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-t Ma n "n l ' "' d on UU LiULiCi7 uc (See . Story ; in Col. 2) WeaUier ; ' If a x 1 m as temperature . Thorsday f 1- degrees; mlnl ' mum 54; . m , precipitation; river- ft t m. Clear Friday and Saturday. feat Ufh tom 1st BMrnlag west of Cascades; IltUe Chang ta tesBperatsrc, :-"f s, . ry tD EDOCB i !! rv 1 1 JWCJUU l-"" " - '- . , ' I - I J , II - - : Kmm m . . - ' ' w ii a x l iai i lit. i i i - i t i , r : if 'J1, ' The July number of the maga zine Asia publishes an address of Dr. Sun Fo, who is president of 'China's legislative Yuan, and a . ton of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Chinese republic. The address was delivered in Chungking last April, and is a remarkable state- merit respecting China's political problems whose solution is need ed if it la to realize the dream of Sun Yat-sen. Just how much Dr. Sun Fo re- fleets the attitude of his uncle .and aunt, Generalissimo and Ma dame Chiang r Kai-shek is not known. There is considerable lack - of harmony, in the Soong family. Dr. Sun Fo's mother, widow of Sun Yat-sen, has t not been very well pleased with the failure of her husband's. principles to come to fruition; and T. V. Soong, bro- ther of ' Madame Chiang, was dropped a few-months ago as fi nance minister, being succeeded . by brother-in-law Dr. H. H. Kung, ..But the fact that Dr. Sun Fo ' was permitted, to give his address ' in Chungking shows a measure of liberty there. t ' 'Frankly Dr. Sun Fo admits that China is not a democracy, a fact which the generalissimo had ad mitted In announcing his inten tion to proceed toward democra- t tic government when war condi , tions permit Dr. Sun.Fo says f that China has not "strictly ob served" the principle of democra cy "for various reasons." Instead the Koumintang, the dominating - political party,' "has become a " governmental or even bureaucra- tic organization contrary to the spirit of democracy.. So he calls . for a return to the principles and . methods laid down by his father in 1923. Three things are listed by Dr. Eun To as necessary if the gov . emment in China is to be demo cratized. First, ' 'we must reori entate our t- (Continued on Editorial Page) Dies in Action PVT. HAROLD ROBBINS i Harold Robbiris Killed in Italy t . TURNER - Pvt Harold Rob- bins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Bobbins of Turner, was killed;4n action July 17 while serving with the army medical corps 'in Italy, telegram from the war depart , ment informed his parents Thurs day. He had not previously been reported missing. . . Pvt. Robbins was born in Tur ner Jan. 12, 1920, and had lived with his i family, and grandfather, Wig Robbins, until entering the army in March, 1944. He attended Marion grade school and Aums- ville high school. Before going overseas,' he was stationed i at Camp Adair. i Id addition to his parents and grandfather, Pvt Robbins is sur vived by one sister, Lucille, and several relatives now living in Ealem, including a grandmother, . Mrs.Effie JBarber of 749 South Liberty street ;an aunt, Mrs. G. E. Boyce of 1870 Market street; two great aunts, Mrs. Ada Doe of Su verton road and. Mrs. E. A. Rho ten of 1325 South High street, and three cousins, Bernlce, Vivian and " Janet Boyee. v.- To Go Co-ed riuem YMCA's dormitory will f3 iemininne in November, when 7iHamette university co-eds will neve into the quarters now oc cvried by; navy V-12 men, ' Approval of the plan to substi tjts university women students f;r te sailors was voted at Thurs c'.-y's meeting of "Y" directors. ; Tresident G. Herbert Smith of l.'illcctte explained that the r.avy student quota would be cut frcm 2:3 to 200 November 1, tne ed number to be housed in -r.r.3 tall.. The university to enroll . additional young -a students if dormitory fa c?n be cbtained. It Will , . Bt the MY Dormitory inumr-rouBTU yeab: ap Plan To Smash Japanese . 1 j. ,. , Adm. Nimitz Also Takes Part in 3 : Day Conference HONOLULU, July 29-(De-layed)-(P)-Pres I d e n t Roosevelt and: top flight commanders in the Pacific including Gen. Douglas MacArthur mapped plans for smashing the Japanese into un conditional surrender at an his toric three-day i strategy confer ence here under : the gently wav ing palms' of Waikiki beach It was the president's first war time conference with the South west Pacific commander, whom he greeted with a cordial "It's good to see you, Doug," and to gether they went over' every phase of the far-flung offensive in .the west ' Nlmits Takes Part - Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific fleet commander, and ' other top ranking officers took part in the discussions, which ended today. The president arrived three days ago, on July 26, aboard a new super cruiser. He left the marine base at San Diego Calif, amid the utmost , secrecy, shortly after .his radio speech, of July , 20 accepting a fourth term ' nomina- ion. : ; .- - , ".- '; . - . At a news conference here to day Mr. Roosevelt said he had re ceived a nice telegram from his vice presidential running mate, Sen. Harry; F. Truman of Mis souri, but declared he was too far away from politics to discuss the campaign.;. r Plans Report " He said he will .report to the nation at some future date on his trip to the Pacific, which brought him into Pearl Harbor 10 years to the day from the time of his last visit Obviously moved by the tre mendous amount of defense work' that has been done since the Japanese blasted Pearl Harbor into flaming wreckage two and a half years ago, Mr. Roosevelt said it 1 was the "most .amazing change" he ever had seen. Restates War Aims After talking wit h Adm. Ni mitz and Gen.. MacArthur, who wore a leather field Jacket when he went aboard the president's ship to greet him, Mr. Roosevelt restated America's war aims: to liberate the Philippines and to force Japan into an unconditional surrender. We are going back to the Phil ippines, Mr. Roosevelt said, and MacArthur is going to be a part of the operation. You can't say. he added with a smile, whether the general is going back directly or by way of North Africa but he is going back and we are gor ing to give the islands their free dom. Robots Strike Again LONDON, Aug. 10-(P)-Day. light alerts today broke the brief lull London enjoyed from the Ger mans' flying bombs as the Nazis fired robot salvoes from across the channel and provoked strong de fensive fire. M Portland .Navy Radioman Dodaes Japanese Conquerors of Giiam Jcle for 3TMontlts US PACIFIC- FLEET HEAD-. QUARTERS, , Pearl Harbor, July 15 '-(Delayed)-- An American navy man who dodged the Japa nese conquerors of Guam for 31 months and lived on the island all that time like a hunted animal was rescued by a US warship July 10, ten days "before the landings which restored that possession to America. , He is George Ray Tweed, 42, a radioman from Portland, Ore., who fled Agana town In an auto-; mobile with a buddy after the Japanese came ashore December 10, 1941. On Way to US After the rescue he was moved to Eaipaa and from there ty place i rs w PAG23 President President Roosevelt (center) has raclfle commander, aboard a Chester W. Nlmits, Pacific fleet Liberators Hit Nip Airdromes ines GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Friday, Aug. 11 -(-American Liberator bombers,- raiding the Philippines for the first time in 27 months, smashed Japanese airdromes at Davao with three successive 1 night attacks, headquarters' announced today. The last Of the three assaults was during Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Results were not announced. -1 T 4 Davao, .'principal city of Minda nao, J main southern island in the archipelago, I was occupied by the Japanese in late December, 1941. The last American raid on the Philippines was an attack on Clark field, some 70 miles northward of Manila, April, 1942. : The forma tion," from Australia, was led by Brig. Gen. Ralptv Royce from Aus tralia. 11 : Bataan had capitulated six days earlier, but Corregidor was still holding outj . ; - ; Mindanao is 'Within bombing range of newly-acquired American airfields in the Schouten islands, off Dutch New Guinea, approxi mately 900 miles southwest The newest American beachhead at Sansapor, at the top of New Gui nea,' is slightly over 600 miles southeast of Mindanao. ' ' Marion Gets Share di Tax . Marion county's , share : in the latest appropriation from 'amuse ment device tax-monies is $268.81, while Polk county receives $83.26; Linn, $95.55; Yamhill, $73.12 and Lane, $150.57. The apportionment of the $8, 153.01 balance in the account was based upon the amounts expended by counties for old age assistance during the year which' ended June 30,. 1943, Secretary of State Robert S. FarrelL Jr., said. to Pearl Harbor, where he was interviewed while , awaiting . air transportation to California, ; The Japanese detailed a 50-man party' to search for him. After two years they officially listed him as dead, apparently to .save face. - - Tweed related the Japanese de-1 creed that all Americans who sur rendered within 30 days' after their occupation1 of the island be taken, to Japan and that holdouts thereafter would be killed. A lot of Americsns gave up, he said. Left en IIIi Own . But Tweed etid his buddy sped to a remote part of the island. His companion was killed and Tweed was left on his cr.vn. He holed up In a cave cn tie fact tt a 'V . " -" !i, 'r v 4 1 V"Ji " 1 ' f '- - ' ' - t J ' ' ' w t - ' - ' "? " T - i s l. .-,.!. - A 'xf 4 ; - f - v if 4 " ft I ' - 4 ;-.- v v .. ., ;, . In r IiiliDD ' - I 1 i SctUau Oitgonu Friday - Aboard Cruiser anc informal chat wiih Gen. Douglas MaeAathnr (left),! Southwest cruiser at Pearl Harbor,! dartnff his commander. (AP Wirephoto from Utility Beef :, to Go - t - -4 "li" . . v- . Off Point List ' WASHtNGTON, j Aujf. lO.P)- Ration stamps Wilt hot be heeded beginning Sunday in Ipurchasing utility grades of lamb,' beefsteaks and roasts, but housewives will have to surrender points again for pork loinK hams ahd canned fish. The changes for the period frpm Sunday, through 1 September 2, were announced! by the office of price administration today in belatedly; distributed ) August point charts. which" also, list in creases in the ration values on all kinds of icheese- and oh farm' and processed butter. Creamery but ter, representing the ; bulk of the supply, continues jat 1 16 points a pound. ' , ' j" 1 1 . . .- 'i' Utility I g r a d e beefsteaks and roasts are being taken off the ra tion lists land pork loins and hams restored to the lists In line with previously announced j plans of OPA and the war food adminis tration. 'Utility grade popular cuts of lamb are being, made point free, OPA explained, j b e c a u s e with the same grade of beef avail able without points nt was jud ged that utility . lamb; might not move under point : value. . Utility! beef! accounts for about 3a per-cent of present beer sup plies. OPA said. While lamb in that classification amounts to about 10: per cent! of the amount available to civilians, (Further detaOs oh page 2): l - j J j j : Oregon Gets 50! Percent increase in i tuck x urn il J I I H . - - PORTLAND, Aug.jlO-yP-Ore-gon will have a 50 per cent in crease in heavy truck tires this month, the district"; office of price administration (OPA) '. said today. 4 An additional nation-wide allot ment made possible ; an increase from 1318 to f 1974 tires for this district, the OPA saidJ The totat howeverj is still only half of the average recent monthly allotment r-. -f steep cliff,-caught; rain water for drinking: and ' washing and made night forays for food, : . He lost 20 pounds while fugl tive but! gained back; ten In the first - five days after i his , rescue and looked to be in surprisingly good physical: condition. St Months Pay Coining . ! Tweed hadn't eiven a thought as to what to do with 31, months of; accumulated pay.? ; : "That's too big to figure out1 he said. "All I know is it's a big amount? J Tweed said he prayed with in creasing frequency on Guam tut "ffav im hone after the first year." He felt that sooner or later be would te caught. IlcMmincj, August 11, 1344 u y n in Hawaii visit to HswslL At right is Adm. .US navy) Guam Conquest Cost America : 7247 Casualties US . PACIFIC. ' FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 18-(P)-The reconquest of Guam cost 7247 American casualties, of whom 1214 were killed in action. Adm. . Chester W: Nimitz . an nounced in a communique today. Nimitz ; said 10,971 Japanese dead have been counted on Guam, This - brings - to 37,55 1 the., total Nipponese killed in ground fight ing during the Marianas campaign. Earlier,' Nimitz announced that the last organized resistance i on Guam was wiped out yesterday, The finale came after a 20-day battle, and the Nipponese.' were overcome without being able to try a final suicidal counterattack which has marked such battles as Saipan. The Pacific commander report ed that 5704. Americans were wounded and 329 missing during the campaign on Guam. Less than half the losses on Saipan, although the newly - conquered area is three tiroes as large as the first captured Marianas island " On Saipan, the American cas ualties were 3049 killed, 13,049 wounded and 365 missing. - Bringing up to date: the Ameri can casualties during: capture of Tinian . island, the communique reported an additional 190 killed, 1515 Wounded and 24 missing. The totals to date: 498 -' dead. 2636 wounded,' 56 missing. ! . Shooting Breaks Out In Prussian Regions LONDON, Friday, Aug. ll-(tfV Shooting broke out yesterday in East Prussia, West Prussia and the Danzig area when Nazi SS elite guardsmen attempted to arrest German' army officers, the Moscow radio said early today: "Many SS men were killed, the Moscow account recorded here by Reuters, said. - j JKHled: Toward. Big Forts Slug Jap Home Isle Nagasaki Port, Sumatra Center ' Get Pounding . . WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 T (ff) - The superfortresses of America's 20th bomber command, lashing at the vitals of Japan's war machine, struck ' simultaneously today at targets 3500 miles apart the en emy homeland port and industrial center of Nagasaki and the great oil refining area of Palembang on the island of Sumatra. . The targets of this strategic mis sion of .huge scope are among the most important in enemy terri tory. 'The Pladjoe oil refinery' at Palembang is the largest in the orient and is believed to have been operating at or near its pre war capacity of 18,000,000 barrels of crude a year." If is an important source of aviation' 'gasoline. Nagasaki Important " - Nagasaki, bombed in the third superfortress - mission against " the Japanese mainland, is a military port and shipbuilding center of key value to the enemy military machine; and a center of engine; steel, ordnance, magneto, gener ator an daircraft production, chief ly by plants of the extensive Mit subishi interests.' ' t r It is located on the west side Of Kyushu Island in the heavily in dustrialized area where the super fortresses previously had hit. the steel center of Yawata and the na val base a&Sasebo. In other mis siona against enemy territory, the superfortresses have attacked tar gets at Bangkok, Thailand, and at Anshan, in the Mukden area ' of Manchuria, .where they hit coke ovens - and other factories in a blow against Japan's steel indstry. Medium Sized Forces - , The forces which carried .out to day's attack against Nagasaki from bases in China and against Palem bang from fields in southeast Asia, were described by , 20th air force headquarters as "medium sized" Pending 'evaluation, of operations reports no : detailed information about the attacks was available Roger Kellogg Dies in Air Over Europe Official notice of the death of Lt Roger W. Kellogg, army, air corps, was received Thursday-by his widow, . the . former - Peggy Thompson, who resides at 444 North Winter street His parents are Mrs. Allis H. . Kellogg and Frank R. Kellogg, both of Salem. . ' Lt. Kellogg trained at eight ma jor fields before going to Eng land in ApriL He was killed, ac cording to the notice, on July 29. He was a member of the crew of the 5000th bomber to come from the Seattle Boeing plant The plane, on which were in scribed the names of workers at the plant was given a' good deal of publicity upon being made rea dy for flight duty. It was one of the heavily - armored B-17 bomb ers and was flight leader. . . The crew, of which Kellogg was navigator, had. been awarded a presidential citation, and the lieu tenant ..was the holder of the Air Medal and an Oak Leaf duster. One other member: of "the- crew was an Oregon boy," from Cottage Grove. TB ,Vl . j ; - .' ' A brother, George H.-KeUo private ' first class - in the arnay4 medical corps in Pasadena; sisters, Mrs. Howard Pugh'and Ruth Kel logg, survive. v . - :" . Lt Kellogg flew . a bomber across the Atlantic to England in April and made his 'first combat tliht June 4, . Before entering the army he was employed for eight years in the First National bank in Salem. He was- graduated from Salem h!h. school la i:34 All Liberators Return NEW YOIUC Aug. 10 -(1-A DEC broadcast toni-ht said that all the American Liberator bersb ers participating in" the J-iindanao raids the past three nights return ed safely s'.thouLh they flew to the :r.:i wilicut fhUr escort Flic New Move May .Flank CarataL .From ouith Germans S Paris Battle Is Underway; SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITION ARY FORCE, Friday, Aug. ll--Lt Gen. Omar N. Bradley, whose ar mored columns were striking to ward Chartres and the last 50-mile defense zone west of Paris, sud denly sent one force, veering of f in the direction of Orleans early to day, threatening to ' flank the French capital from the south. . ,The battle for Paris has be gun," German broadcasts declared as the swift-moving Allied forces rolled ' toward the historic .city's outer defense lines. '' Drive Goes Well " NBC Reported David Ander son, broadcasting from a -rolling Allied transmitter In France, said the drive already had : reached within . 30 miles of Orleans with the "Americans at this moment attacking Chateaudun, ' 70 -miles from Paris.) ' - Yet a third American column was believed rolling ,south toward Tours,' 43 miles- southeast of Le Mans on; the" Loire river, possibly in support of other forces which have stabbed through mine-fields and thin resistance to Nantes and Angers, farther downstream on the Loire; ' : - - - - Deep In Last . Zone ' The columns pressing due east toward- Paris 1 were deep into the Chartres 2 defense . zone, ' which guards the last 50 miles to the capital. i: . " - v (The Brazzaville rid i o,' in a broadcast .recorded, by CBS,, said that according to some reports "Chartres is in allied hands" but added the reports were not con firmed - at . supreme allied ' head quarters.) . . There still was no evidence that Lt" Gen: Bradley's forces had met resistance, or that the Germans were intending to put up any sort of a stand ion the north bank of the Loire, It barring the way to southern France. Head For Gap ; : V "' T - ' In the drive on Orleans; the Americans were heading for the gap between the Seine and Loire rivers, south of the capital, : pos sibly in an attempt to head .off ten German divisions reported fleeing northward from south west France. ., - Far behind these' operations, the Americans cut loose a new cen tral front ' attack on their left flank, presumably between Mor tain and Vire, and rolled up gains of a mile to a mile and a half, First army i headquarters said. The push seemed aimed at iron' ing out' the German positions above Mortal n, which the enemy still holds, land strengthening the Avranches corridor. Polish, Italian Trbpps ttack Near Adriatic v" ROME, Aug.: lO-Polish and Italian troops . attacked the . Ger mans in the Adriatic sector of the Italian front today." quickly ' cap- tared Frr..cavilla and tonight were Bearing ti. Cesano river, 49 miles - (The German radio , heard by Reuters 'in. London 'said tonight TBritifih troops today V reopened their great offensive in Italy after regrouping their forces.) , In the Allied-held" southern sec tion of Florence, Canadian troops, helped by 250 Italian patriots, cleaned up hostile Fascist pockets and lashed out at snipers. The Vatican made arrangements to send food and water to the pop ulation of; Florence, caught be tween the i Allied and German armies. The Polish-Italian drive In the cast was h?aded toward the line of the Misa river and toward Rim ini, Adriatic city of about 20,000, U miles southeast cf Cclcna. 5c No. 123 JL Soviet Troops In Lithuania LONDON, Friday, Aug. 11 -P) ' Russian troops, attacking a bitter ly resisting enemy near the Nie men river in Lithuania,' yesterday drove another spearhead to with in 11 miles of the German. East Prussian border,' while other red army units far to the south crossed the historic Narew river in a gi gantic pincers' move on that im- -perilled nazi province. '. Berlin said a battle' of "very great proportions" was raging, on ' the East Prussian front, and again declared that the reinforced Ger man armies were "greatly out numbered" by the Russian legions.": Of equal gravity to the Germans was the Soviet extension of a huge red army bridgehead across the Vistula, river . south of Warsaw. Moscow's ccmuniqurTiMounced-. the cutting of th ; Saridomierz Kielce highway -wiOi the capture of Laeow,50 miles east of Kieke, and 30 miles beyond the Vistula last axis water 1 barrier before Germany itself. . With the seizure of 60 more lo calities in this key area' the Rus sians now occupy nearly 1500 ; square miles "of territory beyond .the Vistula and are within 75 miles of y German Silesia.,, They , are threatening to collapse the enemy communications network between besieged Warsaw and Krakow.' German - held bastion in south ern Poland, while other red ar mies clean out a big area north east of Warsaw, between the Pol-' Ish capital and the southern side of the East Prussian border, . t es uue In Warnings . . Changes in the civilian air raid system to make possible the pro vision of warnings of enemy action other than strictly air raid warn-, ings were outlined by civilian de fense coordinators and command ers from 15 Oregon counties who' gathered here Thursday. - - The meeting was called by Jack Hayes, acting state civilian defense director.' The approaching War Chest drive, future war loans and pre-induction problems were also discussed. Action taken, by the group was not divulged. Thumbnail Off War! : By the Associated Press 4 Enemy LJiang Pacific Allied aircraft bombed Japanese "airdromes , at Davao, on Mindanao island of the . Philippines, "as - superfort- resses of the new 20th bomb- : . ' er command lashed at Japan's n - war industry at Nagasaki and ' ; the oil refinery center of Palem bang on the island of Sumatra. ' Invasion Front Three allied ' columns thrust through France i toward. Paris, a flanking mov J toward' Orleans al a third, to- waxd'Tour's. - '; '"jj ..'laiiSe. Gemasiy -7 -Shooting -broke out in East Prussia, West Prissu and-the-Danzig area, when, toazi ' SS 'elite guardsmen attempted to arrest German ai . my officers, according to' Rus sian radio reports.- -' . Lithuania Front Soviet for ces drove another-spearhead to within 11 miles of the German . East Prussian border, while oth er red army units, RAF to the south, crossed . the Narew river in a gigantic pincers movement - Italy Polish and Italian troops attacked the Germans' in jthe Adriatic sector of the Italian- i front, quickly . capturing . Francavilla, and were advancing . toward the Cesano river, 40 miles below nixicJ, ' 1 ' . .. , . :;: . .