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US Airmen
Bomb France
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v est operational T flight the United
; States army air force has made
' to date." Greeting the tired but
happy returning crew, members,
"Anderson declared; . -
- "The whole thin was -magnifi-tent.
These men went through the
' entire German defense ... We
1 can say that shuttle bombing defi
nitely is a success."
- The crew members themselves
said the return mission was quiet
and described the fighters they
met as the Germans' second
team."
' ' A sky-filling fleet of RAF and
" Canadian bombers made the 1200
mile round trip to the reich's heart
with 1800 long tons (2018 US tons)
; of bombs. O - . "
Fifty-eight of the four-engined
ships the most ever lost in one
night -were shot down.
" Some American volunteers par
ticipated in the assault -
Today heavy bombers which
looked like American Flying Fort
I resses swept back over the chan
' nel in a renewal of the offensive.
The Berlin attack was at least
four times as heavy as any ever
: ' suffered Dy lonaon, ana was anv
' en home with concentrated effect
that left immense damage in the
. capital. It was staged as though to
give Berliners a powerful dose of
'explosive and fire bombs before
' the finale of5 the allied victory
conferences at Quebec
A clear night favored the droves
of German fighters. "A number"
.f them were destroyed, the air
ministry said. "
Living in fear since Hamburg
was ripped apart less than a
month ago, Berlin undoubtedly is
ythe focal point of the German air
J force's principal night-fighter
' squadrons.
The RAF did not disclose the
size of the armada, but a censor-
.ship-approved dispatch said "some
f 5000 veteran RAF fliers from over
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the empire and some American
volunteers' took parV tumbling
the bombs in 42 minutes.
Since the RAF heavy bomber
usually carries seven men, this
indicated a raiding- force ef mere
than planes.
Some returning crewmen said
fires raged over a- four-square
mile area. One reported smoxe
spiralling three miles high.
An air ministry cornnwrnupie
said "the assault was delivered in
taratKr iuL before midnight
and preliminary reports Indicated
that the bombing was nigniy con
centrated." ; -Xf: :. K -: :': -
The : German high eommaaa
admitted civilian lsuses-an said,
''explosives and tneeavdlary
bombs, caused destruetian la the
residential quarters and to sub
lie buildings and hospitals." It
declared that at least t bomb
ers had been downed, and that
"reorganized air defenses pre
vented a concentrated - attack
pen the city." . :-y ?; ;
it was Ihe first heavy assault
unnn the German capital since
March 29. The heaviest previous
bomb load dropped was yuo long
tons. ;- " y ;i
BCAF headauarters announced
that the full weight of the Canad
ian mniD had been nut into the
raid, and that seven" of the 58
Trigging planes were Canadian.
The biazest explosions rocked
the heart of Berlin, the fliers said.
Berlin is 200 miles farther from
Britain than Hamburg and it pos
sibly would take more time to
knock it out But the psychological
effect on the German people is
incalculable. esDeciallr after -the
demonstration at Hamburg showed
what allied air might can do.-
There is still a week of moonless
nights ahead for Berliners to en
dure and last night they had to
endure a shock of bombs only 500
tons short of the weight heaped
on Hamburg on each of three July
night with three 23CO long ton
attacks.
About 9000 long tons of bombs
did the job on Hamburg in the
war's heaviest aerial offensive.
The. ! greatest previous RAF
homher loss was 55 d Lanes in the
double ! raids April 18 on Pilsen
in Czechoslovakia and Mannheim,
Germany. -
Two 'RAF bombers, apparently
from the Berlin attack, came down
in Sweden. Two fliers landed one
in flames southwest of Lands-
krona after being hounded by a
nazi fighter who came down near
Olestraoem, also in Sweden. The
other five crewmen aboard were
believed to have parachuted over
Denmark:
The second bomber crash-land
ed In the Baltic a quarter-mile off
Sandhammaren. Swedish patrols
rescued the crew.;
' Fighter command intruders as
sisted the Berlin blow with wide
spread, harassing attacks bn air
fields in Germany and occupied
territory. One of them was mis
sing. .
: American bombers downed 147
enemy aircraft, instead of the
-75 previously reported, in their
August 17 raid oa Sehweinfurt,
Germany, official tallies re
leased at headauarters ef the
US eastern theater ef operations
disclosed today.
Damage to three vital ball and
roller bearing works was also re
vealed by reconnaissance photo
graphs including direct hits
that destroyed a wing of the town
hall on Adolf Hitler street
The photographs showed that all
three factories, which had been
producing the majority of Ger
many's bearing output essential
for almost every - weapon, were
hit j
Rail communications were also
devastated.
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In Douglas Fir
PORTLAND, August 24 (P
AFL demands for an increase from
90 cents to $1.05 hourly in the
Douglas fir industry . were heard
today bj the west, coast lumber
commission.' - '. y'yy:
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Quebec Bravs
Invasion Plans
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Meanwhile, the two allied states
men declared, Russia will be kept
fnllT informed of Anglo-American
decisions, obviously including
those made here, insofar as -they
concern the war against Germany
and Italy. : ' - t ' ' : : ;
The Russian bid was extended
in a joint statement t in ; which
Churchill ; and Roosevelt report
d that at Quebec the necessary
decisions have been taken to pro
vide for the forward -action of the
fleets, armies and air ; forces" of
Britain and America. -:
With the speeded temp of
the war, however, , more deci
sions are . expected to become
necessary in a relatively short
time and the statement said that
nt was resolved to held aaeth- -er
conference before the end ef
the year'";: -: h '- A'i
' It was in this connection an of
ficial reference was made to a
joint meeting with "Russia in such
manner as to suggest that Stalin
actually was being asked to par
ticipate perhaps with prior
knowledge that he would da so.
The statement said the An
glo-American meeting this year
would be held "In addition to
say tripartite meeting which It
may be possible to arrange with
- soviet Russia, ,f U--y
The plans for closer collabora
tion with Russia focused attention
on the European phases of Que
bec planning. But on these pha
ses, Roosevelt and Churchill were
completely and, significantly si
lent They had no comment, even
most indirectly, about the .open-'
ing of new fronts in E u r o p e,
which Russia has been hotly de
manding. ' .'f-.; M y-';l
By contrast their report empha
sized the plans laid for cracking
down ' on Japan, they f declared
that "the military discussions of
the chiefs of staff turned very
largely upon the war against Jap
an and the bringing of effective
aid to China." 5
This tied in with informed be
lief In some quarters : that plans
had been worked out for greatly
expanding the American air force
in China and undertaking an aer
ial offensive against Japan and
her lifeline in the China see,
Another development of the
formal statement was the disclos
ure that the internal status of the
French committee ct liberation
had been considered ; and I some
statement in which several gov
ernments will participate will be
issued later this week. This ap
parently foreshadowed some form
of recognition.1' ; ' "i
Ukraine
In Near Rout
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northern fleet also struck at the
Invader Tuesday and, hi coop
eration with the air arm, sank
two German transports totaling
SOet tons, a patrol skip .and a
patrol laucb, the war bulletin
said. - .
Kharkov's fall Monday appar
ently was the signal for renewed
activity along -the entire 2000-mile
front for the Russians said they
destroyed 75 German tanks and
shot 106 nazi planes from the
skies during that day.
Russian bombers ranged behind
the Donets front and southwest of
Kharkov yesterday, dropping
bombs "on large concentrations of
planes ; on - German airdromes.
strafing troops- and I equipment
and disrupting rail communica
tion, the report said. : Gibaltsevo,
Barvenkova and Cbistyakov were
among the targets singled out
The exhausted naz is fleeing
from Kharkov rushed up ' fresh
reserves west and south of that
city yesterday, but 2000 German
officers' and men were reported
to have been killed in those areas
and 25 nazi tanks disabled or de
stroyed. .f
Northwest of that former Ger
man bastion the naxis also counter-attacked
in desperate attempts
to relieve their reeling forces, but
all resistance was overcome and
600 Germans were killed,1 and 18
tanks and : three armored cars
were destroyed, the report said.
-' There was ne deabt the Ros-
sians considered Kharkov's fall
f as one of their greatest victories
and perhaps the taming point
; of the war.
Hoare Leaves Spain
; Madrid, 'Aug. 24.-H5Ir
Samuel Hoare, British ambassa
dor to Spain, left Madrid by train
for Lisbon tonight en route to
London. - ' i
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Dean
. B. Lemon, registrar at Oregon
State college, has been appointed
dean of administration.
on Case
Goes itd Jury
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climaxed his insanity defense nf
Layton by maintaining that the
defendant Ma ; 65 per cent wit"
was so. mentally weak "that he
would not be shocked if some
one gave him two eggs and . told
him to fry one on one side and
one on the others , ? j
Hewitt alleged that Layton could
not think in the abstract and cited
the case of the ape who also did
not have the thought capacity to
diagnose his own bellyache. :
When Rath rolled accidentally
Into the river, Hewitt continued.
Layton shewed his mental dull
ness by having no plan te save
her er himself from charges but
'went home and slept soundly.
Hewitt also alleged that Ruth
Hildebrand was a. "pick-up" and
that she did not try to escape or
scream for help from the house
only 75 yards away. $.
Continuing his case, Hewitt al
leged that no bruises were found
on Ruth's body and that her un
dergarments might have been torn
in Layton's attempt to save the
girt v.; ;?'
Concluding. Hewitt said Ruth
Hildebrand might have been con
fused when, she hit the cold water
and swum in the wrong direction
to her death. " -
Opening the case Tuesday morn
ing. Harry Hoy said that Layton
was "a coward who had no fear
in the abstract" Ghosts which
would haunt and keep the normal
person awake aid not power me
defendant who was actually grow
ing fat while on trial for murder.
Hoy alleged that Layton's child
i&h heart had been filled with ter
ror and that he had confessed
"what the police put into his
U1VUIU.
Of Ruth Hildebrand, Hoy said
she was not a bad girl, but had
gotten -so out of hand that she was
visiting army camps alone. -
Hoy added that he was sur
prised to see that so many mothers
had allowed their teen-aged
daughters to come to the court
Bean Harvest
Call Urgent
A (Continued from Page 1) A
which Mexican groups have
worked this year, they will prove
to be excellent workers and quiet
citizens who will have little incli
nation to visit the nearby cities.
though they are free to do so and
may occasionally come in to buy
clothing or make other small pur
chases. ' . -:
In pointing out that the Mexi
cans' sresence here will not re
lieve local people of their respon
sibility for seeing that the har
vest is carried on successfully,
Nibler emphasized that these im
ported- workers .wiT not constitute
as much as 5 per cent of the total
labor force'" required. .
Billings' Pal
B (Continued from Page 1) X
children, all living with their mo
ther in Salem. '".
. District Attorney Miller Hay
den and Coroner L. E. Barrick
decided Tuesday: that no inquest
would be held but that if any ev
idence of foul play developed It
would be presented to the grand
jury. - - . "
and
Thursday
Lay
Being
Queried
Oregon. Wednesday Morning ' Avsst 23. 1C.3
South It
Kail System
Blasted Again
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factories near the capital of Cag-
liari. From these and the Naples
sweeps, one allied plane was miss
ing. Aerial reconnaissance showed
railroads and installations in
southern Italy- were so badly
broken that the Germans .would
have a problem trying to move a
large army south and keep it sup
plied. Official reports said Italian
railroads - had virtually ceased to
exist in the Naples area. Although
it waa not claimed these lines
were permanently lost to the ene
my; experience in Tunisia and
Sicily justified t he : assumption
that repairs were improbable. In
Sicily railroad - workers - and
troops i a 1 i k e : shunned bombed
railway lines, when they knew a
new nau ox aeatn migni come
anytime. i . , -
L The ' Liberators poured' nearly
125,000 pounds of! bombs upon the
airdrome and freight yards at
Bari, meeting only .light anti-air
craft fire. Hangars and rail yards
were hit .' ''-jiZA-:&:-":'-':'
The Mitchells weathered heavy
ground fire to blast the tracks at
Battipaglia and set conflagrations
in warehouses and buildings. The
Wellingtons had numerous direct
hits on the rail yards at Bagnoif.
Mark Gray Elected
Moose Order Head
CINCINNATI, Aug.
Mark R. Gray, Indianapolis pub
lisher,! was elected supreme gov
ernor of the supreme lodge. Loyal
Order of Moose, at its annual con
vention today.
Other officers ' elected include
Mrs. Dorothy Eggleston, Seattle,
Wash Grand dean of the Acad
emy of friendship.
Liquor Board Delays
Double-Permit Action
PORTLAND, August 24 -fl-The
state liquor commission post
posed until Wednesday discussion
on how to stopj consumers from
evading liquor rationing . by ob
taining more than one permit
Commissioners-took up the ques
tion of whether or not beer sold
to army post exchanges is liable
to a state tax. No decision was' an
nounced, j . ,
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The immortal words of men who search the; ocean's floor
for enemy raiders . . . whose valiant deeds will blaze
across the pases of history. '
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ParLcr Declares
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Life Not for Him
Cliff Parker doesn't want to be"
a .deputy sheriff and isn't going to
be one. -; '-"'
Sheriff A. C Burk, in announ
cing the-resignation of Kenneth
Randall as his chief deputy, indi
cated Monday that Parker would
be Randall's successor but ihls,
Parker said Tuesday, apparently
was the result of a misunderstand
ing. He saidL he had not definitely
accepted the offer and now had
made up his mind not to accept it
This being the case. Sheriff
Burk said Tuesday he had no one
specifically in mind. for the pa
sition. He revealed that Parker
had spent part or one day in the
office "to see how he'd like it"
and intimated that the former
sport goods merchant particularly
didn't thrill to the task of serving
occasionally as Jail turnkey. -.
Parker, who recently sold his
State street sport goods store, has
not indicated his plans for the fu
ture. ' :- .
(urt Martial
SAN 4 DIEGO, Calif, Aug. 24
(P)-A resolution urging that Adm.
Husband EL Kimmell and Lt Gen.
Walter C. Short be tried by a
general court martial before De
cember 7, 1944, has . been adopted
by the San Diego council, Veter
ans of Foreign Wars. .
The 1 resolution. which will be
sent to state headquarters of the
veterans group, contends that un
less, the general and the admiral
are tried before December ?, 1944,
they win be ; immune ' from pro
secution-because of the statute of
limitations.
The two officers were officially
charged with gross negligence in
connection with the Japanese at
tack on Pearl Harbor.
Ray Knocked Out
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24-OP)
Two hard left hooks to the jaw by.
Turkey Thompson, 203, Los An
geles, abruptly ended his sched
uled 10-round bout tonight with
Elmer . Ray, 188, Hastings,. Fla,
with a knockout after two min
utes and 55 seconds of the first
round.
Missing Liberator
Is Found on Island
LONDON, Wednesday, Aug. 25.
-VPr-JL missing liberator bomber
was found wrecked today on Ar
yan island, v small, rocky island
off the west coast of Scotland.
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