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, Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Mornlsa, January 16, 1945
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Breanale, of Laurel, Mist operate controls on, 155mm. run set
up between two trees in the now
front where "B" battery on the
4th infantry division. (AP Wirephoto) ;
Annexation
Due in
3rdReadingaK'd
Affected Areas -Split
Over Plan
For Joining
Annexation of approximately
two city blocks at the south edge
arid of a larger strip of territory
along the northeast and east bor
ders of Salem will be proposed at
art election to be held April 6 if a
pair of ordinances introduced at
: Monday night's council meeting
are passed when they come up for
third reading. three weeks hence.
Opposition from residents of the
outlying territories to both the
election and to the annexation
proposal was heard in informal
! discussions which followed ' the
cession and was expressed in pe
titions bearing approximately 240
names . which appeared, at that
time and which are to be present
ed at the February meeting.
Other Want It
Other groups of suburban resi
dents have ; been about equally
' anxious to" come within the city
boundaries so that they may be
y included in sewer service plans
now " being drawn, j Alderman
James By ers, -chairman of the an
nexation committee, said he had
" been informed. Extensive new
sewer lines will be laid when the
sewage disposal plant is built af
ter the war, and details of the en
gineering will depend upon the
number of residences to be served,
he "said. (Approximate boundar
ies of proposed annexation de
scribed on page 2.) '
; . " An ordinance . vacating the por
tion of Tile road lying between
the railroad tracks and the state
fairgrounds was passed. ;
Want More Light
Hollywood' residents, , whose
P r i n c i p a 1 spokesman Monday
night was Frank Ferryr were as
cured that their request for im
proved street lighting in the city's
second -largest business district
would be given fair consideration
and whatever relief might be in
dicated and available. Perry said
that the present 250-watt globes
hung at street Intersections pro-
. vided the same type of light that
Hollywood had before streets
there were paved, and that instal
lation of additional lights, between
Intersections and use of 1000-watt
globes Would cost the city only the
small additional monthly electric
Ity biU.
Cemplaints Made f
Complaints by L. H. McMahan
that Hunt Bros, cannery and the
Terminal Ice & Cold Storage com
pany have usurped rights that do
not ibelong to them "are carreer! a
special committee of Aldermen
- David O'Hara, Claude Jorgensen
and Albert Gille reported. The
committee report, accepted by the
' council, asks that dty law en
forcement agencies be instructed
to act to correct, the corporations'
alleged encroachments. McMahan
had complained that the two con
cerns took over parking and side
walk space, parked vehicles . in
such a way that pedestrians could
not walk on their side of the
street
'Army Plane Carrying j.
1 1 Passengers Crashes
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan.
lS.-iify-A US army plane carry
ing 11 passengers and crew crash-
ted yesterday on a routine flight
frona Borinquen field, Puerto Rico,
It Was announced today.
Three survivors were rescued
and one body was recovered, leav
lng seven persons missing.
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In Belgium on the Third army
field artillery Is sapportlnr the
April If
Governor. Snell has recommen
ded that revenues from the opera
tions of the liquor control com
mission be covered into the general
fund, instead of being paid,' the
state share that is, into the public
welfare fund. This is advocated by
some of the pension organizations.
The ostensible reason may; be ob
jection to eceivinc talntedf mon
ey" although I never have heard
of anyone's refusing to accept old
age assistance for that reason. The
more plausible reason is to get the
general fund to assume the obliga
tion of public welfare, regardless
of liquor receipts, apparently sen
sing the fact that profits may fall
off when the war boom ends.
There is merit in- the proposal
from the standpoint of public ac
counting. Authorities in public
finance pretty well agree that all
receipts should be covered into
the genral fund and then appropri
ations made by the legislature as
neeris warrant.
But if this rule is to be applied
to the liquor revenues it certainly
should be applied to the receipts
from the racing commission. At
present only one-half of one per
cent of the gross take at licensed
race meets goes to the state gen
eral fund., The remaining two and
one-half per cent making up the
state share goes direct to certain
fairs, expositions and shows.
Actually the distribution is
Continued on editorial page)
Burma Strong
Point Taken
MYITKYINA, Burma, Jan. 15
(i1) - Chinese troops under Gen,
Sun Ll-jen today captured Namh-
kam, last remaining major Japa
nese stronghold in north Burma.
Only the Japanese garrison at
Wanting in China near the Bur
ma border separates the route of
the new Ledo road to China from
a junction with the old Burma
road.
Another element of Chinese
troops from Burma also pushed
up the valley north of the Shweli
river today and made contact with
a Chinese force pushing east from
China -
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U.S. Moving Toward Direct
Hand in European Affairs
By John M. nishtower -
WASHINGTON, Jan. li.-(JPh
The United States is rn o v i n g
swiftly toward a direct hand in
the i political affairs ; of Europe.
President Roosevelt and. the state
department were veering : away
frora Cordell Hull's "Tennessee
formula for keeping this country
out of such affairs pending crea
tion of a world security organiza
tion. ; . ".i- -
The change is viewed In diplo
matic quarters, ' both American
and European, as the most impor
tant development of that nature
since 1941 when this country was
plunged into war. The reason of
fered by American officials is that
action is necessary now to mold
the peace for which this war is
being fought; - i
Mr. Roosevelt aparently signal
ized the shift in bis message to
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2 Yank
Armies ;
Contact
Americans Only
Six Miles From
Town of St Vith
By Austin Bealmear
; PARIS, Tuesday, Jan. KSHflV
The US First army "drove into
Hpuflalize in the heart of the Bel-
gian bulge yesterday carried with-
in! six miles of Si Vit in an all
oit attack, and established patrol
contact with the 'US Third army
which, at the eastern end of, its
line, overran three Getman towns
ir a new assault' -1 "
j Contact of the two armies" wais
made south of LaRoehe by pal-
trpls of the First's 84th division
and a division of the Third army, lishment Monday; where approx
S&ice neither encountered any .opv Una tely March 15 wounded men
position in .effecting this token may W received. 1 Among the men
linkup, It was believed that th assigned to me nospiut is Petty
area West of Houffalize was empU Officer; Charles M. Charlton, Sa
ty; of the enemy except' fer stratK em firs 4' captain who has seen
glers. ! " ; t- more than! two years of service in
sUhM Mil. ! S . .
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moi-ed division smashed more
man a mile down the hiehwav in
to the? outskirts of .Hbuffalize and
a I front dispatch said the dough
boys were battling less than a
mile from the center of that com
munications junction now the
western key to the shrunken Ger
man wedge. " j i .
: (The US Third army," lashing out
from the south, sent an armored
column and elements of the 101st
airborne division in advances of a
naif mile to within four and a
hlf miles of Houffalize.. r
6 i Divisions Fight -
ApA. Pen. Courtney 'H. Hodges
threw at - least six divisions into
the drive on St IVithl-only - four
miles from the reich border
shredding the Salm Iriver line,
overrunning eight or bore towns
aid dfawine ud an assault arc six
to ftine miles from that major
highway and rail center on the
north, west and southwest v
j With the oncef dangerous Bel
gian bulge now no more than a
bump on the westerri front the
Thyd army swung out east of the
Moselle river in Germany between
Luxembourg and the Saar basin.
3 ITowns Captured - :-..L.
In advances of more than a mile
and a. half, the Third captured
three ; towns Butzdorf, Nenning
and Wies, the latter five miles in
side Germany just east of the
Luxembourg frontier. I
j Now that his Ardennes, adven- j
ture had come' to anl end,-, Field
Marshal Kajl von Runstedt ' was
repbrted pouring resh troops into i
thje' Saar and northern Alsace for
possibly n e w , breakthrough at
tempts. "i
: The Germans struck a dozen
times ..with flamethrowirur Canks
at the town of Hatten,-eight miles
south of the German border above,
Strassbourg, and jwheh these ef-
foi-ts had spent-their strength US
Seventh army d o u g hb o y s rose
from the rubble and attacked.
Tribute Paid O'Connor
! Washington; Jan. is - -
A saddened house of representa
tives paid extended tribute today i
to Rep. James Francis O'Connor
(d-Moht), 66, who died of a heart
attack last night (while asleep in
his hoteF room. ; .
congress two. weeks ago, saying
American - power; and influence
will bemused in support . of the
principles of the Atlantic charter.
(The long range American ob-;
Jective remains the creation of a
world ' security system within
which Britain.7 Russia, and the
United State wbuldf be closely
bound ; in cooperationi for peace.
Failure to advance that organiza
tion more quickly? is regarded in
some quarters as one of the cau
se! of t some of Europe's , current I
trouble, since1 it leaves the United
States uncommitted on long range ,
foreign policy.
r I For!lht reason, considerable
thought has been given by Amer-
lean cffidalsto various senatorial
i-vJ
JUu,t vvvuui -
chinery pending the creation of a
security league. : .
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Camp Adair
To Reopen as
ArmyDepot
. Simultaneous with the arrival
of the staff which will operate
Camp Adair hospital as a navy in
stallation j came announcement
Monday that Adair itself would
reopen, j It will not' be as training,
establishment but a depot, Lt CoL
Eugene Foster, commander of
the posti sad, i
Probability tha the army would
not assign a large i personnel to
Adair, but would use tracks and
storage space was foreseen in Fos-
fer'a announcement! Little detail
f the operation planned there has
reached him, he said. f
Meanwhile, Capt Paut W. Wil-
son had arrived at Adair from the I
Naval Medical center, Washing-
ton, DC, to take command of the
hospital which will ho longer car?
ry the name Adair but will be the
U.S. Naval hospital,' Corvallis. A
dozen officers and j nine enlisted
men were; at thej3000-bed estab-
PacifiP. attached to the First
marines.
First Double
GassinglKills
Two SL
avers
Two ' men were dead today in
the first double execution by gas
ever held in Oregon, j
They were Henry William Mer-
ten and Walter Lome Wilson, first
sentenced! to life-ion conviction of
holdup of Wherry's tavern at
ak Grove, July 22, 1942, and
condemned i to death after
Kalph Dahlen, 27, Oak Grove ba-
ker died six months later of gun
wounds inflicted during the crime,
An appeal to supreme court, failed.
Both were executed,
an hour
Merten
apart Friday morning,
went firsi "I .1
r Prison attaches said neither of
the pair slept the last nightbefore
the execution, and wanted nothing
to eat but that they appeared in
good spirits and talked 'consider
able of -crimes.. Neither made a
final statement or accepted servi-
( ces of a chaplain.!
The two men entered the peni
tentiary December 1 from Oregon
City after! they had made a futile
attempt- to escape from Sheriff
Fred Riecksecker's car en route.
U-0 Head
j . Dr. Harry K. Newborn
Iowari Named
U-0 President
PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 15-WV
Dr. Harryi K. Newburn, 39, dean
of the college of liberal arts at the
University, of Iowa, - was named
president pt the Uniyersty of Or
egon Dy me siaxe Doaru vi iiigner
education i today. He will take
office July 1.
Dr. New burn becomes the
eighth prejsident of the university,
succeeding Donald M. Erb who
died a year ago
Dr. Newburn Is a native of IUi
fnois, with, college training at
western Sitate xeacners college m
that atate and graduate degrees
from University of Iowa where he
eamed hy Phd 1533. Be is mar
rie(i and has three children,
Additional details on page 2.
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Series Of
Labor
Bills Set
Senate Business ,
Brisk; House Re
fers Liquor Bill
A series of five bills designed
to extend provisions of the Wagner
act (applicable to firms in inter
state commerce to public and pri
vate employes not covered by that
statute was in the hands of s the
senate labor and industries, com
mittee today. : t
It ' was presented by ' Eugene
Allen of the AFL, and would:
Permit employes of firms in
interstate commerce to join labor
organizaaons; - make , employer,
coercion Ja misdemeanor "and com
pel employers to engage in collective-bargaining;
assure equal pay
for men and women doing identical
work;" provide public employes
with the 'right to collective bar
gaining and time-and-a-half for
work over 40 hours weekly; give
time-an4-a-hal for policemen
working! over 40 hours a week and
firemen working over 48 hours.
Busy Week Here t . ;
Its preparation, and the present
status of other important consider
ations, bore out advance indica
tions that this i would be a busy
week ln the 43rd legislative ses
sion. .?,' I v: : - j - . V 'J. , " -
The senate joint resolution pro
viding for an investigation of the
state's liquor business was in the
house committee on alcoholic con
troI,'with every evidence it would
be reported back quickly for final
action. The house sent it to com
mittee Monday ' immediately upon
receiving it -s - s
Important bills hit the senate
in rapidy order Mondayincluding
those providing for so-called "free
ways, state construction and oo-
eration pt air, fields, and 12,000.
000 additions to the state hospital
but formal introductions in the
house continued in the preliminary
stage.- I" ; i ; j ,-:
They: included measures to
lengthen! terms of justices of the
peace frm two years; to six; pro
vide for election polls to be open
until 10. pjn.; and would designate
a system;' of geographical positions
in regard to surveying within the
boundaries ol Oregon. .
New Avalanche Seady
V'A newj avalanche was being pre
pared lor both the senate and
house, which will reconvene at
10 a.m. today, including Town
send club and Other old-age' legi
slation; a measure to limit the
number j of spectators at execu
tions and one seeking to have cer
tain housing projects designated
as rehabilitation centers.
' Both, branches otthe legislature
held but jjbrief sisions Monday, but
committees were increasingly ac
The senate resolution on liquor
provided; 'OI" an investigation and
report at the earliest possible
date," arid legislative sources said
it appealed complete data would
be available to provide additional
controversy long before the cur-
(Legislative news page II)
Couhties'Part
Of Gar Funds
Shows Increase
Oregon counties will receive ap
proximately ; $340,748.48 as their
final apportionment of motor ve
hicle revenue for 1944, Secretary
of State Robert S. FarreH. ir.
said Monday, bringing the coun
ties share for the year to 240,'
748.48, I .
For the fiscal year 1943 the
counties share was $2,311,568.60.
s Counties receive 15.7 per cent 0;
the net receipts from motor vehi
cle revenue each year. For the
year 1944 total receipts included
Vehicle registrations $3,300,038
motor vehicles fuels taxes $9,637,
960, motor vehicle carriers fees
$1,891,880, and fines $$79,346.67,
Total was $14,909,225, an increase
of $185,839 over 1943.
Officer Embarrassed
v PORTLAND, Jan. 15 --Spec
lal police officer II. G. Bowers
was embarrassed today. He re
ported to headquarters that while
on duty he was strongarmed from
behind and robbed of his 22 caliber
pistol and a. $45 watch
Eludes Japs
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Aviation machinist mate S Charles
O. Watkms (above), Vhe elnded
the Japanese for two years and
two weeks after his escape from
a prison camp in the! Philip
pines, found a hamburger at
Miami.. Fbu, better eatihr than
the monkey meat he. h4 t de
pend upon at least three times
during his ordeal (AP Wire-
photo from mivy.
!
ting
Set Forth; jVlay
NotApplyHere
George Flagg, public j utilities
commissioner, Monday received a
telegram from the war production
board, barring certain uses of
power, effective February ;1. .
1 Prohibited would be Use of elec
tricity for: . ;
Outdoor advertising, promotion
al, lighting; outdoor display light
ing except that essential ito con
duct of business; outdoor decora
tive, ornamental lighting; show
window lighting except if neces
sary for interior illumination;
marquee lighting in excess of 60
watts for each marquee; one
way street; lighting not essential
for ' safety; : outdoor , sign ' lighting
except for : directions, jidentifica
tions, traffic control, hospitals, ter
minals. 1 1
Signs for doctors, hotels, other
lodging flaces would be limited to
60 watts. i i
There 'has been -no announce
ment of exemptions.; and state of
nciais saia Monday tney jnaa no
knowledge that such would l be
forthcoming, but unofficial; reports
have persisted that all the regu
lations will hot apply toithf north'
west because coal is not "primarily
used in this area for power pro
duction. : :. i .I,
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Voluntary Rationing
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irian ior ugareis i
Will Be Tried Soori
CHICAGO, Jan. lS-tne na
tional association of tobacco dis-
tnbutors announced . j today it
would make cigaret ration cards
available to more . than 1000,000
tobacco outlets within two! weeks,
for dealers; to distribute to their
regular customers, j ' f
ine rationing plan, the associa
tion said, will be voluntary on the
part of the dealers. The numbered
cards will be . punched for . each
pack purchased by a j customer,
and consumers will be required to
sign a declaration that they hold
only one card. . i I, S
Oregon Prison
Expansion; IJoe
Jo R. Silver, senior parole of
ficer for the state board of parole
and probation, will become execu
tive secretary of the Oregon State
Prison association February 1 un
der a new and broadened program
now being arranged, it ;was made
known Monday. : jj ( : h
. The prison association, founded
first in 1903 as the Oregonj Prison
Aid society, took its present name
in 1929. Its activities are to be
financed by ; the Portland Com
munity chest ' j i
Silver said it was contemplated
that the association would launch
a . new educational : and research
program Into the methods' of pre
venting and treating crime,' and
that its scope would be Widened
to includs ether parts of tie state.
Japanese
Hit Back
On Luzon
Sixth Troops
.Within 93 Road
Miles of Manila
By C. Tales McDaniel and !
James Hatcheson 1 '
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, TtJes
day, Jan.' 16 - JP) - Sixth army
Yanks rolled to within" 98 road
miles of Manila by capturing the
road junction of Camiiing, ' 30
miles from invaded Lingayen gvM,
but locked in a furious fight on
the east flank with Japanese hill
entrenched forces contesting for
every foot of ground.
The capture of Camiiing, which
brought the southbound troops
into Tarlac province, was an
nounced ' today In a communique
which reported advances in all
sectors. "
Fierce Opposition - .
But a field dispatch from Dean
Schedler told of a fierce engage
ment on the east flank where
Gen. Douglas MacArthur went
yesterday to watch field artillery
and offshore warships throw high
explosive and shrapnel shells into
the. enemy positions. .
That fight is developing along
the northeast end of the 45-mfle-wide
curving beachhead as Yank
captors of the coastal town . of
Damortis seek 'to move inland
east over the nine miles to Ro-
ariO.H4: V; -"V".
Yanks Halted
Schedler said the Yank columns
from Damortis were halted
abruptly by Japanese mortar and
machinegun , fire from foothills
commanding the road.-. -
In contrast with operations
down the central plains toward
Manila, the fight for .Rosario is
a fight for every foot of ground.
Seventh fleet rocket-firing planes
are active in support of the Amer
icans.
The Japanese , appear i deter
mined to make a stand before Ro
sario because loss of that high
way junction would deny them
use of the easternmost and only
remaining highway connecting
north central Luzon and Manila.
Parked Nazi
Planes Blasted
By U. S. Aces "
LONDON, Jan. 15-()-A group
of American, Mustang fighters
made a surprise Iraid on two big
German airdromes today,' shoot
ing up at least SI parked aircraft
as nearly 1600 allied warplanes
fronvBritain blasted six important
fuel and rail targets in southern
Germany and the industrial Ruhr
vallev. " ' w.:v " .
- ,More than 600 US 'Eighth air
force Flying Fortresses and Lib
erators, screened by 650 fighters,
swept over enemy . targets -without
meeting any luftwaffe opposi
tion. - - ; - . '. - .. ' . -
Twelve parked planes were de
stroyed and 19 were badly dam
aged w hen about 50 P-Sls
swooped over the airdromes at
Landsberg and Oberpfaffenhofen,
near Munich. 1 - , V : .
' German plane losses in two
days were at least 237 downed in
combat plus 20 destroyed and 19
damaged on the ground.
Group Planning
Silver Named
The association has had no ex
ecutive secretary since the resig
nation of Lettie V. Good two years
ago.-, f '-: J'h .
t H. M. Randall, director of the
state department of parole and
probation, said that Robert Jones,
now assistant parole officer acting
for the southern Oregon area,
would become senior parole offi
cer pending a permanent appoint
mentr - V''"-T"--.'r.'',
- Silver . joined the department
when It was organized, in 1939, as
assistant narole officer, and was
advanced to his present position
in 1943. - He said his wife and two
children, now residing on route
in West Salem, would move to
Portland as soon as housing fadli
ties could be arranged. . ,
By W. W. Hercher
LONDON, Tuejsday, Jan. 16-UPt :
Russian troops, pouring 16 milet
through the shattered Warsaw .'
Krakow line, yesterday topple4
the central bastion of Kfelce, swept
to within 50 miles of German Si
lesia and drove) within 21 milaa
of Krakow on the fourth day of ,
their great winter offensive, Mos- ,
cow announced last night - ;
Berlin also announced officially :
that the Russians had opened
massive new offensives on. both J
sides of Warsaw; in an effort to '
encircle the Polish : capital and
break through tq the Polish cop-
ridor behind the German army
in east Prussia.: j ;
Penetrations Made
"Deep penetrations' of German
lines were made by the Russians
from their bridgheads across the
Vistula at Warkaj and Pulawy,1 $0
miles and 65 miles southeast; of
Warsaw, ana aiso in the Bug
Vistula triangle just' north of the
capital along the! Narew river 30
miles, above Warsaw, Berlin said. '
The Russians were estimated to
have more than 1200,000 troops in .
action in 10 key sectors on a 600-
mile front from the Baltic to Buda
pest and Berlin said Russian re-
serves constantly were being hurl
ed into battle 1
Enter Big Town ; ,
In German east Prussia fhrTfrn
sians broke into the highway Jo jv a - ,
of Schlossberg, BerlM said nd in
northern Poland other unfts struck "'
across the Narew from Pitltusk and
Rozan, the latter! point fbnly 33
miles from the southern rim of
drives on both sides of Wfifta
and in cast Prussia, but said that
Marshal' Ivan S. Konev's hard-
tuiung rim ucrame army naa
overrun 400 more towns and vill
ages for a total of 953 taken since
the winder offensive 'began last.
Friday.' v,' V-vi -iii'k 'A
tamer rlanes
Bomb Japan's
LifelineSPorts
US PACIFIC LEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Peai-1 Harbor, Jan.
15.-6P)-Third fleet fliers bombed
Hongkong, Swatow and A m o y
Saturday in the j first full scale
carrier attacks of jthe war on Jap
an's lifeline ports along the China
coast the navy announced today.
This bold sweep of more than ,
300 miles, extending in behind
Formosa which was pounded -anew
at the same time, followed -by
two days Third fleet carrier at-
tacks along the Ipdo-China coast
which wiped out two enemy con
voys and sank or damr.ged a to
tal of 69 enemy ships. 1
Adm. Chester W. Nimitx said no
details yet were available on the
China coast raids; but he moved
sharply upward 'previously an
nounced totals of I at least 25 en
emy, ships sunk and 13 damaged .
off Indo-China. . 1 -TTT,-"o..-' !
FortyKne Japanese snips totat'
ling about 127,000jtons were sunk
and 28 more ships aggregating
about 70,000 tons! were damaged
by carrier planes Jh the bold strike '
last Thursday on
ports and con-
voys off Indo-Chiha,,
Yank Losses
In Nazi jDrive
Under 40,000
-, WASHINGTONi Jan. 13 -AV
American losses in the first three
weeks of the big German counter
offensive were leiss 5 than half of
those of the enemy, secretary of )"
war Stimson reported today. I
Basing his statement on prelim
inary tollies and! estimates, the
ecretary placed lAmerican losses
in the Ardennes sector from Dec. ,
15 to Jan. 7 at f slightly under"
40,000 and said j this figure in
cluded 18,000 - reported . missing.
Most of the latter, he said, are
presumed to be German captives.
. Striking a balance, Stimson
estimate that German casualties ,
totalled ' about 90,000, including ;
approximately 40,000 soldiers cap- -tured
by the allied armies during
the "battle of the jbutge. The re-
maining 50,000, Strmson estimated, 4
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showers today 14 the mid-Willamette
valley area with im
proving " weathe T to p a r 1 1 y
cloudy later in the day, predicts
U. S. weather bureau at McNary
field, Salem. !
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