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Newspaper Page TextUU'Lh U Ll'vb ,t7Q IV -L)Gl;;L; L,L-;;;:;C:r i ' ' 1 ii i i "'cEl. ' 1 1 111 "- " '. " 1 ' i i ... i ... i L i O Q ill RiLllxJ. Tues, sunset- 7x25 (Weather on Page 9) V -- TO IMP - -I- - 4fV t -' M - -- Today the national congress re assembles after a summer recess. It will be the 'continuation of a most important war-time session, which will have to handle many vital public questions. Members of -Oregon's congressional delegation were home for the season, ming ling with constituents holding con ferences, . getting about the state, -and making speeches. ' While they were kept 'very busy in their stay here, without doubt they return to Washington and their duties in ; the capitol ' greatly : refreshed from their vacations, in this de lightful summerland. .., Their r constituents ' too were happy to see and greet them, and toet from them their reports on the never-ending ."battle of Wash ington, which now is virtually the capital of the world. i . i I The great issues before the con gress involve the organization of our economy., and manpower for the effective prosecution of the war, the direction of -political of-. fensives to unite the peoples of the. world, behind' the conception of free government," and the; clarifi cation of our own policies with re spect to post-war affairs, domestic and foreign.''".'' . ; 'It was disappointing that the retunnnc . members of - our con gressional delegation did not dis cuss i these, greater issues1- with snore boldness. For the most part they ignored these questions. The soeeches that were made were nearly all Jeremiads against the administration. Senator McNary alone, in an informal talk before his neighbors kt a 'Farmer union meeting, discussed rather frankly the post-war outlook. - I make this ; comment not so much . by the way of criti&im as regret. For the avenue of express ion of public opinion on these great miestions lies s through 5 the con gress. We want to know what our eenators -and . congressmen are thinking a these issues; and they have a responsibility of leadership in the field of national policy. : ' - Perhaps" our : people have given cur. senators and congressmen a false (continued on editorial page) Fascist : Ruleii f illiMussol Proclaimed ; y WIIXJAM SMITH WHITE , IX)NDON, Tuesday, Sept.. 14.- JTrr-The ' Berlin radio said early today that a 'fastest national gov ernment -had been founded in the name of Benito Mussolini and now was under Mussolini's direct com mand.' - - . This, announcement served as a climax to a day-long series .of re citations yesterday . on the "serio , coatic . thriller TThe rescue and liberation of Benito Mussolini" which was told, re-told and. hea vily embroidered by the German radio. - ''7 - -. T, .7 ' The station - had shifted with delight to this subject after weeks fjabered explanations oCnazi defeats in Tunisia, Russia, Sicily and- Italy. r, , ; - The-Berlin-radio yesterday said Mussolini ' had been. secure-, since Sunday in a "big city," which was not identified, but might be" Ber-lin-. The broadcast said that Mus Bolini, "By the orders of Marshal .Badoglio, had been refused news papers - and .-other - news sources' and, after sleeping uninterrupt edly for many hours, began to brush up on the news today. , ; ; "The liberators took II Duce io the nearest German airfield, it (Turn to Page 2 Story G) , ' Cost of Living to Drop 2,3 Percent, Says Bowles ? WASHINGTON, Sept lS-V?) A new effort by4he office of price administration ; to cut down the nation's It r o ee r y bill" was an nounced tonight, along with a re port saying that the cost of city living, has been whittled down of 1 per cent for the third straight monthly decline. ; . In a "progress report on his 'reorganization of OPA, General Manager Chester Bowles an nounced also the abolition - ef OPA's oft-criticized legal depart . xnent and the launching of a new compliance program whA lbans "snooping and coercion."? :n ; t A new OPA program which is now in the final stages will be- ; crease the cost of living an addi tional 2 J per cent, Bowles re port i said. ZfTb program wci mean lower prices to American .housewives on apples, oranges, cnions, potatoes, lard, vesetabie cils and peanut butter." The cost to the government of -the new program -which is ;de- i'jned to carry the country almost 1 :f-wy back to the September, 1 : 12. c c;t-cf -living level will be trrrc;:inately $lCa,CC0,C03 la in:nTTY TKUD YEAB Holiday Eiidls for Gongress . ' i i Draft. Foreign -Policy Problems Confront Solons - 5 By the Associated Press - . ' S . - - - , s . ' WASHINGTON, Sept J A quick showdown on- the ar my's . manpower: . Jieeds urged by legislative' leaders to night on the eve of the. recon vening- of congress after its longest holiday in four years. ' With the drafting of fathers shaping up- as one' of the hottest issues of the impending, session. Senate Majority .Leader 'Barkeley of Kentucky urged that army and navy' chieftains be - called; to- tell what they need, how much ihey need -and Why they need it. ' His proposal .was. backed up . by- Senator -Ta ft (R-Ohio) 5 and, in part, by House Minority Leader Martin of Massachusetts, who ad vocated congressional r review of the entire manpower . problem to "see just what we have and what we need." I don't think . the public weald object to the indaetkm ef fathers if the need far them was -. pravesC said Martia. -. f -t Ren. Kilday (D-Tex) asserted the manpower review out to take up the Question- of the army's size to determine whether- its demands for ' men "are reasonable and necessary.1 Kilday,' however, ex pressed reluctance: to put a con gressional ceiling on Vie strength Of tha armed forces, because it might affect the armyt' strategy With the deaCine far drafting af - fathers freIyttMr"Wee--away. Senator Wheeler D Maot) already has served neUea that he will press f er imaaediato action to tpestpeae their lndae4 . tioa aatil Jaa. 1. Berkley,- however expressed the hope of obtaining an agreement with ; Wheeler to put off consider ation of the bill until Gen. George C. Marshal, army chief of staff, and Admiral Ernest J. King, com mander in chief of the US fleet. have had an opportunity-' W-ex plain the services' reason' for tak ing fathers. , Berkley said there had been so many 'contradictory statements and . such V'conf usion in" orders' about manpower that he believed the nation would welcome an ex planation from th-nfllfary: and naval chiefs. , -. . t While the- drafV s'saanpewer roblesas are' schedaled to be that first tasks toekled lav the -aeaate, a deelaratiea est fareJca policy ra. at the top ef the tt 1 . -i Oregon. Third in ;. Hosiery Colleclion . PORTLAND, SepL 13-K!hOre- gon's ' collection - of old silk and rayon hose- ranked third among the 48 states,' during the period from November to July, Roderick Finney, executive secretary of the state; salvage committee, an nounced today. funds already available. Bowles said this will be spent in trans portation subsidies and! govern ment purchase-and-resale opera tions. On peanut butter and per haps lard, rollback subsidies will be used to the extent allowed by -. . The new " appto ; ceilings, due within a week or so, will average 17 per cent under present astail prices, Bowles sajdV orange ceil inga duo by the end of the month, will i effect aj-t' 9.7-cents-a-pound yearly average, price,' instead of 11JZ cents Lftterv are to come, on ions,! to be cut from eight, cents to about six and -then the -ether foods, with proportionate reduc tions;" -.-. ' - ' Two other major food policies were listed by Bowles in his re port and at a press conference ac companying its issuance: . 1. An appeal to congress for stabilization of milk prices through subsidy or the payment of production bonuses to dairy farmers. ' - ' - 2. A new- ceiling , control over winter fruits and vegetables, de (Turn to Page 2 Story C) - 12PAGZ3 Tigure It Out t r V awwllw)wlM i - - That phrase "figure it out for yearself is one ef the slogans of the third war loan. Figure this one . who svfferod a crippling ailmeat sense fears ago. He's self -sapport-' ' lag nevertheless, aad has been of great assistance to hop growers la . recraiting harvest ..labor. And here he is baying laa Invastosi bond ' from A. W. Smith, Salem campaign . chairman, while Mrs, Baoy Bergsvik ef the Marion county health association, which bad a part . ta Moody's rehabUlUtion. looks . where to the Soath Pacine." It for yearself. - - Noon War Bond Rallied Will Start Wednesday; dountvi Total CMmhrnv "Whether it's chewing gum, laundry oap or invasion bonds that Must be sold, "it pays to advertise." Recognizing ballyhoo's legit imate place in any sales campaign and having freshly in mind the succei of the pig in a poke auction whkh, conducted by the Salem Lions, provided the' third war loan's noisy sendoff in Sai lem, th war finance committee is planning a series of noon Tallies -----'--v-. "' 1 1.1, T raramusliiro . Islands Take 4th Bombins; WASHINGTON" SepLrt 1J -Uft Japan's homeground has again felt the blast of American bombs, with the fourth raid wrthe Paramushiro Islands; area at toe north end of the island chain' which makes up Nippon. " " ' : :i ' The navy, reported that a forma tion of' heavy ' and medium army bombers battered enemy shipping and ground intsallations Septem ber IS (Paramushiro time), fight ing meanwhile an air battle with upwards ' of 25 enemy fighter planes and ploughing through, hea vy anti-aircraft fire. 5 y i ' , When the 50-minute engagement was over JO enemy, fighters, and probably three more, had been shot down." " - Four United States planes, "the navy said, ."are known to have been lost due to enemy action, and six failed jo return.: This latter reference to fall are - to retara - saggested they had been tost oa a long road aasae, perhaps to Atta island, to the Aleatlaas, 72t sailes east. - In addition to "numerous hits", on ground installations, the navy said, - a transport was J fired and left; in a sinking condition, an other transport damaged and hits scored on three cargo-vessels, one of : which blew up. r - - . Indicating that at least part of the . attack was at low level de spite the 'anti-aircraft fire, the communique reported that ' num erous small craft were strafed by the United States planes. . Previous, bombing raids on the islands were carried out July JO, 12-and 19. - . . ; - : -- Earlier today - the Japanese , ra dio had told of the latest raid yes terday and in aavafferi to discount it : said that land damages were extremely light and that while only- one Japanese plane was lost many American planes - were downed. . , :?l -".'i:; LONDON, Sept. 13 -AVWbile unfavorable " weatiier still ; held Allied heavy bombers ; aground, RAF fighters crossed the channel before dark tonight in the direc tion f of Boulogne , and : rs. France. - - . - - , American " heavy bombers ' had not left their bases since the cli max of an eight-day, round-the- clock assult upon the' continent last Thursday, and the RAFS heavy bombers had made no ma jor raid since the Munich assault of a week ago. Bombing Cdexn, Oregon. Tutadoy Momlag. SeptsmBcr 14, 1S13 for YoarsclF ; -f Uiiaofehue oat for yourself. Here Is Lee Moody, on. Moody has a brother "same aboaldat bo hard to figarc It oat ' iil at, the Victory Center calculated to keep Interest in the campaign at a high pitch. It has come to light that among the navy's apprentice seamen - at Willamette university there is a bundant musical talent and it in cluding a bandV up-to-the-minute orchestra, glee ; club soloists, and novelty performers has been en listed, .to provide entertainment at .some" of , these noon-day .ralies, the , first Vbf which will be . held Wednesday. In general charge are Bill Talbot of KSLM, Mrs. , Mar garet Ringnalda,.and Adam Le For, publidchainnan for. the Salem war finance committee. ;-: ' Marion county as a political en tity did Its, share in 4he campaign Monday and as a result the county total was swelled to approxi mataly$82S,000. The county court bought a $100,000 bond to bring its holdings, up. to. more than 2300, 000 in securities of the federal government purchased since the nation -entered the- waxvThe pur chase was made out of the general , fund- but this-fund will bo reim bursed later and the- bond will be come an asset, of the general Toad fund reserve - . .. . . Communities outside of JSalem are doing their full share. County Chairman J. J. Gard reported. He and A. W. Smith, Salem campaign chairman, attended Monday night a meeting at Donald at which Au rora - Donald district solicitors were organized under the leader ship of Fred DenteL At Stayton tonight a war bond rally will be held Under, sponsorship : of that community's Lions TClTib. i. Sched uled to attend from Salem are Joe Land,! Rex Gibson, Smither and LeFor. . ., - A meeting was held at the Rob erts grange hall last night to or ganize for sale of bonds in the Roberts and Riverdale commun (Turn to Page 2 Story B) SILVERTON, Sept.; 13-(Spe-cial) Construction of a ; log " crib on the. Abiqua by force . account rather than by contract was ap proved tonight ' by the snverton city council. This decision was made in view ef failure to obtain satisfactory bids on either the per manent concrete dam which a ma jority, of the c o u a c U previously, had favored, "or on : the log crib 'structure :':ZZ -Z'::- . - The motion to build the dam, a unit of " the city's water supply system,, under, this, program was made by Jonas By berg and sec onded by Tom' Anderson. The one opposing vote was that of Ernest Starr; f .y-- . - V" V. . - One ! offer to build the log crib dam at-a cost of $25,CC0 was re ceived. Local contractors v who made' it clear they were not in terested ' in bidding," declared It could be done for much less.' - a!amaiina: Japs Flee;: Aiigie8 Pursue j Nips Toward " V Encircled -Lae - ' - -: By C. YATES McDANIEL ALLIED 7 HEADQUARTERS INTHE SOUTHWEST PACIF ICVtTuesday;; Sept. 14-(P)- i fast disintegrating Japanese ar my ' has "abandoned Salamaua, New ; . Guinea leaving behind valuable war equipment to Aus tralians - s hotly pursuing ; them northward into the mountains, Gen. Douglas Ma cArthur.,-. an nounced. today. - ' . . - Tha air aad ; sea . . aac borage . base is. the first plaee ef pre-, v war - importance to be ; retaken frona the enemy to the soath iwest Faeifie. . .j V'- 5 Salamaua was overrun Sunday, a day after Australians' of a pio neer unit swam the rain-swollen Francisco river and occupied the big airdrome two miles southwest of the town. -. A large Australian force moved cautiously into the town's harbor section built on an Isthmus con necting the mainland with Cape Rapsee in . the Huon gulf. The reautJon was unnecessary. The Jap anese who had survived allied bombings which flattened Sala maua during a campaign of sev en and a half months had fled to ridges northwest of the town,' be ginning a flight toward Lae. ' Salamaua, which was 'occupied by the Japanese shortly after they overran Lae January 25, 1842, af fords the allies a sea 'and air base aaCts left Sankoi-vital-enemy baser on New Britain. ' - Eighteen J miles, above- Sala- soaaa, the pincers oa Lao : was tightened, aided by ah btows. . ADied bombers, making a round trip flight of more than 2000 sta tute : miles, 'heavily bombed - the waterfront and barracks - at Ma kassar, Dutch Celebes, i-yfih 1 1n t night-' attack, liberators dropped 27 tons of explosives and incendiaries. Fires raged among buildings-and warehouses near the Juliana and Wilhelmina wharves, in an oil storage tank; area and in the center of military barracks as well aa at the Mandar airdrome. One .Liberator failed to return. "Belim Salamaua,"" Japanese dive-bombers- attacked - the- harbor, of alUed-held Morobe, New Guinea, but today's communique- said the raiders caused only miser damage. The Japanese abandoned Sal- sa taerJ Oabr eae rood trail loada tlM .eaptored base toward Lae. - But even should they succeed in reaching Lae, their late appar ently is sealed because the entire area from Salamau to Lae is tight ly eneireled.':;?-:2 I I J I . (Turn to Page 2 Story WO Allies Said : At Dodecanese ISTANBUL, Sept lS-CflVA re port that allied forces had made several landings on , the Dodeca n e s e island of Rhodes, between Creto and the Turkish mainland, circulated today In marine circles of Izmir." Allied authorities said they had ho confirmation. , f ' (Rhodes airdromes were at tacked by US Liberators of the middle , east command Sunday without opposition, . it was an nounced In Cairo.) . " ; .Italian authorities said they had been unable for three days to es tablish .contact, with any of their posts on the Dodecanese islands.; i ReportofromMTurkish.towns on the Aegean coast earlier had said that friction between the mixed Italian and German garrisons had resulted in "general fighting. Aa informed neutral said the Germans won control ef Rhodes Saturday. Pcrsliinjr Observes C3rd DirtHdar IrWASniNGTON; Sept IS -JTh Gen. Jom "J.Pershing-xpent his 83rd birthday quietly today in his apartment at Waiter Reed hospital. Hundreds of. cards, letters and telegrams- were delivered to the General ef tfi armies, but ' he received only one caller S-Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the army, was Pershing's guest at lunch, which included a lar9 birthday cake.; Decorated r i VERNON A. RHODES .Wins Navy, . . ; -Marine Medal . . . - . . r Vernon Anderson Rhodes, chief yeoman in the navy and son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Rhodes, 821 North Fourth street, has been awarded , the f Navy i; and - Marine Corps medal by .Admiral Chester Nimtiz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet . Of the 27 men in the submarine service presented medals by Ad miral Nimitz. in a' recent ceremony 11 were from the 'vessel on which Chief Yeoman Rhodes is serving. His citation reads: . "",(:,; 5 ; ; For - meritorious : conduct and outstanding performance . of duty as-Chief .Yeoman and Recorder of the fire control party on a sub marine in heavily patrolled enemy waters," on patrols, during which many enemy ships were sunk or damaged. - - ."Bx-jWa leadership, .diligence and .cool courage, particularly in times of stress, he made outstand ing contributions to thesuccess . of these patrols. His conduct was in accordance with the highest tra ditions of the naval service.!' r In addressing the group Admiral Nimitz said in part: - f r - if I "In this Pacific war it Is becom ing increasingly difficult for sub marine men to preserve their tra dition' of the silent service. Sub marines do not need to talk. Their actions speak for them. V . -'it v f " ; "The destruction on enemy ves sels by our .submarines in ,the Pacifie campaign -has been, great You have hunted out the enemy in -every corner of this vast ocean even to his very doorstep Your attacks an his supply lines have been -audacious, . unremitting and successful "and these attacks will increase. in number. as time goes " Frank As- Rhodes, Jr-a brother of Chief 'Yeoman -Rhodes, also is serving overseaa in the navy; v ; . CMaiiiEl To Presidency .- CHUNGKING, -Sept 11,-VPh Generaliacimo . Chiang Kai-shek was elected president of China to day to succeed the -late Dr. Lin Sen and . he asked the Chinese communists: for . full - co-operation in the Interests of the nation's war effort - . .Elected president at a meeting of the Kuomintang central exec utive committee, the generalissi mo, Tinder; a -revision of the - nar tional - government's ' organic , law adopted Saturday, b e c a m e, as president, commander In chief of China's land, air and naval forces. .- The central executive commit tee also confirmed Chiang In his post as president of the executive yuan or premier and decided that the heads ' of four other yuans (councils) should continue in office.- - . - ; . -.. .-:. Declaring that the Chinese com munist problem should be solved by political means, Chiang said in a statement to the central execu tive committee: - , J --1 "If you share - my view, we should maintain the policy ef len iency and forbearance , which we have consistently-pursued in deal ing in our domestic affairs, with the expectation . that - the Chinese communist party will be moved by our sincerity and magnanimity, no matter in what ways they may slander us or in what manner t-cy try to create, trouble.!! -Z Z-C 4 .1 lie said that despite provoca tions.tbe central executive ccai taittee "should "abide by, its" mani festo of November, 18 42, wiiich ad vocated overlooking the past re cord of - those -who mended their ways. .- ; - ' -'- CI-Lr sail he heped that the ' (Turn to Paa 2 Story E) XIo. UZ Reds..-' Lay Siege on Bryansli" : 4 of 5 Trunk Rails to Axis - . Stronghold Cut ' By JAMES M. LONG VLONDON, Tuesday JSept, 1 (Jpj-The Jled army has laid siege to the ancient citadel of Bryansk oh the west bank of the Desha - - " k , .. . - . river after, plunging ; oyer the bodies of 2000 Germans to reach the east bank and cut four of the five trunk railways - feeding .'that axis stronghold, Moscow disclosed early-today, j .-. .: j - - ; . A Soviet eemaaaaJqne telling . ef the smaah thraagh the mine- filled forest . ef Bryanskj fere , shadowed .the early capture ; ef thai plvet ef the axis central and 'aoathera frenta.- "Our troops have come right up to the town of Bryansk, said the communique recorded by the Sov iet monitor. . . . . ' .' :, ... -v- " The bulletin . added that ..-Gen. M.. VL- Popov's troops had overrun the vital railway, network on the eastern side . of the; Desna moat, seizing prisoners and- equipment the Germans were unable to take with them in their flight, to the high: west bank. .. . ' While Paper's troeps . were : s (Turn to Page 2 Story F) PiJpit'Aids Crop Lalior - Power of, the pulpit? was en listed with notable success Sunday in the campaign to recruit cannery workers, ' a r . spokesman tor the Salem canners committee said. A greatly . augmented -; turnout of workers on Monday was -credited largely -to the parsons', persuasive appeals. ;. , ,' - ,7 r. . Some - ministers - devoted 'their sermons to the topic of food con servation t and had no -difficulty finding texts to ; illustrato; divine approval of that type of endeavor, even, as fag: back as the,. book of Genesis. i :... - '-. -s ' --'-.-' Though the cannery labor situ ation has improved, , still t more workers, are. needed, at -virtually all plants, the committee reported Monday. A meeting of .the entire committee has been called for 11 ia today at the, Salem chamber of commerce.'; .--"i , v . . : Gov. arl SneU,- returning from his ; trip . east - and learning - that the cannery labor problem-persists issued a special appeaL t - The ; situation - at. the., present time is criticaJ," said the governor, aa-lt Involves not only food for our armed forces, but a rather ser ious food shortage- on the home front already looms on the hor izon." ;" -t .. : - The goverhor- addressed his appeal particularly to the women of communities in which canneries are situated, . pointing out that more than an economical question is involved.' )". Js-':V--' y. :, tiU9 le Securing Fiveahlts Save Whole Beachhead for 5th Army i By RELMAN MORIN Associated Press CTorrespondent " Representing the Combined ' :" American rPrese-- ? : WITH THE AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY IK ITALY, Sept 13.-JP)-A gun crew' composed of a young Texas lieutenant and four enlist ed men-shot it out with 13 Ger man' tonka on 'the day the Fifth army came ashore In ' Italy, and they- probably saved the whole American beachhead from being cut to pieces. ' j Z ' Their names have already gone into official; dispatches. r r A" sixth name , also hat gone hi the name : of a youngster who attacked a tank with a tommygun. But his name cannot be used yet in news dispatches . because his family has not been notified that he : died -trading bullets - with i steel ! monster he could not '. hope to hurt.- ." Z-i'. K ' Va.'The'' flrst Am e;r i ca h - assault waves "were" ashore on. the Gulf of Salerno barely a few hours be fore the Germans sent groups of tanks against them. The nazis met the Yanks only a mile- from the beach.-' ; : . . . -'-. - ' . Lt John V.Tiitakery 15, of It ; : Yanlio, Hasio Thrwy Tanlro Into Combat By NOLAN NORGAARD ALLIED IIE AD QUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. I3.r I AP) The most violent battle of the whole mediterranean campaign rajed tonight around the Am erican bridgehead at Salerno within 15 miles of Mount Ve suvius, w h II e ia extreme southern Italy the "British cajv tured Crotone. after a SO-mile ad vance and beat up the Adriatic coast from Brindisi toward Bari In a dispatch filed at S p. mil, (12 noon Eastern War time) Rey nolds Packard, representing the combined United States press, said that' the American Fifth army had pushed forward several miles on the southern sector" of, the Salerno front and parried a German counter-attack at the center in which the . nazis suffered the heaviest losses they had yet sustained in Italy. - -:- -. - .-' ! The allies also consolidated L. both their aarthera and soath- -; era flanks, the dispatch said. -The Germans were credited with temporarily regaining a por tion of the Salerno gulf highway which had changed-hands several times,' but only at heavy cost. Al lied planes and naval guns backed the ground troops. 'Beth sides were throwing ? tanks aad reiafereezaeata prod- ' vigally into the eracial Salerne : eembat, described In latest front line dispatches as hotter than, aay fenght la the African ar SI- ' eillan campaigns. -The -eembat -raaaded eats Its fifth day and beth sides had suffered heavy casualties. -' - , i The Germans were eri-onced In high ground comming tha whole allied bridgehead with t'.rr art!lleryH :.-v;v..A.y-.;. . . -''"j Very heavy; 'fighting continues in the area of the Fifth army at Salerno,, Gen. Eisenhower's coin munlque said - before noon. The Germans are resisting desperate ly our determined thrusts to break through their positions. ' -- The Americans with their Brit ish units not only ; held doggedly tot their , hard-won bridgehead S3 airline miles below"tv great met ropolis of Kaplesbur managed to push into - the mountains. Much fighting was 4000 feet above the sea. The enemy was pushing re serves toward the battle area de spite day and night pummeling from' sky-ruling allied air .fleets, which were challenged by large German plane formations. Despite the mounting fury ef the fight. its climax was not in sight. Lt Gen. Mark W. Clark's men encountered stiff tank exposition. The ferocity of -the German de tense attested to tha importance the enemy attached to the battle and suggested that the nazis were trying to hold open at all costs an escape route for .their scat- . tered forces. In the southern third -of Italy which Gen. Montgomery's army was herding northward at an accelerated pace. "Montgomery's closest elements were Its) miles below Salerno ' and were racing ahead without -even maklag contact with the enemy. The British appeared in- , teat opon reaching the Salerne U (Turn to Page 2 Story D) T Worth, Tex and his men were bringing their gun up the road when the German armor struck. They were five men alone on a road without any other artillery, but they went into action . im.e diately. Z -': . V : .'! '' - iWhitaker's commanding officer, Capt.; Wiley Stem of -Waco, Tex., has written the following official dispatch: - '( Lt Whitaker and his mi, having only one 77 mm. self-propelled - mount available for i Idg platoon, -engaged 13 Zark-4 spe cial German tanks. All durir.s the engagement', thep were- r-tjectej to near cannon and machine-fan fire and displayed - conTpicuous and-extreme . bravery under fire. They destroyed three tanks a- materially assisted in the dtru tion of two others. ( That is the bald officii! i ; t on the action. It does not at: : , t to. describe; how a Ir.ne cua rrr remained squarely ia the citJ.qt of, the road, purr.pL-. thellt frrr.i its gun. Nor how they 1 r.-t 5 tv Ing her coolly an 1 re: lly, s s ; :s sonci vctersr?, v. t' 1 continued to rrrf " " ' --(Turn. to Tsz CI::- )