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t m j ! i .. ! , . . . . - , - . . " " ' .'"-'' L '. "' : .'' IXX if 'tf ' B-29 Atuicltijaps diAnshan Miilmim temperature Toesday ICS derrees; mini iniuoa 81; m rain; river 4 ft. 1 to. ;; ' Clear ' TTedaesday; Urbt Mattered ahawera north pi tkn HmumUt - KCIETY-rOURTH YEAH 10 PAGES CaUra. Oregon. 7dneada7 Morning, August S3; 1944 V Prlc 5c. No. 133 n n "'a W A. el V. ' - " - FCUNDHD 1651 ' L " - I - ' - I- -1 f. ,-i'Vf:' .. t v. Aa Amcricaa B-Z9 SnDcrfortreas on of .several participating to the attack, drops its bomb en the ' Shewa steel works to Anshan, Manchuria, second larrest iron and steel plant to the Jap system. (AT Wlrephote from army air forces) ;0tF ssananaassBSsanaasnnansnBaBsamnBn v There are marvelous possibili- ties for the development of Bush 1 parkland great responsibilities on y the city if it acquires the 43 acres of, upland in addition to the 57 acres of the bottom meadow which already is deeded to the city sub : ject enly to life-tenancy. Salem is the only city in the country with so large an area of land (100 i acres) in its natural state within ' Just a few blocks of the center of : town. Visitors . who come here t marvel at the fact The tract of 57 acres which even- tually will - come into the city's : hands includes all the flat now in : open pasture and ' extends to the . brow of the upland. According to the deed the city must construct a ; boulevard 126 feet wide across the . tract following the general mean der of the rise to the upland. The immediate question is whe- - ther the city should acquire all or ! part of the 43 acres" of upland. .Decision must be made soon be , cause Mr. Bush plans to plat the : upland into residential, lots and of - fer them for sale as sqon as war , conditions permit; reserving the " . house and gardens at, Mission and High streets for-the occupancy of Miss Sally Bush. The flat will be almost ideal for recreational park, purpose S. A I great outdoor -stadium should . be located there, backed against the : hill, with ample parking , space. ; Playf ields and courts .could be i (Continued -on Editorial Page) Poles Advance Along Adriatic ROME, Aug. 29.-P)-Polish for ces driving up the Adriatic coast of Italy have captured the village of Fano, six miles from Pesaro, and are pushing . forward within three miles of the Germans' gothic line outpost in that sector, allied headquarters announced today. . The nazis appeared to have withdrawn almost the last of their troops into the gothic line, a pow erful barrier of steel and concrete, and to be awaiting an assault by the allied Fifth and Eighth armies. A dispatch from the Swiss-Italian border on Monday reported - the Germans were evacuating three provinces of northern Italy and pulling back toward the Bren ner - pass, suggesting that Hitler might have decided to give up the : long-prepared gothic. defenses without a fight. There was noth .' ing - to support this from allied t sources.) ; Fire Hazard Halts i Log Operations PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 28 JP) logging operations were shut down in northwestern Oregon to- day as the US weather bureau warned of the worst forest fire hazard in years. High winds, temperatures in the middle 90s, and an extremely low 'relative humidity , combined , to create the dangerous situation, the weather bureau said. Portland recorded an ll-time August 29 high of 93 degrees and a maximum of 100 was forecast for tomorrow. Bad Brush Fire Burns 50 Homes l . -; : -, ; . ' LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29 -(ff) A fast sweeping brush' fire burn ed uncontrolled in the Tarzana Girard area west of here tonight, blackened . hundreds of acres of j-ugged terrain, destroyed arr esti mated SO houses .and deposited ashes in downtown Los Angeles; pO miles away. ( Firemen at the scene said they Received , a report, as yet uncon jfirmed, that the blaze started 'jA'hen a P-38 fighter plane crash- d end exploded. . ef the 118 20th bomber eoi Powerful RAF Force Batters ets LONDON,. Wednesday, Aug. 30 -P)-Th RAi"s heavy bombers struck at Germany in great strength during the night, concen trating, upon Stettin and Koenigs burg while Mosquito hit Berlin and Hamburg, the - British an nounced officially today." Upwards of 1000 bombers took part in the raids some of the most sweeping that have been car ried out over the reich in many days. v'- - "V- The blows at Koenigsburg and Stettin were apparently in direct support of the ; Russian armies striking at Germany from the east, j Stettin, on the Baltic, is a supply port for the nazis' eastern armies, while Koenigsburg Is a vital com munications center in East Prussia. It was the second time within four nights that the RAF had hit Koenigsburg. French Battle Costs Germans Over 275,000 LONDON, Aug.29 .W lie campaign in northern and" west ern France, already has cost the Germans more than 275,000 men, official tabulations disclosed to night.. In ' addition to the 42,000 prisoners, taken in . the Falaise pocket, 30,000 nazis died there, it,was announced. . The American Third army an nounced yesterday that 81,000 Germans had been killed" or cap tured 'since the beginning of ope rations in Brittany. Besides these there were rough ly 123,000 Germans accounted for in allied operations exclusive of the Falaise gap and before the Third army was activated. A Rome dispatch yesterday es timated German losses in south ern France at more than 50,000. Seattle Girl Found Slain SEATTLE, Aug. 29 An 18-year-old West Seattle girl was1 found slain in her home this even ing, apparently killed by blows on the head with a blunt weapon. The victim was Frances Rade cop. Her mother, Mrs. A. R. Rade cop, found the body in a hallway. The girl was clothed fully but her disheveled garments gave evi dence of a struggle. - Her father is a drug store em ploye. Miss Radecop was an honor graduate of West Seattle high school last jear. She was the second Seattle girl bludgeoned to death in her home th)s summer. Navy Says Tare 100 Carriers. Now Ready WASHINGTON, Au. 29-JPt The navy reviewing. the thump ings handed to' both; ends of the axis ' in the past -12 , months, de clared today that "these blows were light, compared , with the blows we are now-- prepared to deliver '-I J:!;" .- t.C . . Commenting on the progress of the navy's air arm, which marks its 3 1st anniversary . " tomorrow, Vice Admiral .Aubrey I W.. Fitch, deputy chief of naval; operations for air, said in a statement: -Mighty Force Ready s "Task force 58, whkh scourged the Jap so effectively Jn the last eight months, was poet a sweet, summer zephyr compared to the arrangements of ships, planes and other weapons old and new which are ready to lash out now." He disclosed that the navy now has approximately 100 carriers. "In or near action. Included are 14 of the mighty 'Essex type and nine of the fast and powerful In py&ermans Frontier Defenses Against Russians LONDON, Aug.. 29 - (iiP) - The nunganau (uvcrouieut ui, jrru-uzuu Doeme Sztojay fell : today, amid allied and .axis reports that nan troops were - withdrawing : from Bulgaria tg bolster the Hungarian frontier defenses against the ap proaching red armyV:"v -- I The Hungarian regent. Admiral Nicholas Horthy, accepted the res ignation of Sztojay's government and appointed Col." Gen. - Vitez Geza Lakatos as hew premier, ac cording to the G erman news agency; Transocean. V" " ; -Slovakia Occupied - At the same time the Germans occupied Slovakia, pouring troops into that puppet country because of recent parachutist and guerrilla activity there. The occupation of nazi-created Slovakia was disclosed in a broad cast' of Gen. Ferdinand Catlos, commander in chief of Slovakia's armed forces, over the Bratislava radio. The nation had been un- der martial law since Aug. 12. Appeal to People Catlos appealed to the people to receive the Germans as allies and obey, "only government .orders." The Hungarian development followed a visit to Budapest by Field Marshal Gen. Wilhelm Kei- tel, supreme commander of Ger man forces. Keitel flew back to Berlin" after conferences with Hor thy and War Minister La jos Csa- tay, who retained his place in- the reshuffled cabinet. Shortens line - - Thus Hitler appeared to be fran tically shortening up the greater reich's last defenses against, the onrushing Russians, who already have been reported crossing the Carpathian mountains into Hun garian territory. Occupied Hungary frightened by tire red army and its promise to help Romanians recover Transyl vania has been quailing political ly -under German demands for "total war effort Flying Bombs Roar Over Britain Again LONDON, A u g . 2MJP)-The roar of flying bombs filled south ern England's - countryside "-again today, causing new deaths and destruction after two successive nights of respite. The attacks were brief, but they upheld the government's warning that the end of the robot menace . was not in sight despite the reported capture of 14 launch ing platforms in the Liseux and Bernay area between Caen "land the Seine and the incessant aerial pounding of others. Playgrounds to dose Neighborhood playgrounds will close their . first and successful season Thursday but pools at dinger and Leslie grounds will remain open until Labor day. Monday, September 4, Director Gurnee Flesher announced Tues day. ' , Mighty Fleet, Including dependence class, converted from cruisers. More than 70 carriers were commissioned , during the year and work was started on two of the three projected 45,000-ton battleship-type carriers."" " " . Seme of 4 to 1 : . Naval aviators averaged more than four Japanese planes shot down for every American plane lost during the year, Fitch said. The actual score was more than 2300 Japanese craft : destroyed against 560 navy planes lost He added that "a high percentage of our pilots was rescued.' ; "Long before another anniver sary rolls around, naval aviation will be hurling at least two more new weapons against-the foe a twin-engined fighter and a scout ing plane of unmatched speed and range," the admiral said. Probably Granunaa (The twin-engined plane, pre sumably is the Grumman -designed ,F7F. The Truman committee Bolsteri Oj V - Mercury Reaches:! Even 100i)egrees ; In Salem Tuesday : Temperature, which soared to 100 . degrees in - Salem on Tues day, the capital citys jsecond hot test day of the summer, started its rise early and failed io fall until lajte. fieavylhumidity brought dU comfort id ousandsj who were relieved late in thej afternoon by a breeze,;..- V:, i. I' . Mercury In the official weather themoroeters at the fcity airport stood at .6 1 degrees jat 8 . a jn jumped ; eight degrees an ; hour through most of the . morning, reaching 91 by noon 95 at one o'clock, dropping , to 94 at 2 and stepping up to 100 Jat 3:30. It dropped one degree ihh next hour, stood at 97 at S and 94 at 6 p.m., and by 11 pm. was down to 71 degrees. .1-1 FDR Outlines Favored World Peace Agency ! ' " - - o j J - WASHINGTON, Aug.' 29-(iA proposed world peace agency de signed! to have more! formidable teeth than the defunct League of Nations was outlined today by President Roosevelt, who also he termed warned against what carping discussion of! ta details. jHe said at a new conference that ltd lose sight Of Ihe main ob jective through discussion of de tails . would . lead to misunder- standing. :' The world security organization under discussion by the United States,! Britain and j Russia at Dumbarton Oaks will be different from the old league! (which the United! States refused to enter) because the league's; council had no means to enforce peace in the world, he said. (-.. i news con ference, a dispute vfould go be fore the world courtj If it cannot ber settled - there, there must be a meeting place where you can talk it over, ' he said. He added that you could call this an as- sembly, , assembly would be com- posed of all nation! j large and small, the president declared, pre senting the same; general blue print decided upon at Dumbarton Oaks. If anyone kicks over the traces and vUjdates a frontier, Mr. JRoose velt; went 'oh,'. yoii have got to haye quick action. The council of the security organization, he indi cated. Will have force at Its dis posal tolnove immediately In such cases. L I to i Blast Foe disclosed its existence last spring, but the navy has : not given out any details on the ' fighter, the first multl-cngined plarl e designed for, carrier operations . Navy offi cials previously have mentioned a superb - new - scout plane - without identifying it.) .,l:v.l --v Fitch gave the new Essex class carriers the' major credit for ad vances: against the; enemy- in the Pacific in the last year.. Carriers PraJsO j. ' t They,.made possible the by passing; tactics which ! have placed us : so close to Japan,' he said, "They ' covered General MacAr- thur's advance ; to 1 Hollandia. Without them we wfeuld still be inching! along. We I would proba bly still be in the Marshalls. TThei year- just closing was a year, of spectacular achievement which saw- navy wings; bridge the broad Pacific and carry the war against! Japan to the very thresh hold of the enemy" Ankara Says ; Bulgars OK Peace Terms r ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 29-iJf) -It was believed in Ankara tonight that' Stoicho Moshanov, Bulgarian peace emissary, had Informed the Allies of Bulgaria's acceptance of armistice terms. . . ' Although there was no confir mation,' informed sources said an armistice with Bulgaria was im minent Owing to military consid erations, it was said, the document might be signed at Cairo. Moshanov returned to Istanbul from Ankara late today and ad vices from that city said he arrived there in a large and very dusty German-make' automobile driven by a Bulgarian army chauffeur. , I . Moshanov, bearing evidences of hard traveling, rushed to a hotel room where he was joined by the Bulgarian minister to Turkey and the Bulgarian consul general. Water Famine Comes to End In Silverton SILVERTON, Aug. 29 The die sel engine which operates the city pumping plant started at 8:15 Tuesday night and Silvertbn's i water famine was over. The engine head was broken Sunday night. After a coastwide ! search for repairs, with five diesel experts on hand, the new head was installed Tuesday. Then the machine turned ' temperamental, and would xt function, vjwo fires in the waterless town wci e recorded during Out day.Ontf man suffered severe hand burns from gasoline used in work on the reluctant or stubborn engine, and city dads became-tnore Jittery, in the August heat. Then the engine started and water flowed into the fast drying water lines. , . ' , Cutting in of the new Abiqua pipeline under . construction will not be possible for several days, Lewis Yales, city water superin tendent, said Tuesday night. -' ' Use of water was limited to bar- i est household needs, -SilverTails lumber mill, pumped its own water and yet many parts of town re ceived no water from the open faucets. .... r ' --: Battle Names Familiar Again By the yiaaoclaM Presa The American forces in France have taken in a single day three historic points that were fought over for months in 1918r Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry and Sois- Sons. ;- .' ' " In World war I Americans cleared Belleau Wood in counter attacks June 6-25; Chateau-Thierry was won July 21 in the allied counter-offensive that began July 18, and Soissons fell to the French after m three-mile advance that took them from July 18 to Aug. 2. Even .these dates do not convey the full picture, for the area had been a battleground since the great German offensive that began May 27. Drive Underway For Cannery Help United States employment ser vice representatives making 1 a Louse-to-house canvass in Salem to obtain workers for canneries here when the emergency season opens Thursday have a goal of approximately- 750 additional em ployes to be secured tills week and hundreds more by Septemebr 15. f - Peaches, pears, blackberries, beans, beets and corn are current ly on the canning agenda. Heaviest work will come with prunes from September 5 into October, canners predict. - Albany May Increase Population by 3000 ; ALBANY, Aug. 29 -(JF)- Albany ciuzens wui , vote tomorrow on whether to expand the town's territory by 75 per cent and 3000 inhabitants. : A ballot measure proposes in clusion of five suburban areas in the city limits. Both present resi dents and persons in the proposed addition will vote, Russians Capture Constanta . Red Troops Only 29 Miles From " Bulgaria Border . LONDON, Wednesday, Aug. 29 (ARussian forces in a . daring combined land and sea operation yesterday captured Constanta, Ro mania's great Black sea port and for three years the main German naval base in those waters. . '. ' Seizure of the city of 60,000 rep resented an 85-mile advance' by sea from the port of Sulina; taken Monday, and of 70 miles, by land from Tulcea on the Danube, and it put -Russian troops' only 29 miles from the Bulgarian border. " Constanta, terminus, of the oil pipeline from Ploesti, has at least 37 huge petroleum storage tanks and a special tanker basin.' Nearing Berder Twenty-nine miles farther south lie the border established in Sep tember, 1940, when Romania ced ed the southern Dobruja territory of 2883 square miles below the Danube to Bulgaria under pres sure from Bulgaria, Germany and Italy. The Germans already had ac knowledged during the day that Soviet - troops had . reached the Ploesti-Constanta pipeline. Boxaa Evacuated They also admitted withdrawing from Buzau, oil and railway town 40 miles northeast of Ploesti. - The Soviet midnight communi que, confirming capture of Buzau, said more than "150 other" towns were taken in the extending drive in that region less than 60 miles northeast of Bucharest. Allied Plan Pound Ambon GENERAL H E A DQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific,' Wednesday, Aug. 30.-JP)-A record heavy raid in the Moluccas of 188 tons which hit Ambon Monday was reported today by Gen. Douglas MacAiihur. Ambon Is on Amboina just west of Dutch New Guinea. Liberators, escorted by Light nings,' left 1 the Ambon barracks and harbor: works a mass of flames. ' V-: Offshore, a 3000 ton ship was set ablaze. The raiders met no inter ception and suffered no losses, t To the northeast of Amboina, other Liberators on the same day dropped 48 tons on Palau harbor and airdromes. - Pulpwood Ceiling Goes In Effect September 1 SEATTLE, Aug. 29.-CP)-The ofr fice of price administration an nounced today that pulpwood pro duced in the western states will be subject, September 1,' to pro ducers' maximum prices of March, 1942. The move is designed to in crease the general supply of fire wood through curtailment of pur chases outside of rationing con trol at premium prices. . Salem Of fered Chariceto Buy Bush Uplands for $250,000 " .. By Isabel Childs B .- City Editor, The Statesman ; The .City of Salem may buy for $250,000 the 43 acres of uplands at the west end of the Bush estate to. bring its park holdings to an even 100 acres. 1 - - -Thia price quoted Monday by Henry V. Compton, vice president of the Pioneer Trust company, holder of the property. Is $30,000 under .the sum company officers believe could be 'realized if the land were'divided into 344 build ing lots and sold for residential use., " - - It is Just $150,000 above that which, the negotiation committee composed of Milton L. Meyers, E. J. Scellars ancfW. J. Needham be lieved the municipality jnight be willing to invest : . ' - 1 So the committee will send the figure to the city council without recommendation, its members in dicated Tuesday night. " : Cut, outside the council cham From Across ) . Channel -Heard . ' f -. . ; - ' : t " : . British Near Robot Nests as Yanks Roll Over First WorW War Battleifields With Ease LONDON;? Wednesday; Aug 30 (AP)A aflied In. vaslon armies speared across France almost at will yester day and German "commentators began writing the country; off as TirtuaJly lost, British forces made a determined drivw to wipe out the nazi flying-boml bases on the French eoasU A mysterious explosion ' that was , the heaTiest felt in Britain since the war began shook the whole southeastern coast of England shortly before midnight. There- was no explanation of what it was, but it appeared to come from a seaward direction. ? - : 1 O : At -almost the same time a Brit Allies Fearful Hitler Gang to Attempt Escape WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 - -military , leaders here are becoming increasingly apprehensive over the possibility that Adolf Hitler - and some of his henchmen may -fly from their battered inner fortress in the next few weeks and seek refuge in a neutral country. 7:- Concern has become' such that a I new appeal may be issued to the neutrals not to"give sanctuary to the men who led the-world into war and now appear bent upon a final drama of unparalleled bIood-3 lust Jn Europe. r ' -.- - 4.. , Such an appeal would be direct ed particularly to Spain and. Ar gentina, because of their past or J present links with the JNazi gov ernment of ; Germany and the strong suspicions current in diplo matic and treasury ' circles here, that the German leaders have stored funds in both countries. . . American officials consider it a foregone conclusion that many of the Nazi hierarchy who are , too well known to have any chance of concealment in Germany by going underground will try to save themselves from Allied trials and punishment' by dramatic airplane escapes. ' Oregon Licenses Nite Mare' 'Cause It's MecUanical So Oregon licensed the "Nite Mare," but not until Secretary of State Robert. S. Farrell, jr, had assured himself that- his office was issuing a number and plate to a mechanical steed. ' .'""? . Roy E. Sheldon, Portland, who Tuesday sought from :. the - state motor vehicle division of the state department a license for the "Nite Mare," describes the contrivance, to be used for ; advertising pur poses, as 42 inches high, mounted on a steel frame with, four rubber tires. t : -i rH:-V--' Two parts marine engine, one part washing machine engine and various other parts, the "critter's" mobile power may be unusual but it is of the variety his department must license, Farrell said. bers, they will make no bones about, the disappointment which will be theirs, if. the land is not eventually secured as a part, of what is tentatively planned as one of the west coast's loveliest city parks. - --; ;, Holders of the property, outside committee' negotiation sessions, have, been free to admit that the money is not the only cause in volved in their attitude.' That area of the city (just south of Mission and east of High street) is grow ing, If improvements were to be started immediately after the close of the war, the people's interests would be served. But should pos sible fine residences be driven out side the city only to have the place remain a pastureland, overshad owing the fine old gardens and house, the loss would be every' one's. (Tentative plans or the park appear on page C) , 7- ish general was' issuing a special order -to his troops declaring, "For the, first time in this war we are fighting directly to free our homes, our wives and our children from German attacks. Every yard we which he (the German) can launch his secret .weapons . . Let us drive forward relentlessly, taking as our motto 'One more kilometer, one less bomb.' ; , Near Belgian Line ', Northeast of Paris Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third army, drove to within 55 miles of the Belgian frontier and to points less than 100 miles from the border ot Get m n y itself, , encountering scarcely any opposition . at: all as they, raced - 25 . miles"' In one day over famed battlefields of the first ; World war, capturing Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood and Sois : OnS.? : . .,-, Tf, w, ,., - : ;ti The battle for southern Franco .. was drawing to a close as Lt Gen. Alexander . M. Patch's American troops struck up the Rhone valley , and to the east of it speared prac tically to the Swiss frontier, white French units plunging west of the Rhone toward the SDanish border captured Nimes, a city of nearly 100,000. I V Admit Withdrawal Berlin announcements d u r i nj the day stated flatly that the Ger- " mans were withdrawing ; their troops from southern France ex cept to defend certain ports, and the nazi high command spokesman Gen. Kurt Dittmar declared that t as a result of both invasions the greater part of France is lost." . "In two month," he observed, "We have lost a considerable por tion of the fruits we harvested ear lier and thought we could hold for good." - ' A high though indirect compu- - ment to-the speed of the, allied drives, Gen. Dittmar said they were reminiscent of the battles of 1940, the period of Germany's lightning war through the west Tough Name Saves Yank From Enemy Tracer Bullets ; ; US PACIFIC FLEET . HEAD QUARTERS," Pearl; Harbor, Aug. 26-(Delayed)-(P)-A Japanes trac er bullet ripped up the dungaree legs of ; Thomas ; W. (Frenchy) Delahoussaye, crewman aboard an American patrol bomber during a -recent air action in the central Pacific. , v; -:'-: J ' U--:' Frenchy, 20-year-old resident of Lafayette, La was uninjured and. nonchalant. He just kept . on shooting : at the Offending Japa nese fighter pilot. Later he told his commanding officer, "Tory. cant bit me because they earit ' spell my name," . Thumbnail By the Aaaoclatod Preas ' Northern Franee American 3rd army captures Belleau wood, Chateau-Thierry and Soissons in smash to within 55 miles of Bel gian border, threatens to outflank German rocket bomb installations. ' Southern France Yanks chase disorganized enemy : remnants up Rhone valley; French troops drive, for French-Spanish border. . Germany Reich, spokesman airs peace feelers, admits defeat drawing near. Eastern Eorepe Russians take Romania's ' principal 'Black sea port bf Constanta? threaten to eo- J circle Germans defending Floes'l, Joil Cdda. a-