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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
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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--'
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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
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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
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: 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
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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,
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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
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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.
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