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'.. I notice some ads running with
this phrasing "Is the' city council
going to prohibit me from getting
electricity from my customer-
owned Bonneville power distribu
tion system?" The signer each
time is an Individual. It doesn't
take a seventh son of a seventh son
to see that this is pointing up the
clash between the Portland Gen
eral Electric company and the Sa
lem Electric, the cooperative form
ed by JHarry Read, formerly of
KSLM, which taps the Bonneville
lines and serves accounts in West
Salem and in a portion of down
town Salem. The city council is
sued a permit to the Salem Dec
trie to set 20 poles, but now the
cooperative is tagging at the bond,
and is already accused of going
over its limit , - ....
So here you have developing a
nasty fight between the old PGE
and the young Salem Electric. The
former, operating as a public utll
lty under state law, is under regu
lation by the state public utilities
commissioner. The latter, oper
" siting as a cooperative, asserts in
dependence of such regulation as
far as rates and practices are con-
cerned.
Salem Electric, tapping the Bon-
neville line, and distributing en
ergy in a district with concentrat
ed demand, has a rate schedule
which is less than PGE which op-
crates generating plants and ' a i
wide distribution system covering
ciUes and country in the lower
Willamette valley area, though it
now purchases a substantial part
cf its energy from Bonneville.
The question is not Just as sim
pie as the advertising line would
Indicate. PGE for Instance would
(Continued on Editorial page)
Gen. Marshall
Reaches Paris,
Talks to 'Ike'
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
Allied Expeditionary Force, Oct
H)-Gen. George C. Marshall
arrived in Paris today after a non-
stop night from tne uniiea j taxes,
and conferred immediately with
General Eisenhower and his staft
f n MM nna aav avnnnariAn : Tnw r
ww- y-.,
the
e unheralded visit of the army
.l- ZJZZZ
, director of
chief of staff, nor for
of James F. Byrnes,
war mobilization, in his party,
They arrived, however. In the 1
midst of increasing reports that I
ter or war on the western iront.
Marshall, Byrne, and a small
group of high-ranking army off!
cers arrived at an airfield just
outside Paris 20 hours after leav-
uimwu.
im ne steppca iivm uie pmui,
. . . 0 1
bower. Li Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley, commander of the U. S. 12th
army aroun. and Lt Gen. Walter
Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief
f staff.
Earthquake Strikes
8&5
NEW YORK, Oct,
lent earthquake shook
Istanbul and other parts of Tur-
key today with the loss of SO lives,
the British radio reported, quoting
Turkish dispatches. The broadcast
was recorded by CBS.
I Love You9
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t
:L
Kenneth L. Dixon has but one
assignment -to write the story
of GI' Joe. Dixon doesn't cover .
headquarters, the conferences of
generals, the progress of the
war. But he's living the war,
living it and breathing it as
only those at the fronts can do.
And he reflects the life of the
men -who fight it in the most ,
1 graphic, human, - down-to-earth
stories of the entire conflict
' Above he is shown on the bat
tlefield of Italy, writinj' under
i unbelievable conditions his daily
column for The Statesman and
a select group of other AP
, member newspapers mayhap
vritlr.3 the very column appear-
. ing on the editorial page today
- the story of a soldier, stump
ed st what to UU his sweet-
! S.:rt ho finally gave, up and
v rcla only the a-i-cld endear
i -1- "I love you."
ITOIETY-FOUBTH YEAB 10
Russians
Well Into
Hungary-
Other. Red. Units
Continue Drive
Near Belgrade
LONDON, Saturday, Oct5 7-(ff)
Russian troops invading tottering
Hungary smashed 13 miles inside
that last big axis satellite nation
yesterday, capturing a series , of
key towns and junctions within '
100 miles of Budapest, the capital, I
and only IS miles from Szeged,
Hungary's " second city Moscow j
announced officially last night
stikin acVos rich farmiands
which oMer litfle natural defense
lines for the Hungarians and bol
stering nazl troops, the Russians 1
seized more than 100 localities on
75-mile fan-shaped front be
yond Arad, big west Romanian
i Jumping off base, the bulletin said.
Collapse Near 1
Dispatches from the Soviet cap-
I ital said the Hungarian home front
might collapse at any moment, and
i the Russians already are planning
for the invasion of Austria after
i knocking out Hungary.
Soviet planes dropped leaflets
exhorting the Hungarians to quit
the axis and save their country
before it is too late, and mobile
loudspeakers went along with the
ground troops for the same pur-
pose.
Outflank Enemy I
In - Yugoslavia other Soviet
trooos were steadily outflankintf
Hungary on the.south, and were
reponeaio nave senipairois across
... . .. . a . a j . a. a. a - .-J
r1 UD ""TT, .
An unccirmed Algiers ra-
tdio report said the Germans were
the Danube river into the Belgrade
evacuating some troops from the
Yugoslav capital with the use of
bi transoort Dlanes.
Russians were becinninx a big
pincerI movement in western U-
thnini. .,1 nnrthm Polani imH
at German East Prussia,
was silent about this new, offeri-
i uvc, uui uw wiiuuuuiu UW.U1-
. - m .... .
i nounce uie seizure w uiwei uiie
the west Estonian coast by Rus-
siaa amphibious forces Invading
t that big island dominating the
mouth of the Gulf of Riga.
A II J TJ
JLCUV1CS
Blast Germany
T TM" J -
b, I JLJLJL ITJLctSS
LONDON, Saturday, Oct 7-V-
American and British heavy
bombers blasted Germany yester
day and last night in a series of
mighty attacks on Berlin and other
targets, nrobablv nouriri mom
than 10.000 tons, of nlMivM nn
war Dlants of the reieh In thir
devastating cumulative assault
ADnrovimatelv 1300 Fortr
and .Liberator hit twUn unA
Hamburg in one of the areatest
davliffht mas raid of th r
and another fleet of 50Q. British
Lancaster! and Halifaxes struck
synthetic oil plants in the Ruhr. I
These daytime blows were fol -
lowed up during the night by an
other trmTinfaii RAT mmtAn
by an estimated 1000 heavy bomb-
, ers which hit Berlin for the third
time in 24 hours, as well as Dort-
mund, Bremen and Saarbrucken.
10 of 2500 Service Ballots
Already Back
Ten per cent of the 2$ 00 service
ballots sent out by the Marion
county clerk's office are in the
vault there .today awaiting No
vember 7, election day, to be de
clared officially "casV.
Although few if any of the zau
red-banded envelopes which have
been delivered by mail at his of
fice the past few days could have
been posted overseas, their . post
marks show they have come from
widely distant army camps in the
United States and from naval
bases scattered across the conti
nent County Clerk Henry Mattson
said.
Homefront voters are as ns.
meroos at registration windows
this year as In any pre-war elec
tion season. Mrs. Gladys White,
elections clerk in llatisca's of
fice said Friday. Closing of the
election books tonight at t
a'cloci nay utU ts t;ca itt
PAGES
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AfW6r Wounded Chinese
v
A severely wounded Chinese soldier
tentlon la the streets f Tengchnnr, la western China, eaptared la
the Chinese drive j toward Burma
wirephoto)
Nippon Claims
Foochow Falls;
Fighting Rages
A Japanese invasion force
m, th Mat rhin maKt ha ran-
xtttit nnv ci i ' in
on the east China coast has
Hrf vn reT
tured the port Of Foochow, capi- I
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rftri:rt -j.- jn hrnaHrt
I, ,
beamed to Japanese overseas and
reported by federal commun.
mmrn;inn
"ST ZTZZZ. t r
tnrtd rrr th narrow rrmn.
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FnrmnM th at rminn (
China port in Chinese hand, has
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pied by the Japanese In April,
wwav w w v ivuuj vaa vbvui
i io. cm was retaken oy uc uu-
I . , . .
i nese in-aepxemDer, ivav, wnen
(accounts, "withdrew.
Major fighting
,SSSASL
Chinese provinces,
Kwangsl and ; Kwangtung. The
Chinese communique said defend
ers operating behind the Japanese
lines had j recaptured the impor
tant town of Szewui, 47 miles
northeast! of ; Canton in Kwang
tung province, but in Kwangsi,
the fall of Paoching appeared
near.
Willkie Shows
Improvement
NEW YORK,.Oct -(ff,-Wen,
I dell L. Willkie, in a hospital suf-
I faring from a throat Infection and
I liht lung congestion, was "doing
very well" late today, hS physi-
cian. Dr. Benjamin Salzer. an-
noUnced. ; -
Dr. Salzer said the 1840 repub-
Hcan presidential candidate ' who
H 32, had a temperature of 102,
out added, "I'm not concerned
about that"
1 The physician said he expected
The physician said he expected
Willkiea condition .to Improve
within 24 jiours. Dr. Alexander D.
IGhiselin, a throat specialist and
Dr. Clarence De La Chapelle,
heart specialist ' visited Willkie
for the second time in two days.
Ready to 'Cast?
greatest . number af names af
registered voters ever recorded
In Marion county, she said.
- Meanwhile, Secretary of State
Robert S. FarrelL jr., is notifying
overseas servicemen, from whom
mm s - . i .
t.9 ieuru war uauou were re-
ceived Friday, that the federal
ballots have been received and are
acceptable, but that they may sup
olement these with the state ballot
provided the laiter reach them in
time to' be returned before elec
tion dav.
Each of the 18 ballots, first
.... ... ......
the federal variety received here,
was accompanied i by an affidavit
to the effect that absentee state
ballots had not been received by
the soldier-sailor-marine voters up
to October i.
The federal ballots are being
forwarded to clerks of counties in
which the overseas voters are lenil
reside
PCUNDSD -1651
Solera. Oregon, Scrturdoy l lomlncj. October 71S14
J
receives emergency medical at-1
from the Salween river. (AP
Berlin Citizens
Not Excited
OverDistomo
BERLIN, Ore.i Oct S -(- The
scattered residents of this post-
offir-li villa. to be renamed
I ' ' '
Distomo Oct 28, will attend chria-1
ton in ceremonies but theVre
cap-ltening ceremonies but they're
not very excited about it
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; th t thi -Man
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sponsored by an eastern commit.
tf to rename ' the vUlage for ;a
v k u
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t since the ffeneral store died cif bt
WMM utawa. nuavlarf Kavi tha
iW,no nutnmn
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JuryGinvicts
31 Polygamists
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct
.frtv-nn,. ft,nHanJnb.nfif mit
Thirty-one "fundamentalist' cult
members 20 men and 11 women
of conspiring to
were convicted
court jury today
preach and practice polygamy.
The eight male jurors returned
the verdict after an hour and 57
minutes' deliberation.
District Judge M. J. Bronson set
Oct 13 at 10 ajn., mountain war
time, for sentencing. S,
Maximum penalty is one year
imprisonment or a fine of $1000.
Defense j,, attorneys ; said they
would. appeal to the state supreme
court ana u necessary wouia carry
tne case to toe united states su-
Pteme court
Only a few defendants, aU men,
wei ta "the courtroom when the
nucs was announeeo.
TTa -Til - "
UeWeV JTlanS
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I r I r I ViTl 1 CtrtY
4j -a. h i it Q
ENROUTE WITH DEWEY, Oct
t-(Jpy-A few hours after President
Roosevelt's disavowal of commu -
nist support : Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey asserted today the presi
dent "would like aoftlv ' to derrV
government to cities well
TZZSiJL T: n,iTJOf Chest Ends Toni-ht
openly ' tomorrow night at
Charleston,- W.Va.
r Although the republican presl-
dential ; candidate did not say
f Bpecmcauy, uiai ne rezerrea
Nn hm.Mm .
iwicut., ; kuku ut
that he does "not welcome
the support of any person or
- 1 group commuted to communism
or fascism," Paul Lbckwood, Dew- paign which opens officially Mon
ey's secretary, said such was the day morning is $94,000.
- 1 governor a intent.
of eatiier
. ....
llaxtmam temperature rriJay
89 degrees.1 minimum SO degrees;
no rain; river -3 ft 8 In. Clear
in eastern part partly cloudy In
western sections Saturday,
cloudiness la west foereazlij
Sunday wilh rrobatle ralas;
mild tercreratare . Saturday,
cr k. 4
srz v- i lj: . u v- . r.N . : vn v.m
Prtca 5c,
'British
Corinth ! .
Guif Scaled Off;.
Rion Seized as .."
Germans Fleeing
ROME, Oct 6-(rVBriUsii In
vasion forces In Greece advanced j
I today toward the Isthmus of Cor-
inth, gateway to Athens, and it i
appeared that the Germans al
ready had abandoned most of the
Peloponnesus getting out of all
Greece as rapidly as they could.
Seizure of the. fortified town of I
Rion, seven miles east of the cap
tured port of Patrai, sealed off the
Gull of Corinth at its narrow
mouth.' " - '
Shell Nasi Traffle , t
Up the Adriatic coast British
guns on we vsumauan uuanos
Bueiicu enemy unuic aiunx uie i
coasiai roaa. xnusn pianes on a
raid near Salonika destroyed three
enemy transport planes and shot
up a dozen retreating nazi motor
vehicles.
(The Ankara radio reported to
night that allied troops were
fighting on Corfu and that troops
crossing from Albania had linked
up with others already engaging
the enemy on the island. The Par-
is radio reported another landing
in Albania about five miles from
i the besieged i enemy supply port
of Sarande.) '
Desert Masters , -
Deserted by their German mas-
e"' "security battalions" of col-
laboratm Greeks were reported
ISS5S35f rsSLsV
P? P01?. fa. Peloponnesus,
- - - ' ? -
and the visit of a minister of the
i m ani f, rriiras "TvnTias- vtnav
Mjm"? .
1 1"01"8 n or peninsuu
ZZa
S ds dTre mots
ish troops and u reels patriots.
Geor Papandreou
I announ5ea ranasmou' M
neuopolous, minister ol rmance
v w """"."V?
ave JUmVnearU"1
recepuon, ueu pan gone w ux
vatAnnnnii
Allied Planes
Sink 4 Ships
In East Indies
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
New Guinea, Saturday, Oct 7-
aJa Soin
ain?t Wt,
plane, i sank : or damaged four :
SSI rr-J",
East indies Tuesday and Wednes-
"
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ZJlZTTSFt. .
Drive
On
. i , rw ""of Dover on both sides of the chan
suna. new ooeia uiano, eas oi
I tJT
' , - , .
off Celebes. In the vicinity of
Amboina, a 1000-ton vessel i was
sunk and a 3000-ton merchant
man was blown up by a direct
hit , -- - ; - ,
The bag of four ocean- .going
ships increased the total for Oc
tober in t h a Southwest. Pacific
theater to 23 sunk or damaged by
planes.
$ Today's communique' listed
eight small surface craft sunk and
11 damaged.
- At Celebes, the raiders attacked !
airdromes and supply depots . and
destroyed two grounded aircraft
I -Jr. In the mop-up drive against
I bypassed Japanese, 595 more have
1 been killed and. 153 captured on
i New Guinea and in the Solomons,
- 1 headquarters . reported
With $38,365 in payments and
nlpdffM to It iwArri tht mnrninff.
the nre-camnnlm driv of the Sa-
hem United War Chest winds
un!
to i tonight . Probability that the 850.-
I ... - . .. .
uuu pre-campaign goal wouia De i
reached was foreseen at Friday's1
luncheon meetina of division i
heads. Quota for the entire cam-
Cake Predicts Ilcavy
: Oregon, November Vote
Predicting a heavy vote at the
J November election in Oregon be-
cause of the large current regis-
tratiori, Ralph 1L Cake, Portland,
republican national committeeman
!for Oregon, conTcrrci Friday in
Salem with-party county central
i committee hea J ;aarters and state
:cials.
17o. 172
Big Third Inning
Gives Browns 6-2 ;
Win Over. Cards
SPORTSMAN'S PARK. St. Lou
is, Oct. 6-(ip)-The St. Louis
Browns scored four runs In the
third inning and added two more
in the seventh to defeat the Cardi
nals, 6 to 2, today and take a two
games to one lead in the world
series before a crowd of 34.737."
Jack Kramer held the Red Birds
to seven hits and struck but 10
men to make his world series de
but a sensational success. Ted
Wilks, a rookie right hander, from
Columbus, was charged with the
defeat after being knocked out of
the box on five straight singles in
the third frame.
Billy Southworth called on four
of his young righthanders in a fu
tile attempt to stop the Brownies'
attack. . Although errors were re
sponsible for both Cardinals runs,
the ' Browns defense tightened in
the, late innings when danger
threatened and right fielder Gene
Moore made two brilliant catches
to help Kramer out of trouble in
the eighth. (See sports page for
full details.!
Explosions End
Premiere Show
Of FDR Revue
-. i
; BOSTON, Oct -()- A few
J moments after Earl Browder,
communist leader, finished ad
dressing the premiere of the eon
troversial musical revue - TDR,
Victory ; Bandwagon," In packed
Symphony hall tonight several
loud explosions, apparently from
. m . . . a ...a. a
15 t'-
through-the buildi
rever Derated
building, and quick
(minds averted ; turmoil.
.; The detonaUons came as Ann
t m t - . . a a . ...
uuriax, i commumsi leaaer m
j Massacl
"mseus, - was piewmg tor
S5"? T. reelection of
president Roosevelt
I , M toe exDlosioM
tinued most of the audience arose.
Mm .howf frn .ii .i.
down."
Many near the exits raced Into
the lobby.
, Some women ; appeared - near
hysterics as police, some with
drawn pistols, ran to the scene, but
the cracker- thrower had fled,
possibly through: an emergency
exit near the stage.
- Police Sergeant Frank Mullen,
in charge of uniformed and plain'
clothesmen at the hall, said:
"My men found what appeared
to be the remains of exploded fire-
T!
trying to break up the meeting."
BigEplosio,, Heard
In Dunkerfiue Region
I LONDON, Oct (- A tremen-
dou explosion the direction of
Inkerque lit up the starlit strait
i , ,nx
I ?losion PP?r w
I eitner a big ammunition dump or
German demolition work.
Close Play or Score
. it- .
Al ZarCla, Lrewas leftTI :isr, reaches hone tlate first by f-step to
secre trcaLi the tir t: rd Lit :'. - fr:arr In t.Te tMrd woria series
gt8 as Ccr-l-il rit;L:r TitlL,
relTieve 1 tti bait score:
Yanks
; . ' . ... , i
Forest
On , Way . to Cologne
Nazis Hurl U. S. From Beggendorf
But Dougliboys Take It Back;
Weather Takes Turn for Better
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS - ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Oct fHVThe US first
at the Siegfried line south of the
day, driving through the evergreen forest of Hurtgen to within
23 miles of Cologne and the Rhine behind the drumfire of massed
artillery and swarms of warplanes.
. . This new assault was uncorked as the Germans, sucked 16 mile
north to defend a breach torn in the line by a first army drive
now five days old, hurled in all available reserves and 30 tank
i' " . . ..... . . . ).. . .... . -: .j. , - . .....
and drove the Americans temporarily from Beggendorf, at thtv
tip of a salient menacing the RuhrO
valley.
Then the doughboys, reinforced
by tanks, swept back .into Beg
gendorf and the German town
was reported firmly in their
grasp.
(British tanks also penetrated
Into i Arnhem in Holland during
the day, the Berlin correspondent
of the Swedish newspaper Dagens
Nyheter said.) I
BatUe Grows Bitter
Supreme headquarters said a
force which by-passed Beggen
dorf .was locked in a battle that
was growing more bitter by the
hour. .
Fifty German fighter - bombers
strafed American troops, but alert
ground gunners knocked down or
probably destroyed 25 of them.
It was too early-to tell whether
the savage new onslaught 10 miles
southeast of Aachen, caught the
enemy off balance, but a front
dispatch said Lt Gen. Courtney
H. Hodges assault units advanced
nearly a mile in an hour and half
and were within six miles of Dur
en, 20 miles from Cologne.
Bombers Busy
Hundreds of fighter - bombers,
loosed by the first clear weather
since the big push opened, blast
ed at camouflaged bunkers and
pillboxes hidden along the needle-
carpeted floor, of Hurtgen forest
But still advance units were met
by a storm of mortar and small
arms. fire.
It was the first break in the
weather in weeks, and word from
supreme-- headquarters tUjj clear
sues over' tne .oatue area couia
be expected ' for another 48 hours
brought immediate speculation
that the hour for knockout blows
might be at hand. .
Building Rules
Now Relaxed
- Salem is now eligible for an un
limited number of residential pri
orities, George W. Copies; regional
representative of the 'national
housing : agency, announced . Friday-
i Apartment houses and other ex
isting dwelling units may be re
modeled i or converted to provide
smaller housing units, under the
new ruling. Applications for per
mission to convert or remodel such
structures should be' filed with the
federal housing administration,1
515 Piatt building, Portland 5,
Oregon, he said.
Although need for additional
living units for general occupancy
had long been recognized, little
could be done about it until ma
terials needed , to construct hous
ing for war workers could be re
leased, Coplen explained.
v.: t:Jr.... a t--
Ciwui 6, CarJs t. (See picture en
Drive Into
of -Hiartgeiii
army dealt aTfreat surprise blow !
German fortress of Aachen to
1 ' " ;
Germans Plan
To Blow Up
Dutch Seawall
LONDON, Oct -m Hol
land's exile . government .. accused
Germany' tonight of "malicious v
and ruthless" demolition of the
seawalls guarding the reclaimed
lowlands, an action which would
mean the flooding of approxi-
mately 48 per cent of the country v
and disaster to nearly 63 per cent
of its population. ,'
Premier Pieter S. Gerbrandy,
his usual solemn stoicism shat
tered by the desperate plight ha
pictured confronting bis home
land, told a press conference that 1
"famine, floods, cold and darkness
in a matter of weeks threaten to
engulf the densely - populated
provinces of the Netherlands in
the greatest disaster of their his
tory." '
This, he said, would be the re
sult if the Germans in revenge
carry out their threat to 'destroy
the barriers the Dutch have built 1
over long years against the North
sea. He added that the enemy al
ready was doing much damage. -
The. campaign of demolition
carried out by the 4 Germans in
the Netherlands, he3aidTis pro
bably more .- ruthlessly thorough
and certainly is dej.truc.ive of
more national wealth thtn in any
other German . - occupied terri
tory." Clark9 s Army
Drives Ahead
Three Miles
ROME, Oct 8 -CP) Pushing
forward up to three miles through
rain and mud against stout resist
ance by crack nazi reinforcements.
the American fifth army won po
sitions 13 miles southeast of Bo
logna yesterday and drove to with
in nine miles of the strategic Bo-
ogna - Rimini highway, allied
headquarters announced today.
The Americans captured -the
arge town of Loiano on the high
way from Florence 14 miles be-.
ow Bologna, the greatest com
munications center in that part of
Italy, and cleared Munzuno. three
miles to the west of Loiano.
The fifth army Yanks, "made
their principal advance and
closest approach to Bologna and
the Bologna - Rimini road by
driving over snow covered moun
tains to a point 2000 yards south
of Monterenzio, a village in the
muddy hills between the Imola
road and route 65 leading to Bo-
ogna. . ' ' ;
The progress was made against
a desperate, attempt by the Ger
mans to block the allied push to
ward the Po valley. The enemy
poured in reinforcements includ
ing experienced Austrian and
German Alpine troop. ,
Hitler Planning One J
Last Jet Plane Fling
LONDON. Oct -flVHitler ap
parently, is planning to have one-
last desperate fling in the sky with
his hot-tailed Jet planes.
The fuehrer has given top pri
ority to the creation of a new air
arm," the German news agency
reported today, and for a week
DNB has been telling '' listeners
about "certain special new forma
tions of the luftwaffe". in opera
tion over the' western front '
Addressing a group of nazi air
men recently, Propaganda Minis
ter Paul Joseph Goebbels declared
a German force is being built up
which will soon abolish alliedair
supremacy." - ' -
Discharged. Veteran" '
Has Heart Attack
Capt Charles Blackwell, Port
land, honorably - discharged from
the US army, is at Cskni Deacon
ess hospital in critical condition
early this morning following coJ
lapss cn downtown State street
Friday nisht apparently from- a
heart attack.