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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1944)
Super EoHs MuM'Mebuit LMT 'uoD mm An interim ' committee of the legislature is studying public health work in' this state, which is headed by . our state board of health. The field director of the -American ' Public Health associa tion has prepared a report based on his survey of conditions here end makes certain ' recommenda tions to the committee for its con sideration in preparing its report. A Portland paper quotes Dr. Buck, the director, as saying, that If federal financial support and the loan of federal personnel to the state board of health were re moved, -the state would; face ep idemic danger "and a - completely crippled public -health; service" mm i m m ti 1 . V. mere is a aeai oi dudk m sum a blanket assertion. We had a pret ty good level of public health in this state before the USPHS got busy with' grants and one-way .lend-lease of doctors. J And we Still have some epidemics in spite of federal assistance. To presume the federal government will "withdraw or curtail such assist- "ance is in effect to (Continued on Editorial Page) Reds Advance In Big Drive For Finland LONDON, Friday, June 1M)4 The Russians' Stive fof possession of Finland advanced farther up the Karelian I isthmus yesterday with Gen. . Leonid A. Govorov's troops capturing 17 more forti fied Finnish . strongpoints along the bloody 'road", to Vifpuri, Mm cow announced tonight. . v " ' The Finns, taking advantage of every natural obstacle and fight ing from strongly - entrenched permanent defense positions; were said to have resisted fiercely but Willi J i : Moscow said Govorov's army" in six days of battle had now ad vanced 25 miles' through the first and second Finnish-defense lines and widened the breach to 47 miles. -During savage fighting Tuesday soviet troops ' were reported to have opened a gaping hole in the Finns second great belt of perm anent defenses : between Musto maki and Kutose and captured . tH.nMM4 Mrwm MiiBfAIVIfilrl a railway station 37 miles from .Viipuri on the line to Leningrad, : and Ino, "- a coastal community south of MustomakL 'The stubbornly resisting - Finns were suffering enormous losses in manpower as well as great quair tities of war war material, the .broadcast soviet communique stat- . "The war bulletin said the Gov orov's forces, in breaking through Finland's first and second perma nent defense zones, "destroyed or captured more than 500 German defense fortifications and over came three powerful zones of anti-tank and anti-personnel ob stacles, pits and tank ' obstacles , (Turn to Page 2 Story D) No Increase In Gas Due Next Period ; WASHINGTON, June 15 -JF)-In a last minute change of plans, the office of price administration has decided against any increase in gasoline rations for the third quarter of - the year commencing July 1, it was learned. tonight. , Up to late this afternoon, it was .understood, the agency had plan ned to boost the "B" card ration in at least the eastern states, where it is smaller than in the rest of the ' country. New figures and gasoline usage showed, however, that con sumption in the east has been running considerably ahead ; of -quotas. 'y1' - ..: t OPA announcement of the de ; cision is set tentatively! for to , morrow (Friday) J ';:.: j.j;'..-; ' ' In addition to consumption fig- ures OPA's decision was based on third quarter allocations drown 4 up by A the petroleum; administra tion for war and the office of de fense transportation." ODTs ' allocation' of passenger : car gasoline for the country as a whole for, the third quarter a- mounts to 561,633 'barrels a day, 'compared with 560,354 barrels in , the current , quarter Besides the ; boost for the east the allotment for : district court comprising the state of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho Is hiked slightly, In all other areas allocations are smaller. -' . . " ' v NINETY-FOURTH YEAR I0JS Tro6B Yanks Near Last Transport Lifeline To CheWourg Port " ; By JAMES M. LONG . ' ' SUPREME HEADQUARTERS!! ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Friday, June . 1 MidAmerican troops slashing west ward from Carentan on a lfl-mile within six miles of La Have du Puits, junction of the last German-held rail-highway lifeline to the port of Cherbourg, and within 4 miles of the secondary junction point of St. Saveur- le-Comte in what was officially O- described today as "steady pro gress." . A Reuters news agency -: dis patch from France said the Amer icans had captured Reigneville, three miles - east of St Saveur-le-Comte. Supreme headquarters had no confirmation of this re port but said there might be pa trol activity in that direction. In the developing drive to eat eff the capture of the Cher- bears; penhwaU, similar steady advaaees were reported in a mMnight communlqae from su preme headquarters for a less clearly - defined thrust thronsh .the lowlands between the Vire and; FJle riven southeast ef .Carentan.' ;. '-. - . .. ', This advance appeared to be aimed towards St Jean de Daye, On the highway linking St Lo and Carentan. Extent ol the gain was not disclosea ouiciaiiy, out it ap peared probable that the road al ready' had been cut about five miles west of Lison. On the extreme right flank of. the allies' beachhead in Nermandy, American : capture f the coastal v i 1 1 a g e of Qnlneville and; surrounding (Turn to Page 2 Story C) 4 J r Japs Cross Last Defense Line of City C CHUNKING, June 15 -(ffj- Jap anese troops have crossed the LiuT yang river, last line of 'defensi before Changsha, by-passed the city on the east itnd then slashed westward toward the Siang river to cut off the southward line of retreat for the besieged defenders, the Chinese high command indi cated, tonight ; ;1 ; Changsha lies on the east bank of the Siang. The; only chance of escape now remaining to the garrison forces, the high command intimated, is to cross the Siang. But the inva ders on the west bank have but a few miles to go to seal off the city completely. " " At the same time Japanese mechanized units are subjecting the, key Canton-Hankow railway city to a direct assault from, the southeast, field reports indicated. . The Chinese position in Honan province, 400 miles to the north, also deteriorated with the Japanese evidently trying to regain the gap created by the defenders in the Peiping-Hankow railway. Superfortress Flies Farther, Higher, Faster Than Any Other Airplane By JAMES J. STREBIG . Associated Press Aviation Editor ; ' WASH IN GTON, June 15-() The Boeing B-29 superfortress is a global warplane backed by glo bal authority and . the greatest production program in history. - The production program for the B-29, an industrial plan involv ing billions of dollars, reaches into virtually every manufacturing center in America. Five great air frame factories are - turning out the giant bomber on assembly lines; another hilge factory build ing '; sub-assemblies ranks as a prime I contractor,, and another plant constructed to build the en gines is the largest single factory unit in I the world. ' v : ' The B-29 is described briefly as a bomber that flies farther, faster and higher with a greater, load than any other plane. Actual per formance figures are secret as 16 PJ Smash iroht have reached firm ground Big RAF Fleet Hits Germans During Nigtt SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Friday, June $6-(VP) Continuing the . around-the-clock aerial punishment of nazi targets in France, a tremendous force of RAF ' bombers thundered f across the channel during the night in a spectacular sequel to widespread daylight operations in which 5000 planes,, including 1300 US heavy bombers, took part. . i - 4 The RAF armada making the latest assault on the GermansV in vasion defenses was so large -it took an hour and a half to pass across England's southern coast The roar of engines, was as great as Wednesday night when 1000 RAFvplanes delivered the heaviest aerial bombardment . in history against Le Havre and other: points on the French coast' - f After the first . big RAFt night raiders had passed out ti view last night flashes and explosions in the direction of Boulogne indi cated that another vital nazi port 04 the French coast was getting a -blasting. . i r- Squadrons of RAF fighters were believed to have escorted the bombers, for they began circling over the southeast coast shortly I (Turn to Page 2 Story E) - -.:'- , v - ; Forts lie ; r ' Special Bases 4 !NEW;RK,"jsfl5iff)-' "lames Stewart, former CBS cor respondent In Chungking, dls eussiar la a : broadcast today -'the newest US bombing f Jap an, said the big B-29's nook off and landed on Chinese bases" constructed secretly in western China with native labor, f The bases, he said, were built entirely by hand and In the peak employment period - Chinese farmers were Used. "Specific : plans , for the: de strueUoa of Japaa by air froaa bases In the Interior of China were made In Washington la the fall of 194 J." be said, when Gen. Henry IL Arnold decided In" conferences 1 with the highest Chinese , authorities that . such . bases were feasible. J with all warplanes, but this much descriptive data has been releas ed; ':; f :4-':- f -The plane has a wing spread of 14L2 feet and a fuselage 98 feet long. Its single dorsal fin, re-1 sembling the tail of the B-17 Fly ing Fortress, stands 27 feet; high. The fuselage is cylindricau; ; the round nose reaching well forward of the narrow wing. It is a-mid-wing "design compared with the B-l7s low wing and the high or shoulder wing of the B-24 Libe rator The power, previously announc ed, i comprises four Wright Cy clone engines of 2200 horsepower each, these being the same as the engines which pulled - the Lock heed Constellation , across the country In record transport 'plane time. The B-23 has a tricycle landing gear with double wheels. The - superfortress wing is an Salem. Oregon. Friday Morning, Nazi Dies iff : H fx I' J tv'- . r z, - A German lies sprawled In a French street In Normandy, after, ac cording- to the army caption ' killed by a Frenchman (right center, In cap) who was forced to work for the German for two dollars a week." (AT VYirephete from '-signal corps radiophoto) ; Nazi Lines v " ROME, June lS--Bursting A Hies Shatter hastily thrown up by the retreating Germans beyond Rome, allied forces have captured the' Aquila and Narni in a general night in the outskirts of the important industrial and communi cations center' of Terni, 45 miles Other troops shoving up Magliano and threatened Bengodi,4 only 14 miles from Grosseto, after having seized vast quantities of nazi food supplies at Orbetello. They had entirely cleared lateral highway 74, running inland from the coast past the northern shore of Lake Bolsena. Eighth army columns, now. car rying the brunt of the - inland ad vance, fought their "way into Or vieto, 57 miles northwest of Rome; Narni, 41 miles due north of the capital, and: Aquila,. 54 miles-, to the northeast, above Avezzano. Lt Gen. Sir Oliver Leese's . forces were checked temporarily on the outskirts of Terni by blown bridges and a s.tiff German coun terattack, j . 3tit (Secretary of War Stimson said the nazis' right or coastal, flank again had collapsed before the Fifth army's drive, and comment ed that the enemy could not send further reinforcements to Italy without affecting other fronts.) It was reported that fresh Ger man divisions had reached Italy, but allied forces driving north and northwestward from . Rome still were encountering only rear guard elements of the shattered 14th army. There was conjecture that the nazis might save the new divisions for: a determined stand somewhere in northern Italy, per haps on the so-called Florence Pisa .line. I ' The pursuing allies continued to (Turn to Page J Story G) entirely new one, described by Boeing engineers as 'the "most efficient-wing ever devised." It carries-the greatest load per square foot of anjH airfoil. The flaps- controllable ! extensions of the wings Xxf provide extra lift for landings and takeoff s are the largest ever put on a production airplane They equal one-fifth of the wing area. The f our-b laded propellers, spanning 16 feet are the largest in use.' Through gear connections to the engines they turn only one third as fast as the engines re volving t slower than the propel lers; of any 'other plane. With the exception of hydrau lic boosters on 4 the brakes, the turrets and a 20 mm. cannon -the first American heavy bomber. for which a cannon has been announ ced. ' The B-23 is the most stream (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Juno 16, 1944 JUULI 1 French Street aeeempaarttur ' the picture, ho w; - - -. - ?in Italy through another line lit defenses large Italian towns of Orvieto, advance and were fighting to north of the Capital. the Tyrrhenian coast captured US Liberators HitTrukiYap Blows ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Friday, June 16 rifPh 1 A iwo-day. 186-ton bombing , raid on Truk--heaviest assault . by land-based planes on that. navaL. baseand the war's first Liberator attack on Yap were reported today by. headquarters. Large formations of Admiralty- based Liberators blasted Truk in daylight Monday and Tuesday, a concerted attack exceeded In the mid-Pacific only, by carrier planes. During the first i assault the raiaers aroppea so tons oi oomns on Dublon island, destroyed build ings and caused fires; In repelling 15 to 20 interceptors, they shot down six. -j' - The second flight of Liberators unloaded 96 tons of bombs on Dub lon and Eten islets, shooting down three Japanese ' planes. Other planes bombed Nomol atoll. 150 mlies southeast of Truk. No : report ' of American losses was made. In the two-way Inten sified bombing by planes from the , southwest : and i central Pa cific, Truk has beert attacked 20 times - in ' little more than ; two weeks. 1 I Land - based bombers opened the assault on Yap in a day . and night attack Tuesday, "an appar- (Turn to Page 24-Story I) Lt. William Foster: ; , Blissing in Action 'Xtt. Secbnd Lt William T. J. Fos ter is missing in action since a flight over Austria oh May 29, the war department has; notified his wife, who resides : at 265 North 23rd street Salem, f , i-iJ- Son of Mr; and Mrs. W. F. Fos ter,4 1045 North Fifth street the lieutenant was a driver for . the Model - Food market here prior to entering, active service., He. was a first pilot of a B24 Liberator bomber, stationed in Italyk when the last recorded flight was made. 7cather - Maximum temperature .Thurs day : 72 degrees; "minimum 52 trace of precipitation; river -.19 ft . ' . - Partly cloudy Friday and Satur day; scattered showers and thun derstorms; , little change in tern perature. . - : ) - .- - " NOI New Heavy Price 5c Ho. 75 man Yankees Invade Saipan Americans Gain ; Beachhead, Make Good Progress : WASHINGTON, June 15 (ff) American invaders of Saipan, strategic Pacific island only 1500 miles southeast of Tokyo, have secured beachheads ( and are making "good progress in the face of artillery, and tank fire, Admiral Chester W. Nim itz announced tonight. "In ' general fighting - is heavy but good progress is being made against well organized defenses," Nimita said. j The text of his communique, No. 50 of Pacific fleet headquar ters:- . -f "Assault troops . have se eared beachheads en Saipan is land and are advancing inland against artillery, mertar and machine gut fire. "Virtually-all heavy coastal and anti-aircraft batteries on the is land were' knocked out by naval gun fire-and bombing.;jOur- troops have captured Agingan point i "In ' the town of Charan, . Ka- noar brisk lighting is , continu ing. - -i ' . . v , ; , tThe enemy f has attempted several eeaater' ' - attacks with tanks. These attacks have been broken op by our troops with the support ef ships and air craft . ' ' : . "In general, fighting is heavy but good progress is being made against well organized defenses." Agingan point is on the south western tip of the island. Charan Kanoa is one of the few sizeable communities on the island. The asssnlt oa Saipan, Jap anese air and naval base, was launched Wednesday marning after Intensive preparatory bombing and " bombardment ef it and ; neighboring : Japanese defense points. - -' A Japanese imperial headquar ters announcement dated at 5 a. m. June -16 (Tokyo time) and transmitted to Japanese areas, ac- (Turn t Page 2 Story F) Geh. De Gaulle Leaves Rules LONDON, June 15 -fl?) Gen. Charles De Gaulle announced to day that he had left instructions for - administration of French ci vilian affairs during his visit to the '. Normandy - beachhead, and this suggested an effort to elimi nate . the chief difficulty, in British-American-French relations. . A communique issued through the French press service, empha sizing the . "atmosphere of - im mense fervorr with, which It re ported De Gaulle was received in allied-liberated towns Wednesday, said . he gave directions "regard ing resumption, of civil adminls-; tration, organization of . supplies and public relleLj- "!' 2.: The instructions apparently were a step -towara eliminating rough spots in the bid of De Gaulle's French -. committee of national liberation for full recognition as the voice of France,. De Gaulle returned to England today ; " Albany Sailor Gets 140 Letters at Once I ALBANY. Jane 15 '(Special) At least one Albany . lad was made happy, recently when the United States , mail canght ep With him and delivered lit let ters at eae tlme. The . lad Is Carlton Eastborn, : son ef Mr. and Mrs. Asa Eastborn ef Al bany, who is: in the United States .- navy -at present some where In the Seath Seas. In letter te lis parents, received this week, he stated he had not . bad any mail for more than two months. - - A n.. - a . f T "T m gainst Mj tha AssocUted Prm WASHINGTON, June 15 America's new super fortresses bombed Japan's homeland today and the Tokyo radio, acknowledging attacks, said industrial areas of Moji and Shimonoseki : were Mt. , .: : ';.,'. . In congress, Rep. S tames (D-Ala) told his col leaerjM he had infnrmntinn triprk -wns "am-nt Am struction" in Tokyo. There was no confirmation of Starnes9 report from the war department which did not disclose targets. Moji is a city on Kyushu, southernmost of the main Japanese islands. Shimonoseki is on Honshu island just across a strait from Kyushu. They are about 500 miles, airline, from Tokyo. ' . , An imperial Japanese communique estimated the number of raiding planes at 20 and made the usual claims that they were intercepted and ."re pulsed." It said several were shot down and Do mei, Japanese news agency, said six were shot down . ::nl; x-A J.V The Japanese' said both B-29 superfortresses and B-24 Liberators wenj among the American planes. ;-J?;,::T'.;;lv ';" .X '-.!if':::. ' Here, the only official information available late 'tonight was that attacks were carried out by B-29 V flying from bases in t h e China-India Burma theatre.' . : rT"" The war department disclosed FDR Presents American Plan KeepPeace WASHINGTON, June IS - OP) An " American plan to . keep the post-war world at peace through an international . organization backed by the arms of peaceful nations if necessary -was made public by President Roosevelt to day after a year and a half of allied discussions. , The administration aims, set out in a. White House statement: V" 1. An organization, composed of all "peace-loving" nations, to keep world stability. 2. A world council, elected an nually by . the participating na tions, to settle international dis putes. It would include "the four major nations . (presumably the United States, Great Britain, Rus sia and China) ' and "a suitable number of other nations. 3.' An international 'court to handle justificable disputes. 4. The maintenance of sufficient armed strength by the individual nations to put down, by Joint ac tion, any future aggressions. (Turn to Page 2 Story K) Japs Report Planes Raid Korea Area NEW YORK, June l-(ff)-The Japanese Domel agency said to day in a broadcast' reported , by federal communications commis sion monitors that several enemy planes had raided Korea (Chosen), Asiatic mainland area immediate ly opposite Japan. The broadcast, transmitted to occupied east Asia areas, said the planes Jut m south ern Korea. It quoted an announce ment issued by the Japanese army is Keijo (Seoul) that "we suffered no losses. Marion County's Bond Sales Reach Marion county bond sales mount ted to $375,000 Friday; and the first large industrial payroll was checked as over the . top ' in - the Fifth War Loan campaign -1 With the .strawberry crop already- harvested -and pther fruits and many vegetables in the "wait ing" stage, boys and girls of Sa lem are expected, to flock to the Esinore" theatre V for ; the Andy I lardy matinee off ered free to all who will pledge to attempt to sell one war'bond during the current drive. c f - :: YX V-.; :; ' ' -' Junior Commandos, helping on the home front to win the war on world battlefronts, the lads and lasses will receive blanks at to day's show on which to register the purchase promises'F''-": Alreadr - several hundred of those blanks have been given to enthusiastic young salesmen-patriots, Joe Land, special events , chairman, said Thursday night. Lywps at; 10:39 p. m., Pacific war time, that the long-secret flying gianta had gone- into action. The an nouncement said:",. MB tl ' M L . a it tuier iwuenes oi me United States army air force? 20th bomber command . bombed Japan today r.' 'i r 4 ?i To this was added i6mi time later thai the planes flew to the attack from the China-India-Burma theater.' I Then Sep. Starnes (D-Ala.) la the heaae te tell his; eeUeagaes that the . target of the raid was Tokyo proper. A i geod eearee informed aim, be said, that a large namber ef American planes were caasing "great destractiea'' in Tokyo. ' It was the second American bombing of Japan, but the first announcement of action by the B-2s. . , . j? : House and senate sessions were halted for announcement of the news. Senator Pepper (D-Fla.) told his colleagues he was "sure the heartfelt thanks of congress and the country go out" to those who made the attack possible. Rep. Mahon (D-Tex.) said the news vindicated the wisdom of con- lgress in furnishing funds for the giant new Domoers. " Rep. Manasee (D-Ala.) ' said the war department advised , him the B-tS's "bombed several .' large . cities' en mainland ef Japan bet there . was ne In formation yet on the results. Manasco said the assumption could be that the reference waa made to Tokyo and Yokahama. "It is now officially confirmed that; American super fortresses flying . from remote bases have successfully bombed Tokyo in a very heavy raid," Starnes told the house. "It can be safely assumed that these were the new B-29's. ' -.. fit may be safely assnmed kye at an altitade ef mere than , S2.00I feet and a speed ef mere than Stt miles per hear with (Turn to Page 2 Story J) V --4- ; 4; . $375,000 To the tune' of more than ,$36, 000. invested in war bonds this fmonth, the Keith Brown Build ing Supply - Co. payroll climbed well over the top of its quota yesterday. Previously reported as 340,. the payroll at the plant ac tually numbers . 311 persons, so thej quota was $31,100, Harry Col lins, Industrial- . chairman, ex plained last night 7: , , . Stearns Gushing was chairman of the plant committee,' with Ro bert Hawkins and James Oliver as working members. With George Riches, v county payroll savings chairman, and John Stark, his associate, chairman, Collins went to the plant Thursday afternoon for the buying flurry, which cli maxed the campaign there. - ' - Lester Cover, veteran of World war I and father of a man serv ing! in this war, delivered a stir ring messes which must have i i ii rn i n w-zx c m i i r t a l. m v ma w ew a)V. tm i w m
