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While congress Is hitch-hiking
through August by three-day re
cesses, committees are at work on
: special business of prime import-
ance. Months ago the Baruch
Hancock report was. filed with
the president, who Issued certain
executive orders to put recom
mendations into effect. Needed
; however was accompanying legi
slation. Congress however passed
but one bill in. this field before
its summer recess, that dealing
' with contract termination. .
With the war seeming to be
) rushing to an end - in Europe the
; phrase, taken- from the sundial,
- , which was used so freely m 1940
41 in speeding preparation, , for
ar. j-It is'later than you thmky
. ; seems applicable; and members of
congress are now ' working in
' Washington to speed up the need
ed legislation to ease the; change
; from war .to peace, -f ',
About four committees are car
rying the principal . work." There
i isthe senate -committee on post-
; war economic policy and plan
: nine, headed by Sen. - Walter
J. George of Georgia, which .has
held extensive hearings. " Sen.
? George is also head of the senate
finance committee which is con
' sidering bills that have been pro
posed. The senate military affairs
committee. Sen. Reynolds of North
Carolina, chairman, is meeting to
day to j consider demobilization
r problems and disposal of, war
- plants. There is however, some de
mand to move these subjects over
. to the senate finance committee.
; ' Then there" is the committee
? considering , problems of small
1 business, Sen. Murray of Mon
. tana, chairman, which has been
holding hearings along '
(Continued on editorial page)
Army Seizes
Philadelphia
lortation
PHILADELPHIA; "Aug." 4-(Frf-
t day)-(p)-Several thousand Phila
delphia transportation company
employes voted tonight to return
v to their jobs on the governmenl
: seized transport lines but later re-
yoked their decision in a renewal
of the racial issue that precipitated
the walkout. ,
James-McMenamin, head of, the
workers' "general emergency com
mittee," told the men jubilantly at
one mass meeting that "we have
won. There are no negro oper-
ators." , ' v.:
He told a second meeting a few
hours later, however, that the em
ployes had been "misinformed"
and said the men would stay out
"until such time as we get a writ-
' ten guarantee that there will be nq
further hiring of-colored operators
and no further instruction' ot'col-
- ored operators now in training.. . .
; Meanwhile, in the first disorders
in the city's negro sections since
Wednesday" midnight; a , 13-year
old negro boy, identified as Frank
lin Howard, was hit in the chest by
a bullet fired from an automobile
which police said contained two
white men. " -
- Police also investigated a report
that gunfire was heard in another
part of the same North Philadel
phia section. , " '
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s
Smash Into
' CHUNGKING, Aug. 3rChi
nese forces h Yunnan province,
- striving to join Lt Gen. Joseph W.
Stilwell's troops in Burma and op-
. en land supply route from India
- Into, blockaded China, have brok
,en into Tengchung, largest city
"west of the. Sal ween, the Chinese
high command announced tonight
.The Chinese entered I the city
yesterday and a battle with the
enemy garrison is in progress, said
the communique. Tengchung is a
,. principal objective in the Chinese
, Sal ween river offensive,
Bitter 'fighting continued In Hu
nan province, where .encircled
Hengyang has resisted Japanese
" attacks for five weeks. - The high
command reported Chinese relief
- columns were trying to knife their
way through . the Japanese lines
i to aid the battered defenders. "
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King George Returns
' From Italy Battlefront
r LONDON, Friday, Aug.
' King George VI, returning to
i Britain by air after a 10-day tour
of the battlefields in Italy, de
clared in a message tonight that
the Germans had been out-gen-
irallH snd out-fought on" the
ItaUan battlefields. The message
was addressed tQ Gen. Sir Henry
7 "aitland Wilson, commander-in-
riief of the Mediterranean the-
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vitkvina
Captured
Nippon Garrison
Holds Out Since
" Last May 17
COLOMBO, Ceylon, Friday,
Aug. 4 Myitkyina, largest
town in 'northern Burma, has fall
en to the forces of Lt. Gen.- Jos
eph W. Stilwell as a climax of a
siege which began last May 17,
an allied announcement said today.
The Japanese garrison held out
to the ; last All remnants were
killed or captured in the final
cleanup. More than 3000 were
known killed during two and one
half months of fighting.
The siege of Myitkyina began
when Brig." Gen. Frank Merrill's
Marauders swept out of the hills
and captured Pamati air field af
ter a 20-day forced march over
112 miles of perilous terrain.
1 The city, terminus of the trunk
railway from Rangoon, capital of
Burma, had been occupied by the
Japanese for two years. ; Allied
forces have held the mam airport
there for weeks, but the Japanese
garrison clung stubbornly to sec
tions of the town.
' Myitkyina has been the heart of
Japanese- activity, in ' northern
Burma.
Lamb Market
Glut Dissolves
Packer
The glut in the lamb market is
about over, in the . opinion of
Claude Steusloff, president of the
Valley Packing company. It was
blamed on the inability of packers
to ' handle accumulated stocks
rushed to 'market as the result of
pastures drying up in the extreme
warm weather ; '
; -' This rush is now past and the
Valley Packing company ' has
bought all finished lambs offered
it for the last several days 'and
expects to continue to do so with
in its own territory, it was de
clared. Feeder lambs are ' not
bought however.
Many growers have put their
Iambs on summer pasture and will
market them as .fat lambs. Mean
while, growers who have no sum
mer pasture available, will find
a market for their Iambs now that
the rush to sell is past its peak,
the Salem packer believes.''
Despite war time conditions the
ration points are only one of the
factors involved, Steusloff said.
- Spring lambs in Salem are now
quoted at $10 to $11 and yearling
lambs at $7 to $7.50. ? -
Tax Levy Will
Be Announced
The state income tax levy for
the next fiscal year, based on pro
perty valuations, will be made
known by the state tax commission
next Tuesday or ; Wednesday,
Charles V. Galloway, commission
chairman, announced here Thursday.
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By Allies
Say
GOP Governors Take Swings
At Roosevelt Administration
ST. LOUIS, Aug. S-iPRepub-lican
governors neared the end of
a politically significant conference
here tonight, took new swings" at
the Roosevelt administration and
broke out in a rash of predictions
of election victories in state, after
.state. . --.V:-:' ..-,"' '
They completed; three . more
items of a 14-point declaration of
principles, leaving five to go. I
- Gov, Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, the presidential nominee,
who is leading the meeting, said a
statement ; of general conclusions
also was nearing approval. But it
and the fhre remaining points will
be released tomorrow morning.
A report on agriculture assailed
"impractical " and whimsical - re-
istraints which the governors said
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hass Pilots Wait Lend-Lease Planes at Nome
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pictare is by Grant MacDonald, AP photographer with the wartime still picture pooL AP Wirephote
Grand Ronde
Bank Robbers
Still Missing
No trace' of tit9 two men who
Wednesday held up J. C . Barry,
cashier of the Bank of Grand
Ronde and robbed the institution
of approximately $12,000, had been
found Thursday night state police
announced.!,:. j..; -. vfcV; I "-
Working on the theory that after
leaving the bank the two drove
away in an automobile with the
intention of reaching Portland, all
main highways and a' number of
side roads in all directions from
Grand t Ronde were patroled con
stantly while descriptions of the
men were sent to officers in coast
states. ! f' .-
Criminal "identification ' records,
bath in Salem and in Portland,
were searched to determine whe
ther . men answering descriptions
of the' bank robbers were found
to ' have ; criminal histories. One
of the robbers was described: as
40 years old, with red hair, while
the other was said to be about 35
years of age. i , , ' A ' ' I "
; A light-colored automobile, seen
on Grand Ronde ' streets ' a few
hours prior to'the robbery tad hot
been located Thursday. ,
Hemingway; Helps
Capture 6 Nazis i
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WITH THE US -FIRST ARMY
IN FRANCE, Aug. SHrVErnest
Hemingway, the American novel
ist, matched the action of his fic
tion by taking part in the cap
ture of six Germans.'
Hemingway entered Percy with
Sgt Herbert ; Kimbrough, Van
Buren,' Ark., army photographer.
French resistance men told them
six Germans were hiding in a cel
lar. .- .;; jp :4 V?K,V !.? ': I ' -
Hemingway and K I m b r ough
took up positions nearby and the
photographer tossed I a grenade
into the cellar. The Germans
came up without any more fight
now hampers production and cre
ates confusion. They declared
there was i "federal responsibility
to assure ' its economic stability
and equality with labor and busi
ness,"; "Abundant production, neces
sary to national prosperity) can be
attained only under a free agri
culture,' the report asserted.
. Demanding return of public em
ployment services to the states, the
governors said this should be done
as soon as; is Consistent with the
best Interests , of those seeking
work nd with conclusion of the
war effort,' since the services have
been used by the New Deal to "ex
tend its political control over la
bor. (Additional details on page
Sctan,; Oregon;
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lTS Infantry officer second from right) look aloft for 178-bnilt planes
way te the Eos-sian fronts, stopping off at Nome. The field Is the
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In Guam Drive
US PACIFC FLEETS HEAD- I
Vjunniwu. rcui nuuur.iAiu, o
-iry-A two-mile advance;
advance iWednes-
day by American troops on
,Guam,
made against increajsing Japanese
resistance and! over rough, wooded
,j i j i . 7 (
terrain, .was Reported today by
Adrn ChterjW. Nimitz.j j
This pfaced! the reconquerors of
Guam Welt into jthe uppe third of
the island, southernmost of the
Marianas group. It 1 gav them
control ei an important roa junc
tion, north 'of a ridge that extend
ed nearly across, the island,
The bird-driving Yank were
advancing with the . continuing
support t fcf carrier-based aircraft
Those planes yesterday flw low
over enerhy fortifications and stor
age area! in the northern fend of
Guam to shatter .targets with
bombs and rocket fire.
Nimitt reported that the Amer
j i . .. .8
Tinlan 'islan4 125 miles i north t)f
uuam, yesterpay. dcanerea rem
nants of jthe garrison of that con-
quered Island were being
Kiusnea
out of caves "and dugouts by ma-
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Truman Oiiits ;
Committee Job
WASHINGTON. Aug. ! 3 - fVPl -
Sen. Harjy.Si Truman gave up to-,
day the chairmanship of the senate
war investigating "fcomnki ttee in
order t4 jfree himself for a vigor
ous campaign as President jRoose-
veJts xourtn 'term running maie.
Sen. James M. Mead (D-NY) is
expected to be elected his Ssucces-
sor tombfrowi. - - . .. j j I'... ": t
Democrats and Republicans
alike sought to persuade Truman
to continue as head of the ciommit-
a : r i t U . i i i. j m
tee over; wnicn ne nas presiaea lor
three and a half years, but1 be told
them "itjwoiildn't be fairVTf 1 V?
, "Anything 11 might sayj ot do as
a member of; the committee would
be conshluedas political, he said.
It is best for me U leave it en
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Pope Rcccivies
Three High Olficials
f: NEW, YOlK Aug. J.KiP)-;The
vatkan, adib, ' recorded Mby the
federal jcommunications j commis
sion, reported tonight inj an Eng-
lish-lahguagi broadcast ihatPope
Pius ha4 received Myron: Taylor,
President Rbosevelf s representa
tive to Ithel Vatican. Brig: Gen.
Thomas Churchill and a Cjol. Hoo
Yank Troops
TAdaj Morals?, August 4. 1844
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Nazis Renew
Rdbpt Salvos
Un bnaland
LONDON, Aug., 3-()TThe ha-
zls renewed their flying bomb
salvos against London and south
ern England tonight after a late
afternoon respite from a damag
ing 14-hour blasting that was a
record for length and severity.
: Night explosions increased the
casualties and destruction as res
cuers still dug for victims among
the rubble of some of the dwell
ings, business houses and the 10
hospitals hit in the day's barrage
Of horror missiles. '--I . -
The new ..barrage came despite
three h e a v y bomber attacks
against launching ramps Wednes
day night and bombings of three
robot supply depots in France to
day. -:j Jv.;:'7 -.. 1
The 14-hour attack had eased
off late in the day after a blan
ket of low clouds lifted from .Do
ver strait ' and gave anti-aircraft
runners better shooting at the
missiles. . .' r- '
Nazis Qaim
Ship Sinfet
LONDON, Aug. 3-(P)-The Ger
man radio claimed today the sink
lng of a British cruiser, two de
stroyers, two corvettes and two
freighters,' one an American Lib
erty ship freighter, In a series 'of
early morning attacks in the Seine
bay. There was no allied .con
firmation.
The broadcast claimed the sink
ings were caused by "weapons re
cently employed . at the German
navy," interpreted here as prob
ably meaning human torpedoes.
'Tbe broadcast'; asserted l?the
cruiser "was torpedoed at close
range at 3:42 . a jn broke in two
and was abandoned" and that oth
er craft were sunk at intervals..
Nazis Turn Over
8 of
' supreme Headquarters
allied expeditionary
FORCE, Aug." 3.-(VThe Ger
mans have turned over the maps
they once planned to use to In
vade England, -and on the back
sides of them have printed maps
of the territory they now are try
ing to defend in France.
This was reported by a hlgh-
ranking officer at supreme head'
quarters , today who displayed 1
clptured German war map of St
Lo which the nazis, short of paper
and long since discouraged in the
matter of "invading Britain had
printed on the back of a map cov
ering a section of England. ;.
Russians
Shatter
Nazi
Line'
VistulaGrossed
Id Two Places
By Surging Reds
LONDON, Friday, Aug. 4 UP
Red army troops shattered the ax- 1
is Vistula fiver line in Poland yes-
terday, smasning 15 miles beyond ,
that last natural defense barrier r
short of the "holyisoa of Ger
many in a broad flow of men and
tanks that flanked burning War
saw and sped toward German Si
lesia; only 100 miles away. .
The Vistula, which a desperate
enemy had attempted to hold with
reinforcements sent from central
German reservoirs." was crossed
110 miles south of besieged War-.
saw on a front nearly 19 miles
wide between " Koprzywnica ' and
Polaniec. r i
German , broadcasts also ' said
that another strong bridgehead was
established on' the west bank near
Warka, only 30 miles southeast
of Warsaw, where' Polish patriots
were fighting the Germans in the
streets, but Moscow did hot con
firm, that enemy' announcement
; ;The west bank towns of Kopr
zywnica and Polaniec fell to the
Russians, a Moscow communique
said, along with Staszow, 15 miles
west of the swift-flowing Vistula.
By seizing Polaniec the Russians
were only, 60 miles: northeast, of
Krakow, Poland's fifth largest
city." - -i ' "j ; ' ;" ,";
p Russian troops were reported
even nearer ancient German soil
in - western Lithuania, ; attacking
toward East Prussia on a broad
front. Moscow dispatches said
these units .were only three miles
from East Prussia.
;
Nazis, Ordered
To Take Root
LONDON, Aug. 3 -(iP)- Moscow
broadcast tonight that a captured
order - from Col. Y Gen. Sherner,
recently named by Hitler commander-
of the northern German
armies, showed "with complete
clarity the hopelessness of the
German positions in the, Baltic
states.
Sherner, said Moscow, called
f or . defense of every inch of
ground with "burning patriotism,
adding "we must root ourselves to
the earth." . .
To this Moscow succinctly add
ed: - ;' '-:-'';-': k'-
MThe general ; ordered his men
to take, root in the earth they
certainly will, but not In the man
ner he supposed, for the Baltic
Is becoming one enormous ceme
tery for the German forces."
Los Angeles Cool v
! .LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3.-5V
Last month was the coolest July
in 64 years, the weather bureau
said .today. The average temper
ature was 68.6 degrees, compared
with a' normal of 70.2 degrees.
WFA's "A" Mag Presented to
Paulus Bros-, for Achievement -
The green, white and blue "A"
flag of the war food adrninistration
banner is out today above Paulas
Bros, packing plant in Salem. f-:";
' . To- the world it ' advertises W
complishments judged - truly out
standing in efficient utilization of
existing .facilities for wartime pro
duction, ingenuity and cooperation
with the government in developing
and producing war food products
and overcoming of production ob
stacles, ." ' -
Many capital, city residents will
see hi it recognition for long hours
of physically, hard; and mentally
exacting, work performed by at
least two distinct "groups of per
sons: Those described by the can
nery's ; management as "experi
enced employes who have worked
with us so faithfully for so many
years' and the ether group which
that - .same management terms
"food-saving commandos who have
given- v? cherished spare leisure
hours alter a day's work elsewhere I
Pric 5e
US CaptaFes
Il(?piae9 (Eapital
Other Americah Columns
Advance 20 Miles East of
inches on
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDL
TIONARY FORCE, Aug:. 3. (AP)--A mighty tide of US
troops and armor swept up Brittany's capital and main rail
city of Rennes today and rolled on unchecked toward tho
prize ports of Brest and St. Nazaire along roads littered with
the wreckage of enemy tanks and vehicles.
The powerful force that brushed past resistance a
Rennes pounded on south toward St. Nazaire, the nazi U
boat base less than 60 miles away, after traveling 40 miles
in 24 hours in the invasion swiftest dash. " !
Another, r great force . of triumphant Yanks headed
straight west ; across the Breton peninsula toward Brest, and
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Nazis Prepare
To Withdraw
From Florence
ROME a Aug, 3 : -CjW- German
troops are ' pulling back behind
the Greve river preparatory, to a
withdrawal from Florence and ad
vance units of the British Eighth
army already have stabbed with
in three miles of the historic city,
field dispatches said tonight. -,
Loosening up of German de
fenses became apparent overnight
and it was believed the enemy
would pull into a tight pocket be
hind the Greve where it flows
below -the southwestern edge, of
the city,- in an attempt to. hold
until nazi troops can be moved
through Florence, Associated Press
Correspondent Lynn Heinzerling
wrote from the .front, j - - ;
. On the other end of the Italian
front the enemy showed determi
nation to make a desperate stand
along, the Arno river and on both
sides of the besieged city of Pisa
strong German 'patrols of up to
200 men slashed into American
positions on the . south bank of
the river, other field ' dispatches
said. ;'. - ;
Heinzerling, ; who Is with the
Eighth army, said New ' Zealand
troops were firmly established on
the last commanding ridge south
of Florence and that the enemy
was steadily withdrawing from all
sectors below the city.
Will Be Own Minister
STOCKHOLM, Aug. Z.-JPf
Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Man
nerbeim probably will act as his
own foreign minister as vwell as
defense minister when he official
ly becomes president of Finland
tomorrow, the ' newspaper Afton
bladet predicted today.- .:
W do an additional bit each day
forlvictory." v; : v, - t . . ..
Formally awarded at ceremonies
Thursday aernoon'at the Elsi
nore theatre, .the new green -flag
which flier just below the Stars
and Stripes, was presented by Lt
Cmdr. M. B. Stickney, market of
ficer from the supply office of the
13th naval .district, Seattle. ' , .
. ' Robert C, Paulus, president of
the company, accepted the banner.
Mrs. : Flora Jory, Vada Hill,
Charles Epley and Charles Pierce,
representing employes, accepted
pins- from C R. Tulley,-district
representative of the war food ad
ministration. Rod Martin spoke in
behalf, df all the 1943 employes.
llaster of ceremonies for the
occasion, '.' Charles" A. ; Sprague,
Statesman publisher and former
governor of Oregon, spoke brief
ly, congratulating management
and employes on their efforts and
success in filling a vital war need.
Max I mam temperatw
Thursday SI decTees; mlni
mim S4; b rain; river g
ft t la.. . - - ;
:; Clear except cloudy Berth
coast Friday and entire eeast ;
Satorday; warmer la , WI1
lamett valley aad east C
Cascades. ; 1 , ' ?
No. 117
Paris
probably already was well past
Dinan after : breaking across the
Ranee river, 110 miles east of the
second port of France where their
fathers landed to fight the first
world war.
Widen Corridor
Behind them, other forces me
.1
thodically widened the' corridor
through which these forcei were .
pouring intoBrittanyfrora Jtyr' .
mandy, ' pushing 20 miles east ; of ', -AvTanches.
to Mortaln on the road
to Paris. ' f...
While making the American
breakthrough into Brittany more -secure,
this force alio was execut
ing a broad outflanking move
ment against remaining enemy
positions along the 150-mile front
and was tightening the noose on
six enemy divisions : already in
mad flight to the north.
.This once-proud force of two
enemy armored and four infantry
divisions, which had held back
the. allied advance east of Gran
ville; was on the run before a four
and one-half mile gap was closed
below Vire, abandoning tanks and '
other heavy equipment. - 1 1
Advance 7 Miles 1 . iHr
; Following up swiftly In sev- '
en-mile advance from the south
west,' American forces pushed to
.within a mile of St. Sever-Calva-dos,
midway ' between Vire and
Villedieu-Les-Poeies. '
In a fruitless attempt to stall
their pursuers, the Germans drove
French civilians out into the high
ways in the path of the Ameri- ' .
can advance, but the non-com
batants were, shunted off to tern- -porary.
camps. " - . "
It appeared that the Germans,
far from offering a threat to the
'Normandy - Brittany corridor.
were pulling out of the whole sal
ient between their ; fallen :- road
centers of Mortain and Virel A '
Col. Edmund Starling
Dies From Pneumonia '
NEW YORK, Aug. SHA-hCot-Edmund
W. Starling, 69, retired
head of the White House detail of
the US secret service, died today
at St.-Luke's hospital where he
had been under treatment for
pneumonia since July 14. He had
guarded five presidents.; , J
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Br the Aaaociated Vxtm '.
Invasion Front US armored ;
troops swept through Rennes and
? on towards , the prize ' ports of .
Brest and St Nazaire, the Nazi,
U-boat base less than 60 miles
"away.V" - ... j;-
relish ; Front t . Soviet i troops
' smashed far beyond the shatter
ed -German Vistula river line in
PolancL and sped toward . Ger
man Silesia, only 100 miles away. : .
' -'la therAIr ;Flying bomb sal- ' -vos."
against . London were : re- -newed
as heavy, squadrons . of '
RAF bombers ripped at German,
robot bomb bases in Europe.
The PacWe-Four more Jap- '
anese ' suicide- attacks : were "
thrown back in 'the Aitape area .
of British New Guinea; Ameri
can forces '' continue conquest of
Guam with aid of carrier-based,
aircraft i. . v ' ' i '
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