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Tit CnrCOll ; GTATTIAIL fU'sa. Orsc; Ccfcadar Ilcni, Jsly t. : pac: nr. Jaycees Hear About Soviets At Meeting r Stories of how the Russians built their cities as battlegrounds, constructing ground floors-of pub-, lie buildings in such a ways, that 'tanks could be sheltered' there and laying roof gardens over bases for gun emplacements were relayed to Salem Junior Chamber of Com merce members this week by. Lof- MJU. IdUJJIl. nil LIUIIII. .1 1 president, and G. W. ( Jud) Davis, Salem, i they reported on the national war conference of their organization held last month' in Omaha. 'An army major, who had seen Russian wartime activity and who was assigned to the JC eonven uon ; by Gen. Arnold . at request of the organization's officers, was the source of the' Russian infor mation."' i- Among his stories was that of the Russian r city which moved ' away from the war front and in an almost incredible space of time urtt ti11 - AnArat Sir " At the Thursday night 'session of the Junior chamber . here, changes In the local chapter's con stitution were discussed. Fifteen members attended the meeting, over which Salem President Wen dell Ewing presided. , Dewey Speaks To Neighbors At Pawling PAWLING N.Y July 7-JP)-Gov. Thomas E. Dewey came home to Pawling today for the ! first time since his nomination i - for president and, in a folksy, down-to-earth address to his ! neighbors, said the November election will be decided "with i out venom." Speaking from the porch of the ' 61-year-old Dutcher house in a community founded by the peace ful Quakers, the governor also told a non-partisan crowd of about 700 that the nation is fight ing "to keep communities like this free from dictation and domina tion, whether by business, labor or government .Dewey, who 'has owned a farm on nearby Quaker hill for five years,- made neighborliness the - theme of his - homecoming and -.praised several villagers, business men and others for- their kind- " ."It if typical of our country that i . people turn out nd do things for " each , other," ! the governor sajdi "If our neighbors need something, we turn out and help. That is the essence of, this .country." . , f ". "If Is what makes it possible to .hold a national election in these ' difficult times, without venom ' and with the only result a contri bution to the general welfare,' the republican presidential nomi- , nee declared. - - , '.The governor.. was greeted on .the' Dutcher b-Ouse, porch by Mrs. Dewey and their sons, Thomas E. 11. and ' John." 8. He" embraced " both, boys, iwhom he was seeing ' for the first time since his nomi nation! Money Meet Hasn't Talked Quota Problem A BRETTON WOODS, NH, July 7 UP)- As committees of the United - Nations monetary conference 'clodded through a mass of de tail in their Work on an' inter national currency fund, it was disclosed today that the compli- - caied problem of quotas has yet to be discussed. : ' Furthermore, a g o v e r n m ent ; spokesman said a number of na ' tions had come to the conference with formulas for establishing quotas for the fund, and all would fce "considered, i Heretofore," 'the - only formula ' which "had been .' mentioned in preliminary discus tions was that devised by the US treasury before the conference 'opened. ;. v ; "'. . ;.': ' ,. Under this formula, the sub scription of the United States to '. the $8,000,000,000 monetary fund would be. approximately $2,500, 000,000, Great Britain's 11,500,- 000,000 and Russian's --$1,000,000,- - ooo. . . . In answer to a question , wheth er the conference could be re- ' garded as a success if the matter of quotas could not be agreed on, the spokesman declared he felt v sure the subject would be settled before the sessions end '. ; ; Nevertheless, it was felt i cer tain that the problem of quotas r s would be one of the major obsta cles for the conference to hurdle. DR& r CHAN... LAM Dr.y.T.Im,NJJ. -. Dt.G.ChxaJN It CHINESE OerbalUts 241 North Liberty Opstalrt -Pot Hand Oneral CleetrH Co Office opn Saturday vnty 10 a m to 1 p.m.; to 1 p-m Con tulUUon Bluod pressure and urine tests arc frea of eiiarga. Practiced inc.19It ' , ' j - With a- burst of flame,' the main Baxniim ana Bailey circus at Hartford, Conn collapses in a fire which brought-death to at least 120 persons, many of them ehil VS Prisoners Look to Home Front For, Food. Morale and Recreation By LARRY ALLEN MP War Correspondent Recently Repatriated After " . , 20 Months In Axis Prison Camps.) - j Life for American and British prisoners of war behind the barbed" wire in Nazi Germany is with emphasis on little things like warm, keeping clean and keeping I have recently come out of the dungeons of the Reich. Before Without ' the ; food parcels sent , by the Red Cross, there is no tell- i ing what would have happened to thousands of captives. Most of my eight months in Germany .were spent in Oflag 64 at the southern, tip of the Polish corridor, 100 miles south of the Baltic sea. It is a concentration camp for American officers. Prisoners Dally Menu Here is a complete daily menu of what Americans were given to eat: Breakfast, a cup of water; Luncheon, a small plate of soup, made principally from cow tur nips,, stale carrots and weeds, a one-inch slice c of black bread; Dinner, two small, sour potatoes of a. type which the; Germans '-do not Use for food but for the manu facture of starch. - T Once a .week the diet is en riched by the addition of one ounce of margarine,' a little beet sugar and a dab of marmalade. Red . letter day in the' life of every prisoner begins every Mon day morning with the distribution of the Red Cross food parcels. Many prisoners make ahat parcel stretch the entire week; others stuff themselves the -first two or three days and then live in antici pationfor 'he next-parcel. - In Oflag 84 "and most ' other American and British camps " in Germany,' a "central mess system s organized under which all canned meats in a Red Cross par eel go into a central cook store, managed by American or British orderlies. That didn't leave much in I Red Cross parcel for indivi dual prisoners, but it proved the most practical way to make food stretch efficiently. - Oflag 64 covers about four acres on the site of a former Polish college. When I left it held 461 American officers and 52 enlisted men prisoners. Gnard System . A garrison of 250 soldiers many of them shell, shocked or wounded German . veterans guarded the camp. . They pace around the border in a little barbed-wire '. channel 7 all i their own. Others stand watch in high wooden towers, -. equipped with searchlights. v At the . office of the German camp- commandant- just outside tne wire, big police dogs - are penned, awaiting release to pur sue any prisoner who-attempts to escape. . : : j ; - J - Part of the four-acre camp area was a prohibited zone, enmeshed with barbed wire, and sentries would ' fire if - prisoners " got tdb near it " ; . -' ' " ,. ,'" In the center of the camp area are two large,? white stone build ings, one used by the highest ranking American officer-prison-; ers, the other the prison hospital. Officers are quartered in red brick barracks. , broken up Into cubicles about 12 feet long by seven wide. - Each cubicle holds V.F.W. Victory Oub it m: Old Time Dancing " Vclcrcns Udl Corner Hood and Church Streets -. Music by -' 'TOE' ' cnEGQ:imi:3 Club Members Only mum Big Top Hipped by tent of the Rlngllng Brothers and an endless, enforced; monotony getting enough to eat, keeping alivei? k c p:: internment camps, cellars and that I was imprisoned in Italy. eight to 12 bunks in double tiers. The bunks are made ; of boards crudely hailed togetBer and have wooden slats for springs. Each barracks houses about 100 - pris oners. S ' 1 ' ' Cold Barracks r Each barracks has a small ce ment-floored washroom with ac comodations for from eight to 20 men at 17 time. Sanitary arrange ments are! the simplest There are wooden toilets without water sup plies. ;.-!, --"'.-:". :i'-.v , " Chairs are virtually non-exist- ant. Crude wooden stools are pro vided in the barrack cubicles. Each long barracks is equipped with two European-style tall, tile stoves, designed to get along ' on minimum of coat .Throughout the winter officers shivered and hugged these' stoves. No matter how cold; the weather, the coal allotment ' never varied just un-; der two pounds per man per week. Scores suffered -chillblains and frostbite, f The camp hospital was busy all 'Winter. , j ; . Around these .stoves, officers clustered :at night to brew coffee in tin cans or bake a cake if some one 'hadibeen lucky enough- to get baking powder in a -parcel from home. There is baking pow der in Germany, but not for pris oners. ! I1 ;; ' .. To conserve fuel, the Germans heated - water for baths ' once a week and each prisoner was al lotted four minutes for a complete scrub.- Once a week !. each man gets a towel, frequently torn and ragged.J, - -- I , ; The Nazis provided a laundry service but nearly -every prisoner earned to do his own. . Those who sent their - clothing outside the wire to the ; nearby 1 village of Brembefg often got half of it back two weeks later, torn and lice-infested. . " ' . i j.. Next to the hospital was a small flat-roofed red brick building the Germans called a canteen. It rare ly had anything but .Hitler pro paganda booklets, foot powder, face cream -which ; the prisoners used for I shining shoes and pen points-but usually no ink. The Germans did not provide any sports vr. recreational' iadli ties. Such equipment as the pris oners got came., from the Red Cross, the YMCAand similar or ganizatkms. - ': The camp authorities appeared to, try tol break up organized ac tivities,: such as volleyball, - foot ball . and baseball. ; It always seemed that one of the "staggered"; - ' CONT. FROM 1 P.M. i Tcscrrow! A WESTER?? ROMANCE THAT SPELLS FUN1 r ilk (I , .A V Deadly Inferno 1 S! - -J , i -, - ... drea, and tnjnry lm many others , might olttmately resaltln a death roll calls was ordered! whenever any game got underway and the prisoners! never knew when they could start washing clothes with out interruption. American officers , through do nations from the Red Cross, YMCA and 1 'parcels fom home, have built up a prison; library of 2,000 volumes i American r lief , authorities sent theatrica equipment t Oflag 64 but ittook mere than aj month for it to pass thro igh perman regula tions. When tie prisoners finally did get it, they built a stage in one of the barracks, made foot lights from tin cans arid all stage , i trimmings but of sackcloth and Red Cross prisonerof-War paste board boxes. iTheh thf Germans came inside the wire to see every show. ! Drills Boring For Miners BELLAIRE, Ohio, July 7-P)- Eighty-six men entombed in the Powhatan mine will be officially , ... . " Dronounced ! dead tomorrow. But tonight the first of two drills be gan Dorjng oown lowara intra on "i - W ' M i. i the faint chance found alive, I i they may be -It may be two to five days be fore the 'nine-inch and three-inch shafts,' three-quarters J of a mile apart, ' ai-e. jimen-; approximately 400 feet deep to a tunnel In which the mr .wire caught behind a wall of flame that blocked ; the main shaft fj Ohio's largest coal mine. I" : Whether they are dead or alive was no knbvrn, but j spokesmen for the t coiil (operators and the United tfin. Workers; said they felt there was a chance ar least some of them btlll lived.'. KEARNSj Utah -- A war bond, rally, ;ivhich sold; $87,350 in war bonds and making this over seas replacement .center 8207,650 above it ! $100,000 . quota, was about to! conclude. ! ."Let me jihaVe your attention, please." I said an officer from the post theater!, stage From away back in the audience came the response: "Yes. sir;! that's about all we have left" I OKLAHOMA CITY-fW-Thls is a-tear-ierkeri J -.-J: . . Abbei S. Kouri was so happy to see his son; Technical Sgt Essfd 1 KourL home from England on furlough and so proiid of what "our boys" ar accomplishing on the battleglelds, he offered five pounds pf his bumper; onion crop free to anyone with son over- seas. ENDS TODAY! , Wallace j Beery i ' - -"Salute to the Marines" . Ue S .... "Crime Doctor's Strangest Case"! " ri I I jr. r i J ... . ' i J I - i . ' i ,i In a disaster which officials said toll of ZOO.. 1 -(AP Wirephoto) Toledo Puts: Golf to Work In Aiding War By HAROLD HARRISON TOLEDO, Ohio, July 7 P) - Probably; no other sport has been as fearful of wartime competition as has golf, but Toledo linksmen say they j have found the answer. A couple of. years ago Marty Cromb, then president of the To ledo chapter of the Professional Golfers association, became' con cerned because nothing had been done here by the golfers for the war effort. Using words some thing like this, he telephoned Dick McGeorge, golf writer for the Toledo Blade, and said, "We gotta do something." They talked about a tournament of some kind, and just then an office boy handed McGeorge a paper . with a headline - which screamed "37th Division in South Pacific!! - " ' f : ... - t A Kttle later, the ' word came that an army unit made up mostly of Port Clinton,' O., boys had been taken prisoner on'Bataan. So the second tournament was born for the prisoners of war. ;? - Two were held last year one for the 37th division and one for the prisoners of war. This year's prisoner of war. tournament was held only this week and there will be another one later lor the 37th division.! 1' . Avery Sues ChicagoSun CHICAGO, " July 7 (Mar shall "Field, editor and publisher of the Chicago' Sun, denied -today in answer to a $1,000,000 libel suit that . the - newspaper - had "launched a campaign . to smear1 Sewell L. Avery, chairman of the board of i Montgomery Ward & Co. ' The suit, filed in federal court recently against the newspaper, contended ' a series " of articles about Ayery, were malicious, un true, false and 'defamatory r In the reply filed" today, Field maintained- there was mo attempt to hold Avery" up! to' public" ridi cule and contended that the labor controversy which resulted in goVernnjept seizure of " the com pany's Chicago properties " necef saiilv came within the scope" of the Sun "a. writing activities. ' -: "T. CONTINUOUS SHOWS DAILY FKOM 1 TM. t . PS V: Kary Lss Eob I;olan cad Sons el vxm rioner Train Wreck Death Total May Reach 40 ". JELUCO, Tenn, July 7.- (fl3) Tne engine and four cars of a. southbound , troop train plunged 50 feet, into a. desolate mountain gorge -last .night .with possible death toll of 40 soldiers and train roen. -.. Wreckage of four cars two of them burnedrested in the rocky Clear : river after . leaving. ' the Louisville and Nashville 'railroad track 11 miles '' from here. 'A fifth, car hung on the edge of the defile. ' ' 4 -' , ..Known dead numbered 19, all soldiers except engineer John C. Rollins and fireman J. W. Cum mins, both of Etowah, Tenn. Iden tification '' of enlisted dead pro- ceded slowly, - army public rela lions- explaining that most men either were in their berths or in wash Toomsr preparing .to .retire, when the crash .. occurred., . Per sonal belongings were thrown in heaps, and some victims lost iden tification tags. , ; . ' v Wavering lights of acetylene torches flashed in the rugged glen as army and civilian squnds work' ed under an overcast sky. to free injured and recover!. bodies.". At least 100 were hospitalized. Each, in turn, was pulled up the steep embankment in block and tackle slings, and , removed to " nearby army , infirmaries or to civilian hosoitals. Many received ' blood plasma, before being moved. -' Chinese Gam In Big Drive Onehgchung CHUNGKING j July 1-Wr-Chi nese troops in their battering Sal ween river offensive have driven to within one mile of the eastern wall of ancient Tengchung, main objective of the campaign, and the principal Japanese Yunnan province base, a communique; said tonight. . . . 1 A force of 200 1 Japanese was surrounded -and destroyed- on high, point three miles .northeast of the city, awhile attempts of the enemy to break out of Tengchung to reinforce them were thrown back. . . . ." Fitly mil e.s southwest of that area, other Chinese attacked all along the front against Hie sec ondary Japanese - base of Lung- ling, second most important Jap anese Yunnan -base which'-: once was :- captured and then given up by the Chinese. During the fight ing in this area, 200 Japanese were slain and - another force of - from 100 to 200 virtually" surrounded. Twenty five miles southwest of XAingling, remnants of -Japanese forces attempting a breakthrough from the Pingka trap withdrew into the beleaguered garrison af ter sustaining a e v.e r e casualties, the communiqjie said. ' " (In North Burma, where a Chi neser American offensive alsb,is aimed : at reopening the" Burma road to China, American troops gained another. 100 yards in ' My ttkyina,' last . stronghold of the Japanese in -the area, and there was fierce resistance within, the. besieged city, a . sdutheast Asia command communique said. ORLANDO, v na.-Pr-Kenneth Sullivan, 17, -and Paul Morris, 16, of Winter Park went fishing in a tiny .-homemade . boat "; barely big enough to hold the two of them. Morris hooked an 1 1-pound bass but discovered there wasn't room in the boat for bini, Sullivan and the fish. - r Sullivan obligingly jumped ov--erboard and - swam ashore' while Morris brought the bass back In the boat. , - TTwuim Bis Latest Musical Western Adventurel . noY ROGERS KING OF THE COWBOYS TRIGGER .SMARTEST HORSE IN' THE MOVIES : DALE EVANS rc3T ncTu: Fund Grows Forejudges Retirement A total of $18,604.33 now start d to the credit of the judges' retire ment fund, created by an act of the 1943 legislature. State Treas urer Leslie M. Scott, custodian of the fund reported Friday to Gov. Earl Snell. . , ' - ,The , fund- consists of $10)00 appropriated from z the , general fund of the state, $4348.82 trans- erred tq the fund from the gen eral fund.' $2969.26 withheld .from salaries, of circuit Judges, $11763 withheld from salaries of justices bt the state supreme- court, and $110 In earnings' on investments. All but 3294.33 of the $18,804.33 has been invested by the state treasurer far Interest - bearing bonds of the United Staies. The law provides that the state shall - match ' withholdings from the Judges' salaries :l of ..-credit to the fund in amounts equal to two per centum of -the combined sal aries of .. judges ..of i. the 'circuit court and. justices of the supreme court and that three per cent of the monthly salaries of the judges shall be deducted therefrom and placed in the fund. : .. - Thus ifar there have been no apportionments made nor retire ment compensation paid from the fund, j'' I v ....... .-r -rv- ;; Engineers River OKlto Cross NEAlt A VIRE RIVER CROSS ING, France, f July 7-P)-Combat engineers who ferried infantry over in assault boats and built treadway bridges made possible a surprise crossing of this 100-foot wide river today and it was the spirit of such men as Sgt- Nor man G.Kent, Ashton, Idaho, who was responsible for its success. Kent! trundled his bulldozer over at; the first opportunity and began clearing . away . debris . on the other side" which was hinder ing the forward movement of men and supplies. ; Suddenly a . terrific explosion shook the heavy bulldozer like it was not bigger than a tin can. It had run over a- deadly German teller mine. .., -- -' "The blast lifted the whole front end up," said Capt Palmer A. Hewlett Portland; Ore.- "It 'shook up . Sgt! Kent, but he' insisted both he and his bulldozer -were okay and they went ahead and finished the job together. -We couldn't have done what we did without men like hLm" . - , V;;J.'. . 'All X can say is he must have been living right that boy. said a private who overheard Hewlett tell the story. Market May Get New Stalls . ProbabiUty that Salem Public market, which operates. each Sat urday "frm -m until 2, P-- or until the produce 'of partici pating farmers is 'sold, may soon be housed in neat stalls Is fore seen by L. O. Arena, chairman of the market , .commission. ! , A labor organization here is considering the problem and may provide volunteer labor for the building of a shelter with 26 booths. Funds for the material and for rental of the lot were provided by the city. An. average, of $400" worth - of produce has beensold each mar ket dayi although farmer partici pation during the strawberry and cherry 'season has been limited, Arens declared. Demand from customers has to date been ap proximately 10 times the supply brought to the market by six to 10. farmers. Wednesday ' market days hive been, temporarily dis continued. . I Starting . : AND CXmrLXTJL OYTL IHlsiipipSiraess DlliittsS f Vally Brown -Alan Carney, JJarcy IcGuirc OF NAZI- ECSOT - rLYC :g c.o. ccirvnmc:;! ; . rzrncn tas T7qr Workers? Want Security. For Future SAN FRANCICSO, July The Pacific coast management- labor committee of the war man power commission today urged 4 the federal government to clarify ' tts. policy -wah. respect to post war tecunty for workers who re main on their war jobs and there by possibly risk being out of em ployment when the war ends. ' ! The committee, meeting with William K. Hopkins, retiring re gional director of WMC, pointed to the necessity of holding work ers In essential Industry until the war is won. ir 'Y::l.x,:-'l::. : But it took account of a strong 1 tendency for workers to seek jobs which appear to offer some post war security. : s . . .... Dean Ballard, manager of . the -distributors association of Seat tle," said special consideration should be given to the Pacific coast's position to avoid main-' tenance , of a war economy long after - eastern companies were busy, with . postwar reconversion. "The economy, of the Pacific coast is in danger, Ballard said. fIf we are required to stay on a war footing Until the very last day of the war In the Pacific, we will wind up with some fine ship yards and aircraft plants while the east will be well along with Its reconversion." i ; He said the Pacific' war gave every Indication - of lasting two years beyond the end of the Eu ropean war; ' - Al Hartung, regional CIO di-' rector ; for" Oregon, said many, workers in northwest war plants, particularly aluminum plants and shipyards, were inquiring about job opportunities in ; the lumber industry. , i .- TMC MOUE THAT MIT BUILT CONT. FROM 1 P.3L Last Times Todcryl Paul Laird Manl . Cregar UUDSONS BAY" - , , , ' "PINTO BANDITS" Tenorrow! America's Favorite Girt!. I Belly; Gruble with -. .. "- - i ' Victor - Maturs .'1.T7AEE OP SCOEAIiniG II CO-FEATURE O strsts his stiff! DILL is SHOW AFTER It T MA J f I CI ZZZl elsai BOYD ? . r1 LATE NEWS Today - -. -s