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i" 7cslLcr Maximum temperature Thursday 72 degrees; mini mum 48; no precipitation; -.16 ft. - " , ? Fair Friday. Saturday partly cloudy with few showers along coast Not much change in temperature - 'CrJlJXTOS MM OCOJ I J Hi PCUND3D 1C3J ' ' ' J-'-.--.'i Uii V.i'-'; .Travel Letter Ne. S WASHINGTON, June 20 Jus tice Eicher this morning denied the motion of the defense counsel for dismissal of indictments against the 29 persons accused of -sedition; and the taking of testf- ' mony has been resumed. So far only , three witnesses have .been examined though the; case has gone on for nine weeks. The gov- ., eminent is said to have 200 wit nesses it expects to call; then the defense will have its turn. . Of the defendants 10 are in cus v tody, the others out on bail. Those . on bail must ' of course support themselves one of them told me 1 he and his wife were dependent on contributions. No little hard- ship is imposed 'on the' 16 attor- - neys appointed by the court to act as defense counsel for those with- ' out m e a n s to employ attorneys, X since they . receive no compensa- tion. "How they could manage to ; deVote about a' year to a non-pax case is not clear. , . i. While it is not proper, to com :. ment' directly on a pending trial It may be remarked that '.'sedition' : has been unpopular as a "crime' ever since the "alien and sedition" act of the John Adams adminis- tration, yie traditions of freedom of speech are so deeply ingrained I here. However in wartime bans against ' near-treasonable writings r have been exercised. Pres. Lincoln j suppressed ' newspapers in the ' Civil war, and Eugene Debs went T to prison- in the last war. Free speech should end if it indulges In ; utterances that "give aid and com fort to the enemy"; or interfere t with measures for defense. 5 The crime of conspiracy is al- v ways difficult to establish, and there is a serious question if the i government can establish (Con tinued on Editorial Page) MoyeForward On 3 Fronts NEW YORK, Jane ; K-fP)-The. British radio qaeted its. Stockholm . reporter, Normaa McDonald, as saying "tonight that - a German pocket battle ' thrp-nd tbe heavr cruiser Ad- miral Hipper "are now "eff the' - Finnish west coast port of Abo." "It Is thought in Stockholm that the Germans : are risking these chips either to prevent the Rassian occupation of the Aland Islands, between Finland and Sweden, or to get the Germans away from Finland," said the broadcast, which was recorded by CBS. LONDON, Friday, June 22-iP) Russian troops annihilated more than 2700 Finnish soldiers yester day in savage , fighting on three fronts, Moscow announced early today, as mighty red armies rolled up new ' gains through Finland's broken defense lines. At the' northern t i p of Lake Onexhskoe (Onega), one of the two new fronts opened Wednes day in-; Russia's all-out drive to eliminate Finland from the war, soviet troops; plunged 10 to 15 miles westward in the direction of Lake Ostero and cleared a section of the Leningrad-Murmansk rail way by capturing three important stations. ' ' ' But the iinost deadly fighting was reported to the south along the S vir river where, the early morning supplement to the , Rus sian communique said, one soviet unit alone killed 1450 of the ene my. A':;. - In addition ' many . prisoners were taken as the red army broke down the Finns' resistance, ex panded their bridgehead' to a depth of at least six miles on the north bank of the Svir, and cap- (Continued on page 2) Japs in China Advance Fast CHUNGKING, June 22 - (JF) -Japanese troops driving swiftly southward along the Siang river have reached a point only 33 miles north of Hengyang, a Chinese communique said tonight, and the high command admitted that the threat to this strategic rail junc tion was becoming more grave by the hour. , . -'V . Chinese defenders met the in vaders at Shiwan, about eight miles northeast of Hengshan, Siang river town just 25 miles north of Hengyang. The Japanese now are advanc ing along a 60-mile front south of fallen Changsha. The Chinese war bulletin admitted the fall of Siang- siang yesterday morning. This town, which fell to the Japanese right wing,; is 55 miles north of Hengyang, and the enemy now is sdvancing all along the front from Eiangsiang in the west to points south of captured Chuchow and Lilino, east of the Siang river, in the all-out drive to split China in t .vo and prepare for offensive and defensive action in the event of American landings on the China Soviet Troop inr!TYFOUBTH YEAB Infantry Attacks After Bombardment BPlanArMllery: . By. James r SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALUED- EXi PEDltlONARY FORCE, The final massive assault online surrounded for tress of Cherbourg raged toward an explosive cli max today, with Lt. Gen. can -'-doughboys wrecking the last steel ring of suburban fortifications from the south with a gi gantic,- perfectly-timed' bardmentthe greatest man stronghold since the allies invaded; France June 6. - -.' ; . It was the last act of the spec tacular American drive which be gan on June 14, smashed bitter German opposition, sheared off the Cherbourg peninsula from the rest - of France, and : finally iso lated the great seaport i Unofficial reports reaching . here shortly after S a.m. (9 pan, Thursday, EWT) said the Ame rican assault troops had poshed to the sea both east! and west of Cherbourg. Exact locations were not given, and headquar ters had not official confirma tion, bat lt was said this : de velopment was regarded as : ; likely., ; ; v ;, -, - - - v -; :With an air of expectant con- veratism, the allied midnight com munique dealt with the battle only in vague, gaMeJterii&s; and then i turned to an account of Thursday s widespread aerial operations. -; In them there was more than .'a hint that the Germans were resigned to Cherbourg's loss and were preparing- for the next asid . greater phase of - the Invasion, (Continued on page 2) Allies Clear Implial Road SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Cey lon, Friday, June 23 -(tfV Allied forces, pressing - a counter-offen sive to drive the Japanese invad ers' from northeastern India, have cleared enemy troops from the Imphal-Kohima road in Manipur state, reports from the front said Earner headquarters had an nounced that a junction could be expected shortly ' between one column of British troops : driving south from Kohima and another pushing north from Imphal. 'The two columns then were said to be about 10 miles apart. - i , Kohima is about 65 miles north of Imphal. R establishment of di rect overland communications be tween the two bases represented an important success In the allied counter-offensive. An allied communique 'yester day said the enemy forces be tween Imphal and Kohima ' had been surprised by the rapid move ment of allied troops and had abandoned much equipment in their retreat Marion Falls Goal in War Marion county is $1,800,000 be hind its goal for today in the fifth war loan campaign. Bond Invest ments i for the period stand - at $750,000. - Lagging behind the state and the nation and behind Multnomah county, Marion county bond pur chasers must take a bitch in their belts, perhaps in their vacations and recognize : the fact that the heaviest sacrifices are still - being made across two oceans, Douglas Yea ter, county war finance com mittee chairman, said Thursday night - . " . It When the state drive was 18 per cent complete ana wax oi Multnomah county 1 18 per , cent complete, Marion county had 12 per cent of . its quota, Yeater pointed out These comparative averages, figured Wednesday, had not changed materially Thursday. Yet, individuals and industries continue .to go over the top. The lumber division of the Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. is expected to reach- that rerilied atrr.:';here 18 PAG3 M. Long Friday, Jun 23 ( AP)S Omar Bradley's r Ameri artillery and aerial bom onslaught against; a Ger O ;j ; 1 Yaiiks Capture gamco nve ROME, June 22-(A3)-American troops , driving upi the west coast of Italy have overcome stiff Ger man resistance and captured the town of Paganico,il4 miles north east' of Grosse and less than 60 miles from the Pisa-Flprence- Ri- min defense line along which the nazil 'ar expected to make their final stahd below the Alps, allied headquarters announced today. On i the Adriatic coast Eighth army .forces raced; into Fermo, 32 miles j from the Jmportant port of Ancdna and approximately 85 miles! from Rimini. Thus for the first time since Rome fell the pur suing allied armies were strung out on almost a straight east-west line ; across the Italian peninsula and the Germans appeared to have escaped any danger of a whole sale entrapment of their forces, r Thirty r five miles east of the captured fortress city of Perugia, Eighth army " units J approached Camerino ; through increased : Ger man artillery and mortar fire. , (Continued on page 2) Quick Revival Of Port Due WASHINGTOnJ June 22-iJpy-A quick rehabilitation of the great port ?of Cherbourg to; swell the flow Of supplies to allied invasion forces' was forecast today by Sec retary of War Stimson. ; . - Envelopment of -the port at the end of the Cotentin peninsula cap ped the "Striking Advances" of al lied; troops in Normandy during the past seven days, j he told a news conference, and the city has become ' a trap for elements ; of three nazl divisions who are de molishing the port; facilities. , "However,w he said,' fanny and navy I engineers have- been con fronted before now with problems of extraordinary wreckage and have brought order out of ruin in comparatively short periods " 6f Ume. i Far Behind Bond Drive where a few industries are perch ed at its rally scheduled for 11:30 o'clock this morning. P ? 1 Gene Vandeneynde, cities chair man, twhd stirred; radio listeners Thursday L noon with his simple story of the attitude of an immi grant boy from Belgium who has grown to manhood appreciating his American citizenship and free dom, will speak at the OP&P ral ly, which! is to be conducted by employes and Industrial Chairman Harry.! Collins with his assistants, John Stark and Al Brandt , v Communities outside : of Salem are, in the main,, ahead of the city, personnel at the bond office said Thursday. , : " George; rWadsworth, G er vals chairnxan, ' announced yesterday that bis district had purchased 40 per cent of its quota and would reach Its goal by July 4. . At Mt LAngel, J. II. Fournier, chairman, 'revealed this week that the town's quota of $ 123.C0O will be raised and will; be epplled for (Continued en 2) City In Italy D Colem. Oregon. Berlin's Women and Children . -4-. : According to commentary accompanying this scene from a German film it shows women and chil dren being removed by boat from Berlin to escape allied bombings ef the city. The film was re ceived in New York from Lisbon. (AP Wirepboto.) - ' 1 ! 6000 A Hied Warplanes Scorch Nazi-Hel&France WUUa 8000 By AbSTIN i SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,; Friday, June 23 -P-At least 6000 allied warplanes scorched German-held France bombs, rockets and bullets Thursday in dawn to dusk attacks, giving the closest support to the invasion armies since the libera tion of France began. The assaults were continued on through, the night by the RAT. an official Bri - tish announcement disclosed this morning, but the bulletin did not indicate the targets, saying merely that enemy-occupied territory had . been bombed.! ; - ' . ... , : The total amount of explosives dropped by the daylight " raiders yesterday probably was more than 8000 tons. . :? With reportf on some missions still to be announced, - lt . was.', disclosed that 23 allied planes, including 11 heavy bombers and two mediums were lost and six German planes were shot down.' More than 1000 US medium and light bombers' and fighter-bombers pounded the last wall of nazi fortifications separating American ground tropos from the Cherbourg waterfront i ? i Arennd 1,00ft American Flying Fortresses and r Liberators and ;: hnndreds of RAF Lancasters . and Halif axes which roared out In mldafternoon for the first time since 1142, were among other aircraft threwsi Inte the gigantic operations. . Nazi rocket! bomb platforms were targets of the heavy bombers in a one-two punch. However, the Germans were ; sending the " robot bombs over southern England in a steady procession again early to day ; ; . ; - - '; . Just before dark . Marauders, Havocs and Thunderbolt fighter bombers of the US Ninth air force raided Alderney island, eight miles west of Cap de La Hague, near the tip of. the i Cherbourg penin sula, and German field headquart ers, fuel dumps and-railroads far behind the front ' . Catching the strong German garrison ef Alderney by sur prise, the ; Americans . dropped ' bembs on- a chain f run posi tions and barracks before m single shot .was fired at them. The bland Is four tulles leag and a half mile wide. A nazl headquarters at Baron, six miles southwest of Caen, was : (Continued on page 2) ' War Casualties Total 225, 382 ul WASHINGTON, June 22-fD The war on all fronts has brought 1:3.677 easualUes to the army and 46,765 to the navy. . iThe army casualties cover a pc iod throe i h Ju-e 6; the navy total Is en the basis of a report made public today. The total of cf 225,332 far both servl es Is aa increase ef 8251 over figures a enounced te weeks ar. Ttla Increase ir.dsies casualties suf fered en t. e first day of the In Ttsicn ct E-rrre. Friday Morning. June 23. 1844 ssaa t ' t Bomb Tons j - , BHALMeXk: from Cherbourg to .Paris with O Congress Set For Recess WASHINGTON, June 22-jp) Congress finished work; tonight on most of its accumulated approprl ation bills and prepared to recess tomorrgw until August 1. Although a last-minute hitch delayed final. action on the $49,- 000,000,000 war department supply bill for 1945,' senate and house both worked late to send five oth er money measures to President Roosevelt " With only the big 'war-financ ing bill and a catch-all deficiency appropriation left on the calendar, Senate Majority Leader: Barkley announced he -would 1 introduce a formal resolution for an adjourn ment starting Friday and continu ing through both the 'republican and democratic national conven tions, to August 1. . I ' There had been some agitation for a longer recess . until 7 Labor day, Barkley told reporters it .was decided 'that "we ought to come back 'August 1 and have another look at things; if nothing is press ing then we might recess again." The recess resolution; will carry a provision permitting either ; the majority or minority, leaders of both houses to call congress back into session in an emergency. ; Crew of Seaplane ."' . si To Par I Wage Increases "NEW YORK, June 22-KP)-From i somewhere at sea, a communica tion signed "the crew of the USS Coos Bay," a seaplane tender, and offering "to help pay the wage in crease money-hungry strikers are demanding," today aroused labor leaders to vigorous rebuttaL, ,. -; Making the point that wage de mands were not involved in' the strike to which the Coos Bay let ter specifically referred, two la bor leaders' contended organized labor is dcing. its utmost to curb all stoppages and keep production rolling. One asserted newspaper publishers were creating a "deep feeling of antagonism between la bor and the armed forces." " The Cocs Eay letter was ad dressed to the editorial depart ment of the Associated Press at Cm Francisco, sr. 3 i"c!:::3 v DO'S Evacuated US Force 58 Probably Has 20 Carriers WASHINGTON, June 22-VP) Possibly a, score of the newest and biggest American aircraft carriers are assigned to task! force 58, re vealed by the navy today as his- torys most powerful, and destruc tive naval unit" I f This was disclosed tonight by Rear Admiral Arthur W. Rad ford, acting deputy chief of naval operations for air, f In describing the giant force which routed the Japanese east of the Philippines Monday. M. ' " ;:"" r - "We can safely assume," he said in a broadcast, "that most of the 22 big new carriers commissioned since Pearl Harbor: have . been operating as part of the vast task force 58," ' -: . ; , - - The ; navy announcement- said that in addition to carriers,: the force . was made of battleships, cruisers and destroyers. It has been ' given. "the entire Pacific ocean to thes gates of Japan. a its stamping . ground," .the navy Said. .. w - ; I r ' Definite figures on the big force are not givenf but the navy said that in 'the six months since its secret, organization i It h a 1 i versed" the direction: of traffic in the Pacific ocean." H ' - : One Indication' of its size Is giv en in the navy's statement that a Japanese pilot saw the force "scat tered over the sea ; as far; as his eyes could peer" and when cap tured shortly thereafter, reported that "one look at task force 58 convinced him that Japan had lost the war, -. i - ' 1 - National Bond Sales ' Total $1,217,000,000 . WASHINGTON, June , 22 War bond purchases by individuals totalled $1217,000,000 ; through Wednesday, ninth day of the fifth war loan, the treasury announced today. This was a little more than 20 per cent of the $6,000,000,000 quota for individual! included in the total goal of flS.OOO.OOO.OOO. , - $412 in paper money. The letter requested that .the . Associated Press "act as our agent to buy off the present strikers of the Wright Aircraft corpora tion.? The letter. stamped "passed by naval censor," began "we, the crew of the USS Coos Bay" and ended with a post script reading "If the Wright strike is over, just choose another (for the distribution of the $12.) There are always plenty at hand." It was signed "the: crew, of the USS Coos Bay", and j appealed to workers In war plants not to strike. It; called strikers "money hungry" and said "We are willing to help pay the wage increase from our meager pay . . J if they will just continue to produce the im plements necessary so that we can end this war." ; t 'l ; The money enclosed consisted cf three $1C? tills, five Tender Pries) Se OH ' !jLlQCaLli)(lLU5g Yanks Send 4 Nip Boats to Bottom. Lose 49 Aircraft . : I By The Associated Press ' - : ;;- . ; ius : pAanc fleets headquarters, Pearl Harhor, June 22-(AP) -Carrier aircraft of the US fifth fleet sank or damaged 14 ships of a powerful Japanese naval force between the Philip pines and the Marianas islands Monday before the enemy fled in darkness. : , - " : , , Results of the battle', which did not bring com bat snips together nor involve the imperial grand fleet, were announced today, by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. L . . O SEATTLE, June 22-MP-The 12th regional war labor board an nounced tonight it had been ad vised the national WLB had again rejected pleas of Pacific northwest lumber workers for ' wage in creases. A request for a night shift dif ferential was left open for nego tiation, the regional spokesman said. ::... i -r , i. Last month vktuall the" entire Pacific, northwest lumber Industry was shut 'down when some 30,000 Workers went on an unofficial strike in protest against the WLB decision denying them wue ' in creases requested to bring lumber workers wages up to that of northwest war workers. - The strike! was ended when the WLB agreed! to rehear the cases. Don Gallagher, secretary . of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Work ers local, predicted, when advis-' ea oi ine aecision, lumber worx- ers would .diemand a Jesal strike vote u n d e r. the Smith-Connally act He said a number of the mem bers had favored taking a strike I vote , at the time the previous strike was called of f. VTe are going to lose lots of men from the industry," he added. "They won't' go on working when they can get more elsewhere."" WASHINGTON, June' 22-P) The war, labor board (WLB) to day reaffirmed its directive of May 17 denying a general 1 wage increase for approximately-130,000 workers 1 employed by 77 i Pacific northwest pine and fir lumber operators. Labor members of, the board dissented. . . : j '-5'"'-" Dexter M. Keezer, public mem ber and author of the board's 16 page majority opinion, said the board found "no convincing evi dence" ; that a general wage in crease would solve the industry's manpower problem and would, on the . other hand,7 have "powerful potentialities : toj uhstabilize the structure of the j Pacific wage coast and some very: real, poten tialities for. doing the same thing nationally . i ; r The board also upheld previous directives "of the west coast lum ber commission, with minor ex cepUons.. The directives extended (Continued on page 2) . ' . of Strikers . one $10 bill and one $2 bill. The Associated Press forwarded it to James V. Forrestal, secretary cf the navy in Washington, who read the crew's letter and said "no com ment' The letter evidently referred to an unauthorized: strike which be gan June 5 at the plant; of the Wright - Aeronautical corporation at Lockland, O, . near . Cincinnati. The' strike ended June 9. The is sue was the transfer of seven ne groes into a department i of the plant which previous had "only white workers. Local 647, ; United Automobile Workers (CIOl, rep resents the workers for bargain ing purposes. From the beginning cf the walkout, officials cf the un ion ur c4 the strikers to return, and. vigorously . condemned the i-rrV r-T'. WLB Rejects' LumberWage Raise Request Send Money No. 81 The enemy broke off . the en- : gagement after nightfall. By then one of his carriers of the Hayata- ka class and three fleet tankers had been sunk. Ten other vessels, including three carriers and battleship of the Kongo class, were damaged. : s Other Nipponese ships! reported damaged were : a cruiser,' three destroyers and two tankers. One of the destroyers was believed to ' have sunk. The tankers were se verely damaged and left burning. American leases 1 were 49 planes. Many ef these made wa- ter landings at night Some pi- ' lets and crews "appeared te have been rescued," Nlznlts said, and search was continued for theifc-:'':,:, -V.i'i' " - ' ; Between 15 and 20 enemy planes -f - w r destroyed. That brought Japanese . aircraft losses in two : days to between 368 and 373. Nim itz f said revised reports showed 353, were shot down Sunday when Carrier-types planes attacked American warships : near Saipan island in the preliminary stages of the battle. - ;' " '. Two United States carriers and T (Continued on page 2) , ' V1'1 Slug England Again Today f LONDON, Friday, June 23-UP) After a lull of several hours, Ger " man flying bombs buzzed over southern England one right after another early today. ; The Germans threatened to use . 'new monster explosives against which counter-measures Will be virtually impossible", on both Britain and the allied west front armies, but so far as is officially known this was just talk, i - Air defense authorities said nazl flying bombs which fighter pi lots:1 knocked down in increasing numbers on the coast before they could penetrate inland still were of one-ton size with a top speed of 300 to 350 miles an hour and a range of -150 miles.',. The British announced there was enemy activity over southern England during the day and "dam age; and casualties were report ed." The exact nature of the ac- tivity was not brought out A transocean proDaganda broad cast from. Berlin said the robots are now made stronger through Incendiary as well as " high ex plosive" content . ' , ; Several other secret weapons wlU U PPed shortly," it said. ... . I ,r Jrremium lyas WiUBeCut WASHINGTON. June 22-UIV. Civilians will get only ! 40 per cent of the present supply of pre mium - gasoline starting -next month. Interior; Secretary Harold L. I ekes announced today. ' - The reason netraethyl lead, 'one of the most important Items In Our arsenal," is being increas ingly used tor military purposes. Tetraethyl lead is used In . 100- octane aviation gasoline as well as premium motor fuel. . - : Ickes said the total civilian gasoline; supply will not be re duced because refineries will be permitted to make, more regular gasoline to compensate for the limitation on the better quality ", product ;.;; I " ' Ickes explained '.that in effect the order merely erases the in creased ss!e cf premium gascllna since the .war began, and puts r re duction back to the level c : -ust, 1342. . '- ; 3 V -