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FfTT SfflJDOS UtDODD i i When Dr., William ,'H. Willson laid out a plait for the city of Sa lem a century ago he provided wide streets. Many times since he may have been condemned for his generosity with the raw land of Chemeketa ' plain. When " there were crosswalks to be built and kept clean by the growing . vil lage, when there was grass in the ' street that needed to be cut, and surely when the agitation arose for paving the streets there" must have been many on the council who wondered just why Dr. Will son provided streets 99 feet in width. The central parking strips i in blocks along Marion street which survived until a few years ago, doubtless Vere designed more for economy in the paving of the. street rather than, for street beautification. J .Now with the growth in traffic . following the advent of the auto mobile everyone praises Dr. Will son for his foresight in giving Sa lem wide streets. Whether it was . great, vision or accident on the part of Dr. Willson, the exam ple is a challenge to the city builders of today. What can we do in the way of city planning '. which will be acclaimed as far sighted a century hence? That is the "question before the. house" as we pause in the city's expan sion to wind up a big war. Salem is now a city of 30,000. What provision should we make now for a city of 60,000 or 75,000 which-Salem will surely be per haps within a quarter of a cen tury? What arterial streets? What trunk sewers? What (Continued on Editorial Page) Anthony Eden Joins Churchill, FDR at Quebec QUEBEC, Sept. 1 4-UP)-British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrived . dramatically tonight by plane from England to join in the Roosevelt - Churchill - conferences which turned today from the war in the Pacific to European political Issues. ' i ' ., Flying through fog and rain, Ed en landed unexpectedly at the Quebec airport after his plane had passed trp a " scheduled stop at Montreal. - Eden's early arrival speeded up by six hours his meeting with Churchill and President Roosevelt, who still hope to complete their . conference this week-end. A British spokesman asserted that Eden was not coming "as an adviser on any one specific topic," and that he believed Prime Minis ter Churchill .wanted; his foreign secretary here for consultations on "general requirements' and "a V idei range of subjects." r Before, the announcement that Eden was coming, the stress here had been on the battle of the Pa cific.t Now, however, the major military decisions of the confer- , ehce, centering around strategy for hammering Japan into submission, are. complete. r Presidential Secretary Stephen Early told a late afternoon press conference that the question of the creation of a new, so-called super command for the Pacific area "is . not present here and won't be." Boeing Chief Dies Suddenly WICHITA, Kas., Sept U-(JP)-Philip G. Johnson, the one-time S25-a-week draftsman who rose to many high positions in the aircraft industry and directed the building f the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-29 Superfortress, died today of a stroke. He was 50. The president of the Boeing Air craft j company, Seattle, died . at t:15 a.m. He was stricken Tues day night while stopping over on his way home to visit officials of the Boeing plant here, r t . r His ' wife, Catherine, and their two children, Esther " Mary and Philip C Jr.. 'flew from Seattle yesterday. The funeral services and burial will be there. Gestapo Kills 30 Catholic Priests LONDON, Friday, Sept 15-( The French! Brazzaville radio said in a broadcast early .today that . seized German gestapo - records : had revealed that 30 Catholic , priests had been shot and at least ' 100 others are still in the hands . of the Germans, 13 of them being ' taken to the reich. The broadcast did not say where in France the purported records were, taken. Nazis Form 'National Bulgarian Government LONDON, Friday, Sept. 1S-CJF)-The Berlin radio announced early today the formation of a "National Bulgarian government headed by Dr. Alexander Tzankov in opposi tion to the Sofia regime which trr'tuted to the allies, - Carrier ' - 1 N't Planes Hit Again! Enemy's Losses Total 135 Ships, j 501 Aircraft I US PACIFJC FLEET HEA ; QUARTERS, Pear Harbor, SepT attaching to holding this; last line 14.-()-A navy communique to day reported two more days of carrier aircraft strikes against the Philippines, with the sinking or damaging of 84 more surface ships and destruction of approximately 233 more aircraft ' t The new announcement brought the enemy's losses for the entire series of Philippines raids begin ning Sept 8 to 501 aircraft and 135 ships, exclusive of sampans. Start Sept U The strikes were a continuation of the heavy, central Philippine raids which began Sept 11. . f The first day of that attack previously was announced and to day's communique added that American planes returned to Pan ay, Cebu and Negros and visited Leythe Sept 12 and 13. West longitude date US time). f ,The enemy confined his efforts to Intercepting American planes. He made no effort to attack US carriers or escort ships. ( 1 Ships -Described The breakdown for the newly announced raids showed ships sunk were two large cargo ships, one medium transport, two de stroyer escorts, and 35 small crat. Five cargo ships, one medium ott er, 36 small ships and two motor torpedo boats were, damaged, f The navy declared many sam pans also were sunk but did not specify the number. Train Crash -. - . Takes Lives Of 21 Vets TERRE HAUTE, lnd., Sept 14 (K Twenty one, air force vet erans who had completed ' up pi 50 missions in1 overseas combat were among 26 persons , killed early today in a headon collisions' of two passenger trains on a single track three miles north 'of hejre. About 65 others, including 'sev eral more air force veterans, weVe injured. t - The soldiers, who had just com pleted 30-day . furloughs, w e e en route to a redistribution cen ter in Florida. They occupied the first three Pullman cars of the H-coach Chicago and Eastern 11H- nios Dixie" Flyer, which crashed into an express and mail - trajin bound from Florida to Chicago. The expfess carried no passengers. Ironically, the only coaches jto hurtle from the tracks after the collision were those carrying lihe soldiers. 1 , I Alaskan Democrat Leads Vote Race JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept 14 With many large precincts still unreported, E. L. Bartlett,' demo crat, former territorial secretayjof state, apparently won election as Alaska's delegate to the national capital in Tuesday's election. His' opponent was John Manders, e publican, Anchorage attorney. Col. Whitney Makes i Escape From Nazis NEW YORK, Sept l-(fl-Mjrs. John Hay Whitney, the former Betsey Cushing, said tonight that she had learned from the war de partment that her husband, Col. Whitney,, had escaped from the nazis and had returned to his base in the Mediterranean, i 1! C. R. Dear Reflected President Association: Industry's Growth f By LUlle It. MadMn f (Farm and Garden .Editor C. R. Dear, independence, was re-elected president of the Ore gon Turkey; Improvement associ ation Thursday at the annual bus iness session held in the chamber of commerce rooms. Stephen Ad elman, Yamhill, was re-elected secretary. : , t - The men were previously ire elected as directors of the association,- with W.1 3. McDanniels, RickrealJ, as a neve director, re placing William J, Chase of Au rora, and John R Sayeri of Hal sey, also re-elected. Holdover di rectors are R.- R. Borovicka, Scjo, C H. Coyle, St Paul, and Fred Wiese, Corvallis. - '..--r. , ; That agriculture wilt carry more and more of the tax burden of Oregon was the thought ex pressed by : Elmer , L." Petersbn, state director of agriculture, prin cipal speaker at the morning ses sion. . Mr. Peterson also announced NINETT OURTH YEAR 1 rnn7 v New Penetration Of German Soil ' Rlade to South SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Friday, Sept. 1 5-(P)-The American! First army opened a full scale; assault on the' j great Siegfried ; line citadel of Aachen today, driving to within a mile of the city, from the country,! and poured tanks and Infantry across the German frontier at a number of j: points! in a general offensive extending4 southward more than 90 j miles.: .f i ll I ! Aachen, an important' indus trial city : as well; as a gateway to the nazls. prized , Ruhrj and Rhineland region was j already partially ringed from the j west as well as the south -as American armored j power plowed through tank v traps and pill boxei and rolled through half a dozen out lying villages to close in on the border bastion. - f i I - ' r-t - "H i- . - ' f i New Penetration 4 - I Southward 40 miles the Amer icans made a new; penetration of Germany; ( driving jnto naz terri tory Some eight miles at a '.point riorthweik of Prura. This I is 30 ;mijles abveTrieivbear wiifrejUie iirst invasion made, and 40 miles west was of; Cob- 'ilenz on i main road to that im- poriani cny. j i Near Trier, at the lower the 90-mile invasion front. Van infantrymen and tanks I fought into the Siegfried line for a depth of 'two miles and) widened j their breach lio four ! miles through thinly-manned and lightlyarmed fortifications. ". Far Inside Germany American reconnaissance j fliers returning1 f to, US inth ai force headquarters " in France reported sighting j ' American vehicjes li nfiles inside the German I boarder at one : point not immediately identified.- . , 'f jThje First army in closing in on Aachen captured Hergenrath - and Gemmenich, Belgian borcietowns three miles south and three miles southwest of Aachen, respectively, and seized the nazi village Of For stebach two miles inside jthe bor der and - five miles south of Aachen, i - ' ' Poles to Exchange Minority Groups 1: .Ijil J A, '"m. : I MOSCbw, Sept 14 -(Mi The Polish national committee Of libe ration 1 has signed an agreement with the Ukrainian and White Russian ; republics of the; soviet union for' the exchange, ori a vol untary basis, of minority; popula tions living In areas which have been the subject of territorial dis putes far centuries, it was an nounced ! today, f' (li that the state department E of ag riculture had adopted the Kation al Turkey Improvement t plan as the official program for Oregon, t 'Oregon is on the threshhold of becomiag the turkey capital of the United States," Peterson said in reporting Oregon's gross poul try income for 1943 as $30,000,000 with 50 per cent of this from the turkey j growers. Peterson added that this year's crop will top that of a year ago.'. i V- 1 ! Dear . presided at the morning session; during which AV". I, Chase spoke . of the importances of the Oregon turkey growers, being re presented at eastern growers' meetings,, and Dr. XL M. Dickinson spoke on paratyphoid in turkeys. Growers Complimented. - J 1 1 " ' Dr. Dickinson complimented the Oregon growers for following their program of prevention rather than waiting until a cure was necessary. N. L. Bennion of Oregon: State College, chairman of the afternoon meeting , Introduced Dr.'tC. E.i list! Arniy Only Mile H I -1 end of kee 14 PAGES Scdaxn, mm Yanks Aachen Bound r A three-man American combat patrl caationaly seeaU at the little town of Tbimister, Belgium, la advance of the main forces heading for Aachen, Germany. (AP Wirephote from signal erp$ radiophete) Allies Crack i osts Of Belf ort Cap I ROME, Sept. 14.-P)-America'ii ind,"French. forces of the Seventhrf f rmy: have cracked three strong Outposts of German defenses guarding Belfort Gap and are how to miles "from Belfort, but the ap itself isi' still open for the movement of nazi units north of he Doubs river and west of the sea mountains. .. j TliejClosing stages of Lt,Gen. Alexander M. Patch's campaign to destroy ordrive out every Ger nan soldier in southern France have brought his divisions into he toughest fighting they have encountered sa far, 4 ; . j I "Considerable opposition" Was Encountered by. Americans ad- ancing northeast from Vesoul, eneral Patch's headquarters ah- nced late ; tonight indicating e importance i me uermans are f retreat open. French troops ushing north from Champlitte, 6 miles, northwest of .Versoul, re encountering some enemy uh- ts who so far have been una pie q reach the gap. ' I In the latest onslaught of the mpaign to (at n i ine ceuon it a t e w a v - and a foothold from Which allied troops could pene trate the upper Rhine a 1 1 4 y Patch's army was attacking onj a gOmile front in the Doubs valy ferea.- The attacks from the sotfth d southwest are aimed at the ortress city of Belfort ! ; e Had Cops Running' Around in Circles J I GREAT FALLS, Mont, Sept 14 kffThe police went 'round and fround to arrest a man for ineb- fiacy. if . : ' . ' ! ' He had gone to sleep, in a re volving door. - I of Turkey Emphasized Holmes, who gave the supervisor's report'- ' '- " ' t At ' the . o'clock banquet held at the Marion hotel, Hebert Bey ers, member of the OPA .National dvisory committee ' on ' poultry prices, clarified OPA regulations in connection with turkeys, and H. t Crosby, head of the college poultry department spoke on post ar turkey growing. f Approximately 300 turkey growers were in attendance at the Sessions. . - -1 1 The association adopted resohi tionsT favoring the inclusion of $15,000 in the state budget lor pullorum control work, 'and the appointment of a committee : to further this at the state legislature. A recommendation also was pass ed favoring the disposal of flocks. found to have paratyphoid infec tion after they had been tested at a reputable laboratory. More rigid inspection and enforcement fof rules and regulations also were urged. IhreeUutp Orejon Friday Morning, September 15, 1944 UUJ J. 4 -I Maybe the Three Combined Could End FDR Regime i . FARRAGUT, Idaho,' Sept 14 (fl3)- "Those men were all political Unknowns When I "was born, said the' sailor at Farragut naval train ing; Center in explaining his name. ; "My mother has ! assured me she merely picked out a name that was : different and ijiy nickname is not Al, Alf or Tom." r He is ! Dewey Lahdon Smith, Wichita, Kas. ; . . Berlin Police thened - By Himmler LONDON, Sept IMflVGesta po chief land home army Leader Heinrich ! Himmler announced to night a .strengthening of the Ber Jin, .police ;command?only a few hours after, broadcast of an un confirmed ' French radio -report that a small group of rebels had "routed an SS 'elite: guard) :- for mation" in a peace fiot and then fled into hiding before the arrival of reinforcements. . Unmistakable evidence of grow ing panic in Germany after the American army's crossing of the western ! reich f rontie r came meanwhile from the' nazis them- selves .; as , well as from neutral border points, i ( . , i " ' One nazi newspaper complained that a belief the "end. of the war cannot be far 'off, was sweeping the country "like a psychosis.' Army desertions were reported increasing and there was "open absenteeism' in German war plants. . Pfci Jued.es; Dies in Action ;"v::.-vx-!vrv' MT. ANGEL, Sept 14 Pfc Norman Juedes, 20, son of Mr, and Mrs. Theodore Juedes, route 1, - Gervais, was killed -in action July 78 t in France,!! his ' parents have been notified !;by the war department ' j - ' - Services were held at Trinity Lutheran; church here August 27, the American . Legion, post , con ducting ritualistic services. T h e family formerly livd; near: ;Mt Angel and are members of Trin ity Lutheran church; . - An older brother, Pvt. Raymond Juedes, is in France," and 1 there are two younger brothers at home; Edmund land Elard. Also three sisters" survive, Mrs. Gertrude Rehn, St Helens, and Loretta and Berniee at home, i Next Generation May live to Age of 130 ; NEW YORK, Sept 14-(VDr. Theodore G. Klumpp, of the Win- throp ? Chemical cornDany. Ine. predicted! to the American chemi cal society today that it is "bio logically possible for; our children or our children's children to live in good health for 120 years.1 Strehg mm Germany Will Not Capitulate Reports Goebbels to Japs t LONDON, Septf 14 -Germany ..will not capitulate . . Germany cannot j be conquered," Paul . Joseph' Goebbels today as sured the Japanese people in a broadcast Interview with the correspondent of MainichL' " v the newspaper The nazis are coming up with "tremendous new . weapons," Goebbels told the Japanese re porter, and promised that Ger many would fight on With "new divisions" raised by total mobi lization. Reds Capture Praga, SfltJurb Near Warsaw LONDON, Friday, Sept Russian and Polish troops yester day captured Warsaw's: industrial suburb of Praga on the east bank of the Vistula river, and immedi ately laid siege to the; great Pol ish capital, taken by the Germans in the first month of the war five years ago, by shelling enemy po sitions on the 130-foot bluffs across, the wide stream.. Marshal Konstantin! K. Rokos- sovsky's first White Russian ! ar my troops and - the , first division of Lt Gen. Zigmund Berling's firsts Polish army crushed 'the German garrison jSTHPraga after an all-night street battle, much of it hand-to-hand fighting, a mid night soviet communique said. Polish - patriots fighting inside Warsaw could see the Russians and Poles - coming to their .- aid. Thousands of Poles f have lost their lives in the Warsaw strug gle, but. Moscow dispatches early today , sad the Poles, still were battling the enemy, and attempt ing to secure west bank stretches of the river to aid a possibly im minent . Kussian-Polish crossing from the Praga area. fY - Rain Slows LONDON, Friday, Sept "45 -JPl Allied bombers roared over the continent during j the night in i renewed assault, ion German tar gets after bad weather had re stricted aerial warfare yesterday. Nazi radios sounded alerts and the Hungarian, radio warned of an attack in the region of Pecs, near the Yugoslav frontier. With low clouds and rain squalls keeping , British i- based heavy bombers grounded during daylight yesterday, medium bombers shoul dered the brunt of the aerial of fensive against' the enemy now rounding out a week of constant attack. i . r : I Beer Supplyj May Be Shorter Soon WASHINGTON, Sept 14 -W) The beer supply may be still shorter next year; unless malt pro duction is increased,: the war food administration indicated today it ter a meeting . with members of the brewery ; industry advisory committee. ' 1 j Homecoming Celebration Gets Underway, at Willamette Today Willamette university's 21st an nual Homecoming celebration, also honoring the Golden anniversary of football here, gets underway to day .on the campus. Jim Elliott, a Vil2 student from Medford, is manager. - i t The Whitman; grid i squad will arrive in Salem early Saturday to meet the Bearcats in i the Home coming game, to start Saturday at 1:30 pjn. on Sweetland field. ' . ? Friday's events include the tra ditional bag-rush at 3.-30 pjm, fol lowed by , the Whip-Whitman picnic, serpentine parade through downtown . Salem, bonfire cere mony and Judging of six platoon built signs at 830. j . '. Climaxing Homecoming will be semi-formal dance in the gym PrfctSa Ho. 153 Hurricane Batters lerse Ocean Resorts Badly Damaged; At Least lllrDie By the Associated Press Atlantic City and" other New Jersey seashore resorts were dam aged heavily last night by wind and waves as a 90-mile an hour hurricane swept, northward across Long Island toward the! same New England area that bore' the brunt of the 1938 hurricane. ! The storm had caused at least 11 deaths. Famous piers in Atlantic . City and other Jersey i coastal resorts were damaged by waves described by coast guards as the highest they had ever ' seen, and sections of boardwalks were swept inland or carried away. ;" ; Steel Pier Damaged , I Among the piers damaged were the' million dollar .steel pier, an amusement center, and Heinz pier, both in Atlantic City. A represen tative of the steel pier's owner said, however,' that damage was slight ' ;E,j,r;: ,;.:,! With the wind In that area re ported to have reached 90 miles on -hour: numerous homes and buildings were said to have suf fered heavily ? witbT'a j posilbilHy that, damage would run into mil lions of dollars. " i Restaarant Lost " . The Homestead restaurant on the" Ocean Grove, NJ, boardwalk near Asbury Park, was washed into the sea. The restaurant had a capacity of 300 persons, but was believed to have been unoccupied when it was destreyedi " i" A pier was reported washed out at Asbury park, but details were unavailable. - . i Bath houses and a pavilion were carried away at heVby I Lock Har bor. ' "." Y . ' ' I A 250-foot freighter; the Tho mas: Tracy, . was i dnyen ashore m earlier at- Rehoboth Beach, DeLJjwrted opposite the fifth army and; but its crew, of 31. were rescued by the coast uaroshortly .before the vessel broke in half under-a heavy pounding by high seas. To Halt Japs ; CHUNGKING, . Septi ,14 Pi- Chinese ' defenders have been fighting desperately to beat back Japanese attempts to storm Pao ching, important" Chinese strong hold 63 miles west ofjHengyang, after ; enemy units f yesterday reached points about four miles from the city, the Chinese .an- nounceoT tonight i . , , . . t Chinese planes Were; supporting the ground troops by strafing ene my positions." ; ! , v v.:v I i --. In Kwangsi, another enemy at tacking force converged on Chuan hsien from positions; 12 miles northeast and north of this Hu nan - Kwangsi railroad town, sit uated 75 miles northeast of Kwei- In Kwangtung,' Chinese recap tured Tsingyin, 40 miles north of Canton. 1 nasium Saturday night from 9 to 12 o'clock. Freddie Keller, trom bonist and his Portland band will furnish the music. The Don-Lee Mutual network has arranged to broadcast a portion of the pro-: gram. v 1 - Other Homecoming j committees include: general, Lyman Smart' Jack Stein and Virginia Barber; picnic, ; Marion Cake: and .- Jack Wittliff; rally, J ack Watson and Dottle Robinson; sign contest, Ro-. sella Bell and Stan Boyd; slogan Contest, Jane Huston and Bill Ban necker; bag rush, Fred Farrior, Ken Waldroff and Joe Mijich; publicity, Millard" Dough ton ,and Charles Long; advertising and fi nance, Margaret Ilughlctt - , Mac'sMemi Invade r Morotai Japs Surprised; Resistance J Light In First Phase GENERAL HEADQUARTERS. Southwest Pacific, Friday, SepL 15 VP) Yank invasion forces, heading toward the. 'Philippines, have invaded Morotai, northern most of the Moluccas Islands with in 300 miles of Mindanao easy fighter plane range Gen. Doug las MacArthur announced today in a special communique. ' . , Afer luring . Japanese . ground forces farth. south in the Halmai&-! nera group by repeated bombings there, MacArthur caught the ene my totally unprepared by -moving; an invasion force around mem and landing against light resistance on) Morotai, 12 miles off the tip of Halmahera island. V - : ; Losses Light V -; Heavy attacks by planes and , warships preceded the virtually unopposed landings. The invaders losses were light, headquarters) said. a 'sr-. '-r i: V- Morotai is 350 miles 'northwest of Sansapor, MacArthur's. moat advanced base on Dutch New Gui nea. '. ,-" 1 r.Vi'i'. ;, , . No naval or air losses were suf- fered in today's invasion. Landing Feels Japs ' 1 "The point of landing was niw expected,', the. special communi que said, "the! enemy hajng na- ucipated it in the lower parts of the islands where he had accum ulated very strong forces in hea vily defended positions. "In bypassing these forces ami landing farther to the north, b was taken by surprise and his in itial resistance is being rapidly overcome." Nazis Fighting Hard to Hold Gothic Line ! ; ' ROME, Sept 14 FieJ4 Marshal Gen. Albert Kessehiny, was officially reported, throwing ' the combined weight ."of all him arms into battle tonight in an ef fort to hold the Gothic line against . the reinforced US fifth army and the British eighth. - .' ; . , Lt Gen. Mark vW. Clark's fifth army troops struck heavily" at the great barrier before the Po .valley and Italy's industrial heart Aa undisclosed, number of American divisions and several fresh British -' divisions, trampled over-nazi out posts on a 25-mile front from Pis toia to Lucca, northwest of Flor ence... J : i- .,,1 -. ; I t , Eight nazi divisions were re eighth army, whose front runs eastward from Florence to the Ad riatic.:.: ". !' ' ' j ', .... j The German divisions, possibly under-staffed, are banking, more on fortifications and- guns of all -kinds rather than manpower. 1 Fire Destroys Lumber Plant At Mill Gty MILL CITY, Sept 14 -Fire of unknown origin swept through the Seitzinger Lumber mill her early Thursday morning, destroy ing the plant and threatening sev eral acres of timberland. Breaking out near the head rig, the blaze waa discovered shortly after 11 p. m., and ; local firemen joined with members of the for est service in an attempt to con trol the fire, finally quelled about 3 a. m. I : ." This marks the third time the Seitzinger firm, owned and oper ated by Merle Seitzinger, has suf fered heavy loss from fire dam ages.' Two planing mills belonging to the outfit were destroyed pre viously. Thirty men were - em ployed at the lumber, mill. " The amount of damage Is as yet unde . termined. ! ', Gandhi-Jinnah Meeting Gaining Momentum BOMBAY, Sept 14-VConfer-ences between Mohandas K. Gan dhi and Mahomed Ali Jinn ah, all- , India Moslem league leader, for m communal settlement of Hindu and Moslem" problems appeared today to observers to have reached the stage where they are discuss ing details. ; ' 7eatIier'V:'-'4 , . ;5; : Muiasm ttmpiritart f Thursday 12 derrees, mlnlmnm SZ decrees, .S7 La. ef rain, river I ft I la. Clear Txiixr and EatarCii: i v ... . . J y 1 1 i