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I have . noticed ' in the newt
items from' bver. the state many
reports of changes in positions of
public school superintendents and
- high school principals. Believing
the number" to be freatly in exr
cess of that of former years I
f asked the state department of
? education to give me a list of the
changes as far as the department
knew. This report shows that out
of 41 cities in the state which em-
' ploy superintendents there are 12
) changes in superin tendency and
20 changes in high school prin
cipalships. . 'j
Cities which nave or will have
.. new superintendents include: Co-
quille, Eugene, Lebanon, . Marsh
V lield, Newberg, Ontario, Parkrose,
Portland, -Redmond, Roseburg,
Toledo and West Linn, j
i The following cities are having
C new high school principals: Al
.bany, Ashland, Baker, Coquille,
', Cor vail is, Cottage Grove, Dallas,
Eugene, Grants - Pass, LaGrande,
y Lebanon,. Medford, Milton-Free-
1 water, Newberg, North Bend,
; i Pendleton, Roseburg," Salem,
Springfield and Tillamook. ;
Of even greater significance Is
t. the report on what the persons
1 leaving these positions are plan-
"' f ning to do. "Of the 12 retiring city
superintendents, seven are going
' into private business, one to the
state system of higher education,
, ' one to the state division of voca-
tional education,"-'- . ' -i
l (Continued on Editorial Page)
Germans Name
Three Leaders
Of Conspiracy
; LONDON, July 27 The
. Germans named two compara
i tively obscure veterans of the Rus
sian front today as central figures,
along with the previously-iden-v
tified Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck in
the deep-laid conspiracy against
. Aaou timer wmcn misiirea a
. week ago- '
? KThey were Infantry General
Friedrich. Olbricht, f 5, ' described
; -as the leader, and Ufa. Gen.' Erich
lloepner, 57. Berlin said that Gen.
; Olbricht, the -only one of the trio
; on active army service last week,
was executed in - Berlin on the
night of the assassination attempt
' last Thursday, ; ahd . that Gen.
Hoepner . was awaiting sentence.
- Gen. Beck, 64, who was t chief
of the German general staff in
- ' 1938 described earlier as "no long
X er among the living," shot himself
upon " being found in a "sobbing
lit after the plot failed, Berlin
said today. . .
Gen. Olbricht was identified as
chief of a general army depart'
f ment at German supreme head
quarters and second in command
of the German army at home. He
"held the ropes of the conspir
acy" in his hands because he was
" in a position to give false orders,
V Berlin said. 1
l Germans Announce
4Total War", Onlere
. STOCKHOLM, July 27 ifih
The first "total war" orders for
Germany by Reichsminister Paul
' Joseph Goebbels are -two ; forbid
' ding all vacations for women and
directing the front line troops do
the manual - work of building
' bridges and repairing roads for-
' merly done by the Todt Speer la-
bor organization. .
Oregon Flax Seed
Yield to Be Small
CORVALLIS, July 27-(JP)-E. G.
Nelson, federal flax' specialist,
predicted today that Oregon would
not have a heavy yield of flax
seed and straw this season. The
crop in many areas,' he said, was
cut sharply by low soil moisture,
low bumidty and high tempera
tures during seed -formation.
Weather
. ?.:ixlmnra temperature
Thursday 95 derrees; mlniaiua
3 Crjrees; na raia; river -2 ft.
7 ii. Clear Friiay and Sator-
'T rxcf jt scattered P3L thon
i -:-rr;i over anJ east of tha
C. -i.-ca ?s;. tog an coast; contln
, , . 1 (Tcfpt coast;
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Ressiaii,
Soviets
Enjoy
Best Day .
Lwow, 5 Other . :
German Bastions
Taken by Reds
V LONDON, Fridayj July 28-
Russian troops, inflicting the
war's most' disastrous series of
defeats on the Germans, yester
day plunged to within 30 miles of
Warsaw, captured the great city
of Lwow and five . other enemy
bastions, and crossed the San riv
er in a wide sweep toward Ger
many itself. - ;
iLwow, Bialystok, and Stanis
lawow, ancient Polish fortresses,
fell to the soviet' tide pouring
westward through broken Ger
man armies, along with 1633 other
cities,' towns and villages. This
was the greatest one-day bag yet
announced by Moscow during the
gigantic soviet summer offensive.,
Baltic Cities Fall - ; ;,
In the north Daugavpils and
Rezekne in Latvia and Siauliai,
strategic rail junction in Lithu
ania, also were seized, and the
capture of Siauliai plugged the
last main enemy escape route out
of the Baltic states.
Routed German, armies nearly
everwhere appeared to be falling
back-; In precipitate ' flight,11 and
military; men here now . believe
the Germans may retire to the
Oder- river in eastern Germany
itself. They based this belief on
the almost two-miles-an-hour
pace of the Russians, and the lack
of any sign that the Germans
would attempt to hold on the
Vistula- river in Poland.
Berlin itself said the Vistula
defenses had been pierced south
east- of Warsaw, and that water
barrier is the. last natural de
fense line short of the Oder.
German Silesia is ' only 140
miles west of the Vistula, where
the Germans said the Russians
had crossed, and farther south
other soviet unit were reported
officially by Moscow to have
crossed the San river on a 50
mile front and raced 17 miles be
yond to . a point only 128 miles
from Silesia.
Chinese Take
Enemy Base
CHUNGKING, July 27 Jfr
Counter - attacking Chinese have
recaptured Leiyang, southernmost
point of advance from the north
in the Japanese grand strategy to
split China in half and seal her
off front help from the Pacific,
a Chinese communique announced
tonight . -
Thirty-four miles to the north
west in Hunan province, confused
fighting raged inside and outside
the beleaguered rail junction of
Hengyang, where the Japanese
were acknowledged to have bro
ken . into the streets after ham
menng at its gates for a month.
The communique described the
fighting as severe.
The importance of the recapture
yesterday of Leiyang is that
was a logical springboard for
further southward plunge to link
up with the Japanese trying to
push up from positions about 150
miles away, north of Canton.
Cherbourg Still
Useless Stimson
WASHINGTON, July 27 -UP-
The mystery or the limited Allied
offensive 'In .-: Normandy got its
first real illumination today when
secretary of war Stimson disclosed
that the port of Cherbourg cap
tured a month ago, was so com
pletely wrecked by the enemy that
it .still is all but useless to the
Allies.
In a discussion of beachhead
operations at a news conference,
the secretary, just returned from
an inspection of the Normandy
front, let it be known that virtually
all men and supplies for the in
vasion forces still have 1 to be
landed on the D-day beaches, i
l In view of thetaggering re
quirements in equipment and sup
ply before a major offensive can
be launched, the delay in get
Scdem, Onqoh. TAdaj Motnlng. July; 28, j 1944
TISops1
. V. .' i ,i ' 1 i
$ Reds Cross Vistula River
Underg-rennd reports quoted in
stdrming across the Vistula river southeast At Warsaw after eap
turlnr Deblin and Rnlawy. The German radio reported Bialystoek, to
the north, was evacuated. East of
press in- a frontal attack, and la.
pat Rassian forces within 20 miles of the Csech border; CAP Wire-
photo.)
Present Meat i
Points Remain1
Until Aug. 13
WASHINGTON, July 27 -iff)
Current point values . on all ra
tioned meats and dairy products
will be continued until at least
August 13, the office of price ad
ministration announced today. I
The decision was in effect ; a
postponement for . two weeks of
the war food administration's re
cent directive ordering OPA to re
move most beef steaks and roasts
from! rationing by August 1. The
direciivealso "authorized" restor
ation of point values to pork loins
and bams. ' j;.-- ,
OPA protested that enforcement
of the directive would . disrupt
cattle prices and flood the retail
market with an excess of ration
points. ; . .j
OPA also announced that three
morel 10-point red stamps A-5,
B-5 and C-5 in ration book four
will become valid Sunday for buy
ing meats,, fats and dairy products.
They: will; be good indefinitely.!
Berlin Cut Off From j
Outside World Again
LONDON, Friday, July 2S-(JP)
Berlin was cut off from the out
side i world last night under . cir
cumstances much the same as the
bight before announcement of. the
attempt to assassinate Adolf Hit
ler. ' i -
Contracts Awarded - i
VANCOUVER, Wash., July
27
(JP) : Contracts for four . additional
AP5 transports have been receiv-
ed by Vancouver's Kaiser ship-
yard, Mike Miller, manager, told
workers r at the launching today
of the USS Pondera, fifth of the
APS series. ;?
Practically
Reveals
ting this one major, port in the
beachhead area into operation
would be enough U explain the
apparently slow progress in Nor
mandy,: !v.---r -Pt:: i
. SUmson added another reason In
a description of the difficulty bf
the ; terrain, which he said . had
made, a strong impression on him.
Not only is this area cut up into
small, fields, each, surrounded : by
tall hedges or stone fences which
are ; themselves difficult obstruc
tions but each hedge is paralleled
by deep 3 ditches, which constitute
La rettdymade trench system like
that used in the first world waf.
, Thus, he said, the Germans had
handed to them elaborate defen
sive positions and tank blocks,
made more effective by their flood
ing ol low areas. : . '
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Lithuania
Moscow paid Riisslaa infantry was
Warsaw, Russians were reported
the Math the capture f Delay Un
War(IhestuU
V
Adopts Budget
At keetiny: !
' I ( - ! M' -
At meeting of the! board ; of
directors ot the' (regon War
chest hld li Portland j Thursday,
a budget o ! approximately $1,
325,000 for 1 he national war fund
and : for st ite Welfare agencies
was! adopte 1. Thia Is; virtually
the saipe an ount jas foil last year.
The wr ch st campaign which is
conducted " : n conJuncuon with
loca); cbmmiinify chest campaigns,
will ! tie carried ion
during the
month of October ; a
11 lover Ore-
gonJ I U
The jonly state ai
igehcy added to
the llijst ofj participants in the
chest is the! Oregon j Mental Hy
giene society which has been
working in the field of mental hy
gienic ;n Oregon With special co
operation with ,sjeleitie service
in the screening bf Ipsychopathic
cases. j --.'k j j ! '
' Elec ed td the jboardj of direc
tors were Jajmes T. Mart of Port
land? t& succeed Axtliu M. Can
nbnj Medfora,- resigned : i
Attending jthe nieetihi from Sa
lem were Charlis A. Sprague,
presidtet,anl Irl S. McSjherry, ex"
ecutive secrfetary H. t. Braden
of tiie! Salen Community chest
and Frank Poerfler.j j -
Pole Premier ,
Russik Bound
i ' i
LONDON, July j27 j-WH Stanis
la w Mikola jpzyk, ! peasant -born
i
premier of ifoiand s governmeni
in exil'je, leftl toda f pr Moscow" to
j confer
. . .. i . i . . j
wiui iTemier siaiin oo
i geek a! remedy foe the long-ailing
Polish-JSovie
relations.
Out ;of the conferences may
come a metger . oi jMiKoiajczya. a
London administration i and - the
rival: IPolishJ national liberation
committee - a merfer iiorcea ny
pressuj-e ofi Russian might but
blessed by Britain; to obtain a con
centfated Polish effort against the
Genhabs. i , ' j J ! I
The stocky, rusty-haired prem
Iers fdVpartilre came only few
days Mfter Moscow decided to es
tablisH relations with the Pousn
liberation committee and only
few hours after' the Soviets signed
a pacl with the committee cover
ing military; and Civil administra
tion r.n Polish soil, liberated . by
the red army.
, '
BeelQuota Increased v-
WASHINGTON. July 27 -(J)
In . anticipation i of , 1, n c reased
slaughtering! of cattle, the war
food ajdminijtratidn jtoday, ordered
federally aispected! slkughterers
to i increase ! from 25 to ; 45 per
cent' ihe quantity of beef which
must be set;aside for military and
other jgoverpnect use.
US - Sinks
10 Ships?
At Palau
" 1 ' '
Anlericang Also
Destroy 26 Nip
Planes in Raid
US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July
27-(fl3)-Ten Japanese ships, one
a destroyer, were sunk , and 26
planes; wiped out in a two-day
American i task force assault on
Palau, gateway to the Philippines,
Adm. ; Chester ' W. Nimitz an
nounced tonight. - -f
Confirming Tokyo radio reports
Wednesday of the attack on that
western Carolines naval base and
adjacent islands, Nimitz said car
rier planes routed Palau's . air
force the first day, Monday., The
raiders, who lost, five planes but
only one pilot, were not bothered
by-Nipponese planes Tuesday,
Ships Listed w. .
. In addition to the destroyer, an
oiler,- a destroyer escort or" mine
layer and seven small cargo, ships
were sunk in the ' attacks which
took hi Yap and Ulithi islands.
Many smaller craft also were de
stroyed. ' :' . - '' V; ' - - -:
-. The sinkings increased to 52 the
total of enemy ships in all cate
gories from carriers down to de
stroyers 'sent to the bottom since
une BCgmnmg 01 ine juananu
drive June 10. Tour other ships
probably have been sunk and 17
plus damaged. v- i
Marines Spread Oat
Nimitz communique tonight re
ported ' that Second and Fourth
division marines , had spread out
on -invaded Tinian in the Mari
anas bver one-third of the is
land's north portion, while kill
ing Japs at a rate of better, than
19 for each Leatherneck slain.
Enemy dead total 2089 and 62
other troops have been captured.
American ; casualties through July
(Continued on Page 2)
Union Against
Mexican Help
In Canneries
Any move to bring Mexican la
borers into canneries here will be
opposed by the cannrey workers'
union j "until and unless' certain
other steps have been , taken to
solve the cannery personnel prob
lem, the union advised the Salem
cannerymen's committee " Thurs
day. ; i
Not! because of opposition to
Mexicans as fellow workers would
objections be raised, representa
tives of the union declared, but
"because we ; are convinced that
there is enough labor right here
to handle the job if the labor in
turn is handled correctly."
By and large, cannery employ
era of Salem have made no move
to obtain a 1944 wage scale, have
refused td agree to the overtime
provisions: df the union contract
and have thus failed to provide
pay and conditions commensurate
with those offered in competing
industries, union representatives
charged.' I- . ..
The stand was taken at a meet
ing to which non-union as well
(Continued on Page 2)
Ceiling: Prices r
For Peaches Set
WASHINGTON, July 27 -()
The war food administration an
nounced . today , ceiling prices on
canned and frozen peaches will
be set at; levels permitting .can
ners and packers , to pay growers
an average of $60 a ton for the
fresh fruit in .all states except
California,' . where the average
would be . $50. "
Letter" Introduced
In Conspiracy Trial
-WASHINGTON, July 27 -(J?)
A, -letter purportedly- written In
1941. by r William' Dudley PeUey to
Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Mose
ley ct the, US;, army, outlining
plans. '? "to alter ;- the " course of
American history' in the next two
to four years,V was introduced . In
evidence by-the government today
in '"the- section cc;:f piracy trial.
Pric 5c . '
. ... 1 r
Killed
i - ' "
at .. ' .-r
.ftr -
LL Gen. Lesely J. McNalr, abwrev
farmer commander US - grmm
forces, haa been killed la Nr
maady, It was reported by the
army. In this picture he wears
the purple- heart - awarded ' tar
wounds received franr shrapnel
a the ' Tuahli. front- bit ;Var.
AP Wirephoto.).
Lt.Gen.McNair
Dies in France;
War Toll Given
WASHINGTON, July : 21-VT)
Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, in
trepid "'brains , of. the army? has
been killed in Normandy, f and
coincidentally t was -announced
that' World war 2 has exacted a
greater toll of dead and wounded
Americans than; the entire 1917-18
conflict - 1 ' :
Both announcements were made
today - by the ! war department.
Chief of Staff; George ; CU Mar
shall used- the highest accolade
an officer canj pay a colleague.
when he called t the 61-year-old
McNair the brains behind the
ground C forces; he , built 7 from
scratch to a mighty war machine.
Waanded Before A. - '
.The general, Jwounded once on
an inspection tour of the Tunisian
battlefields more than a year ago,
was on special assignment in Nor-
. (Continued on page 2)
-'U-'--:- 1 PL-
Enough Funds Secured
For. 3IcNary Picture
Funds sufficient to secure the
services of a good portrait artist
have been4 subscribed for the pic
ture of the late Sen. Charles L.
McNary which is ; to hang in the
state capitol building here. Sen.
Frederick S. Lamport, appointed
by Gov.- Snell as treasurer of the
fund, reported Thursday that $3500
had been raised.
The committee to select the ar
tist consists of Mrs. McNary, Eliz
abeth Putnam. George B. Guthrie
of Portland, and Lamport
Arcentine to Be Excluded
From Positvar Peace Talks
WASHINGTON, July 27-()
The Argentine government, by its
continuing support of the axis, is
considered in f official quarters
here to have forfeited its right to
sit down with the United Nations
In. important war and postwar
conferences, including whatever
peace conferences may be held.
This exclusion policy, already
invoked at the Bretton Woods
monetary, conference, has been
given a new and more permanent
base by last nigM official Unit
ed States , declaration denouncing
Argentina es a "deserter" of the
allied. -cause.- y " .:P:--". f
One immedia te " result will be
that the Argentine government
will have no J-art in the talks
this fill UU-eh Ce United ZUUls
Germans in Chaotic Retreat
As American Push Smashes 1
All Organized Resistance ,
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EX
PEDITIONARY FORCE, Friday, July 28-(AP)-Lightning
US tank columns haltered the Ger
inans4 western Normandy line yesterday in a sud
den; break-through that ' plunged J the enemy- into
chaotic retreat and drove to within five' miles bt
strategic Coutances, whose fall might trap' the en4
tire <h corps of seven battered nazi divisions. :
The American armor that fashioned the sen
sational break-through was not identified. (Ger
man broadcasts recently said that Lt. Gen. George
S. Patton and his armored corps were in Norman
dy ready for action). ':. . O ,; ' ' -
Thundering lines of tanks, half-
tracks and self-propelled artillery,
revealed by supreme headquarters
for the first time to be striking in
divisional strength hi the greatest
armored blow since D-day, smash
ed all organized resistance field
commanders declared.
Lessay Captured : " " ;.;
, Without a fight the enemy yield
ed the old . sea coast strongpoint
of Lessay, 12 miles north of Cout
ances, and Periers . to the west,
and fled south under a hail of
bombs and shell fire to try to
make a stand,; possibly behind
Coutances. .. . . .
But; the midnight communique
disclosed that besides, the column
driving head-on toward Coutances
from the eas a second column
fanned out . four miles southwest
of fallen Canisy in what may be
an Duuiancing uueai u uuiv ncxi
stop on the American drive deep
er Into' France- ;Cr .
Field dispatches said one arm
ored finger had stabbed to Cerisy
La Salle, seven' miles' . southwest
of Canisy and VAt miles southeast
of Coutances.
Camp read Enveloped "
The ' column heading straight
down the road, toward the city, had
enveloped Camprond, north of the
highway and less than five miles
from Coutances.
With a third column slashing
the road 64 miles south of St
Lo, and with two more columns
crashing through the enemy's lines
east of St Lo, a 'front line broad
cast declared jubilantly:
"Today . the i Americans have
broken out of the beachhead. To
day we are ion our way into
France proper'
Commission
Sets Meeting
i Western public lands policy,
trade relations with Alaska, the
Pacific-, islands and" the orient,
markets for food products, in
dustrial expansion, a northwest
interstate coordinated highway
program and postwar scenic and
recreational development will be
discussed at the conference of the
Northwest 'States Development
commission in Portland on August
11 and 12. K .
'Announcing the program Thurs
day, Gov. Earl Snell said that gov
ernors of Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, ; Montana and ' Wyoming
and their advisers would partici
pate in the conference. Gov. C
A. Bottoifsen,i Idaho, Is confer
ence chairman, . :
; State; Highway Engineer R. H.
Baldock.and State Engineer C. E.
Stricknn, ' witn Gov. Snell,' are
Oregon's representatives on the
commission yf. . '..
The governors will participate
In a ship launching in Portland
and will inspect Bonneville dam
August 11. .. . : -v
and the other American repub
lics on creation of a postwar se
curity agency. ; Secretary of State
Hull has promised the represen
tatives of otner western nemi
sphere governments, exclusive of
Argentina, that they will have
ample opportunity to study and
make suggestions, in their . own
interest on the postwar plan
worked out at the bff four con
ference here next month. :
Plans tot the .big four talks are
nearly completer Secretary Hull
announced today that Edward R.
Etettinius, undersecretary of state.
would head the American dele
aticn and that Hull himself, as
official host will keep In closest
touch with its prccrcrj.'"' " '
Pevelopment
Poles Advance
17 Miles Past ;
Anconain Italy
ROME, July 27-)-Driving nip
the Adriatic coast of Italy against;
weakening s German . ' resistance, f
Polish " troops have pushed - 17
miles beyond the 3 captured port
of Ancona and seized SenigaUia "
at the mouth of the 'Misa river
only 22, miles from Pesaro, allied,
headquarters . announced tonight .
The German radio .: reported
yesterday that the vengeful Poles
had opened a full-scale offensive
in the Adriatic sector as part of
the -general allied push toward the
enemy's "Gothic line" defenses,
but there was no allied confirma
tion until tonight's Aspeeial in"
nouncemeat.' :?-&itt -
- Pesaro, . next objective of,' the 1
Poles,? believed toe an outpost
of the "Gothic line," whose main
fortifications are said to be an
chored on Rimini, another 20
miles up the coast -
British, New Zealand and South
African troops engaged in closing
a steel clamp on Florence gained
up to four miles at some points
in byter fighting, . winning posi
tions within six miles of the Arno
river west of the historic city.' v
Rocket Bomb
Attack Gains
In Ferocity
LONDON, July 27-(jp;-The na-
ris' flying bomb barrage increased
in ferocity tonight spreading;
death through southern England,
while Britons pondered the pos
sibility of worse to come perhaps
huge explosive rockets.
The ; prospect that Germany's
threatened new secret ' weapon
might be a 10-ton explosive rock
eta robot bomb 10 times the
size of the V-l now : being used
against England "may not be
sheer propaganda," a commenta
tor at an allied advance command
post said today, .- t : . f
British Lancaster , and Sterling
bombers are using their big six-
ton factory busters to smash pos
sible V-2 launching sites in nazl
territory and these big RAF craft
struck again in daylight this eve
ning against the flying bomb area
of northern France. None of the
planes was lost . '
Nevertheless, the robots con
tinued; their deadly flights into
southern England tonight One
smashed a row of houses sending
a dozen persons to hospitals.
Thumbnail
Off War! ;
, . By the Associated Press
- Rasslaa Front Soviet troops
-capture Bialystok and Stanis-"
,1a wow and penetrate Brest Lit-
ovsk and surge across, the Vistula
in a smash that takes them within
30 miles of Warsaw. , . ;
Iavasion Front Lightning US
tank columns shattered the Ger
. man's western Normandy lines
in a sudden breakthrough that
put 'fthe enemy in retreat and
drove within five miles of stra
tegic Coutances.
Italian Front Vengeful Pol
ish troops pushed 17 miles beyond
the captured port of Ancona and
seized Senigallia at the mouth of
the Misa river only 22 miles from -Pesaro.
. .
- Pacific' -y" Reconnaissance
planes for American artillery to
day using : Ushi point airfield "on
Tiniart island while southward on
Guam US assault forces closed in
on the trapped defenders of the
important Orote peninsula.
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