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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.
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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
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the Normandy area of France. (AF
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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. '
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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.
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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
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(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
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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."
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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.
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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 ' ; , .
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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. '
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