w 3 9 y 7irir ' . DimczzS , Sun, eunscl 0:31 I'll ' - ; ' ' J NX . f P.Ion. Eanriss 6:C (Weather n Page 8) j PCUNDDD 1651 inillTY THISD YEAR .23 PAGES Salem. Orecon, Sunday Morning, August 8. IS43 IMce Za No. IIS IT SEEMS TO ME that the ar ticle in the August number , of ,The Christian ; Herald", "You ;Gave Me; Wings" will be of in tense interest in those homes 'where cases of poliomyelitis (in- fantile paralysis) have devel oped. This article reveiws the life f and the work of Sister Elizabeth (Kenny, the Australian "bush" i nurse, - whose - methods of ' treat- : merit have . met with success in ? hundreds of cases, particularly, of -; children.' Hers is not a cure; it is not a preventive. Hers is a treat - merit to relieve the' pain and to -.jt relieve .the paralysis which often leaves victims of the disease crippled .for life. t A trained nurse who was born - and reared in the bush country of i Australia, Sister Kenny (she gets , the title of "Sister" because she - is a member of the Sisterhood of . Presbyterians) f. developed her ' method of treatment out of Ig , norance of what to do. Called to : nurse a child in a farmer's hut, she ", telephoned the nearest doctor, 40 : miles away, and described the f child's symptoms. He replied that they indicated infantile paralysis, - and told her to use her best judg- . ment in handling the case. At that time, which was prior to world war I, 'i the conventional . treatment was immobilization and ' rest, encasing affected areas . in ' splints or casts. - Sister Kenny didn't know this; so she applied hot packs, and prayed with the parents for God's help. She kept urewg the children (four cases had developed) to keep exerds- i : ing their legs and arms. The Her ald article quotes her: "There was little Daphne. We had grown to be great friends; she would move her little legs, as I talked to her about kangaroo hunting. 'We can't do it any more unless you help me, ' Daphne, I kept telling her. 'Move those legs, up, down, back and forth; keep moving them. Youll outrun those kangaroos. "About the fourth . day I no ticed . improvement This treat ment, I found, sometimes cut the siege of pain down to that. length f thnt."; Her unorthodox treatment at- tracted attention and drew scoffing (Continued on Editorial Page)' Admiral Talks Glob e Strategy: Key to Final Victory i Over Japan Lies in China, Says Naval Chief ' By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER f WASHINGTON, August 7 -JP) . In an extraordinary interview on allied global strategy. Admiral Y.r nest J. King Saturday forecast powerful and crippling "stabsJ at strategic Japanese positions in the Pacific, but indicated the key to final victory over Japan lies in China. ' '"'J' -VT " ; The sprawling, populous but al most isolated Asiatic ally must be kept in the war, the admiral said, .." for it occupies in respect taj Japan a vital place analagous to that held by Russia in respect to Germany. "You can imagine what the sit : nation would be if China were out of the war," the admiral declared. Of Russia, he said that "boiled down to its simplest terms, and oversimplified, the grand strategy I ef war in Europe is that Russia has the geographical position and the manpower that is paramount inJ regard to Germany. "In order to take advantage of that basic fact, he continued, "two things follow. We must- get into Russia all the munitions, we can possibly get in there to implement that manpower and exploit that position It further follows that .the allies are bound to exert every 1 possible effort to " divert German, . forces from the Russian front so that the Russians can do even bet ter. - He did not touch on what has to - be done in order to keep China in . the war, although he noted that "it is all too apparent what the difficulties are in getting supplies to China." (The method most fre quently speculated on is' the (Turn to Page 2 Story D) tThis Is the Army9 Premiere Here Aug. 18 Opportunity to witness. the pre miere of Irving Berlin's "This Is the Army," technicolor ' version, and at the same time to contrib ute substantially to the Army Emergency Relief, is to be offer ed residents of Salem and vicinity on , the night, of Wednesday, Aug ust 18, it was announced Satur day by Gene Vandeneynde, chair man of the civilian committee on arrangements. J--" "r"-t - r:,h --f- -r-There will be -but the single Showing of the picture in Salem ct this time, at the Elsinore, Van deneynde announced, and there will be an; advance sale of re served seats. All ' proceeds above the - theatre's bare expenses will o to Army. Emergency Relief, the trmy's own welfare fund util'-'-d for aiding soldiers' families in crises the solution of which in Kii: mOdor (me Ai: .t But Snell Proposal f Happy Solution " In Two Respects . By RALPH C. CURTIS Instability of Oregon's present method of providing funds for old age assistance and public welfare primarily out of prb fits from the state's hard liquor .monopoly and proceeds from the sale of liquor permits, , wine and beer, licensesis pointed out . In Gov. Snail's announcement on Sat urday, confirming earlier hints, that he will ask the 1945 legisla ture to change the.. system. ; .. i But there is at least one other compelling consideration. It might be labeled "political. Not that the governor had anything up his sleeve; for in announcing his in tention to make such recommen dation he said: "The present contingency plan with its lack of stability not only causes considerable confusion and apprehension" but, in my . opinion. is not the . desirable method of meeting our obligation to Oregon's senior citizens. , There it is the liquor breath that I adheres to eld ace assist ance payments. Doubtless the governor has received, as this ' newspaper has received, ' aaeroos letters 1 from citixens not all of them beneficiaries deploring the source of these benefits. . - And the governor brought it on by falling into the same error as his next-to-last predecessor, Charles H. Martin, of mentioning back! east something or other about the necessity of drinking, or of maintaining the hard liquor supply, "so the old folks may eat As an ' ex-newspaperman. Snell should have remembered that the farther; from home a man is, the bigger news his remarks v Even so, J!&e1iquoSr .breath : on the; benefit checks is nothing new, nor is resentment against it; and a change is desirable. On the ether hand there are ' certaia. hard facto to be faced. ' Got, Snell said the chanse be proposes ; may be accomplished without moeh . modification or alteration of the laws or of the liquor control act's administra tion. : "In r meeting fixed budgetary amounts taxes would be exactly the same in the use of either method," his statement concluded. True enough. . - ! But when the 1 egislature meets, its ways and means .com mittee fusses principally with in numerable items which in the ag gregate make up the -"general fund' requirements. Their sum for the current biennium was less than S23.00O.O0O. That takes care of all the expenses of what used to be recognized as "government." In contrast, 5 the legislature ap proved almost without debate last spring an item of more than $30, 000,000 for "public welfare com- nusson. (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Stolen Babe's Mother Home ALBANY, Ore Aug. 7 Mrs. W. B. Gurney was sufficient ly improved Saturday that she was released from a hospital five days after her newborn daughter mysteriously disappeared from a hospital crib. Police said they were no nearer solution of the case, although they were receiving numerous tips from the whole west coast from persons who suspected they had sighted a kidnaper. All tips have proved groundless, police said. , most , cases contributes greatly ,to soldier morale. :; s The motim picture: version of the riotous stage show; with' its original, cast - augmented, by stars of radio and screen, was produced by Warner Brothers for tho army, which is to receive all profits from its showings.. Simultaneous gala premieres" are planned throughout the - United States. Cities in Oregon which, will have premieres ; include Salem, Port land, Corvallis, Astoria, Eugene, Medlord and Bend. ; - : - -. Full army cooperatiori, headed up locally by a committee of which Col. A. H. Stackpole is chairman, promises some entertainment fea tures in addition to the motion picture program. Further- an nouncement as to the advance ticket sale will be made shortly. 'Political Discussion9 Berlin Report Revives tion OusY? J Hitler Is Possibility Viewed r Byofr Alers; Peace Clamor Is Reported LO 4 August 7-(P-Amid widespread speculation; that someu- vtig was about to happen in Germany perhaps a mili tary coup to replace Adolf Hitler with some army veteran- Ger man broadcasts reported today that an important military , and political meeting had been in progress at the fuehrer's headquar ters. - Both the German International Information bureau, a propa a. - Oyster Co-op Is Organized : Purpose' Is Raising "-Seed, Net Selling, Statement Says Articles of association of The Oyster Growers Service : associa tion were filed Saturday ; at the state capitol . under the law gov erning organization of coopera tives, by Kenneth N. Hay of Eu gene, Edward Nowak of Salem, Carl F. Gregg of Amity, Glenn DeHaven and Abraham G. Rempel of Dallas, -t.-: - ' w f, A . statement issued in connec tion with the filing explained that the association plans to set up an oystery seedery in Willipa bay to operate cooperatively 1 for ' the catching of oyster spat to seed "the beds In all the bays that grow the Pacific oyster." contending that this venture will produce ; better and earlier seed, cut the cost - of seeding and also shorten the grow ing time of the oysters, i ; The statement explains ..that the five men who filed the articles of association were selected by ap proximately 150 oyster growers in Oregon and Washington as an "or ganization board." Three of the five are among defendants named in a siut filed last week by the Coos Bay Farmers ; cooperative, asking damages for alleged inter ference with the cooperative's ac tivities, f The- complaint i charged that the 12 defendants had sought to Induce members of the cooper ative to breach their - marketing contracts. . I . V The new association's statement points out that it is "a production service cooperative : to- solve all problems of producing. It is not a marketing i cooperative v .: . --; and does pot compete with any of the activities of the marketing co operatives now existing." - Poison Source Under Probe Identity of organisms ' which poisoned a number of persons in Ine county early last week had not been determined definitely on Saturday, state agriculture depart ment officials said. The source of the poisoning apparently was in a cream filling for pies. 'I : Analyses are being made in the agricultural department' labora tory in Salem, at a Eugene lab oratory and at the university of Oregon medical school laboratory in Portland. -' : A. W, Metzger and J. D. Pat terson, both connected with the state agricultural division, spent Friday assisting, the Lane county officials in their investigations." Officials said there was no indi cation of . anything irregular re garding the ingredients used in making the pies. ' ? FBI Arrests Colombian WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -&)-A 35-year-old South . American employed by the office of the co ordinator of inter-American . af fairs was arrested Saturday on charges of espionage. The accused is Roberto Lanas CallecHla, a native of Cali, Col ombia, who worked for the inter American bureau, as - a foreign language translator.. ' - . : 1 . J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation whose agents made the arrest, said that Lanas admitted he had writ ten - three letters In secret Ink transmitting information concern ing the national defense efforts of the United' States. Horror of War Hits Silvertbh KILVERTON, Aug. 7 "Crit kal" described the situation fac ing women here Saturday who. were bent f upon -: beantlfying themselves for the weekend. No beauty shops were open. " . One shop has made Saturday ' a holiday, another Is closed while the operator snd owner take a vacation and at the third shop the proprietress was IU. Shakeup on ganda agency, and DNB, official news 'agency, v broadcast that it was "understood in, Berlin that a number 8f important . discussions of "a military and political nature have taken place in the fuehrer's headquarters the last few days."- Attending the' i meetings, . the broadcasts reported, were all the top men in the nazi party as well as the commanders in chief, of, the army, navy and air force and the Japanese ambassador, Hiroshi Oshima. There was no mention of an Italian representative. This Indication that a ; major decision of some kind had been or would be made soon , by the Germans came on a. day when a traveler just returned ' to Switz erland frorn, Germany was report ed to have told "persistent" rumors that a military dictatorship might be set up in Germany in Septem ber. V.r f- The' i Swiss ' newspaper - Neue Zuercher Nachrichten quoted the unidentified traveler ; as saying that a cleft had developed among thinking German people, one group eager to see the war end and the other wishing to hold out to avoid "unpredictable disaster." : The traveler was quoted as say ing he was bombarded with the question "When will the war end? ; Piling up the signs of unrest within axis Europe, the French committee of .national liberation announced in Algiers that hand-to-hand fighting ' has broken out in Paris between the French peo ple and German soldiers and that the. nazis had set up machine guns at street intersections. . - Thau Swiss newspaper : Journal de Geneva reported that German troops Were replacing withdrawing Italian units in southeastern and southern France and that the Ger mans were steadily strengthening their positions in northern Italy. : Reuters, British news service, quoted arrivals in Zurich, Switzer land, from Berlin as saying the capital's authorities were at their "wits end to control a mass stam pede from the city" in fear of al lied bombing. I; , :'; . :.i f Propaganda Minister Paul Jo seph Goebbels admitted yesterday in a statement broadcast by the German radio that - nonessential civilians were being removed from Berlin. , s Kiska Silence Week Old WASHINGTON, August 7 W) A week of silence has cloaked the military situation in the north Pa cific where the Japanese hold powerful positions on Kiska Is land.' The last navy communique on Kiska was issued July 31, report ing a naval bombardment .and a light air attack on enemy posi tions. ; ' There was no explanation in of ficial quarters here for the pro longed silence. ' . Avalanche at Ml Hood : HOOD RIVER, Aug. 7-)-The heaviest avalanche- - which has swept - down Mount Hood's north slope In several years cleaned all the snow this week from the steep cliffs above Eliot glacier. : Judge and Bombar-Dear Entry '4 Not a judge's tUck robe, but the khaki of a flight officer Is worn by LL R. E. Turner, one of the board of Salem alrbase Judges in the Miss Bombar-Dear competition which is to be concluded with an- .'nouncement of the winners Tuesday night. Lt. Turner, who comes from Oklahoma, left college to er'-r the air force, played football before deciding to become a junior birgsman, and when the war IS over he expects ta become, a rancher, Margaret Huntley, 1ISS North 16th street, of the winning smile, is one of the entries la the contest.. Russians " Drive Oil Jtkharkov Moscow Says Great Industrial City to Fall Quicker Than Orel . By JAMES M. LONG " . LONDON, Sunday, August 8 CP)-Ilussian troops converging swiftly on German-held railway and industrial center of Khar kov gained nine miles yesterday and captured 70 villages and towns including Graivoron.45 miles to the northwest, a Soviet communique - announced early Sunday. , .Russian units were within 25 miles of the city, smashing along the railway from Belgorod to the north, ' Moscow dispatches said, and the German radio said an other threat to the prize' base had developed at Chugue v, 25 miles to the southeast, ' where another Russian army had come over to the offensive. The Germans ac knowledged Russian gains in this new drive... -.v. 7" : : Soviet bombers and swarms of fighters, participated in the big push which also endangered Bry ansk : at the northern end of a 300-mile front. ' The - bombers blasted enemy, railway trains : at both Kharkov and Bryansk ahead of the racing ground troops. Moscow dispatches said Khar kov was considered likely to fan ! more quickly than Orel . which was taken at the end of a month's heavy fixhtinr. " Moving down from Belgorod, the red troops slashed into Polbixa, 37 miles north of Kharkov on the main Kharkov-Belgorod railway. Eleven miles to : the west of this railway the Russians captured Udi, which is Id miles north of Kharkov, j ? s , - ; Already in possession of Zolo chev, 25 miles northwest of the Ukrainian industrial center, the Russians - widened their grip en fTurn to Page. 2 Story E) Veteran Gets Another Shot WASHINGTON, Aug. t-iJPf-K short, stocky, retired fighting man who battled through the jungles of the Philippine islands many years before the Japanese came, apparently has had another chance to fight for his beloved islands. It-was eight years ago that Lt. CoL Hugh Straughn retired after 30 years of service with the army, principally ' as an officer of the Philippine scouts. Today, from the Tokyo radio, came word that a "Lt CoL. Hugh Strong had been captured while leading guerilla fighters on the island of Luzon ! picking off one by one the Nipponese invaders who have swarmed over the Phil ippines. - , ::; ;. ;;r:-: There's apparently little, doubt that it was "Daddy" Straughn, as the 61-year-old ? veteran wa s known to many old timers in the scouts.- Free-Lance Author To Teach at Linfield McMINNVILLE, Aug. 7 Victoria Case, free-lance author, will teach . feature writing this year at Linfield college, President Harry L. Dillin announced Sat urday. t Dillin, Just back from a 10,000 mile tour,' said that Linfield has added six new courses, recom mended by the United States of fice of education 1 f t Domain Grozi 11 ' Occupational Governor; of Sicily Is v the title of Wesley A. Storges, former law ' professor at ' Tale. Designated by tho US sUto de partment I as - over-all director. he wQl tako ' aver ? as ' soon t - Umj American eeonemle pro- is pat into order. Talk Wallace For New Post Food Output, Price Control, Rationing. - -Combine Proposed ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 7-P)-A campaign to make Vice President Wallace head of a proposed new food production, price control and rationing agency has been, launch ed, D.' C Speaker, said today, by some groups in agriculture i who describe themselves as the "lib erals In their field. w;:;- The agency would supplant, the war. food; administration (WFA) and the office of price adminis tration, and Speaker, the mythical unofficial - authority, cited espec tally these lines in the latest issue of JSpade,".. an agricultural, publi cation having support among ad vocates of the agricultural adjust ment agency and circulating among local AAA committeemen: On the theory that Marvin Jones didn't want to be food adminis trator and was talked into it on the basis of a temporary receiver ship,' : there's ; much : speculation over who may succeed. him as top man if FDR proclaims a new combined 4 food-processing-ration-; ing-pricing outfit to take the wind out of opposition sails. .1 "All things, considered, the big gest bet is Henry Wallace. Rumors persist that FDR will call on him to take over general direction of food. 1 --. r Particularly , active in the We-want-Wallace move are several former officials of the agricultural adjustment agency, Speaker said. This is the bureau which Wallace, as secretary of agriculture during the early days of the Roosevelt administration, helped create to adjust farm production to avail able markets. ' Reports have reached Washing ton - that many , local ; AAA ' com mitteemen likewise are talking of Wallace as a possible new food boss." . . . . .'.-' ', "This campaign .for the .former cabinet . member bobs up . amidst signs 'of significant changes , in agriculture changes which , are not .to the liking of advocates of the AAA set-up," Speaker said. ' RAE Bombers LONDON, ' Sunday, ' Aug. RAF.' bombers' were '"over" Italy Saturday night, it was announced authoritatively early Sunday. : The specific, target of the night raiders was not" immediately dis closed, V nor was any indication given of the size of the force. (An earlier dispatch from Lu gano, Switzerland, said a heavy bombing in Italian Lombardy in the - direction of . Milan :. began shortly after midnight. Milan is approximately, 40 miles' from Lu gano.) M t t ' ". Tea Garden "Fire ST: r:- The . orders of, several early morning diners at the r Chinese Tea Garden, 1C2& North : Com mercial street, were not served. Fire which Yee 'Sing;:-proprietor, said was caused by the overheat ing of an oil stove Cue resulted in considerable -damage .to the kitchen snd made it necessary for patrons to depart in orderly fash ion. The flames penetrated the roof and were visible above the building: for a short time before they, were quenched by city fire men.' The Cre was reported about 12:45-" ajn. No ; estimate cf the damage was available half an hour later.' ITT H e :3Biaiini:csivffl Junction of Retreating German Armored Divisions Threatened by By DANIEL ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, August 7-() US troops in Sicily have seized Troina, threatening to split nazi forces in half, and British units squeezing up from the southwest have taken Biancavilla from Italians running up the white flaj of surrender,headquarters and field reports announced Saturday. . These two important strategic victories on the central sector narrowed the Sicilian front to only" 43 miles in width, and the al lied bag of prisoners soared to 129,000. , i (The Morocco radio said an entire Italian coast guard battalian surrendered to the allies Saturday. -Routed from their '. mile-high fastnesses in Troina by American guns, bayonets and bombs, rem nants of the German 29th motor ized division fled toward the Mes sina straits : tonight in the closing phase of the Sicilian campaign. : Maj. Gen. .Terry-Allen's First division veterans, who scaled the last rocky heights to Troina and crushed surviving Germans with rifle butt and bayonet, 'disjoint ed"' the German line and Ameri can troops "are threatening to prevent the junction of the Ger man" 15th armored and Hermann Goering divisions retreating to the east coast, headquarters an nounced. :2:t$-:-- - British -a rmtred . colanms , moved ' forward o v e r mined rtsd t . and past; - blown - ap " bridges In placer sweeps tn twa ' directions a r e n d the dasty foot of ML Etna, taking In the bomb-dased Italian garrison at Biancavilla IS miles northwest !:af CaUala.----v" Gen. Sir Bernard L.' Montgom ery's Canadian and British' ad vance guardswere throwing back the 15th and -Goering divisions in to a possible1 trap if the Ameri cans succeeded in reaching Bronte or-Randazzo on the circular" ML Etna road! .before the enemy's withdrawal 1 to ' the Messina area is completed.- Under a blazing night and day attack,-both-sides of the Straits of Messina ''were : littered with wrecked boats, craft which might have been used for a nazi Dun kerque. i ; The , Americans ' were meeting "stiffening resistance, the com munique said, adding that "in the (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Strike Ballot WASHINGTON, : A ug T-(tP CIO President Philip Murray asked today that President Roose velt instruct Attorney General Biddle to reconsider a decision that any group of employes, how ever small, may secure -a strike ballot In a planL ?v ; ' i In, a letter to the presidenL Murray declared ? that the result of ' the . attorney general's decision is sheer chaos, demonstrated a complete sense of irresponsibility and. "could not , possibly reflect the intent of congress" when it approved the Connally-Smith acL This law directs that the na tional labor relations board take a strike vote within 30 days after a labor dispute, which may lead to a. strike, arises in a war plant. The - attorney general's decision was . In connection with - the case of , two Springfield, 111, plants of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing company where last! Wednesday a majority of employes voted for a strike. . ; s.M :-..J SHouMRul A military governmenL with Maj. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright In "command and the military forces now prisoners in Japan and Japanese-held lands, should rule Japan in years immediately fol lowing the war, James R. Young, foreign correspondent and author of "Behind the Rising Sun, de clared In Salem on Saturday. -The statement was made to approximately- 1500 persons who gathered at Victoi-y center for the 7 p, m. bond-selling program and In an interview over KSLM; Sat urday '. afternoon. : .-7. , - -" ! . s i " Asked, by Charles Av Sprague, Statesman publisher, if there is today in Japan a party capable of conducting a fi v 1 1 government when the military has been de posed. Young said emphatically that hopes of existence cf such a Sought TD) ' 0 - v tfTl US Troops ; DE LUCE Jap Warsliips Are Destroyed In Solomons By WILLIAM F. BONI I ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC Sunday, Aug. S -iJPl- American naval forces in a brilliant hour long night battle sank a Japanese cruiser- and two destroyers and probably sank a third destroyer after intercepting th four war ships carrying supplies to the en emy garrison at Vila, : Kolamban gara island, General MacArthur announced today." The Americans suffered no losses. The action In the Vella gulf between Vella Lavella and Kolom bangara islands was fought about midnight August 6. ' ; Torpedoes and gunfire s"nt t) enemy ships to. the bottom to raise the toll of enemy warships lost in the current Solomons offensive t at least s and possibly 25 war ships. : J i , . The new naval triumph, follow ing closely on American capture of the vital Munda airdrome on New Georgia, had the effect of weakening the -garrison at the next logical objective of the Solo mons push Vila, which is 17 miles .northwest of Munda. Vila is eight miles across the Kula gulf from another totrering enemy gar rison; at Bairoko harbor, new Georgia.; From Munda, American infan trymen pushed north to assist other forces beleaguering the Jap anese at Bairoko. This push is being made "without encountering opposition, today's communique said."..,-' ';..: , Saturday ' afternoon a force of. 60 Japanese dive bombers and fighters attacked American posi tions, on and adjacent to Rendova Island, which is eight miles be low Munda. The only casualties to Ameri can forces were in a field hos pital. Anti-aircraft . guns shot down three Japanese dive bomb ers and three Zeros were downed by US fighters which suffered no losses. "' : Heavy,- medium and dive bomb ers blasted Japanese positions on both sides of Bairoko harbor with 43 tons; of bombs, starting fires and silencing anti-aircraft posts. Vancouver Area Needs Farm, Cannery 7orkers VANCOUVER, Wash Aug. 7 (& Farm Labor Coordinator El don Phillips sent out a call Sat urday for 2300 harvest workers, needed for canneries, prunes and vegetable crops in this area. iJSiMilitary Ovsr Jdbari A party had been dashed, when Mat suoka joined the military clique. Other., American - educated Japa nese who returned to Japan to enter high-positions have indicat ed by their cooperation with the present regime that no satisfac tory government may be expect ed to rise from the ashes imme diately after the defeat of Japan or perhaps for several years there after. . - . A statement to the effect that allied fliers will yet bomb the Japanese palace, destroying Hiro hito, brought 'spontaneous ap plause from the .Victory center audience. Horrors of Japanese prisons and prison camps have not been over emphasized, the man who v.-as f cr 13 years a 'Japanese, prison-: r, (Turn to Page 2 Ctory A)