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n 1 1 i I. : Tuca. cunsci 7:52 T7cd. cunrirs 7:02 ) ! m -1 X i v . ! itninnf tizzd yeah 12 PAGZ3 Ccdexau Oregon. Tuaday IIomLss, August 31, IS 13 1:1 r V f t ( Is this war a product, or a by- . product? Some regard It merely as a re sumption of the first world war, which was a continuation of the thrust "for power which began with the emergence of . the king dom of Prussia in the 18th cen tury, -and which reached one cli max in the unification of Germany under Bismarck. Another view, and more local, is that , the war is a by-product of Hitlerism. Hitler, it is recalled, came to power in 1933 when Ger many, as well as the rest of the world, was in the grip of tiepres aion. The great inflation of the 20s had left many Germans bank rupt and bitter. On that founda tion of discontent, when Hinden- berg was in his dotage, Hitler af ter numerous defeats and rebuffs . finally became chancellor and "der Fuehrer! for all Germany. He had many slogans to arouse popular support, the same as can didates for office in this country have. He made the Jews the chief scapegoat He . denounced -, the treaty of Versailles. He appealed to youth with a "strength through lov" Droeraxn. He had his , "re- Jigion ot blood ana sou, " ana w i I.- k- t,n for Lebens- raum." living space. But always, elear up to the very' last, Hitler j assured his people there would be accordin to aU reports, definite- ly did not want war. Many were depressed when war finally .came l 1 All this was in the field of ora- I tory, : the vehicle Hitler used to l cast his spell over the people, j In the practical field his prob- I 1pm was the same as that which I was vexing the heads of all coun- trie at that time: employment. 1 Hitler proceeded to r solve it by J government expenditures for re - armament and for military wavs. Rearmament became, not merely a political policy to equip 1 Germany for renewing tne con-1 w cf 1014-18. It was the immedi-1 ate means of giving employment to thousands of workers. I But vou lust can't ? keep on Knildin- Dlanes and ships and I guns. The appeal and the fever which enable the people to sac rifice butter for guns cannot be sustained indefinitely. Hitler ; had 1 the bear by the taiL He couldn't a... Via. rause that meant unemployment H.adtd use his enveloping force I for threat, which he did T sue- j cessfully in the , Rhinelano, f n Austria, in Memel, in . rzrhn - Slovakia. He tried -- it (Continued on Editorial Page) Small Trash Fires Now: Permitted Restrictions on, burning in agri-1 cultural, areas tnrougnoui Oregon were lifted JJonday, according to continued their offensive and cap a statement, issued by N. S..Rog- tured several populated places," ers, atate lorester, wiui xne, agree- ment of the northwest sector command. For all burning other than small trash fires, however, written per mission must - be obtained from the state forester's office and, in the dimout zone, no fires will be permitted after dark. This liberalization of regulation will be withdrawn if weather conditions change so as to increase the fire hazard. Restrictions on slash burning are still in effect. Weather Guts Fire Hazards " By The "Associated Press . Forest fire hazards were re duced In- Oregon today in the wake of general frost, rain and . snowstorms , Frost nipped crops in the Klam ath Falls region. Snow blanketed high peaks tf the central Oregon Cascades, driv ing lookouts from mountain . tow ers and halting forest service work ; above the 5000-foot level. Rain , fell in the central Oregon t plateau where thousands of troops moved Into position for coming - army maneuvers. ' - Eastern Oregon also felt the rain, with .41 of an inch fallling at Pendleton. Rainfall was heaviest in west ern . Oregon, Portland recorded - .59 of an inch, the heaviest since June, .'..--vi v -r - At Albany the rain caught Seta T. French with a partly uncov ered rcf. He was awakened by the downpour splashing in his face. French, Is the Albany weath er observer. EUiclyn B. Chapman, Poett Dies at 89. CHICAGO, Aug. 30-ffV- Ethelyn Bryant Chapman, 9, widely known , for her contribu : tions of verse to magazines, died at her home today after a brief illness. Girlhood friend of Poetess Ela Wheeler Wilcox, Mrs. Chap man was engaged in writing a bicsraph of Mrs. Wilcox when she was fatally stricken. rr .4 ) n n r n . iGerilianS; ?! Abandon ison Fall of-Seaport i Liberates Rostov Area From Nazis .By JUpSON O'QUINN LONDON. Tuesdav. Auc . 31- . i-J-WMoT, VT:A encirclement move- ment-in.- wracn Ked army me- chanized divisions and Cossack cayairy drove to the Azov sea coast 28 miles west of Taganrog led to the fall of that nazi anchor city ana tne xreexng or more man 150 I settlements yesterday, the Kussians ancouncea toaay. Horsemen ; j ana .. motor - Dorne troops ; were reported to have knifed from Donetsk-Amvrosiev- ka, 40 miles northwest of Tagan Irog, ;to Vesselovoznesenskaya, 28 miles west oi Taganrog, to xix a pincer jaw complementing that of the Russian lines east of the town. mgft-pnen me pincer ciosea. I The nazi strongholds of Stalino, 70 miles northwest of Taganrog, was inreaienea. ine surprise smash left the entire German right wing in jeopardy and apparently crumbling. ; XHe Rassiaa CMtmniHise, re eoroea nere Dy we Bevies mom tor from a Moscow broadcast, said the remnants of the Tagan- roc sarrisen "are . being wiped Altogether, in successes - rang- :..; .n AV.-. to.. - man front, the Russians said tbey killed about 5000 Germans yester- day,' disabled or destroyed Ger-.l man tanks and captured 10 others. shot down 18 enemy planes, and took prisoners and munitions. About 400 miles north of Tagan rog, another Soviet column hitting into stubborn German counter-at tacks south of Bryansk, advanced from six to 13 miles and captured more than 50 other villages, the Russian announcement said. ; Southwest of captured Khar kov, wnere xne Russians are swinsrinv southward in an anrtar- ; ef f ort to encircle the railwav i iimction of Poltava, "our trooos j tfte ; Russian bulletin said. Premier -r Josef k S talis ,: aa novneed the capture of Tagan rog late in the day - after the naxls already had declared they (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Dallas Firm . First to Get Army-Navy rE? - Washington, Aa-. sa -The war department anaevneed the award today of the army-navy- "E" pennant for j: out atanding work on war contracts to the Willamette Valley Lum ber company, Dallas. . In SeatUe tie West Coast Lumbermen's association said the Dallas firm, alonr with the Weyerhaaser Lvmber company, Longview, also receiving the award today, were the first award today, were tne rirst lumber firms In the country to win the coveted prises. Both win the coveted prises, produce aircraft lumber. Rent Control Ruled Invalid y the Associated Press MACON. Ga Previsions icf the Amr ,hi-h thm tittle f TM-lo si - ministration hat reeulated rents tnT.,.rni,t th Tiatinn wr d. riri ttnrm4utmnr tia-W ,t .TuriffA Poenm s riiav.r -Hi, nrSnlnn ... mhamW 4tioa1 f -some agencies which he said apparently regard the constitution . an o,,fanodd instrtnit.- The immediate effect of the de- cision ; which concerned only the rent control section of the emergency act passed by congress in 1942 was confined' to the middle district of Georgia, but in Washington. Henry M. Hart. - lr was -probable the supreme court I t John Cunningham, Portland en eventually must rule. . : j gineer, suggested that If the city OPA announced it would appeal Judge Deaver's decision and Hart said rent control regulations would be enforced pending final adjudication. ' Danes Fight 'New Order,' Lraders"Arrested '' Ji i $ n i Patient far 4S months mt Dcmeeral' German occupation force. Martial law has been declared, crews of the few Danish naval vessels fled or mtmtilmd their hin. Klnr Christian And noli ties! ana irmT ind un leadera m nndee nm f erm of arrest following caoontlng saboUge. Above, a peacetime where oeme of the acts of violence occurred. 'Proof of Gardening Is ; . . O Sajs ; Victory Garden Contest Judge Reznicseks and McWains Adjudged First and Second Place Winners "The proof of the gardening Charles A. Cole, chairman of the judging committee for the Sa lem Men's Garden club in the Victory garden contest conducted year by that orgaruzation f Statesman. " - : , Judcinfi Judging land products is Cole's business, not just an avoca tion, and he doesn't mind mentioning that he .once was criticized Stalin Meeting With Allies Foreshadoiced By JOHN F. CHESTER. LONDON, Ang. 3-UP-For- elgn Secretary . Anthony Eden win meet separately tomorrow with Ivan Maisky, former Rus sian ambassador to Great Bri tain, and John G. Wlnant,: the US ambassador, in what gener ally is believed here to be the first step toward an early three- power conference and perhaps a later nVoosevelt-Chnrehill-Stalin meeting. In diplomatic circles It was understood that Eden ; would give Maisky a report on those portions of the Quebec confer ence In which Russia directly is interested, including the openly expressed. ; hope that a-' "big three' meeting could be ' ar ranged, and particularly on the Italian situation. - Presumably Wlnant : wUl re- ' celve word of the Soviet reaction to a proposed three-power eon-; ference as well as a full, first hand account of the Quebec dis cussions. There was wide specu lation here that the three men may sit down together later. I A M t ljLUlQlia MJam I 1 BidRejected SILVERTON, Aug. 30(Speciari The lone bid submitted on con struction :of the proposed perma nent concrete dam' on the Abiqui In connection with Silverton'a wa ter supply, was rejected tonight by 'unciL 1 - XJUpirC lODSTTUCUOr of Portland submitted of 65,715, as compared to the p.e- estimate of $45,000. Deem- 12 the bid too high, the council ll Objected to the modifications J? ?f?ft2i?a 'fd to I "frauctt ,l members had hoped construction completed in 80 days. j ' City Manager E. K. Burton was instructed to investigate the pos- I sibility of building a log crib dam, I particularly as to the availability of logs; and to determine whether I other bids on the permanent struc- I ture mieht be obtained. lis interested in a log crib dam, it I might have better results in solic- iting bids from logging , contrac- j tors rather than from construction I firms. s ... . u 4- tkceaoation. the nanle of Denmark bow trht 1mjk mtml the I is in the eating," paraphrases in cooperation, -with The Oregon for failing, at a corn show, to give first prize to a corn stalk almost 20 feet high. Trouble was, it didn't have an ear of corn on it. Productivity was the deciding; factor in most cases in the Vic tory -garden contest, and notably so in section 4, class 1 the small- er gardens south of Center street and west of Summer street win-1 bers in which were: First Mr. and Mrs. Val Rez nicsek, 1945 West Nob HiU; Second Mrs. H. E. McWain, 90 Fairview avenue. " ", Perfect score for quantity and quality of produce was awarded to the Reznicsek's garden, which is 32 by 50 feet in dimension, and has, since sometime in April when the first radishes' and lettuce were ready, supplied ' its owners with all the vegetables they could use and provided considerable quanti- ties for neighbors and friends as well. The Reznicseks spaded suffi- cient space for early ; crops in February, turning over the re- mamder later as required. Tfcey planted some 16 species of vege tables, thus allotting no great space to any one. But ; from two rows of? string beans they have canned 60 quarts, and they also have canned 48 pints of peas. They will be able to can some of the later, produce and expect to have at least three or ' four sacks of potatoes. The Judges gave these winners perfect ratines also on cultivation and appearance, but , the Reznic seks credit their garden's remark able productivity to the generous use of fertilizer. Production also was the deci sive-factor in the rating of Mrs. McWain's garden a few points higher than those of several close competitors. - . Blotter Shows Up Shortages Reflections . of two scarcities noted in Salem on Sunday night were on the police blotter Monday morning:' - ' - from a refrigerator car on a sldinsr near the state fairgrounds five, cases of pints of beer had! been taken. Bill Davis, 2043 North Capitol street reported.- i From a showcase at the stair- way leading up to the Trover stu dio, 122 North Commercial, a pic ture or two, believed by police to be likenesses of pretty girls, were removed sometime Sunday night. The glass of the case was broken. Salem streets were remarkably lacking in traffic of all kinds,! pretty girls included. Sun day I night and 'most downtown ;beersolidating 1 dispensaries closed early for lack I of brew. "-" n n n SI . 4 view of CoQenhaxen, the eapltal, in Eating9 i . O- jYanks Destroy 37 Jap Planes By C. YATES McDANlEL ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Aug. 31.-i5Thirty-seven Japan ese planes have been destroyed in a new raid on Wewak, New Gui nea, where more than 300 enemy aircraft were wrecked in other recent raids. General MacArth. j urs headquarters announced to- dar. Lightnlngs downed 25 out of M Zeros la the air and Liberat ors got at least 12 planes on the ground.' . " . Wewak. is on the northeastern New Guinea coast, 350 miles above the land fighting at Sala- In the ground fighting there for tlie airdrome. American and Aus- tralian forces 'which previously had. given ground . allghtly before Japanese ' counterattacks . repulsed the . latest s ones, exacting . heavy losses on the enemy defenders, today's communique said. At Madang, between Salamaua and Wewax, Mitcnells sanx many supply barges and heavily bombed I uppx In the vicinity of New Ire land, w h e r e recent eommun- Iques have reported almost dafly attacks of allied bombers on enemy shippfaig. a Catallna scored hit on a Japanese cruiser In the : latest activity there. One hundred fourteen tons of nDlesiTes fell on aircraft revet- ments and dispersal areas at me roo of Wewak and Boran In the latest assault - - - tu, : f th four I airdromes which allied planes be - gan raiding in mid-August, vir- toally wiping out the air fleet Japan had assembled there. T m.AAlr in 4tm 7 flfinitClV ; destroyed, . 17 other. . werr dam- -Our - losses were light," the communique said.'; t ALLIED ' HEADQUARTERS IN THE " SOUTHWEST PACI FIC, Aug. St Japanese de fenders of the Salamaua air base In New Galnea. making another of I their d a perato stands in - contrast to their' flight from New Georgia, have forced allied troops to fall back slightly at some points. This reverse, although minor, is the first reported by G e n e r a 1 1 MacArthur'a headquarters since the irensives in New Guinea ana - 1 the central Solomons started last! - 1 June 30. I In the Solomons, - however, I American forces continued their progress with an imopposed land- I ing on Arundel island, until re I cently occupied by the enemy. Ground units, which went ashore Friday, were reported to be con - OverW Arundel lies just west of New! the axis and will be four times (Turn to-Page 2 Story F) . a Is) GerHSlllS ieize King Christian, Danish Officials Held in Custody By JOHN .H CpLBURN? STOCKHOLM. Aug. Danish troops still battled the Germans in at least one Danish zone today as the nazi military dictatorship held King Christian IX and most members of Premier Erik Scavenius' government' un der some, form of arrest." VW V. I Both the resignation and deten tion of the 'Scavenius cabinet were announced tonight. The Germans a lzea clvl1 &na court Xunc- aonm uemnrit na warnea mat Courts martial Would punish dis- obedient Danes, with penalties in- eluding death. Six hundred Danish troops still were noia 49 miles were holding out against the Ger- army at 11:30 a joo. today at near the Zealand coast southwest of Copenha gen,- said refugees reaching Swe den. '. They said 4SI persons were killed or wounded yesterday in a battle between the Danes -and the . Germans at the port . of Svendborg, 50 miles west of Naestved. ;', " The first detailed ' information to reach Sweden on' events after the Danish government was shorn of power provided a picture of stubborn military resistance against overwhelming odds where- ever there was a garrison of Dan ish soldiers or marines. ' ; A royal guard wrecked ' three nazi tanks and 11 armored cars in a - furious ; battle of Jaegersborg, six miles north, of Copenhagen. Most members4: of Scavenius government were either placed in jail or subjected to "house arrest' under the new military dictator ship. Latest reports reaching Swe den said that King Christian X, who had been spending the sum- mer at his castle SorgenfrL 15 miles outside of . Copenhagen, (Turn to Page 2 Story A) ' B, G Coupon j -f ra Ire TYf Uoc JLJUUlkO JLfJJL VFUO Run Out Today Today is the deadline for turn ing in old-type B and C gasoline rationing - books .' to exchange - for new-type coupons, but. motorists mA- mnraAl 4k o1Y tuu . fiarami at ue ntion boxd oficeSf the boards are now "snowed un der? - with such applications. ' In stead, .the books should - be mail ed in. - - The tire inspection record must accompany, the book, and motor ists whose B and C books expire before October 15 must also send in at this time renewal applica- tions, forms for - which are ob- I lainaoie ai service siauons ana m the ration boards. Persons applying now xor ex change of coupons wul nave to j wait several days before receiv- m Bew: v "e Ptfcessing them in the order 75- I 1 . ww ''" 4 ZZJZTZ British Plane Output Jumps LONDON, Tuesday, Aug. 31 (AP) Capt Oliver Lyttelton, minister of production, reported today that British aircraft ' production in terms of structural weight for the second quarter of 1943 increased 44 per cent over the same period a year ago. The total output for I munitions increased 25 per cent for the same period. n a statement on progress hi a program of changes in British war production begun J anuary I IS 13, with a view of concentrating J on selected equipment calciualed - 1 to bring a maximum impact on I the enemy, the production min lister declared that the combined 1 war output of the United Nations I was at present three times that ox las great next year. m Control Attack on Reich Follovis 2-Night Lull, Presumed Same Force as LONDON, Tuesday, Aug. 3 Germany anew last night after a the Reich, the British announced The scope of the raid and the target were not disclosed In t ... ... the preliminary announcement, but it was presumed that the at tacking forces were composed of heavy bombers, which were last over the continent Friday night The lull in the allied aerial three successive night raids on Last Links of Italy's Rails By NOLAND NORGAARD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 30 (iT) Allied air might poured . ruin, on remaining links in southern Italy's railway - system yesterday, with Flying Fortresses battering Orte, 40 miles north of Rome, and-cther fleets pounding Torre. Annunziata below Naples by day and night. - Twenty, axis planes ' were shot down in these and other assaults over the toe of Italy, and three al lied craft were lost, allied head quarters announced. .. . ; The Fortresses, making their first attack en. Orto astride the Rome-Florence railroad, concen trated their heavy bomb load in f iro mlnutesoi prime targets - of freight yards swollen ' with war supplies, railroad cars, en gine sheds ' and a transformer station. . '; :, . r. ; , B-26 Marauders shattered freight cars at Torre- Annunziata on the bay of Naples south of Ve suvius, setting raging fires that guided in RAF and Canadian Wel lingtons by night to lay block busters and incendiaries on rail targets and an armor plate works. The Marauders, Jumped by a cloud of 50 fighters, met the hea viest opposition, but bomber gun ners bagged 15 of them and escort ing P-38s 'claimed another. A British cruiser and destroy er shelled the Calabrian coast near Cape Pellarb Saturday with only light, ineffective fire from shore batteries. - . One naval officer said a brush fire forming a great "V? was vis ible on the shore, possibly, set as a signal . to guide the British. Scourging southern Italy, medium -Mitchells bombed road and .rail - junctions ' at Ceoensa: Bostosnv and. Baltlmores , ripped up railroads at La MezJe on the , '"" (Turn to Page, 2 Story D) - Layton to Die October 8; Now in Prison DALLAS, Aug. 30.-(ffV-Ilichard H.: Layton, 36, ex-Monmouth po lice chief, still protesting his in nocence, was sentenced today to die in .Oregon's lethal gas cham ber October 8. He was convicted by a circuit court jury last week of first de gree murder in the drowning of Ruth Hildebrand, 17. Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker asked Layton if he had anything to say. j. "I still say I'm innocent,' Lay- tori responded.. , . There was no indication of an appeal from: defense attorneys. Miss Hildebrand disappeared the night of June 7. Kr nude body was found in the Willamette river July 20. Layton wa dressed in at the state penitentiary- here - shortly after 3 p. m. Monday, entering a death cell at the institution. IDs mother, who had been present at his trial, called at prison offices shortly thereafter for the free man's garb her son "may never again don. - Droolie Returns Frcm Quebec - LONDON. Tuesday, Aug. 31-(jp) -General Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial general staff, has returned from the allied war con ferences in Quebec, it was an nounced today. Allies Batter O 7 Friday s l-i53-RAP bombers blasted at two-night lull in attacks upon today. . when they hammered Nuernberg. offensive, which was marked by Berlin last week, apparently was caused by adverse weather. Yesterday medium bombers -of the US Eighth air force blast- ' ed at targets in France. ' Reports from the British south east coast said that large .forma- tions of RAF planes were heard - roaring eastward across the chan- rnel late last evening. ' Reuters reported air alerts in - Zurich and the Basel area of ' Switzerland. Such alerts often have signalled allied bombing, at- tacks on the "already-hea vily bat- . tered industrial areas of northern Italy, particularly Turin and Mi lan." ' RAF"- fighter squadrons were ut in force over the Doyer, ' Calais and Boulogne areas. :" The Paris radio broadcast a re- port, not confirmed by any allied . sources, that "enemy planes last night dropped numerous incend- iary bombs on a little village in -the Somme departmenf This ; broadcast, recorded by the Asso- ' dated Press, gave no details of the raid aside from saying dam- " age was "considerable". Apparently referring to recon- naissance flights. over Rome, the Swiss radio said the Italian capi tal "has had several air raid ' (Turn to Page 2 Story C) FDR Returns; New Churchill Talks Ix)om WASHINGTON, Aug. 30- UF) President Roosevelt returned to day to the capital from the historic Quebec war strategy conclave and immediately conferred with mili tary, state and diplomatic officials, apparently laying the groundwork for a renewal of talks here with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain. : There were Indications- that the conference with Churchill, expected hero within a week, may bo devoted largely to clean ing up odds and ends on political war problems and tha final pol ishing ef plans to smash Japan. It was pointed out that the ma jor questions apparently were set tled at the Quebee meeting since the conference communique said that the two leaders had approved recommendations of their military chiefs and reached agreement on political- issues , stemming from military operations. ' Among those conferring with the President today were Secretary cf State Hull, Dr. T. V. Soong, Chin ese Foreign Minister; General , (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Pickers Needed For Beans and Prunes To day The emergency farm labor office was , besieged with orders for many types of, pickers on Mon day. Bean growers were especial ly disappointed in., the- unusual scarcity of pickers on hand ear ly in the morning. Many more people could - have been used to hand-pick prunes for the fresh, market. Additional peach pkker also were in demand. Inasmuch as the. cpening da! of .Salem schocls has been tc ahead to-. September 27, fimi'y groups are still urged to 3 out t y harvest crops. . - There tre four weeks of work ahead for a gxt'l many pickers. Most growers will furnish transportation, thus elim inating the necessity for family cars. Trucks till c'l it 710 Ferry street each norr.lr. at 6:33 to 7 o'clock. -Becjiuse f the heavy incrci t in demand, the "housewife f ra cial will be resumed V,'e'r( ? day. The growers will te at it employment office at 713 l' : : ; at 9 o'clock and will return t: j workers in time for then ta fre psre their evening mcal. i