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PAGE FOURTEEN Th OrEGOIl STATESMAN, j Salem, j Oregon. Friday Morning. August 4. 1SH Western Gold, Silver Mines May Reopen DENVER, Aug. S-i-Immedi-atc reopening ot western gold and silver mines, higher prices for the two metals and retention, of cur rent prices on basic metals pend ing formation of a stockpiling pro gram will be proposed 'by. Colo rado mining leaders at a meeting Aug. 10 in San Francisco, Robert S. Palmer, , executive director of the state mining fund, said today. Palmer will represent the Colo rado mining industry at the ses sion, which is expected to' be at tended by "representatives from 11 western-states The program formulated by Col orado also calls for amendment of the securities and exchange act to insure a free flow of capital for new mining endeavors, said Palmer. -' "The industry has watched with interest the continued operation of gold and silver mines in other parts of the world," he continued. "It has seen equipment manufac ' tured in this country sent abroad tor use in foreign mines in pre ference to domestic mining oper ations. Mining of precious metals so Colorado has an important ef fect on the economy not only of the state but of many other sec tions." ' ,7 ' ' 'Saturday Is : Deadline for WAVE Entries Saturday, August 5, is the dead line for all applicants who wish to entrain for Hunter college, NY, with the first Salem WAVEs pla toon on August 20, A. C. Friesen, Salera navy recruiter has been no tified from the WAVEs enlistment headquarters in . Portland. There are still a few vacancies In the platoon, which will consist of 30 young women from the mid Willamette valley area who will occupy all of the Oregon " reser vations , on the WAVEs special. Through special arrangement this platoon will remain together as a unit throughout the navy, in . doctrination training in New York. ' Eligible young women who' wish to take advantage of .this oppor tunity to begin their navy-life in company wiin inenas ana ac quaintances from this , area are urged by j Friesen to make appli cation today or tomorrow in room 220, post office building, Salem, in order that their enlistments may be completed in Portland next : Monday. The office is open until C each evening, and later by ap pintment. - ' Sparked by the Stevens & Son WAVEs enlistment contest which ffers to the civilian recruiter who enlists the greatest number of WAVEs between July 21 and Sep tember 30, an - all-expense trip - anywhere in the United States or $500 war bond, enlistments are increasing rapidly, Friesen states, : aad plans are already under way for the formation of a second Sa lem WAVEs platoon to leave next month. ' " Water Power Of Columbia Inexhaustible PORTLAND. Aug. 3 -UP)- The potential water power of the Co lumbia river appears inexhaust- "ible, a member of a Canadian-US river commission said here today . after a 2000-mile tour of the Co lumbia basin. The party, headed by "A. O. - Stanley, former governor and sen ator of Kentucky,; and Roger Me Whorter,- chief engineer for the federal power commission, made an extensive 19-day survey of de- velopment possibilities of the river and its tributaries.! t - Starting at the river source at Columbia lake," British Columbia, they traced its route through Can ' ada, Idaho, Washington and Ore gon. Stanley called the tour "the most exhaustive survey made on any river." ,. : :!v. "-' ! . Victor Meek, chief of the do- " minion water , and power bureau. and F. G. Goodspeed, supervising engineer of the Canadian depart ment of public works, were in the Party- Henry Fox Heads South : Henry Fox, son of Dr. and Mrs. Irving Fox has left for the youth camp in Southern California at One Thousand Pines. He is the Iciest" delegate, representing the Enptist young people of this state st the Southern California con ference. Young Fox was chosen es a representative by the Oregon Youth froup of 200, at Arrah wanna at i'A. Hood recently. The delegate will spend a few izjs in Los Angeles on his way . - ti.tm conference, and will stop ill in San Francisco enroute home lite in August Fcx was a student t t Willamette university the past ' j car. , ' " ; 'fAW YOU TOP THIS? CArrrOVTN-(r-A hat short ! r -a has led to a hat-snatching epi demic in Capetown and it seems , me is irr.rr.uiie. Among the re- rt virt!r-s v. 3 the chief consta Vi cf the Capetown police Whose ' --'-icce w?s snatched jess man yardi frcm police headguar "Sgt. York'9 of Brittany Kills Six Germans, Captures 28 , WITH AMERCIAN TROOPS' AT RENNES, Trance, Aug.3-(;P) The "Sergeant York" of Brittany is a 29-year-old doughboy pri4 vate who In the last 48 hours has killed six Germans, captured 28 and voluntarily made two trips blindfolded into a nazi command post trying to get the last enemy force defending' Rennes to sur4 render., ( And all the time he was lost from his own!; unit and wor ried over being listed as AWOLL T met Pvt. Donald L, 1 McKay, 222 .West 80 St, Grand Island, Nebr, this afternoon as he walked back with Pvt Art KaUraan in terpreter, of 234 East 29th Sir, Erie, Pa, from the enemy com mand post after twice risking his life trying to" get the nazia no abandon their futile last-ditch de fense. (The Americans have cap tures Rennes.) Walt for, Answer i . We were lying in a ditch two miles outside the town waiting for them to return with the Ger man answer to American terms of unconditional surrender. They had gone alone into the last small village at the edge of this one-; time capital of independent Brit tany to contact the nazis and warn the French to leave .-the area." ; j tThey stay. want to make " a fight of it," said McKay, a JtalL slim' soldier with, a blond mous tache. !,.! . -' : Theycan have a fight then," said Lt Col.' William" "Wild Bill Bailey, Danville,- Va., task . com mander. , "We will blow some sense into them." - Shells Pouad Naxb ' - ; A few minutes later 'American artillery shells thudded into the nazi positions as Infantry moved forward' to clear a path for the entrance into this chief railroad center in Brittany. McKay told how, single handed, he tied up and knocked out some enemy resistance in the Rennes area while trying to find his way back to his unit. - ' - I don't know how my com mander is going to feel about all this, he said dubiously. X "Yesterday I was caught in an acre of high grass by a German outfit They were spraying bul lets everywhere and I had to pick my spots and keep moving to keep from being killed. Officer Surrenders , "I picked off two of them with my rifle. Then I saw two Ger mans lying by a machinegun. I shot and hit one, breaking his back. That unnerved the other, an officer, and he stood up and waved a white handkerchief. He didn't have any real idea how many of our men were in that acre of grass certainly he didn't know thai I was the only one and I made him surrender all his men before I stood up. "I didn't know there was any body else around but as soon as the Germans started yelling kam- erad, a bunch of French civilians came running up and helped me disarm them. I had 22 pistols tied on a tent rope. The French in sisted on carrying them.' Watches 3d Prisoners As I was marching the prison ers back in a double column, the first ones started going fast as the back ones lagged in order to stretch out the column so they could try to escape. There were 30 of them and it was some job for one man to watch them. Tour made a break for it They made the mistake of bunch ing together and I just picked them off as - they ran. I killed three and shot the other in his tail and nobody else tried to get away" ; - After delivering his 27 prisoners McKay started out again to look for his unit and got to the out skirts of Rennes. After climbing a railroad em bankment, he saw a German hel met'. . Sheets Helmet I "I fired with my pistol and hit the helmet," he said. "And some body with a ' German : accent shouted, TJon't do-that Then a dozen Germans stood up. They had me covered from several angles with every type of weapon, I hollered at them ! in German, 'Come ' out on this road and surrender.' v ; r-- They just laughed at me." One said, "No shoot and I said, .No shoot and the whole dozen came forward to talk , r - ;X . McKay tried to argue them Into giving; up but they said they had orders - to fight . on. He finally agreed" to go blindfolded to their command post to talk over surrender terms with an English speaking officer, but he wasn't there. , McKay insisted t h e y let him go, promising to return in an nour. - xney gave him a pass through' their lines. , - Gees.. Back 'Again .,--. He went to Col. Bailey, picked up Kallmann who volunteered as an Interpreter ' and started back. v,Pre-Varr 1 SSRVCB for.VafeKcs't and 'Jewelry ' If PRICES' nwtii ii.enoMittitik They were shot at - a couple of times by snipers but after Kall mann shouted, ; "Safe '. conduct," the firing 'ceased,: T: I : ';.-" f "The same. soldiers met us and we were led blindfolded to a Ger man command post," said McKay. It was dug way down. I counted J three flights of stairs going to it "Their lieutenant colonel asked What is it you wish' of us? and said 'It will save many German and American lives if you give up now. It will avoid much bloodshed and death .;. i u - ' " That is war he answered. I ".'But we will go through you anyway,' I told him. "You will go .through 'us you think, he said. 'You go back and tell your commanding officer that we have our orders .to stay and that he can try, to come through us' any; time he" wants. "You "are good soldiers-but.we are better.' 4, ne; compumeniea,. us on our. nerve : before -we left" ' t--T What ! worries, me is what my buddies will think"-said McKayi don't! want them lor my off!-! cers to think ; I am a straggler. "You stay ,with nay? said the colonel with .a grin. "I think I can fix things up with your com mander." Y -r W 'I Montreal Has Strike Woes MONTREAL, Aug. 3-;P)-Mon- treal took the first day of Its lat est strike of streetcar and bus' op erators in stride today, with thou sands going to and from their reg ular occupations in automobiles and trucks, on bicycles and afoot. What developments were going on behind the scenes remained ob scure. While provincial govern ment officials expressed hope that the walkout! might terminate to day, tramway spokesmen remain ed silent and officials of the Can adian brotherhood of railway em ployees said "nothing has been done" toward a settlement ! I The strike, which started at midiyght last night after a break down of conferences seeking a so lution to the dispute over union demands'! for a union shop, was completely, effective throughout the day. No attempt was made to take out a tram or bus. Albert Gore Leads in Vote i NASHVHiLE, Tenn" Aug. 3-(Jf) Rep. Albert Gore,; who asked fourth congressional district dem ocrats to send him either back to congress or into the army, held substantial lead over his - war veteran opponent on- the basis of unofficial returns from !. today's party primary. - - t Returns from 78 out of 287 pre cincts gave; Gore 4753 votes to 2029 for W H. 'Turner. . J When selective service started drafting fathers, 37-year-old Gore was sworn 1 into the army, then yielded to a request by President Roosevelt that he. accept ! reserve status and continue- to serve in congress.' After Turner raised the question of his military status, Gore announced he would leave the decision to the Voters, - r CITT LOSES BUILDING CODE SALISBURY, Md. -(P)- City of ficials were embarrassed when they could not ! find the . original copy of their building code adopt ed 18 years ago and were forced ao drop a court case to enforce i certain provision. Though -a num ber of printed copies are in ex istence, there Is no legal proof that the ordinance ever was adopted. A new, one Is being pre pared. 1 J , -' .;;-,:" WHAT END OF - JOB DO YOU WANT I MOST? I " . I : - - x, - . . I : . ; " f ' ., t Probably you can find the kind of work you want to do . . . but can- you find all the things which go with a job that make it a good job? Southern Pacific offers you not only a job, but many extra advantages'.: the chance to work in perhaps the most exciting, most interesting of all industries . . railroading The- chancer to work. with people -. you dd like ;.' .i.to get good pay (all wages have re- cenuy oeen ucreaseai . . . , ; to work .with a permanent company whose roots are in the West to stay. Liberal age limits. Railroad pass privileges. Fine pension plan. Medical services. Jobs for ex peri enced men in all crafts . . . jobs for semi -ski lied or unskilled people .Yin our shops, yards, stations. warehouses, offices, on our. trains.' Hook on with S. P. new. Come in and see us and choose from the many, jobs we have open. Don't apply unless you are sincerely in terested in a good job with a good company. , SEE OR WRITE 8. P. Employment Representative at Railroad Retirement Board 219 & W. 9th St Portland, Ore. OR. Year Nearest 8. P. Agent ton's. Writings Sentj State Iiibraryi Sen. Guy Cordon has j sent; to the Oregon state library the writ ings of George .Washington from the original source. This 37tvol- ume work is the definitive set of - -, ? . -3 ; t T' all written and prmted words! of George Washington; i j.nere nave peenioruy two? pre- ily two! vious , editioni of j, Washington's writings, . supposedly comple te; One was published! lOO.year lago in V. 12-volume edipon "under the euiKwsiup - ot yircq . sparx. uue muuu nuuuaiwu one dj WOTUI ington C. Totd wMch appeared. 42 years ago. ! s in FIRST Washing 5 ! .Rich Wantti, Classic i I -! I i i HIGHEST IN STYLE! : r ! X VA':S ,v h y SiSfeSfeJt - ' ..A .J&SjJ&i. . -5; '"1 War Worker ; In'FClash Prefers Jail t i LOUISVILLE, Ky Aug. 2-(f)-Determined to win his fight to break into JaiL a sandy-haired, 4-F war worker told federal offi--cers today he had committed a long list of offenses i because he "preferred a prison - sentence to public curiosity. ' .' Rejected by every branch of the service,: Claude Chancey, jr, 23, Selman, Okla4 said he did his best to be arrested and finally was although he found it a bit difficult i ttancey sald.I'd rather! be in the penintentiary than have folks wonder why I wasn't in uniform. -The impatient man was disap pointed when a United States com III I : .! I' - - - "; lf' CHOICE FOR FALL V .Exeitinsf ; Suits Cf Mi- ll:-i-T Steady-join7, sturdy - wearing, coats with all" the new details that mark them FASHION NEWS 1945! ; Sweetheart lapel Chesterfields. ... Top everything boy coats! Gently molded of cloud-soft all wool Milton or fleece. Interlined. missioner held him to the October grand jury on a Dyer act charge and asked: Cant the Judge dis pose of me sooner than that" Chancey said he stole a "car In Nashville, Term., and transported it Into Kentucky, where he .whiz zed through county after county, hoping to be arrested; bought gas oline without; coupons but wasn't reported, drove up and down one way, streets and ran; red lights for two hours with no results.- He was arrested "after he had made a U- turn!ih front of.Ia police . car? in downtown -Louisville. - l - t V Albany Hogs Live ' On Cornflakes &hCream ALBANY, Ore, Aug. 8 Hlr Hogs owned by an Albany .meat company are getting well-balanced -breakfasts .these " days although the cornflakes may be a bit soggy and the cream . rather sour-r i v The company bought the- corn Goats LOWEST i IN -PRICE! tchrid csd'PKrfiKj MUc'dCtels' -.1 Ilircd? Prica 1 flakes recently from wholesaler who had seven tons he couldn't sell to retailers. 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