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j . In the first world war the phrase !
,"war to end war" was freely used.
H. G. Wells claims it as his own,
though popularly it is credited to
Pres. Woodrow Wilson. Since, that
.war did not prove to be the ter
minating war of history the phrase
it heard but seldom now. However
' we do hear much about "durable
'peace" and that phrase carries the
same implication. This time, to be
sure, people are not so cock-sure
about the permanence of peace
either with or without a league
cf nations.-. . , .
I wonder however If we quite
Kkppreciate the dichotomy involved
n this war-to-end-war idea. I am
not sure : I am using the word
dichotomy", correctly, but it was
one that Ralph Curtis used occa-
sionally and with seeming appro--'
priateness, so I will try it out
What I mean Is the antithesis
wrapped up In that phrase of the
- first world war. ; ; y ,
! To win a modern war we must
; exorcise all the passions of na
- tionalism. How then can we ex
pect out of such soil to grow the
i flowers and. fruit of peace which
." must involve some measure of in
ternationalism unless we are to
1 have single world-state, which
' no one has proposed.
t Modern war is total, as we know;
and that means the public think
, ing must be conditioned for wa-
' ging war as well as its industrial
, life mobilized
(Continued on Editorial Page)
WaltonsWant
, Gty to Buy "
Bush Pasture
Salem Izaak Walton league di
rectors Wednesday night adopted
' a resolution which they said they
would take to the city coun
7 cil urging the city of Salem to
place before the voters at the No
vember election a measure pro
viding for the acquisition of the
western 43 acres of Bush's pas
ture. . 'r
The organization favors acqui
sition of the tract "so that the
people of Salem , . M may per
manently have within the city
. limits an . abundance of native
' trees and shrubs of Oregon . . .
and . . . so that within , the city
; there my be a sanctuary for the
uativt: birds of Qregon, and even
; iually a- zoo ' for native- wildlife
. and aquatic exhibits,'! the reso
lution declares.
Bradley Witt
Rank Equally J
WUhMonty
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30--A
realignment of the allied com
mand in France to give Lt Gen,
Omar N. Bradley parallel status
with Gen. Sir Bernard I. Mont
' gomery as an army group com
mander was reported here today.
This move, it was explained, will
be made in recognition of the
rapidly broadening scope of oper-
r ations. ;i; -.
f Anticipating a recurrence of
protests voiced by some newspa
- pers in Britain when a similar re
port-plater denied-came from al
lied headquarters two - weeks ago.
informed persons said there was
no criticism,' rea or implied, of
Gen. Montgomery.
1 A formal announcement of the
change is expected shortly. Mean-
. while, it was said that since Gen.
Eisenhower moved his headquar
ters to France and ; took personal
command of the operations, the
need for a deputy commander for
all allied ground forces no longer
exists, and therefore the title
.held by Montgomery since the in
.vasion started has lost its mean
big. . .. ,-, . ; . ; ,-.
' Engineer Has Fine Slate
,' PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. SO-P)
Engineer Neil Ryan ended his last
run in the PorUand station with
-a record of over half a century
of railroading and no injured pas
wceagers. - - '.
'Dewey Maps Outlntensive
Campaign on Pacific Coast
, PAWLING,. NY, Aug. .30 -(ff)
With war emphasis- expected to
ireer toward the Pacific between
now and election day, Gov. Thom
as E. , Dewey- tonight mapped out
n intensive campaign drive along
the Japanese-conscious west coast
Two major speeches will be
made by the republican presiden
tial nominee in the politically po
tent state , of California, ; which
both sides concede to be in the
doubtful column this' year. It was
from San Diego that President
Roosevelt accepted his fourth
term nomination in a nationwide
broadcast last month. f ; ir
As further indication of the im
portance attached to - the Pacific
area by Dewey's managers, It was
announced that major campaign
f Jdresses also have been sched
uled for Seattle, Wash," and Port-,
land, Ore. President Roosevelt's
NTNETY-FOURTH YEAH
Bucharest
Nea:
Soviets 4 Link ; ?
Armies; forr Blow.
'aihst Hungary
LONDON, Thursday, Aug.r 31.-
(P)-The Russians cleared the Ger
mans out of all the rich Ploesti.oil
fields and penetrated the Buchar
est metropolitan area yesterday
while linking up, their two armies
in the Romanian theater' for a con
centrated blow in the direction of
the Hungarian plains.
Fall of Ploesti, long the greatest
single source-of oil for the German
armies, was hailed as the most sig
nificant day's victory of the 12-day
campaign, which forced Romania
a week ago to jump from the axis
to the allied camp.
200 Towns Fall -
In capturing more than 200
towns in a day around Ploesti and
northeast of Bucharest, the near
est announced soviet approach to
the Romanian capital was 17 miles
at the village of Meriuta.
Speedy patrols, however, were
believed to be much nearer to the
capital, which the Romanians have
announced they themselves al
ready retrieved from the Germans.
15,000 Nazis Taken
The lightning advance .south-
westward by Gen. Rodion Y. Mai'
inovsky's second Ukrainian army
caught another 15,000 Germans
Tuesday, Moscow announced, -the
prisoners including a corps com
mander t?en. HeU; 11. divisional
commander; Lt-r Gen. Weitzner,
and two colonels commanding di
visions. This brought the total of
captured . German generals to 34
since the general summer of fen
siw began June 23.,
The bag in Wednesday's race of
more man mues irom puzau
ai . m m j v
rlv
Reached
naa noi yei oeen coumeo, out uwtThe American government, it was
ixerman losses in ine unsuccessrui
defense of Ploesti were declared
by the Moscow communique to be
"tremendous."
Flying Bombs
Strike London
'LONDON, Aug." 30-(fVSmash-
ing through blazing defensive, fire,
periodic salvos of flying bombs
struck London and southern Eng
land today, -and as allied aVmies
racing for Belgium 'captured more
launching sites and bombers ham
mered others,: the 'riazi-contr'olled
Oslo radio declared Hitler's V-l
weapon was portable and could
be shifted for operation to all
parts of the mainland.
One of the missiles exploding in
southern England scattered prop
aganda leaflets which charged.
Britain with inaugurating the
bombing of civilians. The leaflets
bore - pictures of mothers ' and
children allegedly killed in Ham
burg and Cologne.
Grass Fire Hits Adair
J- CAMP ADAIR, Ore., Aug. 50
(")- A fire on the Camp Adair
military reservation, near the
town - of Independence, Ore,
swept over nearly 1000 , acres of
grass and brush lands before it
was controlled by ; soldier fire
crews today.
broadcast -from. Bremerton, Wash.,
on his return from Pearl Harbor
and the Aleutians, has been de
scribed by- the; republicans as a
political speech.' ; . r . c
" The GOP standard bearer will
start bis cross country expedition
from New York next Thursday
"loaded for bear." He has been
in complete seclusion on his farm
near here since last Friday, night
building - oratorical Ordnance for
the trip.
No hint has leaked out from his
guarded workroom as to wha t
targets he has In mind, but Indi
cations have mounted that the
topic for one of his Pacific coast
speeches might well be the sur
prise Japanese attack -on Petri
Harbor and the administration's
handling of relations with Japan
prior to December 7, 194L
12 PAGES
Gen. LeClerc Inspects Armor
Gen. Jacques LeClerc (with cane),
armored division, inspects one of his units at the Are del Triomphe,
Paris, during- the celebration marking the liberation ef the. French
capital. AP Wirepheto)
Hull Reiterates
Full Surrender
For Germany
V
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20rJPh
emphasized today,- Is resolute on
unconditional . surrender as the
only terms for Germany and it
does not intend to let Hitler and
his henchmen escape punishment
by taking refuge in some neutral
country. ,
" Secretary of State Hull restated
this policy in effect when asked at
his news conference for comment
on the broadcast of the. ace nazi
military commentator, Lt Gen.
I Kurt Dittmar, admitting that -the
defeat of Germany ' is ' drawing
closer.' . . V' ; k
It is evident, Hull declared, that
the Germans are desirous of a ne
gotiated peace but the allied posi
tion: for ,uphconditi6nar'surrender
iS to well known to require reiter
ation; ,
As for the possibility that Hitler
and other leading nazis may flee
to a neutral country, Hull said this
government is keeping that con
stantly in mind.' President Roose
velt, he recalled, appealed to the
neutrals a year ago not to furnish
sanctuary, to war criminals and the
British government did likewise.
Forest Fire :
Danger Great
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 30-(iT
High temperatures end low hum!
dity . continued in . Oregon today
i forest fire hazards approached
the flash stage, forestry officials
reported. .. : . : ".;;v,V
At Portland t he thermometer
dropped to 90 from the 93 regis
tered yesterday.
- Ashland had a top reading, of
101 today, the highest reported in
Oregon." Readings were lower , at
Tillamook and Astoria where
Tuesday- temperatures" s et near
records. . .. - .
Gov. Earl Snell urged people to
stay out of Oregon forests. He
said logging operations have, gen
erally stopped throughout west
ern Oregon because of the high
temperatures and low humidity
which make fire hazards the most
serious In many years.'
Salem Stores to Be
I Closed Lalfbr Day
Stores in Salem wQl be closed
Labor day,"" next Monday," and
buying for the double holiday
should be done as early as pos
sible this week to avoid too great
crush on Saturday, Ed Schreder,
president of the Salem Retail
Trade bureau, announced Wednesday.
Salem, Oregon.
DUL.
It:
commander of the 2nd French
v i J ; -s
if
THis Bandit Was
(And Also Dumb)
FITCHBURG, iasi"?ilui-.'.30-
(JPy Harry; Ferguson, who runs a
Main street tailor shop, Reported to
police that a gunman, handker
chief overi
late today,
demanded
face, entered
his shop
pointed a revolver and
money. " :j
"Sorry,'
I said : Mr. J Ferguson,
"there s no money here
"Oh,"; said the gunman,
"okay,
then.- , L:
He pocketed his guri,
shrugged
his. shoulders, and meekly walked
out. i i
3
14th Army in Burma
At Chindwin River
SOUTHEAST A S Ia. COM
MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan
dy, Ceylon Aug. 30b-(43HForward
elements of the allied! 14th army
4n- Burma were established ' to
night on the bank of fthe Chind
win river : in ; the tiny village of
Hwemate. ; 1
The new. advance
caroe after
allied troops : crushed
an enemy
stronghold ; on the trail east of
Thanan where 500 'Japanese
bodies were counted aftet the bat
tle. HeavyJ Japanese
was captured. ;
equipment
Yanks Drive Toward Belgium
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Arrews show allied effensives ea the twe f rents La France, we ere
allies held the areas ahewe ia black. In the : north, Americans
creased the Aisse river and seared Laos hi a push toward the Del
gian border. In the south there was heavy flrhtlzr ctar LcricL
swrtsi ef eastnred Montellmar, as Americans dreve toward tie
: Cheae river from the east. (AT
Thursday Morning. August 31.
nnan
Balkan
Kettle-; r::
Boiling; r;
Russia Attacks
Bulgarks'
" Stands in War ' ;
; - LONDON Thursday, Aug. Sl-f
(iP)-The Balkan kettle was boiling
oyer, today, threatening the Ger
man defense structure with these
developments: - v i
I'L; A bitter Soviet radio attack
on 'Bulgaria's proclaimed "neutral
ity as a pro-German ruse; ,
2.. Arrival of a Bulgarian armis
tice commission in Cairo to try to
bargain with Britain and the Unit
ed States for peace; ,
Arrival of a Romanian armis
tice commission in Moscow to talk
terms, even though .Romania al
ready has shifted to the Allied
side; .;:- - :'; v- -
4. Flare-up of guerrilla warfare
in the German puppet state of Slo
vakia which led to a German oc
cupation; - ' .,
"5. Russian press . criticism of
Turkey, accusing her of playing a
double game with the Germans
and urging a more positive pro
Allied stand.
The latest blast from-the Mos
cow radio,, quoting Tass, official
Soviet news agency, in a dispatch
significantly datelined "Constan-
ta," said German naval vessels had
found safe shelter in Bulgarian
Black sea and Danube rjver. ports
and tpat the Bulgarian govern
nl'a , rprpclaimed4neutrality' Is
irt order to enable the Germans to
hide in Bulgaria from prosecution
by the Allies." . ;
r Dispatches .direct from -Moscow
portrayed- the Kremlin as believ
ing that perhaps the Balkans rep
resented the easiest route of in
vasion of Germany,' provided Tur
key would get busy and clean out
the Aegean and provided Bulgaria
would, come around to the Allied
side;' permitting a juncture of the
Russians and Marshal Tito's Yugo
slav, partisans. , . .
LBtLuDDetlLn
. A Horst hop warehouse -
12 miles south, of Scdom win r
burniiKr- at- 2 o'clock this '
mcrning with a blaze which ?
lighted a beacon in the sky "
visible for many; miles.
Sparks from a, bonfire set
on tho river beach by child
ren were said to hare been
the cause of the fire.
Polk county . fire , fighters
bcrnled the blaze which was
destroying the camp three
warehouse, which contained
some - of this year's crop
: and threatened other build
ings and nearby yards.
Wirepboto)
1SU
,
Yankee Fleet ,
Contains 1150
iting
WASHINGTON, Aug. S0-(ff)-The
American fleet now numbers
more than". 1150 major fighting
ships, Navyl Secretary Fprrestal
disclosed today . in . reporting .that
63,000 vessels of all types have
been added to the navy in the last
five years. - 4
' This' armada makes the United
States : "the greatest naval power
on earth, Fprrestal commented at
a news conference, with its build
ing program "little more than half
finished." ' "
He was asked how many ships
have been turned over to other na
tions under lend-lease and : was
unable to reply off-hand but .the
navy later issued a memorandum
giving the total as 2822. Of these,
the memorandum said, 1784 'are
classified as combatant ships and
include large type landing craft ;
Nips Threaten
Yank Air Base
In Chekiang ;
CHUNGKING, Aug. S0-(VA
bitter battle is raging for Lishui,
potential Chekiang province base
for future bombings of Japan and
the goal of the Japanese in China
ever since Doolittle's 1942 raid on
Tokyo, the Chinese high command
announced tonight.
The Japanese have driven all
the 30-miles south from their base
at Wuyi in the heart of the Mari
time province and in the space of
several weeks reached the gates of
ihe city, t;- J-r-
(A Japanese broadcast claimed
Lishui 'already was captured and
described it as a "formidable air
base" of the American air forces
in China.) - "
The Japanese also launched a
strong attack on Hunan province
and another far to the west, in
Yunnan province near the Burma
border. ' - . ..
Albany Adds ;
4 Districts,
3500 Persons v
ALBANY, Aug. 30 Four' dist
ricts with a population of " approx
imately 3500 persons were - added
to Albany, on - Wednesday ' when
residents of both the thickly-pop-ula
ted adjacent areas and of the
city ' voted to extend city boun
daries. Official census figures in
1940 gave Albany a population of
5654.
A fifth district, lying east of
the, city, including approximately
10 blocks abutting on Broadway,
turned, down the city's invitation
to join it by a vote of 16 to 10.
Included in the boundary, ex
tension is the area east of Albany
beyond i Geary . street ; io . . the
Brickyard, road, south-to- the San-
tiam; highway and north toT the
river, embracing a plywood, plant
and many L of' the. residences . of
Nebefgall Packing plant employes.
Albany residents' cast . 408 solid
votes in favor of issuing the invi
tation, 22 split votes; 417 In. favor
of indudmg n section of Bryant
park . (city owned and without
population but included in ; the
five districts) to bring it . under
police control, and 10- against. Of
the 230 votes cast by residents of
the suburbs Involved 137 were for
joining the city, 5 . opposed.
Former Senator Norris
In Critical Condition ;v
McCOOlC Nebrf Aug. 30-P
Former " Sen. George .W. Norris
pulse has speeded up and the t3-year-old
legislator "is still in a
critical condition, his physicians
said tonight i:.r-'-:Zj--:y:
The Veteran independent, "Fath
er" of the TVA and author of the
lame duck constitutional amend
ment. has not recovered complete
consciousness since " suffering a
cerebral hemorrhage yesterday at
his home here. . - .
Grc!:curd Upsets
. KLAT IATH FALLS, Ore Aug.
2-D-riftecn passengers were in
hospitals here and at Dorris and
Yreka tonight after- a Pacific
Greyhound motor stage left the
Weed highway and capsized near
Grass Lake, Calif, today, ;
Ships
Prlc 5c
;I3
7th Army
Germans
Valley in
. Patton's Men Advance 20 Miles v
: -T6 Draw N ;
. ; v Driving Hard for Rocket Coast ?
? ; ; LONpOIrsday; Au 31-1 AP)-fAllied and Ger
man accounts , combined today to ghow powerful American
armies driving: forward along- the shortest roads to Germany
and Belgium 80 miles, from the reich and about 36 from
the Belgian border--4n a ereat doubleheader offensive.
In sonthern France the American Seventh army, now
disclosed to be under Genera! Eisenhower's over-all com
mand in the campaign to crush the Germans in France, was
pursuing stragg;Hng remnants of the nazi 19th army up the
Rhone valley and slashing their flanks as they rushed to
wards .the escape gap between
Montelimar and Livron. i !
Near St Bixier f
The Rhine-bound flying col
umns of Lt Gen. George S. Pat
ton's American Third army .were
placed near St Bizier by the Ger
man radio reports after a 20-mile
advance from Vitry. This would
put them on . the great road east
through Nancy to the Rhine and
only 80 miles from German soil.
Reims, siege city "of the ,World
war, fell without a shot as the
Americans rolled on. ;
Allied headquarters placed Lt
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges Ameri
can; First , army . near Laon, 36
miles from . Belgium and unoffi
cial reports said Laon already was
occupied. .; v t :
British : Advance
: On .the other wing of the allied
northern Xront, between cans ana
the sea, the British and Canadian
armies were pressing the Germans
in the coastal . area back toward
the Americans on the Aisnie river.
It was officially announced that
the British drove beyond . Beau
vais to about 25 miles : south of
Amiens, - on the Somme, and
through Gorunay, ; 16 miles west
of Beauvais, toward the German
flying bomb coast :
Official reports from the south
of France placed Lt . Gen. Alex
ander M." Patch's Seventh " army
within six miles of Valence at
Chabeauil, but the Germans said
the Americans had reached points
12 miles northeast of Valence in
an outflanking movement - .
OP A Grants
Lamb Bonus
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 - 0P) -The
office of price administration
acted today to relieve the . surplus
lamb . situation in . the : Pacific
Northwest by labeling a' special
ration stamp for lamb purchases in
the' region between September 3
and October 21.'
The' 10-point stamp - will - be
spare No. 23 in Ration book 4. It
will apply to all of Washington,
all of Oregon but Malheur county,
and the 10. northern Idaho coun
ties. PVy':
i - The OPA estimateil that the' ac-
tion will allow , an average pur
chase of r approximately "two
pounds of lamb extra for each ra
tion book- holder. Trkjr.;"rTi.
Commander Appointed
: STOCKHOLM, Aug.. 30-(iP)
The newspaper Dagens Nyheter
reported in a Berlin dispatch to
night that CoL Gen. Ferdinand
Schoener ..had been appointed
commander in chief of German
armies on the northern sector of
the Russian front
House Republicans Unleash
NetcBlactoii
WASHINGTON, Aug. IQHJPr
Housc republicans today pounced
on' Sidney Hillman as a "dictator"
and "communist" who, they said,
might get the job of administering
postwar reconversion, and demo
crats promptly charged the GOP
with making the subject a "polit
ical football." - . . - .
imiman's role as head of the
CIO political action committee
wLich.is raising funds to further
the Roosevelt-Truman campaign
was Injected into the second and
final day's debate on measures to
aid in reconversion of the nation's
economy to a peacetime basis.
Before the" subject was exhaust
ed, both sides touched on the per
sonalities of ' the' campaign, the
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Bremen, Kiel ,
Again Pounded
ByUSH eavies
LONDON, Aug. 30 - (JP) - More
than 1000 US heavy bombers,' with,
an escort of approximately the -same
size, joined, in assaults today
on the great German ports of Kiel
and Bremen and flying bomb in
stallations : in the Pas-de-Calais
area. All of the planes returned
safely. ' :-''Y:
A communique tonight reported,
intense antiaircraft . fire .Fa en-"
countered by the force of up to 750
Flying fortresses which struck the
Kiel and. Bremena real and that
some ground fire had been met by
the more than 300 Fortresses' and
Liberators in an earlier attack on -
the flying bomb Installations. '
" No enemy air opposition, how
ever, was ; encountered 1 in either
operation. ; '
The raid on Kiel was the 14th
by the Americans; that on Bremen (
the tenth. Crewmen . reported
heavy clouds required bombing by
instruments and prevented a ecu-
rate assessmnet of the results. '
British Force
Joins Poles
On Adriatic
. (
ROME, Aug. 30 (AV British
troops, transferred - secretly from
the interior, have Joined the Pol
ish corps in a smashing attack
against German Gothic line out
posts near the Adriatic coast and
haye ' captured a , commanding
ridge eight miles southwest of the
port of Pesaro, allied headqiiar-
ters announced tonight ;
The full-scale .assault, appar
ently; taking the enemy . by . sur
prise, dislodged the, crack German
first parachute. division from
strong positions and threatened to
outflank ' Pesaro, from which. Pol
ish and. British troops . were only
four miles distant after a two
mile thrust from FanO along the
coast "
. By capturing the three-mile-long
ridge overlooking the Foglia
river, which flows " into the see
at Pesaro, the British and Poles
virtually cleared the enemy from,
the last hill . positions before the
Gothic line defenses in that sec,
tor. . The . attacking troops . were
within 18 miles of the rim of the
great Po valley of northern Italy.
democratic national c o n v e ntion,
the republican candidacy of Thom-,
as E. Pewey for president now and
for district attorney in 1937."
Rep. Cellar (D-NY) ignited the "
fiery exchanges when he praised
HQlman's views as given to the
house campaign expenses commit-.
tee. He said the detractors of Hill-,
man call him a commurist but it
ia,hardly' likely that ,he two
union banks he heads would per
mit him to bold such high bffice if
he' were one. '
Celler said Dewey "accepted"
$5000 from Hillman and the CIO
for his district attorney campaign
seven years so and "it is altoge
ther different when one is on the
receiving end."
Pushing
Up Rhone
Disorder
SidneyiuMcm
t ....