The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, September 10, 1943, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text:TfT 'ft:- vy t - V. ! Sat. Sunrise 6 :!! Weather on pa; 5) 'U CD CCD r. PCUND2D IC31 I ! i " rr.r. ?nhr7A, I V ( ! V 1 11. v t I'D. I 1 I ' 1 I " "II " 1 K 1 ....... J ; I .! I. II "! . T ) . 1 A 1 I I i .... S I ,i. t - -' I I . 8 f t 1 f i I I ; The news of the surrender of Italy should give such an impetus to the Third War Loan campaign that " Marion county should pur chase its quota of near $5 million, Oregon its quota of $104 million, and the United States the full al lotment of $15 billion with a whoop and hurrah! The, soldiers are doing their part. Now let the civilians do theirs. Of all the burdens of war that of investing money in securities of the strongest nation' on earth at interest rates comfortably above prevailing savings bank rates is the very lightest. In fact it is no burden at all. Instead, it's a priv ilege. 1 If we were thoroughly fright ened, If the Japs were offshore blowing up our ships, sending their airplanes over our cities and forests; if the Germans were at Dakar and massing planes and ships for a crossing to Natal, ; if the fifth column had gotten con trol of Peru or Colombia and were poised to capture or destroy the Panama canal, then it Is conceiv able that out of fear money even the family jewels and wedding rings would be poured by the peo ple into the nation's coffers" Victory, not imminence of de feat, excites different emotions. The moving feeling now should be that of pressing home our advan tage, cashing in on our victory, backing 'our government and Our army with our wealth so we can administer - the final ,. crushing blows on Hitler - and on Japan. We should buy bonds with en thusiasm, in the flush of success, and with eager determination to clinch the initial success with a knock-out blow to the remaining partners of the axis. This is a peoples' war, to pre ; serve the peoples rights and li berties. It must be supported by the people by all the people, for all have a stake in the victory Every citizen should have a stake in his government's securities, a financial investment to help make his own future secure, a bond to tatisty hfe own conscience as proof aponded when his country called called a muster of dollars. - ; Soldiers and . sailors under the flag of the United States have en dured the most severe physical hardships possible, in all climates, under the most difficult conditions f living. For us to fail to make our goal fh'thif Third; War Loan campaignwould be' to Jet them down. It becomes therefore the personal responsibility of EVERY citizen of Oregon and of the Unit ed States to purchase securities f mir pfivernment to the extent of his ability. t , ' " Burger Would Organize $1000 Club - The young- woman frem war bond sales headquarters poshed pen the door which bore wore 'Barnes and twa "service stars, bat found the offices momen tarily deserted. Ten minutes Liter 'she faund the purchaser of the 11199 Invasion bond she was attempting to deliver downstairs In the office f an other dentist delivering' a sales taJk'for the "I 1909 Bond Club"; be .was trying to organise 'among members of his profes sion. Dr. Fred W. Burger, whose eldest son. Dr. Paul E. 'Burger, la stationed at Camp White, and Vkhose other partner. Dr. Ben jamin F. Found. Is with the army at Sawtelle, Califs fig ores the .bond he bought the first day f the third war loan Is a good Investment from two : standpoints. The $759 Invested this year will be worth $1099 In September, 195$, and his pur chase mar . encourage others able to invest like sums. Salem's Victory Gardens Best in State, Says Judge If there had been a statewide inter-community Victory garden contest . in Oregon, . based upon number of gardens in relation to population, . their general excel lence and productivity, Salem would have won the grand prize. That was the verdict of . Charles Cole, chairman of the judging committee in the Salem Men's Garden. club-The Oregon States man Victory garden contest, voiced at the' club's meeting Thursday. nigM at which prizes were presented to the 16 winners. Cole, who gets around the state in connection .with .his duties in the state department of agricul ture, ; said - there were- more and better Victory .gardens in Saleta than in any other city hvthe state. Samples of the various, winners produce were on display and were cJLciissed, with some comment n methods of cultivation, Russell rrr.it, club president, said ecaatest tr'j gardens amounted altogether ts jcrr.ewfcat in excess of 15 cr3, c r ".r a fraction cf the totelirra ti Vl.f:ry fardens this yev? In i.t:,tty Tnrj teah Bre Rehearsal Govern Channel With Umbrella Naval. Landing Craft Fill Dover Straits in Largest Boldest Exercise in 1 By GLADWIN HILL , , LONDON," Sept. 9-(JF)-In. crashing synchronization with the new allied landings in Italy, record fleets of American and Brit ish aircraft battered nazi ports and airfields in northern France today and in 'day long operations also formed an umbrella for naval and landing craf t that filled the straits of Dover in an un precedented dress rehearsal for a cross-channel invasion. Under cover of the mightiest daylight fleet ever lofted from the British feles, combined operations launched naval vessels, land ing barges and all other maner of invasion craft in the biggest Allied Planes Demolish Jap Lae Defenses ;By VERN HAUGLAND AULIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC; Fri day, "Sep t , ? lC-i-Austxaan troops hav 'closed i to within: two miles of the Malahang airdrome at Lae,; New Guinea,! and the Jap anese defenses of Lae have been redflced, "to practical ruin by more than 500 tons of bombs drop ped by allied planes in less than a week. ' -. ;. L , S Softening up the enemy air and shipping bases for ! capture by al lied' forces "advancing virtually unopposed from both the northeast and ( northwest through difficult jungle terrain, allied Liberators and Mitchells have demolished en emy artillery, destroyed or dis- rupted installations and ; heavily punished the . Japanese garrison, headquarters said today. New big guns" are ' being rolled forward to add their fire power in devastating ' the isolated enemy garrison. - The Malahang airdrome is on the eastern outskirts of Lae. To the northwest, - allied J. troops which parachuted into the Markham val ley Sunday and seized an airstrip 20 miles from Lae now are ap proaching fortified 'Japanese posi tions only eight miles from the town. - These advances within the past 48 hours brought nearer the final assault phase of j Gen. Douglas MacArthur's offensive against a trapped enemy army estimated at 20,000 in the Lae-Salamaua sec tor, j ' - Every hour of the day in which weather permits, big air trans ports are flying across the Owen Stanley mountains to land men and I equipment on the captured (Turn to Page 2-7-Story G) Salem. Be expressed conviction that the contest entrants had been inspired by the spirit of competi tion to cultivate their gardens bet ter than they might have other wise, and that their example also persuaded non-contestants to tend their gardens more faithfully. Aft er this year's experience, there should be less need next year for a Victory garden promotion, .he added. . - An analysis of experience ' in growing various types cf toma toes conducted by James McGil christ, mentioned - particularly , a little-known variety of early to mato 'which proved to be a heavy producer. J -" ". , Charles "A. Sprague, publisher of The Statesman, before present ing the awards explained that this newspaper had participated In promoting the contest in the be lief that food production was to be the greatest civilian "chore" and added that city dwellers bad done so well with Victory gardens that the food picture failed . (Turn to T&z 2 Story A) IS PAGZS in c? n "Mm and boldest exercises of the kind ever held.' . A Bight eommantaae, issued Jointly by the air ministry and U8 army headquarters sum marising the day's eperatiens against the continent, the American planes flew a record n amber ef more than 1000 sor ties te hit multiple targets. In cluding the Paris area where, it was announced Flying Fart- ; reases dawned 15 enemy ; fight- Subsequently an; air ministry communique announced that RAF medium ' and light bombers, had attacked five'airfields in France and Belgium and shot down one of the few enemy fighters encoun tered. - s . Two fighters lost on these op erations raised to ten the announ ced total of Allied losses for the day Two heavy bombers, three medium bombers and five, fight ers. ' In their record operations, the American raiders blasted targets in nine areas of northern France. Chief target of the Fortresses in the Paris area was an airplane engine factory. Among : Nazi air fields hitby the Americans were those at- Lille-Vendeville, Beau-vais-Lille and Vitry-E atrosion show mock . today;', perhaps re--ality very soon. It was accompan ied by. far-flung operations whose reverberations . rocked buildings six miles inland in England, - So tremendeos was the muscle-flexing ' demonstration, carried a 1 under the noses . ef . Nasi eestal defenses,' that many British costal dwellers were con vinced the i invasion of France was actaally under way. Bat terse official summary said only: "Full-scale amphibious ' exer cises were . . . most sneeessf uL Valuable lessons were learned." And as remarkable as the man euvers was the almost utter ab sence of resistance by the dwin dling German air force to the aerial coastal onslaught- Allied bombers, many unescorted, droned through the skies unopposed, not one falling to Nazi air units charg ed with defending the . western bastion of Hitler's Europe. - 3 Battleships Escape Italy LONDON, Friday, Sept. 10-() The London Daily Mail said today that Italy's most powerful war ships three 35,000 ton battle ships,, the Lirio, Vittorio Veneto and Tmpero had escaped with a fleet of cruisers and destroyers from La Spezia and were -steaming for allied ports. Other London morning newspa pers carried the same report, quoting the Rome radio. . ' - The Mail's account of the es cape said there were indications that British, warships were pro viding - protection .as . the Italian ships steamed swiftly down the west Italian coast. Duce Said in Allied Hand LONDON,- Friday, Sept. Is. (AVA neuter dispatch from Stockholm Quoted the Italian newspaper Corriere Delia Sera as saying that Benito MasscIIjU, " deposed fascist dace, had alrea dy been delivered ,t the allies and transported to North Af rica.". " . ' .- ' History Salexn. Orecnx, Raid Falls; To Reds .... .. . : ..... . -., .r I " ' Vise Squeezes On BryanslL in .Russian Drive . . By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Sept. MHThe troops of Gen. Constantine Rok ossovskys central front armies stormed Bakhmach today on the way to Kiev, ancient- capital of the Ukraine The Russians captured this im portant railway point after an ad vance of 18 miles southwest from Konotop, which fell September 6r erossing the Seim river and out flanking Bakhmach by taking Bor. zna, 18 miles. to the northwest The entry into Bakhmach put the Red army 113 miles northeast of Kiev on the direct Kursk-Kiev railway , but they had already pushed an advance guard within 80 miles of Kiev through populat ed points along the sides of the railway. ' By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Friday, Sept 10-vT) Russian armies have stormed into Bakhmach, key - railroad junction on the road to Kiev, squeezed a menacing vise on 'Bryansk and dashed to within 80 miles of1 the Dnieper river in jt swift advance from the" liberated Donets basin in , the . south,. Moscow ' reported today. . More, than 300 towns and vil lages were captured and more than 4100 Germans were killed in the day's victories that saw the soviet -armies push into the town of Nedrigailov, 20 miles east of Romni, and capture Lyudinovo, 45 miles north of Bryansk, r The Moscow communique, re corded here by the soviet moni tor, told of soviet aircraft cease lessly pounding the German re treat road, destroying 18 locomo tives which hauled back 'German troops and , material, t while 80 trucks and several railway bridges were pounded from the air. A German radio report, mean- (Turn to Page 2 Story B) LaytonAsks For New Trial DALLAS, Sept 9. (Special Attorn eys for Richard H. Laytoii, former Monmouth police chief con victed of the slaying of 17-year-old Ruth Hilderbrand, . today, a month before date set for his ex ecution, filed a motion for a new trial. , ; . .. Roy R. Hewitt v Salem, and Harry G. Hoy, Portland, attorneys for the condemed man, based their motion on three premises: I The failure of the court to grant change of venue prevented a fair trial, ; they allege. Evidence was . insufficient to justify the verdict, is a claim, in asmuch as there was "total ab sence of evidence to corroborate" the defendant's confession. - There were, reputedly, errors in law during the trial in the ad mission of two confessions, admis sion of articles of clothing and a blanket allegedly ,. not ' properly identified, admission of an .unused bus ticket and denial of defen dant's two motions for a mistrial during appearance of the court stenographer as a state witness. Circuit Judxe Arlie G. Walker was expected to schedule a hear ing on the request for next week, when District Attorney. Bruce Tpaulding returns from San Fran cisco. OPA Adds riachines To Price Control list OPA has added used hay load ers, aide delivery rakes and ma nure spreaders to the list of farm machinery and equipment under price control when sold by any one, - including farmers and auc tioneers. ". Maximum' prices for such sales had already been esf-t'iihecj for used combines, corn binders, corn pickers, farm tractors and hay balers. AH farm equipment new or used, when sold by -dealers Is subject, to price ceilings. - Gity Friday llors!ncj September 10. In Air Battle LT. JOHN G. WIN ANT, Jr. ' ' ' lj , -f - j Lt.' Winant I Tells Allied Air Strerigth By ROBERT N. STURDEVANT AT A US BOMBER BASE IN ENGLARND, Sept M-TTafiic over northern France today looked like Times Square at its wildest . Virtually aky-darkening forma tions of American Flying Fortres ses, supported by clouds of Thun derbolts, gave a demonstration of their ., crushing'' air superiority. " Li John G- Winant jr son of the . American.; ambassador, to Great '- Britain, who : piloted ' the fort "Tech Supply" in a raid on Beaumont said "There were mil lions of German fighters! up there today but the 'American P47s' (Thunderbolts) took care of them. I saw some flak off the right wing, but only got one hole. That is a record for my ship." ' ' - Sgt Basil Magineau of Dear born, Mich a waist-gunner, said he had nothing to do so he had a real opportunity - to observe : the bombing at Lille-Vendeville. "I personally think that field will never be used by enemy fight ers again,"- he commented. . - Praise for the Thunderbolts came from Tech. Sgt Warren D. Thomas of Pendleton, Ore., radio operator on the "Fritz Blitz," who said "Even if the Germans broke through. Thunderbolts were right on them before they made a pass." His formation attacked Beaumont Six More Jap Subs Sunk - WASHINGTON, Sept Pressing their campaign to wreck J a p a n's s e a i communications. United States submarines have de stroyed six more enemy merchant vessels and damaged four others, the navy' disclosed today. -. The vessels sunk were listed in a communique as one small and two' large-freighters, one medium tanker and one large and one me dium cargo ship. Damaged were one large and two small cargo carriers and a medium sized freighter. - The latest report raised to 223 the number of enemy ships of all types' which have been reported sunk by American submarines and to 319 the total of those sunk or damaged. t. . 'American undersea raiders, which often operate in waters im mediately adjacent to the Japan ese home islands, are carry ing the main force of the attack on enemy shipping.. Secretary Knox dis closed earlier this week that they had been chiefly instrumental In allied destruction cf one-Uurd f Japan's cargo and transport ships. ' The rate of destruction by sub marines is increasing, Knox said, and the belief here is that if it can be further increased with the dispatch cf additions! new sub marines to the western Pacific and China sea areas the Jaante will find it Increct; !y d;;:::ci.:t tr.l in seme cases kn?ot;L!e tjms.in tr.Li f-clr more dls'.-r.t r.-.:i:i;ry ouJ -; Is. They i' : f;ca r"ri ouj cbstacles in C" te natural wcrl'.'i tv.ey ccturci Li is 1 DuUh Eart Indies.. IS 13 L :.u Lj'Li) . UjGJi .' a nrrr;' : i I I I i Nazis'' To: Po Line: Fight to Last ' Man at North ; , ; River Decided on . By EDWARD D. BALL I LONDON, Sept. Mff)-Adoll Hitler, trapped In the center of his. own wavering European for tress, ;was reported to have called a hurried war conference today at which it was decided to reinforce the Po river, line in Italy' and, fight there to the last man."." , .' J Apparently determined to make Italy a bloody battlefield despite her capitulation Germany, moved swiftly to seize important' com munication centers and strategic points to offset gains already made by allied landing forces and ap peals : to : Italian forces to ' turn against their former allies. . Berlin anonnced that Italian treeps .had . eeevpled the vital Brenner pass, and with aa naoncement that seme key com munications were held by Ital ians "loyal to the axis" Intimated that the paas itself might be in , friendly hands. Civilian railway traffic between the two coan trles was halted by the Germans. Germany also . swung quickly into action: across the Adriatic, occupying the ..Dalmation area of Yugoslavia's -southwesterSi, coast In an attempt to block any allied in vasion of the Balkans through that gateway. The seizure, the broad cast said, was carried out with the aid of Croat. puppets. , Other , German broadcasts ac knowledged that Italian troops al ready had turned against the Ger mans in some parts of Italy, but claimed that the Italian internal situation was generally under Ger man Control. . . Keporta from the Balkans said ' that Italian divisions which have (Turn to Page 2 Story C) " Jr. Red Cross Heads to Meet Here Sept. 14 Junior Red Cross directors from six Oregon counties, approximate ly 40 in number, will meet in Sa lem September 14 .for their re gional . conference with Dr. Earl K. Peckhaxn, Pacific area direc tor from San Francisco, and Mrs. Alice Maxwell, Oregon field rep resentative from Portland. , Executive secretaries of the six counties will hold their own con ference informally at" a luncheon that same day. Benton, Linn, Lane, Polk, Lin coln and Marion counties are to be , represented at the sessions, which i will ; be held in chamber of commerce rooms. - Mrs.; Carmelite Weddle, Marion county ; Junior Red Crdss chair man, and her volunteer assistant Mrs. P. D. Quisenberry, ' are in charge - of . the' arrangements lo cally. Seversky Urges Bigger Planes 1 ' BALTIMORE, Sept J.-Ma-Jor Alexander; P." De Seversky, hailing Italy's capitulation as va "victory through airpower for the allies; believes 3CC3 super-planes larger- than the 70-ton Martin Mars flying boat - can turn the same trick against Japan. - Germany, he believes, can be blasted out of the war by the aer ial route in less than a year. ' -""' "Man for man and gun for "gun we probably can defeat the Jap anese in the kind of warfare in which' they are proficient to which they are used, on land and on the sea. Tut why waste, the lives and the lir.ie when Japan prcbably could be defeated ty .2000 planes, of the proper 'size and design." 'On the' other harfd, it could t&kt IC3, CC3 little planes to do the Job." f,? :-;.The giant.' planes' needed to 'de feat Jap-aa ; are": ."something," ' we don't have but could have had," continued :;"the noted advocate of ccrial ofienrive as a major mili- LIU Build Up riice Ze Allied! Iimx JXeenf orcements Pour Into Inyasion Bridgehead; ;Operations Said Satisfactory -"i - . - By EDWARD KENNEDY - - AIjLIED. HEADQUARTERS . IN , NORTH AFRICA, Sept. MP) Strong American and British forces under US L't Gen. Mark W. Clark hammered out a bridgehead near Naples today in a dawn landing that overpowered a number of stoutly resisting German troops embittered by Italy's unconditional surrender. : Allied reinforcements were reported tonight still streaming ashore. . - . - - , . . f Operations are proceeding satisfactorily,'? said an allied com-' munique of this daring stroke one-third of the way up the Ital- ian peninsula'. . " i. - - The troops led by Clark, herd of the submarine mission to Storni Quits Foreign Of f ice In Argentina ! By CHARLES GUPTTLL BUENOS AIRES, Sept 9 Segundo R. Storni, retired vice admiral : who was a . pro-demo cratic member of Pedro Ramirez' government ' resigned as foreign minister tonight following dlsclos ure of a sensational exchange : of letters ' with Secretary HulL Withdrawal of the bluff od of ficer came as the-Arg?rlne press, profiting by government" author i- zatfon to comment on the diplo matic' incident generally criticiz ed the - foreign minister for hav ing placed Argentina in a position to ! receive " a' public admonition from the United States govern ment - It came with rejection of a bid fori US lease-lend aid for Argen tina, the only American nation which still maintains relations with the axis. .; . The resignation was accepted. It was- announced' in Washing ton Tuesday night that Secretary Hull had rejected the bid of the government i of President : Pedro Ramirez for lend-lease aid on the ground, that Argentina has failed to do its share in protecting the western hemisphere from, aggres sion. ; y Hull based . his actions on the failure - of the Argentine govern ment to fulfill its commitments to break . relations with ' the axis and sever financial and commer cial j dealings with axis countries. British Said Landing On Northwest Italy Coast MADRID, Friday, Sept 10.-jp) -Unconfirmed r e p o r ts reaching here ' from Switzerland today said that; British troops under the pro tection of US naval forces, had landed at. La Spezia on the Ital ian northwest coast. , . (La Speziar about 75 miles southeast of Genoa,; is the site of an important Italian naval Jbase. There was no confirmation 'from any! allied source of the reported landings there.) War Bond Auction Gets $6 00 00 as An auction .which netted sales of fSO.CCO worth of war bonds and literally thousands of enthusiastic congratulations for Its Salem Lions club sponsors last night brought the total of invasion bond sales announced in Marion 'county for the first day of the third war loan campaign to 3S3,CC3 - - This IVt pet cent of the county's quota- represented efforts of hun dreds of workers over a period of csveral days, J. J. Card, county war, finance committee chairman said, at the same time announcing addition of Adam F. Lcfor to that committee as publicity and pro motion director, '' .-NTeial cf auction' sales had reached $53,43fr 'when tl.e 10 o'clock deadline, was reached and the., -last- cf. .the,:57.-donated , items, a suit " of men's ' clothing, had crossed the block for $5700 (face value of , the bonds purchased) , But, j gathered around supper ta bles ! in a - downtown restaurant Izisr, merr:bers cf the Lions club fcuni tl:t $73 worth cf tends tad ITa. H3 ; ) If - ( i power Suiiii esisttsmiee north Africa, that paved the way i IOT UK lUCCCmut a IM Invneinn there last November, "are in con tact with German forces and pri- sonera have been taken,! the bul letin , said. "The disembarkation of troops with their guns and ve hicles is proceeding according to plan. ' (Berlin said the landing was in Salerno gulf, and broadcast a re port from the international infor mation bureau that German planes attacking landing barges, and warships had sunk one .allied cruiser There was no ' allied con- firmation of this nazi prapaganda agency report.-i',.5 ; , (A Swiss telegraphic 'a-rency dla-'r batch from Chiasso- on t!. Italian . Genoa was sharply resisting Ger man troops, who were said to have occupied the entire , city. ; Other . reports said German - divisions were advancing toward all the principal posts on the Ligurian; sea. above Naples as a precaution against more allied landings.) Before ' the troops struck the ' shore near Naples three waves cf Flying Fortresses had destroyed the German military nerve center at Frascatl. 12 miles outside Rome.. . in a neat culmination of events ' that has staggered the axis both politically and militarily. occurred six- hours before yester- rTav'a annminronam a 4 Via Ytehlfnn surrender. Nearly every building in the resort city, famous .for its wine, had been occupied by Ger man authorities. These were lev-, elled by the big avenging Ameri can Eagles, official reports said. American Liberators from the middle east also dumped 10 tons; of explosives on the Foggia ex panse of airdromes less than 100 miles east of " Naples to facilitate uie uijt wnpoiDioui operauon. , The landing occurred a few mo ments after 4 ajn. . (4 p jbl Wed nesday, PWT), under cover of a powerful barrage laid down by the American and British navies. This- terrific rain of explosives smashed wooded hills overhang ing the invasion coast and left great columns . of smoke as the allied shock troops plunged ashore to the Italian no-man's land. An idea of the size of the allied AMa t r mm m (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Drive, Opens been sold "on the outside" at the program and they thereupon pro- . cceded to sell among themselves another item for $1CC3. That item, the finest turkey in George Rhoten's flock, was the second Thanksgiving fowl to bring :, a price that the OPA has prem- ; ised to overlook as it. checks - cn ; ceilings. ' .; ' .;' . - From, the auction platform, Dan Roth,' Albany auctioneer and Lions . club member, had sold for ' f 12C3 a turkey donated by TJicten and : Speerstra (lawyers who said bar association rulings and their own , good taste forbade their offering free divorce service even in inter ests cf invasion bond sales). . ; -Highest price' of : the evening penorrnance was uiai paia ior me mana'suit'.--given - by Bishop's, which went to Ed Viesko. An electric broiler . troi-:T.t a $43C0 bond purchase. ' Ruth Drager bought 31C3 vv-"; of bonds to get apair cf v.y . hosiery, cne cf f:ur ilr ' ' ". (Turn to rcz? 7 ' )