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L W LI DDLI U UGJ ;L- CJLu)n"- LzuL'Li " vj l Gu'ol, " V IN . I ' ! i ii i v - -s if r i y i - r a. t r, i . . v i i ! uu:u O- rfu' Oil "w. -yrrz. jsr r ' j? si PCUNDDD 1651 What mothers are unable to ac complish by appeals, threats or ding-donging, the navy and : the army are able to accomplish in Just two or three days orderli ness in young men's rooms. You konw how it is: "Robert, please tiang up your pajamas; "Joe, I vish you" wouldn't kick your shoes under the bed;"- "Jack, ."Won't you straighten up your chif fonier?' But Jack and Robert and Joe . ("bless their souls, I wish - they were' home again") go bliss fully along, their reforms of habit being transitory, their relapse into haste and disorder speedy. In the navy .though, or the army; it's different There is that frim ogre "Inspectio n." No "please" about it now. Just curt tommindi to hang up your clothes; arrange your shoes in or derly, manner; polish your boots; shine your buttons. - The miracle ' works almost without the- com mands the newly enlisted or in ducted man just seems to absorb the information immediately that he must keep his sleeping space and his belongings neat and clean. ' I saw the proof of this trans formation in habit in . a tour of the USS "Lausanne" where the naval training unit is now housed out at Willamette university. .What a contrast from the usual dishabille of boys' dormitory or - a frat house. Everything in place; clothes hanging In closets; shoes In neat rows; books in line on un- . littered study tables. College was never like: this! Mothers should visit their boys' rooms in army or avy just to see the -change. . j All this, is just introduction r to the point: IT SEEMS TO ME that all youth in their teens should somehow get this discipline which they are now getting in army or navy; the feeling of authority, of responsibility; the sense of order liness..; The . training would t v with Jtberq. jrh.ff is not necessarily a plea for universal military . training, ' but for some applica tion of the disciplines of military life which are . of abiding (Continued on Edit, page) FDR Arrives In Quebec .War Talks to Begin With Churchill Today; Initial Plans Completed By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL QUEBEC, Que., Aug. ,17.-flV President Roosevelt came to his toric,' cheering Quebec Tuesday night to re-examine allied strategy . for global war with Prime Minis ter Churchill of Britain and trans late it into a master war plan to blast the axis out of existence. Thus began the final phase of the Quebec war conference,' the sixth formal meeting ; of two statesmen who hold the fate of the allies, and perhaps of a stag gering enemy, in their hands. With them was Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada, whose troops have played a vital, role in the conquest of Sicily and appear destined to take on an even bigger assignment in tremendous smashes at the nazi fortress on the Euro pean continent. Tonight they were at their ease as guests at a dinner party given by the Earl of Athlone, Canada's (Turn to Page 2 Story E) , Record-Setting Jersey Herd Brought to Salem As an event sharply in contrast with the trend toward reduction in the number of active dairy farms, the Salem vicinity has gained in recent days two interna tionally known dairymen and a herd which boasts, a number of world records. Norman and Merritt Nash, op erating under the , name Nash Brothers, have brought their herd of 102 dairy cattle, all purebred Jerseys, from the Coos River vi cinity near Marshfield to Salem where they are established on the dairy farm southeast of the city formerly .: known as ,s the Medo lawn dairy; which they have pur chased from the v Frank Durbin estate. .This was one of Salem's earliest, perhaps the earliest, dairy delivering milk to Salem. " - - The- Nash Brothers herd, while maintained at Coos River, estab lished a world's record for butter fat production on a per-cow basis. The herd . includes the interna tionally known sire "The Chal lenger," recognized as the second greatest sire in the Jersey breed NINETY THIRD YEAR 12 Surprise Attack I Incendiary, Fraentetion Bombs Spread Havoc Among Japanese Reinforcements : " ' By C. YATES McDANIEL ; ; ';. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST -PACIFIC, - . .. . ....... . . .... i ..... ... . Wednesday,' August 18-(3-The allies won -their most smashing; victory h Pacific, war in the battle for air supremacy over New Guinea Tuesday by surprising . more than 225 Japanese planes, many wing tip to wing tip, on the ground in the Wewak area, destroying or damaging 170 and killing 1500 enemy air personnel.' - - :i Ten thousand fragmentation and incendiary bombs spread Bean Harvest Relief Comes, More Needed i Thanks to" the aid of 1 W state employes, who. were released for tlie afternoon Itrom.iheir regular tasks through action of . the state board of control at the request of the emergency farm labor service, the bean harvest demand -for workers was temporarily eased, it was reported Tuesday night. - However, Walter Snyder of the farm labor service said he under stood this special dispensation ap plied only to the one day, and pre dicted demand for 500 to 700 more pickers today, since picking was scheduled to start at still more bean fields. This demand will con tinue at least through the week. An effort to obtain a heavy week end turnout will be made but un der present weather conditions "the beans won't wait," it was em phasized? Prior to the afternoon turnout of state employes, who were rout ed to fields near Salem, in view of their limited available time, 250 new pickers had reported at the employment office Tuesday morn ing in response to .previous ap peals. ... (Turn to Page 2 Story D) 3000 Adair Soldiers to Parade for Army, Film f PORTLAND, August . H-ttfV-A city of. army pup tents sprang up at Duniway park today at troops from Camp Adair poured into Portland to participate in the pre miere of the picture, "This Is the Army," tomorrow night ' Some 3000 soldiers will parade prior to the showing of the film, which is for army, emergency relief. for butterfat production of off spring. .In the herd also Is "The Challenger's Trinette," which set a world's - record in the lunlor two-year-old class for butterfat production; 702 pounds u ten months. Nash Brothers intend to in crease their herd to include 100 milking cows, which jwill necessi tate rnaintaining about 120 head altogether. They ; are Tat present producing milk which is routed through the Dairy Cooperative plant in Salem to Camp Adair. t Need for u more accessible lo cation; in view of the fact that many persons come ' to see the herd and that then business in volves some buying ; and, selling which was. carried on Inconven iently in Coos - county, prompted the move, Merritt Nash said Tues day. Furthermore they discovered that while the OPA ceiling price in this area is more favorable, feed costs also are lower here, and conditions ' generally s 'more satisfactory. PAGES ;i ! ;-! .' 3 . .:''..-;' i : ... .... Killed lei ' havoc, among reinforcements , which Japan . obviously was in tending to bring' into play in sup port of ground -forces now reeling back in the jungles before attacks of - Americans and Australians bidding for the air base of Sala maua. . Wewak is about 350 miles northwest up the coast from Sala maua. . ' . One hundred . twenty of the 'Japanese planes were destrey- ed for. eertala and 5 mare ' severely damaged. .' MaJ. Gen. Ennis C Whitehead, commander of the advance Eche lon allied airforces in the south west Pacific area," who directed the aerial sledgehammer blows rained on four Wewak area air dromes, described this devastating achievement of A m e r 1 c a n and Australian fliers as "the opening battle for air supremacy over cen tral New Guinea." ;, ' The Papuan Peninsula, south eastern New Guinea, has long since been in allied hands and present ground fighting is for con trol of northeastern New Guinea, adding significance to General Whitehead's reference to "central New Guinea. . General MacArthur in a special statement acclaimed the air tri- umDh. A flight of Liberators led the mauling attack which commenced shortly after midnight Tuesday and continued well into daylight yesterday morning. ; Mere than 225 planes made vp the sight which greeted the first raiders. The last raider, to leave looked back a scene of : havee. - Everywhere there was smoke sad fire from burning planes,; fuel and ammmritien damps. v Liberators, Flying Fortresses, Mitchells and Bostons struck in wave on wave with clocklike pre cision. So complete was the sur prise element that the air triumph cost the allies only three planes. - Departing from custom. General MacArthur issued a special state ment: "It was a . crippling blow at an opportune moment. ; "Numerically the opposing for ces were about equal in strength but one was in the ' air and the other was not. Nothing is so help less as s plane on the ground. - "In: war, surprise is decisive." -(Turn to Page 2 Story C) - Italian Diplomats Arrive in Lisbon MADRID, Aug. n.-VPr-An It alian plane carrying seven Italian diplomats from Rome was report ed to have arrived .Tuesday in Lisbon. - : ? . " Their mission to the Portuguese capital ' waa not explained hat their contact with Vatican- diplo mats was said to have indicated that the trip was connected with the declaration of Rome as an open city by the government of Premier Marshal Badoglio. y : i v::;f': Open Gty Proposal - ; Made Again, Say Nazis "LONDON, " Aug.7 17.-iT-The German radio in a broadcast heard by the Associated Press said Tuesday night that through the Vatican, Premier-Marshal Pietro Badoglio had made a "second pro posal., concerning making Rome an open city. Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning. August 18. IS 43 OS; Fliers Bombard ' .- .. & .r - ' Geii Fortresses Run : : First Daylight 7 Shuttle-Bombing "i LONDON, Wednesday, Aug ast l&-(Jfi-1lAF bombers s track again at Germany last night af ter American Flying', Fertres-1 sea, making their - first shuttle raid from Britain to north AN, riea. had bombed - the Math western corner of the reich by daylight yesterday. By LEWIS HAWKINS LONDON, Wednesday, Aug ust 18 -(Ph American Flying Fortresses, making . the first daylight shuttle - bombing run from England to north Africa, capped a day of one of the great est aerial onslaughts of the war yesterday by making their deepest invasion of the continent to blast the southeastern corner of Ger many. The big, planes t bombed an air plane plant at Regensb'urg; norJV east of Munich near the Austrian- Czechoslovaklan border, and . kept on going over the Alps for a flight of around 1500 miles, it was an nounced. . s . The Regensbnrg plant, Ger many's - largest Messerschmitt . factory, . was heavily attacked. ' Other fortresses, tearing through the stiffest fighter opposition the nazis have mustered for weeks, blasted an important roller bear ing works at Schweinfurt near Frankfurt. " Seventy-two closely '. packed acres of ball bearing factory buil dings one of Germany's most vital links in the chain of war productions - were attacked in the Schweinfurt raid. - Returning crewmen Jubilantly reported "that smoke billowed up to 20,000 feet over the Schwein furt target and drifted for 10 miles. : The shuttle heavy bombing raid (Turn to Prge 2 Story G) London Rife With Invasion Speculation ; By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE t LONDON, August 17-iPH The atmosphere in this oldest : and greatest of allied forward bases in the European theater was hea vy Tuesday night with speculation that another and more fateful lunge against the axis was coming now that the conquest of Sicily had made the first breach in the enemy's continental wall. Only the high command had knowledge of where the next blow or blows would be struck, but a feeling persisted that a denoue ment in the war was approaching. This was emphasized by Brit ain's emptying beaches as the government began clearing all non-residents from . barricaded coastal areas and the fury of the allied round - the - clock air as saults. - There was a renewal, too, of cries for. a second front in both Britain and Soviet Russia. ' It was quite possible, however. that future operations, regardless of whether they fall on southern Italy, -the Balkans, northern France, the low countries, north ern Germany,: Denmark or Nor way, would be delayed for a few weeks. ': . r,- - V ' This might be done, not only to permit the fullest preparations. but also , to - give tv. 'fullest : op portunity for heavy .bciiins and psychological attacks to crystalize the Italian w7J foresee without further fighting, . ... many Dimout 7ed. eunset 8:15 Tlmr. sunrise 6:15 (Weather ca Ttze 7) Crisis Grips Scandinavia ' STOCKHOLM, Aug. Vi.-JPy The worst political crisis ef the war gripped Scandinavia Tues day aight as the German een- trailed government ef Premier. Vldknn Quisling took stern, re pressive measures against Nor wegians, apparently thresf h ; fear ef allied landings. . v Bitter reaction to German moves . in neighboring ' Norway ! swept tttrssgh Sweden and . reaehed a head in Stockholm where the windows of the Ger ; man toorist . agency - hi ; the : Kugsgataa were 'smashed." " Russians Gain : -' - ' ;-. On Bryansk; . rem io,coo Germans Said to Be . In Full Retreat, but : Gird Other. Defenses By EDWARD D. BALL. LONDON, Wednesday, Aug. ft. -W)-The red . army smashed through stiffening German resist ance Tuesday to make -gains up to lour miles' toward Bryansk .and improved their positions in the drives upon Smolensk and Khar kov in fighting that killed over 10,000 Germans, Moscow announ ced today, t i The Germans were falling back from position after position in the Bryansk area, where the red troops were last reported. 15 miles east of the great German defense center,- , Over 60 towns and vil lages were taken and the Moscow radio reported that Tierce fight ing does, not slacken for a mo ment. ' The Germans, dislodged from - their mala Mae, were said to be In fall retreat, covering, their rear with tank and piano eemt . terof fensives. , Soviet planes found military trains and concentrations ' of troops in Bryansk and pounded them heavily Monday night and Tuesday morning, a Moscow broadcast recorded by the Soviet Monitor said. ' Bryansk waa also menaced by Russian troops driving down from within 24 miles northeast of the city where perhaps the greatest threat to the Germans in this area lay. . ; i The soviet midnight commun ique,' recorded by the Soviet Mon itor, reported' heavy ' fighting southwest of Dmitrovsk-Orlovsky, 60 miles southeast of Bryansk. ' Other soviet troops forged ahead in the Spas Demensk area to capture several hamlets, con siderably Improving their posi tions. Over 2,80 Germans were killed here,, an much enemy equipment , destroyed. In this drive the Soviets were about 75 miles southeast of Smolensk. The German - controlled Vichy radio however reported Berlin dispatches saying that "very im portant Russian troop and armor concentrations have been observed north of Vyazma and Smolensk. A new Russian offensive with full strength Is expected to be launched shortly in the B e 1 y region (80 miles north of Smolensk).' New German reinforcement slowed the pace of the soviet army fighting in the streets of the city itself and far to the west as well , (Turn to . Page 2 Story F) Alum in nm, Magnesium Production "Adequate v WASHINGTON; Aug. ' 17 -p) Secretary of Commerce Jones said Tuesday that aluminum and mag nesium are . now coming out . of government-owned plants at : a rate which assures an adequate supply. " ,- ' Two Llineswcepcrs Launched at Seattle SEATTLE, August 17-T)-Two 180-foot minesweepers were launched at the Associated Ship builders yard here Tuesday with what company officials said were the first all-welded steel hulls to be built In the Puet Sound area. Price 5c XIo. 1S3 Mother Qn--. Stand Witnesses Say Ruth Hildehrand ' Had Premonition - DALLAS, "August 17-(Spe cial) -Ruth Hildebrand, 17- year-old Dallas girl for. whose alleged first degree murder Hichard Harry Layton is on tri al in the Polk county circuit court here, had. a premonition of the fate which overtook her on the night ' of ' June - 7, testimony of two witnesses indicated today. Following opening statements by District Attorney Bruce Spauldlng and Defense' ' Attorney Roy ' R. Hewitt, routine testimony estab lishing the fact, place and approx imate time of the girl's death was presented until late in the after noon .when tall, slender, subdued Mrs. Martha Hlldbrand,' mother of the drowned sirL took: the stand. sne laemmea lorn ana oiooa stainod undergarments found near the spot, where Ruth's body , was taken from the Jiver as. belonging to her daughter, and revealed that Ruth, in telling her of her plans to go to Camp Adair to visit her soldier-fiance, had " said she - did not want to go along. Mrs. Hilde brand also testified that Ruth had told her of Layton's bringing her home on several occasions. Mabel Friesen, a chum at whose homo Ruth had stayed the pre vious night, testified that Ruth had Dleaded with her and another friend, Helen, to accompany her to Adair. Miss Friesen related . that the three had seen Layton several (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Kiska Silence Is Good News, Knox Declares WASHINGTON,' Aug.. Yt.-iJPt- Sneculation that the drive to throw the Japanese .out of their last foothold on the American side of the Pacific may be at least 'in its early stages was set off Tues day by Secretary of the Navy Knox. ' "No news is good news," he said when asked why there has been no' navy report since July 30 on operations against Kiska Island in the Aleutians. . Knox first turned , aside press conference questions on the long silence about Kiska with a mig ration that the weather could have -closed in and stopped opera tions. Reporters reminded him that weather which might stop bomb ing planes need not affect the sur face ships which were pounding the Japanese Installations almost daily when the navy suddenly stopped talking. : j His reply then was a grin ana the comment about news. The Japanese radio has had little or nothing to say about Kiska in recent days, raising the ques tion whether Tokyo itself is in the dark. The circumstances - point - up, a possibility that attacking Ameri cans may have knocked out Jap anese radio communications on the island. If that were the case, the American navy mifht withhold announcements in order to keep Tokyo in the dark as to what has hanoened to their orphans in the blockaded northern island. Black Rock Fire Under Control 1 Heavy smcke which . caused many Salem residents to fear that a serious forest fire was raging to the west, came from the vicinity cf !ack Hock, state forestry de partment officials said Tuesday niht. The Cre, despite appear ances, was small, and was usder control early that night, these cf ficials added. - frs n9 A VLW m OS'--OH Conquest Covers 38 Days Since World's Mightiest i Armada Launched Invasion - By RICHARD McMURRAY ----- Associated Press War Editor v All Sicily was captured by the allies Tuesday. ' Messina (pop. 192,051) fell Tuesday morning to tl.z Americans. The-Germans then bombarded from Italy. , thi last Sicilian city to capitulate. (The allies replied with IE 3. millimeter shells.' British and American navies clamped a shell-spitting blockade around the Italian toe. . Sicily, fell 38 days after the mightiest armada ever as sembled touched its sunny shores. . ; Its position in the center of the Mediterranean was Ilka . the hub' of a great wheel, with invasion spokes pointing in many directions. - The. atmosphere in London was heavy with speculation that another, and more fateful lunge at the axis was coming. This was fortified by the impending conference in Que bec between President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill. Beyond Sicily, the allied invasion drive could point to: 1. The Rhone valley of France, which the fortresses struck for the first time; ; 2. Italy itself, two miles away from Messina; 3. The Balkans, possibly through Crete and Salonika, where German disintegration was accelerated 25 years ago; ;; 4. Sardinia and Corsica, large islands just north of Sicily,' the latter 50 miles' from southern Final.liquidation of the Sicilian campaign set In bold relief the ever present possibility that the Britain either in northern France, are closest to Berlin. - The jittery Rome radio reported a large invs'on f?et off Catania in eastern Sicily.. - r .- L.f '"" A special headquarters communique announcing Messina's capture said simply: "American, troops captured Some artillery fire is being-directed on the city from the Italian mainland." ;The Germans first announced their stunning final defeat on Sicily claiming, however, that all troops were evacuated with all equipment after military installations .were destroyed. Their escape was facilitated by an eclipse of the moon Sunday night. They left the hapless Italians behind and it was against these that the final mopping up operations were conducted yesterday. Gen. Patton's Seventh army northeast coast to reach Messina's outskirts at 8 p. m. Monday.' The third division driving up. the east coast was not far behind. They made contact. The final balance sheet of the campaign has not been computed; at last accounts prisoners totalled 130,000. ' - Allied naval might had sped ious operations behind axis lines. steamed up to the Italian mainland and emptied salvo after salvo. . The Italian peninsula was castro, 150 miles up the west coast halfway to Naples, around to Capt Rizzuto on the heel of the straits were swept nightly. Scales on the south side of the gulf, of Policastro was set afire with 1000 shells fired in 20 minutes Saturday night. Slightly south, off Cape Bonifati. . The next blow against Europe likely is still a few weeks off,1 even though the. fall of Sicily has Shipping must be assembled, grouped; a preponderance of materiel must be assembled. Britain's -beaches were being cleared of all non-residents however, and the troops there ArmyTahesOverTonight Great Benefit Film Open The army US army- takes over in Salem tonight,- not with martial law but with martial mu sic ss soldiers and civilians join to make the premiere of This Is the Army" one' of the largest benefits to which the capital city has ever played host. . Doors of the Elsinore i theatre open at 7:45 for the' first presen tation of the film production of Irving Berlin's famous stage show musical. . . ;. Impressive prologue will be the music of the cavalry band sta tioned in this area, directed by Chief Warrant Officer Marion C. Walter, commencing at 8:10 p.m. Salem residents, who have been delighted , with the band's varied programs ' on - previous occasions, have pleasing new musical exper iences coming tonight when a ser ies of specialties is presented by the army organization, those who have heard rehearsals declare. Because all , profits from the premiere of the picture, to which even actors and actresses donated their services, are to go to Army Isle France.' ' 1 allies would strike at Hitler from Norway or the lowlands which Messina early this morning.' sprinted 14 miles across the the conquest with four amphib Now the mighty grey warships blockaded from the gulf of Poli- Italian boot. The narrow Messina three armed ships were sunk ... breached the continental walls. troops must be rested and re are fresh and eager. Emergency Relief, cooperation f the army In perfecting arrange ments for the big Irving Berlin musical has been everything that could be asked, - Gene Vanden eynde, seneral chairman, said Tuesday. The cause -is worthy. Col. A. IL Stackpole, In command of a unit in active service here, declared.' Money derived from this and sim ilar, benefits occurring this wetfc all over the country will be ad ministered throush army chaplaLV services to aid army families in the emergencies that arise through changed economic in geographical situations cf war time, be explained. Col. Stackpole . is chairman cf the army personnel on the bent fit's Salem committee. Eervin with him are Lt. Col. Wayne II. Brehn, Maj. John E. Gray, Capt. John W. Putt, Cel. J. J.Tulmer and Capt Dc :s .McKay. Ticket sales, good Tuesday, con- tinue . throughout . today, as . -:rz-as seats are left. The box ofrica (Turn to re c 3 2 Ct:ry A)