' i riTT' SUOQOOB Weather 'i-'- i . " "'i- "tf : - : "1' Maximwa temperatare . Thursday 71 decrees; mtal-' mum 79. N precipitation. lUver '. ft Fair Friday and ... Saturday. Warmer Friday except along coast . . , 'IKJJ CDQCS I r pounddd 1651- ' - - My idea of no place to go this year is the republican or demo cratic national convention, on the basis of the present prospect Dele gates might about as well send in their votes by ordinary mail .and save the expense aid the in convenience of travel to Chicago. For the top selections are all cut .and dried, the only chance for a ' slipup being ' if Roosevelt's doc tors would order him not to run, which is quite improbable. . Take the democracit convention: it will be more completely domi nated by Roosevelt and the White ' House gang than it was in 1940.1 Then Jim Farley held a protest -.position of influence. Now he is sidetracked with I just a state chairmanship. The delegates ac cepted Wallace for vice president. but not without considerable gag ' sing. This year the delegates will ;take him or anyone else the high command dictates with scarcely a ripple of the adam's apple as they swallow. The Roosevelts have be 1 come a dynasty. David Lawrence, good Woodrow ; Wilson demo- crat, had this to say in his column the other night: V "Eleven years ago when the Rmsevelt i administration came into power; . it talked a good deal about driving the money changers from the temple. It professed high ideals. It spoke of itself as a liberal' administration. But it has turned out to be not a bit dif ferent from its republican "prede- cessors ready and anxious to Use DOIlucai iunas ana puutit i .... . . i : I ' power, to perpetuate itself in of lice." ' There will be the facade of sav in the, country in1 wartime, but ;the fact still remains that the ins ; want to stay in power, As for the republicans, Dewey will win on the first or second ballot The party bosses may let the decision go to the second bal lot to give Bricker and Stassen a few grains of comfort, but not T ' n.hnH 4 Via crpnK ' Tv T 7J V. . BC uw "r"m; v.ce President Gov. (Continued n eoiioruu pajtc; oses vta' iv ' Yti I m mTkLrimf' r IQll JL A YA-J., VJ.lla M. 1HU m l ... er dl . I - I I TrJVDON Mav 25-W-A five- wnt-11 Arffani-ratinn ! KniU arrainH I 1h W.fnnr th United StatiHi. Russia, the British common , wealth and C h i n a and pooling military power in a police-force to keep the peace, was presented to commons today! by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. Eden said conversations with - the other powers already was un derway and would progress even in the heat of climactic battles. He disclaimed as Prime Minis- ter Churchill did yesterday- any intention to ."impose on others in detail . our ideas," but offered these as Britain's principles: First the world organization must be designed to prevent a recurrence of aggression by Ger- -tsnany and Japan and must be fully equipped with force to meet this purpose. jr - Second to insure this, there must be close political and mili- (Turn to Page 2Story B) Nazi, Bulgaria Relations Bad : LONDON, May 25. - (P) - Five German divisions . transferred ' from Serbia were reported in an . unconfirmed dispatch from the Is 'tanbul newspaper La Turquie to- . night to have met resistance when they attempted to take over civil administration of Bulgaria, With only - two nasi divisions ' known to have been stationed in ! Bulgaria, the reinforcements were I said to have arrived last Satur ' day. The dispatch did not bring ' out whether the Germans actually I had seized control. , i Relations between Russia and Bulgaria were obviously tense as '- Moscow sought prior to the com ing offensives on the eastern front to dissuade the nazis tired Slavic satelUte from giving fur - ther help to,Germany. 1 The Moscow radio broadcast an ; article from the official newspa- per Izvestia accusing Bulgarian authorities of "pushing their coun- ' try towards the brink of a nation al catastrophe." j , Albany Pilot Dies In Army Plane Crash ; OKLAHOMA CITY, May 25 P)-Eight persons were killed and . five injured today; in the crash nf a - combat maDoinz tme air- ' craft near Will Rogers army, air field. CoL B. S. Thompson, base rommander. said. T The ship was coming in for a ' landing and the cause of the crash bad not been determined. f Included among the dead was Lt Charleton C Hoefer, pilot icute two, Albany, Ore. . , Prop For Alt KINETY-rOURTH TEAS Aiisio Allies I 6000 RAT TT TO TThl Hit Nazs Allied Heavies Break Through Rocket Barrage. LONDON, - May, 25 More than 6000 allied planes at tacked German airdromes and transportation centers on the continent with over 8000 tons of bombs today in a crushing two-way assault during which American Fortresses and 1ib- erators, storming the west wall, ran into an unprecedented" con- a a; . 1 J centra nun ui ej;iuuiij of exploding' rockets thrown up by suddenly increased ground defenses. At least 21 rail centers and 15 airfields upon which Germany has been leaning heavily for defense of fortress Europe were pounded in this seventh day of furious pre - Invasion air on slaught, a day in which the at tacks ranged from Toulon In southern France to the German capital itself. From 750 to 1000 American hea- vies based in Britain slammed ex plosives on four air fields, nine J . and other r.t. n nnHhiiPrn Franw and w Belgium, another American day light fleet from Italy attacked the Mediterranean port of Toulon and the rail center of Lyons, 200 miles . it t 1LA M .1 i iL. iaruier norui, uic iuuu vj uis southeastern French defense zone : a tJS straterle air force eom- .i.,snunJwtjported that Jiine en- I 1 91 s.itwJ I. the sweep acainst the west wait I mmlwmmi m 1m. Jkf fMV AhiHmB - - oomoers ana is wniers. to ' this SSSault the American P'"lc ",u down before the strong anti-aircraft fire and a spec tacular rocket defense. The luftwaffe, frayed frem (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Congress OK's LC Increase WASHINGTON, May 23 - W) Congress gave final approval to day to legislation authorizing the navy to spend $1,800,000,000 for 1,000,000 additional tons of land ing craft Navy Secretary. Forrestal said the authorization would provide the . means to . deal with "what ever contingencies may develop? fin the "vast amphibious opera i tions wnich lie ahead." v "The extent to which replace ments will be required to cover losses experienced in those oper ations cannot be safely, predict ed, Forrestal said in - request ing the new fund. He said 450,000 tons of land ing craft and district craft to service the fleet would be or dered immediately. ; Previously, congress had authorized 2,000,000 tons of such vessels and as of April 1, all but 50,000 tons had been built or were under con tract Yank Submarines Sink 15 More Enemy Shins WASHINGTON, May 25.-UP)- Cutting down the Japanese mer chant fleet at the rate of better than a ship A day, American sub marines-have sunk 15 more en m7 vessels. And to protect allied 1 snips from U-boats the navy has a new weapon rockets. . This was disclosed today in a i communique listing the latest bag by : American submersibles oper ating in the Pacific,' and in the first announcement : that rockets, fired from torpedo bombers have been used to destroy a German undersea raider. ' rr: "Attacking with rocket project iles, developed by the US navy, and backing up this new-style onslaught with older weapons, the American aircraft apparently de stroyed the enemy without dam age to themselves," the navy re- ported in telling of the probable sinking of "a big German U-boat 1 hi a matter of minutes.' The communique telling of Am- erican submarine successes added another Japanese destroyer to the 48 Nipponese warships they al- ready had been credited with f sinking. It with the 14 ether ves IS PAGE3 4 S mat As ' a prelude to the sale of 10,000 ident or the American Lesion rttst disabled veterans of the second world war. Kltchey was wounded while serving; with the navy, and has been discharged. Looking on are Mrs. E. A. Lee, auxiliary poppy chairman for Salem, and Verne Ostrander wbo served with the 91st la. the first world war (Statesman photo) ' ' N imitz Announces Marcus -Wake Raids I 1 By LEIF ERICKSON r . US PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, May 26-P-CarTier-based aircraft of a Pacific fleet task force blasted Marcus and Wake islands,: Japanese reconnaissance outposts in the west central Pacific in an attack extending from last FVWav to l-uesday. Adm. Chester Wimitx annotoce4 Only lour planes were lost in oped a surprising weakness in theO aerial defense of Marcus and ah Utter ' lack of interception over WakeJ! !" " : t Marcus island, less than 1200; miles' southeast of Tokyo, was battered May 19 and 20 with 148 tons of explosives in 373 sorties. Although that alrbase had not been attacked since' last August Si, when a similar carrier force worked It ever,: f o;F eight hours, only two Jap anese planes were seen. f One of the aircraft a medium bomber, was shot down near the target I and the other strafed on the ground. Airdrome installations were hard hit supply dumps de stroyed, gun positions and build (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Iceland Decides f To Become Republic REYKJAVIK, Iceland, (De-layed-May 24-(P)-One of the oldest; democracies in the world has decided to become the world's youngest republic, the people of Iceland, with probably the larg est participation in a referendum ever, recorded in any democratic country, having voted to sever all its ties with the Danish crown. 1 Votes tabulated today . showed an overwhelming percentage of the ; nation's eligible voters fa vored the foundation of a repub lic, which probably will be pro claimed June 7, an Icelandic na tional holiday. L sels sunk, brought to 41 the number- of Japanese ships reported sent to. the bottom by submarines this, month. -j Inclusion of the destroyer fifth warship announced sunkjhis month indicated strongly that the Japanese are trying desper ately, but unsuccessfully, to con voy merchant craft in movement of supplies and men to their gar risons in the central -and south west Pacific areas. In addition to the destroyer, the latest bag of the American sub marines includes three tankers, sorely needed In supplying fuel for the enemy war machine, three cargo .transports, seven cargo ves sels and a small transport This brought to 724 the number of Japanese f ships sunk, probably sunk or damaged by US submar ines since the war started.-, For several months report of their ac tivates have omitted any mention of ships probably sunk or dam aged and If those categories were included the totals probably would reach close to 1,000 Jap anese craft ; . - Salem. Oregon, Tiidaj Morning, May S3. 1944 mm Prelude to Floppy poppies la Salem, which beslns auxiliary, pins a poppy on the lapel the twin slashes which, devel : 111 JapjAssaults SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, May 25-(Jpy-J apanese troops, battling desperately to maintain their slip ping grip on the north Burma stronghold of Myitkyina, have at tacked the allied-held airdrome south of the city and have been repulsed, and enemy assaults oat many allied positions both in Bur ma and in India have been thrown back with heavy losses to the at tackers, I an allied communique announced today. , Driving on besieged Myitkyina itself from, the northwest west of the Mogaung river, the Chi nese 22nd division advanced five miles in one sector, while from "(Turn to Page 2 Story KJ'f Reds Contact Japs for- US ; 5 1 4 WASHWGTON, May 25 P) State department officials revealed tonight that - the soviet union in making representations to Japan on behalf of war prisoners ? Is acting' for the United States r as well as for Great Britain. British Foreign Secretary . Eden told the House of Commons today he had requested Russia to ap proach Russia for alleviation ; of conditions governing prisoners ox. war. i - ' ; . : Several days ago the state de partment announced it had ceived a note from the Japanese saying; that under certain- condi tions they would receive and dis tribute to American prisoners in the far east the 1500 tons of Red Cross relief supplies piled up; in Vladivostok. The state department aid it. was studying the condi tions laid, down by the Japanese but has not revealed their nature. Wind jWhips Up White Caps on Dover Straight LONDON, May 25-(ff)-A strong southwesterly wind whipped up white, caps in Dover strait to night as i the weather turned sud denly much cooler. . ' --. The . skr was overcast after a sunny day and visibility was lim ited to two or three miles. The temperature was 45 at dusk and. although the barometer was near ly steady, the air seemed to hold a threat ;of. rain.,' .,V-f-' ';t High tide at Dover and Calais tomorrow: 357 a.m. (9:27 pm. Thursday, Eastern war time) and 3:43 p.-ros (:43 a. nV EWT); NearMyi tkyina Thrown Maim Sale today, Mrs. James A. Ganon, pres of E. W. Rlchey, Jr, one of Salem's and was wounded la France. 65 Carriers Note in Fleet WASHINGTON, Iay 15-JP) Artemus L. Gates, assistant secretary of the navy for the air, disclosed tonight that : 65 aircraft carriers are la active service In the fleet Be gave the figure la an ad dress prepared for the "March f Time' program, and to pic- bined fllxht deck area la eonal ' to that of 120 football fields, er to an airstrip seven miles long. ;. Gates also disclosed that na ry airplanes of all types "will soon total some 27,700" and de clared 1000-plane raids agalast the Japanese by carrier-based planes are "only the beginning. Train Travel In England Apt to Halt LONDON, May 25.-(AJ)-Thou-sands of British families have cancelled plans for the traditional Whitsun holiday weekend travel under the stern warning that train service Is subject to stoppage without notice as the hour for the invasion of Hitler's Europe nears. Germans tried to probe the se crets of the gathering allied storm, by E-boat patrol dashes across the channel ' today and by spy-plane coastal : raids. .' T J A Tass dispatch from Moscow said It was rumored in Berlin that Hehrrich Himmler, German ges tapo chief, had left suddenly for France. , Virtually the entire nazi hierarchy with the exception of Hitler himself, have been report ed r in France ' during the last month, ' checking the defense sys tem and t tightening control over the restive population. - T 'i - One explanation of Himmler's reported eleventh hour trip was that it was an attempt to counter act the 'purposeful - broadcasts -of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's in vasion '.instructions to the Euro pean underground. Js a Meanwhile other German prop aganda sought to ease the shocks of continued nazi retreats in Italy by proclaiming the imminence of invasion from the west against Which udl available , nazi forces (Turn, to Page 2 Story G) Heniingway Does iVeIWn Hospital . LONDON, May 25 ,-KP)- Ernest Hemingway, American author, who suffered injuries in an automobile accident here last night, was re ported progressing well today - at the London St . George's hospital after a minor operation. 7 .Special examination disclosed the author of numerous best sell ers, including "Farewell to Arms' and "For Whom the Bell Tolls," had no -skull fracture, although the wound ' was sufficiently deep to require stitching, surgeons , at the hospital . said; y:j: ; Hemingway was injured when the car in which he was riding with a British physician struck a water tank. He arrived in London about a week ago as a correspon dent for Collier's magazine. ' F Roosevelt Called On Strike Spokane Plant s Asks President To Take OVer SEATTLE, May 26-(-The Spokane branch of the Timber Products 'Manufacturers' Asso ciation today telegraphed Pre sident Roosevelt an j invitation for the government to take over their plants arid end the mill walkouts which have halted ammunition manufacture boxes. of It was the hlcblight of the workers ' currently spreading demonstrations j against the war labor board's rejection of their wage increase demands. j Meantime, J. B. Fitzgerald, secretary-manager j of the lumber men's industrial! relations commit tee here, disputed assertions that wages in the lumber land sawmill industry are out of line with oth er war industries and1 the the re quested wage boost was within the little steel formula. i He said the average wage paid la the logging and lumber ing industry iri western Wash ington and Oregon, (by lumber commission and WLB testi mony, increased from 82 cents an hour January 1, . 1941, to 119.9 cents la May, 11943. or 4 per cent. The little steel formula allowed a 15 per cent Increase in the same period.! ' - . On a base - pay . basis, ; he said the increase was from 674 to 90 cents an hour, an increase of 33 H per cent. I But Michael T. Costella, sec retary ef the Paget Sound coun cil of ' lumber and sawmill workers. (AFL), coantered with the assertion the 99 cent mini mum Is net ht general effect, "and plenty are only getting 79 r 75 cents." ) . j . . The unionists asked the mini mum rate bei boosted from 90 cents to $1.05 an hou. 1 At Everett, Wash, One mill re sumed operations when workers returned to their door; and veneer department work from -fishing trips." - f j 1 Additional walkouts, however. were reported! at Albany,-Salem ;- (Turn to Page 2$tory F) j 4 ! i- Old Type B, C Gas Coupons SoonVoid WASHTNGTQN, M a y 25- Old type B-2 and G-l gasoline ration coupons, which lack serial numbers, will Hot be useable by consumers on land . after, June 1, the office of. price administration announced, todgy. - Supplemental rations renewed since March lj have been issued in the form of seriallyf numbered, strip-type B-3 and C-3 coupons. Holders of unused B-2, C-2 cou- coupons can exchange them after June 1 at local ration! boards. I Filling stations, will have until June 10 to turn In B-2, C-2 cou pons presented them prior to June 1. 'i . 1 - County Court Starts Job Of Going Over Budget ----- i i I i The county court Thursday aft ernoon began the tedious task of going through the proposed annu al county budget item by item. After a discussion lasting more than two hours . on the expense items listed by the county health department, in "an effort to trim off ,$6,398.45 the amount In ex cess of the six per cent increase oyer the health department's al location last year of $12,859 the court voted toi allow the depart ment $18,000 from the county to ward operating expenses. : The health department had asked $20,023.89 from the county toward its overall ' expenses 'of $47,160.50. Actually, this figure represents an increase ; of only' a little ' more than $2000 over the total ' figures of operations last year but, due to a re-distribution of L costs amoug the contributing agencies, the county's proportion ate' share . would have i been $8, 333.45 over the six perl cent limit and $7,169.89 more than last year's approved amount. The approved Prico 5c lo.fo; Yankee c rum JL. Inside Cisterna Allied Warplanes Pounding Ketreating Germans; Tqke Huge Toll of Men Material ! By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, Bfay 25 (AP) Americans bf the Anzio beachhead forces joined with Ameri cans of the main Fifth army front in a dramatic, long awaited meeting in the Pontine marshes below Rome today after 14 days of a whirlwind offensive that had cracked the back of the German defenses in Italy. ; n" " ' Tank-supported United States infantrymen crumpled German positions at the heart of Cisterns, enemy strong hold on the Appian Way, and were battling to Vipe out the last sniper nests there athwart the road to Rome. Lt. 5 Reached 6th Army Fights Way Through Stiff Resistance ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Fri day, May 26-rUS sixth army 'unit'-nave I battled ; their wmy through stiff Japanese resistance to reach the Maffin bay air field on- Dutch New Guinea, 120 rrdles northwest of Hollan dia, it was announced today by headquarters Today's report covered , an ad vance scored Wednesday west of the Tor river with the support of Kittyhawk planes, tanks and artillery.; , ; j The destrncUen of 11 parked (Turn to Page 2 Story H) : Explosion Hits Pearl Harbor US PACIFIC FLEET . HEAD QUARTERS, tPearl Harbor; May 25-(ff)-An ammunition explosion in Pearl Harbors killed and in jured an unannounced number of : men and wrecked several small vessels Sunday, the navy reported today. 1 '-;:' '-.;: ' V-A' The blast occurred ; while, the ammunition was being t. removed from - a ; landing craft. It I was moored- with sr group of sister ships. " Presumably.' these ' were wrecked. -. i ,- Regarding , the casualties the brief announcement said merely that ' there waa "some :loaa of life, and a number: of injuries.' -1 The cause or extent of the ex plosion ' . was - not disclosed. A board of inquiry, under the direc tion of Rear Adm. John F. Shaf roth, was investigating the blast $18,000 , figure will ' be $4,369.46 over the six; per cent limit and $5,141 more than last year's allo cation. ---!' y 0 - . The : action j was taken after Dr. W. J. Stone, Marion county health officer,' appeared before the court and testified:' that cutting down the amount requested .might crip ple the activities of the agency in the event of an epidemic, and that it would also have the ' effect of cutting down' federal aid, 20 per cent of the .health departments total operating: figures. r r " .. . Judge Grant : Murphy proposed that the county court allow $18,' 000 toward the over-all program and that he endeavor to get .the school board to increase its con tribution of $5,064.31 by, $2,028.. 99, the difference between the al lowed county figure and that which had been asked. Participat lng agencies now contribute a to tal of $27,138.51. The court pared $2753.05 from six of the other department bud (Turn to Page 2-Story A) ; Ba Field No. 17' Forces Eugene Bacon of Danville, 111, forecast that all the Germans left in the city would be dead or cap tured within a few. hours. Tonight the united Fifth army forces closed in along a 60-mile flank of the hard-pressed ' Ger man armies, which had relin quished the. entire west coastal area of Italy southward from the, Molletta river, only a score of miles below Rome. a Allied Warplanes were pound ing the retreating Germans cease lessly, taking a terrific toll of men and material. The battle ef the beachhead, which had raged Intermittent ly for four monthaaSd 4be bat- ? tie of the Hitler line, which re- , Jv quired only a few .days,, were " finished, and the final, decisive ; battle for Rome and the exter mination la Italy appeared to be already beginning. Y . V Official reports indicated the c. (Turn to Page 2 Story I) ' Japanese Claim Fall of Loyang, CHUNKING, May 25 Hh The Chinese high command announced tonight, ; hours after a Japanese claim to uive occupied Loyang, that Chinese forces .still held tho ancient walled city, stronghold of 1 the embattled defenders of north western Honan province. - However, the situation there was confused. 'Tonight's Chines communique covered only devel opments through yesterday, when It reported "further progress' for the defenders in bloody counter attacks. The Chinese usually are slow in admitting loss of import ant points, and it is noteworthy mat the communique did not re- fer to the situation in the city after yesterday. - "The battle for the defense of Loyang further intensified yester day, when Japanese shelled tb city and enemy Infantry attacked the, outskirts under 'cover of arm- ored cars," the communique said. ; The Chinese engaged; th enemy with grenades and bayo nets, and repulsed them after con tinual attacks. Bloody fighting continued.1 " j About' 60 . miles to the south west of Loyang, .and ; 18 miles south ; of Shunghsein 1,000 Jap anese troops were annihilated in bitter fighting, the Chinese Bulletin- said.. , " ' it' Fresh Troops Ne w JJS Policy WASHINGTON, May 25 H) The sustained power - which has kepi-American troops rolling in the Italian offensive was attributed by Secretary of War Stimson to day to the new army policy of immediate combat ' replacements. Under the new system,". fresh ' troops are kept , in readiness im mediately behind the fighting line and casualties In front line units arc replaced at 'once.:. . "': -? The innovation, which officials said has had a marked effect on the morale of the fighting men, was adopted only : recently after the unit strength of the army was completed.;- ?v'. V.'sHv I 1 Stimson, at a news conference, called attention to the plan's sue-. cess in the Italian drive as "a demonstration of the importance of the efforts to obtain for our army young and vigorous, replacements which the war department has emphasized so strongly during re cent months.'' : : ". , 1 V - if . i -' a Bteliu JO.