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CHICAGO. Julr lft-aA Jen surge of support Sen. Harry Truman of Missouri placed him tonight in the top flight f com promise possibilities for the demo cratic vice -.presidential nomina tion. ,..V . i ,.,, . "It's a natural, exclaimed Sen. Carl Hatch of New Mexico. "Harry Truman is going to be nominated." Apparently the shift toward him originated partially with the CIO. Heretofore the big labor organ ization has given unswerving feal ty to the renomination of vice President Henry A. Wallace, and f . : ; 1 11 - , n , lilt . . . fi i - - . 1 h " v - h - - . - - - f ' . . ' X ! . y . - Weather - ; - Y ".;4fZZ2i . , i - - , J " '1 LU;;;-,' 4-r. . - euierwlse clear Wednesday; ! ' . , . . . ; . .. ' POUNBno 1651 ' - elea Thursday except f.r What is -this- CIO political fac ti on committee? It Ja the political spearhead of the CIO unions which now claim membership of some 3,500,000 persons. Since the majority of this membership is m the north eastern industrial region (steel, rubber,- automotive workers) the principal strength of the commit tee is in that sector. This committee is a partial suc cessor to "Labor's Non-partisan league" which John L. Lewis put together back in 193$ to promote i the reelection of j Franklin D. . Roosevelt George Berry, presl- dent of the printing pressmen's Union, was the first chairman of the committee, Lewis the second. i Sidney Hillman was also a lead ing spirit in its formation. Asso ! dated in support were AFofL unions, CIO, and railroad broth- erhoods. Lewis became sore at Roosevelt in 1937 when he felt the latter didn't show proper ap i preciation of labor's support in his i campaign, including contribu i tions and loans running into huh . dreds of thousands of dollars. . With the split in labor circles when the AF of L kicked out the CIO unions, this ' "non-partisan committee" went on the rocks. In t 1940 John LJ Lewis - worked ' against Roosevelt and later took ' his United- Mine 'workers out of the CIO. AFofL retreated to its , . historic position of "' political in u dependence. But the CIO continu ed ,as an active participant in ! politics, and this political action committee is the, ;; (Continued on editorial page) Yanks Reach as' Gothic in Italy ROME, July 18-(P)-American troops crashed through strongly . held German positions today , and s swept three miles - across open ' country into the town of Ponte J dera on the Arno river between Pisa and Florence, reaching the enemy's "Gothic . line" defenses ' and virtually outflanking the great, west coast port of Livomo. : 'Pontedera is situated on the - south bank of the Arno 12 miles east of Pisa, 18 miles northeast of Livorno and 32 miles west of ,. Florence. : Lt Gen. Mark W. Clark's infan ; try and armor reached the Arno in a week's drive down the Era . river valley from the Volterra ; sector after stubborn nazi resist ,t ance had checked the 'fifth army's push directly up the West coast : ' Today an allied spokesman de- - clared American troops were clos- Ing in on Livorno's outskirts from , the east and south "against stub- born opposition and extensive . minefields and demolitions." Re i fugees from Livorno said the cn s tral part of the city ofj 100,000 was badly wrecked and looted. , Polish forces driving " up the Adriatic coast were officially re--t ported to have scored a complete ! breakthrough of nazi positions f southwest of the important port of Ancona, which was described ?. as "gravely threatened." International Bank Takes Final Shape BRETTON WOODS, NH, July 18 JP) The , proposed Interna tional bank for reconstruction and development took final shape -today along lines described by a spokesman for the United Nations monetary conference as "so con : servative it leans over backwards and touches its head on the floor." This was in' reference to "action by the conference limiting the amount of the bank's loan and guarantees to a -figure equal to its $1Q billion capitalization, plus any surplus the bank may accum ulate." : ' -' :v " v' ;' STATESMAN FISST AGAIN The Oregon Statesman daily ' publishes news several hoars fresher than any ether morning newspaper circulating in Marion county as further evinced by the clean "beat" tn Tuesday's edition on the navy blast near rrartlnez, Calif. line so far as public statements were concerned it continued to do so. Deny Dropping Wallace .. Asked about reports that they were looking favorably upon Tru man as a second choice, CIO Pre sident Philip Murray, and Sidney Hillman, political action chairman, told newsmen: - : "We're for Wallace." M But some of Wallace's strength seemed to be drifting away after President Roosevelt gave a weak nod last night to the man he de manded, and got, M a running mate four years ago. IsJDfD: SsCD . Eradlev's i Men CapMre Nazis Mettreat SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONS ARY FORCE, Wednesday, July AP) British and Cai nadian armored forees broke through the German line across the Orne river at the eastern Tuesday in a full-scale offensive whichl'was roUins; in dust southeastward across the Caen plain this morning?; with a power recalling the historic British assault at El Alamein. Y On the American sector N. Bradley's Doughboys captured the hillside hinge strong hold at St. Lo after an eight-day, battle,' forcing a German wiinarawat or a mne to, a nuieo- and - hall and threatening Ja crumbling bt "the nazi positions westward all the way: to the coast . Using airpower instead of the artillery barrage for which he is famed Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery "opened the onslaught in the Caen area at dawn under cov er of the greatest aerial bombard ment since D-day a crushing as sault by 2200 bombers of all kinds which pounded the enemy with 7000 tons of explosives and moved along just ahead of powerful for ces of tanks and infantrymen, v Strike at Gateway Gen. Montgomery struck at the gateway to interior France, driving into the heart of the nazis' strong - -(Continued on Page 2) . Boy Drowned In Albany ALBANY July 18Lloyd Will iam Bradley, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bradley, was drowned - Iii the municipal pool about 6:30 jtonight " j The boy, who could not "swim, was seen going to the pool , with other children about 6 o'clock and the body 1 was discovered in the nine-foot depth at 7 o'clock when Edna. Mae Dolymer," 12, stepped on it. ; Two lifeguards were on duty but no commotion was observed at any time during the intervat f The boy's mother js in the Sa lem Deaconess hospital , with f a three-day-old baby. There is also a 4-year-old sister. Donna Fern. The family came here from Okla homa two years ago.- v The body was taken in charge by the Fisher funeral home.v a This was the first drowning in the municipal pooL which has been in operation for five years. Gty Pool MosiBjeef SteaksRoasU Soon Will Become Point-Free ' WASHINGTON, July 18-itf) Most of the beef steaks and roasts now available in butcher shops would become ration point-free under an order prepared by War Food Administrator Marvin Jones, itwas learned today. The order was readied for nor mal Issuance and publication in the Federal Register tomorrow, with an effective date of August W but issuance Was postponed probably until July 27. There was some possibility of a change also in the effective date. New- point values set by the office of price administration normally would go into effect Sunday, July 30. Tte same order authorizes the office of Tprice administration to put hams and . pork loins, . now point-free, back on the ration list It was not wholly clear f The vice president, in fact, is on the way to the convention, which opens tomorrow, to try to Stem a tide which was turning to tome degree toward War Mobiliz ation Director James F. Byrnes, Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley and, belatedly, toward Truman! - - 4 ' Byrd Boomlet Continues As for the presidential picture, Mr. Roosevelt's renomination was as certain as ever, but a boomlet continue for Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia.'. Louisiana followed t. . ILo '9 end of the Nonnandv front to the ;West, Lt. Genw Omar Constructidn Milk Plant , Construction of a new - $99,500 milk processing; plant in Salem for, the Dairy Cooperative associ ation! will not be delayed until, the closejof the war if materials' and manpower for its construction can be secured. v i The project, this week granted priorities by the war production board, is to cost Just $500 less than the $100,000 maximum which the district WPB office is permitted to grant under new regulations without referral to Washington, ' Although ' rough ' plans ' were prepared ; for presentation to the war .food administration and, fol lowing its approval, to the war production ' board, architect's drawings have not been com pleted, Joe Kendrick, Salem man ager for the cooperative, said here Tuesday. 1 , The pUht, he. explained, will be equipped for pasteurization, ho mogenization. bottling and similar handling of milk from "Willamette valley dairies for city consump tion; ' ' . ; High Chinese General Relieved of His Post r CHUNGKING, Wednesday, July 18 -JPjr Gen. Chen Sheng, China's vice' war minister and one of the country's most famous generals, has been relieved of his post as governor of the province of Hupeh, it was announced today. No reason was; given in f the official state ment but it i known that Chen Cheng has been ill for some time. Id whether that portion , of the di rective to OPA.had'the same mandatory force as the. portion taking more beef off the point list! i , - : , . , " The beef section of the order calls for maintenance of ration ing on quality steaks and roasts -grades AA; and A with the lower commercial and utility grades to be released. - All 5 pork has beenn a point holiday for several months be cause, of the tmprecedented num bers of hogs going to market but there j has been a 'gradual . drop recently and the demand for hams and pork loins has begun to ex ceed ihe supply.1.. ., . ;: Y.: The new order specifies only Jiams and pork loins are to go back on the ration list - i Of Mississippi into the. Byrd column, voting to $ast its 22 votes for him, That made 48 Jpyrd votes, counting four from! Florida. ' ' 7j I -! - In the vice presidential contest, Truman, jchairman , of ; j sepcial senate wspr investigating commit tee, was repo ied reliab yj to be the second cho ce of CIO ; sresident Philip Murray, The senator! was in conference . earlier withj j Sidney Hillman, 'chairman of the labor organization's political action com mittee, s Truman Not Interested Truman has been insisting right Two Years Heat Record Set at 102 i. As temperature in official, ther- mometers at the Salem r airport mounted to 02 degrees Thursday. record heat ;since 1942 and - nine degrees above that Jot Wednesday, swimmihg poa attendance dropped 400 from thh season's maximum of -Wednesdajy.. Temperature , top pel ed, teo, from the 3:30 maximum to 85 degree at 5:30 land 683 at 8 JO pj. . j , jr u . In 1842, top temperature read ing wa 104! degrees, i , . Soda fountain business soared to new heights J although a hot. dry wind vviiich Reduced the! humidity accompanied: the heat wave.' - A light rain fell at 10 p.m. ., Numbers psing city swimming pools may hve been less than the record iattenjdance of f Wednesday, but those who swam must have stayed longeft for there iwas little dimimation- of-tJse crowd, ; t,.Un-' At Leslie where 1632 were check, ed in aid out of the pool, city first aid men were called, to care for a boy who -cracked heads! with an other swimmer as, the two; dived. Olinget pool registered 1.1242 ba- hn i I i : I hy th Associated prert Peak temperatures of 1944 were recorded throughout northwest Tuesday. ' the Pacific Portland"! 104 maximum of late afternoon was the highest .tem perature outside Arizona listed on the table by! the US weather bur eau at; Seattle. At Yuma, Ariz a top temperature of 1114 was re ported . j x - ,:. (Continued on page .2) '" ' I Y. 4- i j f- '" " -'Y' Hunger Overtakes Japs in Burma : ' SOjJTH?AST ASIA COM MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan- dy, Celon, July 18rBattered Japanese troops fleeing south ward j through the Manipur hills after jcollapse of their Invasion of eastern India have been overtak en by hunger and, jwith some at the "actual jstarvatipn point" are surrendering in increasing num bers, fAdmiral Lord Louis Mount batten's headquarters announced Dogged by heavy rains as well as relentless allied ' troops, the. enemy is fleeing over tracks "oft en unfit even for mule transport" and Jhis supply system has gone out of gear, the headquarters daily bulletin said. ! N "I . I . pi; ; Low Humidity Shuts ; Down Logging in State PORTLAND, Ore July; 18 HP) Logging operations throughout the state were hut doim today when humidity wlent into a dive as tem peratures mounted.! State taw pro hibits logging when: the humidity readjng Is 30 pei- cent or less, be cause of the high fire1 hazard- Convention Broadcasts : J (Pacific War Tunc)' f . .- Reralar sessieas to all net works: l j I , 10:68 ai nx--OpeninrJ Mayer Edward J. ' Kelly of Chicago, Sea. Scett Lucas of j Elinois, weleomiBS speeches, j --. -;! t.Off p. f m. First night ses sion, address f; Mrs. Charles W. TUIett of North Carolina and I ke jrnote address j of Temporary Chairman, Gov. Kobert S. Kerr of;okiahoma, ' -j-;; Other,, broadcasts: fY ' :' YY.i . a.; ta--j:;S Session preview.' , f-". ) i - -i j:43 p. tUd CBS NeCle Tay- 14 Rosa. w ; I , 5:15 p, m. NECSammarics . and interviews. I . " Note: Above sche 4ule st-ject, to. Lut-minate chance -or 21, tion. Times sites are thoe lLt-, ed for start of broadcasts. ' 1 - - i' - i i. A . 'v. - - i . . - . . - i . . ' P i II I I il O . ;' '(: , along; that he doesn't . want, the nomination and had so told the Missouri delegation.' . .. t , ; The Missonrians, nevertheless, promised him their 32 votes at a caucus today. " , While New Jerseyites, with 34 convention votes, defeated a mo tion io put them on record for Wallace, the j 52-vote " California delegation adopted iy an. over whelming voice vote a resolution endorsing the) vice president's re nomination .j f v ; X ' , t - " As; the vice president entrained Ousted HIDEKI TOJO To jo Relieved ! By the Associated Press Tokyo,, announced .yesterday that Premier Gen., Hldeki Tojo had been relieved as chief of the army general staff in the second sweeping shakeup of Japan's high command in two days in the face of what Tojo himself called fan unprecedentedly great national crisis.5?. v:;:-'j -' ' - I ' The navy, chief sufferer in re cent heavy defeats in, the Pacific, underwent a similar shakeup Monday when, a relatively "ob scure admiral replaced the navy minister: ' f , " j The shakeup. was announced in a series of broadcasts recorded by the Associated Press and US gov ernment monitors. , Other broad casts told the Japanese people for the first time that Saipan had been lost with all its garrison and most of its Japanese civilian pop ulation, stressing the gravity of the crisis. ;'4 ' -;. fi'i;; Y--':r .h - v The announcements made no mention of Tojo's status as pre mier and war minister; presuma bly he retains those - posts. But fixe following changes in the high est levels of army command were made public: ? . - ! Tojo was succeeded as'laf f chief by 62-year-old Gem Yoshi jiro Umezu, hitherto commander ha chief of Japan's army in Man churia and "ambassador to Man chukuo real ruler of that pup pet state. , . - Brazilian Troops Reach Italy Ready 15 Fight NAPLES, July 16 -(Delayed) Wir While a doughboy band played "Onward. Christian Sol diers' and "Ron Out .the Barrel," the first strong contingent of any South American troops to reach ftn overseas war zpne landed In Naples harbor today. They were Brazilians.. - i The Stars and Stripes floated In the bright morning sun with the Green; yellow and blue flag of Brazil as Maj. Barbosa Pinto, of San Luiz Marantiao, an infantry officer, became the first Brazilian to step on Italian soiL Dotly of Hubert Johns Kccovered Tuesday r The body of Hubert" M. (Ike) Johns rose from the depths of the Vrillainetie river near the bcat fcousa shortly before 10 oIock Tu.-day right Johns was drowned ?ature?r.: r.'-ht ai'ler - a boat' in which i" r ! a party of friends v-cre a , .a-rncd. - "'- , . ' ' v ' ' ? f : ; s : s ... ... J Of His Army Chief Position in Washington for Chicago, Jake More, one of his managers here, said that Sen. . Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania had made a new sur veywhich shows the vice presi dent will get "in excess of - 300 votes on the first ballot" nandtills Ready -. p , .. T-. , ; For distribution among - dele gates,' the Wallace people turned up with some big handbills which said: Y;Y : v ;'; v - j -.-!" iY V.: , "If I were si delegate," 1 would vote for Henry A. jWanace. Franklin D. Roosevelt" If. ? .The posters did not add, as did Explosion oil r350 ; Two Freighters, Town Wrecked In Great Blast . PORT CHICAGO,! Calif, July 18 -i5)- An explosion of two na val ammunition ships in the worst disaster of its kind in the nation's history left a loll of " dead ap- proacning sou . today as. rescue workers poked through the rubble in search of more bodies. The twin blasts late last night shaking 14 counties and felt 80 miles away, shattered this town fit. J50ft ; and wrecked! the freighters,,J,the 10,000-fen Quin- suit Victory and the 7500-ton E. A. Bryant The ships were loading ammunition at the Port Chicago naval ammunition : supply -depot, on an arm of San . Francisco bay some 35 miles northeast of San Francisco.-. ? - , Tr ' Spray Ho Metal : j The blasts sprayed hot metal over a two-mile area- One ship's anchor . was found a half mile away. . r - ., : :r J Most of the dead were negroes, members of navy loading crews at the Port Chicago ammunition mag azine.. . i , . " tin addition, possibly 70 mem 1 t (Continued on, Page S) ; Crack Train Leaves Rails DALHART, T July 18 Twelve coaches and sleeping cars of the Rock Island railroad's Gold en State Limited plunged off the tracks .five miles from Dalhart at 11 o'clock tonight after the loco motive and two cars had cleared what early investigation disclosed was a siUt'itr:s:::iis-vV'f? A rapid survey in the darkness showed no one had been seriously injured, although a number of pas sengers were shaken up and prac tically everyone on the crowded train was thrown out of sleeping berths or chairs. : DeathT Mea Youthful Victim Gets Aid i j, A youilifj victim cf the explosion at the Ta t Chlago, Calif, naval aEsr:anI'.;aa depot teij first 'ail'fiota aa Antrican Lesionnalre. An estimated several hundred persons were ki"ei an! tajared, 'tw . sh:;- were deslreyed. (Associated Tress plielo.) " " v the president, tlit the final de cision on his running mate rests with the convention. Mr. Roosevelt's statement on the vice presidency gave impetus also to efforts to drum up support for Byrnes and Barkley. Apparently these efforts were taking effect1 ; Not All Far Wallace The weighty Pennsylvania del egation, wielding 72 votes which the Caliace camp previously claim ed in their entirety, took an advis ory poll that showed 41 in the Wal lace column. Recorded against Wallace or not voting were 21, with 10 absentees. Soviets Crack Nmi Defenses A found LONDON, Wednesday, July 19-(AP)-Red armies of the south in a. powerful new offensive hare cracked strong Cennan defenses around the. great bastion of Lwow in old Poland for three-day gains of 31 miles of the frontier from which the Germans attacked the soviet union,; Moscow an nounced last night, ' 1 ' 4 " ' . . Ripping through tottering German lines de fending the direct invasion routes.to central Geir- ; vt "?..fy" lun uarpc anujf was wiuun miles of Lwow, one of the Europe, Premier-Marshal Stalin said in n order of .the day. Q . . ' M 1 ' In tti far north other Russian! troops had smashed ' eight miles into Latvia with the capture of Pitovka, and were racing toward the Baltic sea in an effort to throw a great noose around hundreds of thousands of German troops. . Near Brest Litovsk ; w In the v center of , the Russian front, which now has been ex panded to 550. miles, others Rus sian armies, yesterday plunged to within nine miles of Brest Litovsk and within 22 miles of Bialystok, strongholds defending the plains leading to Warsaw. . : . ) The Russians seized Omelinka, nine miles above Brest Litovsk, and Golynka, 22 mOes northeast of Bialystok, in an onrush which has carried soviet troops to a point only about 100 miles from Warsaw, Polish capital .which fell to the Germans in September, 1939. , V, " Poteatial Disaster Grows The potential disaster to Ger man arms grew hourly under the swift strides of six massive Rus sian armies, two of which in the area above Brest Litovsk and Bi olystok were pounding: at the im mediate approaches , to . German East Prussia and cutting through Lithuania as well as Latvia to ward the Baltic - Other Russian' armies still are :. (Continued on page 2) More, Iowa state chairman, sent Wallace .a letter urging him to rush, to Chicago and shake a tew hands. He j didn't mail it He telephoned it to Washington. A telegram came back: . r -. ."J shall be with you tomorrow morning. Thanks." . V , Whether the vice president can fisU his campaign out of the fir was a topic of widespread corridor gossip in convention hotels. He still has far. more pledged and claimed -delegates than any of th dozen or so men mentioned for second place on the party ticket. Town biggest rail terminals in Greatest Allied Blasts Germans ll LONDOr -Wednesday, July 19 (P)- Eight thousand allied war- planes swarming over Europe in the greatest combined air offen sive in history yesterday unload ed at least 1000 tons . of explo-: sives en Hitler's fortress, most of them in a 75-mile : square area around Caen " to pave ' the " way for Gen. Sir Bernard I Mont gomery's smash -through on the Orne river front Supreme headquarters announc ed last night that the tremendous air assault was sustained for four hours, starting at dawn over' the Caen area, as waves of heavy, medium and light bombers show-j ered enemy- troops, artillery and strongpolnts. ': ' ' I No enemy aircraft appeared during the entire bombardment in the Caen area, the high com mand communique said, disclosing ' that allied losses amounted to only nine bombers.' , The great allied aerial offensive was continued through the night, ; the British announced today, with Mosquitos attacking Berlin for the second successive night while RAF heavy bombers blasted oth- -er unspecified targets 4in both France and Germany. ; Allied airmen, downed 59 Ger man - planes yesterday, with loss of 2? planes, including ,11 heavy bombers. .." US Warships Pbiind Guam US PACIFIC FLifer HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 18 'American warships, in cluding battleships, dared Guam's defenses Sunday - by - steaming within close range to loose their . salvos for, the second consecutive day on that American Island lost to Japan in the first week of the war..- .; -' -'-v -': '.. . '; The destructive fire of the great guns of the Pacific fleet units, Adm. Chester . W. Nimita. an nounced today, was directed by spotting planesT - i . " , ' i When anti aircraft guns attemp ted to knock the spotters but of the skies tbey were blasted into silence by lighter , surface units that had crept in close to shore. The bombardment the seventh this month for Guam," apparently failed to arouSe any answering fire from shore batteries. Air Offensive