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A Tin : n yt nil ' ;;.-.!-: . :Tt' -vti ':':tti oinnr St.' "to: "Bit 9 r- i : - : : ...: , . . 1 , C " - " ' .- : 1 o ";t 'BJCCDffl Willi (IlVWflS W Fiercely There Is such s thing as "party" politics, not the party of political organization, but the social affair, which y mixes politics with the drinks. Washington is full of it, and so are other capitals. Holland house was famous in English his .tory as a rendezvous for political j figures; and Lord and Lady Astor : made Cliveden so distinguished it 'became a byword over the whole world. .' .. ':' ; So it is not surprising that the social set In Rome is. shifting its ' allegiance with the advent of the 'allies and seeking to hold its place .with ' the exercise, of . the social 'graces. Thus the liberal newspap er in : Rome, Risorgimento Liber- ale, protests because ' "friends of , Edda Ciano and the Count, " who used to ' have parties with Ger man officers in their homes, are now giving parties . with - the ' Americans in their homes." These ex-fascists ; profited by their former allegiance,- they, had the , best of food and drink, so now they can put on the best en ;tertainment for the new military guests; and they can change from praise of fascism to avowals of 'eternal loyalty? tor - democratic principles, with never a qualm. ' That indeed -iff one of the marks 'of; the social lobby; just so long as its members can hold their .social positions they will go along with " any regime. Which is j per haps natural the social set of .the capital, is permanent, the re gime changes, whether it is a president or a governor or a king. . There is real danger however in the activities of the social lob by in ' (Continued on Editorial Page) v Sfnt Dm ft f , .... 'v. - Board in NeHv Headquarters ' ( . State selective service headquar .ters moved during the night to the building at the southeast cor ner " of Commercial " and Sourt streets, from the State Office building. The - new quarters are those ' formerly occu Died bv the Salvation Army - operated USO, Loan -headquarters.- - Adj. Gen. .Ray. F. Olson and his aiaii-' retain xne oiiices iormeriy "shared with selective service. Col. Elmer V. Wooton, state selective service director - said the offices would probably remain in the downtown district after the close of! the war because of its new du ' ties In 'aidmc rehabilitation : of - veieranst -: ' - " GJuuidi Agrees To Back War t NEW DELHI, July 15-(P)-Mo- handas K. Ghandi has pledged not to renew- his campaign of civil disobedience during the war and instead has promised to help the allied war effort and envisaged a nationalist . government of India under a British viceroy. If .:J His statement, in which he fore saw the viceroy as being "like the king of England guided by respon sible ministers." outlined what was interpreted as a formula for settle- : ment of the political impasse be tween Britain and India, .but it failed to elicit any general approv al from either side. f Apparently modifying his Well- known "quit-India" resolution of September, 1942, Ghandi's State- . rnent represented a , distinct" re . treat , from the position he had ' held. However, ' he qualified his ' promise respecting civil disobed- Jence with, "Unless there was' a very grave reason, as for instance the thwarting of India's natura " rights of freedom. - , First Call for Christmas; r.Iail Early to Servicemen The first appeal for early-mailing of Christmas parcels for serv ice men and women went out from the postoffice department today. Postmaster H. R. Crawford said cuch packages should be mailed between September IS and Octo ber 15. The must weight not more - than five pounds and have a com bined length and girth Ct not ex ceeding 38 Inches. Hying Bomb Attacks Normandy Disclosed "i LONDON, July 1 MD-Aa more winged bombs exploded in London end southern England today and Xnembers of parliament demanded i tdditional information about de fensive measures, being taken, it T. rs disclorc :-l that the nazis. had t . the new weapon against wnjzTY-rouRTn year Reds Gain After E of mt?6. or -i- ', Soviets ba ve M." Within 30 Miles Of East Prussia By "RUSSELL CvLANDSTROM : LONDON, July 13 (JP)t Wilnd, gateway to the Baltic 'and capital of ' the . Soviet Lithuanian republic since : 1940,- fell to the red army today after five days of - street fighting in which more than 8000 Germans were killed and 500& captured, Moscow announced to-; night, while i continuing advances to the southwest placed the Rus sians less than 30 miles from .the borders of East Prussia. Several hundred towns and vil lages were taken in the general soviet, advance all along the cen tral, Baltic and Finnish fronts, the soviet midnight communique announced, with noteworthy gains being made in the steady " encir clement of Daugavpils, big ; rail hub in southern Latvia. Twenty Mile Gain " . v " One of the day's significant ad ances was in the center, where the soviet communique as record ed by the soviet monitor said Rus sian troops took the town of Ruz hany, 60 miles northeast of Brest Litovsk, anchor-point on the Ger mans' next defense line and bor der city in the 1939 German-Russian partition of Poland. This represented an advance of 20. miles from' previously reported soviet positions and confirmed German broadcasts earlier' in' the day admitting that the Russians had broken through a German se curity line in; that region. The Soviet; communique : also made official Berlin's day-long re ports of withdrawal in the north, where Generals Andrsi. L Yere- menko and Ivan C Bagramin were pounding toward the Baltic sea. Baltic Freat Moves Besides the heavy losses in flicted on the Germans at Wilno, troops of thesecond Baltic -front commanded by Gen. Yeremenko. killed 3000 and captured at least 600 and southwest of Lida, another 1000 nazis were killed and nearly 400 captured, the early morning supplement to the Soviet cornmu nique said. . . - ; " ' - West of Lida the big rail center of Grodno, stronghold of the last German defense line -before East Prussia, came , practically within the, grasp of the third White Rus sian army as Gen. Ivan Cherniak hovsky's forces advanced 25 miles and seized Nova Ruda, 18 miles east of the junction. Nazis Deny Herriot Death: LONDON, July 13 JFf Nazi controlled radios labeled "errone ous" tonight earlier broadcasts announcing the death of Edouard Herriot, 72, thrice premier :of France and for 36 years . beloved mayor of jrons. ; - Berlin and Paris radios both broadcast reports . of Herriot' death : during the day but later the Vichy radio said -the an nouncement " of - .i Herriot's death was erroneous. Monsieur Herriot Is in excellent health." His where about was hot disclosed. , I In German custody since the fall of France, Herriot once pre viously was reported to have died in a nasi prison.: 'Rather Have Statesman' Many a service man thous ands of miles away is keeping track of the home folks through th medium of The" Oregon Statesman. One of these is Capt William S. Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. C W. Parker of 505 Rose street, Salem. . . ' - Captain Parker, an army dentist in the European theatre,' was ' getting ' another ; Oregon newspaper until his parents re ceived this note:. . Td rather have The States man. The local news 'is better In It ' Captain Parker now is get ting The Statesman and his cherished v local news. The Statesman hopes he and his friends are enjoying it, and will continue to strive towards making it even more invalu- able to those far away. T is pages Paratroopers Lajd, fiqemfoor r wn-... . i i With infantrymen whe- already had US paratroopers float down from island, off the coast of Dotch New Guinea, daring thej occupation of that Jap-held island by allied forces. AP photo from signal corps MunichXdrsets iti Rtiihs FromlOOOmtiri LONDON, July li--The enemy bombers were approaching the lower j Danube, indicating allied raiders were striking again frm Mediterranean bases. Jarlier residents on Britain s big force of. Britain-based daylight bombers setting: out. across the channel. ! SalMi Leads : InJNumberof WACs,WAVES Salem's June record of WAC and WAVES enlistments is highest in the nation on a per capita basis comparison." ' . : ," Recruiters here have been noti fied today of their top billing at time when their organizations over ; the nation are laying extra stress 0q the need for women in the armed services. ; Women's army corps enlistments through the Salem substation dur ing June were highest in . the Ninth Service command, which led the nation. - ', Navy recruiters have been in formed, that the Salem district leads the 13th naval district. Ore- gon, part o( that district, has led all the states during most of the war, they said. . r ...... j, (Newt and pictures about the women In the two services front Salem on page 11.) . ' Invasion Cost Allies 15 Ships WASHINGTON, July 13-P)-Of the several thousand ships that took part in the June 6 invasion of Normandy, 15 were lost, It was an n o u n c e d today seven American and eight British.- f f American losses included three destroyers and the former S4,CC3, 000 Grace liner Santa Clara, re named the transport Susan B. An thony. : The J British admiralty ' in London . said : the Susan B. An thony sank without, the loss of a soldier. Most of the troops aboard were - transferred to other ; ships with, their equipment. Some 50 or more of the 400 naval personnel aboard are unreported, but most are believed safe. . American 1 destroyers lost were the Corry, Glennon and the 2Ier editn. Also lost were the destroy er escort Rich, minesweeper Tide, and the fleet tug Partrid-e. Com manding officers of all vers els ex cept the, minesweeper survived, although ;two were wounded. The minesweeper's skipper, Lt. Cmdr. AUord Barnwell Hay ward, was Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning, swept ashoje gathered te watch, transport planes over Noemfoor German' radio warned today that i southeast coast had observed a i 'I .!.: i i O Bv AUSTIN j. BEALMEAR concentrated j around Munich lay twisted and spioking tonight, ham mered j into wreckjage -during the heavy ! bombers which j . smashed against this fourth largest German aty for . the thirdi day s in ;a row and finally forced the German air force to come up and fight The Sgreat fleet of Fljring Fort ressev land Liberators, completinf sea land Liberators, completinf unprecedented 60-houi; assault 'tnctklTatirak enrifind A curh a an on small farea, also pounded' Saar - burckeh, 200 j miles west of Mu- nich. as the allies nfessed a gi gantic campaign to isolata i tire t-"T.""wr i - I -1 I S . UnliMe the! previous two days, when the German air force failed (Continued oh Page 3) i. ..... I -1 " . L : Wewak Japs Lose Heavily ADVANCED ALLIED ;HEAD- QUARtERS, INewi . Guinea, Fri day, July 14-CffV-The 45,000 Japa- nese trying to break out of a Brit- Ish New' Guinea trap northwset of Wewak- have suffered heavy losses, headquarters ' announced today. M' ' . Gen. Douglas MacArthur said a large epemy force moved r west Wednesday to attack, Altape and smashed Into Yank outposts. The fragmentary ' batUefronl l re- pons, covering acuon uuui wtj light Wednesday, made no 'men tion of i an enemy jbreak-through knywbete, b u t a! headquarters spokesman said the preliminary assaults! were j checked lonryj after the most savage fighting ! of the New Guinea Campaign. V7omen Children t LONDON. July 13 USh The French pms servi giving de- tails of the niri massacre of in - habitants of pradaur-Sur-Glane, eenb-al French village.: last ! June 10, said today women and children usu vwsi itn.-K.eu insiae a Cnurui which -thea-was rJyn-nittd and set Mire, 1 ! Nearly E00 persons perished in the atrocity and "only "seven or eight" of the entire population es- caped, tr.e Frer.cn a-ency zz. The massacre previously had been reported tyi the 1' j itiih Croadcastin cor.pay, wl.ith Said about 11C3 of the tT-vn's-lSCO in &Raid July 14, 13U 'fwb Jap , - . i . Are-Killed Pearl Harbor, v Blidway Attacker Dies on Saipah ' By EUGENE BURNS .; US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl . Harbor, Jury 13.-(A-Two Japanese admirals, one of whom directed the attacks on : Pearl Harbor and Midway, died July j.7 on Saipan, Adra. Chester ,W. Nimitz announced to night in a communique. : J One, Vice Adm. Chuichi Nag- urn was cornmander in chief of we jv-eninu jracmc area or we imperial Japanese navy. He was in command of Japanese forces which attacked Pearl Harbor and in command of the carrier task I force which was wiped out at ivuaway, Just prior to his latest and fatal command, ne was commandant oi the Sasebo naval base on the Jap anese mainland. Nimitz said Bear Admiral Yano was killed on the same day. New US Landings . Simultaneously he announced that elements of the second ma rine division had landed on Man- iagassa. Island July 12 west lon- gvtude which Is two miles north of Mutcho Point on Saipan island, - auZa. VCl !:rll: and controls the entrance of the important Tana pa g harbor. : The similarity between ' Saipan and Oahu is striking and Tanapag harbor and. Pearl Harbor empha sizing this close likeness.-" - Tlnian Evnibifded. r ' " Npw- that Saipan Is in Amer ican hands, artillery bombard' ment and navy gunfire is neutral- izing Tinian island on which there is a Japanese airfield vli . Oahu headquarters and tho of the late : Vice Admiral Nagumo on Saipan, Nimitz pointed out that Saipan was built up by the Jap- j anese as . the principal . fortress es to! Japan and as a major supply base for Japan's temporary hold ings In the south seas. . Presumably before Nagumo was killed on Saipan, ' be must, have learned of the disaster which met the 'Japanese navy in the Phil ippines -"ear- June 18-20 western longitude. T "7 1 J J UUS ! X 1C1Q I JL ' i I 11 firm T14m, v ' 5 u u x u J a s t ama cuw- 1 MAN II HtAUUUAlLKi. dv, Cevlon, Juir IS.--Jaoan ese retreating in north s Burma have yielded the village of Pyin- daw. .where they apparently tried to nW tar another stand eiVht miles' southwest ot their fallen stronghold of Moeaunsr. Admiral Lord! Louis Mountbatten's com - tnunique announced today. ?5 West African Nigerians l and Chinese wrested the vDlaae from the Japanese after a day of bitter fighting, and the Nigerians pur J sued the enemy on southward. I ... Disorganized . Japanese, wan- dering f through the monsoon in eastern India, are bein wined out or, captured along . the Imphal - J TJkhrul road. nd all their esrane routes to the south have been closed. Soldiers Gentle With jTTomen's Dormitories CORVALUS, July 13-JP)-SoI- dier students, Jammed Into living J quarters In double the normal ca - parity, have caused no more than i normal Wear and tear to Oregon t&X&3E director, said today. Recaptured Near Border I - , - LETHBRIDGE, ; Altan July ' 13 (CP) -Four German nrisoners who! j escaped. at 7:30 am. from the Ma- uu aosiei were recapturea nijht lj. -rnoimted police at Del iComta, Alta. five miles from the international border. 7cther . tlaxiacia tenspersture . Thnrs xr tl: K::.!-:a 47; ne rain; riv er -3 ft - f ' Cre.: Ft!? T." :y srl Ealariiy. Admirals TR F' i Brig.' Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. . t li IrCJle ItOO6176lt ' SirTf mflS dkTt wWW' IC. rt - i w I r&TlCM F TOUT WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN NORMANDY, July 13 HP)- Brig Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, 5 the soldier son of a soldier father T-died of a heart attack last night as he rested in a captured German truck.', ?y'M:--Uv--?5 t General Roosevelt had been us ing the truck for his! office and r 77 ' "J - "tf1" heart attack four days ago but had kept at , work : as assistant com manding - general of ' the Fourth Infantry division. ? He. died two hours after - a visit with- his son. Quentin, a captain in the First JpftryW.IrM'--; i Tomorrow Boosevelt; son' of the former. president' and one- of the best beloved generals in the army, will be buried in the Fourth div ision military cemetery. His body will rest in the soil of the same i?JSflS"- tin, was killed in the last war. (Please see page 7 for biography.) State's Funds May Make Up 07000 Deficit There may be no necessity for a conference or in siaie iisn com mission . to .. consider 1 means ox making up the commission's $7000 financial deficit, it appeared to day. KT-V' rrV 1 " Should Attorney General George Neuner hold that the state emer gency board Is authorized to ap propriate ; sufficient funds to straighten, out the tangle, Gov, Earl Snell indicated Thursday , he might not call the meeting. i Neuner was expected to com plete a legal opinion asjo wheth er the emergency board has this I authority within a XeW ttays. in event Neuner's opmion is favor i able. Governor - Snell I Indicated 1 that he would call a meeting oi the emergency board at which the chairman of the fish committee 1 would iddcu - and discuss the situation. i Dewey Assails Flml . PolirV I i - 1 ALBANY,-NY, July 11-UP) I Governor Thomas E.- Dewey as- sailed today what he said Is a re- cently-developed concept that the executive branch of . the federal government is "above the people' and pledged his efforts 1 to "bring the people closer to the, practice of self-government He spoke to the Empire Girls' State, a eov eminent trainina con- i ference held annually for New J York's high school girls. Twlash-Mov&Agamst- Lutely Within By FLORA LEWIS WASHINGTON,4 J u 1 y 18- Turkey is moving rapidly towards ' the allies, it was learned authori- nA sv. j concrete step 'in support of the " I United riiUOJlS War eiXOri WlUlin matter of days, Talks have been going on for three weeks between the Turks on one side and the United States, Britain and Russia on the other. . Ever since the conference at Cairo last year between President Roosevelt Prime Minister Chur chill end Turkish President Js- I met Inonu, Turhey fcss- teen r- . Yankees Slog :Way ; Nazi '; Stronghold Falls in i.Drivc On fGolhic line . , By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME, July i J3-(JP--American troops have captured the German stronghold of Lajatico, 17 miles inland from the Italian west coast. in some of the bitterest fighting in weeks and tonight were report ed battering their way slowlv down the Era valley toward the Arno : river; X first great obstacle in the enemy's f Gothic line" de fenses. y 1. '.. VJ . - i Lti Gen; Ma IrViW, Clark's doughboys cleaned out the last German suicide squads in Lajati co yesterday, taking .150 to 200 prisoners, and. pressed on north ward Inl their drive to' flank the big port of Livorno, whose strong ! defenses virtually have stalled an American push i directly .up the coast for the past week. :. 28 Miles from River - Late dispatches -placed, the flanking 'forces less than a dozen miles from the point where the Era river empties into the Arno northeast of Uvorno. where the broad Arno valley stretches west ward to the sea between Livorno and Pisa. ' There, was no indica tion that American troops on the coast had progressed beyond their last reported position eight miles from Livorno, where they had en countered withering enemy artil lery fire from the hills. . ' Inland from Lajatico other al- approaches to . the "Gothic line.' After beating back several sav age nazi counter - attacks, French colonials won positions from which they could- strike at - Poggibonsi, which guards both the Elsa river valley approach to the Arno and the main highway, northeast to Florence 21 miles away. Arezzo, key junction' 36 miles east of Poggibonsi and the same distance southwest of Florence, was under , constant . probing by British eighth army patrols and a major attack oh its 'defenses ap peared to be imminent An allied officer said the Germans - had massed more ; than 70 big guns around Arezzo. I Lower Octane For Civilians WASHINGTON, July v 13 - (Ft Secretary Jckes, petroleum admin istrator for "war,1 announced to night that refiners have been di rected to change specifications of civilian gasoline from 72 to , 70 octane; thus reducing its . anti knock content ' kvt-' v.; The action, effective tomorrow, was ' taken because' of increased needs of the armed services for 100-octane aviation ; - fuel, Ickes said. - - 1, He added that "a people which Is giving its blood generously to back up our wounded men will hardly object to another knock or two in the old automobile. 2nd Class Postoffice Earned by Two Towns STAYTON, July 13 As of July 1 the Stayton . postoffice became a second class office. Mrs. Grace Neibert is postmistress. " INDEPENDENCE, July 13 Glen Smith, postmaster, 'reports that the local postoffice was ad vanced to second class as of July 1. The office had postal receipts of $17,221.13 for first six months of 1944, an Increase of 33 percent over the same period in 1943. t Next Few Days and within the past two months the pace has stepped up consid erably. ' - j Turkey has already, cut her overall trade with Germany by 50 per cent in addition to com plete stoppage of chrome exports. The next move may be a sever ance of all economic relations with Germany, with the possibili ty that a break In diplomatic rela tions and eventually war would fellow. v;.:'(-''.--.-..-. -r.. - Turkey's entrance Into the war would open an entire new front sainst Germany, and could cause complete German collapse In the MeariArno Fall Near 3 Allies Sweep Up 7 ' i i Towns; Germans Stunned, Sickened f By JAMES M. LONG SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Friday, July l-WVThe fall of'StLo seemed Imminent today as American doughboys stormed heights a mile and a half . to the east in-position to fire at point , - blank range" on escape routes and into the heart1 of the fortress - itself, guarding all " ene my positions on. the Cherbourg peninsula front. ' I . ' , -'The night communique from ru- . preme headquarters reported fur the'r gains by the column of armor and infantry which fought to the ... outskirts of La Barre de SemiUy two miles east of St Lo, and the ; Germans summoned echelons from ; ' the rear in an attempt to prevent a break-through. ' ' ' " Seven Towns Fall f ' Seven towns were swept up by Lt, Gen. Omar N. Bradley's dough- . boys, who were on the move in a slugging advance all along the -flaming battlefront that put them within three miles north of the enemy's -central periers and two miles north of the coastal strong- -point of Lessay. "J - Supreme ' headquarters : broad cast a new warning to fishermen, to stay out of coastal waters from Bayonne, near the Spanish fron tier, to 'the West Frisian islands off the northwest coast of Ger many, renewing 'orders expiring last night j Germans Stunned : . -; The Americans moved to the at tack on St Lo' after an opening barrage which' left Germans stun- - ned and sickened in their lox holes. . V V Associated Press Correspondent Don Whitehead, picturing the blazing battle in the green coun tryside of hedgerows, said a staff officer declared the enemys posi tion in the ancient Normandy city , was untenable. U -, ! - Americans on the, rdge which ward the city, -while the enemy, waiting in tanks and behind the hedges, was putting up stiff re sistance. , - Sound trucks were wheeled up a (Continued on Page 2) Hot Streets ; . ... Get Bath of Chilled Beer ; Mercury officially was nearing its " 81-degree maximum for the day and in Salem proper reflect ing pavementa had magnified the heat to ; more - than 90 degrees Fahrenheit . , , when 30 cases of cold beer slewed from a truck to fjU and chill gutters at the inter- -section of Capitol and Center streets Thursday afternoon. - Guy E. Waldron, Oregon City, driver, told police a bus cut in front of him as he was driving east on Center street and attempt ing to turn north on CapitoL v Quick application of the brakes saved the truck but caused loss -of part of its beer cargo, he said. ' . Logs on a truck trailer" which collided with a northbound pas senger train ' at State and 12th streets, shortly before 8 o'clock Thursday night twisted loose but did not fall to the paving. . -, ; - p- ; t- ' J: Bastile Day Today In Freed France . , - WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN jFRANCE, July - 13-(JP)-Every city, town an hamlet in liberated Normandy most of them scarred by iwar-proydly flew the tricolor tonight in anticipation of the cele bration of Bastile day tomorrow. The American and British flags hung from the shellpocked build ings alongside the tricolor from Caen - to Cherbourg . in France's first free observance of their, own "Fourth of July" in four j years. Commissioner Francois Coulet and other representatives of the French national committee will at tend the -ceremonies at Cherbourg. rJarine Officers, . 38, May Retire j WASHINGTON, July 13 -CTV Officers over 38 years of age in the -marine corps, can apply for dijeharge, the; navy said tonight orders to that effect having been promulgated .recently. ;. ; . ? A similar directove permits en listed men over 38, if they are serving in this country, to make application for discharge, which, the service said, will be considered if they are "serving under normal v circumstances.'! Approval of the discharge ep- ' plications must be given by 5 the Individual commanders, it v. 13 said. r- -.. . - j-- - i trocps ia ilamandr. killed. fcabi tan ti were k:'.':l. i : I7arr.:r L i-vhir ever r r