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i -l lit ' " ! " 1 ,-1 & A . ... Mill l AstalW vjVi V7eat2ier Uaxlnam temperswre . Taesday 71 degrees; mini mum 51; ,aS of an inch pre dpitatlonj river -J f t f iiu Partly cloudy Wednesday and' Thursday, with fag along i ceast; few thnnder itorms ever moon tains and east portion Wednesday af ternoon; little temperature ..change. . ;',-y;y-':yi : if C(lf tike ID r 'if mm w m m m a maar m . m "v. r m mm "-s. i m ii 1 ' ; ' 1 t - i. . ' - , ' . 1-J '( A member of the Farmers Un ion came into the office Tuesday with blood-in-the-eye, bringing a tearsheet from the National Union -Farmer. Most of page eight was taken up with an advertisement of the "National Citizens Political Action Committee" which appears 'to be either a holding company for we ciu political action commit tee or a subsidiary. " ; But what made this Oregon FU member indignant was the story at the top of the page that Pres. James G. Patton of the NFU had accepted the position of vice chairman of this National Citizens : Political Action committee, of which Hon. George W. Norris Is honorary chairman and Sidney ; Hillman, of CIO and of the Ameri can Labor party, is chairman. The member's protest was the attempt ?to herd Farmers Union members 'into the Roosevelt camp. Undoubtedly, the same reaction : will be encountered: among other I members of the farm organization here and in other states. The ac tion of Patton, however, is not surprising. He has been a stand lout among '.farm organization leaders in support of the national administration and of administra tkn politics; He - backed the. pro- gram . for continuance of - subsi , dies, staunchly backed the FSA : when.it was under attack and has i given the national publication decided leftist slant, making it more like a labor paper -than fanner paper. . Many Oregon members of the union have been irked at his tie up with the new deal party. At vthe spring state convention Ore Vgon. farmers spoke - out against ' subsidies but . the vote bn - the : question ' .' ' -j .'. (Continued on Editorial 1 Page) Molotov Talks With 2 Rival mes u- MOSCOW, Aug. ' 8-)-Foreign Commissar ; Vyacheslav; Molotov conferred at the Kremlin tonight for more. : than two hours with ' Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish ; government-in-exile and representatives of the Soviet sponsored Polish committee of na- ' tional liberatorr"..itv .fj-- It wa the first time in the Sof f let union that tte'two rrVal Fol&h regimes were represented at the same conference table. In an atmosphere summed . up by member of the London Pol ish group as "friendly," .Molotov - presided at the session in his study. Foreign. Minister Tadeusr Ro . mer of the Polish London govern ; ment and ?S-year-old Prof. Grab- ski; Polish boundary- expert,' were : among those present - T The proceedings were entirely informal and no statement was is . sueS later, by the Polish premier. US Destroys 13 Nip Planes At Halmaliera H GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Wednesday, t Aug. (?-Thirteen parked air planes were destroyed in a raid upon Halmahera island, stepping stone between , New- Guinea and f the Philippines, headquarters sn- nounced today.- . - . Halmahera is an island octopus, v one tentacle of which is about 200 v miles west of the foremost Allied base at Sansapor, Dutch New Gui nea, and another of which is 300 miles south of Mindanao. , i Liberators from New Guinea ; bases ' smashed Galela and Lolo- : bata airdromes on Halmahera with 48 tons of bombs Monday. They also damaged a 3000 ton mer chantman. '. T : Headquarters also reported that the Japanese were rushing troops from Wewak, in British New Gui nea, to the Driniumor front about " 20 miles east of Altape, to rein force units under attack by Amer- t lean forces there. . Car Strilces, IGUs Child Three-year-old Robert Wood ruff, son of Mrs. Geraldine Wood ruff, 1S6S North 18th street, died in a Salem hospital Tuesday after noon four hours after he had been struck by a ear on 18th street near his home. ; --y v?:': Avis Mae Stenerson, 690 North 18th street, driver of the car, told city police that she failed to see the lad but knew the car had struck a child when the bumper touched him. ' She was . driving north and Bobby was crossing the street from east to west, police reported. I Rommel Being "Cured" " NEW : YORK, Aug. MflVThe t Berlin radio recorded by .US gov ernment ; monitors, said tonight that German Field Marshal Gen. : IZrwin Rcmmel, second in com' i mand on the western front who was injured during an allied air raid Ju!y 17, "is Leing cured" in a hofpitaL KINETY-rOURTH YEAR Germans Hit Soviet Counterattacks Slow Red Drive All Along Front LONDON, Wednesday, Aug. 9. (JP)The Germans are launching desperate counterattacks along virtually all of the 1000-mile east ern front but are being "bled white," Moscow reported today as ii appeared" that the nazis had managed to stem the red army advance by drawing ,: heavily - on their . dwindling' central reserves. An early-morning supplement to the soviet war bulletin under scored the German counter-blows in nearly every sector but assert ed flatly that all were repulsed and added, "Our troops are stub bornly advancing." ,. . Posh Toward Rigs One such nazi counterattack has been smashed after several days of . bitter fighting on the Latvian-Lithuanian border and the Russians have resumed their push toward Riga, the regular: soviet midnight communique said. All the while the Russians con tinued to mass men and material for a new steamroller eastern front drive that may carry all the way to Berlin. Both soviet and German com muniques confirmed, essentially that the great Russian summer of fensive, now in its 48th day, had lost the sweeping mobility that marked its progress during the first 40 days, but the German lines were strained and creaking, and failure at any point : might spell disaster for the reich, , " . Throw In Everything To bolster the lines and imple ment the. desperation-born coun terattacks, . the G e r m a n a are throwing- into .battle everything they "have,' "Even road-building, airdrome and other rear detach la " the past Inree weeks, soviet reports stated, the Germans have sent 1 new divisions; to the east ern front, some from the vital re serves of Antral Germany, oth ers from western Poland, . Italy, Yugoslavia t Hungary and Nor way. (See more details on inside page) SuitWinTry To Keep BUI Off BaUots The suit, now in preparation. to keep the so-called Little Town send plan off Oregon's November ballot, if filed, will attack the pro posed amendment as a violation ot Article XVII of the state con stitution. ; I i : This was the understanding of attorneys here Tuesday, who maintained that the little Town send plan embraces two amend ments. Article XVII provides that two or more amendments submit-' ted to the voters must be voted upon separately. .... One provision of the plan pro hibits a sales tax in Oregon while the other provides for tax levy sufficient to pay qualified citi tens of the state who have at tained the age of 60 years an an nuity of not less than $60 a month. Persons over 18 years of age to tally disabled or blind would re ceive a similar monthly alowance. Herskey Launches Ship PORTLAND, Aug. 8-6P)-MaJ Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service director, helped launch the tanker Beason Rock tonight Mrs. Hershey christened the Kaiser-built vessel. Stonewall Senate Split Widens as Solons Tackle Reconversion Jssue I' WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-()-A sharp conflict over post-war un employment compensation : payt ments to discharged war workers broke out on the floor today im mediately after ; the senate ; got down to work on overall legisla- tion to cushion the economic im pact of any sudden German col lapse. Republican arguments that the Murray-Kilgore bill to set up a super reconversion ; agency with authority to require payments up to $35 a week would shackle labor under government domination was countered by Sen. Wagner (D-NY) who urged: , MLet us not be blinded by the lobby of sjtate - bureaucrafts who come down here arid tell us to do nothing whatsoever that may af fect them." Sen. George (D-Ga), author of a republican-supported measure to 12 PAGES SalenvHas 2 Pdlio pases,: NeitlibrBad . ' "While.tiv k?, bows beneath the . worV N & ic ' of " infantile paralysi- $16, Marion coun- fj nolio r frithifi Salem's limits, Dr $ v jtOne, county health bfficer iioth Capital city cases are ap parently.: mild. ."N e i t h e r - of the children pffected is paralyzed; both are under 10 years of age, and neither pad in recent weeks used dty svfimming pools so far as Stone haf been informed. Th two ases are : in the east end of Salea although the resi dences are separated by more than a half mile and the children have never Inet. They have been iaolatedU w .-I ' . First casJ of polio here this year resulted in the 'death of a Willamette university student (i or ine nftuonai pouo suauon see page 2) YankForces . By LFJF ERICKSON 1 US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS! Pearl Harbor; Aug. 8 (P)- Fast-driving American forces cleaning up j the Guam campaign have surged tiorth the last six and one half mfies up Guam's west coast captured 870-foot Mt Santa Koea aomuiaung ine nprineasr shore and have pushed a center wedge threatening to cut the last, doomed Japanese in two. -; Adm. Chester W.- Nimitz an nounced the successes today in a communique which listed . the counted enemy dead since -the in vasion - opened -July 20 - at '-more than 10,000-i-not taking into ac count the jjapanese buried en masse in a remetery -' since over run by the Yanks. ' The west coast advance carried the marines and soldiers? to Pt Ritidiaiv 1 I The east I coast' force t pushed ahead more than three miles close to Anao point n equal distance from the northeast tip. i The central wedge is within less than a 'mileiof the north edge of the island, . haaking the line re semble the litter W. ; Japanese pinned into the north east corner of Guam are In an area imi A 1 At Sf L M l uiuc more 19 square num. New finnish CabiAet Has Red Friends STOCKHQLM Aug. S-jKif)- A new! Finnish cabinet obviously picked to clar the way for peace feelers to Russia, ' was announced in Helsinki fmight S k! The new pl-esident Marshal Carl Gustav Manaerheunr picked as his premier Hantti Hackzell, former minister to Russia and twice for eign minister In the 1930's. r ! The cabinet was made up of men regarded as experts on Rus sia and excluded such anti-Russian: figures! as outgoing Premier Edwin LlnMomies and Finance Minister Vafno Tanner. J ! Carl J. AJ Enckell became for eign minister, a post he held in 1918-19 and " 1922-24. EnckeU's connections With Russia date back A - . A . i L . . . to 19 n, wnen ne was t mnLsn sec retary of stiite in Russia, signed the Finnish! independence agree ment with i Nikolai Lenin, and subsequently was diplomatic rep resentative Mo . Russia from the new Fiiinishj republic P leave the filing of unemployment rates to the ttates, but to bring 3,- 500,000 govfrnment .workers un--der their coverage and guarantee the solvenc of state unemploy ment funds, look a shot at 'the rival bin by declaring "it would be most unwise to japprove any!! system which ijfoul4 induce idleness.; :::4:j;; i Followingl up the attack in fa statement, Sfen. Willis (R-Jnd) de nounced ; th Murray-Kilgore bill as a measure to "Hillman-ize and Sovietize Iaor, by shackling re employmentj under complete dom ination f government" -f ; ' j j But Sen. Cilgofe (D-WVa), ar guing that sconomic chaos is In finitely mor costly than measures to prevent if" said average jobless payments j $1250 a year under his bill would not exceed; $7,800, CC0,C00 ovei a period of two and a htlf yearsl - , - I ty rer ijmparauveiy iree .to date ' , .itie - disease, although tw Vs oil oolio have been , re- Cleaning IW Guam Drive Ccdem, Oregon Wedneaday Morning. August 9. 1344 ; SO(uj h t To an Heroic Defense ; ftl Six Weeks : fodHieavy CHUNgceNG, .Wednesday,' Aug. 9-h-A grim, dramatic message from within walled Hengyang left little doubf today that the dty af ter an heroic stand of more than six Weeks j was completely in the hands of Japanese forces and the way; open or the Japanese to drive down the remainder of the Canton-Hankow ; rail Way i to secure their control of a! 1000-mile band acrosa China. ! -1 i. ' The commander within the dty notified iGeneralissimo Chiang KairShek at 7 p4n. Monday that the ( Chinese defenders had been killed almost to the last man, and concluded! .'j ' :; Lasi Message ! j I am afraid this may be my last message to you." j jj (The Tokyo i radio . yesterday claimed complete occupation of the embattled city, and said Gen.' Fang Hsien Chiao, commander of the 1 10th phungking ftrmy, had suitendered. The broadcast as serted that four jiChungking divi sions and; supporting ; American forces were wiped out and the dty was occupied at 8 a.m. yesterday. Sixty American officers and men took part in the final battle, Tokyo said, but there was no; confirma tion! from Allied sources.) Victory Cost Hlxh !.. . Conquest' tf Hengyang appar ently has cost the Japanese dearly.' On ! July 25, after a month's fight- lngj the Chinese, high . command claimed 14,000 - f - the r invaders storming the cityl had been killed. In . addition, heavy tolls have been taken by planes of Mai. Gen. Clair Li henn4Wt's 14th US air iorce botn in the; number ol river anq land supply craft ! and troop carriers, and In j the numbers of troops killed by! the i : planes in widespread strafing and bombing attacks throughout Hunan prov ince. i lS9 England Sigri Oil Pact WASHINGTON, Aug. MFt The United SUtes and Great Brit airi today? signed! a pact on oil pol icy; designed to prevent peacetime disputes between . the; ) two allies and serve as a j prime; weapon to enforce peace, n ' J " y:y The . agreement negotiated by Acting .Secretary of State Stettin iu for this . country; ' and Lord Beaverbrook . for Britain, is the first pact dealing directly . with post-war trade and security. - . Both ' countries agreed that it shll go Into effect when each has notified ibe other "Of its readi neis." J !. - . M The agreement looks toward an eventual 'international oil confer enpe and the establishment of an international commission which would make recommendations to governments on how companies should produce! and ; sell petro leum, . I. -Jj -Ji v . ""j Nprniandy 'Cider Bring Downfall to One Group Of German Soldiers WTTH ITHE UNITED STATES ARMY IN FRANCE, 'Aug. Among battle sidelights: ' Normandy' dder rather than al lied weapons caused. the downfall of one group of nazis. ; our German ! soldiers found in a elder house With cups upraised and f rifles - stacked, outside . were captured by i! squad led by Sgt Thomas ? Mashburn . of "Abilene, Tex. 'I I s i Ten other reeling Germans who already had buaffed .the brew were picked up in the same vicin uyr - , j -- f Allied! Powers Sign . Shipping Pool Extension WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-P)-The United States,! Britain and other allied shippinji ! powers signed in London today an extension of their present shipping pool agreement injuring Ithat When Germany has been' defeated: "there i; win be ah adequate pooling 'of tonnage to Chinese fffl Last M carry onithe war against japan J .i i- - , t " i. . - - Yanks Blast Jap Shipping Smoke rises frem font burning Japanese ships at Haha Jima in the Bonln islands as five atavy Hell divers head back to their. carriers. In these early July attacks, just 809 miles from. Tokye, US planes sank 13 ships, daaaaged 29 ethers mad abet down er damaged 1ZS eneaay planes. (Asseciated Press photo frem US navy). ; Himmler Reported Dead 8 Nasi Officers Hanged LONDON; An; Kgh't' expelled itfSeerswcre hanged today in the Hitler assassination purge, Berlin announced amid rumors unsubstantiated by German or by allied authori ties that Heinrich HommJer had been killed and Hermann Goer- ing wounded in a new outbreak - Official broadcasts said Field was hanged with seven co21eagues for -their confessed participation in the July : 20 conspiracy , to kill Adolf Hitler and surrender Ger many to the allies. ; - ? The death sentences were car ried out Just two hours after a red-robed "people's court'; con victed the defendants of high trea son. ' The two-day trial developed a story of vast intrigue against Hit-; ler and dissatisfaction of high of ficers over his military ineptitude The rumor that Gestapo Chief Himmler was dead came from the British front in Normandy. This report, received with the utmost reserve In London, said a newly captured German intelligence of ficer related that Himmler had been killed and Goering, Hitler's second in command,' wounded. Other prisoners offered to corro borate the officer's story, but all the - eaptives'- information . was based on what they had been told and not what they themselves had observed. Charcoal Gas ! Powers Truck PORTLAND, Ore,- Aug. Powered by. charcoal gas, a" heavy truck ; was v demonstrated on j a downtown street today; before be ing turned over to the forest serv ice. !-.":: The motor burns gas generated as water passes over heated char coal or coke. A small quantity of gasoline is used to start the' motor. The heavy truck was equipped with a 90-lb. charcoal fuel' tank. Similar equipment' will . be in stalled on a lighter truck also to be used by the forest service. ? J Lyle Watts, forest service offi cial, said the tank holds enough fuel for 100 miles at 35 miles an hour, " -, Swiss Paper Says Paris 1 Short of Food, 7ater ' i- - ;" l ' l, NEW YORK, AugJ 8-iTVThe office of war information today quoted the Swiss newspaper Trib une de Geneve as saying in a dis patch datelined from i Paris that the Parisians "have almost noth ing to eat" because warfare has cut off the food supply from Nor mandy. - ' ' '"In the Rue Mouffetard I saw 500 people waiting in; front of a bakeshop on the door of which was written "no more" bread, the newspaper's correspondent wrote. 1 He reported drinking water also was very scarce. ! 3 .1 against the nazi regime. Marshal Erwin von Witzleben Von Papen Under Arrest . ,.t..-: -- , ;S.,.. ISTANBUL, Aug. 8-(ff)-Franz von Papen, iormer amoassaaor to Turkey, was arrested as soon as he entered German; today on his return to 4he reich from Tur key, it was reported here tonight The information came from" an official of an international bank here. who was a personal friend of von Papen. The bank offidal received no details of the arrest (The German controlled Paris radio said earlier today that von Papen, who left Turkey when that country broke relations with Ger many,; had arrived in Berlin.) - Yanks Not Allowed to Read British Papers LONDON, Aug. HJP)-The sale of British newspapers and maga zines was banned in US army camps in Britain today until after the American presidential election. Thet army said the action was taken i under the soldiers'- voting law requirement ""which says ,No member of the US armed forces shall have his vote influenced in any way." . Salem School Teaching Staffs NeariyCdiiipleiefor 1 944-45 Salem school teaching staffs are essentially filled, although details in ? completing contracts ; for four positions have not yet been ar ranged. -'"..'..:.;-'' For three of those places, Salem residents who ' are qualified and willing to serve in an emergency are available, but efforts, to secure persons professionally 5 interested wiH-hot slacken, ; Supti Frank B. Bennett told directors at their reg ular board meeting Tuesday night A j recommendation j will : ; be brought in shortly for the fourth, the only remaining senior high school vacancy, Bennett believes. - The board Tuesday night moved Donald Davis into thegeneral sci ence teaching position' at Leslie Junior high school, from which Loren Mort is . on military leave and which Josie Holmes filled last year, resigning this summer, c .' Mrs. Lucille Chapman will be moved from Highland school tem porarily -to fill the Davis position as seventh - grade ; home - room Price US Heavy Open Holes in Lines for Assault . Some Yank Bombs Hit Allied Lines ' By Mistake; Onrushing Americans : Pounding at Gateway of Le Rlans' V SUPREME ' HEApQARTERS ' ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY TORCE, Wednesday, Aug. 9--(AP) -The Cana dians in 'their first great offensive in France smashed five miles' yesterday into some of the strongest enemy lines be fore Paris, ; whose defenses 110 miles to the southwest were imperiled by onrushing Americans pounding at the gateway of Le Mans. ' ' ' f '. r, r, . More than 1009 US heavy tense as any met " over Europe shattered bristling strong points below Caen on the shortest route to Paris. Canadians tanks and Infantry pourea' through the breaches and fought down the road to about 110 miles from the capital. ; J One by one enemy strongholds which had blocked the Paris high way since D-day were rolled up, and last night the Canadians were reported engaging the enemy at Cintheaux, .8 miles south of Caen. -'"V ' ' y" Bombs Hit Allies :y.;J The advance was not -without its cost, for flak shot down one ot the lead bombers, and its forma tion loosed some of its cargo on allied positions, causing casual ties reminiscent of those on the American front ini the breakout bombing west of St.Lo. . . . Canadian 1 tanks and infantry raced through the dust pall across the rolling wheatlands and pas tures; seised the hamlet of Gaum- esniL and faced east to engage 20 Tiger tanks forming tor a counter thrust - j Then miles' beyond the point of farthest advance reported yester day Lt, Gen. Omar N. Bradley's doughboys were closing in on Le Mans by German, accounts in force and one dispatch said van guards had reached the big rail road and highway center. Anniversary Day j. '; - These developments fell on the 26th anniversary of Germany's blackest hour in the first world war, when the Kaiser's high com mand decided that further resis tance was hopeless. But today, despite the crumb ling . defense of - Normandy and Brittany, the enemy fought fierce ly below Vire, before the British across the Orne southwest of Caen, and in the doomed north Brittany port of St Mala. . -Lines Sway ; In the Vire pocket,' the lines swayed around Cherence-de Rous seL where four enemy tank, divi sions which tried to break through the Avranches corridor were being ground to pieces between Ameri can armor, striking from north, south and west . ' . In an advance of 10 miles south west of Vire, the Americans over ran Gathemo threatening to pinch off the enemy forces still fight ing back with ever - feebler coun terattacks around Cherence le RousseL ? ! -:?-?y- : r: v;-,.; . On the ? north Brittany coast, American forces broke into the besieged port of St Malo at three points, a front dispatch said, and fierce fighting raged in the ruined streets.- teacher at Leslie, while Mrs. Mary Partington, who taught last year ii Vanport,! comes in on an as signed substitute basis to take Mrs. Chapman's position at Highland. Kathryn Lovett of Salem .who taught last year at West Linn, and Mrs. Ethel King of Hillsboro,- who taught last year at Albany, will take the Highland teaching, posts from which Mrs? P. M. Gregory and Mrs. Lucille Berndt have been granted leaves of absence. Robert Craig, for nine years teacher at Grand Junction, Colo, holder of a i master's degree, was elected to the industrial arts posi tion at Leslie which Donald Darby vacated when he resigned to take work with the US employment tervlceuv'l ri:-'-. 'y".. ' r Karl Thelen, teacher of instru mental music the past two years on . an assigned substitute basis, was elected ia enter the salary scale as first year probationary in structor. He will be at Leslie. 5c No. 121 Bombers bombers defying flak as in - British Wiping azi ROME, Aug. . t.-m-B r i t i s h troops, ; splashing . through the " rain, were wiping out the last is- v lands of enemy resistance south ' of the Arno river around Florence today, while the bulk of the allied armies in Italy rested for the ' grand assault on the Gothic line Just ahead.- . ' ;- -yi , TTiere ws .1 hard, fighting on high ground in the bVfcsr.J,of the Arno east of Florence.- -. 4 But ieven this wa bn "a. small. scale when . compared ' with the slugging that has -carried the al lies most of the way up the moun tainous peninsula to positions be- , fore ' the heavily-fortified Gothic line above Florence and Pisa. Eighth army patrols were feel ing out the enemy dispositions. ; Germans in the big. bend of the Arno above Areno threw Indian -troops out of Monte Grillo, but the reversal had little effect on the general strategic situation. . " Allied - headquarters said , both Sides suffered heavy ; casualties . when the Germans lossed a coun terattack in this sector Sunday. On the Fifth army front to the west, there werartillery exchanges- i ' ' -t At Least Five Die in Crash HAVANA, Aug. MflVFive per sons were dead and 12 unaccount ed for in the crash of a Pan Ameri can airways four-engined clipper today at Nipe bay, Antilla. , . The big ship, used by Pan Amer ican to blaze a trans-Pacific route from, San Francisco to -China in 1933, was en route from San Juan, P. Mr. to Miami with 31 persons aboard ' when- the accident hap pened during a takeoff. . The plane sank and the full toll cannot be learned until salvage work, already begun, is completed. The cause of the crash is not im mediately known. 'H , - AU five members of the crew and nine passengers were saved. Thumbnail Off War! By the Associated Press : lavasiea f rant Canadians smash five miles into strong en emy positions, Yanks pound at door of Le Mans on road to Par la; Germans move reserves from h southern France. Aerial Thousand American J heavy bombers'," shatter strong- points below Caen France; oth ers make shuttle blows against f Romanian and, Polish targets, j :- Enssian G ermans launch desperate counterattacks along most of 1000-mile front but meet stone walL , " "' t P a e 1 f i e Yanks on Guam threaten to cut remaining Japs - in two; Chinese lose Hengyang ; after heroic six-weeks stand. f ? German heme front Hitler hangs eight army officers; Him mler reported assassinated. ' f TEE EOAD TO tZniXV ! f 1. Russian front: 322 miles (measured from eastern suburbs -of Warsaw). czf-.-. i: ' 2. Italian front: 603 "miles . (measured from Florence); ". i "t 3. French front: 29 miles (measured from Cintheaux).' 3mm Nazi ; IT Uutfl South of Arno J"