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- 'yy -V-1 r 'p SJnp'Hiiby. Bomber'i if) 1 OA' PCUNDDD 1651 NINETY -FOUBTII YEAR 10 PAGE3 Selena. Oregon. Soturdar Morning. July 1. 1844 Pcic 5c No. 3 -;: -, ; ; ' ; ; ? tl! i V 4, S I t - US Fifth air lorec B-25 roart away nese tranrfaort (uppery, f the enemy craft wai slowed by the attack. Then as bomh harsts al- most conceal the transport: (lower), the ship Is Jilt by bombs as the plane made anether ru. (AJP Wlrepheie from army air force.) British Drive Toward: Orne-. Riven Caen ; Nazis Throwing in Veteran Troops but Gan't Stop Push Of Montgomery's Legions , Bj JAMES M. LONG " . SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITION: AUY FORCE Saturday, July battle razed south of Caeii, last nlht as the British drove ca toward the ! Orne tijtt r - troops 'ii fast as they reached the front in a reckless aitempt to stop the sDied;dviiei-l;;r . . A supreme headquarters drive pressing ; the Germans back toward the Orne Wtd com pelled the enemy to throw in strong armored reserves. Front line dispatches said that these included every armored divi- TfTT 'U1D lIDLrj There will b more names on v the county's roll of honor of its men who have paid the supreme sacrifice than jin thex first world war. For some sdays now. the death reports in the papers of home boys - killed in action have been on the increase. It is news a paper hates ' to print and ; our ; hearts go out to those who are thus bereft of loved ones; yet It is part of the price of war ;'f; i ';.; . - Our casualties up to June 20 v had reached a total of 25U06 of whom 55,208 were dead. In the first world war the total number killed in action was 35,818 and died of wound received in action, 13,758. Already the death roll Is . ahead of 1917-1918, and now heavy fighting is In " progress . In both i wars. ; v.tv"'- .r-i;v'-;.;-;'y . Th invasion "of Normandy was far less costly than was predicted, nti vet tne toil nas not uwit 4 considerable. In the first two weeks' of action there- Americans lost 3C82 killed, 13,121 wounded and 7253 . missing. Tough going was encountered on Saipan, and this was expected, because Jt was .rh a kev Doint in thTJap inner defense line. To date the losses ca fntinued on editorial pag) man. 3-DEC- All riSIITH AAF P H O T O j g: r - land The disun- . ji. mnii ihm naV iUVr'--'-r to the sir medal have risd to I-iaj. iri ci-- ef Salens, ure n ns t :: 1 1 r.r.ouncea. .; , : 1 1 ETC was awarded "for e nary achievement while on olographic reconnaissance 'ion over Europe. This was a a mission to obtain damage -?r.t rhotO'fiPns and'tock t' 1 nine hours to complete. f adverse weather which 2. .v; ration difficult' Major ii. cst?i the 1 ?. raised tar rnti to Lis tase with c crct-'tr.t Quality." Chap from lta Initial ran ever a Japa north eoatt of New Galnea. The 1 ( AP)r-A great armored communique said the allies' mandy, and that among the troops were veterans of the war in Rus sia. . - .s. ,'- v ":."y-? v-.v; : . v "In aplte of repeated counter attacks by these formations, the communique declared, "our posi tions not only have been held but were Improved." (German brea&eute aaid a US tank dhrtslon had entered the battle southwest of Caen, that US troops north of St Lo 1-far to the west had dented the German lines and that a "new larre-seale -American of fensive la Imminent') 1 : The British steadily widened their bridgehead across the Odon river , and were within 1 1 miles of having Caen encircled. It was probable that Allied artillery now commanded the last four Ger man-held roads into that' com munications hub. . , ; : A British officer described as "reckless" the use of German re serves piecemeal as soon as they reached the front, and . said tha the enemy now was putting up the most, desperate defense since US troops cut the Cherbourg pe ninsula. ' (DNB, the German news agency, said that Gavrus, on the right flank ef allied positions below the Odon, had been re captured by the Germans.) At stake in the battle for Caen was access to the open country to 1 ,vu"xmv. wu t , Philippines t y tr rt ti roofi si m f WASHINGTON, June 2HJPh Legislatlon . promising independ ence to the Philippines as soon as possible after United States forc es rid the islands of Japanese in vaders .was' signed by President Roosevelt today. ; y',"- The two congressional resolu tions also authorize the establish ment by the United States of land, sea and air bases in the islands for the mutual protection of both countries. : -- ' '' , - . Before the war the Philippines were to have received their Inde pendence on July 4, 1945. The new expression of this govern ment pledges: :y. "That the) United States shall drive the treacherous, invading Japanese from' the Philippine islands, restore as quickly as pos sible the orderly, free democratic rrocesses of covemment to - the Filipino people, and thereupon establish the complete independ ence of the Philippine islands as S Breaks Finnish '1; n. . Relates - jr x if I i J berniail i AlliailCe Brings Decision : X7T-T3 ii ii 11 rrOlll rUlt, IlUll ! " ' U WASHINGTON, June 30-(V . ' i " 'f . ' it!,..:,.'.. ! The United States snapped the mjL ' . j ! . frayied thread of ita : relations withj Finland today and branded the present government of that long-friendly v country as . a "puppet' used by nazi Ger- many to help stem the advance oi. victorious auiea armies ui Europe. The American action came at the end ofa 10-day period which some aay may oe recogmzea as i one Sol tne most criucai in ine history of the 25-year-old Finnish republic. In those 10 days a planned pro-allied coup failed to come off at Helsinki, according to reliable reports here. A group of die-hards oposed to. peace With Russia clinched their hold in the government, -and under; the guns of German warships riazi land re inforcements poured ashore while planes of the luftwaffe moved in argt numbers onto key airfields. ' It was as a result of these de velopments, reflected In an of ficial Finnish announcement e-f an (alliance with Germany last Tuesday, that President Roose velt and Secretary Hall decided late) yesterday to break; the final fraalle link. They had preserved it fori' months in .the: hope it mlfht help Finland to make a peace with Russia and get nt of he war. (Continued on Page 2) Qark's Array PuisGeraans ROME, June SMThe allied wa4 machine rolled forward ' to night on a 100-mile front from the Tyrrhenian eea to beyond Lake Trajsimeno, with the battered nazis in full flight before Lt jGen. Mark W. ClarkY Americans on the ex treme left wing. Dispairing of fighting even' an effective delaying action, the Ger- nans broke off contact along high way 1 skirting the west coast and fled, before the. wall of Yank ar mor, which plunged on 'within less than 20 miles of, Livorno (Leg horn) and within 27 miles of Pisa. anchor ; of the enemy's "Gothic" line def ending the valley of the Pa - Nazi forces which for the past week had fought bitterly in the rough country Inland j also ap peared to be breaking under the continued hammer bl6ws of Amer ican, French and British troops. : : The fall of Sienna 31- miles be low Florence, was believed immi nent American armor land infan try punched to within Seven miles of he city from the southwest and threw a tank column almost due west of its outskirts, threatening to Hank any Germans trying to make a house-to-house fight ' in Sienna. French colonials were only 10 miles from the city on the southeast ; Farther 1 n I a n d the British Eighth army, again ploughing for ward after a fortnight of yard-by-yard progress up the shores of , (Continued on Page 2) Will Receive ' '- w-i . . h. y i HrVl m i visa n I ' - a separate self-governing nation" rreeoom can come to the islands, Mr. Roosevelt ' said in a statement upon the accomplish ment of "two tasks of great Im portance: those who i have col laborated with- the enemy must be , removed , front authority and influence over the political and economic life of the country; and the democratic form cf govern ment guaranteed in the constitu tion cf the PhilicDines must be restored for. the benefit of the people of the islands. The presi dent paid tribute to 1 the heroic role of the Philippines in the war. ; Vice-president Eer.o Osmena of the Philippine overnment-in-exile hailed the new legislation, as' "a long step toward the real freedom and independence of' the Philippines and its survival as a free and Christian nation? ,; ' y . One of the two resolutions cre ates a rhlL'rpine rchtbilitat-.n 1 (Continue en Tt is 2) United Nations Money Meet Opens r WASHINGTON, June 3q-p) Two special trainloads of master money mechanics headed north ward tdnight for; tomorrow's open- "a" of j the United Nations mone- tary conference at Bretton. Woods, There , in the seclusion of the White mountains resorts country they wUl labors on the working model iof an SS.OOOlOOO.OOO ma- chine designed to i hold interna- At M . f t A 4 " uonai financial iransacuons on an even keel after the war. - ihf,:r wnrlr wS be the rough blueprints for a $10, 000,000,000 companion machine in tended; to- stimulate the flow of long-term credit that. will be need ed to repair the ravages of war and .speed the world's peacetime industrial development , Forty-four united and associa tion nations wilt be represented at the sessions, generally regarded in HinTMVIfiln nullum na 1.. importance only to the peace con ference. Deliberations will be con sultative only; each of the gov ernments, including the .United States, must act upon the Recom mendations. 1 Specifically, the proposals to be considered at Bretton Wobds are for an international monetary fund designed to total 10,000,p00,CC3 ; when it is opened to present neu I tral and enemy nations: and for a United Nations, bank for recon struction aad developments - Today A llied Bombers Mil Mazi Installations LONDON, Saturday, July I l-flAllied heavy ' and i medium bombera struck t n.on .n4 ..-j imL w r r Normany battle 20ne throughout t uawn 10 ausa in which they dumped most of their exolosivei on I targets whose destruction would inforctmenli Herb Brownell Drive -CHICAGO, June 30-(ff)-The team J of Thomas E. Dewey and Herbert Brownoll4 jr, went into action; officiaUy foniaht in an ai tempt j to enlarge ita feat of win-1 .he Newrk'governorship1 f preaaenuat vtctory. With a smoothnesa that sus tained Gov. -Dewey's'!, assertions that unusual harmony prevails in the party, the republican national committee I - unanimously p elected the 40-year-old, BrownelL who managed Dewey's U2 guberna torial campaign, as .its chairman. Winding up-two days of inten- sive( conferences with party lead ers, pewey prepared to take a train tonight for Albany, Accom panying him were ?Mrs. ? Dewey; Brownell, J. .- Russell Sprague, New t York national committee man, Edwin i F. ; Ja'eckw, estate chairman, and aboit 30 reporters ana pnoiograpners. . Appearing before, the national committee, Dewey pledged "a gi- ward the saving of the republic and- the .winning of the war.' : 'He told members, who helped nominate him Wednesday,- that they could expect i "all the busy propaganda agencies ! of the na tional i. government to direct their efforts toward a division of our Party.- , J Aids Germniife irms WASHINGTON? June 3Hff) Information from official sources I that the Argentine government I has been givir j Crect aid to nazi Tirms on the-United States biaca I list boosted the ) freezing of Ar gentine funds to' top spot tonight in discussions c what , may - be done next to eir ers disapproval of the course Arr-r.tlna has taken. The treasury i s Lnown to have the machinery ic';3; for blocking the funds, aw? only the or der to put it in i, : Hon.' - r Blacklisted r:rr -4 have prosper ed in Arger.' 1. ;i many cases, officials said, I : u3e""Argentina has failed to c . t-easuxes tak en in all the c :.: r hemisphere re publics and 1 tine 1 governs those firms. Since the 1' trcmely cf.' corr.ranies I-i the Ccrmar 1 ' ire the Argen j has : supported t has been ex -r EIr-st axis c ier countries, , their Ar-crJr.e : prcllts, "send 311" and ; keep branvl.:s t) aid a.-i"i... nazi ; firms the terrJ j! ; : 1 ' the TtJt" c it was disclosed. uevoey (Lasualfiesi RunHigli At Saipari ?td& Americans iaued, Wounded In Two.Weeks: US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS Pearl Harbor, June 30 H4 Americans battling on Saipan have paid the highest price so far in the Pacific 9752 killed, wounded and miss ing in two weeks for one-half of a small but highly important island off the Marianas. The grim figures, announced to day by Adm. Chester. W.J Nimitz, were: dead, wounded, 7400; missing, 878. . , . The total was tar more than doable that at- bloody Tarawa In the Gilberts last November,; when X1S 3 Americans ' were killed ec wounded la 7 honrs. It more than doubled the losses on Guadalcanal in six months of warfare--3767. -k-: - j. ; s Enemy losses in the bitter fight ing that has wrested half of rug ejed Saipan from the Japanese also have been heavy. Nimitz said no accurate estimate was possible (Continued on Page 2) : f Friday, flying 3000 sorties from halt the movement of nazi re- O 1 The weather, which limited oh- activity over the fighting front all week, improved enough to permit stepping up the offensive, but it sua was zar neiow me oauy av- age since D-day. f . y . 'German fifbters offered only spotty resistance, : bat 21 were downed by the allied pilots 17 by the RAF filers who operated from bases In Normandy. An indication that allied bomb ers were slashing deeper into the continent by night came from the German radio. A program was in terrupted at 12:30 ajn. (60 pjn. Friday, eastern war time) and an announcer ; said enemy planes western Germany. EAF heavies were eat three times In the day time, makina two - attacks oa flying bomb branching platforms and an as Malt on armor ami troops Bear Tillers ' Socage. la aa evening attack beginning shortly after t o'clock and lasting only 12 min utes, Lancasters and Halifax es ( descended below 4101 feet to drop a jferrtfie concentration of explodvescVthe enemy a few . . . . w . . 1 . . . mues iromae iinna une. American Liberators and Flying onress, zoo strong,: escorted oy jiaex numoer 01 Mustang ngni- era, roared through , clouds to smash 750 tons of Domos agamst three' air fields in northern France and one in Belguim, in a eonttau- ation Of the campaign to drive the German air force even artner away from the ! batUei area, and not a single German fighter was met. ah me places reiurnea saieiy. . The RAF la the forenoon sent Lancaster bombers to " pbuter the lanncbing ramps for ' nasi rocket I bombs, aa the : robot planes were burled thronghoat the day at sonthern England, opening the third week of theao attacks. None of the Lancasters was lost bat one escorting Spit fire failed to return. In their second mission of the day the RAF; turned to tactical support of ground units . driving j west of Caen, and then, late in the evening still itlier,.fcnna - tioaof British heavies attacked a large concentrauon ox uerman srmor in the Villers Socage area on the west flank of the Caen salient. A SIIAEF spokesman said the target was of "immediate tac tical importance. V Deoa Allport TTins LIusic Award ct V7C PULLMAN. Jur.s IZ-m-Trzii- .1 - j r tn niit 1 1 1 AA. - ME iiiZ iV & n A. 1. u v standi 2 car-.p t Irx .tod. "music:cr,s at -tne. annual - -h:1 r.-:'c and -rpcech . V7-'::rjton Ciate. col- :y wct t3 Deaa'Allport, Zzlcm,- Ore. fcaHoUd to d;'.:rn-.:-e V i v.lrjicrs. iets ov To ward a i ni t Aoair uiapiaui Tn R 5 JL KM MJKj WJjJlaiklyJL am The orator of the day. for the patriotic exercises on July 4 will be Chaplain Charles L. Pendleton of the 70u division. Camp Adair; Col. Carle Abrams, general chair man, of the celebration, announc ed Friday--night The exercises will be held on the newly con structed stand In Marion Square at 11a.m., immediately follow ing the morning; parade. T The program will' include mu sic by the Camp Adair post band. invocation by Rev. George H. Swirt, welcome t by. Commander John Olson of Capital Post No. 9, response by. Mayor. L Dough- ton, the Declaration of Independ ence, read by . Mrs. Leon Brown, and the address by Chaplain Pen dleton. I f An outstanding feature of the - T . I - -- ' - ' . program will be' three selections by the Willamette ;. university quartet, led by Dean Melvin Geist The voices will be Corydon Blodgettr bass; Maurice Brennen, baritone; Lewis j Pankaskie, see ond tenor, and1 Melvin Geist first tenor, which includes some of the most outstanding male voices In the city.. : V, Chaplain , Pendleton is . highly recommended as an outstanding speaker. He is a graduate of Chi- cs Theological seminary, and received xhis PhJD. degree from the University of Chicago.; The chaplain as born in Bristol, RX, wa Pstor oi tne congregauonai chur,ch at Shelby, Michi at the time? ha was called into the -ser vice and commissioned as a first lieutenant and chaplain. He' is now chaplain of the headquarters special troops of the ?0th divi aion. Camp Adair. . The cooks announce that the big free barbecue will be - ready to serve immediately following the patriotic program, and the public is urged to bring well filled bas- (Continued on Page 2) It's Barbecue Beef July 4 Put away your' , ration books. The 1200-pound steer for Sa lem's big Fourth of Juty barbecue in Marion square ; has been re deemed to the satisfaction of the OPAI ' Gift of the Valley Packing com panyi it could not be prepared and served unta 6000 ; ration ; points (representing a good many pounds of choice steak! and - roast) bad been! contributed by d vie minded citizens. . f:'::?-;-":??!'-; V Following i Friday morning' Statesman announcement of the situation, contributions of red ra thm oointa beean to pour In to GOUnr. uies headquarters. Br Booa the barbecue party, for which bakers are providing 6000 bung! wag m surety. By mid-after n0ooJ would-be (donations of ra tion Jpoint. were turned away. M we only buy E bonds withj tioa points X moaned county War Finance. Committee phiman Douglas ; Yeater. At4tliProsT Marion BonaScilels Roll Past $4,000,000 Mark t . ' ; Marion county bond sales have today rolled past the $4,000,000 mark and on toward the $5,477, 000 minimum quota. As bond salesmen and sales women and committees of various r I""'" "IZ- ,, .. cial events committee is complet ing plana lor a grana isie m the' form! of a: great Fourta of July celebration in Salem. Leading up to that event, a ser ies of nightly programs in Marion square , was begun. Friday, n:ht Margaret Eecker, winner cf Uie "Miss Marion County title ia the bond , campaign contest to find a golden-voiced representative for - itne siaie 1 -nance cgnuau ce. Will - I . r a . m sins at a. leaiure ci Ksn--ii o'clock rrk prcrart The Sirring Sentinels cf Cre- gon 1 Shipyards and war 1 : rces are airs ca the prcrzm. : -. IX raul V. 1 Earnes, T; ers- fltli. Calif- who wen t-'-e tJver PluuMe $kea& Doomed, Minsk Reds Kill, Capture 183,930 Rag res Inside t , By Russell Landstrom LONDON, Jane 3(V-i(AP) The red armies, rout ... of .German forces in White proportions today as Moscow losses in the first week of the soviet summer offensive vyere 183,930 killed or captured, and the fighting car -ried aU the way from inside the former border of Pol and on the north' to the center of Pripyat marshes on the south. . -" . , Red troops broke into Oboisov, on the direct route to Minskj captured Disna, ' a frontier town just inside old Poland; took Slutsk, an important railhead Car to the south 1 and more than . -1 . . . . . 1 II o g 1 race control Changes Due' To.Start Today WASHINGTON, June UoUPi Government officials worked late tonight preparing scores of changes directed In new price control and wage stabilization legislation i effective tontorrow, with Indications that not all the revisions can' be made on time.' The deadline "was emphasized as President Roosevelt signed Into law the bill embracing the chang es, which extends price - control and wage stabilization one 'year, to July , lr 1945., r :; . While he lauded congress for renewing tho life of the office of price ! administration and other government stabilization agencies, the president said he feared the changes , made will : "weaken! and obstruct the effective enforcement of the: law. . .". If It should turn out that the enforcing officers en counter ; serious, difficulties in bringing chiselers and black mar ket operators to book, I shall ask congress to remove the difficul- An j OPA spokesman said that" only f the . amendment providing for adjustment of textile prices had named a specific deadline for the. revisions ordered. - Another ; amendment provides that the administration shall take steps to maintain the prices of air basic agricultural commodities, as well as prices of others where growers were encouraged ' to In crease production, to reflect to producers either the current price or the highest1 average price dur ing the first nine months of 1942. 5 Under a preliminary interpre tation, anf agriculture department spokesman said this would re quire action, raising the price of wheat, cotton, eggs,1 peanuts and possibly some other commodities, since these were- selling under parity as of June 15. r : . Weather Maximum temperature Friday 76 degrees; minimum 54;. trace of rain; river -2 ft 5 in, Fair today and Sunday ;x cooler In the southeast portion today. star for eaUantry in action but who remembers to tell residents of the calm United States that munitions were rationed tor two weeks on the Anzio beachhead because : there were not enough ships to carry an abundance of it, spoke briefly Friday night. I Barnes is credited with havmg. single-handed, taken : a machine gun : nest and having fought off two ammunition carriers from his prize. He came to Salem to talk Friday I night from Camp - Adair rehabilitation, center. - : Also from that hospital came ft; Kevin McCarthy,. Vancouver, V.'asX who wears the distinguish ed service cross earned October ZZ, J3 12, at Guadalcanal. He was a rr-embef of a small party which rp'fAA marooned marines, he t;!i the Marion square audience. Myrtle Myers and Velma Swart, runners-up in the contest with Miss'; Becker,-- sang. Among : Miss Swart's numbers was "We're on H (Continued on Page 2) in Week; "Fighting Old Poland Russia mounted to historiQo-. announced that German . . - the key railway , town of 43tt other populated places inside the sprawling - 350-mile White e sprawling Russian front, . the broadcast Rus sian communique said. In at least one sector soviet troops were less than 30 miles from Minsk, pouring across tha Berezina river north of Borisov in a thrust of IS miles. Eddy (.Omore, Associated Press correspondent, said In a dispatch from Moscow that hose forces of red Infantry, tanks and cavalry were already converg- . inr on the ooUklrte of - the . White Ramlaa capiUL Under continuous cover of Rus sian tighter and Stormovik planes, these troops were preparing for a . mass storming of the other ap proaches to the ancient city, Gil more., cabled. -'...--. ' ; v The full extent of the German (Continud on Page 2) : Job(htr61s I Start Today , WASHINGTON, June SO-tfV Employment controls 'designed- to - -make best use of the available la bor supply, become operative otj a nation-wide scale . tomorrow, i with manpower officials hopeful ' 200,000 new workers can be aU -tracted into essential industry. By cooperative action' of both - workers and employers, all males except farmers will be required y to be hired through the US em ployment ' service 1 or agencies it designates. War . Manpower CoroV. missioner Paul McNutt says the plan has ; worked effectively for, some time, in certain tight labos areas.. . , ' ' f-r 1 Women in many ; communities are included under the hiring controls through decisions of local manpower officials. ' Killed LT. WILLIAM BLACKLEY Li. Blacldey Dies in Action j - - .... - i ' 1 -A-. ' . ' DALLAS, June 30 Lt Will lam W. Blackley, 21, was killed in acr tion in the European area Decern ber 31, 1843, according to infor mation received from, the war de partment by the army officer's far ther, William W. Blackley. Lt. Blackley was reported missing lit action on January 13, 1914, End ii was hoped he might have berri Uken prisoner. Within the wccli before receiving the war depart ment message, his father receive 1 a letter from Lt J. VL Danhof, tell of the bomber crash and that en! the pilot, bon-ibardler and enjir : were saved. The Dallas officer co-r'lot on the Liberator be:: ' lie wes born June 12, 1223, In lern and UyeJ most of Us i: Dallas. . i 1 . .1 1