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There' are different opinions
about President' Roosevelt" a trip
to Hawaii and the Aleutian is
'lands. Many of the opposition re
gard it merely as a political ges
'ture, a dramatic move to 'appeal
'.for votes, quite like the "inspec
tion" trips of 1940, when the pre
sidential party breezed through
' the shipyards and factories, the
'president never alighting from his
car to "inspect anything.
In this case the president gave
' his acceptance address to the dem
ocratic' convention at 'the naval
-base at San Diego, highlighting
his role as commander-in-chief.
'He next was heard of in Pear
Harbor, days later at Adak, where
he dined at the enlisted men's
mess, eating off a metal plate; and
.the story carefully noted the fact
that negroes were included in the
.dining room. Then, the president
appeared at Puget Sound nava
base and made an address to the
'nation from the gun mount of
destroyer. All of which makes the
anti-Roosevelt people furious, and
I they accuse him of using his office
for his own political purpose.
Then there are the defenders' of
the president who assert that his
visit , is , in line of - duty, - that . he
can't suspend his - trips though he
, is running for of fice, merely to
. appease his opponents. They point
out that Prime Minister Churchill
' has' visited Normandy and last
week was in Rome, though Chur-
chill is not Candida ting this year.
The , representation ' made ; that
'through personal contact with
' ranking officers in the field
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Organization :
To Keep Peace
WASHINGTONT Aug. lHhA
Russian proposal for organizing
the post war peace in a manner
which would place control firmly
in the hands of the' great powers
capable of using force to suppress
aggression has aroused intense in
terest among officials here as be
ing probably the key to Soviet se
curity planning.
The proposal" is contained in a
lengthy analysis of failures of the
League of Nations and Suggestions
for a new- world organization"
which was recently published in a
Leningrad writers . magazine,
Zvezda.
. The article reached Washington
only a few days before an official
document outlining Russia's ideas
lor the - world security agency.
These, ideas will be presented at
the four-power meetings opening
Monday at ' Dumbarton Oaks,
Georgetown estate. j J ; "
' The analysis was signed by N.
Malinin, . otherwise unidentified.
There was speculation that the
name might be a pseudonym for a
Russian official, possibly vice com
missar of foreign affairs' Maxim
Litvinov, who was for years Rus
sia's representative to the League
of Nations. .'".
Maine's Soil
Hard to Get
HATTIESBURG, Miss., Aug. 14
(fi) Four tablespoons of soil from
the state of Maine will complete
'an all-American collection which
Mrs. J. T. Leggett said Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz has agreed to
scatter on all the Pacific islands
conquered by American forces.
.. "I've coUected soil from 47
states and a few days ago X 're
ceived a letter from Admiral Nim
itz saying he would be pleased to
plant the good old US soil on the
lands which we've conquered,'
said Mrs. Leggett, whose son is
lighting in the Pacific theater.
"But Maine's holding out," she
added, explaining that in response
to her written request, Gov. Sum
ner. Sew ell sent her a state flag
which she returned with the com
ment: "I'm not collecting souven
irs."
Reds Prop
IFest Salem Must Pull Own
Bootstraps to Join Salem
By ISABEL CH1LDS
If West Salem becomes part of
Oregon's capital city it will do so
by pulling its own bootstraps.'
Their city ; boundary - extension
committee, undecided about many1
things, has thoroughly made up
its mind otf this and one other
fact: A strip of territory around
three sides of the city should be
laid out in .one zone -and -voted
upon as an entity. Both the resi
dents of the area and those of the
city as it is now constituted must
approve the move.
' Salem would have no objections
to receiving the Polk county ad
dition, and some of its residents
declare they want to come. But
technical difficulties of the merg
er across the county line would
rot b inconsiderable. Besides,
Vest Salem with an , incorpor
ated city of its own has the ma
chinery to handle any petitions
cr dictions required and Salem
I-n't coins to interfere.
NnirrY-FOURTii tear
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Ban List;
Nelson Removes
WPB Restriction
On Production
:, WASHINGTON,- Aug. '.
Chairman Donald M. : Nelson to
night, lifted the war- production
board's ban on hundreds of civil
ian articles where local surpluses
of labor and machinery permit.
The long-awaited order, delayed
since July 1 by Uie opposition- of
the army, navy and war manpow
er commission, is effective at mid
night Nelson said - the order was
the fourth and last in his program
to" provide "a merchandism Tfor
partial conversion' of industry
from wartime to peacetime pro
duction." . "S -."V.-:
Not A Large Increase
' VFor the time being,w he warned,
"It is not anticipated that any
large increases in production of
civilian goods will be possible.
Cutting across 86, restrictive or
ders now on WPB's books, the ac
tion empowers - WPB "field offices
over the country to let individual
plants make consumer goods hith
erto prohibitde or restricted. -
Will Give Aid I
It provides priority aid, also, for
concerns willing and able to man
ufacture any of several hundred
"preferred"- items listed by WPB
as scarce and) badly needed. .
This preferred list covers such
goods as vacuum cleaners, electric
ranges, wash tubs, ,egg , beaters,
lawrf mowers, sewing machinesT
church goods, bicycles,' and , oil
burners. . -
If an eligible manufacturer can
not, make one of the preferred
items, the order provides, he may
apply to produce less essential
things, but he will not obtain a
priority rating. T
New ?A" Book
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14-UP)
Renewal of basic "A" gasoline
ration books outside the east coast
providing continuance of an al
lowance equivalent to eight gal
Ions a month, will begin late this
month, the office of price admin
istration announced today.
Each cbupon in the new "A'
book -will have a four-gallon
value instead of the present three
gallons, but there will be fewer
coupons.
OPA said that exact dates and
the manner of making renewals
will vary in different local ra
tioning board areas and an
Tn
e wui De
nouncements of t h o s
made locally.
All applications for renewal of
"A" books must be accompanied
by the back cover of the current
"A" book.
Labor Troubles in US
Simmer Down Alonday
By the Associated Press
Labor troubles which came to
a weekend boil with 81,000 work
ers idle simmered down yester
day . as the endinc of several
strikes and walkouts reduced the
total of off -the-job employes to
between 16,000 and 18,000. t
At least it isn't during the In
cumbency of the present expan
sion committee, which is headed
by James A. By ers. At Monday
night' committee session were
Arthur A. Keene, JL O. Lewis,
Leo N. Childs, Byers and City En-
gineer J. H. Davis.
Likelihood that, the proposed
expansion shown in a map pub
lished several months ago, with
a minor exception or two and one
major change (leaving out Sa
lem Gun dub and most of the
airport) will be that recommend
ed ty tne committee was fore-
seen by members last night They
wUl cover the territory involved
In a tour Priday afternoon.
Applicants in some of the In-
volved areas who have already
petitioned to be taken into the
city are anxious that their pron-
erty be included in surveys for
the new sewer lines which are
a major feature of post-war plans
, in SbaJem,
Ready
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Eear Adm. Thomas X Gatch, jndre
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at Mondays aeademic convocation In he Presbyjleriajil chorcb. . Hotdinr the hood Is Dr. Robert " I
Lants, who acted as marshal of the aleademle proeessioni ' Center is Admiral Gatch, and below Is
view of th church, Winamette's
Official 'KavT rbotos. V ' i - '
By Wendell Webb i !
Managing plltor. The Statennan
Rear -Adriyr. Thomas L. Gatch,
judge advockte general of the na
vy, was Dri Gatch, LLD of Wil
lamette university today, after an
I impressive Convocation fat which
the world :known navy man left
his forcefulI conclusion ; that we
shall never! find a panacea ; for
war.r
It ,was;asa veteran of flaming
battle for survival not as the
dark-haired boy from Salem knew
four and five decades ago that
the sturdy, igraying officer rapped
'the prattling of pacmcts? and
called for perpetual preparedness
with which;; "no gangsters could
have the fiintest hope" of competing.-
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Inductees Leave
Here This Morning
Salem will bid farewell to an
other group of inductees at a 7:45
ham; and egg breakfast this morn
ing In the USO clubhouse. ;
Circuit Judge . If. Page, will be
principal speaker I --
Mose Patmateer will be master
J of ceremonies; Oliver Huston, song
leader;' Dr& 'a- Hairls'reprei
sentative of the Ministerial asso
ciation; Jack Hayes, representa
tive of Goi, Earl Snell; Mel Ken
nedy, petty officer, US navy and
an American Legion - representa
tive will speak briefly, i
N"a Sffed 7ork
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On Sie fried Line
T
IRUN Spain, Aug. IM-The
Germans have begun . moving
thousands 1 of Frenchmen from
prisons in southern France to has-
I tily constructed labor camps in
the Siegfried line area.where they
1 are put to work strengthening fcr-
tificatioai
Scdera, Orejoa, Tuaadoy Mocslng, August 15. 1S44
sdrocate f the US pkff, is shown
or laws ht ur. h. Herbert Kmitn.
V-12 ontlnreBt la thef jtndlence, and
lgeni in tne aoa
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confines of the
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I the duiet confii
Presby-
teriah church. U
In the hushed aUdlence were
scores of friends, old and new, and
nearly .200 blue-clad jnavy men of
Willamette's V-l2 program.
On; therost!lm were Dr. G.
Herbert Smith, .Willimette presi
dent; former! governor Oswald
West, an eld friendi pr. Chester
F. Luther Willamette (dean; Dr.
Robert L. Larktz, professor and
marsixal of the academic proces
sion;! Dr. jjj C. Harrison, presi
dent! of Willamette trustees, and
Dr. enirMarcotte,' pastor of the
Presbyterian church. ;i , ,
i In j the principal address prior to
Dr. Snuth's conferring of the hon
orary degree of doctor; of laws
the 33rd fsuclt honor ' in ' Willa
mette's history Admiral Gatch
WiLAAm iters
Cullio Duty
t .ill.
i: Members
of ' the! i Women's J
Land army today jare' answer-
Ing their first call ti aetlva doty.
1 Several bmndred kkera akort,
anxious bean 'grewers! need not
only : the women Registered U
serve la the eropj i cmergeney
which Is; here bat other wemea
and childrea,' farm! placement
offiee worker declared Mon-
ajj adgbjc l ; ;:
j Bases ! leave the
meat office la the
farst plsce
391 block of
Chemeketa street from C to
thl mornlag and others from t
tot; To accommodate mothers
of families, some bases will re
turn early. ,
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Trlieatl Goal Announced
1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 14-()
Thej w air food administration
( WFA) knnounced today thit
what acreage goals! for '194S as
approximately 68,500,000 acres, or
l,9C0,COO; acres mpre than that
planted Jor. harvest Ibis year.
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(center above) beinx cancratola
nresiaent or tvuiameue mniversur.
the rostnxm, (The Statesmaa audi
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declared that, the last war ."was
not fought through because
of a pacifistically - Inspired
thought that any kind of
peace was enough.1
Pacifists, he declared, "will like
ly have caused 20,000,000 deaths
before this is all done with," and
t w m. .r w. hav
remember that these present wars
are not yet won;
He added that America would
not be safe until "the fire-eating,
sword-rattling Black Dragon ele
ments off Japan are completely;
liquidated. f Perhaps the Jap
peasants will do it; the Chinese
would probably love to do it; at
any rate.it must be done."
(Additional news of convocation f
on page 2)
Rickey Grass Fire j
Covers Four Acres;
HICKEY, f Aug. 14HV-A dia"
carded cigarette started grass
fire on the Orval W. Bullock
farm-near the Rickey school at
4 pxn. Monday. Prompt response
of the Four . Corners fire depart
ment and some 25 neighbors con
trolled' the fire which for time
threatened 1 the Harold Cherry
farm buildings. . ' , ;
s The fire spread Into the stub
ble field and Tony Koch, a neigh
bor, responding with a tractor and
plow, helped bring the blaze un
der control, plowing around It
Four acre were Jparned over.
Kiwanis Conference
Starts in Eurrene
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EUGENE, ; Ore- Aug. 14 - ()
The 27th annual Kiwanis district
conference opened today before
some 2S3 delegates from Oregon,
Washington, northern Idaho' and
western British Columbia. W. S.
Stuart, Eugene, is general chair
man. ' " .
OsOWlCC
Captured
By -Reds
Soviets in North
Sweep Half-Way
Across Estonia
- Russian shock, troops scaled the
"-iooi-nigii waiis oi me ;moatea
stronghold of Osowiec near the
Biebrza river in northern Poland
yesterday, bayonetted the German
garrison and then rushed tip pon
toon bridges for an imminent
crossing of the Biebrza, last water
barrier before German East Prus
sia, only 15 miles beyond. " '
;Reds : Sweep Ahead ; t-j , :;' s ,t '
' In the north another powerful
Red army swept' almost half-way
Across Esthonia and spilled on to
LONDON, Tvesdayr AsTg.' 15-'
WVThe German radio said te-
day .that the Russians werir
smash-ing at East Prussia from
the seatheast apparently from
fallen Osewiee. and acknowl
edged that "Soviet pressure has
Increased along the East Prus
sian frontier, especially north
west of Bialystok. 1 ; - -
the, Latvian; frontier in a swift
drive aimed at splitting in two the
200,000 trapped Nazi troops facing
a disaster almost comDarable to
that suffered at SUlingrad. With
The capture of Antsla in a 19-mile
advance, this army was only If
miles fro Calga, rail junction on'
the Tallinn-Riga line which is the
defense backbone of CoL Gen.
George .LIndemann's surrounded
maltic armies.
Move S5d Miles' ,
Premier-Marshal Joseph Stalin
in an order of the day announced
the fall of Osowiec, 17 miles from
East Prussia, to Gen. G. F. Zakh-
arov's Second White Russian army
which in seven weeks has fought
its way. 350 miles westward from
White .Russia and reached the Au
gustow canal and the : adjoining
Biebrza river on a '45-mile front.
Some of the Russian positions near
the canal, north of Osowiec, are
within 11 miles of East Prussia.
Stalin termed Osowiec ! a "pow
erful fortified district in the Ger
man defenses of the river Biebrza
covering the approaches : to the
borders of East Prussia, and or
dered a Moscow salute of 12 sal
voes. from 124 guns. -J
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Institutions
The week's escapes from state
Institutions in the environs of Sa
Iem had mounted to eight today as
state training school - were added
to the list One state penitentiary
trusty, two Fairview home patients
and two training school boys ab
sented themselves without leave
Sunday and were still at large this
morning.
State ' police, who recovered in
Klamath Falls the automobile stol
en Sunday from Charles Reese,
route; two, Silverton, believed they
were on the trail of Richard
Kauffman, 14, Eugene, and Alvin
DahL 15, St Helens, who escaped
from the training school Sunday,
running from brush to brush.
1 Erwin Speer, 15, Newberg; Bert
Davis, 17, Mill City, and Raymond
Beyer, 18, Portland, escaped from
an OSTS work gang in the neigh
borhood of . Witzel school early
Monday afternoon.: -,; .
, Robert W. McCaren' -SO,' state
prison trusty, walked away from
state buildings across the road
from the penitentiary.-i He "came
to Salem from ' Klamath county
May 5, 1937, to serve 23 years for
arson. At the institution he has
taken care of lawns and buildings.'
- Donald Lyons, 11, and Walter
Smith, 15, address unknown.
caped from the Fairview home for
the feeble-minded.
Nazis Order Evacuation
Of Port of Marseille
NEW YORK, Aug. 14-FV-The
nazi -controlled Vichy radio broad
cast today that the German army
commander at Marseille had or
dered evacuation from that French
Mediterranean seaport of all per
sons whoso presence r "ia not of
direct or indirect interest" to the
German army. - " ; ,
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Urea
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In Steel Trap .
Flower oi German Seventh
Army Fac ing Destruction ;
Pincers Close Tighter
SUPREME HE4ADQUARTERS ALLIED EX
PEDITIONARY FOilCE, Tuesday, jAug. 15-(AP)
TriumpHant allied irmies welded a trap of steel
and artillery fire al out the flower of the seventh
German army today in the greatest victory of allied
arms in lFrance,r and from 100,000 to 200,000
enemy troop's turne 1 for a battle to the death. . :
, Backing away from a hail of bombs and artil
lery .shells sealing a 12-mile gap at the eastern end
of tfieir Normandy "coffm corridor," the Ger
mans checked their rush and some forces swung
around west in an attempt to plug their, leaking
lines. f ' ' : . O- ' : ." . .' 1
: Thus they invited destruftion--
a consummation which J would
mean a gigantic victory fpr . the
allies in the battle for northwest
em'. France, open " the road to
Paris,. And clear. the way for the
final battlei for, northeastern and
- The. southern jaw of th great
Allied pincers was being closed by
the US Third army whifch the
Germans said was being led by Lt
Gen. George S. Patton, jr.---iatter-
ing up to within eight and a half
miles of Falaise. .
Near Falaise
Canadian troops ' smashed . to
within iM miles of Falaise on the
norm in t roumg onensiye mai
umped oft Monday after clouds
of Allied bombers obliterated a
German anti-tank screen : before
the city.
Between these two forces, Long
Toms from 'north and. south raked
ever road leading eastward to the
Seine and U Paris, and : waves of
bombers added to the hurricane
of fire. :V.; 4 v
Before this ap vanished,' Ger-.
mans naa been seen streaming
eastward in haywagons,' bicycles
and every cither farm vehicle they !
could commandeer toward the un-
certain sanctuary of the Seine.
Ne Explanation ";'::""'t'
There seemed to explanation for
their decision to turn and fight
other than that retreat no longer
wa spossible.. :':::. l '.-
Those who escaped the bottle
neck werefseen racing northeast
toward the 'Seine along a route
which Allied mastery of the air
has turned, into a path of death
and destruction. f
Reports from the Canadian front
indicated some , of ' the escaped
units were armored. . ' ' i-- t
But Lt Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
now disclosed to : be the overall
commander; of all US forces in
France the greatest ever massed
for battle under the American flag
declared;; he was confident the
bulk of the Seventh could not es
cape.. r,j'.;l 'yTfV i4'-''
That could be anything from
100,000 ' to 200,000 soldiers, as
many or more than the Allies have
captured since invasion day.
Roosevelt Visit Kodiak
WASHINGTON, " Aug. 14 - UP)
President : Roosevelt ' included
visit to Kodiak island, off the
southern coast of Alaska, . in 'his
15-day tour of the Pacific,- off!
cial navy 'pictures disclose., -v l "
Drive to Pass "States Rights"
BiU Shaping Up in House
WASHINGTON,. Aug. 14
A . bi-partisan drive began - shap
ing up in the house today to pass
the senate-approved states rights
bQl for handling unemployment
problems in postwar demobiliza
tion, h-. i- - if; - :
Leader of the coalition voiced
confidence they could easily . re
peat the senate's performance in
bowling over the principles" of the
Murray 4 Kilgore bill which
would have set up federal stand
ards for unemployment compensa
tion, running up to $25 Weekly.
The senate's "state bights" leg
islation, sponsored : by i Senator
George (D-Ga.), was referred by
Speaker Rayburn (D-Tei.) to the
house ways and means committee,
and , chairman Doughtonf (D-NC)
called the committee to meet to-
r--.:rrow.
No. 123
Caught
Yaiik Bombers
On Halmaliera
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GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,
SOUTHEAST PACIFIC, Tuesday,
Aug. ' 15.-KP)--Gen.-: Douglas ; Mac
Arthur's bombers have "practical
ly neutralized" the; Japanese air
dromes on H a 1 m a h eir i island,
headquarters announced today.
Halmaiiera's'; "maritime v forces
have been largely Interdicted and
its ground troops immobilized" by
"sustined air assaults" which were
continued Sunday, today's com- .'
munique' declared. . ' - , t . 1
A spokescan added that Japan's
main defense line from the Halm
ahera . group through the Philip
pines has thus been threatened.
Halmahera lies about 200 miles
west of New Guinea and 250 to
300 miles' south of Mindanao. - i
In addition to new raids upon,
Halmahera, f Liberators pounded
Manokwari , on western' D u t c hs
New Guinea vith 69 tons of
bombs. ; . I .'
Thumbnail
Of War!
By : Out AssocUttd Prm . -
Invasion Front Allies seal
12-mile Normandy . "coffin cor
ridor" . with hail of bombs andl
shells, I trapping ' an estimated
100,000-200,000 enemy troops,
and Gen. Eisenhower urges final
drive for major victory; Ameri
can 3rd army revealed as south
ern arm of pincers; Gen. Charles
De Gaulle calls for general up
rising pt French people; Berlin
radio fears new allied landings.
Kasslan j Red . shock troops
scale 30-foot walls to capture
moated stronghold g u a r d i n g
German East Prussia; other for
ces sweep almost halfway across
. Estonia in drive to split 200,000
'; trapped nazis. 'v.:
Pacific Yank fliers blast Jap
an's, ring of island defenses
along . 3500-mile sea front from
the Kuriles to southern Philip-;
pines and , Halmahera; Chinese
renew efforts to recapture Hen'g
- yang, mass for all-out attack on
Tengchung. t i
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" Rep. U Disney . (D-Okla.) and
Dewey (R-I1L) predicted speedy
approval of the George measure,
and Rayburn told newspapermen
he expected the house to com
plete action on postwar legislation
and be ready to adjourn by Sep
tember 1. " ' " : . ' : "
While the ways and means com-'
mittee considers the George bill,,
house members will begin debate
tomorrpW on a bill dealing with
the disposition of surplus proper
ty after the war.-. r , ; ,
A senate mih'tary' subcommittee
was asked by the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers to place
the disposal of from $75,000,000,
000 to $100,000,000,000 of surpluses
in the hands of a commission jot
seven industrialists.-
Neutralize Nips