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iva Through Wreclmge itsri 14 T - i . IHrSTY-FOuilTii YEAB 10 PAGtS Zc&ami Oregon. Coctardor Morning. August 5. 1844 Trio 5c Ko. 118 r - - r. - T Lb A X Wrecked German vehicles clatter a street la Amnches, France, through which American troeps picked their way ia their advance la the invasion fitrhtinf. (AP Wirepheto from simal corps) 'irtD am -A great deal of the discussion with reference to postwar plan ning has dealt with wa plants and -.with commodity ; surpluses which the government will own when the war ends. But there are vital human problems which can not be ignored. You can lock up a powder factory or Willow Run, and let it stand for months with out great sacrifice. - But you can't put the thousands of workers who were engaged in producing powder and airplanes and put them in cold storage for a few years-' They . musU eat the day after the plants close, and they must continue to eat The demo j bilization of war workers will oc- cur simultaneously with that of members of the armed forces. So ; the country faces the sudden aug . mentation;; of. j manpower when government contracting!-, is draw ing to an end. Kstiow although new government contracG'arebe-T ing placed at the rate of two bil lion dollars worth a month, work i is being completed on contracts at the rate of five billions. It is plain to see that before many months jobs will run out for lack of new contracts. i ' . ' The congress has enacted the . GI bill of rights which is designed to meet all the immediate, legiti mate needs of discharged service men and women. What about war workers? Some five million per sons have migrated to war indus-. , trial areas in recent years. Can they be employed in their new homes? Can they be employed if they move elsewhere or "back . . home?" . " (Continued on editorial page) Robert McLcod Killed in War . . First Lt Robert W. McLeod, son ;f Mr. and Mrs. Wi'liam McLeod "of Salem, was killed in action at Saipan island in the South Pad lie, members of his family have been notified by the war, depart iment : ."I 'i Lt McLeod Joir.iKd the national guard at Bend in 1940, was com- . missioned in federal service with the 41st division in 1941. In Mt Vernon, Wash, where he was sta 4 tioned with an infantry unit f ol lowing Pearl Harbor, he met Caro lyn Ann Higgins, and on Feb. 24, 1942, married her at Fort Ord, Calif., sailing for, Hawaii the fol lowing March. He participated ' without injury in the Makin island 'assault . -:u In addition to his widow and parents, he is survived by a sis i ter, Bonnie, Portland. - -. . : Guy Haymond Dies in Action Pfc. Guy A. Haymond, whose wife (Evelyn Kearns) makes her ; home at 615 Bieber. street in Sa lem with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1 A. R. Kearns, was killed in action . in France, July 13. It .is believed ' here that his death probably oc r curred during the campaign in the - St Lo area. ' Son of Rev. and Mrs.LF. S. Hay mond' of Clarksburg, W. Va, he received his training at Fort Lewis and was - later stationed at the , state fairgrounds here. ; " On July, , 1S43, at : Riverside, I Calif t"-. he. married , Miss Kearns, who received notification from ' the war department this week of his death. - iraximuni temperature Fri day li C:;rees: rr.Iaininia 58; ii r!ja; river -3 ft. In. Clear r-itzr'ay' acj Eanday hot fogga. n(' t-. t; warcscr ia the la- Dewev Predicts Republican Win In November ENROUTE EAST WITH DEW EY, Aug. 4.-(5)-Leaving behind a prediction that the republican presidential ticket would win in November, "regardless of the war news," Gov, Thomas E. Dewey headed home tonight for a week end rest after a "precedent-mak ing' meeting of the nation's GOP governors, k- - -" ,' . The presidential candidate's campaign train left St. Louis at 6:03 p. m. (CWT). He will go to Albany and then to his Pawling, NY, farm Winding up a series of politi cal conferences after a two-day meeting with the other republi can governors, the GOP nominee told a news conference a complete unity of thinking had been achieved as between 26 points of views represented by the heads of the state governments who were present The governors issued a policy statement on 14 points, took a ii nal swing;, at, the new deal hd called for ."personal contact" e- tween state executives and the president in the future to" avoid "costly misunderstanding." Robot Barrage Sputters to Lowest Point LONDON, Saturday, Aug. 5-W r-The Germans sent flying bombs over southern England in a brief spurt during the early morning hours today, but a clear night sky enabled defenders to spot them before they got far inland. : Some damage and casualties were reported, although far short of Wednesday night's record bar rage. -: : : The Germans robot bomb at tack, in daylight yesterday sput tered to its lowest point since it broke nearly eight weeks ago. Al lied bombers pounded the rocket lairs for the third straight day, and . home 1 defenses knocked off the projectiles. Sheridan Officer Wins Coveted Silver Star , WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 First Lt William D. Mclntyre of Sheridan, Ore., has been awarded the .silver star for heroism, the war department announced today. At New Georgia on July .16, 1943, he crawled, under exposure to enemy machine gun fire to give first aid to a wounded soldier, the citation said..-' - " ' ' ix of Salein?s Own. Sht of "Salem's own" the boys of the. famed 41st 'division were home ornearing home today for a brief respite from 2 Vi years . of the bitter warfare of the South west Pacific. A seventh, from the 32nd, one- of the few Oregon men in that guard division - which is serving with the 4 1st, completes the roster; of those on rotational furlough. -; ";; Heroes all, the boys had but one regret as voiced by slender, dark haired Pfc. Donald Waller, star halfback of the Salem high grid team of 1939: "If dnly we could have brought the rest of the boys with us. v v Month after month in the Jun gles and mountains of New Gui nea hiid left their mark the mark of age and wisdom.- :; '- " vV But the eagerness, animation and hope of youth still was there the answer to the hopes and pray ers of other parents who see in the veteran homecomers their own sons and husbands and " brothers and sweethearts. till far away." Soviets Advance 27:Miles;; - Reds Draw Near : ; Krakow on Fc4 : To Geiarid LONDON, Saturd -Russian troops r : ctacular 27-mile break-thf r) ehihd the enemy's , shaner o ula ; river defenses yeste.- 9 sept -. south ward to within . jniles of Kra kow, 'Poland's fifth city and last big German stronghold barring the invasion road into Germany itself. Tank-tipped ; Soviet , spearheads rolling across open Jplain country in great strength now were only 77 miles from German "Silesia, flow ing westward and southwestward from a Vistula river bridgehead which has been expanded quickly to a width of 40 miles in two days. Inside besieged Warsaw, nearly 150 miles to the north, Polish pa triots were reported to have seized the heart Of the city in a battle against German tank units, while Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossov- sky's first j White Russian army was locked in a fierce struggle just east of the Polish capital. ; J Moscow's bulletin did not men tion the Warsaw zone, 'but Berlin said the Russians f had f thrown three other bridgeheads across, the Vistula, one of them only 30 miles southeast of the capital. ,' i The swift surge of the Russians toward Krakow threatened tocut off the retreat of huge German forces caught in the area1 east of the Vistula, between that river and the : San. Nowy Korczyn is ' 22 miles northwest of outflanked Tarnow, rail station; on the Rzes-zow-Krakow trunk railway, and another Soviet column pushing westward captured Sedziszlow, 31 miles east of Tarnow, in this pin cers movement jOn the East Prussia front Gen. Ivan - Cherniakhovsky's troops, rapidly deploying OH a broad front captured 3C0 localises- tfuraf tfje day in the areas .west of : Kaunas on both sides of the highway lead ing to Konigsberg, East Prussian capital, and southwest of Mariam- pole. I ' - 1 . : ? Byrnes Sets Rigid Ceilings On Employing WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-PTo gain the last ounces of production needed to finish an enemy whose "knees are buckling, War Mobili zation' Director James F. Byrnes today i ordered rigid employment ceilings on civilian plants in 181 labor scarcity areas. ."; ;: His aim was two-fold J To free excess workers for war jobs,: and to dry up civilian job openings for workers now tending to drift away from the war industry. , Local, groups, the manpower priority committees which exist in alii shortage areas, will; fix the ceilings for individual plants, ;; To. Insure comxliance, Byrnes directed that the war agencies use war powers never before employ ed for manpower iurposes the chocking-off of materials, equip ment, fuel,, power or transporta tion from an employer who ex ceeds his labor quota. Seriously In iared " AURORA, Aug. I Nathan Cole was seriously; injured in a thresh ,ing machine accident just before noon today at the Neift place ad joining Aurora. The Injured man was taken to the Oregon City hos pitaL , I . Tfc Bonall Waller : , There, was Tech. Sgt. Richard R. Smith of the infantry, visiting his wife at 16C5 A street; Tech. New Ginned Japan Starts Retreat GENERAL- HEADQUARTERS, PACIFIC, 1 Satur- SOUTHWEST day. Aug!- S-s (yP) -Battered and hammered, Japan's j second army is in "full retreat"- from Geelvink bay and the tipper jVogelkop pe- riinsula--totalling nearly a third of all New Giiinea-Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Tne Japanese were ' aesertuog stronghold"" along j 700 - mile sweep Of coastline,: and apparent ly were: withdrawing , to the south and weft in the hope of evacuat ing survivors from western New Guinea, t. I -7 li kii MacArthur said, fThe practical effectiveness, of the! second Japa nese army, ; commanded . by Gen. trusataro) xesnima, wnicn is charged with the defense of Dutch New Gtjiinea, dly approach escape ; route ing an end.' m- . - ive leads through forbidding terrain. "The natural difficulties j of his movement ; arc great a commu nique said, "and With the added hazards! of ouj ground, naval and air activities,! bis losses at best cannot ail tojbe caiamitous - The Japanese were withdraw ing fiom Manokwari, former strongpoint 50 miles west j of Am erican-held Kpemipor island, and Nabire an aerial center some 200 miles jsoutheftst on the lower reaches of Geelvink bay. IManok wari harbor cruiseri. , can accommodate 4 Ruthless Purse OfNiaziArmv 1 LONIX)N, Aug. i"(JF) - Adolf Hitler onightj orde)d a ruthless suir j v. w aj km vmv o1 mm aftermth of he Jiiriker .Generals revolt Igainstjhis repme and in an opening move- ousted 12 i officers and marked them for early trial as rtraitprs? by ieatei,pe.ip Court the death-dealing Nazi star chamber. . ;-. 'j -M- v Official announcements broad cast byj Berlin! named a tojtal of 23 officer! as implicated! in the revolt, more 'than hajf of whom had not been identified prevousl They included fou lieutenant and a captain all of aristocra'tic names suggesting. Jhat thie revolt may have gone xartner down tnrougn the ranks than previously: indi cated. - Hitler selected a hand-picked, five-man "court of honcjr'j. com posed bf his most trusted men at the top of the: army to execute the purge.) Hitler!, said the Berlin an nouncements,! is to pass on their decisions, - and men purged 'from the army are er with other to be tried j-togeth- traitors by !the peo ple's Court instead bf . by courts martial. 'wm r " : crees ieath for defendants con victed : of treason. V. 10,(100 Applv for Service Ballots ' 1 - r More than j 10,000j applications for absentee service j ballots today bad been received a the office of Secretkry of State Robert S. Far rell, it Between 30,000 and 40,000 such request are anticipated. Application . are I sent Ton to county clerkj as fast as they are received and ballots I will :be mail ed out from! most Oregon coun ties 4 days before faectfem. They will be accepted by county clerks until ballot boxes are turned over to sheriffs for distribution. among voting precincts. j j j Arjny 41st BUisi6nome: From - Wpr - I I I Sgt Dana E. Bensod of the artil lery, who will spend his leave with his wife, Mrs Mary jE. Benson, of route iseven. Park Line; Staff sgt. Louis iL' Osborn oft the iinfantry, now with his"! father Louis L. Os born, r, at &2 North 14th street; Tech.j4th Gr.lErvin Smith (ser geant), viiitieg his Iwife jon route seven; and Pfc. Theodore Rope of the coast artiBeryvisiting bis par ents, (Mr. and Mrs4 Theodore R. Rope,!" on roulte two Cpl? Don W. Schaefer, field aiiileryman in the 32nd,' traveled home with men of the 4lst ahdf is with hi wife" at 1547 Mm stifeet' I- hi Pfci, Waller visiting: his wife,f Mrs. Rachel M. Waller, cf XO: jEeventhJ streetj. 1 , " Th first c the group Itdrte lo cated; by nevf-smen,! Walljer hadnt been!home ljng enough! to know war-tine Saem, but M - came through wilh! a smilinj, Jmasterful understatement "Boy, are we glad 'to te Ink!"1 And be left no doutt'ef 'J.i i .'.r.ixns eventual ly to,reiuia i LI Lw-nse town ani Strikers ; Only HandfuU :r Workers , Report '..To Move Cars - PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4 HP) The army's attempt lo restore ser vice on : Philadelphia transporta tion lines faced collapse tonight as most night shift workers re fused to relieve the few operat ors who moved cars today. - The last subway train quit ope rating on' the Broad street line at 6:30 pan. (EWT) as strikers con tinued to shout defiance and re sist the army's efforts to end the four-day tie-up.4, , ' Partial service continued on the Market : street , subway-elevated line and a trolley moved occa sionally over a single route. At the 5 pjn. rush hour only 7.3 per cent of the normal num ber of vehicles were in operation 3 1 six-car j- subway-elevated trains and one trolley. , Usually at that hour-there are 77 trains, 1529 trolleys and 462 buses in operation.' ' Reports that attempts were be ing . made to stir up . a sympathy strike on the suburban Red Arrow lines caused the board of com missioners in nearby Upper Darby to order the-J closing of liquor stores and taprooms. J. F. Hammond, superintendent of the Red Arrow lines, which carry 90,000 passengers daily, said an investigation indicated the com pany's 300 operating . employes were planning no walkout The Philadelphia strikers gen eral committee voted late today to continue .the stoppage. (See pic ture on page 2.) , v , Qiinese.Hold Of fr Japanese p Iii Hengyarig CHUNGKING, Aug. -(Heroic Chinese defenders of battered Hengyang, stfU holding ' off the Japanese after 40 days of bitter fighting, aroused a fresh surge of hope in - the i Chinese capital to night that enemy plans to conquer the entire Canton-Hankow rail way I would be shattered on the battlefields of Hunan province. ; With relief columns now stab bing at the encircling Japanese ring around the key rail city, the defenders beat off wave after wave of attackers,' . the Chinese high command announced, and thejr stand is becoming a new symbol in Chinese resistance. Japanese must take Hengyang to succeed ' in1 their campaign to complete conquest of the Canton Hankow railway, split China in two and open a line of communi cations from Manchuria to the south China sea. , ' u Thomas Mahoney Slay : Enter Judge Contest Thomas R. Mahoney, democrat and state senator from. Multnomah county, is considering entering the contest for circuit judge in . the fourth, judicial district to succeed the late Robert Tucker. - Mahoney ; announced . that he might be a candidate for the bench when he arrived in Salem on Fri-' day with Rex Ellis, republican from Pendleton, who is seeking the: presidency of, the senate at; the 1945 legislative session. The two are completing a tour of southern and western Oregon. . . Tech. f;t nkhard Smith resume the education interrupted by his country's call in September of 1343. ? NRocJtei Might Start Planet War . LONDON, Aag. 4-HflVA ra-; - snor that (he Germaaa bad man- , : aged te bumch a sew strato sphere rocket a frtalzht age bat , hadat yet heard front It mere the Weekly Tribune teday U specnlate facetiotuly it night luTe'dreppe aaether planet and might result bs aa later planetary war. .' ,; -f- ' "If that werld (hit by the na away rocket) happens te he la-' ' habited by peeple whe have reached ear own level ef ctril-IxaUoa',- aaid the Tribune, -they nay regard It as aa act ef 1ms . tllity and be evea new getting r ready te send as a note about it Are we therefore on the ere ef war betweea worlds hefere we ' have get ewrselves Udied op "earthr " For Cleanup Drive on Guam US' PACIFIC FLEET r HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 4,HT)-Preparing; for a cleanup drive against the Japanese on Guam, American troops won con trol of Mount Barrigada dominat ing the flat northern plateau of the island,. A dm. Chester W. Nim itz announced today. . ' Last Japanese1 . resistance was wiped out on ' the 674foot peak near the center of the line. The eastern flank advanced to a point about a mile south of Point Sas sayan.' The western flank estab lished complete control of . all road junctions in the vicinity of Fmeg¥. i r. . Carrier task. force planes poured bombs, rockets and machine gun fire into the Japanese defenders as ground forces steadily pushed them back into the northern pla teau. , . Scattered Japanese soldiers were being hunted down on Sai pan island, northward In the Mar ianas, where the enemy's ' organ ized resistance . ended a . month ago. .r ' ' r ; ' A average of 50 Japanese sol diers are being 1 "eliminated or taken prisoner each day. in prcb ing Saipan's .caves and ravines. Finns to Get Peace Chance NEW YORK, Saturday Aug. 5 The London : radio, without giving any source for its informa tion, sid today that "it has be come known that the Russians have proposed to Finland that be fore resumption of the offensive on the Karelian isthmus " 12 days would be given to consider peace negotiations 1 " !-. . i -. The CBS short wave listening station recorded the broadcast. , Dispatches from Stockholm said Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim took office yesterday as Finland's new president, and that Premier Edwin Linkomies government had handed its resig nation to him. .v.. ) " August Meteors Will ? Stage Annual Show WASHING-TON, - Aug.' 4 -(iT) The ; Perseid or (August i meteors will stage their annual big show on the night of August 11-12, the naval 4 observatory : predicted to day. The display of shooting stairs will be seen most favorably in the northeastern skyl between I a jn. (eastern war time) and dawn on August 12. " The one-time national guards men, jerked from their homes four years ago next month, are on 21 day stays, under the army's fur lough rotation plan.1 They will re port to a southern base for reas signment at the end of that time AH were under wartime restric tion, as to specific comments on the military, the enemy and their specific activities.. But. from all indications, none was under any illusions as to the hard row yet to be hoed in the FaciSc war. - , The list of the persons each was visiting in the Salem area was provided by the army service for ces of the 8th service command, but their furloughs by no means were being spent in one place. : Most of the men have many rel atives in this 9xsL'.-u----; i' :'. One, Sgt Benson, had a new one to visit here the wife to whom he was married in Australia, and who came to the mainland last April to be with her new mother-in-law, Mrs. G. IL Elckfcrd. They're being kept bury, these Yanlss Prepare Ymtkes- Forces ' IDnve :l(D)sef " To Sto Mazaire ; Other US Armored Forces WitEin 75 MaesofBst; Nazis Admit Great Setbacks : SUPREME IIEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Saturday, Aufi. 5(AP) US tank columns dashing1 across Brittany to sever the peninsula raced to within 38 miles of St, Nazaire today and other ar mored forces were within 75 miles of the Rreat port of Brest while comrades guarding their flank swept eastward unop posed across the plains in a new drive toward Paris. 'Two columns were approaching- the nazi U-boat base at St. Nazaire and also the Loire river port of Nantes. One of the columns was 38 miles from SU Nazaire in the ricinity of Derval, the other, 40 miles from the base, was west of Cha-teau-Briant. , , . t , Edward D, BalL AssociatedO- Press correspondent, in a battle- field dispatch said the American advance southeastward - had en- ; LONDON Sataraay, Aag, 5. -(fl-The Vichy radio. In . a breadcast heard today by ; the ministry , of information, said aa American armored . spear head was anly 17 miles from Nantes. Latest dispatches di rect from the front, however. .reported this spearhead still St ' miles away f rem the Loire river -port.' " r ;: .v-",;;5; -r.:-'';---, : gulfed Fougeres, 23 miles south east of Avranches, and 27 miles northeast of Rennes. ' The other American forces were moving on St. Maid, port on the northern coast of the Brittany peninsula, one moving up on each side of the St Malo estuary. Each column gained six miles yesterday and was only seven miles from the port city, .. il. , Tank spearheads thundered through ripped-open t defenses' of Brittany so fast that they were a good 24 hours ahead of all offi cial reports, i and they were lot- lowed by speeding columns of trucks bearing the infantry. : Germans, admitting setbacks wholesale, said the Americans had reached a point 60 miles west, of Brittany's capital of Rennes, which fell only yesterday,; and were within 75 miles of Brest, the second port, of France.' As one column headed south west from Rennes toward the nazi U-boat base of St. Nazaire, a parallel force broke into Chateau Briant, SO miles southeast of Rennes, and drove on down the last 35 miles toward the Loire river port of Nantes.' " But the surprising development of the day came when American forces, moving to guard the left flank of this great force pouring down from Normandy, ranged out southeast of Avranches feeling for a German western flank that was not there..- ) -: ' -'v.." The Americans apparently had two choices, both possibly disas trous for the Germans: to head directly i eastward toward Paris, or to strike northeastward - and cut behind the Germans who have been containing the British and Canadian forces along the Orne river. . . .' . " Holman Rites Held PORTLAND, Ore Aug. 4 Funeral services were being ar ranged today for William C Hol man, 74, president of an ice and fuel company here and brother of US Sen. Rufus C. Holman. He died yesterday at hii home. , V in 1 " - i Tech. 4th Cr. Crvia Z, r ":h- returning home-boys, .. -;; ; : ; haven't hardly had a minute to myself, but I like it, one bf them commented with a grin..- Pacific Allied Troops SendPatrols Into Florence ROME, Aug. 4.-(P)-Allied troops hammered through the last German defenses before the great Tuscan art center of Florence to day and sent patrols stabbing into the heart of the historic city as far as" the. Arno river,' beyond which the nazis had withdrawn after destroying five or six brid ges spanning the wide stream. The only bridge spared by the nazis was the historic Ponte Vec chio "Old Bridge" which they blocked effectively by. demolish ing bouses at both ends. The " bridge,;regari3ed as a priceless ex ample of "Tuscan building, ig lined ofi either side with craftsmen'a shops and Js familiar to thousands of tourists from all over the world. . ' ' . ' " Incensed at the destruction of the bridges of the city after the nazis had declared It open, allied, headquarters I s s u e d an official statement ' saying: " . ' f 1 js. :l "The enemy has taken advan tage of the situation, knowing full well that our undisputed air pow er could not be used to destroy the bridges in Florence . behind him (while - the Germans still were pn the south bank of the ' Arno) without damage to archi tectural buildings of the city. Pfc Sraelser Killed in War AUMSVTLLE, Aug. 4 Pfc El mer E. Smelser, US marine corps, was killed in action, according to information received by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Smelser, from the war department,' He had been over seas for 21 , months and was withthe marine corps at Guadalcanal and Tarawa. He was home in September, 1942, . He was 25 years okL. -. , . Fire Burns Equipment OTTAWA, Aug. 4-i-Military equipment and vehicles were de stroyed today in a fire- which swept workshops and garages of the Canadian army service corps at Lansdowne depot. .The Canad ian press said damage was esti mated unofficially at $700,000. Thumbnail By the Associated Press Iavasiea. front Yanks open new drive toward Paris as ar mored columns push across Brit tany to within 38 miles of St. . Nazaire and 75 miles of great L.port I Brest. -'..: !- .. t. .. Italian Allies penetrate into Florence as far as Arno river. 'IH Russian Reds sweep far be yond nazi's Vistula river defen ses to within 37 miles of Kra kow, Poland's fifth city; tank spearheads 77. miles from Ger man Silesia; Polish patriots seize heart of Warsaw, ' , ,' V Germaa heme, front Hitler orders ruthless army purge.' ' Aerial More than 1200 Am , erican heay bombers attack ? Germany's secret weapon exper imental ' laboratories 100 miles north of Berlin, "oil refineries, flying bomb Installations and ;..coastal batteries. riy'iSj:l- j . Pacifle Japanese flee north ' western New Guinea strong holds; EtilweU's trcor crush fi nal resistance in Myilkjlna. ft h