The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, June 15, 1944, Page 1, Image 1

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f lit pne of the many dispatches
- from' the -second front la a, brief
ritem1 to-the; effect that! the allies
x r using all their Secret weap
ons" in their attack,', but no In
formation . is - given as to . what
- they are except that one is. an
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. of Information though as to the
; use of familiar weapons,; many of
them t old:,! battleships, machine
guns, grenades, rifles. Nor do we
; hear - anything r of: the!;" secret
weapons" with which the German
' .high command . encouraged their
; countrymen: The rocket and the
- radio-controlled bomb were " de-,-
vekpments which the . Germans
hoped would turn the trick, but
they have been pretty well mas-
tered by British and American
forces already. ' ,.y ' 'X
. But "secret weapons" In the
- form of devices and surprise tac
tics have played a part in mak
- ing history. The Macedonian pha
Ianx proved ; a superior! type of
military formation and 1 enabled
' Phillip to conquer ancient Greece;
.' and the Roman legion with its
v carefully drawn organization of
fighting men improved on the
phalanx. Braddock's defeat taught
- the British the folly of using
, European methods of warfare,
. fighting solid ranks when the
f Indians were hiding behind - trees
and rocks. In this war the meth
, ods have followed quite closely
the old Ind'an style of attack:
: crouching and running in small
' groups, seeking cover, and Ufen
' resuming the advance. I
In the seiges of Constantinople
: the defenders warded off the Sar
I acens by setting 'loose Greek fire
among the 4 enemy shipping thai
swarmed up the Bosporus. This
. was an incendiary' composed prob
. ably of sulphur and naphtha and
quicklime which' ignited on the
water. The fire and the confusion
growing out of the surprise foiled
; the attackers. ? ' ij.. ' " ' -
j Our own history has a good ex
, ample of the , success of "secret
j weapons". In i the Civil war the
Confederates sheathed (continued
on editorial page) J
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Textile Part
Of Control BiU
WASHINGTON, June U-(JP)
.The house passed the price con
trol extension bill today after
striking out the controversial
i Bankhead-Brown cotton 1 amend
i ment and writing in a provision
aimed at guaranteeing - parity
prices for all farm products by
penalizing processors wh fail to
pay them. .)- ' . I.
r The Bankhead born proposal,
which is in the version of the bill
I passed last week by the senate,
would require adjustment of tex
' tile ceilings to reflect parity to
farmers and also- to -guarantee
manufacturing costs plus! a "rea
sonable profit" to millers. :
: Virtually all the house republi
cans i joined with administration
forces against the textile: pricing
change, which was beaten 87 to
191. The administration gave its
pproval to. the parity-or-penalty
amendment 4
lifter that vote," the house re
versed a previous stand and in a
204 to 178 rollcall threw; out the
administration - opposed ! amend
ment of Rep. Disney (D-Okla.) to
Increase the. price of crude oil 33
rents a! barrel.
The administration's cotton and
oil victories were somewhat off
set by failure, in a 208 to 181 roll
call, to throw out an amendment
by Rep. Dirksen: (R-Ill) to open
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Roosevelt OK's
Investigation
, WASHINGTON, June 14-JP)
- Legislation directing an i immed
iate Investigation of the! Pearl
Harbor disaster was signed today
by President! Roosevelt j but he
- said the inquiry would be limited
'. to what could be done without
Interfering with the war effort.
Mr. Roosevelt said he was con
fident congress did not intend and
Would not want any proceedings
which would hainper. prosecution
of the wai; Therefore, he said in
statement, he was signing the
bill . although the secretaries of
war and the navy had suggested
he disapprove it., 5
The legislation directs that the
secretaries of war and. navy, make
investigations and commence pro
ceedings "as the facts may Justi
fy." .They expressed concern to
Mr. Roosevelt that this might re-
quire them to recall officers from
important war posts and bring out
publicly information which should
be withheld from the enemy,,
'- "If there were any doubt in my
mind that, the resolution might
require such action by the secre-
, taries of war and navy as would
Interfere with the successful con
duct of . the war, I would : have
withheld my approval from the
gcsolution," the president said, .
House
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Take OAetello
Fifth Army Gains Huge Nazi
Food Dumps Near Captured
City; Germans Fight Back
By LYNN HEINZERLING
BOME, June 1 M)-American forces driving! up the Tyrr
henian coast of Italy have captured - Orbetello, center of Ger
man: resistance to the fifth army's offensive, and gained control
of the enemy's immense food supply dumps on the nearby Orbe
tello; peninsula (Mt. Argentario), field dispatches disclosed to
night. ::: , ; j
: Sid Feder, Associated Press, correspondent with the fifth armyi
said in a story filed from Orbe-O ' ' jj ''
tello that the whole mountainous
peninsula with tremendous hid
den stores of food had come un
der allied control. His dispatch
followed an announcement by al
lied headquarters that the Junc
tion of highways one and 74, a
short distance north of Orbetello,
along the coast of the mainland,
had also been captured.
The Americanswere pressing
forward and engaging a strong
force of nasls in the hills north
of the road Junction, Feder
said.j
The food discovered in bunkers
on various parts of the mountain
ous peninsula, which is joined to
the mainland by three causeways,
contained nearly 300 tons of flour,
hundreds of cases of ham, rations
and biscuits, said Maj. John Paul
Powhida 48, of 57 Locust St,
Philadelphia, representing the al
lied military government,-
bvioosly is ene of the en
emy's main feed stores," the
major said. . -;
f ' Along -with the huge supplies of
food,, the allies "seized a garrison
of 28 enemy soldiers. v",;
- Im I the mean tains aear the '
road JancUen north of Orbetel- -lo
several battalions. ef enemy f
troops - were patting vp fierce r
resistance, vsing machine -run '
and mortar fire and self -propelled
artillery, Feder said. Bat
late today the doughboys re-
ported taking aosne high ground
and making ether tactical gains.
Many prisoners, most from the
enemy's 182nd Turkoman division,
were taken in the last 24 hours.
, 1 Minefields around Orbetello
were so dense American forward
troops! required several hours to
inch 'their way to , the nazi food
dumps.' .
Bagno Kegie, six miles south
of Orvieto, was captured by the
Fifth j army and NarnI, an im
, portant road Janctlon southwest
of Ternl, was taken by the
Eighth army, headquarters an
nounced tonight
Considerable German rearguard
resistance was developing at Ter
ni, but British forces were making
a determined effort to break into
the strategic communications cen
ter on highway three. Allied for
ces now are well within artillery
range of Terni and its fall was be
lieved Imminent
I Orvleto, another I m p o rtant '
road Junction northeast of Lake :
Boise na, also were believed near
capture despite some eontlna-'
lag enemy resistance from the :
west, j-.;, :' y
(German forces who for several
days had held up the Fifth army's
drive before Orbetello presumably
were trapped by the flanking
maneuver,' their escape route to
the north severed.)
French in Liberated Towns
Give De Gaulle Great Ovation
' - By DON WHITEHEAD
. ISIGNY, France, June 14 -Jf)
Gen. Charles De Gaulle visited his
homeland today for the first time
i n""f ni 1 f "V jrr- a rl countrymen
lined the streets of beachhead vn-V
lages shouting his name.
The ovation was dramatic.
The talL ' lean " leader of the
French ! committee of national
liberation appeared unexpectedly,
but news of his trip across the
channel swept through allied-held
territory in a few hours. Wherever
he went, crowds gathered to catch
a glimpse of him and call greet
ings. i - -r-n-; -
Cries of "De GauUe. De Gaulle
swept the streets. Old men vand
women came stumbling out of the
wreckage of their homes and busi
ness houses. Children ran yelling
out of the , rubble and clambered
across the debris to see this man
whose name obviously- was magic
to them. 1 ;
The people were begrimed and
jTOOBS
ves
Job in Pacific
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, June
15 r(- Admiral William F. Hal
sey, jr., relinquished his position
as allied commander in chief, of
the south Pacific! today to.. Vice
Admiral John Henry, Newton, 82,
his deputy commander, j - I -
Halsey is being assigned to a
new and as yet undisclosed role
in the Pacific. The formal change
of command of the south Pacific
and of the south Pacific force
of the United States fleet, was ac
complished in a simple ceremony
in the headquarters building here.
. Halsey became commander j of
the south Pacific area as a vice
admiral October 18, 194.2. Forces
undel his'conihiad'deJCdated the
Japanese in the 4 battle of Santa
Cruz October 28, 1942, and in the
battle of Guadalcanal the follow
ing November. 13 1 to 15. He was
promoted to full admiral Novem
ber 18, 1942. . 1 . ; n 1
halsey sent a ringing "well
dohef message to' his south Pa
cific forces, in a statement which
said in part: y.f,. y.:
"I send this parting well done
to my victorious all-services south
Pacific; fighting team. You have
Lmet, measured and mowed down
the best the eneroy had on land
and sea and air.
"You have sent hundreds .of
Tojo's ships, thousands of his
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Sgt. L. E. Case
Dies in Action
PERRYDALE-Mr. and Mrs.
C. G. Case received . word this
week .that their ion, Sgt. Loren
Earl Case, of the irmy force died
of wounds received at Wadke .is
land May 20. He Was 27 years old
last January.
Loren received his schooling' in
Staples, Minn., and came to Ore
gon with the family. He enlisted
In September, 1941, and took his
training at Camp Roberts and
Camp Lewis. He went overseas
In March of 1942. His parents had
a letter from him written May 12,
saying that he was well. f
Mr, and Mrs. Case hive three
other sons in the service, Dwain,
who is in the air Corps, and Kenneth-
and Claud, Who are in the
navy. All three are still in the
states receiving their training.!
ill-dressed ani. the wreckage ac
centuated . the dramatic back
ground of the French fight, for
liberation. There was no mistak-
Mpjitrjof the welcome.
:
pole rose
Mickey Kooney
A baT
coUarobateurs.'
It was a chant that .H Ar
the crowd and then as thov
was a theme song for the occaj.
came the sound of voices singing
"La Marseillaise." ; . s .
De Gaulle stepped from a Jeep
and the gendarmes were unable
to hold the crowd . back. They
surged forward to speak to the
general and shake hands wth him
as he stood under a shell-dented
street, lamp in the town's v bat
tered square. ; f ,;" ;yi yy
(De Gaulle urged the people of
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Over Halsey
SS Trailblazer;Goes to Sea
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Only ship of the United States' .World war II fleet named for aa
army division, the 1808 ton tanker carried the name and insignia
t the 70th Infantry division aa
river at launching ceremonies at
day. A record crowd of civilians in addition to the military attended
the launching which marked the beginning af the 70th' birthday
observanee. Trailblasera have elected to observe Infantry day,
which is today, as their anniversary and will march fas review before
thousands at a public eelebraties
M ightiestiiiigleii ir
Armadddn-:-HUtdry.
Slugs Nam Europe
1 By AUSTIN BEALMEAK j 1
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Thursday, June 15-;P)-More than 1500 US heavy
bombers the mightiest single air armada , ever launched
spearheaded a tremendous aerial assault on Hitler Europe by
more than 12,000 ior ties yesterday and 'this record daylight at
tack was followed up at nightO
by fleets of RAF night raiders.
A. very .strong force of British
'heavy bombers roared across toe
southeast coast at dusk and . for
a considerable period after mid
night every radio station in Ger
many was off the air Indicat
ing that the RAF war attacking
targets in the reich itself.
Hundreds of medium bombers
swept across the channel earlier
in the evening to deliver an at
tack, in the invasion battle area,
returning within three-quarters
of an hour. Altogether the day
light raids mounted into the great
est all-day operations" since iD-
The wide-spread ' .operations
. from ; Sritam encountered a
minimum of ; aerial epp Itlon
although antl - aircraft fire was,
: heavy jit some points. -j.y.
Reports up to.' midnight listed
15 US. heavy, bombers, three me
diums and fighters and fighter-bombers
as missing. Five en
emy fighters were destroyed. -It
also, was dlacloaed at head
quarters that a aumber ef Ger
snaa airfields , in ; France have
been captured, bat are not being
used at present because of ex
tensive damage caused by allied
bombing. ' "
Greatest weight of planes and
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Sgt Dingmah
Dies at BiaE
. Wilfred John Dingman, son
Tjnd Mrs. John Dingman of
i ITYi was killed in ac-
iak island in the
""u v.oarents were
I WILL BUY Aa-TTseaS tor
or H Ding
I WILL SELL A ' BOND in
sou. Name
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is at MempT
from wounds' r&w
at Munda.
- Three other brothers, Lyle, DoS
aid and Ar dell Dingman, all at
home in Independence, land two
sisters, Mrs. Jessie SohiL jr of
Independence and Mrs. Byron
Painter, DaDas, also survive
LHrea
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sher plunged into the Willamette
Swan Island shipyard last Satur
at Camp Adair this morning.
Ncuds Predict
Important New
Events Soon
1 : ;- -:: , - ' -LONDON,
Juno 14 -(ff)-German
propagandists tonight, fore
cast "important new events" on
the Atlantic coast within 48 hours,
reported limited US gains on the
Carentan front and said huge nazi
reserves were being rushed op for
an imminent major battle at Cau
mont and Villers-Bocage, south of
Bayeux. : ...:'.:Vi--
Their radios said allied fleet
movements '- in the channel and
activity in English ports indicat
ed new blows fwere coming, .and
a Berlin DNB 'broadcast report
ed Lo Havre was bombed by "su
per heavy" allied naval guns. ,
, Other German broadcasts pre
dicted an allied drive to take this
great port on the Seine estuary.'
? Berlin said "It is admitted that
the town of ThMy-Sur-Seulles is
not in German hands." The town,
southeast of Bayeux, has changed
hands several times,. - -
. American gains west of Caren
tan were described by the Berlin
radio as "a surprise blow by the
First United States army which
forded a river and gained ground
in a drive west The Americans
were said to have ' "punched two
wedges' Into - the German lines
here after fighting of "unprece
dented violence." Berlin said the
Americans were receiving rein
forcements for a new ' leap for
ward. ; , , i
- The Germans ' declared Field
Marshal Gen. Karl Hqdolf Gerd
Von Rundstedt had; switched
strong reserves to engage Genu Sir
- '(Bernard L. Montgomery, com
, ' ending allied ground cforces,' at
fcjand
and fillers. ' i . ' .
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: precipiUt
Scattered showers imiR
storms Thursday and Frtda
sllxtUy cooler Thorsday ' v- f
Finland
Resists
Fiercely --:
25 Miles South
- Of Viipuri City -
LONDON, Thursday, June
15 MfPh Fresh Finnish troops
have been thrown into the de
fense of . the Karelian isthmus
and are now locked in a migh
ty 'struggle about 25 "miles
south of Viipuri, Finland's se
cond largest . city, Moscow in
dicated early today. -:" ,
"Evidence of the ferocity of the
battle on Russia's northern front
was contained in the midnight
supplement to the Soviet com
munique which said, that one un
it of the red army "wiped out in
three days 3000 of the enemy, de
stroying 30 guns and 80 machine
guns and captured 70 other guns."
"Particularly fierce engage
ments took place hi the area
Of Katerselka and Jarvi?; yes
terday the supplement said, .
and added that many prisoners
' were taken. ' C J " -v '
""Our. air ' force destroyed six
artillery batteries,' blew up three
ammunition dumps and ' smashed
a motorized column, the sup
plement continued.
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US Navy Task
Force Shells .
Jap Islands :
US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Juno
14-(fls)-Big guns' of American
naval task forces simultaneously
shelled the southern Marianas. is
lands and the Central Kuriles
Monday in the deepest penetra
tion ; of Japanese . defenses ever
made by United States warships,
Pacific fleet headquarters an
nounced today. ! ' :
Both raids were coordinated
with air blows. 5
The northern force continued
its shelling of Matsuwa, , within
500 miles of the Japanees home
land, into Tuesday.
The carrier task force raid on
the Southern Marianas was ex
tended into its fourth' day and
reached out to hit a fifth island.
Battleships, - cruisers and de
stroyers shelled both Saipan and
Tinan In the Marianas. It the
shpreguns replied their fire was
ineffective, for Adm. Chester W.
Nimitiz said none of the1 attack
ing ships was damaged.
The warships bombardment
started large fires j in , Tanapag
harbor, anchorage, on the western
aide . of Saipan's volcanic hills.
Large fires also blazed in Garapa,
a town of-10,000 population just
south of Tanapag harbor," and In
Charankao, a sugar mill center
on the southwest side of Saipan.
It was the first surface bom
bardment of these key "Japanese
bases protecting the sea flanks of
Japan and the Philippines. As the
naval guns' opened! up,' carrier
planes which began raiding the
Marianas last Saturday,! bombed
Pagan island, a satellite Marianas
base about 175 miles north of Sai-
Fifth War Loan Sales Total
Near $275,000 for County
The Fifth War Loan sales rec
ord, in Marion county hovered
around $275,000. One of the coun
ty's larger industrial Crmspre;
pared to celebrate at an over-the-top
bond rally this afternoon, and
a pair of small but outstandingly
active river-edge ' communities
made plans for a similar celebra
tion Friday night. The chairman
of the state war finance ; com
mittee i told civic : clubmembers
that this Is no time to "take it
easy," , and - bond-purchasing : fans
opened . the season " at Geo." E.
Waters field. iy:,i:J,
Thus passed Wednesday on the
bond front.- ; . ;- -c
While the beaches of France
are ; stained with the blood of
fighting men is no time for the
civilian population to plan to take
easy, E. C Sammons, Portland,
k"-waa.
finance . committee
told the Joint luncheon
' ilem civic - clubs
"'-cxs.'Xiwer
Allies Stand Firm at Most 4.
Areas But Americans Lose i
: Their Hold on Mdntebourg .
- By JAMES LONG . :
' SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITION
ARY FORCE, Thursday, Jane 15 (AP) Ferocious battles
roared at both ends of tht allied lines in Normandy today,
with the Germans pressing constant heavy counter-attacks
against which the British-Canadian forces stood firm in the
Tilly-Caen area but which cost the Americans their hold on
Monteboursr on the Cherbourg peninsula. y ry-1) - -
Iir the center of the ziz-za lOOmile beachhead, ;the
Americans repulsed a German attack on Carentan, and the
allies generally advanced southward, it was announced. (
M
FeetdnFrench
Normandy Sott
; LONDON; June 14 Gen.
Charles de Gaulle landed on the
Normandy beachhead behind the
lines of the ..allied armies of libe
ration today land a De Gaullist
insisted that the French were not
to blame for a shortage of liaison
officers in the invasion. '
It l was understood, in London
that De Gaulle crossed i the .chan
nel on a French ." destroyer La
Combattante while; Prime - Minis
ter Churchill was side-stepping in
the house of commons a debate on
the jssue of recognizing his committee-
of national liberation as
the 'nrovisional government of
France."' -1 -,r ; j '
Supreme headquarters allied ex
peditionary force annouMed sim-4
ply: "It can now be said that Gen.
De Gaulle has landed in- Nor
mandy.'
: De Gaulle was accompanied by
French army -and navy,, staff off!
cers, it was leaTned, : and, they
were welcomed by British officers
of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom
ery's headquarters. j
From the beachhead he toured
liberated towns and villages. :
A Washington report that the
French leader had suddenly can
celled orders for several hundred T
French officers to lana witn tne
first wave in the invasion was
described by bis press attache as
"most incredible", be cause, he
said, no agreement had been
reached.. s".
We negotiated several ' months
with the allies prior to the invasion,-
he said, "but as the whole
world knows we reached no
agreement with: the American
government - or . with the allied
commanders either of the govern
ment of the liberated territories
or on sending liaison officers with
the invasion forces. ; '
-. "As to reports that cooperation
between the -French - population
and the allied,, armies had been
impaired that fts quite possible,
but it is not our fault."
Point-Free Meats May
Go Back on Rationing
WASHINGTON, June 14 -()
Many point - free cuts of meat
are likely to go back: under ra
tioning next month, it ,was indi
cated tonight y:yyyy'"yy
? An OPA spokesman said a det
cision would not be made for an
other week and that it would not
be announced
month. . '
until late this
and - womanpower here ' to raise
Marion county's quote," he de
clared, maintaining that - "The
money is here and the equipment
it will buy Is needed." .
. Sammons drew' a graphic pic
ture of modern warfare and its
dependency upon materiel, point
ed out that losses in the Italian
campaign have been larger than
all of : this : country's ; losses in
World war; I and drew .the con
clusion that only by speeding the
victory." could 4 continued further
loss of life be prevented. -T
: Today brings the Junior Com
mando, .rally from 2 to, 4 o'clock
at bond . headquarters, southeast
corner of State and Court
streets. "Boys and girls f gathering
there will receive Information and
bond application blanks, and will
set ., out upon their own, quota of
$140,000 for purchase of a Curtis-
Commando plane to drop para
troopers.
Out at the Keith Brown Build
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Gaulle
. The; Germans have thrown at
least two fresh armored divisions
-making a total of fourinto five
successive counter-attacks in the
20-mile : stretch from Troarn on
the east through Caen and Tilly-Sur-Seulles
in . what headquarters
described in its midnight commu
nique ;as "a. furious; attempt to
stem our .advance." , :
"The -allies there, however,
. are "holding firm and vigorous
ly searching oat weak points" in
the enemy attacks, ; headqaar
ters stated.
, Tilly-Sur-Seulles was believed
to be in German hands, but fight
ing there was fluctuating, and the
British apparently retained com
mand of high ground around the
town; j r - ; "
Troarn had changed hands sev
eral times and was reported large
ly held by the Germans. An allied
spokesman said street fighting was
continuing -there. ,f 1
Farther west, the Germans
attacked vkloasly at Carentan,
key rail, highway and canal
floodgate hob at the base of the
Cherbourg peninsaia, bat were
met headen and f omght to
tUBdtUU fcy tho Americana.
The Americans brought up tanks
to fire : point-blank op.- German
paratroopers at Carentan" and then
pushed ' - forward themselves in '
hifitflwdidad
control" Of . high ground south of
the town. Associated Press Cor
respondent ' Don . Whitehead re
ported in a dispatch sent from the
Carentan . front late Wednesday
night i ' ; " ;
Be said the Germans attack
ed, along the , Tire river in an
attempt to split the American
bridgehead and Isolate the Cher
bourg peninsaia from the allied
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Public Invited
3 . "
To Trailblazer
CAMP ADAIR, June 14.-(Spe-
cial-The public is invited to at
tend every phase of the 70th in
fantry! division's joint celebration,
Thursday, of national Infantry day
and the division's first birthday.
A dawn - to- dusk program of
mass parades, weapons displays,
army athletic events, a GI carni
val and dancing in the evening is
scheduled.
Invited guests of officers and
enlisted 'men will be served lun
cheon, army style, at all fresco ta
bles inside the cantonment area. . '
Forivisitors who come by bus,
there will be jeep transportation
from the bus depot to the locations
of various events.
At 10 a. mv Major General John
E. DahlquisV commanding offi
cer of ;.the . Trailblazer division,
will 'open' the day officially with
a brief program of speeches, fol
lowed by awards to enlisted men.
, At 11 a. m, a full division pa
rade will take place over a mile-
i long line of march. "... ' :r i -
Athletic and social events will
keep toe observance In progress
until late In the evening.
Stanley Dies
InfWar Area
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. Winston G. Stanley, son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Stanley, route five,
box 268, Salem, died in the South
west Pacific area as the result of
wounds received in action, his
parents have ''been notified. The
Purple: Heart vwas awarded to
him posthumously in recognition
of those wounds and has been be
stowed upon his mother. ' '
, A brother, Pf c. Arley Stanley,
Is serving in the Aleutians. An
other brother, Harry Stanley, jr,
is with the; army engineers,
whereabouts unknown. One sis
ter, Lela Stanley. Claflin is in the
WAVES and -is stationed in Seat
tle. Four other sisters reside in
Salemi Mrs. Hugh , Smith, Mrs.
Fred Burns; Darline and Shirley
Stanley. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. R. IL Stanley, Nampa,
Ida, and Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Crc
ley, route three, Salem.
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