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fi; -A Weather 1 1 imimr-rouHTH year Airborne Troons TrooD-earrytnr : 1 v -. ' ' . .. i ' r ? C ' . " ' ' . ' , ' , f i: J- , - ' tr ' .-:-J ,-c v.: ' . .. ..vW"--Ab s' 5- . t , ' v " il . yjiW-tli,! tnmlntwW"'' .MhtSMawAaJW n OiM.i Unnur, . ,1 . ,v , ' ' - ' - " " ' t ' ' i airborne infantry, are seen on their way to the French coast and hhimi ih nmv line. RreAchlnr obstacle emplacements for protection as they fire from the surf upon the enemy. They j are covering other troops coming In on 'a French beachhead on landing boats, which appear in the background. The soldiers lay low under heavy artillery and machine gun fire from concrete pillboxes. The enemy was finally silenced. (International Kadiosounapnoto.) Violence Already Underway Against Collaborationists in Liberated F ranee Lfi? SJiZDQS 'utDino , In the current issue of the Sat , urday Evening Post the first story Is "After April", by Frederick Faust ; The name will be I recog- nized at once as the pen name c of Max Brand, who was killed i In Italy Just a few weeks aga He had gone to Italy - to . view the ; war as representative of Harper's ' magazine when he was struck by i fragments of German shell and soon succumbed to his wounds. . The SEP story was probably tbn In typo, but the news of his death should give It added Interest. , "Frederick Fausr was but one of the pen names of Brand, a na tive of Seattle, who was a most TirnHfiif writer. It Is estimated that his wordage ran to SO million . words, matching or exceeding that . of Edgar Wallace, the British au- thor. Where Wallace ran to crime t stories Brand devoted his writing talent chiefly to "westerns". He came to b known as "King of - the Pulp Writers", but his great est fame attaches to bis author ...i ship of the Dr. Kildare stories ' which have been extensively . filmed for the movies. ? - V : Brand' writing method was said to be to dictate to relays . ' of stenographers Awhile be sub- sisied on "an Incredible amount of black coffee." Brand found a ' - ready market for bis work, and ;was one of -the few men in the - trad who got the top rate of four cents a word from his stories for : the pulps. He. had ability how ever to reach the "slicks" as the iPost story shows. He even wrote some poetry of good quality and published two volumes of his po- I suppose the voracious, reading nubile whose appetite runs to thrillers must be fed, but one has ' feeling of , revulsion against ' (continued on Editorial page) First Prisoners of Invasion Land in Camp SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND, June 9 lhe j first enemy . prisoners taken m 1 the western invasion and brought to this marshalling area arrived ; today . J ".. . : ; , There were over 1000, of which about 100 were casualties and : rrasiblv nine dead.! A total of about 1000 will be lodged in a - prisoner camp already set up. Ar irivine also are several hundred (walklrg wounded American sol 12 PAGES Reinforcements Pour planes (top) of the Ninth air force the invasion barriers (bottom), By ROBERT G. WILSON 1 LONDON,' Jiine 9iTyiolerce already! has against collaborationists in liberated Bayeux, wner was under way. for suspected traitors, reports from the invasion battle front said today, but for triots were biding their time and Except for incidents in Bayeux; where enraged. French citi- j zens were reported to have march- ed one collaborationist ' through the streets, lashing him with whips and sticks, and to have beaten a Vichyite policeman, the French appeared to be carrying on blandly with their . every day affairs in the midst of the fighting. - Fliers reported seeing - farm ers working in their fields in the; battle sone, and one front report told of a calm old lady strolling down , street where r fighting was " raging, , placidly calling out, -Vive les AagUls." This reaction is' precisely What the allied leaders had" worked for and hoped for. What - had "been feared was an un guided popular uprising which would only deliv er allied sympathizers Into the hands of the gestapo. Supreme headquarters has been hammering away for weeks by leaflet and radio, telling the people to stay their hands until they get specific instructions, coordinated with the advance of the army of liberation. Until that time the underground Is asked to help with information about the terrain and about Ger man movements?-V" ' Members of police forces In France who star remain loyal to the under grouid r movement received Instructions today from an ' official French representa tive In London, who told them by radio to continue to (Tun to Page 2 Story D) Co u n ty School Heads Elect McAtee President Approval of the legislative com mittee report and election of offi cers highlighted the closing ses sion of the annual conference of the Oregon County School Super intendents association here Friday. All counties; with the exception of one," were represented. - ' R. H. McAtee, ' Crook county, was elected president to succeed Mrs. Agnes . Booth - of Marion county. Other officers include ' E. H. Castle, Benton ; county, vice president, and Mrs. Lillian Watts, Jefferson county, secretary. ? . - One outstanding legislative com mittee recommendation provides that salaries of county school sup erintendents shall be tocreased and graduated upon a scale com mensurate with the work. involved as indicated by the school census of the various counties. : ; Other recommendations: -. In counties operating under the county unit system the salary of county school ... superintendents 1651 i f- '- - - . - Salem. OmC day Morning, 1 7 Ik C-i?'i. towing cliderf loaded wltli hinterland, to participate in action allied! troops use the Germans own broken I out a manhunt i the most part canny; French pa- exercising considerable control. O - $ America's 3 ! Top Officers i III AWIU,IL M-JXJIIUIUII WASHINGTON, June MAl a critical state of the invasion, of Europe, America's three top com- mapders arrived in, London today for a close-up review and possible majori decisions ' on the strategy of the grand offensive. r President Roosevelt, through hisHsecretarr. Steohen Early, an nounced the arrival in Britain's invasion capital of Gen. George C. chief of staff; Admiral Ernest J. King, .commander-in-chief of the American fleet, and; Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the air.forces. " The four-star officers .. went to Britain, Early said,? to attend a miin0 at thm immhinMl rhif nf sUff which had been plannedj to be held "as soon as toossible after D-day," which was Tuesday. " Ttbe president, Early said, "happy to announce"-that the of fleers have "arrived safely London." j in The trio had conferred with President Roosevelt on Tuesday a few hours after J the Invasion (Turn to Page 2-rStory i shall be determined by the county school board. That the effective date of the In creases shall be July 1. 1945. That funds be granted the state department of education for the employment of a school building consultant. ! ! That the state superintendent of public instruction shall give final approval to all school building plans other -than those in districts of the first class. - ! : :s That apportionment of the ele mentary school fund: shall be bas ed in the attendance; shown in the last annual report instead of the attendance for the current year. ; That the salary of the state sup erintendent Of public " instruction shall be commensurate with that of other elective officers. , That when school districts vote upon consolidation those districts voting against Consolidation shall be eliminated from ; consolidation (Turn to Page 1 Story D) I : I June 10. 1944 Pric Pursue At East Clark's Men Jink Sweep Viterbo, Vetralla, Tarquinia In Speedy March Up Coast By EDWARD KENNEDY ROME, June 9 (AP) Pursuing the shattered German 14th army at continued breakneck pace northwest of Rome, Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army forces swept through the communication centers of quinia today lias nazi troops in general enemy flight up the Italian peninsula. j viterbo, a vital highway and rail junction 40 miles from Rome, fell before a swift seven-mile thrust from the area of Lake Di Vico. Tarquinia, on the main coastal highway 55 miles northwest of the capital, - v - Allied Forces Advance in All Burma Sectors SOUTHEAST ASIA COM- MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan- dy, Ceylon, June -JP) Allied forces have punched suddenly for ward on all major sectors of the India - Burma; front In the east, they seized the northern end of the north Myitkyina airfield; near Kamaing, occupied several vil- and routed enemy troops in disorder, and on the India side; pursued Japanese south from Ko- hima, headquarters announced to-. As Lt Geit Joseph T. Sfil well's Chinese; - American forces penetrated the northern air strip of the besieged north ; Burma stronghold, Chinese inside the town fought to new positions from tne south and repelled enemy night attacks, and two miles north of the city, Maj Gen. W. D. A; Lentaigne's airborne Chindits cap tured the village of Hola. near Maingana.' I At the same time Chinese troops further hemmed in the enemy base of Kamaing, 40 miles north west of Kamaing. and Sakan. -, west of Kamaing, and Sakan. More than Z00 Japanese were killed in the fighting there,, and Chinese seized three 150 mm. guns, two 75 mm. guns and other equip- ment Near Nanyaseik, 10 miles north ot Kamaing, where the enemy was I reported withdrawing In disor (Turn to Page 2 Story F) TMZ aLrva J 0 122 If' UIUU lilt III Praises Work O f Paratroops SUPREME : HEADQUARTERS, I AMmA Rvnr1itlnnra TnrM -Tun -(jp)-The high command 'in its first detailed story disclosed today that US parachute troops descend' ing on the Stel Mere Eglise sector below Cherbourg Tuesday bril liantly carried; out a vitaj part of history's most .successful airborne operation., "a; yertical attack far I excelling the German sky assault on Crete. .Toe official, report said losses approximated two per cent of the more . than 1000 US and RAF planes used, and a high staff of ficer who accompanied the Amer icans, in ridiculing German claims of Inflicting heavy , casualties on the parachutists, said: (Turn to Pago 2 Story B) Leon W. Girod Lost at Sea FRUTTLAND Leon William BUT Girod. son of Mrs. .Anna! Girod, has been reported lost at sea, his mother was notified Fit- day by the maritime commission Born here in 1913 and reared bere. he attended Salem high school . but comDleted his school work and was graduated from operation nas passed i wiui iana high school it Cortez, Colo., -where ings made and a beachhead es hi oldest broker, Frank, taught tablished. -He was employed ar a welder at It now remains to; be teen Tacoma and Long Beach prior to enlisting In the merchant m- rine approximately one year ago. Sivivors, In addition to his mother. Included brothers,"; Capt Frank Girod. with the army In the Pacific, and Lt (jg) XJoyu I Girod, at a submarine base on the pacific, and one sister. Mrs. Es - jther Jensen, Mcsiterey, Calif, f No. 70 i ! i ' JL . Through Viterbo, Vetralla and Tar the Adriatic sector joined the was seized in a 10-mile stab by allied troops driving on from the captured port of Civitavecchia Vetralla is on a lateral highway connecting Viterbo and Tarquinia. There yet was no sign that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring had been able to rally his fleeing rem nants, and it was doubted here that he would attempt to make another serious stand short of a line beyond Florence, some 150 I miles from 1 Rome. Although Clark's forces were averaging roughly 15 miles a day in their gnm chase they found it diffi cult to keep; within shooting dis tance of the nazis. Clark's vanguards were more than 139 airline miles from the starting point of the. big offen sive launched less than a month A five-month deadlock was broken : in the Adriatic sector kjhwj nazis, after carrying out driwjg alorjf a five mile front between the coast and Crecchio. Eighth army forces pressed after them two i miles , and occupied T?Ua only seyea P"18 t01 provincial capital of Chieti. The Germans thus . were retreating along virtually the entire width of the peninsula. " j; Li. Gen, Sir Oliver Leese's main Eighth army continued to jneet stiff 'resistance from Ger- (Turn to Page 2 Story J) I T 1 ! fkm I 1 ituduc luarKet I Ap HPi'srl 51 "V I vJlCl X VJVXtXj Second - Saturday of operation of the municipal public market, today will - - see 1 fresh - dressed chickens, eggs, strawberries and a variety of vegetables 'offered by farmers to the city's homemakers at the new; Union and High street location, members of the market commission said Friday. Market hours are t a. m. to 2:30 p. m. Patronage the first market day was good land produce sold out early, but a larger farmer partici pation is anticipated today.. Sdem Sixties at 89 . v TTT T, i mm - m. m w w iitvvo am tj ; Warmest day of 1144 to date was Friday,, when mercury fas the official thermometer at the Salem airbase' rose to S9 de grees at eaprosdmately $ p. m. An early breese lowered the temperaturo afastost tsamedlate ly, employes there said. - Beachhead Se Nazis Pacei;, In Danger for at Least Next 10 Days By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME " HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,- June -(As)The allied beachhead T along " the Cherbourg peninsula entered its most critical I Phase tonight with Utile prospect that the danger would pass lor at lew lft days more. - . ..; i the situation - on' the opening; of the western front as seen from military and iniorma- tton available here: n ; ? The initial phase of the grean i wneiner we uermans can tnrow the allies back Into the sea or j break them up. wiuie tne uer- 1 mans' greatly publicized AUanuc jwan proved to be someuung oi a 1 myth, it , always has been the 1 strategy cf their leaders to maxe j the best showing against beach- 1 heads by counterattack. I They did this in Sicily at Gela MarsliiDS Mac's Planes Rip Into Jap Fleet J Off New Guinea ; j . ! Ji ADVANCED A1XJED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Sat urday, June 10 -(-General Douglas MacArthur's Mitchell bombers sank four Japanese destroyers off Manokwari, Dutch New Guinea, it was in nounced today. , 1 .'. J Headquarters reported a fifth destroyer was damaged. A cruiser and a sixth destroyer fled, f Ten Mitchells were credited with blocking the- enemy attempt to reinforce 'its Biak garrison Thursday. j- j- - :-:;i- It was the first daring ven ture by an enemy task force Into waters of New Guinea In many -months. The! amount of damage Inflicted was perhaps the greatest ever accomplished by" such a small bombing for mation In the history of the 5th ; air force. . .. i; ' - I The attack upon the cruiser and six destroyers took place in Geel vink bay, the f entrance to which is guarded by Biak and the other Schouten islands. ,! . j Ten enemy fighters attempted to prevent the bomber attack. and shot down three American (Turn to Page 24-Story E) ersHit - !:? r 4 Nazi Ships, g2 By NED NORDNESS SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Saturday, June 10 HfP Eight British, Canadian and Pol ish destroyers! intercepted four German destroyers; , apparently bent on a sneak smash at the allied Normandy coast line be fore dawn yesterday, blowing! up oner of - them, chasing ; another aground, in flames andi scoring hits on the other, two which es caped, a communique announced early today. S r I The grounded enemy vessel was believtd to have been finished off t 4 1 , . T . 'ii l . "let oy a oomouig aiiacK. i . This point - blank engage ment which cost the allies damage and a few casualties on only one ship,! the British destroyer - Tartar was the most dramatic of three sju-face action announced, and wis fought off the tip of Brittany near Ushant (Quessant) Island. In addition, allied naval units continued their battering of the invasion coast plastering 46 shore targets during the 24 hours end ing at 8 a. in.' yesterday. l . " Spotted by" a patrol plane be fore midnight Thursday the quar tet of German destroyers was In tercepted by the British destroyers Tartar, Ashantii Eskimo and -Javelin, the Canadian destroyers Hai da and Huron, and the Polish (Turn to Page 2 Story I) German's Concern Over Mediterranean Grows MADRID, June 0 -iV Ger man concern over : the possibili ty of-new allied Invasion land ings on the Mediterranean coast of France from Corsica, Sardinia and Africa increased today, when It became known the allies had refused a week ago to give navi certs to a Swiss chartered ship seeking to go to Marseille. Allies still are withholding permits. Destroy Destroyin on Cherbourg Peninsula and in Italy at Salerno and Anlio. It took only four -days for the Salerno counter-thrust to devel op and it was defeated three days later. It took two weeks to develop at Anzio and a week to .defeat it This Is by far the biggest, am phibious- i landing yet and it: Is going to take longer to' develop an all-out counterattack and perhaps longer to defeat it "1 L What are the Germans chances of success? What are the strength and weaknesses of the allied land ings? , f " - S" The beachhead ' itself extends from the Orne river About CO miles to some point beyond Ste. ' Mere Eglise. Both supreme allied head quarters and German reports Ire- veal that the beachhead is some what shallow, varying in width from 10 miles or more down to three or. four, thus being; suscep tible to a break-through. ; , . It is strongly held by deter mined troops with plenty of re serves. Some of the troops are A Med A dvauce American Flying Wedge Cuts Main Nazi Communication ; To Cherbourg Landing-Port ! By' JAMES M. LONG supreme Headquarters, allied ex- PEDmONARY FORCE, Saturday, June 10-(AP) Allied air power roared back to the support of tho French invasion during the night after bad weath er that found the American, British and Canadian ground forces advancing against hard-fighting Germans on the .Cherbourg peninsula and south-. west of Bayeux without their accustomed aerial i - ( i ' .., ... . , aid. .; :v-;-; -C: :.-:'. - ..-y- y Shortly before. dawn today it was announced that RAF heavy bombers went out over France in strength during the darkness. Their, targets were not disclosed immediately. , Even without the vital headquarters I announced in that an American flying wedge men had cut the main: German potentially great landing-port of Cherbourg by capturing the town of Ste. Mere Eglise and sweeping on across the broad-gauge Cherbourg peninsular railway and the parallel highway in heavy fighting, and that repeated German naval attempts to interfere ! with the beachhead operations had ' been nipped ait their inception. Axis broadcasts said 400,000 men were fighting in Nor mandy, about 200,000 on each side, and that allied reinforce ments had been pouring into the beaches all Friday night with many tanks. ; . - ' - , The allied communique, in reporting the fourth day of the invasion of Normandy, gave these additional points:4' f urther allied gains have been made west and south west of captured Bayeux; ;;V ' Heavy fighting; continues Fighting is severe in the mans are making a desperate effort to stop the British Canadian advance; j - The weight of armor on Numerous enemy strong passed have now been eliminated; ' i . . The weather has deteriorated but the beachheads never theless are being devloped steadily; vAvV'.: . Poor visibility land stormy weather; cut lr activity to a minimum;'! . v J- -. '.- --- . The previous communique, issued Friday shortly before noon, had announced continuing gains in all sectors. The Germans said the Americans had advanced another mile beyond Ste. Mere; Eglise. which is 18 miles southeast of Cherbourg, and intimated that the weak secondary roads left to the nazis in the peninsula were already threatened if not broken by allied parachutists who, the enemy said, were operating on the other side of the peninsula near Lessay, bottleneck of the west coast road and a small spur. railway. The Americans commanded by Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley,' who himself was in the field, also made gains on the south east flank of their 28-mile stretch of beachhead by captur ing Formigny, midway east between St. Mere Eglise and Bayeux.'-; v!1 V. m-v ;-' .'-o ; ' West and southwest of Bayeux the allies held onto an important hill and poured their armor into a fight that may prove to be the key to the tank battleground between Bayeux and Caen." '-I.' i ; "I r.-'": : 'V-V 1T-':- ' The fiercest whole , invasion swirled : around Caen, nine miles inland from the bay of the Seine, where; at least two German panzer divisions were trying to hold that strong-point and win maneuverable; control of the good tank-fighting sone to the west ,;- 'V:r-.- .- '. The headquarters communique made clear that the allies i also were getting their heavy armor into action and that the Germans had not been able to out-match it It was disclosed that the allies have taken 4000 to 5000 prison ers since the invasion jbegan.- . Near the allied left flank in the Caen sector the British and Canadians withstood: (a;, furious German armored counter-attack. One German spearhead gouged into the Canadian lines, said a front dispatch, but Was thrown back again. '. , ; . ' ' (Turn to Page 2 Story C) tired, however,1 and not capable of. a sustained offensive. They probably will slow down .now and they lade some heavy) equipment which can be landed only at ports. On the other hand they can be supported by naval gunfire- at al most any point and the compare' tively slow and light German reac tion" so far has allowed them to firmly establish the perimeters of their foothold. : . ! - The biggest immediate danger to the allies is the weather and it is the largest German asset It hampered, the unloading of vital supplies and the beachhead battle now is largely one , of supplies. The allies must . land enough equipment and troops! to match, or outmatch, what the Germans can bring up from nearby depots and over inland lines of commun ications. ? ' ';- . ': .. i :' The allied chances of doing this even without a port were some what better than good until to- (Turn to Page I Story A) f i weapon of air support, allied a tost-midnieht communique of parachutists and infantry communications lines to the . f - in all areas; area of Caen, where the Ger both sides is increasing; - points that originally were by fighting f of theO ....... - Women Plan Active Part In Bond Sale Women must play, an ' increas ingly Important part in workins to help finance the war, rep re sent lives of Salem Business and Professional Women's club, Zon- ta and Soroptimist clubs were ' told Friday night as they met with Mrs. Winifred Pettyjohn, Msrioa county . women's division ;; chair man, to lay plans for their , work in the Fifth War Loan campaign. Members of these three clubs will man a desk at bond sale headquarters,, clubrooms at the ' southeast corner ot Court and . Commercial -. streets, throughout the drive. They also are training as saleswomen, prepared to pre sent war bonds as investment and to aid purchasers in determining what types ot the US paper are most desirable for their particular needs. Beating Berlin by buying bond will be advertised on the lapel of Marion county residents, who may before the Fifth War -Loan campaign is completed, 1 cash fat their Invasion boutonnieres, and "warsages as part of the pur chase price of. war bonds, women selling the dainty bouquets of cel lophane covered stamps declared Friday. t First of the invasion bouton nieres was : sold Friday : by ;' Miss Lena Blum, MwarsageN chairman, to Gov. Earl SnelL' A variety Of the ' lapel - decorations will; be available and others, will be made to order. Miss Blume said.'.' Her assistants are Airs, juioya xucnes, Mrs. Myrtle Stewart, Mrs. R. G Warner and Mrs. Bessie' Kaiser. Weather.; u J.-; I . Maximum : temperature : Fri day 89 derrees; rninlmnm 50; ' Be precipitation; wind sooth, scattered clouds. Elver -.IS ft -: Partly eleady Saturday and Sunday; slowly rising tempera tore along the toast ;