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During me congressional recess
discussionis proceeding in Wash
ington regarding voting by sol
diers in. next year's elections. The
politicians are already- much con
cerned about this vote, as well
they may be, considering that
there will , be upwards of nine
million votinfc citizens , scattered
all over the globe, by November,
1944. Last year an act was passed
;by congress to permit Voting by
soldiers, but few of them voted,
the mechanics of handling the bal
lots being poor, Bills are pending
to set up machinery for soldier
voting, and these . are now being
reviewed, with the war depart
.ment. Oregon's last legislature
passed special .act authorizing
election officials to tie in state and
local election machinery with the
national law.
What U now proposed is that
postcards will be distributed to
''all soldiers and sailors on duty
in the United States, which the
service man or woman will fill
out and send to the secretary ef
state for his home State, request-
; ing a ballot, which will be sent
him. For those to overseas duty
microfilmed ballots will be pre
pared after the primaries and dis-
- tributed through military chan
nels. Camp elections will be held
and the ballots returned to the
home states.
It is easy to find fault with the
proposed arrangements. Many
perscns have been in service so
long their registration has lapsed.
War department officials are "said
- to fear voting Irregularities on t a
large scale at the proposed camp
elections. But there are nine mil
lion voters, ; and the politicians
will make the gesture of legal
izing their balloting, and election
officials will not be too squeam
ish over-accepting the ballots. ;
This same issuer was. faced in
the election of 1864 when the Civil
war was at its height. How New
York soldiers voted that year, tak
en ; from Chauncey M. Depew's
Leaves From My Autobiography?-
in Scribners for November,
1921, is an interesting bit of his
tory. Depew cwas secretary of
atate for New York, and later
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Himmler Holds
Germany in
liestapo Grip
: LONDON, Aug." 24.-iP-Hein-rich
Himmler, the . purge - chief
whose' orders' have condemned
thousands, in his .own country as
well as fax the nazi-occupied lands
of Europe, held all German home
affairs except labor in the grip of
the gestapo under' a governmental
shift announced Tuesday.
The administration of labor was
reported, under the "immediate
control" of Adolf Hitler.
-' The sudden shakeup of Hitler's
high-ranking subordinates was
evidently a step to tighten the
"iron hand" on a German morale
shaken by steadily-growing al
" lied aerial assaults. -. '
A DNB dispatch broadcast by
the Berlin radio and recorded by
the Associated Press said that
Himmler, head Vl the SS elite
guards and German police, also
would serve as' minister of the
interior and "chief of the reich ad
ministration j" '
I Although the dispatch did not
miUfn his tasks, the new title ap
parently placed sweeping ; home
front nowers in the hands. Of the
' man who one purged his own.
party, liquidated antl-nazi, oppo
tion in Germany and pacified,,
protesting patriots in : occupied
countries by mass slaughter.
Billings9 Pall Queried
Jn Death Mystery Case v
Hope of dispelling the mystery
surrounding the death here Mon
day of Stephen Jay Billings, 33.
centered Tuesday night in the
questioning m Portland of for
mer, fellow-worker at the ,Swan
Island shipyard who was known
to have been Billings! . , frequent
companion.
. Detective W. L. Brian of the
. Portland police Identified the man
as W. E. Carlson, 29, formerly of
Duluth, Minn
Inspectors George Edwards and
Hobart Kiggins of the Salem po
lice went to Portland to partici
pate in the questioning. Earlier,
Detective Brian revealed that
Carlson had said he last saw Bill
ings Sunday in a Portland hotel.
Just as Billings was leaving to
visit the home of his mother, Mrs.
Clara E. Billings, in Salem. It was
1 at his mother's home that Billings
was found dead late Monday' aft
ernoon, r,-: ?
The Salem officers brought
Carlson to the city Jail here early
Wednesday. 3 "
Inasmuch as an autopsy per
formed by Dr. Joseph Beeman of
the state police criminal detection
laboratory indicated that pneumo
nia was at least a factor in Bill
lr "s death though he had suf
iiEimr tihhd yeah
Lay
Case GM
To JuiV ;:
Judge to Give
! Instructions
This Morning ,
..DALLAS, 'August -23 :(Spe
citl) The fate of Richard Harr,
ry- Lay ton, former Monmouth!
policeman charged - with first
degree murder in the death by
drowning of Ruth Rildebrand,
l?j of Dallas, on the night of June
7, will be placed in the hands of
a Polk county jury by 10:45 a. m.
Wednesday. - S:Js:- .: - '
; After opposing counsel had con
cluded - final arguments late to
day Judge ; Arlie Walker, bowing
to the jury's expressed preference,
adjourned court for the day be
fore J presenting his instructions.;
.District Attorney Bruce Spaul
ding in closing his argument late
Tuesday afternoon said: "I ask
God : to give you strength to do
what you must do.1 , I
J I He did not specifically ask the
' death penalty.
j In : opening his : argument the
district attorney summarized the
previous two-hour address of Roy
BJ Hewitt for the defense as "one
hour of trying the state police,
one minute of Mahondas Gandhi,
20 minutes of general lecturing
on psychology and 20 minutes of
smearing the character of. a dead
girL"
i If Layton had the mind of a
child as the defense attorney al
leged, Spaulding said,' he would
have told the truth, for truth is a
habit with children..
As it is, he c o n t i n u e d, "the
thing wrong with Layton's mini
Is , that it is tha mind of a brute
and rapist."
- Spaolding iaeeased Oie defense
aitaraeyt af jrabblngat
straws" In their plea af insan-;
tty c feeble mladednesa 'fer-i
. Lcyton, declarinr the had been
' unable to vneover any record of ,
mental aberrations in the Lay-
ton family
Answering Hewitt's statement
that no bruises were on the dead
girl's body, Spaulding alleged
that death and the end of her
blood circulation followed Lay
ton's death blow too soon for any
bine marks to appear.
! Earlier in the afternoon Hewitt
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Court Orders
Oyster Go-Op
Book Delivery
K J. R. Barton, former secretary
of the Coos Bay Farmers cooper
ative is required by an alternative
writ of mandamus issued in circuit
court Tuesday to deliver to the
new secretary. Charles Davis,
certain of the cooperative's, books,
records and documents; , . : - h
Barton is one of the 12. defend
ants m a damage action recently
filed br tha cooperative, charging
an .attempt to induce memben to
breach, their ' marketing contracts
with- tha cooperative. The organf
ixation- markets oysters-raised by
its members in beds, on Coos Bay,
The defendants in two groups have
filed demurrers to. the cooperat
ive's . complaint. .
fered a severe skull fracture and
brain hemorrhage apparenty from
a blow an. the back of the head!
it was assumed that Carlson would
be questioned closely as to the ap
parent state of Billings' health
when ha last talked with him. : -'
; Aside from the "leading ques
tion as to whether. Billings died a
natural death, from an accident
or as a victim of foul play, the
mystery resolved itself Tuesday
into one chiefly involving the time
element. - .-' '.r.:i ;i..
Bl with pneumonia, possibly de
lirious, Billings might have, fallen
accidentally and suffered the
skull fracture. But evidence
found, through the autopsy indi
cated that Billings had suffered
the skull, fracture a number of
hours before he died. If this oth
erwise plausible series of events
occurred in the house at 1540
North Liberty street, there re-'
mains an unanswered question as
to why his presence there was not
discovered by his sister; Miss
Rosemary Billings, and Miss Bar
bara Lutz, who according to the
understanding of the police had
spent Sunday night in the house.
It was disclosed Tuesday that
Billings was the father of three
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12 PAGES
Missing
Key Jack Short, 21, abave, avla
; Uoa radio sua third class in the
. navy, has been reported missing
six miles off the shore of sooth-
' era California following an air
- plane crash Aagnst 12, aceordlng
to information received from the
navy by bis mother, Mrs. Flora
: Short, 405 Sonth Liberty street.
. He was edocated : 1st - Salem
- schools, : later learned the ap-
Bolstering trade. He was an as-
- bestas worker In a Portland
shipyard before entering the
navy October S, 1942. He leaves
. la addition to his mother, who
- is widow of the late Jack Short,
, two sisters, Mrs. Trola Ken
nedy of Corvallls and Tressie
Leigh 'Short of Salens. ;
US Artillery
Hammers Japs
On Bairoko
. By WILLIAM F. BONI
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS' IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Wednesday, Aug. 25.-ff)-Artfllery
has opened up for the first time
on; Japanese making a last ditch
stand, at Bairoko, New Georgia, in
the Solomons after American
troops succeeded in scoring sub
stantial advances northward 'from
the captured'Munda airfield.'
This success : In moving up the
field pieces was reported today
from headquarters of Gen.. Doug?
las MacArthur along with a 112-
ton raid Tuesday by Liberators at
the other arm of the Pacific .war
front on Wewak,J New Georgia,
where more than' 300 ; Japanese
planes were destroyed last week.
'' .Three hundred fifty miles be
low Wewak at greand-menaeed
Salamana, troops which have
crossed the Francisco river with
in two miles af the airdrome
have registered I : substantial
gain, a spokesman for General
KaeArthar disclosed. He did not
elaborate on the advance, which
occurred west of the sir strip.
. The ground campaign to oust the
last Japanese from New Georgia
has been in progress ever since
the Munda strip was seized August
5, some 10 miles soiuth Bairoko. :. .
I Above New Georgia, i Japanese
planes tried to raid Vella Lavella
island which. American forces oc
cupied.: August 15. ' Nine of the
raiders were shot down. ;
The- Liberators attacking We
wak, were-escorted by . long range
fighters; Against such a formida
ble force; . tha -: Japanese . fighters
showed a reluctance jk attack in
contrast .with r tha. raida, last Fri
day and Saturday ; when . numerr
ous enemy interceptors . were en
countered and more than 30 were
shot down.
t- "Twenty enemy fighters were
in the air but showed a reluctance
to engage,'! today's communique
said.
; "One enemy plana- was shot
down.'
The Tuesday - raiders canned
mneh damage near the air
drome and s t a r t e d nnmeraas
fires and explosions. ; . ,
The tonnage dropped was a rec
ord for Wewak but fell short 'of
the record -for : the New Guinea
sector 177 tons loosed in a sin
gle raid on SaTamaua.
The Wewak raiders, which
struck yesterday; morning, num
bered approximately 100 planes.
Returning pilots said they noted
some enemy planes on the ground
of various types and in various
degrees of serviceability. . --.
Gift Jloney Orders -1
Out for Duralicii ? X-
. WASHINGTON, August 24 H&l
Gift money orders by telegraph,
will be discontinued for the dur
ation. .
The ' federal communications
commission today authorized the
Western Union and. Postal Tele
graph companies to discontinue the
service as" non-essential." X J -
Gift money order service is a
special type of money order where
by the telegraph company deliv
ers to the payee a gift-order form
indicating the money Is to be used
for a specific gift Regular money
order service is not affected by the
order. . ,.
US. Fliers :
France . : ':
Shuttle Bombing
Follows Up Most
Damaging Iiaitbi
By RICE YAHNER ; h
LONDON,1 Wednesday Aug,
American Flying Fort
resses which made the first day
light shuttle, raid, on Germany
August 17, blasted an aircraft
assembly; 'plant tin Bordeaux,
France, Tuesday, on the return leg
of their journey which brought
them from north Africa to their
home bases in Britain, it was; of
ficially announced Wednesdy,-,
This latest demonstration of the
Increasing. range of . American air
power coincided, with the opening
of the , major allied air- drive
against Berlin Monday when ap
proximately 700 RAF bombers
"Hamburged" the German capital.
The Fortresses which. made 1 it
a double shuttle raid by blasting
Bordeaux , yesterday, penetrated
deep into the reich on -their out
ward trip to hit an airplane, fac
tory in Regensburg on August 17.
Other .Fortress formations " at
tacked three ' airfields' in France
late yesterday. ''; v.ii:i .;i.
Even as 1 the m est complex
24-hour assault of aerial war
, fare, was rounded out, German
radios went -. silent again a
strong Indication that the reich,
perhaps Berlin; was getting 'a
. second successive plastering. . .
In Monday's raid on Berlin, the
allied command fashioned a scale
of destruction twice the weight
of any ever heaped on any capi
tal, and not far short of the weight
of the attacks which swept Ham
burg from the war in 10 days.
Mora than - 2000 tons of bombs
were dropped.
The : Fortresses which -attacked
the" three nazl airfields In France
operated from Britain. -The com
munique announcing the return of
the shuttle-bombers from "north
Africa said, in part: ' . : ?;
"It was announced by sthe air
ministry and the European thea
tre of operations, - United States
a r m y , that formations of the
Eighth air force Flying Fortresses,
returning from Africa after bomb
ing Regensburg on August 17, at
tacked an aircraft assembly plant
in Bordeaux in enemy held France
during daylight yesterday (August
. . . Formations attacking Bor
deaux reported good bombing re
suits. Enemy opposition was not
severe, ; and the heavy bombers
destroyed seven enemy aircraft.'''
' Tbe eonunsmiqae reported
only fan r Asaerjean bombers
last from tha whole af Toesday's ;
" haaardoaa aperatioas, while tha''
'Fartresoea and escorting Than- :
derbolU and RAF fighters
knocked down IS nasi , planes. :
Seven fell to the Fortresses
atone.:... ; 4 -. : , ; . t
-Besides- Bordeaux, other targets
were-Vniacoublajr and the airr
fields .of Conches, Evreux and
Fauville. , Villacoublay ia , n e a r
Paris: - .
Brig. . Gen. Fred L, Anderson,
jr wing commander of the Eighth
air iorce, e a 1 1 e a . me compieie
north '-African ahuttle "the great-
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It Must Be Funny
i
I
s
This captured officer (left) of the German Africa Herps (scte sleeve
' ' emblem) sees humor in the situation In conversation uith a navy
officer (center) and a coast guard officer (rlxht) before he Is taken
aboard a transport In North Africa bound for the US. (Associated
Press photo from coast guard). . , -, - , ,. -.
Ccdara, Oregou, Yedassdav Morning, August 23, JS43
fri Oregon
LT. GEN. LESLEY J. McNAIR
Gen. McNair
At Camp Adair
4 Chief of US Ground 1
K Forces i to View -Gigantic
Maneuvers .
: CAMP ADAIR, Orel, August 24
VP-1A. Gen. j Lesley J. McNair,
commanding general of United
States ground forces, arrived in
Oregon Tuesday to view gigantic
maneuvers now under' way in cen
tral Oregon,
McNair,' accompanied by a large
staff, inspected troops in training
at this army camp. He will go to
morrow to the maneuver area
where thousands of troops hqve
been engaged for weeks in war
games. ' r r '
Accompanying him were Brig.
Gen. J. M. Lentz, Brig. Genl; C.
LJ Hyssong, Col. G. H, Carpenter,
CoL S. E. Faine, CoLI William C
Forse CoL j J. B. Edmonds, Col.
Charles Bryan, CoL E. F. Olsen,
CoL W. E. ShambOra, Lt CoL
B.' Hamlett, Lt Col. Don Lemp
and Major L. C. Gilbert.'
Four Arrested
onage
j DETROIT, Aug.24-C)-Chrged
with giving war information to
nazi Germany, two men and two
women, one of the latter describ
ed as an "attractive well-educated
descendant! of French nobility,"
were arrested by the federal bu
reau of investigation Tuesday and
held for" trial under the wartime
espionage act which carries a pos
sible death! penalty.
Arrested in Detroit were Grace
Buchanan-Dineen, 34, sometimes
called "Countess' Buchanan-Dineen
Dr. Fred William Thomas,
44, prominent obstetrician, and
Theresa Behrens, 44. In New York
the FBI arrested Bertrand Stuart
Hoffman, " 27, ' a member of the
merchant marine. Also held in De
troit , wereP: two f women whose
names were withheld but whom
the FBI said were citizens of Ger
many. Son of Ambassador -Winant
Raid Pilot -
, " LONDON,' Wednesday, Aug. 25.
-ifPyotax G. Winant, jr, 21-year-old
son of the American ambassa
dor, piloted- one of the Flying
Fortresses on the 3.000-mtte shut
tle bombing- trip to Africa, it was
disclosed today.
The raid . was believed to be
young Winanfe first. - -
Espi
UkFaine-Nazis-In;-
..... ' . ,' "
I Russians Drive , -:
Reeling Enemy.
: Toivard Poltava
By. WTf.T.TAM SMITH , WHITE
LONDON, Wednesday, Aujr.
25-r- Russian forces racing
westward from captured Khar
kov in an unchecked offensive
aimed at Poltava inflicted hea
vy blows on the reeling; German
army, Tuesday and threw the
nazi forces into 'a retreat bor
dering on a rout, Moscow an
nounced, today. ; ; ,; -C
. "Arms and material were aban
doned by the Germans on the bat
tlefield," said the midnight com
munique as the. Red army col
umns northwest, west and south
of the city lunged on toward Pol
tava 75 miles to the southwest,
and perhaps even aimed for Kiev,
keypoint of the German .Dnieper
river line 250 miles away. ; - ;
Keeping pace with the new
victories almost 200 miles to the
north, Russian forces which
broke through tha German Don
ets line to open a new battle
front continued their gains both
southwest af Tereabilovgrad and
sovth of Izjmm. , ?
Several' populated places fell to
tha red army, which only yester
day was disclosed to have smashed
through from IS to 22 miles in a
major break-through near Voro
shilovgrad that threatened to en
trap nazi forces occupying the iron
and coal - regions of ' the - Donets
basin, said the soviet daily com
munique, recorded by the soviet
monitor. ' - "r
South of Izyum, the other col
umn hammering into the Donets
stormed into a heavily-fortified
nazi strong point after overcoming
fierce resistance and ' killing, a
thousand "; defenders, the Russians
said. Booty and prisoners were
taken and 33 German planes were
shot down during the day's battles
there, said the Russian report.
Altogether, the Russians said,
almost - 4000 Germans were
killed Tuesday as they fell back
from . Kharkov and the Denets I
river. . ' ' ' v'' ":
New successes on the Bryansk
front, where stubborn German re
sistance has slowed the conquerors
of Orel, also were reported by the
Russians.' :
"Our detachments drove the en
emy from four1 populated ..places"
there, the, communique said.
The momentum of Russia's first
great summer offensive carried
even to the northern sectors yes
terday, where the report said about
400 Germans were killed on the
Leningrad front and big soviet
guns crushed blockhouses and
dugouts.'
The big rifles ef Russia's
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Nazi Troops
. s.- , . . - - -.X--'"
"n- ' ' -
in vx)Deniiaireii
: STOCKHOLM, August 24 HFi
German troops, A40,000" . to." 50,000
strong, rolled Into Copenhagen be-
fare dawn Saturday to take over
the capital af lheir Danish 'model
protectorate, it was learned Tues
day xdght, as riots, strikes - and
outbreaks raged in protests against
nazi ; occupation. ;;;, i-r ;.
'At the other end of the Baltic
sea,-. Finland . Germany's - ally
against. Soviet Russia sought
new means ' to step - out of the
struggle, and agitation by labor
and pro-allied groups to obtain
a separate peace progressed slow
ly. All factions agreed, however,
that they did not want "peace at
any price. , j yz- "V,
Saturday's troop movements in
to Copenhagen were disclosed in
press dispatches from that nazi-
dominated kingdom, : ; ;
They took over public - halls,
sports buildings and- schools as
barracks. The contingent was the
largest ever quartered in Copen
hagen and the soldiers drained
food and other supplies from stores
to the extent that housewives had
difficulty getting food, tha dis
patches said. :-.-
Crime Hate in Army :
how rest Ever Says
Jude Advocate .
CHICAGO, Aug. 24-cn-Maj.
Gen. Uyron C. Cramer, Judge ad
vocate general of the army, today
described the army's crime rate
as "the lowest in history and
much better than to the last war."
At a pre conference, Cramer
said the array's crime rate "com
pares favorably with that of any
well-behaved civilian community
in the country.' -
Near
Sc
(Quebec.
t ' " - -
Prlca
M
Plans Laid for - Occupied
Lands; Russia5 Gels Virtual
Invitation Ui Next Yar Meet
. . - By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
QUEBEC Que, August 24-fl5-pisclosure that the Anglo
American conference laid plana for. the government of recon
quered European territories, plus the issuance of a virtual in
vitation to Russia to join: the next war meeting-, made it apparent
Tuesday night that the pattern for invasion of Europe was nearly
complete. ' jl ' ,
Ringing down the' curtain on the Quebec: war council earlier
in the day, President Roosevelt and Prime; Minister Churchill
had projected the question of European invasion into the fore
Italy's
Rail System
Blasted Again
By RELMAN MORUT -ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, August 24-()
Italy's southern railway system
already virtually knocked out of
military usefulness was blasted
again Tuesday in three-ply; at
tacks with not a single fighter of
the-battered axis air forces chal
lenging the raiders in the Naples
area, ". :
VS Liberators striking heavily
from the middle east at; Bar! in
southeastern Italy, however, but
ted Into swarms of enemy defend
ers and shot -down 14 without loss
to themselves. This boosted the
toll of axis planes- over Italy to
449 in five days. ' -i--
American Mitchell medium
bombers heaped new ruin on Bat
tipaglia south of Naples by. day
light yesterday, allied headquar
ters announced, ' and RAF and
RCAF Wellingtons smashed - at
railroad targets at Bagnoli In Na
ples' suburbs. : '
P-40 Warhawks ranged over
Sardinia, meeting no fighter op
position, to attack barracks and
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No Comment,
Welles Rumor
-1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-(ffV-The
state department would neith
er confirm nor deny tonight re
ports' that Undersecretary of State
Sumner Welles had resigned.
Welles himself was at Bar Har
bor, Me, - ostensibly for a few
days rest. He replied there to in
quiries about the report by say
ing "absolutely no comment.'. :
There was no comment from
Secretary of State Hull, absent-In
Canada; nor from-' the White
House.' v. ; - --"y 7 ' ' - '
"The. report that his resignation
is ' on President Roosevelt's desk
was published by" the Washington
Evening Star. This article by Con
stantino Brown, the newspaper's
writer on foreign affairs.
South
Wean: Harvest Call I
Still Urgent
t By RALPH CURTIS
i Harvesting activities of the ap
proximately 583 Mexicans who
will arrive in the Salem vicinity
Thursday or Friday of this week
will be limited to the picking of
hops and prunes; their presence
here will in no way relieve the
need. Just now extreme, for vol
unteer local help in the bean har
vest and in the canneries. ;
.Bean growers whose trucks
called as usual Tuesday morning
at the employment office, Cottage
and Ferry streets, found fewer
pickers than usual awaiting trans
portation and as a result the need
will be even greater today, wife
substantial tonnage of beans In
danger of becoming culls rather
than the top grade article due to
delay in tuirvestJtag;.-;.':-.;. .
Meanwhile it was reported that
most of the canneries were in
need of workers for both day and
niht shifts, and that Willamette
Cherry Growers sought 3 women
to. sort fresh prunes starting to
day. - ' . , -
The Mexicans, coming by train
directly from Mexico's fertile ag
ricultural districts . and selected
for their industry and familiarity
with agricultural work, will be
housed in the "Tent city" west of
I7o. 113
IBevjecCc
- .
front of conference speculation by
failing to make any reference to
the genera subject in an official
statement on their deliberations.
They had . suggested the possi
bility that Russia , would attend a
three-power Conference with them,
knowing quite well that Russia's
main concern is an allied invasion
to draw a maximum of German
ground pressure off the Soviet
front.
. The statement on the govern
ment of reconquered territories
took Invasion for granted. It was
Issued by a British official to a
press conference. He asked that he
be not otherwise identified but It
was obvious that his information
had come from the highest sources.
"Apart from strictly military
e.nesttons,' the statement said,
"the conference was able to de
vote its attention to the princi
pals which I should be observed
In the administration of terri
tories In Europe liberated by our
forces from enemy dor-.'..:itlon. -"It
has of-course always been
recognized that the system which
We have adopted with -success on
Italian territory (AMGOT or mili
tary government in Sicily) cannot
be applied to friendly territory and
the problem will not be the same
in cases where. there is already a
legitimate government with which
the United States government and
his Britannic majesty's govern
ment are in friendly and regular
relations, v
."Consultations an this subject
are being jj continued with the
governments concerned.
The president and prime minis
ter had thus come to grips with
one of the knottiest problems ex
pected to arise out of the assault
on Europe especially In the Bal
kan areas where there are con
flicting claims to the right to gov- -era.
' Another political indication that
tha time for attack on Europe was
close at hand was found In a for
mal statement by Mr. Roosevelt
and Mr. Churchill that considera
tion had been given to relations
with the French committee of lib
eration and that announcements
on this subject by a member of tha
government would be made later
this week.
' Russia-was virtually invited by
the president and prime minister
to attend the next Anglo-American
conference, which it has been -decided
to hold before the end of
tha year.'
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in -Area
'Is
the state fairgrounds, It was an
nounced Tuesday by County Ag
ent G. W. Nibler.
The war food administration
has . the responsibility of setting
up and conducting the camp, pro
viding kitchen, store rooms, show
ers, laundry and similar facili
ties, hiring cooks, and bearding
the workers at cost Thi3 agency
also provides tents, cots and blan
kets. Verne Jones will be catr?
manager. :
The hop growers and prune
growers employing- these workers
will provide laily transportation
between " the camp " and thefr
yards and orchards. Under - tha
treaty governing their employ-
ment, the Mexicans are to receive
the going . wage and there is a
guaranty as to minimum number
of days work.
Those of the Mexicans from tha
Salem camp who will pick Lc; j
will be concentrated in four jarJ j
in the Mission Ecttcm - end Ci.
Paul districts. Another camp i.
Polk county will house Mexicsn
hep pickers for some c-f the lurt-r
yards there.
County Agent Kihlcr i : : ! t'..: t
Judging from the experiences cf l
other. Oregon 'communities i.i
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