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7 ' ' - ' -, ' ' t 7 . " cm 1-111 U'.I) CLIO , After persistent .- blasting 7 the military services appear to have relaxed some of ' their censorship ", on military event. The navy now . Is prompt in its reports of bat- ties, and the army seems to be 'headed in the same direction. The American people have proved ? they can take bad news and pre : fer to have it given straight rath- t er than bottled up for weeks. Elaborate preparations are be- v Ing made for the news coverage V of the pending invasion.' Military security of course comes first but the people .; through theiri press, radio and picture services Miemana prompt release, 01 au important ' news . sa ve - that which - might be of aid to the enemy. . .-r But what, may be called cen ; sorship of political news persists! i Cairo, the news ganglion of the middle east, is notorious for its - concealment of news.-A .reporter t there' leads-a hard life trying to get news by the censors who . seem to be schooled in sine ori ental art of face-saving or decep tion. . , ' j - . A current Instance of news - suppression comes .from the Italian theatre where the military has suppressed an important in terview obtained 1 by : Associated ! Press with General Tito, head k of the partisans who have'been making life miserable f or the nazi invaders of Yugoslavia. In spite , of the direct a p p e a 1 of Kent ? Cooper, APs executive director, to General Wilson, the Sir 'Henry Mainland allied (Continued on Editorial Page) In Air Assaults Still Continues LONDON, May tf.-Jpy-AF Mosqalto bombers blasted Ber lin -last Blent, the air ministry announced today, as the British based heavy bomber fleets rest ed p for a renewal of. their mashing , ( f enslve against fort ress Europe. LONDON, Wednesday, May 17. -r)-German were warned o night air raiders by the Berlin ra dio at midnight - after a day . in which British-based allied squad-- rons were idle. Indicating the RAF was return ' ing to the pre-invasion attack, a nazi broadcast to the reich said; "Several nuisance raiders are ap proaching northwest Germany and Schleswig-Holstein." The daylight pause in allied air activity came after Hitler's Europe had been rocked by a month-long aerial offensive which drew retal iatory raids ' on England by the German air forceps u n d a y and Monday nights. T ; A few RAF planes carried out "intruder" operations during the day, scudding all the way to' the Baltic, and a Swedish communique ' said one two-man craft had crashed into the sea off Skane aft er being hit by Swedish anti-air craft.' . : ::.-,;: . -The Canadian pilot of a Mos quito, Charlie Scherf of Edmon - (Turn to Page Z Story H) Senate Group OK's New Tax ' WASHINGTON, Majr U-(fl The streamlined income tax bill advanced another step toward fi . nal congressional approval today while a movement to reduce the i tax. on -night clubs bumped into treasury opposition. T . . The Income tax simplification bill, directing that Uncle Sam fig ure the taxes of about 30,000,000 wage and salary earners and pro- viding a less complicated return 'tor other taxpayers . received unanimous approval of the senate 'finance committee.-. Chairman George (D-Ga.) said he would call it up in the senate Friday and predicted speedy passage. It then will go back to the house for ac tion on technical changes made by the senate committee. The treasury's opposition to lowering the night club tax at this time was made known in a letter to the ' house ways 'and means' committee, which is con sidering a proposal by Rep. Knut aon (R-Minn.) to cut it to' 10 per cent ' '17- -77 Allied Casualties Uglit in Italy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 16-JF)-A member of the staff of Gen. Sir Harold Alex ander, allied commander In Italy, said tonight in a review of the ' five-day-old offensive that cas ualties to date have been "less than .we expected," but he said . progress would be slower now as - the allies slug toward the 'Adolf . Hitler line. - . ,7 7'- : ' t . Progress on the Fifth annv ' front, which' embraces the lower " pecment of the Gustav line, may j be slower now because the moun tainous terrain ' and make-shift roads present great difficulties ef vjAs. tLa spokesman said; Daylight Pause NINETT-TRXBD TEAR Chi mese Tos Out. I; . Invade' j China Bs Importai. f own 1 On ' Railway Line i CHUNGKING, May 16 JP) Chinese forces have thrown the Japanese out of a second town on the vital Peiping - Hankow north - south railway in central China, the Chinese high com mand announced today, and in southwestern China are sweep ing forward west of the Sal ween river- in their big drive to open a road to India. j A communique said the Chi nese had recaptured Chumatien, i where Japanese forces driving . along' the Felplnr-Hankow rail way from north and south had Joined on May 9. The town, U miles south of Chenshslert, was this second retaken by the Chi- . nese since the enemy held com- i plete. control of the railway. -Salpinx", 12 miles north of Chu matien, previously was recap tured. ' j The Chinese reported that the battle for the ancient city of Loy ang in Honan province was grow ing in intensity, with the Ja panese hurling tanks in repeated attacks at the outskirts of thecity in an effort to smash the Chinese lines and take it by storm. In a battle on the plains south west of Sinan, 20 miles west of Loyang, the Japanese were re ported using more than 200 tanks. 1 West of Loyang, occupation f Kuanyintanc by enemy forc es striking southward from Shansl province aroused fresh speculation as to whether the invaders intended to push on to . Tunrkwan.; gateway city to China's northwest. The enemy (Turn to Page 2-;45tory B) v AlUed Writers Well Prepared For Invasion SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Forces, Eng land, May 1HP-Theyre put ting up the big-scale battlemaps on the newly-painted walls of the long conference room of invasion press headquarters and if the German - command could look them over, they'd be Just as wor ried as they are now and not one hit better informed. .. They , show all of Europe in equal scale from the north cape to the Peloponnesus, i, .That's the scope of the concen tric attack which . the invasion will round out in pattern with the Italian drive and the great Rus sian front " The maps show every German potential target,' 'every mile of nazi-held territory and potential objective, i But - wherever the allied press officer's pointer touches in the first announcement of the greatest military undertaking in history, the most carefully prepared news reporting staff ever assembled stands ready to flash out the news 7 (Turn to Page 2 Story F) FDR Will Win State's 14 Votes 7 ' 7 . , Because He's Only Candidate (This is the second of three ar ticles describing the candidates and issues in next Friday's pri mary election.) r . -j j By PAUL W. HARVEY, Jr. SALEM, May le-President Roosevelt will win Oregon's 14 votes to the democratic national convention because his name; is alone on the ballot but no repub lican presidential candidate is en tered. ' j.-'vV ;.;7:.-;7k:'""- :7;:t'7"7"A So the republicans in Friday's primary will write In their fa vorite candidates to guide the 15 republican . convention ' delegates. Gov. Dewey of New; York is ex pected to win, although Gov. Bricker of Ohio and former Gov. Harold - E. Stassen of Minnesota have many supporters. Some republicans tried to start a campaign to have Gov. Snell's name written int the object being to ; have Oregon's delegation go uninstructed. But Snell didn't go for this. Wendell Willkie'a name had been entered, but after his withdrawal from the race, he got his name off the ballot just In time. . ' 7 7 ' Neither party has a vice presi dential candidate entered, so this will have to be settled by the write-in method. ? 1 PAGES Leader Gen. Pei Li-Huang (above), a seasoned veteran of many Chi- neselTapanese battles, is com manling Chinese forces In a big off enlive i launched from south western China to regain an im . portsnt portion of the old Burma road I and to Join allied troops driving across northern Burma (AF svirephoto). Gujjnea Bbiiiber8 Loose 2(0 Ton Load On jap Holdings ADANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Wed nesday May 17 -JP)- Wakde is land aid the adjacent Dutch New Guinea! mainland, for days vir tually Jdef enseless against air at tack, were scarred "and seared again Monday by a 200-ton bomb load dropped on Japanese hang ing onjto an area 110 miles-north west of Hollandia. ' 3 ; - - i The I latest rai by Liberators and Sitchells brought to more than ti&O tons the weight of ex plosives unloosed in three straight days in limited targets in, the Wakde - Sarmi - Maffin Bay tri angle. fThe sector has been under almost! daily assault since late April iwhen Hollandia was in vaded.! . 7 - , : A headquarters spokesman said Monday's raiders knocked out gun positions near . an airdrome on Wakde demolished several large buildings and set off fires and ex plosions among considerable stores of supplies.1' V Ranging on beyond there to the Schouten islands, 260 miles from Hollandia, other raiders ran in to sharp enemy opposition. Fight ers shot down five out of 20 Jap anese Interceptors. . . ; Japen Island, south of the Schou tens, aso was hit. :7;-';; . The bypassed sector of Wewak and Hansa Bay, New Guinea, was still another target . - Rab4uL New Britain, took its daily pounding and other south Pa cific Hiders ranged far northwest to hit Woleal in the Carolines. .The races for congress this year are devoid of color, as six candi dates are unopposed. In the first district Rep. James W. Mott, Salem, is opposed by Dan Harmon, Newberg business man, for the republican nomina tion Of Henry Oleen, St Helens, former I state legislator, is unop posed for the democratic nomina tion. 7 Rep. Lowell Stockman, Pendle ton republican, ' and C. J. Shorb, LaGraride democrat, are unoppos ed for I their respective nomina tions ii the second congressional district! . In the third district Rep. Ho mer DAngelV Portland republi can, is Ijunopposed, while Nicholas L. Granoff and Lester Sheeley, both Portland, will fight it out for the democratic nomination. ' Rep. ;H arris Ellsworth, Rose burg republican, and Floyd K. Dover, ! Grants Pass- democrat, have n opposition for nomination in the fourth district 7 State! Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, Portland republican, has no op position, while William T. Lam bert, Portland, is the only demo cratic candidate for the job. Attorney General George Neun- I - "- '3 $ i H '.'Vi ; i : i' ! I : 1 i -if " - I - - v -1 f -'7--.V v . . x-.: : wpp.s-; Ea unded tv POUNDDD 1651 Satan, Oregon, . WdnsdrT Morning. May 17. 1944 vVLBCalls eetmg On Strike Public Hearing Set for Today With Foremen WASHINGTON, May 16 -P) The war labor board called to day for a showdown ; on the foremen's strikes at war plants in the Detroit. area, .which Un dersecretary of War Patterson described as potentially the most serious walkout i of the war in its effect on combat air craft production. j Shortly after the undersecretary had expressed his fears at a news conference, the WLB summoned the president and the 10-man ex ecutive board of the Foremen's Association of America to a public hearing at 10 a. m. tomorrow "to show cause why the board should not immediately take steps ne cessary to invoke the sanctions and penalties provided by the war labor disputes act and the execu tive orders of the president' Civil suits for damages con stitute the only penalty ef the act so long as the struck plants remain In private hands. If the government seised them, erim-' inal . action might be taken iralast any person encooraginf a strike. Patterson1 told reporters that parts and sub - assemblies for al most all army' planes are manu factured in the 13 plants affected, and the Packard Motor Car com pany plant! which closed Friday is the only source of engines for the P-J51 Mustang long - range fighters. I 7 - 7 Also threatened, bat less Im mediately, the undersecretary said, is the Boeing Aircraft com- (Turn to Page 2 Story X) Soviet Airmen Heavily Bomb Gty of Polotsk LONDON; Wednesday, May 17 UP) Soviet airmen heavily bombed the nazi-held . city of Polotsk near the Latvian - Polish border last night, Moscow announced tonight, continuing j an aerial campaign against German communications in the east similar to the allied pre invasion assaults from the west There were "no essential 'chan ges' on. the land front, said the broadcast - Russian war bulletin, recorded by the Soviet monitor. In the attack on Polotsk, which isvon the Riga, rail line, "military stores and (enemy trains on the lines at the junction were bombed the communique said. "Many fires were started. As a result of the bombing seven explosions, one of great ' force, occurred : among the fires. All our planes returned to the base." f During the recent lull in. land fighting, the red ; army airforce has been hammering German sea and land transportation in what both sides have said is a prelude (Turn to Page 2 Story E) : er, former US district attorney for Oregon, who has held his present job for only a few months, is dp posed for republican renomination by Leroy L. Lomax, Portland lawyer. The only candidate for democratic nomination is Bruce. Spaulding, Salem, former Polk county district, attorney, who t al most won the job four years ago. . T In the races for-delegates . to party conventions, each party will elect, two from each congressional district 7 Republicans will elect seven at large, and the' democrats six at large. - - - Ralph H. Cake, Portland, re publican national committeeman, is seeking reelection. He was na tional campaign manager for Willkie'a - presidential campaign, so Charles L. Paine, Eugene, is opposing Cake on grounds that Cake, because of his position, has no : business . taking part in the presidential fight Mrs. George . Gerlinger, Portland, , republican national committeewoman, is un opposed for reelection;, -C 7 Howard . Latourette, Portland, democratic national i committee man, was beaten two years ago for the -gubernatorial nomination by (Turn to Taje 2 Story A) ' M ' , 1 I I New Italian A f ... r-t X-;.,--: ;:v--i.i7-:7x -V: V:,;: yC''--fw, ' t ' - -X .... V A mechanized French and American on the outskirts of CasUeforte. as derway In Italy, south of Cassino. after a powerful allied attack. (AP dlophote). ' ,7 & For Man ; - . . . Opposition Sends Letter To City Voters Declaring the proposed council manager form of government "un sound" in that it "could only re sult in wasting public funds and creating an official dictator of city affairs," 11 prominent Salem tax payers' hfcve affixed their, names to. a letter which is this week in the mail for Salem voters. ' A quotation from Munro's text book on municipal government to the effect that the manager plan has not in general enabled cities to lower expenditures or tax rates heads the list of arguments in op position to the charter j amend ment which goes before capital city voters Friday. , ! No provision is made in the amendment as to the amount of the manager's salary, it is pointed out by the amount generally quot ed is the same as the salary paid the governor of the stale, the let ter writers declare. 7j Placing the plan before the voters when, many young men and women of the community are away at war is criticized, as is also, the system under which ser vice, clubs have been asked to en dorse the proposal. j The letter is signed by William J. Entress, president of the Salem Trades & Labor council, which has expressed opposition to the plan; J. F. Ulrich, chairman of the municipal affairs committee of the Salem Board of Realtors, 'which committee last week asked the board to take no stand either for or against the plan; by Alder men David O'Hara and Gertrude F. ; Lobdell; by James A. Garson and Katherine Garson, F. G. De lano, " John M. Carson, Custer E. Ross and Ralph K Moody. :: .t-i 7 ' . v. 7. Col. C. Abrams May 30 Head Col. Carle Abrams was Tuesday named grand marshal for Salem's Memorial day exercises by a com mittee from organizations of Sons and Daughters of the GAR. 7 Descendants of Grand Army veterans, assigned the responsibil ity for the May 30 observance here bv the Federated Patriotic socie ties of the city, said there would be the customary services at cem eteries and the bridge. ? honoring all of the nation's 7 war , dead and the parade, and mass meeting in tribute to men 'now offering their lives for the United States. ' ' ' - More civilian participation, and particularly ; the aid of school pu pils will be required i this year than in past observances because of the absence of servicemen, com mittee representatives declared. ; Snell Asks Observance Of Maritime Day Observance ' of Maritime - day, Monday, May . 22, was urged by Gov. Earl ; Snell in' a statement here Tuesday.. : ' 7 The governor .said this observ ance would, afford opportunity of emphasizing both the Vital war time contribution of Oregon ship building and the growing mari b'me- importance of the. state, . Pros Offensive '"a : ' i - '"1 -v. 7 i 4 . S": x- colomn enters.CosnuDamlano, the new allied of tensive arets The Germans evacuated thVUwn Wlrephoto from Signal Corps ra- 8 Salem Clubs Put Approval On Proposal 'When the Soroptimist Club of fcaiem Tuesday mght endorsed the council - manager charter amend ment proposed for the city of Sa lem it became the eighth organ ization to express its approval of the measure, . - . - i 4 Action followed presentation of the plan and arguments in its fa vor by junior chamber of j com merce representatives and a let ter in opposition by 11 persons representative of . business, pro- fessional, labor and homemaker votes. . Appsoval had previously been expressed by the board of direc tors of the Salem chamber .of commerce, by Salem Business and Professional Women's club, by Lions, Salem Credit association. Zonta club. Junior Women a club. Salem Retail - Trade bureau and the board of directors of the Ki- wanis club. Mayor I. M. Dough ton, the three mayors; serving immediately; pre ceding him, a majority of the cur rent council, a large number of the council candidates and the superintendent of public instruc tion are among the individuals who have, expressed their inter est in and hope; for adoption . of the measure. Junior chamber; lead ers, active sponsors of the plan, said Tuesday. Halibut Tie-up Will End Soon VANCOUVER, May 1H)-The month-old Pacific coast halibut fleet tie-up ended tonight when both Seattle and 1 Vancouver fish ermen and vesselj owners Voted to go to sea shortly,' W. T. 'Bikrgess, secretary United "ishermen Fed eral ' union, announced tonight British .Columbia fishermen will sail midnight; May W.7 j ' ' Of Demo 's f By D. HAROLD OLIVER -Associated Press Staff Writer New Jersey , and California democrats put Bfl more, delegates in President Roosevelt's column in primary voting, yesterday and pushed his total far above the re quired majority for another: nomi nation two months in advance of the party's national1 convention.' "Just for "good measure party leaders counted j eight more for the president from Delaware and 10 from Montana,: and Delaware partisans heard Senator - Tunnell (D-ueL) call for the "forced in duction of the j chief executive to stand for a fourth tern: .: ' The four states, including New Jersey'! : 34 : and j. California's i 52, added 104 to the Roosevelt pledged and claimed delegate strength and brought his total to 677, with only 589 needed. Four; years ago at this time he lacked nomination, but 67 for a third fewer delegates had been chosen then. 1 7 Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New 1 ' ! r" ' I i i Lons Anoedr M. X, ager Plan FDR Praclka Prict 5c .BrffisE ;Capttiiire Pig eataro Erom :Germaii Loss of Cassino link Would Be Blow to Communication Lines for Nazis in S. Italy ; : LONDON, Wednesday, May ( AP) A Reuters dis- patch from' the Italian front said, today, that troops of th British Eighth army have captured Pignataro, four miles southwest of.OwssiB"-1;' i f x'- T ? Pignataro is on the main highway linking Cassino with the southern end of the Gustav line, and its fall would deal a sharp blow to the Germans' lateral communications. - " The town is situated about midway between Cassino and San "Giorgio, which allied headquaKers announced yes terdajjr had fallen to French forces smashing through to tht : southern gate of the Liri valley in pursuit of remnants of the German 71st division. 1 Reuters also reported the American Fifth army's cap ture of Scauri, on the coast of the Gulf of Gaeta, AY miles 7 . fromjFormia, and Castellonorato, an inland stronghold less, than four miles from Formia. ; j '.r- I By NOLAN NORGAARD . ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,! Naples, May 16 -Wt- Vengeful French troops, after smashing through up to eight miles in the center of the Germans' Gustav line, tonight threatened to out flank the enemy's entire defense system guarding Cassino and the mouth of 'the'Liri valley leading to Rome. I'.-' . ' The swift French advance be j tween the Americans on ; the j soath and the British en the I north already- had -routed the nazis from the first line of hills Overlooking the Lhi valley and had eliminated one great advan itage the enemy previoosly held I (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Main Assaults j LONDON, May loV-Nazi Field Marshal' Erwin Rommel has completed what may be his last personal inspection of the German Atlantic . wall, devoting his closest attention 'to Normandy and its Cherbourg peninsula, , the Berlin radio said today. German dispatches to newspa pers of heutral4 Sweden said ; the allies were expected to make their main assault - against . Normandy, directly across the channel from England, but to make many other j (Turn to Page 1 Story D) Army Makes Check Of Men in Britain LONDON. Wednesday, May 17. -iPy-A, mass checkup of every man wearing the . United ; States army uniform in Britain was com pleted at midnight - jAll units, except those in tran sit, were confined to barracks for the previous 24 hours while cre dentials' were scrutinized. Military police in London and elsewhere moved through the streets demanding identification of both officers and enlisted men. , The move was seen both as a se curity measure and as a double' check against : absentees and de serters. ' 7." . -;, " y .7 ,-; ssu Nomination York appeared assured of New Jersey's 39 GOP delegates elected in another primary yesterday,: while California republicans put their favorite son into the presi dential ' picture by ' choosing SO delegates nominally pledged to Gov. Earl Warren, GOP conven tion keynoter.- " Dewey's total pledge d and claimed delegates for the republi can presidential ' nomination - thus climbed to 311 including eight picked up at Montana's conven tion ' yesterday. The - republican nominating majority Is 530. While it is unlikely the New Yorker will have enough pledges and delegates otherwise support ing him before the national .con vention opens June 26, a mathe matical possibility exists. Penn sylvania's uninstructed delegation of 70 holds : a caucus . Saturday with strong Dewey; leaning re ported by state leaders and 173 GOP delegates remain to be se lected in conventions. NazisExp ecting Normandy UyA 7calhcf M a x 1 h i m tempenttare - Taesday : 7 derrees: miai tnnm 47; precipiUUoa, ; a trace; irlrer feet - ; Oeeasleaal sbewers . ' Wednesday. Thursday part ly ; dandy with rain Begin- ding alear coast late Tbvrs day. Tfot mch change hi lf?; teuperatare. .i"'.-"." No. 347 Hit Hard ; American Planes Bombard Island In Record Blow US PACIFIC FLEEt HEOD-: QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, May L 16 -JFy- American army, navy .Base Jap Atoll and marine ; plane! , subjected , ... Jaluit atoll of the' Marshall is lands to a record land-based attack Sunday and early Mon day, smashing defenses with 240 tons of 'bombs, and; raking the Japanese with cannon and ma chinegun fire. ; . The surprise heavy bombard- ; ment, announced today by Adm, Chester 1 W. Nlmits, was coor dinated with other alr actions reaching from the Kariles . is the north Pacific to the Caro line and Marshall Islands la the central Pacific. A fleet ' spokesman declined comment on the attack, the hea viest since the invasion of the Marshalls j early ; this year. , ! (The attack may presage the -t4 approach of an American Invasion to clear,- the enemy from one of his more i important positions in the Marshalls. Another possibili- ; ty was that the Japanese had been concentrating on Jaluit from oth- . er isolated positions.) . Hellcat fighter planes swept (Turn to Page 2 Story I) ? ; Salem Man Held In Charged ' with assault with a : dangerous weapon with intent to murder, Verl Taylor, 1000 Che meketa street,' is in the city jail following an altercation In which he jailed even to see the woman he allegedly planned to kill but shot instead IL O. White as White stood in the doorway of the home he and his wife 'share with their daughter-in-law. . - Taylor, arrested at approxi mately 9 pm. not far from 1875 South; Church street, where the shooting took place, had; Diooa over his shirt and threatened to "get" officers who drove up be side him, police said.1 Investigat ing officers said the man,' about 36 years of age, told them he had planned to shoot his wife. , i However, Mrs. Moneta White,! who answered the door- at her home at approximately 6:25 to find Taylor standing there, said he had no wife there and that her sister; whose first name is the same as that Trepeated by Taylor, was not his wife nor was she at the . White residence. - ' , Demanding that hie be allowed to see "Juanita," the man attempt ed to force his way past her, and then H. O. White , came to the door, Mrs. White said. Taylor pulled a .32 calibre automatic and in; japld succession fired three shots, one of which went through the flesh of White's left arm. One grazed ; the neck of Charles H. Doam, Los Angeles, who with Mrs. Doam was a guest at the house, but it did not break the flesh, police said, : - 7 , , f Shootnig I