here. He was a member of the national guard until 1939. and was employed at the Don. Cannon service station when he entered the army air corps in 1942 The boy received his training at Shep ard.Field;Texas, Las Vegas, Nev, and - Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, where he took engineering. He was stationed , -..at. ? Casper, Wye, Salina, Kan., and In Florida be fore going overseas - Harrington had .been home on furlough last April. ; Surviving be sires his mother is a sister, Doris. Pre Pearl Harbor Fathers Due for Draft After Oct. 1 t WASHINGTON, Aug. xocai aran boards were author ized by selective service today to call up pre-Pearl. Harbor fathers after October 1,. but only to the extent "absolutely; required to meet their monthly quotas. One authoritative estimate was that only some 300,000 fathers liv ing with and supporting children born before last September IS and not engaged in non-deferrable work would actually be inducted this year. -. Another 150,000, however, ' pro bably will have to be sent to in duction stations in order to get 00.000 fully qualified men. Since there are 6,569,000 non farming fathers, .this would Indi cate that only about one out of 22 will be put into uniform in 1943. ' The 744,000 fathers regularly engaged In agricultural work will continue virtually draft-proof for occupational reasons. Preparatory classifications may teia at once, but local btjards were forbidden to order fathers to report for induction before Octo KSIZTY TIIISD YEAB - 12 Significant Made Salamaua Is Hit By Yank Artillery And Aerial Bombs By c . YATES McDANIET D HEADQUARTERS "ALLIED THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Tuesday; A ug. SOfpi-American ground forces drove forward 500 to 1200 yards along the Ulunda, New Georgia, front yesterday as allied artillery for the first time brought the Japanese base at Sal amaua, New Guinea, under fire. r Reports from the south Pacific command of Admiral William . F. Halsey, jr gave" not details about the, manner and direction of the first gains against the Munda air- base recorded in several davs. ex cept . that i "considerable quanti ties of material" had been cap tured. ca 1 , Commonlqne , from alll e d headquarters said a general ad vance af from 500 to 1200 yards had beea made "along ; the whole line." The last previous , position repert said the Ajnerl cans were within 1900 yards of 'the airport. The new gains thus would : have brought . them - to within net less than 1400 yards at - one . peint and perhaps as dose as 700 yards. The artillery fire on Salamaua was directed at the enemy air drome there. Planes caught on the ground, were destroyed and a 60 foot section of the Francisco river bridge was knocked out Matching the intensified ground sttacks on Munda,-American army and navy : planes delivered punishing , blows at the enemy's base on nearby Bougainville is land. One large freighter-trans port was set 1 afire, - a tanker was hit and eight barges were sunk. At Kahili." the communique dropped on s 'large concentration of enemy aircraft on the airdrome, damaging many planes and caus ing large fires." The artillery bombardment of the Salamaaa airdrome . was ac companied by a' heavy ; bomber assault en the town Itself. Fly ing Fertreasea . dropped S4 teas of. bombs en defenses and stallattens fat the area, starting a numerous fires and eanslar heavy damage. The bombers also hit Lae, aboot 10 miles up the coast. An enemy destroyer was at- tacked and set afire by a night reconnaissance bomber , south of BHf,i , hif vZr, n f?rht. m.oV4 ,- r.,m.. s drome. Then the warplanes swept I (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Murphy to Retain Real Estate Post Is Latest Report ,: Approximately two months aft- his original -term expired. Claude K. Murphy will be reap pointed state real estate commis sioner- today or Wednesday by ?.. - M-i 9 .1 UCM,se mraa oi c . j . , i Advance Upon Munda -1 . J'une.J s aaany RojaJ House of Savoy now "!UBi the Italian govSunenl . w TVr reappomi- SW A.wav .. aus; , IUU1 CAU1XCU. U1ML Murphy was- considering other opportunities and was not anxious to remain In the office. ber 1 If they are maintaining a bona fide home relationship with children born before last Septem ber 15, and are not workers in the . activities classed as non-defer rable. . . . Also, the boards were instructed to continue calling single and childless married men first if they ground for deferment and to make reclassifications out of the : fath ers group, 3-A, S5S.SS'VfS.;Plaiis Ssts to meet the demands board for men for military terr ice." ...;V ' The calling of fathers will be according to their draft -order numbers regardless of the num ber or age of their children, un less , they are granted defermer t as "essential" in agriculture or in dustry or unless their ; inducti: i would mean . "extreme hardsti p and privation, to their families. The policy of not drafting men oyer S3 continues. : - j ' ; The decision in each man's case will be up to his local beard, sub ject to appeal. - rfh rli r f) f -1 - re -i r-?r, PAGES Wd 017 D rMles Attack Pcrlinpfn'itAG a; . la-llf V UC1 VKjO i New Warnings I Delay, by Badoglio Assailed; Yanks I Take San -Stefano . ! Associated Press War Editor ; By RICHARD McMURRAY 1 Allied armies . advanced In general offensive against the fi nal axis defenses in Sicily Mon day night while their air and sea power struck, softening blows at. temporizing Italy which was sol emnly promised .imminent inva sion with all the scourges of cruel war. San Stefano fell to .the Ameri cans, shattering , the Germans' right flank anchored on the Tyr rhenian sea. . The . British Eighth army repulsed counterattacks and gained Jmportant positions before Catania. i -i The p Americans cap tured 10,000 more prisoners, mostly Germans at Mistretta. The total rose above 90,000. A dozen towns felL The Canadians pushed forward in the high center against suicidal nazi foes. ; Naples recked ; anew to . the thud af Flying Fortress bombs. Allied men of war bombarded Cretene, Yalentia Marina and a railway bridge across the Ollva river. All are en the Italian matnlsad. American naval units added their shells to the artil- , lery curtain laid before Taften's troops. (Turn to Page 2 Story U) Hull Suggests To Military WASHING TON, Aug. 2-JP) Secretary of , State Hull, asked about reports of apprehension in England over American policy toward , Italy and the . Badoglio government, suggesxeq xooay mat I " nen-i tion instead to the actual Criitin i The main purooTt of what he Policy Be Left has been hearing from United Na-K ns quarters, he told his - press conierence, that the military snouia oe given a cnance to light -XSl Turn war wiumiT tiAfntf haiminm. Hull previously has indicated that he relied on the judgment of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Italian situation and President Roosevelt sal( Friday that when surrender time comes he does not care with whom we deal, so long, as he is not a member of the fas- cist party. Asked whether he-sol regarded Premier Badoglio, the I president said he was not going " what prompted the press con- Uo today Pwas a- ported desire amonsr Enarllshmim for assurance that an Italian rul- in class must not emerge Of the type which Lord Vansittart, for mer chief diplomatic adviser ' to the British foreign office, describ ed in a weekend broadcast thusly: i "Sort of a backstop,' half-re pentant, semi-benevolent totali- tarianisml a" leonard that changed Its spoU and manicured Itt datvi in a h.a,,f, M - 1 Such criticism, of AmriPaA icy toward the French generally that It dealt with some men : not cleansed from the taint of Vichv nas drawn statements from Hull limilnr n the tm i maA fn i-that mnitarr ; .twTo savincf f iniHM .tJL.M sWe"tion. ' Dive Record - xjuuux, August . 2-C5T- An American test pOot ; in .England iravt.ung raster toan sound, or core vm . j nules an hour, has i ma v. - a verUcal cuve cf almost five J miles, btleved to be the longest in. aviation cistorr. it nounced tonight. Tne lly er, Lieut Col. Cass S. ..oush, cf Plyratuth, I.Iich., tech- cxal caiector cf the eighth fight er command, hxis been awarded u.9 clsunuished flying cross PCUNDDD Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, August 3. 1S43 Allied Bombers Revisit Devastated Naples f9l t. . - True to General Elsenhower's ! paanded Nsples anew. Photo shews how the, city leaked to returning airmen after the last raid by 500 KAF and US bombers. Shewn are: (1) Royal arsenal, all boildings . damaged, (t) . Torpedo works, all bulldmgs damaged. J) Kaflraad tracks twisted and torn, roadbed filled with craters. (4) Freight and passenger trains burning and destroyed. . (5). Engine round, bouses, repair sheds, heavily damaged; countless hits en tracks and eaal dumps. (0) Ofl tanks destroyed, some still -bum-tag. 7) Factory destreyed. (S). Tracks severed and large bulldmg destroyed at north exit of yards. 0) Olelflclo ligouri oil refinery knocked nt. 10 Heavy damage U aU balldmgs of an engineering and aircraft factory. AF photo from army. APTelematji V . Berlin Radio Rep orl Reds Fighting in Orel By JAMES LONDON, Tuesday, August 3 announcing today that the big i-i fmni rwi " , C ,7 ir ,tself although indications in error, it appeared that the Orel to the Soviet forces closing im..? j: . t I r: Pal" 811(5 to Reuters news agen- iUiOTUr ol ugnung rEJ "f! ?H DmJ ' -T 1 I " "vv""kti" v Although this same quotation was heard by several listeners, there was . no other confirmation and it seemed that the announcer may have aide a slip of the tongue or read a-faulty English translation while Intending to say fighting: was especially heavy outhwest of , Orel.. .r Nevertheless, while the Bus- suns, were announcing in another special communique that 70 more populated places had been taken from the Germans In advances of from four to six miles on the Orel (Turn to Prge 2 Story G) Luther M. Ramage Dies After trmli F-mA. ' 1Ji MMnJi SEATTLE, August HIV Lu ther' M. . Ramage, 87, of ' Salem, Ore, died Monday h night in King county, hospital - of "Iniuries ! re ceived Sunday as he participated in the great western, horse show, Rnage-was-thrown .from his horse when the mount collided with another horse ridden by Van Weider Salem. Weider racf1 wtu muior injuria. Both were members of the Sa lem mounted potae. -.. .". Mr. Ramage,-who served Mar- M. county in the house of repre- . : . Knuuva uunng xne receni siaie legislature, was chairman of '' the special farm labor committee of the Salem chamber of commerce at the time of bis death. For, the past 20 years, i since bringing his family here from Montana, he had cnerated a ' bev erase bottlins establishment in lem. He was a Mason end raein ber of the First. Presbyterian church of Salem. Mrs. Ramase and tieir younger son, Robert, went to Seattle on informed that what had at first been thought not. to be a severe injury had left hftn in critical con dltion. Survivors also Include a son, Dr. John Ramage, cow somewhere in ' . ..- "wr .4 - , . 151 promise of resumed bomhlar af IUlUn cIUm. nia hmtim M. LONG - flP) - The Berlin radio was heard Russian offensive aealnst the east- i-t "s " ure were that the broadcast might be nazis were preparing to give up in from seven directions. J . . everai wnoon morning news- Oregonian in New Navy Casualties WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -fl) The navy announced - today 92 casualties, including, 3 " dead, ' 12 wounded and :77 missing. '. : This brings to 27,849 the total of ; navy, marine .corps and (coast guard casualties reported to next of kin. since December 7, ! 1941. The total Includes i: 8769 ; dead, 4849 wounded, 9858 missing and 4168 prisoners of war. . ,,; .The casualties announced today included: s r. : l. Neill Sheldon Walker, missing. Mother, Mrs. Armilda C Parker, Otis, Ore. V.ef 8s kJ&UlllXZ xuni Canada In "medical 'service ' at tached o the navy, and a daugh ter, Louise, in the marines; his mother,-Mrs. John Ramase end a sister, Miss Josephine Ramans, both of Martinez, Calif.; one bro ther, William Ramage, San Fran cisco, aud four grandchildren. Ills eldest son, Webb Hassans; died in ICC 3 as result cf injuries received in an automobile accident IV.ce Cc vxovelJL Wounded Says Japs Worsted , SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUIN EA, August 1 -(Delayed) (ffJCapt Dow Lovell, Salem, Ore, in a field hospital here, relates how "We ac counted for many more Japs than we lost, when his outfit encoun tered a Jap trap near Boisi vil lage on the Salamaua battlefront Lovell wears an elaborate cast because his upper arm was frac tured by a bullet Two miles south of Tambu bay, his outfit took an observation- post and then moved forward with other units to, secure the bay. , The Americans stopped short of the trap, silencing their mortar fire within two minutes, Lovell de clares. ' ' 10 Killed in Glider GrasK ST. ,LOUIS. Aug. : 2MJPr-Tht crash of an army glider, which lost Its right wing and plummeted Its 10 passengers to death Sunday afternoon, was under investiga tion today by at least five groups of official probenu ; : : ; ' t Mayor William Dee Becker, sev eral other city officials, two army officers and Maj. William B. Rob ertson, whose manufacturing com pany built the. glider, were among those killed. .- . The official army investigation of, the crash,, reported. to be the first since the army undertook glider operations two years ago, is in the hands of a. seven-man board of officers from Scott Field, EL. The FBI aided them. : The board met today to com plete its report, to-be submitted to the war department in Wash ington,' which will announce later the results of the Inquiry. Another probe Is being, t con ducted by four representatives of the array's glider experimental branch at 7riht Field, Ohio. The group -includes ...three officers and Francis Aicre. vice president of Waco Aircraft corporation. . who signed the glider.-" - TOrZIIA,, Kan., -Av- 2-iT) One cf five men killed Curs day la the -crash of a f our-r-: '-red tcmLing plane near Coons, - la., was First Lt Xlelvin S. I Iccker c: DsUrs, Ore, it wss annoiniced by the pullia relations, effice st the army base here Monday. Dim out sunset 8:41 sunrise 5s55 Ko. 110 Salem Fires Bring Losses Of $75;coo Salem Supply Firm Building, , Doolittle Service Station Burn Two fires which broke out with- in a 2 5-hour period darkened two j sidewalksewere clear of virtual-sections- of Salem Sunday andlT all persons except Dolica and Monday -and caused still un tallied damages variously estimated at from $75,000 to $100,000. t A freak accident . Involving If a m - ugnt ouio ana a truck's gasoline tanx was jaid to have caused the Monday night blaze which almost leveled the sheet Iron building of ujb oueni ouppij company on East Moyt street south of the city Jim- its near 22nd street .: Origin of the fire which appar- ently had Its start In the stock room of the Doolittle Master Ser vice station at Center and North Commercial streets - was undeter mined. There, would-be helDful t . . glass windows and tearing out fix- tures of the smoke-filled Tour- 1st cafe. ! . Loss in the' late Sunday after- noon blaze was estimated at $35. - 000, much of it In tires, and all utugown saaea xo tne damage of "en"ea, naa Deen round list fire and water by breakine ulate ed among the identified dead, thus covered by Insurance with thlor the state guard, ordered the exception . of equipment of the cafe, which Is operated. by Mrs. Odessa Carter. A one-story build ing owned by the T. B, Jones es tate was badly damaged, as were the Doolittle ' tire shop and the restaurant kitchen. A . loaded gasoline truck stood near the alley entrance to the shop when the fire was discovered, res idents of the neighborhood said. The service station was In opera tion Monday, and Frank Doolit tle, proprietor, who estimated his pUc', damaie t more than $20.- commence within a week. City firemen with one truck from the central station and one from ' South Salem battled the Cames at the supply company plant for more ' than five hours Monday night Oil, tar and equipment went up in the hot black smoke and leap ing flame, they said. The fact that there was plenty of water on the premises : aided them in finally quenching the flame but could not help save the plant, firemen de clared. The supply company -fire had its start between 6:30 and o'clock when Charles Chlttick, truck driver, tossed a lighted bulb on an extension! cord into a po- j At 10 p. m. Monday the tele sition where it would help him j phone rang. It was long distance locate soma fault In his truck's gas feed line, east Salem firemen who are also city first aiders said, j When the globe broke or the cord cracked the feed line took I wakefulness into complete un flame, the gas tank exploded, I consciousness when a voice at the burning Chlttick severely, and the nearby plant stocks took fire, they believed. Chlttick, resident of 2342 Adams street, received first, second and third degree burns on both arms ead his right side First aid men took him to Salem Deaconess hos-I pitaU..Jv'--"-1'rY;' Fires at me Spaulding log dump on " the Salem riverfront and, at 2360 State street, where trask was burning;: also called out firemen Monday night Chicago Banker Dies . CHICAGO. Au. Mulroney, .45, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank, of Chi- cagevand former second deputy comptroller 01 we currency, died I or. nean disease todayr - I Phillips Elected Bomfy William L. Phillips, automobile dealer, was unanimously' elected to the' Salem city water commis sion at-Monday night's city coun cil session, which also tossed the bicycle licensing problem back into the hopper, argued the estab lishment of a junkyard on the river front and accepted the resig nation of Alderman Lloyd Moore, sixth ward.""' ;--- t Moore, employed by a firm which repairs ships, said his work was likely to send him to almost any port in this area but that he and his family i hoped to - make Salem their home at the close of the war. Ccuncilmen spplauded Mayor I. M. Doushton's brief end complimentary farewell address. FhiHIps was recommended for the water ccznrnission post ty eth er' mcnilrrs cf that 'ccracilsslca when'ChsndTer P. Crown resign ed last r--'h to enter the navy. ;.. V-'" r "-' Vfollowin lls.tl-.ird 1, -. 1 w.'dlrrce which would hav ur.2 away v.i'Ji city liccr.s L'Z cf bicycles for, the duratloa cf the war, council mer.-.hers ex Mobs Emtio Millions Not a Race Riot, Says 'La Guardia ; False Rumor Blamed NEW YORK, August 2 -,7) Order appeared restored in Ilar ler Monday night after an ear lier outbreak of rioting that re sulted in the deaths of five ne groes, injufies to 543 persons, 500 arrests and property damage estimated at S3,000,0C0. Within minutes after a curfew clamped down at 10:30 p. m. the I volunteers patrolling , the debris- I strewn streets. I At an hour when ordinarily the a I taverns are burr, the theatcra full I ' j"1" streets crowded, the resi- cents of the nation's largest neirro neighborhood disappeared. The Jwea s population is about 300,000. n only , activity other than that of the patrolling police was . I the repair work being done tinder l floodlights on store fronts dam- aged during looting last night and early today. As the situation became more relaxed, police disclosed that one 1 death victim, previously listed as I .tJ.Ul! - - J I rea"cing we previously, announ I c3 tou irom six to five. . I A force of 6,000 police was on (duty m iile -"rea to keep the peace. 1 Meanwhile, at 6 p. m.. Major Gneral William Ottmann, head 8000 members of the organization In New York City's five counties and the suburban counties of Suf folk, Nassau and .Westchester to report Immediately to their ar mories for drill.. Governor Thomas E. Dewey. In the city on state buslnev. said no formal request for mobilization had been made but it was re ported that various officials agreed it would be wise to have the men on duty. The mayor was Joined by Wal- ' TT im.it. a . . .. tne Kev. a. Clayton Powell, pas tor cf : the Abyssinian - Cantiit church and a member of the city council. In asserting that the butt break was, "not a race riot Said Mr; Powell: . "It Is a blind, smouldering and unorganized resentment against Jim Crow treatment of negro men in the armed forces and the usual high rents and cost of living txurn to page 2 Story B) $1000 Radio ' Award Is Won I from New York for Mrs. Zena Sharpnack. Mrs. Sharpnack was in bed, but she got up to answer and nearly passed from half I other end of the line said. This Is the Pot of Gold program and I Mrs. Sharpnack, you've Just won $1000. i By 10:30 p. m. the five Sharn- nacks, mother, a housewife; fath I r. who works at the First Chris- uaa cnurcn: uua, 19; Betty, 17, h&d Planned to I tt last detail Just how they I would remodel their home at 223 I Evergreen avenue and Just how tnucn would be left ever to put into war' bonds. . Mrs, Sharpnack has listened to the Pot of Gold several times but not recently, she reported, so that the award was a complete sur prise to her last night In fact she was still pinching herself try ing to believe It and waiting for the morning paper In which she would ft all in wv r white. to Water Council pressed their belief that the licen ses have proved more value than nuisance and that they ' are, in addition, source of fair revenue. ' Doughton settled a tie vote In the junkyard argument taking the side of the group that wanted any decision postponed until at least the next meeting of the council. Philip Steinbeck, appli cant for permission to erect a hi;! wooden fence on waterfront prop erty back of the Salem boaihouse to enclose metal scrap piles, said he was required to move at once from Oregon Pulp & Paper mid property currently in use and that he had purchased th!j land. Not only would the board fence t a violation of the city's build ing code, but existence cf the yard would hinder any move t beautify the waterfront, c?r.-:. councilmen declared. Those v. h-- took the middle ground tv- . ' - : that Steinbock be author!-' -'I ' go ahead with establii.hr-,--t the yard there es a vrt - 2 : , tut that he te rtr'' 4 1 Turn to Pr -? 2 :. . .