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017' Max Imam temperature Friday tS degrees, minimum 52 derrees, ne rain, river -4 ft X In. - Clear Saturday and Sun day except fer morning f ars ' along the coast Warm west the Cascades, hot east por tion. v W W W CI I German boys and girls of -the eighth grade in school will be kept out of school and placed in war work this winter according to orders of Dr. Goebbels, reich plenipotentiary. These orders re veal how s desperate' the German situation is. ' In the United States, on the ' other " hand, ' a ' real propaganda : campaign has' been , launched by several -- federal ; ' agencies to get ' boys and girls ; to continue in school.This go-to-school drive is not directed at the eighth graders so much as to the high school . youth who are tempted to stay out of school on account of high waes. Quite a contrast between the two countries," isn't it?. : -' Joining m this government. ap- ' peal are. the Children's bureau; the Office of Education, the De partment of vLabor and the Fed ' era! j Security . agency.' Our xhili- ' tarr situation Is such that we do not have to put high school youth -in war " work' during the school -terms. Instead ' the ' emphasis is -, on having all youth from 14 to : 17 continue in high school and ;boys above 17 unless they : enter the armed service. , I While we do not much like gov- eminent propaganda and dislike J 'being herded by government bu reauSf-all thoughtful people will i approve of the : purpose of . this ' effort-' We must educate our boys 1 and girls now to - (Continued on editorial page) Tl?ln,Jl 1 iff Til 77 I ff"T' Meeting Set For Quebec ?.:-'-..v - By Canadian PreM .... " QUEBEC, Sept 8 Quebec City " will be the scene of the next roeet- . ing between Prime Minister Win T s ton Churchill and President Roo sevelt at a date yet to be decided. . The two leaders, who have not met since they were at Tehran last : November, will plan the conquest of Japan as well as the final phas es of the European war. .. Quebec was thrilled to have the two leaders here a year ago, and great preparations are going for- - ward in expectation of the forth- : coming meeting. ? . State Stepping Into Property 1 Act Test Case - The state of Oregon, through at i torney general George Neuner, ; will intervene in the United States t supreme court appeal involving ' the constitutionality of the Okla- - ho ma community property law, a : member of the state tax commis sion said'Friday. :':::.: ? - The Oregon community property law was taken largely from the Oklahoma act the constitutional- : ity of which was upheld by the circuit court of appeals in Denver. ' The government appealed. ? ; Death Takes V James Reed ALPENA, Mich, Sept 8 -(Jf) Death following an attack of bronchitis stilled today the barb ed sarcasm which former. Sen. James A. Reed of Missouri- had used in court and political battle : for -more than 40 years. '. " The 82-year-old ; democrat whose fights against the . League of Nations, against national pro hibition. ' against lobbyists 1 and election frauds paid no heed to party lines, died at his summer home on the 6500-acre ranch 'be purchased in the Michigan woods Jn 1933. I ) Mrs. Reed, the former Nell Don nelly of Kansas City, was at his bedside and left tonight to follow his body to Kansas City where funeral services will be held. Lumber Wage Raise Denied ' PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 8-tf5)- Demands of the International Woodworkers of America . (CIO) Sot a general wage increase were denied today in a decision on two cases involving Willamette -valley and Oregon coast lumber opera' - The West Coast Lumber com mission of the national war, labor board, in announcing the decision here today, said the following re quests were granted: a voluntary check-off of dues, a contract clause stating that certain subcontractors must comply with the union work- ins agreement, a provision con cerning hours of labor and a new rate cf $1.75 an hour ior power saw operators. v USS Dickens Launched : FOUTLAND, Sept 8-OVOr' ron Shipbuilding corporation to day launched the USS Dickens, 11th in its cew series of Ar-5 et 1 -;c trcrrports. KEZETY-FOURTH YEAH Over 10 BigFortsw Take Parti Bombing Results Reported Good; , No Planes, tost A US SUPERFORTRESS BASE in Western China, Sept 8-(iipHThe largest forty of Superfortresses yet employed bombed Anshan in Man' churia and the surrounding Jap anese industrial empire today, concentrating on chemical and ex plosives factories. No planes were lost (In Washington the war depart went announced that returning pi- lots reported that "bombing -re sults were good."). : ' ' " i The bomb-load was the largest per plane and the largest , total since, the Superfortresses started their series of attacks on Japan and its satellite war industry cen ters. J,:''v''i-:' ': ' 'is Imprevements Made Improvements in the big B-29 planes and the improvement of techniques due to combat experi ence permitted the increased bomb tonnages.. ;i;:;v-'', The giant planes flew in perfect formation in perfect weather and smeared the key : targets in day light Full assessment of results awaited further interrogation of crews. - ' (The Japanese radio said more than 100 of the big planes partici pated in the raids). . - . r L Mar pirecU .Maj,.Gen. Curtis Le May, new commander' of. the' 20th. boiyiber command, directed the massed squadrons in their dawn, takeoff, ' , At the briefing, the strong-jaw ed general told the- crews, "let's complete the scratching of Anshan this time and move on and mop up all the rest of our targets in the Japanese empire." The first returning fliers, said the Japanese had failed to increase their fighter defenses and anti aircraft since the. July raid, de scribing fighter interception as "weak" and flak as "weak to mod erate." Lady Admires Dewey Brush EN ROUTE WITH . DEWEY, Sept 8-(iip)-Gov. Thomas E. Dew eys moustache excited the admir ation of the first woman. to shake his hand when his train paused at Richmond, Ind., today. . "My, he'a better looking than his picture," exclaimed Mrs. Carl Wadman, - as she stepped back. "He's our next president Mrs. Wadman, a " gray-haired matron Who said she had been republican . precinct committee- woman fn Richmond for 25 years, said. her, husband had .worn moustache just like Dewey's for 38 years. . -. Asked if he still wore it she said: . . .' - "Oh, no. I cut it off." - - B-29 Workers Strike - CHICAGO, Sept 8-(-Produc tion of B-29 Superfortress engines was stopped here tonight when 867 assembly line employes at. the huge Dodg Chicago plant refused to i work,, a company spokesman said. The plant is the major source of engines for the bombers. Alumina Plant February; N etc The struggle to assure enough aluminum for the war, the re sultant experiments and the pres ent development as particularly effects the Salem area were de tailed to the Salem Realty board Friday by H. A. Brinkerhoff, project manager of the Chemical Construction company's alumina plant here. '''.. ; . . . y s : Considerable additional equip ment for the $4,500,000 program in the' Salem area has arrived within the past few days. R. Seyfried, chief , operations officer, also is on hand. ' L Brinkerhoff said the Salem plant probably would not get into production before February - 1 next because of some delays in equipment It I originally wa s scheduled to start operations about the first of the year.: The plant will send about 50 tons of alumna daily . to Trout- 10 PAGES S7. At I I I I I fillies Press f i 1 5 a.'-XL .Ai.u.M .r,.r J from right), as he calls his men m Mons, France, to surrender to signal eorps radie) Deadly Battle Of Attrition Rages in Italy ROME, Sept 8-(fl)-A deadly battle of atmttdnageoT fohight along a li-joti sector near the Adriatic coast, with the Germans squandering reserves ,ln a final desperate effort to hold the allies out of the I great Po valley and northern Italy. , ' '. Some British Eighth army units had . bored their way to the banks of the Mara no river, only four miles from Rimini, coastal anchor of the enemy's rugged Gothic line, but massing nazi forces behind the stream promised only more hard, bloody slugging for the at tacking troops.- j . ' German losses were reported to have been extremely severe In re cent days, yet Tield Marshal Gen. Albert Kesaelring appeared will ing to pay any price to prevent a breakthrough. -; Once the Gothic line is pierced a vast force of al lied armor , is ready to deploy swiftly across the plains beyond and cut. the escape routes of en emy troops 'manning the remain der of the line all the way west ward to the Ugurian sea. ! : i Chinese Delegates Seek' Racial Equality Plank WASHINGTON Sept 8 -JP)-With . the Russian phase of the world security talks at Dumbarton Oaks due to wind up in a few days, it was learned today that the. Chinese delegation has proposed a plank on racial eq&ality for inclu sion in the world peace agency's charter." ! President . Roosevelt told his news conference that the discus- sions among Russia, the United States and Britain were about over. . i . j Will ) Open in Material Here dale where it will be converted into metallic aluminum. Around 300 persons will be employed-r about SO per cent more than now are engaged in construction and Installation. 1 The Salem project will operate six months on an experimental basis before being turned over to the , Columbia Metals company, under government lease. , Brinkerhoff was introduced to realtors by Clay Cochran, secre tary of the Chamber of commerce. 1 Announcement was made at the meetnir that no Realty board luncheon will be held next Fri day becauie the Oregon, realtors' convention? is being held on- that date in Gearhart (A complete L- recapitulation of the ! alumina-' development in" the Williijnette; valley, as provided by BrirJterhoff;"' will Erpar n llt in n t 3 j L Offensives r -1 1 J t i4 ' f!5l cm... dh. twrfvent tte possibility of any plan from their hiding place in a bouse the Tanks. (AF Wlrepheto fremi Eisenhower Gives eople of France Liberation Plaque r i PARIS, Sept 8 UP) General D wight W. Eisenhower stood today beneath the Arc ? de Triomphe, symbol of . French military prowH ess since Napoleon, and. presented 1 commemoranve libef ttionimenr -taixi uuu Yugoslavia's ran plaque to the French people; The ceremony, unannounced in ; detail beforehand, brought togeth er one Of the greatest aggrega tions t of high allied officials yet assembled.! With Eisenhower were Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Te4- der, Lt Gen. Joseph Pierre Koe- nig, Lt Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Lt Gen. Carl Spaatz, Air Chief Mar-1 shal Sir Arthur T. Harris, Air I Chief Marshal Trafford L Leigh- Mallory, and an array of others. U.' S. Dominates S. Philippines GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, Hithwest Pacific, Saturday, Sept -VrT Aiuea air lorces -now uom- inate the southern , Phflippines," Gen.;, Douglas MacArthur an- nounced today while reporting un challenged new : daylight raids against Japanese air centers near Davao, Mindanao. : ''v: v .,i ' Strong units of heavy and me dium bombers, escorted by fight ers, Wednesday wrecked the Jap anese' Santa Anna . seaplane base in Davao bay and bomber Buayan, one of the key airdromes in south-' era Mindanao. One hundred thir teen tons of explosives were drop ped, the second largest total on Mindanao. -, ' ; r ; : Other raiders and patrol planes roamed . uncontested over ; isiana bases between New Guinea and Mindanao and to the westward, destroying or heavily damaging 7 freighters, totalling 8,500 tons, and hitting installations. Japs Capture U. S. Airbase CHUNGKING, Sept 8-yHThe large and long-established Amer lean air base at tingling in central China fell . yesterday before' a down the Hunan-Kwangsl railway lish an - overland military route from Manchuria to Singapore. The Chinese high command an nounced the loss today ; and ad mitted that the invader force reached a point only . six miles northeast of the important town of Tungan, Jess than 10 miles from the border of Kwangsi province and less than 100 miles from Kweilin, a major city of Kwangsi province. LONDON. Saturday. Sept. 9 (-The German' radio broadcast a miB dispatch from Sofia today saying that former Prcnuer Ec, dan Philov had resigned 3 a incniber cf the Tu!;ari;a r?; r.cy. Salem, Oregon. Saturday Morning, September Balkan an Bombing Wrecks All Alain Railway Escape Routes ROME, Sept 8-(iT)-Aliiedi arm ies appeared to have sprung one of -the; biggest traps of the war tonight . on 250,000 Germans " un- at;. because , of coordinated aerial bombing and sabotage which has wrecked au main ran escape routes., "German : troops in the Balkans are in serious plight said an official " allies Mediterranean air headquarters announcement farrier Laid . "A barrier in effect -has been laid across Jthe Balkans, from the Aoruue coasi w noroania io pre- 1" iuwu Germany. Crashing into Yugoslavia from Romania in the east the red army in conjunction with Marshal Tito's national army of liberation has I captured the first German - held Yugoslav - town, said the United Nations' Algiers radio. The name of the town. was not given. Junction Near . . ; ' AUied "land forces of the Adri- atic" 1 were striking . into Yugo slavia from the Adriatic coast toward a Junction Jwith. . the red snny, rd.theiroe juanounce- system was so devastated that or ganized enemy resistance to the allied thrusts would be impossi ble. " ' " ' -The intensified offensive began a week ago. The Adriatic land t forces consist of commando units, some landed and some flown In, whose operations - for the most part are : covered with official se- crecy. An ; allied headquarters -an nouncement said that the Joint air; land and sea offensive in Yugoslavia has come "at a mo ment .When the enemy is in the very greatest need of freedom of movement, for regrouping bis forces in the Balkans." . R 905c Pili MJmiS O 1 111x11 i -w-v . f f mT UeaCllY lS CtC J Gun System SEATTLE, Sept ,8-P)-The B- 1 29 superfortresses such as raided Manchuria today use deadly new remote ? control - gunfire system, similar to that employed on war ships, the Boeing Aircraft com pany disclosed today. Removed from manual contact with the guns, the gunners fire ; them from five remote, pressur ized compartments system the company said adds Comfort, safety and sighting accuracy. With exception of the tail guns. all weapons on the B-29s are op erated hy men who sight at tar gets through busters in the fuse lage. The tail gunner sights from windowed ' compartment ; Just above the tail turret Automatic computers correct for airspeed. In case of combat dam- I age - to the computer system, P J V iswitch is thrown so the gunners ch is thrown so the gunners operate turret, independently. : l can Youths to Fill I fr ff -. 1 pof I (1 WASHINGTON, Sept B(JPV- Draft Director Lewis. B. Hershey told local boards today that esti mated 1S44 needs of r.e armed forces probably can be filled with out bringing anyone else into class 1 A except new 18-year-olds." He did not order an end to classifications Into 1A. His mes sage, however, could hardly fail to strengthen the position of men now . holding occupational defer ments, since he did not mention them as a needed source of supply. Selective service cllicers were juick to explain that such men will loose thefr def?rrr.er.ts if they fors-'ce' the. .cr .c:.;;.rt, rncl .that def;n.:...-.ts will csr.iir.us t" xpire wh?-cv:r tl. ? - r: ..; :t ' f . then Germ Trapped rrice n13' pn ;uacfLlil N6 Relief Siglited As Mercury- Soars r To 98 Here Friday i With no relief yet in sight Sa lem" , residents began ? to wonder Friday how long the unprecedent- ed September heat wave would i last The forecast! for over, the weekend is "continued warm." The Portland weather bureau ex- plains that the heat is caused by a i blanket of ' warm "air extending down from "CahadaT "X; ; ; : ; !.. Salem thermometers reached 98 degrees Friday, three points high er than Thursday's reading. ' : Eu gene and Corvallis both reported peaks of 96. In Portland it was only 92, . but Medford and "Rose- reached the century mark,, Soviet Troops Into Bulgaria LONDON", Saturday, Sept! Mff) -Russian troops swept unresisted into Bulgaria yesterday on a 135 mile front and captured the big Danube port of Ruse and the Black Sea port of Varna, while other So- viet -forces opened a new drive on imoerilled Hunearr. " ' ! - ' " ; Alpine Units under Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky, second Ukraine army commander, climbed through the 6500-ft Transylvanian ; Alps via Boita Pass and captured the raU hub of Siblu, 128 Jniles from the prewar frontier of Hun gary, last big axis satellite nation. The Russians covered 48 miles In, the first day of the new drive. tuTOftJnorthwgrdtrorn ;.RamnI- cul-yalcea, taken Thursday. On the, vital front northeast of Warsaw other Soviet troops!, were declared ", to have dislodged the Germans from several populated places southwest of Lomza on the approaches to German East Prus sia in some of the bitterest fight ing of the war. Berlin ; said the Russians had chosen a 60-mile front for a cross ing of the Narew river, last big water obstacle before East Prussia, and .: had established : bridgeheads on the western bank after hurling 30 divisions of more than 300,000 men into the struggle, which also aims at decisively outflanking Warsaw. 75 miles southwest of Lomza. War Poster Becomes ; FDR Campaign Banner NEW YORK; Sept B(JP)-J ames Montgomery Flagg's. well -remem bered Uncle Sam recruiting post er of the first world, war entered the political arena today as the democratic campaign poster with I some changes. Under the original i likeness of Uncle Sam "with point ing forefinger the artist has paint ed a water color portrait of Presl dent Roosevelt and the memo rable command, "I want j you! has been altered to "I want you, FDR. Stay and finish the job." 18 Coal Supervisors Will Return toWork PITTSBURGH, Sept 8- JP) Heath Clark, president of Roches ter and Pittsburgh Coal Co- said tonight the . 18 supervisors at the government-seized Kent. 1-2 mine at Mclntyre, Pa withdrew their resignations and agreed to return to -their Jobs tomorrow. 17fri in 7 L-H li t : . ... ,. ............... L 8. 1S44 Sweep Easily f Tl sr k f . . ? je ' nnf r r U OSt UUtStandUia 1 1113 1 COT O i By Margnerite Gleeson i 1 .The fat stock sale of the Marion county 4-H club fall show,, held Friday at the fairgrounds, was the most outstanding sale held ' this year, In the opinion of L J. "Doc" Allen, assistant state club ; leader, who has been present at most of the sales this season. I V (rictsres en paie I) ; Total receipts of the sale for 18 club owners were $2448.23; beef stock totaled $1811.23 rhogsj $5C3. 39, and sheep $325.61. Gene Var-dertynde, manager or Sears Roebuck; paid $1.10 a pound for grand champion Southdown lamb weirhirs 2 pounds. lie l:o bousht the grand champion Eerk shire heg for 23 cents a pound. Ed Schroeder of the Four h:r market paid 3 cents a pound f or the 1041-pound grand ciamr" Hereford tahy tecf. Curlcy's Eiiry raid top price I:r hcs, S3 cents a pound. Ladi and .TuEh'trri 3 cents, secrr.i 5c - n - - n Ger: iany's Begin .to Under Allied Blows Siegfried Battle Well Underway; Canal Is Crossed SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Sat urday, Sept 9 -W- The US First army seized the Belgian fortress of Liege and pressed on today, to within 18 miles of the ' German frontier as enemy defenses buck ed along a 200-mile front before the Siegfried lineunder crushinif blows opening the battle for Ger many. - The US Third army planted three more bridgeheads across the Moselle river, last water barrier before Germany's Saar basin, and deepened them with tanks and infantry In violent fighting-' after smashing 6000 enemy troops that tried to move behind it between Metz and Verdun. . t . Cross Albert Canal ' British and Dutch forces burst across the Albert canal which the German consider the bulwark of their r northern flank" - and pounded on five miles to within 25 miles of the Prussian border before . colliding - with . German forces deployed jn strength. Two Belgian ports on the chan nel -f-y- the famed tourist city of Co$tende and the small fishing center of Nleuport 10 miles west fell ita Canadian forces, vin the Allies their firstlandlng points close to the front unhampered by enemy fire. ' ' Germans Leave Canadian patrols said the Ger mans had cleared out of . Cost end e, which has a large inner and outer harbor and vast quays and piers. . One British column, striking to ward Germany in a drive coordi nated with that of the American First army, sped 20 miles east of Leuven (Louvain) to St Trond, which is 1 20 miles northwest of fallen Liege. It was only 10 miles from a junction with an American col umn which pounded up 10 miles north of Huy to the town of Faimes. - - .- The American forces pushing past Liege where the Germans broke the Belgian defenses in 1940 were within 20 miles of the enemy gateway city of Aachen after reaching the village of Rom- see, three miles east of Liege. British Patrols Drive Down Mandalay Railway - SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, . Cey lon, Sept 8 British patrols, pressing 38 miles down the Man dalay railway: from , j Mogaung, have reached the town of Hopin without striking Japanese resist ance, a communique announced to day ' The area was strewn with the bodies of 500 of the enemy. (The dispatch did not make clear whe ther these Japanese had starved or fallen victim to air attacks, but it showed the sorry state of the I enemy's north Burma defenses.) if Stfknl Sillii .1 i i' high for lamb; First National bank, 45 cents, third high. . - I r The Lions club, which sponsored the sale, .bought three ; animals. Safeway stores bbughtfive ani mals; Midget Market bought two hogs; Marion hotel, Valley Pack ing company and C. S. Orwig's market and Ronald Jones got one each. : Wanda Banick was the biggest "seller of the show, five of her lambs going on the block. Three were taken by Safeway, one by the Lions club and one by the Ma rion hoteL Her rcrerve champion Hereford baby beef went to the Valley Packing company. . A. J. Baker, was auctioneer. V7, G. Nibler was clerk of the sale, and James F. Eishop, Llarion county club leader, was in general chares. T'-V The Oresea Statesman en ? Cza'ay the eemjkt list f rrlze v.hirers la UJs eufstani No "143 n n UKlCo,aQSWS7 Defenses Me '. Seyehtli Takes Besancon. Finds 1 - v . t - Stiff Going . ROME, Sept' 8 -CP)-American forces stormed up the Doubt val ley "road to the reich" today after. capturing the city of Besancon and met, bristling German opposition in what appeared ta be the open-" ing round of the battle for.Belfort gap, 2p miles from the Rhine. Besancon, an important com munications center 50 miles south west of Belfort's frowning fortifi cations, was the ' scene, of stiff street fighting for hours after units of Lt Gen.' Alexander M. Patch's Seventh army encircled, the city and then swept on after the main body of retreating nazis. . . . The last yards Into Besancon were fiercely defended, by weary enemy rearguards, who laid dowa a curtain Of mortal and machine gun fire and even brought. tanks into the fight It is along the Doubs valley and in Belfort gap : that the battered German 19th army' must fight to try to prevent General Patch's Americans . and French from pourinf across the border, of Germany itselLj i . Jt K e n n e t n Dikori, Associated" Press war. correspondent with the? Seventh army, said the -battle of Belfort gap might begin within the next few hours. . It was not im mediately known, he said, wheth er any 'American troops had man aged to beat the nazis to the vital pass and plug it against the re treating enemy. - FDR Smiles V Over Deicey's Fear Charges WASHINGTON, Sept. t-yFt-A ' smile was , President - Roosevelt's reply today to Gov. - Thomas E. Dewey's assertion that he admin istration is "afraid to let men out of the army at the war's end be cause it doubts its ability to pro vide them with jobs. Mr. Roosevelt also "took cogni sance of the republican presiden tial: nominee's characterization of the new deal as tired, quarrelsome v and defeatist by repeating that he would have preferred to retire to (Eruni his Hyde Park home rather than - run for a fourth term, but not be cause he is tired or defeated. - - The president utilized his news conference rare occasion under -. the circumstances to make his - first reply to Dewey's initial cam- - paign speech last night In Phila- delphia. He usually reserves his oral shots at the opposition for a. formal address. ' ' 1 ? ' To! request for 'comment 'on Dewey's accusation that the Roosevelt administration -1s Mafraid?vto demobilize the army, Mr. Rooaevelt grinned and told the . reporters they could say that the president smiled broadly and said nothing. , Argentina Minister Doesn't Like Charge BUENOS AIRES, Sept 8-(- Foreign Minister Gen. Orlando . Peluffo told a press conference to day that US Secretary of State Hull's charge that Argentina is the headquarters for a fascist move- ment in this hemisphere consti tuted another "direct attack? -against Argentina and was an un usual diplomtaic proceeding. , Oregon Green Guard " Cnecks 179 Blazes PORTLAND, Sept 8-T)-Voung fire fighters belonging to the Ore gon green guard have checked 17J small blazes in Oregon this season, the Keep Oregon; Green associa tion said today. ' ' ; ' - -' -The 'youngsters, organized t. part cf the association for the ki t twee years, have reported 23 larg er forest fires th!s year. ' ' j J