PAGS TWO
lie OHTGCN STATIC! LIII, Cdeza, Oregon, Coturday I 'orrLjg. Aut 7. 1C13
Mi:
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British Near :
Axis Key
Defense Point
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tii west and seetheast.
Troina is : a i main shield i for
j withdrawal of axis forces from
-the south and central sectors of
t the bridgehead following the- fall
-; Catania. - .
4 US troops have won footholds
outside the mountain-top town,
and an allied officer who saw the
.opening stages of this battle de
ft scribed it as a major military
operation" marked by "undoubt-
edly the most savage fighting
" which has yet developed In Sid
ly." -
The Germans have thrown ev
ery type of weapon into defense
:- of Troina, using mortars abun
' dantly to carpet surrounding hills
and valleys with shells.
"' (Field dispatches reaching
headquarters three days ago said
Troina had been taken, and Prime
Minister ' Churchill earlier had
said the Americans had entered
1 the town, but apparently the, Ger
mans counterattacked before the
entry could be consolidated.)
American field artillery
helped the advance ef death
boys op the steep reeky moun
tain slopes to win positions la
- the hills near Trema after
crack combat teams had beea ,
unable to smash dewa the '
town's defenses.
The desperate defense of the
town was regarded by officers
here as a rearguard action to hold
open the gate for axis troops pul-
' ling out from the southeast areas.
' Allied airmen, raiding Messina
u reported a heavy concentration of
' anti-aircraft guns . comparable
with that of the Ruhr valley, in
dicating German determination to
: hold this "escape port open. No
' full-scale evacuation has -yet be
gun, it was reported.
Flying fortresses scored - excel
lent results in aiming at harbor
: Installations, crewmen said, and
Wellingtons attacked by night to
hit at landing barges and small
'boats, firing one large sized ves-
seL- " -
In other 'assaults In and around
f
'the Messina straits, Warhawks
.jand Kittyhawks destroyed a
r schooner, a seaplane, a ferry-boat
and seven barges and dam
'aged four barges, and four other
light craft. American A-3S in
f vaders sank two 200-foot ships,
i 14 barges and two seaplanes.
'i 'Meanwhile an official an-
neuneement said that more than
': tst enemy, airplanes, many of
i them stlU serviceable, had beea
found abandoned on captured
U airdromes up to last Wednes
day. -jiV, .-' :
Medium and light bombers and
fighters seared axis communica
; tions at ' Adrano and Francavilla,
; and American Mitchells escorted
by Warhawks bombed the switch
t lng yards at Gaspini In south
least Sardinia. Mitchells also raid--ed
Randazzo in Sicily. Eight al-
.Iied planes were lost In all op-J
.erauons.
Vancouver Quiet
"After Payday Riot
A VANCOUVER, Wash, August
- HP)- Vancouver streets were
quiet TFriday - night following a
."payday riot in this teeming ship
yard : town In which - more than
s 1000 persons marched on the city
police station, .7
t '. The riot was broken up by team
'gas bombs after city police called
;$n the state guard, slate police
. and reserves from nearby towns.
Mayor John Hogg, who. blamed
' the outbreak on "payday .drunks
' and hoodlums' dropped a 7 de
mand that beer taverns close at
p. m. nightly, announcing that
tavern operators had promised to
cooperate -with police in maintain
i ng order. '77-7' a y , 7
Hogg said no further trouble
s 'was expected. A-A ' V7 - i A ; 7 :
'- Nine persons were held in Jail
without charge and three were
''hospitalised with minor Injuries.
I
f
An ell stcrasetaak.dero tjarsis
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errloei (Aociatc
Beats Sound
Lieut. CoL Cass 8. Hough (above)
of Plymouth, Mich is shewn at
the 'controls of an airplane In
England, where he traveled fast
er than sound at more than 7 St
miles per hour in s vertical
dive of almost five miles. He
was acting as aa American test
pilot when ' he set the . reeat
speed. (AF phot by radio from
London.)
A (Continued .from Page 1) A
air base puts the ah force with
in range of RabauL new Brit
ain, most Important enemy base
In the area of the Pacific ;
uoaays anniversary was
marked by the announcement that
Lt Gen. Alexander Archer Van-
degrift, who led the marines
ashore at Guadalcanal,! was back
in the south Pacific and ready for
more action.
Since that day a year ago the
Japanese have lost more than
twice as many warships and four
times as many planes as the al
lies. Official figures place ene
my warship losses at 99 from last
August 8 to May 8 and airplane
losses at 1802. During the central
Solomons fighting; the Japanese
lost another 20 warships and about
350 more planes.
The United States has lost 44
warships, including those during
the last month, and about 450
planes. 7
Senior Citizens '
Seek to Recall
Idaho Governor
BOISE, Idaho, Aug. -UPV-The
first petition seeking 1 recall of
Gov. C A. Bottolfsen for his ap
proval of repeal of the senior dti-
os grants initiative measure,
was filed ( with the secretary of
state Friday.
The petition, circulated by W.
R. Raffety of Nampa, i contained
the signatures of 21 voters of Can
yon county and was certified by
Canyon County Clerk Minnie
Davenport. -
The petition was addressed to
George H. Curtis, secretary of
state, i ' . A AT :t
The grants act, to liberalize old
age pensions and proposing, many
other benefits for persons over 85,
as approved by the i voters in
1942 and repealed by the 1943
legislature.
Bottolfsen and a majority of the
legislators are republicans.
Woodcock
Mrs. Delia Brers Woodcock, sis
ter of the late EjB. Brers, late
resident of 95 Evergreen avenue,
at a local hospital August 5. Sur
vived by one daughter, Mrs.' Mil
dred Carver; three grandchildren.
Myles Carver of the US navy, and
Lucille and ' Patricia Carver of
Salem. Services will be held from
the Clough-Barrick chapel Mon
day, August , at 3 p. m, , , .
Yanks Mop
UpatMunda
Bombs Rin On PI oesti Refineries
late flames as bombs from TJS Liberators smashed the rioesti. Eo-
w imm turina im moments or the ralJ hefara .lavaii.
J Trc3 lUia" fxca USAAF xi
Russians
Advance on
, - . .. .- .: i - -
Two Fronts
B (Continued from Pago 1) B
reports that the whole German
front In Russia : was 7 threatened
with rWMarvut anrl ' that th niTi
Mih k. fAvMjt Ksov 4a v TVn?
per, 270 miles west of Belgorod.
The hoDe of the Germans and
their satellites' for favorable out
come of their summer operations
have suffered a complete fiasco,"
the Russian announcement said!;
The .Bed army has "created more
favorable conditions for develop
ment of active, offensive opera
tions of our allies on . the contin
ent of Europe."
Bryansk itself to the north was
threatened by Soviet armies rush -
ing tnrougn urw. mose troops
gained up to six miles today be-
yond faUea Orel, the bulletin
said, and captured 70 more ham-
lets including Kroml, 26 mUes
southwest of OreL ; 7 - '
la the month ending Thurs-
day, when Orel and Belgorod.
fell, the Eusslans said their
troops had destroyed 4695 en
emy taaka, 1623 guns, ll.tOt
tracks, and . shot down 2492
planes In f addition . to killing
100,009 Germans In the most re
sounding summertime triumph
yet scored by the Bed army.
The advancing Russians have
'ground to dust" the enemy divi
sions opposing them, the commun -
ique said.
The Ukraine offensive, w h I e hi
began Wednesday north of Bel
gorod, swept : through Belgorod
and in three days intensive battle
advanced IS to 37 miles, captur
ing more than 150 populated
places, the special announcement
said, j : l fA;
German defenses far to the
southeast in the Donets basin also
are menaced once more, with the
Russian "steel roof" likely to cave
in on them and trap them before
they can fall back' westward
along the Sea of Azov - coastal
area. -; 1
Kharkov was threatened once
more by the- Russians who had
taken it last winter in their his
toric : drive from Stalingrad.
The Germans regained it a
short time later. ,
Besides the thousands of Ger
man tanks : and other equipment
destroyed in the month-old coun
ter-drive which ousted the Ger
mans from Orel and Belgorod, the
special Moscow announcement
said 621 enemy 'tanks, 875 'guns,
2521 machine guns and 325 supply
dumps had been captured.
Army Wants
Ski Volunteers
WASHINGTON, Aug,
The army Is onen to volunteers
again out only 11 they axe ex
perienced skiers and mountain-
eers
For several months all "recruit-
inat has been through the select
ive service-: system, but the war
department announced today
"several! thousand", volunteers
were required within the next
two ' months, for service with
mountain troops.-
Competitive skiers or experts
are not expected just "men who
axe physically .sound, who enjoy
outdoor life and have -or
ski experience."
mountain
Western Union Warned
On Postal Offices
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6
Chairman James Lawrence Fly of
the federal communications com
mission (FCC) warned the West
ern Union Friday the commission
would not approve its proposed
merger with Postal Telegraph if
all Postal offices were - to be
closed. At ' : ? '. A
Flys warning came after F. E.
de Huray? vice president in charge
ui cnEineenos ior wesrern union.
said at a hearing ' he " understood
such procedure was contemplated
eventually. . - , - . :
OWI raiio from Cairo.) " " ".'
OH tieHOlIEFJROlIT
Cy CATZL CIIILD3
Contributed In the Interests of
the aircraft warning service
(AWS), which at the dose of
AWS week could still use some
volunteer 'workers: k ;
There are many things to do today
I And seme are not for pari
J'!8 to ivvome tim t
" ww r
Now, Sarah Jane worked , in a
- plant;
She got 10 "bucks" or so. ,
"One might a week," we begged
' of ner, '
Tor Red Cross come and sew."
she
said.
"I cannot spare the time."
1 And that girl would not helo us
out
Or even spare a dime. ' "
H - . -
Docs i o patrioUc, ;'
Even working every day, . 7
M you don't do that extra bit '
To hurry Up . the day
When Hitler and his little "chums"
Are put right in their place?
If we dont do our unpaid tasks
Well have our. boys to face.
If they've been on the firing line
And battling Japs all day
I Do they throw down, their guns
at night
And calmly hit the hay?
1 You bet they don't and this Is why:
They've a Job and so have youv
OK, go out and get 10 "bucks,"
But don't think you- are through.
They're paying off In blood and
tears . 7 ' -7:7'7'
That you may work all "day.
You've; got to give some time to
them
Without one cent of pay.
There are many who are doing It,
And many who will shirk.
DONT be the one of them to say
"I cant because I work."
V
Now,1 that was sent in anony
mously, and I suppose I could be
mean and simply run the tele
phone number of Mrs. Crary, who
is recruiting help for the Salem
post, which is 6753; however, both
the penmanship and the potry
seem familiar to me, so TU take a
guess and suggest Liberty Mrs.
Guy Williams - is : chief observer
there and her number is 22096.
Two Salem
Diplomats
Promoted :
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6
Two Salem men, Russell M.
Brooks and Ivan B. White,
among more than 200 foreign ser
vice officials advanced by Presi
dent Roosevelt Friday.
Such' advancements in class are
made periodically on the basis of
length of service, efficiency rat
ings and other factors, class I be
ing; the highest grade attainable
by a career diplomat.
Brooks was advanced from !
Class V to- Class IV; White from
vn.to.VL
Others on the list made -public
by the. state department Friday
night were William K. Aflshie of
Coeur DAlene, Ida, from VII to
VI; and William Bel ton and Ro
bert P. Hale of Portland, from
unclassified to VHL
Russell M. Brooks, son of Mrs. j
Mildred Robertson Brooks, long
Marion county recorder and now
retired, attended Salem schools,!
one of the state colleges and Wil
lamette law school before entering j
the consular service. He was con
sul at Casablanca at the time of !
the allied invasion there.
Ivan B. White, son of Mrs. B. H.
White and the late Dr. White, Is
a Salem high school and Wlllam-
Utte university graduate.
ChSrle Brant
Dies Here
In Hospital
-. Charles W. Brant, long a print
er mx Salem, for many years em-
ployed on The Statesmaiv died at
Salem hospital Thursday at the
age of 68 years. He had been re
tired and in III health in recent
years. .
Funeral services are to be held
Monday at 10:30 ajn. from "the
Clough-Barrick chapeL Rev.' W.
Irvin Williams ; officiating, and
ritualistic services at City View
cemetery wfil be under ausolces
of Hal Hfbbard camn. United
Spanish War Veterans. .
Survivors include two daui-
ters. Miss Marjorie Ann Brant
Portland, , and Mrs. Dorothy D.
Deacon of Mossy Rock, Wash.: two
sisters,-, Mrs. . Walter Keyes of
Wlnslow, Wash, and Mrs. A. IL
Buchanan of Redondo Beach.
Calif.; one brother," Louis Brant of
McKenzie Bridge Ore .and one
granddaughter, Patricia Ann Dea
con, of Mossy Rock, ; Wash.7,His
wife, the former Ruth AlberVpre
cededThim ixt death a number of
years ago. t .: . ..
Too Late to Classify :
rOH SALIi 1S3S Ford COi Track
wiui aouDi axis ana M2i rubber.
1941 COM. ' With Brownie and . HJX
Eator IS ft. bed. 1835 Federal. IS tt.
bad. 1941 converted motor. Trucks can
be seen at 2590 S. Summer t Balem. !
'SAoao aocx. jrjsiu ...
P3 ii2rlm
D (Continued from Page 1) D
Switzerland, quoted the nazi news
paper ia Bern, , Das N VoUcer, as
reporting a wave of strikes in
German war plants where "the
workers refused to return to their
benches even' after they were of
fered additional food rations
The benches now. have been oc
cupied . by troops of the Gesta-'
Po.") !
During the past week Spanish
correspondents in Berlin have all
ended their dispatches with mys
terious references to hews they
could report if nazi Censorship
permitted. For example, ; a news
dispatch to Informaciones in Madrid,-today'
ended:', "Obliged by
circumstances to limit ourselves
to military events, we must leave
for another day . subjects by no
means less interesting."
By ; tonight, ' evacuees were re
ported streaming from Berlin, ob
viously envisioning v the ghastly
spectre of a smoldering Hamburg
and faced by the candid warning
or:Hitlera propaganda -boss. Dr.
Paul Joseph Goebbels, that the
German capital was to be next
on the doom-list of allied might.
even Goebbels acknowledged
that Berlin's population was thin
ning out, but he said it was not
a mass evacuation, as yet.
Goebbels warning of what may
come to Berlin, coupled with his
acknowledgement of the exodus
and an appeal that the Germans
keep their morale afloat as the
British did during the 1940 aerial
lashing by the nasi air force, was
broadcast as he hurried from Hit
ler's headquarters for another vis
it to the wreckage that Is Ham
burg. ; ' ,
His statements, which
merely
underscored Germany's new
viewpoint of ;: gloom came less
than 24 hours after an RAF com
mentator implied strongly that
the lengthening nights were rush
ing Berlin's hour of doom.
When the battle of Berlin ac
tually opens, the Germans may
look for a round-the-clock offen
sive,5 with US Flying Fortresses
and swift British Mosquito fighter-bombers
hitting by day and
RAF heavyweights hitting by
night.'
Thus far,- Berlin bombings have
been left to the British, but MaJ.
Gen. Ira C Eaker, commanding
the US Eighth army air force, has
said that no part of Germany is
beyond-; the range of American
aircraft. The Fortresses already
have struck Oschersleben, only 90
miles from Berlin and about 30
minutes more -flying time.
It Is a risky route by daylight
to Berlin 23 Fortresses were lost
In the July 28 Oschersleben' raid
o heavy, night "softening up"
attacks can be expected to pave
the-way for American precision
bomb specialists. -
WFA Restricts
Shipment
Of Peaches
WASHINGTON, August 6 -4P)
The war food administration Tri
day placed - restrictions - on inter
state shipments of Elberta peach-.
es from Oregon and Washington
in order to divert supplies to can-
ners for war needs. .a.
; : Shippers may ship no more from
these states for. fresh consump
tion than they shipped out of
these states in 1942. ,
The WFA said the restrictions
were necessary because of a hea
vy demand for ; relatively short
supplies of fruit. Without the con
trol over shipments, a dispropor
tionate share of the . fruit would
be marketed in fresh form and
processors would be unable to ob
tain sufficient supplies, the food
agency said."
The WFA also ordered inter
state shipments of some varieties
of .; California . Freestone peaches
stopped to permit processors to
buy sufficient quantities to fill
war requirements for dried peach-
Dairymen Claim
Loss on Butterfat
MEDFORD, Aug. 6HA?Wcksoa
county dairymen complained to
the OPA Friday that they are los
ing from 10 to 29 cents on every
pound of butterfat.
In a hearing before price aur-J
vey officer xa. i. uoiascnmiat,
dairymen said that the cost of pro
ducing a pound of butterfat ranges
from 83 cents to $L14 a pound,
while the sale price Is SS cents.
Ray Baker, spokesman for the
milk producers' association, de-1
dared that his production cost had
j Jumped from 55.1 cents in 1911 to
SL14.
Any decision , on an increase
would be made in San Francisco, ,
where Goldschmidt. wCl present
the results of the hearing.'
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Corner flood & Church St.
Ilcsic-by -'
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Lib orators Fire Rumanian Oil
Against a backdrop ef billowing
aweey lew ever the Hosatt, Bnmanla. oil refineries, dropping their
delay ad-actiaa Dombs. (Associated Press phote from USAAF via
OTTI radle from Cairo.)
Navy Reports
Casualties ' :
WASHINGTON. Aug. e UP
The navy announced Friday . 74
casualties, including 30 dead, 27
wounded and 17 missing.
This brings to 27.949 the total
of navy, marine corps and coast
guard casualties- reported to next
of kin since December 7, 1941. The
grand total includes 8,889. dead.
1 4,914 wounded, 9,987 miming and
4,159 prisonerr of war.
The Oregon casualties announc
ed Friday included:
Joe Richard Driskell, , marine.
wounded; (also reported wounded
December 11. 1942. in Indiana).
Wife, Mrs. Joe R. Driskell. 418
Main street, Klamath Falls.
George W. Stephenson, lieuten
ant (jg), dead. Mother, Mrs. Lau
ra B. ' Stephenson, 830 Market
street, Klamath Falls.
WFA Ponders
Reducing
t ...
Feed Supplies
By OVID A. MARTIN .
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 CW
The War Food administration has
under consideration proposals to
allocate reduced feed supplies
among various cTssses of livestock
so as to assure a balanced produc
tion of meat, milk, eggs and poul
try.
The proposals were prepared by
the agricultural adjustment agen
cy and submitted to War Food Ad
ministrator Marvin Jones and his
associates. No decisions have been
reached. "
Present prospects point to
feed supply Insufficient to main
tain livestock production at cur
rent levels. The situation could
result, officials- said, in a serious
liquidation of some classes of live
stock; particularly dairy herds and
poultry flocks, unless action, is
taken to divide, up limited feed
supplies.' ."-'- 77
Under the - present ' competitive
situation, hogs are getting first
claim to corn, the major livestock
feed,- because more money can be
made by feeding the grain to this
class of stock than to any other.
As a result, hog production has
reached a record level. The. feed
allocation plan would not neces
sarily result in a sharp reduction
in the number of hogs, but rather
in their sale at considerably light
er weights. ,
Officials of the WFA empha
sized that no decision has been
made on the allocation proposals.
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tut tf"U
0
smoke aad flame. US liberators
Mrs- Ohmart,
Daughter of
Pioneer, Dies
K (Continued from Page 1) 7 B
Mr. Ohmart preceded her in
death 14 years ago, and her only
brother, Hamlin F. Smith, died
on May 23, 1943.
Throughout her life, Mrs. Oh
mart was an active member -of
the Methodist church, having ser
ved several years as president of
the Ladles Aid societies of the
First Methodist church and later
of the Leslie Methodist church, of
which she was a member at the
time of her death.
An enthusiastic gardener 7 and
lover of flowers, she was a life
long member of the Little Garden
club, activities of which she sreat-
ly " enjoyed; other members, "in
turn, appreciated her wide knowl
edge of flowers. -7.
During her long and active life
she had lived within the boun
daries of her parents' donation
land claim, for the past 45 years
in uie old borne erected by her
father in 1870, - and- when her
funeral services 'are held at 130
Monday afternoon, they will be
from the Roselawn Funeral home,
which stands on a portion of the
old homestead' and near her birth-
Personalitie&
Will Greet
Young Tonight
r (Continued from Page 1) F
race. High street, will be Young,
wno was Japanese political pris
oner in 1940 and a correspondent
m Nippon for- 13 years prior to
me. outbreak, of the current war,
together with the cavalry band.
Salem librarians- revealed this
week that all copies, of Young's
best seller of last year, "Behind
the Rising Sun, were in circula
tion,' while bookstores in the capi
tal city had no more to offer.
Shortly after his arrival in Sa-
a . - : -
iem tooayy young wfil meet Edi
tor and Publisher Charles A.
Sprague end News Commentator
A. H. Wilson, who will question
him as a KSLM broadcast feature
it 4 ix m.
The general public may be of
fered an opportunity to fire ques
tions at him, although not over
the radio. -7 ,7 .."77" - " . I
Th crtns most
7l . meet
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Xfi Vfi n fltAX:A:XzAA:
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Today for
ay
LE3AITON-tIrs. Victor Hay,
who had lived her entire lifetime
in this community, died Thursday
at the Lebanon horpital and will
be buried Saturday in the I OOF
cemetery following . 2 o'clock fu
neral services from the Howe Fu
neral home chapel. ,
Born here May 20,' 1823, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Amos Clem, she was a member of
a large family. She .was married
November IS, 1920, to Victor Ray,
who, with one son, Cletus, sur
vives. : Another son, Clifford Ray,
was killed last April when struck
by a passing motorist as he walked
beside the highway near a camp
in Virginia, where he was sta
tioned. Surviving also are her mother.
Mrs. Ella Clem of Lebanon; broth
ers, Thomas Clem and Clarke
Clem ! of Crawfordsville; sisters,
Mrs. Kedrick Kelley of Lebanon;
Mrs. Albert Kurth of Albany, Mrs.
Francis Lamberty of Portland and
Mrs. William Stennett of Clacka-
Around Oregon
By The Associated Frew '
Mrs. Marl Lotka, Cleveland, said
she would request a parole for her
son, Bernard K. Lotka, ex-sergeant
sentenced to life imprison
ment for slaying his infant son in
a Medford auto camp. . . .
Government authorities on the
hunt for miners have Interviewed
170 Camp White soldiers for pos
sible transfer to' the enlisted re
serve ; corps to help out in-, non-
lfjerrous mines. . . . In Lakeview, ;
foresters have queued 18 forest
fires within two weeks. . . . Bund
members were "Germans above
everything," William Luedtke tes
tified in the Portland trial to re
voke citizenship ,; of ex-Portland
Bund Leader John Hans Scheur
cr. . ,
Funeral services will be held In
Astoria tomorrow for 88-year-old
John Erlckson, West Astoria pio
neer who helped to settle many
of the city's Finnish immigrants.
. . , Harold W. May ben, Eugene, .
who was killed in a logging acci
dent , Wednesday, was buried in
VIda Friday. . . .
' Sgt Carl M. Scholtes of Brogan
helped ' bomb railroad yards - at
Rome in a Flying Fortress which
had been forced down by Italian
anti-aircraft fire 19 hours earlier.
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