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!M! SCEEE008 'tttDQESEl Clapping ceilingi on used -cars now it a bit like locking the ga rage after the theft had been com mitted. For prices have been fan tastic, in' terms of normal cost- less-depreei&tkm; but the buyer knows that and the seller . knows It too, so each side to the transac tion realizes the kind of market he is trading in. Used car dealers have been t fighting off T?rice ceilings, but a roll-back to the first of January ; this year which now Is scheduled for July 10 keeps used car prices . still in the higher altitudes. Using the law of averages per- .. haps "book? prices will work out h over a long term, but . the indi vidual purchaser -isn't buying an "average," he's buying a particu , lar make of car, of a particular yeari and model, which has : had ' its own amount and kind of usage ' since7 it was put on the road. That ' Is where in the used car business ; It seems hard to apply set prices ' with Justice to the individual sell er or buyer. Enforcement, except on the hard and fast "book" fig- " ures, would seem to be impossi ble. !.-. . As time passes the cars on. the Toad are wearing out and trans portation becoming more difficult ' to obtain. If OPA did not clamp n some price control the used :. car market might follow the bw : in "Hi diddle, diddle.", Some new cars mar be turned out in 1945 but general production! is not ex pected much before 1948, so it is a good many months j yet before i , the prices on used cars will take their ultimate nose dive, The public view on prices of : ears depends on whether one is (Continued on Editorial page) 11 Girls Back After Mass Escape of 13 r Within two hours after 13 girls ; has made a mass escape; from Hill- crest, state girls' training school -in south Salem, Monday night, 11 of them were back in custody. The girls choked and overpow ered one of the matrons, Mrs. Edith Rhodes, then seized her keys and slipped out j the back door. Mrs.- Rhodes, a resident of Salem, was, not seriously injured, I however Miss Mary VWay, auper intendentf of the school, blames ' the entire episode oTTTKe shortageTslans under CoL Ken. Leonid Gov of experienced staff members. Ap- parently the girls, all in the 15-17 : v year age group, planned their run away during the day, taking ad vantage of the shortage of help ': and newcomers added to the staff. Mrs. Rhodes is quite new at 'her present assignment Two of the girls were! picked up Way and on the road by Miss Mrs. Bessie Haynes, another staff member. Ben Haynes picked up five more a little later. One girl was tired and returned, voluntary ily. The state police found three others who are in their custody, pending the filing of charges, probably somo time today. ; Senate Passes GI Rights Bill WASHJN GTON, June 12-JP) American doughboys fighting in - France and on other battlefields i around the world were virtually k assured today of a financial lift j .when they return homei "The seriate passed a modified version of the "GI bill f rights," s which provides a wide variety of i benefits for veterans of World war ' 2, and sent it to the house, where concurrence is expected; in a day r or two, ' ' ! ''' i ' As finally worked out by a Joint conference committee, the meas L Grant unemployment com f pensation of $20 a week; for up to t 52 weeks to yeterans who are out I of a Job during the first two years after discharge. ! 2. Set up a job placement bureau under - the US employment ser- vice to help veterans find work. I. Provide any necessary hoo i pitalization through the! veterans' administration. I 1 ; 4. Offer a year's schooling, and 3 in some cases a complete cullege 3 education, to veterans Who enter i ed the service before they were 25. ' 5. Guarantee 50 per cent of pri- (Fvate loans, at 4 per cent interest, 'up to a maximum of $2000, for ; veterans wishing to set them ' selves up in business or buy farms or homes. : Southern California Feels Two Quakes . : s LOS ANGELES, June' 12 -JFr ; Two earthquakes, strong enough ; to rattle dishes, were felt in this t area today and were followed by 1 a landslide near Santa Monica that covered the coastal , highway for ' B00 feet to a depth of 73 feet No - injuries were reported. ' The first shock occurred at 3:48 a. m. (PWT) and the second at , ' 4:17 a. m. They were felt in Pas ! adena. Lotz Beach, Los Angeles I ; rid ether celshboring" communi rP- r ni l:. KJNITT-FOTJRTH YEAH'f" r RedTankb Drive O Finn Port j Helsinki Itself j Ultimate Goal Of Soviet Push By RUSSELL LANDSTROM LONDON, Tuesday, June 13 (JP) Russian tanks and picked troops struck through breach es in the rebuilt Mannerheim line yesterday in a drive to ward the big Finnish port of Viipuri less than 45 miles away from advanced spear heads with the capital of Helsinki itself as the ultimate goal. v j Churning up the Karelian isth mus ravaged by the 1939-40 Rus-so-Finnish war, Russian artillery, bombs and guns of the Baltic fleet cracked the defenses along a; 25-mile front and stunned the Finns with a cannonading which echoed through Leningrad, more than 25 miles away. . , Dispatches from Moscow said the red army bad seised sev eral large railroad centers be yond the 1931 Rosso - Finnish border and that Finnish casual ties, heavy from the start, were increasing-. They pictured the Finns as dazed, by . the r suddenness and weight of the attack and as ill prepared for threats : of big-scale landings behind their lines under cover of the , Soviet Boltic fleet ' More enemy positions were be- I Ing rolled up hourly-aJF the Rus- orov, - liberator of Leningrad, struck repeatedly in the virtually uurn u rage a 2iory V) -. Marianas Hit Second Day - By CHARLES H. McMURTRY US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, June 12.HJP)-American carrier planes, striking at the Marianas islands for the . second day, and United States submarines have dealt new flows to Japan's island empire and her shattered merchant fleet - Adm. Chester w. wimitz an nounced the .continuing action against.: the islands within 1600 miles of Japan while a navy de partment communique at Wash ington reported submarines had sunk 18 more enemy vessels. . . The bag by submarines, oper ating in the farflung Pacific, was the: largest number so far report ed in a single communique. It brought the war's total of enemy ships sunk by United States sub marine action to. 607. The newest sinkings included a large tanker, a body blow to the Japanese navy, a medium transport and 16 cargo ships. -, . ;,. Nimitx reported the powerful carrier task force that struck at the southern Marianas islands Saturday also was . in action Sun day. It again attacked Guanv for mer American naval base, and Saipan and Tinian islands and ex tended the strike to Rota island. Rota is half way between Guam and Saipan.' The four islands are at the southern end of the Mari anas group. Guam - is less than 1600 miles east of Manila. Results of the:-Saturday and Sunday smashes in the Marianas still were shrouded in ' secrecy, presumably because the warships were observing a rigid radio si lence. There was no Indication whether enemy shipping had been caught in the harbor, as was the case j last February when a simi lar task force sank or damaged more than a score of Nipponese ships. , . k- The size of the force attacking the Marianas still was undisclosed. Allies Capture Women Snipers in Normandy .; SUPREME HE A DQUARTERS ALLIED. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 12. - () - A small number of women fighting on the Side of the Germans, mostly sni pers,; have been captured and some were killed and wounded in the Normandy fighting, field dis patches said today. " Some : of these , women were Identified as Germans, while oth ers were camp followers of the nazi defense forces la Franca, .- - - . - p ( - . ' ... - - ..; , ."A.. : ... . . -t - . . : - .,... r 'if ' ? ' S ' . ' - . , i - V U PAGI3 Kills Lf- ':':" V V V ' J 1 Tommies Move Through Normandy Village . 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(International sonndphoto.) ; EDRSsJap Defeat Sooner Than Expected WASHINGTON, June 12-;p) President Roosevelt said tonight woj can force the Japanese to unconditional surrender or to na tional suicide much more rapidly than has been thought possible.? 4 ' ' The president,' "speaking : on a national radio program opening the $6,000,000,000,000 fifth war loan drive, said our original stra tegy of eliminating Germany first and then turning our full war strength into the Pacific can has ten the day of our victory on all fronts. ) I ., Germany, he said, is "tint on the list for destruction,", and added: f I ; Germany has h e r back against the wall In fact three walls at once. , ' ' "On the south f- we have brok en the German hold on central Italy ... on the east our gal lant soviet allies have driven the enemy back from the lands which were invaded three years ago. Great soviet armies are now initiating crushing blows., Jr. fOver head vast allied i air fleets of bombers and fighters have been ' waging a bitter air war over Germany . and western Europe. They have had two ma jor objectives: to destroy German war industries which maintain the German armies and air forces; and to shoot the German luft- wiffe out of the air. As a result German production has been whittled continuously and the German fighter force now has only a fraction of its former pow er. . . i-: "Thi great air: campaign, stra- , (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Low Tide Low tide on s Normandy beach the Germans la a vain attempt high tide and grevUe a menace KvAr fvurephete from. US navyj it,- ! i.T ,v, :- '-: - . . l m fiY iiNA r If V A VnrrAVAAA: u M M in i i mi i ttttTi :tfinp.A l n x;. miriYnnn. j)r- w -r. r -j pcuNDDD 65i: r, ;j : Scdom. Oregon Aerial 'Invasion9 Opens Marion War "Invaded" by army air forces, marine planes and part of an infantry division, Marion county surrendered Monday to its home guard, the 2000 men and women campaigning for the Fifth War Loan, f ; . - i' ":---. Th6ugh ununifonned and unarmed, save for war loan kits, the bond sales folk had "the situation well in hand" by dusk of the Yanlcs Cleans Jap Positions On Biak Island By MURUN SPENCER I ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Tues day, June 13.(A)-J apanese are being cleaned, from their strong positions on Biak island west of Mokmer airstrip, headquarters announced today. American infantry troops were advancing westward from cap tured Mokmer drome Sunday against enemy machinegun fire coming from bunkers. i Headquarters, also disclosed that Palau and Truk again were bombed Saturday nifht Palaa's airstrip was bit and installations on Truk were' attacked by planes from soathwest Paeifle , bases. .-" ; -"r ' '. Truk and Palau are 1000 miles apart in the Caroline island group. At Sarmi in Dutch New Guinea, patrols reported 173 more enemy dead Sunday and 223 more tat Hollandia. " -s;;'" :'. 1 V."' Sarmi is on the New Guinea mainland opposite Wakde island, an allied air base from which' the Palau strike may have been laun ched. . . : - Many of the enemy dead were i (Turn to Page 2 Story E) - Reveals Obstacles on Beach s 1 of France reveals a lenx stretch of to prevent allied landings. These to landing craft. Note bodies and -..v-- Tttocdor l-Iomlag. Jum 13. 1944 "I I Loan Drive fir;4i?ltf the -greatest mooey raising campaign Marlon - county, or the United States as a whole, has ever seen. This announcement from : Chairman Douglas Yeater was accompanied by an emphatic declaration to the effect that "Well have to wage a new battle every day to get the victory" and an explanation that the county's $5,477,000 quota must be topped in Marion is to share in Oregon's glory. - ' ; ' , For the state war finance com mittee has voluntarily raised the state's assigned quota some $2, 000,000 to guarantee to invading forces in both Atlantic and Pa cific the best in fighting equip ment and ammunition. Marion county's invasion start ed Monday morning with arrival of planes from the Portland army airbase swooping, low over the city. Later, marines from the Cor vallis base "strafed" the city with 20,000 handbills urging the cit izenry to "Buy Bonds to Back the Boys to Berlin." ,; The infantry invasion was real ly the vanguard the press-ag entry of a bigger show to come, Yeater said,-but the Monday ex hibition of arms in a blocked-off portion of Court street west of Commercial attracted consider able attention. Particularly did It : draw the eyes of boys who are to be or ganized as junior commandos in the drive. First of the comman- (Turn to Pago 2 Story B); skeleton - like obstructions erected by structures are veiled by water at wrecked allied vehicles on the beacn. --7- , . r Air Blitz Pounds i i t Gen - ! "Night Bombing Follows French Invasion Raids t-. LONDON, Jane I 13-(iip)-The entire German radio network left the air abruptly at 7:55 a. m. (1:55 AEW) today, ladicat ing that ii American daylight bombers might I bet striking at Europe anew in swift f ollow nps to last night's RAF assaults on Germany and France. . Returning to the; air a short time later, one Bast Station re ported single enemy raiders ov er southwestern,! western, mid dle, and north Germany. By AUSTIN BEALMEAR SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDITION ARY FORCE, "Tuesday, June 13 4tPh Cologne was report ed by DNB todajy to have been bombed just be6re midnight in an after - dark! sequel to day light invasion attacks Monday in which allied laijf fleets flew up 'to 10,000 sorties ! against Ger man holdings in France. A brief allied annoaneement confirmed that tarrets in Ger many, as well as in France, had been bombed by the RAF dar ing the night, bat did not iden tify them. : n . A strong force of RAF bombers crossed Dover strait to northern France and' flashes of bomb Ex plosions and anti ! aircraft fire were Seen in the' Pas de Calais area by English coastal watchers. For nearly an hour the explosions were heard and later there were blasts west of Boulogne. Many nazi-controlled radio sta tions in France and Germany shut down, suggesting: widespread ac tivity by the RAF. j A record 1400 US heavy bomb (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Japs Close in On China Gty By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, June - l2.-(P Invader troops are pounding In cessantly at all sides of besieged Changsha against 'heroic, Chinese resistance and the battle around the outer defenses has reached its "fiercest proportions,'' a Chinese communique said tonight, indicat ing virtual encirclement of the Canton-Hankow rail : city. Far to the west, however, near the Burma border, Chinese troops were scoring further successes and were mopping up enemy remnants in the outer areas of LungUng, im portant Yunnan province base whoso fall was announced yester day. The Japanese still held s t r o n g 1 y fortified positions on three hills outside the town, and attempted an' unsuccessful flank attack from the south, a commun is.,. A4J .- t -- While American bombers ar fighters blasted enemy troops, riv er craft and installations over a wide area of the Hunan front, the Chinese still were holding in the area IS miles northwest of Chang sha, while directly north of the city the Japanese; were fought to a 'standstill, . the ! high command said. U - - . Tho Japanese also were driving on Changsha from the east only six miles away, and fierce fight? Ing was reported In! all these sec tors, . with casualties - heavy on both sides. ' I If ; .' ' r At the same time at new Jap anese drive .was j developing far to the south)" this one northward along"the ' Canton-Hankow rail way, in what Ma.' Claire L. Chen nault, US 14th air force command er, called a new push to establish an Impregnable defense in China. With this new thrust, he said, the Chinese war has been brought to its greatest pitch since 1933. ; Ration Board to Close While Moving jOffices Salem war price and rationing board offices will be closed Thurs day and Friday, June ,15 and (16, while records and equipment are moved to the board's new head quarters in the rooms formerly occupied by the Argo hotel dining room, Chairman John Heltzel an nounced Monday." - r " ' - " Prlc Sc J Factories Said To Be Moving Over Channel BALTIMORE, Jane 12.-AV London- factories, broken down Into numbered parts and packed -into crates, are beginning to move across the. channel to be set up behind the lines, Thom as O'Neill, of the - Sonpapers London bureau, said in a dis patch to the- Baltimore .Evening Son today. . Unpacked and assembled, they are expected to furnish a close np supply to allied troops fight ing their way Into France, the cable dispatch reported, and will take a load off the trans channel transport as well as make' available services, thus' far unavailable to troops. . Numbered parts for these In- ; stallations started going Into packing eases last August to be ' ready whenever the signal might be given. I . None of the boxes ;. weighs more than 100 pounds, because they most be moved by hand antil the allies capture a port and get It in working order, the dispatch said. - In Disastrous Rout in Italy . By LYNN HEINZERLING -. ROME, June 12 .-(fl3)- The Ger man :14th army has been, f dis persed to the. four winds, allied neaaquarters aectarea! today f as Li Gen. Mark W. Clark's Ameri can and British forces, pursuing the disorganized tlermans up the Italian West coast, approached Or betello, 71 miles northwest of Rome. . . .-V-As depleted enemy units fell back toward the Florence area , with the greater pari of ; their equipment , lost, ; the nasi high command faced the Immediate necessity of sending heavy re inforcements from France or elsewhere in- Europe if any real , attempt was to be made to hold northern Italy. "It is now quite clear the al lied announcement said, that the original 14th army has been dis persed to the four winds. All that remains is a few scattered rem nants who mainly are;' engaged in stealing bne another's transport to! get away as fast as possible. Prisoners describe the situation as Wholly chaotic." j iThe German commander, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, not only has been forced to throw alLl but one of the 284 divisions he had in Italy into a desperate ef fort to slow the allied steamroller, but has brought in three fresh in fantry divisions, it was disclosed today. - . J What Is left of the nasi loth army, which once struck ham mer blows at allied troops cling ing to tho Anxto beachhead, ap pears to have been put on an every-man-f or-himself basis In the flight toward Florence. ' " The most striking evidence of the degree of disintegration was provided by the fact captured stragglers w e r e provided with j passes saying the- bearer Was au- j thorized to proceed either alone or in small groups to an .assembly place near Florence, - the allies i announced. - ' . ' -i :- - Across the breadth of Italy the ! allied Fifth and Eighth armies ! pressed grimly forward, meeting organized resistance only where the nazi badly needed time to ex tricate their troops. The country side was littered with abandoned enemy equipment. ' t- L J Fifth army troops pushed through the important rpad junc tion of Montefiascone ' near the shores of Lake Bolsena and fought on toward the town of Bolsena, eight miles beyond. Eighth army columns moving up both sides of the Tiber river: north of ".Home neared Bagno Reggion and RIeti. . - Headquarters disclosed that .the Sixth; South African armored di vision participated in the Eighth army's drive up the. Liri and Sao co valleys to Rome and that it now is fighting more than 50 miles north of .the capital. 1 " ' ;The South Africans, who played a prominent part In " the desert warfare in north Africa, entered the - fighting near" Cassino with zest Only two days j ago they broke into a German position held by' two battalions, killing about 200, capturing a like number and adding new - stores of e n e m y equipment to . the Eighth army's collection. Nazi 14th Army Weather ? ' Malm tempo rataro " ' - Mosday . 14 degrees; mlnl--'mwm - SI; ; bo' preclpiUUon; river -.17 ft , . ;.. J Cleody west of Cascades . . j and .anostly fair cast portio ' Toesday aad Wednesday, T with ' scattered', light show- . ' era -aftera aaut evening. . -: Not sfiaeh change - la tern ,- perature. . No.. 72 Carentan By, Yanks Rommel Using if 250,000 Troops Against Invasion By WES GALLAGHER S U P R E M E HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDITION ARY FORCE, Tuesday, June 13 (P- American tanks and infan try smashed through the cen ter of the German line in Nor mandy yesterday, capturing the Cerisy forest 18 miles inland from' the sea, toppling the stronghold of Carentan after, a bitter fight, and battling nazi for ces only. 14 miles from the prize port of Cherbourg. ; Headquarters said that Field Marshal Gen. Erwin Rommel , was using from 14 to 15 divi sions, 250,000 German troops, against the allied forces, but communique No. 14 declared: "The fusion of our beachheads is now complete and a coastal strip some 60 miles long ,is firm ly in our hands. Its depth is be ing increased steadily." ' A later official statement also said: "The enemy has been un able to build up his attacking for ces as rapidly as anticipated.". '. Carentaa's fall put tho Amer icano a third of tho way across the Cherbourg peninsula at its narrowest noint. '. anal aatiCda reads leading to Li' Hay o and Do Puits, Lessay' and Cootaaces on the highway 1 near. fhewestr. , civ side of the peninsula. ' ' ; (Berlin radio, in a broadcast re corded by NBC, said, two new di visions had landed northeast ef Cherbourg, presumably 'in the 15 mile area between ' the port and Pointe de Barfleur at the north east tip of the peninsula. German broadcasts earlier had. predicted allied; "leap frog" landings ; close to Cherbourg.) ! . -At the end of the first week of invasion . fighting the allies have taken more than 10,000 prisoners, a statement said. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, allied - ground commander, said some . regular Japanese soldiers were among tho captives and the axis slain, but did not explain their presence on the front : : . The seizure of Cerisy forest put American ' troops ,near the rnid Normandy communications hub of St. Lo, and was the deepest in land penetration yet scored by tho allies.: - ' . ' Slight advances were made east of Caen on theBrltish-Canadisii sector of the American left flank, headquarters said, and i Ameri can troops in the-Cherbourg pe ninsula have made further pro gress.' to the north and west" in their effort to seal off an 800 (Turn to Page 2 Story F) J 21,000 Japs Dead in Burma i By CHARLES A. GRUMICH : . SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND Mm Toppled HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Cey lon, June, lZjyFy-, The Japanese , lost 21,650 men killed in India and" Burma since the first of the year, excluding their losses on tho North. Burma front, an allied offi cer estimated today. . .. - i The headquarters ' officer said that during May' alone 7800 Japa nese were killed 1180 by Ma. Gen. W. D.- A. Lentaigne's chln- dits, 1220 on the : Arakan front, 3300 at Imphal and 2100 on the Kohima front. -J:.i t- A . Today's communique from head quarters : ot Adm. s Lord Louis Mountbatten said allied troops ad- . , vancing from Kohima in India en countered Japanese resistance 24 miles east of the town along the Jessami track, and eight miles ' southeast of Kohima, near Vis wema. t , v , " : " Unsuccessful attacks on allied positions . were reported . on vth Imphal plain, where an allied ad vance continued north of Kanala tongbi, the communique said.; -; I The war bulletin made no men tion of ground fighting in North. Burma in and around the besieged Japanese bastion pt Myitkyina, but a field dispatch reported Chines troops 40 miles to the west had advanced to within two' miles f Kamaing, bringing the city undaa. heavy shellfure. r.r-
