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: : ; .' - Jy ' " ''-"v ' 5 'r V-'''y -if - " if ' ' " ' '"' w Wm (o ) ii-tm o OtofeU t d1 till wm ill 1 . " Maximum (tmpc ratar Triiay 72 derrce; minimum . SS; m rain; river, 4.1 . ft. . Partly eloady west- ef Cas- ' cades, thcrwise clear SaU ' ' vrday - and Snnday; rising --, . tempters tares ta , Interior; Monday partly cloudy. 'huj gooa t . ! i . . 1 i .; . - : a 'V -. The new deal brigade which . succeeded better than it anticipate ' ed in eliminating both Nelson and Wilson from WPB and setting In one of their own kind, i. A. Krug, as chairman, is now gunning for - Will Clayton, now in charge of - surplus property disposal. Clay. ton, who is said to be the largest - .cotton merchant in the world, is r from Houston, Texas, Jesse Jone's - own town. The new dealers think he will see only through, the eyes f of big business, so he becomes the . current public enemy in their mind. : - Meantime the house and senate - have passed different bills on sur- plus ; disposal. The house bill, which follows Clayton's Ideas . closely, calls for a single admin istrator. The senate bill creates a .board of eight to be named .by the president, who ."shall give due consideration to the various geo graphical areas and economic In terests of the nation." The board then names an administrative di rector whose salary is the same as that of board members, $10,000 a -yea. - f - ":h.:v ' '- v The senate bill contains the odd ' provision that two senators and ' two representatives shall be named : to sit with the board and "from - time to time report to the con gress" on proceedings.- As though - this ; complicated setup was : not . enough, a "surplus advisory coun .' cil" is created, composed of vari- ' ous cabinevmembers and heads of war agencies... " - " 1 l- Ji there Is" danger from, the - house bill of too great concentra tion of power in the hands of one ' man, the senate bill goes to the other .. - -. .' . v' - ' ' (Continued on editorial page) FDRpmrchiU To Plan Final Blows on Japs - LONDON,.. Sept 1 -JP - Presi dent Roosevelt and Prime Minis ter. Churchill - will meet soon to plan the shift of American and British might from Europe, where they now sight victory in the near future, ,td the Pacific for a Joint effort to crush Japan. The meeting . probably will be held this month at Quebec, it was disclosed.' today, and -may. be fol lowed after. Germany's final capit ulation by another session with Premier Marshal Joseph sitting in to discuss Russia's role in the Pa cific war as well as the future of Europe. J '- . ' ' v. ', Roosevelt and Churchill met in Quebec in August of last year to approve the master plan for the invasion of the-continent. Not un til these plans had been partly carried out in the organizing of men : and materials did the two leaders spread them out before Stalin. 1 This time it is different In the far eastern war it will be the American , and British forcer, back by combined air and naval forces of unquestioned superiori ty, which will . have the initial i task of softening up the enemy. s In the European war the red army 'had this Job. Blonumeut Peak Berry Patch to Open Sunday Monument peak huckleberry patch In Linn county will be open ' to the public Sunday, September 1, and will remain open through Sunday, September 10. . Entry permits will be -required t and can be obtained at the Gates guard station. A fire warden will be on duty at : the , huckleberry patch. Because of the hazardous fire condition no camping will be a permitted within the area.' This Sounds Like ' Paul Bunyan Story I ILETZ, Sept H-Tree fellers not farmhands are sought for harvest on the Cliff ton Brassfield f place. - . "; I Brassfield can scarcely reach , the ears on his ld-foot corn, and , he is dwarfed beneath 12-foot lima bean plants. KINETY-rOUKTH YEAB Junction ; Sith Tito Red Goal Russians Reach Bulgars' Border. Seize Giurgiu v '"IjONDON, ; Saturday, Sept 2- Russian motorized troops speed ing westward through Romania to ward a junction with Marshal Ti to's partisan army yesterday drove to within 150 miles of the Yugo slav frontier and also reached Bul garia's Danube border with the seizure of - the i big -river 'port of Giurgiu, 35 miles southwest of oc cupied Bucharest :PT " Gen. R.dion Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukraine army swept, through more than. 160 towns and villages, fan ning out west and south of Ploesti and south and east of the capitu lated Rornian capital. ( Villages Fatt ' .' -; " DarmanesU, 1Z miles west' of Ploesti, wag among 60 villages tak en in that area, and one report put the Russians only 130 miles from the Yugoslav, border. V . v Other Soviet 'units striking to ward the Predeel and Buzau pass es above PloesU were reported within 20 miles-of Brasov, .Tran sylvanian city on the other side of . the Carpathian mountains, in their swift pursuit of the broken nasi Balkan forces. Qmntuu : Flee v . v : - - Field dispatches said the bulk of .the . routed. Germans were in disorderly flight westward through the Danube valley toward the "iron' gate" pass leading to Hun gary and southern Germany.' i Striking southwest of Bucharest the Russians seized Ghimpati, 19 miles beyond the capital, and roll ed on into Giurgiu, headquarters of commerce between Romania and Bulgaria. . v Naval Planes Slug Shijpping Near Celebes N GENERAL. HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Saturday, Sept 2-4fV-Con tinuing attacks against shipping in southwestern waters, Ca tali na flying boats sank one merchantman and damaged an other at Celebes, headquarters an nounced today. The naval planes also bit many barges .'during . the ' assault, t the night of August 29-30. More than 35 vessels have "been bomb smashed in the Celebes area dur ing August as allied airmen hit persistently, at newly-bent Japa nese communication lines. , Japanese planes lightly and in effectively bombed new allied air strips at Sansapor, northwestern tip of New Guinea, during the night of August 30-31. .,' j This announcement disclosed the completion of airstrips on that jungle - tipped " beachhead which the Americans occupied early in AugUSt';: f Mexico Congress Opens MEXICO CITY, Sept 1 - (P) - President Manuel Avila Camacho told the opening session of con gress today that his government Is "observing the unrest" in advance of the 1948 national elections, and called on the nation for. calmness, unity, and hard work. Nazis Fly White Flags LONDON, Sept l-VP)-Pilots of two reconaissance planes reported late today that they had seen white flags over the little island of -C1 zerabre at the entrance to the St Malo harbor, but supreme allied headquarters had -no report to night of surrender. House Demobilization Plans Inadequate9 Report? Baruch WASHINGTON, . , Sept l-fl)-Bernard M. Baruch's comment that' house-approved demob iliza tlon legislation is "inadequate" brought from Rep. Doughton (D NC) the reply today that "it is no,t the time to hastily : enact legislation costing unknown bil-lkms-when the atmosphere Is polluted with political consider ations.' t'Congvess has not ; closed the doors on relieving unemploy ment" Doughton said. " The, house yesterday passed demobilization and reconversion bill drafted by its ways and means committee, headed by Doughton. The committee -agreed with the senate to leave unemployment compensation to states, but junked senate provisions for retraining 10 PAGES Finns Ready ToBreaUOff Wi'&fiermans L.7 ." S' fo'iOLM, Sept l-(ff)-rin-la K iisidering breaking rela f & H Germanyj as a prelim rtegotiatioins for an anni- itn riussia, reports from in- - Jjedsources said tonight and aras believed the action might v mt ove the week end.. f In London, Reuters recorded a broadcast! by; the! Finnish radio which said, ;"Ther foreign affairs committed of the 'diet met today and a statement ori the foreign po litical situation was made on be half of thie government'' . " ' i It was learned that the German legation : in Stockholm has been preparing! to receive nazi 1 diplo mats stationed' in Helsinki, the Finnish cikpiUl. M f Shipping quarters in Stockholm bsaid Finnish ships in the Baltic e ordered by the' Finnish gov nent . esterday to return to Finnish or Swedish harbors imme- orce een Declares Pope VATICAN criY, Sept Pope Piqs appealed in a world broadcast today for a peace found ed on Christian; principles, ac knowledged that the use of force might be iecessarir. to prevent fu ture wars! and, although defending the right of private property, con demned "capitasm,, which "ar rogates to! itself an unlimited right over property.' - ' ; The. address, made on the fifth anniversary of the war's outbreak and broadcast by Vatican radio, stressed the necessity of collabora tion by all nations In the mainte nance of security. xne vanquished should 'share with the Victors "not only rights and diitiei but also in the benefits of a true civiUzation" In the new era, the pontiff said. He made t special appeal fn be half of I Italy fighting against "misery, f famine, - unemployment and economic unrest" and said prompt and effective remedies" were needed with the approach of winter, j I '..,!. , The entire address underlined the imminence of the end of the war in Europe, j "The hands on the clock bf history are how point ing to an pour both grave and de cisive for jail mankind," he said. Bulgaria-Axis Cabinet jFalls LONDON, Sept l-jp)-Anolher axis government that of Premier grianov of ; Bulgaria tot- fell today, adding to the ejof Adolf -Hitler s crum ilitary and political setup alkans but temporarily suspending Mulgarian armistice talks in Cairo. An initial conversation between American H and British diplomats and the two-man Bulgarian peace mission took place before news of the resignation was received. . Talks apparently will not be re sumed uritil i new government is formed in Sofia. One report in Cairo said Bagrianov might form a leftist government - to continue the armistice overtures. - Norris Condition Still Termeil 'Not Very Good' McCOOK, Nebr., Sept 1 (ff)-- Former Sen. George W. Norris' general condition was termed "not very good" this evening by his physician, Dr. E. F. Leininger, who reported .s the veteran legislator's temperature has begun to rise again.- '; . - - war workers for other Jobs, trans portation; back home, and blan keting 3,500,000 federal workers under 'unemployment " compensa tion protection. K ; : Baruch. president 1 a 1 advisor who spent a hunk -out of his own funds In buying 3 railroad tickets to get stranded .former, govern ment workers out of Washington after the; last war, said in a state ment .today that unemployment compensation , is "must -i. legisla tion." The house bill "seems cer tainly inadequate,'? he said. ; "Our opinion, "Doughton said at the Capitol, "is that this is as far as we can' go at this time don't sav it is adequate or inade quate . Ifa . the best bill we can prepare until we - know more about the j actual problems we will confront" To i ! ..- reace Ivan Bp tered aid wrecks bling A in the TB Salem Oregon. ra n rr Paris Collaborators Marked 'N x t i"-. 5 i A V i . . . i A pair ef Paris women , eollaberaters. partially -stripped aad . their hair crapped, are sparked j en the marched by armed 'patriot! through the streets ef the French cap- ttsX (AT Wtrepheib from; signal Modesty Means More Than Money To This Fellow is 1 I MILWAUKEE, Sept- 1 (JF) Modest Anthont Cefalu has re vealed himself " a man . beyond price, 'simply by" refusing tq vre- veal himself. - - i? Startled from unclad 1 slumber by a man rummaging uirougn a pair of trousers which held' S888, Cefalu leaped from bed and jjut- sued 'the thief into jtha corridor where :,- "I almost had ; my hands on him". -when he remembered :his nudity. . .; 1 '-1 -s f V?i" Obeyinf 'the : stern dictum cf propriety, Cefaul left) off the pur suit and retired to his hotel room. The trousers, stripped of 1 $688, were found later on I a stairway. i .1 British Nazi Coastal Guns Trade Salvos FOLKESTONE, England, Satur day Sept 2-(iT")-British and; Ger man coastal guns early today lex changed screaming salvos in 'one of the fiercest duels j of thej war, rocking the land . and jchurning the sea with fierce explosions. I! The duel oegan ! shortly before midnight, when British guns op ened up against si target which might have been a German con voy attempting to slip . between Calais and Boulogne, r J After a Quarter los an hour of British fire, the Germans replied . .... .4 m 1 i 4 ' rrom Dauenes at wap uni feT batteries which may soon be taken from them by the allied armies in France. i ! . I Then for an houri and a half, salvos whistled both ways f cross the straits and thunderous explo sions sent coastal residents scurry ing to shelters. New Springbrook Plant Uestroyed by lames ; KEWBERG, Sept i 1 HH-The Springbrook Packing company's new cold storage plant here was destroyed- by a fire; of undeter mined origin early; today.' j .' Damages were estimated at $4S,- 000 to 150,000, according to Victor Rees, manager of the company'. cooperative owned by local 1 fruit growers: ;The main building was not damaged. : ) Blue Lake Employes . Get 7age Increase Notification thai jemployes of the .Blue Lake cannery in j West Salem have been granted a 2,.4 cent hourly wage increase for this f s t.- : season was received! Friday? from the war labor board by officials of the 'cannery workers union here. The wage boost brirfs the minimum pay for women to C3 cents, for men to J80 cents an hour. The union made the re quest for the increase, ! Saturday Morning. September 2. TIqqq n n 1 -J 7.1 1 UMisVtef44a forehead with the nasi sigm and. eorps) Marshall S ays Postwar Amy . WASHINGTJON, Sept Mr - Gen. George C Marshall has told army planner that the' post-war American army must consist of the smallest possible- professional or ganization, withr citizen-reserves, because the large standing , army nas no piace among ue lnsuiu-1 tions;of a; modern democratic "has no place : among the lnstitu state His directive, it was learned to night has just oeen issued as basic policy for all officers planning the permanent post-war army organi zauon. it contains, however, a warning that jthe wartime army may be needed long after the de feat of the axis powers, in order to help establish peacetime condi tions agreed upon by the allies. And it contains also a statement that the policy directive is based on the assumption that congress will approve a system of universal military training, under which every able-bodied young Ameri can shall be trained to defend his country,'' remaining a member of the reserve components of the ar my for a "reasonable period" after his training is completed. Court Will Hear : OPA Damage Suit Mandamus proceedings to com- pel District Judge Fred LL, Olson, Multnomah county, to hear a con-1 sinner's treble damage (OPA price ceiling penalty) case, head the cal endar for the 'state supreme court when it - reconvenes ' here - next Wednesday. MS: The suit, brought by Mrs. V. W.H",000 persons now are 'in uni- wasreoner a rains t A. m. Anderes's' who is charged with having taken from her a price above ceiling for merchandise, asks for treble dam ages of -$370. The mandamus pro ceedings were brought in the name of the state on relation of Chester Nazis Flooding Lands 'LONDON, Sept MrVAmerl- can fighter pilots returning today from sweeps overthe lowlands JL tdvinpinr AIKmI irmlM r . -. 4 GOP Offices to Open Marion county republican cen tral committee next week : will open offices hi the North Liberty street rooms formerly occupied by Bloch's Golden Hule store, Chair man Cliff Lewis announced Friday. Duchess Improving NEW YORK, Sept 1 H&VThe crndition of the. Duchess of Wind sor v, is reported "very, very good' late, today at Roosevelt horpital. wnere sne Tina erwent an opera tion for removal' cf her appendix yesterday. 1944 (Jerm ang To North- k1- i.- ':.'!.. .. Yanks 15 Miles : Beyond Grenoble In Rhone Drive ROME, Sept 1 - (iP) - American troops whe- drove to Grenoble In a lightning dash from the Riviera last week have speared on more than 15 miles beyond that city and are advancing within less than' 53 miles of the Swiss border, it was officially . disclosed today as . the secrecy which had 'shrouded the operation of the Yank task" force was partly ufted. 1 .'1 -i:. - An announcement said the col- yma was operating: north of Voit ron, 15 miles northwest of Gren oble and but 44 miles from Lyon, through which battered remnants of the- 19th German army were fleeing from southern France. The German radio reported" earlier in the week. that vanguards of the Grenoble force had . reached the Swiss border near Geneva, but this was not confirmed by Allied sources. .. Presence of the column south east of Lyon offered a flanking threat to . Nazi troops fighting fierce , rearguard . actions against pursuing Americans between Va lence and Lyon while the main body of,, enemy . troops pelted northward in desperate attempt to escape to Germany. Allied headquarters reported that American troops chasinJrthe . u V&IIey made contact with enemy rear- guards: between Touron, 10 mites above captured .Valence, and Le Bourg du Peage, 11 miles north east of Valence. - ' - ' -'11 Ti " j 11011 KeVOlteS Beach Rules J War ' restrictions ; on ' Oregon beaches imposed by the state ex ecutive department at the request of the military shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor were revoked in an order released by Gov. Earl Snell here Friday, i These V restrictions " prohibited loitering on beaches at night, use of flashlights or other signalling devices and bonfires at night re strictions which involved the en tire coast and 10 miles inland." Snell said he was advised by the western defense command that the restrictions were no longer neces sary. Easing Draft (-jjg Possible WASHINGTON, Sept l-ff)-4 Chairman Costello (D, Calif)', of a house-military draft Jub-commit-tee, said today he believed an im4 mediate easing of draff calls ii possible in view of selective ser4 vice's estimate that at least 11,4 I "" - The draft report was substituted to the military committee by Cot Francia V. Keeslingv Jr, legisla4 tive liaison representative for sel ective service, who said nothing of any . reduction ; of . draft calls. . - Keesling did say, however, that current draft, policies should be adequate for at least, the rest of this year -barr in g military upsets. Fleeing FMiiMeetina of United Nations Possible in November 1 tn i fitmfiiiiAW . A ... jr-it The ' possibility of a full - dress meeting of the United Nations in November ? to draw up a world peace agency was raised today on the basis of speedy development of the exploratory big-power con ferences at Dumbarton Oaks. At the same time Secretary Hull gave a boost to the prospect ox France's eventual re-emergence as a major power with the possi bility cf a permanent seat on the top council cf any peace organiza tion that may be set up. j Against that background, tie secretary of .state commented at r m r bis news conference, Wi'J.out C tails, that this government is f Price 5c , NEW YORK, Sept 2-(The Japanese Domel , agency said today that more than 49 B-29 Saperfortresses bombed DaVae, en Mindanao Island tn the Phil-. Ipplnes at ' midday yesterday, : adding . that ' "enemy . activity against pavao bears watching.' The' 'Japanese; dispatch,' re corded by , the federal eomman leattons ' eonunlsslon, claimed that Japanese v garrison f erees had latereeptea the B-29s and "shot down one enemy plane" . British TrboBs eiazis ic ueiense (. ROME, - Sept, V- yfV - British uxiops, anacnDg : nara Dexiino a rolling aerial barrage laid down by waves of fighterbpmbers, have penetrated the . Germans' . Gothic line defenses at three points near the Adriatic coast, advancing to a depth . of "1000 - yards through maze of strongpoints. Allied head- quarterr announced today. ; ' Nazi troops sitting behind their presumably attack-proof defenses have taken a "severe lolt," declar ed Lynn Heinzer ling. Associated, Press war correspondent ccdnv2 panying the new. Allied push. "Eighth army troops are digging about-inside the line, Heinzerling said. . "At three different places where Eighth army troops bit into the line they found the; Germans confused and tmprepaied.-! They apparently had expected an Eighth army brand, of artillery barrage to wars them -of any hostile action." ". Monte Delia Croce, described as a key point of Gothic line defenses In the Adriatic area, was captured in the first rush of the British, and - forward elements Were - re ported fighting J hand-to-hand ' on the slopes of Mount Calvo. Other British units' were 'slashing for- ward within' 1000 yards of Monte Gridolf,- another heavily fortified height, . , : WU in Dark On Lawl Union Informed that the Oregon State Bar has named a committee of its members to study possible consoli-. da tion of the -state's ' three law schools, President G. I Herbert Smith declared "No question has been broached to. Willamette re garding consolidation, and fur thermore, we will continue to op erate as Willamette university law schooL -; i ' . Two Willamette alumni. Judge Arlie G. Walker, McMinnville, and Ray F. Shields. Portland, have been named to the bar's committee of seven. ! : . r Oregon's; three law schools are Willamette, University of Oregon and Northwestern College of Law in Portland. , - ; - . August Rainfall' 1 Below Average :,. . ', ft,:.. ,-. ..... : - Rainfall for August totaled .05 of an Inch, 2t of an inch less than the mean average for the month and 2.09 inches less than that for August, 1943. - ' . Five days of theYnonth the mer cury in official weather thermo meters topped 90 degrees... High-i est .temperature, ! 100 degrees, was reached August SO. Mean tempera-; ture for the month was -66.6 de grees, compared with 8.1 degrees tor the year, as a whole to date. the development of a strong France.' . v i 'The position of that nation aa a first rate power alongside . the United States, Britain, Russia and China, or as one of the smaller nations has been a question be fore , the Dumbarton Oaks - con f erees. It appears likely that de velopments .of the n e x t f e w months, indicating the chances for a stable post-war French govern ment, will influence the country's final position. " Meanwhile, it was learned that Norman Armour, former United States ambassador to Argentina, is being considered as. the first American chief of mission -to lib erated Taria. . Penetrat sTI 1 trOUl No, 142 fc-?--:, -,,-;. Verd mi Americans Past ' Belgian Border In Itapid Drive SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Saturday Sept J - (P) American armies pounded at or pear, the f Belgian frontier today and -raced the Germans in an at- ' tempt to. reach the Siegfried line before the routed enemy beaten in the battle of France can man it for a last-ditch defense 6f the reich.' x ,? . -r ; - ; ' " ; Behind these lighttdng'columns, now operating at double the speed of the nazi blitz of France, lay the ' fallen fortresses of Sedan,' Verdun and. St Mihiel, and r the breached Maginot . line. Verdon Falls Easily The -fortress of Verdun, where 300,000 Frenchmen ;'' bled to save France in- the . first world war, fell -with hardly a shot after ar mored infantry swept through the Argonne forest still scarred and seared ' by the agonies of battles generations old without a single casualty. , " ' ; - It was no longer a - battle. It was simply a race for the G t mans trying to get into positions in the rusty Siegfried line before the American lightning strikes.' Strafed, Bombed ' u: -.l--. Whererthe Germans: elected j to stand, they were overwhelmed by flying columns, bombed and straf ed and 4 pelted from- the skies by pamphlets caDIng on them to "sur render now." :Xi'--;., ' Battle columns streaming into Lorraine may now have .brought the city of Metz, less than 25 miles from Germany, within thehrartil lery sights. . . C'.iJ ,f-. Already hard-riding patrols may have lanced . across the , Belgian border five miles north of Sedan and "plunged into the Ardennes forest, out of which the German hordes poured four 'years ago to subjugate France.' , Prnssia Close ',; .; -;: .' f ' - From 60 to 79 miles to the north-, east lies ' Prussia, with her great Rhineland industrial center. On the left the onrushing Brit ish seized Arras, 27 miles from the Belgian border, while the Ameri can 1st army was no more than 19 miles away after taking Mont cornet in an 18-mile drive from Laon. -i r v (The Stockholm newspaper Tid- ningen declared the Germans and their Belgian fascist friends were in flight -from Brussels' amid scenes similar, to Paris a few weeks ago," the office of war in formation reported.) V Triumphant Canadians captured Dieppe to Wipe out the memory of their bloody ' landing of 1943 . and dashed 15 miles on up the coast to Le Treport " Asks for Quiet V-Day WASHINGTON, Sept I-VP)-A plea for f dignified ceremonies' instead of "drunken orgies' when peace ..comes was' .voiced - in : the house today by Rep. Bryson (D, 3 , . X If It la something you want , . . something you want to sell . . call 9101 today.. we'll write it . down and run it Sunday morn ing lot. you in our . : big Want Ad teo ' tion! . Captured Easily v I