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r' I , t 3fW.-: -PAGE TWO .Rearguard Tries to Hold Against Allies P (Continued from Page 1) D head Just as they did earlier this -week to outflank the San Agata Cesaro defense line, It was dis closed today. A fierce battle still is raging. A dispatch by Harold V. Boyle, Associated Pre s - correspondent with the American -Seventh, army, aid the "leap-frogging, task force seized a number of prisoners and the main hody-ofrthe Americans, striking; . frontally. from, the vest, had closed the seven-mile gap and pocketed the garrison ef the cape. This avast spectacular ef 'the land operations developed -e Americsa vangnards. were be--lieved te have penned te within three ntiles ef' sUndaaae. ! and ; the British, meppiag ' np i two snore" Tillages ea the - eastern lepe of Meant Etna, move np to within II miles eftneaxls. apply. Pert ef Taersaina. f -Enemy transport. rail wa y s, roads and bridges. were attacked by allied aerial squadrons both in Sicily and southern ; Italy yester day and US Flying Fortresses" in strong force bombed- the Royal arms factory, gas workv work shops, rolling mills, railway trains end other; targets at Terni, 50 miles north of Rome. " A headquarters statement said the damage t Terni was severe end, although Focke Wolfs, Mes serschmitts and- Macchis arose to challenge the Fortress formation, "their attacks . were not pressed home energetically.' A Rome ra- Gala Premiere! Wed, Aa&v 18 :30 P. M, Elsinsre Ttcolre Nim Ui that '"hn m pMmr to aai ki . . nrs toub OWN AJLMYINTHS AKMTS OWN SHOW! All Nat FreMs to ARMY EMEJU Reserved Seats $5.50 and. $2.75 (Ux tael)r dencral atalsctoa $IJ (tax lacL M&U Oram Check r Mmmcy Orr wttlr SH-A4rM BtMmp onerisifinD 1 ' "Murder In Times Sanare A LAST TIMES TODAY K lean Crawferd 1 Jahn Wayne Philip Don "Reunion in France TVCS CAKETUU 80FT SHOULDERS- STARTS SATURDAY THE AVENGERS m0M enter - ' I - l. NOW SHOWING I ji '! ... ".. 11 rr w - ii IT EvEQtfDQDY VJELSOES O Hazel Fisher and Her All-Girl Band, Friday Wight. , O Tophattere rSaturday Nighu - v , 'Always the Best in Dance Moslc at the - ' , -- . , ; - ' " - : . - .- . t . .. . . . r . Cpocsered by Capital Pest Ne.'t, American Legion dio broadcast said there were 565 casualties. ' - -. Bombers, fighter-bombers and fighters sank four enemy vessels, knocked out 21 enemy trucks; bat tered barracks, fired - a Milazzo ammunition dump, end attacked railways and bridges of both Sici ly ' and southern Italy, . taking in Rosarno and Randazzo, Angitola and Catanzaro, One of the raiders failed to re turn. Testifying to the general shyness of aerial opposition, -gunner did hot! claim the destruc tion of a single enemy plane yes terday. ! ;X -I ' O'- -J ---.- : The .'new American amphib tons operation developed,, as the, treeps ef IX Gen. George B Patten, j Jr, consolidated i their gains la the area ef San Marco JA!anstor ketween San- Agate Cape . Orlando. : 11 - placed treeps O miles west ef Messina near the month ef the Naze rtver. , y. ' Guns of the escort fleet; and swarms of fighter-bombers pour ed a storm of bullets and explo sives upon German beach patrols as they, rushed to engage the in fantrymen. Despite the lack of surprise the troops fought off .the counter-attacks and developed the bridgehead, j s -;: The Germans were caught be tween, two fires and threatened with complete encirclement They were reported fighting, savagely in an effort to wipe out the bridge head. Virtually the only German escape rout jwould be down the main highway along. the north coast, whkh; 'it is assumed , the Americans have cut. " - Dispatches indicate that the. landing, party eneeentered Ger man fire almost from' the first Plowing through the surf, the infantrymen j met a German bay onet charge and beat it back. The beach was the scene of furious, swirling fighting as. the Germans counter-attacked . in " successive waves, butL the Americans cut their way through and advanced toward higher ground. . - The German .high command in sisted in its Berlin broadcast com munique that the landing forces were driven- off. The .next radio subsequently transmitted a decla ration that the venture was "use less." It said a regiment of infan try and a 1 tank i formation was employed. - ' ' " - - Top Price Set On Prune Pick A (Continued - from Page 1) A or armament production. The far mer isi doing the best he can in spite of obstacles. No citizen has a finer record of wprk -and patriot ism in this! war." It not entirely his fault if we produce less food in 1943 than in 1942. It if imper ative that every particle. food be harvested, if our people are. to avoid living on a diet well below the nutrition level early next year. "It should be reiterated that the wages .that have been established axe - maximum wages, beyond which producers are- not expected to go. In a great many- instances crop conditions may enable the farmer to obtain the necessary-labor at lower wages than here in dicated. : j . - "It has been determined that, except, in real emergencies the grower must respect the following maximum prices to the end, mat chaos may not develop in harvest ing operations and that he may escape the charge of resorting to disruptive-labor practices. The price set for picking- hops is $ cents a pound. ' "The price for picking -.prunes from the ground is 20 cents a bu shel, and 25 cents e bushel will be paid for shaking-: and picking. Those picking: into-cannery lugs will be paid a corresponding wage according to weight of the con tainer, j Seventy five cents an hour will use paid common labor in both the prune and hop n industry and maximum wage of Si an hour will he paid shakers in the prune in dustry. In the hop industry a wage of $7.50 a day for common labor is provided for. t In I those orchards where, be cause of poor crops, the worker Is unable to earn a fair wage at the above prices, on application a -committee of growers will determine wage that may be paid to en able the employe to earn a wage comparable to that- which might be earned in the -better orchards. The same arrangement has. been made to take care: of real emer gencies in hop yards. jj WALSENBURG, Cplo. -v5- An owl hitched a ride in his car, re ported School Superintendent S. M. Andrews.' . In ; the path of his automobile, I 1 1-,..;., .The Tax Loss fiiie To Ownershii C (Continued from Page 1) O din Peterson of Florida, Hugh Pe terson of Georgia, James W. Mott and Harris Ellsworth of Oregon. Congressman Mott to-ranking mi nority member of the committee. Guy Cordon of Koseburg, sum ming up the viewpoint of Oregon counties as spokesman for their association; pointed out that though; loyal Ameu-cans are will ing to make every necessary sac rifice toward jirtctoiT to the-war, equalization of the sacrifices, where possible,- is only Just. Sac rifice of taxable value has fallen unequally upon certain communi ties and the minimum rectmca tion, he declared, ir full reim bursement for their actual tax The additional burden of extra ordinary local -governmental ex pense due to influx of war work ers had previously been mentioned by Virgil Langry, executive secre tary of , the League of - Oregon Cities, and by . Frank S. Sever, deputy district attorney of Mult nomah county who had presented that county's case. Cordon, re marked that such cases probably would require individual solutions s i n c e no practicable .. yardstick might be devised. : ., , Lanxtry alse had. emphasised, the anxiety; ef local gevern menis to maintain their aervices and" Independence, and their recognition that" Independence , weald suffer if . seme ef the services had to be taken aver br him gest nlal nnttaj Though the sub - committee's purpose in its series of hearings Is that of -taking testimony and formulation of definite policies will c ami later,. Congressman Mott said the committee wag in full agreement with Cordon's minimum suggestion and with the points Langry raised. : Marion county's tax loaaea through war-related federal ac quisitions are small. County Judge Grant Murphy testif iedr being lim- ted to the additional land. added to the Salem airport rand some property taken - over for no flax plant -in the north end of j the county. ' :" At the forenoon, session Charles V. Galloway, chairman xf the state tax corpmissionr; declared, that the federal government how owns 60 per cent of all lands; in Oregon and is acquiring more,, and that operations of counties, cities! and school districts ' have been handi capped by resultant tax losses. Cennty Judge "Herman Tan WeU ef Polk county said 21481 aerea of the best land in that area, valued at SS74.70A, bad been acqaired in connection with Camp . Adair's establish ment, reducing- the eonntys as sessed valuation by. t per- cent and increasing ether -property owners bm-den-proportionately. Benton eeeatty, eeeerding j to District Attorney Fred McIIen T7, has saffered a tax toss, ef S14,eee snaaalTy dae tot Camp Adair ceastrnetton. end federal pnrehase of seane lands in the Mary's Peak vicinity. Jackson county's, loss, due to construction of Camp; White amounts to $7482 a year, County Judge J. B. Coleman said.!-The loss is small because most of the 40,906 acres bought by' the gov ernment consisted of poor quality land. Harney county's tax-loss woes have been heightened,, County Judge Nelson B. Higgs explained, by creation of a 72,000-acre bird refuge out of some of the county's best irrigable land. It formerly paid tl8.000 a year in taxes: re4 turns to the county now, from hay production and grazing fees. amount to only about $4300. W .. mm .... jeixerson counrys- plight was outlined by County Judge T. A. Power. Others who. spoke included Sumner. Newell of the Oregon Taxpayers' association. County Judge Carl Chambers of Umatilla County Judge Harlan M. Woods of Tillamook and County! Judge ay Tarbell of Columbia. Since the sub-committee could not Include Washington state in its itinerary, State Tax Commis sioner Hedges attended and made a brief statement. Chairman Pe terson said other committee i oers would arrange for an ade- uate snowing on that state's be half. The two southern congress men were to - go from Salem . to Jackson Hole, Wya, where a .hear ing on other problems before the committee is to be held. The four congressmen here Thursday were guests of the Salem chamber of commerce at a dinner at the Mar ion hotel that night Andrews guided the wheels away from the bird. Fifteen miles later at a traffic stop the owl fluttered up from between the hood and a fender and winged back in the direction from which it came. Two Vig Features "IIOPPrSTMES AGAIH! TATECI-IAII. Coleo OltfhellOinSFROllT By IS AESL" CTTTT.n3 ' The story in the- week's news that most appeals to me at the moment is that of the ' woman who,' with her bare hands, killed the-- skunk she- caught in her chicken house. ' -f Wartime morale builders may find in her experience something they can-use. Turn loose a few skunks to make us mad- enough and we won't even mind their odor. V Or, Just as easily, send a- few anonymous letters and - postal cards; they , accomplish the same thing and; somehow, , manage to carry about the same odor. " K (Continued from Page 1) K Weinrick had her in Linn coun ty jail in lieu of $5000 bond but did not know her right name' nor which of two men was her hus band in the eyes of the law.' She told Wemrick her name was Catherine Wright, her age 28. Sgt ? Jesse Wright; stationed : at Camp Adair. Jiear here, believes he is her husband. But a Iong Beach, Calit, cafe worker, whose first names, are variously Harry and Woodrow and who has gone by-Morgan and Moran ' for a . surname amid that so far as he knows-he stOl. is her husbaiid. -;'?- V;' : I :;-: - ": Morgan (or Moran) said he and his wife were living in Honolulu when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and. she, , left Hawaii a short time later." She insisted their marriage had been annulled. He said he had not .been Informed officially either of an annulment or a divorce. J Weinrick had a document pur porting to be. a certified copy of the annulment on file in Multno mah county, Oregon. The names on the document were Kathryn Moran vs. Harry Moran. . - Weinrick said" all the- names except Barry appeared to have been written in over erajtures and MulmornaJbCountyrClerk; A. A. Bailey in T ortland reported or iginal papets on . file under the same number aa mat on-the docu ment was a divorce decree In the case of Canime Mayer vs. Harry Mayer. Any person. Bailey- said, could- have obtained - a - certified copy form ai id. changed the names; The womkn-rtold weinrick. she wounded during the Pearl Harbor raid but the Long Beach man said his wife fell, from their back porch a week after their marriage October 7, 1941. Weinrick asked Honolulu . po lice to investigate the woman's activities, hoping they would fur nish inforrr ation that would, set the story t before tomorr when the woman and her court-appointed attorney, Edward Sox, are scheduled to appear at her arraignment on the child stealing charge. - Rationing of Used Cars In Question PORTLAND, Ore, August 12(A) Rationing or requisitioning of used cars depends on the ability of es sential users - to obtain adequate vehicles, Eliott Taylor, Washing ton, DC, chief of the OPA automo bile rationing section, told Oregon end southwest Washington dealers Thursday. ':': f David Z. Castles, St Louis, Mo president of the National Automo bile -Dealers, association, asserted that OPA-advocated price ceilings on used cars is unnecessary and would be unworkable . ' because most used car sales , are through private hands. . i If imposed on the industry, Castles ttld, the ceilinf structure should permit, a 25 per cent dealer margin instead of the IS per cent contemplated by OPA. hrreHerrie-Thomas Divorce Granted RENO, New August U Margaretta W. Treherne-Thomas, Thursday divorced F. Hugh Tre-herne-Thomas, .wealthy British industrialist, on grounus Of ex treme cruelty. nlsbt and Saturday ; OHIGOILC Baby Stealing Confusine Orecca. Triday Morning. Aul 13, Ull rflarion County May Import" v Mexican - Lab or B (Continued from Page 1) B such treatment. On the whole they have been an Industrious, happy, and satisfactory lot of workers. There has ! been - objection to the bringing in of Mexican labor. Not an of it was that reputedly expressed at j a r Wednesday night indignation meeting of residents in the rNorth JUver road sector near the sewage disposal ; plant aiieo So upset were menibers of th city council ever toe situation that early this week members al legedly refused to sign a .round robin -permitting even a 'surrey; of the property as a proposed camp site.:... . i ... . :.; , . ' ; :'. Among the objectors have been some of the small growers, who have feared that residents of Sa lem and other communities, hav ing pitched in royally the past 18 months to help get in and process the food crops, may now go back to their bridge tables, their some-thnes-neglected lawns and their pre-war ways of life, confident that they are no longer needed. Such' an attitude1 has not been as- prevalent as was expected, the members of the growers'; com mittee who talked with me Thurs day night " declared. i ;. i i But persona who can- add and subtract may read the draft lists and the want add pages and knew that more and ; more ' have: the ranks of last year's seasonal work ers been -thinned because home makers' and even , boys and girls have been: eagerly sought for year around tasks. - - , rr-- - j .-, Every person in the" mid-Willamette valley area who wants to work in orchard, hop yard, mint patch, : cannery or other place where the harvest is gathered or processed may-find a Job and do a patriotic bit. County Agent Uib ler -maintains. .... Bairko Japs V;i,;: . ' JT Encircled O (Qxithxred from Page 1) O At the ether end ef the 7S aafie battle are where the alhed ebjeetive b rSalam'ana, New Guinea, activity' was limited te"; artillery ; exchanges, v - :i 2 -1 All over' the Solomona area,' bad weather- hindered; air' operations. But : the "reconnaissanse planes. which kept aloft, fair weather or foul, got in some blows northwest ox ' Ausxraua. ruei urea so m- tense they could be seen for 60 miles were touched off by'lour- engined-bombers which, attacked the town ot.Kaimana. on Dutch New Guinea, far to the northwest of the SaTamane "land, front. In the same - sector, two-engined bombers started fires on the enemy airdrome at Timeoka- Other ; heavy ' reconnaissance bombers attacked the isthmus on which Salamaua extends, into the Huon gulf of ! northeastern New Guinea. The jungle battle front- in that area is five miles below Sale-, maua at Bobdubi where skirmish ing; was reported in today's' com munique "Ti"""Ti"m.E WOJSC WTTHCTrMl HITS TODAY' 7 HI'S i 3 nOGERS i TaUey cf Vanisbiay Hen" t aeassW - - D - Red Offensive Betters On P (Continued from Page ,1) F end Red army troops captured 109 trucks and 17 i German tanks in good working; order. - West Of the city another Hue-, sian farce was fanning out toward Poltava, and Sumy, nearing the high-water mark of their, offen sive last lbruary. They t o ok towns 63 miles west-of Kharkov but they were" Still 37 miles south east of Lebedin, the farthest point reached last wnter, . " SavieiX bambers lent awppert te tLls drive by bombing Pol-, tava IS miles senth ef the near est Bnsslan treeps en Wedaes- day nlxluV the Mescew radio sail Large nrea were reported. To the north, the Russians stormed' to- within 25 miles of Bryansk- and- six miles of Kara chev, a ' railway : point between Orel and Bryansk. Another column was only four and three tenths miles east of Karachev. Seven hundred Germans were killed in the fighting here and 13 guns destroyed. 'y j-,--- '-.'.' ' C.;-',xJ: ; Russian forces gained six te eight miles over-all in, their Bry ansk offensive, capturing. more than 1Q . populated places, the conmiuukrue said. V'tv'T ic-!;i; 1 :-rl - Fifty six Geraaaa tanks wreck ed tn Wsdneaday-a fighting white 41 Gennan planes were breeght down ea all fronts. - Another Moscow broadcast an nounced that In the pest -2 months 155,000 Germens; were killed by the' famed- Russian guerrillas op- eratingt in small! bands behind German Imes.' They derailed sev eral hundred troop trains, , dis abled 259 'tanks, destroyed 203 planes on the ground and captur ed li German headquartersj the broadcast said. ' Italy About Quet II (Cnntmued from Page 1) ' H headlines as "Casablanca ' deci sion being revised in Quebec" r - At the same time, the German war eenununique which heretofore has . been 'f front-paged in-large type alongside the Italian ' com munique was relegated to t h e back . page with v small headlines and small type, j The entire press refrained from editorials, on , Tok yo and Berlin, minimised the war in Russia and ! the Pacific and " : : , nil DL tiiiupk G2Q rjDDViii:UDIU:3G DAD . "I UoUicd TTilh VV? J - A G-ii- aZcnilo" AtfattZ N AND 5 ": That Naxtj Nuisance' j - . I i !,;.:. : t : f ! --r o . "V.' even cave" the irr.nrtls'c.ri.' said a Swiss telegraph agerjeyChiassQ dispatch, of a "neutral attitude towards the military -situation in Russia. Post Here Praisea; FORT LEWIS, v Aug!' 12.-ifiH Officers of the northwest sector, western defense command, ex pressed satisfaction today 'over' a series of corn mand' post exercises whichf have ' been' completed- in cooperation with the coast 'guard and civilian defense authorities in Oregon. - .-j-'- : . :;;Thet; ; exercises were- held r in preparation for. large, scale army maneuvers In Oregon this; fall.-. No itrjoopa,:.were used. .In the problems, but all Ethe necessary orders were drafted. They' were reviewed at 4 a critique Thursday at the state. capital to Salenv j Army officers working- with State i Civilian Defense Director Jerrold Owen and his: staff here this week have announced that all newt,rontMamins;l;their'exerf cises in Salem v w o u 1 r come through - their. peat public - rela fdons rganizationet Fort Lewis.! P&rinruidie i Stands " Still Straishter t r. NEWX YOEJCV AugustrltP) Xhe USS I-aterettetformer French liner-Normandie,. now listina at ant angle of 38.5 degrees and: with 83 pumps working at an accelerat ed rate, -still ceotaabeuLSObO tons of water, Otptein . B. C Man- Thuradaywi: .:-?''.:iXfi&rJ$S ' To jprtteitTthe ship's itSngs and machmery.frora' rust, petroleum Tust: preVenttngT producut liave been used ince the salvsger.oper ations gov under way Technicians s-hcver;"that.tiitUe' rusting occura- on metals submerged deeply as-was roost bT the Nbr mandies eruipment; because yot the low oxygen content of water st that depth. Tty added,' how ever,? that wheav the1 submerged metal was brought -to the surface rusting occurred at an almost vis rblerate. " ' ! ,' . . TULSA, Okte. (JP- Police of ficers.; report e share' the loot" burglar. ' I :-y H. W. Donovan of Dallas left $L2H in a bag in his hotel room; told officers that on his return 360: was gone the other 160 was still in the bag a ! k r- . 1 - II " J ''' ' vi"rl ts vp iBibnoivcIy1 : ':-: I ins Iiiommg; I (Continued frcn jage 1) t brella over all three cities, a joint American , and Eritish .c6mmunl que said. - - , - .-V ;j In the lead plane: ever Gel - seakirchen.'- was-: Ctl'--G lark - Gable the former -r-u il star. Ea steed throtrhcrt' six hear flight, shaetLng r-?ls for a gunnery trailing t" x He was -nhnrt, thengh 'mU-alreraft fire eat IS helerA, shln.:i A German- broad :ast said the brunt "of the attach fell on Bonn, birthplace of , Beethoven, only 13 miles southeast of much-bambed Cologne. "They farere- intercepted and many heavy battles were fought a b o v e ' the clouds,", the broadcast said. ! . j The: triple raid by the" pre cision: bombers rounded out What, less than two years ago , would have been rated a aeries of heavy blows against the enemy but that now passes as just 24 hours j of routine activity.; ". I .The RAT'S heavy bombers rest ed 'Thursday night after their pre vious j night's 1500-ton raid on Nuernberg, but Mosquito bombers continued their swift attacks against enemy targets in the Ruhr and Rhtneland. At the same time other; RAF forces , were shooting p railroad . targets in France and the lowlands and laying mines in enemy - waters. . j. . .The nasi a retaliated daring the ;nlnt with their- heaviest rali en Xngland in several weeks seme XI planes damping - bombs en mm naMentifled town ea the. senth eeast and USlng etght persons. It was annennced that 1ST persons were kClei in England by air raids daring Jvlr. ? - ! ; While the British did not an nounce the targets of last' night's enemy raid, the German high command- Identified the cities at tacked as. Bournemouth and Ply mouth. ;,,..., j,;.;, ' t '-. . , i. Farm-Stored Peas -Eligible for Loans CORVALLIS, Aug. 12H!P-The state-1 AAA ' announced Thursday that farm-stored dry edible peas will i be eligible for, commodity credit corporation loans. Rates wUt jbe the same as previously , announced for warehouse loans. VINELAND, NJ-0P-A daugh ter born to Mrs. Barry Litwack in Newcomb hospital has four teeth, two uppers and two lowers. Tononnou C.?C2iitl t:rti:t-:;::.:ry cr.J t:3 t;I3 r;:J.T- zrz'A t:mi 1 KEV.T3 - SCrJAL, . CARTOON (
