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1 Back from' attending the gov
ernors conference at Harrieburg
Gov. Earl Snell reported that a
Dewey-Warren ticket seemed., to
be . the ' one most talked of.:. In
trips ' around the countryside, as
to : Gettysburg; Dewey got - the
hand of the spectator public, far
more than did Bricker or "War
ren indicating that he had a po
litical -if that takes with the
public. Bricker, as ' reported in
the papers, needled - Dewey to
.force him to take a stand on is
sues, but Dewey evaded under the
ruse of-"not being a candidate."
While a Dewey-Warren ticket
it the one most talked: about,
- watch for the possible substitution
of Stassen's name for Warren's.
This would be done in order to
appease the middle west, which Is
rlamnrtn far. reoffn!tinn a the
"o r i g 1 n al" republican territory,
- sen's , name, might help attract
mure ui wic n 1 1 1 k i xuituwiitg
- since Stassen Is definitely "inter
nationalist" in" his outlook, and
"was a leader in the Willkle camp
in the Philadelphia convention of
The cold water on the last sug
' gestion is that the Willkie people
think Stassen's entry m the-Wis-'
consin primaries and especially
Sen. Joe Ball's speech in his be
1 half in Madison contributedigreat-
- ly to the Willkie defeat in that
state. Another reported hitch
- (according to a writer in the New
York "Nation") " Dewey's reluc-
- tance to team up with a physical
- giant like Stassen, too much of a
Mutt and Jeff combination, with
Dewey in the role of Mutt.-
Gov. Warren has made no cam
" paign for vice president and indi
cates little interest in the spot, but
. undoubtedly would accept if nom-
Inated.
.' . The final selection for vice pres-
- ldent will probably be made by
Dewey and his campaign mana-
gers (assuming Dewey's nomina
tion on the first or second ballot).
. In that respect it will resemble
Roosevelt's selection of Wallace
. in 1940 which probably will be
repeated in. 1944.
Croup
OKV49 Billion
Fund for Arm
WASHINGTON, J u n e 7 - (JP
Backing up the war department
with virtually every, dollar it re
quested, the house appropriations
committee recommended today a
$49,109,002,795 fund to finance the
nation's far-flung4 fighting armies
during the fiscal year starting
July 1. ' : . v .
The unanimity of the commit
tee - is . expected to be duplicated
by the house when the near-ree
ord bill reaches the floor late this
week. - f
) The committee pointed out that
some of the funds might not be
used, should Germany collapse
within the next six months, but
added that "there is ho warrant.
however, for such an assumption,
The committee called to the at
tention "of congress this testimony
'given behind closed doors by Lt
Gen Joseph T. McNarney, deputy
'chief of staff. " ; . : .
There is every reason to ' be
lieve that the approaching period
will be one of heavy fighting in
volving great numbers . of Ameri
can troops.. The scale of the com
ing battles is expected to be be
yond anything heretofore experi
enced by us in this war, and re-
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Pope Pius XII
es Writers
To Plug Peace
ROME, June 7.-()-Pop Pius
XII urged correspondents : today
, "to write of a peace that can meet
the approval of all well-meaning
peoples" in his first press confer
ence since becoming pope.
: "You re most welcome. You
have a mission of tremendous im
portance," His Holiness said in
greeting the newsmen as he en
tered the throne room of the vat
lean. , .-
"If it would be welkto have a
message for you, it would be those
words spoken' back In 1940 on the
eve of Christmas. - - 5i
. "If a man is sincerely interest
ed in securing spiritual and mora
conditions for future collaboration
between nations he will direct, his
force toward duty,, truth, justice
and goodwill, and even more, to
ward the supernatural idea- of
brotherly love that Christ gave
to the world." . s
. His Holiness, thin. and pale but
appearing surprisingly v a t r o n g,
then urged the correspondents to
let the ultimate general purpose
ef their writing be for peace.
"The war should be only
neans to peace," he said. "Write
for a peace that can meet the ap
proval of all well meaning peoples
that can assure one and all those
conditions necessary so that they
may live in a manner befitting the
:ruty cf a human being. .-
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NINETY-FOUSTH .
German
5th Army
vances
' By EDWARD KENNEDY ;
..' ROME, June 7 . Mjfj- The
fifth army smashed ahead
north and west of Rome toward
the key Tyrrhenian port of Ci-
vitavecohia tonight in a drive
so rapid and powerful that the
Germans themselves described
it officially as a "major break'
through their lines. , :
Fanning out above the city the
allies advanced so far along; the
vital coastal highway No. 1 that
one official announced this eve
ning that they "continued a rap
id advance in the direction of Ci
vitavecchia,, the closest port to
Rome, 40 miles to the northwest
by road. -
. This morning's communique
placed the allied armies more
than 10 miles above Rome on
a wide 'front, and today's ad
vances apparently were well be
yond these lines. Gen. Sir Har
old Alexander, commander-in-chief
in Italy, proclaimed that
"the strength of the German
armies has been broke."
The German high command said
thafc.the allies had "succeeded M
achieving a major break? north
of Rome and had "succeeded in
breaking into our positions' west
of the capital. , ;
The allied command described
German resistance as "only
light." It had dwindled to dis
organised activity by delaying
infantry suits and self-propelled
guns. ;
. The advance was along all main
highway west and northwest of
the city, including the routes
numbered one and two and the
Magliana coastal road, the allied
troops covering a distance of ten
miles from Rome as they reached
northward to within five miles
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Senate Votes
OP A Change
WASHINGTON, June 7 -P)-
Dealing the administration a set
back in its drive to re-enact the
price control law- without sub
stantial change, the senate voted
47 to 27 today to free merchants
of damage liability for -price ceil
ing overcharges which they: can
prove are unintentional. ; .
At present . consumers can sue
retailers for ceiling violations and
collect three' times the amount
of any proven overcharge or $50
whichever is greater. . j
. Approved over strong adminis
tration protests, the amendment
provides that in such civil suits
it will be an adequate defense if
the defendant proves that the vio
lation was neither willful nor the
result of failure to take practi
cable precautions against a vio
lation.
Ad
Rapidly
Gen. Bradley! 'Doughboys' General
Commands
, By HAROLD V. BOYLE
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
Allied Expeditionary Force, June
7.-JP-Lanky Omar N Bradley
the "doughboys' general" who has
killed more Germans than any
other US general officer Is com
mander of the American US
ground forces participating in the
attack in France, it was announ
ced. ' ' '
The Germans know this simple,
kindly lieutenant-general as a
master tactician who 'outsmarted
them" Inv the' climactic battl of
North Africa and who ushered
them unceremoniously , out of the
mountains in the epic 38-day con
quest of Sicily. ; t
In the initial stages of the land
ings In France, Gen. Bradley was
tied up by the need for commun
ications to the deck of the flag
ship USMS Augusta birthplace
of the Atlantic charter off the
French coast, but before the west
ern Europe front opened he indi
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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, June T-CVSavage fighting for key points behind the
Normandy beachheads was: developing tonight as the Germans
began moving troops by air in efforts to cope with the constantly
reinforced allied airborne 'divisions whose successes highlighted
the invasion. - is : - i !
-The allied airborne operation, largest ever undertaken any
where, was a complete success, atO-
least as far , as its shock f phases
Were concerned, and parachutists
and airborne infantry were rang
ing! swiftly behind . the German
frontlines, it was said at supreme
headquarters; v J ! 1 ' "
v Authorities, were tight - lipped
about the progress of troops that
landed . from the sea but; stated
tiie '. airborne - soldiers ' had citried
out every assignment given them,
and . in , some cases had I seized
brdges which the commahdi had
been almost certain the Germans
would have time' to demolish.
J It was confirmed tonight,' for
example, that the British sixth
airborne division had captured a
series of bridges north of Caen. ,
Front, dispatches said airborne
troops had joined those from the
sea in some places after capturing
towns, roads and "various, bridges,
ind that reinforcements f poured
in .today abord a 50-mile long train
of ninth air force gliders. 1 1
The German radio yesterday
listed four to six allied airborne
divisions as having landed' behind
the' Atlantic Avail defenses, : and
said tonight that another t British
division . had landed during- to
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A merican Army in France
cated he would move right in with
thel troops at the earliest possible
jtobmentivf:" I
is a. tribute to Bradley's proud
Record as a teacher as well as
fighting leader that he picked to
direct this momentous engagement
many men he personally trained
as officers as head of the Infantry
Officers' school at Fort Benning,
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i He also has trained more "shave
tails" than any, other US general
Officer, for Tort Benning .; gradu
ated second lieutenants at the rate
of 40,000 a year under the meth
ods which he supervised. ",
This 51-year-old Missouri-born
commander, the greatest military
contribution of the "show 'me"
State since "Black Jack" Pershing.
Contrasts sharply with his' ircper
lout, colorful opponent. Field
Marshal . Erwin Rommel, .' nazi
veteran of slam-bang advances
hct Ions rttreats. - i i j
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Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning,
BreaMtliroe&Ib"
As Second Front Opens
ft-
through surf under the cover of
France a easvalty of the Invasion
-.:! II
Troops:
"HTTBnHliT? i
ers Put
Aerial Cordon
Over Beaches
SUPREME ! HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE; June 7 -()-: Allied war
planes, which have flown a total
of 31,000 sorties against Europe
since June 1, threw down blazing
curtains of bombs and bullets in
tended to cut off both help and
escape for German troops on' the
perimeters of the expanding
beachheads in France.
Sooth ef Caen 251 to MO Fly
ing Fortresses and . Liberators
heavily attacked road Junctions
to block erf German reinforce
ments. In this nnnsiiul front
line se of heavy bombers neith
er anti-aircraft fire nor German
v fighter opposition was encoun
tered. ' K ' ' $ -t-''
Clouds prevented assessment ! of
the damage done. i
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Gen. Bradley Is known as the
"doughboys general" because he
is sparing of the lives of men
under his command. ' ' t
But he is a tough, knotty fight
er with the tenaciouus, sledge ham
mer persistence ' of Gen. U. s S,
Grant, the shrewdness of a New
England horse trader, but with
personal dignity and integrity that
can be compared with that
Gen. Robert E. Lee.j.i.ri
A native of Clark, Mo he was
in Gen. Dwiht D. Eisenhower'
class & W attest Point and
it was Gen.. Eisenhower who have
him his first chance to show what
he could do in the field in North
Africa.4 He responded with : the
smashing offense that captured
Biierte. i j : ' I
' Gen. Bradley is not one to tin
der-rate the enemy. Of the Ger
man ; he says, "cunning and , un
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Invad
June 8.' 1844
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naval shellf Ire te make; first land-
of Fortress Europe. (AF Wire-
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VLOS'DON. Thursday, Jane
j RAF - bombers, sweeping
across the' channel in support
of allied invasion forces. Mast
ed targets fat France 'again last
night, the British annennced to
day, and axis broadcasts Indi
cated that vital eomnmnica
Uons centers were' among the
torrets. . ?'!'
A Paris broadcast said the
suburbs ' of that city, a vital
rail hab, had been bombed and
also reported attacks on Nantes
and Lorient en the French coast.
The broadcast declared the as
saalts were carried lent in great
strength.' '-T " -'
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LONDON, Jane S HJP)- Al
lied : heavy; bombers in great
strength headed eat across the
English channel at daybreak
today la the direction of the Fas
de Calais 'are e (France, fol
lowing up a big RAF night at
tack in support of, allied Inva
sion forces. ; i. ', '
- "The weather waaii better : in
Dover strait, with d light breeze
from the' west, bat base and
lisht mist ; limitodf visibility. ...
LONDON. Jane 7 HJP- A
.1.
report -; to . the , London ' press
through Switzerland said today
that a large allied f fleet was
enising e-ff Genes l and that
"an allied landing en the Llgnr- '
ton coast j (Italy), jer even en
soatbern France, was expected
hourly." '
- NEW YORK, June 7
Allied parachate troops In hith
erto J anknown strength 1 have
landed 20 adles seatli of Caen
in the region between Argentaa
and Falalse, the German radio
said toniaJU hi a broadcast re
corded by the CBS.
A .BBC report heard by the
bhae : network aote4 a BcrUa
broadcast as aaylng t the point
was 41 miles southeast ef Caen
and add!- thai a -vast fore"
ef airborne infantry was fight
ing Its way toward the aaJ
beachhead at the north ef the
One river. "f
Huge Meleftr-Flasliea,
Across Oregon Sky I
EUGENE, Ore I June t-ifi
An invasion night: meteor, so
large i that some witnesses said
"the moon Is falling." was re
ported to J. Hugh. Pruett, Uni
versity ot Oregon extension as
tronomerv today.-
!1
7csther-r . - I i; '
. Itaxtmnae temperatare - Wed
nesday - ti degrees; ; . minfannm
49; trace ef preelplUtion; river
. . Oreron: strong winds eastern
portion -: Thursday. I' Scattered
showers : and thunderstorms , In
northeast portion Thursday and
north portion Friday. Cooler
soath interior Thursday.
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Yankfees
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Capture
Biak Field
Mac's
Men Get
Behind Enemy
To Grab! Base
n
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New: G u inea,
Thursday, June J 8 Ph The
Mokmer airdrome on Biak is-
and, giving pen.) Douglas
Arthur a base within bombing
range of the Philippines! has
been stormed and captured.
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headquarters announced today
on the 13th day of the invasion
of the Schoutens. H i I ;
Stalled and bloodily repulsed
earlier in a frontal stab from the
initial beachhead, established May
27, MacArthur got in behind the
enemy positions and; swept ion to
the airfield from the; rear. ,
The airfield Is;; within SSI
miles of the Philippines to the
northwest and is jwtthin good
fighter '. range of palao, western
Carolines naval base of the iJap
anese. raardiiur the aoDroachee
to"the rMUpMaiiiil
Headquarters said the Japanese
were routed Wednesday and-that
American losses in the . victorious
move were light. .1 i - : f - ,1-; 1
After the May 27 landing; two
battalions ef jTanka were canrht
in marderons fire j of Japanese
en - ridges and lis j caves . while
attempting to move; west along
a shore road to Mekmer. !. . '
Biak, which is (in group of
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GeherallWho
Talked Sent
HomelDetnoted
W AS H I NGTONl! June ? -fiPk
The army reported today j that
MaJ. Genu Henry J. F, "Milleit was
"broken" to lieutenant colonel and
sent home from . England for an
indiscreet , remark at a , cocktail
party hinting' at the! time set for
the invasion of Europe. -
The rank to which he was re
duced is his permanent grade,
held since 1938. Thej rank of ma
jor general was temporary. "
The story came out piecemeal
from supreme headquarters of the
allied expeditionaryj forces and
from the. war department here.
Dispatches from Shaef told of the
incident but on orders from the
supreme " command withheld the
officer's name. I i - i I ....
Here, in response to inquiries,
the war department issued a
memorandum, naming the officer
as Miller, 53, a graduate ot. the
command and general staff school
with a 33-year honorable record
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Mt. A ngel
Corpus Christi Sunday:
By LORETTAC! DEHLEK '
MT. ANGEI Corpus Christi
will be observed by the city ;of
Mt Angel in the traditional man
ner next Sunday Lack , of gaso-J
line "may dwindle tlSs number jot
visitors that the church celebra
tion usually brings to town; and
the; absence of several; hundred
young men in the j armed forces
will shrink the) ine of men tin
the procession, but (the presence
of the visiting Foresters, meeting
here in state convention that i day,
should swell the crowd to almost
the size of old times, - j 5.
. The custom was brought here
from the old country. The Swiss
and German Catholic people! and
priests who first settled the town
celebrated the feast that honors
the Holy Euchrist, with the pub
lic processions thatj had' marked
its celebration In .their homeland.
Whether these 'pioneers of Mt
Angel had more faith, more ardor,
more endurance or Just more1 time
' - " ' "" "
1-M
Piusli
Headquarters Says Forces
Doing Better Than Hoped;
Landing Beaches Geared
By1 WES GALLAGHER
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EX
PEDITIONARY FORCE,
The allies announced today capture of their firet
rench city, the nazi-1 orUfied town- of Bay eux,
five miles inshore in the center of the Nonnandy
invasion coast,1 and said they also had cut the high
way from Bayiiex- to Caen as they moved inland
in generally heavy fighting against counter-attack-'
ing German reserves. . " ' 1 t . ,
(The Cherbburg-Caen-Paris railway and a
main highway rim through Bayeux, so that cap- '
ture of the-town cuts both, contributing to. isola
tion of the. Cherbourg peninsula. ) j
Caen, 18 miles southeast of Bayeux and nine t
miles' from the sea, was the scene of a German
armored counter-attack which has been hurled
back, headquarters disclosed, and the allied forces
were said to be doing generally "better than ex-
pected." ij : .M"; ! .
r Aside from these two towns, supreme headquarters
gave no place-names, ignoring a continuing stream of Ger
man broadcasts which reported new allied attacks all the
way from the Pas De Calais area on Dover strait to Nantes .
iuc uue vi inc uriviany pemnsuia jutung oui inu
the Atlantic';- l ;'r-.-: I -t'-- vt '
.1 A headquarters communique said the allied landing
beaches had been: cleared of the enemy and had, been linked
up by flank extensions in some cases durinsr the Second dav
of invasion while steady reinforcements poured in by sea .
and iiir. I'li?- , -I 11 '-."( L .
The supreme commander.
toured the beach 'areas in a British vessel for four and one
half hours Wednesday, conferring with Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery and . other operational chief tains less than
five miles from German-held territory. . f - ;
The German accounts, many apparently designed pure
ly to provoke replies, claimed the British Sixth parachute
division had been "annihilated"; that a beachhead on the
right bank of the Orne river had been wiped out; that a new
amphibious attack had been1 made on the Calais area nearest
Britain and heaviest bombed spot prior to the invasion; that
new allied airborne operations were directed against Lorient,
Nantes and St. Brieuc all on the Brittany peninsula, and
on Falaise and Argentan, 30 miles south of Caen and 40
miles inland. j :p , - . : ( .)
'- ' The Germans spoke at length of the ."surprising"
strength of airborne operations, and allied headquartres con
firmed that these ; were continued Wednesday on a large
scale, without mentioning localities. j
; The Germans said Caen was aflame, and allied accounts
inferential confirmed this by describing heavy air attacks
lin that area and shelling of
isrtisn rauiesnip xeison. -yr ' ;J. .'..'.' f-:r jt-fc
Heaviest fighting apparently centered around Caen and
Bayeux, the latter a cathedral town, once of 9000 population.
; Reports from the front mentioned many casualties, al
though there was! no solid evidence of the. actual number or
proportion. Both ! the US and British navies reported their
casualties in personnel and ships were so far very small.
. Resistance of the German navy and air force continued
relatively light, with. E-boats driven off in two attacks and
51 German planes downed Wednesday by the overwhelming
allied air cover, which lost 23 of its own planes. Lightning
fighter-bombers demolished a German headquarters Wed
nesday afternoon. Al- - '.' ' - -f " : v
- One returning flier said the Germans had flooded three
Iarge lowland areas' near the beaches in efforts to hold up
the allied advance, j H
The German land forces put up
increasing resistance that was ex
pected to become still stronger' as
the : nazi command I struggled to
discern and meet the allied strategy.".'-
'- V- I - Hi '
Allied airborne operations, a
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Will Observe
i
cannot: be ascertained ! now, but
the fact remains that they were
lengthy marches compareLwith
the seemingly long; procession of
six or seven blocks of these days.
Likewise, the band; of those days
was the pride of the town and ot
the pastors, Father Placidus Fuerst
and Father Dominic Wadenschwy
ler, who served successively 'and
each of whom, was well known
composer and musician.; That band
has shrunken pitifully in size, due
to the war and present conditions,
but the members left 'report to a
man for the annual, Corpus Chris-
tt-procession.v:i: 4 ;i
Except in Los - Angeles, where
the devout Mexicans carry on the
tradition in mile-long marches
from one church to another In the
Mexican section of; the city, it is
doubtful if the - Ut Angel cele
bration is duplicated in the west
As" many as 23.C00: people march
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laid!
i Gomtiiiiiiies
Thursday, June 8-(AP)
Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower.
it by the 16-inch guns of the
JL JLllVliCU.
To Trailblazer
Birlliday Party
CAMP ADAIR, June 7.-Spe-dal)-The
70th division will cele
brate its first birthday as ans or
ganized military unit in conjunc
tion with the nationwide observ
ance of Infantry day June 15
The division will play host to
the general public, who are In
vited to Camp Adair for a day
long program of speeches, paV
rades, athletic events and exhib
its of the infantry's tools of war,
beginning at 9 a. in. and extending
Into the evening. .
: Joining with Maj.-Gen. John E.
Dahlquist, Trailblazer d 1 v I s I o a,
commander. In the dual celebra
tion will be other ; high military;
authorities and Oregon state and)
city officials EvenU will include
a formation of the entire 70th di
vision to hear speeches commem
orating organization of the divie
sion, plus the: Infantry day obe
servance, and a parade, ot th
unit's personnel in review Unxne
diately afterward. ' ,.- - '
Evening events will Include el
division ball led By Gen.j Dil-1-,
quist " " 1
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