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Ievite;-;Al!";MepBHIcaii' s TTh e TV o W Vl eat ma n :i B By JACK BELL CHICAGO, June 29 -(p)- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey invited repub licans everywhere today to share the driver'i seat with him for the presidential campaign, pledg ing "joint decisions'! with ; Gov. John W. Bricker and welcoming any advice from Wendell L. Willkie. , , " At what he called.. the world's biggest new confer ence the GOP nominee " en dorsed tls party'i platform as "representing my vie wrs," de clined to join In cabinet pecu lation, defined his foreign pol icy stand and welcomed the ' "rapport of every goad Ameri can In th United States." . .Then he , went to work putting into effect what has emerged as a set policy of drawing the entire republican organization into the Inner councils of the campaign. He began conferences with : na tional conunittee members, state chairmen and other party leaders, including former President Herb ert Hoover."., - v Tentative plans were made today to have the nominee con fer some time after the demo- ' eratie convention, which opens ' July 19. with the other 25 re psblleaa gove mors. Gov. Dwlght Griswold of Nebraska , said the state executives would attempt to arrange with Dewey a program to- supplement In their states the work usually - performed by the national com-- mitteemea and state - chairmen. It wa likely the plan would be -presented to Dewey - before be leaves CaJcaae, .His day began with a breakfast conference with Gov. Bricker, his running mate;- Dewey said Brick er would share in all of the cam paign plans and would make with him all the decisions on major policy matters. ,;-' ' .' Bricker went home, to Columbus for a civic celebration there to night and Dewey planned to con sult with him by 'telephone, par ticularly over, the question, of fillr ing the national committee chair manship. The committee . delegat ed six of its members to consult Dewey on this- question. p There have been reports that the present chairman, Harrison Jt Spaagler, weald be placed in charge of the western cam-' paign, with. Herbert Brownell, ' jr., directing the national show. Spangler was one of a long line of visitors who streamed in and out of Dewey's suite. -Others in cluded Alf M. Landon, 1836 presi dential -candidate, and - Edgar Brown of the National Negro Council, Washington, DC " . ; In what his associates ' called unprecedented procedure, Dewey was ' conferring,' by - groups - of states at half hour intervals, with members, of the national commit tee and state chairmen and vice 'chairmen.'' -f'-- ' ' - He talked twice with a snb eommitlee ef the national eom - snlttee concerning the - party's national chairman, who prob ably will be named tomorrow by the full committee which Dewey has been Invited to ad dress Informally. - W; Ten mihutes late to his first news conference since he became the nominee, Dewey walked into a Stevens hotel ballroom where more than S03: persons. Including somo curious spectators, - bad gathered. The 'grinning governor, dressed In a light gray suit and appearing ..fresh despite . a hand shaking marathon that lasted well after midnight, posed politely for photographers. He -confessed that the size of the gathering left him "awestruck."'" Eitllrg ca a Ut!e aaJ tzlllzx at a cigaret la a six-inch hold er, Dewey covered a wide range' f issues as reverters pced questions at him ; from . every angle. Those In the rear of the crowded ballroom stood en chairs to see him better. . Declaring that the GOP plat form 'represent my views, the nominee- said It was longer than he bad desired, represented some compromises but was produced by "an un bossed convention." - He laid emphasis on Bricker's part in the campaign and said b wanted to talk to every member of the national committee and ev aw a44aa ViQirwion - "tTill TiUkie be Invited t .; take part in your strategy con ferences? be was asked. , "So far we have consulted only with . members . of ' the nation! committee, but later there will bo consultations with others," Dewey said. " - "Does that Include Willkie? reporter insisted. . : i "Certainly was the answer. la New York, Willkie had no corn merit . Weather , - o i r vm mm s ' If one reads through to the end of the republican platform (and -few do) he comes on this penulti mate paragraph: "The essential question at trial in this nation is whether men can organize together in a highly in '. dustrialized society, succeed,: and still be. frecTThat is the essential - question at trial throughout the ' world today." . ," ' A philosopher on . the resolu v tkms committee! And! a penetrat ! ing philosopher too. After, all the ; sawing and fitting of lumber to i snake . a party platform, this bit ; cf philosophic hardwood appears. At least it may be said that the republican ' resolutions-' recognize the central problem oi our tircjau preservation of freedom while we - .-develop the integration necessary - to industrialized organization. - , While the republican platform represents, no philosophic treatise, no effort to wosk out either a creed or a plan of action to effect ; a creed, in general it puts its em phasis on "freedom! The party i - both in its platform land In the " expressions of its leaders presents itself as a champion ; of freedom . from the' central state, from po litical domination of the details of ' living - (Continued - on Editorial page) ':;:.,:-;.'.-:....;;t;:..v;fvv h Wair : Fcr uc A Twelve hundred pounds of Steer beef are hanging; in .the. freezing lockers of ; t b e Valley Packing ! company, set aside for "the ; free barbecue at the Salem Fourth of July celebration but Valley Pack i Will not let the .beef go without . some 6000 ration points. It is donating the meat as, far as money cost is concerned, but cant donate the ration points. So ted! 6000 the Fourth of July celebration committee, , headed byj Cot. - Carle -i Abrams as general chairman, is t appealing to the public to con tribute enough red points to satis , fy the OPA demand. The points : may be left. in the receptacle pro- - vided for same at the bond head quarters in- the Breyman building r at Court and Commercial.! The bread for . Jhe barbecue' sandwiches is forthcoming, being donated by the Salem j Wholesale ; Bakers association composed of i the principal bakeries, and no ra- ' tion points are required for the l bread. Enough bread wjjl be pro vided to serve 6000 persons, so It the public will only come forward : with enough red ration! points 'for , the meat, the table will be set at Marion square next Tuesday noon. ' John Olson, commander of Capi . tal post of the American Legion, , King Bartlett and Harry Levy are the barbecue committee., " t The barbecue is only one fea ture of an all day celebration . which wUl start with a! parade at ; 10 a. m. A patriotic program wUl be given at 11. Jn the afternoon r - (Continued on page 2). Canned Peas, Asparagus Tomatoes to By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH ' WASHINGTON, June 29.-WV ' The office of price admsnistration tr ht ordered the restoration? of potAt values for. canned; peas, to rnatoes and asparagus,! effective Sunday, and dropped a broad hint Cat other vegetables now ration free may require points again toon. ;. :. - ' " ' V' OPA assigned a value of five points for No. 2 cans of peas and tomatoes. Asparagus goes : baick on1 the list at 10 points.! : " j : Price Administrator Chester Bowles said the changes; were in line Vith OPA'i earlier statement tuat pornt3 would be ; restored : n the remainder of the IS 43 was cleaned .up. Indicating t li e time, is near for placing r vf:i-bles b3ck, under ra- 12 siisd: . "V.e tre already getting into ' i rr.7 23 tO distribute this t cf canned veelablss t everyone an oppor t:3 i:::?. TiJs could v. i : V csnneJ' veseta- r in i'yv - r jsps-a in x ill' vj ii ii ii i NINCTY -FOURTlt TEAR r n n - r Disaster Overtakes Enemy Defenses In White Russiti By RUSSELL LANDSTROM , t ; LONDON, Friday, June 30 (AP) More than 111,000 German troops have been killed or captured in the fighting around Vitebsk and Bobruisk, the Russians announced to day, as terror and disaster overtook the nazi defenses in white Russia for what some BIoscow dispatches described as "the greatest defeat in histoy., Bobruisk, last German stronghold on the "fatherland line! in the east, fell to the Russians yesterday, and with it was, completed the liquidation of five encircled nazi infan try: divisions. f:':hs':''' " 'A-'-Ai:;--; vp'--' in this defeat, accomplished in two days of terrible fighting by the first ""White feossian army of Konstantin K. Rokossovsky, 10,000 Germans were: left dead on the battlefield and 18,000 were taken prisoner. p: For his triumph Rokossovsky has been promoted to a marshal of the soviet union, it was dis closed. V.-.:-:"' ' -' " . ;"' " Another 52,000 were killed and Z5.00 captured la the Vi tebsk area in the first four days ef the great summer offensive by the First "Baltic army and the : Third white Russian army, Mos cow also announced in a special : communique. Premier Stalin personally an nounced the capture of Bobruisk and also of Petrozavodsk, capital of the Karelian soviet republic, in two special orders of the day. ; . The liberation of Petrozavodsk, a c 1 1 y of 70,000 in peacetime, opened the railway to Murmansk, and was of such vast strategic im portance that Stalin ordered this victory saluteded by 24 ..salvos from 324 of Moscow's' big guns compared: with a barrage of 20 salvos from 224. guns in celebra tion of the taking of Bobruisk." . Petrozavodsk was freed by a deep encircling maneuver along with an amphibious landing of troops on the shores of Lake Onexhskee (Onega). This same advance by the Karelian army : of Gen, KyriU A. Meretskov al--so took the town and railway. - Junction of Kondapoga, SO miles farther north. ;'-:-y. " ' . Besides opening the direct rail route to the Arctic port of Mur mansk, through which the allies have been funneling supplies , to (Continued on page 2) Cost Points Other canned vegetables still ration-free are green and wax beans,1 beets, carrots, corn, spin ach and leafy greens. - " Other processed food changes for the period through July 29 in clude the return of brandied, spi ced and pickled fruits to ration ing. They get the same point values as other canned fruits. -'. Spaghetti sauce " and tomato sauce in eight-ounce containers are reduced a point, but vegetal ble Juice combinations, in 46 ounce cans gets a new value of five points, up from four. : , ? All canned fruits, still in short supply, retain their current high values, while all frozen 'fruits and vegetables remain ation-free. Indicating further that, most canned vegetables will be back under rationing, Curtis - Rogers, processed foods . rationing chief, said at a press conference that the supply for1 civilians will be 15 to 20 per cent less during the new pack year, commencing Saturday. Increased requisitions for the armed forces - have trimmed , the public's allotment, he said. 18 PAGES JooeH La u o j , c ' I w V .w. Uarkslnjous ".s----rrV--. ;?'''. . a. - ' Drive 5 Miles In Nazi Chase ' ROME, June 29 -VFighting in stifling heat and against inten sified German resistance, Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's American troops clubbed their way anothr five miles up the west Italian coast yesterday and captured the town Of Castagneto, 25. miles from the major port of Livorno (Leghorn). Another Yank column, plunging inland up highway 73, hurled the Nazis out of Monticiano and con tinued on within less than 12 miles of the communications center of Siena, 31 miles below Florence. Highways behind the hard-hitting American troops were littered with enemy dead and burned-out and abandoned enemy equipment. The roundup of German prisoners continued, with more than 25,000 now in -fifth army "enclosures, and an Allied spokesman declared that the Nazis were "showing signs of confusion in the ' coastal sector. " In an effort to check Clark's relentless pursuit, which has been aided in recent weeks by the cap ture of several usable ports, the Germans were resorting to the most elaborate demolitionseven to felling trees across the roads and stringing the limbs with booby traps. -- (War secretary Stimson said' in Washington that the Nazis evi dently were achieving all possible delay in the Allied advance while they built up their defenses in the "Gothic- line between Pisa and Rimini, their last belt of fortifi- (Continued on page 2) - Lt. L. Waters Dies in India STAYTON, June 29-Second Lt Leonard D. Waters, US army air corps, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Waters, Vancouver, Wash, was killed June 14, in a plane crash in India, according to in formation' received from the war department by members- of the family. His wife, Lt. Virginia E. Waters, US army nurse, Is . be lieved stationed at Spence field, Ga where she pinned his wings on, following his graduation from the army air corps at that place. Lt Waters was born in Browns ville, March 1923, and came to Stayton in 1933 where he attend ed school and volunteered, for the army'in 1940: lie received train ing at Fort Lewis, Camp Roberts and later in Georgia. He went overseas May 23, 1844." . ' i Besides his parents and his wife he; Is survived by a sister, Mrs. Rcy Pate of Mill City. An un cle, W. W,. Waters, lives in Stay ton. ': ; - . ' : POUNDS! Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. June) 33 1944 rrii(?Onrr?i( u uvyjuu ufjr Nips Take Hengyang Wirlield US 'Conimunique Calls Junction -Jap Stronghold ! ' By SPENCER' MOOSA ; CHUNGKING, Friday, June 3HEncircled . and battered Hengyang has been 'bombed by American: planes :ahd " left aflame . after I abandonment of the ' American airbase nearly, it was disclosed last night' by an Americanicommunlqt which referred to that :Vital Hunan province railway Junction' as a "Japanese stronghold. C A Chinese communique declared that the city still c was in the hands of the defenders, but was based upon reports through Tues day night, while Stilwell's report of the bombing' of the Junction de tailed operations Thursday Jv H Hand-to-hand fighting was re ported in the outskirts jot the city by the bulletin, and a later com munique earlyi today reported the Chinese had scored their first suc cess in Hunan in several weeks by recapturing Yiyang, more than 120 miles northwest of Hengyang. A major portion of the enemy forces at Yiyang was annihilated Thursday and S reinforcements have been routed, the v Chinese said. ! .v I The Chinese also said ' their troops who had remained behind the Japanese lines east and west of the Canton-Hankow railway had started a large-scale counter offensive at both ends of the 85 mile Hengyang front '"'! The ? American 1 communique, from Lt Gen. Joseph W, Stilwell's headquarters, referred to both Hengyang; and Anjen, 40 miles farther east, as "Japanese strong holds" . bombed by American planes. X The Chinese said only that fighting was continuing north of Anjel "without change of position.- '."' WholeNation Feels Summer Heat Wave Nation-wide heat wave sent the thermometer soaring to 113 degrees at Needles,' Calif and above the 90-degree mark In numerous places from coast to coast and border to border, began tapering off in most sections yesterday. - , , '- Pheonix, Ariz registered . 112 degrees, with 107 at Bakersfield, Calif. Noni of these high tempera tures was a record, however, ; -1 Portland, Me4 with 87 . degrees, had its hottest day in three years. Westfield, MassJ, topped the east ern cities with a 101 degree tem perature,;' v' iv: . ' y',-, - r Ninty six degrees In Oklahoma, combined with sunny weather, greatly aided the wheat harvest but in North Carolina farm agents feared heavy crop damage unless rain falls soon." Charlotte reported the eighth consecutive day of tem peratures in the SO's with a. top of S3. The temperature" hit ICQ twice in the fast 10 days at Nash ville, Term., breaking all-time rec ords for this period, the weather bureau said. West Virginia and Maryland expected relief with storms brewing after a 3 decree (Continued on pa 2) 1551 Yanks Fight Off Jap Attack mim)ji y't"'w'iiyy'ywy i ' ' t i h if - - ' " JV' . v ' X)i w ft - - ' ' ' -' ' 1 " i 1 I '. - . ' Try t. : Gnus of a US navy task force covering the American invasion of Saipan In the" Marianas," throw np a storm of anti-aircraft fire - against a Japanese air attack. This photo was made from u coast gvard attack transport. Other US craft are silhooetted la the back- groand. (AP Wirephoto from US coast gvard;) US Bombers Strike Deep Into Germany r , By AUSTIN BEALMEAR - LONDON, June 29-(P-Two thousand ' US warplanes-1000 heavy bombers and an equal fighter' escort-7-struck deep into Germany today and smashed at seven aircraft factories and number of other targets while allied fighters and medium bomb ers swarmed over the Normandy battle field In scorching support of ground troops. -. ' .-.:,.'-.. . ' Flak and swarms of German O ' 1 fighters : challenged this mighty air fleet and 33 ' enemy fighters were knocked down by the vigil ant escort, while bomber gunners picked off t-three more .which fought through to tho heavies. -'- Fifteen US heavy bombers and three tighten are missing. Eleven ether enemy planes'were shot down over Normandy, and few allied planes were Bussing to that area.' Methodically the heavyweights unloaded their cargoes of destruc tion visually on plane plants of Leipzig," Oschersleben, ' Aschersle ben, Magdeburg, Bernberg and Wittenburg, all within a 150-mile radius southwest of Berlin, and Failersleben, 40 miles east of Han over. .; (Continued on page 2) ' I Lt. Ben Iteeser Dies From Battle Wounds : WOODBURN, June 23.-A tele gram from the war department; announcing the death of hes hus band Lt Ben Reeser, was received by Mrs. Reeser this week. He was wounded in action April . 3 ' and had spent much of the time, since in the hospitaL Lt Rcr was the son of Mrs. EkieTscr,,md was reared in - this community, f graduating i from toe f Woodljurn hirh rchooL ." . ; . - J I lie was a member of the group leaving Woodfaurn in 1940 to be come a part cf the 41st division. Tl. ; y 1 - r. ' i first' la Australia, and then sa v action in New Gui nea. , His viife Is the former Cctty Jo Schcidiercr. ' : "-.y " .ft'.!.-.;'..., ,. -" - - . t WdrLeaders Warn Tough ' Fiahi Ahead I WASHINGTON, Juno 29.-y- President Roosevelt tonight made public a report from his top mil Itary . commanders warning; - the nation thai "There Is still a tough fight ahead of us" in the war. : The battles now In progress entail ' heavy losses In material which - American industry -: must replace, the report said, . "And any slackening In the needed pro duction will only, delay ultimate victory., v ' The sombre report gaming against over optimism on the home front reached the president from Gen. George C Marshall, chief of staff, Adm. Ernest King, and Gen. H. H. Arnold of the air forces, the three United Stales Joint chiefs of staff. .. They said thl upon their re turn from the fighting in .Nor manday they discovered A state of mind In this country ciTr.st which we believe the public should be warned. : : : : The report said favorable news from" 'the fighting' front : appears to have started a public feeling that the war. is as good as won and declared the prorpects of vic tory will te cat down unless that Idea is cheefce i immediately. Prlcw Sc Paris Radio Says Tommies Port; of Cdbqurg LONDON, Friday, Jane SI-(P).The Paris radio, U a broad east reported, by,. Ttewters, declared today that allted troop bad landed on the east bank ef the One estuary and had captured the pert ef Cabengh. 1 , The broadcast said tho landings were aaade.br British, and. Canadian troops. Violent fighting was said to be raging en this, new front ' "-: 7--' ' ' ; " ' ' ' There was urn Immediate confirmation of the new landings 'from. allied sources, rf;: ;--;,:f. - r."i Caboarg b aboat foor tnlles east of the mouth of the Orne and aboot 13 miles northeast of Caen, where British troops now are pressing an au-oat offensive. By James : SUPROIE HEADOUARTEIiS ALUED EX- PEDmONARY FORCE, FritTar, June 3(V(AP The Germans hurled all available armor last niglit in a bold bid to lop off the menacing British thrust five miles below strategic Caen but were thrown back as more enemy reserves streamed from cen tral France and the reich itself for the developing show-down battle of Normandy. ' A British staff officer told Associated Press Correspondent Roger D. Greene that Field Mar shal Gen. Karl Rudolf Gerd VonO Runstedt had sent his tanks ham-1 mering at the flanks of Jhe firm bridgehead across the Odon river to try to dent the lines but "he is not, succeeding.r ' 'Z r Only 2 Vs. miles" north, of Caes, astride the road to Paris, the Br& ish slugged out local gains in fierce fighting, Uje supreme head quarters communique announced. -, Tommies who stormed . Gav ras, a aailo and a half north of Evrecy. and tanks which ap proached Evreey near the right Maak of tho- bridgehead, said ; enemy easwalttea were - heavy on this frost.; The communique said the posi tions across the Odon," which at points reach within a mile of the big Orne. .river, were 'strength ened after further heavy fighting in which all counter-attacks were "firmly repulsed. 'The Germans were reacting swiftly and Vigor ously to this threat to' Caen, com ing closely on the fall of Cher bourg. - ' ' Althoagh Caen does so -4. v (Continued on - page 9) Mallon Says Deivey Has Chance of Defeating FR .By PAUL MALLON , . CHICAGO," June 29 Can Roosevelt be beaten? Has Dewey a chance? Stories have been creep ing into the newpapers that this convention had a defeatist spirit The administration partisan wri ters chose tha't not unusual politi cal line. -;.- ---'.'v;' The London Times, which al ways assumes itself to be the British Empire, has editorially de rided republican chances, but this also may reflect a personal interest The Times may wish to continue the Churchill-Roosevelt i, dealings into postwar.V.'.'.;-'-,; "..- ;'; ?:;."','' Yet aside from these lnterest inrpired stories, there is a rather wide prevailing awe of the Roose velt tendency to control every thlr j, rer;-ect for his great powers, and naturally he Is doing nothing to discourage that interpretation. v . But this is a usual technique in his cfisnpaiaing, the irr.?csIUt:i cf an a trios; here of discourage rncnt upon his opposition.' A f;ctuil repcitL-.s jcbcn this ccr.vtr.ticn, however, will ive you a C'MzTtr.t picture. If you will ,. MaaliBuaa temperature Thursday SB degrees; min im am 82; no precipitation; river -24 ft. c-. . : - - Fair except low clouds along the coast; cooler west of Cascades Friday; slightly .'cooler la east portion Sat urday, v.' No. (7 lure - . . t ' M. Long ' '' ' : : ' : ' Marion iSond . Sales Exceed $3,500,000 . Marion county bond sales this morning had exceeded $3,500,000. With th minimum quota of 5, 477,000 appearing on the distant horizon. County War F 1 nines Committee Chairman Dougla Yeater and his' corps of volunteers have' resolved to make the speed of their selling make up to resi dents of this area for the lack og Fourth of July , fireworks. ' . ' . And while they are selling, so are men of the American Legion, who have : established a bona booth at Marion square,' site foe the county's ' big old - fashioned celebration of the glorious Fourth. With a million dollars as their goal, they are suggesting that tho money many families would oth : . (Continued on page 2) probe the state and sectional lead era tor their honest opinions, you will find the situation somewhat like this: - , t The Pacific : coast regions are doubtful or pro-Roosevelt as s whole today. Oregon gives Dewey his best coast chance. Important if i - l.ii uouiornia wiu do especially ouu cult without Warren on the ticket I would count it democratic. In. Cap the rocky mountain regions, the republicans think they can "carry. Wyoming and Idaho surely, prob ably alio Arizona and New Mexico, but expect to lose Montana, Utah, and possibly Nevada. (Livestock trouble is a main factor In the mountain states, Influx of a million war workers' in California). But the farm states, all f th cm 1 are considered the best republiccn ground in the country. The CIO has been too much out here, and the. Conduct of the war, economic ally has been unpopular. Kar.:: 3 is- in better republican shape to day than ever in its history. : Icva is considered alrr.rrt cer tain. The IU.r.c"3 rer-hllcin cv (Ccr.tinued cn j : j2 2) "' 4-