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i -f v'- ;' v- ..."V v;:-1 ; - r ' ;, -.---- v;;--. -: i. ? ' , ... .-. ,v-.. , .. . v, - ,,. - - . . . - j pdUNono 1651 : . ' - : !'-- Yatilts Take American Flag Into Germany NINETY -FOUBTH YEAR U PAGES Salem Ore3on Thuraday Morning, September 21. 1344 Price 5c No. 153 . V, Jug u c. it 9) i . t t American traaps la the Aache Stadt . . Photographer Harry Harris, with Oregon' republicans greeted . Governor Dewey, their party can didate for president, in Portland Tuesday. It was a more mature Dewey than the man who came - out as a candidate for the nomi- nation in 1940; but still a Dewey marked by abundant self-control and poise. And if his personality is not so magnetic as with some other men in public life, he yet shows a real flair in exciting a popular response. The ice arena was completely filled with a crowd - which by its interruptions of ap- plause showed itself exceedingly '; sympathetic with the republican itandard-bearer. The Dewey speech in Portland ..- was the best of the series to date of his campaign addresses. He at tacked the indispensable man the ory, and pulled no punches in his - endeavor to dispose of tha,t argu ment for Roosevelt's fourth term. In this his reasoning was quite similar to that used by Willkie on his trip to Oregon in February. He might' have -made? but did not, quotations to support his .thesis from the political speeches of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 when the latter was running against an incumbent ; rv The - Dewey strategy is now rather clearly outlined. It is first 'one -of attack and not to stop with . thetvague terms "the administra- tion,. or , "the new dealers, but to direct his 'fire right at Roose velt and the White House. Later it may be expected that he will - offer his own program for gov ernment policies, during the com . lng quadrenniunu ' Thus - In . Philadelphia he at tacked the Roosevelt administra tion as (Continued on Editorial Page) Lone Gunman1 Gets $1,000 in Bank Stick-up BAKER, Sept. 20 -(P- A lone . gunman robbed ' the Prarie City bank in Grant count; of 1 1,000 to day, then made his getaway east ward on the Blue Mountain Hot " Springs road, state police reported . - Striding into the bank, the rob ber pointed a revolver at the three employes and announced: This is a stickup, according- to D. J Hughes, bank manager. The gun man loaded his" pockets with cur rency aird silver from the teller s booth after ordering the men into '. a corner. . Telling the. robber he could be een from the street if he entered the4 safe, Hughes denied the man's request for the safe's key. The gunman grabbed a rifle from the bank as he left. Of UCDOIltB Tentative Plans Mqdd9 V -Day; Parade, Programs Considered Tentative arrangements for a parade and program on Victory day ;ln Europe were being dis cussed today by various commit tees, following a meeting of 50 representatives of civic, fraternal, vetef an and religious organizations in the chamber of commerce rooms Wedensday night . , ? . " The meeting was called by the Federation of Patriotic Societies to ascertain views regarding a fitting . observance.' ' : '" ; , Resolutions were passed favor ing a parade to start near the Court House, travel through the business district and end at , the capitol steps where state and city dignitaries , would give talksAn. other resolution endorsed an al ready - announced plan to close beer parlors with other retail stores. - '.v ' ' - - ' Plans formulated previously by several groups were reiterated V churches will open within 30 min- 1 utes after word is received that i V-ay hss arrived and (here Is to ( va union service that evening In forest unfurled a United State flagman German soil. tb Wartime 8tfll Picture pool, made the picture. Another wreck Uh Rail Line 2 Killed in 3rd Mishap in 2 Days; Four Are Hurt OLYMPIA, "Sept 20-(ff)-Two trainmen were killed " and , four were injured in a collision be tween two northern Pacific freight trains about IS miles south of; here today the third: train wreck in southwest Washington within a space of 48 hours. - C V. Swanson, Tacoma fire man, and Donald L. Sweeney of Centralia, a brakeman, were the two killed as the engines collided headon in a curve three miles north of Little Rock, 1 on the branch line to Grays harbor. First of the trio of wrecks oc curred Monday night at Castle Rock, when" a Great Northern freight traveling on the main line sideswiped a J; Northern Pacific freight pulling but of a siding. One' man was killed, and three injured. .r, ' Yesterday morning, the special train carrying Gov. Thomas E. Dewey on his presidential cam paign tour crashed into the rear of another train which had stopped at the scene of the Castle Rock wreck and approximately 50 more persons were injured. Those injured, but not serious ly, in today's mishap were: Heinle Orton, engineer. J. A-McMillan brakeman, Archie - Rhea, fireman, and Joe Wallace, conductor, f all of , Tacoma, according to Asst Supt Thomas J. Kane of the Northern Pacific in Tacoma. Cliina Accepts Nelson's Plan By Spencer Moesa ' CHUNGKING,- Sept 20.- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek has accepted a set of recommen dations submitted by Donald M, Nelson and Ma j. Gen. Patrick i, Hurley designed to bring more of China's currently , available in dustrial power to bear upon the war effort it Was announced to night : - : : At. the same. time Nelson said he would leave "very shortly" for the ' United States to report t) President Roosevelt arid to work out the American part of the eco nomic program agreed upon dur ing his two-week stay here. , Military aspects "will requira Hurley to remain in China for th time being. v" . " Nelson said he expected to re turn to Chungking later in th year, "when . the operational phases of the joint program are getting into full swing." the Presbyterian church; , retail stores will close immediately, and If the word comes after noon they will remain closed also the next day. , v ' " . " "t" It was the consensus of opinion that, everything possible be done to temper the celebration" in line with the realization that the war would only be partly won.. Rex Klmmel, the Federated So cieties' chairman for, V-day, was authorized to name various com mittees. - I ; Several suggestions were under study . one that booths, be es tablished as soon as possible at ter V-hour, at which every one could sign up for or buy war bonds, volunteer for the . blood bank and turn in bundles of pa per, fats, tin cans. ,' More definite plans will be ah-4 nounced later,' Kimmel said, but due to the uncertainty of the hovr when news of V-day. might, arrive it was taken for granted by the group that all plant would ha to be flexible.' . "V : . . " -V; 1 Associated Press (AP WlrephoU). fMagicl Carpet' Into France Is Slapped By British Paper ! LONDON, Thursday, Sept 21 (Jfy-Tht Daily Mau charged today that American representatives of big business were riding into Paris on a supreme allied headquarters '"magic carpet" and in the uni forms of comparatively junior officers," and' that certain Ameri can interests were exploiting mili tary agreements with ; Britain for purely commercial purposes. ' ; British subjects and even Brit Ish officials wait in vain for per mission to enter France, the news paper said, and are amazed at the alacrity with; which American businessmen are given facilities for travel to England and transfer ;jto France. ? ; ' fc Called f Senatorf by iGORNominee 1 EN- ROUTE WITH DEWEY, Sept. ZO-t-vThomas E. Dewey, greeted by; a cheering crowd ta sunny Eugene, Ore., on his way to San Francisco, predicted late to day the election of Wayne Morse to the United States senate. 1.. Introduced I by MOrse, as the fnext president of the jr United States," Dewy greeted the com pliment by referring to him as 'Senator Morse." ; . . (Governor Earl Snell introduced Dewey in the same manner at Portland Tiiesday.J ) j "We've had a beautiful trip down and . we've had no train wrecks," the COP;nominee declar ed, referring to Monday. ! "We have a comparatively sim pie job to do if you will help us,1 he said. "We have ip get a new administration and a republican congress. Then we will have the greatest house cleaning In his tory."-:... I j : i : Speaking from the rear platform of his train, the candidate said. "It's grand to find a whole, great enormous section of the United States 1 which j the new! deal hasn't even begun to spoil.' Sgt. Fiiller, 25, Dies in Action ! Staff Sgt Norman C- Fuller, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 Charles. M. Fuller, 3601 Center j street, was killed in acticai 14 France on Au gust 15, his parents were notified Wednesday, jj j I . :"v'h Inducted m March, 1941, he trained at Fprti Knox, Ky.; until July, when he was transferred to Fort Lewis to serve as a tank in structor for more than a year. Aft er further training at Fort Ord, Calif and Camp; Pickett Va, he was sent overseas, : rrA As a tank commander, he land ed at Casablanca at (the time of the invasion of North Africa In Novemberi 1J42, aw active serv ice there and in? Italy, where be was wounded in the "Casino cam paign. At: that time he: received the purple hearty Later he saw active service during; the occupa tion of Rome and in France. 7 Sgt Fuller attended Salem schools, graduating from Salem high school in 1939. Prior to in duction he was employed at the slate hospital. Survivors include his parents; a grandmother; Mrs. Alverda Welch; aunts, Mrs. John: Stark and Mrs. Roy Melspn of Salem, Mrs. C E. Martson and Mrs. Trent Dawson of Portland; aii uncle," Morris Welch of Salem, and his fiancee, Miss Vera Merk -of Salem. Kaiser to Build -Big New Drydock : PORTLAND, Sept.; 20 -AV As soon as the present drydock is completed,' another lone also 14,000 tons f- will be built at the Kaiser - Vancouver,! Wash., ship yard, the US maritime commission said today. ' ... ; f - , Costing an estimated $270,000, the drydock now being built will be installed at the j Kaiser Swan Island yard in October. It has not been: announced where the tecond drvdccl: v;Y. ts instilled. Invaders Kill 7647. Japanese: lAngaur in Hands Of U. S.; Bitter ; IFiglit on Peleliu: US PACIFIC I FLEET ; HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Sept 20 Killing 7645 Japanese. American invaders of the Palaus are in the the mopip stage on An- gaupr but are being forced to apply,, heavy pressure against bitter, en emf, resistance on Peleliu, head quarters , announced in a com munique tonight . ! , I Adm. Chester W. Nimitz report ed slow f progress on PeleU against strong Japanese defenses in the rugged Ngarekeuk , hills north of captured Peleliu airport (In a Blue network broadcast from the invasion scene Thursday, Palku time, Webley Edwards, rep resenting the Combined Ameri can networks, said the marines on Peleliu have , won all but a small strip on the northeast coast and have seized small offshore is lands.) - '- v . ' I i Allied headquarters, Ner Guinea, Thursday, Sept 21 (A)f- More than 50 Liberators bat tled through heavy weather to hit thej Japanese at Davao, southern Philippines, Monday with 120 tons of bombs and didn't encounter a single enemy fighter, headquarters' announced today. ' The Davao i airdrome, barracks the' punishment Returning fliersj" renorted numerous fires and hea-1 vy (explosions.. ; ' The monsoon front was so" ex tensive that some big bombers couldn't get through and, instead, dumped their explosives to the south on the Japanese garrison in thel Talaud islands. , It was the second heavy blow tosped at ; the t Philippines since Geh- Douglas MacArthur achieved a new air base at Morotai, atop the! Moluccas, 300 miles southeast of Mindanao. Flax Industry To Be Insured i, Oregon's state flax industry will go JUirough it peak season this year fully insured. - H -The state board of control Wed nesday i approved a three-year In surance arrangement with an an nual premium of approximately $13,000 to be based upon actual monthly inventories of stocks. Sheds, stocks and mill are covered In the insurance. ; . ; Placed through' Becke and Wads worth of ; Hawkins i and Roberts, Salem, the Insurance carries can cellation privileges for the state. Foty per; cent of . the commission will be participated in by the Oregon Association of insurance agents.'; j ?;' K ;.;;; ' :;. J 7M:i Insurance on the flax industry of 1 the state was provided by a state fund until the series of flax shed fires two. years ago. The past yer a policy providing a maxi mum of ' 3.250,000 coverage was held. The new policy provides foil insurance in the amount of approximately $634,599, the maxi mum varying with the value 1 of stocks and equipment (More about , board of control meeting on page 9). Wartime Payrolls Fall Off From 1943 Peak, SUCC Reports Employment and pay rolls in Oreeon reached their 'wartime peak during the second quarter of 1943. state unemployment compen sation commission statisticians de clared here Wednesday. Compila tions of the records for the same period of 1944 showed a slump of about . three per cent from last summer's high point they said. nployers' reports reaching the commission up to September 1 in dicated that covered employment for the last pay period. of ,une would be about 10,000 under the June, 1943 peak of -333,548. Pay; rolls for the quarter were approxi mately $7,000,000 less than the $203,065,000 paid in jthe second: quarter of 1943. The decrease in April and May employment was sliehULv less than for June. S or tne first nau ci is pr.y rolls totalled nearly 332JCC0,- Well, He'll Learn About Navy if He : Gets Opportunity " I MOSCOW, Idaho, Sept 2HJP)-. Robert Eugene Jordan, 22, of Mos cow, couldn't get into the navy any Other way so he" tried this angle: He told authorities at the naval radio training station at the Uni versity of Idaho he was a' deserter. He had, he said, jumped ship in Australia two years ago and now wanted to "face it" and return to cluty. He said he deserted a crals er,; the U5 J5. Lipton. i Naval authorities didn't ' look grim at that They grinned. Cruis ers,; they knew, are named after cities only. r r-"-:'.--'. ., .. ..." J - ; ! . . ; Gothic line Allied Army i ROME, Sept 10-(P-The allied Communique today announced Quit American Fifth army troops have breached the massive, fierce ly defended nail Gothic line on a six-mile . front above Florence, Opening the way for swifter de Scent on the Po .valley some 23 miles " distant ,:" ; :' . j Easily defended mountain roads Winding toward Bologna; gateway to the central section of the val ley, and Imola, a smaller indus trial city, probably will keep the advance te a relatively slow pace until allied forces burst into the atlands. A greater immediate' threat to i rthe Germans . was - Eighth army Jpush.Jby. Canadian &bd Greek troops to the outer defenses of Rimini, Adriatic port at the south lastern tip of the valley from Where tanks and infantry could spread in a huge flanking move ment Its : airfield already is - in Allied hands. ; ;';'..,, ! Troons In this area are assault jng the village of San Fortunate, and nearby have reached the out skirts of San Marino and captured Serravalle States Rights ; luonversion Bill Goes to FDR f ' WASHINGTON, Sept ' 20-ff)4 Congress completed today the last of four major bills preparing for the collapse of Germany, sending to President ? Roosevelt's 1 desk states rights" legislation drawing the outlines for demobilization and reconversion. 1 J - - X I The demobilization and recon Version bill included a mandate on the release of soldiers and sailors ho longer needed to fight j The legislation leave control of unemployment insurance 'entirely in state hands., ? At- house insist ence it was stripped of senate pro- Visions for back home travel pay, up to $200 a family, for war work ers, and unemployment insurance for 3,100,000 federal employes. I The legislation sets up a sepa rate administration . to handle re conversion problems. It provides non-Interest loans for states and cities i to plan postwar public works; guarantees the solvency of state unemployment compenstaion funds, and sets up a retraining and re-employment office with power to coordinate existing activities. 00(Tor $6,000,000 more than for the first half of 1943. Wages reported for the second half of the year are not expected to reach the record figure of $410,500,000 established for the last half of 1943.' 7 Benefits for August registered a considerable downturn from; both July, 1944, and August 1943, but the proportion of out-of-state ini tial and continued claims increas ed. More than a third of the 176 new claims were from other states. Payments for August were $523 as compared to $314,837 In July and $9162 a year ago. Officials said benefits paid this year trt about 40 per cent lower than tie $217,477 distributed to claimants in the first eight months cf 1S13. The 313 claimants ho have re ceived maximum benefits compare with 678 reported at this period t last year. Breached by Big Gain In Baltic Drive Bags Near ly 2000 To wiis,. Covers 43 Aliles LONDON, . Sept 20-(ff,)-(Wed- nesday)- .Propelled by a double break through in Estonia by a fourth army group, the red army's, grand offensive to rid the Baltic states of Germans before snow flies - has engulfed nearly 2000 more towns and reached within &0 miles of Tallinn, Estonian capital. Moscow , disclosed last night . An order of the day from Pre mier Stalin to Marshal Leonid "A. Govorov of ' the Leningrad front forces and the midnight Moscow communique announced a break through north of Tartu, east-central Estonian rail city, had gained more than 43 miles on a front 75 miles wide and . had taken more than 1500 towns in four days. A northern wing of the same army thrust westward from Nar va in a 37-mil advance in three days, taking more than 300 com- munitiea. ' 1 Near Tallinn These forces stood less than 65 miles east of Tallinn at Rahkla, 50 miles southeast of Tallinn in thr area west of Vageva.- Autumn - fog ' made denser by the smoke of artillery fire cov ered much of the Baltic country as the Russians broke through the strongly - fortified region along the western shore of lake Peipua and advanced northwestward on the railway running from Tartu to Tallinn. . f . Estonian troops were participat ing alongside, the .regular forces of the Leningrad front, the Rus sians said. Casualties Heavy ' Casualties inflicted on the Ger mans were not yet tabulated, but an early - morning supplement to' the communique signified they were heavy, telling of a German regiment being wiped out and 600" prisoners taken at one spot and of 2000 Germans being slain out right at another. : ; . Jq the swampy country west of Narva, despite German mines, the Russians cleaned out the 30 -mile-wide land bridge between the gulf of Finland and lake Peipus and thrust on west along the railroad towards Tallinn. - WLBHitsat Little Steel Wage Ceiling WASHINGTON, Sept 20 -UP) Organized labor's campaign to break the administration's war time restraints won new ground tonight as a war labor board pan el declared that the -little steel wage ceiling can . be broken , to keep earnings abreast of the cost of living. , It was the second time in a week a WLB panel had found the president has the power to madi fy wage controls. Today's panel, which heard the United Electrical, Radio and Ma chine Workers, CIO, demand a 17-cent hourly wage boost did not recommend the increase, but said it could be granted and de tailed surveys "showing the j cost of living has gone up beyond the little steel"; barrier freezing sal aries at 15 per cent above Janu ary, 1941. . , A week ago . another . panel which reviewed a wage increase asked by CIO steel workers made similar findings'. Both panels re ported that estimates on the in crease of the cost of living range from the 25.1 per cent figure of the bureau of labor statistics to 45 J per cent claimed by the CIO. War Chest Drive : To Start Soon ; When the p re-campaign com mittee for the annual Salem Unit ed War Chest drive goes to work next Monday, September 25, " the organization for the thorough and rapid solicitation of the city in the . main crusade which opens October 9 will already be mo bilized. '. " Lowell Kern, president of the board of directors of the chest and chairman of its executive com mittee, with Burr Miller, campaign chairman, Wednesday announced completion of the organization, vhich is listed ia detail ca izgz 1 Fascist' Trembles' As Court Listens To "Atrocity Tale ROME, Sept . 20 - (jf) - Former Roma police chief Pietro Caruso, on trial fori his life in an impro vised . c o u'rt room! elaborately guarded to protect him from' mob violence, turned pale and trembled today as, a medical expert gave a stark description of the bodies of executed hostages recovered - from Rome's, ."Smolensk forest" X the Ardeating caves lKV:X':: He told the court that Field Mar shal ,Gen.Albert Kesselrlng, nazi commander Iff lUly, ordered him to- t urrfsi" hostages, for "execution in reprisal for the bombing of an SS column. r r:r . t - i He said, however,' that he cut the number J of r hostages turned over to the Germans from the 80 demanded to 50. I Professor iAttilio Ascarelli, di rector of Ui medical-legal inves tigations at '? the massacre ' scene, told the court 39 of the 335 bodies exhumed were beheaded. Service Ballot : MIAMI, Fla, Sept 20--The Miami Herald tonight quoted a na val officer,' anonymous at his own request as saying that a sailor at the Miami Naval training station who applied! or a wartime ballot from; Michigan, has received re publican' campaign literature en closed with bis ballot The officer said that other sail- ort from Minnesota and from New ' trsmnchin iiui rMiv) nnp iit; Hampshire had 'received -GOP liti erature separate from their ballots but carrying servlcenumbers "of the sailors on the 'envelopes." - f Those numbers . could .have come only from theiri applications for: ballots,i the officer told the Herald. : WASHINGTON, Sept 20--A republican fhint that the senate campaign expenditures committee might look linto the1 political ac tivities of Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago developed tonight after the disclosure that pro-Roosevelt campaign letters accompanied sol dier vote applications mailed from that 'city. K;o . r Members !of congress of . both parties agreed the letters were le gal under terms of the soldier vote bill. h 1 1 New Air; Service Asked for Coast PORTLAND, Sept 20-(ff)-Unit- ed Air Lines has applied to the civil aeronautics board for' a fifth daily round! trip along the coast officials said today. ' . The proposed extra trip,' effec tive Oct .1, would leave Portland at 5:33 plm. and arrive at Los An geles at 1):30 p.m. .1 The north bound flight would leave Los An geles at 8 a.m. and arrive at Port land at 1:32 pjn. Eugene Schools ; Enroll 4291 Pupils EUGENE, . S e p t JO.--Top- ping tasi zaii s loiai Dy zuo, scnooi enrollment Set an all-time record here today4-4291 students. 4 Cooperation of Asked in Paper All householders, of the city , of Salem were appealed to today, by Gardner Knapp, chairman of the Marion county salvage commit tee,' to play their . important part in Salem's all-out waste paper drive scheduled for Sunday, Sep tember 24. Pointing out that the drive is being made' possible entirely through volunteer effort and that the conservation of time, labor and transportation arefundamen tal keys to the success of the cam paign, Knapp asked ; the ' patriotic Cooperation of tvtxj local - dtir zen in properly and securely tieing all newspa pers, ; magazines and cardboard cartons la small com pact bundles, and in seeing that the bundles are placed on curbs in front of their respective homes not later than 11 a. rn. Sunday. "Waste paper improperly , bun dled and tied, or not tied at all, slows dowp the loading of trucks and the reloading into boxcars. In most cases, the bundling which ttie individual fails to do must be Used by Party Propagandists i bpan On 1 Khirie:Is;;j Sole Kev ; erate On to Give'Aid; Nazis Hold Firm ; ; By .IIowartl.Cewanr ', i; SUPREME ; HEADQUARTERS -' ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY K FORCE, : Thursday, Sept flHP) British Second army' troops fought desperately ; today to cross 'the Rhine ; river at Nijmegen, Hol land, in a race to rescue i huge pocket of allied airborne forces isolated in the Arnhem sector and under 1 slashing German attack. The all-important concrete bridge, a mile and a half long and 600 feet above the swift-flowing Rhine, still Is intact, headquar- -ters declared ' officially at mid-, night but it was firmly held rby the Germans, and a great, swirl ing battle was raging. , . Troop Sorraande4 The airborne troops in the Arn hem sector were "completely sur- j rounded" by the nazis, headquar ters Said officially; and battled furiously in the pocket against the German ring. The nazis claimed 1700 prisoners. 1 5 ; r v' ... ; The1 Germans increased their -airf activity greatly and : threw planes into heavy bambing : and strafing operations both at Arn- . hem and - Nijgemen, and also 'at British-held Eindhoven. . ! The great . battle across the Rhine delta, the German radio said, might prove a decisive west- I em front engagement ' Seventy miles toAthe south US First army troops under' Lt' Oen. f Courtney HlHodges - re a c he d', Gressepich, four miles r east oT " Stolberg, in Germany." " German forces in this area fought1 furious ly and with ; better - coordination than at any time since the battle of Normandy, front dispatches said. .rii-: h : The Americans were hanging grimly to the breaches in the Siegfried line : They repelled re peated fierce infantry and - tank attacks and 36 enemy tanks were knocked out by the First army in yesterday's fighting alone. The nazis were .throwing in huge re serves in an effort to prevent fur ther -penetration into Germany east of Aachen. ' ! The German news agency DNB . said allied patrols, from the Arn hem sector which, had driven - across the Dutch-Geasnan fron tier were pushed back in sharp counterattacks. " ' Lt Gen. Sir Miles C. Dcmpsey'a British Second army merged with the other two airborne task for ces in the snowballing drive across southern Holiana yester day in, a spectacular advance. Nijmegen, a city of approxi- mately 50,000, is situated on a high bluff on the southern bank of the river and once Dempsey'a main forces have crossed the way will be open to them through a rolling valley into the . Ruhr, scarcely four miles to the east Weather I Maximum temperature $1 de grees, minimum 55 degrees, no rain, river -2 ft 6 in. ; t . Partly cloudy Thursday and. Friday; scattered showers -Thursday ; cooler northwest Thursday , and .in the southwest ' and east ' portion Friday. - " Householders Drive Sumlay - re done later by volunteers before the material can be shipped off . to war,", Knapp said. -. The Marion county salvage committee and all those associat ed with this campaign; therefore, strongly urge all householders to make it their own personal re sponsibility to see -that the paper is bundled securely, as outlined above". j ' ? .Waste basket paper is not ac ceptable because lack of adequate baling ; facilities in this area, Knapp added. A joint announcement was made by Knapp and by Floyd Bowers, city salvage chairman, that all Salem,, fire stations will serve as supplemental depots .during Sun day's drive, for the convenience of suburban residents. Persons living outside of the ci ty limits and desiring to donate their paper to the Salem campaign may take, tied bundles of news papers, magazines and 'cartons to their nearest fire station any time before 3 p, -m. Sunday,
