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: ; " ' 1 1 1 ', 1 " : r" 1 : , i 1 " - amros Mi (MOT (ttlS Memoirt Buys. ' . JL US Two Miles : ! TRAVEL LETTER NO. t " J" j,.. ' Junt 16 When . a person misses A train reservation these days . it is dis tressing incident, but when whole trainloads lose out that must be major headache for the Pullman company. , That was about ; what happened on account of the Ne braska floods. The eastbound trains piled up, and when they reached Chicago scores of persons missed their eastern connections adding to the grief of the already burdened Pullman company. Our ; 12-hour delay on the streamliner meant just a 24-hour delay in get ting a train out, luckily with sleep er accommodation, . Dr. Paul Carter caught an ear lier train his lieutenant colonel's uniform giving him a proper pri ority. Messfs." White and Langton of Portland's Commercial Iron ..works, coming east to talk busi ness with government officials in Washington, made this train. They reported the Paget family were likewise fortunate in getting ac commodations on another train, lor Philadelphia. Also on the "City of Portland" were Earl Childs of the Fred Meyer stores and Mrs. Childs, but they were stopping in Chicago. j was comfortable, refreshed by s thundershower the evening before Father's day and the Fifth War -Loan seemed to be dividing at tention in the downtown district, with father really getting a break in the windows of the retail stores. A barrage balloon over Grant park was boosting war bonds; the Tri bune had a display of army equip ment and the Herald - Examiner was staging a ; promotion buy ' bond and get a ride in a Jeep- over on Michigan avenue. Looming, however, is the repub lican national convention. The Sherman hotel where Carter and I were lucky to get a room called for all rooms to be vacated by the 23rd when republicans start com ing to town. The Oregon driega tion is to put up there. Down in the (continue on editorial page) French Stand Guard Over . 1900 Germans . - '--. -- BOME, June; 20 -(JP)-French colonial troops ' Stacked arms on the conquered island of Elba to day and stood: guard over some 1900 German prisoners, while al lied armies 'on the Italian main land slogged forward through the mud of a 30-hour downpour and kept -the nazts on' the run toward the Pisa-Florence-Rimini defense line in northern Italy. , The.' ancient communications center of Perugia, 83 miles north of Rome, shook with the sound of battle as eighth army troops ex pelled the last stubborn German rearguards from its ' streets and buildings. For several days the en emy had braced and made a bitter stand on the approaches to the city, whose peacetime population was 88,500. German forces In the center of (Continued on page 2) , Yankees Take - - 1 WW 0 southern nalt Of Saipan , WASHINGTON, June 2HJF) Inching forward against heavy .enemy artillery fire, American troops have taken the southern half of Saipan, largest Island" In the western Pacific Marianas group. : Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pa- ' eifie fleet commander, announced tonight that forward lines now ez- ' tend from the shore of Magicienne bay on the southeast side of the t Island to the outskirts of Gars pan, principal town of Saipan. ' -Army and marine units, Nim itz said, have moved up artillery to blast away at the enemy's big guns. American bombers and strafing fighter planes are joining ; in the assault, while offshore war ships are pouring shells onto ene my pcaitioiie'-- While front line troops continue their advance, other units to the rear are heavily attacking "strong pockets of resistance" left behind -in the advance."'.;,.5:'"; Nimitz also reported bombard ment of Japanese airfields on Tin Ian island south of Saipan. In ad- dition to the shelling by warships, bomber p 1 a n e s on Monday at tacked the TirJan fields. - , 7eather ;:;'y4K;v-. '. Maximum temperature Tuesday 75 degrees; minimum 54;" no pre cipitation; river -.18 ft. :' Partly cloudy, scattered show ers, local thunderstorms in moun tains Wednesday and Thursday. Lit ft ch&R U te;&tuxe . 1 - - - ' -5 ' ' - ' - - - - i !-....,. . ; v " NINETY-rOURTH YEAH ap; Nimitz WiM History Making Sea Battle Already' Under Way . By LE1F ERICKSON US PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, June 20 (AP) Japanese naval armada "possibly the en tire Japanese fleet"--has moved out between the Philippines and the invaded Marianas, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced tonight, hinting dramatically that a history-making battle with the American Fifth fleet! already may be under way. - , -' .... - VJ" . 1:.- I 1 ! : Already it is possible that damage has been inflicted on the Japanese warships, the admiral said. ! American forces invaded the Marianas, 1500 miles from Tokyo along Japan's inner defense line of islands, f on the assumption the Japanese wouldO ; r .. . : . bring out everything they possibly could," he added. "We pat enough muscle In the Fifth fleet to take care of every thing he (the Jap) could mus ter. Nimitz said there was a possi bility that a major naval engage ment might result - (Earlier Tokyo radio told the Japanese people that a huge naval battle was taking shape and prom ised them a decisive victory.) .."I. can't control Japanese fleet movements," Nimitz said. "If I did there definitely would be a naval engagement." -Although he did net specify what the situation was, as of Monday, he added the signifi cant hint that possible damage already may have been Inflicted In enemy surface units. (These blows could have fallen either from naval forces or car rier planes, but, either Tvayrthey might mark the first stages oi ine battle. The previous big naval battle of Midway was fought out by opposing planes from carriers and island airfields.) - Three hundred Japanese planes, believed to have been carrier-based signalled the presence of enemy warships In the area, as they were shot down f attacking the American task forces and today Nlmlts said enemy plane losses since the Invasion operations opened in the Marianas approaches 600. "That's a lot of planes," he com mented. - "If we lost 600 naval planes in two or three days we'd be very (Continued on page 2) More Whisky To Be Made WASHINGTON, June 20- One month of whisky making, on a. basis that could provide more than' one-fourth of a normal year's output, was authorized for domes tic distillers today by the war pro duction board. -7 ' v;- The liquor will be made during August and spokesmen for the trade said the holiday from indus trial alcohol production should ease the greatest ' liquor drought since prohibition. It , was pointed out that liquor, firms may bring more aged whisky out of storage, replacing it with the new product, and that some of the new liquor itself may go quickly on to retail store shelves In blended bever ages. Easing of the Industrial alcohol situation was given as the reason for the temporary, return to bev erage making, which had been ag itated by the trade and by some segments of congress. Marion Trailing In Waste Paper Salvage . Facilities to handle and trans port waste paper, lacking in Mar ion county earlier in the war pe riod, " can not now be blamed should Marion continue to trail the rest of the nation in this phase of the salvage campaign. Chair man Gardner Knapp declared as he outlined plans for saving every ounce of salvageable scrap paper. per.V'v'Vv - v Open at all hours for deposit of bundled newspapers, maga zines and cardboard cartons, the new salvage depot at 430 South Commercial street will receive the smallest and largest contributions offered, Knapp said. ' " i Persons who have 200 pounds or' more of paper, for the salvage may have it hauled to; the depot without charge any Saturday. They should call the civilian de alenx, Chinese Admit Changslia Falls To Japanese CHUNGKING, Wednesday, June 21 j-(P) Changsha, capital of Hu nan province and for five years a symbol of successful Chinese re sistance, has fallen to the Japa nese, the Chinese high command announced today . ' f j Fifty thousand Japanese troops, strongly supported by j artillery and war planes, participated in the final assaults which over whelmed the city's suburban de fenses, the Chinese said. A sup plementary- eominwiiquei'Tlsserted J mat tne lasi ueieners mwqrow Sundayi from' the straVsdty on the Hankow-Canton railway 400 miles east of Chungking. Heaver losses were inflicted on the enemy, the communique said. Thus the Japanese succeeded where three times previously they had been bloodily repulsed, once in September of 1941 at the very gales of this communications cen ter which had a pre-war popula tion of 500,000. ' I 1 j. The j invaders ; already had swung around the capital and be gun a battle for strategic Heng-Tyang,- some 130 miles to the south where the Canton-Hankow joins the Hunan-Kwangsi railway on the Siahg river. . - ' v Should Hengyang fall the Japa nese would be a long stride on the way toward splitting China in half., "7 h W-l 1-yi:;.- - i Nazis Pur sue LONDON, j June 20-()-Nazi propagandists told .the j German people today! that watchful wait ing forj new allied landings from Britain ' and North Africa was the guiding; principle . of " the high command in combatting the Nor mandy invasion. "H:) - This attempt to explain battle field reverses suggested I that the narcotic effect of the news that robot . bombers were being used against f England was wearing off within the reich. I Nearly all Paul Joseph Goeb bels' commentators, who had been busy for nearly a week with tales of the buzz-bomb's prowess, ad mitted tonight that it was of lit tle strategic value and spent most of their time on a theme ex pressed by Capt Ludwig Sertor ius:. ;! . , T-' Nation fense office, 3349, sometime dur ing the week to make a request for this service which will be ren dered by the Boy Scouts, Knapp explained. .All net proceeds from tale of scrap paper will be turned Into the Boy Scouts' summer camp fund. " .: j i ;- r . .n .y c During the war period, Marion county ; has , saved approximately 700 tons of paper, Knapp1 estima ted Tuesday,; a quantity declared to be far below the national ave rage but explained by lack of fa cilities to-move the salvage. Thousands 'of articles " essential to the war are made from pulp salvaged from old newspapers, magazines and cardboard, cartons and every- pound of paper saved should aid in backing the inva sion and shortening the war, the salvage, chairman declared. 12 P4GES ' Waiting Policy Oregon. Wednesday Morning. Engage Greatest i 2000 Bombers Smash Rockets, ' 12 Oil Plants LONDOl4 June 20-Vtym the greatest heavy bomber assault in history,: united Mates air 1 -. forces hurled more than 2000 i . j i . - ...... ortresSes and Liberators against Hitler's Europe today to smash once at 12 German oil ants and twice at the rocket- bomber coast of France, which also was attacked throughout the day by other allied planes. More than 1500 heavy bombers jat least equal to the - largest force ever sent oh a single mis sion thundered to the continent. smacking the pilotless-plane laun ching platforms in Pas de Calais and continuing across Germany alpost to Poland in the first op eration of the heaviest daylong assault ever made. Then In! the. lingering day light of this evening another f pree of about 500 Fortresses and Liberators returned to hurl more explosives en the Pas de (Continued on page 2) A Fleet mr Hits Nazis BWnGouHiiffirim mm w - mm mm r u i ties The state supreme court, in a five to 2 decision, Tuesday aft ernoon affirmed the conviction of Robert E. Lee Folkes, negro, who is under 'death sentence for the lower berth " 13" slaying of Mrs. Martha jVirginia James, Norfolk, Va aboard a Southern Pacific passenger train in January of last year. The slaying occurred in Linn county where Folkes was tried and convicted. The predominating opinion was written byf Justice James T. Brand, with! Justices J. O. Bailey and Arthur ! D. Hay concurring. Special concurring opinions were written by justices Hall S. Lusk and Harry Belt with a dissenting opinion by Tustice George Ross man. Justice Percy Kelly Joined in the dissenting opinion. Determination of the case In the supreme court here center ed largely Ion. whether admis sions by Folkes should have been received In evidence. The majority opinion reviewed at length the evidence and refer red particularly to- written copies of stenographers notes which were received at the trial. V Justice Brand held that re ceiving these transcripts as . written confessions was error, bat that the error did not war rant reverting the case la view of other : testimony. He set eat that In ' addition ' to the traa- acripts which i were verified by (Continued on page 2) : Yanks Gapture Two Airfields In Schoutens . ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Wed nesday, June 21.-iP)-Borokoe and Sorido airdromes on Biak island have been captured, completing conquest of the airstrips in ; the Schouten islands once held by the Japanese. ' -,: The two itrlpi were taken Tuesday, headquarters announced today, There was minor enemy resistance west of Sorido. , - Biak I s 1 a n d's ether . major drome, Mokmer, was v captured earlier this month. These fields place the Fifth air force within 880 miles of the Philippines: 5 A fourth clrome has been built by the Americans on Owl island, five mile from Biak. it H v A Jap losses on Biak .were de scribedas heavy. Sorido village, three quarters of a mile northwest of Sorido drome, also was cap tured. J - ' .' V;".' . Truk .atoll in the Carolines again took a - heavy pounding, headquarters announced. Libera tors dropped v 39 tons of bombs there. For the first time in many raids, no enemy interception or j antiaircraft fire was encountered. June. 21; 1944' American Ncizilhvfisioh mashed Continent - LONDON, June 20.-irVPrune Minister Churchill partially un veiled one of the war's greatest secrets today rhen.he disclosed to the house of commons that a German attempt to invade Brit ain in. 1S40 was smashed in con tinental ports before a "very hea vy concentration of j troops and ships could put to sea. One of the favorite subjects of bar and drawing room specula tion, this 1940 "invasion" had ap peared in gossip as having been everything from a iull-scale ex pedition that actually touched down on British soil to a whole sale smashing of enemy landing craft, caught at sea during exer cises. " . ; Heretofore the government had limited its commons comment to a statement on July 29, 1943, by Clement Attlee, then ; lord presi dent of the council, that "It is well known throughput the world that the enemy's preparations for invasion in 1940 were frustrated by the Royal Air force." Today Major Vyvyan Adams asked for further details, and Churchill first said he would stand on Attlee's statement, but when the member persisted with a request to know whether "The enemy set in motion the appara tus of a sea-borne invasion," the prime minister replied: "I do not quite know what is (Continued on page 2) TryS Conviction Wallace Says China, Soviet To Be Friends ' CHUNGKING, June 20 -()-Vice President Henry A.- Wallace, arriving here today to confer with Generalissimo Chaing Kai-Shek, predicted that the common boun dary between Russia and China would in the future be like the border between the United States and Canada. -:f . The American vice j president's remark, received wide attention in Chungking, where j the general supposition was that he would not have voiced such a view unless he had good reason to believe that China's territorial Integrity, par ticularly in Manchuria, would be scrupulously respected ; after the war. Wallace arrived here by way of Russia. . . 1 This is a subject on which, the Chinese long have held, privately expressed misgivings. Wallace, in a statement distrib uted at the airport upon his ar rival, quoted Dr. Hu Shih, former Chinese ambassador to the United States, as having ; said ; that the boundary between China and Si beria "should be like the frontier between the United States and Canada not one of separation but one of Joint friends together." British Push Japs Back SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, June 20-0'fVBritish imperials in a swift 17-mile advance have driven the Japanese from Mao Songsamg on the Kohima-Imphal road of east ern ' India in the. greatest thrust since the start of the allied counter-offensive, a communique an nounced today. - lt :5: " - The advance south from Ko hima brushed - the: enemy from Tuphema: and planted the-allied vanguard just west of . Maram, clearing all but 29 miles of the more than 60 miles of road be tween these big allied bases.' -V -' A large ordnance dump and 10 artillery pieces were, taken. It was estimated officially that Ja panese .were killed in this sector and 50 prisoners taken. Price 5c Navy Russians Capture JL Finland ! Appears Near Defeat AsPort Falls LONDON, Wednesday, June 2 HPremier .Stalin an nounced last night that the red army captured Finland's second largest city and southern gate way, Viipuri, yesterday as the smashing climax to an 11 -day offensive jin which the soviet forces have driven 60 miles and appear to have plunged the Finns to the verge of defeat x : Stalin announced the fall of the important seaport in a midnight order .of the day, praising the units of the Leningrad ' army of Marshal Leonid. A. Govorov, and within a few minutes after the announcement the Moscow radio declared "Viipuri's fall brings Finland to the brink of defeat" The commander in chief said the red troops had crashed through the Mannerheim line and "developing their offensive, overpowered the outer and In-, ner defenses of Viipuri, and yesterday, June 20, carried by assault the fortress and town of Viipuri." ; ..-. . . Later 'the regular nightly Mos cow communique announced that Jduxiiigthr. course of e day's drive th PussianS captured more than 60 other populated places, including seven railway stations. ' Moscow saluted the success of Govorov's troops with 20 salvos from 224 guns at 12:30 a.m. (Mos cow time) Wednesday and Stalin, following his custom on the occa sion of important triumphs, de creed special honors for those who had distinguished themselves. Viipuri, with' a normal popu lation of abont 85.800. lies 125 miles from Helsinki. Besides its stature as a commercial port and second city of Finland, Viipuri was a bastion In 'the deepest and strongest fortifica tions of the - Mannerheim line with which the Finns hoped to stave off. the soviet advance. The London Press expressed the opinion that with Viipurrs fall the battered Finns would Jae un able to make an 'effective stand anywhere, and : from Stockholm came reports that: a new Finnish 'peace cabinet" would be formed in Helsinki "very soon." Slimmer Arrive In Winter Weather h PORTLANdI June 20-(aV Summer arrives officially at 6:03 ajn. tomorrow but unofficially, the weather bureau warned, it will atai be winter. ! ' , The forecast for the longest day In the year shows leaden skies in the- morning; clouds in the after noon, and thunderstorms over eastern and southern Oregon. Pity .the Poor, Fellow Who Has to Count 'Em L BAKER, June 1 20-(A,)-Joe A. Thompson paid for a $500 war bond with 37,750 pennies. Viipuri County War Go Omr $6O00aMark A Salem Eagles im a rally which closed at a late hear Tuesday told to themselves f 10,251 worth f bead, i '-. ! Marion county's fifth war loan bond sales had topped the $600,000 mark by Tuesday , night, reaching pne-ninjh. of the way up the offi cial thermometer, i -k Right along with the call for heavier bond purchases Tuesday came the request for greater regis tration in the "Miss Oregon" com petition, an advertising feature of the campaign In which an attract ive Marion county girl vocalist will be selected to "compete for the state title. "Girls .18-to 28 arc-ell-gible..-;;' .:' "v : Third of the contestants, Anita Jean Jarman, is to be heard on the program over KSLM from 33 to 70 IP T-01M, --; By JAMES M. LONG . SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EX. PEDITIONARY FORCE, Wednesday, June 21-(AP)-American troops stormed to the top of the last ridge barfier to Cherbourg last night, and were within sight of the great port less than four miles away where the explosions of hasty German demo lition threw a smoke shroud over the city and thun dered the collapse pf any nari hope of a successful siege stand. . v ' ' (An NBC broadcast from London said that American troops were within twoO . miles o Cherbourg's dry limits and that .the fall t of : the port "seems . immment The corres pondent said allied warships were pounding' the Germans around Cherbourg and also . In the ' Cap De La' Hague area at the north west tip of the. peninsula 15 miles above Cherbourg.) - An allied spokesman called upon the tens of . thousands of trapped Germans to surrender. There was no other V choice, he said--except death. : American leng-ranre artillery . laid a powerful dram fire on the Germans around the city, and also hurled shells late the roads. leading northeastward to Cap Levy and northwestward to Cap De La Ilarue at the tip of the penlnsala. Headquarters communique No. 30, issued; just before midnight, said allied troops now were pat tacking the outer- defenses! of Cherbourg," and were engaged in heavy fighting on. three sides of Valognes, 10 miles southeast of the prize port. . - i Field dispatches already had reported American capture ; of Valognes, ruined Hontebourg, .four miles to the rear, and St. Martin Le Greard, f oar miles south of Cherbourg, and late re ports told of the attainment of the top of the last hill outside 'the ettSr-Vv';?;!1 " ' . (The' German DNB news agency announced that the allied troops "have reached the fortified area" of Cherbourg, and said axis posi tions also were under heavy allied naval and air bombardment. "Fresh US infantry and tank troops, now' also are taking part in the assault on Cherbourg, the broadcast said.) - : . Of the eastern end of the front the allied communique said: "Our positions in the area of Tilly are firm. Very heavy fighting con tinued near Hottot." - Spearheaded by the - veteran US Ninth and Fourth divisions and led by French 'patriot scouts in the final, assault, -thousands of American troops were fanning eat on all sides -of - Cherbourg. :.":,-'" " . : On the west coast one unit was reported as far as Vasteville, 15 miles north of Barneville and only six miles southwest of Cherbourg. On the east coast other units had pushed as far1 as Eglise de Gren- heville, three miles north of Quineville end 13 miles southeast of the port. Both these columns were making steady gains to out flank Cherbourg and the pace of the western column suggested a nazl rout . along that coast .' Cornered German i troops, es timated from 15.60a to Si.109, were taking a terrific aaaullng from av massive Infantry, artll . lery 'and aerial enslaog-ht as a German-speaklna British officer stepped to a BBC microphone and asked them to snrrender. ..." "Little" more than a year ago," he.remlnded them "other German soldiers ' commanded by General Von Arnim were driven in to the sea by this same 8th infantry di vision. The soldiers .of Arnim's army (on Cap Bon In .Tunisia) who then realized that it is not dishonorable to surrender when (Continued on page 2) 'ft . , 3:45 this afternoon. Velma Swart broadcast' a program Tuesday as second competitor to appear here, singing "Goodnight Wherever You Are" . and "JotanieT . Doughboy, with Esthel Benner at the organ. Mrs. Raymond Barton on the same program played a piano solo, i ' Industrial division workers took the bond organization's "mobile bank" to the alutoina-from-clay plant T u e s d i y afternoon and wrapped up and delivered, upon receipt of full payment, 17500 worth of bonds to employes of Co lumbia 1 e t a 1 s corporation and Northern Construction company. r-r First purchaser'! was Harry A. Brlnkerhoff, superintendent of operations at the Cherry avenue site where the hew plant is rapid ly rising.-Brlnkerhoff then intro- (Ccntinued on p& 2) - Bond Sales Key- City BuflDDeiims i LONDON, Wednesday, : Jane 11 Beflectlng the serious ness of the sttuation on the Karelian front, the Finnish ra dio today arced all persons Whose presence In Helsinki Is not essential to evacuate the city. ; y "In view of the scope of the Kuslaa offensive fat Karelia," said a broadcast, "everyone whose presence ta Helsinki hi not essential especially chil dren should leave for the ' country." LONDON. Thursday. June 11 UP)- The Germans j Intensified their , rocket bomb attacks en southern - England during the nlxht after a day of compara tive Inactivity and a few nasi planes also were reported ever : Scotland. ...... " I Some casualties and damage were Inflicted In southern Eng land by the flylnx bombs.-' . ' i ! LONDON, Jane XlP-Th utnun raaio annoaneea snort ly after, S a. m. today that for j mations of allied planes were . a pp.ro aehlng .."northwestern . German coastal territory." T SenateHoiise' ; Compromise Un I'ricc Bill A WASHINGTON, June 2HJF) With the White House interven ing to break a deadlock, senate , and - house conferees . reached a compromise . late today 'on the Bankhead amendment to adjust cotton textile ceilings in the price control extension bill. ; The administration agreed to a requirement that ceilings on "ma jor" textile items be revised to reflect a parity price for raw cot ton. Eliminated from the original Bankhead crobosal was a rouir , nient that the ceilings guarantee manufacturing costs plus a profit to millers. . James F. Byrnes, war mobiliza tion director, was said by mem bers of the conference committee to have , taken the lead in the move that brought about the com- promise. The conference commit tee bill representing a merger of conflicting measures passed by senate and house. Is scheduled to go to the senate first and then the house for concurrence tomor row. . j " " ; ; ;The White House intervention obviously was aimed to prevent-, ing a congressional stalemate over the extension bill. President Roos evelt ' had : called ' the original Bankhead proposal inflationary and administration : congressmen hid predicted , a veto if it ap peared In the bill as finally pass- ed. ' . Britain Sorry For Jap War Blame Remark LONDON, Wednesday, June 31 (-British morning newspaper expressed dismay today at reac tion within the United States to a statement attributed to CmpL Oliver Lyttel ton, minister of sup ply, that American lend-lease aid to this country- was Japan's "pro vocation" to attack Pearl Har bor.': , : v; : ., - f tWM mt - m. VlA.fi . t.. It. . j u. uoi yuuwn apeecn au Wrong," said the headline of the Laborite Daily Herald, and this was the theme of, the other stories. I (In Washington, Secretary Hull described the statement attributed to Lyttelton as "entirely in error, and said that "Japan for years had notoriously pursued a program of the widest conquest") - f A possibility that the London government would act quickly to give an official explanation of the statement, ' an interpolation in n prepared speech delivered ' before the American chamber of com merce yesterday, was seen in s.e quarters. Prime Minister Church: II may be called on for a. statement. It was susjested. .