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Mold oim a!eno: n Seemnre: 'Utjj rdcu: TTYIl 1L 1L1L lLimu. v mm rm Tl - X have noticed from the direc . tion of the Corvadlis ; Gazette- Times i tome recurrent editorial : piping at the stringbean. By way ; of diversion from Franklin and Eleanor, Editor Ingalls has set up - the bean, the stringbean, as a tar , get for editorial sharpshooting. Editors in this bean-growing val ley -have .endured the flicks from his beanshooter with commendable patience; but' forbearance', finally ceases to be a virtue, and since Salem as ' a suburb of Stayton ranks as the stringbean capital of - ihc state,: X feel obliged jto rise to the defense: of the stringbean.- ' First I would remind Editor In galls that when he attacks the stringbean, -he attacks the .whole bean family, than which there is - naoe snore powerful in the horti cultural family.' There are- pole beans and bush beans; green beans and. dry beans. . ' They . cover the color spectrum: white beans, black beans, - red -beans, mottled . beans. There are nary beans and kidney beans and lima beans. A new re cruit on the American scene is the 'soybean,, as versatile as Dr. Car--ver's- peanut. Finally: there is the i-iumDin : bean. Indispensable to j politicians a n d 4 public relation t men Any. reflection on the string- bean invites the wrath of. a tribe ; as. numerous as they are popular. - Then ' ?stringbeanv: is passe sis a r title. The , bean 1 is , now grown :. stringlesaThe green or wax bean is known, in the manpower cata V log as the. snapbeans To use the i term fstringbean!.- shows ignor ' ance of the plant - breeding done at Corvallis excuse for existence, I the state college, where beans get i a college .education and emerge I with no strings attached. . ' . To "throw slurs on the snapbeaa is to take snap judgment; especial ly in Oregon .where the snapbean - i i a .very important industry. Its harvest takes more manhours than . i any other crop 533 per acre; hops only 249 " and strawberries 388. PipHnr hram la nirlrin ' dollars I as thousands know. The number of manhours' s pen t in picking snapbeans r in. this valley would . reach froni the. fall of man to the day ofe judgment with time out for compare 'with' snapbeans in per acre value, either, except hops in . 'flush years." Best crop reported : last year was" on a -tract of ;six " acres down Dayton way that went 14 tons to the acre. At $100 a ton that's $1400- per acre a sum not to be sneezed at. Finally i snapbeans are winning the war. Have not letters come from "Oregon soldiers " stuck : on ; south sea atolls telling how the cook, .served them (Continued on .Editorial Page) - Gulf Braces For Hurricane HOUSTON, Tex., Sept fit The gulf coast from r the Texas Louisiana border to Port O'Con ner,,: Tex-braced tonight for a 'tropical hurricane which the wea ,ther 'bureau said should move in- .1 lana ai oawn in ine r reepon-vai-veston area with gusts up to 100 miles an hour4 near the center,: v A11 along "the danger line cities, mindful of the devastation of the season's ' first great blow which struck the Texas coast July 28 causing . 21 deaths Jmd estimated property, damage of $12,000,000, boarded up jf gainst the storm. Rent' Control for Salem Looms; OP A Plans Study Federal rent control looms . as a possibility for the Salem area today -""with the - declaration ' of OPA's Acting Administrator Ches ter Bowles mat be is ordering an Investigation of housing - costs here. ' His Action, made known this week to Sen. Charles I Mc- Nary, followed reports of alleged jockey ingl of rentahere . to bring Increases of from 25 to 50 per cent ithin a period of a few months. fOregon defense rental ; area, he wrote in part to the senator, was designated a defense rental : area" on October 5, 1942, and rec onunendationa were made by the administrator that rent for hous ln accommodations be stabilized or reduced to the rents prevailing on March : 1, 1942. However, up to the present time it has not been found necessary to institute fed eral control of rents in Salem." - . - Complaints went to the Wash ington' office of price admhiistra tioa from individuals, through the tJzXor' office and - from other federal agencies operating here, it . l-e-came apparent Thursday, I ' ' : A series of complaints, reaching the Sajent office of the United f ztes employment service on al 1 red pyramidins of rents has re i "cl i"i a report to the state di i . r cf tlie war re ".power com i.: .i n, and through him to de 14 . ture. Navy Base i Novorossisk Fall Paves Way . Toward Crimea ; -By JAMES M. I-ONG ; -f LONDON, Friday Sept: 17() Soviet troops recaptured Novor ossisk yesterday alter a 'savage street fight to open the way for an I attack on the Crimea, smashed the "German eastern wall?, guarding White Russia, and raced on ' through ' Nosovka, only 55 miles short of the Ukraine cap ital at Kiev. - t - ' I " ' ; Twe erders ef the day: and a: IMoeeew1 comsannfqse -alse dls eleeed that the Russians- had ent' tlM Kharkov-CHmea- railway pt. Losevaya. Janetien; and reached a point enly 35 aslles short of thef Dnteper river bend bit the Zap-j ',' oroshe area. - -'X i" The swiftness , of the; Russian pace suggestetf that the Red army troops might reach the Dnieper river : over the weekend, caiise! a German . withdrawal , from . . the doomed ' little bridgehead; in the Caucasus above Novorossisk, ' and finally topple the citadel of Bty ansk. J;;:: . . . j: Spllllnf across the Desna riv er southwest of Bryansk, the: . -SmsaUns ; finally were reported - to have overwhelmed Novcorod jSeversky, the keystone of Ger many,s feastem wall' forMica- . '(Turn! to Page 2 Story. H) - Jury Deatlloclc Ends Pinball i Court Test . I After deliberating six and one half hours, the jury in the ease of State vs. John Moore and Pop Wolfe . informed Circuit Judge George R, Duncan late Thursday night that it was hopelessly dead locked. The jury " was dismissed but decision as - to further dispo sition ofhe case, in which oper- a tion ' of a slot machine was charged, was deferred until later, ' Judge Duncan finished his in structions to the ; jury at 4:45 Thursday; afternoon; it reported the i deadlock at approximately 11:15 p. m. Trial of the ease had occupied three full day st counting several hours delay in obtaining a jury Monday when" the original and special panels were exhausted and additional jurors were "draft ed" from the streets. ; . . . ) , The ; defenses of Moore and Wolfe were conducted separately and ! the jury was - provided with four -verdict forms, guilty" and "not, guilty" .for each' .defendant, none of which it managed to fill in. J : ' j'" ; Each defendant took, the stand (Turn to Page 2 Story I) : OPA rental director for the state, according to W. H. BaiUie, mana ger of the employment service of fice here. j ' The employment service does not exercise r jurisdiction in the matter L rents but in view; of. our Interest in both the wage and la bor stabilization program and our efforts- to maintain a fair and im- partial attitude in all matters con- cerning. the .'movement -of -labor, we cannot ignore the complaints of alleged violation we have re ceived," Baillie said. "We have recommended that the war man power commission take up ; the matter of these complaints . with the rent division of the office of price aaministration Thiafoffice wflT continue - to take complaints in writing which we will turn over to the proper authorities,1 I Said Mayor T. . ML Doughton, in formed of the impending investi gation' and the - possible crack down, "We have been trying to avoid any necessity for this. Hon estly, we didnt want. rent, con trol, but sometimes the excep tions' bring about the rule, and I can't see.' any other answer to some of the cases which have been reported to me and to the com mittee on rentals unless the indi viduals responsible will act vol untarily to right conditions." KECTY THISD YEAH Cap PAGES f-?iir, oea Battle NEW YORK, Sept 1-(JP) lhe Tokyo radio said ' tonight that an air and sea battle waa fa progress la the' waters be tween New Guinea and KoT lembangara Island In the Solo-'' . The broadcast, recorded by NBC, said that "The imperial command reports that the naval' forces of Japaa are gradually getting the upper hand against superior anti-axis forces.'' ' n Down 59 Jap Fighter Planes. .. By d YATES McDANIEL j. s ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, F. r i d a y, S cpt 1 17.-(ff)-Allied bombers -and fighters. shot, down ,59 Japanese fighters- out of action and destroyed at least 10 ground ed bombers during a great air bat tle - over the : big- enemy base - at Wewak, New Guinea, General Douglas MaeArthur announced today.- : . j "At least 4 of the i fighters were shot down. The remaining 11 were listed as probables. 1 ..' - Details of the smashing victory were contained in a communique which also told of the capture of Malahang Anchorage near Mala hang airdrome two . miles east of Lae. : . - ., ' ? - ? The Wewak attack followed the recent neutralization of Dagua and But airdromes there and was con centrated I against the . remaining two fields at Boram and. Wewak. . , "Sixty-six tons et bombs were concentrated in the target area in less than 15 minutes, scoring hea vily ; on runwayr ' aitd dispersal areas which -contained from 20 to 40 parked aircraft," the commun ique said.' v "Direct hits destroyed 10 enemy bombers and started many : fires among the others. Two large fuel dumps were set aflame.;;, : "Some 60 to 70 fighters inter cepted in an effort to halt our at tack. For nearly an hour the en emy attacked viciously but failed to break .our formations. . . Tin brilliant defense, our bomh era shot clown 39 . of the. enemy and probably.- destroyed 1 6 , morel Our fighters accounted rf or -nine definite' and one probable. '- ' ; - "The total enemy; loss thus ag4 gregated 59 fighters shot out of . (Turn to Page 2 Story F) 1 Germans Said Gties By -FRANK. BRUTTO . AT , THE. SWISS-ITALIAN BORDER, Sept. 16(iTGerman oc cupation, troops were reported to day to have fired on hunger-driven; crowds which stormed Ital ian food shops in Rome, Udine and Belluno. .r:?.. ' The German troops themselves were reported : thoroughly, looting occupied - territories, not only of foodstuff but also of gold and sil ver, v. ; i? r,:', i ; The chaos was reported so-great in Rome that all churches except St. Peters had been closed because of the plundering. Pope Pius XII was - reported to have conferred with Papal Secretary of State Car dinal Luigi Maglione regarding the situation. The Vatican's Swiss guard was said to have " donned "full war uniform." r i " -vl . i The Milan newspaper Corn ere Delia Sera said church authorities had appealed to Marshal Albert Kesselring to order his soldiers to refrain from looting churches, f Reports reaching the Swiss fron tier said nazi troopers were pluck ing gold ear rings '.from, women and taking gold ' watches f r o m men. The German military) com mander at Turin published a proc lamation today the newspaper Stampa said, telling the people that German soldiers were not authorized" - to requisition rings, watches oc other precious articles from civilians. - Z r: - ':Zr-- -'Zc Corriere Delia ; Sera said that despite efforts of authorities in Rome people were " without ; suf ficient food.' The. newspaper said there, was a ccmplete lack of eggs, milk, meat,; vegetables,' : or fruit, and that .'the situation had ' been drastically worsened by the stern requisitioning of foodstuff by nazi troopss Who. were enforcing 100 per" cent martial law in all occu-. pied territory. - - L ; - , ? .The Bern newspaper Der Bund said German troops were search ing the Italian rural regions for food supplies and at Milan "all business warehouses" had been completely ' emptied by German A o Airme Looting troops. Scilenx, Oregon, rriday Morning. September IT, 181 Yugoslav: Patriots Take Fort Axis Garrison Falls After ; Two-Day Siege By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE LONDON, Sept." 16-iF-Split, Yugoslavia's most important seaport, had fallen to guerilla patriot armies after two days siege, a ' Yugoslav communique said tonight. . 4 " j ; r ' ".The communique, issued in the name of the Yugoslav army of lib eration, said the axis garrison of the Adriatic seaport was believed to have surrendered in the last 24 hours. The guerillas were reported at tacking. Ogulin, ; SO . miles inland from the Adriatic in northern Yu goslavia. Guerillas already hold a large part of the Susak-Zagreb railway . in that region east - of Fiunie. .,r:- . 'cA-: : : :";; r German motorized divisions at tempting to pierce the Yugoslav linesf near:! Kiln were . reported driven off with 300 killed and 500 wounded. . ' V . , The Italian Bergamo 'division was: said to - have surrendered ; and the Italians, wishing to fight alongside the partisan patriots ' against the Germans, were re reported organised Into a "Gari baldi division." . . The allied menace to the"Ger mans v Balkan flank apparently was. still a distant threat, although the day brought word that allied forces had, thrust 4nto-the Aegean. -sea to" occupy' three 'islands off Turkey and1 Greece Samos, Cos and Lero. ' , . -; . ' . Madrid dispatches said concur rently that Croat guerillas 'under the comand of allied officers had cute four , principal . German-held railways running tnit from north ern Yugoslavia to-Hungary, Ru mania and Italy. . - ' This Quiet, steady progress of. attrition moved Irresistibly un der the surface of the main eaza ; palgn. Its significance lay in the future. ..,i;.,v-U .0 .- !' . If Greeks. in, London, impatiently waiting 'for the Aime when resis tance can corne out ..from) under ground and-burst-across the face of the Balkans, declared they had not received for. four days past the usual direct reports of guer illa activity. They suggested this indicated the. well-disciplined par tisans were withholding action in expectation of a signal td strike. , The whereabouts of the! British ninth army, reported from! neutral sources yesterday to havej left its base in Syria, still was clothed m mystery. - , . Finns Indicate ; Peace Desire j . . : - -1 - STOCKHOLM, Sept 18 Finland in effect gave Germany Official though informal, notice today that the Finns were; tired of fighting alongside the nazis and wanted peace.;, , - f Premier Edwin ,Linkomies pro- vided the official touch by ; an nouncing that he was the anony mous Finnish spokesman who said September 11 . that Finland re gretted being at war with Eng land and desired peace with Rus sia if she could be assured of her pre-1939 independence ., and .ter ritorial status. -. - 1 ' LInkomies' Informal pronounce ment of a definite turn in- Finnish foreign policy caused astonishment in Finland, where the people, gen erally have been "barred by rigor ous censorship from any Informa tion on the government's: conduct of International affairs. ; - -There was no immediate news of German reaction to the Finnish notice, but doubts were expressed in Berlin only Wednesday, official nazi advices said, of September 11 statements regarding Finnish plans to withdraw from the war. ; ' '. . Linkomies announcement clari fied that point for the Germans, as well as for the Finnish people who have been fighting as cxh belligerents of . the nazis. against Russia since July, . 1941. . Dim out , -, - Fri. gunsct 719 Sat sunrise 6:53 Weather ca Ps f X YanU Tents in It was a strange contrast as the teats of a United . States Fifth army blvoaae were raised among these ancient bandings of an Italian town In the Salerno sector, where heaviest fighting yet la the Mediter ranean, area was in pregressr-(Assoclated Frets photo from signal -corps idtopheto.);'t-:Vw::3 r-':':-; ' - - ' Marion Challenges Lane County mzBondRa As Sales Hit $10O$dO : ".With the' added incentive of an invasion bond-selling duel with Lane county to spur them on, solicitors for the third waf loan campaign in Marion .county maintained Thursday the praise- worthy paco set earlier in the week and. at. the; day's close re ported the county total to date $1,400,000. ,. t - , - Maribncounly's challenge to ambitious Lanei'wliich has Been trying to move up into, second place in Oregon on the basis of various yardsticks, and has done it in the matter of War Chest quo tas though not .in third; war; loan goals ; was : issued Thursday : by Jesse j Gard. county war finance committee chairman. Lane's quota in this campaign , is , $4,364,000, slightly under Marion's. How the two counties were far ing on a comparative basis was not l ascertained Thursday ' night, arrangements for a score . board not being completed, .but Marion county took comfort .in the know-, ledge ; that it was, at any rate,' a little ahead of the state average on , a i comparative - basis; Marion had about 23 per cent of its quo ta, the state as a whole about 24 per cent. -"; n n A 1 :r- n Today's noon rally" at the Vic tory, Center, will feature the navy glee dub from the US Willamette, vocal solos by : Corydon . Blodgett and I accordion - numbers by Pat ricia MSisinger. This is "Back Sa lerno iday" and brief, appropriate taias .arepiannea.. - -4 Thursday's Victory Center show, featuring the military band which by - this ' time J is fully recognized as Salem's own,' Its program" ins eluding ' solos by Mackey Swan, was well attended. An ' additional attraction wai group of musical numbers by Mexicans from Horst's hopyard camp, . who in this way celebrated their own nation's in dependence day Secretary ') of State j Bob Farrell :who was one of the - speakers, mentioned that his office had just sold a $500 bond to a Salem young man now in the army In Africa or perhaps by this time in Italy. He cited this as a re minder that the boys who are do ing the fighting are. also helping on the home front job of war-financing. Gene -Vandeneyde, pay roll savings chairman for the war finance committee, contrasted the (Turn .to .Page 2 Story B) - Curlev Faces , o Fraud Charge .WASIUNOTON Sept 111 -V?) Rep. James M. Curley,- former dexnocratie. mayor - of Eoston and governor', of - Massachusetts,: and Donald Wakefield Smith, onetime member of the national labor re lations board, were indicted today on charges of mail fraud in oper ating what the justice department called i a "war ; contracts ; broker age racket." :fc-0r'i--The department said the indict ment, returned by a federal grand jury, here, accuses them and four others' of having: "falsely , and fraudulently ; represented . them selves i as- being an experienced and competent firm of consulting engineers, with special facilities and qualifications for securing war contracts from the govermaeni" on a Ie ' " . Trie So- Salerno Sector ii Salem Troops Eight 76-Day : Jungle Battle i Seventy, six consecutive days of combat, declared to be a record for any American .unit in the southwest . Pacific theatre of war, have been experienced recently by those Oregon soldiers . including a -Salem company- who,, mustered into - service . with ; the . National Guard just three years ago, have remained -with their original units,- it was disclosed Thursday. . : -An Associated Press dispatch by Correspondent Vern Haugland, its release made possible by- the fall of Salamaua, reveals ' -that . ; the 162nd .infantry, regiment .of the 41st -division, including S a 1 e m soldiers known early, in July , to have participated .in the original Nassau beach landing pn June 29, fought, constantly- from that time until Salamaua was occupied Sep tember 12. Csualties were report ed comparatively 4ight. ' . . , , . ; . CoL Archibald MacKechnie said the troops ''fought Si fantastical ly difficult country of precipitious peaks and ridges thickly covered with jungle brush and knee-deep in jungle mud. It was "virtually uninhabited and untraveled area so wild it probably rarely will be visited by whites again i' .; ' Maj. Armin Berger of Salem, a dentist in peacetime but now a battalion commander,' reported he lost 48 pounds while engaging in this campaign and described it as follows:' '. r -'"l Z "'-'- "I was in oh the whole show from Spouta to Salamaua the oc cupation of the Morobe Waria riv er and Nassau bay and the' march np the Bitot ridge to join the Aus sies in thef Mubo aector and . the fighting along Roosevelt ridge. j X wouldn't give five cents to go through it again, but I wouldn't give a million dollars for the experience.- i' j rr ? i.."The happiest day of, my: life was- Saturday when we ' reached Salamaua valley and level, ground at last." . ; - Vatican ; LONDON, Sept- lS-O-A Ger man-language broadcast tonight CHy from Vatican .City,, outside which nazi troops armed -with anti-tank guns and machine uns have been reported on guard, said "every body, who Las friends or relatives living In Vatican City ct.n te as sured they are well." (The Vatican radio, broadcasts in several languages, and similar as surances have ; been "transmitted frcra the station previously since the . Germans announced t h e i r troops had moved in for protec- t::.-i ti .. . r British 8th Army Racing . North, Expected to PJahe Contact ein Matter of Hours9 i i ALLIED HEADQUAHTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 16-(AP)The powerfully reinforced American Fifth array; drove the Germans more than eight miles from the ess' today In Ita first serious offensive from Its Salerno bridge head, fjrmly secured on this eighth day of battle. the south through the old Italian fishing village of Seal; a, approaching so close that "in a matter of hours, its presence will be felt by the enemy," Lt. charging. Americans and Britons in an order of the day predicting the conquest of Naples. Rome and all Italy. - ( ne ju&en r a a l o said - tne Eighth army, was t less than 37 miles from Agropoll, southern an- chor . of the 24-mile-long Salerno bridgehead.) :$X..y'p.-?Z .The Fifth. army mighUest sin gle Rallied force in action in the Mediterranean in this war surged suddenly and violently at dawn today: from its ., foxholes at the I southern end of ; the Salerno front, snapping the German ring, at a junction of the Sele and Galore j rivers just north of Alta villa. : The equally divided American - i and British force (prebably ap 10,0 men) struck with the support ef thousands, ef planes, the British ' batUeships - Valiant and Warspite which hurled 1S inch shells late the foe, and sleek destroyers, which aded their lire power te the advance. Tor the last four days, the tired Americans ; and Britons had been fighting the most furious defensive battle seen in the . Mediterranean in this war As "dawn rolled Ujy the fifth army with its strong re-! inforcements-' assaulted f the Ger man defenses in the .wooded hills overlooking, the ; critical coastal plain position. They regained ground . lost 'to scores of German' counterattacks, then pushed . in land, putting to flight the fanatic cal soldiers i of Marshal i Albert Kesselring . who ' had ; vainly tried to push the allies into - the sea. The bridrebead alonr the Sele is now ' roughly , extended . eight more miles inland. (This dispatch did net state how near the svrf the invasion forces had been pressed when the push back was started." A British radio correspondent ; was quoted by BBC . in a broadcast recorded by CBS that: The new offensive' has put oar leading forces about eight miles inland, or four miles short of the farthest point .we reached la the earlier flchting." The 'tall and lanky Clark had been in the thick of the battle since ' its inception.- As his-men drove forward through the smoke and dust of battle, he issued this order of the day: . a.-'vi; -; r. "As your army, commander,-: 1 want to congratulate every officer and enlisted man in the fifth army on their mission of landing on the west , coast of Italy All the more splendid is your achievement when it is realized that it was , accom plished against determined Ger man resistance at the beachesV Ev ery step, of our advance has been contested, ' - ;- . i " '"We have arrived at ear in itial objective our beachhead ' is ' secure. 'V; y fy ;; .-" ;- ' ; - " "Additional troops are land ' ing- every day and we are here " to stay; Not one foot of groaad . will be iriven ap. ; i ; , -(Turn to Page 2 Story D)- . Salem Transforms For Mexican Independence By ISABEL CHILDS Strangers arriving in Salem by the stage line- which deposits its passengers .in front of a sign de claring that 95 per cent of the city's population is American bom went back for, a second look at the sign", yesterday.'' rf?;r''.',.vr: . . For when they I walked . into "the downtown ; area . they .discovered they were - in "a "Latin quarter, where new straw hats and not tle anticipated .; g a u d yv neckerchiefs had become, the .label. of a Spanish-speaking populace.. '. . ' r From Mexican labor camps over the valley,' the dark-faced work men flocked into the capital city to celebrate their nation's Indepen dence day. And though they cele brated with song and shopping sprees, the end-of the day found not one in any sort of difficulty a rs re record for any group of men. hound, together simply because-! their common interest in work. . - . . ; -. t r Nor; was there an intoxicated person on the grounds of the Mex ican labor camp here where most cf the 270 residents and the vis itors from . other, encampments spent at least a portion ef the day. Gen. Mark W. Qark told hij Bomber; -. -1 Eorope LONDON, Triday, Sept. 17(P) American Flying Fortresses, in one of the heaviest daylight operations in the European theater, pounded port ' facilities at Nantes, U-boat pens at La Pallice and air fields at Cognac and La Rochelle yes terday. -t . l ' Thirty-five enemy planes were' destroyed daring the bags op erations, carried out oa an ob literation scale. Thirteen heavy bombers and three fighters - were lost in the raids, a US communique said. , The -operations, in which some of the bombers covered more than 1600 miles on a round trip which took, them as far-as the bay of Biscay, were not completed -'until late last night, when the return ing planes soared to their home base in darkness. Even as they were coming in " heavy bomb ers were droning out over the con-' tinent in new attacks. : -j " American formations attacking Cognac ' and La Pallice targets made the longest trip of the day. Twenty-nine enemy fighters were shot out of the sky in numerous air battles that developed on the flight,' Fortresses accounting for 27 and P-47 Thunderbolts which supported the raiders bagging the other two. . The comunique said US Ha rauders and RAF Mitchells bliist ed airfields at Beaumont-Le-Ro-ger and Tricqueville, freight yards at Serquex and the power station near Rouen. RAF, dominion ' and allied fighters ran interference for the medium bombers and engaged in supporting sweeps. Six enemy fighters attempting to intercept the Beaumont-Le-Roger raiders were'"" shot down. ' . . ; ; Shortly after the RAF aisht .'raiders streaked : out across the chanel German and German-' controlled radio stations la eluding the Deutsch-Landsender, inaln radio in the Berlin area, and the radios at Paris, Calais, Bremen and Breslan became silent.' In western Switzerland air raid warnings shrieked. - Reports of returning allied pi lots said the German air force waa far mere earer for combat ' . than It bad been la recent weeks, when the allied planes had aQ but complete freedom of the air - ways. The pilots deduced j the : . . nasi flyers had new orders to stop the Flying Fortresses re gardless of cost. eluding Spanish rice and chicken and pork served beneath a blan ket of rich, brown chill sauce, was principal feature ef their feasting. - , When they raised the red, white and- green flag ef the Mexican re public, they raised also the stars and stripes - and echoes of their "Viva eL Mexico!" had not died when-they-shou ted "Viva los United States!" - ; The Mexican banner was made for the camp , by Mrs. Charles Redding, ; 1220 - Columbia street.' The design7 for the brown Mxi- can eagle was drawn from a five cent piece by Nadine Orcutt Nunn. ' Reflecting the current common' interest ' of the two neighboring republics, men from the camp tar at the Victory Center bond-selilrss program in Salem I'.ursday noon. Later they sang beneath the cark. khaki top. of the auditorium tent erected for them at the stats fair grounds. Recordings of some of the great music of their country and,. :their. 'people were playei throughout the afternoon end eve ning, and the ar.:;: YS.tr wes u:.: .!, with some'sii-- ss a r,'-'-': address system for the ' Icxl -.: