1 fff' '0 v . v4 i it ft... 4 'Sun. euhrhe! 6:025 (Weather on Page 8) " mm ' 1 V I i t r i t lil' 'TOD CTOuB V KEIETY - TXHHD TEAS 10 PAGES Scdem. Oregon, Saturday Iloniina, Aujust 7, IS 43 Us. 114 Mi i : ' " r ' " -----w -, "IT SEEMS" TO ME that the Swiss newspapers which' protest the urging of the United States - and Great Britain that they' deny refuge, to "war criminals are on " sound ground. The Lausanne Ga ' zette is quoted as saying: s; v : " "We would lose one of the most essential privileges "of an inde- pendent state if we bowed to for- eign interference in this sphere." The admittance of persons from : other - states is a matter for the - determination of the state itself. Extradition of criminals proceeds , strictly according to treaties en- - tered into. A free state like Swit i lerland can decide for Itself whe- . ther it will admit Mussolini or ; Hitler , and whether it would re- , lease either on the demand of their I home countries or on demand of . their victorious enemies; y .' .? Right of asylum t is ancient Greek temples were places of re fuge for slaves, politicians fleeing from their enemies, and criminals. In modern times this right of po--litical asylum has been commonly ! resorted, to ;as minority: leaders r and revolutionists .were forced to ' fly-from their own countries. Maz- zini took refuge in England.: Trot ; sky, found "asylum; in New . York. KarL Marx; refugee from German , ny, did most of his - studying in the - London libraries H before he 1 wrote "Das KapitaL" , Politcians Land generals from the Latin Am- erican- states . have often , fled to .this country and used - their aej ; curify here to frame a revolution ;in their home lands; ; - t . It is reported thai some author ity c international law has-as-r . sured Pres. Roosevelt that the : United - : Nations , can . requisition - . these "war criminals" ; from the states they may escape to. Maybe so, " but the only way , they could 'obtain their persons if the asylum ' state' refused to honor the requi sition would be to send a force in to seize the persons wanted. That "would be a breach of the rights ' of the v soverign states, " which (Continued on editorial page) Personalities Will Greet - -X UUli J. Uf (1111 Colorful . personalities ' ranging from high-ranking Army officers . tP iyyitcbrcolonIal . costume are to provide pari of the background for tonight's appear ance in Salem of James R. Young, ' INS ; foreign correspondent,- who . appears in a bond-selling role at ; Salem's Victory center.- . r Planned as a snappy half hour . of military - band music and ad dress loy Young, the program pro per commences at 7 J o'clock. : : Women from Salem organiza- tions, who today are covering the town in an effort !. to "fill .the pitchers" with bond and ' stamp sales, have been invited by Jun ior Chamber of. Commerce Presi dent Pat Crossland to join young men of his organization as sales emissaries, " to ? circulate in the " audience. "Thus," he pointed out Friday, ."exeryone will j have an opportunity to buy or to pledge to buy. . v.- --j' -;. " The Molly Pitcher group, with members of the American Legion auxiliary leading in making of plans, have . scheduled 5 o'clock this afternoon as the close of their campaign, but may enter the field anyhow tonight, it was said, and whatever they sell will be cred ited to their campaign. Appearing as chief attractions at the center, which is on the lawn of ' the- county- courthouse and (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Harold Crook, . Dies in Pacific DALLAS Word has been re ceived from the -war department "that CpL Harold Crook was killed in action somewhere in New Gui- nen on July 25. CpL Crook was erroneously reported, as wounded at a previous date. His is the first death reported among the men of the , local company serving over seas. , , Q10-a-Year Tax on Juke Boxes Declared Unconstitutional By RALPH C. CURTIS The "juke box tax ol $10 a . year, one feature of Rep. i John Steelhammer's ? bill in the ? 1943 legislature which also provided a tax on pinball r machines, - all for the further, enhancement of the old age assistance fund, was ruled unconstitutional Friday by a three-man panel ' of Multnomah county circuit judges. This tax is . discriminatory, Judges Alfred P. Dobson," Ashby C Dickson and Earl C Latourette ruled, for the reason that it taxes only coin-in-the-slot music vend ing machines, and not similar ma chines which -vend other "arti cles of value.?- ,- r - - The suit was ; initiated by . Sol Fox, a jtuke box operator, .and was defended by the state through the attorney general's office. 1 TThether an appeal will be tak en to the state supreme court had xot been determined Friday niht. t i 4 : f Urs. J. Barton Crary, IMS B street, Friday aftorneon received from Gov. Earl Snell the award which tke army gires to tbece who have served for 50 bnn H areimd ebrrers la the aircraft warning service. In additkw to hex services as aa observer, Mrs. Crary Is persoanel superinlendent for the . - Saleat pest, sees that it Is constantly manned a Job which requires constant work, especially daring - vacation months. Watching the presentation la foregreuBd of The Statesman photograph are, left to right, W. H. McCane, director of AWS for Marion eennty district; Bern ice Taraer. observer en duty, and Dolores Kellogg, observer on doty; while from the "cabin of the post," left to right , are Mrs. ' McCane, mstractor In AWS aircraft recognition school; Mrs. Lewis Mitchell, Salem post correspondent, . and Mrs. : Harold Gillespie, training shift lastractor. Bead farther AWS news oa page It. Father's Dav Still Oct. 1 - f Wheeler Seeks to. Cut 1 Recess of Congress 4 To Override McNntt i - Br : th Associated Press ' ' War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt refused Friday to extend the draft immunity' of pre Pearl , Harbor 'fathers beyond . Oc tober 1 and Senator, Wheeler (D-; Montj ' promptly sought f to have congress summerrecess cut, short so efforts, cbulo" be made' to 'over ride the man-power chief. McNutt told Wheeler he author ized the drafting of fathers when it became, necessary after October 1 because such action was imper ative to protect war industries against the loss of childless men they must keep to maintain pro duction. , ; - - ;,.-:V-.-;- -.v. 1 Meanwhile, ' national selective service headquarters reaffirmed a promise to hold off actual induc tion of fathers as long after Oc tober 1 as possible and to bring all states and communities to the point of drafting them at about the same time. 1 ! Wheeler, unappeased, said from Belton, Mont., he was telegraph ing requests to , Senator Barkley of Kentucky, state , democratic leader, and speaker Ray burn of Texas that congress be recon vened "earlier than Sept. . 14", to deal with the 'situation. . McNutt released at Washington an , exchange of telegrams with Wheeler ' revealing that' the sena tor was ' not ' entirely in accord with the man-power chiefs con tention that the drafting - of. fa thers, was the only, alternative to risking war production failures by taking non-fathers off - crucial work, ..r it ' y m; ' . i; 5 V '- ' ! "Why, Wheeler asked, "spend billions in - countries which have not sent a single soldier to the front and draft American fa thers?" ! -At Bonham, Texas, Speaker Rayburn said he had no com ment on Wheeler's request to re convene congress. -I Senator Barkley at bis borne at Paducah, , Ky said he had . not received Wheeler's request and, likewise, had no comment. Earl Day, a member of the state tax commission, said?, however that the decision would not de prive the old age assistance: fund of any significant amount of reve nue. . - 1 -Vi - . .- ' Just what the loss win be, the tax commission is. not able to de termine accurately -for the reason that when this suit was instituted, the juke box owners immediately withheld their tax payments pending a decision o . that the commission has no record of the number of such machines in the state., : Rep. Steelhammer estimated when he introduced the bill-that it would produce revenue-In ex cess of a million : dollars a year, chiefly frbm the higher tax on pinball machines, which was not attacked in this suit The tax. com mission later estimated that the revenue would be nearer $2C0,CC0 a year. : c 500 Hours us a Ground Over Sicily L FIRST LT. HAROLD C. LENTZ Takes Yanlc Plane to Get This Yank PORTLAND, Aug. The only make , of plane capable of shooting down First Lieut Harold C. Lentz is, apparently, an Amer ican. one.' : V ':A:'r: "Cliff," son of MrJ and Mrs. E. M. Lenta of 122 Evergreen ave nue, Salem, told here Friday how out of 50 combat missions in North Africa, he had to make just one crash landing. And the nazi who shot away, his gasoline ..tank was flying a P-38 Lightning captured from the American air force, Lentz said.: f y,t..i"i"--'h'yi - Lieut 1 Lenta - shot down three Messerschmitts in 45 minutes over Sicily "last June and won "the Distinguished Flying Cross for it That gives . the- ex-Salem ? high school " student three medals. ; t "Fll stake my life any day on the. P-38 against any-plane in the world,", the flier said Friday, as he started "on home to Salem. : Mrs. Olimart, Daugliter of Pioneers, Dies : . Mrs. Velleda W. Ohmact daugh ter of pioneer Oregon families and native of the Salem . community, died Friday at a Salem , hospital after an illness of six weeks.' Daughter of Fabritus and Vir gilia Pringle Smith, she was born January 22,, 1855, on her parents' donation land claim just south of Salem. She was a granddaughter of Vlrgtt andPherne Pringle and great., granddaughter : of " Tabitha Brown, all of whom crossed the plains, to Oregon in the year 1S4S. At old Oregon Institute and Wil- lamet te university, - she received her education, graduating with the class of 1873. Only one older grad uate of the century -old Salem university survives her. - In 1877 she was married to Ad am Obmart and to this union were born five children, of whom three survive, sons, Roy V. Ohmart and Reynolds W. Ohmart and one daughter,"" Miss Lois Ohmart, all of Salem. Another son, Chauncy, died in 1935, and his twin, Ches ter, In Infancy. I " I Five grandchildren and , five great grandchildren also survive, J (Turn to Page 2 Story O Observer u - - it Soldier's Body Fowid on Raf t: Corpse in Willamette 't ; IUrer Ideijtified '" Ab Tim ber Wolf Man I , The body of a soldier, identified for the public simply as "member of the Timber Wolf division,"; was removed from a log raft in the Willamette river at approximate ly 1 pjn. Friday . .. , c. -T' When $he body wag sighted and military policecalled, the raft was near the. Newberg, bridge." where it had been towed Thursday from West Salem. . J 1 .. Coroner L. EL Barrick, "notify ing state police, said the man had evidently been dead three weeks. State officers called Adair author ities, who requested that removal of the corpse be left in military hahds and who said Friday night that the body, had u been identi fied but that the name would not be revealed until next of kin had been notified. - - . , : y: - Residents "along the river re called that within the past month boatmen and police had investi gated reports of calls for help be lieved to have come from the Wil lamette near Hood street At that time no evidence of a drowning was found. ! ... J; .;-; l;,-. Although that portion of the river lies below the Pope-Talbot holdings: where the 'raft in ques tion was tied up to Thursday, rivermen thought that some logs from the lower river might have gone into the downriver move ment Thursday and that the body might have been carried with them. House Barns While , Bean Crop Is Garnered J TALBOT, Aug. loWhile Mxl and Mrs,- Richard Martan aided a neighbor in picking of , a bean crop, fire of undetermined origin completely destroyed their resi dence and its contents. The dwell ing --was owned-by- Rev. Henry Turnidgf and. was located on Tumidge Island. Judge mid Bomhar-Dear Entry i V Si 'i- . V : r ' - ' ' Blshop Photo ' ' - IX B. S. Teldea. Salem alrbase. comes from Montana, where he - was an aircraft . lattrnment mechanic prior to " enlistment ' 11 he ' gees back there when the war Is ever It will be as an air ecrrs ' member, for he plans to make that his career. Frank and enrzriZ as Is his smile, his eyes like those of all pilots, are unusually good. and he's going to be a wise JjJre In selection izl wec&end of Z.i Combar-Dear, ; whose name will be made -p&tlle TutsZzr nlxt Looking at the pictore of Lernadyne Pelers, CZi ' Unl-a street shown here. Isn't going to tnrt el many 'contestants. t " - (Details of contest on pa;s 6) Gsiip Oii 2- Zolochev Falls1 . In South; Reds 1 Push on Bryansk "'Br' the AMwcUted. PrM ; " . LONDON Saturday, Aug.' 7 Hussian armies breaking; into the Ukraine on a 43-mile front outflanked the big German base of Kharkov Friday by capturing Zolbchevy 25 miles to the norths west, in - a -' continuing summer campaign' that already has cost the Germans 120,000 killed and 12,418 prisoners. , 1 Gains up to 37 miles were scored in the smash west of " Belgorod, which cut ' the Kharkov-Bryansk railway at Zolochev, and the Rus sians also drove onward through Orel ' farther -north in the : surge toward Bryansk, said a special vic tory bulletin. -I -. ' In the southeast other Russian, units were reported on the move in ' the . Donets basin, capturing several German -held heights southwest of Voroshilovgrad. This indicated a ' general ' Soviet offen sive aimed at hurling the Germans far back to the Dnieper river The Russians killed 2,000 1 Ger mans during the day in -the drive that topped Zolochev and strad dled the enemy's : communication lines above Kharkov, the midnight communique .' said. This seizure posed a pincer threat to the great industrial center because the Ger mans said another, Russian army I was:,fhassed for action pear Chu- gueV,24 miles southeast of Khar kov. ' r ;-Vf "C"'5" ', f ..'V.;'.. .' ' Soviet bombers poanded both Kharkov and Bryansk ahead of Red amies that had taken Orel and Belgered an Tharsday. " 1 The advance in three days from north of Belgorod had 1 swept through that . city, enveloped ISO settlements and driven ahead 15 to 37 miles, a special communique broadcast from Moscow and re corded by ; the Soviet monitor said.' ; -i-f : The - drive carried t Into the Ukraine north of Kharkov and lent credence . to earlier Moscow (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Soldiers Trio Taken Into Custody Here CAMP ADAIR, Aug. 6 Three of the four soldiers who Wednesday-night, "went over the hill" from the stockade here, were back at hard labor Friday. ' Pvts. Hayward P. Perkey and Owen Brewer were arrested in Salem Friday morning; Pvt. Cleve Williams bad been taken into cus today Thursday. Still at large is Pvt Charles Barnes, i : Escape from the guardhouse was made by crawling along a drain age ditch: and clipping the wire that enclosed the stockade. Salem city police cooperated with mill- tary police in locating the trio. J the Judges eyes, either. Che Is c-e Front r"T"v - n - - s' ' U - Yanks mppp Miinda 9 By C YATES McDANIEL ? i ,: ; - ,1 '" - ALUED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACI-, FIC, Saturday, Aug. 7-W-Tbe United SUtes jungle Xightert who captured the Munda air base and crushed all organized resistance of the Japanese now have chased fleeing remnants into nearby mangrove swamps, where they are. being. annihilated. - ' .; : The bloody mopping up operations were related in a com munique from Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur issued today on the "first anniversary of the American of fensive in the Solomons. .': r- : - The jungle troops pushed north and northeast of yesterday's bomb and shell battered scene of vic tory, to hunt dbwn what few Ja panese have hot been slahu ; Meager reports from the south. Pacific Indicate that the 1671 en emy dead mentioned in a special communique recording the fall of Munda, on New Georgia, may rep resent only a partial count of the enemy losses inflicted as Ameri can infantrymen drove across the airdrome behind the withering fire of tanks and flame throwers. - General ! MacArthur, commend ing Admiral William F. Halsey, commander of the south Pacific forcer on the "complete victory said it reflected great credit on all components - ground, naval and air. r i . . i:-v While mopping up went for ward at Munda, war planes of the navy and the ; army's 13th - air force r a n g e d ; northwest and northeast of there to shoot down seven r out of r SO r Zeros over Buin-Faisi, destroy a troop-laden barge off Vela Lavella island and unload 65 tons of bombs on' the Japanese float-plane base at Re- kate bay. " " Rekata bay is on the coast of Santa Isabel . Island,' ' 10G "miles northeast of Munda. " '! Mitchell, medium' bombers of Lt Gen. George Kenney's Fifth alrforce continued their ' -sweeps over barge ' hideouts along the New Guinea coast route of supply to the enemy's menaced isthmus air base of Salamaua. The Japanese registered their " only score off the north coast of Australia where a small allied vessel was bombed and sank by " enemy planes. ' -":."' An Australian-flown Hudson evened the ' count by bombing a Japanese merchant ship off the west coast of Dutch New Guinea.' In the Buin-Faisi air triumph, 16 of our fighters took on the 30 Zeros. We lost only one plane. American soldiers , are expected to turn their attention. to Bairoko to gain complete control of the is land. Little - has been reported from that sector since" July 10 when United States troops land ed on the north end of the is land and cut communications be tween Bairoko and Munda. The peaseastoBf ef the '. (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Airbase Sends Snell Salute ; At AWS Post v - The gyrating;" dancing, skim ming . diving plane that -parted your hair early Friday afternoon was saluting the state's governor and his recognition of aircraft warning service week. Gov. Earl " SnelL not advised that the exhibition' flying had been- planned," stood gazing into the sky, himself an aircraft ground observer in the most liter al sense of the word as a pilot from the Salem air base took his Alra cobra through its paces. When he might .have been high in the sky at the city's observation post where the whites -of the young flyer's eyes were reputedly visible. . A few minutes later, the gover nor pinned : the 500-hour ; service award on the coat.of Mrs. J. Bur ton Crary, one of Mrs. Robert Clumenstein's executive assist ants at the Salem post. v Pop c Calls for Pcccc Prayers. v f LONDO?r, - August H5Vrc?e Pius XII today called upon Rom an Catholics to pray forpeace and asked "most particularly that the telcjvei people cf Italy H this grave difficulty prove wor thy of Its prayers. ' -' , la a letter to Luli Cardinal LlasHonl, pepal secretary of state, the pcntilf said, , "Yith &a cur heart we wish . that all should turn to God in penitence and prayer." - - - ; ' - Gjl)Ui mg A irbase Japs Swedish Plane bmNeuds S STOCKHOLM, vAag. Anti-aircraft fire from a Ger 'aiaa' 'merchantmaii strack a 'Swedish fighter plane firing ever the boundary " between Swedish territorial waters and International waters, an official statement said Friday night : - This -was the first lacldent since Sweden announced Thurs day that German troop and war material traffic through 8wedea to Norway weald be saspended later this month. ' ' j; The Swedish plane," it was j said, was able to make a normal landing. The . observer was weanded. '-- . t : Crips Berlin j i LONDON, Aug. Berlin tonight was reported by Reuters to be in a "state of panic," with authorities at their "wits' end to control a mass stampede from the city for fear of allied air raids. ' The British-news agency, quot ing arrivals in; Zurich from 3 the German capital said thousands of refugees from bomb - shattered Hamburg were arriving in Berlin and spreading stories' of fantastic casualties in the allied raids. f These persons have been arrest edln efforts to control the spread' ing panic, it was said. . Dispatches from Sweden report ed that RAF planes had dropped J leaflets, warning the: people of Berlin that they face the same fate as the people of Hamburg, which has' become the most-bombed city in the world in recent weeks. .Stockholm reports have estl- mated ; that 200,006 casualties Were suffered in Hamburg la the : recent week-long series of raids. ;' (A CBS correspondent at Bern, (Turn to Page 2--Story D) v - - : X ' - , Stolen Baby's Mother Rallies ALBANY, Ore, Aug. S-vTy-The mother of tiny Judith Gurneyr the two-day-old girl who disappeared from & hospital crib mysteriously, last Tuesday, rallied today, but police reported they were no near er solution of the case. : : Dr. E. Lew Hurd said, the moth er, Mrs. W. B. Gurney, wife of an Albany labor union official,, rest ed quietly for the first time since the baby disappeared. : State Police Sergeant Earl Hous ton said a widespread search .for a kidnaper was unavailing, but hope still was held out that the baby - might be returned volun tarily to the r parents, who : ad dressed an appeal zor the girl s safe return directly : to the kid naper en a radio . hook-up , last night. ' t ' Dr. Hurd attributed Mrs. Gur ney's improved condition to ' the broadcast which, he said, bad In creased her hopes for the baby's recovery.' - . ' - Petition Filed for Repeal O f Knox Liquor Control Act , Repeal of the Knox liquor con trol act' and legalization of the sale of both "hard" end mild li quors by licensed dealers is pro posed in an Initiative petition filed Friday in the state depart ment by Mel P. Brown of Fort land. The measure i somewhat similar to one defeate 1 in the 1213 general election by a vote cf 5C3, 123 to S3.C31, If 15.C51 valid sirnatures are obtained ; Er. J filed prior ' to July 1, 1344, the measure will be on the . ballot in the general election in November, of that year, Y i , Ec'Ji restricted and unrestricted licenses, avill-ble to any club, ho tel or restaurant in an inctrpor ated city, would have to receive sprov&l cf the municipal council n - fir ( . 11 JLJ n Near A Kev Po!mC 4 J Siege jon Troina; t - ! Meesina BornbeiJ '? By RELMAN MORIN ALLIED HEADQUARTER 3 IK. NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 6 (ff)-Britjsh and Canadian forces were reported Friday night t bepnly several thousand yards from Adrano, key point in tha last enemy defense line around Mt Etna apd 20 miles northwest of captured Catania, j The US Seventh army was be sieging Troina to the northwest where an American officer said both axis -supply roads leading to the town were under American artillery fire. 1 "They win have to give aa or . fall back soon," be said. Other American forces hammer ed at German positions before San Fratello on Sicily's north coast. 8 miles from the axis escape hatch . at Messina. - . . Despite strong German gun po sitions on the slopes of Mt Etna above Adrano, a British force from the 78th division penetrated to within 2000 yards of the town and Canadians advanced from the west to within 4000 yards, j field dispatches said. ; One American column advanced several," miles to prepare for th4 attack on San - Fratello, and 2$ miles inland another group tooU Gagliano. Gagliano Is eight ,mile southwest of Troina where sava: fighting raged for.,. that main mountain fortress. - The American continuous shelling at Troina was so heavy that some German prisoners captured by patrols at nasi out- pests were foand to be helpless and vomiting from shell shock. Flying Fortresses heavy : artil Iery of the air- blasted" at Mes sina to disrupt evacuation of Ger man troops, indicating that the ' battle for Sicily was nearing its climax.- Americans on the north coast strongly supported by sea and. air bombardments, and British van guards on the east both were fighting about 50 miles from Mes sina. Other British Eighth army units were beating northwest around Mt Etna, from Pa tern o toward Adrano. Canadians and British in a cen tral push are making "steady progress toward Adrano astride the Mt Etna base road, today's allied communique announced. Axis resistance here continued strong. ' Thus Adrano, a communica tions bottleneck, was threatened i (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Food Poison Gases Grow EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 6-VA few more cases of food poisoning appeared in the southern Willam ette, valley tonight and Dr. C. R, Lindgren, Lane county health of ficer, estimated the total stricken, would reach 75. . Of these, 34 are hospitalized, some in a serious condition. Onlj one death has been reported, that of a two-year-old boy who suc cumbed yesterday. , Dr. Lindgren blamed the pois onings : on cream pie" ' which . ha said had probably not been kept in proper refrigeration. or board of city commissioners. The existing permit provisions would , be repealed and advertis ing on licensees premises wouM be liberalized. The new law, if eprroved ty the voters, would create a II -;uor control commission cf three mem bers to be er;ointed ly the r -v-ernor. .The liquor administration would .receive a salary cf fill a year. First 50 per cent cf -the Urcr -3 fees would to to the cities whils 75 per cent cf the remainirs li cense fees and taxes would go ta the . counties to . finance c!J - pensions, mothers tli end i-,;.i-' t"nt relief. The other 23 rrr c t v. ;.:J revert to t!.e itat-.'s 1 i- , . t - 41 .