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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
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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. .
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: 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
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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
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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
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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
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