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PAGE TWO The OEEGON STATESMAN Salem Orsgoni Friday Morning. September 15. 1SU i i- i ti -i : Hoyt Declares Freedom Vital . PORTLAND, Ore, Sept 14-) j A successful peace after this war Is dependent on an understanding ft world in which freedom of speech and freedom of the press will be l tolerated by all nations. Palmer l Hoyt, publisher of The Oregonian, said In a talk here tonight. Hoyt pointed out that the post-war world will be benefitted by v labor saving machines, and by terrific transportation speeds, but t also it will be made more danger V ous by new methods of mass de- struction. ' 1" a talk , to Portland Propeller v j club the former domestic director j' of the office of war information ; held that the people of the United ? States must strive to make peo 4 pie of depressed nations want our type " of freedom through free- dom .of speech and the press. I At Vancouver VANCOUVER. BC. Sot U-UPi '-A conference of medical men j from all sections of the Pacific northwest opened here today with discussions emphasizing wartime ;i advances in. medicine and surgery. ' LMany attended service uni - forms. It is a regional conference ;i, of the American college of physi- tians. . . . '' Dr.' Matthew Riddle, associate i professor of medicine at Oregon 4 University, delivered naner nn the latest developments in connec- - -I tlon with typhus, Rocky mountain . spotted fever and other diseases. CapL Charles E. Watts, medical . officer in command, US naval hos- SjPital, Seattle, told of recent clinl , cal experience with penicillin. i.More Used Army Trucks iSoon to Be Available - CORVALUS.) Sept 14 -(JP) Though the exact number of ve hicles to be distributed in Oregon has not been set, farmers may . soonbtain more used army trucks .the state AAA committee said today. - i Applications ! will be filled in , order of need, since they far out numbered the j first truck allot yment, the AAA, reported. j . :': n ; Trial for polygamy Ij Slated for Tuesday. h SALT LAKE CITY, Sept 14 inai oz 34 men .and wnmm l 4 charged with conspiracy to prac , lice polyjamy scheduled to open : tomorrow was postponed until . jr u; uut ju. -j. jsronson after a demand for a special Jury "c WM oxae uxiay m open ;. court by defense counsel. House Agrees on Bill For Selling Products WASHINGTON, Sept. J 4 - () - . iTie nouse today agreed with sen- . ate amendments to a bill permit ting the interior department to sell -vt.aand, gravel, earth, common rock, r: timber or other forest products or ; vegetation on lands under its jur- isaiction. Oregon Pioneer Dies ,t - PORTLAND, Ore Sept. 14- --Mrs. Henry F. Fleckenstein, 7, i who came to Oregon horsehark over the old Oregon trail, died : nere today. She was born in Cin--'einnati and'.canie here, when she was is. . ''WRITES YTTLL VHOVM r.A - DILLON, MonWiPk-Lvin j ierl his car after it overturned. r miey Beaton, an Injured pros pector, scribbjed his last will and testament Apparently he realized he was seriously injured and with little chance of being- found, as the accident occurred near his cabin in the remote Wisdom country. More than a week later two other, prospectors found the .wreckage and the body. SNAKX EATS TANABira ; EDGEMONT, S. D.-ff)-Disap-' pearance ox seven canary: birds nrxn a closed cage baffled Ralph unui a neighbor killed a our-foot bull snake. Iruiri k tnake were the seven songsters. Observers theorized it first climb. ea to table, poked its head Into he cage and sated Itself with canary. BOYS OCEAN TUV nn K MARYPORT,- iEngland -(ff- itre xMewcasue youths who set cui zrora this . Cumberland town In an old boat with no oars 'with the intention of sail to America f re missing. The boat was found wasnen jwore. -y a.' - .aaaaaa' 26 Die 1 - . This Is the Interior of a Pmllman villi-.. . . "" fn mv veterans wearing yorple heart New Spitfire Has Five-Bladed Prop r - - ' A . x ?1 -, " " t , t - ( i , , - r " "J ' - 1 - i; ; - " I - - . - t J i f J x X-1 ' :v J - - i x f V . J r t s, r'N- r - -" ' '7 vtH A d i zz2r js. The lAPs newest fighter plana ,pcuw Fwerea sy lew sus-Mjee enla derelapinr ffleial Brtttah phoU. (AT Wire hot) 1 ; French Fleet Steams Home Rome, Sept. 14-;P)-The French fleet steamed triumphantly into its historic base at Toulon yesterday, past the hulks of warcraft scuttled to keep them from German hands two years ago. Thousands of residents waited in the rain to welcome French sailors back to the city, which has been a naval base since the 15th centurv. Planes droned overhead and of ficers and men of allied warcraft in the harbor lined the rail in for mal welcome. Vice- Adm. H. KL Hewitt, commander of American naval forces in the southern France invasion which liberated Toulon, viewed the homeeominr from his flagship, the cruiser Phil adelphia, commanded by Capt Walter Ansellf represented the united States. TMg HW Hf HrU TSCf -OPENS 9M r. Now Sbnicg! THRILIi?! ROMANCE! GloriotM T I Teclmicolorl 7 J h V iuTttiatill iEl, CO-HITf iri ; fr,1.-iiGnf- I y(Js OP ! WESTERN L-. it STARS" RUSSELL HAYDEN "BAT MAN NO. 8 When Fast Trains Collide f , 1 1 ear In which Midlers were sleeping 1 j., . " injuring; : an Olimnett BO OMCn, WOMMf mT 1 If ! WCT decorations. (AT Wlrephato) i r i ; 1 Is the Spitfire Mark XIY (above). $500,000 Fire Strikes Elgin LA GRANDE. Ore.. Sent. 14 (JPi A disastrous fire ioi the elevator and warehouse atJFJgin today left a loss? of approximately $500,000. Henry Weatherspoon, a director of tne union county Grain Growers association;? estimated.- T The; warehouse, filled to caua city with wheat and peas, was discovered ablaze early this morn ing. Walls and roof collansed h- fore firemey could stop, the de- nAx i II m Centinnoas fram 1 P. M. . , ITow Showka! i til -ur i ' ) u I - f Thrffl Co-Featnre! V mbkv i9s- fsmn ifipsf vm turn sums - ati ajd Late NeTTs! And i I TBrief for Inrasioa j ' 1 mi m i-'i !CsiiCsrn.-. i W I Cssstaaea-KCSa. ' j 1-' . in, , 1 when two fast Chkase and : . T" . w "T sir fere e4atpped with a flve-bladed pre- uwst zni sMrsepwer. TUa is aat 9 I struction.f Water was poured on grain in the larger elevator in an attempt to salvage some for feed. I Whether the loss was insured has not yet been ascertained. Har vest of the bountiful crops in the north end! of the county was near- lng an ena, ana larmers were ex pecting profitable returns. Supplementing the Elgin fire if'"- ' S detiartmehL th T CI el was on the job until 10:30 arm. -Jt-'tItLHOOSC WITH THC f hrf CTirrsnria I!" OPENS S:4S P. M. Ttm Playisg! ff 74T 1 . ' B V - - w 0 THRltLV CX)-HIT!f ttJL'3ITCI . v -.".I CAXTEfl 4 "FI7E EDilVES TO CMHO' Iff PLUS: "HIDDEN AEJnr Tc7 II fl. r v Production of Lumber Gains r SEATTLE; Sept i 14.-(-West coast lumber production for the five weeks of August amounted to 157,151,000 board feet or ,89.4 per cent o(, the v 1940-43 average tor the same period, the West Coast Lumbermen's association reported today. - . j , For the 35 weeks of 1944; cum ulative! production Was reported as 5,428,510,000 board feet, again of 171,685,000 feet bver ; 1943. As the August production lifted production back to the. June level, military requirements appeared j to have reached their ieak and dropped slightly,! the report said. THowiftvet, it added,' the -indiis-try faces its stiff est problem lin meeting the demand this -winter because of the shortage of logs. Scafcity of heavy duty tires I is taking: , trucks off the log hauls of both Oregon and Washington, the report said. Burma Allies Get Support SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS,. Kandy, Cey lon, SepL 14-iiP)-Heftvy artfflky and aircraft support is being given units of the Fifth Indian division now probing Japanese strong points along the Manipcr river! in upper Burma. v't-.--:' The I attackers are faced with driving the Japanese from bunkers and foxholes honeycombing hills 6000 feet high in some places along the Tiddim road. j Much of the success of the Re cent rapid advance in this area L PAPER TOWELS; AT3 t H3ST AID KITS 3. PAPEB CC?S I i syDndlsivt Sensteoinilbeir 2 4. iiAKSATi:.icarTSfifoz:s 9. rcalsysTeicrjaTS 1 5 LC3 CvwXS XVjfHEN the PT charge Into yy TojoV fleet, doo't erer forget that jour waste paper is helping. And it's meedtdtodij more than erer! vWaste paper is oar Now 1 war mate rial shortage. Two million extra tons hare been called for this year; - 7' i ' Stye all your waste paper. Bundle it and torn it in regularly ; ; rn it ia regularly ii. Hp s come home again. . V-.. ' ! i -.. ; I - V . '. " -: " -- f- . i - I I - . - -" f . r . Off I7ar? '"Bar tfa Associated ttmm ' - ' Invasion Front The American First army opened a full scale assault on the Seigfried line ciU dd of Aachen, driving witMn a mile of that city; southward 40 miles other American columns made a new penetration of Ger many eight miles deep near ::Priim, ; ",' , ' Russian Front Russian and Polish troops captured Warsaw's ; industrial subttrb of Praga ion the east bank of the Vistula river and laid seige to the great Polish rip , ltd.-----W ; , . Vf. It Italian Front Field Marshall ?Genv Albert Kesselring war re ported officially' to be throwing : all his arms into battle in an ef fort to hold the German Gothic line against the reinforced US Fifth and British Eighth, armies. Pacific Front Allied i force landed in the Halmahera Islands and established a beachhead on ' Morotai island; American bomb ers raided Japanese from Celebes to Palau. :, , Kead to Berlha -. 1 Russian Front: 312 miles (from outside Pulutzk , 2 Western Front: 319 miles . (from east of Eupen). 3 Eastern France: 440 miles (from below Montebeliard). 4 Italian Front: 583! miles (from below Rimini). ' j - was attributed to the 10th USAAF by Maj. Gen. F. W. Festing, com manding officer of the British 36th division, in a message to Maj. Gen. Howard Davidson, alrforce com mander. u: : i - 5f TISSUE 6. FiHE EXTC:GDISKER niSTOICTIOriS 1 1L 7. TCnPEO t'XIl'ilS 1 r ' "' - li 8. WHL'IG CKCTJS ; ' 10. FLARES 1 ic. FOTVzn platit vj:::us IK mew "B-COZ h a ngutwd trade anrk of the Becfrie Boef Coawony . to send out to send out . -L '-L-.' mm M W m m r 7ASTE I?AI?E R . . J: , ) - l' ' ; : This Space rsn . J DIVISION OF . : ! STAE'SrjAM- R.HIBLD SMOWGi ' SALEM, i OREGON i LcNvis Eliners Grusli Move ForAutonomyi CINCINNATI, Sept 14.HV Cbeering partisans of John Lewis crushed an autonomy cam paign in-the United Mine Work ers of America convention today. The vote for a, resolution oppos ing any change in the rules of district self-government 4 at" this time was overwhelming. Scarce ly 100 of the more than 2,500 del egates appeared to be standing when: the "no" vote wasr called, and they were booed. -f j . The opposition needed 30 per cent of the delegates to lore NOW SHOWING CO-FEATUEE - ' The Khaki-Go-Wackiest Musical Shew ef Tbem AH! "HEY, ROOKIE" with Ana. Miller ' L 4 13. 14. 15. mm I Vf JEAN SULLIVAN ( t I , mat watson ! 1 i CO-FEJITUHE f ' BisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHBisflaMaaaBHBSBaaaaaaaaiBBk . ; 17. drjLf:cE l:a::uals City-wide- house-to-houM pickup of bundled newspapers, jnago sine and old books by Boy Scouts. Place your bundles on curb in front of residence or business house before noon Sunday. Sep tember 24th. Sponsored by Marlon County Salvage Committee and Boy Seosts.;-'.;ji.".r;;;.;i.; -y- -f ;T'- - ---e''"'" f";: U.S.1 Victory Campaign . y. -r , - - t v Contributed By roll call. It did not seek one. Lewis himself capped the day'i debate with a 45-minute talk ia' which he assesrted that some coa operators were encouraging th ' autonomy movement to weaken the miners union. He implied also ' that certain leaders of the auto nomy movement soon might fact possible expulsion from the UMW for attempting to prosecute him without first exhausting air the procedures of the union constitu tion..'. :; !.- v:' , TRIBUTE TO SHAKESPEARE LONDON -(ff)-A new Globe Theatre, a Mermaid. Tavern and Britain's first exclusive Eliza bethan library are to be built on Thameside v as ' an international ings will! be paid for fy world wide voluntary subscriptions. ; . NOW SHOWING A atory of hot suspense and cold murder! Tough hard boiled, tense. f REO MkK'J'RAY- IA1SAJU STAXWTCt COFEATURE A CHUCKLE with rvnr CHIUI M Aniw LsbJaab Csrtwlrsas talarts I si FUSES MD!a CfilSIS RADIO VM'MIS EL'EHGErXY HAT10;iS FOOD ccruiurcERS . nrriRKsv II V - mm KSr -ift S v ' , ' """ . i ' -i .; i , si 1 1