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Democratic Ticket - - H1, I yv;" )l -1m i . l J. . : J . !t L J! - : 4 : -ih -j8,: I -HI , -I-, I: - 'Au yr. ; v;. : jij yV!-; - Mi;;'- : I . 7 " a I "- " V1 i ; - 'I 4 f y" DcmocnUe Candidates Franklin D." Roosevelt, for his fourth term as president, and Harry 8. Truman (left), for his first term as vice president, sit down for lunch beneath a marnolla tree on the White House lawn to discuss their campaign plans. (AP wlrephoto) OtP TO TO The announ cement of the French . committee . on , national liberation at Algiers that it would ' exercise control of French news provoked such a storm of protest that a second announcement fol lowed shortly to the effect that - this 1 monopoly of control would be only temporary.' The state Xinents however served ' to touch . off wide comment regarding the ; French press and Its need f or re . form. Outside of the strangled press . of Germany the French press Was, far nnlitiral-1 inor-'5' goes, about the worst press of any major country. Certainly ii vl v the most venal. The newspapers f Paris were the most 'untrust worthy of any papers published r Jn free countries. , The use of mo ney to influence editorial opinion was so open it was notorious. The , French government, big industries and foreign governments and in dustries kept 'French editors and journalists - on their.' payrolls." In this way the springs of democ- " racy were : poisoned. No wonder France fell 'in A babel" of ponGcal' confusion.- . i' uJT1:'. ' Paris had ; before the war 102 daily papers one shop printed i 60. Many were mere partisan or t special purpose sheets, but there were a score or more newspapers : that aspired to distinction. As Edwin L. James, managing ! edi- tor of the New York Times writes; - "Yet time after time the -trail of corruption ran into the; head offices of these greater . papers. Several of the proudest names were known to be (Continued on Editorial Page) 2 Grass Fires In Four Days Strike Rickey 7 RICKEY, Aug. 18 The second grass fire in four days, both start ed from a discarded cigarette, burned over a two acre area along the railroad track and near the Rickey school Friday afternoon. The fire broke out first about 4 o'clock and was controlled by neighbors. The - state forest de partment sent equipment which was available but which was not used. The fire broke out again at 6 o'clock and equipment was sent from the Four Corners fire station and neighbors again responded in numbers.' ' At 8 o'clock the fire was be lieved to have been put out but was to be watched all night. The railroad, track kept the fire from spreading to the westward. The second fire was stopped 100 feet from 100-acre Waldo timber lot. Allies Take Heavy Toll Of Japs Fleeing India SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Cey Ion, Aug. 1 8-(AV Allied forces took a heavy , toll today of Japanese remnants retreating from Man! pur - along th . Tiddim road, stretching southward below the Burmese-Indian border. - ; ' - , Three hundred Japanese dead and wounded were counted In one five-mil section of the Tiddim road aad captured booty sine the alii d puih south from Mcirang started a mor.lb ago mounted to 200 motor vehicles, 10 tanks and 12 artillery pieces, a communique said. - . " 1 - - j What a Tough Break For These Policemen K03T2I TOWANDA, N.Yn Aug. 18 -(fl3)-Mayor Myles W, Joyce, who declared an emergency and took control of the police depart ment from the common council, has directed pclteemon to pay for thftir curs of eoffe. He als said "Wt den't expect any member of the force to go to sleep on the job vLT.e he U la a police car." Hull Accepts Dewey Adviser At Conference WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -(JP) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today pro posed and Secretary of State Hull accepted i direct participation by Dewey's foreign relations adviser in American preparations for or ganizing post-war world security. This dramatic turn of political events in the background. of big four security talks beginning here next week was immediately in terpreted in diplomatic 'quarters as strengthening the United States' position in relation to the other conferees Russia, Britain .and China. Dewey had wired Hull earlier today suggesting that John Foster Dulles, who probably would be his secretary of state if Dewey is elected president confer with Hull on post-war foreign pohcy. The republican nominee's move followed a Hull news conference statement yesterday that he would be Klad to meet with Dewey or anyone else who came in a mood of cooperation rather, than of political partisanship. , Bulgar Chiefs Debate Pea Speech Points NEW YORK, Aug, 18-;P-The Sofia -radio said tonight that the Bulgarian parliament had begun debate on Premier Ivan Bagri anov s peace speech, ana quot ed two deputies as endorsing ma jor features of the address, One deputy, said the broadcast heard by US government moni tors, called upon Bagrianov to act quickly" after asserting that "this speech was a revelation and expression of the Bulgarian na tion's desire and firm determina tion to remain out of the war." (Unconfirmed reports from Cai ro -reported 'from London said Bulgarian emissaries already were dealing with allied . representa lives in a neutral country for peace. One report said Stoicho Moshanov, former speaker of the Bulgarian parliament and an anti German, had arrived in Ankara on what might be a peace mis sion.) Liberators Hit Jap Islands US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 18-iSVPrssinC the air attrition campaign against Japanese bases north of American-held Guam, Tin Ian and Saipan in the Mari anas, army Liberators hit Iwo Jima in the volcano islands Wed nesday, A dm. Chester W. Nimitz reported today. Other planes peppered Nippon positions in the Marianas and Caroline islands groups. Major targets at Iwo were gar rison : buildings, storage ; dumps and airfield installations. Several Japanese fighter planes were in the air at the time of the raid but failed to press interception against Liberator guns. FDR Backs Military-Civilian: Training for Natiohs ToutK WASHINGTON,- AugV 18 President Roosevelt said today public opinion should be gradual ly formed on the idea of offering a year's postwar training both military and civil to 1,000,000 or 1,250,000 youths between 1? and 23. - -yS-Vv -a:;-::-. !';- He told a news conference that excellently built service camps in the United States, Alaska, the Aleutians and elsewhere capable of housing 8,000,000 men could be utilised for the purpose. He said it would not constitute compulsory military training, but some military and some civilian training, including vocational and stenographic courses to prepare ycung men for civilian jobs, some i 1 ,s .. SM: . i , . ,i ..i.-i r '! 1 . !, . . 1 r - ? --. . - ,., h I "-. if.."; 'A 1 1; Captured Sot iets; Trap $ r ixazi jJivisions Of 30,000 Men LONDON, Saturday, Aug. 49(iW Russian I troopSj yesterday -overwhelmed! the w;t bank Vistula ri ver stronghold - of Sandomierz in central Poland .ilter a bitter tow day street battle, H and trapped three ! German "'divisions of 1 80,000 men, whjle another powerful Sov iet army! massed on the German East Prussia frontier ; threatened momentarily tdt'.spill onto German soil for toe fir time. . . ' " Schirwindt East Prussian bor der towa.j andother villages in side German y'jt imperilled proy- ince were, repotted by; Soviet na- j va fliers' to be sen flames, and Bejr-j liri saidlthe Russians had hurled more than isajooo men into . the battle on an. p-mile ) f rontl from Augustoyjin hcrthern Poland and the Niemen river in westerniLath uania. J j I - i) 11 i 5 HI ; ,-! m i Surgest Big Events ' :'' : -' ji ;:: Both Moscow and . Berlin cut patches If suggested great . events were imminent, and axis broad casts said Soviet troops on toe long - $iormaBjt ' Romanian f front had atternDted 4o cross the lower Dnestr rjver suggesting the em- Ii ; '4 ' -?6 " i - -t I . ergence soon Qf anouier ; ousosive J!J A A 'C j. liiJ A -l 1 ii 'Lit airecieaj wwaiu we nou ou neids, last Digvrennan ruei;reser voir. The Jiussiart da)ly communiaue said Marshall Jonstantin K. Rok csovskxs first White Russian ar my also! had gone over to toe of fehsivejn some sectors jut east of Prag$, sast bank suburb of War saw, alter absorbing the impact of savage Gernfan counter attacks. The .Russians - Jast. were fighting wilhin seven miles of toe city. Poles Still Fighting 5 Inside Warsaw the Poles report ed their? guerilla forces were hold ing their own in furious J street fighting From' rooftops th Poles hurled gasoline - filled j bottles down oh ; German tanks, ! and from cellar gunsliU? they picked I Off Germany troops; '41 Berlin Radio Is Mournful i i LONDON,1 Saturday, Attg. 19-. -. .t r- I UF)-A Berlin broadcast quoted a Oermal j war'i ministry Official statement today as: saying f we must bp prepared for a German Withdrawal from France.1 I I "We must xpect j the loss: of places with world famous names," the statement Said with a scarcely- veiled reference to Paris. The broadcast, by .: toe German news agency Transocean, was re corded j by the ministry of infor- mation,;4i' ..ik : !'... The same -agency quoted a mill' tary spokesman in Berlin as saying "no frejth German divisions: can be sent to Trance.1 The troopS'in bat tie have been; "Warned of this and have been ordered to fight to the last man." I: -' i Disctiarged Servicemen To Get Half Fare Rates Oregon railroads will give dis-j charged sen tee personnel half fare rates beginning September 1, Publicf U t ii i 4 i e s Commissioner Georg H. Flagg announced Fri day. Fagg said all other state are expected to take similar action. of them in the 'government service. w Mt a .ii -a iv a a- :l. a and lienui, he said, citing im- provefienu tn the makeup ot thousands or fyoutns wno trainea in the civilian' conservation corps. I Muscle: building resulting from ditch-digging is a good thing fori some,! he declared. , r Saying he personally has stu- died toe matter and that it war rants public study, the chief ex ecutive said such training would teach Jyouths the special art of liv-1 ing tCgether la groups, and also teach 1 them r cleanliness and disci pline.? He remarked: parenthetical- ly to4t discipline is rather a good thing: for the nation, that it is not to be! aceezeil at. ! Time OutlFrom War ' ( n mm 4 14. Gen jGeorge 8. Patton. JrJ army, talks i ( .... i wlta two French children la one ef the towns his ar- mored Itroops swept wronga in wlrephete) IjjDR Favors IK Army wavy - h - - r- - i a? .- i . i - - t WASHINGTON Aug. 18 (JPh- President Roosevelt i : said today there: is general agreement on the need for. postwar merger of toe army and navy ;into a- single de partment under Unified command. But nothing Will be done about it, he said at a S news conference, Until after the war.:' ' - The president', remarks were made while commenting on a mag azine article in. j which his vice presidential running mate, i Sen. Harry S, Trumat urged unifica tion of the services.1 j The president Idid hot elaborate. At! hearinn fcefore a snecial house committer f several months I ago.! navy witnesises were generally 1 . . i.. .Hi., i. .- J aKepucai oi tnei jvaiue oi merger, I fWl thp -army 'jntnetees roppdrt ed the Idea.! Maine - "if ' ... . .. N v lv.: reed Dbwril j Mt ANGEL, ; Aug- 18-A: P-39 plane from the Portland airbase was forced down in flames a mile and a half southeast of here about 1:30 Friday afternoon. The pilot, whose name wa not learned here, Was severely burned and after re ceiving first aid .was taken to Port land in an ambulance. ' j ' The plane was one! of a forma- i lion of six, according: to those who E witnessed the flaming plane as it was ! landed In the !i Philip ' May wheat field. It "skidded to j the edge of the May hop yard, -i - The plane was one of a forma' tion of six according to hop pick' ers in the Henry . Humpert yard a half mile distant, It was landed in the Philip May j wheat field which was set afire from the blaz ing: plane. Th other five planes did not break formation. The fall was witnessed by many Silverton and Mt Angel residents busy in harvest fields. I i I' I ! ma state Jfayment Qn War Fund Sent East A draft for 848,589.78 Is on its way today to National War Fund headquarters- from - Oregon War Fund offices here final payment on the state's 1943-44 quota of $1,- 10150. The draft, - signed by Charles A. Sprague, president, and Irl S. McSherry,! executive secre tary, of the state fund organiza tion, was mailed Friday. Money In the ! National i War Fund goes to USO War Prisoner's Aid, United ; Seaman's Service, American Fields service, and 18 war relief agendas ' Arm j . 'I commander of the Amerleasi Third ueir onvaturoagn f ranee. at If i! During Night LONDON. Saturday, Aag. It --Approximately 1881 RAF heavy boubera blasted Bremen and Sterkrade la the Kahr last night. It j was anaooneed today, while a fleet of Mooqaltoa ta a bnaltaneovs operation ' acala dropped block boaters on Berlin. , -pi -.it-. LONDON. SaturCay, Aug.i 18- (py-Great. fleets of allied planes blasted ilr. fields in northern France yesterday, rained death and destriiction on the retreating Germans,? shot from the skies 35 enemy fighters of a temporarily resurgent . German air force,; and were out? 'again, early, today for more blows -at the enemy. i In addition . to the 35 : planes downed, toe! allied airmen destroy ed at least oi on we ground; Al lied losses; for the day," in which 6000 planes : flew from the west and . south1 an eight attacks lover four European, countries, totaled 21 fighters and two bombers. American; Marauders escorted by RAF Spitfires got in the day's final blow; yesterday, bombing rail lines northeast of Paris, and re turned without loss despite heavy flak. Indicative of the damage inflict ed, the 8th air force fighters alone reported r destroying or damaging 739 railroad cars, 38 locomotives and 215 motor vehicles. j ' Churchill-FDR Meet Slated i WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 President Roosevelt told reporters today he expected to have another conference ( with Prime Minister Churchill soon, but would not be come more specific as to the date. At a news conference the presi dent elaborated somewhat on bis recent remark that Germany and Japan would be occupied regard' less of whether they surrender before being over-run by allied troops. i - . He said there was a rather gen eral - understanding with Russia and Britain on toe question of oc cupying Germany, although all of the details cannot be planned in advance" and added ' in response to' question that it would be just as easy .to; reach an understand- lCOOBoihbers Blast Cemans ing with China for occupation of crease n overhead and small de Japan. ; , 1 ' crease in the city's contribution 7eatber Uaxlmum temperature Friday It derreest Mitiiii 55; n rabs; river -4 ft. Clesr Satsrday asi Sondiy, ex- est tot sot coast; Saaday wanner. 7 th Army rives On Toulon Yankee, Frencli Forces Only 6 j Miles From Port ROME, Aug. lS-tfVAmerican and French Seventh iarmy troops drove against Toulon both along toe coast and 20 miles inland in a ; threatening flanking movement behind the great naval base today i while a wave of American, med ium bombers hit and set fire to the French battleship Strasbourg which the Germans had been us ing as a coastal fortress in I the harbor. I ' It was officially disclosed to night that one of Maj. Gen. Alex ! ander M. Patch's Swift-movins! columns surged into the vicinity of NEW YORK. Aug. IS The British radio, te a breadcast recorded by US government monitors,, quoted one of its cor respondents toaicM as saying that "Toulon Is going to fall; and fall very soon" to the envelop ing attacks of the X'S seventh army. II- Sollies Pont, only six! miles north-1 east of Toulon, while far to the north another spearhead punched I teto the area of Brignoles 20 miles almost due north of Toulon in an outflanking drive. , '.If - - ! Direct Bits Scored i "! " I The 28,500-ton Strasbourg, part ly submerged when the- French scuttled- their own fleet at Toulon in. 1941, was sought outjay -B-25 Mitchells. Several direct hits were scored and fires and explosions were caused by toe bombs, crew men reported, . j . . ? Although partly dismantled, the Germans - had used her guns to bombard the Allied troops, f Crmiser Also Hit B-25 crewmen also reported di rect hits on the 7800-ton cruiser La Gallissonniere, a destroyer and a submarine in the Harbor, j Headquarters announced: the known American casualties for the southern French , invasion; were only 300, an almost incredibly low figure, and said 7000 Germah pris oners had been 'taken in a ; count still far from complete. " . j' Battle-hardened veterans 0f Af rica, Italy and Sicily under Ma. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, hero of Guadalcanal,' punched inland to the vicinity of Brignoles, 20 miles due north of,Toulon.! The city is on the main: highway leading to Marseille and Aix-en Province, and ultimately to the wide Rhone valley leading to northern France. Nazi Snipers Active in Italy I j ROME, Aug. IS -fiff)-German snipers were active! in the .north west and northeast suburbs of Florence today, delaying: complete allied occupation of the city., ' The situation in northern Flor ence was reported ronicuuiy to have improved since yesterday1 when German tanks were believed to have penetrated; the area, c - j ii Minor patrol clashes and - aw tillery, duels comprised virtually all toe activity on I the remainder of the Italian fronts The Germans abandoned Rosano one and one half miles south of Pontassieve hi toe upper Tiber valley, and "ap parently pulled out of other out posts farther east! -ft -1 Snlem United War Litest Adovts $94fi00iBudget Adopting a $94,000 budget, the ; Salem United War -Chest; board, Friday night paved the way for rapid completion of the . already almost-organized campaign com mittee which will! set out to raise the funds October. 9, . The new budget whichJncludes slight raises for most of toe local agencies ..tthe ' peacetime ? Salem Community Chest), slight do to state and national war iuhu, was adopted as recommended ' by the board's budget committee. S k If contributors! will give the amounts they last year poured wil lingly into, the chest ' the budjet will be met. Drive Chairman Burr MwMj - Forces Towatd Patton's Tanks Smash Within ii f " I ' 'i ' - - i . " i - - ; - i . i i ? A. : ' -fe . . i 12 Miles'of Paris, Block ; OffjEnemy From Capital Gty SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EX PEDITIONARY FORCE, Saturday, Aug. 19- i (AP)-The bulk of the German 15th army guard ing the north French rocket coast has been thrown j into an eleventh hour attempt to a vert a: Norman dy debacle and has gone d6wn to a defeat that may I spell an allied victory in the battle 'for France, it was disclosed officially last night J : flighty allied forces 15th and seventh armies toward the all but bridge less Seine and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's tanks smashing to the vicinity of Paris only 12 miles Nazis Throw Into Action ! By the Germans have thrown a huge new, heavily armored tank ; into action on both the Russian and northern French fronts in an ef fort to stem toe allied advances, but first reports denied it was a weapon? One of the new monsters. weighing over 65 . tons and Iwith six-inch armor plate an inch and a half thicker than anything the enemy yet has put into action was taken by the British oil the Orne river front, j - : I ' The tank was a victim of a me chanical breakdown and, never had fired a shot in battle. ;' " ' Christened toe 'Pantiger" by its captors, the tank j combines toe best features of the nazi Tiger and Panther; tanks, which weigh 45 tons each.' . fv1.; ' ..." ' The; Pantiger, 23 ; feet : long; and over 11 feet wide, nas i an extra wheel on each side of its tracks and a huge, clumsy-looking turret Allied Planes PoundJ Japs In Banda Sea GENERAL I HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Saturday,; Aug. 19-F-Smashlng raida in force at Japanese airdromes in .the Banda sea, with concentrated attacks on the strong points at Amboinajand Ceram islands, were announced today, by' iheadquartenkj ; .1! j. ' Liberators and Mitchells Thurs day bomb-combed key island ob jectives west of New Guinea. In a day.of aerial activity stretching more than 1000 miles i from; toe Philippines to Timor. ;. --. ; Escorted heavy bombera In force pounded toe Liang airdrome on Amboina and Haroekoe airfield on Ceram the latter about.! 300 miles southwest of American-held Noemfoor. Thy destroyed ah un estimated number ot grounded aircraft, starting fires and explo sions. i . ' r- ' i for New Drive Miller told his campaign commit tee Friday noon. War chest directors voted to dis pose of all or a portion of the cots, mattresses, ; sheets, blanket and towels purchased for ; use f . sol dier dormitories, ; and Chairman Lowell Kern! named Lolay i War ner, W. WY Chad wick and Frank Doerfler a committee, to handle the now - surplus commodity. ADDroximately $6000 worth of the dormitory equipment was pur chased, a fair portion of which is declared readily salable Directors agreed that chest agencies and the Red f Cross j; disaster ; irominittee should be offered first opportunity to . secure needed equipment for rummer camps . orf emergency stores, r-f, : li in;S, ?j t " 11 : I Big Allied Drive Seine were driving the beaten ; Oaway by German accounts had blocked off their retreat toward the French capital. . Gen.1 D Wight D. Eisenhower summoned; hi .field commanders to an urgent! conference which ; soon may be reflected in new and t overwhelming blows to break the' German grip i . ; on the whole of France. Enveloping Meve Starts The surging; lines were, develop ing a great enveloping movement west of Paris, 'where at eenior Bri tish officeir disclosed 'the Germans had rashly committed rougly half their crack :15th -anny.:"' . -' j j - - , - ,: This was toe ; first intimation that Field j Marshall Gen. Guentocr vonKluga had brought across the SeineV important elements of his army .guarding the channel coast and the rocket roosts to try to extricate toe. already battered se-v venth from the pitfalls of Nor-; mandy. ' In Hot Pursuit 1 Americans, British, Canadians, Poles, Dutch and Belgians the last two disclosed for the first time to beiri action were In hot pur suit of toe estimated 40,000 to 100,000. enemy troops who had squeezed j from the Normandy: pocket with the bulk of their tanks and were speeding toward Rouen. They strewed behind them the wreckage of tanks and vehicles under ceaseless assault from tac tical bombers, ' whose : pilots re ported toe Germans were in such headlong flight; they did not even pull off toe highways when the planes roired, over.' 1 News Expected" I The expected news that the 15th army, which j on j D-day was the greatest German army in France, had been .committed to a lost cause in Normahdy,! came from toe staff officer at: 21st army group head quarters, :who likened Its fate to that of the broken seventh army; The staff officer declared their offensive I power was spent, that from here on-these German force were capable only of rear guard action and that in winning the bat tle of Normandy the allies will have won toe battle of France.. Both ; the seventh and 15th the only! striking force toe Ger mans had along toe Atlantic wall were estimated to have had up to 25 divisions at D-day. 15th Badly Maaled Half of the 15th army, it Is es timated, was thrown into the lost battle of Normandy in the last two weeks and has been badly mauled. Replacements brought. In to guard the channel are believed to be low grade ! and spread : all " the way through :the -low countries. , By the Anoctatod frets- In vaslae Front Patton's tanks push within few miles of Parit and j other! allied - forces drive German Seventh amy and rein forcing 15th ' back against Seine river; :in southern France allies smash! 20 ! miles iuland behind Toulon naval base in! outflank ing movejuentj " " . . I Kasslan-i-Germacs burn Eit Prussian . viUages at red tmy approachei. I : raclfie American bombers pour St on ; Japanese airdromes at Amboina and Ceram Islands west of New Guinea. . - 1 ft., :-;.vi?!'- 3-