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' Over a century ago farm boy
: in England accidentally over
, turned a load of hay. His family
was convinced he-wouldn't make
a good farmer so they apprenticed
r him as a clerk of a draper (Eng
,lish term for dry goods merch
. ant). When the lad went to Lon-
don he was so small he was re
fused work at first, but he finally
t landed a job, and in Horatio Alger
fashion, rose steadily until he be-
- came head of the firm. But what
this lad became famous ior was
t not overturning' a load of hay and
not becoming a merchant prince.
1 He didn't duplicate Dick Whit-
ington and become lord mayor of
London. What he did do was to
; start , an organization of young
men which became the foundation
- of the Young Men's Christian as
sociation. . ; 4
For young men who came to
London to enter business a cen-
tury ago there was virtually no
. . thing in the way of decent living
conditions and healthy recreation.
. "Hours and wages were inhuman
- ly bad. Young clerks worked 14
to 17 hours a day . . . For their
leisure hours they turned in des-
. Deration, if not in eagerness, to
. gambling, drunkenness, and im
. morality." George Williams, the
Somerset farm boy. who bad up
. set the hay-cart, saw these con-
; ditions and invited a group of 12
young clerks to meet in his bed
room where they organized what
became the YMCA for "the im
provement of the spiritual con-
- dition of young men engaged in
the drapery and other trades, by
the introduction of religious ser
: vices among them.". The idea took
hold. In 1851 the first YMCA was
organized in Boston, j The Salem
"Y' is over half a century old.
"The present work of the YMCA
; is very well known. The institu-
tion here in Salem is so intimate
ly 'a part of community life that
little need be said about it. For
years it has been the focal point
of work with and (continued on
Editorial page)
US Casualties
Reach 217,131;
48,754 Dead
WASHINGTON, ; June 8
The ,war,wwith no accounting yet
! of losses mlihauropm coast
landings, has '""cost "The" United
States 217,131 casualties.'
War and navy department re
ports today gave the army casual
ties as 171,338, and the navy's as
45,773. This is an increase of 10,
245 in the last two weeks. The
. total includes 48,754 dead and 81,
032 'Wounded. ;.,
On the basis of casualty re
ports In the past, it Is not expected
that losses in the battle of in
vasion will begin to be reflected
in total reports for perhaps a
fortnight Up to now, casualty re
- ports have usually covered periods
' ending from a week or two er
, : three weeks before issuance of the
! total issuance of the total figures.
Secretary ; of war Stimson era
phasized in a news conference to-
; day the cost of major engagements
" American forces lost 2.379 cas
ualties in three days of fighting'
:May 27 to 30, inclusivein Italy,
. Stimson said. This was at a time
when a break through of the Nazi
line south of Rome was being
executed.
v The campaign in Italy, from the
landings on the mainland last
. September to May 30, has resulted
;. In 37,529 casualties, including
i 9,964 killed and 38,554 wounded. .
M'Kenna Visits
Salem Friends
t Sen. Coe A. McKenna of Port
land was a Salem visitor Thursday.
McKenna, who led the republican
ticket in the recent primaries, is
a candidate for the post of presi
dent of the senate. He served one
term -In the house and is com
pleting his first term in the state
senate.
i I am getting in ' touch with
present members of the senate and
those whose election in November
Is probable," said McKenna. 1
am not signing members on the
dotted line, but letting them know
I should like to have their support,
and am meeting with a good re
sponse thus far." -
1 Others "who are active or po
tential candidates for president of
the. senate are William E. Walsh
of Coos county, Rex Ellis of Uma
tilla and Howard Belton ot Clack
amas county. Thus far none is
claiming to have a majority
pledged to his support,
'Ike' Wasn't Worried
About Nazi Air Force
r GENERAL EISENHOWER'S
COMMAND POST, June 8 -JP)r--Gen.
Dwight" Eisenhower wasn't
at all worried about what the Ger-
man air force would do on invas
ion day, being supremely confident
that Allied power would handle
nvthin with a Swastika on jits
lie told a group of Canadians
Just before they emDarsea: u.
you see any planes don't worry
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NINETY-FOURTH YEAH
Allie
in
Pesli 26
In
24
Fifth Army Captures Gvita
Castellana, Civitavecchia;
Nazis Resist Very Little
By EDWARD KENNEDY
ROME, June 8 (AP) In lightning; drives of as much
as 26 miles in 24 hours, the allied Fifth army today cap
tured Civita Castellana, 32 miles north of Rome, after other
swift armored units had pounded through Civitavecchia,
important seaport 38 miles northwest of the Italian capital.
Only the slightest resistance was being encountered by
Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's troops as they pressed after the
reeling German 14th army, which: an allied spokesman de
clared had been reduced to "battered remnants." There yet
was no indication where the
tempt to halt the allied steam-o
roller. II
Civita Castellana is the junc
tion of three main highways and
two electric railways. Light jecon
naisance units entered the town
early in the evening. Civita
vecchia is a city of 36,000 popula
tion, with docks that will be of
value to the pursuing allied forces.
A third Fifth army column
drove Into Bracciano, ancient
Iron smelting; center 19 miles
northwest of Rome near Lake
Bracciano,' and also threw an
arm around the eastern side of
the lake.
Captured in the swift thrust
northward was the former head
quarters, of. the nazi commander,
Field : Marshal Albert Kesselring,
The "elaborate, tunneled under-
eround stronghold" was situated
about three miles souutheast of
Civita Castellana.
. An allied spokesman declared
that "the battered remnants of
the German 14th army are in a
considerable state of disorgani
sation" and disclosed that up
wards of 49 enemy units were
represented among prisoners
captured since Rome fell.
Both the enemy 10th and 14th
armies now have been so slashed
up that there is no possibility of
either group sending v reinforce
ments to any other fighting front
in Europe. That was one of the
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7fee' Pleased
WithResults
SUPREME HEADQUAR
TERS ALLIED EXPEDITION
ARY FORCE, June 8-UP)-Ga.
Dwight D. Eisenhower declared
today In a confident appraisal
f the first 54 hours of the al
lied Invasion of France that his
faith la the sea, air and ground
write had been "completely Jus
tified" and t h a t the ground
forces wider Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery were ."perform
ing magnificently."
Back at his command post
from a trip to the Invasion area
aboard a British naval vessel,
the allied leader acknowledged
that ene rather strong counter
attack had developed, tmt he
appeared : confident that' the
ever-increasing allied forces
could repulse the thrust
Pilot
His Landing
1 (Lt Alexis Neel 5317 South
wood Road, Little Rock, Ark.,
crash-landed his glider In. enemy
territory at 6:50 a. m. Wednesday.
He made his way to a beachhead
and was returned to his base. Here
is his story in his own words.)
By LT. ALEXIS NEEL
; Written for tbe Awociated Pren
I A TROOP-CARRIER BASE IN
ENGLAND, June 8.-My glider
was about the 25th In a formation
which C-47s towed In yesterday
(Wednesday)' morning. We cut
loose about four miles .Inland at
500 feet.: --
I started to -land on a field and
a flak tower 'started shooting at
us. I got over to another field and
it was full of vifcoden poles' about
25 feet apart some kind of anti
glider obstacles.
! I saw another glider land in a
nearby field, but it must have hit
a mine. It blew up. We finally
landed In tops of some trees about
Glider
35 feet high. Only three men were
r '0 ' , . POUND no 1651 :
Italy
Miles
.Hoots
disorganized enemy would at
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Police Kecover
2 Stolen Cars
In Fast Time
Quick, cooperative action on the
part of city and state police Thurs
day fafternoon in Salem resulted
in the recovery of two cars within
10 minutes after each was reported
stolen. An escaped convict jumped
in the first car in making his get
away from the state penitentiary,
and two soldiers, AWOL, made off
in the second car- -
After a spectacular 85-mileau-.
hour chase, Warren - J. ' Best, f the
escapee, Was forced to stop by state
police at the gas station at the in
tersection of Chemawa-Turner,
and Four Corners roads near Lake
Labish Shirtless, and wearing
a brown' cap, Best darted away
from! a gun-gang crew working
outside the prison gates and climb
ed into the car of A. D. Wagner,
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Stimson Hails
Allies' Work 1
WA SHI NGTON, June 8 -(JF)
The tallies' seizure of a foothold
in France was hailed as a "great
accomplishment" by Secretary of
War t Stimson today, but he tem
pered his assessment of gratifying
progress with a warning that
"only the first hurdle ! has been
taken." j -:-Uv; ...- s
Germany's real strength In
France is in the mobile armies
concentrated inland, Stimson said,
and imtil the nazi high command
reaches a decision on the power
and main direction of the allied
attack, this defense force will not
be committed.; I ' -)
Stimson reported to a news con
ference that some ; of the various
beachheads on the coast of Nor
mandy have been widened and
united, and the coastal forces and
the airborne units which attacked
well inland have made contact in
some places. But, he said, it "would
be bad Indeed if we permitted
super-optimism to run away with
us." ; .'j .
Describes
in France
hurt and within two or three min
utes after we landed some medics
with stretchers came up and took
them away.
' At the same time German 88
mmfshells started dropping
around us. I beat it out of there
and got to the road. I met some
parachute troopers and started
walking back toward the beach
head. I ; saw - hardly any French
people Inland, but there - were
plenty ' , of , Germans dead ones.
Parachute troopers had taken care
of them. I saw one riding around
In a German half-track and wear
ing German boots. ' 0 P;.
I ran into an MP major about
11 a. m. and asked him whether
to go to an airborne command
poet; or to the beachhead. Up to
the command post, he said," there
were a lot of snipers and mines.
He advised me to go to the beach
head and 1 didn't , argue. L and
seveh other, glider pilots, got into
a trailer towed by a Jeep and we
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Landing craft loaded with American
SoandpboU). Pictorial history of
Allied Air Forces Smash at Vital
Rail Junctions Behind Battle Zone
By AUSTIN BALMEAR
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, ; Friday, June MO-Allied air : forces, surpassing the
total of 27,000 sorties since the invasion of western Europe be
gan, smashed at vital rail junctions well behind the battle zone
and at scores of other objectives throughout the third day of the
battle of Normandy. , f ' j i
As the weather improved steadily, daylight operations were
US Liberator
Hits Japanese
Cruiser; Twice
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Friday,
June fl.-(ff)-In a sharp sea-air
duel off northwestern New Gui
nea, an American Liberator bomb
er damaged a Japanese cruiser,
sending two 500 - pound bombs
crashing off her bow, headquar
ters announced ; today.' , j I
Patrolling bombers attacked the
warship Tuesday In Warparin
bay, the southern part of Walgeo
island, off the northern New Gui
nea coast. ' The Liberators then
repulsed 12 enemy fighters, prob
ably destroying one. . i
Ground troops on Biak island,
in the Schouten group, Concentra
ted on cleaning Up enemy pockets
in caves and cliffs east of American-held
Mokmer airdrome un
der the triple barrage of artillery.
tanks and destroyers. The Japan
ese resistance groups were left
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. ' f" ' '-1
'Ike's' Communique j
Makes Nazi Press
STOCKHOLM, June 8 - JJF)
For the first time In this war the
German press published the text
of an enemy communique. News
papers printed on their front pages
the Allied headquarters announce
ment of the invasion , under the
heading, "Eisenhower's Commun
ique." ' i
Weather - 7 I
; Maximum temperature Thors-1
day 71 degrees; minimum 44;
; trace " et precipitation; river
t"
.11 feet.
Partly ' cloudy Friday, few
showers east of mountains. Sat-
wrday fair, warmer west portion!
Friday and . east portion Sat-)
arday. - . f - 5
wmmm
June 9. XS44
troops set sail for the French
.Invasion on page t. :
Othe greatest today in all the three
days of Invasion warfare, and at
noon the 27,000-sorties mark .was
passed by British - based aircraft.
During , this period, . approxi
mately 54 hours, allied losses were
289, planes of all types barely
more than I pier cent. ' f
German planes destroyed in
the period totaled 171 planes
out of the' meager forces which
were dwarfed by the massive al
lied bomber and fighter fleets
thundering constantly through
Eoropean skies.
h As landing forces pushed for
ward to join airborne troops and
expand 1 newly - won territory,
American Fortresses and Liber
ators, nearly 1000 strong and es
corted by, up to 500 ! fighters,
smashed , at transport bottlenecks
and airfields 100 to 150 miles be
hind the Normandy beachheads.
Enemy opposition in the air con-
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Strait Waters
Get Calmer
LONDON, June 8 -ff)- The
blustery; channel weather, which
delayed ; the . western Invasion 24
hours and at lone time nearly
caused an allied - disaster, began
clearing during this third day of
assault, easing the task of troops
unloading from light, wave-kick
ed landing craft." i I "" 1
Improvement of the weather
extended deep inland over the con
tinent and allied airmen were able
to ''east :their heaviest bomb ton
nage upon the enemy since the
first troops many of them reach
ing and -retching and seasick
struggled ashore on the Normandy
coast under a chill, overcast sky.
It was : much . warmer . in the
strait, the sun shone for long per
iods and the seas moderated some
what after forcing a suspension of
unloading , at times yesterday
along the invasion beaches. The
thermometer registered 3 in
mid-afternoon and visibility' lift
ed to three or four miles. -
No. C3
coast en
"D" day1, (International
Invasion Day
Brings More
Bond Buying
An upswing in i bond purchases
following the invasion! of western
Europe, although! the fifth War
loan campaign has not yet offi
cially opened, predicates a .suc
cessful drive, Douglas Yeater,
Marion county war finance com
mittee chairman, declared Thurs
day as he named committee chair
men. V liyL-::
Ready and willing workers have
been secured and! are in process
of organizing committees to help
handle the campaign j which. p
ens Monday with f'Back the Boys
to Berlin .Buy Bonds" as jits
slogan,: Yeater sai4. ; i "h . 'A.
In ; the Sidney -' Talbot area.
where the last loan quota was
topped by ; approximately $8000
worth of bond purchases, the cam
paign takes an early ! start, Mrs.
E. B. Henningsenj chairman, has
announced. The Farmers Union
meeting there Friday night will be
a kickoff session for workers there,
many of whom labored' success
fully In third and fourth war loan
drives.. Mrs. Nellie Wiederker is
to be in charge- of work in the
Sidney district I. 4
The Marion county general com
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BadogUo Conferf
With New Leaders
ROME, June 8.-(ff-Premier
Marshal Pietro Badoglio and sev
eral men who , were members of
his recently resigned cabinet con
ferred with the Rome committee
of liberation today on formation
of a new government which is to
include political leaders in Rome
and other newly. liberated Italian
territory. . ",. -i j "
Crown Prince Umberto also ar'
rived in Rome in his capacity as
the king's lieutenant gerieraL ex
ercising all royal powers. r '
Marshal Badoglio dissolved bis
government Tuesday; and) was
charged by Prince; Umberto with
forming new government j The
crown prince ' received the "royal
prerogatives" of King Vittorio
Emanuele III Monday when the
latter stepped aside as Italian
Pries Se
i
sovereign, - . r ! -1 .' "
Fresh, Nazis
Fierce Tank Battle Raging
Near Bay eux; Germans Still "
Hold on to Base at Caen
BY WES GALLAGHER
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EX
PEDITIONARY. JFORCE, Friday, June 9-(AP)
The allies were thrusting
expanding Normandy baltlefront today, develop
ing their threat to cut off the Cherbourg peninsula
in heavy close-quarters fighting against fresh Ger
man tactical reserves whose advent brought the
invasion into its second phase.
A single allied division was credited by head
quarters with having taken more than 1000 nazis
prisoner since the European fortress was breached Tuesday,
while it was disclosed that the Canadian infantry and armor
had taken 600 prisoners and
advanced rapidly southward through woodlands and farms
between Caen and the captured town of Bayeux, often in
house-to-house combat.
A fierce tank battle has
Bayeux, a correspondent with
in a front-hne dispatch dated Thursday. r -
The Germans, strengthened by parachutists, are put-,
ting up fierce resistance and some desperate hand to hand
fighting has taken place in several wooded areas, he said,
adding that "the Germans are clinging tenaciously to Caen,
using that city as a pivot of fierce counter thrusts to test
the strength of our lines."
Caen, nine miles south of the Seine bay on the Orne
river, was the center of bitter and protracted battle against
strong German defenses, but the nazis themselves acknowl
edged that the allies! were inside the city and had pushd
five miles south and west of Bayeux, which is five miles
from the coast. In general,
kept mum on exact locations.
An allied communique issued shortly befojelast mid
night said the Americans who
invasion front gradually enlarged their beachheads during
Thursday and that the British and Canadians were making
steady progress.
"The enemy is lighting tierce-o
ly the communique .said- "His
reserves have now been in action
along the whole front" j i
At least two German tank di
visions have been identified in
battle. -Jl:
It was disclosed early today
that with better weather the al
lied invasion schedule had regain
ed most of the nearly 24 hours it
was thrown off in the movement
of supplies and reinforcements
from' England in the first two foul
days.. . . . ) ". .
It was indicated that the first
forces ashore -.Tuesday, could have
pushed ahead more rapidly than
they did, but Gen. Dwight D. Eis
enhower's supreme command de
cided it was wiser to slow the ad
vance somewhat Tuesday and
Wednesday., while awaiting more
adequate strength, rather ; than
make a temporarily spectacular
gain and risk having the spear-
beads nipped oft
Now with improving iweather
the flow of supplies and new units
to the front has almost caught up
and Is proceeding faster than ever.
Announcing that the first step
in the Invasion had been accom
plished, headquarters explained
this as "the securing of a foothold
and the defeating ot local German
reserves. . ,?.
The present second phase, it
was explained, calls for defeating
the German tactical reserves,
which are those most immediately
at hand, including the ; 7th and
15th armies now being met; and
the third the task of crushing stra
tegic reserves, which '-might come
from Germany or other fronts and
whose defeat would apell complete
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Churchill Says
Danger Ahead
LONDON, June MiVPrime
Minister Churchill cautioned the
house of commons today against
"over - optimism; regarding the
invasion,' warning members , to
keep in mind that "although great
dangers lie ' behind us, .enormous
exertions lie before us. f ; , -The
prime minister, who gave
up plans to match the -Invasion
itself only at the insistence of the
military, sidestepped ; ah ? attempt
to secure a promise that he would
stay from the battlefront himself,
although he advised commons to
be patient regarding the invasion
news. - " '.' w;::. ' :i. f f
r Churchill .told commons not to
think "that these things; are go
ing to be settled in rush." He
said he had nothing toiteltthe
house about the progress of - the
invasion because ; everything that
occurred to him had been "fully
met in the excellent report! fur
nished by our able and upright
press." ....'
ahead along the whole
freed a dozen towns as they
been raging for 24 hours near
the Canadian forces reported
however, the allied command
'
are on the west flank of the
China's Troops
On Burma Road
CHUNGKING, June 8 -(P-
Chinese troops have occupied part
of the Burma road stronghold of
Lungling, second most important
Japanese base in - Yunnan pro
vince, and have made advances
against the principal enemy base.
of Tengchung, the Chinese com
mand announced tonight.
Lungling, about 130 miles north
east of Lashio on the Burma road,
reopening of which is the com
mon goal of the Chinese Salween
river offensive and the allied cam
paign in north Burma, is about
100 airline miles east of the pre
sent north Burma battle area.
The Chinese also have cut the
road linking Lungling and Teng
chung, main enemy base and hub
of his communications, 40 miles
to the northwest, the communi
que announced. v -
Continuing their drive, west of
the Salween river, the Chinese
recaptured important points in the
area . of Lungling, and pressed
their attacks on Chenanchieh, 21'
miles northeast of the base, and
Siangta, nine and one half miles
south of it Both towns were sur
rounded, the bulletin said. 1 '
Cutting of the road, link be
tween Tengchung and " Lungling
was acomplished, the communi
que reported, by the capture of
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SgU Vern Molver
f ALBANY Mrs. M. Sprenger
of East Albany has been informed
that her son, SSgt. Vern E. Mol
ver, has been missing in ' action -since
- a May 19 sweep over
France. The announcement came -from
the war department. ; '
; Sgt Molver, a gunner on an
Lungling
A-20 . attack plane, had been In
England since last December, In,
April i he was awarded an air J
medaL Sgt. : Molver entered, the
army air forces toon after Pearl ;
Harbor. He ia the youngest of.
Mrs, Sprenger'a four sons, all of ,
wnom are lu we armea - forces, ;
and his 22nd birthday is June 21. . ;
'-. The other three boys in the ser-f
vice are CpL Mickey. Molver, with .
the harbor craft company in Eng-f
land; Pfc Kenneth C. Molver with
a quartermaster corps laundry
unit near " San Francisco, and
SSgi Dan M. Molver. ielegraphic
and mail clerk at Fort Stevens.
1
they're ours."