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PAGE TWO The CUTGOri CTATECMAII, Ccleza, Oregon, Friday -Horning, ZeUahex ID. PS Fifth Army, StprJIajiles; J F (Continued from Page 1) F " reconnaissance ;; pilot. J ohn f Arthur Vasieehekrof Chatham, ,.Ont, who- said toe convoy ex edition to Naples covered a aei Surface- of . 1000 square miles swarming with - an, invasion j (Berlin radio said the landing v occurred in the Salerno gun at .-Amalfi, .20 miles below Maple. and also acknowledged that Ital ic tan troops deserting the axis ban per by Marshal Badoglio's orders had clashed with German forces ' "in various part of Italy. One t ICerman broadcast recorded 7 by : if the Associated Press also said that Italians had X "occupied Urenner g pass vital link between north f jjay, 24 hours before the delayed T announcement of , Italy's ' surren s.der. It was not immediately clear -wneuier taesv xmnin wnc mHitxi or nro-Gcnnu. fs (Italians in Madrid reported ad fdltional allied landings had been iSnade on the island of Sardina, j nd said that Italian troops in i'irt(. htwm Sardinia and the -, French mainland, ' were expecting , i allied planes w maxe ax lean "token landings' at Corsican air fields, which are in Italian pos it session. - ( There was no allied confirms i;tion of reports that allied troops 1sn had landed at Civitavecchia 5 above Rome and . at Leghorn on toe Gulf of Genoa.) , ? but it .was said here that the ,- opposition was no greater than , J.had been anticipated. Some of the .'jHrst allied units ashore collided vwith German defenders, but in an all-day fight established a foot- Vhold in the area of the big Italian 'port. : "" ":" V The crucial period is likely to tome when the first strong enemy counterattack is hurled at the al . lies, as was the case in Sicily. ; The Germans are believed to have . ' 'strong armored and artillery forces L in the area In anticipation of al lied "leap-frogging tactics along ! -the Italian coast.1 T.- In southern Italy, Gen. Sir Ber-,-nard L. Montgomery's Eighth ar- 'my, which included Canadian con ; tingents: e xecuted another suc ' cessful coastal leap early Wednes iay at VXbo Valentia on the gulf' of Eufemia, 3 0 miles north of Pal mi. General Montgomery put his troops on boats and. sent them up 'the coast after finding that de molitions were checking his direct land thrusts.' , .--. The Eighth army already holds 40-mile section of the Italian ; toe after. gaining possession of the trans-peninsular r o a d between -Gioia and Locri, and Is being -steadily reinforced with troops -dispatched from Sicily. More Ger man prisoners have been seized ! in the fighting on that front, the i communique said. 1-A smashing thrust toward Na ples only ten hours 'after an '.nouncement of Italy's surrender . ' threatened seizure of the" huge 'port which adjoins an immense north-south rail network in Italy. A German collapse in the area would trap sizeable enemy forces -trying to stem General Montgom 'Sery in the south. - t Seizure of bomb-shattered Na ples also would give the allies a . greater bridgehead for the land ing of reinforcements in the drive - toward central and southern Italy. 3 Where the- Germans apparently ffcave taken over control of large iaexmenis ox ia -country. There stffl was jio definite in dications whether the Italian army is engagea n toe conflict except 'for possible clashes with th ni- . mans although Berlin broadcasts ueun mere asserted that a new fascist government had been set up in Italy. Marshal Badoetio's reirim ap parently still was in the saddle at Borne, however. The Rome radio was neard broadcasting rin m. - xxxrning the text of Badoglio's an nouncement of unconditional sur render to the allies, and his order iiauan troops to resist should -thX he attacked from any other .quarter meaning Germany. . -r. : (The Italian Stefan! news agen cy in a broadcast recorded by US government monitors Said the Germans- had blown up the exits from the port and industrial re gions of Naples and Genoa. The ' agency also quoted "rumors" that three German armored divisions were moving toward Genoa, and that the British navy was off that ' POrt. -y :.f. (Berlin broadcasts quoted a German military " spokesman as aytng that the new Fascist Gov ernment had countermanded Mar--ahal Badoglio's order to the Italian navy to flee to North Africa.) , . General Clark's new invasion trike apparently functioned fifthly despite opposition. Re ports said that artillery, vehicles, ammunition, food, medecine, and other supplies Were unloaded soon after the first soldiers surged a ahore. -"Detailed Identification ol . bis assault forces in the Naples area was not permitted for fear that it would aid the enemy. - i : , (Secretary of War Stimson, said 14 Washington that some fifth army units were involved in the operation).- - - British Gen. Sir Harold Alex ander, . who commanded Allied ground force through the Tunis ian campaigns, Is directing the op erations of all troops in Italy. lie Is responsible to the Allied Com-rn-nder ia Chief, US Gen. Dwight D. T.lscr.'howeT. who made . the iL.izzzde mc: -cnieat yesterday r Iicly'a urreJ!:r.: 1 f.-"-;;. r .,r der Clark face one of the grimmest fights of the whole war since it is ' generally accepted hem. that large German forces in Italy have been ordered to fight to the death to delay as long as. possible the Allied strides northward toward the heart of Hitler's fortress. " Naples - Is 100 1 miles from - the Adriatic coast on the other side of the peninsula. It is 120 air line miles from Rome, and 370: from the Po river, where the maiiL Ger man fortifications lie. Mountains south of the Po afford an ideal natural delense for, the Germans; the Lombardy plain north of the river would afford the Allies ex cellent aerial bases for attacks on the German homeland. ; i Kon3 Auction Nets $60,000 D (Continued from Page 1) D Young women in the crowd -who readily admitted 1 they could not compete .with bidding which, in most cases, began at $1000 for the off-toe-market stockings, de clared one reason for attending the auction was the hope that they might find out from what source the nylons came. They were dis appointed. Almost every auctioned item got its donor a public an nouncement, but there was silence as to the background of the sturdy and. sheer footwear, Monroe Cheek, who bid a $100 bond purchase for a "chicken sand wich' built and sold by Funster Roy Stenberg, Roth's assistant, announced at the close of the sale that he would "offer up", the pul let which Stenberg wrapped in a long loaf of bread last' night and that Friday lions would eat "chicken on toast on ' Cheek." : Dr. Harry Brown bought a $1000 bond for the privilege of hanging Hitler in effigy. : A doll brought $330 in bond purchases; ; a pair of myrtlewood salt and pepper shakers from the penitentiary $500; .the produce of prize-winning Victory gardens went for $25 and $50 a box, and the addition of a box of assorted hail polish to one such collection roused bidders to offer up to $273. Sheets' were much sought mer chandise, bringing $950 and $1100 a pair (accompanied, of course, by bonds of that value). Richard Scott, 10, pupil at Garfield ; school, was first bond purchaser of the evening, buying a $23 part in his country's con flict, the 11th such purchase he has made from his savings and re ceiving in addition a new stamp book with $3 worth of stamps. Carl Werner, state bond sales special events chairman, appeared on . the , . platform ' with Marion county I WaIInance committee members and introduced Barbara Jean'Duniway of Hillsboro who sang' two western numbers to her own guitar accompaniment. WOODBURN Dean Bishop- rick, manager of the Woodburn bank and. general chairman of the new bond .selling campaign in toe I Woodburn area,' has an nounced the intensive drive is to be put on between September 15 and September 20, as at that time there will be a lull in heavy har vesting- activities. The territory is being organized for a complete house to house canvass, so that all, however busy or tied at home may, have the op portunity to share promptly in raising the' community's quota. . Assisting Bishoprick are Ray Glatt, j farm chairman; Burton wnieford, Woodburn city chair man and .Mrs. Max Cook, Hub bard city chairman. US Plane Crash In Andes Kills 8 BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept 9&P) The war ministry announced to night that a US army transport plane, overdue since Saturday on a flight from Manaos, Brazil, to Call, Colombia, had been found wrecked in-the Andes 'mountains of western Colombia with all its eight occupants dead, - ' ; All victims were members of a US army photographic unit based at Call. Officials here . said their names j. would Deinade public at Washington. Finding ef the eight bodies to day brought to 14 the number of soldiers killed in the Call squad ron this week. On Monday a plane searching for the lost craft crash ed at Iquitos, Peru, killing six. t , Canneries Seek Released Hop. Picker . Completion of hoo-Dickln In some yards is releasing some pick ers for work in the canneries. A spokesman for the canneries' em ployment committee m tdi i it known yesterday that these work-. era would be welcomed, particu larly those who are experienced though work is available at pres ent for all comers. ' Zdzn Lxzzzjy, Uzz 'Ul1. Cpensere4 fcy Carllal rest No. 3, American Ler'.aa Nazis to Build Up Po -Def ens 8 -' C (Continued from Page D C been msed as ecapatton troops were ' being disarmed and rs placed by Geraaa drrlaftena. -Adisptclrto thsr Bern news paper Der Bund said strong Ital ian formations were drawn up within; a few miles of German troops in northern Italy and near Venice. : . " ; Allied -forces which .landed 'on toe Tyrrhenian coastline were re ported in Bern to be moving north ward -with an advance guard of Italian troops. - . . Milan. Turia aaveT ether north'- ' era Italian Industrial cities were ' said te be completely nader Ital- f Ian eontrol, wtth German troops leaving those places. - Clashes 'between ' German rand Italian troops were - reported to have taken place at Genoa, Tor tona,r Certosa and Pa via. - The island of Corsica, in the northern Tyrrhenian sea and pos sible' springboard to an allied in vasion of northern Italy or south ern France, was reported to be in Italian hands although there had been' rumor all morning that the Germans planed an aerial assault on the island.'1 Underlying the wave ef con tradictory reports were clear Indications that Hitler was hastily redfatrtbrnting bis de pleted ferees across the length and breadth ef the continent. f The mounting threats to his se curity x Included the rapidly pro gressing advance of the - American-British invasion forces; the smashing red army gains - in the east; resurgent guerrilla armies throughout the conquered lands; and, in last night's rehearsal in vasion by the British in the chan nel, t the : threat of still another allied thrust from the west. It Is problematical how nuseh of a fight the Germans eoald really put up along the Fo river in face of the maasivo allied power streaming into Italy In spite ef the naxis reported oe iirmlnitiAB 1a ftrhi thr to tho last man. i A Germany's strength in Italy has been estimated at ' about 300,000 men - roughly 18 divisions' -but a "military: commentator in London said only half, that num ber had! been concentrated behind the Po. ; ' Indications that these . forces' were being feverishly reinforced were seen in Madrid dispatches telling of a great column of mili tary traffic flowing into Italy southeastern from Germany and France. ; . . Salem Draftees Come Hdme' To Adair Men of one group arriving ht Camp Adair carry this week from Fort Lewis set down their limited luggage and declared they felt "at home." All were from Salem, sev eral from the most decent select ive service list and some from a group inducted in mid-summer. Pvt. Joseph Felton, who dropped his "judge" title and left his jus tice courtroom here for army service only a short time ago, has been given an assignment with the military police i - Some of the others in the group are Bob Schunke, Lloyd Meek, John Johnson and Bud Coons. Nazis Close Swiss ft French Frontier " LONDON, SepL J.-WVliie Germans closed the French-Swiss frontier today even as Switzer land rushed troop reinforcements to all her borders.1 ' .-v, U; The Germans posted additional troops along the French border and ordered that all persons seek ing to cross must have naxi visas. There was no explanation for the German action but it may have been taken to conceal-troop movements or possible Disturban ces in France.'; -; ? Nation's , Gardens Grow 8,000,000 Tons of Food CHICAGO. Sept. 9 -tfV-Victorv gardens produced 8,000,000 tons of food j this year from 20,000,000 plots, and are expected to boost their ; output next j year from 22, 000,000 plots, secretary of agri culture Wlckard said today. -' In a speech prepared for deliv ery to toe Chicago victorr carden festival in Soldiers Field.- Wickard said, ."the War Food Administra tor. Judge Marvin Jones, has told me that his plans call for a goal of 22,000,000 gardens for next year." " , Meat Council Vietva Chaos Of Industry, Suggests Balance O f Supply With Civilian Need "Never before in the history of the United States nave people been so conscious of meat or the lack of it as, they are today," said R. A. Ward, general manager of -Pacific T7ooI. Growers and member of the livestock and: meat counciL "And at no other lime in history has the livestock and meat industry meant so much to America." : The livestock and meat council Is a national organization com posed of more than' 100 livestock associations, farm organizations, and meat packers Its headquar ters are in caucagq;; J-.'.i,.: "The demand for meat is tre mendous," said Ward. "American consumers could eat 3,000,000,009 more pounds if it .wa available. The allied nations, too, could use our entire production of dressed meats . if. we could supply it. Am erican men and women under arms, in training and fighting some 9,300,000 are eating ap proximately- twice as much ; meat as they did in civilian life. Yet with more animals on the farms and ranches today than ever .be fore in history, there is aa under supply of meat for civilians, and in many areas black market oper ations have prevented our - own armed forces from obtaining ade quate suppll "There is chaos fh the livestock and meat industry today." This confusion- exists in all segments of the Industry, from the livestock producer to the food retailer. The livestock, iproducers -do not want government subsidies The retail ers do not want ceilings. They be lieve in the age-old principle of supply and demand, with proper control of the three segments of demand the US armed : forces. civilians, and lend-lease, as set forth Lin jthe meat management plan sponsored by the livestock and meat counciL The meat man agement 'plan . was submitted to the government some months ago. The government accepted the plan in part in creating the war meat board." Ward said that retention of some of the controls exercised by the government over the livestock and meat industry hampered the sincere efforts of toe board fat lit erally administering the meat management plan. He pointed out that some might raise the ques tion: "Why not raise more live stock?' His answer to this was that it takes two to three years to "build" a steer, and from 10 to 12 months to grow a hog. - And the meat situation is critical now! And where would farmers get the feed? he asked. "The meat management plan is simple" Ward explained. "It re solves itself into seeing that the total meat demand is always bal anced; wimlhe total supply. This balance must be constantly main tained; even by a day-to-day bal ance. In order that our own armed forces are adequately sup plied from the available supply of meat, consumers -ere asked to ad- Just their meat purchases. "If our; armed forces need a cer tain kind of meaV consumer points on this cut are raised. Consumers, ever alert to get the most for their 19 points weekly, abstain "from buying this cut, thus making it available for the army at what ever price toe government de sired to maintain. - If there-is, a heavy run of a certain kind of meat and the government at the time does not need it, the ration points on this cut' or kind are low ered, and consumers hasten to buy tbiscut or kind at the retailers' stores. "The "demand for meat for dur armed' forces can be controlled by the government's informing con sumers, i through rationing, how much they 'need to reduce con sumption of each kind of meat In order to -release the meat needed for the military. Literal adher ence to cocmoner rationing prin ciples means that the available Tonlte and Satarday ' SCALFa TOV-MY GO Mas ; I .... I 1 ,;...;' ' News Csrtaen " supply of meat, will be fairly ap- portioned to our armed, forces, civilians, and .lend-lease." Allied Planes Demolish Lac G Continued from Page 1) G Markham valley airfield of lad- ran. X- .- -Allied .warships ventured- once more Into, narrow waters between New Guinea and New Britain to shell the Huon Peninsula coastal area " around Finschhaf en. War ships previously had entered these waters .to escort the Australians in their landings northeast of Laa Septa. Finschhaf en Is 00 miles above Lae. - " , - - . - At Lae "our ground advance continues," today's communique said. : rX-V'V -:? " "Our northeastern (Australian) forces at the Busu river are, within two miles by air of the Mala hang airfield '.at Ie.i:-p.jA(,;;fl. - "Artillery is being brought up to develop the, attack positions. The terrain difficulties of the advance through jungle and swamp are great." ::Kv:'H'-::,: 4 v Allied paratrooper and : Aus tralian reinforcernents who have been landing since Sept 5 in the Markham valley behind Lae are sending forward advance elements. "They: have passed through Munum and Naraxapor , and are approaching " the . main western bastion of 'the enemy's prepared positions at Heatns Plantation, headquarters said. Earlier in the week Heaths plantation defenses virtually were demolished by heavy ' Allied alr attack. Since the new operations were sprung on Lae there has been no mention of any heavy Japanese resistance. Nejv Ruling to Encourage First Aid Every qualified Red Cross in structor in first aid must conduct at least one class during 1943 in order v to retain : the- classification for 1944, according to a new rul ing Just issued from national Red Cross headquarters, Mrs. Gordon Black, chairman of the . first aid committee for Marion county Red Cross chapter, revealed Thursday. Marion county has 80 qualified instructors, a . number, of ; whom have tought no class this year. Mrs. Black: pointed , out Conse quently the first aid. committee ia interested in securing addi tional, classrooms., for use of such Instructors and . their pupils. The first aid group will retain its regular classroom, number 303 In the school office building, where small classes are to be conducted. Some of the new quarters 'should be larger, Mrs. Black suggested yesterday. X Mrs. Ralph Barnes has accepted the speakers, bureau assignment for the committee and expects to have available suggestions as to speakers for organizations inter ested Jn hearing persons conver sant with first aid work. - i i:o::f o? a siiov! ..... i.ii- t 1 1 o V i VL fay DAINTEIl' nisiAHD CAHLSOM trrj::o dyi:iotc:j ma?.ta ccc:.itii -CC'A?,ICN ) ' TTlth XUchsrd Arlen M ONfinOIJEFROlIT By nATIX CHIIJD3" - A nasi from Berlin, could he have borrowed the-wings of the late JUunented Flying Yorkshire man "and 1 have .landed on i the Marion county -courthouse lawn last nijht would have been sura that the US standard of currency was drop-in g like the old German mark.' . t ., " ' , , V Otherwise, how could any wom an laughingly egg on her husband to bid S49C0 for an electric broil er -Jf; worth at toe most, wnen such things could be bought on the open market, a - cefling price of 223.4 or $2X98? : . ' Twelve rhundred dollars for a myrtlewood salad bowll Twenty eight hundred and $3100 for. ny lon, stockings! One thousand dollars for the pleasure ' of hanging Hitler Vm effigy . ah. Maybe here the German could : understand that value was received.' - V And, of course, that was' just what all toepurchasera at . the Thursday night auction sale were doing. They were hanging a lit tle, mustached dictator in public The Deutsch visitor might have been interested,. to know that a box of peaches purchased for 3150 (that's what It sounded like, al though we. know that the. buyer really, was buying a war bond of that : face value and that the peaches were thrown in) any how, those peaches went to .' the USO for enjoyment of enlisted men. .The same buyer, investing in some equally expensive cigar- ettesr got a. good deal of - fun passmg them out among the uni formed men in the crowd at the auction. Me? 2 What did he give me? Cabbage; rutabaga, corn, to matoes, potatoes, carrots. t 11 City Falls to Reds B (Continued from Page 1) B 1 while, told of : a " ' new Russian threat in the south. It said soviet troops made landings : along . the Sea of Azov coast south of Sta- lino, which would bo in the vi cinity of MariupoL The . Germans said the beachhead waa "sealed off and the Russians were "fac ing annihilation." Even without! the landings,7 the soviet ' troops - nave driven . 80 miles In two days as nazl resist-' ance appeared to be collapsing in this? sector. Petrovka, 30 miles southwest of Stalino and 44 miles northwest of Mariupol, was taken yesterday, the soviet communique said, and a total of 180 populated places were captured in advances up to 10 miles. A BBBCB broadcast reported Russian patrols 31 miles from Pavlograd; which is 40 miles east of Dnieperopetrovsk. These advances in south Russia mean increasing peril for the Ger man garrisons, in the Crimea. With the capture of Bakhmach and. Nedrygaflov, the Soviets- were moving toward Priluki, 80 miles east of Kiev, and Nezhin ia-79 miles from this , Makor base. A general soviet advance of six miles took 80 hamlets In this area, the communique' said. ; Moving on Bryansk from the north and south, the. red army captured 40 villages. '; fc-'ty.' SALEM'S LCADSN3 THSATfiS r FSATU 6.. and Wen It Carrie KeyRa WVfiWmmmmm' . . ftnokoxRaseaseassssMsasssssasoaoxosj 7 . -.- V 1 11 lilt it C ,i it r, , , nut f i t i I I I i I I yiitffit. i Local Gardens Best in State A (Continued from Page 1) A to be as gloomy as it had been painted ' by political prognostica-tors.-' ; ! : ' . - r Chairman Cole mentioned that in many of toe. divisions the dif ference, In Judging scores among three or more best gardens was not more than three or four points. The ; winners, p r i x e s in- war stamps except for a few in mer chandise and honors. weret ' Section V class 1: First, Mrs. 'Jean J CJhamberlain, $15; .The Statesman;, second, Mrs; . Gladys Gibbons, $10, .The Statesman., Section, 1, class 2: First, Tf W. Riff e, ; $15, ' Jary Florist; second, Herbert Kronser, $10, Jary Florist Section 2, class I: First, Roy Filert, $13, associated seed deal ers; second. A.: W. Metzger, $10, Ernest Iufer. StcUtm 2, class 2: First, Lee Acheson, $15, Ladd & Bush bank; second, HJ L. Gillette, Sears, Roe- buck. . " fG;M:,..W ' Section ; 3, class 1: First John Brayn $15,' associated seed' dealers, Men's Garden club and Ladd & Bush bank? second,-; William R. Stanard, $10, State Street grocery. Section k 8, class 2: First 'Silas Gaiser, $13, Clough-Barrick com pany; second, , Mrs. George - F. zwicker,$io, ; MQIer Mercantile company. ! Section , 4, 4 class 1: First Val Keznlcsek, paint R. L. Elfstrom; second, Mrs. H. E. Mc Wain, $10, w enney company, Section 4. class 2: First ; Mrs. Douglas. McKay , $15, associated seed dealers; second, $10 merchan cuse, Montgomery Ward. Nolan Vogan, 21, Drowns in River ; t State police wm continue search today to? the body of Nolan Vo gan, 2L who was drowned in the S Last Times Today WIGHT PLANE f- FROM iCHUNGKING', 'I Robert Preston - Ellen Drew - . Otto Kroger -CO-FEATURE ' 'j The Undying: Monster James v Heather Ellison . -' Angel : Starts Saturday HWAfLOAT! " Jt :i rnik .n lii'lHHKi' I J 4 -Co-FeatuTe- . , YouH gasp at the shiv ers and shocks . . . watching SCREAM IN THE STADTS TODAY 2 FEATURES ! 1 - ; i N ! ij it I Mil Hiverdale section cf the Willam ette river at' proximately 4:33 yesterday afternoon, ' ' Vogan, who had been employed ' on the river for the last month and whose car . bears California license plates,' fell from the stern of Philip Tuors towboat and was struck on the head by a propellor blade, coming to the surface once after that Tuor said an effort was made to rescue the youth. II r T liUi ton.u A' !IAT.45e CVH ZZt (lad. 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