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I covered the waterfront" Mon
day from Ferry-street to Division,
Sam Simpson's immortal reference
to the "Beautiful Willamette" ap
' plies only to the river in a state
'of nature. Man has touched it only
to 'defile it. Now it is proposed to
. add to the ugliness by locating a
junkyard just south of the Salem
end of the Inter-county bridge.
No matter -if a board fence is
- erected around the place, the ' in
'terior will be visible from the deck
'of the bridge, A tour of what or
iginally ; was Salem's front yard
'chows that it is unsightly enough
'now without, compounding the dis
grace with a junkyard.
The original boat landing was
at the foot of Trade street, now
"thi site of the paper mill. Its lum--ber
mill division (the did Spaul
ding plant) ; extends down as far
as . Court street. 1 Between"- Ferry
'and State are the piles of new
sawn lumber, with a rail spur and
loading dock by the riverside. Be
.tween Court and Chemeketa is
a log dump, where logs are rolled
.from trucks down into the river.
: Chemeketa street leads to the boat
"landing, with some activity among
small craft at the float. The gas
company has about half a block,
for its gas holder, warehouse and
gas tanks. There are a few houses
uid some open ground in the space
between ' the ' gas plant and the
highway bridge.
t Between" the highway and rail
road bridges is Water street, which
parallels the river.- A row of old
but comfortable and well-maintained
houses front the street and
the river, shaded by the. great ma
ple trees, a sort of quiet eddy be
hind the stream of commerce on
Front and' Commercial streets.
From Union to Division street the
land is held chiefly in residential
ownership." Under the railroad
bridge at Union the city sewer
was spewing a rich raspberry red
(cannery waste) into the unlimpid
river. Visible across the river from
points above the highway bridge
are i the used 1 car dumps that
fringe the river on the (Continued
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Escaped
Convict Cauglif;
ge
. One escapee of- the past week
Was returned to the state peni
tentiary here Monday and two
.ether inmates ' of the institution
made good their escapes.
- Robert Clyde Dwigans, who
dropped out of a gun gang work
ing at the prison annex a week
ago Monda y, captured, at the
family home in Lane county' Sun
day, was returned to the peniten
tiary Monday morning.
Trusties Robert Frazier, 27, and
George G He n Graves, 29, both
committed from Multnomah coun
ty on charges of assault and rob
bery while armed with a danger
ous weapon, escaped at-approximately
2 pin. from fields of the
annex where they were working
although their disappearance was
not discovered until late in the
; afternoon, officers : said, i r
' Graves, sent up "October J 25,
1930, was serving 15 years, Fra
xier, committed in November, 1940
was serving two seven-year terms
concurrently. , i
Greeks Again at
Thermopylae r
; JERUSALEM, Aug. 9.-(ffVHis-torie
Thermopylae pass again was
the scene of an important military
exploit recently with Greek guer
rillas destroying the -railway
bridge there, causing a German
military train with 25 i cars to
plunge into -the . pass, . Greek ! re
ports reaching here Monday i dis
closed. - i -
Germans : who survived f the
plunge were slaughtered by: the
guerrillas lying in ambush.- They
salvaged ' : valuable : material i in
cluding machine guns, these re
ports said. " -'
. Destruction of the bridge crip
pled .communications between
Salonika and Athens. .
. Thermopylae pass is Chiefly fa
mous for the stand made there by
the Spartan; King Leonidas, 1 who
was ' slaughtered in its defense
along with most of his soldiers by
the Persian; army of Xerxes in
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Farm Marketings
Increase Noted ,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.VPt-
The agriculture department said
today the income from farm mar-
" ketir.gs plus government j pay
k inents for the first half of. 1943
totaled $3,202,000,000 compared
J with $815,000,000 for the same
period last year.
Dimout
Tucs. . sunset 8 :23
7ed. gunrise 6:05
(Weather on p?ge 7)
Two
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NCIETY THX2D YEAR 12
Combined
Sea, Land
Batter Sicily Defense
British Troops Mopping;
Up South Slope of Etna
. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
German suicide troops recioled
at Cape Orlando, 43 miles from
seaborne and land attacks by Americans which overwhelmed the
nazi mountain defenses on the northern Sicilian coast. ' , ' '
The San Agata-Cesaro line was obliterated and disintegration
of all the Messina bridgehead was
threatened" '
Trapped ; front and ' rear as the
result (of a brilliant amphibious
encirclement by doughboys from
the Seventh army of Lt. Gen
George S. Patton, jr., hundreds of
Germans were captured in the
rocky fortifications in the area of
San Agata and San Fratello, five
miles to the southwest.
The size of this latest bag was
not officially estimated, but the
Americans a little more tnan a
week ago rounded up 10,000 Ger
mans and Italians by seizing the
termini . of the San . Stefano-
Nicosia road 'in a similar trap.
British eighth army troops
. were reported in late dispatches
from the front to be only seven
miles - soatbwest of the nasi
base-1 at Randaxso . and Ameri
cans,1 thrnstlng r eastward from
Cesara were about It miles dis
tant, j .: :
' (The" Algiers radio repoTted In
broadcast heard in London by
the Associated Press that the Brit
ish eighth army ' was about nine
miles from Riposot, half-way be
tween Catania and Taormina on
Sicily's east coast.)
- The whole German defense
system about the north slopes of
Mount Etna, centered at the hill
top town of ' Randazzo, was im
periled." Allied aerial squadrons raked
the axis holdings with bombs,
shells and bullets on mission after
mission, virtually unchallenged.
Official announcements and
press dispatches presented this
picture of weekend operations by
Gen. I Dwight D. Eisenhower's
forces: ::" :-
Men of Maj. Gen. Lucian Tru
scbtf $ third division coupled a
sea-borne flank attack from be
hind the enemy lines with frontal
pressure to capture the enemy
fortress of San Fratello and San
Agata, which had delayed the
push ; eastward along the north
coast from San Stefano. ' j
Fifteen miles Inland, ether
; Americans slashed eight miles
In straight line 14 miles by
the winding, tortaoos and hea-i
vily , mined road from Troina
t drive the nasls eat ef Cesar,'
Cesaro lies 14 miles west of
Randazzo and its wreckage-clogged
mountain pass which is the
enemy's main avenue of retreat
at the center. South of Cesaro
were; Canadian and British units
thrusting around Mount' Etna's
base 'from Bronte. The foremost
of : these was reported only 10
miles from Randazzo.
Armor-supoprted British troops
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Officials Point Out Ways
To Lessen Polio Spread
As the total of infantile paraly
sis cases in the Salem area re
mained stationary at 15 Monday
after; three days with i no addi
tional reports of new. outbreak
Ings of the disease, Marion coun
ty health authorities -pointed out
ways In which effects' of polio
may j be lessened in both com
munity and individuaT lives. ... ;V(
At least . four persons suffering
from; the paralysis have been tak
en to Portland, where the Kenny
treatment has been made avail
able through funds from the Na
tional Foundation f o r Infantile
Paralysis, Inc and the crippled
children's funds. Persons able to
pay secure the same treatment
as those receiving direct benefit
of . the funds,' while training was
provided doctors and nurses at
institutes with fund J backing.
Kenny-trained ; Dr Paul Noall,
who is in direct supervision of
polio cases receiving that treat
ment in Portland, spoke Monday
night at Salem General hospital
to physicians of this area, ex
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Yank,,
Forces
NORTH AFRICA, August 9-f)
tonight on temporary defenses
Messina strait, under combined
US Recalls
Ambassador
Armour to Return
From Argentina; Hull
Won't Say Hovr Long :
WASHINGTON, August 9 JF
The recall of American Ambassa
dor Norman Armour from his post
in Argentina raised the question
Monday night whether he would
ever return to Buenos Aires, a cap
ital which still maintains rela
tiohs with the 'axis. 1 :
Secretary of State Hull was non
committal when the subject came
up at his press conference today,
1 Asked why Armour was leaving
his post, Hull said he was coming
back to Washington, for conference
or consultation ; concerning r all
phases of the United States rela
tions with lhat part of the western
hemisphere and with special .ref
erence to Argentine developments
as they relate to the ; general : in
ternational situation. j L
- He was pressed for comment on
reports that Armour's recall ' re
flects American disappointment
with the Ramirez regime, which
promised closer cooperation with
the other American republics when
it ousted President Ramon S. Cas
tillo last June but has continued
to have diplomatic relations With
the axis. Hull replied only that
he thought that phase of the mat
ter was "self-explanatory. I - .
He added that he would leave
it to his questioners to draw their
own conclusion. ......
North African
Mission Head i -
Goes to London
WASHINGTON, Aug. fr-iF)
The state department announced
today the appointment of Fred D.
Koehler as: chief of the regional
office at London for the office of
foreign relief and : rehabilitation
operations. . ?, yt.-'
Heretofore Koehler has been
chief of the North African mis
sion of the Of fro, supervising re
lief and rehabilitation operations
in Tunisia,-Algeria and French
Morocco. ' ' -
Bombar-Dear
Girl with most "seem and
trimmest 'pursuit Job named
tonight Read story page t. '
plaining how access to the crowd
ed hospitals ( not filled with polio
patients but" with others receiv
ing care for other crippling ail
ments) can be secured..
For the community as a whole.
Dr. W. J, Stone, county health
officer handed Tout some advice
issued by the national .foundation:
"Keep children away from large
groups. Parents should reduce the
number ' of associations f between
children and other persons.' The
policy should be one of staying at
horn e. . Discourage : visiting and
avoid parties, gatherings, crowds
and travel It is the opinion " of
medical authorities that tonsil
operations ' should be delayed un
til an outbreak of the disease is
over. 1 . "
"Don't become hysterical U
cases occur in your neighborhood.
The medical profession and , the
health department will be using
every ; known safeguard. ; Polio
myelitis is a disease caused by a
filterable virus. During an epi
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Scdem. Orecjon. Tuesday Mamlnej, August
MJD'(SrJ
Troops
Order in Italy
After Bombings
Germany Reported .
To Agree to Return c
Of Italian Soldiers
By THOMAS F. HAWKINS
BERN. Aug. 8.-iP-The Swiss
telegraphic agency reported to
day .that troops were used to halt
the "desertion of ' factories' by
workers in Genoa following Sat
urday night's heavy RAF air raids
which also blasted other Italian
industrial centers at Turin and
MUan; '- - '
me Cxenoa population "gener
ally followed -the orders- of the
government with discipline," due
to the presence of the troops, the
agency, reported from the Swiss
border town of Chiasso. The dis
patch added that "rapid and ef
ficient intervention by the troots
served to accomplish work on
the regular schedule." -
. The Gazetta Del i Popolo. was
quoted as saying that German
troops helped extinguish Genoa
fires resulting from the raid.
The editorial offices of the
Corriere Delia Sera at Milan were
hit by ; the British bombers, the
dispatch said, and the roof of the
lamed opera house La Scala was
said to have, been struck bv 10
incendiary bombs, causing slight
damage. . v .
The disrupted electrical service
of Milan was re-established - in
some sections of the citv. An en
damaged school there was ued
to hce'thiS TiciheTess. Street car
service- was, partially restored.
Two planes were downed, falling
in tne streets. v .
. The - renewed air raids on
northern Italy following the
failure of the Badeglio govern
ment to capitulate to the al
lies, sparred strikes and uder
tTouxti political opposition to
the government. Socialists con
tinued their efforts to bring
abont a nationwide general
strike,;. "
. Meanwhile axis diplomatic
circles reported that Germany
had agreed that Italy could re
turn, home all her troops which
had been in the "fortress of Eu
rope." This Includes troops in the
Balkans. Those , already with
drawing from France are being
replaced by' German forces. . r:
TbUs agreement presumably was
effected d u r I n g the visit of
Foreign Minister Ribbentrop to
Italy last, week and confirmed at
the subsequent conferences among
Hitler and his war leaders. "
If time and conditions permit
all Italy's troops to return home.
one great difficulty preventing
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Hop Wage Set
At 3-Gent Top
Three cents a pound was estab
lished as the maximum price for
hop picking, by vote of Marion and
Polk county hop growers who met
with '' W. E. Kimsey, state : labor
commissioner, Monday night at'
the Salem chamber , of commerce.
This is an increase over the pre-
vailmg 1942 price of 2 cents.
although some growers , paid - S
cents in that season.
Any producer who intends, be
cause of a poor yield or for other
reasons, to offer a price in excess
of this established maximum, will
be . obligated to consult the labor
commissioner before doing so, ac
cording to a resolution reported
to have been adopted unanimously.
In setting this maximum price
the growers took into considera
tion the approximate earnings of
bean and prune' pickers, and set
tled upon a rate calculated to en
able hop pickers to earn about the
same amount per . dar but not
more. The hop men pledged co
operation to the bean and prune
growers, declaring it their purpose
not to entice harvesters' away from
them by off ering higher wages, j
There have been reports in Sa
lem of .wage offers in excess of
3 cents a pound, and some grow
ers at the meeting asked what
should be done about such 'offers.
No definite answer was provided.
A minimum price, the other
hand, was set for day labor in hop
harvest, the figure being $7.50 per
day or 75 cents per hour, y
- Prune growers are scheduled to
meet in .Dallas tonight and in Sa
lem -Wednesday, night to discus!
the "going wage" problem with the
labor commissioner.
Keep
Price
M 0 d
Wcisliington ,
Watches Hitler
Ousting Rumor
By WADE WERNER
WASHINGTON. Aug. S - UPi
Made wary by previous tales of
friction .4 between Adolf Hitler's
political machine and Germany's
muitary leaders, government i of
ficials nevertheless showed inter
est tonight in reports from Spain
that Hitler is being shelved in fa-
for of "the'militarr. " -
.r. In the absence of olficial -back-
in -for .word , from Madrid that
."powers of enormous magnitude"
are 1 being given to Reichmarshal
Herman Goering, there was a dis
position among these authorities
to await further information be
fore believing .Hitler l has given
way to military - triumvirate
headed by Goering. : y ' 1
I Meantime, i OWI Director FJmr
Davis called . the report ."pretty
auDious," telling a press confer
ence, mat no word of any such
change had been given to the Ger
man people and expressing a be
lief that it would make little dif
ference, anyhow, except that "we
no longer would have the advan
tage of Hitler's intuition." :
To Recommend
Timber Wage
NEW YORK. Ausl S.-JPV-T.
ivieicaiie. walling, aoininistrator
oL the wage and hour and nubile
contract division of the US de
partment of .labor, - Monday an
nounced appointment of a 24-man
committee to recommend a min
imum hourly wage rate for the
logging, ; lumber and timber and
related. products industries.
" The committee headed bv
George E. Osborne, of Stanford
university, California, will inves
tigate conditions in the industries
and recommend to Administrator
Walling the highest minimum
wage , rate (above SO cents but
not to exceed 40 cents) with due
regard to economic and competi
tive conditions in the industries.
Walling said.
Included on the committee for
the employers was Georee Metz-
ger, Eugene, Ore.; for the em
ployes, J. E Fadling, Portland,
Oregon.
FDR Returns
From Vacation
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-UPh-
Tanned by a week of northern
Ontario - sunshine, : President
Roosevelt plunged immediately
Monday into the affairs of state
and of war which apparently were
also his vacation companions. ' :
First announcement that the
president bad taken Ma short va
cation in Canada" c am e from
presidential secretary Stephen
Early at the White House. Mr.
Roosevelt, the " statement -said,
"has returned to Washington from
short vacation on the north
shore of Lake Huron near Mc
Gregor and , Whitefish bays." .
Then, almost simultaneously,
came the announcement that the
president had a luncheon engage
ment' with Secretary of S t a t e
Hull, a conference later with Gen
eral George C Marshall," chief of
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Normandie
NE WYORK, Aug. 9 The
USS Lafayette, formerly the
French liner Normandie, rose
Monday night to an angle of '45
degrees the - position at c which
engineers said actual salvage ope
rations could beginv ;.y
The 79,000-ton vessel, lying on
her side since fire 'swept her at
her pier a year and a half ago,
had risen to an angle of 48.1 de
grees Monday afternoon, then had
slipped back slightly on an ebb
tide, but lifted again' as the tide
came in. " : - r-s .-' -
Pumping 'operations j continued
as the ship reached the 45 degree
angle exactly halfway between
vertical and horizontal. ' -Salvage
officials said the work
was progressing so smoothly that
it might not be necessary to move
the vessel out into the Hudson
river to faiish the rihtLnj Job.
10. 1343
Committe
No. US
Reds Closing
Encirclement
Of Kharkov ;
. Summer Kharkov
' Threatened as Hue
1 Nazi Forces Face Trap
By EDWARD BALL
Tuesday. Aug. 10.-(ff'J-Russian
troops cutting in
swiftly v from the north closed
further their encircling grip on
JUtarkov Monday, capturing
poini 30 miles west of the big
base ' and driving to within 12
miles north of it, and at the same
time stepped iip their advance on
Bryansk,' forcing the Germans 'in
both areas to retreat with heavy
losses. ZZT'V'r'l'
The "red army was threatening
to turn Kharkov' into a summer
btaiwgraa as large numbers of
Germans faced entrapment.' The
soviet drive behind Kharkov was
so swift that it seemed likely to
trap at least some nazi forces even
though ! (he Germans should be
planning to evacuate as they have
just done at Orel and Belgorod.
A special Russian communique
reported that the Russians had
overrun Slatino, 12 miles north
of Kharkov, and had taken Nikl-
tovka, 30 miles due west of the
city, ; , yfv.;r--y.A - .
- Soviet ; planes . bombed troop
trains and enemy military stores
at the rail junction of Unecha, a
town southwest, of Bryansk, the
Moscow radio announced. -This
raid apparently was' . designed to
cut a feeder line into Bryansk as
soviet Infaintrr- andT tank forces
advanced overland. -t" - -sC?
Moscow announced in the mid
night, communique - today . that
Russian. troops advancing on Bry-
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Woman Weeps
For Child
She Stole
ALBANY, Aug. 9.-(Special-
inrice-married and childless
Catherine Earline Wriaht. 28.
transplanted New York house
wife, wept as she "sat in a hall
way of the courthouse here Mon
day night following her unsuc
cessful fight for infant Judith
Gurney she later admitted hav
ing stolen.
Slender, dark-haired and dark-
eyed, Mrs. Wright is approximate
ly 8 feet inches tall, wears
glasses and , tonight was dressed
in dark garments. ' I
' Curious onlookers specalated
as te how she had managed to
make the - yoang - army coaple :
in whose home she lived at 1039
Moltnomah street, here, believe
she was pregnant daring , the
entire three months ef her rest- '
deuce in Oregon. , v. . t
' But they did believe it In fact,
the story told to officers and re
told here ' Was that they were
apparently more cognizant of her
condition" , than was Staff . Sgt.
Jesse Wright, who .was reputedly
surprised to learn on her arrival
here that he was to become a
father. ' -r: ' y- ;-- 'v.
The Wrights and the other army
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XI
Arrow roLils ta the crib fr era uLkh' two-day -old Judith Gurney was
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' Albany District Attorney
Reports Baby Positively
Identified by
ALBANY, Ore., August 9-&T-Police tonight found the mis
sing Judith Gurney, kidnapped from. the Albany hospital last
"f8? V?.w5l..'n,rBay sergeanty wife on a child-steal-ing
charge.' , V: V " V ' -' . '
District Attorney Harlow Weinrick said the woman, Mrs. Cath
erine Wright, 26, confessed the kidnapping late tonight after hours
of steadfastly denying the charge. , . . i
The baby, in good health and'apparently well cared for in the
six days "since she disappeared from a hospital crib, was re-
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Eight-year-old Marlene Gurney,
shewn here with her mother in
a picture taken months before
Baby Sister Judith was abducted
from her. Albany hospital crib,
may not -have understood the
tragedy which shadowed . her
family . the past week,- bat she
will anderstand the Joy that Is
theirs today, newsmen ef this
sector believe. The sweet face
and gracious manners of the
Garneys older daughter won
the hearts of men and women
sent te the Linn eoanty seat to
cover an incident they feared
might end only In grief or life
long mystery. Marlene, they
said, was precocious bat was
too yoang to realise all of the
heartbreak .connected with the
Vale Area to Have -
Conservation Project
WASHINGTON, August 9 -VP)
The J reclamation service has ap
proved the 5000-acre Bully Crek
water conservation project in Ore
gon's Vale area, the office of Sen
ator Holman (R-Ore.) said Mon
day, but presidential approval is
now needed.
Crib Where Baby Was
Cerrice.
riedWomanii
Footprints
turned to , the parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. W. Gurney.
The mother, resting home, cried
with joy, and Gurney, a labor
union official exclaimed:
"Oh boy, are we happy.
,Weinrick haidt Mrs. Wright had
completely fooled her husband,
Sgt. Jesse Wright of nearby Camp
Adair, Into believing the child was
hers. . .. . , J, . '
Mrs. Wright feigned pregnancy
during the infrequent leaves of
her husband, and told neighbors
ten days ago she expected birth
any moment, Weinrick said.
One neighbor, Mrs. Robert
Wheaton, . told a reporter Mrs.
Wright said eight days ago she
was going to the hospital to have
a baby.' The next day . she . ex
plained her labor 'hadn't started,.
but she expected to go - to the
hospital, again that night, Mrs.
Wheaton said.
The following day she was home
with the baby, explaining to in
credulous neighbors that she had
an easy birth and was allowed
home because of the shortage of
hospital beds, Weinrick said.
- Meanwhile a widespread search
wag. launched' for thet:ity;.two
days old when kidnaped, but it
was not until late today that a
suspicious neighbor reported see
ing diapers on Mrs. Wright's
clothesline.
Investigation and the arrest
followed.
Weinrick said he was convinced
the husband knew nothing of the
kidnaping. The husband was held
in technical custody for the mili
tary police and was lodged in the
Linn county jail tonight. Wein
rick said he would call on him as
material witness.
The district attorney said the
baby had been positively identi
fied from footprints and by a hos
pital bracelet, bearing the name
Gurney," found in the Wright
home, . six blocks from the hospital.:,-
j. :
Weinrick said the actual ar
rest was made by City Police
man R. L. Chandler, who saw
Mrs. Wriht leave her home to
night shortly after police had
knocked at her. door without
response.
Chandler caught the woman
within a block just as she was
about to enter an . automobile
where her husband and the baby
waited, Weinrick said.
At Chandler's insistence they
drove to the hospital where nurses
failed to verify her story, the dis- '
trjet attorney continued.
She made no objection to a
physical examination, and doc-,
tors reported that she had not
given birth recently, Weinrick
added. .-: .!,.';: !
The child, daughter of B. W.
Gurney, a labor union official .
here, disappeared In the early
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Stolen
taken shortly after mi
.t last
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