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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO' Yank Garner Planes Attack Enemy Fleet (Continued from page 1) . bert James, Associated rwar correspondent, reported, t'. There were hundreds of , land la boats and other craft to pat ,many" thousands of. soldiers ashore so that Invasion, going -' well at last reports, was one of the I mmedlate concerns of the warships uunder Spruanee. for they most protect the American beachhead and assault : forces which already had conquered' virtually the soutoern third of the Island. . -c . The (round forces were ad vancinf north of Saipan, Nimitz reported. Progress also was being made against Japanese - pocketed at Nafutan point on the? south eastern corner of Saipan. Severe fighting continued as the: ground troops fought to clear the island that will provide a base tor bomb er strikes at Japan itself. High American naval sources ;. Indicated earlier that a crucial - clash between main units of the . American and' Japanese fleets may bo under war. l ; I . A Tokyo radio broadcast, re corded In London, said positively that it Is, that a "fierce naval battle" rages off the Marianas. Calm confidence in the outcome of such an engagement,! which probably will rival anything In the history of naval warfare, pre vailed at fleet headquarters here as well as in- Washington, Adm. Ernest H. King, commander in chief of the navy ;Navy Secretary Forrestal, and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz so expressed themselves. King had a word of apprecia tion for the "long expected co operation of the Nipponese navy In apparently moving tnto ; battle position, lie said he was not worried about the outcome. it "The. sooner the Japanese fleet fights, the better we will like it," be commented. J .- Forrestal reported the Japanese fleet had been spotted in the last few days to the westward of Sal' "pan in the Marianas, the Ameri 1 can invasion point There was "no definite Information, however, as , to the prospective showdown. He added significantly; "American , forces may have succeeded. in catching up with all or part of the Japanese fleet yes terday." l: . v; In a ringing statement last night, Nimitz disclosed the enemy was massing his naval strength to ,- accept the challenge so often hurl ed by the. Pacific fleet but just as often passed up. He even hint ed the first I rounder had been fought, ', j ' ' :.' 1000, Yankee Heavies Hit Berlin Hard (Continued from page 1) ther x methods of combatting the jet-propelled I explosives which have been hurled at southern England for a week.. The Budapest radio went pff the air shortly before midnight indi eating the Mediterranean air force may be striking at the Balkans. ; At midnight the German radio said "intruder aircraft" were ap proaching ' northwestern i Ger many, '..'"! British Laacasters and Hall- - faxes, which usually . do bombing at i aright, .flew - fourth daylight mission their their since D-day, eeathwiag the assault' on the Commet bomb grounds, after Ltberators and mediums ; had unloaded their !bombs and returned to base.' . The Berlin raiders, .' with Ian es cort of 1200 : fighters, bombed an aircraft factory at Basdorf, la Ber lin , siiburb, toe Berlm railroad yards, factories and other mili tary objectives. There were some clouds but . most combat j wings bombed visually and reported re sults were good. ; j "; ; As Berliaen das; eatusltlea from the smouldering rabble, - the German radio called the raid a retaliatory blow for the . Jet-p repelled bombs, which winged evert southeni England for the seventh straight b day, aid added: ; But, no matter, whether bombs are being drop ped oa Berlin or not. the bom bardment of tendon with the new weapon will continue.' ' . It was considered likely the Flying Fortresses and Liberators, some of whom reported they did . not see a single enemy fighter , over Berlin, , dropped more ex- plosives on the capital in an hour than the Germans had been able to launch - from r their battered rocket ramps in seven days. :; Throughout the day allied alr .'.sus flew oa countless mlurisns , over Normandy , pounding Ger man transycrt and eontraaniea- - tlons, while other uadrons followed rp heavy nlsht blows ,at the mket platTormav M One force cf liberators, escort ed by Thunderbolts, pounded the around Tis da Calais oain last night and returned without loss, the U3 strategic air rce iced. .: Tc d Lets to Classify gMaMMaHaMMMSUUUMeMSSMSUmaOBMUUUUUO Tr.A nrn i;.n:.."sraee.' lights. wt ft Is i. rates tr monta "r week. Also 1 Minim i- i merits. 1 Uone . Ssxlr Milk for 1 t if Aa American soldier fakes his turn by aa elderly French woman In Wlrephote.) De Gaulle's Men Command in Free Normandy . By DON WHITEHEAD " i WITH THE AMERICAN (Delayed)-(P-Representatives visional government have already moVed into liberated sections of Normandy to set up political control of civil affairs, although the provisional government as yet United States. Francois Coulet, Corsica and under-prefect for that area, has arrived in uayeux to take over duties as commissioner of the republic for the region of Rouen. Obviously this is a coup d'etat for DeGaulle, who simply brought his men into the beachhead when ho came ashore last week and set them to work as rightful di rectors of French political affairs. Under present plans DeGaullists will occupy key political posts in each region as it is liberated. ' These representatives will be appointed by the provisional gov ernment which does not plan to hold local elections until all France has been liberated. "Until the whole of France has been liberated and Frenchmen who are prisoners in Germany have been returned to their homes there can be no universal elec tion," Coulet said In an interview today. They should have choice in the selection of officials.'' Under the Vichy reorganization of French political districts Franco is - divided into regions which in turn are divided into de partments much as states in Am erica are divided mto counties. Each region has a commissioner and each department a prefect to direct its internal affairs. Under the prefects are sub-prefects, with mayors as political heads of the towns., f "Well probably keep the dis tricts as-they have been set up by Vichy, Coulet said. "They are ec onomic lor administration pur poses. In addition to directing civil af fairs, Coulet's organization in tends to enlist a territorial army as a small token force to help the allied military keep order. There will be no mobilization,'' Coulet said. fWell call only for volunteers because we have a narvest at hand and men are needed on farms." Coulet said he saw no reason why there should be any friction between his organization, and al lied military civil affairs. As he put it, "Allied civil affairs repre sents the army while I represent the French people. j As yet there has been no trie tion between ' the two although both have -made appointments to offices in . the beachhead each independent of the other. In Bayeux Coulet removed the sub-prefect from office and ap pointed in his place a young na tive of the region, a well-to-do farmer named Triboulet The sub prefect was removed because ho was too close to the Vichy regime. Just what would happen if allied civil affairs appointees are not suitable to the DeGaulllsts Is not exactly clear. The point has not yet arisen. Dr. Findley's Daughter Dies Funeral services were held Wednesday in Seattle for Louise Findley Heinl, third daughter of Dr. and Mrs. M. C. Findley of Sa lem. Mrs. Heinl, who was reared and educated in ' Salem, graduating from Willamette university, died early Tuesday morning shortly af ter the birth of her third child. Her parents, her brother. Bayard Findley and his wife and her only sister residing In Salem; Mrs. Boy u. Locxenour, left for Seattle up on receipt of the notification. . Survivors Include the widower. Lawrence Heinl, mechanical en gineer In the Washington city, daughter 9, a son 4 years od and the infant son. '' - Death of llrs. Heinl breaks for the first time the family of Dr. and Mrs. Findley, long prominent in Salem. Their seven children all had lived to maturity and there are grandchildren In each of the seven families, totalirj in all 19. Tin Yanlis 1 In receiving a cup of milk given the Normandy area of France. (AF . .. 1 . . j ,. . v-v r Take Civil , . FORCES IN FRANCE, June 19 of Gen: Charles De Gaulle's pro has hot been recognized by the who was secretary-general of Hayes Named Marshal Far Parade (Continued from page 1) Wednesday afternoon were quot ing the story Carlton Sturdy bad told at Rotary meeting of the sol dier in a' foxhole who was making rapid wora: or destroying nearby enemies when he was told that he must give bp his gun because the man who owned it wanted it back, having cashed his warbonds. However, sometimes they changed the hero into an aviator, who had trained for a special and impor tant mission but who had no plane in which to perform because the bonds had not been bought i- In the residential districts of Sa lem, civilian defense block lead era are doing a fine job of selling. Yeatef declared. . ; . , "i Mrs. Ci V. Richardson. S41 Statesman street, with relatives In France and a son overseas, ; has sold 11 bonds to her neighbors and has not yet completed her block. Mrs. William C Smith, 1110 North Summer street, has sold 12 bonds for a purchase price of $1543.73 without completing . her assign ment. i GOPs Pleased Willi Plank (Continued from page 1) told reporters at Chicago he thought the GOP had Utile chance "unlesVthey can break into some of the southern states, and 1 don' have much confidence that they can do so.7 '. : ; r. r Republican national j chairman Harrison Scantier has Dredicted the republicans will win, whoever the nominee. .- ' - .i.: Arriving at CWmm. fnrm Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, 1938 republican residential inee, 2 predicted that ; Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York will be nominated on the -first or second ballot : . ,i. i I Supporters, of 'Gov. : John W. Brlcker of Ohio, who has the larg est number of pledged or . claimed votes of anyone other than Dewey, were exDressins? confidence. Sen. tor Tart (B-Ohio) said Bricker has a "good chance," Oregon: Reaches 17J2 Per Cent of Bond Quota PORTLAND, Ore, June 21-UPi E. C Sammons, state chairman of the Oregon war finance commit tee, urged fifth war loan drive workers tonight to complete as- signments promptly. r j. ; v Sales now total $21,481,000, he said, but this is only 111 per cenl or me f 123,000,000 quota. ' WI3X, TUUIa. TEL. SAT, 4 DATS - 2 KG CHOWS po"- .L.ta J - . EACZ TH2 Cr-ZATZZT OHEGON STATESMAN, Sclera. Reds Launch . 2 New Drives : Against Jinns (Continued front page 1) erful thrust that broke through Finnish lines east of Medvezhe gorsk and also opened another drive along, .the ; Svir river be tween Lakes Qnezhskoe and . La doga. & 1 '4.:--r"; ':i These offensives j were along the Murmansk-Ininzrad rail way, which he' soviet high command ,-. apparently ; li bent upon elearlnr aa soon as uossi ble. The. front at Medrexhe gorsk Is approximately 24t miles due east of the captured Finnish port.' ' p y.J.i The. broadcast Russian com munique ' said that :in the first day of the attack along the Svir, soviet units occupied more than 200 populated places. Including Vbznesene, a district center of the Leningrad region. , ; Another Moscow broadcast stated that soviet troops, hitting westward from the top of Lake Oneshskoe, have closed In oa the town of Medveshegorsk and already are fighting In Its out skirts. ; - ";. ;: At the same! time the Russian drive which started' 12 days ago on the Karelian isthmus plunged well beyond the burning ruins of Viipuri, probing within 120 miles of Helsinki, the capital, and cap turing more than 50 additional places, i if. Combined with the : threat to Helsinki from the south, the new Russian thrusts; not! only jeopar dized further Finland's ability to continue in the war, but also men aced the seven! divisions of Ger man troops garrisoned in north ern Finland as protection for the vast metal mines located there. Even! before! th e new soviet drives were announced by Mos cow reports, received through Stockholm said Finnish political leaders j were considering a quick armistice with Russia as a means of averting a fall of the govern ment. ; Grave fears were expressed that the nazls themselves might seize upon the situation to install a puppet i government in northern Finland, i . Shipyards To Keep Busy PORTLAND, June 21-(AV-Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, vice- chairman of the US Maritime comroission, said today that Port land area shipyard j workers will be kept fully employed for at least 12 more months.. . ,. Maritime : .. commission yards' have a year's Work already under contract, Vickery said, with new contracts expected in the future. "Your yards,'' Vickery told inter viewers, "have done the grandest Job in the whole country for us." The maritime official announced award of contract to Albina En gine tc) Machine works to build four 4000-ton steel coaster vessels. Demobilization Bill Approved WASHINGTON, June 21-m- Legislation setting up machinery for the termination of approxi mately $200,000,000,000 in war contracts was approved today by the senate, -j- 4 -r:r- The measure; first major legis lation dealing with demobilization to reach a vote in congress, now goes to the house where speedy acceptance Is expected. Drawn up as a compromise by senate and house conferees, the bin provides that if war contract ors can! agree with a government contracting agency on the amount of a settlement, their agreement will be final. If he is not satisfied, the contractor can Appeal to an appealsr.board land beyond that to the court of claims. 1 BUT BONDS j TODAY! - OPENS 1:45 r. M. NOW SHOWING F 1 : .V- i Hedy LaMaxr j Walter Pideca "unnE - co-iuti Roy Kcjers . Cl r-i it . .. Oregon, Thursday Morning, June OH the H01IE FR01IT tj DAin. CHLD3 - As convention time near,' Chi cago prepares to wrest temporar ily from Washington its old title of the -windy city." . - US Liberators Make Record BIow on Truk - ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Thurs day, June 22-fl')-LIberator bomb ers from the New Guinea sector made a record-breaking attack on Truk Monday, coordinated with the American invasion of Saipan in the Marianas. , ! ! Headquarters announced today that B-24s from the Admiralty islands dropped 108 tons of ex plosives " on Dublon . and. Eten islands in the Truk group,- the heaviest single day's, attack by Thirteenth air force Liberators.; . For the second day In a row, the Japanese made no attempt at in terception. This was in contrast to four Liberator raids ' of last week, each of which stirred up from 15 to 23 enemy fighters. It was possible that the Japanese were conserving their fighters for use in the Marianas. 1 Seventh air force bombers from the central Pacific also have been pounding at the Carolines to pre vent Truk from figuring , In the navy-air fighting reported under way to the northweest, between'! the Marianas and the Philippines. On Biak island off Dutch! New Guinea, where three Japanese air dromes have been captured, Amer ican veterans of jungle warfare advanced steadily along the south' west coast, headquarters reported. and cleaned out pockets of Japan ese In the hills north of Mokmer airfield. 1 ' -. .' j ' ' Liberators attacked t Noemfoor island west of Biak in Geelvink bay, dropping 57 tons of explosives on Kamiri airstrip. Allied attack planes destroyed two coastal ves sels and eight barges off Manok war), near the western entrance to Geelvink bay. : j ; Congress Puts Bill on Desk I (Continued from page 1) that they did not do so "wilfully.' A major new provision of the bill requires the office of price administration (OPA) to set price ceilings on textiles to reflect full parity return, to cotton pro ducers. -' 1 Other Washington develop ments: ' J v : : Reports: circulated that War Food Administrator Marvin Jones was displeased ' by the war pro duction board's decision " to per mit whisky distilling during Aug ust. Supplies of feed grains have been tight Informed sources said Jones probably would forbid use of corn in whisky making. This would leave wheat, rye and pos sibly molasses for the distillers' Major of Skagway j Speaks at Launching PORTLAND, June lHAWohn Hoyt, mayor of Skagway, Alaska, spoke today at the launching of the Skagway Victory, named for the Alaskan town. It was the 22d Victory freighter built by the Kai ser's Oregon Shipbuilding corpor- ation. ; X-f' mtrrv arrive nTTf B nnvnst ifirT--s.nr - OPENS 1:45 P. M. - NOW PLAYING! HI LOVED... TO HATE! u UM co-mri VHAT'S r -. nil tt uva SK::r n::;.n ' i Itili'slsml V ts aerfss! . 22, 1S14 Yanlis Less Than Mile From Goal (Continued from page 1) Americans sealed off the penin sula 8anday, and have given vp considerable-: ground" which American troops thought should have been defended.: i " . German demolition squads la bored' with explosives and fire to try to wreck the great port facil ities, while allied Planes showered them: with leaflets advising Imme diate surrender. Allied 21st army group headquarters said toe city was unlikely to hold out much longer In ny event Its defenses are altogether the most elaborate yet eneomntered In France, bat "we have the turtle-on his back said an allied spokesman. ;; '.; 4; -The general advance ! ud the peninsula continued rapidly, with a headcruarters communiaue an nouncing the liberation I of the towns of TeurthevOle-Hague and Acqueville, southwest : Of Cher bourg, in Dart of a broad thrust that has carried the Americans within five miles of the sea. : ' On the southeast, the Amer icans have driven forward as- tride the main road north from Valognes to Cherbourg. ! (A Vichy : radio broadcast at midnight said the bulk : of the American army tank formations then were a mile and a; quarter from Cherbourg.) i u On the British-Canadian sector to the east of the Cherbourg pe ninsula, heavy fighting continued in the TiHy-Caen sectors, but the series of attacks and counter-at tacks left the front virtually un changed. ' : , i . Flying Bombs Show Defeat Says Martin ------ : BALTIMORE, . June 2L-VF)- The use of flying bombs by the nazis "Is a sign to me that the luftwaff e has met defeat," Air plane Builder Glenn L. Martin declared today, saying ; the Ger mans no longer can! risk planes and flyers from a dwindling pilot P00LV ; ' - ! ;:fV s At the same time,! the head of the Glenn L. Martin company predicted. In an Interview that "We can expect automatic flying bombs to have great range in the next war.-- . - "They will be capable of com ing from Europe to America and will have a 5,000-mile range,' but no one would know , whether they would land because of the Inabil ity to compute variable winds." Remarking that toe jet-propel' led devices, while inaccurate, "spell total war against every liv ing thing,' Martin continued: "It Is my guess that the nazis have been defeated in getting: into the areas against which they now are using such weapons and they turn to this method as a result of this defeat They have always hit populations generally. ' We have always chosen our targets." INVEST IN INVASION! D Cent. Dally From 1 P. M. - NOW SHOWING! THE MOST . DANGEROUS MAN A WOMAN , EVER LOVED! I : i II I I 11 -w-. sJEOOPPS r EICEA1DIE0SF 1LLTI JOSLTI ELLEI DIE! FETIlTlinCIl : John Qaalea ( ' : Eddie QuHlaa 1 . Ralph Morgan MM DDYIYER v IV GAT1 COFEATUEE1 frx,?-rrt.Tts-A...r!tS-C."cT FXSST NTTTS SHOTS OF ALLTTD LANSINGS IN FEANCS!""" ' 11 i ; 1 f Grange Want!; Direct Vote On Officers (Continued from page 1) Information from her office in the school office (old high: school) buildingC She also suggested that prior to heavy canning season the nwnm of nressure cookers send cooker gaages In to the food in dustries - department at . Oregon State college to have them check ed Io. accuracy. - -i. Juvenile sran : members for th first time this year received considerable recognition at the slate grange convention.; Mrs. Floyd 'Fox, . Union ' Hill, chairman of the northwest district juvenile grange and matron of Marion county juvenile grange, reported. Her small daughter, Frances, was elected first state juvenile Pomo na at the convention . last week in Grants Pass. - Other state grange reports, a resort on the oroducer-consumer market; which opens July 6 in Salem and announcement of the market's annual meeting to be held June 29 at its headquarters, 12S8 SUte street, and an invita tion to the Salem grange's picnic at the home of Mrs. R. T. Wick- lander, Garden road, June , 28, were presented. ... " ' Despite the busy farm season, the all-day meeting: was well 'at tended, officers declared. - . . " ";: 'i j v- :": ... i. .-. Report Says i Finns Form : New Cabinet STOCKHOLM, 'June ll-(ff) The Finnish : government crisis was ; reported by the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet tonight to have been "defacto solved, a phrase taken to mean that the cabinet was reformed and presumably could now turn to Moscow for ar mistice conditions. . .' . Confronted by a military catas trophe on the Finnish. Russian front, Finnish political leaders had been in irgent consultations. (A Reuters dispatch from Stock holm said there were unconfirmed reports that a Finnish peace cabi net was formed in toe night.) ' Svenska Dagbladet has good connections with toe Swedish par liamentary foreign affairs com mittee (which suggests that its in formation came from Finland through official channels.) It said a Finnish statement on the politi cal situation was expected Thurs day; ?;,-. :'j--x;. h -p There- was ; a growing doubt' in Stockholm that Finland can ex pect terms comparable with those she rejected last March and it is even predicted in some quarters that the Russians now will ask unconditional surrender, i v Although Finnish sources ex pressed fear of German counter measures, particularly a. possible attack on Helsinki by parachute troops, political spokesmen were quoted aa saying: "Our position is so bad we must act very quickly in reaching an armistice with, the Russians." i ' ; , . NOW! ACTUAL INVASION PICTURES! B JSHED FROM THE FRONT ! TO YOU1 ; . I 1 TOMORROW . 1 1 . awfma 1 i .tlnn . J . . mm - t i Lytteltch : Apologizes For Remark LONDON, June 21 CapL Oliver Lyttleton, Britain's minister of ; war ' production, apologized directly to the house of commons andLindirecUy to the United SUtes today for remarks in an address yesterday in which he was quoted as saying that the United States had 'provoked Japjaxrto attack. In an almost unprecedented statement, the minister disclaimed : any intention of giving this as his belief. He did not deny press re ports that he had made the state ment in an Interpolation .' in a luncheonddress to the American chamber of commerce, but he said that it was "manifestiy untrue" that lend-lease aid had forced the Pearl Harbor assault He said he was! trying to express gratitude for American lend-lease aid prior to the Japanese attack. . j . Lyttleton's remarks prompted US ; Secretary f SUte Hull to issue a formal statement last night declaring that "unfortunately" Lyttleton was "entirely in error as to the facts," and today even after Lyttleton's disclaimer his remarks of yesterday were characterized in congress as "a slur against toe United States." . Procope, Aides Sail for Finland !:.:.:- " :- '-':-'-y : "1 A V WASHINGTON, ' June 21.--Finnish Minister Hjalmar Pro cope and two counselors of the Finnish legation, who were or dered to leave the country, de parted tonight on the trip to their homeland, the state department announced. , Procope's wife, who is expect ing a baby, will remain here tem porarily with other children. A third counselor, Urho Tivola, also was given permission to defer his trip because of the illness of his wife. ' See ... S ... Today! Actual Combat Scenes - i Rushed From ; Normandy Bahloiront , Boachhoada Tak en O- Strafing Attacks Kcngt I mo Aetwai - with the Rhythm King I Smiley Bornette I "CALL OF THE J . ROCKIES" With "Sunny" Saaset Carsosi NORMANDY BEACHHEAD i A TC'J ilT.lKtmd tartars Ka!; . ,( s . .... . . . ,