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Bretton Woods, in the heart of
the. White - mountains of New
Hampshire, where the interna
tional monetary conference is in
session; is itself reminiscent of
that - elder day 'when gold -was
standard and the pound sterling
vansary i itself- typical of the
-summer resort of the" Victorian
: . J
s Folk- traveled by troiirc the
mountain station and . thence by
tally-ho stage" to the rambliag edi
fice on the 'mountainside.' ,Vaca
tionihg in those days meant to
- live at some such resort for a Week
or a month, - mingling with the
"right"- people, enjoying ' a few
. abort walks , in the mountain air,
and eating three square meals.
American - plan ' at the, spacious
. dining hall. A few intrepid souls
might essay to climb Mt Wash
r ington; others 4ook the "cog rail
war to the top. Then there were
the easier trips- to Franconia: Notch
or Crawford Notch and the effigy
of the "great stone f ace.".
Bretton Woods" survived the ad
vent; of the automobile, though its
trade became more transient, de
cidedly more "run of mine", in
quality, and the building became
-more and more of an architectural
relic; Closed because of recent war
conditions, it is being refurbished
to accommodate the repreoenta-
. tives of 20 nations; vho have gath
ered there to 'settle -the post-war
4?roblems'of pounds and milreis,
of lire nd franc and dollar and
, pesa (Continue on editorial page.)
Marjorie Tye
Named Agent
,w
Marjoile Tye has been named
. MarioEni county home demonstra-
' tion agent to succeed Trances
Clintpn who will become assistant
- state leader for the Oregon State
college home extension service' on
August; 7.
1 Hiss Tye comes to Marion couri-
,. ty after three and a half years as
p.gpnt in Wasco county with head-
cuarters iat The Dalles. She re-
- ceived her horn? economics train-
, ing at. Vie University , of Washing
ton.
- Miss Clinton and Miss Tye plan
. to visit extension unit chairmen
throughout the county during the
' next week. , . " ,
L Slate "VTar, Bond Quota
92 Per Cent Filled; -
: PORTLAND, July l-PhOre-
- gon's war bond quota was 82 per
cent filled today.
A single dayV receipts of more
thannine million dollars sent fifth
war loan sales soaring to $115,-
' C03,"575. Goal is $125,000,000.
Gdrmans Expecting
lie dilerranean Push
I.IADHID, July .J-(i!P)-Tlirough
German censorship from Paris to-
c'ry cacie Cat statements that theitary fund designed to stabilize
Ormans -are expectmg an ,mva-
i : ;i on the Mediterranean coast
f France and that tLS situation
rr- i3 "critical."'
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lee in Philippine oea: 2te
class (left, foretTonad). labors throat h the Philippine sea, after re
Japs Start Offense
North From Canton
CHUNGKING, July MiSVThe
long expected offensive northward! from the! Canton i area, the
Chinese high command announced
ing an effort to "join forces driving down the Canton-Hankow
railway through battered Hunan province which, if successful,
would be a disaster for the Chinese
The general northward advance O-
began in Kwangtung province
June 28, the Chinese said, report
ing that, heavy fighting was in
progress along the route as the
invders lunged forward in an ab-
accomplish JuncUon iwitt
forces ; at o Henayanfc; ; about, 22S
Canton .area and some, 95 miles
north f of the, Kwangtung border.
The Chinese high command
claimed battered ' Henry anx,
vital rail Junction vf the Can
ton-Hankow rente with ' lines
to Kwangtang and Kwangsi to'
the sooth, still was in Chinese
bands. Evidently, however,
fighting, raged within the. city.
An unconfirmed report said
Japanese, forces also had landed
on the coast of Fukien, province,
near. Foochow and. were heading
for-that city a.few- miles inland.
j Such ' a landing, it it occurred,
might be another Japanese move
to checkmate a . potential Amerl
j can 'landing on the China coast
and to : neutralize all allied air
bases between the coast- and . the
I Peiping-Hankow and the Canton-
Hankow railroads.. '
There also was an uncon
firmed report of a Japanese
landing at Pakhol, en the sooth-
western,: coast of Kwangtung.'
which nubt presage .a- thrast
t h r o o g h Kwangtang Into
Kwangsi province. ;
""The "high" command, .aware of
the gravity of, the; situation, was
known to be rallying forces for a
stand' to prevent a junction , of
Japanese : forces north and south
onthe Canton-Kankow railway
but doubts were expressed openly
" to the ability of the Chinese, to
arrest the onslaught
Roosevelt SdymDynamw
World Economy Needed
By DON KOVACIC
BRETTON WOODS, N. M., July
l-VP)-C331mg for "a dynamic and
a soundly expanding world econ
omy," President Roosevelt sent a
message of confidence and hope
to the opening session of the
United Nations "' monetary and
financial conference today. -
Delegates' from 44 nations,
joined by an, observer from , a
43th, Denmark, heard Mr. Roose
velt's greeting as they assembled
in the mountain-encircled Mount
Washington house for three weeks
of discussions out of which may
grow new mammoth interna
tional financial institutions. ": I
iney lnunecuaieiy ana unani
mously named Treasury Secretary
Morgenthau, head of the Ameri4
can delegation, as conference
president and heard him . predict
their decision will shape to a
significant degree the nature of
the world in which we are to
live?'. ' . - i - '
The party will ; consider pro
posals for. an $8,000,000,000 mone
woria currencies ana a siu.wo,
000,000 bank for reconstruction
and development Emphasizing
that their, discussiors , r.l affect
Scdts Ortca Eurdry I Irnlsg,
i
'Hi 1 in- 1 Hiii -
start of the Saipan Invasion. In
routed with
Japanese have" launched their
tonight, with the enemy ma
Allied Bombers
-..'f .' f y " " V ' -- ' ' ' :
Attack Rocket
StJPR EME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED ' EXPEDITI ONARY
FORCER Sunday, July J-JP)-Two
separate forces
BriSif aSd cii
bombers,"' one
American,; attacked German robot
oe.
bomb ' installations across
channel in northern France short
ly before dusk yesterday, begin
njng n nth of, operations
after they and other planes had
flown more than 100,000 sorties in
Junes.".;;: -;y -M-f:xi
The American formation fw a s
composed of less than 2S0 Libert
a tors, and. escorting fighters shot
down eight nazi fighters.- sprayed
2 jarges, three locomotiyes,.nine
raUway; Cars, three anU-aircraft
cars and five trucks I with 'mai
chine-gun bullets" ' ' .. '' . I ' ' .;
I Allied losses " were he bomber
froBv each force and two Ame'ril
canl fighters. , i A
1 The j bombing of the concrete
chutes Jfrom which the Germans
areihurling their rocket botobs at
Britain was "done by instrument
because of a heavy cloud cover;
Bad "weather earlier in the day
had cut air. activity to one of the
lowest points since D-day,' June 6,
.The only: other operations dur4
ing? the
scattered
in Normandy. Spitfures swept
der low clouds and raked jeriemyJ
iraospors in ve vrcumy oi wonae.
yyr yy--y .-, y-
'ordinary men and women every
where,'! Mr. Roosevelt said that
only through a dynamic and ex
' , '.. i.
wu pernui. xuii reauzauon 01
wux;, nopes- tor we ruxure. "t
Morgenthau pleaded with the
delegates to conduct their talks
; v" F
ners; not as rivals but as men
IJr0?!01
upon mutual trust and Joint
v ? . ,0mt
t The Inauffural nlenarV e.nn-L
S-if?
only business meeting to 3 which
newsmen ; are to be admitted-1
was held In the flag-dr aped audi-!
torlum of the hotel, f . -S I
: Ddegates and their? staffs who
arrived on two special trains this
morning found the hotel a scene of
activity, as workmen '&u Jed finish
ing touches to the refurnishing
needed to make, the bulldinx 1. .
italjle after two years of i4leness.
Pdinters and carpenters were ev-
erywhere. Furniture was r being
moved , and crate after crate of
typewriters, filing cebinets and
ether office equipment wes teirs
. shur.lv J frcra f.ccr ti'Ccor. "'
i I ..
Installations
July 2. 1SU
Br&iAMMi Back 12
! 'Nazi
5 . .. r i t . f . - f .
'Both Sides Rushing in MeriJ
Material for Critical Tank
Battles on Road to Paris ; ?
- By GLADWIN HILL i
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITION
ARY FORCE, Sunday; J 2 -
my knocked out 25 Gennaa tanks and hurl: back a cozen
enemy counterattacks southwest of Caen yesterday, while
American troops cleaned up
Cherbourg peninsula capturing
dead and prisoners on the American front alone to nearly
Both the allies and the Germans, were rushing men and
material into the line arching
impending critical tank ..battles on O-
the 120 - mile invasion route tJ
Paris, . and Marshal rwin Rom
mel'i himself was reported to have
aC!!lS
52, issued at 11:30 p. p, said: "No
further gain! have been made in
the strong allied bridgehead across
the I Odon river 5 southwest' of
Caen. r l I , - ' x-'
- ' it
A local enemy : movement in
the vicinity jef Eso.ua r, two miles ;
across the Odon and six miles
southwest of Caen was noted by
headanarters which a 1 s o said
that the enemy : Infiltration at-"
tempts from the east "were an-
soccessfaL"
Front dispatches said the 1 Ger
mans also hit the' west flanfc of
the allied bridgehead a. dozen
times during - the day "with" no
success at all.' These jabs were
beaten off in the Cheux Grain-
ville-Sur-Odon and Cheux' areas,
which! are from three to tour
miles ; northwest, el Esquay. and
on the north-side of the OdOct.
The destruction of 25 more ifnzi
tanks made a total of 17ff demel-land
Jshed by the British since lX;y 1
'- (Continued on i Page 2 y
Might Fly ''
Here July 4
Hope that a blimp from
the
.ttmttion. at th ll .rA..nt,
Fourta .of ju1t celebration hr
TuH.M.ini,w i,r..
gressmah James t "W. - Mott, who
I Saturday night wired the chief of
J the bureau j of naval aeronautics
I asking that (Salem be put on the
J jot onie:of ttie big. airships
I f jncepenoenceuoay,, iw sucn a
I "P . considered feasible.
I Declaring:, himself ready J or a
j vacation of rest. Mott was, never
theless, enthuaiastie as he " dis
cussed thejrepublican ticket, for
"': f .riettlona.
I - Too much of one administration
Jia beiijig- reflected, he declared, in
the- federal! courts adding that
even - tthe supreme court as now
copsxitutea doesn't pay any atten-
uon 10 me; jaw eiiner." y
Because1he Dewey - Bricker
combination; i represents a philoso-
NavyiBUmp
balancing the undesirable feabiresUy "
of remnafata of ; me
new deal,
Mt indlratwf y M '
Mgressman ana Mrs.' Mott
m 'at. . -fc . .
Sj
Plan to leave early this week for
vacation before his Salem
opened.
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SOUTHEAST . ASIA COM
MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan
k. -CeylM July ,li HE)- Chines
. vi. . uie uuiut ouiuua . use..ut
ir-4Wi k-,k .-.,
and the south . have made new
gains against the encircled - Japa
n ma Marrtetfi 1 Sk11 7 aj4 nafluataM
" announced tonight.
To the west, , Chlndit
forces
ltt4 Jipaneseiattempt to
P1 P1 V. area south
of their faUen base of Kamaing.
w""ltrBC """Si wiu
"Wtkyliia air fieH stabbed deep
er against thei city'f defenders and
those Ion the south battered their
way farther j up I the Waingman J legislation and in various districts J bonds. A total of more than $5C0,
ferry road.! f 4 -'A 1 j y . Vjv jof t Oregon where public utilities j ceo in E and G and treasury jeem-
Toy . West, In the area around
Seton,i about ' six ; miles southeast
of kamaingj MaJ, Gen. W; D. A.
Lentaigne's 1 Chindits repulsed 1 a and members cr the organizauon 1 week,' Winifred Pettyjohn, wo
Jspanese counter l; attack near met In the new Farmer Union I rden's division chairman, said Sat-
Ll&ksoV east of Iridaw lake, ch
roundabout escape; route for the
Kamaing Japanese. The Chindits
suffered only minor casualties
this attackJ which w as supported
by mortars sr. 3 t .
fhant- Lrpc;L " ;
y.ea cy t.e -
" .-, y':
Met I;
(Counterattacks
- ( AP)-riU:n'sr Second ar
the northwestern tip of the
5000, Germans boosting axis
on three, sides of-Caen for
Only20RjBles
1 ROME, July l-MVThe German
1 lines fell bade tonight all along
the 165-mile Italian front under
blows of the Fifth and Eighth
armies,, marching.,.' on . the I prize
cities of Livorno Leghorn), Flor
oice ina aucom, - y .
The Fifth army .beat back
tank-led counterattack and fought
into the outskirts of Cecina, on the
Tyrrhenian . sea, coast only . 20
miles below" Livorno. ' . y
The French of" the Fifth army
fought a mile through the moun
tains to within six miles of Siena,
a nignway xeniec 31 mues oeiow i
Florence: British South Africau
Indian
'troops .; pa the" center
moved up be!? the east and west
snores oi mc trasiraeno agamsii
sporadic resistance; y a -
: -The eighuv on the east crossed
the; Chientvller barrier which
had blocked Its advance for sev
era! days and the Germans fell
back toward a line along the Mu
one river, 10 miles from the Adri
atic port of Ancona.
im.:i. tc a . m n
cina, other American units crossed
! Cecina river three miles to the
town of 10JOOO .population. Ad-
vance elements were only 17 miles
fmmlivam -
I f" Another column coming around
on the town from the southwest,
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Hitler
c , r . ' . - A ..
'At Funeral.':
Of Gen; Died
LONDON, July, 1 -JP)- Long
silent . Adolf Hitler, speaking at
the funeral of Geo. Eduard DietL
nazi commander in : Finland who
wa, kiUed in a plane crash,said
-in thi - fifth-rear of -the war we
L;, yr-iv-: mfronted
t1 hut ex-
fFf J
wufwtra -
1 -. . - A n KMnnMAaeT svv 1 iraH
" ' .
I : - a : w previu
1 was January; 30 ana oroaacasx on
the 11th anniversary of his rise
to power.
'In this fifth year of the war," j
Hitler said, "we often find our
selves confronted with the Narvik
expedition with which' I entrusted
Gen. Diet! because I believed he
(Continued on Page 2)
Union Favors
Direct Yote
Favoring election of the presi
dent and. vice president of the
United States by direct vote of
4th people and urging "develop
ment and proper democratic aa-
ministration of our. vast wealth
1 . - vtv, -..
county farmers Union Saturday
night placed itself on ' record i"
questions y pending in national
districts are discussed as postwar
possibilities. - ; . .,': ;
Approximately 2C3. delegates
a hall in Salem with Gus Schlicker,
Bethel: local member and .. county
union. vice president In the chair.
in James Emart of Orchard IIe::r.:s
f served, as e leader: I Irs. J. Tl
1 v-arniwyc
IlL Crcl'
rthel, chcplain; Jc n
Yanlt Soldiers
Below Livoriio
Speaks
XTa. CD
Manager
L.
Herbert Browneu, : Jr4 long time
prtvato secretary ana political
counsellor te Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey, waV'aaanlmoosly elect
ed to manage the New York
go verner'trl campaign for presl
'dent" :VV,, ! . 1
Dane Revolt
Against Nazis
f i , :
f Tl if fill PT1 tin CTPTI
Tla , JCu -uv vU
STOCKHOLM,' Jy X A1t
. ?- t - - . i . . .
bed flags flew tonight from bar
rlcades in the streets, of Copen-
hagen where " 15,000 Danish . pa-
triots, brandishing machine guns
and, ! rules, were reporiea reaay
to tight To tne xuusn igunn - a
German ' garrison of 8000 being
bolstered i hourly y ; other troops
il!
ashing in from Zealand, if ' 4
"After a night of street fighting.
report said .German planes ma-
chine gunned , the demonstrators.
I that patriott broke '" out United
States, British, Russian and Dan-
ish flags and hung them aenanuy
above their improvised ''fortress.1
The Swedish newspaper Aftonf
bladet quoted a report from the
underground, that the demonstra
tors r- who began a general strike
yesterday now were 13,000
strong.. . .. j : ,i:;:i
Observers - at Malmo, Sweden,
Just across the Oro sound from
Copenhagen, said smoke could be
seen rising above the , city? ap
parently from the bonfires start
ed by the demonstrators.
The general strike was describ
ed by the Free -Danes- as 100 per
1 ? .... 1 .r" - j
"cuve, ana.as . resmv
u roran
than TOO nersons had been killed
or wounded, while the Free Dan-
I. . 1 IJ ,
iisn rresa svicw iyviw
w Pnt
. . - t
1 -
Drive Starts to Reach
"yy.vy-!' :i-:A--r--y:y:r--y--- ;)xi,;?s;;tj;
County's E BoridJ Quota"
With less than one million dol
lars standing : between r Marion
county bond purchasers and their
minimum goal of $5,477,000, bond
sellers today are concentrating on
plans to bring the sale of E bonds
within shouting distance of the
county's $2,692,000 E bond quota.
Workers in the women's livis-1
- Pw?rS of bdT be apied' on
ioa have sold more than $120,C00
purcnase of a hospital airplane
SaIem ZonU cluhwill
, tne privilege 01 naming.
Work of two day. in this
I division has brought in $11,C00 in
v bonds and St53,000 in treasury
j bjned bonds has been sold by' the
j division with several large blocks
0 treasury bonds to come in this
I urday 'nirht
I ... ! At bond headquarters, men and
wenen who have become acevst
c -i to writirg out bond orders
i 1 ;.ve f'rures declared the sl-ry
c ' e c:.y concerne-1:
B
Joricov Falls
Reds; Three Russian Forcea
Unite, Begin Assault on Gty
-.-.", Cy Tom YarLrough ".. i
LONDON, Sunday, July 2-(AP) -Driving ir
resistably westward, red troops made advances of
as much as 20 miles on, the flanks of ke iWhito
Russian capital of Minsk yesterday and captured
more than 500 places including ihe large railway
center of Borisov, 3Ioscow announced. !
" - Ihe day9s fighting, adding thousands more
killed and captured Germans to the losses already
lnliicted on the shattered
tne way tor a linal assault
Associated Press Cdrresnondent E d d v Gil-
more in a dispatch from
date
Jap Positions 1
an Isle
US PACIFIC FLEET . HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July.l
(-American marines and dough
boys are slowly consolidating their
gains on bloody Saipan island as
they liquidated pockets of Japa
nese hiding in caves behind their
lines. ,.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz's Sat
urday communique' reported
"small gains' Thursday and add
ed that holed-in Japanese, by
passed -previously, were . being
wiped out. v
xne American zorces were
fighting over rough ' terrain
ridges slashed by ravines and
dotted with r caves. The work of
consolidating gains was 'slow and
tough. V ,w- ;
; The - Japanese continued their
nightly : nuisance raids over the
y . (Continued on Page 2) -"
Big Welcome
At Albany
ALBANY July I UP)- Gov1
Thomas E. Dewey, standing hands
in pockets bn the steps of View
York's nineteenth century state
capitol, told .a cheering crowd
today that America risks a wartime
election "because that to us means
we are free men. and are going to
keep Wuainga wefight.for.". . . ,
Home from bis triumphant nom
ination in Chicago as the republi
can presidential 'Candidate, Dewey
was greeted by crowds that packed
the railroad j station, L lined-? the
streets to the capitol land gathered
2500. strong under huge shade trees
to listen to him express thanks' for.
the welcome. ..
State police estimated a turnout
totaling 10,000 and local residents
said it was an unusual tribute in a
town that, has been solidly demo
cratic for years in its voting. 1 .
Introduced by State; Senate
Leader Benjamin F. Feinberg, who
had been acting as governor,; as
the next president, Dewey de-;
"We are able to argue , about
things which mean ' most to, us
while everyone keeps his shoulder
to the wheel." Dewey said.' "It
means to the axis that doom will
come sooner because we . are so
strong we can argue among our
selves and fight a war better a
we do 1L After Nov. 7 America
will be stronger." .; y
clad, who ordered, a v $50 E'bond
for each of her nine children and
then f put '. thenremainder . of her
9450 savmgs into oonos in ner own
name, wuesuonea, sue jxia oona
workers what they r had already
guessed, that she had worked hard
lor ine money.
t Berry fields, sewing and other
tasks over a three-year period had
grossed ; for her much more than
the $450, she. admitted but in
household of nine- children there
are always places to spend money
without extravagance. Saving the
$450, she indicated, had been as
difficult as. earning it.
Saturday she invested it. for the
future' of her family.
-"Tuesday she may Join thousands
cf other Marion county investors
at the first county-wide Fourth
of Julyt celebration m6st of the
current generation will ever have
seen.
From the 10-a.m. parade to the
niht dance, there will be enter
tainment for all ages every minute.
members of the , special events
cnmrr.iltee. . headed by 1 Douglas
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Us Liqui
OnSaip
to ; Surrfn
nazi forces prepared
on Minsk itself.
Moscow gaid three of the I
four .Russian : armies . fighting in
White Russia already had united
their forces and begun their attack-
on the great city which guards the
historic' route to Warsaw and Ber
lin.' ..J -y-My"; :t ";"- : '
Borisov, 46 miles from Minsk on
the direct railway, was completely
occupied early Saturday morning
after a night of violent street fight- .'
ing in which more than 8.000 Nazi .
officers and men were killed, Mos
cow's suppementary communique
earry today said, r
j Slanyy prisoners were taken
and SS . nks and more than .
200. gnns were destreyed as the
Germans were pounded back In
otter route, " the supplement
: Even', before Borisov fell red
troops had driven' far beyond and
Moscow announced -. that two dis
trict centers, north of Minsk, Be-
gomland Pleshchenitsy, had beea
captured. ; ': ";jy.';':- .
la-, the south the first Whit. ,
Russian army-, of - Marshal Kon
stantin K. RokossoVsky advanced
20 miles northwest of Slutsk and
captured' the ' town ' of KopyL'Ta
the iame V area Kxasnaya.- and
Gretk also were taken.' - 1 -:
The V third IThlte Rasslaa
- army v of Gen. Ivaa.i Chemlak-
vsky drlv- "--"'r t-i i
Tr-'f'ss; ..... r;;l . i -
western bank of the Beresina
river; to 7 miles, the soviet
communlqne said, and-plungedl
onward even while suslts to the
rear wiped eat the last German
resistance ha Borisov, a city -of
'i (Continued on Page 2) V "
!..- !-.," ' .-v ., -i. y.. I. -., t.
Killed
'1
i , LT. C F: WAGNER .
Lt. C. Wagner
Dies in Action
MT. ANGEL, July 1 Mr. an4
Mrs. M-t A." Wagner received of
ficial notice from the war depart
ment Friday that their' son, Lt,
Charles F. Wagner had been kill
ed in action. He had previously,
been reported missing. He was a
bomber pilot, y 4 ; ; '
;"The .telegram read "Report re
ceived from German government
through the Red Cross states your
son, Lt Charles F. Wagner, . who
was . previously reported missing
in j action, was ..killed. In action,!
March 6 oveir Germany. The secre-
tarjr ofiVwar extends, his deep?
sympathy." - ": ";' ;;':' r "'.' t )
Lt Wagner was born Sept 134
1820, at Sterling; Colo. He Cam
to Mt Angel with his parents' lnv
1935. He attended Mt Angel prep
school, and was chosen the first
student body president in 1938. Jim
graduated j from 4 iunior collega
June, 194i; He was active in .all
rporti, especially in high school,
CYO and college basketbalL V
After graduation, he worked la
Portland until December, 1941f
" : (Continued on Page 2) . :
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- Maximum '. temperature
nrJay 12 derrees; mlnhnca III
no precipitation; river -t ft 6 i 1.
' rair.-;ur.fay ;md 'Jlor.Jay,
V.;rr.:.:r Z'.ij.
Germany