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. . - I ( nil n o OS i'Oii) OOQub " .5. . ".-, -. ,,--J.--. f .... 1 - i -s -..- This it a footnote to my report of visit to Tacoma last , week. I reutrn to it to report a unique institution in that city,, which operates successfully without : benefit of government, simply on the Initiative and broadminded- rss of .Tacoma citizens. It is ' called the ROUND TABLE, and - is composed of a group represent ing employers ana a group rep- . , resenting employes. Its objective is to solve, if at all possible, the problems' of industrial relations in the Tacoma area. - The group meets periodically, a n d proceeds J to "let its hair down" when" it comes to frank discussion. Each side presents its point of view, but (and this is important) it gives the other side a chance to present its point of View. More than that, each side gives the other a respectful hear- t ing. Thus the group is able to get somewhere. i Tacoma members pointed with ' pride to Tacoma ' score with re- gard to loss of production by ' strikes. From 1940 to 1S.43 Taco j ma reduced the number of man hours lost by strikes by a very r - heavy percentage, while, the na- s tional score doubled. They thought this was proof of the value of f what they call the "Tacoma way." 1 In another case, a serious labor shortage in a particular line was reported. Instead of expecting the employment service to drain oth- ; er localities which already were 9 about run dry of labor power, the Round Table went to work to muster enough workers in the home i area to meet i (Continued on Editorial Page) Lull Lontmues A HT 1 un liormanav s en Front . SUPREME HEADQUAE ' TERS ALLIED EXPEDITION ART FORCE, Tuesday, July 25 i (AVBreaklnc a foar-day loll en r the i Normandy front, British i and Canadian troops opened a ! new drive sooth and slightly east of Caen early today along the Falaise road, i Gen. Sir Bernard L. Moat gomery-a , n e a a quarters -aa- nonncement aid 4he attack was i made on a wide front against German positions astride the i road and added that heavy ' fit htina; is geing on. i SUPREME HEADQUARTERS AiJ.I m'EAftUlllUWAHY 1 FORCE, Toesday, July 25-OP) The deadlocked allied and .Ger man j' armies traded inconclusive : blows on the sodden Normandy battlefield yesterday while sum- i moning strength for the greater I battles to come. ; Only two actions were reported ; along, the 100-mile front as the i allies regrouped to mount the ' next: phase of the breakout at tacks, mired down on the British f front in torrential rain four days 1 ago. u i , Eight miles east of Caen, the ' British' pushed into the western part; of Troarn, Dives river i strongpoint blocking : the highway j i to the big port of Le Havre, struck ' stiff ; resistance and . withdrew to i the railway station just west of I i the town." The Germans erased an Amer- i lean, wedge which had been driv-j r en to within two miles of Periers. guarding , the road south to Cou- i tances and Avranches, side door i to the Brittany peninsula and its ! naval base at Brest I Americans yielded the village i of Seves and withdrew to the I north bank of the river, of the : same - name, where they hold strong positions 2M miles north i of Periers. Stimson Will Speak On Radio Tonight WASHINGTON, July 24 Secretary of war Stimson, who re turned last week from a trip to the combat fronts in Italy and Nor mandy, will report his observations in a radio address Tuesday night. ! Stimson will be heard beginning at 10:15 p.m. eastern war time, over the Mutual and Blue networks. Pearl Harbor Board Begins Investigation WASHINGTON, July 24 -(-The. naval board of inquiry Into! circumstances surrounding the Japanese surprise attack on. Pearl Harbor formally began its 'work today. The board held an organi zation meeting to plan procedure a week ago1, deciding then that its proceedings would not be public." 593 Tanks Destroyed ON THE ORNE RIVER FRONT, Normandy, . July 24 Titld Marshal .'Rommel has had 593 tanks knocked out of action on the irormandy British front since D 'ay and 253 of these are known t- finitely to have been destroyed, . h sfaff officer said tonight Sorld 1 -Ar 1- " . S U ' ...... - iriNETY-FOUIU Hitler; ;l. StillRiile Piirge Wipes Out Only Few Heads Of Conspiracy : LONDON, July 24-(jip-The na- zis still ruled, uermany wmgm under the iron hand of the Ges tapo, but advices from the reich s frontier declared the purge had wiped out only a1 few of the leaders among the army conspir ators' determined to liquidate Adolf Hitler and all his regime. A reliable report to The' Asso ciated Press said the only, mem ber of a "high committee of op position" who had been caught was the executed Col. Gen. Lud- wig Beck, who had been warned of arrest and was taken by acci dent...;-" Himmler Ignorant I Heinrich Himmler, the Gesta po s nead executioner, "doesn t even know who the members of the committee are," this account said, although the committee, embracing Catholic and Evangeli cal representatives as well as the military, was said to have ex isted for more than half a year. Meanwhile, a broadcast by Ab sie, American transmitter in London, monitored by NBC to night said Swiss dispatches re ported that Hitler has called a conference at Berchtesgaden to morrow "to select new generals for the Russian and Baltic fronts. Nasifies Army Hitler set out to nazify his army completely as the Berlin radio announced that Thursday's bomb which, reportedly singed him had taken the lives of two high-ranking officers. The victims were Col. , Gen. Guenther, chief of - the German air force general staff, and Major Gen. Heinze Brandt, first officer in the army general staffs oper ative section. J AlllCS ClCUr Imphal Plain SOUTHEAST ASIA COM MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan dy, Ceylon, July 24MP)-Allied troops have cleared the' Imphal plain near the Indian-Burma bor der of all Japanese, and have struck into the beginning of the Kuki hills east of the plain. Southeast Asia command head quarters announced today. The latest advances southward down the Tiddim road met only minor opposition,' the bulletin added. In northern Burma, allied for ces fighting for the great Japan ese base of Myitkyina gained 100 yards in the northwest sector and scored minor advances in the southern' sector. Hunting9 Good On Tinianlsle By the Associated Press The "hunting" on Tinian island. invaded by US marines, should be good in more ways than one. The leathernecks, now busy hunting Japs, probably will turn to animal hunting later on. - Tinian, with an area of about 20 square miles, is known for its natural beauty and as the home of great herds of wild cattle. For 50 years 'Tinian supplied cured beef to other islands in the Mari anas chain which extends about 300 miles north and south. Tinian also is noted for its pre historic ruins a double row of truncated masonry pyramids. Oregon Losing Last Retreat Is Oregon will " be "immediately stripped of the majority of its military installations,' on the basis of the present optimistic outlook regarding the war, the state post war commission has reported to Gov. Earl SnelL . The report was concluded Mon day. As was heralded in The States man last Thursday, the commis sions final reoort .called on all communities and' iA late industry to make post-war plans immed iately. It said military authorities expected Germany to fall within five months and Japan sometime next year.' Thm report said Camp White at Medford was practically deserted except by prisoners of war, and V AH - " i , - . Germany 12 PAGES Hitler Looks aiJBomb Damage 4 'A I r i W Caption on this German photo, supplied bM Swedish picture;: agency Pressens Bild, says It shows Adolf Hitler tnd Benito Mussolini In specting damage to the room In which the bomb aimed at Hitler exploded last week. White spot en Hitler's hand Is I described as a , bandage.; AP Wlrephoto by radio from Stockholm. . 1! R&lF Bombers Nazi Cities LONDON, Tuesday, July 25 - heavy blow to Germany during the night a laj-ge force of.bomb ers carrying out a powerful raid on Stuttgart while Mosquitos again attacked battered Berlin. Other British planes struck 1 " 1 " 0 Woiihded List Includes 8 of Salem Area Military successes brought both hope and sadness to the mid-Willamette valley today. - Of a list of 1134 US soldiers an nounced by the war department as wounded in action, eight were from this area. The eight, some of whom were listed previously on the basis of reports to their families, were: : Southwest Paclfie Area Staff; Sgt. Chester B. Healy, son of G. D. Healy of 419 Miller Ave., Dallas. - f - PFC Wesley R. Godwin, son of George j W. Godwin of route 1, Turner.? First! Lit Vernon E. Townsendv husband of Mrs. Marie S. Town send of Tangent. Tech,1 Sgt. Edwin M. Walen, son of Erick A. Walen of route 2, Silverton. '; SUff Sgt.' Wavard J. Wills, grandson of Mrs. Etta A. Loomis of 1030 South Water street, Sil verton.- Tech,' 5tk Gr. Vernon E. Wind sor, son of. P. D. Windsor of route 2, box 237$ Salem. - i . . Eoropean Area Staff Sgt. James T. Moulton,' son of Jack Moulton of 139 East First street, Albany. Staff Sgt Edon W. Walker, son of David F. Walker of Sweet Home., S Robot Comes Close LONDON, Tuesday, July 25 (JP) One of the German robot bombs fell recently just across the Thames river I from the houses of parli ment, it was disclosed officially todayii I - ; , Military Bases; Held at Adair that Camp Adair, was being aban doned and its soldier population of 35,000 to 40,000 sent away, The ' latter development . was confirmed to some extent by the Camp: Adair Sentry, newspaper, which said the last formal retreat parade was held Thursday night It also published a message from Col. Samuel D. Hayes, command ing, reviewing the activation and training of the 86th, 104th and 7Cth divisions' and the temporary hous ing at Adair of the 91st His mes sage expressed appreciation for "the tine spirit of officers, en listed men and civilians' and their "whole-hearted cooperation." ' The post-war commission's' re port said that If used at all. Camp (Continued on Fajt 2) ! . t i Salem, Orogon. Tuttday Morning. July 25. 1944 -.1 t. ri i a 1 1 4 i ; 4 , Yr ft 4 in mi v-r Again (i? - The JRAFI delivered (mother simultaneously! at German; flying bomb sites in 'northern France, It was; the RAF's second ' sue- cessive Heavy j night assault on. the ' reicn, large iprce o navy i bombers 1 having unloaded ij a great weight oi explosives on the naval base of Kiel the preceding night Up to 500 Italy-based American heavy; bombers poinded German airdromes, harbors and other tar gets in Franpe, Yugoslavia, and northern! Italy during the!! day af- ler uie iiA j naq aeiiverea uw heaviest and! most concentrated assault Of the wa on the nazis great nof thenfi naval base! of Kiel. Kiel was saturated with nearly 3000 tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs.! It was there that sailors mutinied' as Germany collapsed in 1918. j j; The? air war rolled forward by daylight ftodajf frorri two directions: Besides fthe triple j blows'5 by the Mediterranean - based bombers, RAF Lancasters i blasted robot bomb i installations I in France for the third time in 24 hours, and other ! planes supported! ; troops fighting an France. Poles Disown London Group MOSCOW, July; 24-- The newly-established jnational j coun cil of Poland declared in :a mani festo announced today that the polish ' government !in London was an "impostrous authority incom petent authority" hd called for "restoration to the motherland" of East Prussia and other j portions of eastern Germany. . f ! In the? manifesto, dated July 22 at Chelro, Pqland-f-liberated Sat urday by' the :red army the coun cil said fit was the sole lawful source of authority in f Poland" and explained it had set tip; a Po lish committee of i national! liber ation as. the organ of executive power, ! ! S - Mills5 Qose Down S f I I 1 As Mercury Qimbs (' I . I 1 Mills close -i 18 .pge 1-2 MILL CITY. July 241 The various loscine camps near Mill City have lost considerable time the past Jweek due to low relative humidityi '''!" ' i ' ' Some fare I working the "hoot owl" shift which enables! them to get out o the woods before; the hot test part ;of the afternoon.? , ". -I -H i - - Vichy jFuily Isolatcil By French Pallriols ; LONDON, July 24 - (P) - An authoritative ! French source said today that Vichy had been com pletely Isolated, . with all roads, railroads and telephone lines in the collaborationists capital j cut by Marquis 'forces. This source con ceded the isolation was essentially a harassing operation and probably was only temporary. Blast M amies nee OnTinian Yaiik Invaders Of Guam Cut Off Jap Troops US FAFIFIC I HEADUARTERS, Pearl Hafbof, July 24 -(J3)- Mar ines advanced 15000 yards inland on the north lend of Tinian island and captured! the western third of the 1500-yard-long Tinian airstrip, A dm. Chester W. Nimitzi announ ced tonight. ; ! . .The American assault forces which captured Saipan Island, three miles to the north, landed on Sunday, on the northwest coast adjacent to the Ushi point air field. Earlier today Nimitz announced that American invaders of Guam, at the end of the Marianas chain 125 miles south of Tinian, have completely cut off Japanese troops on Orote peninsula, site of Guam's main airfield, i i On Guam, the third marines ap proached to within less than a mile of Agana Town and extended their beachhead inland 2900 yards, the deepest penetration yet made, This force is ; operating in the northern battle sector, on the west- central coast, of the island. To the south, the first marines and units of the 77th division co operated to hem in an i unknown number of Japanese on the Orote peninsula, where Guam's largest airfield is located. The only pos sibility of escape for the trapped enemy was i by barges I or other small craft to unconquered parts of the island, r i ' Nips Penetrate Chinese Lines At Hengyaiig CHUNGKING, July 24 -UP- Strong Japanese units in- severe counter ' attacks penetrated the southwestern outskirts i of encir cled Hengyang in Hunan province yesterday and both sides suffered heavy losses in the bitter battle which ensued the Chinese high command announced tonight' The Chinese had been attack ing the southwestern suburb- po sitions of the i Japanese for sev eral days in an attempt to effect a major break through at that point. 1 . ! ! On all sides, the wary defend erg of the Canton-Hankow railway city were engaged in heavy fight ing. : The high; command claimed our positions were safe" after re peated Japanese counter attack's. North and northwest of the city, a communique said,! Chinese troops took several important vil lages. - i i King George Reaches Italy ROME, July 24 r(iP)- King George VI. of England, trim in the dark olive green of a field marshal; landed today in Italy on an inspection tour which will car ry him to battle fronts approach ing Pisa,- Florence and Rimini. The king's big plane with Beau fighter and Spitfire escort landed on a bomb-shattered airport at 5:15 p. m. after flying from Bri tain. - ; The king appeared fresh after the swift trip, broken by one three- hour halt Gen. Sir Henry Mait land Wilson, Mediterranean the ater commander, first greeted him The king stood under the wings of his plane for five minutes chat ting with the four man reception committee and members of his own small party i - 17-Ytar-Old Girl Shot In Sherwood Home v SHERWOOD, Ore July 25-iPF A 17-year-old girl was shot fatally at her farm home two miles south of here this evening and her father was held for investigation, deputy sheriff E. L. Bacon of Clackamas county said tonight v: ' - . 'The officer said the girl, Donna Lee Henderson, died from a bullet wound in her head,' and that her father, ; Winfield ' L. , Henderson, 48, was taken to the Clackamas county Jail. Ambassador Recalled LONDON, Tuesday, July A -Reuters; dispatch from Buenos Aires said today that Argentina had decided to recall her ambass ador to Washington, Adrian Esco bar. ; V. f " Adva Acacirao odd pDa Not the Heat? It's Humidity "Not the beat? Then the humidity" kept! Salem folk mopping their brows. ! - For the seeond successive day the mercury in rflcial ther mometers at the airport wea ther bureau mounted to 88 de- ' trees, 14 below the summer's maximum. Monday's minimum was 81, Sunday's, 2. Although hundreds took to Mill creek and river as well aa the regular crowds at munici pal swimming pools, only one accident was reported to city first "aid men. Eugene Harp, 18, of 2335 Mission street cut his right knee as he swam In Mill creek. He was tent to a physician. i Guinea Yanks Throw Back 3 Jap Attacks ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, ( Tues day, July 25 -(JP) American ar tillery and rifle fire turned back three desperate Japanese attacks along the Driniumor river front in British New Guinea, headquart ers announced today. The Japanese attacked Satur day, Saturday night and Sunday. The few isolated units which man' aaed to infiltrate the American ines are being wiped out, the an nouncement said. '; Enemy casualties are running into the thousands. - A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArfiiut said the xouoted .dead in the Wewak sector even before the last attacks s began totaled 1474. An estimated 45,000 i Japa nese, trapped between Australian forces , along the Sepik river on the east and -Americans at Aitape on the west are attempting to drive through; the American block into the compartive t safety of Dutch New Guinea. ! MacArthur's planes, meanwhile, continued their support of Amer- can landing operations In the Marianas, far to . the north, by hammering Palau, Yap .and Woleai in the Carolines; Two of eight in tercepting enemy planes were de stroyed at Tap. , Lt. D. A. Larson Dies in Action Second Lt Donald A. Larson, US marine corps ; reserve, son of David A. Larson, 639 Center street, Salem, is r listed today among Oregon's war dead. " His wife makes her home at 17817 North Clifton drivej : Lake- wood, Cleveland, O. Announcement of his death was made Monday night in Washing ton, DC, by the navy department Presidential ptation Goes to Burma Yanks WASHINGTON, July 24 -JPh The first unit of American ground troops to engage the enemy on the continent of 'Asia, the 5307th composite unit which made a sur prise attack on Myitkyina in Burma and seized the airfield there on May 17, has been given a ' Presi dential unit citation for gallantry in action. - ". George C. Will Dies Sunday; Funeral Set for Wednesday Funeral services will be held at 1030- aia. Wednesday ffrom Clough-Barrick chapel for George C. Will whose death here Sunday closed the chapter, in what was probably: Salem's longest business career. . , ..' The career was a joint enter prise. More than 53 years ago he and Mrs. Will established the store which they operated together to the day of his death. ; . i. ' - L Stocks expanded from the sew ing machines and ' organs he de livered behind teams of horses In a light buckboard in the 80s, to Include today's albums of record ed and sheet music in addition to the musical instruments and sup plies. - 7 ; -ESoves CIs Store Will's music sore for years was only a few doors couth cf State (Continued; on pas 2) Germans Lose 539,890 Men Since Beginning of Huge Soviet Summer Offensive LONDON, Tuesday, July 25 (AP) Marshal Konstan- tin K. Rokossovsky'g First White! Russian armies yesterday, split the reeling; German forces in Poland by capturing th rail city of Lublin and toppling Lukow, only 60 miles south east of Warsaw, while the First Ukraine army in the south leaped the San river at several points in a direct drive on German Silesia, less than 150 miles away. A special Moscow communique also announced that the Germans had lost 539,890 troops! killed And captured since the gigantic soviet summer offensive began June 23. These casualties were inflicted by only if our Russian armies, and there are at least seven now hurling the Germans back on an 800-mile front from theBal-o tic to the Carpathian mountains. Nasi Losses Mount Marshal Ivon S. Konev's troops who jumped the San river in the south have killed or captured at least 47,175 Germans in a single trap northeast of Lwow, the daily communique said. This boosted German losses in one month of the whirlwind Soviet offensive to at least 587,065. V The troops of Rokossovsky, son of a Warsaw cobbler, also cap tured Belzhitse, 13 miles south west of fallen Lublin,' in an over powering drive which put the Russians less than 20 miles from the Wisla (Vistula) river the last axis natural defense line before Germany itself. Smash SO Miles Lukow's capture represented a 30-mile smash in the last 24 hours, and by Its seizure the Russians cut off the German fortress city of Brest Litovsk far to the east ' German broadcasts also' said the Russians had reached Siedlce, only SO miles east of Warsaw, and 20 miles north of Lukow. Beyond 1 (Continued on Page 2) Police Arrest Ervin J. Sisk For Accident - State police Sunday arrested Er vin J. Sisk, 22, of Salem as the driver of a car from which Lois Hunt, 13, either fell or leaped to the pavement on the. Portland Salem highway in the Lake La bish area Friday night Sick's arrest was on a warrant charging him with failure to ren der aid after an accident. Previous news of the accident was silenced at the request of the law enforce ment authorities. Miss Hunt was riding with two girls and three boys and injuries to her Included lacerations and bruises. She was unconscious and was in a semi-conscious state un til late Sunday night However, she was reported as "improving" Monday night, by Salem General hospital attendants. Three Hours Old Baby Undergoes Operation HARTFORD, Conn., July 24 -(JF)-A three hours old baby, the daughter of Mr.' and Mrs. James Edwards' of Hartford, underwent an operation today at St Francis' hospital. . - . ' Physicians said the infant, youngest patient ever to undergo surgery at the hospital, . had an abdominal hernia. The hospital re ported the operation successful and said the baby was resting comfort ably. GEOHGE C WILLr I Weather j II a ximiiia tempera tare Monday tl degrees; mini fnuun CI; so rain; river -3.5 feet. i r. 'A A": - l' Taesday Wednesday. clear except fog en coast . a d scattered afternoon I thunder ' storms sontheast portion Taesday; little tem 1 peratnre change. . .."'T Pric 5c No, 103 1 i. , , Allies in Italv i j - Prepare Attack On Gothic Line ROME, July 24-W-The end of the; first year of Italy's revolt against fascism found American troops firmly established tonight along . the southern bank of the Arno river between Florence and Pisa and preparing to assault tho "Gothic line" guarding the one third of Italy still in enemy hands. Doughboys, already had fought their way through all of the his toric city of Pisa which lies south of the Arno and were swiftly an nihilating the few enemy pockets of resistance remaining east of the, city. Advance American, elements crossed the Arno canal and occu pied Cascina nine miles east of Pisa. 'Florence, great inland commu nications center and shrine of th arts, was almost within the grasp of -ether Fifth army forces slug ging northward along highway No, 2 from Poggibonsi. Latest field reports placed this columni in the village of Strada, only 12 miles from the outskirts of Flor ence, o ; Approximately half the 42 miles1 of the Arno between Florence and Pisa was held by Lt Col. Mark W.l Clark's forces, with the nazig s t r o n gl y entrenched on high ground rising from the northern banks of the twisting stream; ' There w a s no report of allied troops having crossed the river at any point Local Cannery Gets Orders WASHINGTON, July 24 -(T) The national labor relations board today ordered the United Grow ers, Inc., Salem cannery, to rein state two employes and to wceas4 discouraging, membership" in the AFL4 cannery workers union. ' Peter F. Ward, NLRB trial ex aminer, ruled that Dollis Williams and Leota Sipe had been discrim inated against because of union activity. He also ordered the grow er to reimburse them for lost working time. - ; At the same time the board an nounced that among cases certi fied to it during' the second week in July were those of Miles Linen company, Salem, with the United Textile Workers of America, local 2637; AFL; and Blue Lake Pro ducers Cooperative, Inc., Salem, with Cannery Workers, federal labor union, local 23104, AFL. Thumbnail k Off 11ar! - By th Associated PreM Rossian Front Soviets split German forces in Poland with capture of Lublin and Lukow, ; only 60 miles southeast of War saw; cross San river In push oh German Silesia 150 miles away; announce. 587,065 Germans 1 killed or captured in one month.'. f Paclfie US marines capture part of main airstrip on Tinian Island; Yanks advancing in Guam . isolate . Japanese . troops ' on Orote peninsula ; General ' MacArthur's forces in British " New Guinea hurl back desperats attacks by trapped enemy. i ; Invasion Front Both mass for major battle. sides 20 j Italian Front Allies take part of Pisa, prepare assault on Goth ic line; bombers his at airports, harbors in north Italy, Franco--", and Yugoslavia; "