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r- t 7 i . v .... 6 Fri. jLrO"UL,L'L Mil' IJjQll aii JjZaT5 3 0 0 (Weather cn Tuz 5) f irznnr tieud yeah hpag: Ccdem, Oregon. Txlior Ilorcia?. Aust 6. 1S3 Price Zc No. 113 fim el ff y- if . , VL-'j fsy?'-'-AT ' The Use by one ! of Oregon's learned editors of the word "appa rati" as plural for ' "apparatus' gave roe an excuse to run to our new office dictionary, Funk and Wagnalls, ' "New Standard," 1942 edition. This gives : the pluraT of "apparatus" as i "apparatus, or rarely, "apparatuses"; which ':' is confirmed by the slightly older Webster's "New 5 International,' second ? edition. The use of "the Latin form for the plural is not approved for English usage. Words are the tools of an editor and reporter; he has to use them so swiftly in his daily work the won der is that lie does - not make more blunders in diction; or - in grammar. Quite indispensable in editorial offices for ready refer ence is the dictionary. , - t This New Standard" claims to define 455,000 words, while the '"New International claims -W0,-0(a "entries. What a growth that . is from Dr. SamMel Johnson's English dictionary, which " contain ed some 40,000 words! - With ; all these"- hundreds of thousands - of . wordsno'writer has improved'on Shakespeare whose vocabulary .was about 20,000 words. Language does grow like a tree. Words have roots; back in Saxon or old German, or more often in Latin and Greek,- which in turn have earlier . roots in the ' San skrit, earliest known language of the ; Hindu peoples. . Words change in spelling and. pronunciation; words die; new words are born. One needs a glossary or word book" to read Chaucer because' its early English words are unfamil iar. . Read , this from Caxton's "Fayt of Armes": "In olde time was an usage to norrysshe: grete mastyuys and sare bytynge dogges in the lytell houses upon the walls, that by them shulde be knowen the comynge of theyre enemyes. I Recast it in modern English and it reads thus: "In ; old time was a usage to nourish great mastiffs - and sore (Turn to editorial page) - One Dead, 48 111 From Lane Food Poison , EUGENE, Ore-rAugS.-W-Dr. C. L. Lindgren," Lane county health officer, reported Thursday f night that the number of cases of food poisoning ; in this area had in creased to 48 and the number of persons hospitalized to 25. : - The death total remained at one, he said, but the majority , of the hospital patients were danger ously ill. The poisonings - were - believed . the result of cultures which de veloped in cream-based pies be cause of inadequate refrigeration, Lindgren said. All the pies were traced to a bakery at Cottage Grove, Ore., he said. Some were baked as early as Sunday, he said, ! and distributed Monday. - "If is impossible to say where the blame lies," he said, "it is probably in ' distribution. W e found one . case due to leaving pies on an open shelf overnight.' , Lindgren said all bakeries . in the area have suspendend their truck deliveries to rural districts pending the outcome of a com plete investigation. Only death reported was that - of two-year-old Dale Mitchell of ( the Lorane district Seven other : members of the Mitchell family were brought to hospitals here. , Most of these were., members of family groups but they came " from widely scattered districts. By noon, 17 persons were hos pitalized. The total Increased to 21 by 4 p. m., and overtaxed hos pital staffs said others were re ported en route. The fact that virtually all of the victims came from rural districts supported Lindgren's theory "that handling of the pies after they left the bakeries was the source of the trouble.' Victory Garden Judging For Contest Near Close . Judging of Victory gardens en tered 4n the contest jointly spon sored by the, Salem Men's Gar den dub and The Oregon States - roan, is nearing completion, it was reported Thursday- : by - Charles Cole, chairman - of , the judging committee. - , This committee, .in fact, -has completed its inspection of gar dens in three of the four sections into which the. city was divided geographically, and there remains only the final viewing of a few gardens in the remaining section. . The 18 prize winners- first and "(second in each of two classifica tions in each section will be an nounced late in August or- early in September, it was indicated by Russell Pratt, president of the club. Meanwhile, Victory gardeners who are entered in the contest thould not delay harvesting pro-, 4? Elidnaped rjy Intensifies Questioning of Albany Residents ; Continues; 7oman Sought ALBANY, Ore., Aug. 5-0P)-De-splte police assertion of "no pro gress,' Intense activity Thursday night -marked efforts to solve the mysterious disappearance ' of Baby Judith Gurney'from the Albany General hospital nursery. Questioning of " Albany ..-resi dents, including Hospital em ployes,' continued throughout the day, and jn Portland, 75 miles north, detectives disclosed they were making every effort to find a woman who sought advice from druggist on - baby feeding and purchased, a nursing bottle the night Judith disappeared. . , , The two-day-old baby, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Gurney of . Albany, I was missing' from her crib, nurse, Mrs. :. Theresa . Mc Quaid, told police, when she in vestigated shortly after midnight Tuesday. A crying baby attracted her; attention, she said. " , fit was thought the baby was taken down a ladder, from the second ' story . nursery, but that theory was discarded when it was learned that a door to . the sun room, from which the fire escape led, ! was locked. No other prob able means of egress was found. The Portland druggist said the woman, carrying a baby wrapped in a blue blanket similar to that missing from the nursery, asked advice . on ; formula : feeding, and purchased a nursing bottle. Port land detectives said the search for the; woman was being pressed. . Near .collapse when told that her baby was, gone," Mrs. Gurney, a cripple, appeared to be rally ing tonight, buoyed by a hope that the child can be found. The father, a plywood plant foreman and head of the employes union, has been active1 in the search al most from themoment the baby's abseree was discovered. . ',. . . .... , : . f ' - He was given a ' spot i on : the Mutual . Broadcasting System's northwest' network tonight to ap peal , to the kidnapers to . return the child, and to anyone who might have; information that could be developed into a clue. Declining to discuss obvious ac tivities in Albany, Earl Houston, a state police sergeant,' said: i "We're simply waiting for some thing to happen. Four; Soldiers Escape Brig;' One Caught ; Cleve Williams, one of four sol diers who had escaped from the post stockade at Camp Adair, was arrested in Salem 'on Thursday night after less- than 24 hours of freedom. ; - Still at large early this morning were Owen V. Brewer, 27; Charles Barnes, 21, and Howard R. Pef key, 20. . . " : Meantime, the search was also on; for Allen Rood Northrup, 14, former ward of the state training school at Woodburn, who escaped sometime Wednesday night from the. state hospital' for the insane Robert Clyde, Dwigans, 19, who disappeared Monday from a gun gang at the state penitentiary an nex; John William Purvis, 50, for mer Polk county resident who es caped from the annex. Tuesday, and Louis Lillie, 32, who escaped from the annex last weekend, are also still on the missing list. - duce which should be harvested. Cole pointed out, since they will be given full credit for their pro duction even though : their gar dens may be among the extremely few which, have not- yet -been judged. v." Cole,; associated ; with the state department, ' of r agriculture, . said the -eggregate -amount ' of vege tables produced 'in Victory gar dens, both in Salem and in other sections of Oregon which he has visited in connection with his duties, is prodigious - and is an outstanding : contribution I toward solution of the food problem. Vic tory gardeners in Salem, he de clared, including those who en tered the contest, were extremely diligent in their cultivation and many gardens ,are praiseworthy both as to production and ap pearance. Search for j - JAMES R, YOUNG - - ' James Youngs Noted Author, To Talk Here - James R. Young, foreign corre spondent, who 23 months before Pearl Harbor was arrested as a spy suspect in Japan and who came back from his 13 months imprisonment to write the best selling book, "Behind the Rising Sun," will speak . at : Saturday night's-Victory Center program here. Diverging from his originally planned schedule of public and shipyard appearances in Portland, Young late Thursday promised to address . a Salem i audience this weekend from the bond-selling platform on the courthouse lawn. His appearance here will come as a climax to "Molly Pitcher 4ay,Vwhen women of; the, com munity follow ' in - the , pathway worn by the revolutionary heroine and "fill up the pitchers' with war bond and stamp sales. Results of the day-long canvass by members of women's organi zations, if tallied by that time, will be announced as a feature of the program. V . The cavalry band stationed in this area has; pledged its service in the big 7 o'clock rally, Junior Chamber; of Commerce President Pat Crossland was assured Thurs day. V:- ! ; ; .. " : Young will speak, from 13 years' experience as a correspondent in Tokyo and knowledge gained from 13 months as a Jap - prisoner of the methods employed by the en emy in the orient: ; s Arriving in Salem at mid-afternoon, he will participate in a roundtable discussion over radio station KSLM at 4 pjn. with C. A. Sprague, publisher : of The Statesman, and A. H. Wilson, Pos tal Telegraph manager here, world traveler and news commentator. Sweden Closes Roads to Nazi By JOHN H. COLBURN STOCKHOLM, Aug. 5.-a-With 400,000 Swedish troops alert for any . German retaliation, the Swedish ; government announced tonight that the transportation of German soldiers to and from Nor way over Swedish railways would be halted Aug, 20. . V,; '.'- ' i The movement, of German war materials through ? t his neutral country to Norway, likewise a three-year-old practice, is to cease Aug. "j 15, the communique said, on the basis of a new agree ment worked out with Germany. Sweden's action is a .physical and psychological J blow to Ger many. It is estimated Germany will have to set aside about one third of axis shipping now plying between Germany and Norway to transport the 150,000 troops an nually carried over the safe Swe dish land route. - Psychologically,- little Sweden's move came, at a time when Ger many is suffering reverses on three fronts in Russia, Sicily, and in theair war over the reich it self. 'j""r'i ;?"--.-','-': ' Aside from the obvious impli cation that the Swedes, are con vinced of an eventual allied tri umph, the action also implied these new Swedish political con cepts: ,i..'t J rf:, ;: -; -. ' That Sweden now is able mili tarily to withstand German retal iation; that Germany is is no po sition to do much about it; that Sweden finds it opportune to rid herself, of allied charges of being unneutral and pro-axis, especial ly as prelude to a possible al lied invasion of neighboring Nor Troop Half of Munda Airdrome In Yank Hands v Jap Garrison Being , - Slowly i Destroyed ; . All Retreat Cut Off By WILLIAM F. BONI ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST. PA CIFIC, Friday, Aug. effy-UM of the Munda airdrome is in control of American ' infantry men fighting with tank support,- and the entire:- Japanese garrison there "is now completely encircled and is being slowly de stroyed,? I Gen. Douglas r- MacAr thur announced Friday.' .'- latest reports from the : New Georgia fighting front in the cen tral Solomons stated the Japanese sustained heavy : e asualties throughout day-long; fighting Thursday as the Americans seized control ; of ' the eastern : slopes of Kokengolo hill. .That is between the rairstrip and '-i the revetment areas where planes are kept : "An eyewitness account of the push on the ; Munda ;" airport, written by J." Norman " Lodge, Associated Press correspond-, ent, appears on pace 1ft. The" dispatch, dated Angus 3, was delayed In transit. , These forces sent a strong com bat - patrol slicing through the jungle to the seacoast , northwest of the airdrome while other for ces advanced along the south aide of the coveted airstrip. ' i . A spokesman for General Mac- Arthur said it appeared that all possible Japanese lines of retreat to the north are covered by our forces. Enemy holdings now have been whittled down to roughly a triangular area of some 1500 yards on each side. The principal tank support was given to those. troops which bat tled their way on to the slopes of Kokengolo hill which is a contin uation of Bibolo hill, now occu pied , by the ' Americans, abou t a mile northeast of the field. Kokengolo hill Is i t u a t e df roughly half way along the east west axis of Munda with the dis persal bays ranged about the hill's northern base. This near climax action .in the Solomons was keyed with con tin ued fighting on the approaches of Salamaua on northeastern New Guinea in which Japanese coun terattacks were decisively ; re pulsed. . .' - .-. .... ., ,.' . , Light American surface . craft and the 13th airforce maintained pressure on the J apanese in the Solomons. Naval - vessels proba bly PT-boatssank two enemy barges northwest of. Munda ,the night of Aug. 3 and in the early morning of Aug. 4. Last night, a coastal ship, possibly 100 feet long, was sunk in the Blackett strait be tween New . Georgia and Kolom- bangara. Mitchell medium bombers with fighter escort on . Thursday's strafed barges and shore positions at Gizo island Is west of Kolom- bangara, as well as in Webster Cove on Kolombangara's south coast. In the New Guinea sector, a series of sharp enemy attacks in the Robdubi-Mount Tambu area which is roughly, fives miles be low Salamaua, 'ended with, the enemy driven from strategically (Turn to Page 2 Story C) ... US Merchantman Sunk by Sub WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-(ff- The;navy reported Thursday that a r medium-sized United States merchant : vessel was torpedoed and sunk by . an enemy submarine in the South Atlantic early in July.1 Survivors, landed at Miami, Fla. Bombar-Dear? r.r r- a. mm mllZltmMM. .' Blsfiop Thoto Dorthie Lett, South Paelfle hlzhway, el the piquant ', face and . thick . earls. Is . one of the contestants for title of Salem's "Bliss Eombar-Dear," . ta be named Tuesday night. T1 o O T As GauaMa I -Setsedl;- Omilj IteUaums- Hamburg 4 :.X.:.?..it'?wa fJbf With Haaaborg a devastated wreck, Berliner fear that the same punishment is coming te their city. An KAF eemnteBtater 'said Thnrsday that enly slightly longer nights are needed for the bombing ef Ger many's capital. Phete shews Dambarg's port after a recent raid.' Orel, Belgorod Fall To Reds as Nazis Flee :--v- i ..r.I-NDONr Friday, Aug. . ey'fVThe .German . strongholds of Orel and Belgorod fell. Thursday to powerful Russian armies scoring their greatest, summer triumph of the war, and Marshal Joseph Stalin spurred his troops cry 'death to the German invaders." . I - ' The double victory, which included the capture of 30 villages Layton Denied Venue GKange ; Judge Postpones Trial lor Polk County;; Murder to Aug. 16 1 DALLAS, Aug. 5 Plea for a change of venue in the trial , of Richard Harry Layton, who faces first degree murder charges in connection with the drowning of Ruth Hildebrand, was denied by Judge Arlie G. Walker Thursday afternoon, but Roy R. Hewitt, at torney for-the defense, was grant ed a postponement. Trial was re set for August 16 at 9:30 a. m. , A Portland attorney is said to have joined in the defense of Lay ton, necessitating further Ume tot preparation. Judge Walker, meanwhile, has asked for, a special venire of . 15 men to be called from which the jury will be drawn. " Hewit hi the change of venue plea, cited stories from newspa pers in . surrounding - towns as arousing public ' opinion ' to the point where the defendant would not receive a fair trial. Little in terest has been shown in the pre liminary moves, however, judging from the few spectators who have gathered in court so far. Layton's -defense against charges t h a t he attacked and pushed 17-year-oldSuth Hilde brand into the Willamette - river near Buena Vista on a night early in June will be insanity, Hewitt has announced. . - 40,000 Jap Casualties In Guadalcanal Defense i WASHINGTON An g . 6-ff) Japanese efforts to defend Guar dai canal cost ; the enemy 40,500 men, the war department report ed Thursday. .. - - . . - - ", The figure .was given in a re port, tar: the 3 1 epartment by CoL Royal L. Cervais, who said only 15C 3 - of ,42,000 Japanese soldiers escaped d e a t h or capture and were evacuated from .the Lland. Gervais said that the reputed superiority of the Japanese as jungle lighters s faded with, the enemy on Guadalcanal. "Our tac tics are sound, equipment .excel lent, the men are fully Qualified, and man for man well beat the Jap anywhere," he declared. IJJtetencdeirs Now iPetttniii Demolished; Berlin Next? ,V.:. 4- ' . V, on westward today with the northwest, south and southwest of Orel, threatened to shatter the en tire German defense line in south central Russia,' forcing the axis to fall back slowly to the Dnieper river 270 miles to the west - "The 'legend "of the Germans that soviet troops are allegedly unable to wage " a ' successful of fensive in the, summertime has been dispelled, declared Stalin in an order of the day announcing the momentous victory. ; Berlin acknowledged a 1 with drawal from Orel the first big axis summer retreat since Adolf Hitler's troops invaded Russia at the peak of their power in 1941: ; German troops fleeing Orel were falling back toward Bryansk. At Belgorod far to the south the Rus sians were driving the enemy back into the Ukraine. On all fronts the Russians said they bad knocked out' 98 German tank and shot down 168 German planes in Wed nesday's fighting leading up to the Stalin, as supreme. commander-in-chief of the Russian armies, or dered the Moscow garrison to fire 12 volleys from 120 guns at mid night to salute one . of the most significant strokes of the war. : - . "Eternal glory to the heroes who fell in . the struggle -'for -freedom of our motherland,' Stalin's mes sage concluded. "Death to the Ger man invaders! ;: -. . : r ' ' i The Germans had te be pried leose from Orel block by block la the final mop-up of the city, the soviet midnight eemnumi qee recorded by the soviet mon itor said. The defeated nazia fought from fortifications in the streets, mined and blew up houses and put rifle men into the cellars and attics of stone buildings to stave off 'the Russian advance as long as pos sible. But soviet assault groups cleared out the German nests and piled up great quantities of cap tured material. Many prisoners also' were taken. . : - Northwest of the city the nazis (Turn to Page 2 Story A) 4 j Senior9 Jldion Coohs : JZeturn -- Via JujiUu TcxJde i " PORTLAND. "Aug. 5.HTV-The youth who ' stole Senator Rufus Holman's ration books was caught Thursday by a woman with a fly ing jujitsii tackle. " - Mrs. Melvin Jones, Portland, tried Jujitsu on a boy she found going through, her handbag In a cloakroom here. The lad, whom juvenile authorities . sent , to the Frascr home, had Senator IIcl iran's ration book in his posses sion.' - . 'Z JLDeilMdDFSl Up Heavy B o DuefofRerifou RAFTIireatens J. ' - - ' 'W,'"'?'" ' ' ' ! LONDON, Aug. 5.-(fPr-An RAF commentator hinted Thursday night that Berlin was due for a heavy aerial drubbing shortly,' and it j r was announced ' that ' speedy British Mosquito ' bombers were out over the Ruhr, and Rhineland last night, without loss. ? It was also announced . that British naval -; planes ' swooped down on eight German "E-boats" off Calais during the night, sink ing three of them and badly dam aging a fourth.: I ; ' The . air ministry news service said the naval planes also returned with no loss despite heavy . anti aircraft lire. -. ' -:; The RAF commentator said that Ber liners "must be watching the shrinkage, of daylight with some concern. The long, 10-hour nights afford cover to' the lightly- armed night bombers on the 1200- mile round trip to the . German capital. ' He said Berlin was considered an important target as the seat of government and as a large indus trial center and added that it was important "from the standpoint of morale. : f t "Berlin means a lot to Ger many,' he continued. "There al ways has been a certain amount of bother whenever .Berlin was hit. The -German people have made a tremendous moan . about it Berliners themselves, however, have not moaned so much when the Ruhr has been raided. Sheriff Leaves for LA ! To Bring Back Suspect "Following waivert of extradition in Los Angeles by .Donald Eng man, charged with having rifled the till of - a Salem beer parlor, Sheriff: A. C. Burkr left Thursday for the southern California city to take into his custody the youthful prisoner. robing Salem Iron Works-Plant Expanded for War Task Workmen poured the last square of cement Thursday for the new unit, of the Salem Iron . Works which is being remodelO ta house lathes and drill presses be ing sent to Salem for the tooling and assembly of electric genera tors and hull demagneuzers, Ray Smith, superintendent, announced Thursday.- i" ' -V To facilitate the production of lumber carriers and lift trucks in the Dallas unit, all jigs and other machinery for the standardization of assembly will be moved from Dallas to the new Salem; unit which will require the hiring of 20 new employes. Smith said. Because' foundries must be maintained in Prinevie, Dallas em for. the casting of de usee In n ) T! -. Taormina Likely Spot for Next Stubborn Stand : ; By DANIEL DS LUCS ALLIEDt II E A DQUARTEI13 IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 5.-(P-Conquerinj: British legion smashed into Catania" today' and fanned out in twin sweeps that shoved back German rear guards from the southern and eastern slopes of Mt. Etna and brought nearer the final victory of the Sicilian campaign at Mes sina. ' -' " . '- : As veteran British infantry mopped up machine gun nests and snipers inside Sicily's leading east coast port, armored scouts cruised 10 miles northwest along the vital road circling Mt. Etna and occu pied Mister bianco and Paterno. Paterno was officially occupied less than two hours after Catania was taken. Another eighth army column headed due north alone the coast toward Messina some 55 miles dis tant, with Adreala nine miles from Calania the immediate prize. The Germans already have be gun withdrawing non - essential personnel ' from Sicily as they had. attempted in Tunisia. Official reports said relations between Germans and Italian were worsening, and one Ital ian taken at Catania said that daring the defense ef that city "I killed more Germans than I killed Englisa.. He was a sap per, forced Into the Infantry. The Sicilian front-line corres pondent for the US army - news papers Stars and : Stripes, - quoted an American officer as estimating that only 5000 Italian infantrymen Still were fighting on the islam! along with possibly" 35,000 Ger mans. ';.',.- ; , ; Some of the service troops were being evacuated across the Mes sina straits, the officer added. ' One American corps two al ready have been identified in Si cily has taken more than 70,000 prisoners. The Italians still in action have been given no offensive role be cause .of their past refusal to &t (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Berlin Radio Gets Tough Br the Associated Press The Berlin radio suggested Thursday night that Germany would resume the offensive against the allies in November and wipe them out with new weapons. ' Confronted with the task of ex plaining nazl defeats from Rus sia to Sicily, the Berlin radio fell back on an old trick In threaten ing to use a "new weapon, but this time the touch was hesitant. The device this time, instead of using a responsible German au thority, was to quote a newspa per dispatch appearing in Madrid which in turn quoted "rumors in Germany." , " " Here is the broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press: "Madrid Rumors are circulat ing in Germany that the passive attitude of the reich would cease In . November," the Berlin corre spondent of 'Arriba,' the official (Spanish fascist) party organ, re ports. By then new weapons would be ready and all plans would be -completed for a retalia tion which would be the most rad ical work of destruction against the enemies of Germany, he de clares." -.-'- fense materials; plants in all of these cities- will pour iron to be sent to the Salem unit for rebor ing and final assembly before I -leg sent to the Marine Electiie company of Portland for instilla tion aboard ships under construc tion there. " -Smith -Testimatci that two cr three weeks would te reuirt I to install cranes, transfer rr.:: ' '.-s from Dallas ; and asseirM e rev machinery., on' order fr tpct.fi asscrr.blles In the Salem unit. nepair.work done on the new unit Includes filling in a base ment, removing a wood fioor en 1 Installing a cement one at strr t level, eliminating all clivC j walls in the buHdLr-j and ce t ir the outside w&!"s, Cr.::h t:' '.