fOLta O ( (i . i ) ! n t j w n n 1 ) I ! zU tunccl 3:10 Saav tzmriz 2 6:19 (Weather on T&z O PCUND2D iCJ HIT) - V-.V. ..- I ".-.V II I - I t . I 1 I i XII L-J y V - - - . . .. . : ' -y yj- An army private leaned his ri fle against wall, unhooked his pack, stepped out into the street to look at some bombed build ings, and remarked: "Well, that's all there is, there airtt no more." So he sat down on a curbing and opened a tin of cheese. . That was Don Whitehead's de scription of 'the fall - of Messina. As he went on to say In his As sociated Press dispatch: The troops just ' walked in, looked around, and sat in the shade to catch up on sleep or eat their tin ned rations." .They suddenly felt lost, because there was no one to fight Reading the report, the thought occurred to met What if the great war would , end - like that just fizzle out in weak anti-climax? Here ... we . have been bracing ourselves with superlatives,' ex pecting;, the climax of a great Armageddon, in which hosts of - armies and vast aerial squadrons and fleets of naval -vessels would engage In a tremendous battle in which the issues of the war would be decided. That still is to be ex pected, for the invasion of Eu rope. But what if, after that in- 7 itial phase of operations, the war in Europe- would crumple almost overnight? In Sicily our men had to fight 'for a beachhead. Around Gela the going was difficult for several days, and the Germans almost threw our landing force back into the sea. After Palmero they had -continuous fighting along the nor- - thern coast of the island and in ,the center clear up to within 14 miles of Messina. Then abruptly it ended. Reconaissance platoons pushed ahead and entered the de serted city without opposition,' As .Whitehead wrote: "the doughboys had run out of ridges to climb, cities to capture and enemies to battle across each rocky slope. 4 Mussolini ' tumbled in a most inglorious manner.. No : Brutus stabbed this imitation Caesar in the back. He Just collapsed. He - fell before either his allies or en emies expected it. : Both German and allied propagandists were put off balance by his sudden fall, so they (Continued on Edit, page) Witness Sect Conference Permit Given -; EUGENE, . Aug. 2(Hpy-Civilian defense ' authorities -agreed - Friday night to permit the Jehovah's Wit nesses sect to hold its annual con ference here. " Howard Merriam, Lane county defense coordinator, who earlier had demanded the session be halt ed, dropped his protest " after : a conference in which county offi cials sought precautionary meas ures to prevent street fighting, such as broke out during a sect conference at Klamath Falls last year. Merriam said the sect had agreed not to use a sound truck to advertise the meeting, and that Dan Campbell, a representative of the sect, had agreed to ask mem bers to stop distributing pamph lets on Eugene streets. : The Witnesses' meeting, which opened today, continues through the weekend. Hungarian Minister Conferring With Nazis NEW YORK, Aug. 2 CH,F)-C en William Nagy, Hungarian minis ter of war, was reported confer ring with Adolf Hitler and the German command at Hitler's headquarters, a London broadcast ' recorded - by NBC said " Friday - night. Premier Kallay of Hungary was reported in Berlin conferring with Hitler two days ago. No More Bean Pickers needed Now. Asserted Don't go bean-picking unless i you have, a-job.-'; -.-y X- :C- , This bit of advice, so sharply at variance with the frequent pleas for more and more help broadcast this summer by - the emergency farm labor service, was offered for these reasons: ; . " .1. Cooler weather has retarded the maturing of beans. ; 2. Thanks to praiseworthy re sponse by state employes and Sa lem people in general to recent appeals for. help, the harvest has caught up with the crop. 43. The emergency farm labor service j doesn't want ..-people to drive -- out to . the bean-growing areas, there to discover there are bo jobs. 7 That not only, . would waste tire rubber and time, but would have a bad reaction when appeals for help are resumed later. . -This weekend's situation is un precedented in the three bean har vest seasons during which Salem people have been asked to yolun .teer and have vc4unteered-:for bean-picking.; . -;;' . '- ; Walter Snyder of the farm labor service emphasized that announce ment of the changed situation should not be taken to mean that the pickers who already have jobs should fail to report today or Sun day, unless their . employers have so announced; nor should it be understood as a .sirnal that the ! ininmr tiehd yeah lLavton's Low Of Girl gowning State Rests Al IMistrial Fails; Psychiatrist Witness; Resume Trial Slonday . . DA LLAS, Aug. 20-( Special )-Richard Harry Layton former Monmouth Romeo cop," took the witness stand in his own de fense -against a first degrVe murder charge in circuit court here today after Dr. Herman A. Dickel,-Portland psychiatrist, had testified as a defense witness that Layton has the mentality of a nine-year-old.- ". h ' " 'is ' -V 'V' - s Dr. DickeX who had examined Layton July 15 in the Polk county jaU hew, said he had found him in good health but slow in answering, slow in reactions, and slow In school. Diekel ex plained, however, that there were no traces of insanity in the fam ily, but testified that in his belief anyone of Layton's mentality was "unable to appreciate or under stand the difference between right and wrong. ; -":. ' The i nickname 1 "Romeo cop which was applied to Layton whUe he was a police - officer In Mon mouth was given him by Howard Morlan, bus depot manager," who testified he had coined the nick name for the reason' that Layton called for so- many - women and took them home. One or. a dozen, it didn't make, any difference to Layton, Morlan said. r The bus depot manager, said he had called Layton one night to take) Ruth Hildebrand home after she had been waiting around the depot for several hours,: just sit ting and reading. . Morlan said he asked her. why she didn't go to a hotel and she told him she had no money. He then called layton, and 'the girl spent the : night in Layton's car, Morlan stated. Layton told s connected story of the night of the KXldcbrand sirl's drowning under examina tion y District Attorney Bruce Spanldlng. Be ald he had been in Dallas drinking beer and tak ing in a movielen the eight of Inly ; T' He drove on-to Moo ' tnooth, picking np' a soldier on the! way and giving him ' lift Into town. Be told the soldier that he expected to take the BUdebrand - girl home, Layton eontinned. ; According to his testimony, he met her by the college, talked for a few; minutes,' then she entered the car and they started to Inde-' C (Continued from Page 1) C Stricken Mexicans Out of Danger GRANTS PASS, Ore, Aug. 20 (Jpy All of the 300 Mexican hop pickers stricken by food poison ing yesterday were believed out of danger Friday night, . Thirteen still were treated in hospitals and dozens of others were confined to their cots in tents at the war flood administra tion; camp Where they are quar tered 1 for the Josephine county hop harvest. Most of the patients were improving rapidly. ' C" Preliminary tests failed to show the cause of the " poisonings but Dr. M. E. CortheQ said he believed the .bacteria developed in an egg dish , put r: up for the workers' lunches ' and left standing in the sun for several hours. The lunches were prepared by the WFA camp. peak is past and that there will not be need for more pickers later. Additional fields are to start pick ing on Monday, he explained, and all the workers available probably will be needed again soon. The present situation is just a tempo rary lull, j?: ? Canneries also are, for the im mediate present, adequately sup plied with workers; in some in stances they have not been able to keep up with the influx of beans, but the cause has been lim itation of equipment rather than Lack of workers. But; from' the canneries too, renewed appeals for workers-may- come aoonr . STAYTON-Shortage of pickers in the bean area is being relieved in so far as possible by Stayton merchants, many of whom are closing their stores and going into the fields. Where stores cannot close, some of their personnel is being released to help. Also many are' giving a hand at the cannery for shifts in addition to conducting their business daily.5 ; - Stores closing entirely until ,1 pjn. Friday and Saturday are Sac tiam Hardware & Implement com pany, Stayton Hardware and Fur niture - company. Van's . Variety store, Porter's Radio shop. Bur mester's, Boitz Jewel ery shop. . 10 PAGES : Mental Tells Motion for slow in learning to walk and talk Stabilization Plan Doubted .. .. , - :. ' Wall Street Experts Don't Think Treasury ; Scheme Woul Work By FRANK MacMILLEN NEW YORK, Aug. . 20.rP-A number of important- monetary experts in New York's financial district said today . they doubted the new. money-stabilization plan proposed by the US treasury yes terday could . be made to work under, post-war conditions. . , The plan, the treasury's second tentative blueprint for. an inter national money nad foreign trade system after the war, -followed similar proposals by both British and Canadian authorities. SoYne of Wall street's leading authorities on international mon etary transactions have long been skeptical of the probable success of a comprehensive, -over-all "super-bank" of the type called for in the first and the current treas ury proposals and the Keynes plan advanced by Great Britain. Many commercial -bankers who would have to deal with an inter national -moneys authority? wouM rather see some less formal . and more flexible ; approach to the problem of creating an interna tional money mechanism. ' Chary as usual of comment on O (Continued from . Page 1) G Hogs On Jag ite Ration Hogs on the ranch of James Steinlechner, near Florence, are not worried by liqnor rationing. ' Dr. M. J. Belton, state agri cultural department veterinar ian; Thursday made 'a , hnrry np call to the farm where a number of porkers were report ed to be suffering from, cholera. The veterinarian later report ed to hia chief that the boss were drunk on fermented, whey. Valve Outlet Xost9 in' Tiny . ' By RALPH C. CURTIS : At the intersection of 17th and Center streets on the Southeast corner, there is a " fire . hydrant. Approximately four feet away is the covered outlet of the hydrant's gate valve. ; This outlet now is In plain sight. It is not, like a great many others throughout the city, pain ted yellow, nor are there yellow ; arrows" painted on " the pavement pointing, to its position. Just back . of the hydrant, across the sidewalk is '-m -service station, and just to the east there is a driveway to the service sta tion so thai the grassy ' parking strip is by no means expansive. It is in fact: not more than four yards long . and its area is not greater than six square yards. The grass now is not high, though it is ' thick. . . . - V- : . ' . It was in this tiny grass plot that a fireman, Wednesday night, was reported to ha ve been un able, for at least 1 ten minutes while a dwelling less, than a block away wav blazing merrily, to find the gate valve- outlet. Other fire men , after waitingr for water ; to course through the- hose line- to the ; fire, i presently laid"; another line to hydrant, slightly farther away on A street.; The house Was virtually a total loss. .:. ; Wl" .j1 Most any private citizen would readily guarantee that be could 13nd .that gate valve opening, in that limited spacer in the dark and even If it were' grown ' over with grass, in much less than ten minutes.; In two minutes he could feel with his hands or tap with a wrench, all . over that : area at such close intervals that the out let could not possibly elude him. Something is wrong with this picture. ; - - Desp Parking Strip Salem. Oregon. Reds Capture Lcbedin; (Hose 111 on Kharkov -. . ''' ' . --" - - ' ' v Russians Encircle All But 13 3Iiles of Great 1 Ukraine Metropolis By JUDSON O'QUINN - LONDON; Saturday, Aug. 21 (JF) . Russia's new steppe army smashed 'deep' into the Ukraine al most 100 miles northwest of Khar kov to capture Lebedin, high wa ter mark of last winter's offensive, Moscow announced early Satur day, while London reports Indi cated the Red army had encircled ail but 13 miles of Kharkov itself. ' ; Lebedin Is 109 miles from the starting point of the Soviet . Ukranlan offensive near Belgo- rod and mid-way between cap tured Akhtyrka and threatened - Samy. The Russian eolwnn that ; took it apparently was aiming for the vital rail - junction of Konotop on the Kiev-Bryansk . railway, 79 miles , to the north west. ' . (The ' - BBC quoted a : Berlin broadcast as saying the Russians "are now attacking furiously at six widely separated points along a 1000-mile front" between Lenin grade and Murmansk in the far north.'; The broadcast, if true, means the Russians are opening a new offensive on the long-stalemated Finnish front); A", Moscow eommnnlane re corded by ; the Soviet Monitor said a total of Cits Germans - were killed yesterday on ' all frsnts. .V.-V On the Bryansk front the So- viets acknowledged fierce German opposition as they pounded , on from captured Karachev, 25 miles to the east Farther north, in the Spas Demensk offensive, the Russians- were moving - between the tw9 railroads leading to Smolensk roughly 75 miles northwestward. In the Ukraine . offensive over B (Continued from Page 1) B U I Gvilians ; : In Japan May Return Soon WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 JP) Hundreds of American civilians interned by Japan may be home for Christmas if Tokyo will give assurances of safety for an ex change ship. - -' ' Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, announced at .his press conference Friday that safe con duct had been requested for the Swedish liner Gripsholm and that the government has "good reason to hope" a second exchange of Japanese for American - civilians can be carried out in Portugese India by October 15. ' Allowing time for the voyage from India to an American port, this should bring the internees home for the holidays. Most of them have been in Japanese hands since -December 7, 1941. ; ; h J. The first exchange, of Japanese for American civilians took place a year ago when the Gripsholm carried J apanese diplomats and civilians from the United States to " Lourenco Marques, Portugese East Africa, and brought ' home some 1,500 Americans , carried to the. African port in a Japanese ship and an Italian liner. Welles did not say when the list of Americans expected home on the Gripsholm would be made public Last year the passenger list was "not issued until the Amer icans were safely, aboard the ex change ship.." .r: ;:,.-. . There has been no talk as yet of an exchange of war - prisoners. Difficulties in this connection in clude the fact that ; the United States holds ' few Japanese pris oners "of war. Furthermore, the Japanese, attitude . toward their own soldiers ho fail into enemy hands is that they should not have allowed themselves to be taken. The " Gripsholm . will carry packages, for: prisoners of war'' as well as for civilian internees.- The war department last night' advised all : persons authorised 4o send snch packages that they nuut be delivered in New York -before midnight of Angnst 27. " Ellts Opeii: Gonventioh " -PORTLAND, Aug.- 20 HJF)-The state Elks convention opened here Friday with President Harvey L. Armes, Bend, pledging the of gani zation to- a larger part in the war bond "sales-campaign-:-'" "J'Z :t::r - Armes, said the. Elks would con tribute ;ai sum in September- suf ficient to buy: a : couple of big bombrs.:;.;' A bright future for Oregon bus iness was predicted by E. B. Mac Naughton, Portland banker, in a speech before delegates. - Election of officers is scheduled tomorrow. Saturday I Tornlaa, August SI 1'Qg Mp': Fal Back At ; Air. Base ' SfacArtlmr Says Enemy Pulling , Into Citadel ALLIED 1 HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACI FIC, Saturday, Aug, 21-jiP)-JaU panese jungle troops are in full flight from the mountain ridge defenses before Salamaua, New Guinea, and .are falling: back on the inner defenses of the air sase. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced Saturday. "The enemy is in full retreat to his inner-citadel of defenses at Salamaua itself, a new commun ique reported, i : - ' "Machine guns and artillery have' been abandoned along with more than 350 buried dead. t"Our troops are mopping up." The Japanese troops, their sup plies low as the result of allied air attacks on coastal barges and their air support virtually wiped out on 'dromes above Salamaua, suddenly gave up positions from which they have long held off Americans and Australians. - Today's 'eommnniqno disci os "ed that;thelr defenses cracked 4 Wide open. All at once they gave np Orodnbi. five , miles sonth- east of Salamaua, the ' nearby strongpoint of Komlatnm and ' the' Goodvlew - Janetion and Meant T&mbn areas near ' the coast.-- ..... . . The day before, General Mac Arthur's communique had an nounced the capture on the Fran cisco river of Bobdubi ridge, only three . miles from the ' Salamaua airdrome, whose possession would put the allies within easy fighter plane range of big Japanese hold ings on New Britain. -' The . new successes enabled ' the allies to forge a solid line for their advance upon the air ' drome and the town, bnllt ont on an isthmus connecting the mainland with Cape Parsee In '. the Haon gulf. . : In ; intensified . attacks, : given solid artillery support, the Amer icans and Australians won strong connected - positions running in land from r Roosevelt ridge on Tambu bay in a curve . running north and. west across the Fran cisco river. - , . t The . allies now hold all the . D (Continued from Page' 1) D Wliafii lt Cost Per Word? Par adimethyUmidobenzalde hyde was , the word, - Included in a telegram' received by the ; state department of, agrlcnltare . Friday,- It stomped officials there for a time and even a dic tionary didnt help. .To chemists In the department,' however. It was quite simple. It's the name for a coal tar compound. " 1 "Longest word we ever re ceived in a telegram or letter at this of flee," said E. L. Peterson, state arricultural director. -' Navy Casualties Tbtal 28,731 I WASHINGTON, .Aug.: 20-P) The navy announced Friday - 64 casualties, including - 5 dead, 3 wounded and 58 missing. - In addition, names of . naval personnel were listed whose status has- been officially changed from missing to dead. ; . --This brings to 28,731 the total of navy, marine corps and' coast guard casualties reported to next of kin since December 7, -1841. The total includes $S74 dead, 5023 wounded, S870 missing and 4151 prisoners; of war. -- ,-: "; ' Brazil Signs-7ilh China - DIO XS JANEIRO; Aug. 20-iff) The government of Brazil Friday voluntarily abolished its extra territorial privileges In China by signing a new friendship treaty with the Chinese government. ICI3 n 8 LuG'jrGC'J President Greets :l. Anthony Eden (left), British foreign secretary,' Is greeted by Presi dent Roosevelt en hb arrival In Quebec, Canada, for British-American-Canadian war ' conferences. Prime Minister Mackenzie King (center) looks on. (AP Telemat.) ' FDR to Talk Wednesday To Canadian Parliament " ' . ' - "By JOHN M. HIGIlTOWER - . ? . QUEBEC, 'Aug. 20-iT-President Roosevelt will address an informal meeting of the Canadian parliament at Ottawa Wednes day, following conclusion of the high strategy conference here in which he and Prime Minister Churchill are working in "complete harmony" and making excellent progress. ' i i Plans for the speech were announced officially late Friday at the same time that a citadel spokesman gave the first picture of how the chief executive and prime minister are putting in their time. ' - Xfr. Roosevelt and Churchill act snch a pace Thursday night, by working until 2:39 aasu. that they were completely caught up ; on current tasks. This enabled them to go on a picnic and flsh Ins trip, with members of their Immediate parties. This evening they swung back Into conference routine at a dinner with Secretary of State Hull and Britain's Foreign Minister An thony Eden. Hull joined the Quer bee group during the afternoon, his presence here dramatizing half a dozen -urgent political problems, directly grown out of the war,-for which solutions, of one sort or an other must be found. V . ' , . Foremost among these, prob- lems. In the opinion - of many .here. Is the matter of closer co A (Continued from- Page 1) "A Soviet Organ Asks 3-Power Conference ; By HENRY C. CASSID Y . MOSCOW. Aug.; 20-WVThe Soviet labor magazine "War and the Working Class" called today for three-power conference 1 of Britain, Russia and the .United States with the aims of shortening the wax and preparing for peace on the basis of friendly collabora tion among the allies. . ... . ' .. I an editorial entitled "Quebec and the Soviet Union," the maga zine said that the conferences be tween President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Orurchill w ere "serving the interests of the An glo-American forces' but did not "express the opinion of the entire Anglo-Soviet- American e o a 1 1 tion." ; - ' . - -. ' : The editorial again; presented the Soviet's demand of another fighting front - in ; Europe, saying "the time is ripe to change-over from words to actions.' . -' :- . - Vietorr over Germany still is possible this year, it sa!L - , CommentL re a - Eritish and American . press" articles . on the Roosevelt-Churchnr j conferences. the article said many newspapers forget that the conference is British-American affair and dis cuss the participation and non partlclpation of the Soviet Union, although a Tass statement of August 13 explained the Soviets were not invited. r. oJ Sti Anthony Eden 7 v West Europe Gets 6th Day Of Bombing , By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Aug. 20-VPr-A shut tle of allied planes over Dover strait and . the distant rumble of gunfire, today signaled the sixth day of virtually non-stop, allied aerial attacks concentrated on en emy airfields in western Europe. ' The ' allied air;: offensive .went into the "night with waves of big bombers roaring -toward undis closed objectives on the continent. For more than three hours search lights along the French coast could be seen probing the sky for them. ; An air ministry communique announced tonight ' that ' Mitchell medium bombers with Spitfire escort attacked enemy aircraft and a factory at Flushing in the Ne therlands and that Boston medi ums,' also escorted by. Spitfires, bombed railways, and marshalling yards at Abbeville, France, during the -day.",:-- .;:-;:t..;,'; The attack on Flushing followed (Turn to Page 2 Story 11), t NmjaJMirMrni Gets New, Setup: for Harder H iiting WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 Steps to make the naval air arm even harder hitting were disclosed today - by ! Navy Secretary Knox, while a returned admiral reported that in the Pacific Japanese air craft carrier strength "may . ap-' proach ours." ' ' y'V: I.Knox ; told '. a - press ' conference that hereafter all : naval aviation matters leading to actual combat would be directly under a deputy chief, of naval operations instead of being channeled through . the bureau of aeronautics, primarily n material and supply-branch. . .. c-To the same reporters. Read Ad miral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, new chief of the bureau,-tnade a re port oil his recent tour-of duty as commander of a carrier task force In the -"uth PacJfic. - ; ' Ramsey said Japanese" carrier strength has ."improved material ly." '.".-. .fv . - -.V ' - - s : He added, however, "I think, the enemy is loath to bring his strong surface forces or carrier task forc es down to the south Pacific area" because "they just don't want to I T ow I 3 L-UU Li U'CJL; C J rj 01 D Ll Li J C-l US Italian Bastion Left Seetliih ; Mass of Flames ; . : . t . By RELMAN MORIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 20-(iT-Allied air fleets slashing at Italy's railroad . sinews of de fense blasted the- communica tions IkiMz. ef.FoggU in satu ration block-buster raids yes terday, while at sea American naval forces seized the Aeolian stepping-stone . Islands . north of Sicily. - - . ; : The raid on Foggia, 20 miles in land from the east coast opposite Naples, ' was described : officially as the heaviest of the -Mediterranean war, and although the to tal number of planes participat ing was not specified, it was great er even than the total hurled against Rome In the first attack on the Italian capital. . Seven hundred planes SCO bombers and 200 fighter were used ' by the' allies in the Rome raid. ..; - ' - .., - -, The city Is one of the lutkr bastions in. any ' axis blneprl&t -for "the "defense of southern .Italy., ;."...,?'--....;..,. ' . - The ' important industrial and communications center was left a sethieng mass of flame by three different types of bombers that attacked by daylight and dark ness on a scale unparalleled in both size and ferocity In the Med iterranean war. . Flying Fortresses in double waves, followed by formations of Liberators, struck the first blows. Their strings of bombs interlaced the freight yards, squarely hit a railway bridge and knocked out repair shops, warehouses, military barracks and set fire to a large number of freight and ; passenger cars. Sheets of flame shot npward from locomotive repair shops and the railway station Itself, . and explosion-hurled hits of wreckage and rubble filled the F (Continued from Page 1) F Goering Says He's Ashamed : LONDON," Aug. 20-P)-A per sonal order - from Relchmarshal Hermann Goering saying he was ashamed of his German airforce for no longer "loving battle" , was found In Sicily, a Reuters report from allied headquarters in North Africa said tonight. ' In the order, dated sometime in July, Goering complained' of .the loss of the German airforce's "ag gressive spirit.",, " . ' : take a pretty bad licking our sit uation has improved greatly there in recent months." - Of the aviation changes, Knox remarked, "We now have a bureau to supply the' planes and a de partment to operate them. Vice-Admiral John S. McCain, 59-year-old veteran of air service ; in the south Pacific, will head the new operational divisions. " "Generally,'- said Knox, the aim is "to Increase the- responsibility and autonomy- of the aeronautical organizations in procurement of finest aircraft types, perfecting training and supply systems and ' other administrative functions so vitally important to the rrcsecu tion of the war." He explained that the growing importance of the air arm had , out-distanced the , growth and scope of the bureau of aeronautics and said: : "We think this will systematize, and we hope it will intensify air warfare." - Ramsey was asked whether lie E (Continued from rra 1) c (