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Th OREGON STATECMAIfc, Eataa, Orwyon, Friday l-Xornlag, August 1L 1S11 I 1 ilNew Pounding Bv Mosaui itOS . J v i . r. A ! 1 LONDON, Friday.: A. li lt W) - KAF MtHiit battered Berlin last night wltk 4001 ? pound bombs while Laneasters If and Hallfazea plastered oil tor- are depots at Bordeaux and La Panios and a rawar Junction at Dijon, the British announced to day. LONDON, Aug. lM)-AinerU if can and British heavy bombers at- tacked Germany's vital oU resour ffcea todar and'' Allied tactical sir ' I units with a few heavies assisting $ slashed at enemy supply routes in the side area around Paris to ward 1 which Geal Eisenhower's -i ground armies were steadily ad- jj vancing. -Vf v T ; 7 Both fuel dumps and bridges in i the vicinity of Paris were hit from i Britain by a force of 'some 250 I Liberators with a Mustang escort, i and at the same time an Italy- t based fleet of 500 Liberators and ' Flying Fortresses bombed military installations in the Ploesti area of . Romania, a leading Nazi oil field. In one of their increasingly-fre-j quent daylight raids, , big four it motored British Lancaster! Joined in the campaign tojwipe "out the : fuel supply of . the German war : machine, attacking an oil storage depot at Dugny, adjoining the Le ; Bourget airfield near Paris this af- ternoon. All of the bombers re- turned. T - ' r Fighters escorting the bombers shot down- eight Nazi planes in aerial combat and destroyed 28 t more on the ground. 1 ' Although the targets ; abound Ploesti itself Were described; only as military objectives, it wa dis ' closed that a J second Liberator - force bombed oil installations 19 V miles to the northwest. The raid ' on the Ploesti area, the Americans' ,J3th of the area and the second In 24 hours, left fires burning. T WMC Tightens Its Program On Manpower j. WASHINGTON, Aug. Id The war manpower commission ' tightened its program today in or der to squeeze more men into the ; relatively few factories that can ; make the particular weapons, for " which generals on the battle fronts are calling. ' To put into effect an August 4 directive , of. . War Mobilization t Chief James F. Byrnes, the com mission" instructed its field of - f ices, "to the extent necessary, . to send workers only to plants ; engaged in urgent production. Si- multaneously a group of manpow . er officials from Washington scat , tered throughout the country to . impress on local WMC personnel the extreme urgency of the task. ' Manpower Chairman Paul V. McNutt said thatXt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, head of the army ., service forces, has presented s to the WMC concrete evidence of battlefield shortages in he form m of telegrams from field command- ers.. . ,' ' ' '. . , Somervell said that "on the whole" the army is -in fine shape with respect to supplies but those ithat are short are critical and i are affecting the fighting. . - iLewis Climbs InWindow , . BOISE, Aug. 10-P)- John Lewis climbed through., Dr. C. L. . Charrier's bedroom window. but V he had nothing to say m anything. The president of the United ; Mine Workers told reporters when t they called that, he was happy to . meet them, but that he had no j thing to say on anything. He was here, he said, to visit . his wife's sister and her husband, j, Dr. and Mrs. Charrier. , "You might tell them how you - climbed through our bedroom win dow,! Mrs. Charrier. suggested ' helpfully. .' ..v . She explained that "We knew he was coming to visit us, bu didn't know just when. It - quite a surprise. . we was Shipyard Workers Give : $800 to Child Hospital; ' PORTLAND, Aug. llHpy-Tel-. low-shipyard workers heard Mr. and Mrs. Jim Butler say that con- tributions to a children's hospital !- would be preferable to flowers for 1 the. funeral of ; their 11 -year-old daughter. ' : -- ' '' ; " ; , They began passing the tut hat K By'.' today four' days after , the death of the young infantile pa- raljsis victim the hat held $200. Starts1 Tonight maicooicsoN! MATT WtlS sunoirs rISMKTAN ALSO . ' Tex - Eltter - Fasxy Ksdgbt "OIwLAIIOJlA RAIDERS caktoonTkis ' 1 ONtkHOMEFRONT : It OABELCHHD3 - The "story of a Salem girl- who went to religious services in an edifice strange to her is told by one of our assistant sports editors. A youthful, leader of the faith walked up to her and in kindly firn manner,, told her she would :have to wear a hat ir;$he wanted to remain and worship. .When she explained thatshe was wearing a hat, he looked Jit her dazedly and said, "Oh, is that what it is?" , Young Chris Kowitz, who tells, this with a chuckle as he looks at the combination of horsehair braid, scrap felt and cotton veil ing with which any one of us women may have bedecked her head, is the same youth who on the hottest day of the year walked nonchalantly into the newsroom in a jacket of brown flannel with shepherd plaid sleeves reaching to the wrist The ads had said "all wool" and surprise I must have shown on someone's face for Chris explained, "I know it looks warm, but it's really cool very cool! ; V . Insulation, t reckon. . i HopMarietiiig Program Not Discontinued While there will be no actual control of distribution of Oregon's 1944 hop crop, the government marketing agreement program has not been discontinued, E. L." Mar kelL San Francisco, secretary- manager of the United States Hop Growers" association, declared here Thursday. There is no need for control of distribution, since this year's de mand exceeds the supply, despite the fact that the coming crop promises to be largest in the past three years. - Prewar, the United States ship ped in 50,000 bales of hops from Czechoslovakia and other central European countries. Today it is called upon to fill an enlarged de mand, caused by increased pur chasing power and' shortage of hard .liquors, without those Im ported hops. In addition it pro vides hops for a South American market formerly .served by Eu rope. Among , the questions to be dis cussed at this noon's meeting of hop growers of Oregon at the Marion hotel will be those of price and grade, MarkeU, recently re turned from Washington, DC, in dicated. Individual growers have previously graded but it seems altogether probable that OPA price ceilings will be based on a compulsory coast wide set " of grades, he said. Tokyo Being Torn Down as Air Raid Aid , NEW YORK, Aug. lO-PFThe Tokyo radio in a broadcast to Ger many recorded by US government monitors, said today Japanese school ibildbenV had torn . down "tens, of thousands of houses, eh tire street .sections and residential blocks" in, the capital' -as an air raid protection measure, bringing about "one of the great levellings since the earthquake of 1923." Russia Grants Amnesty To All Polish Gtizens LONDON, Aug." 10 The Russians have granted amnesty to all Polish citizens sentenced for crimes committed with the Soviet, the Moscow radio announced to night ' : -. - Exceptions, said 1 the broadcast which was recorded by the Soviet monitor, are murder, espionage and banditry. MacArthur Speechless GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Friday, Aug, 11 -)-Gen Douglas MacArthur to day declined to comment on his conference with President Roose velt at Honolulu, taking the atti tude that all such must come from the White House. " :. IIUV FLAYII4G! V.-.. ft'- i- n H.Jiui lariha Elayo EE A SilEOB" 1 AHiesRevcal Airborne Force Size SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 10 The! allies tonight uncovered a "secret wea pon" which may ; strike some of the most . decisive blows of, the war against . Germany ; a revo lutionary f new American-British airborne force with the size! and power of un army, created under the command of Lt Gen.- Lewis HvBrereton. ! The new unit,k welding -both British and American. ; airborne forces with ground combat per SQxmel, was -officially ; announced as "approximately: an army In size and Importance.' An; army may have from six to nine 'divisions with, upwards of 10,000 men In each. ; .1 . ' .1 W' Creation of thefnevfiirmy,; em bodying an unprecedented combi nation of 'striking power and mo bflity, conjures tq a picture jof '-u great sky . force plummeting down deep .. behind ,'the German " lines, possibly within Germany itself, to land decisive blows. ' -"t The'' 'components of the army are . the same ones which, as re spective parts of .jihei ground" and air forces, contributeci so greatly to the success ,o( . the : invasion.' Their integration tmder one com mand promises increased effec tiveness. T - . i v;:-Ar"! s! " Gen.' Grereton's deputy 'com manner' Is a -Briton,' Lt -:Gen. Frederick: A. (Boy) Browning, husband of the novelist, . Daphne Du Maurier, ' and an : alumnus of the Grenadier guards, an infantry outfit. He Is the former command er of the British (airborne- troops. Rehabilitation Budget Gets Board's OK A budget calling foe $210,037 for the physical . rehabilitation pro gram in Oregon was approved by the state board of education at its meeting here Thursday. The state will provide 140,000 of this, an increase of $22,000 over its share of : the current biennium's budget, while Oregon will receive $170,03? of federal funds. The increase wis necessary be cause of the expansion of the re habilitation program to meet needs of disabled soldiers. The state yo cational education division directs the program. J . '4 - ! ' - A biliito go before the next leg islature permitting the Portland school district to iuse. certain war production funds of the vocational education division so it may be relieved of paying interest to the federal government was authoriz ed by the board. Cutback Won't Affect Goast j i .-:: -I y- ' j LOS ANGELES, .Aug. 10.-JP)-Manpower requirements . of the, w e s t coast's gigantic warplane plants will not be altered by the production cutback iordered by the war department ) today, the aircraft war production council declared.f i '': "All- west coast aircraft manu facturers have been!; informed by the army; that personnel require ments remain unchanged," said the council, official voice of the eight major western!: plants. The only model change contemplated on the Pacific coast; is to reduce Liberator production in order to permit more rapid manufacture 6( the- heavier, longer-range -B-32 bomber at the Consolidated ' Vttl- F tee In Sari Diego. f ; . Adm. Turnerl M pvea Ifis Headquartersjo Saipait ABOARD ADMIRAL TURN-: ER'S FLAGSHIP IN THE MAR IANAS, Aug. 1 -((via- navy radio) -Vive Adm. Richmond Kel ly Turner announced today he has established headquarters for his amphibious Pacific'fleet at Saipan Island an advance of moro than 3000 miles, from Pearl Harbor and said it wfll b4 : maintained there until "1 can move further forward.-' : jj j -I . ;; :., f Hj, rLVi H . Opens 6:45 T. M. - Doily Grabb Dob Ilopa ! i-i"- '. . Si :s ,"0ivT2 J. ' Sons Studded ' Co-Hitlhii: Bii:5. encsOT : V AKIMTAlircbiT; 1 ; FItANCISCA GAAL 'Paris IZczoyzzccn' Huge Cutbdclz In Aircraft IsOrdered WASHINGTON, Aug. HH?rVA sweeping aircraft cutback affect ing Liberator bombers, commando transports and (Thunderbolt fight ers, wasj ordered by . the War de partment tonight to clear jtht way for the huge new B-29 and B-32 superbombers aid to release work ers for more critical jobs. j ;t Tweht; thoUjsaadj workers will be affected imniediately an4 an es timated; 100,00(j more will be laid off br the end: of this year! said the aimouncement reJeased'bjrthe office of jwar informational f j The Htggini industriefjof ' New Orleans, whlch lost, their Liberty strip contract In 1942 before a ship was built, was cut entirely i from production of the Cf48 commando transport before a plane was: com pleted. Higgins subcontractwork on planes will Continue, and about halfthi J.30LO workers may be re tained, i :s - s ! Inability of the Luftwaffe to In flict as; heavy jlosses as had: been expected account for the ! cut : in transport: planes, officials aid and the crowing emnhasis on the Pa cific war has been behind the shift from Liberators to the B-29 super fortresses, and its ! big running mate, the: B-32, by Consolidated. Liberator production : by North American of Dallas, Texasj; will be eliminated gradually. er Be In mien Suit Attorney General George Neu- ner! indicated Thursday that fil ing a demurrer would be bis first step-in: the defense! of th secre tary of itate In the suit! for an InJuncUon to keep that ! official from certifyins; the so-called little Townsend amendment fori place pn the November ballot ji 1 The butt filed by W, Sj UTten, attorney lor the sponsors.Lon re lation i of T. Lestern ' Johnson, Sherman county district attorney, maintains; that the; bill does hot meet constitutional requirements for ballot consideration. Completed ' i petitions fo the amendment contained approxi mately ; 26,000 signatures of quali fied voters. I. Cliinese Fight ; For Hfengyang CHUNGKING, Aug. 104(3") Chinese sforces sharply attacked Japanese battle lines around Hengyang today In an apparent attempt to re-take the city before the enemy has a chance to dig in and clinch his i hold on thef newly captured fprizei . 1 I I In the Western .Yunnan province campaign to clear the Burma road. American antiaircraft guns,: man ned by the first American: ground forces to; fight In China and de pressed for use as field artillery, blasted away at the last Japanese positions 1 on, Sungshan mountain. Capture of the-Sungshan moun- tain stronghld'Would knock: all the JaDanese from the Burma road Ur6mrthe Saivfeen river td tung- Iing, 2& rnflesl southwest Factory Strike Ends i ;Xtesson1 n, ji Aug.!i(Mffy- Thfi f our jay strike of employes of f our plants of the Wright . Aero nautical corporation ended tonight when the; employes ballotted to re turn .to , pelr !obs tomorrow and entrust to their leaders the task of arbitrating: their grievances with company! officials, Sri 4- "THC wrxic Twr wrH tiT M1H Izh rV. ,-;45:ppens 6:45 r. K.'1 r now SsnouniG! Gary, . mm -Franchot Ton i Lives j ii a K Bengal Lancer' nil. CO-FEATUREl U c - ! i Chapter 13 i1 - "tld czi r:r Demurr Step ttiJ. iff 1 a i M '. .rM : ( L Truck Strike Extends Into New Territory By the Associated Press -The truckers strike in the mid- continent extended into new terri tory yesterday .while the host of idle In labor troubles expanded.: . Estimates of the number of men and women away from their jobs ranged from 59,000 to 79,000. Motor vehicle shipments t Tul- W, vJkMi uuuc lis m iiouustuf nucu hundreds of drivers walked! out In sympathy with the strike of ap proximately 23,000 " drivers and handlers in eight midwesteni states. A spokesman for the op erators figured 3000 had joined the work holiday in Oklahoma, but AFL teamster union officials reckoned only 300 to 400 ceased their chores, - --h; 5::-l " M. M. Krupinsky, chairman bf the Nebraska operators" associa tion, said some delay had-been en countered in perfecting plans for government seizure 'of the strike crippled truck lines in the other central states, but he predicted the office of Defense Transportation would assume control of them by Sunday. -v.:, v:wri,:.- w- The War Labor Board has or dered wage increase of seven cents an hour for the workers, but the owners contend they cannot pay the higher rate.' The contro versy has affected over-the-road transportation in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Kansas and part of Wisconsin. In an unrelated dispute, a strike of 774 truck line employes in the Harrisburg-Lancaster-York j sector of Pennsylvania was referred - to the War department by Capt Jo seph Singleton of the army's third transportation corps. Earlier, mil iary authorities informed the strikers the army would take over the task If war materials were not moved. The WLB informed the strikers their wage case would not be arbitrated unless they returned to work. .. Depot Heads Subpoenaed! PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10-UPV- Twelve depot superintendents of the - Philadelphia Transportation company were subpoenaed today by the grand jury seeking the un derlying causes of Philadelphia's six-day transit tieup. They were the first witnesses to be sub- Doenaed. I . aty and federal officials testi- j a.- a a. ai m a.i session, Henry , A. Schwelnhaut, special assistant attorney general,, commented, "we are beginning to' see. some iigntr y The jury of nine women, and 11' men. had been told by iMstrict Judge George . A. Welsh that he did not believe racial intolerance was. the real motive behind the strike. . He urged the Jurors to look for any political design to affect the presidential election, and to investigate carefully the structure of the PTC and its relations with four labor groups. r. Oregon-City Banker Collapses in Field I OREGpN CITY, Augv 10-f)-Mort Latourette, 63-year-old local banker, was hospitalized today after collapsing in a field of his nearby farm yesterday. said he was suffering from a para lytic stroke. CONT. SHOWS FROM p.' am.' IIOU PLAYHIG! - ' - - - - . F r -maliflneiiliplrilef 9HpfWs 6jPiC "THE RaylMLAIID Ruth HUSSEY Donald CH1SP Ccrn:!! Clis Ski:.::r wiiiiiM'i.imtM' 1 a mm mm TUtmt O GAY CO-FEATURE o : I Late News riashes Choice Grades 4. ----,.--- ri - " - .... Of BeeiyLamb Still Rationed: WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -( The three top grades of popular lamb cuts and beefsteaks and roasts choice, good antl com mercial continue under ration' ing. the OPA announced today. Present -heavy movemont to market ? of utility. grade cattle tha VHminatlon of 5 noint values on steaks and roasts from those animals In returning the more . popular poxkaits to the ratlon.lists Je- cause or a seasonal aecrease in hot: markeunjt.. andl heay con turner ; demand,. OPA . assigned a value of 4 points a pound for end loin cuts and 8 points for center cuts. For whole loins and smoked as : well as fresh hams the value Is 5 points. v . Ends of ham will cost 2 'points a pound jand slices 9 points, while the value for ready-to-eat hams is 2 points higher than on un cooked, varieties: Canned fish, ration free since early in May, sets point value again because of a national scar: city. Tuna,: salmon, "shrimp and other highly , popular varieties . are given a value of 8 points a pound, while sardines and mackerel will require 4 points and canned oys ters and miscellaneous fish pro ducts 2 points a pound ' Cheese point values, - revised because sales were ' out of line with allocations, Jumped to 1 12 points a pound for cheddar and Colby cheese, to 6 points from for such varieties as cream and Neuf chatel, and to 8 points from 4 for Swiss, Italian, limburger and Munstar. Farm butter gets a new value of 12 points a pound, up from I points. Processed butter goes fromi 1 4 to 8 points. OPA also announced that an extra red stamp D-3 in ration j book four will be validated Sunday and be good Indefinitely The additional coupon Is intended to compensate for higher- point values and also marks a change in policy' in the issuance of , red stamps. '. '' Hereafter, OPA said, new series of red stamps will be validated at the beginning of each monthly ra tioning period, instead of every fourth Sunday. Thus; the next series will become good Septem ber 3 rather than on August 27. Robbe Take S6000 I - . - ? ? BaeS Umpany r BAKER, Aug. 10 -() -Some $6000 in cash and war bonds ship ped in to cash payroll checks was robbed from the Bates Mercantile company by safe-crackers 'during the night-' ;::.;v-:-K r. The company is located at Bates, a lumber town ' about 60 miles south of here. Doctors s A II I V xl l I I T 1 i II SV -AJW C 1 r 0' w . 1 i ... 1 1 i v j USE IT V. , AS YOU pi WOULD ft- r top'or v COFFEE jCREAU M hu homogenised. Viae for infant fdin". Zasier to digest ... quicker to prepare. Of Ar MAYFLOVCt Products ovc.'.'cM tor yof -V PASTIUIZID CnAE2'Ai.lK AK3 CnSAf.l cuTTacuTnr."u:-conAc cisnrs 910 C Ccnrmcrcicl CI. JuryTZorks ..V. On Japanese Treason Case - DENVER, Aug. 10-fV A US district court jury late today was deliberating ha fate of three Cali fornia-born Japanese sisters whom the governmnet charges with hav ing committed treason by helping to free two German prisoners of war. " ! - Judge J. Foster Symes handed the case to the all-male jury at 2:15 pan. (MWT) with the stern admonition that "this is a most important 'case;'! "vyfo Shortly after 8 pjn, the jury re turned lor -additional Instructions. Symes complied; and then directed that if the jurors reached f verdict during the night, it was to rbe sealed and read In court at 8:30 jn. tomorrow. ' t -T:. . . The women i ' Mrs. Tsuruka Toots' Wallace, S5? Mrs,. Florence "Flo Shivze Otani, 33, and Mrs.' Bfllie Shitara Tanigoshi, 32 re mained as calm! at the' trial's end as they had throughout the three and a half days of testimony and argument, climaxed by a prose cutor's thundered denunciation of them as "Benedict Arnolds in sklrt: k--j -M'- The jury was asked to decide whether the government had prov ed either or both its charges- treason and conspiracy to commit treason. The maximum penalty under conviction of treason is death, while punishment of two years Imprisonment and $10,000 fine is allowable on. conviction .of conspiracy. " ; j - - Iivesay Will Be Loaned to OPA PORTLAND, ' Aug. 10iff)-The Farrn Security Administration (FSA) announced today that its Oregon directorj Verne L. Iivesay, will be loaned to the OPA to be come agricultural advisor to the regional director. Livesay, now in Washington, DC, is expected to take over bis new post Monday, probably with headquarters here. NOW SHOWING -v BOIER pm BER6M1I c 0 m 1 I I i HOMOGENIZED GRADE'A'IO MILK 1 Cremtan famoiu MAYFLOWER Produtt as the name implies is a rich Grade "A" Pasteurized milk with 10 butterfat. j ' ; Crtmtasl is HOMOGENIZED, breaking up the butterfat content into such fine particles that the but terfat remains in the milk and does riot separate giving you a rich creamy milk that serves the same purpose as "top or coffee cream. Use CreattB in jour! coffee... try it on your cereal or fruit for break : ; fast. It's fine too for custards, t. gravies, etc' - Amottfr famoes MAYFLOWER Product out regular Grade "A"' casttnristd milk that has CALITA Fhcna "Death Before; Dishonor9 h 1 Marine's Motto WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -Jf) "Death before dishonor." - That motto was' borne In tat tooed' lettering on the arm of Ma rine Pvt. Richard B. Anderson, who gave! his life in a shellhole on Roi to save the lives of three companians. : r The navy related this today In announcing award of the Con- gressif nal Medal of Honor to the mai aTI 1 in 111 mi anV f urtww Xyvw Angeles and Tacoma, Wash. . Anderson, the navy said, chose ' the shellhole as a vantage point from which to attack Japanese snipers on Roi in Kwajalein atoll of the mid-Pacific Marshall is- lands. . - i f 1 He pulled the pin on a grenade in preparation . for hurling It against an enemy ' position. It slipped from his. hand and rolled down to the bottom of the shell-hole.'-' ' ! '? 7.- - - "OH, my God," he cried. , Then he hurled himself on the grenade before It exploded. J His body took the full force of the explosion. His three compan ions lived. Anderson Is the son of Oscar A. Anderson, 8323 North Ruby street, Tacoma, Wash., and lived in Port Angeles at the time of his enlistment.' "War Mother" Sends : Last Son Into Navy w 1 PORTLAND, Aug. J0-(ff)-The Oregon Qty woman . , chosen by Governor Snell as the state's top- ranking "war mother" saw the last of her sons off to war today. Seventeen-year-old Elmer, ninth and youngest son of Mrs. Ella Gar ner, enlisted in the navy here. Six older brothers are already in the navy; two Others in the army. ..' ENDS TONIGHT "WOMAN OF i THE TOWN" Claire Trevor L PLUS Charles Starrett i 1 ta "COWBOY-IN l THE CLOUDS" STARTS SAT. D 1V mil) jimm mm msmm CO-FEATURE lOIItt IINCMUY flllX SIMSAIT JOMM MOtlAK . JACaVUIMIWWTS . MM IJiimi !