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ft. S In. Partly elandy Than- .
day and Friday, with' sett- ,
iered Utnnderstonns la tha
mountains and In Cascades ,
eastward- Thursday after
neon; little change In tem ;
pentare. - ' " , C
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- lMHMiaBHHHnMI. ,.S1 ." T. B JT 1 1 1 W I I a V. B . I 1 1 -J r - I I
t ..." Skepticism is now quite gener
al over the story of Adolf Hitler's
r "miraculous escape" from a bomb
planted close to his Deraon. in his
headquarters. A. regular contribu
tor to The Nation, writing on Eu
ropean affairs under the pen-
name of "Argus", out of necessity
for concealing his identity, offers
l this comment regarding the bomb-
. ing Incident:' '
r "What happened was the throw-
; ing of a bomb a metaphorical
J bomb, since it is still uncertain
I that there was a real one. As this
written, all .signs indicate that
, there was not that the colossal
bomb whose explosion was so re-
markably ineffective was one of
Dr. Goebbels inventions.
: "Even less worthy of .belief is
the 'official representation that , a
I so-Called clique of generals and
officers had attempted to "usurp
authority in an open coup d'etat
I Every authentic detail that has
" come' to light has indicated more
clearly that the Nazis, as . is the
f way. with dictatorships, made a
preventive move against a possible
menace that had not taken def-
t inite form."
- . , This confirms the view ex
pressed in The Statesman that the
- affair was one of design, to head
off a- possible revolution or sur
render and to consolidate power
, t fuWVia in Kari hands That fit
1 least is
(Continued on Editorial page)
Siiit Filed to
KeepTownsend
Plan Off Ballot
Charging that at least six con
stitutional amendments would be
required to put the so-called lit
tle Townsend plan to work in Ore-
gon, and that the law requires that
i voters should be given an oppor
l tunity to Bpprove or- reject each
' such amendment' separately, suit!
' was filed Wednesday in Marion
county circuit court to enjoin the
secretary of state from certifying
the initiative measure, to county
clerks for a place on the Novem
ber ballot.
The complaint, made on relation
of T. lister Johnson, 'Sherman
county district attorney, Js brought
against Secretary of .State. Robert ,
S. Farrcll, jr, Nellie Mabel Grew
ell, Henry C Menascd. and Joseph
A. Williams, the latter three; aU of
Portland, initiators - of the - pro
posed amendment who will, foot
the' bill for the litigation should
the sponsors of the suit be entirely
'Victorious. v .l"- ;
Separate amendments' would be
needed, the compalint alleges, to
put into effect sections of the bill
which would: (1) Forbid levying
a sales tax; (2) provide that in
event of the death of the annuitant
the regular, monthly annuity would
continue for. another two months;
.(3) limit methods of application
, o f penalties; (4) provide that em
ployers may be required, to deduct
tax from employes: pay, and t5)
. permit the tax commission to sus
pend the tax or restore it accord
ing to action of the federal gov
ernment in thesame field; all in
addition to (6) the plan proper. -W.
S. ITRen, Portland, is attor
ney for the sponsors of the suit.
Americans Kill
1072 More
Nips at Aitape
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, Thursday, Aug.
- lO-Cay-An additional 1072 Japan
ese have been killed in the Aitape
sector of British New Guinea,
headquarters announced today.
This is one of the heaviest battle
. tolls yet taken in that area.
Americans have encircled Jap
anese front lines on the Driniumor
river.
i Remnants of the Japanese 18th
army trapped in the Wewak area
who had attempted to break west
ward through American lines now
are on the -defensive some 20 miles
east of Aitape.' ,..
Headquarters - also announced
that an Allied Liberator bombed a
2000-ton Japanese freighter off
" Davao, Mindanao, in the southern
Philippines Monday night; : v
' .. . Other Allied bombers raided
llalmahera -island ' between New
; Guinea 'and . Mmdanaob, Yap' la
-.land in the western Carolines, and
Sorony and Manokwari, weakened
Japanese bases in Dutch New Gui
- nea west and east of the American
beachhead at Sanaa por. '
Fcther of 43 Children
ffotv Has Quadruplets .
BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 9-WP)
The 75-year-old father of 43 chil
t!ren today became the lather, of
csuadruDlets.' the newspaper' El
Epectador reported.
He is Abjon Jaramillo, Amalfi
artisan," who had SO children, by
his first wife and 13 besides the
riew arrivals, by his second, the
rewfcper savi, adding that de-
ccr.ccm:2 tha LirUi cf toe
r -. . Jrurlets wers lachinj. -
NINETY-FOUBTH YEAR
Soviets
Grind t)uit
, Nazis Slow But ; r
Don't Stop Red;
Summer Offense
LONDON, Thursday, - Aug. 10-(-Slowed
but not stopped b-
desperate German counteratU"
all along the eastern front,
ful ; Russian armies . f
ground but nine to 12 v
the battle of Latvia rQ s. a the
offensive northea' & orsa,
and climbed highex the Car'-,
pathians toward Czechoslovakia.
In telling of the day's furiqus
fighting and hardrwon advances,
the Soviet midnight communique
and an early-morning supplement
over and over again used the
phrases "stubborn resistance" and
"repeated counterattacks,", . but
said that in no case had these Nazi
efforts succeeded. ' '
Draft Everyone
Thoroughly alarmed, the Ger
mans drafted every able-bodied
man and woman from 15 to 65 to
dig trenches against the imminent
entry of the Red army onto the
".holy" soil of East Prussia.
It was there, too, that they put
in the most " frequent counterat
tacks,' east of the border town of
Schirwindt and northwest of Mar
iampole and on the flank of the
widening Latvian corridor that is
threatening Memelland.
But the Moscow radio, in a spe
cial air forces broadcast today,
said all the digging would do the
Germans little good, for Soviet
planes, with a sixfold superiority
in numbers, were attacking the
Nazi defenses at will.
Predict Advance
It confidently concluded:
"Soviet troops will advance far
ther and farther to the west until
they, link up with our Allies." .
, Vp and down the 1000-mile front
the counterattacking Germans lost
more than 3800 killed ' yesterday.
said the Soviet -war bulletin, while
another. 120 enemy tanks were de
stroyed or knocked out It was
the ninth consecutive day that the
Russians . had recorded loss of
more than 100 tanks by the Nazis.'
Chinese May
i-
Be Fighting ;
IiiHenffvaiiff
CHUNGKING, Aug. 9 -(Diehard
Chinese forces apparently
were making good today their vow
to fight to the death in battered
Hehgyang, opposing a Japanese
assault to the last "'
The Chinese high command said
broken . radio contact made the
situation obscure inside the city,
where street fighting last was re
ported. Tuesday night five gener
als headed by. Hsien-Chueh,-39-year-old
commander of the tenth
Chinese army, sent' a farewell
message to Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek declaring they would
stick with their troops and die
fighting. " ;:", '
Japanese troops broke into the
suburbs of Yiyang, 60 miles north
west of Changsha, the Chinese
high command said. The enemy
was trying to take this town to
guard his communications " and
ward off flank attacks. -' -
Clare Booth Luce
Wins Renomination :
, GREENWICH, Conn., Aug. 9(JP)
US Representative Clare B. Luce
was renominated by acclamation
for a second term tonight by the
fourth district republican con
gressional convention and she im
mediately hit out at, the admin is
tration in a speech which brisUed
with criticism of its policies and
a condemnation' of communism
Vnenivideni
Spokesmen for and against uni-
form ' federal standards for post-,
war unemploymnet pay flatly -re-"
jected all talk of a compromise today-as
the senate engaged In in
creasingly bitter debate on the
problem Of reconverting the Amer
ican economy , to a : peace-time
basis. . .
Senator Revercomb (RWVa)
said that back of the Murray-Kil-gore
mobilization and adjustment
bill calling for uniform standards
of pay up to $35 a week, was "a
philosophy of government entirely
foreign to America."
"We should be thinking of re
storing individual freedoms to the
people, rather than of setting up a
Advances
WASHINGTON, Aug. S-tT)-1 ctv-xor over. ri.-nfainiscorji
12 PAGES
Good W6rlu ColoneP
iit
i
Mai. Gen. i Lewis B. Hershey (right), j national director of selective
service, congratulates CoL Elmer V.jWooton.! Oreron selective ser
vice chieftain,! an Oreron's "forward looklos" j orraniaaUon. The
i picture was taken In the press room at t&e state cafitot (The
1 Statesman photo) . v . ' ( ' I . 1 . 1 I .
Politics IVIight
, PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9 -UP)
Federal Judge George A. Welsh
charged a special grand jury of 11
men and 9 "Women today- to seach
out any political: motive that may
have been involved in the calling
of Philadelphia's wildcat transit
strike, declaring ;he could not be
lieve " that the : strikers were ac
tuated solely "by the thought that
eight negroes were gbing to be up
graded." :'i . I
iA "I hope it (racial prejudice) was
not the real reason," he said.-
: "You have got" to he cognizant
of the fact that a national election
is ; impending. God forbid that I
should bring politics into" this In
vestigation but we want you to
find out what certain men did and
why they did it. -We have to know
what was', in .their hearts and
minds that made them spring in
to action.' Something that happens
in Philadelphia today some
thing wherein the truth did mot
prevail I could have its reper
cussions in; the length and breadth
of the land and have its effect on
the national election." : ,f- :"
. "You are; to determine the iden
tity of the men. who : engineered
Such a strike," he said, "They . . .
should have made a declaration of
any grievance." f
50Q German
U-Bdats Sunk
l WASHINGTON, . Aug
More than! 500 German submar
ines have heens sunk by the allies
since the start of the war, it was
reported tonight in a Joint Anglo
American statement ' -:
Issued under authority of Pres
ident Roosevelt and Prime Minis
ter Churchill, the statement add
ed that nazi U-boats were "inef
fective during July, a month
which has : been so important . for
the success of continental operations.".-
; " . V - I
The report said that the num
ber . of German ; submarines de
stroyed In July was "substantially
greater than the number of mer-
chant (hips sunk."
Pl Partisans
of 'Our -population,'
' Retotrting, Senator- Murray, (D-
Monl) called a rivaL republican
supported "states' rights' proposal
offered by Senator George (D
Ga), the product of a "reactionary
philosophy.'' ' :
: Murray declared the policy of
the George bill, which would leave
control of unemployment, compen
sation to the states, is similar to
the policy of "those who led this
country into the; great depression
of 1929.M j , .
.1 call upon all true democrats,
he said, "upon'aU members of the
senate who refuse to allow the cre
ation of iew 'Iloovervilles' and
Deweyvilleji' to "vole S-'nst the
pending Lzcr.Z.z.tni." ' -
Have
Caused
Transit Strike
Scdem, OrHycm ThxffsdaY
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Stalin Seeks
Vatican Aid
Over Poland
i j F i -1 - '
! LONDON Aug. 9.-P)-The new
Chronicle sid today, that Marsh
al Stalin had submitted to the Vat
ican "a document which amounts
to ! nothing j less than a proposal
fq coordinated action- bet
Moscow anji the Vatican for .the
post-war . solution; of moral and
social, problems' which are likely
to have immediate effects in lib
era;ted Poland.; X :j ;
i The article said that Stalin
through hi . ambassador to Rome
suggested . to the j pope I an ex
change of views to facilitate jmy
action at the peace conference.
1 .!Stalin assures Ithe pope." the
article said "ThatjRussia not only
does not seek anywhere to change
the existing social order ! by force
but would even oppose- it It is
the soviet aim to reach its goal by
progressive! development only, ac
cording to ! democratic and legal
principles," f referrlhg,' ta Stalin's
adherence In Teheran to the war
aims of the western 1 democra
cies." - ! !-'.-! ' -
Deaf ScHool
Employes Will
Get PaylRaise1
. Salary increases ranging from $5
to $20 a month for employes at the
state school; for' the deaf, aggregat
ing $400 a jmontEuwere approved
by .the state board bf control Wed
nesday. ! J -4 j
; At the same 4 time Warden
George Alexander's request "for
approval pt a program under
which guards j living outside the
state penitentiary -would be v al
lowed maintenance pay at the
maximum fate lot $25 a month was
heard andi taken i under advise
ment" - ' ' l
i Salaries of guards start at $100
a month and are increased $10 an
nually to a' maximum. .Those liv
ing1 at the Institution get the same
pay as .those keeping up homes.
Alexander estimates that the total
additional butlay would not ex
ceed $1000 a 'Tiionthl 1 He said
Wednesday; he had a surplus of
$14,000, largely saved from ' the
salaries appropriation, "h.--
Also; .tainen under advisement
AlVmAZodtli
DiesiriAction
i LEBANON i-Alvin WodUi, 22,
on of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wodtli
of the Foster ! neighborhood, was
killed in action in France accord
ing to a rri?snge from the war de
partment ; He had been overseas
only three r months. ' He had lived
his entire life in this vicinity. Sur
vivors are; the widow, EJna; his
Parents: one sister. Grace: two
brothers, Edward and Louis.
The announcement tf his death
Came to his wife Just a week after
her. father It B. Jones, was killed
In a lcr2-?2 accident tear cere.
I m rs' '"v-f it
was the request for authority to
Momincj. Aucjuat 10, 1344
Military;
Demands
Mot
Over
Hersliey Thinkis
y Draft Will Stay
For Some Time .
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
national director of selective ser
vice, sees little chance of an im
mediate material decrease in the
manpower demands of the mili
tary even when the war in Eu
rope is over.
"We have the problem of re
placementyou jean keep men on
battlefronts only so" long . until
their, fitness for such work de
creases," he. told Interviewers at
the capitol Wednesday:
The sandy-haired, energetic of
ficer, to whom fell the burden of
mobilizing .. America for war . in
the days of semi-peace many dark
months ago, is on a routine in
spection trip of northwest states.'
Navy Still Needs Men
"There is no reason to suppose
the navy will lower, its demand
for 390,000 more men by next
July," he said in an indirect com
ment on the Pacific war in rela
tion to future draft i quotas.
The general brought with him
the thanks and congratulations of
himself and his national organiza
tion or the work of the Oregon
selective service and its compon
ent boards. 1 ,
" He said this state's organization
"rated with the top" that it was
"forward-looking," and - that Jn
the preparations ,. for returning
service, men Oregon, was , "six
months ahead." - ;
CoL Wooton Praised'
. At a press conference,", .Gen.
Hershey had high praise for CoL
Elmer V. Wooton," Oregon selec
tive, L service director, and said
"the colonel has a reputation na
tionally, and hot . built solely on
his -work in Oregon, 'either; there
ther-rmpoant Jobswould
bev asked to ful if he wasn't so
essential here. i
"The general said selective serv
ice, faced a hard problem in the
demobilization; readjustment and
care of service men. He hazarded
no guess as to how fast ultimate
demobilization would be -effected.
. Gen. . Hershey visited Goy. Earl
Snell and other station officials,
as weU as' selective service, board
members,' while 'here. He and
Mrs. ' Hershey ' planned to leave
for California points: tonight
(Another story on General. Herr
shey is on page 5) "
Pole Premier
Happy After
Stalin Meet
MOSCOW, Thursday, Aug. 10.-yP)-S
h o r 1 1 y after his ' second
meeting . with Premier Stalin,
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, , premier
of the Polish govemment-in-ex-ile,
radiating optimism, announ
ced ' today he would return - to
London with proposals concern
ing the rival Polish regimes on
which "no definite agreement'
was reached here, i
"Premier Stalin has assured us
of his desire for a strong, Inde
pendent democratic i Poland," he
told a press conference, adding he
had a deep conviction that a dur
able; close and friendly coopera
tion ; between Poland and soviet
Russia, must exist now and in
peacetime.' - -
As negotiations between the ri
val regimes, the government-in-exile
and the soviet-sponsored na
1 1 o n a 1 committee of liberation,
broke up, Mikolajczyk said, "We
have agreed not to make stated
ments and counter - statements,1
and declined to make any predic
tion about his own prospects. "
DoreeyyHall
Face Trouble
-jr.'
LOS ANGELES, Aug.; M
Dist Atty. Fred N. . Howser an
nounced today thai his office
would . investigate . a . pre-dawn
fight last Saturday on the balcony
of Band Leader Tommy Dorsey's
Hollywood apartment in which
Actor Jon Hall and two others
have declared they were injured.
"In view of the fact that Jon
Hall has publicly Indicated that he
thinks he has been the victim of a
criminal assault I feel it my duty
to make a thorough investigation
in the public interest," ' Howser
said in a statement '
He said participants in the al
tercation will be asked to attend
conferences in his office and that
if they fail to respond, they will be
cnlled before the county grand
jury. - - - - -
Yanks Stmemnis
' 'ft
in Ei
IkkySetsJJp
Headquarters
In
GEN. EISENHOWER'S AD
VANCE COMMAND - POST IN
NORMANDY, ; Aug; 9PKen.
D wight D. Eisenhower, - supreme
commander of allied forces, . has
established his headquarters on
the continent in order to maintain
the closest possible contact with
the : allies fast rolling offensive
against the German army.; . .
The', supreme : command head
quarter! - unit it . was announced
tonight was moved toNonnandy
by air during the past few days.
Officers and enlisted personnel
including WACS are living in
tents in a camouflaged' area under
constant patrol by heavily armed
military police.. .,.
The general is situated near an
airfield from which he makes
speedy strips daily, for personal
conferences with Gen. Sir Ber
nard Li Montgomery and Lt Geh.
Omar N. Bradley.
Florence Beset
By
Civil Strife,
Food Shortage
ROME," Aug. 9-(JF)- The city
of Florence, tightly locked in a
deadly vise formed by the British
and German armies, was reported
facing food . and water shortages
and beset by looting and outbursts
of civil strife today. f .'
' While military operations In and
around Florence werer limited, to
patrol forays, machine 'gun posi
tions lined both banks of the Arno
river-along Its course through the
city." " . ,i 4
" The battle lines had cut the city
off from food supply from the sur
rounding countryside, one of It
aly's richest agricultural 'regions,
and no food had been distributed
on the German . side of ' the - city
since last Friday. A . .A . - i
German desbmction of the pow
er plant had deprived the -city of
light and caused an alarming wa
ter supply situation, with black
marketeers demanding 20 lire (20
cents) for a bottle of water. '
: The Tuscan ; capital has a long
history of civil strife and is a hot
bed of both fascist and "anti-fascist
extremists. Fighting between
these elements was known to have
broken but in at least one neigh
borhood. ' """ ! '
Alliecl Burma ; ' :
Drive Gaining
SOIJTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Cey
lon, Aug. 9-(F,)The allied drive
to push the last Japanese invad
ers out of northeast India pene
trated today' to a point 54 miles
south of Imphalin where Japanese
rear guards were encountered.
It appeared likely that the last
of. the .beaten 33rd Japanese di
vision would be chased over the
Burma - frontier toward Tiddim
within ' another - week. These re
treating elements of .the enemy
still must pass allied ., "shadow"
troops - lodged in their rear and
harassing Tiddim road traffic. '
In the Mogaung valley campaign
in northern Burma allied troops
striking down upon the Mogaung
Mandalay railway in. the Taung
ni area encountered heavy" oppo
sition ' at . Tigyaingzu7 five.miles
northeast of Gaungni - and about
10 ' miles southwest ' of Mogaung,
air -line. -' K ' " "Jrr'--'
GOP GmsmSh'
SeribusfAfl air
2 No pep rally but a serious meet
ing given over to consideration of
sound government, the recent con
ference of 28. republican t govern
nors, called by Governor-Presidential
Candidate Thomas E. Dew
ey of New York, was held' in. pri
vate and no speeches were made.
This was the report brought home
Wednesday by Gov. Earl Snell,
who attended the St Louis gath
ering; v ; -'.-
- Discussions of reconversion and
postwar jobs, agriculture, public
lands, water resources, labor and
taxes .were of particular concern
to Oregon,; Snell d. "
The governors were unanimous
In their belief that agriculture
must be free cf unreliable con
trols and restrictions and the irn-
Normandy
-. .- "",
. ' i - JUL - .
s Bradley's Men Get te Mans,
: Force St. Malos Surrender:'
- Canadians Continue Drive
SUPREME j HEADQUARTERS " ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Aug. fM-Ltj. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's whirlwind wedg
es rushed, without check on the last 100 miles toward Paris ten
night after sweeping through Le Mans and forcing the die-hard
defenders' of Brittany's sea fortress of St Malo to knuckle under
iii surrender. , . :
: The capture of St. Malo, whose defenders had been ordered
to fight to the last man, was re -
ported in field dispatches. Never
before had it been taken,' though
it was the scene of many sieges
in the middle ages. The historic
fishing' village and resort on the
north coast was perched on an is
land connected with the mainland
by a defended causeway.
Tanks In Nantes
. Unconfirmed reports said Amer
ican troops had pushed into Nantes
on the Ioire and into Angers, just
north of the Loire and 50 miles up
stream from Nantes, indicating the
Americans; were still ' sweeping
forward without any stiffening
Nazi resistance that would presage
a real fight for southern France.
On the northern end of the far
flung Allied battleline British and
Canadian forces continued to ad
vance. - .
; The Canadians broadened their
wedge into the German lines to six
miles at the base and pushed a
three-mile-wide spear to " within
about five miles of Falaise. j v ;
Nazis Counterattack
. The Germans launched a coun
terattack at Canadian positions
north of Falaise tonight but the
attack had been anticipated
tna ranftniana htam ear ai 1 Mn e sct
Maw wvicsusn.o nra'c nut uuq'iu VU'
bill positions. Canadian -artillery
and mortar fire replied furiously
to the German attack. "
T'EriUsh- troops defending thelr
bridgehead across the prne river
beat "off German' counterattacks
and advanced' amid indications the
Germans were getting ready, "to
wtihdraw from their positions be
tween' the British ' and Canadian
forces. '. -':
.The official announcement of
the complete occupation of Le
Mans automobile manufacturing
city 85 miles east of Rennes made
it clear that American tanks were
well beyond the city and the Ger
man ' news: agencies reported the
fast spearheads' were only 87 miles
from Paris. . '
Bulgaria May
Want to Quit
. ANKARA, Aug. 9 rW)- Uncon
firmed reports circulated here to
day that Bulgaria, has asked the
allies for peace terms through the
medium of the Turkish govern
ment 1 w ' ,
The reports were given some
color when Dr. .' Floyd Henson
Black,' fori 18 years president of
the American college in Bulgaria
and now president, of the. Ameri
can college in Istanbul, left Istan
bul hurriedly for Ankara.'
It was believed he had been
called into consultation by the US
embassy because of his Intimate
knowledge of . Bulgaria, his per
sonal friendship with the Bulgar
ian minister : to Turkey,' Nikola
Balabangv,' and the wide respect
he commands in Bulgaria.
Population Growin
, PORTLAND, Aug. Ore
gon's population - is on the. up
swing, with twice as many births
as deaths for the first six months
of the year,", .the state board of
health said today. There were 12,
393 births iana 6933' deaths.
- Megffi - aWas
Reports Snell
practical and whimsical restraints
that now, hamper production and
create' confusion, the Oregon gov
ernor reported. v
"From:, the political viewpoint I
was much impressed with the uni
form .' enthusiasm ,; and . optimism
expressed . by - the , governor in
personal conversation," Snell said.
"There seems to be a widespread
approval of the Dewey-Bricker
republican ticket, he added. ' . t
The campaign of the republican
nominees will not be built around
a series of negative 'conclusions,
Enell declared. "On the contrary,'
he said, "it will be an' affirmative,
assressive," positive campaign that
will inspire and reflect confidence
and enthusiasm. ...--.' .
Ho. 122
V -
US Completes
Guam Conquest
Nimitz Reveals
US t PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug.
Vtffjr5- American forces complet- -ed
their conquest of Guam today
except for. a small, inland area
near Pati point where surviving
Japanese were surrounded, Adm.
Chester. W. Nimitz announced to
day, j.j'-
Pati point is at the northeast
corner of ; Guam, the first Ameri
can insular possession seized by
Japan.:
- The . campaign to retake Guam
began with the invasion of the
island on July 20 .by -tht Third
and Fourth marine divisions and
the 77th infantry division. ' -The
assault troops landed at
turn rkftintar . 4 Vim utAftarM -
Prlca 5c
J - 'j -1' ; -
aod-i..je: i AWi J.- : I
. w
the island and pushed north - to
virtually ' complete , recon quest "of
the Island on thv20th May 'ot the
campaign;-; v ',":;. , V,;,.v. ' .
; The remaining pocket' of enemy
resistance was expected to be
blotted 'out shortly as the Ameri
can forces were exerting " heavy
pressure on the remnants of the
Japanese, garrison, which had no
hope of escape.
: Any attempt by .the " surviving
Nipponese to flee by water was
blocked by . American warships
that kept up a constant patrol of
the Island's, coast line. ' ;
Stores. Might
Close V -Day
- - Salem .stores will close- when
hostilities! between the Germans
and the United Nations cease If
they follow the recommendations
of the Salem Retail Trade bureau.
. The closure' will be for two rea
sons, bureau members said Wed
nesday. Merchants 'and their em
ployes may Join in the celebration,
and locking up of all retail estab
lishments possible should prevent
destruction of ; considerable prop- :
erty. I 1 - ' ;
Ban Sale of Alcohol - '
" NEW YORK, Aug9rW-Iok-
ing ahead, the Hotel Association
of New York City, Inc., has ask
ed its! members to declare ' a 24
hour ban on the sale of alcoholic
beverages ; immediately upon re
ceipt of word 'that fighting has
ceased in Europe. . ir
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- Invaalen Frent AH jed forces
' continued their whirlwind rush
toward Paris after capturing the
Brittany sea fortress of St Malo. :
? , The Pacific.--Americans com- ;
. pkted their conquest of Guam;
'except for a small inland area
' near Pati Point where surviving
Japanese were 1 surrounded; ah
'additional 1072 Japanese ' have .
; been 'killed uv the Aitape sector
of British New. Guinea.' ;l . :
i . '.The Aerial Front Successive .
. waves of Allied aircraft slashed -in
a, day-long assault: south of
- Caen at a great concentration of '
vGermin.K tanks! ' Ilalifaxes 'flew
. 200 miles . beyond . Caen to ,the
Foret. de. Mormal, to bomb fuel
depots. : - , . V" !
. Poland Soviet troops ground
forward-In the battle of Latvia,
and climbed higher into the Cai
pathians toward Czechoslovakia;
Russians claimed counterattack-
ing Germans lost .3800 killed
while 120 more Nazi tanks were
.destroyed. ''.' " -
- ItaJy-7-The dty - of, Florence,
. ringed by. British and .German
armies, was reported facing food
tr.d water shortages and beset by
looting and outbursts cf civil war.
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