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Sweir.FoHs NINETY -FOURTH YEAR CRT sums TTCD EEOGp . The AP report from Albany says t that Gov. Dewey's presidential campaign Will be "pitched heavily" - -on the theme of conflict between federal, state "and local govern- . ments. Before he gets started onl ' this some one should flag him down. It is inconceivable that when "all the houses in the block are afire, one ; owner should . decide .that the thing to do is to oil the - hinges of the doors inside 1 his .- dwelling. That apparently is what ; Gov. Dewey is recommending, , either because he thinks that is the most important business at hand, or because he doesn't want - to - Join the firemen. ' ' ;z ' j- - The items listed for discussion at -'- the pending conference of republi- ' can governors carry out the same idea - how to fix things so that - the powers of national, state and - local governments will fit into neat pigeonholes in a well ordered desk. Gov. Dewey says this con- flict ; between" jurisdictions 'has been a constant source of friction for 12 years in this country.' - Surely , he knows his , history better than ; that ,for controversy " between national power and states' rights goes back to the early years - f the republic : and culminated - once in a bloody civil war. True, . there has been recent and grievous enlargement' of 'federal authority, but Dewey; if elected president, ' will find that largely a fait accom " pli," a deed accomplished; on it is doubtful if he will (continued oh editorial page).' K " Fish Support In Campai ALBANY, N.Y., July 28 -P)- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, republi- can candidate for president .pub s' liclyi rejected' the support of Rep. ;vHamilton Fjsh (R-NY), today in a statement terming injection of a . racial or religious issue into a po . litfcal campaign "a ' disgraceful, . unAmerican actH , ' ! Dewey's statement, - which ; brought prompt, retorts from. Tish and republican leaders backing his drive for reelection in New York's 29th district, was released , by James C. Hagerty, executive assistant to the governor, who said it was prompted by an interview with Fish published yesterday in the New York Post. ! In the interview, Hagerty said, Fish was quoted as asserting "the Jews are more or less for the new deal, unfortunately" and that "I ' think it would be much better for . them if they split their vote be tween the two major parties." Two years ago I publicly op - posed the nomination and election " of congressman Fish," Dewey's statement said. "The statements : attributed to him . confirm my judgment expressed at that time." The govenor added: V T "I have always fought that kind j of thing all my life and always i will, regardless of partisan con . sideration. I have never accepted 1 the support of any such individual and I never shall." i Allied Planes Sink 2 Ships ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Satur day, . July ' 28-P)-Allied aircraft, riding herd on the vast domain under its control, sank two Japa nese ships, set fire to a third and destroyed, numerous smaller craft in a day, of unusual .activity re ported today by headquarters. War planes of all sizes flew bombing, strafing and harassing missions against 17 major objec tives Thursday; across the west ern hump of Dutch New Guinea and adjacent islands. American and Australian fight er and medium bomber pilots rak ed over Vogelkop peninsula, the, western tip of Dutch New Guinea. 7ealher Maximum .,' temperature Fri day $2 degrees; minimnm 57; no rain: river -J ft 1 In. Clear Saturday and Sunday, except fcr widely scattered thunder showers east of Cascades; little, tlarre Is temperature. Dewey Reject Tank'OjIumnis Pusli Of: Maiice American Drive Threatens . . .( :"! . . All Nazis9 West Normandy Defenses; Bombers Help SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED 'EXPEDITION ARY FORCE, Saturday, July 2&--(AP) Two covering US tank columns smashed into the northern edge of Coutances yesterday and a third launched southwestwa'rd to within 18 miles of Avranches at the base of Breton peninsula in a drive threatening to cave in all the enemy's western Nor mandy defenses and-open a route to inland France.; ; - As suicide squads fought back from doomed Coutances once the western Normandy transport hub of the enemy -squadron upon squadron of dive-bombers hammered col- ' 11 Oumni of the fleeing enemy on the Brest Litovsk Falls to Reds LONDON, Saturday, July 29 -(-Russian troops ' swept across flat grainfields to within 20 miles of the Polish capital off JWarsaw yesterday and also captured Brest Litovsk and trapped three German divisions of perhaps 30,000 men near thar'Bug river- stronghold, Moscow announced early today. In the north other Soviet units of Gen. Ivan C Bagramian's first Baltic army plunged to withui 50 miles of Riga, closing steadily on an even richer prizethe German Baltic army of possibly 300,000 men imperilled in Estonia and Lat via now that the main Axis rail route to German east Prussia has beetf snapped. Strongholds Fall " Far to the south the German east Prussia strongholds of Jar oslaw and Przemysl fell to Rus sian Ukraine forces striking west ward toward Krakow on the main trunk railway to Germany. Red j army troops also began ascending the Carpathian mountain roads to ward nearby Czecho-Slovakia. With the battle, of Warsaw like ly to begin in the next 24 hours, a midnight Moscow bulletin an nounced that everywhere a bat tered and beaten enemy is roll ing westward" with I red armies in hot pursuit. German units were being hurl ed back into Praga, eastern sub urb of Warsaw, which is across the Vistla river on the west bank, Moscow dispatches said. The Rus (Continued on Page 2) Valsetz Loggers To Resume Work Western Logging company's camp staff and loggers will return to work this morning, leaving the disputed discharging of a camp waitress to be studied by War . La bor board staff members. The 175 men who left the woods Wednesday, July 19, have been asked to return by union officials, who, in. turn, were asked by the WLB to make the request. Hitler9 s Escape Should Make Allied Victory More Decisive LONDON, July 28 -(JPh British military experts still studying the cloudy . picture of - internal Ger many voiced the belief today that L Adolf Hitler's escape in last week's Domo- plot probably wui lengthen the war, but will make the allied victory more decisive when it comes. ! This view is based on the con viction that the armies Hitler now refuses to withdraw can be smash ed. Behind the flood of words from Hitler, Propaganda Minister Goeb bels, Labor Leader Ley and other nazi functionaries lies a story not yet clearly detailed, but these probabilities emerge: 1. That there will be no change in Germany. ' " , . 2. If Hitler had been killed there would have been a quick with drawal from the Baltic states, from ji. PCUNDDD J65I I 1 ' ; ' Salem, Oregon, Saturday road south, littering it with the burning hulks of "wrecked equip ment- j . - , - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel i threw in a heavy attack as one armored;force in a lightning five mile lunge toward this escape route from Notre Dame-De Cenil ly pulled jup at StDenis-Le Gast, eight mites southeast of Coutances and about seven miles east of the road. The . attack was - quickly beaten off. j - ' ..-f -Take; Maapertnia . J r'-i1 ;., A column apparently bound for the! Bretoh peninsula farther east overran Maupertuis, ' whose cap ture was confirmedV by the mid night " coromuniquer '?n&r. f:in Tan eight-mile gain drove to within less? thanj a mile ; of Percy, 18 miles northeast of Avranches, a field dispatch said. 1 ? Enemy; ;positions .were buckling along an 18-mile' from from'Tessy-sur-rVirefto Coutances. "V . On the coastal route, the com munique said, a tank column in a nine-mile! drive down from Pe riers met 'the tanks which had spurted live miles down the rpad from Marigny, site of the break through Ion the first day j of the offensive Tuesday, v ' I Tanks Advance . At the other end of the line a powerful tank force in another five-mile gain seized Tessy-sur-Vire, 10' miles south of St Lo and half way to Vire, a good road center and ht old capital of low er Normandy. .!': i? " ! ; Only a? thin, 30-mile triangle formed by Coutances, Vire and ! (Continued on page 2) i He Brought ' lion Himself i i ;i 'i TACOMA, July 2-)-Bob Der by is in the hospital tonight and f or f some ! time it is doubtful if he will sit down for his meals. The 264year-old Tacoman, ac cording i to ' hospital attendants, planned la ' trick to be played : at a party tonight He" had a blank cartridge placed so that when one of his friends was later to sit down the thing would explode with a bang and there would be funf for the others possibly. ; "But Bob tried it out on him self first and a police ambulance took hini to the hospital peppered with bits of shell fragments in places it is well not to mention. - I northern' Italy and from southern Poland, f I ' . 3. Probably there would have been a quick peace, because the German generals want to retire within Germany with the nucleus of an army to be built up for an other war. ' ' -y . ; 'Actually ; there has been only one change in the German high command: Col. Gen.' Heinz Gu derian ' as '. chief of the geneal staff, lot CoL Gen. Kurt Zeitzlef. with the mjured Gen. Alfred Jodl apparently . his deputy chief ( of staff. Gen. Zeitzler was declared to be ni and there has been noth ing! to indicate he was lined up with the generals in the plot i ; Hitler still is in complete com mand of the army and Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler has even greater tontrol than , before' oyer all the forces stationed inside Ger many, ; ; .. 1 ... VOMOH Morning. July 29. 1944 Yaiik tanks Land on Tinian : I I , " I - - ' - - ' - ' - ' - - ! - k i - - ? X . - '-r ; . . --s t" . ;l ' . ' tt-T -si " , ' y I - - 1 L ' -v - - - 1 ' - - a f I - - ! 1 " - -' V Marine eorpj tanks rllj ashore en halfsaUesfrom Saipaa la the group te be Invaded In less than; gt a rad4 gouged by a bulldoser, toward twa vital air fields to extreme left (Associated Press pboto from US aaarine corps.) US Qmtts Routs 4 I in US PACIFIC FLEETj HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 28--Yanlc invadersof Guam, alter nearly doubling Jap losses by slaughtering j 2000 counterattacking enemy, have advanced 800 1 yards to two miies ! along the entire beachhead and have turned the invasion o( Tinian into ft rout,' capturing eight more square miles.- The j victories were ' announced tonight by ' Adm. ChesterW. iKimitz in two com-O ' .' " ' muni oues. . ! ' ' Front line dispatcjies; from Ti nian said th Jap garrison on that island nearest conquered Saipan, is fleeing ih disorder and that Tinian is likely to prove the big gest! American prize tin jthe entire Marianas, j Mile from Agana Oh Guam,! the 3rd division ma rines drove "Thursday within one third of a mile o Agana, Guam's capital in the sector Where the Jap counterattack was broken up. The! greatest gaink were made in the central jsectori opposite Crote jpeninsula where ?7th army division troops and the j first pro- visional marine brigade pushed as much las two miljes inland. They captured Mt Chachad, Alutam the same and Tenjo. In the southern sector. units Ipushedj easl for a mile. Gala Airfield more than The! fast-moving tinian inVad ers added a nearly completed air field to a 4500-foot fdrome previ ously seized on thatj island. Nimitz reported; that 21,036 Jap anese! dead have jbeen buried on Saipaa, first! Marianas j island to be wrested from the:enemy. These were added to 4700 known to have been killed to date prr Guam and more than 2000 slain on Tinian a total of more than 271,000 since June 4. More than fiOOO. wounded Yanks have returned lo action, many i of them on! Tinian. Oregon Moves " . ; j; XA-ND, JuW 28r-Ore-gon nioved t? within $lj058,174 of its bond goal today with a 244 hour spurt of $1,000,000 in sales. Overalt ales nojw $tanl sit $179, 243,928. Thej ovehdjl quota, sur passed before the! official- close of the Fifth War Loan drive, was $125,000,000. . . j j " : . J . Usntttilla county topped its overt all quota today-with sales of $2, 089.693. The goal was $2,036,000. The largest single day'p sales ever ierorded--$l:l3i94l4-Were re ported yesterdayj 4uy H. John son, county ivar finerce; auninist trator, predicted thai E bond sales, now $788,3 16, woud teach the $849,000 goal before thf deadline July 81. - J v j ' ; I 1 . ': t ( Albany lias Serious , Lack of Bean pickers . -j j- ; i - , ALBANY, fOre July j 28. HT)' Threatened !with: heavy . loss of bean l crops, f some Albany area farmer made: house to house calls in search of ipicken . Growers re ported the roost iacute labor pro blew iin two 1 years. jW. V. Merrill, Linri jcounty j farm, taborj assistant said; jhot weather j hasj niatured beansj so fast labor pupply can not keep isp wit a deniand. j- , Japanese-beld Tin tan, twe and Marianas and third Island fat the six. weeks. The tanks are driving oni Guam, tan aps t 1 ' Japan Denies KillingB-29 Yank Airmen LONDON, July 28 H?)- The Japanese today formally denied that they had executed American airmen from Superfortresses that raided Japan and said an "erron eous interpretation" had been placed on a broadcast by their Singapore; propaganda station on July 15. f ;;' ' ' The' Singapore broadcast had stated that some B-20 fliers "bail ed out to meet with the same fate which was meted out to the raid ers of Tokyo some two years ago.' - Some of the Tokyo raiders were executed, and the US state de partment made inquiries through Switzerland after the Singapore broadcast to learn , whether the B-29 airmen similarly had been put to death. In reply, the Japanese foreign office sent a memorandum through the Swiss' "which flatly denied" that the fliers had been executed, said today's broadcast, . quoting Sadao Iguchi of the Japanese in formation 1 board. Camp Cowlitz to Ship ; Alumina Gay Here CASTLE ROCK, Wash., July 28 (iT")-Ten thousand tons of alumin um clay will be shipped from Camp Cowlitz deposits here to the Salem, Ore, experimental processing plant within" the next three months for its initial testsv Kenneth White, engineer for Columbia Metal scor poration, estimated today. FislvCommisrionWaitisDefiiiite Method Of Financing; Starvation Program Hit A move to place the state fish cbmmlslioti on a more sound fi nancial basis appeared probable today.: - -; : -. - It was j foreshadowed -at t h e meeting -of the state emergency board here Friday. when John C Veatdv chairman of the . commis sion, told the hoard his group would ask the next legislature to make a definite appropriation instead of permitting the commis sion to rely primarily on the col lection of 'poundage fees for ex istence, f "VJrt : V Under the proposed plan, the poundage fees would go into the general state fund. The commission Friday w a s granted $20,000 to carry on its work, after Veatch explained there was a $7000 deficit ' Veatch told the commission the I fish pack? was the lowest in 3 Prlc 5c Ko. 112 Exigency Reserve r Is Tapped . Fish Commission Gets r 20,000 o) Emergency Fund By WENDELL WEBB '. Initial Inroads " into Oregon's $500,000 emergency fund left the appropriation still 88 per cent in tact today, and gave the state fish commission a new lease on life. The state emergency board, meeting here Friday, was faced with requests for $71,373.02. It allocated $55,753.38, including $20,000 for the fish commission. . Six of the seven-man board at tended. Appropriations under law demand ' at least five affirmative votes, and the! fact that: no -requests were denied : in their en tirety indicated a considerable de gree f unanimity. ; ' The $55,753.38 was allocated as follows: ; " ' . ; ' - Stat Uh commission $20,600 drto school pipeline 15,000 - Portwar commission 7.S68. State grounds employes " 1 JOS ' PubUc instructkm - " - , 4.000 . Textbook comnaiasion - " - 700 Zmergency board ' : ' r ' , "800 ApprenUceihip council . . ' 185 'f TOT AI . SS5.7S3 ' The largest , appropriation, tor the fish commission, was granted with little debate after John C. Veatch, chairman of the commis - '. (Continued on Page 2J, i. Lewis, Marine cca Furnishings CAMP ADAIR, Ore, July 28 Service men at Fort- Lewis and the Corvallis marine base will fall heir to the furnishings for upward of 200 day rooms at Camp Adair which . were "1 outfitted through generosity ' of 1 people and civic groups in many Oregon communi ties, it ; was revealed j today by Ma. Russell G. Floss, post special service officer. "The post is highly grateful to the individuals and organizations who responded to a need with day room donations," Major Floss said. "The morale factor they have proved to men of four divisions and to other - troops who have trained here is inestimable. -, "Furnishings , still serviceable will go principally to help outfit Fort. Lewis, which has yet many day rooms without furnishings, and which will carry out the same morale-building program formerly ' carried on at - Camp Adair." i -V" : The officer set at rest a "report" (Continued on Page 2) , Pvt. Jack L. Wilson Killed in Action LEBANON, July 28 Pvt Jack L. Wilson, 19, was killed In action June 29 in France according to in formation received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lflbern L. Wilson. He was inducted Into the army in September 1943, and received his training at Camp Van Dorn, Miss. Besides the parents two brothers, L. L. Wilson, jr USN; and Carl Wilson, US army, West Plainsj Mo; and two sisters, Mrs. Maxines Ban han, Claremore, Okla; and Beatrice Hummel, Tulsa, Okla. Fish Comments John C. Veatch,' chairman of the fish commission; ' : There is no way this . (defi cit could be avoided. . '; - , . ; Eighty per cent of the aal y mon in (Oregon) streams to day are hatchery fish. : " . Our 21 hatcheries are being manned by only 28 men. , ; We're right now about $32, 000 behind our budget.? - - About 20,000 residents of Or egon are- dependent on the ; fishing industry. Sen. Merle Chessman, chairman of the legislative fisheries in terim committee: k Hatcherymen are over- - worked and underpaid, and I don't know why they stay. SM g Mukden In 'Manchuria WASHINGTON, Saturday, July 29-(AP)-Superfortresses o the 20th bomber command made a daylight attack today on Japanese indus trial targets in the Mukden area in Alanchuria, the war department announced early today. , A communique, announcing this said that no further details were immediately available. : The text of 20th air force communique No. 6: . 4(Superfortresses of the 20th bomber com mand attacked in daylight (Saturday) ' industrial objectives in the Mukden area, IManchuria. No fur- ther details are available at 'this'tim Jj.lR-. . ; ' Today's attack was the first day-O . . " - .' ' . " . light B-29 operation against the Japanese inner zone, previous op- erations of the giant bomber hav ing been conducted at night. Third VS Blew i This was the third air attack by the superfortress fleet against the Japanese. The first was on June 15 on steel mills at Yawata on Kyushu Island, at thej southern end of the Japanese home island chain. On July 7, the 20th bomber command paid a return visit to the area, again bombing Yawata tar gets and attacking . ship-building facilities at nearby Sasebo. The vMukden industrial region Includes the cities of Anshan, Fushun and Penhsihu. 1 - In this area are concentrated heavy industries including steel, synthetic oil and ordnance. Fly front Chins v.- It la to be assumed that the bomber fleet took off from west ern China bases: from .which the two previous attacks were launch' ed. . . ; " . '.r'- The attack on the Mukden re gion is a continuation' of the pat tern of strategic bombing set in the first raid on Yawata. - The Japanese ? are khbwn to have been moving many of their heavy., industries and, other, -war producing factories to Manchuria to remove them from the menaced home Islands. The communique announcing the latest attack - was Issued at the wa4eparUnenivbst3en. Hi H, Arnold, ; commanding general of the 20th air force as well as com mander of all: army air forces. , m . tne iirst injual attack . on Yawata,- the 20th command - lost four of the giant planes, one over a rget, one listed as missing and two as the result of accidents. The crew of one of the latter was re ported safe.' j-, i'1; T' Balkan Front se Oii Germans WASHINGTON, July 28-(ff) Adolf Hitler today faced the grow ing . possibility of a collapse on his Balkan front. Heavily censored reports fromi Ankara indicate that Turkey may be about to break relations with the nazis, a move Which not only would cut off all Hitler's econom ic and spy activities in the near east, but which might quickly lead to . war. 'j : i : ! ' ' ' At the same time; Ankara said that Bulgaria is negotiating with the allies to get out of the war. Acting Secretary of State Stet tinus said he had no Information on such talks, but expert observ ers here were not surprised; at the dispatch. $ Call Out for Bean Pickers Tomorrow , . An urgent call from the farm labor office has been, voiced for bean pickers I Sunday morning. Work is scheduled for the McGill Towery farm i at Jefferson and transportation fwill be provided in a school bus. Workers should be at the office about 6:30 or 7 o'clock Sunday morning. ' . years on the Columbia river and that the entire Pacific coast fish run was down. The lessening of poundage fees' also was blamed to some extent on the fact many fishermen have entered the armed services or ' other r industries, or have , objected! to fishing on the basis of OPA prices. .- ; f 1 , He said the closing of hatch eries, in event "such became fi nancially unavoidable, "would cause irreparable damage" to Oregon fishing thaCwould take years to build . back."- " Sen Merle ' Chessman : of As toria, chairman of the legislative fisheries interim committee, said it was necessary "to pass the hat both to packers and fishermen" in past years, to make up deficits, and declared the present system of financing the fish commission was a "starvation program." May Collav i M.; ulietin LONDON, Saturday, July 2 -SVThe German radie assert ed today that Geav Sir Harold Alexander had launched a treat new affenslve In Italy aimed at dealing a kaockoat Mow to the naxt forces. There was no Im mediate 'allied confirmation of the German report. "' - i ; . : ; I Yanlv, German In Pisa Battle ROME, July 28 -VP)- American and German artillery - duelled across the Arno river tonight In the opening stage of the battle for Pisa,. and the fate of the historic city and its cultural monument hung in the balance. t : : There had been no official re ply from either aide to a plea by the Vatican City newspaper Osser vatore Romano that the belliger ents "reflect, seriously upon ' th moral consequences of -deliberate destruction of . Pisan"' monuments. Nazi artillery observers were re ported using Pisa's famous lean-. tog-.." tower,,, where , Galileo con ducted his Experiments on the laws of gravity. s -"' Florence, great art center whose lights already were within sight of British forces fighting through the hills seven miles away, ap peared , safe from war's: destruc tion, as the Germans had declared it an open city and were expected to withdraw ' in orderly ; fashion once its defenses were breached. There was no immediate indica tion whether the open city decla ration would prevent the nazis from destroying the . six famous old bridges which span the Arno river inside Florence in an effort " to impede the allied progress. . Marion Nears Bond Quota Marion county needs 1 $148,111 more in E bond sales to reach int. Fifth . War Loan quota, Kenneth Martin, executive manager of the Oregon war finance committee, announced Thursday. ; . Although the campaign; ends at 3 pjn. Monday, every effort should be made to complete payroll- de duction bond purchases today so that all may be tallied Monday at the Federal Reserve bank, Doug las Yeater, Marion county chair man, has declared. i r , $10,000 Fire Strikes f Lebanon Motor Co. LEBANON Ore, July 28 -Jri-Officials of the Kirkpatrick Motor company today estimated at $10, 000 loss from a fire that damaged the company's garage building, equipment and four automobiles last night ' - , ". ' Thumbnail Off War! By the Associated Press .- Invasion front Break-through of American tanks threatens to cave in ail enemy's western Nor' mandy defenses and open a route to inland France; 3000 prisoner netted as Yanks crash into Cou tances. - . T 1' Paeifle front Conquest of Guam turned into rout (of Jap forces. 'V j . t 'i .-J ' .' .., Rosslan front Reds sweep to witiiin less than 20 miles of War saw, capture Brest Litovsk and other important cities all along line. - - - ' ! Italian front -Americans and Germans stage artillery : duel across Arno river as battle of Pisa begins. ' i - " ROADS TO BERLIN ' 1. Russian front 337 miles (measured from Kolbiel). , - 2. Normandy front - 630 miles (measured from Troarn). 3. Italian front 60S miles (measured from Senigallia), Artillery Duel I 3"