i i I - it - - - I t i , ' ! t , - - V' - i . . y ' t ' ' S f . - ! ' f YTealhcr JUaxiraam temperatur 4 Saturday 85 decrees; mini ; sonni 54; no rain; river 3Ji tt: Fair Sunday and Mon j ' day except lew elends ea the ii eaast and scattered f hinder- :. storms ever and east of the Cascade Snnday. Slightly ceoler Saaday. - ID (1-1 In $1 ; I ',; ' kunooo 1651 ' - - "I When the federal f billot bill being debated Sen. Robert A. Taft sponsored an amendment, which waii adopted, forbidding any officer employed in the exe cutive branch of the government, including the army and -navy, "to oeaver , . , to persona in the arm' ed forces any general communi ration, literature or material, paid fM tn ktKaIa VM 4M ...141 eminent funds containing politi cal argument or propaganda of any kind designed or calculated to affect the result of ; any federal eiecuon. - The purpose of the clause was ' obvious: to top OWI from ship- ping out its new deal 'and FDR . propaganda to men in the aervice But the amendment, phrased in ' general language, now becomes a tight noose strangling freedom of thought for ; soldiers and sailors. -The government has been provid ing libraries, motion pictures, dra ' rr - for the army i; camps and pc , for naval stations-and ships, It thus is made 'necessary to steri- lize'every book, every play, "every motion picture to see that it con tains no matter : that might be construed as "calculated to affect the result of any federal election.1 That this amendment is being very narrowly construed is prov en by names of books which have Jbeen put under the ban. Barred ' from military libraries - are such - books as Catherine Drinker Bow- en's recent "Yankee from Olym . rii" a-Wnffrnnhv f th lat Mr. Justice Holmes; E. B. White's book of essays, "One Man's Meat"; and Charles A. Beard's The Repub lic", a most interesting study of 'the American constitution done after Hhe dialogue style of Plato'i ritepuDiic; . i ne nan nas Deen ex -tended to three textbooks in use ; in training courses at the Univer sity of California: "American Na tion" by John Hicks: "Labor -Problems in American Industry' by Carroll. Daugherty; and "Sco , nomics. Principles and Problems' by Gemill and Blodgett : (Continued on editorial page) Hubert Johns, Salem, Drowns : In Willamette . , HubertI (Ike) Johns,- Salem painer7 wsdrown.when the motorboat in which he and his wife and a party of friends rode on the Willamette capsized off the Salem boathouse dock at mid night 1 . ' Dragging and grappling equip ment manned by police and city firemen was in operation through out Aarly morning hours in search for the body which river t men believe may not be found i for several days. . j-" j''. '' Johns may have been struck by the overturning boat, for mem bers of the party of good swim mers said he never came to the surface of the dark river. The group of eight or 1 0 young married couples in Jack Eyerly's boat had spent the evening on the river. Shocked by the plunge in to the ; water, none were quite sure of the place where the boat overturned, but Walter Hain, the boathouse- proprietor,- said the call for help came from well to ward the middle of the stream, a place where there is not only current but an eddy which might carry the body some distance i Red Seizure LONDON, July; 15. HffV With the red army steamrolling. across the old Polish territory, the Pol ish government - in - exile called tonight for United Nations sup port against : any arbitrary in corporation of those lands into the Soviet Union., 1 "The Polish government" said a statement issued: through the Polish telegraph agency, "expects the United Nations to recognize the stand taken by the Polish na tion and its sacrifices. They main tain their point of view. hared by other allied governments that no territorial changes which take place during the war can be recognized unless they take place with the free consent and good will of the parties concerned.' Oil Deposits Sought In Willamette Valley ; ALBANY, July 15 -4P)- Oil de posits are being sought in , the Willamette valley by the Amerada Petroleum corporation of Tulsa, Okla., which is conducting a sur vey in this area. Fifteen engineers tnd technicians have established headquarters here. Bean .AndcrecaTCevfcy Fruit, Vegetable Qiief FOHTLAND, Ore., July 15- The appointment of Dean Ander son, Portland, as acting northwest representative ii charge of fruit tnd veeUl-La programs" for the f"e cf distribution, war food r -arr.istralion. was announced I - y. IT? vjxtcziz Ilarcll Ilrock, Oppose IIEIETY-FOUHTH YEAR .Relentless aiil Pest -Closes Ob FaU of LessayCbastal - AiichorTown Expected Soon By GLADWIN HILL 1 j . SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Sunday, July ICjTVUS troopa rolling up the German western flank in an unspectacular but; relentless advance yes terday smashed into the outskirts of Lessay and the fall of that axis coastal anchor town was expected soon, j U J l German broadcasts' said a' British-Canadian sector around Normandy front, and a field dispatch from that area said German demolition crews had begun blowing up smokestacks in the fac tories of Colombelles, three miles northeast of Caen. Such wrecking usually precedes a German with drawal, but ; this dispatch ' said there were no other signs the Ger mans were pulling out. -'".S" The capture of Lessay on the west coast of the Cherbourg pe ninsula probably would force " a German withdrawal of several miles on a broad front. Headquarters communique No. 80 issued at 11:30 o'clock ; last night said , the north bank of the Ay river, just outside Lessay had been reached on a front of sev eral miles. "Front dispatches also reported other Yank forces had penetrated, to within two miles of ; the im portant road junction, of Periert and lo within 2000' yards of the bitterly defended mid-Normandy communications center of St. Lo. Allied airmen, despite the "worst weather" since D-day, bombed and strafed enemy troops and ar tillery -positions ' around St' Lo from a minimum altitude. Periers is six miles southeast of imperiled Lessay, and St Lo, hinge city at the other end of the churning American , front, is 20 miles southeast of . Lessay. The villages of St Opportune, Pissot and St Patrice de Claids were taken in I the enveloping movement on , Lessay, , the com mumque said. Farther . east in the thrust close, to Periers the Americans fought their, way through Congreville and Nay and reached the Sves-river. ' " At midnight r reports - reaching headquarters said the Americans attacking outside St Lo under a big artillery barrage had gained 500 more yards in their fight across some of the toughest mill tary terrain. . . ' Plane Crashes Near Eugene EUGENE, Ore., July 15 -UP) Crash of a plane in a cherry or chard three miles east of Eugene Saturday afternoon was reported by', an asserted witnes of the ac cident here tonight, although no confirmation could be obtained from military authorities. - The plane , was said to have been One of a formation of six flying low over the are: The cne plane snagged, on a power line and looped over on its back in a cherry tree, the , pilot unhurt Japs Hint Executions of Fliers but Tale Doubted By the Associated Press ; A Japanese propaganda broad cast from' Singapore to American forces, in the southwest Pacific said ; yesterday u that an unstated number of US airmen from super fortresses . which - raided Japan had "bailed out to meet with the same fate which was meted out to the raiders of Tokyo some two years ago. In the -142 raid, weight fliers were believed to have been cap tured, of which "some" were ex ecuted and "some, were given commutations, according , to - an announcement by President. Roo sevelt a year after the raid. May Be Propaganda Today's broadcast, which - was not paralleled by xiy other Japa nese radio, came at an hour when the ; Singapore radio often re leases propaganda designed- frighten or discourage' American and Australian forces, said moni tors of the federal communica -X.V big drive was s imminent in the 1 Caen on the eastern end of the! O 1 ', . ; '. 1 750 Heavies Blast Ploesti i Oil Refineries LONDON, Sunday. July IS- ;p)-raf bombers were active ! over enemy occupied Europe ' doting the night but .their tar- j gets were not identified lnune- dlately. ' I By NED NORDNESS I A LONDON, Sunday, July l6-(JPh4 Five oil refineries and a pumping; station' at Ploesti, Romania, werei blasted by 750 US heavy, bombers vesterdar as i the worst Hying weather - ever I encountered over; western Europe kept the great al-s lied air. forces fin Britain virtually! idle until late in the evening.! The : weather finally improved- sufficiently for eighth airforce fighter-bombers to strike at rail-1 way targets in Tours, Orleans, Ne-' vers-Orleans and south of Paris They claimed three locomotive destroyed and; 250 cars destroyed- One Enemy Fighter f - The eighth's forces sighted only one enemy fighter, which escaped Into clouds. Four US planes failed to return. In addition to transpor-t ' i Pnntiniiiiut nr. Psm 9 5 " ! China pCigbteus Salween Siege CHUNGKING,. July 15 The Chinese have tightened theut siege lines around the enemy'4 big Salween river base of Tengj chung in southwest China anq have seized dominating positions for full-scale attacks on the Bur ma road stronghold of Lunglingj the Chinese high command said today."!. i The enemy was cleared from a building outside the northwest corner of Tengchung's wall, ' a communique said, but the Chi4 rnese were driven back from th newly . -'" Captured positions I les4 than a. half mile away, onl the' southwest when the Japanese sent a sortie from: the city. ; i' Fall of the ; fortress city wbul4 speed a Junction of the Chines with Lt Gen. Joseph W. Stilf well's forces moving across north Burma to reopen a land supply route to China. . ; tions commission, who recorded It .The ; office cf war information first issued a! story based on the FCC recording quoting the Singaf pore "radio as saying "the captives had been executed, then followed with .a lead that the broadcast suggested I they m'ht have beed executed "or at least were being held for execution.' Doubt Evinced Brig. Gen. ! Kenneth B. Wolfed commanding officer of the 20t4 bomber command, said at his home In Santa Barbara, Calif that ke doubted if any of the part ticipants of the first superfortresf raid on Japan; June 15, when four bombers were! lost, had been exe cuted. No bombers were lost on i second superfortress raid, Julyll "That's the j kind of propaganda thrown out cy Japan n;nt tion, toJ to boost morale on the - home fittit,- r.fs-Every time they lose aa Island or a "salj of terrif tory they make new threats--' .:. :.. Sorroiv bri Saipari i 1 y...... , .... . yiiLj. .1 - - j .Jjf-.r perplexed US marine tries his hand at soothing the sorrow ef this little i node Japanese girl in a civilian detention compound on Saipani In the Marianas. Twa baddies stand by as the leather neck ofera the tirl ;a present probably candy. (AP Wlrephota from r marine corps) ruances in i Join Attack Sp , V. ' S. !PACJFIC iFLEET . HEAbQUARTESrPeari:-Harborf. July lD-yrTAam. naymona a. Guam Friday extending assaults on that former , US outpost through the illth straight day. - Gun emplacements and the guarding jonei of the finest har- bors in the! Pacific, were blasted by shells and barrier j plane bombs. Aam.vnesier w.xupiw snnwuit ed Jonight hi a press; release. Four enemy, pianes were (aesiroyea on the 'ground. "'.A,: . j '.4' The Orote peninsula; forms the southern J part of ' Apra on Guam's west toast, an iarea where considerable weight! of the at tacks, continuous since! July 4, has been directed y?'-. lOJtyo rapio, in.previou&iju- nouBcingrthe atUCJtS, specuuea that battleshipa andcrUisers were In the attkeikipg groups . f Spruan's fifth fleet helped in e 'invasion I of , Saipan, a task omplished, thus releasing units of his groups to augment Mitscher's task fore ?8. I NimiU also! announced that Ja- pan s phpspnate - producing ,oas of Nauni, per by-passed strong hold of I Truk ; and the eastern Carolines! base . of jPonape were attacked jTlkursday. Artny and na vy planes his Nauru; army oomo ers the twb ?ardinsj targets. . Tokyo! radio, in ireporting the Friday Guim "Mults, ' said "the war. situation -does i not . allow, a moment of obtimism." Several hours later la Japanese broadcast from Singapore, picked up by the US federal communi cations commissions hmted -that several captured American air-! men, supposedly some of those who participated in (the first B-29 super-bomber j attack on Nippon proper June 15,- were executed. xius Drpaacasi, airccicu w southwest j Pacific forces, reiter ated .previous 4 Tokyo warnings that "any allied airman who falls or bails! out over Japan ' will ' be executed. This is the order of the dayj" j J I ! Japs j Retreat In India Hills . - ! i I . -i i . : SOUTHEAST A SI A COM MAND j HEADQUARTERS, Kan dy, Ceyloni July lSHAVThe Jap anese are in Retreat from the Manipur hills ;of India, it was an nounced today, and 1 Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten! declared that the strong; allied stand had "con tributed to one of the! greatest de feats the Japanese army has suf fered in its history" .-... : ; As the iil-fated Japanese expe dition broK:e UP Into bands of stragslejrs,! more and i more artil' lery wbich had beert hauled up from the Chiridwin valley cf Eur ma wai being abandoned. ; AUie4.tfoc?s trailing L r.r.;.i body of the Japanese withdraw ing from the area above Irr;hal nade cpntact; wijibi;the entr.y CXtLXV81' t IlacliaJ - Solera. Oregon. Sunday Morning, July 1$. i ' - -r 1 A- 77 3 : .v 1 1 T r -..iia1lifc . S dr Guam fepruance s warships joined vice airfield at Orote, on a peninsula Crack German Divisions Now In Normandy SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July !5-(ff)-Twenty to 25 German divisions, most of them crack guards and armored units, are now ranged against the allies tn Normandy, compared with only seven who met the first shock of the invasion, it. was disclosed to night Eleven to 12 of these divisions, it wai. estimated, are confronting the Americans. Although two of the original divisions have disappeared entire lywiped out in the fighting- German F 1 e I d r Marshal Gen. Guenther Von Kluge was report ed now to have under his com mand 60 to 65 divisions for the defense of western Europe, up to five more than were allotted his predecessor, Field Marshal ' Gen. Karl Von Rundstedt. . . . When the allies stormed ashore bri June 6. they found the Nor tnandy coast defended by ' about bne German division to each 20 miles.; The allies poured in seven di visions, and were faced by an equal number of Germans. t Silverton Bank Makes Record SILVERTON, July 15 Glenn L. Briedwell. vice president of the Coolidge - Mcdaine bank at Silverton,: has 'issued the quar terly call statement of the local bank showing total assets at 13, 11378.06,; the h I g h e s t ever reached by any bank institution here. Demand deposits were list ed at $1,865,008.14. ; Plane Crash ICills Woodrow Truax . ALBANY, Ore, July . 15 - (JT) Lt Woodrow Truax, 26, navy dive bomber pilot who won the air medal for action In the south Pa cific, ' was killed in an airplane accident in California yesterday, his mother, I Trs. Anna Trua, was informed here today by the war t'crartnent He formerly attend ei the Uciverslty cf Oregon, Warship 1844 Casualties .... . - . t . Mountllri: This Area ,Vi j .. Three Reported u ji:: Killed and One Listed JIissin2 ".t" . r- i.. ' . .. '! . '. il M '"' " . Three more service men of the Salem area .have been reported killed in action, and another one is missing, today's reports showed. Killed Tech. Sgt Jack Collin .' " Staff Sgt Alex M. Schmidt Cpl. Harold Cooper -Missing : . j ;' Sgt Otto- Bowman U Sgt Otto Bowman, prominent young Salem attorney , and out doorsman, has been' reported mis sing in action in Burma, his mo ther, "Mrs. Mary 'Bowman, ; has written friends here. '' i: j- A resident of 633 North Winter street Mrs. Bowman is visiting in Indiana, where' she received the war department- nouucation. Bowman, a former president of the Cherneketans, was a moun wiriXlimber, and was a member of the republican county central committee and active in the Unit ed Brethren church when he en tered : the army more ; than . two years ago. - - Recently, he ; had . written of plane trips between India : and Burma. Friends" here, believing his plane may have .been lost on such a journey, hold hope that he may someday, walk; into camp. ; Jack Collin, ' technical sergeant in the air' corps of which had had been a member,, for 11 years, was killed in uigiana wuiy i n mother, Mrs. A.- T. Boytana, 388 Union street, has been notified. Collin was a resident of Salem for 19 years, graduating from Sa-, lem high school with , the class of 1933. He enlisted In the air corps shortly after completing his schooling here and had been sta tioned two years . in the . Hawaiian islands, four years' in the Philip pines and . had ; been in England since February of jthisi year. ; Survivors include v the widow, Reva, and aon,' Jack, Jr, six month old, living .tin . Missouri, and his : stepfather and , mother, Mr. and Mrs. Boytana,- Salem. .LEBANON,. July . lSWiTV-Cpl-Harold Cooper was killed in ac tion in . the , Pacific, his father, ; (Continued on Page 2) i - Japs Turned Back Inside Hengyang r ' CHUNGKING, J uly 15 -W) Japanese forces; encircling the strategic Hunan province rail city of Hengyang b r o k into the streets of a southern suburb last night but were routed m violent fighting and the lost position was recovered, the Chinese high com mand said tonight . All the intruders were annihi lated, a communique declared, and the situation was restored to normal. ' . ' '?" V. . Maj. Gen. Claire; L. Chennaulfs medium bombers struck, a blow in defense of this cit on the Canton-Hankow railway with a sur prise raid on the enemy air base of Pailuchi, where 27 grounded planes were destroyed and ten others probably destroyed; it was announced. ' I ' -i - Enemy ' forces trying to " drive up. from above Cahtonto Join the forces in southern Hunan prov ince were cheteked, according to the war bulletin. J Josephus Daniels (Calls for CondemhaUortoflsol ; CHICAGO, July 15 -VFyJo-sephus Daniels, who as secretary of navy In world War: 1. was Pre sident Roosevelt's labor boss, to day called for a "crystal clear" democratic platform that wUl con demn isolationism and . fstrad dlers", and cause lovers of peace to rejoice f ; , : i Arriving in Chicago as a mem ber of the convention resolutions committee, the 82yearold North Carolina : newspaper r publisher, one of . the party's elder states men, declared in an interview: "The platform I the democrats will adopt will .ring so crystal clear for wbnini the peace cf- ter -victory that no man can mis take its meaning. ;The declaration wiU te anathema to the bolation L'-s zzi Etradilers and wiU te Price) Nazis Warned On Executions O f Frenchmen i SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONA1T FORCE, Jaly 15 -()- Gen. .Dwlght Eisenhewer warned. -the Geraaans Uday that the French forces ef the Interior . were a regular part ef his al- ; lied forces and that 'steps al ready were being taken V to ' jnsttce the nazis who have been : fflegaUy execattng members of this patriot army The FFL i Frenchmen fight ing behind the German lines for the liberation of . their r homeland, are a regularly con stituted military force, Elsen hower pointed eat and are en titled to the protection of In ternational law and usage gov ; ernug eambatanta. : The Germans have been treating them : as "Franes Tlrenra,.' civilian irregulars whe may be shot when caught ; s nurtny Heat. Drought In East State NEW YORK, July M--Blaz ing neat in some states ana a general drought in most of the territory east of - the- Rockies probably has ended chances for bumper crops" this . year, ." the American institute of food distri bution said today. - . , . "About two-thirds of the coon- try has been subjected, to the heat wave for the pastlwo weeks, the private research agency said. - "Rains ., helped in Missouri, showers were beneficial to Ohio, Maryland and Virginia,. and scat tered relief came to the upper Mississippi' valley. But what is needed is at least one and one half days of good hard rain... Nod Replaces 7 Do9 in Deaf Mute Wedding TWIN FALLS, IdahoT July 15 (AVNeither the bride nor- the groom said "I do" but the preacher tied the knot anyway, ' ' . Henry , Mattson, Seattle flour mill employe, and Helen Mae Ar rington were married today at the fire station. Both are deaf mutes. The Rev. Mar V C" Cronenber ger handed the couple a Bible and they j read the married passages to themselves. A nod while each looked at the other sufficed. for "I do." , Battleship Oregon In 'Action Again PORTLAND, July 15 -ipj- The Battleship Oregon, queen of the US fleet in 'the Spanish -American war, has been converted Into a barge and now is in action against the axis,' navy officials announced here today. Decommissioned after " World war L the battleship was turned over to Oregon" and served as a historic shrine in the Willamette river i here. The vessel was re possessed by the navy December 7, 1912, and her superstructure and interior fittings removed for scrap at Kalama, Wash. : the sure promise of the day en visioned centuries ago ; by , tne Prince of Peaces r; New contingents jaarched on- to ; ; the democratic -: convention scene today ready for "what their leaders ' said would be "wide open battle for the vice presi dential nomination before a de cision is reached next Friday. Fresh arri vials Included demo cratic Chairman Robert E. Hani negan and two of President Roosevelt's administrative assis tants James M. Barnes and Jonathan Daniels and reser vations were made for six cabi net tracers tomorrow But a much - advertised expression ot White House attitude on second rlsce still had not made its ap pearance -. Crop No. 101 Mew Red; Offensive Launched Sweeping Gains Reach 8 Miles Of East Prussia By TOM t YARBROUGH LONDON July 15 -Pr- The Russians tonight anno u n c e d sweeping blows on the north cen tral Niemen river front, outflank ing the German fortress of Grod no and reaching .within eight' miles of the Suwalki border of East Prussia, and ; the German command announced that a tre mendous new Soviet offensive had begun in the south of old Poland. The Russian midnight commun ique announced successes all down, the Baltic - White Russian front, beginning with the I capture of Opochka, 24 miles east of the Lat vian border. The Russians . an nounced Friday night they had taken the railway station and were fighting in the streets.' Moscow was silent on the sou thern Polish front' . A j Oatflankina Move ' ' V ' .Westward in the big bulge that reaches ; along the-' lower Latvian border and deep in eastern Lithuania, ; the Russians an nounced extension of their out flanking maneuver against Dau gavpils with capture ,. of, Onik shty and Pichany, railway towns 60 miles west of Daugavpils. . .West and . southwest- of Wilno the red army mcedlfisi tban 19 miles from Kaunas, reporting the seizure 5 of $ tts.irafrway'r $dnaion town Of Kaisiadorys and Alythus, 32 miles south of Kaunas The Germans said three days previ ously that the Russians had taken Alythus, but the Soviets remained silent until their broadcast com munique tonight i V River Barrier Crossed ; In possibly the most significant development of the day announc ed by Moscow the communique said soviet troops had reached the Niemen river line on a 75-mile front north and south of Alytus, and had crossed that historic wa ter barrier at many points. This put them less than eight miles from the Suwalki .triangle that was annexed to East Prussia in September, 1939, and placed Russian soldiers well northwest ot (Continued on Page 2) : General Clark -Escapes Death ' In P-T Attack ROME, July 15 Accident al fire from a US minesweeper killed one officer and one man and wounded three others aboard a P-T boat carrying Lt Gen. Mark W." Clark and other army officers to the Anzio beachhead January 28, the US ' navy. - dis closed today. ' ... ' s -' The official announcement said an inquiry .had established . that the P-T boat and its escort "en tered the area while a red alert was on" on anticipation of a nazl raid, and that the craft had not been identified as friendly. "The captain of the minesweep- er, ' , - tne announcement aaaea, was exonerated of any blame.: . 'Neighbor9 Sought Tor Tax Evasion v SALT LAKE CITY, July 15-( ! -"Why, a telephone-caller asked Utah '.internal revenue collector William J. Korth, "do I have to buy an auto . stamp when my neighbor next door hasn't .bought one arid says he Isn't buying one?" "Who Is your neighbor! Korth asked. - : :Ji :-:::"- "", - :; ' r': : :, That's for you to find out" wsi the reply. "I dont want to tatUe. on him"- ' .' -' - Korth said checkers eventually would locate the "neighbor." She Said She'd Bear Arms and She J leant It . . - . . . . t , . .. . . . ' .... ; . - LOS ANGELES, Calif, July 15 -)-When Ingvarda -Johansen, qualifying for United States ci tizenship, said she would be will ing to bear arms for. the nat!"i, she meant Just that ', . j : - Less than four hours after swore allegisnce to the nation, . enlisted in the Wac She leaves next week for Des IIc!rscs to .t her army trzlzlrz. 5c