- : i ' i ; : . "'i 1 ' - i 'A. "is .:A-- .'! I s: . ' : ;. :A . ; - :J : .-v.:;,-' - : - .,A: A ' r'i -i-:S r r J - ix .,""' " ; -r--:- ::'-..:- - 'V T 1 Y7cilhcr - n n h t BI a x I m m f emperatora Wednesday 77 degrees; mini mom 57; rain; river -X ft. 1 In. Washlnrton and Orerons Fair Thnrsday and Fri-ay Wanner. 111: PCUND2D - - " - ; " - m , " j " -f'UJfi yy t ! if i ir.ij-,r ft '(f) C i 1 . n , i j x ii y . ill s v r . v r - - - ' ' - I - 1 1 i.i' , Motorist on 89E to Portland go 2 under a new bridge of log and timber construction at . the rail road Y north of Canby. Most of - them will end their inquiry about It when they are told it U a pri vate logging road. Actually how ever there are many interesting feature about the road . which merit wider publicity. For exam ple, there is this question: Why a private logging road when public highways are available and a line of railroad runs almost parallel to thig . private road The obvious ansrer that tne owners can : figure out savings over use of ei ther public r o a d s or railroad. i Since the cost of this forest road is said to be around. $300,000 nd t maintenance expenses must be added to investment cost,' the sav- t Ings must be very substantial to ' Justify the construction. . To the question as to where the "savings occur, the first response may be in license fees to the state . In running trucks over a private roa it is not necessary to buy state license plates; nor is the operator f. required to pay the special carrier '. fees to the public utility commis sioner. The operators also escape . the state tax on gasoline because they do not drive on public high- i ways. These savings are ronsider able. .J.'' . - -; .''., .:;; But while these savings are substantial probably the greater economies come . in operations. The log trucks can move in a steady stream without interrup tion from other traffic Trucks can be loaded to the - maximum . without regard to legal limits for running; on highways, and there - ares no penalties for an overload. ; There are no delays due to cross- i v traffic, and (Continued on Editotaal Page) US Airpower To Enforce World Peace By FRANCIS M. LEMAY ; WASHINGTON, July 12 The army and navy asked con- r gress today to maintain a formid- able postwar air force backed with 1 mammoth aircraft preduction plants ready for any emergency, ; . Undersecretary of rWar Robert 4 P. Patterson and Artemus L. Gates, navy assistant secretary, "voiced the armed services views before a senate military subcommittee. - Gates said: - y A' , "The United States should maintain an air. power sufficient not only to win this war but also to keep the peace." v He and Patterson also proposed ' a broad expansion of civilian avia ; tion, when the war is won. , Plant TiUe to Be Kept Patterson said the government should retain title to its eight huge bomber plants with lease arrangements with private enter prise wherever possible. As to the national : policy for the mainten ance of air power. Gates told the committee that the navy, while plugging for a large - peacetime sea force, endorses the resolution of the aeronautical chamber; of commerce, declaring that Amer 'ica should keep in fighting trim "air power strong enough to keep the peace.""':-', i '. He quoted from the resolution on specific means of accomplish ing! this end. iy - "1. By maintaining adequate air (Continued on page 2) Salem Boy Sees Subs and Planes In Hot Attacks . (Special to The Statesman) NEW ORLEANS, July 12-Glenn Benjamin Sparks, signalman 3rd class, of Salem, Ore., thought his hours1 were numbered when 100 - Jaoanese bombers attacked his convoy off New Guinea. It Just didn't ; seem possible that many nlanes could miss." he .aaid. : ' ; ! '-r-rr: A ' ":A- But American planes and anti aircraft fire turned the scale, the 8th naval district said in recount ing Sparks experiences. Soarks. who. enlisted 'fin the naval reserve 10 days after Pearl . Harbor, has been in action against ' both , German submarines and Japanese aircraft, as a member of a navy armed guard gun crew. Prior to the attack on his con voy. Sparks saw 25 Japanese bombers roar in at Buna. Amer ican P-38s knocked down all but cne "our planes were really having a field day." Soarks is the son of Mr. and Mrs. : B. T. Sparks of route 4, . Calem. Army Deserter , Goes to lTospilal A West Stayton farmhand who, state police said, twice attempted suicide Wednesday was taken to the state hospital . Wednesday ri;ht The 41-year-old man twice stabbed himself over the heart, cut both wrists, walked approxim- ' v rina rules and was able to t I t'l'.an a tlcry cf desertion its f .'r-y in 1C34. inrirrY-TounTii yeah Britain Is ... :. : ..." ' . - Bomfoless; Raids Halt UODOt8 Stop Mlty uver isiana LONDON, July 13-j-ror the first time in a month all Britain had a raid-free night last night, no German flying bombs fell at any point in the country. It was the third successive bombless night for London itself, but during the daylight hours yes terday the "comet bombs" con tinued to blast bits of London and southern England. :' vf "4 ; Deaths came by ones and twos as houses , and shops were demol ished by the spray of explosives, but more .serious" recent incidents were disclosed with the official announcement that bombs had hit such famous London landmarks as the Royal Free hospital in Gray's Inn road, Warner Brothers movie studios at Teddington, and Austra lia house and Aid wych house, at the eastern end of the Strand. A "buzzer" struck the central staircase of the Royal Free hos pital, one of London's oldest, and caused widespread damage. It killed ' five persons and injured nine. - No Explanation Offered There was no immediate ex planation for the sudden cessa tion In the assaults tonight. An - ministry announcement . said merely: There has been no enemy ac tivity i over this country during darkness." RAF bombers, however, were out in. great strength during the night, and it was presumed that flying bomb installations on the French coast were among their targets. Upwards of 1000 heavy bombers were out German reports said night bombers were over --the xeich, but specific targets In occupied terri tory were not named in the first British announcement. ; : ' Munich Raided Again More than 1200 American Fly ing Fortresses and Liberators penetrated into southwest Ger many by daylight yesterday and attacked targets in the Munich area scene of a raid : of about equal strength only 24 hours earl ier. The Munich area is a vital rail hub serving both the Italian and Russian fronts. Yesterday's bombers unloaded at least 3600 tons of bombs.: The Americans, attacking by instruments through heavy clouds which obscured observation of the results, met no German fighter opposition by ran through intense anti-aircraft fire over ihe. target area and 26 bombers failed to return- No planes were lost from a strong force of escorting fight ers. A:- . ' ' I Also for the second straight day. American heavies based in Italy hit southern France. Up to 509 bombers escorted by Lightnings and Mustangs bombed rail targets with good results. Truck Knocks Out Lights for Minute A part of north Salem was in darkness for less than a minute about midnight when the Tile road transformer of the Portland Gen eral Electric company went out of service after the pole on which it is mounted was struck .by a heavy fruit truck. Grass beneath the transformer blazed " and city firemen were called. While power company crews worked to replace live wires on the 1500 block of Woodrow street, city police stood guard to protect passersby. " " Priority Rating May Needed for Lumber Aiig. 1 ' Lumber, most critical of all war materials in the United States to day, will be practically unobtain able for several weeks after Aug ust 1 so far as' those consumers who cannot get priority ' ratings are concerned. But the lumber user with the poorest rating may be assured that his needs prob ably will be filled, under WPB's new order, which goes into effect that date ,R. D. Torbenson of the Western Retail Lumbermen's as sociation, told more than 100 lum ber retailers here Wednesday night .'-;" :;:: --.'- .m Torbenson, who came from Se attle to address the dinner meet ing; of dealers from all parts of western Oregon, predicts that the order may be modified before the month of August is past If it does the task it was planned to accom plish. Once essential orders com mence to flow rapidly from mills, a surplus of lower grade lumber 12 PAGS3 Smoke of Wor Ddrltens Saipan's Hills 1 SL Smoke billows, upward from a Japanese oil damp ja it north f Garapan en Saipan island before US forces captured the city. The: oil (background). Over the rolling capital of the Japanese-held j marianas. (AP Wue photo from marine Allies SHell Seaports on Gothic Line 1 ; mi By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME, July 12.-(tf)-A Hied troops were fighting tonight with in eight miles jjof Li vorno, big It alian - west coast port, and from the same distance were hurling shells into, the shipping center of Ancona on the; Adriatic sea,, at the opposite end of the 50-mile battle line. i i.-' - - S American Ught , armored units blasted forward two miles against strong . German resistance a h d captured the enemy stronghold of Castiglioncello, eight airline miles down the coast from LivornOi while 'Polish troops who distin guished themselves in the bloody Cassino fighting closed into ac curate artillery range of Ancon ca's fortifications. " f r Last Strong Barrier r Possession of the 1 two ports woudl enprmoiisly assist the allied (Continued on Page 2) ! Farm Labor Lull to Be Ended Soon . . Eager workers who have turned out en masse to assist farmers in harvesting crops but who have been discouraged by temporary lack of employment: will all be needed within two weeks, accord ing to Gladys Q. TurnbuU of the Farm labor office, if . t At the present time the cherry harvest is definitely tapering off. The large orchards are finishing while most of the small orchards were completed some time ago. i Caneberry i farmers have been able to secure the services of pre vious years help. This and the fact that this year's crop is light leaves little opportunity for the ambitious laborer. . Weather con ditions have slowed ripening pro cesses. 1 if I A However, In about two weeks the bean harvest should be arriv ing and the : services of nearly every man, wonian and child in the valley can : be utilized, Mrs. TurnbuU emphasized; Be should be come evident, tnd this, at least, may go into regular non priority trade channels, he indi cated. :; ,;g l: ;y A :i :A- Almost: the only non-priority use to which lumber can be put, dealers said, - is i: maintenance : and repair of residences, but reason able addition of extra rooms, con struction of garages and similar projects usually can I be granted priority ratings. ? v'j Each lumber retailer establish ed before May 1, 1944, will, un der the new order, have the right to a small fixed quarterly alloca tion of lumber Which may be sold without certification or rating. If he Is able to obtain the material, not granted according to the size of his business but the' same for every dealer, he still could cot begin to Hit. average repair and maintenance orders, retailers de clared. ' r -I Solam, Orecjon. Thursday Morning, July 13, 1344 , was set off by artillery fire and hills in the foreground Yanks fooght their way Into, the city, once Fire Hazards May Close All Forests j First of a series pf proclama tions closing forests in Orejgon is in effect lodayl Issued this; week by Nels Rogers, state forester. It is the foferunper of similar or ders whidh within a short time will close Ito enry except by per mit all state fund federal forest district wiere fire hazards are great, Rogers Indicated Wednes day, f i ; j In event fire conditions become more serious, -! absolute closures may be announced, Rogers aid. ,; may be announced, Rogc A u A:A i r ' US,iloxico - ee on dct WASHINGTON, uly 12 -Iff) Secretary Cf State Hull andlMex ico Foreikn Minister :Ezequlel Padilla ahnouiced "In a Joint statement itonignt that they had agreed on transportation an4 eco nomic programs and found them selves "in Complete accord on all questions iscussed j- " t j J ! Padilla left by train today for Mexico after spending sixj days iri the capital tailing withiPresI and Mother dent Roosevelt,! HuU officials. The statement said that the two governments had agreed that the United Stales would furnish tech nical assistance and! equipment and supplies as; far as possible to aid the Mxicaji railway; system. i "To the ilunif of - our wartime ability; evefy efjfort shall be tiade by the Unted , States to continue to provide transportation " facili ties for; the mdvemerit of essen tial goods to Mexico, iwhile Mex ico will niake everyj effort, on her part, to reduce the strain on United States transportation fa cilities it fwaa addedw" Ay. The two governments also agreed thai regular shipping ser vices, which had been! interrupted by the warj shall also he resumed in order to lighten thej burden on railway and highway I facilities. ! - I t Scio Doubles War Bond Oiioti - 1 SCIO. July 12 ScSci area sub scribed 213 per cent of its $80)00 fifth War loan quota,1 according to final . statement of Waldo! De Moy, manager of the Scio State bank and chairman of bond solici tations for Scio and adjacent rural communities, j . ii:. !; Series E bonds bought by ndi viduals alope topped ( the quota totalling $6447145. Series C were 36700, series F 374, and series G $5000. Balance, of; the community's total was aUso.yOO allocation In unspecified leriesi credited to' Scio by the " Roaring! River Logging company, subsidiary of Crossett and Western. Marine Corpora Killed in Pacific ' LEBANON CpL Harold Coop er! US marine corps, !was killed in faction in the Pacific! theatre of operations, according to Informa tion received by bis v father, Charles Cooper. j . ! Cpl. ; Cooper, 2 V yesrs old, 3 was graduated from Lebanon high school in 19 1 8. lie is survived by his father; k trcther.1 r.a!;h; " a sister, Eonn4 n-J Yds randuioth er. Mrs. A.! E. . Cooper, all : of Lebanon. 3 i ' 5 1 shells from destroyers in the bay corps.) Losses at Saipan Run Over 15,000 By EUGENE BURNS US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS,; Pearl Harbor, July 12.-(ff)-Conquest of strategic Sai pan island in the western Pacific cost 15,053 American casualties 2,359 killed, 11,481 wounded and 1,213 ; missing Navy r Secretary Forrestal announced t o d a y in Washington. ; -y-: . ;' This total, the highest of any ingle ground action' in the Pa eioc, was far ? exceeded by the losses i inflicted - on the Japanese garrison, 11,948 of whom already had been buried. ,.t Forrestal said "probably 95 per cent of the defending force, es timated at more than 20,000, died in - the futile defense of ' Saipan. That island is -within bombing range of Tokyo and already is being used by American fighting planes. -C:vA , v' !:; '-yA-r'. V-'V5" Record Prisoner Catch Forrestal's report foil o.w e d q u i c k 1 y a;n announcement by A dm. Chester W. Nimitz that Jap anese prisoners of war on Saipan already exceeded, 1,000. That also was a record for any single cam paign in the Pacific." " ' i Newt carrier task force strikes Monday at Guam and Rota, in the Marianas south of Saipan, were reported by Nimitz. ! -. Many Japanese still were be lieved hiding out in caves and on wooded ridges, although" organ ized . resistance ' ended Saturday, Nimitx reported one marine regi- ment alone killed 711 Nipponese troops Monday in mopping up ac tivities. ,' More than 9,000 Japanese civil ians already had been interned, Nimitz ! said. " The latest carrier plane strike s (Continued on Page 2) y ! - i s- .'1 Teachers' Pay Raised hy Board - PORTLAND, Ore., July 12-ff) A new salary schedule for educa tion and business department em ployes of the Portland public school system providing 320 monthly cost of living bonus and base pay increases was approved by the board tonight The bonus is a continuation of a program started last year and will be financed from funds ex pected from the federal govern ment as an offset to war-caused increases In the district's expend! tures. v County Buy War Bonds (Special U The Statesman) - PORTLAND. July H--Stu dents In Marion county public schools purchased $3 15,398. in war bonds and : stamps from Septem ber, 1943, to June, 1944, the treas ury department said today. Public school students, throughout the state, purchased $9,05982 in the same period. Evacuation of Toulon Claimed .i .. -i - ' , : ' .... LONDON, Thursday, July-13 (fl5)- The Swiss radio said early today that Toulon on the French Mediterranean coast, hard hit by American heavy bombers, had been comjlekly evacuated.'. Kefl Near Latvia' In-: New-Drive Russ Army Takes Idritsa in 22-JKle Northern Blove By RUSSELL LANDSTROM LONDON, Thursday, ; July 13-()-Russian troops have broken through German defenses between Polotsk, and Pskov on new front 93 miles wide and captured more than 1000 places in a two-day ad vance of t least 22 miles, Pre mier Stalin announced last jiight, intensifying the threat of disaster for all nazi: forces in the Baltics. : More than 7000 Germans were killed and some 1500 taken pris oner in a single day's fighting on the ew front, the early morning supplement to the soviet com munique said, as Gen. Andrei L Yeremenko's second Baltic army began battering the enemy lose from one of the last nazi foot holds on pre-war soviet soil. : 1 Other soviet armies to the south pounded - nearer East Prussia reaching within 40 miles, some London morning papers quoted a German broadcast as saying and it was considered possible that the reds! might be fighting on the reich's own territory by the end of the week. Railway Town Taken- ' In a special order of the day Stalin said the new offensive was launched today west and north west of Novosokolniki and - had captured the important ; railway junction of Idritsa, 22 miles east of the La vian border, as well as other large towns and A railway stations- in the area. -' - ine - Moscow; radio and press dispatches to British papers sub sequently reported that the drive had penetrated westward as much as 30 miles. against fierce resist ance; ; The Moscow communique supplement said the ten counter attacks by reinforced German di visions were repulsed as the so viet forces smashed toward Lat via. ' i-y : -;r .i,::v The German position on the whole 500-mile front v became so patently hopeless that the Berlin 1 (Continued on Page 2) Negro Combat Team Shows Up Superior' Nazis By ALLAN M. MORRISON ; Star and Stripes Correspondent AT THE US ARTILLERY, COM MAND POST IN FRANCE, j July 12-(P-Showing ' utter Contempt for the "master race" divisions facing them, US negro artillery men firing 155-mm howitzers are blasting German installations and troop concentrations and pound ing to pieces the, nazi theory , of Inferior, and "superior" races. The first negro combat artillery team to fight in this sector is this howitzer outfit, which Is a member of a four-unit artillery group in cluding a battalion og 105's and two 155-mm long toms. - "These artillerymen have done splendidly," the colonel at corps headquarters. "We're proud of them.! They are one of our best units." . Distances on 1 imi i POLAND' S) UtkR SYl- ...rA A 'A "AJ:- Av, 'r''-- Vttmlmrn'y lineare flrwes on broken lines distance lalcstors shew space be tween rei army drives and several major objectives. Heavy brakes le is tie arrroxLaate tattle frcat (AP TTIreshote.) IMc 5c GermartG Say Her riot Dies IriNaziland LONDON, Thursday,- July 12 (VP)-The German news aaencv DNB, "in Berlin broadcast, an nounced today the d e a th of Edouard Herriot, former French premier and bitter opponent of nazi aggression. The former radical socialist was 72. The Berlin broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, gave no details.- ' ' Berlin announced early last Sep tember, that Herriot was seriously ill and subsequently, ' on Septem ber 6, Vichy dispatch to a Swiss newspaper said he had been placed in a sanatorium for treatment for a mental disorder.! : - Herriot had been held in custo dy by the Germans since the fall of France. He was reported with out confirmation to have attempt ed to contact the allies after their landing in north Africa. - - Nations Fail eon Gold Quotas i BRETON WOODS, NM, July 12 OP) -Quotas for the - nations par ticipating in the proposed - world monetary fund were reported to night as almostTeady for presen tation to the United Nations mone tary conference, with the Soviet Union-the only nation holding up the parade. , - A conference spokesman admit ted today there still was some mis unuderstanding between the Sov iet -Union and the United States over the ' amount - of gold - Russia should pay as part of her sub scription to the stabilization fund. Russia wants a reduction in her gold payment, contending she will need as much gold as possible to help pay for her war devastation. - The Russians have asked . Mos cow ; for : instructions on; the gold question, and -the spokesman said today the United States had "very strongly requested" the soviet delegation to -get the matter cleared up so that the work of the conference could proceed.' The monetary fund commission of the conference is scheduled to meet tomorrow to ? receive the schedule of quotas, among other things, and it was indicated that if the soviet quota is not decided, her part of the quota lineup may be left blank.' .'.;';;-, -"' . . ; ' The United States, it was under stood,' is not very enthusiastic? about the reduction in the gold percentage of the fund subscrip tion, holding that if the amount Is reduced for Russia it will have to be trimmed for other nations suf fering war damage. This would in clude England, with its widespread bombing destruction. ' New US Divisions Arrive at Front Ay . - LONDON, Thursday, July 13-(yF)-The Berlin radio said today fresh American divisions coming direct from the United States had just arrived in Normandy. . ' It said the allies had installed hundreds of loudspeakers along the front through which they were calling upon German soldiers to desert Russian Front ToAgre No. 3 DisruDts s . Nazi Lines Deadly Artillery .Barrages Force Enemy to Retire By JAMES M. LONG T SUPREME HEADQUARTERS. ALLIED EXPEDITIONS R Y FORCE,' Thursday, July I3-(AV. US storm troops attacking; under one of the deadliest artillery bar rages of the war, captured points within one mile and a half of the mid-Normandy, citadel of St Lo yesterday and also hammered ' a spearhead to within two and a quarter miles of Lessayj west coastal anchor of the collapsing German flank. j Charging through 1 hedgerows and l across . fields littered - with elite German parachutists who had . been hurled into the lines in an unsuccessful effort to halti them, the ,; American infantrymen', were aided by a consuming artillery fire - which smashed German rear-line concentrations . and killed ; front -line troops. .'. ' ;r ,y' vV . Many German prisoners were i stupefied j by the barrage- from -f hundreds of big guns as the Am- ' ericans steadily folded back ' the German western lines while the British and Canadians blunted re peated German counterthrusts in the Caen sector. . -. - New Strategy Shewn . ! Some 200 . trapped - Germans were wiped out north of St Lo. - (German broadcasts, of reports from front line nazi correspond ents termed the allied barrage the heaviest ever , encountered, ' and said the grinding down of German rear concentrations and cpmmunl cations by both artillery and allied air power presented .a strategy utterly new in the history of war fare.:- h-:y.' . -.""':s. . tWhjle ! the - jBerlin tbroidcasts ; apparently also were prompted in explanation of axis reverses" In Normandy they nevertheless con- -firmed that allied air power had made it almost Impossible for the Germans 1 to exert - their full strength in Normandy because , of damaged roads, railways and roll- ing stock. t"By , day our forces go" to death,' said" the Berlin refer ence to allied artillery and air power. "By night they move..,, by devious ways.") - - a' I r ' General Eisenhower's 11:30 pjn. . communique . last night said. steady allied pressure in all main- areas of activity continued to , (Continued on Page 2). , Citizens Talk - 1 Postwar Plans 4' A - group of citizens - meeting with the board of the chamber of commerce . ; last ' night adopted - a- resolution presented by W. Mi.; Hamilton urging the board to es tablish a committee to formulate community plants covering the postwar period and for a long range program of development The board will consider the, res olution at a later meeting. . .t . A ;k It was brought out at the meet ing,, that educational and promo tional work in behalf of community-projects was properly; the ' work of the chamber, though fi nal decisions and - execution of plans belongs to governing bod ies. The committee would try to lay out progressive plans to match, Salem's growth and to promote their adoption by the people and by governing agencies. s Itwould endeavor to coordinate private with public Improvement -vjThe plan Is a revival of the ten year program which was launched by civic organizations in 1940 and dropped during the war. Salem Boy Goes -DownWitk Sub ; TILLAMOOK. July 2(JPiUPlK former Salem youth, Chester Mal colm 'Moffitt,: was killed in the sinking of the submarine S-28, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C T. ITofStt, said today they were noti fied by the navy department , The 22-year-old signalman . was a graduate of Salem high school.- . t .jr -" ' ' ; '-. ': V ' '- '" ' ".''ii' i-NI I " l"M'V - I "'' ' ;' fc" .' Cunncr on Bomber : Fails to Return . .? ALBANY Jack Beacon, avia tion machinist mate second class, US navy, has been reported miss ing in action, according to infor mation received from the navy byr his father, William Beacon. -The -. Albany man was a -gunner on a . dive bomber at the time he failed to return. Another brother, Wil liam Beacon, . Jr., Is also in the US navy. - -4 , iti' 4