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Warnings j are posted in the prints that un i "less the economy makes adequate i provision for all the people, some t thing will happen, the something I being usually that government will provide. t i ' ' ' v; ' Against this attitude of defeat " ism and against this "either-or- else philosophy a contributor to ; the letter column of the New York j Times, Frank Altschul, an invest 4 meht banker, offers - protest He ' gets, hia stimulus to speak out from . a recent bulletin of the federal reserve bank, which asserts that l "maintenance of employment is the; principal single economic ob i jective that will have to be ' achieved if the existing economic : system is im survive." The bul- - 'letin poses two alternatives: The choice between high pro-. . duction, high employment and general prosperity ' and falling ' production, serious unemployment, widespread misery and danger to - our institutions." ,; : The contributor admits that this forecast of doom "unless' is one ; that "scares the wits out of me," . and goes on to say: fl share - with every i thinking citizen the desire to ace in the United States and elsewhere as i high, a degree ol -employment. af;-J ter the war as it is humanly pos sible to achieve. Yet if this level should in spite of all efforts prove to be lower than 'we had hoped, or if it should from time to time recede, 'I would think it tragic if , we jumped to the conclusion that - on this account our economic sys tem was doomed." This rejoinder to the theory advanced-by the federal reserve bul- - letin, which but mirrors the infec tion of defeatism that has been (Continued on Editorial page) House Group Seizes Files WASHINGTON, July 25 HJfy A house committee today seized foreign broadcasts files found in the rooms of two Japanese em : ployed by te goverent. . The gnup, headed by Chairman Leo (D-Calif.), and investigating ' the federal communications com mission called an emergency hear ing to question Fred Nitti, a native of Japan, and John Kitasaka, Am ' erican-born Jap in x. Nitfi is employed by the office " of strategic services in "highly confidentiar work, he testified. - Kitasaka edits scripts of radio Tokyo broadcasts in the foreign broadcast intelligence division of the FCC. Both were in a reloca- tion camp after Pearl Harbor. Committee Counsel J. J. Sirica brought out that Kitasaka took to - his rooms four copies of foreign broadcasts which were listed as , "restricted" and that Nitti had access to them; ' Kitasaka said he had the copies only to "study them," to help him , in his work. Nitti said they aided .him also, in what he was doing for the highly-secret OSS. Both asserted they were loyal to the United States. Ed Smith, Caraway Trail in Primary By the Associated Press Sen. Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith of South Carolina and Sen. Hattie D. Caraway of Arkansas last night appeared to have lost their campaigns for renomination to the United States senate. Returns from the two states democratic primaries showed Smith, the 79-year old dean of the senate, and Mrs. Caraway, the senate's only woman member, trailing fasttepping opponents. Ceiling Price Set For Fresh Prunes SAN FRANCISCO, July 25 Processor ceiling prices announc cd today by the war food admin-ji-trstion and the OPA will give Ortiron. Witshmgton,' Idaho and Vii h growers an average price tl S4S.50 a ton for fresh prunes rrn titD coco trnd $53 for flums, , 12 PAGES f ;J Salem. Orron. WioMdcrr Morpiag. Julf 23. 1944 . j " ' t, . Fslc 5e .-ITo-ICa.' To Wik For Reds : River Last Big Block Guarding Nazi Homeland LONDON, Wednesday, July 28 (P)-The con4uering red armies thrust "within seven miles of the Wisla (Vistula) river yesterday,! immediately . threatening to out flank Warsaw on the south and confront the harried nazi com mand with a smash due west across that last: big waterway guarding the German . fatherland 150 miles distant s - (A- dispatch from a Reuters correspondent v in Moscow said early today soviet forces already had reached the Wisla.) This sudden maneuver, catch ing the enemy off balance and posing the most terrifying pros pect for him, was but one of a series of victorious advances an nounced by the soviet midnight communique for the seven great armies now on the offensive. Advance Everywhere On other sectors of the 800-mile-long front the Russians re ported they had, -furthered their frontal drive now between 40 and 50 mile . east;, of Warsaw, sur rounded and broke, into the city of Lwow Poland's third largest, fought into the outskirts of virtually-encircled Bialystok, cut the last nazi escape railway be tween Riga j? and J Daugavpils W Latvia," and threw deadly nooses around Brest Iitovsk and SUnls- lawow.i.-m.W'v v North of Bialystok' the Rus (Continued on. page 2) Reds Support New Polish Committee LONDON, July 25-(fl5)-Russia concretely advanced her program for incorporating the eastern part of old Poland into the Soviet Un ion and compensating a re-born Poland with German lands by an nouncing today that she recog nized the newly-created "Polish committee of national liberation" as the sole civil authority in ter ritory now being wrested from the Germans west of the Bug river. . v - Administrators of this commit tee are moving right up with the red army and setting up civil ad ministrations, Moscow said. The '; Polish exiled government in London, with which Russia has no relations and which the new Russian - backed . committee has denounced as "illegal," is ignored in the arrangements. Formation of th e . liberation committee was presented to the world as a spontaneous movement with its headquarters on Polish soil, but its proclamations .were broadcast by the Moscow radio. leaving no doubt that Russia looks upon it with a paternal eye. Rubber Chief Resigns WASHINGTON, July 25 -(ff) Col. Bradley Dewey announced today his resignation as rubber director and said his office would be. liquidated on or before Sep tember l. Admiral King Expects Change In Japanese War Strategy WASHINGTON, . July 25-ff) Admiral .Ernest J. King, navy commander in chief, confident that : the new Japanese, cabinet will change the enemy's war tac tics, hopes the change will bring ""cooperation" by the Nipponese fleet in a -showdown naval en gagement . "Undoubtedly the Japanese will continue to wage war with all the power they possess, King told a press conference today. ' ;r; i j "But we 1 can expect some change in their method of wag ing war. Whether it means they will go more nearly on the de fensive withdrawing to inner cita dels or rather become more ag gressive remains to be sen. Navy Secretary Forrestal and Admiral William F. Halsey, Jrl back from the Pacific for short conferences in Washington, sat beside King as he asserted that the Tojo cabinet obviously fell CourtVenies Reyiearing of Folkes9 Ccise - The case of Robert s. Lee! Folkes,! 22-year-old Los Angeles dining fear cook, ' apparently was headed! for the US supreme court todayJi : .. V . 1 The 'Oregon supreme court,: which interrupted its summer va-l cation .for a brief session Tues4 day, denied Folkes petition for J re-hearing on his conviction o murderi In the ."lower 13" death of Mri - Martha Virginia JamesJ wife of a naval ensign, who wa4 killed In her berth on a souths bound f passenger train in Linn: county! January 23, 1943 The denial constituted the , last judicial recourse in Oregon ex cept foJr a stay of execution pend! ing outcome of an appeal. f Folkes conviction previously was upheld by a 5 to 2 decision' of the I state supreme court Th spui was occasioned by the def fense'scohtention that a memo! randurl was introduced at the trial h a manner to indicate if was a: judges! order. I confession. Two of the believed a new trial in! x ones is under sentence of juMiuiAd: ui rviiiino, nas an-u; nounced he will appeal to the US supreme court. " Li ?- .:..- ! Wight Air Kaids Follow Biggest! Bombardment 1 LONDON, Wednesday, July 2$ (P) For the second night in sue eessionf RAF heavy bombers batl' tered Stuttgart and Mosquitos hit Berlin last night while other Bri-I tish fdrmationt pounded flying bomb installations in northen Francel , . T ' The I announcement said th night bombers were out "in grea stetngt'l indicating that at leas 1000 took j part in the raids. The fssaults followed the great! est aerial bombardment ever con-Si centratd on 10 square miles of land as allied warplanes spearJ headed 1 the new American drive! along the western flank of the Normaldy front yesterday. I Blasting a hole five miles widej and tWo miles deep, more than 1500 heavy bombers and an equal numbe of medium : and light bombers and fighters cascaded; thousands j of fragmentation andl high explosive bombs on the en-l emy ahead of the doughboy ad- vance. J . "'- .-- It was unquestionably the, mightiest air assault since D-day and supreme headquarters assert-i ed, th volume of bombing over; such a I smail area was unprece dented. -I RAF j Mustangs simultaneously; battered German positions south of Caen to clear, the way for th Britishand Canadian offensive at the eastern end of the 100-mile front and lit was estimated that the combined allied air armadas amounted v to more than 4000 planes, US to Be-Non-Partisan WASHINGTON, July 25 -(flf The United States intends -to purl sue a strictly non-partisan course in the jRusso-Polish dispute over! the administration of liberated areas of Poland, it was reported on highj authority tonight. becausf of dissatisfaction by Jap-j anese military leaders witn we conduct of the war. : There i no aid and comfort to be gained, King said, "from the composition of the new cabj inet" made up of military leaders; In conquering that island, si major 'Japanese base, Navy Secj retary jForrestal reported, Ameri-il can casualties totaled 18,463. Of that number, 3049 were killed; 13,049 Wounded and 385 arc listed as missing.: I - . More than 5000 of the wound-j ed already are back in action, driving the Japanese from nearby Tinian j island where the same troops that conquered Saipan are in action.1- Japanese casualties of. Saipan Forrestal said, totaled 20,729 dead. buried by American troops,' and 1707 prisoners of war.' In addi-ii lion, 14,192 enemy, civilians have been iaterned on Caipan. racinc ilnvaion :lTiikee-Forces , IMake Good Gains On Guam,! Tinian US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pear! Harbor, July 25-(tSubstantial j gains ion in vaded puaih and Tinian islands, deep in Japan's inne defense arc, with American forces affecting a junction on j the eastern shores of Guam'i strategic j Apra ; harbor, were announced today by Adm. Chester W. fNimittj t j ) . American forcesr Jthat invaded Guam ! only last Thursday thus controed all of jApra harbor's shorelines- with the ! exception of a portion o: the OnHej peninsula, on the south. -I I j j .. . Japs Isolated ; - . j Ther an unknown jnumber of Japanese had been! isolated as the southern assault forces of the third amphibious ! corps slashed across the bftse of the peninsula. - Casualties on both Tinian and Guam, through Monday, were light compared with the first few days of the, invasion iof Saipan, first Island Iof the; Marianas lost by Japan. They Were announced by Nirtitz as folIoWsi: j v - Guam 443 killed, j 3368 wound ed and- 209 inissing. ! - Tinian 15 killed and 225 wounded. , j Jap Leases ;Heavyj j At Uast 2400 enemy dead had been counted on Guant and 1324 on Tinian. j ' 1 J. Patrols frfm the northern and soutarn assault orces'-on GUtm established pontact; yesterday along t fAprafs shoreline, on the west-central side of Guam. Apra is one i of the better harbors of the western! Pacific and will of fer anqhorage facilities jnot avail able on Saipan, 125 1 miles north ward. 3 Mil Ray Deiieke Dies m Action mt; 'angel, July, 2f 4- Ray mond iDeneie, US tnarine corps; was killed in action fin the South Pacific according jt information receivejl Tuesday fy hs j?arents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Deneke. Raymond beneke enlistecr in the marinel corps, June- jl6, 1941. and went overseas January 8, 1942. He was born May 15, ill 19 j at Deleit, Kao and came . with his' family to Mt iAngei four jyears ago. Be sides he pjarents,; two brothers and two sisters survive: Harold Deneke, US jarmy paratrooper ov erseas;! Francis Deneke, jUS navy; Katherine Deneke, Mt Angel, and Florence Deneke BiEjry.jnow with her husband! CpL Berry sit Camp Phillips, , Kan. .j . i . . ." Requiem high mass will pe cele brated! at St Mary's j church Thursday morning at B o'clock. " ' - I H - i China Troops e Attiac CHUNGKING, July 25 -P- Chinese troops east of Lfling, 75 miles northeast of ihe Hunan pro vince rail Junction of Hengyang, have developed a: kuccessful at tack tgains the f Japanese and have joccupfied seyerajl - strong points,! the Chinese command an nounced " tonight i I j - At besieged Hengyang itself, bitter fighting contjnuec, the Chi nese comminique j saidj both in side and outside thelcityi The Jap anese fwere I said to! have! beaten back Chinese attempts, to send relief icolmini to ithe! encircled garrison. J Col. ilunii Sterling 111 7ith Pneumonia i-i 1 f i i NEW YORK, July ! H()-Col. Edmund W. Starling, head of the white 'house secret (service for 10 yean 'fcnd traveling; confpainon cf the last five presidents, is critically ill ot pneumonia ini St Luke's hos pital, t wat learned tonight His wife said Colonel Starling had been ill fori two weeks. . J j , Goebbels to Speak LONDON, Wednesday, July 28 -H Nazi propaisjand piinister Paul Joseph Goebbels will address the . German! "natidn by radio at 8:15 p;m. (235 TEW) tomorrow, a Berlin: broadcast ! announced to day. - Ms Gbe Twin Drives Launched in t'''' VV rylRSv - U' A '- Y't Pent V 1 STsnTt mn American forces opened a new offensive in the western sector ef Normandy, located only as northwest or St La (arrow, left), as British Caea-raUlse highway (arrows, Adolf Hitler Gives Gderingj Sweeping i if LONDON, July 25-(AP-Adolf Hermann Wilhelm Goering and I Goebbels with sweeping powers life.-atd in effect .pUced Germany and the occupied territories undlr an arch-nazi quadrumvirate. . . . y. '- In a move apparently exterminating any conservative influence which had remained in authority.O Hitler produced a blueprint for crumbling Germany's death bat tle, a last fanatical struggle to be directed by the "big four" of naziism Hitler, Goering, Goeb-; bels and Heinrich Himmler,' the gestapo chief appointed last week to be an all-powerful commander in chief of the army at home. . . Hitler issued a decree naming Goering and Goebbels to extract from the peoples of "the greater German reich and the occupied countries the last ounce of strength for the German army and the arms industry, and he em powered them to "issue instruc tions to even the highest reich (Continued on Page 2) Generals Ask Hitler Break MOSCOW, July 25 - (P) - A statement printed over the signa tures of 18 captured Nazi generals appealed today to German officer and soldiers to break with Hitler and end "this senseless bloodshed' immediately. . : Germany and German-held ter ritory were bombarded by leaflet and short wave radio with the text of the statement, and officers said that by: tonight a large portion of the German army should be aware of it .;---- , - r The statement, which was at tributed to Lt Gen. Baumler, com mander of the 12th infantry and former chief of Norway occupation forces,: said a conclusion that the struggle now was now hopeless had been reached. Superforts Equipped . With Two Bomb Bays :. SEATTLE, July 25 -()- The war department permitted disclo sure today that the Boeing B-23 Superfortress 1 ' equipped with two bomb bays to accommodate the bomb loads of the big ships. One Is forward of the wing and the other aft, with a provision for dropping bombs alternately from the two bays to avoid throwing a bomber off balance. Dawson Creek Camp Hit by C500;000 Fire DAWSON CREEK, B.O, July 25 -(CP)- Half a miUion dollars damage was caused by fire here last night which, destroyed a Uni ted States engineering department post garage containing 25 assorted vehicles, three bulldozers and 100 sets of mechanics tools valued at $150 a set Cause of the blaze has not yet been determined, - and Canadian troops resumed the light). AP- Wlrepheto.) ', Goebbels rs Hitler tonight invested Marshal Propaganda Chief Paul Joseph over German public and private ! King Inspects Shipping, Army Camp in Italy 0 HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY. July 24-(Delayed )-P)-Changing swiftly from the dress uniform of the admiral of the fleet to the field marshal's field dress after J inspecting war time shipping in Naples ' harbor. King George VI of Erigland .flew to thk behind - the - line camp for further inspection ceremonies. : The king has adopted a rugged schedule, but is noticeably pains taking in trying to see everything and everyone available, even to handshaking and chatting with newsmen and photographers. ; . The first American touch to the elaborate ceremonies, aside from the flying Stars and Stripes and the white - clad sailors lining the rails of American warships, came when the king boarded the flag ship Admiral H. Kent Hewitt He saluted " and shook hands ? and talked with a sizeable gold-braided group before ' inspecting the ship even to the crew's messroom. Anyhow They Avoid Getting in the Rush This Method ' WASHINGTON, Jely 15JP) The tint aid reem at national OPA . headquarters stayr epen swtO 2t SDlnatea te C every af tenieee, altheegh the ; rest ef the office closes at 5t. A pretty : arse explained: " "We have to stay est a few minBtes longer te patch ap the one whe get Imeeked dowa the stairs trrima to get eet ef here at fcii." - Sherwood Man Bail in Slaying (rtetara en Page 1) 'f ' V OREGON CITY, July 25- U5) -WinCeld ti, Henderson, 48, iarmer and ex-school teacher," was held without bail today after arraign ment on a first! degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of "his 17-year-old daughter. Donna.' " The accused to enter : a" plea, asked time to obtain an attorney and was returned to the Clackamas county jail where he Was taken last night after the shooting at his farm home two miles south of Sherwood. , V ' " Officers said they found Hender son riding a horse in front of his Powe Normandy FRANCE tfensivt sooth of Caen along the I British Forces OniylOMes From Florence ROME, July 25 -W- British Infantry," gaining in small but bloody battles through mountain ous country, advanced to within less than' 10 miles of the historic city of Florence from tie south while American troops fighting Inland along TEhe'"Arner :rivr were reported tonjght only 1JT" mires west of the- great art center and transportation hub. The enveloping allied drives on the metropolis, - 140 miles north west of Rome, were being press ed in the face of bitter enemy resistance. Nazi' troops yielded each successive position only af ter being 'blasted out, and there always was a new stronghold into which they -could .retire.'"" As the Fifth and Eighth armies converged for a final assault on the city there was no indication that Field Marshal Albert Kes- selring had any other plan than to defend it desperately, . rather than to" withdraw his forcei into the "Gothic line" on the northern side? of the, Arno, which flows through Florence. V v ' ; On the American front, ex tending ; from the Tyrrhenian sea through the city of Pisa and on inland along the twisting , Arno river to a point 18 miles from Florence, the last' German soldier either had crossed the wide stream and entered the "Gothic" defenses or bad died in a futile attempt to stem the advance. Pf c. R. Clark Killed in War Pf c. Robert V. Clark, who at tended Hay esv Hie grammar school and - Parrish junior- high school, has been killed in action in the south Pacific, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Clark, now of Portland, have been notified. Young Clark, whose 18th, birth day was early this month, enlist ed in the marine corps in Sep tember,'; 1943, and went overseas in December. , : : : . The Clark family once resided in Salem proper on Fairmount hoi for approximately 10 years, then lived in Hayesville.1 where Robert w a a active in the Boy Scouts, and three years ago moved to Portland. - In addition to his parents Pfe. Clark is survived by a brother, Stanley, 14. Held Without ofDaughier home and brandishing a pistoL His daughter was foand shot to death in the driveway. . . Sheriff Fred Re&ksecker said Henderson admitted shooting at his daughter with a 22 caliber pistol, but declared it was in Self defense because he feard the girl had a gun in her purse and inten ded to shoot it out with him. No weapon was found in ' the purse, Reaksecker said. The girl, and her mother had left the house the previous day after a family quarrel. " The sheriff said Henderson told him another ' quarrel broke out when his daughter returned. Americans Hit West of St Lo In Heavy Attack SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ' ALLIE D , EXPEDITIONARY FQRCE,- Wednesday, . July. 25-ff) Tne allied ; armies in Normandy opened Lthe" .greatest coordinated ' offensive of the western invasion ' Tuesday as. the Americana smashed, west of St Lo in their heaviest assault since Cherbourg i and British - Canadian forces ' on the east drove south of Caen against some of the strongest Ger man resistance' of the entire cam paign. ;,r' ; "'"-!'- I; : with their supreme commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, on: the beachhead to confer with field commanders , for seven hours as the big push got under way. the allied armies struck to end a rela tive stalemate of several days f duration. , .-' Jr : Bradley's Mea Strike -; Lt Gen. Omar N. Bradley sent hii American First army into bat tle on a front stretching all the wfyfrom St Lo westward to the sea and4 centering .. on a five-mile iefctor between the Vire and Taute rivers. , . . - - . " i The doughboys struck :at noon after close to 4000 American planes had pounded the Germans fpjr two tniles and more back with ; ! a tunning aerial offensive which lasted two and a half, deafening hours. Dispatches from the front sajd the aerial fleets comprised of s all types of bombers, was the mightiest ever hurled at a Ger man battleline. ; J 1 Ntxis Cenfused So great was the aerial destruc tion to the German communica tion lines that allied headquar- ' teirs had reason to believe the Germans: were, confused over where the land blow was .being struck, and the locale of the of fensive was kept secret for almost 12 hours in order to capitalize on '7'" the Germans' plight' j ' " - jFlnally In the midnight com (Continued on Page 2) weriiard 0hdt Thinks Hitler Will Get Off LONDON, Wednesday, July 2 -iif-George Bernard Shaw, Irish, playwright who is 88 years old today,, thinks Hitler will "get away with it and end up in the Viceregal lodge In Dublin. f f What wW be the end of Hit- le Shaw echoed testily to Daily Sketch birthday eve inter viewer., "Why hell . wind up in the Viceregal -lodge in Dublin, ot course.; The Kaiser finished his days peacefully at Doom. ' Hitler is; almost certain to get away with It, too. The interviewers found Shaw frailer but pink-cheeked chop ping wood at his Hertfordshire) country home, which he said he'd give to the nation as a national trust - : . jHe was willing to talk about anything but his birthday. jfrd forgotten about it," he snorted. I don't want your con gratulations. You know very well I ihate theni Tp hell with all birthday wishes, I say. Who in his seinses wants to be reminded that he's growing old." .; j - Shaw told an interviewer front the Daily Mail that the state ot the world "is still plain hell." Third Party Planned BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 25 (JP)- A group of ' Alabama anti Roosevelt democrats decided here tonight to form a new political patty, and voted to call a state convention August 4 to name a slate of presidential elections. Thumbnail Off I War l': s Br 0 Associated Proa ' - ji InvasioB Front Allied armlet) in Normandy open greatest co ordinated offensive of the west ern invasion as their supreme. commander, General Eisenhow er, confers with field comman ders on the beachhead; mighti est air assault since D-day paves Way for American troops. - , ' Italian ' rrent--British infan try fight to within 10 miles of Florence from south, Americans within 18 miles from west - Frent Red s t e a nt roller only : seven miles from .Wisla river," nazi's last natural defense line : before Germany; threaten to outflank Warsaw on south. I Pacific Yanks, hammer for ward on both Guam and Tinian islands; Japanese drive off Chi, nese t e 1 i e f forces at bloody " Hengyang. fi'