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n Iff rn n o n U FMnMirn) i! bKJOIMlOtiQS'iiaODll muni (See CoL 2 for Story) f y. : v .: i , . - - p .... - '!' w tOQLP, TOWN MEETING OF THE AIR,: which is quite" familiar to most radio listeners, Is distinctly the creation of George. V. Denny, jr., a . North. Carlinan, who initiated the 'program tome seven years ago af ter a varied career as actor and "educator.. His drive, his buoyant ' personality, hi showmanship, and his sincerity, are primarily what 'has kept the program' alive Land - "vital, v one of the important ffea . tures of , radio's educational side. 1 . The program through the years has been free of commercial spon sorship, one of the sustaining pro- grams of the Blue network. How ever, the order of FCC which was Intended to "purify radio , by breaking . its network : monopoly, backfired to the injury of TOWN MEETING OF THE AIR. Former ly the 175 stations on the network all ; used this program. But when "the FCC order permitted them to reach over into another network it they wanted to, quite a number "did: so, i reaching : for "commer . cials', which would show them a ; ' profit u- -;; - ; : ' ;; j ; ' - In ; consequence this non-com-"mercial program ' dropped to 110 "stations As a result TOWN MEET '.IHG, is to have a commercial spon 'sor,' "Reader's Digest," starting in . September,' when the program will return to the full: 175 stations. It will remain distinctly a forum for free speech, however, and. under . the personal guidance of Mr. . Denny. . . TOWN MEETING presents for discussion, as its listeners know, a current topic on which there is - sharp difference of opinion, ! A .week ago the question was whe ther the United States should re tain the Jap islands in the ' (Continued on editorial page) . gainst ; LONDON, .July. 21-(P-United . btates air forces flung 3000 war . planes paced by more than 1600 heavy bombers against highpri ; ority targets in Germany today in . a thunderous climax to . six days "of the greatest sustained assault in the history of aerial conflict ' , The ' German! radio said allied planes . were over the , relch' at : midnight, with other formations i approaching, indicating the RAF ivai maintaining, the offensive around the clock. Allied bomb- i.ers also were reported over Aus rtria. ; The daylight attacks were made , from both Britain and Italy. : Thirty-five British-based bomb ers and ; 11 fighters : were lost. probably: to intense ' anti-aircraft fire, for so potent was the Amer ican fighter screen that .the few enemy fighters which braved I ft .penetrated to only one of the for . mations, the US strategic air force communique announced. ...... ' Seven American bombers were forced to land at Dubendorf by s fighters, the Swiss radio said, and 'another crashed after the crew bailed out. ! Sixteen enemy planes were shot iown by the big task force from Britain. 10 of them by bomber gunners, i . Clark's Men Hammer Out Gains in Italy .ROME, July 21 -(fl5)-American ' infantry and armor have hammer- : ed out new gains along a 25-mile ; - stretch of i the lower Arno river 'west of Florence and have sent patrols across the river against a . hurricane of fire from nazi mor- tarsT anti-tank guns and automatic weapons,' allied headquarters an nounced today. V , . Returning patrol members said the hills rising north of the Arno .' were studded . with pillboxes and protected by extensive mine fields. The nazis, they said, had effi ciently utilized the terrain for de fensive purposes. - Lt Gen.1 Mark W. Clark's forces . pushed rapidly, northward from captured Livorno toward Pisa, but Livorno remained under harassing fire from numbers of big guns which the enemy had planted on Mt Pisano, which rises just north east of Pisa. , ,! ; . ' ' ". ; American engineers faced a tre mendous task in reclaiming XJ vomo's harbor, which was found to be blocked by the sunken hulks of 16 ships. , I Nazi Navy Reported Supporting Rebels, LONDON, July 22-(P)-The Al giers, radio, quoting reports from Basel, said In a broadcast heard by the Associated Press today that it was generally believed that . German naval units at Kiel and f Stettin had rebelled. - , i: i - "Numerous " provincial ; com . mandants are said , to have of fered their support to the rebels,' the broadcast said "The situa AttacksA Nazis Continue tion is thoroughly confused.". - At inNETY-rOURTH YEAR Wallace Says No Reerets Convention Ends With Satisfaction Over Selections CHICAGO STADIUM, July 21 -(-Harry S. Truman, 10 years ago a political unknown, trium phantly captured the democratic party's nomination for vice-president tonight. ; The Missouri senator thus re placed Henry A. Wallace as the running mate for President Roose velt's unprecedented : fourth:, term bid. Wallace had led on the first ballot 42914 to 319H, but, one af ter another, the state delegations swarmed behind Truman on the second.' . The final official tabulation of the second ballot for vice-presi dential nominee at the democratic national convention: Truman Wallace L. 1,100 66 Douglas 4 Absent . 6 ...1,176 Total Ne Regreto Wallace, downtown away from this roaring' stadium expressed no regrets, saying "the cause of liberalism has been advanced, by the iconventwn and v that ' : "of course ne wouia dck ve ucxei. From- Wallace s 'Own state . ox Iowa came a convention motion to make Truman's selection unan- (Continued on Page 2) Water Now Rationed In Silverton SILVERTON, July 21 S prink ling of lawns will be reduced one half to conserve the water supply, City Manager Harry McCrea an nounced today. The same formula in use in other Oregon cities will be followed: " " .Persons living on the even- numbered side of the street will irrigate on the even-numbered days, those who live on the odd numbered side will irrigate on the odd days of. the month. Leaks in the Abiqua pipe line are responsible for the shortage which in case of a fire would prove a hazard, McCrea said. The two fires on Wednesday morning were outside the Silverton district Replacements ; on the -Abiqua pipe line are under way and will be completed late in August. W. J. Entress Appointed To .Welfare Committee William J, Entress, Salem, long prominent in civic work and in organized labor here, was Friday appointed by Gov. Earl Snell to membership on the Marion coun ty : welfare, committee. ;. Entress succeeds Mrs. LaMoine R. Clark, who has resigned after ; a num ber of years of service, recently as chairman. ' Walter Lamkin, Salem attorney, who is a member of the commit tee, succeeds to the chairman ship- . j Small Group Attends Meeting Of Anti-New Deal Southerners CHICAGO; July 21-ff)-A small group I of southern delegates an nounced after a widely heralded but sparsely attended i private meeting tonight that any plans for organization of southern opposi tion to the New Deal had been put off until a later date. ;" '!. I Behind a closed door In the hotel suite, of former Gov. Martin Con ner of Mississippi, the southerners discussed rebuffs handed .to Dixie during the national -convention, including rejection of a "white supremacy plank- in ' the party platform and denial of the souths demand for restoration of the two thirds nominating, rule. V, The meeting went up in thin air when most of the southern lead ers who had opposed the New I IV, VA" Nominee s IT: J SEN.! HARRY S. TRUMAN British Cement Positions in 5 liybeep Belt SUPREME I HEADQUARTERS ALLIED (EXPEDITION ARY ORCE,: Saturday, July 22-(Jf) British and Canadian infantry ce mented posiUons below Caen: to a depui 01 fivf miiet yesterday ana i smashed back a heavy counter attack at. the-Germans, struck through rain and mud that mired the main killed drive toward Paris. The enemy counter-attack de veloped near St Martin De Ton tenay, five .miles south of Caen, which wis reached by the Cana dians in a blinding . rainstorm. Early dispatches reported the town itself was captured, -but-supreme headquarters said later the town still was in enemy hands, The Germans threw tanks into e bitter struggle, but were hurl- the ed back with losses, the midnight communique from supreme head quarters said. ' Nearby St Andre-Sur-Orne was cantured bf the allies in the day's most significant gain. The Ger- mans also were forced into slow retreat on the west of Caen as the allies fought for elbow room. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom - ery'a forces captured the village of Monti Only 3tt miles north east of the highway center of Vil- lers-Bocaget but the Germans still held out In Noyers, two miles east of Monts. 2 More Added To Blast ToU The names of Delbert R. Hut chison, f Salem, and of Claude Lewis Chastain, whose wife lives in Salem, have today been added to the list ; of probable fatalities in the Port Chicago ammunition ship explosion near San Francisco early this Week. Mrs. Chastain re sides at 292 South Cottage street Both; Hutchison and Chastain are reported missing by maritime union workers. Louis Widener, 19, son of Mrs! Jj W. Weekly, 65 Lan sing avenue, Salem, has previous ly been reported killed in the ex plosion. L ; i Deal failed to show up, most of them having left .for home. At its conclusion, Conner, gave reporters this oral statement; MA few of us sat around and talked about; the -situation gener ally and what we "ought to do about it We were pretty well agreed : that the democratic party as now constituted and the repub- j lican party do not stand for the principles we advocate. What we j shall do about it was not decided, but there was a general feeling that the, south must organize if it intends to have, its political prin ciples recognized.' Some southerners had talked of forming a third party to. choose an individual to carry their ban ner in November. 1 i iScdeqx, Orocjon, Saturday M mericatis Establish Strong Beachheads US PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS. Pearl HarhAr. I July 2l( AP ) The invasion of Guam ig going weU, Adm. I I 1 -L TIT ?VTI It .' !i J i.!.Ll-.-J ml M. 1! J 1 viivatcr T. jiiiini rcjiuiicu luiiigiib sua lruni line aispaicnes disclosed thie invaders Were moving; in from beachheads on either kide bf Port Apra, one of the finest in the Pacific Nunitzi reporting only light casualties sustained in ac- tnal landings and stiffening soldiers moved into the interior, made no mention of where the Yanks struck, j j O New Premier Of ane! Br the f Associated Press The Tokyo radio 'announced to day that Gen. Kuniaki j Koiso, former fcoveijjnor - genepaiof Kor rea, naa oeen namea" premier oi Japan to succeed Gen. Hideki Tojo, whose resignation followed a series! of Japanese military set backs. 1 - j ! ii - The ahnoupcement wis made in a Japanese jwireiess cuspatcn to the East Asia . press reported to the office of war information by the federal communications com mission.! After i the - resignation i of the tojo cahinet five days ago. Koiso was. awunimed by EmperocHiro- hitn nirtnff "with Adm. !MtfaimaKSi Yonai.' and- instructed to j form 51 tiew calinet in coypertiiDai.M:.."; The - Tokyo announcement said Admiral Yonai becomes jmlnister of the navy n Koiso's new cabinet and Field Marshal GenJ Sugiyama a prominent imilitary role as jminister of; war. .1,,. , Mamoru . iShigemitsul j remains foreign ! minister and takes over (Continued on Page 2) llfrip'l TlltlPCk P1111 illlCS Hold Strbne - ADVANCED ALLIED HJSAD- QUARTERS! New Guinea.; Satur day, July 22 (vPV- Seasoned Amer j leans "sull firmly held their I British New Guinea jungle lines after j sharply; repulsing a Japanese night I probing- attack, headquarters an- I nounced; today. 1 i The assault was made Wednes day night and Thursday 'morning In the ! foothills of the Torriceli mountains. This is the southern end of the American Jine along the Driiiumor river, 51 'miles east of Aitape. .; . ; j ... 1 j , The attack followed a series of porbing efforts to! outflank the main lines in this rugged ; country. Named T&xas Delegation Walks Out L Ilembers ef the Texi.s rejrt 'ir walk past a r'rn marLlrg seats ef the pre-Eeesevelt Texas faction as they abruptly left far a caucus In the rear ef the democratic i pounds d -1051 ' . , ....... -v . - . .-. Horning. July 22 1844 in Guam Invasion resistance as the marnes and "But from a' warshio at Guam. John R. Henry representing Jha combined allied press, disclosed the landings were on Guam's west coast on either side of the fine harbor. . j . Henry said one beachhead was below the Orote peninsula which forms the southern arm of the port In that ; area, the town of Agat was described as "shattered" by the 17 straight days of war ship and plane attacks. The northern beachhead above the port was 1 reported by Henry to be hinged On the town of Asan. (The location of the beachheads indicated ; the-. invaders intended to sweep behind and pinch off the harbor area.) . (Continued on Page 2) " British Tank Crashes Nazi Tigereddonlt. - THE ORNE RIVER FRONT, July " 21 VP) -JA British-manned Sherman tank fore around a cor ner in a shell-wrecked village and crashed chead-on ' into ' a German Tiger tank, r ' . "Both crews boiled out of their turrets," said Major H. P. Bell, British armored squadron leader. "In the confusion, both our men and the Germans had forgotten their small arms and there they stood a few feet apart just staring at each other." " The British tank commander spoke first: "Beat it, before I change my mind." ' With a gutteral "Danke schoen" (thank you), the Germans took to their heels. V :- . Scouu Will Collect Waster Paper Today ..- Jar ----- . " - Boy Scouts of Hollywood Lions sponsored troop three will con duct today paper salvage . cam paign in Salem. They will call at business" houses and residences where 200 . pounds or ' more of newspapers, magazines': or books have been collected for salvage, bundled or placed .in cartons on porch or "parking providing ci vilian defense offices have been given notification before noon to day. Telephone : number of the civilian defense office Is 3349. delegation' (center, facing 'camera) .RevtQ) Russians ' Get Past Bug River :" Soviets Advance 9 Miles in New Push on Warsaw LONDON, July 21; Rus sian troops smashed across the Bug river in force on a front more than 37 miles wide today and advanced nine miles through staggering Ger man opposition aided by a mass of tanks and every- description .de ployed on the rolling Lublin plain for a drive on Warsaw. The Bug was the last big water before the Wisla ((Vistula), which flows through Warsaw, 130 to 160 miles above the points where the Red army engineers flung their massive pontoons across in a day's time. xr' - i. - i The broadcast Soviet midnight communique," announcing the sud den thrust over the Bug, said the railroad and highway between besieged ; Litoyskand Chelm , had been cut by Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossavsky's forces.'- Chelm, 65 miles south of Brest Litovsk, was the first big objective on the route to Warsaw, and Soviet troops al ready were less than 12 miles from it n the north and east ' : ,. This was the most notable of a long series of successes announced by the Russians in a day of slug ging advances. 4 : ' Previously, Marshal Stalin In an order of the day announced the fall of Ostrov, 475 airline : miles north of the B"ug crossings.. That large rail and communication cen ter 10 miles east of the, Latvian border tumbled to swift outflank ing and frontal attacks by the third Baltic array, along with 150 other town and villages, , after a long, holdout by the German garrison. Only a narrow strip of Pre-1940 Russian territory remained In the weakening Nazi grip.'. Ankara Hears Hitler - -Arrested in Berlin NEW YORK, July 21-()-Max Hill, NBC reporter, radioed from Ankara tonight that reports Adolf Hitler had been arrested were widespread in that city. "Rumors persist that the German fuehrer is under arrest in Berlin, said Hill, adding that some Turkish quar ters had heard diplomatic reports that Hitler might, be under pro tective custory. ' Pvt. Irving L. Jones Missing in Action SILVERTON, July i 21 Pvt Ir ving Leonard Jones,) paratrooper son of Rev. and Mrs, O, Leonard Jones, has , been 'missing ; since June 8 in France, according to in formation received by his parents. His wife and small son, Gordon; live in Springfield. , ;,J,;: Six Nazi Prisoners Elated Over Attempt at WITH ; THE AMERICAN TROOPS IN NORMANDY; July 2!-:,-Six German - prisoners five Austrians and. a , nazi para trooper danced with happiness today when they learned an at tempt had been made to kill Hit ler. - - ' . - ' i ' -' - .? : i . Their only regret ' was that it hadn't succeeded. (V , They were sitting in a barn north of St.' Lo. when told: that their fuehrer almost lost his life in an attempted assassination. ' - Their reaction startled the aol-dier-interpreters - who , half . ex pected the enemy captives some prisoners are so misled by their own propaganda that they think the luftwafle is leveling New York city to express complete dis belief. : Instead, they immediately lost their dejection, jumped up, shook SI vv Pries 5c n O 1 any LONDON, Saturday, Gestapo Kills Aii n y 9 f Army 7n Ml styled rebel German officer insisted today that a full-scale revolt against Adolf Hitler's regime was continuing, while a i welter of reports said the vengefnl Gestapo had slaughtered some of the most illustrous figures in the army, and the nazis themselves admitted the broad scope of the con spiracy even as they claimed to be firmly in con- i.:;jv;; The j dead in a blood purge byx vhicli the shaken nazi chiefs sought lo retain power in cluded Field Marshals Walther Von Brauchitsch, Karl Gerd .von RundstedL Sig-o 1 ' round Wilhelm List and .Fritz? Erich von Mannstein, according to reports via 'Switzerland'; from un-i confirmed ' but usually K reliable sources. v"---'-V:".'!V'.''!, Travelers reaching - Sweden also! said there were many well-known names "among at least 100 generals executed after the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate -Hitler Thursday. - Mysterious Speaker . Early this , morning, after ' the German' home ' radio " had shut' down, a mysterious speaker on the Frankfurt f station's . wave . length called 'for attention and announced that "by order .of, the- commander of the army group of resistance" he .was . empowered to state that although Col." Court : Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who plant ed the bomb that almost killed, Hitler, had paid with his life, this was only "the first blow," and de clared: - ;..';" -; a -Let HiUer know this mucn ior certain there is more than . one Stauffenberg. Stauff enbergs are here in the thousands." , Admits Failure He admitted the "initial action attempt, against Hitler's life has failed, but insisted, "the general action continues. We German of ficers are waging a battle against Hitler, and his clique relentlessly and unhesitatingly and shall fight until this criminal - regime ; has (Continued on page 2). - Marion Gels School Funds Marion county receives $289, 969.91 in the: 1944-45 fiscal year apportionment of state school, tax support fund derived from $5, 000,000 of surplus state - incom taxes ,the state education, depart ment revealed here Friday as work of figuring apportionments was completed. . Polk will receive $100,536.58; Linn, $170,145.85; Yamhill, $129, 437.74; Lane, $343,826.90, and Multnomah ' county ; $1,634,241 Zi. At least half of the $5,000,000 will be sent to counties in Decern-; oer ox tms year and the remainder' in May, It was said at state, edu cation offices The apportionment is based on pupil-days of actual attendance for the 1943-44 school year. - - Hitler s Life hands and. slapped each other on the back In Joy. - - They . began talking rapidly in German. . u.,fToo bad they didn't get him," said one.' .'-'-- - - - , "But they .WAV! said another; "This is the beginning of the end. Mitler""is . kaput-finished. - There will be more attempts.";:,! t ' ' The : young :. paratrooper . who looked like a typical young nazi fanatic acted otherwise. He seem ed even more pleased than others that Hitler almost met a bloody end and said: ' v v Wevhave been waiting many months for he internal collapse of Germany. It will come soon now. Mor ale is terrible because of your bombings and people are discon tented over the severe new; ra tioning imposed now after we have teen fighting so long." . . - . . . - i J Blaimom 4 c m p t ratart : Friday, tl degrees: minl ' knnn 49; se .rata; river J ft.'tlI.,; : Fair Ssturday and Sun day except fog a the eeast; warmer except the eeast. ' Nov ICS gures July 22-( AP)-A self- VorldMoney Chiefs Select Initial Capital BRETTON WOODS, N.H., July 2HP)-An iitiai) capital Vt $8, 800,000,000 for the world bank for reconstruction an d development was agreed on .today by the Unit ed Nations monetary conference, completing; the work of the three- week session except for technical .detaili.;, r- ':: ,j -. ; In a table of quotas for the ya rious nations, announced after ap proval by a plenary session, 1h Soviet Union was given a total of $900,000,000, the amount for which the Russians had stubbornly held out' during days of discussion over the Issue. ' The ' United States quota wag set at $3,175,000,000. Great Brit ain'! at $1,300,000,000, China's at Pi $600,000,000, and France'! at $450,- r 000,000. In preliminary - talks on , the bank, it had been the hope ot conference leaders that the quotas for the bank and the' international monetary fund would be about" th same, but Russia and .the . Latin . American republics put up a strong . fight for lower bank quotas. ?! Nimitz Sets News Record US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 21-(P)-Adm. Chester W. Nimitx set a Pacific war record for news speed by announcing the Guam invasion only 12 hours after American troops seized their beachheads. ' y" To the deep satisfaction of war' correspondents w i t h the ; fleet, Nimitz "scooped" radio Tokyo on the announcement of his own am phibious operations. r J This was one of the few times possibly the first that his com muniques have scored a "beat" on Tokyo , in reporting a major Pacific ' action. .; Thumbnail i. ' By the Anociated Pras ' Germany The Frankfurt ra dio channel was Jammed today as rumors circulated of general Ger- ' man revolt and possible blood purges by Nazi leaders: Hitler's shaken regime 'announces merci less suppression of the army re bellion. ' " Invasion Front Heavy Ger man counter-attacks, were smash ed .by the British and Canadian armies below Caen as mud and rain mired the main Allied drivt toward Paris. V;v: ' ;--."-': ' ' Pacific US forces spear with in Japan's inner defense ring as troops lan4 on Guam, which may . furnish supporting air and sub-' , marine bases dangerously close to Nippon's home islands. 1 ' "j Russia Soviet troops advan ced ' through staggering Gerrnaa ' opposition on the Bug river front, in what appears to be a Russian preparation for a drive on Y.r-saw. I-)-: convention stadim la, Chicago. (AT TTlrephota.) , :' i . " ( '- .' i'lM .. .."".'."-"''-' ' v" " -."1"' ' - " : :. :I;' !::;V:;: Ul: . :--:.v.. 1,: r-; ;