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' The National Institute of Arts
and Letter at its annual ceremon-
ial last week awarded to . Willa
Cather, i American novelist, its
gold medal for fiction. To Theo-
dore Dreiser , went the American
t Academy's award for merit for
fiction. But these seem like echoes
from the past. For Miss earner's
most famous work, "Death Comes
for : the Archbishop", was ; pub
lished, in 1927, and none of her
subsequent work rates near it in
- quality. As for. Dreiser his great
est work, "An American Tragedy,"
was done in 1925, and now he is
. down to literary hackwork. . ,
-r ' The significant thing however
I is that no other authors of fiction
are appearing with much better
claim to recognition.: In fact there
" has been a drouth or killing frost
: in the garden of novels, so while
there are'.; still: "best sellers" the
!' current production does not rate
; high as literature. This situation
.; is reviewed quite well by Dana
, Trilling in an article in the May
Harpers on "What has happened
to our novels?" and she finds that
"this moment has no Dreisers or
: Cathers." That explains why the
Institute and Academy reached
' into the past to find worthy re
cipients of their honors. .
Miss Trilling says: "These best
of our current novels are simply
not alive. The one quality which
all first-rate novelists or novelists
) who aspire to the first-rate have
- it common an energy of creation
' which touches everything and en
livens everything it touches is
not to be found in the novelists of
; the present day for whom the most
is being claimed." Of the authors
of the 1920's "only Hemingway
s has continued to sustain and ma
v ; ture hi"4alent."
Thomas Wolfe burned out with
; his native Asheville; John Stein
- beck's "Grapes of Wrath" was
7 more like a political tract than a
' work of fiction; and the religious
novels like "The Robe" ancT "The
Apostle" are temporary shelters
in the present tumult. Miss Tril
ling finds that books of journal
ism r- of graphic reporting are
; crowding the novels in continued
on Editorial page) ;
PGE Users
Will Receive
' Customers of the Portland Gen
I eral Electric company and the
Northwestern Electric company
will receive a refund in excess of
1 $1,100,000 under an order issued
by Public Utilities Commissioner
t George H. Flagg here yesterday.
- The announcement followed an
'i agreement reached Tuesday be
: tween officials of the two compa
re nies and the independent trus
tees of the Portland Electric Pow--
er company. ,W
Cash refunds of $310,000 will be
: made to customers of the North
western Electric company within
the next 30 days and reductions
of $807,000 in bills of the Port-
land General Cectrlc company
- for the current month. The cash
'- refund and reduction means an
86 per cent discount in one month's
bill,; Flagg said. -
The reduction applies to all bills
with the exception of a few cus
tomer of the Portland General
Electric company ; under special
contract -;' ' . ..- .'-n-;''Y.' .
"It is clearly understood," Flagg
declared, "that this is a temporary
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Loyang Still
HoldsOff Japs
CHUNGKING, Thursday, May
25-(JP)-The Japanese forces ' be
sieging Loyang in northwestern
Honan province attacked the an
cient city fiercely from all sides
'Tuesday, but were repulsed with
more than 1000 of their . troops
- killed, the Chinese command an
nounced today. 1
Another SOOljapanese were kill
, ed in fighting near Sunghsien, 40
.'miles south of Loyang, field dis
patches said. ,
A communique said the Chinese
made further progress in a counter-attack
"in the Loyang sector"
and that fighting continued un
abated on the outskirts of the city.
However, the bulletin contained
nothing to suggest that the ' big
Chinese ' province-wide counter
offensive In Honan announced
' yesterday by the high command
was making further headway. .
' Chinese planes bombed Japa
nese trains at Kuanyintang, a
Lunghai railway town , about 70
miles east of Tungkwan a signi
ficant admisssion as it Indicated
' the Japanese-occupied stretch ' of
this important east-west railway
already was in operation. "
?7eather
?' Maximum temperatare Wed
i nesday CS degrees; minimum 43,
, lit preeipiUtlon. Kiver . ft,
I Talr Thursday, Friday cloudy
with rain late. Friday in nerth
' west portion. Little temperatare
Ketunds
filial
HINETY-rOUHTH YEAR
7000 AEjed Planes Blast Kari
RAF'sMMt Raiders
Follow 1jP
G reatest Day A Hack
LONDON, May 25 The Luxembourg radla gave the
air raid warning signal and left the air Just after 8 ajn. today, In
dicating that the allies were carrying their aerial offensive into
Ita seventh straight day.
V By W. W.
LONDON, Thursday,
was bombed just after midnightits second blasting
within about 12 hourg-ras RAF night raiders followed
history's greatest aerial assault by 7,000 bombers and
fighters upon Hitler's Europe yesterday from bases in
Britain and Italy. t ;
The tremendous daylight offensive spread all the
way from the English channel to the Balkans and early
today, after fresh waves of RAF bombers had been
heard roaring toward the continent, the German radio
: O reported that Berlin was attacked
6th Army Units
Battle Toward
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Thurs
day, May 2S-(-US sixth, army
units battling toward the airfields
of the Japanese near Sarmi, Dutch
New Guinea, have crossed the Tor
river, headquarters reported to
day. .,-';. . ' i .. j.,.
. fThe- Yanks .re advancing, on
Mafun bay, a region which em
braces one of the two airfields.
Today's communique also re
ported a strike by southwest Pa
cific planes at Truk . in the Caro
lines during which two of 40 en
emy interceptors were shot down
and 84 tons of bombs were dropped
by attacking Liberators.
- The big bombers, one of which
was lost in the midday assault,
engaged the interceptors in a 30
minute running fight. ("-.('
The raiders, which flew to Truk
from the Admiralty islands, prob
ably shot down three more inter
ceptors and damaged others. -
The crossed Tor river flows in
to Maffin bay about 10 miles west
of the Wakde-Toem area of Dutch'
New Guinea, invaded May; 17-18.
The Japanese along the river had
put up a bitter defense until blast
ed out of their positions by artil
lery and shells of off-shore de
stroyers, v ' . j
In another invasion 'sector 250
miles southeast, an American out
post 30 miles below Aitape, Brit
ish New Guinea, broke up a sharp
attack by bypassed Japanese.
A Liberator ranging northwest
along the Dutch New Guinea coast
sank a small enemy merchantman
off Monakwari. A coastal 'vessel
was sunk off Biak in continuing
softening up attacks on that prin
cipal island of the Schouten group
north of Geelvink bay.
Sgt. Duane Beck .
Wounded in Action ,
The name of St Sgt. Duane H.
iReck, route 3, Scio, was among
me usi oi rune Oregon men
wounded in action in the Medi
terranean area.
jap Airfields
Churchill Says Germany Might Rave
Home Frontiers Reduced After War
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
LONDON, May 240P)-Prime
Minister Churchill declared today
that Germany might have her
home frontiers reduced after the
war if that should seem necessary
for future peace, and he advocated
a postwar "world organization"
armed with "overwhelming mili
tary power" to keep this peace.
In an exhaustive review of the
world at war before the house of
commons, Churchill specifically
though r diplomatically advised
Spain and Turkey that an allied
victory was coming with or with
out the support of new recruits,
and, declaring that the war has
been growing "less Ideological
in character," x h - aid fthere
seems to be a great desire among
the people of. Britain and Russia
to be. friends." ..,t"l '-':;"" C'ji?
Opening a foreign policy debate
In the house of commons, Church
Saltm,
History's
HERCIIER
May 25. (AP) Berlin
anew, along with the Rhineland
industrial city of Aachen, 35 miles
west of Cologne. j J- .
4 The relch capital, raided Tues
day night by RAF Mosqoitos,
was subjected to its 11th Amer
ican assault of the war by near-;
ly 1000 Flying Fortress and as
many -escorting fighters' in the
climax of Wednesday's daylight
operation.
j From the Atlantic watt to points
deep in the Balkans, more than
5500 tons of explosives were drop
ped by British-based and Italy
based squadrons in the daylight
attacks.
t Seventy -seven German fight
ers were shot down la fierce sky
tattles along the route to Ber.;
hv which was attacked; by; a
ftrana force' of Flying Fortress
Is from above a cloud cover,
While from all British ,- baaed
operatiens by Americans 3Z
bombers and II fighters were
missing, a US air force com
munique said tonight- ; i I
A Liberator wing pounced ; on
the Paris area, undefended by the
overmatched nazi air force, and
hammered enemy airfields arMe
lun and Orly to the south and
Creil to the northeast, making: its
bomb runs against light to moder
ate flak. 1 : "
In " gigantic coordinated as
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Harold Wright
Dies at 72
SAN DIEGO, CaliL, May 24-(jp)
Harold BeU Wright, who; left the
pulpit to become one of America's
famed fiction
writers, died to
day in a LaJolla,
Calif, hospital.
He was 72 years
old. - j s
Wright became
ill about two
weeks ago and
entered the hos
pital last -j week.
Death was 'at
tributed to bron-
naiokTBell 'Wrighichial pneumonia.
His wife was at the bedside when
he died.
Only last month he sold his
AAA '-..' a
w,uwj rancn nome, known as
"Quiet Hills Farm," near Escon
didio, 30 miles northeast of here,
and moved to San Diego. '
ill spoke for an hour and 25 min
utes, running the gamut of Bri
tain's foreign relations. He said
gravely and simply that the Bri
tish . commonwealth and . empire
had how discussed and solved all
their major, immediate problems
and were ranged in complete
unity with the allies "to beat the
enemy as soon as possible." .,
He mentioned . only . once the
"western front" as it is commonly
defined, and then to observe joc
ularly that "all this talk" of in
vasion across the channel was
keeping Hitler frantic.; He gave
no hint as to when or where the
assault would be. v-: .;. ... ; f " '
Instead the prim minister de
voted much of his, speech to dis
cussing his suggested "world or
ganization," which he said would
embody much of the structure of
the League of Nations. He spoke
with the weight of the entire Bri
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Oregon, Thuxadar Morning. May 23, 1344
Clark Inspects
5- 2
Lt Gen. Mark W. Clark, Fifth army eemminder, who narrowly es
caped death when a booby trap exploded near the Jeep in which
he was riding, strides along a battered street of a town between
Formia and Itii, Italy, during a tour of scenes of his troops' vic
tories. The street Is a link to the Appian way to Rome. (AP Wire
photo via signal corps radio)
Army
More
Orders
Heavy
By WILLIAM FRYE
WASHINGTON, May 24-P-A tremendous increase in the
heavy artillery program has" been ordered by the army on the
eve of the invasion of Europe; officials disclosed tonight.
For weapons of 155 millimeter' size arid greater, ammunition re
quirement have ben"tep to 50tt pet
cent with "the Increase Tor someO-
sizes running as high as 1000 per
cent above present schedules.
The production schedules for r
the weapons themselves i have
been advanced correspondingly,
with emphasis the 155 how
itser, the 155 gun or "Long
Tom,", the 8-inch gun and the
Z4-mlUimeter weapon.
Instituted within the past few
weeks, the ammunition program
alone represents a dollar-volume
increase of approximately $750,
000,000 for the : balance of 1944
and 1945. - -- 1;,
Some phases of the program al
ready! are underway, and by mid
summer it will require the reop
ening of some of the TNT produc
tion lines, the powder plants and
the bag-loading plants previously
closed by the army or placed on a
standby basis. .-. - : '.:"f
' " The program will place a new
strain on the Nylon industry to
provide the bags for powder
charges for the big guns, and
alcohol required for the step-ped-up
powder presages a con
tinuance of the whisky drought
Already the revised program
has sent army production officials
scouring the country for addition
al forging, machine and heat
treating capacity in industry to
make the shells and the various
component parts, such as fuses.
: Th production changes re
fleet a significant shift from
lighter to heavy artillery in the
combat areas, particularly Italy,
-where the rate of fire has great
ly exceeded expectations and
battle tests have concentrated
the attention of commanders on
' the larger guns. . . , .- , . I I '
, Few units now are using signifi
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tish commonwealth behind him,
a conference ; of dominion : prime
ministers having only a few days
ago agreed on such an organiza
tion, r - - -
Japan as well as Germany was
placed i by Churchill beyond all
hope of negotiation short flutter
capitulation..
"The Atlantic charter" . the
prime minister said with measur
ed emphasis, jin no way binda. ua
about the future of Germany. It
has no quality of bargain or con
tract with our- enemies.' It -was
not an offer to the Germans to
surrender.
- "The principle of unconditional
surrender will be adhered to as
far as Nazi Germany and Japan
are concerned.
: "There- is no question of Ger.
many enjoying any guarantee that
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mtmm
Wrecked Town
Shrinks Lay
Plans of New
V;
Salem Club
Organization of a Salem Shrine
club, successor to the club which
flourished here approximately 15
years ago, was begun and largely
completed! aroundsthe banquet ta
bles at the Marlon hotel Wednes
day night with Potentate Tommy
Luke of Al Kader temple presid
ing. - ' - :
Herman Johnson was elected
president; Loren Spaulding, vice
president; Claire P. Davis, treas
urer. Walter Lansing was appoint
ed by ; Luke to . serve - as rajah,
representative of the temple, and
the potentate. V
Needs of the Shrine hospital or
crippled children, principal pro
ject of Shrine clubs in Al Kader
temple area, were discussed at
last night's dinner meeting by
Carl Dona ugh, Portland, first, cer
emonial master of the temple.
Luke presented a resume of
Shrine activities for the year and
named the nominating committee
consisting i of Gilbert Madison,
Grant Murphy and George Alex
ander. ' - ; ;-.-; '"--: i
Among the 91 men attending
the dinner were Frank McGuire,
Portland, ,A1 Kader temple mar
shall; Capt: of the Guards Ed
Swink and Becorder Luther Duck
worth, also of Portland; Don Hus
band, president of the Eugene
Shrine club; Fred Flock, vice
president Rajah Ed Pape, Clar
ence Lombard and Clarence Hyde,'
also of Eugene.
Dam Will Be Named :
After Charles McNary ;
WASH! NGTON, May 24 -if)
The memory of the late Senator
Charles L JMcNary of Oregon was
honored today by the senate com
merce committee. An amendment
to the omnibus ' rivers and har
bors bill change the name of the
proposed Umatilla dam on the Co
lumbia river to "McNary dam."
The dam will be "dedicated to
his memory as a monument to his
distinguished public service," the
amendment reads.
Albany Officer Dies ZJ
In Crash of His Plane
" ALBANY, May 24 -VP)- Lt
William L. Frager was killed to
day in the crash of his plane at
the Pocatello, . Idaho, army air
field, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Frager, were notified here.,
. . Frager, a . graduate of Albany
high and the University of Ore
gon, Is survived by the widow and
a. son, William L, Frager, Jr, x
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Many
Guns
t;-
Prict 5c
Em
roioe
Lumber
Strikes
Jlncrease
.i - t . ,
. Wood Suffers
. Big Gut in , j
NortHwe8t I
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SEATTLE, May 24-(P-Pa-cific
northwest lumber produc
tion has been cut an. estimated
5,500,000 bimrd feet ' a day, a
spokesman for the industry re
ported tonight as tie general
shutdown of lumbering activ
ities spread Sin Washington and
Oregon.,
Some 32,000 worker! were idle
in 85 plants,; logging (
boom operations in 30!
icamps and
cities and
towns, h j :
Daily manufacture
ammunition, j powder
of 50,000
and ration
boxes was stopped
in j Spokane
when 1500 more workers in 15
plants joined jthe mass j walkout
A spokesman for the logging
Industry la f - the Paget Sound
area said it could be) generally
expected that more boom men
would ;be frlninsv the ; exodus
shortly, a automatically ;, forcing
the closure of still more mills.
The last of the mills in . the im
portant Grays Harbo area of
Washington shut down with the
closing ; of the West Star Lum
ber eompaay. . . . J '
Also joining in the closure was
the Western Cooperage company
in Seattle manufacturing barrels
and tubs. Ev ery plant and mift in
Seattle was cjlosed. j ; C ;, .
: The walkout termed wildcat
by union leaders, was la pro
test of the war Ubor board's
action m refusing to grant a re
quested wage increase of 15
eenta aa-lMar to $1.95 as re-'
quested by the AFL.
Both AFL aid CIO union are in
volved. ! ' : " I
PORTLAND!, Ore., May 24 (P)
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Russians Hint
New Offense t
i ! . ! :
LONDON, Thursday, May 25 (ff)
Possibly ) signaling a big new of
fensive on th eastern j front, the
Moscow radio isaid in a broadcast
to the red army today: Soon you
will be ; called! on to accomplish
the liberation of soviet territory
and also to liberate other Euro
pean nations from the German
fascist oppressor.' I j
A Russian ; communique early
today announced that four Ger
man attacks northwest on Tiras
pol, on the lower Dnestr (river,
were repelled yesterday by jsoviet
artillery; mortar and machine
gun fire: . j 'I 1
The assaults cost the Germans
400 dead, 20 tanks and four self-
propelled guns,! said the communi
que recorded by the soviet moni
tor.,,.-- y ;-:'" li. , i: L ,,:'!
Elsewhere along the i eastern
battle front the five-week lull in
major fighting continued i but the
Germans said a renewal jot power
ful assaults by the red army
could be expected momentarily.
Warren Asks Delegates
Not to Present His Name
By D. HAROLD OLIVER
' Associated Frets SUff jWrtter
Gov. Earl Warren asked Cali
fornia's. 50 republican j national
convention delegates yesterday not
to present his name to jthe con
vention 1 f for any. poaitionn ; a
move interpreted" in Washington
political circles as leaving Warren
stni subject tofdrstttfor second
place on the ticket j i ,
However. Rpc Gearhart ! (R
Calif.) classified Warren as of
"presidential eiliber" and added
if he continues! pi tha governor
ship "hall be running for presi
dent at the proper timej four
years from now, or even; eight."
. Gearhart said California repub
licans feel that Warren has been
very frank all along in stating he
is not a candidate for either place
dn the party's national ticket They
also believe, he declared,! that "in
giving up the governor's chair for
i
- v-
Amman-
- Ginadians Break Nazi line
; With Tank Assaults: Yanks
v Recapture Strategic Town '
By EDWARD KENNEDY ! 1
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Napleg, BLiy 24. ,
(AP) Canadian tanks broke through the heart of the
Hitler line today and swept up the Liri valley to the
Slelfa river, 13 miles from Vaseino; American troops
recaptured Terracina on the coast, and a Yank ar
mored avalanche burst from the Anzio beachhead and
cut the Appian Way barely 25 miles from Rome. t.y
(A dispatch from .Daniel Dc Luce, Associated
Press war correspondent with the Fifth army at Anzio,
indicated that allied troops had cut the Appian Way
Local Lumber
Join
In Big Strike
- More than 150 employes of the
sawmill division of Oregon Pulp
Paper company here walked
out at noon Wednesday, and a
few hours later men of the Sil
verton AFL sawmill anion prin
cipally employed by the Silver
Falls Timber Company defied
officers and voted to "ga fish
ing! Friday morning. :
Three hundred twenty-five
men are involved in the Silver
. Fails employes' action. Another
35 at the Wlnlock broom handle
factory in Silverton will follow
salt unless the surging! tide of
Pacifie northwest lumber work
ers turns back to the mills be
fore t ajn. May 28.
The Silverton vote was taken
last night at a second meeting
of local No. 2527. At the first, a
session called by President E. J.
Boesch, officers recommended
Lfhst wotkers jrmain on the Job.
The saembenhlp at large caned
' another special meeting at the
close of the first and east their
votes for the fishing trip." :
The sash and door factory af
the Salem mill will eonttaae to
perato bat plaaiag mill aer
ations ceased with the big saws.
Planes Help
Allied Drive
On Myitkyina
SOUTHEAST ASIA -HEADQUARTERS,
Kandy, Celyon, May
24 - (iff) - Allied lighters and
fighter-bombers have shifted 'the
weight of their attacks to direct
sUpport of ground - troops which
have bottled up the eighteenth
Japanese division around Its big
bases in north Burma, it was an
nounced 'today. : l: :T u v
Their blows fell on Myitkyina,
where besieged Japanese still had
a foothold, on Katkyo, on the
Irrawaddy river bend four miles
southward, and on the main Jap
anese base in the Mogoung valley
at Kamaing to the west.
The trapped Mkitkyina garrison
and Japanese forces in the Zig
yunkaykyo area counter-attacked
but Were repulsed by. Brig. Gen.
Frank Merrill's Chinese combat
troops.' ' I " '-'V ' '-;:
(The Chinese high command in
Chungking said troops in the west
ern outskirts of Myitkyina had
captured the unceion of a railway
and a road leading into the town
from the Allied-held air strip).
The airborne Chindits continued
pressure south of Mogaung, killing
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the vice presidency he would be
would be accepting a demotion."
uaiuornia'S so delegates .are
nominally- pledge to Warren, but
supporters of ' Gov.: Thomas " E.
Dewey have been looking hopeful
ly to them to support the New
Yorker after a complimentary vote
for tha west coast governor. -
Dewey's delegate strength for
first place on the ticket today
stood at 58 i including 90 pledg
ed and 234 who are claimed for
him or who otherwise have ex
pressed a preference.. A total of
SC3 is needed for a nomination.
,V Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio,
who predicted at a New Orleans
press conference yesterday ."that
the south would "cast its biggest
republican vote in history' In this
year's presidential race, stands in
second place with 64 delegates,
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Bine
Qui
"Vbotft
north and south of Cis
ternal ... . ! . - : -v
.The Candians, thrown into the
Italian fighting as a separate -army
corps for the first time,
smashed through the Hitler line
at its strongest point and raced
j on five miles beyond Pontecorvo,
j threatening to trap German gar
risons there and at Aquino, two
of the most powerful fortress- v
towns in the enemy defense belt.
: Sapported by tanks, American
troops foaght their way back
into Terracina after aa hour and
a half battle early today, in
which they, crushed German de
fenses in , a hillside cemetery
before the coastal town., Amer
ican patrols first entered Terra
cina last Sunday, only to retire
when nasi reserves were rushed -against
tbem. 1
Reoccupation of the i town
brought i the Americans in the
coastal sector to the southern tip
of the Pontine plain, less than' 30
miles down the Appian way! from
where bitter fighting raged for
Cisterns, enemy bastion at then
north of the' Anzio beachhead.
Tonight doughboy' swarmed
tn upon Cistema after having
eat a safle stretch C4fco AasSaa
lifeline southeast of the town
and severed Its railway connec
tion with Km to the north
west. The Tanks literaly were
blasting their, way through the
Gt r m a s Intricate defenses
within a half-mile of Cisternal
town square. ..?(.
In a late dispatch . from the
beachhead Daniel de Luce of the '
Associated Press said the armored
charce still was roinr forward
unchecked at S p.m. and that hun-
dreds of German prisoners still
were streaming j to' the rear at
sunset. .- .',--- -:-:-",-'''' -
Field Marshal Albert Keasel-
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Berlin. Reds
Predict War
ts
LONDON, May 25-(ff,)-Broad-
casts hinting at imminent war de
velopments were transmitted from
both Moscow and ' Berlin tonight
as Gen. Dwight ! D. Eisenhower)
sought to mold Europe's restless
millions into a ,! vast "espionage
force to support the invasion.
German editors were ordered in
a DNB statement recorded by the
Daily Herald to stand by at 1:30
p.m. (7:30 a.m. eastern wart ime)
Sunday for "a possible special an
nouncement" n I . " J' p. .
Red army troops, after a five
week rest, were I advised by the
Moscow radio that "soon you will
be called on to accomplish tha -
liberation of soviet territory and
also to liberate other European
nations from the German fascist
oppressor. .
From , Eisenhower's headquart
ers concise spy instructions were
broadcast to the European under-,
ground. I '
In the third such broadcast via
the allied radio, a spokesman for ,
the supreme commander called
upon - peoples of the occupied
countries of western Europe to
supply complete and accurate in- '
formation on the enemy's move
ments when the invasion geta
under way. I f
'The broadcast stressed accuracy
but warned the people, however,
to "do nothing active now." .
"Meanwhile, ha (Eisenhower)
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Developnien
Oral Fitto 7ounded
In Naval Action j ! j ' J
BROOKS, May 24 Mr. and
Mrs. J W Fitts have received a
letter from Jthr son, Oral Lee
Fitts, seaman second class, USN, ;
telling that he was wounded and
is cow a patient at the navy hoe- .
pital in Fort Pierce, Fla. He en
listed in the "navy last January :
and after training, at Farragut
went to sea with the Atlantic flec'