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-Ju Vi J Lf ul IUuLijyy ,; y i1 :i. ; UITJETY THIRD YEAH 14 PAGES - It' Is welcome news that dlm- tning of traffic tights will no . longer be required, except along , the seacoast This will permit nor mal -.lighting of traffic signals, and should contribute to highway safety. . ' Is it not possible also to , end the dimout of general lighting In - Marion and Polk counties? - Our neighboring counties, Linn and Benton, f including great : Camp Adair, never have been under this regulation. It j would seem that it could be lifted for Marion and Polk counties now. i jc The purpose of dimout was to reduce sky-glow, but the permit ted illumination , makes ; all our ciues discoverable - by 7, enemy planes; and it is hot probable that skyglow from a city the size of Salem, and as far; inland would silhouette any ship at sea and make it a good target for enemy submarines. i " Of course we want to cooper ate in every necessary regulation, but it is so easy for defense agency to make a regulation and then forget all about it, leaving 1 it in effect when the necessity for it has passed.; Now the Japs are off Kiska,' the war is being' car ried ; to a their - homelands. ' The chances . even of ; token raiding become ewer. -x . , The; autumn season is coming on, with longer nights, more cloud and fog. Isn't it possible for the responsible , military ; authorities, to lift the dimout regulation as far as it applies to Marion and Polk counties? ... ; A few days ago reference, was made in this column to the danger to allied operations if the Ger mans would ' develop a : ground range-finder for airplanes, and so set up an-effective defense against our bombers. .Others .evidently have the same fears, for. Roberta McLean, president of the Assoc a ted Press, on his return from a visit to England, emphasizes the need to press our bomber produc tion and our bombing offensive as vigorously as possible, because the, British .fear the Germans "may find the answer to the bomber. ' - - This also means we must con tinue preparation for. land inva sion of the continent, and not re ly on air assault alone. 900,000 More Women Needed by Next Year. WASHINGTON, September 2, (yJ-The -wa? manpower commis sion said today that approximately 900,000 more women must be re cruited for the nation's labor for ces by ! July of next year. This would bring the number, of fem inine workers in civilian and war jobs to the unprecedented high of 18,000,000. . - P War - Loan Rally to Be Aided by Circus Folk : Two attention-getting ,kickoff" events for the third war loan cam paign in Salem . are I planned by the Salem Lions club,;: cooperat ing with R. W. Land, special vents ' chairman."J.First of , these, at the noon hour on Monday, La bor day,- will be an entertainment program - more pretentious - than any in the past, at the Victory , Center. Forty five minutes of fun and thrills areW1115 through an arrangement Vith" Cole Broth era circus. V. ' The Big; Top;band with Flor ence Tennyson soloist, A end a number of other feature numbers from the circus including acro batic artists and clowns, will be presented on this ; program, ar ranged by Douglas E. Yeater, wbo is retail chairman for : the bond campaign. Edward Majek of the Lions committee will be chaiiv man for the program which Is scheduled to start at 12:15 pm. ' The Lions ; second event is scheduled for Thursday night, September, 9, but Chairman Land has not yet announced its gen erar character, ' ,; Meanwhile the county war fl--eance committee headed by J. J.'1 a i mm . mm mm m mm mm i . Kie V - Ra'I Russians Gain : On (Smolerisk " Anil in Donets ; By JAMES M. LONG . LONDON, Friday, September, 3-(P-Russia announced early; todays that five : Red. armies plunging westward had cut the Bryansk-Kiev railway 150 miles from Kiev, smashed German re inforcements in a r six-mile : gain on Smolensk, and rolled .up axis' lines in a new 45-mile-wide spurt in the Donets basin. t ; : Marshall : Stalin's Thursday i order of the day said the- ; Ukraine citadel of San y , 90 miles northwest of Kharkov, hadi fallen to Gen. Nikolai Tatntin's army, and ; com-, manlaae annovneed the eaptore ef Krelevets and YampeL twe points on the vital Bryansk- Kiev railway linking the ene my's central and southern fronts. -:f !; :. Lisihansk, Voroshilovsk, Slav yanoserbsk, and other cities were seized in the Donets basin, while Budenovka, 20 miles from Mariu pol, was taken in the push along the rim of the Sea of Azov, said the communique recorded by the soviet monitor The swiftness i of the i Russian advances, and the tone of the com munique indicated the Germans were engaged in a large-scale re treat toward the Dnieper river, particularly in the huge Donets basin. " The bulletin, however, em phasized that the Germans were fiehting stubbornly all along', the 600-mile front.- ? ; ' More than 9000 Germans (Turn to Page 2 Story B) FDR, ChiircbiU Burn Night Oil WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 -(ff) President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are back on a night and day schedule in their war talks. "U,;.-' :-r-'- U.. ;-:! No word is f orthcoming 'from the .White House on the subjects. The; chief -executive and . the prim: minister talked until one o'clock this morning in ' Mr. Roosevelt's study, and resumed their discussions during the day. Churchill conferred with Gen eral 'George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the United States army, and I with British military leaders and 'chiefs 'of -British missions in America. . The Roosevelt - Churchill con versations are to continue tomor row morning and Mr. Roosevelt's regular . Friday ; press conference has been cancelled. . Card proceeded ' with plans for, a campaign in keeping with the un precedented task of selling almost $9,000,000 worth of war bonds. Headquarters were opened Thurs day at 212 North High street, in the Senator hotel building. Tonight, Chairman A. W. Smith er of - the general committee in Salem -has announced, there will be a meeting of blocs; leader cap tains to determine how the block leaders may assist .in the- cam vtxx. . . ; : ,; - :,;c.:: . :- : Following- a meeting' at "Sublim ity on Wednesday night which he as well as I Gene Vandeneynde, payroll savings chairman,' and Roy ; Rice, agricultural chairman, attended, County Chairman Gard reported that the cornmittee there unccr direction; of ; G. F. Abts of Stay ten had enrolled '50 workers to canvass the town and aujacent rural areas. Great enthusiasm for the campaign was in evidence", the county leaders reported. . , . Other meetings -have, been scheduled at Stayton, Tuesday night at ML Angel and at Mac leay, Wednesday night at Silver ton.,. ' - . - '' Salrau Oregon, Friday Morning. September Cr ?ip Dedication to Honor Him nfir r LT HENRY RODNEY ADAIR i Homage to teature ot Jberemonies CA11P ADAIR, Ore September. 2 Official dedication plana have been completed for the ceremonies at Camp. Adair, Satur day, September 4 and thousands of civilians, as well as the en tire camp personnel, are expected here for the event. Feature of the day will be the official presentation, to the" post of the sabre, spurs, campaign' hat, Bible and revolver owned by Lt Henry Rodney Adair, for whom Oregon's largest military installa tion was named when it was au thorized more v than ; a year, ago. The presentation,' to be made . by Lt. Adair's brother, -W. M. Adair of Sherwood, will take place at formal retreat at 5 o'clock. " Lt. Henry Rodney Adair, one of Oregon's own sons, was born on a - rancn in : Clatsop county. Al though his service took him to ma ny parts of the country, a great many Oregon troops were his com rades in the affair on the Mexi can border in 1916 in which the lieutenant lost his life. ' Citizens; are not only warmly invited but urged to come to Camp Adair any time after 10 a. m. on Saturday, since an official "open house" has been arranged.' Visit ors; will have an opportunity to see a display ox combat weapons, and various : installations such as the post bakery,' laundry, repair shope and recreational, f acilities. v Other features' of . the day' will be the formal guard mount on the parade ground at 2:15 p. m. fol lowed by a concert .by the SCU 1911 band. r Military . personnel - will escort the civilian guests through' the camp installations during the. day. The Field House will be used as the meeting place. - ' 450 Fires StiU Biirn in Berlin STOCKHOLM, Sept. 2 -VPf- Round-about reports 1 from tight ly ' censored Berlin said tonight that 450, fires still wtre burning in .the German capital after Tues day night's. RAF raid that killed an estimated 5000 persons and par alyzed the city's transportation sytemv&- - -' Z":;: Swiss dispatches in Swedish newspapers said some of the fires were so large firemen merely tried to isolate them Instead of saving the'' blazing buildings. Fire appa ratus was called from five German cities to aid. " r '-. Central "Berlin felt the main force of he raid which was be lieved to be fully as heavy as the attack on August 23 when about Turn to Page 2 Story Dl ; v Dimout -: . .; FrL eunse't 7 $46 Sat. sunrise 6 :35. (Weather on Page 5) , 3, 1943 Price p' v. Oregon Hero Jap Munitions Dumps Blasted In New Guinea By C YATES McDANIEL j ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Fri day, September 3-P) -Japanese army' headquarters, fuel and am munition stores have been blown up in the Madang, New Guinea, sector above ground-menaced Sal amaua by more. than 206 tons of bombs ' dropped from fighter-escorted bombers, Gen. ' Douglas MacArthur announced today. - Fires which erased warehoas- and balldinxs. sent . their flames np for 150 feet as the'' heavy .and medhut bombers spread nfln - after ; the fashion f raids in early Angvst which . virtually levelled Salamana, ' " The raiders, which added to the havoc by sweeping down to tree- top height to pour 90,000 rounds of machinegun and cannon fire on enemy; installations, struck at Ma dang, Amron Mission and Alexis hafen.: : "Widespread . havee and de strnctlon was wronrht in all three ' target areas with ware houses, bandings and headqnar-: terr sites left in ruins, fuel and ammunition , damps exploding and '.: ever 59 . ;, fires raging threnxheat the area,", the.eenv monlqae said.'' I The big fires set could be seen for 30 miles.. Not a Japanese pUtne was encountered , in the air in the Madang area, which is Just below the Wewak sector - where more than 389 Japanese planes have f (Turn to Page 2 Story E) ' : Polio Spreads to 5 New Counties - PORTLAND, Sept 2-p)-In-fantile paralysis spread- into five new counties in an outbreak dur ing the oast week which .brought reports If 24 new cases, the state health department .said today. ' I The. first cases were; reported by Coos, Crook, .Jackson, Tilla mook and Washington counties as the total for the past six weeks rose to 63. Of the total, Lane, re ported It cases, Marion 12 and Multnomah 9 to top the list of counties. . . ; . . . , 5c US;Fort . . - - - ... Bombard Continent a --- J- r Bombers Use largest Fighter -Escort of 1943 LONDON, Friday, September 3 rih US Plying Fortresses bombed Air fields at Mardyck and Penain late yesterday and other, battle planes . ushered in the fifth. year..bf the war with further attacks' on French targets under; thei largest fighter "cover used in air operations so far -in 1943 it was announced today, v -. 1 "Good bombing results were observed on aU targets,", said a commonlq.Bc issoed jointly by , US army headqaarters land the alr ministry. - I Squadrons of P-47 Thunder bolts escorted and covered the Flying Fortresses. - -Marauders (B-26s) - and RAF Bostons, Mitchells and Venturas bombed targets in Pas de Calais," the communique said. "Other Ma rauders attacked the power sta tion at Mazlngarbe and Bostons attacked the freight yards at Ser gueux." - - RAF, dominion and allied Spit fires escorted, and supported the light and medium : bombers. -V.V ; , ; Four enemy aircraft were rer ported destroyed, one by fortress guns, and three, by Spitfires. One ofthe medium "bombers; a light bomber and twd fighters failed to return. 'US. T; -i": S ;" ; The assaults on northern France served as an explosive sequel to earlier operations in which Hur ricane bombers weaved through masses of bursting shells at tree top height to, destroy vital lock gates at the southern end of Hol land's Handweert canal, while escorting Typhoons damaged a small coastal ; vessel and three tugboats. ; :.- '-. - -y: i " :- The air ministry's anneanee meai ef the Baadweert canal raid said three ef the Barrleaae . bombers and one Typhoon were minting, bat declared ' flatly (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Women Elect Chairmen for 3rd War Loan r - -j , ; : Mrs. David Wright and MrsI Winifred1 Pettyjohn ' were unani mously elected chairman and co chairman, respectively, of - the women's 'division of the- Marion county war finance, committee at the division's organization session Thursday night. More than , 30 . women, repre senting 20 clubs, associations and auxiliaries, attended the meeting. held .'at the Marion hotel under the auspices of the Salem Council of Women's Organizations, - Mrs. Vernon X Ostrander presiding. . J. J. Gard, chairman of the county's war finance committee and : Gene Vandeneynde w ere spokesman for that body, explain ing the assistance women as or ganizations and as individuals could give, and expressing appre ciation for the turnout at the ini tial meeting. - ' ' ; - ' . Mrs. Ostrander, Mrs. George Edwards, Mrs. 'Thomas S. Rob erts, Mrs. Herbert OsUind, v Mrs. Winifred R. Herrick, Isabel Chflds and Mrs. Nettie Spaulding r were named following ; the session by Mrs;, Wright and Mrs. Pettyjohn as members of the division's exec utive board. The group will meet for luncheon Tuesday with' mem bers of the greater committee. Head-On Collision Injures None When cars driven .by John C Freeborn, route one. Independ ence, and Volney Mull, Independ ence, collided head-on - two miles south of the junction on highway SI .(Salem-Independence 'road) at approximately S . o'clock . Thurs day afternoon, no person was ser iously injured, stats ' police re ported. Freeborn was taken into Independence for examination and to Lave cuts and bruises dressed. Historic Assault jGmes on Fburth J ; Anidversary of War Declaratibn; . Eisenhower in Command of Invaders , . ; - By EDWARD KENNEDY - ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. IN NORTH AFRICA Fridayi Sept 3 (AP) Brit ish and Canadian forces under the comman d - of Genera Dwight D. Eisenhower swept across the. Strait of Mescina; in today's dawning h'ght and landed on the beaches of Italy. Thus, the allies made good their; promise to invade, the European mainland. , The Jong-awaited, and historic assault came on the fourth anniversary of the day that Great Britain declared war on Germany. - ; j The, invading forces of the American commander less than three weeks ago brought to a conclusion ft he victorious Sicilian campaign. ...'....- It was from footholds won in that 38-day campaign, from the eastern. shore of Sicily, that' the' mainland Jnvaders sprung.' . - - ' - ; ' j ' ; From . there, it was; only a brief . boat ; ride, 50 minutes or. a half . hour, .to the main land and possibly another good , step " toward Berlin. i ,.: " ' British and Canadian troops of the Eighth army, famed for: its fighting in north Africa and bieily, made up Germans Eer Allied Invasion OfWestWaU f By JUDSON O'QUINjf LONDON, , Sept S. - (ff) - Axis radios broadcast a series of re ports today declaring large allied invasion forces were massed and ready to strike any time- now against the western wall of Hit ler's European fortress as well as in the Mediterranean. a ? " : Whatever the natis reasons ; for broadcasting these reports, ; they came as the toe - mi Italy was battered soft and Just be fore the allies landed on the toe ef their tottering ally. Portugal was undertaking mtosaal defen sive miUtAiT preeaeUoBs, and Scandinavia z mud the Balkans were seething' : restively . ander nasi hmndm,:.; ":-- :p , They came, too, at-a time when leaves are beginning to fall in London, recalling Prime Minister Winston Churchill's - prediction to a. Guildhall audience last June 30: "Very probably t there will be heavy" fighting in the Mediterran ean, and elsewhere before t be leaves of autumn falL ' :- -. Since that prediction Sicily has been conquered and the allies now stand poised to strike at the Ital ian mainland a few ' miles away. The" "elsewhere which Churchill mentioned may" well be torment ing the nazis minds. ; Ui- . The nari-con trolled Paris radio gave much attention to Spanish reports, of the massing at Gibral tar, of two battleships, four air craft carriers, 20 cruisers, 48 de stroyers and 45 merchantmen. la anetaer broadcast the. Par Is stattoat said-that a seeend aaaphlbieas force was being as sembled m Britain, and -tt was added that The awawst is ap " preachhv when an Angle-Sax- , on htvasfen armada will cross . the. channel and disembark Jts armies on the French coastJ r: Two gigantic armies will come "to grips In the near rfuture," the broadcast went on, fAnd French men will witness far more vicious battles than anything ' experien ced in 1940. Allied air-attacks on French towns- have, only been " a foretaste of things to come." . The Berlin radio , observed in connection ! with a ' discussion of the allied invasion- plans: "Noth ing can surprise the German high coanmand.'; Mrs. Itooscvelt .1 In Australia : f . - CANBERRA Australia Friday, Sent. 3-Pi-Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt; wife of .the president, arrived today by plahe. , (The s'dispatch .did not state from where the plane came' but she previously bad been in New Zealand). .- ? : n n n n : GnDflGiSDDu LO NDO NT Sept t-iXy-A' Ilatsal Eroadcasiing cenunen taicr, rejHirtin; from Algiers, an effleUI allied t p&es-' man today as aayinjr that Crit ish Eighth army troops whkh, linded in southern -. Italy . Vhls taoraiag were srrarntly en . taxed la teavy flrhtlarJ . the attacking force 2 i Allied,. naval units escorted the landing barges. Overhead, American and British airmen swept away the "enemy. (The American Seventh army, which mopped up the greater part of the western half of Sicily presumably was being held in reseryef or the time being at least.) ' i (In a broadcast this morning from Algiers, John Daly, CBS correspondent, reported the invasion was preceded by a num ber of successful commando and reconnaissance missions in the past few nights. &";. 7. C "-r--'. ; -f'; (Daly said these missions were successful in helping to knock out enemy coastal defenses, and at the same time, he said, they reported valuable information back to the attack headquarters. " 1 (This leport recalled that the Italians said several days ago a commando-type landing had been made in the region of Reggio Calabria. This was never confirmed, : ' v ; . , ; ! (Daly said details were lacking as to exactly where the land ings cxurred, although in general they took place ' along the Calabrian peninsula.. Daly said the Germans were believed to have done most of the initial fighting in the first phase against the invasion forces.) ; 4 The first landings were made at 4:30 a. m. (10:30 p. m. EWT Thursday night) and were announced by allied headquarters in a special communique at 7:15 a. m. ..".. ; lfiThey were preceded. by a heavy bombardment of the Italian coast by big: allied guns stationed on the Sicilian shore, which knocked out many' - enemy batteries and facilitated transport of troops across narrow Messina strah. r ! j It was emphasized here that the assault was not regarded , as the opening of a "second front" but as the continuation of a campaign0 which was"launched in north Africa and proceeded with the conquest of Sicily.' . - ' .- The early collapse of Italy was not anticipated. ' ; On the contrary waa expected that stiff resistance would be encountered, especially from the German forces which have been rushed! into Italy to assist in her. defense.', i r v It was presumed the landings were made in the vicinity of tegio Calabria,"just seven miles possibly in a number of places. Reggio" Calabria, a city of been battered almost daily since San Giovanni eight miles to the farther north of San Giovanni. iThe landings were preceded bardment which knocked out axis railway communications be tween southern and northern Italy and ; reduced axis positions ' on the toe. of the Italian boot to a shambles. ' British and American! warships also had participated in the mighty pre-invasiqn bombardment of the Italian, mainland. , . ;i It was the first time allied soil since the Dieppe faid in August, 1942, when allied forces landed on the coast of Fraiice but later withdrew. j; Invasion of the conUnent came quickly on the heels of the cleanup of the Sicilian campaign 10 and brought to a victorious axis troops either killed, routed i A, special communique, announcing the mainland landings. said the forces "of General Eisenhower continued their advance." British and Canadian troops of the Eighth army, supported by allied sea and. air power 'attacked across the straits of Messina early today and landed on the mainland of Italy." ! Thus, aa in the Sicilian landings; powerful air and sea fleets ' gave protection to the landing By' moving across the strait shore of Sicily, the allied forces had only a few miles of water to i crossvThe strait at its narrowest point at the extreme northeastern corner of Sicily i only a little over two miles wide and can be crossed by a fast boat in about 20 minutes, : - ; . - ' The announcement of the after 7 a. m. (1 a.nx, eastern war .The complete texU : : i ; "Allied forces under the command of General Eisenhower : have continued their advance. British and Canadian troops of the ": Eighth army,4 supported by. allied sea and ah power, attacked across thr strait of Messina early land 5f Italy."- - .. . i (A Mutual broadcasting announcer in Algiers said the land- , ing took place at 4:30 a. m, or 10:3.0 p. m last night, eastern vv&r time. This annocer.said the, landings' Were made opposite h? . town of Messina. Scilla and San Giovanni are the main towr : directly; opposite.) ' ... across tbo strait from Messina ;' , ' 50,000 and ferry terminus, has Sicily fell August 18, along with north and Scilla three miles still - . by days of violent aerial bom- troops had set foot on European campaign, begun at dawn July conclusion" 38 -days later with all " or prisoners, k troops. 1 of . Messina from the eastern landing was issued here shortly ; time.)-' v. " j today snd landed on the main- - . -. .; .; . , .-:y '; J