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12 PAGES Salem, Orecjonu Saturday Morning, June 24. '1844 Itf ct Se- f-f n NINETT-F0U3TH YEAH 1 ;7 v?::;-rx: mm COM ULU v . " j -... ' i-. - - - -. i , -. - " f - ttrwi lii street, ABMrieu niUiUrr. fUc' MMt Uwa f TrlTlcrt aftr adTtneln Armies kd kwepi th towB with arttUcry flrt. (AP Wlrhto Bficker dhfmeht ; ' : ' By D. HAROLD OLIVER " I T CHICAGO, June 23-(P-Supporter of Gov.- T h mat E. Dewey for th-epublican presidential nomination claimed "iub i stantial" additions to their cause today, but heard a manager for Gov. John WBricker call their -draft" move a jokt; and pre : diet Bricker'i nomination on the third or fourth ballot. -.1 . Backers of Lt. Coradr, Harold E. Stassen also asserted Stas- ' " ' '" '' O Travel Letter Wl . Leaving WashingtonrJune 21 Being that rarest of visitors to 'Washington, t an individual A bent on no business or political errand, I did not rush up to the capitol to solicit the - help or advice of senators and congressmen. But v this morning I did call on mem bers of Oregon delegation! Sen ators Holman t and Cordon and Representatives Mott, Stockman, Angell and Ellsworth, finding, all of them except Congressman Mott, who was attending a com mittee hearing. They were all hoping that the congress can suc ceed with its present plan to ad journ Saturday ( in time for the republican convention),; and then the Oregon delegation and their families will head for Oregon. With agreement at hand on the extension of price control, about all that remains to be cleaned up 1 are some of the appropriation bills so various departments will ' have money to run on after July 1. Adjournment will probably be till August 1, and then if nothing . x f ia. r it l.wi V. ureem arises n wm viwavij w rnntlniiiu) inntW nuinth! as it was .last year. Con eressman - Mott i plans to "have his office in Salem again during the recess. . I heard, him last night taking part with others In a radio forum on the highly controversial proposal to combine the war and navy departments. Mott's contention was that we have attained an effective unity now and he doubts if anything 1 more could be accomplished by a stalutm-v consolidation. Others arcucd it would make for more efficient and more economical ad -ministration, on a permanent ba lis. Mott is on the naval affairs committee. Ellsworth is trying to get committee approval of v the bill to transfer lien lands of the O & C grant to the interior de partment (Continued on editorial page.) , x Off' A g Board Decides Against Oregi on State Fair in 1944 No state fair will be held in Oregon In 1944. This announce ment was made Friday afternoon by E. L. Peterson, director of the state department of agriculture and of the state fair. He said the state board of agriculture,' at its. session this week, carefully considered every angle to the question of holding a fair this year nd reached the conclusion that . . -. ' .... a lair unaer ; present -cumuuuira. , The board members and the di rector feel that If a fair were held T 13 fall it would be only a glorl . ; I . rrrniv-l, . Director Peterson adw..- that . several,; other f ctors strongly , influenced ' the " cision, iaost'of them the ame as those that prevailed last year v hen the fair was blacked out in f. a interest of the war effort No c .r-Iete fair has been held s;nce I'll. Tl-.a amy recently rcnewej lis j -- cn"a i rt cf t fairgrounds ' i tt t'-.s present tlx e other J' rrYfu-mi r -t- r "Til i ti MUicr ttitidMi Mt In UM'MM41vC h UkTr the Froch Nwaui; frm dpil Mm) , J sen was in the race to the finish and that he would not take a vice- presidential nomination. - As platform-makers far the eeareBttea pening Moaday r eehred a variety t rprtpmet fatelfa and domestie planks, all -factions seemed te aaree that key states soeh as Pennsylvania, -. California, and niinoia may hold the answer to the party's choice. Those delegations citroIlin 179 of , the , convention's 1057 Totes will eaaevs Sunday and Monday. J. Russel Sprafue, New York national - committeeman and a draft Dewey"; leader,, said there has been, "very substantial addi tions to. the list of leaders from 22 ; states, he announced yesterday as naving volunteered to neip nominate the New Yorker. He did not name the new states the . re ported aid came from. ' Ken. Clarence J. Brown, of Ohio, floor manacer for Brick er, arrhred and hotly dispated the claims of the Dewey forces that the New Yorker wilt be nominated the first or see end ballot "This draft move to me is rath er a Joke," Brown told - a-' news conference. "Before we co to buy - (Continued on page 2) , Civilian Rail Travel Jolted. : WASHINGTON, June 23-- Railroads were authorised by the office of defense transportation today , to "bump civilian travel ers from trains when space Is needed to transport wounded service men. , -, - "e froeff ajso auuMwues M w aisconunue passensw train service wnere j necessary, With increasing .frequency - this summer, ODT ; officials ..said, ; It will be necessary to cancel reser vations and tickets and to forbid the boarding of trains by any pas-1 sengers except invalid troops and their, attendants. ; -?h : In a report to CoL' Monroe; for carrying troops from port, to hospitals, J. J. FeUey, president Railroads, said: "The railroads will see to it htat the necessary j sleeping car. space is available, regardless of any interference j with other traffic which may re-J suit" . ' ' it was not justified in authorizing - tiating for enlarged uses of the property, chiefly, for storage pur poses. As the war moves to the west coast, the : fair group feels that further war uses of the grounds may be expected. ' Other reasons entering into the Qccibioa were; - - 1. Lack of time and labor and heavv financial investment in - volved to restore the grounds and buildings to shape for a fair. 2. Farmers are already short cf labor and the fcir, if he'd, would jeopardize furtL:r the harvesting (Continue! ca r:r; 2) S Wtet ' Omen Summer Vt Mbb : Annotinces t. Huge : ( t Ml V .) Losses - Inflicted - on . Nazis r : As Westivard Push l: Starts : t. ; k iyinUSSELL CLANDSTW)M 'r: XLOWDON? &turdr Jnne 24 (AP)--" red army cxaslied Jnto Chermaa lines on i of VitebeV ia . whit t ' Russia y peettd soviet summer offensive, t and - early .today Moscow announced that enormous , losses'' nave - been -Inflicted on t. . The westward onslanght,' which the German radio said actually opened on Thorsday, third anniversary of the naii's declaration of ,wrra;itinstRa8sia was on' a' mighty scale with; artillery and aircraft, joininf in hours of terrifie bom bardment before the infantry O - " 7 started forward , "in the wake of a wall f fire,t. a supplement, to the Russian communique stated. The red troops struck north west and southeast of Titebsk, near the center ef the 2000-mile , long eastern, front,-and fat the first day gained nearly 10 miles and liberated more than 151 lo calities. I i I&: a series of broadcasts the Germans said there! were at least four major -areas of attack along a 240-mile 'front on both sides of the Vitebsk hinge ' position, and left ncl doubt that they regarded the Russian drive as the long ex pected big offensive from the east t The1 nightly Moscow comma nique, recorded la London by ; the i Soviet monitor annoaneed that "daring Jane 22 northwest and southeast Vitebsk; oar.' ; troopa'.;.aapportedtrby -'massedi blows from artillery .and a via-, ties; went ever to tb offensive agabut I the German fascist ' troops," and listed these imme dlate gains thronrh heavy enemy '.. fortlfieaUons: Seven and one-half to nine and one-half miles on a 19-mile-wide froni; j&orthwest of j Vitebsk, with more than 100 towns taken; and gains of five to six miles on a 1ft- mile-wide front southeast of Vi tebsk, : with more than 50 towns freed. 1-1 j -' i.i -The railway between Vitebsk and Orsha, SO miles to the south, has been , eat with capture of Zamostoche, 14 miles; sooth of Vitebsk.! and two railway sta tions 1 on j the Vitebsk-Polotsk-line to the northwest are among the captured places, Including the large one of Sirotino 27 miles northwest of Vitebsk. L " The i White Russian front, pos sibly the; most important of any on the east so fari as defense of the Nazi reich itself is concerned, ! has 1 been quiet since February. fnnnWinffW; tmn mtf r f;tr which carried the Russians to but not through the defensive positions which the ' Nazis frankly caU the ln "oi eastern door. hkee Subs Sink 16 More Enemy Ships 1 0J lL .te7.LT,J closed today in a navy announce ment that; roving American sub marines have destroyed -16 more enemy ships, including IS cargo vessels and a naval auxiliary. ; The report came? out almost si mulUneously, with; an' expression of regret from President Roosevelt that, the Nipponese war fleet fled instead of j accepting battle to the finishj after losing heavily in long-range a e r i a r engagement with a US task force east of the Philippines this week. The president observed that it is a difficult thing to destroy fleet thai has tun away. No t indication was given of Where the submarines scored their latest victories. Bui they have act- ed ai a 1 vanguard of American fleets in i all actions and have prowled the coast lines of Japan beating dpwn vital supply vessels. , Thelnewest bag Includes 11 me dium cargo vessels, four small cargo carrying ships and a medium-sized naval auxiliary hot otherwise identified. ' I VT .1 WeaiKCr 1 t laxl: . !.... .11. 2 C - tt degrees; 'ml2.I;':ra Hi no pre efpitfitloa; river -.17 ft. ; Ti t Zzizr'i-s : l Izr.Hj ex ttr. farii:-Lt s!.: wet! cf Ciiscs. I:s i ::s cv:r tr) i v. :.t i two side of the fortified city esterda c?nhz;tht kn Flight in Italy To Make Stand ROME, June 23 - Pi - German forces -have halted their flight in central Italy; and- are- making bitter . stand (against . the allied Eighth army I on -- .both sides ' of Lake . Trasimeno,-about 85 miles north and slightly west of Rome, field dispatches reported today. (A broadcast by CBS said the nazis - bad . counter- attacked strongly and, recaptured the town of ; Chiusi, nine miles southwtst of Lake .Trai'meno and 23 mns southwest of Perugia.) Heavy rains early in the week gaye the Germans a much-needed breathing spell in which to re organize and strengthen their de fenses at the center of the line, and it appeared they would not be thrown into retreat again un til the Eighth; army could gather tself and attack in force. C Today's allied communique said the Eighth was meeting "strong resistance,' both north and north west of Perugia and at the south west corner of Lake Trasimeno, where several; enemy counter-at tacks had been repulsed. " On the two wings the allied ' (Continued on page 2) Thousand Allied Gum Pounding Cherbourg LONDON, Saturday, Jane 24 -)-The German radio said early today that the Cherboarg fortress had bees posnded for the last 24 bears by a thousand allied cans ef all calibres In the most powerful artillery barrage on the invasion front so far. The broadcast bx Transoeean, nasi news aseney,' said . that aerial bombing . had been go liir on . almost . wtthoat . Inter ruption. .. :., ' y '."Taking Into consideration this enormous concentration of material, the resistance of the German " defender who ai aametically far inferior Is ex traordinary,'', the broadcast said. NdiiohahCliampw I T : i Ec'rr!r.r natlir.il eitrrrlca Li all .. irinro kero l ti ! stare's I tr Can vgt)Xrriry.bcr.l tt":t e Ixlnaaa. At I.IIes -Ilailia's Iz'.t s!a&s Ecrnlce Waltersv wtSe A. ; n. j-"' ; t:'.'r.tt t'"-::t tt t!..3.V..re, f.":s Uz'.Zt Ca fr:r?. TTsItcrs Is eitlrcsn f tie c : 'T I r I 5 f i t:jtr i t:r, it; Led Attach f ' ' ' 14 i 3s J V.-, Vice Adm. t Mare A. f Mltscher (above) commands j the carrier force of the US . Fifth : fleet which - sorprised s - Japanese fleet " between the j Philippines and Marianas, slaklac - at least fear of their ships. Including as aircraft carrier. (Ar Wlrephoto) l7VTii::W J V fc I, Plane Carrier niili IT.. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, June 23-P)-Japan's naval defeat in the Philippines sea vaulted to crush ing proportions today when it was disclosed officially that one of her biggest and newest aircraft car riers probably was sent to the bot torn by a submarine, f V'S ir l i. (The carrier was of the Shokaku class, probably a 28,000 ton, 815 foot long warship); - ' The announcement, of Ad. Ches ter W. Nimitz, made in" a com munique, also - listed ' the definite sinking of a destroyer." That made the score of the June 18-19 action , Definitely sunk a Hayataka class carrier, a destroyer and three tankers. (5). ' ' ' Probably sunk a Shokaku class carriei1. (1). Damaged A Hayattaka class carrier: "left burning- furiouslyf a Zuitkaka class carrier, hit with three 1000-pound bombs; a. light carrier, hit by two aerial bombs a Kongo-class' battleship) a cruis er; two destroyers and two tank ers. (8),- : ' - : In addition, the Japanese lost more than 360 carrier planes.: Two US carriers and a battle ship sustained superficial damage and lost 70 planes. ; f-. :. ' ; K" (Continued on page 2) - JL3L. V i rc ;y tcr.l ci-tcsis'fer 1C13,' 1 alV.r.sxt l-i n.:"i X7tr Lc.;i -3 C Ivt I :rs. 1. s Lci::a f:l cf t! s t rriry's t.ire here c - - i:r ProbablvS i f " 1 1 1 errmc ? MitsvEasi, X PITTSBURGH, June ti-iJt) Mors than; 80", persont .were reported killed .- tonight by s terrifie windstorm of .tomadw 10m uii twuiea inrougn southwestern . P n n s y I -Tin! s" and' north central West 'VJfginia." f f ; , Hundreds were madVTiome- less as many dwellings "were de molished. Hospitals were over crowded wlht the 'InjuredV , Uih rooted -trees blocked 'scene high way;, and power and communica tion facilities were impaired.- V Striking at nightfall, the storm lasted but about IS minutes as It skirted Pittsburgh, hitting suburb an communities to the south and east and sweeping down into West Virginia. Areas 100 miles south of Pittsburgh were affected, , -, - The heaviest toll was report ed at Shinnstoa. WVa and nearby communities, where at least 27 were known dead aad ambulance drivers reported "the worst Is yet to come." as they brought fat the easaaltles. ', Late reports showed 88 killed as follows:: In West IVirginia 50: at McKeesport, Pa 10; at Greene county, Pa, 22; Washington coun ty, Pa, 2; Indiana county. Pa. 2. llaay . persons la j the ' storm described It aa s "twister.- ac companied by a f onnel-shaped cload which tore f an' emtio path of destractien over farms and towns. ' : . t . Early report showed more than 200Tpersons injured as the wind cut a swath, through three ; West Virginia counties, leveling homes by the dozen. 1 i. -i Ambulance drivers, there, fran tically trying to get Over blocked roads - up - Shinn'f run, near Shinnston, said they had reports or bodies along the roads. Scores of those In jared In rennsylvaala were in hospitals In McKeesport, Waynesborg, . (Continued on page 2) . Slap England i LONDON," June 53 -(-German' rocket 'bombs exploded in south " England tonight for the ninth! straight nig h t,a causing deaths and damage ! and under scoring :'a' warning to parliament by - Home Secretary j Herbert - S. Morrison that "It . may be these attacks have " not f yet reached their peak. ' A f .;- 1 ! f Morrison - today. ? gave parlia ment authoritative 'word that up to now the robot bombs are do ing "little damage 1 of national importancen and killing fewer people than did the nasi's light air raids in February. . An implied threat that the fly ing bomb and other secret wea pons of which German propagan da has hinted, would be used else where came today' from- Martin Von ; Hallensleben', commentator. , . nazi radio - !!y Czrlaa cf tht eosirany's &!ea t::i IZru V7. XL Anderson, 'Arser ry lis ctr.Jct?! a tc'.5 - z"y .slace" Ju'.y ef 1312, setUsg a lornaao aiaEeei Break .(iTiians Piit Captur IXNTKW. Jmo t-X)-Tfce Gorman c. trotted Parip radio ' breadcast today' that: bsportaat ille& naval-forcea Jutve 4asded new troops east of tkeOrno river La. Normandy. 11 .' " - There-waa ne alllod ooailrmatioa of this roport. ; '-' V The Orse river as near the casters ead ef the allUd Veackhead. . . By James BL Long L. PEDmONA J FORCE, -American troops man Cherbourg, line on the city last night and also closed in iwiftly from the east after capturing a key hill position near Tourlaville, a mile outside France largest port Cherbourg's fall appeared to be near despite heavy resistance by thousands of German troops who have been ordered to die by their guns or be : 1 . 1 "! : " " . Oshot for cowardice. RAF Bombers Out in Force EuriiigPJiglif " SUP REM E HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Saturday,! June 2-(JF) RAF, heavy bomber in great strength ranged over France last night and early today, continuing the allied aerial assault which has subjected, the Normandy ; battle zone and naii targets beyond to almost continual punishment for more than 36 hours. -; ; - j : Big waves of British bombers roared : across the channel as darkness fell last night, heading In a southerly direction toward France, and the! ' Paris ""radio" broke off Its broadcasting In the middle of a midnight program.'"- -Another RAF iorce.waa heard crossing the Dover Strait at about midnight :s: 'Ji tX The night attacks by the RAF followed up a series of daylight blows by American planes against nazi communications beyond' the front lines and" the rocket coast of Pas-de-Calais. US Fortresses and Liberators swept into France twice during the day to climax the assault ; i i- i; j ;,:" X'''A::'' The new campaign i to disrupt the "flow of German reinforce ments and supplies "to the front lines in ; Normandy was pushed .- - (Continued on page 2) ; Eden Brands Prison Killing Mass Murder LONDON, June! 23-(5):-ForeIgn Secretary Anthony Eden," disclos ing' to any angry, house of com mons the official German report on the killing of 50 allied airmen after a prison camp break in Ger many last March, today rejected the nazi explanation and branded the Incident, a mass murder. He pledged that Britain would track down and ; bring; to justice ; the "foul criminals' involved. t The killings were first revealed last month in a neutral Swiss re port which told of 47 deaths. The official German ! report, raising the toll to 50, said that all were shot resisting arrest or trying to make a break after their capture. . In -rejecting the German claims Eden said, the most significant wc:.kncc3 in the German :story v.-2s'tliat there Were no wound cd, s there wouid. have been in- cvjtrbly if the shootings had tak en place during an, attempt to re- skt cEpture." ; . : . "It is quite dear, Eden said. "that these officers were mur dered." . . ' : I- Flatly rejecting the German re port, : tne ioreijn secretary as serted that "the explanation now put forward by tne uem:n r;ov ernrsent Is in fact the ct. ::lcn cf an odious crime eainst the kws tzi convcstlcns cf vsr." Up: Dperate Shortly Saturday, June 24- broke through the Ger-' the soulliern outskirts of Official dispatches trailed de cisive field developments by hours and it was considered possible that ., the Yanks already had some pa trols probing into the dryvs outer rim. :;:y-;',-, ;:' A dispatch from ' Don'White head, Associated Preaa correspond dent with the Yank assault forcesj'7 said a breakthrough of the nail lines occurred between Mont Du poc and Octeville after American shock troops had been attacking the fortified Mont Du Roc, which is two and one-half miles outside Cherbourg near Nouainville. Octe ville is two mOes east of Nouain ville and the site of one of the huge forts guarding Cherbourg. Nazi lines were ripped open be fore :I5 p. m. (3:15 p. m. East ern war time). - j Other, American troops before this break eeesred had stormed aad eaptared ' another fortified hilltop only one mile east ef Cherboarg, and headquarters ' predicted Cherboarg's fsU was. near. . J The 1130 p. m. communique said "pressure on the Cherbourg defenses ia increasing,? and indi- cateo mat American troops were arming out swiftly over the en tire Barfleur promontory east of "1 (Continued on page 2) U Marion Bond j Piirckiises A H ! Near Million " As bond purchases in Marion county mounted toward one mil lion dollars with little more than a week left in which to raise the balance of the $5,477,000 mini- ' mum quota, "division . ami 1 com munity chairmen Friday began t tighten the reuv? ' - i Ti I Recalling that a roomful of fur niture boosted bond sales late in ' the" Fourth War Loan ' campaign. arrangements were made before the: beginning of this one tr give every : buyer an' opportunity .to participate in the big prize award. So a ticket for the 1941 Chev rolet -sedan contributed -by a group of Salem automobile deal- ' purchased since .the beginning 'of ' the campaign. " v...;; r , "You , can't buy a car today at least, most of us common mor tals can'teo why not tuck away , In war bonds the' extra money you are making and even some that' is not so extra, to be used to buy one of those super-deluxe cars of postwar years?" Douglas Yeater, . Marion county war fi nance committee chairman, tug-. gested Friday.-He added that the priire offered will meantime pro vide comfortable and inexpensive Stclcm Housewife STiUiili in Casement i A Salem housewife Friday call ed the local fire department by telephone and said there was a skunk in her basement She askrj the firemen to get lt cut , Firernen referred the woman tj Eat'.y Cocper, city sanitary fleeter, . '' . t c! :rv.