The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, June 13, 1945, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text.page two t ...... . - , f ... Yanks Resume Fusli Toward Cagayan Valley ' MANILA, Wednesday, June IS-(ft)- American forces resumed their advance Monday toward the broad Cagayan valley of north eastern Luzon, where . the ... last major 'battle of the Philippines may be fought. Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur said today in commu nique.,' j ..' : . The 37th (Buckeye) division, pushing north- along highway 4, destroyed seven enemy tanks as the Japanese increased their re sistance in an attempt to block the K advance on the broad valley. Fighters caught a Japanese truck convoy out on the highway and .demolished 48 vehicles, MacArthur said. Tar to the north, the Japanese rear was harassed by light naval units, which pounded enemy posi tions along the northern coast of Luzon. Once more far-flung air raids were cutting Into Japan's vanlsh "lng sea and air power within the radius of the Philippines- bases. 3000 Reported .Killed, Injured in Explosions , LONDON, June 12-(P)-A Paris broadcast recorded by the Ex change Telegraph agency said to night approximately 3000 persons had been killed or injured in a series of explosions at the ord nance factory of Fresnes near Modane. The broadcast said the blasts occurred during the afternoon and evening, levelling the buildings at the plant. . g5r This Ticket Good for SPECIAL REDUCED- PRICE TICKET FOR HT School Children This PARTLY-PAID TICKET, When Exchanged at the Circus Grosftds Will Admit ONE SCHOOL CHILD to the After noea Perferaaaee for . V laelodiag An State A Federal Tax 35 JL "H Extra Coupons Available Portable, d Folding naniLiL (Bo'o5 V... : . . tzi x-jr$ ctrcrly constructed. Has a turning spit, too. Easy to carry becntua it folia compactly. Makeepicnickmg" a pleasure even for the coo asaMiSMSK Corner Center and Thumbnail of War! By the Associated Press - Japan Attacks by Superforts, Liberators, Mustangs, Thunder bolts, Corsairs and Hellcats in sixth continuous day. ! . Okinawa Tenth army launch es heavy infantry attacks with substantial g a i n s into high ground in Yeaju escarpment sec tor. , ' . ": v Borne Against light resis tance, Australian troops secure Muara island in Brunet bay, ad vance two miles north of air field onJLabwaa island and on Borneo mainland drive toward Brunet town. FhlUppiaee Sixth army Yanks advance up. Cagayan val ley, North Luzon, and Eighth ar my elements force enemy deep er into mountains west of Davao, Mindanao. China Japanese , force Allied withdrawal from Chungchingfu, Indo-China border. Chinese forc es captured Pingyang coastal highway town 135 miles north of Foochow. 20 Tons of Eels Taken From Willamette Traps OREGON CITY, June Twenty tons of eels have been taken from traps in the Willam ette river here, and T. L. Critch- low and his crew expect to get 50 tons more before the annual run ends. Riverside residents welcome the eel-catchers, who save them the trouble of raking beaches daily for dead eels. The eels are sent to an Astoria fish reduction plant to be processed for oils, and the protein-high residue is used for livestock feed. Through Special Arrange ment The Oregon Statesman has made it possible for School Children to see the AFTERNOON PERFORMANCES at 3:00 p. m. in SALEM Thurs. & Fri. n i nts Jane Vb'lb at a Greatly Reduced Price Much Less Than the reg ular Admission Feel Simply clip the PARTLY- PAID TICKET below present it at the Rassell Bros. Pan-Pa cific Circus ticket office for the afternoon performance. 3:00 P. M., and yon will be ad mitted for 350 INCLUDING ALL STATE & FEDERAL. TAX Clip This Ticket p Afternoon Performance Only at Statesman Office tJSSSB fSSSWSB Liberty mm it i fhe GrciislWill Be in Salem For 2 bays 141 . 5 ! '. . Tomorrow, sthe Russell Bros. Pan-Pacific circus comes, lo town and today there is much activity on the show grounds at the Leslie school grounds, where Dan Dtx, veteran 24-hour man for i the big show, is supervising the workVof making the lot nd its approaches ready for the crowds anticipated for the performances at 3 and t Dix is alsoc concerned with the crossings on the S. P. railroad sid ings, from which the bright caval cade of the Russell shoitf will go to the grounds after the circus' double-length; steel railroad cars have been f unloaded tomorrow morning by teams of elephant! nd crews of workingmen. IHe must have -the -ijesks clM Ranked for the heavy cages and wagons and must make sure thai there Is roomfor them to turn; at right angles to toe lines or im cars, stock cars and sleepers, j ' Thl hiis nun miistl bIsa im that all supplies, purchased locally, are ready for delivery today or at dawn tomorrow. I Teeming with spic and span new features, including a new Intro ductory pageant and a widely-her aided grande finale, the Russell bros. big Pin-Pacific circus win bring an impressive array of big top stars to town tomorrow- morn ing, its advance men declared. Among them will be the Riding Cristiani's;. the Flying Concellos; La Louisa, fj "Queen df Aerial RbjthnV' who stars in! the new all-girt Cloud Ballet; pretty Ala Ming Fu, . forward-somersaulting wizard of the wire; the 'acrobatic urtans; the onyots, dressing rid' ers; the Davjisos; Excepos - and scores of others; together with a herd of performing elephants, Pallenberg's Wonder Bears, Dauntless -Dick Clemens') trained lions and tli'e Arturo's i educated horses and ponies. L The performances will be en livened by ja clown convention and music by the big show's new Pan-Pacific winder Band led by Henry KyesJ f the Paul whiteman of the - white I tODS." The doors P;m. yrill open a 2 and 7 Gov. Snell Appoints New Apprenticeship Council C. Wi Crarr, MedfordJ former ly of Saleraj TH. R. Kreizer and C. E. HolzerU both of Portland: William Kriieger, Oregon City; Ralph Waggoner, Klamath Falls and Fred Cj. King of Portland were Tuesday appointed I by Gov. Earl Shell to the new spates ap prenticeship ! council. j Crary and! King are .-to Serve three-year terms; Kruejger and Waggoner, tfyo years, arsi Kreit zer and Holier, one yeaf. Request for Lambl Point Holiday Skit to OPA r PORTLAND. June 124;p)Re quest for a point holiday jon lamb Oi a spare lamb stamp diking the peak season jijas gone to the OPA f-om meat dealers of t$e WFA food advisor) committee.! Dealers declared thousands of pounds of lamb hav- been wasted in th . last twro years because con sumers have too few points to buy the seasonal (increase. The lamb market usually hits a peak here in midsummrr. 1 i ii, . Li I I 5; . BISHOP 'DOING WEtL.'! PORTLAND, June 12.-()-RL Rev. Benjamin D. Da gwejl, bish op of the Episcopal diocese of Oregon, was j reported I'd o 1 n g well" today "after major surgery in a hospital here. Attendants said he probably win be hospital ized for several weeks, j I' Phone 9144 : . m i sassj -is wa i a OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, 'Anti-Russian U Gossip9 Hit ByIaverick WASHINGTON,. June It.-iy- "Anti-Russian gossip" in connec tion with peacetime draft propos als was condemned vehemently today by Maury Maverick, head of the smaller war plants corpor ation. '- ?-,--- - An unscheduled witness before the hoiise postwar military policy committee, the former Texas con gressman warned', against loose cocktail gossip". and "Martini bleeding" that "might . possibly spread to mob-like thinking on a bigger I scale throughout the na tion.'' I - ;. -f - : Thu Maverick, who favors postwar compulsory military training, took issue with the rea sons advanced by some other pro ponents. At previous committee sessions, some witnesses had ci ted , Russia's . conscription plans and hld suggested that the Unit ed States must keep prepared; to preserve the peace in a Europe in which the soviet has expanded its sphere of influence. Besides Maverick, the commit tee today heard a number of spokesmen for organized educa tors slid other groups, who crit icizedf the draft plan and urged mat action be postponed at least until after the war. Maverick declared that "to drag Russia: into the discussion of uni versal! military service is gravely dangerous talk and is certainly harmful in connection with any military policy, 5 Die When Suicide Plane Crashes LCS WASHINGTON, June l-JPi- Five crew members were killed and 33 others injured when a land ing craft was sunk by Japanese suicide, planes about 60 miles off Okinawa, the navy reported to day. I The 85-foot support craft, de signated the LCS (L) (3)-33, shot down three suicide attackers be fore the fourth got through her anti-aircraft fire to score a hit. Fire j from the planes gasoline immediately enveloped most of the ship, and she listed about 30 de grees, fire fighting equipment on board jkvas damaged beyond use so that within five minutes her skipped Lt Carroll J. Boone, San Bernardino, Calif., -had to order abandofi ship. ! The landing craft was one of a group of vessels on patrol at the time of the attack,: 11 days after the first landing on Okinawa. From 40 to 50 Japanese ; planes joined In the attack. Early Salem nesiaent uies SEATTLE, June 12 -(A)- Mrs. Myra Ada Carr Ingraham, 86, daughter of Seattle's first post master, Ossian J. Carr, and widow of Maj. Edward Sturgis Ingraham, died y ssterday in a sanitarium here. Mrs. j Ingraham was born near Salem, Ore., April-8, 1859, and when dnly three years old crossed the Columbia with her parents by rowboal, traveled an old wagon road td Steilacoom and thence by Indian canoe to Seattle. Survivors include two sons, Lt. Comdr J Kenneth C. Ingraham of the navy, and Norman Ingraham, Seattle,' four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. nifn STABTS TODAY Doors Open 6:45 - - Shown Twice Each Evening JNDfiR THE Action That Rocks th Earth Like a Giant Earthquake! The Picture Thai Changed the j Course Direction of the ( World! Road Showed. la: Every Country in V the World nra-ei era s-CrCUin mmfcn top I CROSS ' If 1 we surring story II J . .SSassSSSaaJ I 1 tha Narth rnnA II United S. South and welded I st X-v : Z them Into. I f f.AWtm ricfisnH i v "ir j viar mi i n r i I 1 A II ll II I I I I J I " t 1 IJ 1 I I I . II J 1 JTf il 1 I Y 11 .MJ (01 f 31 rflfilfP Orecjoiv Wednesday Morning, School Board Gives Bennett New Contract Supt.' Frank B. Bennett's Salem schol contract nowf stretches an other five years before him. With two years of his current contract yet to run, directorejjTuesday night added three years o their agree ment with him. Bennett ' became Salem school's heed in 1939. The board named Paul Lind- strom, vocational shop teacher, to the department' head position ' fol lowing acceptance Jof the resigna tion of E. T. Barbette who said he had other plans An apprentice and shop coordinator ' will also be hired, it was said. - Georga Niemi, Parrish junior high school teacher and president of the aty s teachers association, resigned. He and bis wife plan to take graduate work at Stanford, he said. Other ; fesignatiorn ac cepted were those of Mrs. Oau- dne Elbert, high school; Mrs. Harryette Masonic, Englewood, and Margaret McDonald, McKin- ley Contracts were approved for the following, new teachers: Betty Van Santen, Hood River who win teach girls' physical education at the high school; Marie Klages, Arling ton, elementary; Helen Ingebret- sen, Minot, ND, straining school, elementary: Leona! Golr, Brainerd, Minn., elementary j Gertrude Rogs- ness, Watertown, SD, and Barbara Benfley, U of Oj both to teach Junior high school music; Aman da Anderson Roseburg high school English and speech; Lorena Cline, Coos county, elementary; 'D. A. RamsdelL Roseburg, high school English, auditorium and - radio; Lucile Vardle, Evanston, Wyo., elementary. - J ' PopeUiged Benito ot to Enter Conflict VATICAN CITV June 12-()-Pope Pius XII, in a letter to Me- nito MussOlini less than two months before Italy entered the war On the side of Germany on June 10, 1940, appealed to the duce to spare the country "such a great calamity," the Vatican disclosed today. Mussolini replied that if Italy entered the conflict it would be because her "honor and interests in the future will j absolutely de mand her to do it," said an 18-page pamphlet issued by the Vatican outlining the Holyjj See's fruitless efforts to keep Italy at peace. The booklet pictured the late Count Galeazzo jpiano, former Italian foreign minister, as striv ing' In words at Jea?t to keep Italy neutral until a few months before she declared war -qui Britain and France. ' jj - ; - - . - .. TRUCK BREAKS 'BRIDGE VAUCOUVER, Wash, June 13 C. T. Yodjer, Vancouver truck driver, escaped injury today when his heavy j cement truck broke through a rual bridge trav eled regularly by school busses. TAYLOR HEADED FOR U. S. - PARIS. June 12k;Pr-Myron C Taylor, presidential representative at the Vatican, arrived in Paris this afternoon withj his wife. He is enroute from Rome to Wash ington by plane, j Too Late to Classify LOST English fox terrier. White and mahogany tan. one lop ear. Name "Trixie." 1144 Center4 Phone 8630. Re- FOR SALE One ton loose oats and vetch hay; good 4 ft. jreversable single disk, tractor hitch; hand or power hay chopper: S ft. foUer; good old cook ranee and hot ;wter tank. Ed Sproed. Rt. 2. Box ! 403 B. i mile northwest Chemawa. !, The President ates said ts a tkma- tfrbelt, itry ' wiittea t tight Uof. My. ealy refrat is It. Is tsrrlkly trie " ' Bhermsa'S lafsateos March M tat Its - rk , EoartBf .. Rides, ef ttt Klmz Klaa win Hie y SpellboMnd Ta flower of SovUiara aai Beaaty C t asked Im'! U Stead it ta- f til Tyrant! Leettac SUMS f Caarr Ills njhtcrs . .. . Bate Crted - Plaader A " tllUg Mvm d a at s t rfcreagk I y 1 tn 'Seatkt - Ill Of tha Mt whirl, a I III wind that engulfed of the Two Hours of Thrill-a-Minyte Chill-a-Minute fntertainment . Pins - Chester "fclorrls ' BOSTON BLACXIE GOES nOLLTWOOD" June 13, 1945 Yank Private Kills 30 Japs In Lone Fight ; U. S. 96TH DIVISION HEAD QUARTERS, Okinawa, June 11.- (Delayed) -P)- PTC Clarence Craft, Santa v Ana, Calif., w a s credited today with killing 30 or more Japanese in a spectacular, almost single-handed rifle and gre nade fight :-",;; ' ;.v-V' The - action ' occurred several days ago when the 88th infantry division "was fighting for bitterly contested Conical hill. Fleet Adnw Chester W. Nimitz and Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner,' jr both said capture of Conical hill wai' ue. most unportant smgie zactoe in leading to smashing of ' the Shuri defense line. - I Craft's regimental commander said bis daring stand - against more than twice as many as he killed helped drive a wedge that broke th backbone of the Japa nese Conical hill defense. Craft, a truck driver before he Starts Today! Return Rim! BeasUles oa tha aajetlan Meek! Bride ships"! Pirate raids! a ! world ef new romance and ad-1 venture ... set ta Victor Iter- belt's most glorious melodies!; JEANETTE IIACDOIIALD NELSON EDDY. and in Nanghly Ilariella Plug Co-Hit Mystery Fiction's Most Lovable Rogue ... Now en the Screen! Charles KORVIN Ella RAINES ia "Enler Arsene Lupin Continuous Dally from 1 P. M. Starts Today A man-sized por-V 7 - tion of hilarious V a 1 fun . . . with Mo- V s- sic . . . Gals and Entertainment JkA Galore! 'tsfv J sfthlnriLl' . IFinE-CnibLIM THRIliliinC! I ' I Vi S m . JE . .A jr ..-it r 'i L j 4 i a. i j Coined the irmr. reloaded his rifle four times and tossed a couple of cases of grenades (48) during his IS or 20 minutes on the hilltop alone. -v"- ' V' 1; " Joinina- the S6th division' the last week of Anril. as a replace ment, s Craft ; never had I killed a Japanese before.- He drove the Japanese he didn't loll with bis rifle: and grenades into a cave in the hill and sealed it wun a satchel charge. Firemen Answer Three Calls During Busy Day Firemen had a busy day Tues day, with a bouse fire, a chimney fire and one call to West Salem. They stated that. 'one room of m dwelling was destroyed at 1060 Myrtle ave about S p. m.' before they could put-out a blaze that had ; started oear . thsr " chimney. Shortly thereafter they were call ed to 1225 North 21st st to ex tinguish a flue fire. On Ue run to 1400 Edgewater at West Salem the fire had been put out before they arrived at the address, j Get the Jap! Buy Bends! OPENS 'Al P. M. - NOW PLAYING! George Brent SILVER QUEEII BRUCE CABOT CO-HIT FUN itmrrt.tftTTiTlTi 1 2 Top Hits uimwia.1 0 JV -mm Truman' Tells (Jong ress to Boost Its Pay WASHINGTON, June 12.-tfV President Truman told members of congress today they are under paid "by any measuring rod, and invited them to f grant themselves an immediate raise in line with the little steel formula. , . This would mean a salary in crease , of IS perj cent, an addition of 11500 e year to the $10,000 drawn by members of both the senate and house.' : Congressional: salaries should be increased to at least $15,000 after wage controls over private Indus try are lifted, Mr. Truman said in identical letters to Senator Mc Kellar (D-Tenn), president pro tempore of the sena te, and Speaker Rayburn (D-Teac) of the house. Get the Jap! Bey Bends! - CONT. rROM IP. IL NOW SHOWING! VX 1 Benedict Bofeasi i i Produdnns aaak MERLE OBERON FRANCHOT TONE! THOMAS MITCHELL BAINTER Isslaki'ViMi. . produced by Benedict BOGEAUS CO-FEATURE! 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