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TLCZZGO:i STAHniAU. Cclsnu Qreyoa, Sunday Morslag. May 7 ISii Salem's VF7 Out to Raise Welfare Quota i FuU sjeed. ahead for the. VTW welfare fund of If 44 Is lite cur rent battle cry of Marion post SSI. Veterans of Foreign Wart, as It plunger into the fray seeking vo secure ua quuwi mc iuw,- 000 pledged) by the national or ganixation. j - ' The one and one-half million dollar fond will be, used to pro mote welfare, rehabilitation -and employment; of the 35,000 veterans .who are monthly discharged from the service currently and the 10, 000,000 who will ultimately be re turned to civilian life. ."The total fund has been ap ! portioned among ' the I more than 5000 post! bf the organization on : a membership basis," Marion Post Commander Virgil G. Bolton ez- i plained Sa There Is to I be no aolicitation under the plans' of 'the campaign, Bolton made it clear,' but veterans of mil Wan, members of their families and patriotic orders and , citizens ari invited to contribute. . Past Commander M. Henry Sim has been named as chairman of : the welfare committee to carry on i the campaign. He will be assisted br two- team captains. Cliff S. Bedtern and Vlxgu I Parker. Red fern has named on his team A. L. Strarer. Solon 1 Shinkle. Chris r , Flores, Albert Case, Clarence For- bis. Russell Mudd, P. H. Ringte, John Coleman, Leslie Wadsworth '" and CoL CJ A. Robertson. Parker's team constats of Paul Thorelsen, ! Lawrence jWinkenwerder, Frank I L. Prinee, David F. Furlough, i , George Malstrom, Dale Brooks, i George -Feller, Joe Horneffer, C W. Pricket and Frank MiUett. Allied Planes Hit Hansa Bay F (Continued from Page 1) F lan forces i moving up the New i Guinea coist from Alexishafen i now are 10 miles beyond that for- mecenemy air base without hav i Ing contacts! the Japanese. Alex j ishafen is approximately 400 miles I southeast, of Hollandia. r Thomas Jefferys Dies in Albany ALBANY. May 6 Thomas William I Mitchell Jefferys. 57, died while ion his way to work Friday, moming,1 May 5. Funeral services' are - being ; arranged by the Fortmiller funeral home with the time and date to be announced later.; : ;:v -"li'.:-'jy:.-: :" Thomas Jefferys was born ' March 1, 1887, in Gilford, Surrey, , England. In 1910 he .came to the United States, first making his ' home in Aberdeen, Wash, and ' later In Centralis in the came : state. In May. 192&, he came to Albany and since then has made his home here; living on route four in recent years. He was ' member of the Masonic lodge. For many years Jefferys had " been employed in the office of ' the D. E. Nebecgali Meat company ' and at the time of his death was ' office manager. . In 1917 he married Winifred '' Goman at Aberdeen, Wash. She survives, -as do a son, Don, and m daughter, - Mrs. Verne Vessey, and a granddaughter, Vicky Ann Vessey, all . of Albany; Jus father, iRev. Thomas "Jefferys of Kelso, r Wash., end two sisters, Mrs. Hugh - .Ingram of Kelso, Wash, and Mrs. ' Elitabeth Jefferys, also of Kelso. ; Frost Does Damage -To Apricot Blooms i VALE, Ore, May s-MV- Apr! t cot blooms in the Vale and White settlement district were eztensive- : ly damaged by recent frosts but i most of the . peach crop escaped - W9r .... . . .. . vusmeyerk.orcnardist.,re- i ported ioday. . Sugar beets also- escaped dam age from temperatures of the past ' week which dropped asvldw as 28 degrees. ' Remains Are Bear's, Not Human's Foot , . , TOLEDO, May S-jfA foot . and leg, found near a SileU log ging camp proved to be from a . bear and not from a human, re ports from the state crime labor , atory in Portland showed today. The remains were turned over to Sheriff George Robinson by . persons who found them last 'V weekv A :.c - - ' Portland Girl T7ina V Frsnk Scholarship PORTLAND, Ore., May t UlP) Anna Wilkerson, Roosevelt high school senior, won the. ninth an nual Aaron it Frank .scholarship today from a 'field of IS state fin alists. hav elected to 'attend the University of Oregon. ' ArthiT TL Ohlicg. Albany, was named first alternate, and Jeanne Ltclntosh, Corvaliis, second alter- Soldiers' are Australian wives a tto iiinii to leave frssn cJseeea the same shto wtth lrtme Minister John Cnrtla ef Australia, gemg to Washington fee ferenees. (AP Wlrephete) Four Yarilis and Capture 27 Nazis by Mistake By KENNETH L. DIXON WITH THE AEF ET ITALY,. April 2S -(Delayed)-(ffV'And thenthere is the story of the four got the 27 prisoners all because They were in the line up on Holona of Fort Defiance, Ariz and three pfe's Kenneth Cul bertson of Oil City, Pa, Robert Slade of Fort Allegheny, Pa, and Donald H. Towne of Water town, NY. It was night when orders were sent up to straighten out our line by pulling in all the machine guns. But Holona and his buddies never got the message. During the night they heard strange noises, indicating that a ot of people certainly must be having trouble or insomnia. How ever, along the front it is consid ered bad manners to holler "What's cooking, Joe," whenever you hear noises in the night So ' they iust ignored all the moving around and minded their own business. Came the dawn and everyone else was gone, but they knew the . war wasn't r over ' yet even if it was 1944. So they Just stayed put and pretty soon a whole platoon of Germans came- slewr footing ; up alongside an old farm house in front, of them. Now. four men and a machine gun got no business picking trou ble with a whole platoon of Ger mans, which is about 30, but Ho lona and company just opened up couDle of bursts .to clear the dew out of the barrel and started giving the boys the business. The Germans, made a dive for the house and most of them made it inside where they started dop ing out ways to eliminate the four men and a machine gun. While they were groping, the quarrel some quartet set the trigger again and fired the farm house with tracer bullets. The j Germans goose-stepped right back out and the machine gunners cut loose at them again and there they were; it was too hot inside and out They were getting tired of all this ..running around aimlessly and just wanted to settle '' down somewhere and take it easy anyway. So they surrendered, 27 of them, including four who were, pretty badly wounded. By the ; time ev erybody got through with the "kamerads" en infantry .squad nad joined the scene and explain ed to the four machine gunners that they weren't even supposed to be up there. When the. Germans found out the whole thing was a mistake they wanted to go back and start all over again. But they didn't press the point and so nothing ever came of it j : ' :' j Rommel Says Invasion Due D (Continued" from Page 1) D of an "enormous, air umbreUa," and said: . v - "They will be so powerful It win te impossible to prevent es tablishment of . bridrcheads o the fate of the invasion will de pend on battles between-the In vasion forces and large (German) reserves.' ... Congregational Meet. Slated for BIqr 9-10 OREGON ? CITY-. Ore: Mar W-The fiSth annual conference of the Oregon Congregational conference-will be hekt-kene May 9-10 at the Atkinson -Memorial church the oldest Consresation- al church west of Towa. I Fcrca Fcm -sr: 7ives Before Leaving for US el American soldiers flxhilnr down am - A trallsn rt tor Ibe United a Machine Gun men and the machine fun who of a mistake. ' '. the Anzio beachhead, Sgt. Jim Lucia Haley Neic President Of Library A (Continued from Page 1) A not reported to the proper author ities, t ' But CoL Sandy also said that, while the selective service heads are advocating ! men below 26 years for the armed "service, it is found that most psychoneurotics are between 19 and 22 years of age. In the speaker's opinion, "the older -men are better fitted to take if ' But he added that most of these psychoneurotics, fitted well into civilian life again, once they were employed,' and that after a few months many of them could be returned to the armed forces bet ter fitted' for that life than they were the first time. O. I. Paulson, state director, di vision of vocational education, state board of education, snoke on Oregon's responsibility- for vo cational training and vocational rehabilitation to j release war workers and returned service men and women. He told of the special educational facilities being work ed out for the disabled men and women, not only from wars but from other accidental causes as welL Mrs. Gretchen Knief Schenk, librarian,;, Washington state 11 Drary, xrom uiympia, gave a re port on the experimental Institute on demobilization and . readjust ment meeting this .spring in Chi cago. She reviewed briefly the discussion of future plans and said that at the end of the war there would be at least IS million un employed. She urged that cities plan seriously to provide .places for these and spoke of the-librarians' plaoe in this planning. Miss Eleanor Stephens, Oregon state librarian, indicated that postwar planning bad to date been too much talk and not enough ac tion. Newly elected officers were installed at the close of the after noon session. " Around Oregon 6V tttf AwaM!IJltea(J "pTWIeS H. B. Jorgenson, Silver ton dairyman, will sell his dairy equipment because his only son was' recently called to the service and he cannot operate the ranch alone .'' Edgar' W.' Smith, seeking, the democratic - nomination for US senator urged Tillamook county workerg to get out the county vote in the May 19 primary election . . July Ann Miles, ; two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Miles, Vanport City, died Sunday of secondary pneumonia as a re sult of carrot particles - lodged - in her throat cpsgial 01:20:111:3 ncGCuriT tinder. Tlds ntctore was taken States. They amvee to San Fraav- OirtheHOUEFROlIT t, bakl osiDs SUte Police Officer Carl Mc cormick should ' now say McCor mick, sr. who handles the graveyard shift at the station here, has his "day" off (really means that he has a night off) on Fri day. So his son .With true Scotch, or maybe Irish, perversity decided to wait until early Saturday morn ing to be born. V f Mrs. Mc and Carl, Jr, got along fine without Father's help, or big sister's, either, for that matter. Of course- they were in a hospital, the Bungalow Maternity home. And that distresses Carline, the eight-year-old daughter and sis ter, for she hasn't been allowed to see the baby. V . Don't know whether it's the physiologist " or j the psychologist who decided to keep older broth ers and sisters away from new born babes. . Frankly, I wish the rule had been in order when I arrived, There are some things I never have lived! down. Youll like him better, too, Carline, If you wait until he's strong enough to recognize you. Nurses to Be Inducted Into US Cadet Corps PORTLAND, Ore, May -P)- More than 600 Oregon nurses will be inducted into the US . cadet nurse corps May 13, Misc Elnora Thompson, state nursing council chairman, said today. Nurses In hospitals In Portland, Eugene, Baker, Pendleton and The Dalles are enrolled in the cadet corps. I HEIDELBERG, Miss -(')- Mrs. T. D. Lewis, on whose prop erty Is a new oil well, says; Mnnev isn't evervthinff. We've got money now to buy anything we want, but we can't get any good corn meaL Spinach Canning Season at Local Plant Wul StartMay II The spinach canning season at Salem rfaiit. and with, it the heavier nortion of the 1944 vegetable season, orjens rhursday, May. Tuesday of the followihs week management said yesterday, From that time on, spinach will be arriving at the ! plant h full-har vest portions, it is expected. Cards are to be sent to the wo men, who put In the most working days or nights at the plant in the 1943 season and. registrations- wlu be taken for the day shift on Tues day, May 9, and for the night shift on Wednesday,! May 10. Cards are notbeing sent out to men who worked last season but their regis trations are sought. Probability mat new help will be needed on the night shift was foreseen Saturday. Workers In terested In retaining their senior ity in the.plant should register, or if unable to ! work on spinach, should report their intentions for the late summer and fall canning season on beets, beans, prunes. pumpkin and! carrots. It is All these products will -be hand led to the extent of the plant's ca- India Pleased Over Gandhi's Jail Release NEW . DELHI, India, May 8 -() Widespread satisfaction greeted the release today of Mohandas K. GandhL Indian Nationalist leader detained for. 21 months as a po- litical prisoner, in the Aga Khan's summer palace in Poona, but In timates feared it marked a new crisis In the illness of the frail disciple of India's masses. . The press of all shades of opin ion, nationalist as well as" English owned, welcomed the freeing of GandhU, The government released the 74-year-old leader uncondi tionally, citing failing health, after having confined him in August, 1942 for political activity which it regarded as hampering India's resistance-to Japan. His' intimates here said that Ghandi is. suffering from both high blood pressure and a kidney ailment and win depend for re covery on a spiritual source ex strength "beyond the conception of the western world.". His son, Devadas GandhL expressing the opinion-that bis father was iously m and possibly near death. said mat Gandhi would scorn most medical minstrations. Romania Gels Heavy Blows II If 7f.ll nrfs H (Continued from Page 1) 11 Thunderbolt fighter - bombers struck a Nazi air field at Rennes, in northern France, and -a forma tion of Thunderbolt fighters swept the same area. Neither formation sighted a single enemy, plane and neither suffered loss. rrM a.a. l m v Li l t l xne kbkko naa cubsim in- stallations in the Pas-de-Calias area are so secret that even now after more than 100 assaults on them; they have not been described in detail. Returning Liberator crewmen said each wave of Amer ican planes chose a different tar get bombing through an overcast. No German fighters were met; ground fire was sporadic and in effective. - , ':'.! Bombers Over Europe 23 rd Day I (Continued from Page 1) I May 7. 1J4J was evidence of the Germans' Inereaslng fears that the allies were preparing another trreslsteble push. Ear lier in the week official reports said heavy, unexplained explo sions were heard from the "vi cinity ef Formla on the west ern end of the front which pos sibly indicated enemy destruc tion of installations and stores. Ini today's ambitious air drive Into : Romania ' the American ! I bombers and fighters battered their way through screens of en emy interceptors ana DomDea five ! vital rail yards, all on the main routes from Bucharest over i' ... which the Germans are pouring I reinforcements and supplies to the I southern Russian front- California jfacking corporation s 11, with, a day, shift.-Monday or a night shift will be added, plant parity, llinited.only by the num- representatives said. Persons whoare or who have been working . in. other essential industry must be cleared by the US :' employment service at 710 Ferry street management of the plant reminded. j LEARN IIOUE ; FIRST AID NOW... nam conserve medical .knowl edge for the boys In uniform . . learn to give immediate end temporary, aid in cases ot accidents or -a naaia uiness. Save the doctor's visits by vis- i King turn . . . Let us quickly' get the accurate ingredients to Straight you for a speeuy recovery.' Navy Doctor JVith BrokdnRib Makes 2 Operations in Storm i - V 1 By NORMAN BELL NORTH PACIFIC US IXZET gency surgery ,at sea, how about a- storm-tossed destroyer by a Lieutenant John M. Hundley cer of a destroyer attached to & "And it was rougher even than commander, who: told-me general facts of the story as he peered at the Storm, through the dripping: pi lot house windows of his flag ship. The task force was petroling the Bering sea area northwest of the Aleutians ; at the time, the commander recalled. - It was. wild, bitter november day, The ships- reeled .and lurched under the screaming impact of wind and waves. ' i Below, men jgripped their way along ewayingt passages. They even had to cttnf to their bunks, in trying to catch: some rest be tween watches. It was Impossible to sen meals. The men lived on sandwiches, and ! gulps of black coffee. - I Then a sailor aboard Dr. Hund ley's destroyer was stricken dan- acute appendicitis. There was no telling when jme storm would blow; itself out Dr. Hundley decided an immediate operation was necessary-. The flagship was notified and, on the commanders- order;! the task- force's? course was changed; so that the destroyer might ride the seas as easily as possible. But Dr. Hundley's irib" was broken when he- was hurled against a buianead wnile making surgery preparations.' The patient was -strapped to a table: . hospital . corps men, brae Ing themselves against bulkheads and stanchions, stood by- with the sterilized Instruments. Dr. Hundley, taking advantage of a momentary lulL made the in cision and, defying the storm. proceeded with ! a ; successful ap4 Dendectomv. And. as lx tnat were not en-i . i ough, he performed a similar opi eration a short time later. The destroyer's j no longer: with us, tne task force commander said, "but those ere the general facts A note, y latter prepared by the flag secretary confirming major details, added: "He! (LL John 1 Hundley, i MC, US navy) was commended by the task force commander for s uccessfully per forming two emergency opera tions of this kind under very try ing conditions while he himself was injured. j j ; i Soviets Sink ! 8 MorejShipsi C (Continued from Page 1 C Russian assaults east of the mid dle Siret river i in Romania,! but Moscow was silent on these op erations as the land front! lull entered the third week. t A Russian Tass ' agency review said Russian planes during April had sunk about 200 ships, includ ing destroyers,! minesweepers, torpedo boats and several dozen transports totalling more than 100,000. tons. Most of these vessels sank in the Black sea on the axis sea lanes from the Crimea to Ro mania, said the review. ' ' 1 glrfpYard Labor Shifts l . TT iL.ll.LJ imjcxi y w mjvxi ajamve. PORTLAND, ; Ore, May S-(fffc In a surprise move the- Pacific coast shipbuilding, stabilisation conference adjourned tonight; and announced i that the . number ! and length of working, shifts will be left no to local labor and manaae- I ment groups. In a Jjress statement the con- ference Indicated that the j na tion's war requirements . continue to hold the . highest place In the minds of- labor and management alike and that petty differences tpt war effort MOTHER'S 1CIV0 MOD TI1D PnCCIOUO GIFT op ncAQibo What better way can yon ex yoareseetaaa and CJ- h7. witk Best of all,' yos seed : pay f49io bring eT ZemiUiVfiast qeality Radionic Cearag Aii tba mi BASE--Speaking of emer a couple of major operations on doctor with broken rib? was the doctor; the medical offi- north Pacific task force. it is today, said, the task force Service News v. Letter Goes OutThisWeek -,j4l (. j J - t . First of the Cherrian sponsored monthly, news bulletins to se vicemen of Marion and Polk coun ties will be mailed out late this week. King Sing Frank Chatas announced Saturday. Persons ' who have received cards asking for addresses of ser vicemen' and who have procras tinated in-returning- the informa tlon to Cherrians should hasten so that the men of their families may be on -the mailing list which is to be compiled Thursday, Chat- sj indicated. 1 " ' ' " Families with men In any of the military services who have not received such cards should notbesttate to volunteer the names and addresses, he said. The Cher rians are anxious to reach every man with the bulletins designed especially to interest them and to present news of their home com munities in which they will be interested, he explained. Police Find Clue in LA G (Continued from Page 1) G been killed by poison -or strangu lauon. tie said this would re quire several days. The bodyj packed in salt, was discovered at a railway express agency office in a trunk shipped here from Chicago by a man who gave the name of John Lopez as sender and consignee. Election! Validity Questioned by Ward's CHICAGO, May MP)-A ques tion of the validity of a national labor relations board election con ducted in a plant being operated by the government as are Mont gomery Ward and Company's Chi cago properties , was raised today by the firm's attorneys at- a Jcon ference before Federal Judge Wil liam JH. Holly. . .rl - George B. Chris tensen of Ward's counsel said he had informed the court that "there is a' question whether the election would - be valid while the employes are em ployes of the US government, : as they are - under the sweeping terms of President Roosevelt's or der for seizure of the properties, because the national labor rela tions act specifically excludes US employes from its operations.': The election is set for Tuesday. OSIcs) Suppfiea ' OfSce) Deeka rUeo. - Chedrs - -Greeting Cards j; Books j Gifts j . " .': Wedding Announcements Picttsre Frames Writing. Portfolios Leather Goods COOKE'S ; StaSonery Co., 370 State Street 8 DAY ; poprdar m tne world to day! The entire family can Sto thie ene grmt gift taw Xsi rtlotiar ia a ainiiHaHiei. Toe wd swi js pii d e hmj. YSe aaS ly to Utoee wfce east be Tlir'NESF ZENITH CAD!0;.!C IIEAHINC AID US LCC33 23 . ; High Of f ic3rs B (Continued from Page 1) B damaged .bomber returning from Germany." r Navy i Killed in action: Rear Adm. Isaac Campbell Kidd, at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; Rear Adm. -Daniel J. Callahan, off Guadalcanal, ; November, v 1942; Rear Adm. Norman Scott off Guadalcanal, - November, 19 42. Missing - In action:. Rear Adm. Henry M. Mullinnix, off the Gil bert islands, November, 1943. Kuled in plane crash: Rear Adm. Robert H. English, on -the west coast, January, 1943; Commodore James A. Logan,' Northern Ire land, September, 1943; MaJ. 'Gen. William P, Upshur, marine corps, Alaska, July, 1943;- Rear Adm. John Walter Wilcox was lost overboard m a heavy sea, March, 1942. Vice Adm. Arthur Leroy Bristol died of a heart attack while on his flagship on North Atlantic patrol, April, 1942. MaJ. Gen. . Charles D. Barrett marine corps, was killed in an accident while on duty lav. the south Pa cific, October, 1943. , Japs Close In OnLoyang B (Continued from Page 1) 1 Occupation of ancient Loyang, which six times bad been the cap ital of China,' would threaten the large Chinese forces to the east- the main army oT modern China, now guarding the invasion route to the interior ' CLYDE G013I7G 7? 168,714 People AtUndwI this Gnat Circus during the Los Anrtles engage ment. ; Largest Trained Wild Animal Cirens in the World. AMERICA'S NEWEST! NOW WELDED INTO ONE GIGANTIC SHOW Clyi!3C:3ttyf V IN PERSON - Vi'-: J KATTUNO XS 49 SAVAGE, CKUX UOOD- THSXSTY UONS AND TI6BS IN MAMMOTH STITL AKS4A K2S. 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