T7 nr Dimcut Thurs. sunset Gtl Fri Eunnso 6:17. (Weather on Paje 5 !JU) LHJIJ n - (CfflM ( 0 ) r I II II -P9)) Vl m vPv) I SI l) ' t One Of the casualties of the war was the large-scale celebra tion of 1943 as a centennial year In Oregon history. The year 1843 " was memorable as the year when provisional government for the Oregon country was established, and when the first wagon train crossed the plains to Oregon. The -1941 legislature created a ' com mission to publicize this centen nial year and to encourage cele brations along the route. It had been planned to have a eries of local "celebrations, start ing at the Idaho border, and cul minating in a great cavalcade to be held somewhere in the vicin ity of Portland of Oregon City. Baker, La Grande, The -Dalles, Pendleton with its round-up, all cities along the route of the old Trail would have recognized the 100th anniversary, as well as oth er communities along the. way. A caravan crossing . from' Indepen dence, "Missouri to Oregon ! City ;was talked of, . Then came Pearl Harbor,' and - bans on easy transportation, and concentration on winning the - war. So the centennial celebra tions were reduced to minuscule . proportions. :, A small booklet r Wagons West" by Phil Parrish, editor of the Oregonian, has been published; material has . been sup plied by the commission to schools and study groups. And this week the American . Pioneer .Trails as sociation, which is really the out growth of the old Oregon Trail association, which Ezra Meeker founded, holds its annual con ' vention in Portland, with sessions at the Portland hotel. -The meet ing concludes Sunday with a vis it to the old home of Ezra Meek er in Puyaliup, Washington. Recognition of the centennial In Salem is confined to the his toric displays in several of the - store windows downtown. Ladies of Chemeketa chapter of the DAR ' gathered these - relics , and arran- - ged -f or their, display.?' -Furniture, dishes, books, . linens, samplers 1 ; products of the crafts of former days help to acquaint the present generation with the way the pio- - neers - lived. 't;-'-"' ? Too bad the planj for.thelOre : font ntennial ..-twere Interfered with by.the warf In another cen tury the names of Jesse Apple- gate and James W. Nesmith, of Joe Meek 'and George Abernethy will have less significance. But Oregonians of today have more serious ."business in hand than honoring these pioneers of a cen tury ago. That business is to pre serve what they obtained for us. The best 1943 - celebration of the great events of 1843 is to prove by our deeds that this generation Is just as willing to risk and just -as ready to sacrifice' as were those who pushed across the plains, on foot, on horseback, or in emigrant wagons to establish : homes and government in the beautiful and fertile lands of the Oregon coun try. - - Buses to Call. For Volunteer Bean Workers -i For the convenience of Salem's Volunteer bean harvesters who are turning out in increasing numbers, the emergency farm labor service has arranged for buses to call for these workers at four points in the city each morning while the emer gency continues. ; vT . Pickers may report at 8:30 a. m. either at the Hollywood theatre, at 18th and State streets, at Les lie junior high or at the employ . ment office, Cottage and Ferry Streets. . -There was demand Wednesday morning for 350 or 400 more pick ers than were available, though this shortage was reduced some what by groups who provided their own transportation. The un filled demand, centered principal ly in the Stayton district. . . Plans for operating a bus about 8:30 each morning for the conven ience of housewives who wish to pick beans ;. but cannot leave r at 6:30, were in the making Wednes day - but arrangements had not been completed. Liferaft Adrift; Army Asks Return ; The bathtub-shaped blue - and yellow rubber life raft which drifted to earth about 4:30 pjn. Wednesday ; approximately ten miles northeast of Toledo is be ing sought by i officers and men : of the Salem army air base, Lt, Al Fowler has announced. ! i 1 The airplane release for the life j a ft was accidentally set on cur- Ing a ; cruise, Inflating the- raft and allowing it to drop. Not only is the raft an expensive piece of troDertr. but it is a life-saving piece. Fowler pointed out In urg ing anyone sighting the escaped equipment;; to call him collect at tLe Salem amy air base. kxksty tzchd tear Eay ton, Officers w Admitting Sried v Statements Argued at Trial i DALLAS, August 18 -(Special)- Richard Harry Lay ton was on the witness . stand late today in the Polk county cir cuit court, where he is on trial charged with ; the first degree murder of Ruth Hildebrand of Dallas. At issue at the time was the admissibility as evidence of of Layton's admissions, given to Capt. Vayne , Gurdane and other state police officers; and the jury was not present, having been dis missed pending argument over de fense objections to introduction pf this evidence. Judge Arlie Walker indicated that he would rule on the - admissibility of the so-called confessions Thursday-- morning. Layton, ; questioned by Harry Hoy of defense counsel, said he had been taken from Hillsboro, where he was in jail for assault to Mil waukee, and there interrogated by state police officers; that the ex amination began about, half an hour after arrival,' at 2:30 p. ml, and continued until early the next morning. He said one of the officers-transferring him, Lt. R. G. Howard, had told him in great de tail about the lethal gas chamber at ' the state prison, of which he had no previous knowledge. ' I Prior to Layton's appearance an the stand. Attorneys Roy R. Hewitt and Hoy for the defense had questioned at some length Capt. Gurdane and Srt Walter Hadfleld as to the treatment ' Layton . received ' while being questioned. ' The officers' testified that Lay- (Turn to Page i2 Story A) --. , ' w . ' "'--' ,.. Fire Destroys Residence .V: : , J j Hydrant Valve Outlet Hard to Find," " j Delay Results i -' - - Fire which broke out Wednes day night about 9 .o'clock leveled the residence of Mrs. Bernice Strong at 552 North 17th street A few of the family's effects were saved with the help lot, neighbors. The blaze started in an upstairs bedroom. 'Firemen responded to a call but were delayed in getting water onto the blaze by inability to find the : underground valve control ling the flow, its outlet being hidden in tall grass at the corner of Center and 17 th streets. ; Unable, to start the f flow of water from the Center street hy drant, firemen., hooked a second line to a hydrant on A street and got water into the fire. Witnesses estimated that a delay of at least ten minutes had occurred. They also agreed that the fire-fighting equipment was under-manned. f Virginia i Strong, daughter of Mrs. Strong, reported . that her girl friends first saw the blaze at 9 o'clock and that at that time flames had already spread over most "of the roof.. f According to Miss Strong, the furniture was not insured, and only a davenport and three kitch en chairs were saved. Whether the house, owned by Clarence B. Wil son, was insured, was not re ported Wednesday night. Channel Shift Danger Real f Danger that the North Santiam river may quit its present chan nel above Stayton' and course down what appears to be an old channel . to the south," thus miss ing the Marion-Linn county bridge at Stayton by about a mile, definitely exists, members of the two county courts learned" on a Joint inspection trip - Wednesday. : vThe ; river ; J is cutting into .Jts south bank and in the next high water period some of the Cow will be diverted, ' court members "and the engineers 'of the two counties agreed. -y?,.. :y 'H':; t '';i'L Howete r, feasibility of the remedy proposed by residents of the district, the dredging of a channel . on the Marion county side, was left ' for determination by the ; engineers. Roy J. Rice, Marion county commissioner, said the possibility of obtaining fed eral flood control aid would be investigated, as the project even if feasible might be too large for the two counties to undertaka, : 10 PAGES Norway Blight Jonas Lie, minister of Norway's civilian police, has set all Nor way ander tension by warning police . that they . will be shot If they , refuse to sign a loyalty . pledge , to enforce nasi orders. " Gnnnar Ellifsen, chief of police, was executed by a firing squad. Russians Make Decisive Gains Near Kharkov 3200 Germans Said Killed on 2 Fronts In Ukraine Sector By EDWARD D. BALL LONDON, Thursday,' Aug. 19 (A-Russian troops striking across the Donets river below Kharkov Wednesday captured Zmyev, 20 miles south of the city, to "a decisive assault that killed 1200 Germans 'and threatened :to cut one of the last railways : feeding the besieged Ukraine ' base, Mos cow disclosed early today. C Red army smashes northwest and' west of Kharkov also result ed in overall gains of seven miles, the killing of 2000 more Germans, and the capture of more than 50 villages in the steady semi-encirclement of the big enemy bas tion, the daily ; communique an nounced. Soviet shock troops have been fighting reinforced German units in the northeastern suburbs for aweek.' Scores of mortar : batteries, maehinegmis and tanks were , captured or destroyed 1 in the wheeling movement belew Kharkov that reached Zmyev, said the communique, recorded - by the Seviet ; Monitor. Zmyev is ettly 1 miles from the Khar-kov-Loxovaya railway, s main, enemy escape ronte should the Germans elect to flee , as they did last winter. ; . : ;' The Kharkov" - Krasnograd branch a few miles beyond Is an other line that must be cut be fore the Russians can trap the thousands of Germans still resist ing fiercely1 Inside the city. The line running west to Poltava al ready had been cut early In the campaign. On the Bryansk front, ' the ' communique , said, . converging Russian armies attacking the ap proaches to that city from three sides had killed 1309 Germans during the day, A supplement also announced ' the capture ef an "advantageens paint", an the Spas Demensk frent farther north. One thousand : Germans were, slain there, it said. Gains of four to six miles were reported on the Bryansk front where 40 villages were" seized,- in cluding the rail ; stations of Ber yoznovka, 21 miles northeast of Bryansk, and Malinka, 20 miles to; the east. Front dispatches had said earlier the Russians were on ly 25 miles from Bryansk. Hastily-massed German reserves hurled into the attack had delayed the ' Russian offensives, especially around Kharkov, but the com munique said these had been over come once more In the effort to force the Germans to fall back to the Dnieper river. - The " Seviet army newspaper -Bed Star," however, bluntly called asrsla for an allied second front in Europe, one that wenld divert 59 r 99 German divisions i from Russia. Red Star declared: .. "Only such an operation can cut down the length of the war to any extent The alUed command" car ried out a well-prepared landing operation in , Sicily. , The strusgle in Sicily, however fafled to di vert a single German division from the Soviet-German f ront,'- - The Soviet communique did not mention any further gains on the Spas Demensk front where Soviet troops last were reported 80 miles southeast of Smolensk, fighting ex tensive minefields as well as Ger man counterattacks ; ": . Salem, Oregon. mm u Invaders i ,-C:v ''x'' x crj-'i.,. Poised . In Sicily Eisenliower Tells Axis Casualties; f Hints New Thrust By RELMAN MORIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, August 18 (JP)-Two superb armies In T Si cily the American Seventh and British Eighth are "rea dy to go at any minute' in bold new offensives, Gen. Dwight : D. Eisenhower declared today, re porting that the axis lost more than ' 167,000 men killed, wounded and captured on the Island up to August 10. As the allied commander-in-chief disclosed the magnitude of axis casualties, artillery duels thundered over Messina strait and allied warplanes hounded enemy remnants retreating by sea and over broken roads up the Italian mainland. Allied casualties from begin-' Bins to end la Sicily were X5. 909 men, Eisenhower said, while the axis toll of aver 167,000 f whom at least 22,009 were dead or Injured did not Include " their losses ia the final week of , of battle. The axis also lost 260 tanks and 502 guns up to Aug. 10, and 1,691 planes from July 1 to Aug. 17 more than a six-to-one ratio over allied, planes losses f 374. Eisenhower h i n t e d at hew thrusts to ' come soon. He ' de clared the battle-tired US Sev enth army now is A worthy partner of the Eighth army"; and would, give Ground Commander Gen. Sir Harold Alexander a mighty onetwo punch. 1 j t "Both armies are ready to ge at any minvte. We can coant on them with complete confi dence." he said. With the battle of Sicily fin ished "head of schedule" in 38 days by occupation of Messina yesterday, allied ground troops today continued rounding up iso lated enemy units in the hills, and allied artillery hammered shells onto the Italian mainland to har ry the German retreat. Fleets of airplanes took up the pursuit of the axis rearguard with bomb and, gunfire attacks on roads and . beeches and - rail lines to southern Italy . yesterday, and sank eight boats and barges along the Italian coast carrying troops seeking safety to the north by sea.-. The weightiest attacks were made apon freight yards at Baitipatila santh of Naples, highways at Castrevillare senth f Naples, and s bridge at Ang Itola. Flying Fortresses that smashed at airfields 25 miles northwest of Marseille, France, yesterday, laid two big showers of heavy bombs among 150 grounded German air planes, causing "heavy damage, today's allied communique said. (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Eden Arrives A Hied War By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL QUEBEC, Aug. 18(P) The ar rival of British-Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden from London ! and an announcement that President Roosevelt would visit Ottawa, capital of Canada, next week pro vided two political undertones to night at the allied war. conference beret -v:V.t;: ?-;7v". vV! ' His- j a w d e r - blue1 pin-stripe trousers wet-, to the - knees from an. accidental encounter with the St. Lawrence river at a landing float, Eden came to by plane to mid-afternoon, - accompanied by Sir Alevander Cadogan, per manent under secretary of . state for foreign affairs, and Brenden Bracken,- minister .of Information. V Cordell Hull, US secretary of state, may join the , deliberations here shortly: .Then the conference would be -set .to consider .-what ever facets of niternational poli tics may be on Its agenda. -President Roosevelt and Prime Minister CfcurchUVwill study some of those facets- despite the obvious . emphasis on military matters. Thursday Morning. 'Aucjust 19. 9Kn Senator Vieics Front Line V, - i - Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Mass) . battle front, talks with LL Gen. commander. He is now la Calra. from signal corps.) ' Over 200 Jap Planes Destroyed at Sea Victory - By C-VATES McDANIEL- v--- - i-v- I : ' : .ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Thursday, August HMr-Japan's airforce tragedy at Wewak, New Guinea, was made more complete Wednesday by returning allied fliers which shel down 28 out of 30 interceptors, then swept low to finish off all but 10 of the 225 planes the enemy- had in the area. . .7.,, ' Today's communique reported the new devastation along with a Hardy Found Unconscious After Injury William G. Hardy, Salem real tor prominent in civic affairs, was taken to the Salem General hos pital late Wednesday night after having been discovered lying un consciousat the Intersection of Wallace road - and Glenn -- Creek road to Polk county, possibly the victim of a hit-and-run driver. He had suffered head lacera tions and contusions. , A definite report on the ' seriousness of his injuries w u not Immediately available. The Salem first aid car crew took him to the hospital. -i Hardy was president last year of the Salem Realty board, and is chairman of the Salem chamber of commerce housing . committee. He, is associated with the firm of Hawkins and Roberts. His home is on Glen Creek road and it was assumed that he was - walking home when the accident occur red. .,; , : for Conference At the moment, however, there is no evidence that sufficient staffs are available .from the state department and foreign office to arrive at any, momentous deci sions on international politics. The president and prime minis ter, on the basis of past perform ances, almost certainly will con vey to Premier Joseph Stalin of Russia t h e results attained at Quebec, particularly since they are likely to be of such import as to equal or surpass those of any of their previous meetings. Eden might be . the courier to Whom they would entrust, the task of informing Stalin of the secret events now viJiapin lip - to - the allied conference, There : have been reports,-never officially de nied, that the foreign secretary md perhaps Sumner' Welles, A m e r i c an- under-secretary r cf state, would go to Moscow.; - ' r -Canadians watching ; the war council saw a domestic political angle to Mr. Roosevelt's forth coming trip to Ottawa. It stems from the fact that the dominion's (Turn to Tars 3 Ctory E) Quebec 1S43 LI . ....,- n -v n (right) en a visit to the Sicily Omar Bradley, US army corps (Associated Press photo by radio Wewak; new naval victory to the Solomons and a third pounding within a week of oil refineries and ships on southeastern Borneo. . On Tuesday, American and Australian fliers trapped planes, massed wing tip to wing tip, on four Wewak area airdromes, de stroyed 120, severely damaged 50 others and shot down three out of seven Interceptors. That left only 52 ships undamaged. r ' Wednesday, four-engined and two-engined bombers went back to Wewak, escorted by fighters, bagged 23 of those 52 ships in . the air, - then for hours droned over the base, churning up piles of ashes and torn plane parts with their bombs. - - . ,. . : Then they spread. fire and ex plosion through . the , town and harbor area, setting three cargo ships afire. : : : : -. . -: This : second raid mud p the heaviest Mow yet to fall the Japanese air ferea to the Padfie war, an which virtual ly wiped ovt a fleet , ef ships the enemy had assembled, prob ably in svpport ef Its beleag nered garrison at Salamana, 259 - miles down the coast from We wak. , ''-y-l ':-y;r The communique also reported a sea victory on the Veil gulf be low American-occupied Vella La vella island to the Solomons. Our warships hit three enemy destroy ers and probably sank one. The Vella gulf also . was the scene of an earlier naval victory to which a Japanese -cruiser and at least two destroyers were sunk.- : : For the third time . within a week, allied heavy bombers made a 2600 mile round trip from Aus tralia, to ! Balikpapan, enemy oil port, . on the southeast coast of Borneo, today's communique said. In the latest raid,, four large ves sels,' probably tankers, were .set on fire. In the two previous raids, Japan's oil refineries and storage tanks were wrecked. ; : In addition to the new destruc tion wrought at Wewak, the com munique disclosed t h a t In the continuing: aerial war to that area against ' supply I barges -17 more have been destroyed "off nearby New Britain. i :.; , i Of the latest Wewak raid, the communique' reported:-, ?, "The enemy, mounted 20 fight-1 ers .to meet the onslauihL Twenty eiht were shot down. The fields were -then combed ;to ; practical annlhilaticnT Only 19 planes of 225 escaped. '., ':. ' We then struck the town and harbor area, setting fire to three (Turn to Tess 2 Ctcry D) Reported n EiA Commsumd. S ends. Mesgagc To Ceia.q" Invasion Time and Place Not Given, but Metropolitan France Specially Mentioned ; .' ! . !. .L : By JAMES M. LONG . i LONDON,- "AUgtist. lMr-The allied-controlled United Na-N tions radio at Algiers told the people of occupied Europe Wed nesday night to perfect their preparations f or the day you will head the call of the allied high command" oh the eve of the in vasion of the continent. I The broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, said that although "we are obviously not going to reveal where the next blow will fall," the people of "the occupied country which is to be the first, to welcome the armies of liberation will be notified at the last minute.? It said thatl time might be near at hand and added that now after the conquest of Sicily "the new phase, the lib eration of occupied countries, has begun. '.'-;-.;.- "You must prepare yourself by day and by week for the role you will have to play at a future date which might be near to the libera tion of your country,", the broad cast said.. It added that "the peo ple of the occupied country which is to be the first to welcome the armies of liberation will be noti fied at the last minute. , : ; fi -- Although- the broadcast espec ially mentioned me tropoll tan France, to effect all those await ing freedom from Greece to Nor way were; told, to ; make" their preparations for "the new phase, the liberation of occupied coun tries," which it said had already begun. , ". . . : The announcer concluded the ; : broadcast by saying the message was from the allied high com mand. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower broadcast the first warning to occupied countries to prepare for the battle of Europe on July 10, when the invasion of Sicily began. (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Nazi Soldiers Said Losing Faith in Hitler STOCKHOLM, Thursday, Aug. 19 -JPy-- German residents of Hamburg want peace, ' and , many nazi soldiers fighting on the Rus sian "front no longer believe Hit ler can lead them to victory, a 20-year-old Swede just returned through Hamburg from the east era front said Wednesday night. Sigfried Forsberg, who got out of the German ' army 'when : his mother discovered that by a pre vious marriage her son was still a Swedish citizen, was caught to the record allied bombings of Hamburg. ' ' - He gave the newspaper Dagens Nyheter the following picture of conditions to Hamburg and on the eastern front: : ; ; - "I lived to Hamburg for 10 years,' and as I bicycled , around the city following the raids I was told that 10 per cent of the town was undamaged, but it looked to me like everything was destroyed. : "You - couldn't recognize the town. ' . . "Even before the last attacks, the people wanted peace, and af ter that everyone was saying: The only thing one , now wants is peace., : 4 V.-C r It is a common sight now to see Hitler's picture thrown into the street. ", . - - .- "Air attacks against Germany have changed the attitude of the soldiers fighting on the eastern front. Their morale is still good, but they are worrying about what is: happening back home. They still respect Hitler, hat they dont believe he can lead them. to vic tory v.? rY-.-v Forsberg. said : that .17 and 18 year old boyf were-fighting with him southwest of Leningrad, in dicating the .strain placed cn Hit ler's, critical-manpower supply, i He said that as he was return ing from Russia through Poland he found the Poles still flhfrs the .Germans, even .hurling hand grenades at them on the. streets cf Warsaw ITo. 121 o.ereu. RAF Bombers Demolish Nazi Air Plants Yank and British Planes Make 3000 ; Sorties 3n 24 Uurs l "kr RICE -YAHNEn ' LONDON, Aug. 18.-(ff)-ln smashing climax to nearly 300Q American and British warplane sorties to 24 hours, the RAF'f big bombers switched with smooth! and tremendous power from the Italian to the German theater Tuesday night and crushed orte of the hazis' vital war plants so thoroughly that officials estima ted it could hardly be reestab lished within a year. . The target for this precision at tack the sort of attack that the Americans threw to against Schweinfurt and Regensburg in southeast Germany was Peen muende, the nazi center for the development of aircraft radio-location devices and armament (The nasl-eontrelled Paris ra dio went off the air tonight, the federal communications torn mission reported. Indicating that allied bombers might be . ever France .acam.) Without disclosing c on p 1 e t e figures a US army air forre spokesman said today that the raids to the . European theater during' the last 38 hours was record for the Americans in the number of sorties, the number ot targets attacked, and the geogra phical scope. ' During the same period, it was estimated, the RAF made 1.500 sorties not a record, but adding weight to the American smashing power. .'-""-'". . ' i United States army headquart ers announced that the 38 Flying Fortresses lost Tuesday over Ger many was the highest number of American bombers yet downed in fa single day in the European thea tre. The previous high was 28. - The headqnarters announced also that more than 18 9 enemy fighters were shot down by the Fortresses and their escorting Thunderbolts Tuesday In the raid on Schweinfurt. This toll of axis fighters prob ably will be increased when the crews that assaulted Regensburg (Turn to Page 2 Story D) British Disclose New Gun Details , NEW YORK, Aug. 18-The British radio -disclosed Wednes day night details of two new medium guns -used by British artillery units against the nazis in North Africa and Sicily. v.They are the 4.5. and 5.5-inch, and each of them has surpassed the comparable German weapon, EI2C said in the broadcast, re corded here by CHS. . "The 55 lb. shell cf the 4.5 gun Is, highly effective e t ranges up to about 11 miles," the announce ment continued. "The 5.5 can throw a 1C3 lb. projectile with ce vastating - effect at a max ; - urn ranje of more .than' efht r .Acs, exceeding lis German counters: -rt fcy almost a mile." 'l