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. Of enne tome ef that
. from the - federal government
tad ' uliu fram fh aabbIIm.
- fflnstraies the bulk f theeldage
..usbtjLaeaflnxBefatv problem. N
, , Butter hew it's cat, the state
. won't 1m nhlst 1a enrrv lids laaul-
along with the remainder ef Us
, Mirations, wlthont that Uq
Yet there is nothing to preyent
. a simple amendment which 1 will
, Joss the liquor ; revenue into I the
general fundA where it and its
odor will be diluted, and (then
'provide for withdrawing ; the old
age assistance and other welfare
, funds out of the general fund
wunout rexerence to - ltt ; source.
. though the skeptical may call it
just a political "ouL" there's an
other way of looking at it j Just
because the need for old age as
: sistance funds and the opportuni
ty to raise funds through a liquor
monopoly developed 'almost sim
ultaneously, was that any; Just
reason for. tying them . together?
lVi antwa anVrvrirvi ia1-v la eA "
mw p i mm ww w wm w avwai j am
Gov. SnelTs proposal has the
additional merit that it will elim
. inate uncertainty as to the; ade
quacy of public " welfare funds.
The uncertainty will be trans
ferred to the condition of the gen
eral fund, but it will be able to
. weather' the storms, with some
what less difficulty. Chances are
there will be less excuse to holler
- "special session' every three
months.
Oil thoHOl lEFROltT
Cy DATTL CXHLD3 '
Lee Moody. 653 North-, High
street, is a permanent shut-in be
cause of arthritis, hut Jie u not a
shutout, by any means, f or - his
door is open to the people he loves
to meet . -
"'"f Vs --YX'XfXM' fir'fX
'RwcMttlv he has found a new
way to become acquainted with
new ' persons (or, at least, tnose
new 5 to him!)--he is registering.
hop pickers from Salem and vi
cinity .to work at Golden Gate
hop ranch (formerly Wigrich).-
Sometimes he meets the would-;
b workers f over the telephone;
sometimes they go to his bedside.
Frankly, the grin shown in the
picture here was on Lee's face
long before the chance to ao mis
work was offered nuri by Louis
Barton, labor relations man with
the big ranch. But I am told that
now It is a wider smile and that
nart of the ioy in his work lies
in the fact that he is aiding the
war effort by , helping with the
harvest of a vital crop.
aa in The Statesman have
k r n ii f h t excellent results. Lee
says. Lee is doing a fine job of
securing the needed pickers, says
Barton. And all of Salem says, I
mm it that all wars are not
won on the battlefields.
Russians Drive
On Kharkov
E (Continued from Page 1) E
Appeal Voiced
By Red Cross
tf -: .,. . i j ...
GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 7
(JP) The international 'committee
of the Red . Cross has appealed to
warring nations to respect the in
dividual's - claim . to "justice and
. protection from arbitrary meas
ures" and to renounce unwarrant
ed destruction and "methods of
warfare which are prohibited by
international, law.? j
Dated July 24 and released to
day, the message said: .
"The international committee, of
the Red Cross, confronted by hor
rors, distress and injustice result-'
ing from war, has maintained as
hitherto that it was their consis
tent duty to testify to their moral
position and desire to "serve' by
deeds rather than words."
BombaiDear
Decision Will Be
Told Tuesday -Eye-Music
by the cavalry band will
be a feature of the program Tues
day night at. the Grand theatre,
when the titles of "Miss Bombar
Deari "girl with the most zoom"
and "neatest pursuit jobT are
--. awarded to three Salem young
women as T5ombardierV goes on
the screen for its final showing
1 at that theatre here.
,: Not only Tuesday night, but
; tonight and Monday, as well,-the
i military band which has appeared
. on numerous occasions here, will
t play at the Grand, Chief Warrant
', Officer Marion C. Walker, direc-;-
tor, announced Saturday
Brazilian Ship .
Torpedoed Sunk
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 7-()
: The steamer Bage, largest Brazil
ian merchant ship, was torpedoed
and sunk off the state of Sergipe
the night of July 31, it, was 'an
nounced officially Saturday night,
and persons missing were report
: ed to range from 4- to 7i. '.
The s Brazilian n e w s agency
Agenda Nadonal quoted the ra
dio operator oi the vesseV as say
ing it -carried -20 passengers and
a crew of 105. The dispatch, sent
from Aracaju, capital of Sergipe
state, said the- police' department
. there had recorded 84 , survivors,
leaving 41 - unaccounted for. .
,' Xarlier reports said' the "Bage
was carrying ?129 passengers, "---of
whom 41 were missing, and a
crew of 102. Women and children
were among the passengers. V
The attack occurred at p. m.
July 31, the ship being hit by a
torpedo. It sank quickly1. - " -,
th annroaches to Kharkov yes
terday by ousting the Germans
from Graivoron and Syennoe, 32
miles northwest of Kharkov. These
advances cut tne nnponaraiuMr
kov-Bryansk line. :
..1n I capturing - Borisovka, 43
miles northwest of Kharkov, the
red army encircled a consiueraDie
number of German . troops and
then wiped them " ou V said the
midnight communique, recorded
by the soviet monitor; "
in one eneaeemeht a tank unit
killed 800 Germans, disabled or
destroyed 10 German tanks, took
150 war f prisoners'; and captured
60 trucks and 16 big guns.
. Above 'the Ukraine. Bryansk
was menaced by seviet" troops
spilling through J the - gap at
i OreL The eommunique said that
in the past few days they have
kiUed at least 4tt Germans.
Gains of seven miles ' were made
during the day and the red -army
was believed to be within 30 miles
of Bryansk, hinge; of the German
central and southern'fronts.
Graivoron, like-lochev, is on
the Kharkov-Bryanik railway, and
its -capture indicated the Russians
were, cutting, a wide swath after
their t earlier brak through at
Belgorod on a 43-mile front
.The sweep west aad seeth
west of Orel was se swift today
that 108 villages were wrested
frem the Germans. . 7
The bulletin, recorded by the
soviet monitor, said the Russians
caDtured Shamardino. -10 miles
west of Orel, GnezdUovo, 39 miles
to the southwest and the railway
station of Stakhanskaya five miles
to the south.
The nazi-controlled Paris, radio,
in a I broadcast recorded 1 by the
Associated Press, said the Russians
were pouring wave upon wave of
massed tank forces - through the
break at Orel as they slashed to
the west and southwest. - .-,
Friday, the special - bulletin
said, Russian troops on all fronts
disabled or destroyed 43 German
tanks, and 80 enemy planes were
brought down. "'
Realty Group
Asks Easing - ,
Of ? Rent Control
EUGENE, Ore, Aug. 7" -Pr
The j Oregon association of real
estate boards "closed the annual
convention here today, after ac
cepting a resolution"' asking con
gress to ease OPA rent control
rules. ' f t lz- :: -V' t-
" William W. Bai-endrickV 1 32,
Portland, - was elected president
R. C. Dale, Klamath , Falls, was
elected a vice-president Direc
tors ? included ;H, "Baker,
Grants Pass; E. VC Chilcotte,
Klamath Falls; Leo NV Childs, Sa
lem;! Roy C Young. Roseburg.
Willlue at Home
TalW 'No Polities'
RUSHVILLi; Ind, Aug.! 7-ff)
A source close to Wendell L. Will
kie said Saturday night the 1840
republican .presidential nominee's
conferences at his RushvQle home
this week were "just good, old
fashioned, over-the -fence talks
and no political decisions - were
reached.'' '
- WuHde steadfastly declined to
comment on Oie conference, which
. ended last nigfit - W
Eight republican "state national
committeemen were Willkies
guests. They w e r e ' jl Kenneth
Bradley -of Connecticut Robert
Burroughs of Hew . Hampshire,
Harvey Jewett of South Dakota,
Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetti,
. Ralph Cake of Oregon, 'Wilson
i Williams of Georgia, Mrs. Grace
Reynolds of Indiana and Freder
ick Baker of Washington.
All left for their homes, last
i nightr .,; -
Trbina Falls
To Yanki Hands
C (Continued from Page 1) C
coastal sector to the north, naval
units continue to coopeateJ 't i
Troina fell early. Friday morn
ing. - - U.;--j.i
The mountain .fortress town fell
before ,a withering artillery bar
rage - and. infantry- charges,- -posing
the First division for a thrust
to Randarzo. 20 miles east - ?
War-sick Italian; troops; in Bi
ancavilla, 16 miles below Troina
and 15 miles northwest of Cata
nia, hoisted white flags to sur
render to British Eighth army
troops yesterday ; after a heavy
air attack; Associated Press Cor
respondent Joseph Morton report
ed from the field. r ,--.
" Biaacavina is ealy two miles
. from the key com m nn Icatlons
center of Adrane, on the read
skirting Mt Etna U the west
where the Germans are retreat-
- Allied planes shattered the last
axis escape port of Messina with
350 tons of bombs in an unpre
cedented raid, and smashed com
munications in a growing aerial
offensive such as blasted the way
to victory in the final days in
Tunisia. The ' east coast retreat
road to Messina was again ripped
by British naval shells, j
American naval and military
units have occupied the little vol
canic island of Ustica, 40 miles
north of Palermo in the Tyrrhen
ian sea, headquarters also report
ed. ;
No Italians are fighting any
where on the front, reports said,
but the nazis are resisting desper
ately, slowing the allied advance
to a carpet of demolitions, mines
and ; booby . traps. .Nine bridges
were blown up on a 12-mile stretch
of road by Germans falling back
before the Americans. ' J,,;v
Troina the forward screen pro
tecting the German retreat from
the south on the road west of Mt
Etna capitulated to Allen's . men
after a creeping artillery barrage
and overwhelming air attacks fer
reted out and destroyed the ma
chinegun and mortar nests of the
elite . German 29th motorized di
vision, killing many of the nazis.
It was a five-day battle of the
most, savage fighting the Ameri
cans have encountered, and it took
three days of concentrated fire
power to destroy the enemy de
fenses on the mile-high positions.
(Premature field reports on
Tuesday had said Troina was tak
en.) v i - .v.i- r- i-.; .
Peesfble ebjectlves now ahead
of the Americans are Bronte,
12 miles east ef Troina, Cesare'
eight miles northeast and Raa
darso. Troina's inhabitants were
bitter against the German. -
'British Eighth army forces
swung up five miles from Paterno
to seize Biancavilla, -and presum
ably were pressing the last two
miles to Adrano. This town also
is threatened by Canadians -and
British from the west
There were no reports of the
progress of American - troops on
the. north coast, or British forces
pushing up the east coast
; - About .100 Italian soldiers and
sailors were captured at Stica, and
216 Italian civilian prisoners were
found on the island used as a fas
cist penal settlement The Ger
mans had abandoned the isle, two
miles Ions and a mile wide, on
July 1L and many civilians were
destitute and lacking water.
Besides pounding ? the eastern
Sicilian coastal road. . near Taor-
mina, - British warships patrolled
the eastern ' waters I. and , mine
sweepers began clearing the chan
nel 'into Catania. American de
stroyers and patrol torpedo boats
ranged the . waters about : north
eastern Sicily seeking to break up
evacuation attempts by sea.
Canadian '! Wellingtons raided
Naples to prevent help from there
to the Sicilian garrison, and one
pilot said there were so many fires
in Napier last night .that he first
mistook the city for Mt! Vesuvius
and "couldnt tell the difference
until we got over the target area.'
Blockbusters added : anew to the
fearful wreckage in the port
The many hundreds of missions
flown yesterday cost eight allied
planes. -..
Yoiing Favors
US Mffltary,
Rule of "Japan
A (Continued from Pace 1) A
maintained, telling of ' captured
motion pictures - showing tortures
designed to make other civilians
accept their Jap. conquerors yoke.
With Arthur Wilson, KSLM
news commentator; and world
traveler, he discussed the Japa
nese economic background for the
war, the number of shipbuilding
ports, the quantities of supplies
obtained from the United States
prior to December, 1941.
Total of bond and stamp sales
made during: the Saturday -night
program was not tallied, although
sales amounting to 33000 were re
ported at one time. ? ' j;. ':i-tC-':
Women in quaint old-fashioned
dresses, clutching pitchers as re
minders, o f the- Revolutionary
service of Molly Pitcher and a
means of raising war stamp and
bond sales, said business was
good. During the day, their; stamp
sales alone" had mounted ' into the
thousands' of dollars and the day's
totals 4 6t KaSi and stamp - sales
were estimated at $5000 by Mrs.
Admiral ;.TaEib
Glob e trategy
D (Continued from Page 1) D
launching this fall of a campaign
to drive the Japanese out of Bur
ma and reopen the Burma road.
At present all supplies to China
move by air from India.)
Walter Spaulding; chairman, .
'The cavalry Jband stationed tn
this area, directed by, Chief War
rant . Officer. Marion ; C. X Walter,
provided the music Mor the eve
ning bond rally.;
King, commander in chief tf the
United States fleet and a member
of the highest aded war councils,
discussed the fundamentals of pre
sent stratejy tn an interview with
wire service reporters regularly as
Signed to the navy. The conference
was requested by .the newsmen
because this is the anniversary of
the landings on Guadalcanal, start
of the first American offensive of
the -war. :V7-! 'X ; 'X- X"'tX-'l
While the main effort of 4he al
lies has been directed against Ger
many and Italy, the admiral -explained
to them. Pacific operations
thus far are rather more' than
what are commonly called holding
operations.': He said this was true
''because we have a general plan'
Swiss A:
Svjajr -m v A
ISTAIJDUL, Auj.- 7 HD
George Klosseivanov, former Bul
garian premier, was reported Cat
'vxdaj to have teeii summoned
from virtual, exile as minister to
Switzerland to confer with King
Doris at Sofia.
It was believed here that the
former premier may soon replace
the pro-axis Bogd&n and. begin
negotiations with the allies. ,
whereby we maintain unremitting
pressure on thejapanese wherever
theymay begot at with the means
available.'" ; .
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