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T S ": rrn r.: H3 f-c . n-' ' n 1 l" 1' ' fTS n , n n . : ' n i in ' n n'nnnn " ee Story in : Col. 2) Weather Max I at ant temperatare Wednesday 14 degrees; mla Immm S2; so ram; river -4 ft. , ' V j ' ' : Partly cloudy Berth per Ueaf clear soath portlea Thursday and Friday with -few shewers aerth coast late Tbanday; eoeier Tbandar ' eveaJna; - betweea - CaacadesT , , . f , i , i , ; ; L.i3 Next Sunday afternoon 25 young women from Salem and vicinity who have been recruited by the Salem naval recruiting office will ' leave to enter duty as WAVE. Others will Join themin Portland - to make up a full platoon of 32 who will go on to New York for " training at Hunter college. This Is the first time that a full platoon z has been dispatched at once, and . is testimony to the diligence of the . local recruiting office and the re j sponse of Oregon young .women. However, those in charge of the recruiting station here say that 1 they ' are -running - head-on Into . public complacency traceable to the feeling that the war is about ; over. Some girls have come in and - inquired if they could get through ' their training course of four or - eight weeks "before the war Is v over!" The progress of military " action in Europe is causing a pre mature letdown at home. General Eisenhower said Tuesday that our .armies are still a long way from the Rhine, which a glance at the map will, show; and Germany's ' defense of its homeland will be fierce. So the war even in Europe . isn't over, and no one can set a date for its termination other than " by guesswork. . As far as the navy is concerned, 'its need for WAVE is increasing rather than lessening. A new ship for. the. navy is launched every two hours on the average. To man these ships men are required, and ' the navy is draining its shore sta ' - tions of all eligible men for sea duty. This means that women . ' must be obtained to handle the duties formerly taken care of by men. Right now there is' a marked . expansion in . navy hospitals to take care of (Continued on Editorial page) Forces Linldng Allied Drives. SUPRKU1T .HEADQUARTERS ""Allied expeditionary for ces, Aug. lMV-The Uvin Allied drives Into France from the north, and south were disclosed today as already linked from the channel I to the Mediterranean and from the ' Atlantic to the Alps by powerful ; operations of the French forces of the interior, who now are fighting with armor. - An announcement of an official roil of achievements ! during , the last few weeks included: 1. Capture by storm of ;. four Brittany towns. . .f ; 2. Entry in& six other towns In collaboration with the American clean-up of the peninsula. : 3. Trapping of 1500 Germans around Paimpol, Brittany. 4. Annihilation of Nazi garrisons at Mou tiers, near - Rennes, and Bourg SU Maruice, in Savoy mountains. V 5. 1 Hammering of Tarantaise - garrison in Savoy into surrender against the "anvil" of vollaborat- : Ing Italian Maquis. t. Destruction of 400,000 gal lons of precious German gasoline in northern France. . : , In a tribute to the French parti sans supreme headquarters report- ed they had entered the towns of Sixun, Brasparts, Pley ben. Cha teau Neuf, Coray and Milizag and had taken by storm Quimperle, Bannalec, Chateaulin and Dour nenez. . . Bombers Raid Mako's Base CHUNGKING, Aug. IS -WV . Liberator bombers of MaJ. Gen. Claire L. Chennault's 14th air force ..last ' night raided the . Jap anese naval base of Mako in the tiny but strategically j important Pescadores islands, it was" an nounced today. No details were given on the bombing, the first allied blow against the islands, which lie be tween Formosa and China. Mako is approximately 1700 miles south wast of Tokyo and 400 miles north of the Philippine. The Pescadores, under a deci sion of the Cairo conference, will be returned to China, after the defeat of Japan. : : . liberators also made a night at tack on Takao harbor in south western Formosa. - : Burma Ycnii Thihh Of Christmas Earlys: ; LINCOLN, Aug. 18 "Send my Christmas package immediately so I will get it in time for Christmas.' i This is the message received this week by Mr. and Mrs. L. L Mickey from their son, Pfc. James W, 2 Ikkey stationed with the 14th 'enfty tir force in the China-Burma cc-ctor. .. ; NIKETT-FOUBTII YEAH Gain Firm Foothold On Coast Gen. Patcli Leads Newest Assault ! Of Seventh Arm ROME, Augl 16-(P)-French and American invasion troops, , now identified :. as the Seventh army, under the veteran US MaJ. Gen.' Alexander M. Patch, were fighting as much as eight miles into south ern France tonight after smashing German coastal defenses and es tablishing themselves firmly on a 70-mile stretch of the Mediter ranean coast between Toulon and Cannes. " " . - . -', ; I Disclosing that the land, sea and air forces making this - latest breach in Hitler's continental wall were under an all-American com mand, Allied headquarters . an nounced tonight that "all initial objectives have been taken" and that casualties of all services had been '"exceptionally light" Pear in Equipment. The Allies tonight were pouring ashore by sea and air a steady stream of new fighters and equip ment. British and American air borne troops, landed on a big scale behind the lines, were effectively blocking German attempts to rush reinforcements , to the invasion scene. ' !' The Americans used flame throwers to burn Germans out of stone emplacements. Lonr Glider Trams ... The "highly-trained and expert airborne forces were landed from towed gliders which formed i train fully5ITziules long and "sev ciw puiei w lur, ana pj (iincauK from transports which kept more than 1000 men swing in the air at a time. s ' .JJ-'; '- : -;'v- .:-- ' Although serious opposition was encountered at one undisclosed point, preventing the Allies from debarking, most of the opening as sault "overran intricate beach ob stacles strongly protected by Ger man coastal guns-," headquarters disclosed tonight Na Strong Opposition No powerful or general German opposition had yet developed, per sons arriving from the beachhead reported. The headquarters of Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Briton who is commander-in-chief of the Allied - Mediterranean forces, dis closed tonight that the invasion was under American command, on land and sea and in the air. Polio Strikes In Silver ton SDLVERTON. Aug. 16 Martin Huttoo, 5 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hutton, is suffering from infantile paralysis it was stated by the city health officer, Dr. P. A. Loer, Wednesday night The case is "not too severe". Dr. Loer said but the paralysis, has af fected his legs. The family lives on McClain street This is the. first case reported in Silverton during the current epidemic, Dr. Loer said. Leukemia Victim Dies - SPRINGFIELD, O., Aug. 16- Jackie Krumholtz, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Krumholtz, who had been suffer ing from acute lymphatic leuke mia since mid-July and whose case bad attracted nation-wide attention, died tonight at 10:32 pm. 1 o House Committee Argues Over Unemployment WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 A move for unemployment bene-, fits up to $20 a week gathered! headway at the capitol today with the reported blocking of War Mo bilization Director James . F. Byrnes." l-.-- - . 1 ' : '' .'" House backers of the senate defeated Kilgore bill, which would have et federal standards. up to t3S a week, gave indications for a time that. they might settle for the later figures, but later Rep. Celler. (D-NY) announced he will make a floor fight for the Kilgore bill with the maximum pay cut to $25. Byrnes, in an executive session of the house ways and means com mittee, endorsed the principle" of the George "state's rights" bill passed by the senate last week, 10 PAGES 'I ja . . ii i '. " ;mi . i 1 l ' ii H ' il " ,' " . iififes Move f i ik'S' ? - " i . v I ; mY 'v . " I '.e. - I . . .v American infant men and amphibious vehicles move inland ea a read of France last ef Toulon as the vU Signal Corps radio.) . German Radio Admits Nazis Withdrawing1 LONDON, Aug': ' lft-(P-After contending all day that the allied beachheads in southern France were Widely - scattered along the Riviera and "isolated j from; one another," the German : radio ' to night: suddenly announced that the . defending forces ' had ; de stroyed harbor j installations . at Nice, Cannes and St Tropez and Were withdrawing inland to get out of range-of naval guns. 1 "The critical hour is expected not on the coast, but inland," said the German s Transocean agency in seeking to explain the with drawals. It said many coa stal points were -"under the t heaviest fire of allied naval artillery j Major landings, according to the German : broadcasts, i were at the mouth ol the Anger river; and on the St Tropez peninsula, but others Were said to be expected. Allied airborne troops were de clared by the Germans to be at tacking the defenses from the rear, "especially at St Kapnaei and also in the Nice area. Burma Driving SOUTHEAST ASIA COM MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan dy, Ceylon,! Aug. lt-(P)- AlUed troops in north Burma, driving south along the Mandalay rail way, I now are about 22 miles southwest of Mogaung, having reached a point two miles north of Pinbaw, headquarters ! an nounced tonight i . : ; (The : Japanese themselves i ac knowledged withdrawal into Bur ma from Idia where, . the Tokyo radio admitted, "they are pre pared for. battles." The broadcast was recorded by the j Associated Press.) i ; ' ' ' ! i British, troops continued their advance down the Tiddim road and in the Kabaw valley in west ern Burma.' : i j Benefit Plan, with the suggestion that tba fed eral government set . up minimum standards ranging up to $23.! Celler, immediately after Byrnes appearance in the committee room, he would accept a eompro- se that would guarantee " twen ty '-Vj twenty; five dollars a;week . withUncle f Sam supplementing funds V pooler states, j h ;, I i f ! Late-fin the day,; however) he issued a "statement calling the sen ate bUl a -!?old brick and 1 an nouncing his plan to fight for the $23 maximum for unemployed vet erans and displaced war workers with dependents. - ; ? The house itself, he said, must decide whether it "shall concur in the Abdication of . responsibility to the American people represented by the George bill. c Inland After Neiv Landing 1 nJ 'V 1 V A beachhead area established In the ' f ' I Ffrencl enm Haute Savoie i -j t u: rmaas ON THE FRENCH-SWISS FRONTIER, Thursday, Aug. 17.-(iiFV-Frenchmen tlUroughout Haute Savoie, supplied: with j guns and animunition dropped! j by allied planes during: the j past week, fought on bitterer jthii morning in a major revolt against the nazis they had learned fso Well to hate during four years of occupation noW drawing to aii end. . ust after midnigbt big fires could be seen 'on Mount Saleve just outside Geneva. Germans were smoked ! out of the school buildings I at yiUe La Grande where they had held! out all day Wednesday..' Jf j J:,, The region was completely ufi-del- partisan coatrpt Just before midnight allied plines dropped new supplies to f ejed he battle. It was reported reliably that a se ries of supply, 'gliders j landed in the French Juras just after dusk Wednesday. ' j j " , "herel was no dubi that a gen eral uprising, a 'rel revolt, was in progress, ' Village sjfter village was liberated during the afternoon Fighting French appeared at cus tom posts. Fighting between Ger man soldiers and SS .units helped to ispread chaos lnj the nazi garri- - German army troops at Thonon- Les-Bains fought a ii bitter, day long battle with machine guns, ri fles. While outside the town be- tween Avian and ; Thonon parti- tans carried o uta heavy offensive troops. Big fires against occupation were started in the village of Am- phion and nazi troops there fled in Misorder.:: m I II I - I'. il Thumbnail Of ilVar!; By the Ajanchted Preat I leathern Fraacej American French; troop drive eight miles Inland: after establishing 70-mile beachhead, v . 1 1 4 Westera France: Canadians en ter Falaise, narrowing Allied trap, but crippled German army still : escaping i from eight-mile gap in! trap's jaws!; Germans pre dict Allies setting another snare cutting off retreat to Seine. j Interier France: 1 1 French rise against Germans ion Swiss bor der, i - j j jj Italy: Battlefrpnts mark time while Allied governments moves food into Florence.' : ' . 1 ( Kassia: :: Germans, battling to hold Warsaw, counterattack and rjush Russians out of Ossow, . i Pacific: Fecaddres islands, be tween: Formosa aiid; China, raid- : ed for first time;! southern Phil ippines, Truk boinbed. . - i China: Chinese lopes drive near Ichang, westemfc.ost . Japanese base in central China and con tinue offensive to reopen Burma 1 1 -road.!'-. -tlh Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning.-Auguil 17,11944 'i m s ,-;.;4i V f leadinr from the aoathera eeast new invasloa move. (AP Wlrephote RAF Planes Blast Berlin, Stettin, Kiel LONDON? Aug. 17.P)-AJ fleet of possibly 1000 RAF bombers blasted the German cities of Stet tin and Kiel last night while , a force of Mosquitos carried out their third successive night as sault upon Berlin, the air ministry announced today. ? Stettin i is the chief Baltic port used by the Germans for supply ing troops in Finland, and is on the upper flank of the Russian front The citr, which had a pre-war population of about 270,000, is the site of oil refineries and chemical industries.' Kiel, some 200 miles west of Stettin, is a naval base and shipbuilding center. Both have been frequent bombing targets. The allies threw another oner two aerial punch at the German homeland yesterday as more than 1000 Britain-based American hea vy: bombers bit aircraft and syn thetic oil plants inside the reich and Liberators from Italy bombed the Friedrichshafen c h em i c a 1 works. :4'"-: " ' - - U Allies Destroy 11 Nip Planes i, . r : 5 ' ' " - . ! - . . GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACTFIC, Thurs day, Aug. 17-P)-Allied bombers in new blows at the Philippines and the Spice islands raided Da vao, on Mindanao, and destroyed 11 airplanes at Halma-Hera, head quarters I announced today. A patrol plane, probably from a Dutch New Guinea base, at tacked the wharf area of i Davao, principal city in the southern Phil ippines, Sunday night The dam age to this important port, from which the Japanese formerfy sent a flow of troops and supplies to Kalmahera and New Guinea, was not disclosed. "v.'w.fvV ' '""''rv Patrol planes have - attacked Mindanao half a dozen times this month. Prior to the end of July, the Philippines had - been i beyond effective allied bomber range since April, 1942. GSO-USO Plaque T7ffl Be Dedicated Sunday Tribute to the snore than : $0 young women from the- member ship of the Girls Service organiza tion in Salem who have , entered one of the nation's Uniformed ser vice, the GSO-USO plaque will be dedicated Sunday afternoon at the USO clubhouse.- The public is in vited to the S o'clock ceremony. AFL Excludes Strikers From Local's Order SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16-tP) The AFL International Machin ists lodge 3 voted tonight to ex elude union members employed in five navy-seized machine shops from the local's order prohibiting more than a 43-hour, work week, E, F. Dillon, lode business agent, announced. Nazis Try To Hold i Warsaw. fl' 'ri"VT,i:I"v.:-F.,,.l i; f .:, :,; ; Germans Throw ? Gigantic Forces Against Russians LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 17-(ff)-The Germans threw gigantic tank and infantry: forces! into an all-out . struggle to hold Warsaw yesterday and forced the Russians out of the town of Ossow.; Seven enemy tanks, seven self-propelled guns, 11 armored troop carriers and four armored cars were left wrecked on a battlefield strewn with hundreds of nazi dead before the Russians pulled back. Red Smash Expected , : Moscow military observers took the . view that . the ferocious Ger man counterattacks were but the prelude to a Russian operation to smash the Germans at Warsaw, i Repeated German counterat tacks in' Estonia,, on the Latvian Lithuanian front and elsewhere were announced by the Russians as German resistance generally stiffened. All these were declared to have been thrown back, while the Russians themselves broke Into the big south Poland town of Sandomierz, on the flank of their trans-Vistula bridgehead, and en gaged in street fighting. Sitoatira la Hand Russian accounts underscored that the red army had the situ ation in hand all along the front and that the offensive still lay with the Russians, although the German counterof fensive ' north east of Warsaw was admittedly the most serious blow by the nazis since the beginning of -the great summer campaign. The Russians never had an nounced capture of Ossow, mark ing their closest approach to War Saw since they began the siege of the capital July 31 after! seizing Wolomin, 10 miles northeast SgtPredeek Is Missing ( MT. ANGEL, Aug. 16 Sgt Wil- bert Predeek, 23 year old US army infantryman, is missing in action in Normandy since July 1S, ac cording to information from the war department received 1 by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Predeek. 1 Sgt Predeek went overseas last December and has been in France since early June. His family heard from him on an average of three times a week but have not heard from him since July 12. That let ter was written in a fox hole in France, July 5. I i - Wilbert Predeek was born near Silverton, Dec. 19, 1919, and came with. his family to Mt Angel in 1926. He attended Mt Angel schools and college. There are three brothers and four sisters. ; RCAF Plane Crashes VANCOUVER, Bv , C, Aug-. 16- (Jfj-A twin-engined light trans port plana carrying three airmen is missing from a west coast Royal Canadian air force station it was announced tonight by Western Air command. - Valley Beans Spoil on Vines For Want of Enough Pichers For want of pickers, beans are spoiling o the vines here in the mid-Willamette valley. ; Several hundred mere men, women ana cnuaren are neeaea today in. the beanyards i of this area,' ', farm placement personnel declare. ' X- . . Buses from the farm placement office in the 300 block of Cheme keta street will leave at 8:30 to accemmodate families which must get other members off to other Jobs in town, while a special re cruiting effort for workers to aid in the harvest Saturday afternoon and Sunday is expected to draw additional workers of all ages. I A West Stayton grower believes that a one-day delay la picking beans in bis field cost Liza 33 to Prtca Sc. : - . . . -. . i Mil' I :Q Enemy It aces Another Toward, War Bond Redem ptions Almost Equal Sales 1 1 For 14 Days in August ... WASHINGTON, Aug. JltVPf War bond redemptions in the first 14 days of August totaled !$ 129, 622,063, compared with sales of $147,292,098. : ' i; - .This was' disclosed in the I treas ury's daily statement today . , . , The only apparent explanation for the ' heavy; redemptions '.was that the cashing of war bonds us ually is' heavy following the. con clusion of a bond drive. . ? . : For the current fiscal "year be ginning July 1, war bond sales to taled $2,272,347,694 and redemp tions $356,653,536'. . i amst Power Politics WASmNGTONT ;Aug., 16-(fiV Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's warn ing against "cynical . power poli ties' today highlighted one of the knotty problems facing framers of the postwar peace: . How to give small nations a voice in the- world peace-enforcing agency and yet satisfy de mands, ; notably! from Russians, that the little countries not be permitted to impede swift action to quell threatened aggression. ; There was no immediate com ment from the state department on the statement by Gov. Dewey, who said he was deeply disturbed by reports indicating that at the Dumbarton Oaks conference . op ening next Monday "it is planned to subject the . nations of the world, great and small; perma nently to the coercive power of the four nations holding this con ference." ' -"--'j :-V ; Senator Taft (R-Ohio) called Dewey's statement a j "timely warning. Chairman' Connally (D Tex.) of the senate foreign; rela tions committee had no; immedi ate comment ; ) Senator Thomas (D-Okla.) said: "Dewey's remarks are strangely reminiscent of the republican chant of the last war. It Sounds like a theme song of isolation. If the big powers don't get together and form an organization! with power to back It tip, certainly the little fellows cant be expected to do anything. They (republicans) are beginning to sidestep, question and straddle. Whatever is pro posed from now on will be op posed by Dewey.", , I ...' ; Navy Morale High SAN DIEGO, Aug. 16-PhNavy chaplains serving in every theater of action report that the morale of personnel is exceptionally ( high, CapC Stanton W. Salisbury, assist ant director of the navy chaplains division, said today. . 4 i 40 pec cent of the crop in culls. A man, wife and tore young can dren who made 135 in one day are said to be walking guarantees that there's money as well as beans in the green fields which surround Salem. k 'V : ' '' '-fi-h When the Mill City Manufac hiring company mill went down this week to . give its employes their annual summer vacation. US employment service j recruiter went to work and now : 80 man hours a day are going into can nery work at West Stayton from the communities along the; North Santiam. Other, members of the same families, sometimes riding in the same school bus, prefer out door work and are helping to har vest the lerumes : for which the area is famous. ; S - - Dewey Warns : a Lynical No. 123 ! I I t I mm Trap 11 Divisions ; In;T6rmandy Death Hole -j, ,:-i": X' - ' ' SUPREME' HEADQUARTERS ALLIED I EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Thursday, Aug. 17 UP) Canadian troops stormed into Fa laise . from two sides Wednesday night battling desperate German resistance in the , center of the town as enemy rear guards at tempted l.tb hold open the ever narrowing corridor for the flight of remnants of the German Sev enth army. A'V An official announcement said II under-strength divisions were in the Normandy- trap, and the Germans themselves reported that those managing to struggle out through the eight-mile wide cor-, ridor probably were beading for another an are shaping up between Paris and the mouth of the Seine river . '--f vi-' fSappactesl !y 1 TasJ' '. The Canadians,"- eloriping Into the center: of the town where William the "Conqueror was born, were supported by tanks of ah armored regiment as they slugged their way across the tiny Ante river running: through the north western' part of Falaise. But they met i stiff i resistance - from Ger mans entrenched in the . town's main buildings. On the other claw of the huge trap, American' forces .from the south have 'captured Putanges, front; dispatches said. The town is 10 miles west of Argentan and its capture seals off the only road through the bottleneck wide enough for two trucks to pass, "i Planes Feud NaxJs . - j Allied planes showered , explo- sives on the trapped Germans and - at the same time dropped 2,000,- 000 "surrender leaflets, showing pictures of German deet at ' Cherbourg and in Russia. It ap peared that except for the strug gle at Falaise and Argentan, up per and lower jaws of the 'pincers, resistance was crumbling fast One allied officer likened it to a '"land, Dunkerque, as Ameri can and British forces, breaking inside the: pocket found a chaos of flight The pocket now is shrunk to eight miles wide at the gap and: 19 miles wide at the base and little over: 20 miles long. Escape Qaestlenable It was a defeat of an army, one officer said, but not an annihila tion, and It remained to be seen, in view of the new threat to the Germans in the Paris direction, how many actually would escape. (The German high command reported heavy fighting in the whole Chartres-Dreux area some CO miles i northeast .of Le Mans and 40 miles west of Paris. The Germans declared the purpose of this new sweep by American ar mored forces - was not yet clear but that it suggested the inten tion of a new encirclement cut ting the German retreat to Paris and the Seine), "J--': '-fi,: :''."-:,' There was no allied substan tiation of the German report The whole sector east oL the Falaise bottleneck was under an allied news blackout as complete as that which masked Lt Gen. George S. Pattorv Jr.'s, cutoff drive north of Le Mans a week ago. , ': Faris Brooks Fire Burns Trailer BROOKS, Aug. 16 Fire de stroyed the trailer house and con tents of Miss Gladys Cramer at ; Bethel Gospel ; park, j a quarter : -mile north of Brooks Wednesday afternoon. Miss Beverly Johnson lived with Miss Cramer and both are missionaries planning to leave soon for San Francisco from where - they will leave shortly to return to the mission field. . . . The Brooks fire department re sponded to the call, and put out the fire which had spread to lum ber in the vicinity of the trailer , house. No other damage was done by the fire. The trailer house ar.1 contents were valued at 15C3 j :Y)U