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RTF TO HDDS Tmopsi Close Deors ON A STREAMLINER EN : ROUTE TO CHICAGO It's a mistake to use nautical terms with ; reference to the streamliner. Jt is - no boat, even though: it "sails" . every. six days. For here we are . at the edge of the flooded Elkhorn , river, in Nebraska, and-quite as , helpless as a freight, train. The ... streamliner will I not Jord the , stream. An amphibious jeep would be better here. We were due in Chicago an hour and a quarter ago, and we are still west of Oma ha about 25 miles by railroad and an indefinite number of min utes as we wait for orders to pro- - ceed. They report that Pres. Jef . fers of the Union Pacific la on the; spot, and if he applies' his synthetic rubber drive we should i be on the move very soon. -. . Most of the waiting was done ' ' - at I Grand " Island, "which ": tor 48 'hours was a jumble of trains which 1 had piled in from the west On , the east Omaha , was .. similarly , jammed. Our "City of Portland" pulled out of Grand. Island ahead , of the "City of Denver", which - keeps Portland in the lead, at any rate..- . ; .V. . . Floods at this season in the mid ; West are .not uncommon. The I "June rise" when accompanied by ,, heavy rains lifts these mud cat- ; fish . streams V overflow . levels t and the bordering low lands, gen erally very fertile lands, are i flooded and trains delayed. A few . , i weeks ago the Des Moines river and then the Mississippi put on ; a show, and now the Nebraska i rivers and the- Missouri are put , ting on their act Eight or 10 years K ago Nebraska , was .baked and . roasted causing a succession i of i crop failures. Nature now appears - fo be balancing accounts with: its t not infrequent prodigality, ; The dining car is about out of ; f ood and the ice -must be about gone from the' air 'Conditioning a outnv Duririe ucomrori is la n tie to comolain about, even though ' it cannot be attributed to the war. . the common , scapegoat (continued -- en Editorial- page)-: A' ' Soviets Smash 1V25 Mi un LONDON," Sunday, June 18-(iP) . The Russians smashed within 25 miles of Viipuri from two direc tions: yesterday, capturing Perk' Jarvi on the main railway of the Karelian isthmus; and Kuolema jarvi on the coastal rail line, Mos cow announced last night t and the port of Viipuri itself was under stood to be in the process of evacuation. These two important, railway towns on the most direct routes to Finland's second largest city were enveloped as Genl Leonid A,- vorov's troops occupied more than 120 populated places in another day of fierce fighting,: Moscow s broadcast communique disclosed. - Both Perkjarri and Kuolema jarvi are just under 25 miles frbm Viipuri, which Finnish dispatches reaching Stockholm said had been ordered emptied of civilians. ... Another wave of the red army. sweeping up the eastern side of the isthmus despite the natural obstacles of lake, and marshes, captured Raasuli on still another railroad, Moscow said, indicating that the width of the Finnish front had been widened to more than C5 miles. . - ,i; . i . '' . ...... While the center of the Russian drive - up the '.. isthmus ". reached -within '25 miles of VUpuri, ad vance . patrols and reconnaissance units probed even closer. The thunder of soviet big guns could be plainly heard in the. Finnish port - j . Child Jot Hurt In Long Fall Judith Fortmilleri two-year-old daughter of Dr. E. V. Fortmiller, fell from a second-story window of the family home at 534 North 23rd street yesterday afternoon. but the youngster sustained no injury beyond bruises, as far. as could be ascertained from an ex arnination at the Deaconess hos pital.","' "''" 'c "" :' A-i The baby was returned to her home after the hospital treatment and was resting easily at an early tour this morning. -' ' Vrhile no one witnessed the ac tus! fall, the youngster was be lieved to have unhooked a screen r 1 leaned too far out the win FromViip I ' - c;a1 i - l ' poundod 1651 y" I , ' , " ; - . ' - v ??' ; 1 '! , n i i . i , , NINETY-FOURTH Frer nvade Nazi Elba Germans Resist Strongly; Allies Roll On in Italy ROIe; June ll-JPr French troops . landed . today on Elba, five j miles west , of the j Italian mainland, and by nightfall had won control of one-fifth of that Napoleonic exile' island "against German resistance which allied h e a d q u a r t e r s described as strong at some places. v ' j.t Nearby Pianosa V was secured quickly without opposition, but" the German garrison ' and coastal artillery were making a scrap for Elba's 85 square miles. ' Conaaest of Elba would kee the the allied sea flank abreast l -advanee on the mainland, where allied troops today rolled steadily forward -- toward the Germans Plsa-Florence-Rlminl line, ' ' , ' - Known as detachment B," the French attacking Elba were-commanded by Gen. Jean De Lattre De Tassigny and transported and supported by American, British and French naval units. Allied air forces that included French squadrons-; bombed the island. - .' J (Th Berlin ; radio saM the tandfnrs' were made both at the senth and north' e n d s of the Island, one of them Just west of Its major city of Perse Ferraie. heavy fighting "still going on' against a weak German garrl aonf defending the Island. A I , dispatch - from Associated Press Correspondent Joseph Edy nan j with the French' forces . in Golfo De Campo said that "pow erful French assault units battered a toehold" on the island "despite determined German resistance in their first taste of amphibious op erations." Dynan's i dispatch was (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Gen.De Gaulle Informs FDR Of Trip Plan WASHINGTON, June 17 . -JP) General Charles De Gaulle, act ing; as "chief of the provisional government" of France which the United States does not recog nize, has advised President Roose-; velt that he hopes f to be able-to come, here either late this month or early in July" - T - His response through diplomatic channels left the way open for a decision not to come since it was based on the. expressed provision that "circumstances' will permit the trip. v '.X - : , If he does come, it is generally agreed among White. House ad visers that he-will be accorded the full honors and courtesies due a visiting dignitary. It is expected that be will be quartered at Blair House, the state department's of ficial lodging for foreign govern Turn to Page 2 Story E) 7rn ;n!lnTfe nd the beachhea4.bas A German easaimIqesaf-pL - . - . ,:.r Goodsell to Speak A t WU Baccalaureate Baccalaureate ceremonies the 37 members of the , Willam ette university class of 1344 will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday, aft ernoon at the First Methodist church with Dr. Guy Goodsell, district superintendent of the Portland Methodist district, as the speaker. Usliering in the final "week of the graduation activities, the bac calaureate will be opened by the academic procession, Seniors have been ; instructed to meet at 2:15 p. m.' for final arrangements. - The mixed chorus will present special mule under direction ; of Dean Melvin H. Geist At the pi ano will be Ralph Dobbs, while Maurice Brennen will ba at the organ, -: " : ; " .. - After examinations next week, graduating- seniors will celebrate the annual breakfast at 9 a. rn. Saturday, June 24. Principal speaker will be Dr. R. Ivan Lovell of the faculty. The senior recep && 20 PAGES f - Salem, Oregon, Sundarf Morning, ftm 18. 1944 -, - ; . -' v. Germans9 One of the pilotless German planes as eanght in a network ef tracer ; flyla ever aoethera England. (AP VTlrephoto) US liwasion Bea& 3283 or 11 Days '- ; - " , By DON WHITEHEAD - - , : 5VrrH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN FRANCE Jum;7p)' 'Americart array casualties totalled 3283 dead and 12,600 wounded up tojnidnight last night In the firti 11 days of (he' invasion0 uernuuis nave lost meu-;iast sea," Lt. Gen; Omar N. Bradley Obviously in good spirits, the - II who commands the American for-O ces in France, appeared for the first time before a group of beach head correspondents and gave them a report which confirmed his pre-invasion confidence that the campaign would be carried out without the bloodbath predicted by the enemy.t j r j - Bradley said casualties on the central beachhead, where the first division and elements of the 29th had landed, were higher than was anticipated, but that on the other hand, casualties on the peninsula beachhead were lower. j ' (The 'American casualties in ac tion to date wire expected to ex " i.(Turn to Page 2Story G) : i Token Junction ; Formed in China CHINESE E X P E DITIONARY FORCE, HEADQUARTERS,' Sal ween Front, June IS -(Delayed)-Guerrillas of the Chinese Expedi tionary Force slashing . westward from the Salween river have ef fected A ' token! junction with the forces of Lt. Gen. Joseph" W SU well " in North Burma, . capturing Lauhkauan and Htawgaw, on r the Hpiman-Myltkyina trail. Just ' 80 miles northeast of .Myitkyina, it was disclosed today. -; K:rA t A Chinese communique said the situation around Lungling, second most important Yunan base Which fell recently to their offensive, had been stabilized and improved, f tion will be held Saturday; eve ning at the First Methodist church. Commencement exercises are to be held at 3:30 p. m. Sunday; June 25, in Waller hall on the campus. Dr.- Frederick M.. Hunter, chan cellor of the Oregon system of highereducation, will be - the speaker. Degrees will be awarded by Pres. G. Herbert Smith upon recommendation of -Dr. J. C: Harf rison, president of the board of trustees. Following are the stu and their majors: Lucfle Barchart, dents who will receive degrees English; Darlene Dickson, speech; Dorothy ' Estes, political science'; Eloise Findley, home economics Ruth Finney, social science-journalism; Anthony Fraiola, sociolo gy; Phyllis Gueffroy, physical edu cation; : Glennerva Harnsbergerj physical education; Frank Healy, sociology; Hollls Huston, psychology-philosophy Mary Jean Hus ton; .English; Luella Ibach, social (Turn to Paa 2 t-lory D) Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, June 18, 'Secret Weapon9 in Flight becon mbiolutelj aecuTe-the .;T. j?.r . r VT cnance no arive us nauL mio.ine announced today. tall, weather-beaten Missourian ........... - Japs Bypass Changsha, Head South CHUNGKING," J une . 17-(JP With Changsha virtually isolated and all avenues of retreat closed to the defenders,' the Hunan prov ince fighting was shifted ' swiftly to the south, with the Japanese threatening Lukow-and driving on the southern Hunan rail junction of" Nengyang, ; the , Chinese high command announced tonight" ' ' Apparently attempting to seize the Junction of a ' railway 'from Kwangsi provice with the north south Canton - Hankow " line, . the Japanese b y - p a s s e d besieged Changsha and drove to a point just north, of Chuchow, 23 miles to the sou Uu-There the--Chinese communique said, they were halt ed, , and bitter fighting ' was in progress.. ",;...' i' Fall of Nengyang could be even more serious to the Chinese than loss of thrice-defended Changsha. The city, 85 miles south- of Chang sha,. could -become a springboard for a Japanese advance either on Kweflen in' northern -Kwangsi or Kukong, : Kwangsi's proyiaional capital. ' j ; , " ' .The bulletin also' said an enemy unit in civilian clothes had infil trated the s eastern . - bank-: of the Sianf river opposite Siangtaxv 23 miles south' of Changsha, but suf fered . heavy casualties. -i . ? - -. ,Al ' f 'A:A'-is:0:--zi Nine Playgrounds Open Tomorrows , Salem city playgrounds, , this year numbering seven neighbor hood recreational areas- and two play parks with pool - facilities, will open Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Director Gurnee Flesher announced l, Saturday.; The play grounds are again under the joint sponsorship ' of the ' public .school system and the city council and will be located at Englewood, Grant, Highland, Richmond, Bush, McKinley and Washington grade schools in addition to O linger and Leslie fields. Further Information concerning locations, personnel and activities can be found on the sports pagesJ.fi a;:-; 7 Wcathici' Maximum 'temperature Satur day 72 degrees; minimum- 51; pre cipitation '.10; river .21 ft . -; Partly cloudy Sunday and lion day. Scattered light showers and thunderstorms. Warmer east por tion Sundayv. '. A -w4 1944 bullets, searchlight and flak while Robot Planes Prove to Be Special Rocket r : ,By WES GALLAGHER . . SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALH3SD. EXP E D I.TION AR Y FORCE,' Sunday, J u n 18 -r (jp) More of the Germans' winged bombs, the so-called robot planes, came hurtling across the channel Into southern England during the night as the nazis' "tounter-inva sion attack" moved into its fourth consecutive day. if; AuA' I , The, pilotles s, "jet-propelled planes were disclosed yesterday to be an astoundingly simple weap on a death-dealing overgrown rocket equipped with wings and loaded with a ton of explosives. , In the newest attacks they came over the 'coast low and singly every few minutes Several of them flew through ' some ef ' the heaviest anti-aircraft fire of the war as Britain shifted its ack-ack defenses to counter! the devilish plane-bombs.' - f ' 1 " ' Damage was caused in various localities and a number of ; per sons were killed or injured.1 Orie of the. flying bombs was reported to have wiped out four houses. ! - (German radio commentators let their imagination run free in describing' reports of the conster nation caused in England by the robots. . . j 'r '. (One Berlin broadcast credited a Stockholm : dispatch as saying the . British government had. or dered the evacuation of London because air raid shelters failed to offer adequate protection. Anoth er said, "England Is trembling and London is ablaze and still anoth er reported that on Friday after noon tremendous fires along the southern British .coast had been observed f r o n Rouen, France. Rouen is approximately 100 miles from the English coast.) " ' . - .These robot projectiles, fired off tracks in the Pas-De-Calais area 20 miles across the channel from England, are not radio-controlled and have not had the slightest ef fect on the flow of supplies to the allied front in Normandy; A compass in the nose keeps the weapon on a rough course but lt may fall miles from where it Is aimed. ., Dewey tp Get Oregon Votes PORTLAND, June 1 17-y-Ore-gon's delegation to the republican national convention,' which will leave :: for; Chicago Wednesday, will give full support to Thomas E. Dewey, Chairman Henry E. Collier said today. I f : w . -: The delegation declined at Its recent : organization meeting to adopt a resolution endorsing the New York governofj contending that the pledges each signed as candidate were sufficient.-" , Collier, said, he, had since been advised by all members ' of the delegation that they intend to vote for Dewey for president and Gov. Earl Warren of California for Vice president if tiey are ncrr.:ns ; x Price 5c No. 77 Saipan Advance Navy Warships ; Bombard Guam In Marianas r US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, June 17 iJPh Battling, determined Japanese resistance, , United States marines and army troops have expanded, the beachhead on southern Saipan to a maxi mum depth of two miles along a five and one half-mile front, Adm. Chester . W.'" Nimitz an nounced tonight in a communi que; . .,' : , -In . frenzied , fighting through Thursday " night and Friday as sault forces made gains . averag ing 1500 yards and captured the village of Himashisu, more than half way across the island from the beachhead. A- -. : Tkese devdopmeats were re verted shertty after It was dis cleaed that Aaaerlean warships had bembarded Gaam - for the first time since that former 178 eatpest . In ; the MartatnaS was captured - by the JapaaeM In -December, lS4Lr'; -; A'AA Before dawn Friday, Jap : de fenders of Saipan, numbering, an estimated two divisions r. (30,000 men), " launched ", a determined counterattack.- i:'54 -."Mf The enemy thrust, supported by tanks, was hurled;bacav..,;;j s Twenty-five Jap tanks were 'de stroyed ) and the enemy cost ' in lives was heavy. J, r ' ' ' The eommanlqae said the ar ea now controlled by the Amer ican farces en the sonthwest side f Saipan extends from a point outside the key town of Gar spaa five and one half miles southward to Asigan. (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Nazis Claim Another Allied LONDON, June 17-GP)-A Ger man broadcast tonight estimated that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has 50 to 60 divisions of 500,000 to 900,000 men waiting for the "second ' phase of the invasion which in all probability will, be an attack on the French-Belgian coastal area" northeast of the Nor mandy front. ' : The Berlin radio in a broadcast recorded by the Associated Press said 'this force includes four air borne divisions, and forms a sec ond Invasion army. Berlin said it is ; stationed between ; the south eastern coast of England and Lon don, and in the area between Lon don and thcLmouth of the Humber river, "-AA . Eisenhower probably would try to capture the area .fbetween ,0s-. tende and Dunkerque whence h intends to launch a drive north eastward," the broadcast conclud ed- . . . .;" . .. -A y liankees Army Ready War Bond Sales Total Well OveEay milipn - Statehouse- employes stole- the bond drive spotlight from outlying communities Saturday by report ing sales of $31,501, bringing the reported total for; the. Fifth War Loan campaign well above the half million mark which had been set as the Saturday goaL' Douglas Teater, county chairman, reported that actual computations ;: were $509,000 but that complete reports of weekend sales were expected to boost that' figure materially.". V Roy Mills, secretary to the board of control, reported that only 23 of the state's 55 departments had made reports and that final sales are expected to go well above the Crst week's total. Leading the pro cession at the state buildings were the budget division, board of con trol, real "estate commission, li brary school for the blind and the postwar readjustment commission. - Anaounceraent'ef Miss Marion County contest in connection with tend drive alro brouct re - I"-- A--: :i - - A Cherbourg To NEW YORK, June 18-(AP)-CBS Correspon dent Larry Lesueur reported from France tonight that American troops'; had reached the western side of the Cherbourg peninsula, cutting off the port of Cherbourg. i ) ' "After 12 days of furious fighting American troops have forced the 26-mile' neck of the Cher bourg peninsula and reached the western side,'V said Lesueur's broadcast recorded in London and Telayed to the United States. . ' , ; .T; 'Tonight elements of the ninth division of the .United States army, reached the sea on the western, side of the peninsuIa,,, said the correspondent. : ; Th reached it at two places, north and south of the small Norman town of BarneTille and they are fighting now, on the grassy dunes -on both sides of the surrounded village. ; ; ; ; 'A ''This attack to the sea caught the Germans off : guar d. The Gem head ing straight north to take Cherbourg by frontal as sault immediately Instead, the fact that the ninth division has cut the neck of the Cherbourg penin sula means tens of thousands of German troops are bottled up between us and r. v- By JAMES M. LONG - SUPREME . HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Sunday, June IMTho US Ninth division, which shattered the Germans at Bizerte in Tunisia, teamed up yesterday with the t2nd -airborne division in a powerful break-through of- German lines which put the Americans on: high ground only -four miles from. the west coast and virtually cut in two the Cherbourg peninsula. - !," O ;j; Lt. Gen. - Omar S. Bradler. New Chief Vice Adas. John Henry Newton (above), 2 became silled com. aaaader in chief . la the Soath Pacifle, saeeeedlng Adm. WU- - liaaa F. Halsey, Jr. He had keen Balsey's - deputy , commander. Halsey Is Wine assigned to a new role' In the Pacific. - (AF Wlrephete from navy.) A Ray Ebner's Condition Reported as 'Fair PORTLAND, Ore June 17-ifl") The condition of Ray Ebner, 38, who was gored by a bull on his farm west of Mount Angel last night, was described by St Vin cent's hospital attendants . as "fair- tonight fcOlowing an oper ation. He was brought here to night from the Silverion hospi-taL- . t , newed interest:' Selection of a tal ented and beautiful young lady to represent this county "in a state wide competition-for selection of a new Miss Oregon will be made a part of the bond rallies "over the county. Chairman Yeater declared. Candidates for the honor of rep resenting this cofinty WD! appear daily -over radio programs span sored by the county committee and by Sears-Roebuck Co. First ap pearances are expected Monday afternoon if arrangements can be completed in time. '. ' ; The girls from, whom the win ner .will be chosen must be single, between J8 and 25,. photogenic and talented.-A good voice, face and figure will be the main quail fications. .- r; ' -County winners, who will : be chosen by a special committee to be announced later, will be given a' week of entertainment and fun in Portland, Including visits to 11 (Turn to rs;? 2 Story C) ZPA ' ' - . '.A' . - j ' )i V" i ' . , v ' 5 f jt A ' f - w -'- ? " v . I v.-' ;. X . .... .: : . -.; . i As 'i X; 1 . Cherbourg." , ground commander who led the , Americans - te their triomph of s Elserte la Hay. 1I43.V was di- ' recthig the swtft break-threegki ..which had, roneafVithia ( mil ef St LoD'6uf vl.ie ' the V -rwest-celcWl fM osslble ! Germaa escape troate eat of Cherborg.,v A' A- A'AAAA v- -- Some front dispatches said the Germans were 'fleeing southward to escape the American trap but General Bradley 'earlier had pre dicted a last-ditch stand in Cher bourg,-whose harbor is . vital to the allies In 'order to hasten sup plies and .reinforcements.' German broadcasts last night however, began minimizing Cherbourg's im portance, which could mean nazi resignation to its eventual isola tion and capture. Civilian refugees . said the Germans already were forcing civilians to evacuate the ' city. . : m AA-:i .: v V Amerieaa troops were flcht Ing flferee hand-to-hand battles. ta the street of Monteboarg, 11 miles southeast ef Cherbeerg. Whitehead's dispatch disclosed the presence of the Ninth division v in action- for the first time in Normandy. The Ninth was the di vision which took Port Lyautey ia the French ' Morocco landing in November 1942, fought at El Guettar in southern Tunisia, and participated in the final encircle- v ment of scores - of thousands' ot Germans and Italians on Cap Bon. Nortat-ef St Saeveer, White bead said, the Taak lafaatry Boea . brake across the Deava river. They rode en tanks and fired machine iwu aa the 'arm rtd : anlts plaaged throngh shallow waters la the , kktorie 1 drive te seal off Cherbonrs. .' . American airmen were strafing A the German lines of retreat out of the area, A A tA'AAA: A- One r front' line correspondent said an American column rolled ' through St Jacques de Nehou, . four miles northwest of St Sau- veur and . seven miles from the west coast, in a swift exploitation ' ' of German disorganization. - - The two American divisions had heavy support -from artillerymen. Whitehead said ther fire already had effectively cut the west coast road. Cheese to Be Point ) . Free for Ttco Weeks WASHINGTON, Jobs 17-iT) The office ef price administra tion , today announced that all rationed cheese except Ameri- can cheddar . cheese, ' Cheddar " predaets and ether, cheese te group! one en the ration chart will be point-free for the two . weeks beginning 124 1 a. m Sunday, Jane 13. .-.--'- j Oregon Bond Sales J a Top 13 MUlion Mark ; PORTLAND, Ore, June 17-(iT) Oregon state sales in the Fifth War Loan' drive reached $13, 111,504 today for 10.5 per cent cf quota, ofllcL'.i reported. I lull." o- mah county Las sulacrited $7,- SS3.CS3 cf fie- tot-1.