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iPAGS TWO Allies Burnt Naples As Nazis Flee I (Continued from Page 1) I flict vengeance on the Italians for surrenderin unconditionally ' and 1 irreparably shattering the axis. A dense pall of smoke has been ' hanging over Naples-for days. Latest reports say many bodies r aire buried beneath the ; debris. . Others, including those of civil ians and disarmed Italian soldiers assassinated by the Germans, still lie in the streets. , ' .. .The tragedy which.had befallen I Naples, one of the world's most beautiful cities because of . the .scenic splendor of its bay and the mountains rising from the sea, . approaches that which descended upon nearby Pompei in ancient times when it was shaken by an earthquake, .engulfed by a tidal wave and covered with ashes by an eruption of Vesuvius. Nine tenths of the Neapoli-. : tans did not ' stay to see the . last lurid days under the Ger- ..jnaas. They fled to the hills leng , are. These who did remain liv- t ed under a reign of terror : In which the Germans were shoot In Italians and looting their homes. . The Germans burned down the .University of Naples .after four , otudents had killed a German of ficer. They sacked the city's fa mous aquarium. Refugees report ed that the nearby street was strewn with rare specimens of fish and a collection of octopi for which the institution was known. i One dispatch said the beauti- ful San Carlo opera house had been burned. ; - The loss of Naples undoubtedly ; will compel the Germans to pull ' back farther In the central and Adriatic areas, where the eighth army is exerting steady pressure. Naples, a metropolis of 925,000 ' people, fell 22 days after the fifth army landed under heavy German f fre on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, some 30 miles to the south. Gruelling fighting ' has raged throughout that period, with the 'allies all but driven back into ' the sea in the first few days. Then ' they had to batter their way through rugged mountain posi tions which gave all the advantage to the enemy. - But the fifth day was aided by an air force which had complete mastery of the air throughout the ' campaign, and by American and British navies which shelled en emy positions from the seaJ Every ' important German position in the : Naples area was shattered, and tonight the enemy still was in or derly retreat to the north. Allied military' g-ovenunent officers entered Naples today to start their staggering- task., . Scores of thousands of Neapoli tans are expected to retain ; shortly - from their mountain hideaways.: - The city's gas, street car and electric systems have been wreck ed. Water is short and a large ' percentage of homes lie in ruins. ": Naples was primarily a city of poor people living in tenements "whose squalor contrasted sharply - with ' the sublime beauty of the city's natural surroundings. ' Getting food into the city for ' the poor will be a major problem. - v The destruction of Naples is so great that it will require years to restore "the . pride of southern Italy." . , ., , ... ' . (The British radio said ' the main body -of the fifth army was given a tremendous reception by the Italians when they drove into . Naples. ' ; - (The broadcast, ; recorded ; by - CBS, said: "It was an amazing '-sight. The citizens crawled out shattered houses and filled the streets, shouting and cheering as our men passed through. They wero simply delirious with exdte " ment and 'relief. They swarmed 1 aD around the troops, climbing - Into the Jeeps and trying. to get into the 'tanks as they rumbled ' through -tho streets. (Everywhere there were crowds of people cheering the .- British and American troops, em bracing then and kissing them in their; joy ,Our. men were never kissed : so much in their lives as ; they vera today when they marched into the stricken city.) Vc!:raz5 Hall Corner Hood & Church St. 0J Time Dancing , Music by - : The Oregon ians - N E)AKII1 EvcryL:-7 Censored fcy Capital Post 1 ONtheHOllEFRONT ' By SABSL CXHLD3 Many, years ago the world's most prominent psalmist wrote: The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away. - Now, I know -very little about Matilda Bex, who to the allotted three-score and ten years has added eight more.- She- Is, you see, the same age as Elinor Glyn, who died recently in 'London. I find in the story that I heard last night strength that may be labour, but, to me, is not sorrow. ! For Matilda -Rex (she is Mrs. Arthur Rex) has worked all sea son on the night shift at Califor nia Packing company's plant here. Have you ever worked "on the belt?" White-haired, grandmoth terlyMrs. Rex has. Nor does she plead illness as often as younger members of the crew, I am told. Add life "on the belt" is similar to the most unpleasant aspect of life on the ocean wave. Last night she trimmed beets. Homemakers who can beets at home will tell you how the hands may ache after an hour or two at the task try putting in a full day. V - You know, some day I hope to be three score and ten and maybe eight more years of age if I can still take an interest in the life around me and in the Job that has to be done, and I think I shall like to remember during the intervening years the story J. heard last night about Mrs. Rex and her work on the night shift. Reds Continue To Advance F (Continued from Page 1) F feat in the southern Ukraine. The high command communique said the Russians lost 149 oat of 259 tanks In a mass attack near Zaporoshe on the Dnieper river bend. i There, where the Dnieper turns far to the east, the Russians were said to have attacked with more than 15 infantry divisions, six tank brigades and a large number of artillery formations along a 70 mile front. A Moscow radio broadcast re corded by the Soviet monitor said Russian bombers for the second straight night pounded Vitebsk, Orsha and Mogilev in White Rus sia and Szankoi in the Crimea. Nazi broadcasts reported some Russian advance columns had driven across the mighty Dnieper, but said they had been hemmed in and that all Russian attempts to reinforce them by bringing up major forces from the east were frustrated. ' The Russian failure to claim any crossings indicated they were still tentative and had not seriously breached the Dnieper river defense line. Through the German broadcasts ran a new tone of confidence, in dicating that their hope of holding the river and stalling the Russian summer offensive, now n earing the end of its third month, had brightened. 1 Neither side mentioned the Kiev battle, where both sides appeared to be dag In on oppo site banks of the Dnieper, hurl ing shells and bombs at each other from range of a few hun dred yards. All Tree Nuts Soon To Have Ceilings WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -OR All varieties of edible tree nuts will be placed under ceiling prices soon, the office of price adminis tration announced today, at levels about ten cents a pound under pre sent prices for shelled nuts. Too Late to Classify WANTED: A cords IS in. Br wood. delivered. Turner vicinity. Write Rt. x. Box 23. Turner, or phono Salem Last Times Today Silver Queen 10 j with i Georro Brent i ; FriseiUa Lane j ;. plus " I DUDES ARE V PRETTY PEOPLE" : ' Jimmy Rogers' ' k--' Noah Beery, Jr. Marjorio Weed worth ; News Cartoon - Serial UcbcziD No. 9, Americas Legtea Ha OPA Officer Rent System Like Bend's A (Continued from Pago 1) A March 1, 1942, then bureaus arc created to step in with regulations which can enforce decrees Gage declared. : . Not included amonsr . the euzht grounds for, rental increase under rent control is the assertion that "rent was at depression low" rates on March 1, 1942. Simply to have been slow in increasing rentals is not foundation for an increase, he said. Property movement is hampered and almost non-existent under rent control, the speaker said, be cause of regulations which re quire the seller to receive one third of the sale price as down payment, forbid the purchaser from borrowing for ; that down payment and give renters the right to require 90-day notification to vacate. Senate Drafts Resolution on Foreign Policy A r-tr- dpi T WASHINGTON, Oct Working with unexpected speed, members of a senate foreign re lations subcommittee ' completed tonight the preliminary draft of a post-war foreign policy declara tion described as more specific in its terms than the -house-ap proved Fulbright resolution. ' While the text of the " rough draft is ' being " kept secret until committee members can study it further, it was said authoritative ly to call for American participa tion in an international organiza tion of nations to prevent future aggression. ' It was described as a compro mise between the Fulbright pro posal and the resolution offered by Senators Ball (R-Minn), Bur ton (R-Ohio), Hill (D-Ala), and Hatch (D-NM). The latter resolution calls for creation of a permanent United Nations military force "to sup press by immediate use of such force any future attempt at mili tary aggression by any nation." The house-approved resolution. drafted by Rep. Fulbright (D-Ark) simply would put congress on rec ord as favoring participation by this country through its constitu tional process in "appropriate in ternational machinery" to pre serve the peace. No Laundry For Silverton SH.VERTON ':- Silverton mar have to go dirty this winter, ac cording to information given out here late Thursday. A local laun dry is something Silverton had. be fore " the " war. In i recent months soiled clothing has been left at the Bell's Cleaners here and a Sa lem laundry wagon picked it up twice a week. But now even this service has stopped. At first it was believed that only the absence of a driver of he laundry truck stood in the way of cleanliness for Silverton. But it was learned that Salem laundries really are not eager for Silverton's wash. However, the commercial work could be done there, it .was said, if it were delivered, but at present no means of delivery has been figured out ; The hospital and local restau rants are among the heavier suf ferers at Silverton. , j CONTINUOUS TODAY FROM 1.-00 P. M. J Qr 'Bsv" "a I - rr-. if ""Sfc. mDAi:m 0170) KEY! UTS U I lTJLTH KAXY.ia r.J. VLIZX I ; UOSODrS a Mmo.cotowm.MAya nautt DAEUUG" .. r CHTGCIJ CTATLCMTJ. ZcZtzs. US-Born Japs Fight in jtcdy B (Continued from Page 1) II wouldn't trade my command for any other m the army. "They- feel they've got a chance to prove they're real Americans and demonstrate their loyalty. . . The average - stature of the whole unit is only five-feet-four, but the officers have said they can outmarch and outwork most ordi nary troops. They: are experts at taking, cover and advancing with out disclosing - their 'positions. ' They laugh and joke incessant ly, exchanging f remarks in that patois peculiar to Hawaii. - Very few of them r speak to - people. They've got something extra to fight for." " ' Actually, he said, the men would rather be In the Pacific fighting the Japanese than the Germans "but we're saving that for later." The officers are . unanimously enthusiastic about the quality and spirit of the men. They said they never had seen any troops train harder , and more assiduously and never had any doubt as to what to expect from them in combat. They were ashore in Italy only one day and had just finished or ganizing their encampment when a German prisoner was - brought past the site. He gaped with sur prise when he saw their faces and asked if they were Japanese. An interpreter explained that they were Americans of Japanese par enfeger A ,V : NOW SHOWING ' " rl? SALEM'S LSAD9N9 TMSATRS STARTS TODAY f-'- I " J Q 'is ' ' : I S J in: -" J 1 tt-TkiUtiWiS" ft Ana sltvASEJp n CTtzs-Tiurrnracrrr lory of t Aaistos'fciBisow CO-FEATURE A New Face A - N w Swoethoart . xary La la I PLUS - NEW SERIAL This New Mickey Mouse Serial Starts Today - JJont Miss the Ex citing Chapters . That Follow Each sararoay attesnoon Cre-sn. Saturday Kcniis. FDR Outline Postvar Use -Of Airbases By J. W. DAVIS WASHINGTON, Oct.1 1 5S Freedom of the air should follow the winning of the war, President Roosevelt declared today, and he said Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain shares in this be- 'v Saying that he- thinks' mat ev erything wQl be all right with re gard to, the peacetime use of air bases being built abroad by Am erican men and money , in war time, the president sketched rougidy , for his news , conference a post-war aviation arrangement in which America would: ' (1) Control its own Internal avi ation. ," ;: ' :--: : (2) Retain commercial and pas senger routes in general in private hands. t ? (3) Possibly subsidize American routes competing with lower-cost foreign ; lines and non-profitable routes to open new, territory. I (4) Permit foreign planes to fly over , the United States and to re fuel within our borders. ; V -j Senators :- back from a 40,000 mile world tour this week ex pressed fear that US-built airports abroad will revert to foreign countries six months after the war and, as Senator Brewster (R, Me.) put it, "leave us holding the bag." STARTS TODAY MURDER behind the footlights! ' From Gypsy Rose Lee's sen sational best seller, "G-String Marders'conies the screen's most glamorous mil midst laughter, l 7 lo?e and music! Muttt Stroixbcrg STANW 7 M BARBARA,, r mm -Plus 2nd Great Hit. mmmdiAZiKGAGAim This time Ws drawn for our nod neighbors finds a murder- plus adventure phis the prettiest gal souttr of th Wo Grande... in" - the most excite-. merit-packed" Pic ture of his whole exciting career! r cwotctLicifasys; I I r IVaiflElCOVD, i rJt l rt lilt r ' Cclcbsr 2. 1C13 Bornbsrs Sink jap Destroyer . l (Continued from Page 1) L northeast coast of New Guinea. ' The communique said the Aus tralians : are pressing - in from three points which would place their nearest forces less ihan half a mile from the town site. Sharp; fighting broke out be tween Australians - jand Japanese in the Markham valley approxi mately 60 miles from Madang. an other "Japanese strong point on the northeast New Guinea coast. . The clash . occurred when our advance patrols ambushed a. force of 100 Japanese, an action typical of jungle fighting. The Austral ians not only killed 45 Japanese but wounded more. j In an attempt to - lighten the pressure of the Australians around Finschhafen, . the (Japanese sent their planes over in raiding sorties aimed at personnel around Satel burg, but the communique said the raids were ineffective. A South of Finschhafen forces which were driving northward from Lae were near Cape Cretin, just south of their objective at Finschhafen. Bombers from the army's ISth air force found an 11-ship convoy "attemntin to run our blocjcaaa in the Solomons: and immediately attacked. 3 GREAT H1TSIU I " with naiAEl 0'SIIEA J fare cost of rsa ffumk cgnmnsrs ROPAIONG CASSIDY- a (l if? 1 U H 1 Hi ... l. At MOMHOMS CAIr ::'r x- fft ; "X- CLTOC JAY KIRBT , VH KUSSOl StMPSOH CtAUOtA DRAKE -JS ,1 -X 1 i0MGCacmSDUNOINtNAtnrW THIRD GREAT IHTl V-tk New Adveatwro Serial : VtA v l f) 5KY-5IAC1MO. CIIAPTISJI . Allies AttacI: Oiannel Coast riKmfl QafiirdaT. Oct. The allies attacked the French channel coastal area early, waay either with planes or warships, coastal reports said. ; . . i Southeast coast residents . said a, .imnt mntinuOUS gun vuej jww . , - . - - MAAer fin Cashes from me.rreiw ww. fan rr ryrris' ' APPTrTt - ' ' Jo E. Brown la The Darteff Youn5 Han "1 T O M O R R O W ten SECOND A CIcss Coll T A . WITH : William Gaxgan - Margaret Lindsay Mldnlte Show Tonite - TOMORROW . viaci I -VVc x ri'i''S :;cx hr-J . . I RT! DIELliTTin u irT ft t!APY CCniXS : AmcU STAf.'a c:r:rrr tv-z imnnttiVou ITTTSaY V TTTJ 'TlIS CCUHT C? S..t l.rmiki,9 -.,, ,, ..-m, MM.. - laMIW txscnoww : , Tnuni v,- vtrfnitr cf ruler f 1 , the rumble cl t': The attack came nidi: i.i -; man radio was sayir.S .t..- ; Marshal Gen. Irl Von Xtunstedt had just , - an inspection of tee channel fenses nearest U Drttaui t decided on extensions cf i - tions. ., German fortifications t!or..t V s coast between Calais and D-n-kcraue were hanimerei ty t RAF eisat m- Last Hae Tc-y Hi ) ! .J U iswiiznsYcrj., i jiiimi! 'Siiiir; aiiiiii c5011 BIG HIT! fcr Ellcry Qncsa ii Last Day "MEN OF TEXAS .' and . Trums of ' Tho Conjo" ADDED l "VALLEY OF Z" i VANISHING m I It Q Ik OS) OW OMHH PHW 00 ( J
