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M f i (YTeather ca Ttzi I) V s- V-' PCUND3D -1C21 vJiW A VI J 'j mm ... V . "TP y - . . I suppose national commanders ef the American Legion feel they jnust strike the pose r cf stern, -omvrcBla h-man . in ; order ' to be impressive; and that may ac- touw- ior - we pmcnpuon wru- ten for: the Japanese (and other Axis nations) by. Col. Roane War irc rrn hi stnn in Portland Wed- - partment convention in , Baker. Col. i Waring is quoted as saying . "Japan should be completely annihilated, not only from a mill tary and naval standpoint but in dustrially as well. ' The - Japanese should be so destroyed that never gain will they be in position to have another Pearl Harbor.' . There is no difference of opin ion as to the need for: adminis tering crushing military defeat on -., Japan; . but to talk of "annihila tion' of . Japan industrially goes lar- beyond what can -be regarded - m a rational view of ; post-war : settlement with Nippon. In that 'field desire for vengeance f must -yield to the practical. It might jttue ue peace 01 we raciuc ior - tthe: futtnre if we could put mines under the home, islands of Japan and sink them and their inhabit -ant in the waters of the ocean; but the science of explosives has .n't, gone that far; and even OL - Waring does not reecommend ex . termination of the Japanese peo- pie. Very well; as long as millions of Japanese continue - to live on ; these islands they will need In v dustry'as well as ' agriculture in order to survive. What we have to contrive. If that is at all possible, is some Kottlcment which will pull the teeth of Japan for war-making, and at the same time let the Japa nese people live under conditions that ' will not encourage them to break the peace as soon as they regain strength or as soon as our guard is down. The prospect is. admittedly dis- - couraging. The Japanese .people have been ". so ; thoroughly i indoc- 4-iMntJ with milt mKrMn i uiumwu . a a m ....... emoeror-worship and , the divine mission t their people, mat mili tary defeat is apt to i embitter them, so they will plot and plan for revenge, for recovering "face - and (turn to editorial page) US Proposes World 1.I0 ney Stabilization WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -Pr" ;The United States advanced Thursday night a revised pro posal for post-war international machinery to stabilize currencies, but held firmly to the idea of bas ing it on gold. ' -..H 4 The- British have put forward a stabilizations program which would not require establishment of a central fund backed by gold. , Jin making - public the revised , American proposal. Secretary of the treasury Morgenthau-expressed confidence that "England and ourselves will get together, on : a plan designed to avoid the pit falls that beset the world trade after the last war." He added that differences between the two coun tries now have been . reduced to one or two." One presumably is the matter of gold. - Smith Hunter, Veteran Busic Supervisor, Dies , PORTLAND, Ore Aug. 19.-(P) -Smith XL Hunter, S6, former mu sic supervisor for Portland public schools, died at a hospital Thurs day. He came here in 1888 from Kansas and served the school sys tem from 1905 to 1929. Survivors include a son, E. D. Hunter, Port 1 a n d, and two grandchildren, Frances D. and David O. Hunter, of Spokane. Fire Department Probe Set$ Tardiness Is Target By RALPH C. CURTIS Investigation of the Salem fire department's alleged tardiness in getting water to a residence fire Bt 552 North 17th street Wednes day night will be made by Alder man R. O. Lewis, chairman ' of ' the city council's fire department committee, that official declared - Thursday, . - j" . Pending completion of the in .vestigation, Lewis declined r to 'comment upon newspaper reports that firemen had been unable to find the outlet to the gate valve of -a- hydrant at Center and - 17th street, and were delayed at least ten minutes in fighting the blaze, finally getting water to It by lay ing a second line of hose to a hydrant on A "streetA The; house was' almost totally destroyed to gether with most of the household joods of Mrs. Bernice Strong, its tenant. - . . Alderman Lewis indicated how ever that he would inquire intrt - the precautions taken by the fire department to prevent such in cidents. He said it was the duty cf the captain in each fire station to familiarize himself with the location of hyeb-ants and gate Duress Is Denied By Police . j Lay ton's Two . : I Statements Read Before Jury DALLAS, August 19 -(Special)- The story of a Richard Harry Lay ton who boasted of his power over women even while being questioned in con nection with the death of Ruth Hildebrand of Dallas, was told today by State Police Capt. Vayne Gurdane in circuit court where Lay ton is on trial charged with first degree murder. ? Following Judge Arlie G. Walk er's ruling that they were admis sible transcripts of the two sep arate interrogations of Lay ton by state police officers at Milwaukie were read to the jury. Defense At torneys Roy R. Hewitt and Harry Hoy continued however to con test their validity , by seeking to prove that the admissions had been forced from Lay ton. Sgt Walter - Hadf ield denied the de fense's insinuations by stating in answer to a question by District Attorney Bruce Spaulding, that they had not used "third degree" methods and that all officers had been , instructed by Supt. Charles P. Pray of the state police to avoid such practices. . When first interrogated, . the transcript allegedly signed by Layton disclosed, he insisted that Ruth had acbmpanied him wil lingly , to Buena ' Vista, had not resisted , his advances, and - had fallen accidentally into the river while-running near the bank. I Later, the second transcript disclosed, he was riven appor taaity to amend his story and this time admitted forcing his attentions apaa the 1 sirL ' after which - he pursued and eaacht her, strlklnc her Just before she fen Into the river. ' 'Defense Attorney Hewitt ques tioned the grammatical structure of the statements, holding that his client was uneducated. He also declared that the removal of Lay ton " from the Washington county jail at Hills boro to state police headquarters at Milwaukie for questioning, was illegal. - f (Turn to Page 2 Story D) His Fish Story Is Backed Up ASTOKIA, Aarnst 19 A 31-foot basker shark brocrht la by Stewart Davis, .Astoria commercial .fisherman, was hailed by processors as the lar gest ever landed here. i ' CsIhc the fish's 20ft-aaad tfver for estiasatmr the weight of tbo 'satire eareass, proees sors said they believed the shark totaled Z9,09 pounds. -i The shark was so larce that Davis eealdn't cet It completely aboard hla 50-foot : deep-sea flshlar boat' Part of the shark trailed in the wake of the boat. I Relative to comments of spec tators at Wednesday night's fire that equipment sent to the blaze appeared seriously undermanned, it was ascertained at the city hall that total personnel - of the de partment Is 45, the number au thorized in the budget. In 1941 when the same number of men were employed, a report of the National Board of Fire Under writers commented that the de partment was "seriously under manned.' Due to losses to , the armed services and other resigna t i o n s. the department now in cludes a number of firemen of brief experience. Though city officials declined to com ment pending investigation, opinion that a , condition which needs correction exists within the fire department was freely , ex pressed by persons who witnessed Wednesday night's fire and others who had read or heard of the oc currence. That it clearly showed unfamiliarity with the fire fight ing facilities on the part of some firemen at least, swas an opinion frequently heard. ' No thorough survey of Salem's fire defenses has been made by (Turn to ?ase aStory A) 14 PAGZ3 Bridgehead to Italian Mainland if-?- Sir t A ferry terminal In Messina, from which may now serve the United Telemat) Yanks, Aussies Ferret Japs From Ridges By a YATES McDANIEL ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Fri day, August 20-P)-Slow progress was .made Wednesday by Ameri can and Australian troops in fer reting the -tenacious Japanese from mountain ridges barring the way to the airdrome at Salamaua, New Guinea, - and ; from ; Jungle isles flanking the newly raptured Mun da airdrome In the Solomons, c : Five miles southwest of Sala maua,' whose airdrome , would put the allies within easy fighter range of big Japanese holdings on New Britain,' hard-won positions were consolidated. 7 ' . "Ow groand troops are now la control af , Bobdabl : rldfe." today's communique said. In the Solomons, United States patrols tackled small enemy units holding out on atolls and islets in the Wana Wana lagoon flanking" Italy the west coast of New Georgia. These liquidation operations fol lowed air attacks aimed at enemy gun positions on the : Kara pah tah islets just west of Munda, the air field which the Americans cap tured August 5. : .. (In Honolulu, Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson told a press conference that "Progress of the war in the Pacific is excellent." He said Japanese strength at sea and in the air has been "consid erably diminished" and expressed particular elation over the aerial destruction Tuesday and Wednes day of 215 out of 225 enemy planes massed on four ; airdromes - near Wewak, New Guinea.)" - - In slow, methodical flghtiag,' allied Janrlo troops have been ' hacking . sway . at enemy ridge ' -positional for soma time wlthm" five miles of Siliwmi. t base largely la rains as the result af ' ' being : pounded within the past - month by more than : 1,009 tons of silled bombs. ' Seven hundred and fifty miles to the east on the other arm of the Pacific offensive, Americans (Turn to Prge 2-s-Story G) Quezon; Radios To Philippines WASHINGTON, August 19 -(JP) President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines, 65 years old Thurs day, sent a birthday message to his people saying "The time of re demption is not far oft" ": - Exiled and long 11L Quezon took heart from" President Roosevelt's pledge in a speech last week that the Philippine republic shall be re stored once Japan's power is de stroyed, and declared in a broad cast: . .-.'. President Roosevelt makes no promises lightly. He spoke with the power and might of the strongest-nation oh earth standing be hind -every word he said." . Firemen Put Out Two Kitchen Fires The fire department was called to 735 -North; Commercial street Thursday evening at 1020 to ex tinguish a fire in two apartments. Both kitchens were, considerably burned and other rooms smoked up but the fire was soon under control. The ' origin of" the fire was unknown. Salem. OrgonJ which Germans made their retreat Nations forces as a birdcehead f - . ' Quebec Said Pla n n ing To Destroy Reich, Japan By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER QUEBEC, August lMA-A dramatic assertion that the Anglo- American high command in its1 secret sessions here is planning ways to "bomb, burn and ruthlessly destroy" both Germany and Japan came tonight from the first high official to make a public statement on the historic Quebec conference. : ;"-The-spokesman was Brendan Bracken, British minister of in Government Of Nazis Saidr. Lreaving Berlin : B ' LEWIS HAWKINS : f , LONDON, Aug. 19-(AVAn un confirmed, roundabout report said today that rthe whole German government has left Berlin, and the nazis were also said to be rushing troops "from their . Atlan tic wall to defend bases in north- The transfer of the German government from Berlin was re ported in a Berne, Switzerland, dispatch,- quoting Hitler's Voel kischer Beobachter, -broadcast by the United Nations radio at Al giers today. ; ' -a -J -.y ; There was no amplification of the report. Such a move might be intended to save records and archives' from bombing or, less likely, might be a first step to ward seeking -"open city" status for Berlin. - Recent neutral reports said some German governmental offices were being moved to Vienna, or possi bly Linz or Breslau. -Removal of the whole governmental force would te" a "stupendous ' transfer, a a m ai a AAA AAA ior n is esumaxeu uui i,wu,ww of Berlin's 4,300,000 people are connected with civil or military government. , " -... - " 'Berne reports said a substantial part of the government, including many sections of the foreign of fice, high command, war, navy and home affairs have .been transfer red to Vienna since August 1. j A German legation press bulle tin issued in' Berne today -said Berlin had no Illusions about the bombing fate - in store for the capital. - - - - - - (The Berlin newspaper Nach tausgabe, quoted by the OWL de nied last Saturday that the gov ernment is leaving Berlin, but ad mitted that certain documents and staffs to handle them have been evacuated. .: .' (Tne , newspaper said . as , vans are seen waiting outside some pub lic offices and the staff ia seen leading documents into them, na turally gossip is ready with - the explanation that the reich gov ernment is leaving Berlin. ; There is no -truth, to this. The govern--ment as- well as other national authorities will remain in Berlin.") Laundries Raise Prices in Portland : y PORTLAND, Ore, August 19 (ff)-PortIand laundries will start charging a surcharge Friday to cover-"B-15-cent-an-bouT; wage in crease' which laundry workers be gan receiving Wednesday, ; TjJames G. Swindells, attorney for laundry operators,, said the addi tional charge was approved today by Economic Stabilization Direc tor Fred M. Vinson TAdaj lloishg, August 23, 23 to the mainland of Italy, and for Invasion af the continent. (AP formation, "ind a frequent visitor, since he arrived here late Wednes day- at the citadel where President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Mac kenzie.King of Canada and Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain carry on-their discussions. ; While Bracken refrained from giving any details of the stra-. tegy, saying those weald be re vealed only by "admirals, gen erals and air marshals la ac tion, ho made this general state meat when asked aboat . the plans la progress: . "These plans are to bomb, burn ana rumiessiy aesiroy . m every way ' available to us the people responsible for creating this war." . . At another point he said that to him the war in Europe and the war against Japan were all "one war," and he reiterated the pledge made by. Prime Minister Church ill in Washington last May that when the European phase of the conflict is won "the whole might of the British empire will be given over to the task ef crushing the Japanese who are a savage, ruth less people" ' i ':- ;-.r - Bracken, 4a! ck and some times biting tn his speech, ased the word "rnthless' frequently. At one point he spoke or the president and the prune mlnis- , ters as "respecUble bat rath- - less gentlemen." . - .' The Briton's ' comments .empha sized .the finality of much of the present .strategy planning even as he spoke. signs multiplied that tlte time for the Invasion; of continen tal Europe Is at hand. 1 The general situation suggested that, the allied high command had definitely decided against trying to knock Germany out of the war by strategical bombing and had given a "go ahead order to the massive amphibious forces poised to strike at Germany V flanks. .- v As -President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Prime Minister W. r L. MacKenzie King of Canada worked through their second full day of war confer ences, dispatches from abroad laid heavy; emphasis on Invasion prospects, and the president him self, in a message -; to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, stressed w h a t can be accomplislwd ' by team work and planning- among the allies. - (Turn-to Page 2 Story F) No Turkeys After, Tonight , PORTLAND, AugL 19 -(JP) If you're hungry for turkey, youTl have to buy it before Friday at midnight or wait until the armed forces nave 10,000,000 pounds. The war food administration said Thursday all sales of turkey to civilians," including' servings fh hotels and restaurants, - would be banned from that hour "until government orders have been fill ed. - ; .The new order, said C Rl TuI ley, WFA state food order super vlsorv supercedes an earlier order freezing sales of all turkeys dress ed after August 2. - - r ! !Redls Cut Escapes iL One Railroad f Left for Nazi T7itLdrawal . By EDWARD D. BALL I' LONDON, Friday, August 20 (-Russian troops " sealing off Kharkov for annihilation gained from, three to seven miles yes- terday on three sides of the ci ty, killing 240(1 Germans hurled against them in vain' counter attacks, Moscow announced ear ly Friday. :: With-only : one railway escape route to the northwest reported open to,, the , enemy garrison, al ready fighting Soviet shock troops spilling into the northeastern sub urbs, the Soviet daily communi que declared that more than 30 additional villages had fallen to the onrush ing Red army on the west, northwest - and ':- southeast aides of the city, -;-; ., - .'. Another'; Russian column at tacking fron tally from the east last was reported on the edge of the Ukraine stronghold in . the fourth great battle for the prize railway city. nvC'r'-v The bulletin, recorded by the Soviet Monitor, - said that - mora than 20 .villages had been seized in the parallel drive imperilling the German : bastion of - Bryansk farther north, and a supplement also announced , gains - southwest of Spas Demensk on ; the central front- J . v j j; ' ' Moseew dispatches said the Basslans were grinding' Ca" scores of German-tanks and" thousands of . reserve infantry-, (Turn to Page 2 Story E) , Big Weekend Bean Harvest Turnout Goal - "Bean - harvest - consciousness' was still being promoted Thursday, m spite of some improvement in the immediate situation, by the farm labor emergency service in the hope of obtaining a heavy weekend turnout ' of additional workers, in contrast to last- week end's slump. 5 ' - V : If Salem people, free of their week-day tasks, flock to the bean fields in great numbers Saturday and Sunday the harvest prospect will be greatly improved for the time being, employment- officials said. The harvest is estimated to be at its peak but will continue for a number of days. ' ; . - y , The pick-up service inaugurat ed .Wednesday proved : most suc cessful, numbers of pickers re porting at 0:30 a. m. at the Hol lywood theatre, -at 18th and State streets and at Leslie junior high school -as well as at the employ ment office, Cottage and. Ferry streets. A bus -for the accommo dation : of housewives has been scheduled to leave the employment office at 9:30 a. m, returning at 5 p. m. War Prisoner Mail Deadline i Aug. 27 WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 The war department announced Thursday night that the time for mailing packages to prisoners of war and civilian internees in the far east has been advanced from September 15 to August ,27 be cause of s change In the, sailing time for the exchange ship Grips holm. The announcement said that all persons who had received labels from the provost marshal general authorizing packages ' to be sent should have them in New .York by midnight of August 27, ' ' London Broadcasts 7crning to Frenchmen 1 LONDON Aug..l9-(VA high officer of the British navy, brosd casting to, Frenchmen from Lon don: Thursday night in what ap peared to be a warning to pre pare for an allied invasion, said: Those'of you who belong to resistance" , groups ; of specialists know already, mat their services are wanted on day "JP at hour The allied message was the sec ond in two days beamed to oc cupied Europe. Is AIM TKTKTK Trro.Tl -777 j Italy Boiarded Fto Land Sea and Air; Germans Move 1 In Troops From France, Reicli fr . ; By RICHARD McMURRAY , ri , ' i,-. ' AMOcUtd Press War Editor ' ,.--.,.. r Axis invasion jitters swept the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to the Balkans Thursday night as the allies massed new forces at strategic points along the whole 2000-mile region and increased their bombardment of Italy from the air, sea and land. These invasion straws were in the air: : . . ; . ( ! American, and JBritish fleets shelled the coasts of south Italy. US naval units bombarded Palmi, 20 miles north of Messina, and Giota Tauro, 26 miles north. The British challenged Messina Allies Bomb Dutch, French Nazi Airfields By JAMES M. LONG . LONDON, Friday. Aug. VHJPi American Flying Fortresses, es corted by US and allied fighters, hammered the German-held air fields f at Vlissingen . (Flushing) and. Gilze-Rijen in Holland late Thursday, shooting .down 34 'en emy .fighters to boost ' the ' day's bag to 50 German aircraft "A joint British-American com munique reported "Good bombing results? at the airfields which were struck -after-US Marauders and RAF Mitchells had battered enemy airfields at : ; Poix and Amiens-Glissy ' in France. .This ' s w e 1 1 1 n g offensive against the nests af German sir strength In western Europe kept American, British, Dominion, and allied airmen shattllng across the Dover strait nearly all day. Total allied losses for the day were set at eight fighters and four bombers, although one fighter pi lot was saved. n Although 50 German planes were sent - crashing, the enemy's ' (Turn to Page 2 tory C) - : Eldon Cook Dies in Pacific ! CpL Bdon F. Cook,-, youngest son - of Mr. and Mrs. 'James E. Cook of McCoy, died July 31 of wounds suffered in New Guinea, according to word received by the parents from the war department. Eldon Cook formerly : attended Perry dale " high ' school and had been serving in the Southwest Pa cific area for. 18 months. He. has two older brothers in service, CpL James Cook at the army air base at Mountain Home, Ida., and CpL Marvin" Cook, somewhere in Aus tralia. Two Polish In England LONDON. Aug. 19 HyPr- Newly equipped by the -United States and Britain, two ' superbly-trained Polish armies are ready to fight their way onto the European con tinent and back into their home land. Their commanders await only the signal for the Invasion to start. the Polish government In exile said today. , :;:';- ' . '- The army which fought the Germans racing . through Poland In September, 1939,. was virtually wiped out, with 902,095 casualties in killed, wounded and missing, the - government disclosed, ' but some veterans of that force pro vide the nucleus of the : two new armies. rr-V- --'y-.. -vt v -- One force of about 60.0CO men is based in . the middle east un der the - command of Lt, Gen. Wladyslaw "Anders, " 51-year-old, thrice wounded hero of the battle of Poland. Some of the men he leads were with him in. the thick of the bloody warfare in their homeland. -" i r'. ; , . Another Jorce "? of " und isclosed thousands Is stationed in Britain, the government said. Both armies contain strong artillery and para chute units.' The forces also include 40C0 - - Mag(Siii-(0)ii -i L strait shore batteries. The Germans spoke nervously of naval and transport concentra tions In the Mediterranean. They said in their communique today that they bombed the great allied naval base of Bizerte in Tunisia a second time and said they hit a cruiser, 25 transports of 138,000 tons and landing barges. Southern Italy was hammered so widely and repeatedly by allied air fleets that the Italians did not attempt to name the targets, say ing merely that the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Naples and Cag liari were attacked. Axis shipping and harbor In- w a mvmv wmm oats M a mm lands were attacked by day and sdght. ' American and British bombers pounded the big German ' sirfield at Poix In France, three times in 412""hours."US mariuJcrs' al.-o struck , Amiens-Glissy, and "RAF night raiders raided widely in France and the low countries. ?. The British confirmed numer ous neutral reports that the Ger mans were moving into Italy in considerable strength from France and the reich." . - The United Nations radio at ' Algiers told the people of ecu- plea Europe lor.me secona suc cessive' night : to .' perfect their pre-inva&lon preparations and that the time of action might be near. - - ' ; Major Gen. Clayton L. Bissellr "one of the most successful Amer ican, aerial commanders, was re lieved of his command of the Tenth US air force in India "for a new assignment of great impor- , tance. The Madrid radio said the as sault on Europe was only a few hours off. Dispatches from that neutral capital quoted travelers from - Italy i as saying the Italian . army Is not only anxious to quit fighting but Is actually disinte grating, with thousands of desert ers clogging roads and byways. Strikes- In the Industrial north were declared spreading; peace demonstrations were said to have extended from north to central Italy. There was little amplification of the new allied forces massed in - (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Armies Set for tirvcudqrt Polish girls known as pestkis who have been trained for defense purposes but who will, if neces sary, participate In actual j com bat. Their main duties, however, will Tbe td accompany the . army on offensive actions and perform liaison work and other auxiliary services. . i In addition, the force will be augmented by several hundred youngsters ! who recently reached the age of 18. Boy Scouts before their country fell, they have been trained for ordnance and Einl duties.::- j ,' - Announcement of the casualties in the Polish warfare was accom panied by: a breakdown of fig ures, showing a toll of 200.C3 Po lish forces killed and wounded and another 420,CC3 captured in action against the Germans. The battle against invader: Russians was reported to 'have cost the Poles. 20.CG0 killed . and 181.CC3 captured.- An additional 10.CC3 Polish soldiers were said to have died, from exposure . seeking to escape after their country collaps ed. The battle of France and the 'Narvik and Libyan campaigns ac counted for the remaining lor---, the government saii. halves. -