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e " . i i PAGE TWO Aussies Mass For Blow at Borneo Japs I MANILA, Tuesday, July It-UP) The main Australian lore - in eastern Borneo appeared today to be massing for a strong Uowi that Will .drive the Japanese from posi tions blocking! the last live miles Into Sambodja and the first-rate military prize of its adjacent l oil field. . .--M j Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's com jtnunique mentioned only . I that strong combat patrols were thrust ing into eoefiy lines, striking -opposition at some points. - . Most of this opposition came from points inland from the coast al highway leading up to Sambod ja, particularly along a road that winds up to a second rich oil field around Samarinda, 38 miles north of Sambodja. J In the drive on Sambodja, whose wells used to supply the now-ruined refineries of Balikpapan, Aus tralians only yesterday had re ported resistance was evaporating and capture of the oil center was expected at any time. A spokesman said there was no new information on these forces," which already had penetrated into the salt' marshes which - form a natural obstacle to the oil fields. However troops thrusting north ward into the hill country back of the coast northeastward from Balikpapan were running into stiff Japanese resistance. Cowboy Actor Jack Randall Dies in Fall HOLLYWOOD, July l&-(P)-Cowboy - Actor Addison (Jack) Randall, 38, husband of Actress Barbara Bennett, was killed to day when he fell off his horse while making a western celluloid thrillerj The accident occurred at near by Canoga park where, a movie company had started work on the picture only this morning. Randall's studio T reported that while he was riding, a horse at break-neck speed . past the cam eras, the actor's hat blew off and, in attempting to grab it, he lost his balance and fell, striking a tree. He died, shortly, afterwards. The actor's body was . taken to a Canoga park mortuary which sought to notify Miss Bennett of the famous ' Bennett theatrical family, who is the former wife of Singer Morton Downey. Too Laic to Classify WILL civ tjm tl to .! tat i! exchange for DouaekeepMm 4uba (or owner. rnoM mornings -er evenings sair " WANTED; A pUno. Phone -S409. Box 18B. Salem, Oregon. . . MOVE IN New S room Mouses fM mw and eir. Capital. Dirt. Bum.- S acre. Cmlv gilOO.OO. Tenra. . See 0mt, 1360 roadway. Coat. Frem 1T.H.- Um Yea tea 1 HEET SELLS T"Y Hirstlf . The Lavable. Cjfc 174 Naaghty, Gay ' 1 ff Mademoiselle V From Mahum ce-iny TNI tlllltJT WNIIt Of MIltlMENT r Eye Alumina i lJ James O. Gallagher, ef Seattle, poration, W. S. Seyfried, plant Uon company, and Clarence D. Martin, fornier governor ef Wash ington and a director la Columbia MeUls silently look at the $5,000,000 Salem alumina plant whkh 8eyfrled is completing. Gallagher will operate and in which GeTerndr Martin Is interested financially. They had hut completed an Inspection ef the plant when this picture waa made Monday moratng. (Second pic tare and story on page 5). Taft Says Treasury ! Used Propaganda Woods Bank WASHINGTON, July IB.-W-Senatof Taft (K-Uhio) as sorted today that the treasury promoted a '"propaganda campaign at great expense" to sell the nation on the 'Bretton Woods world bank-fund. Opposing legislation - to put the United States into the world finance set-up, the JDhioan told I the senate he had heard these reports: 'That Secretary Morgenthau din ed columnists and radio commen; tators and a flood o( Bretton Woods "propaganda" resulted. Church groups were brought to Washington by the treasury for Bretton Woods conferences and thereafter endorsed it . Senator Wherry (R Neb) cut in angrily with the declaration that the banking committee assistant who "sat on the left" of Chairman Wagner (D-NY) "is on the floor of this senate simply to. lobby this thing through." and that he also " traveled widely and made speeches in its behalf. Wagner is leading the proponents of the world monetary plan. A clash broke out on the repub lican side when Senator Tobey (R-NH), a supporter of the bill, asserted that a republican meeting invited only speakers who were against the bill. "When I took- Umbridge," he said, "they invited- proponents nut only then" Taft said that wasn't so, that proponents were to bo invited to a second meeting. Those against it got first call because "we all ENDS TODAY! (TEES.) Ginger Eegers "KITTY FOYTJK" teller Barnette "CALL OF THE KOCKIEJ" - OPENS 6:45 P. M. - TOMORROW r That Welf Man' Is Here Again! BOB HOPE "Thanks For The Ilcnory" Shirley Roes ; CO-FEATURE! T BULLETS FOR BANDITS witk year tavtritt It V'-V''""''. i . $:. i j 1 H.J'l i ... I. . (ma nr " i riii-ni mw"i i giiani ni uuaj U .J T& president ef -Columbia MeUIs cor manager if Chemical Constrae- to Sell Bretton Plan to Nation I ! heard the propaganda of the treas ury and its side and, nothing else until then,? he said. Taft opened the fight on the fi nance plan' by demanding to know more about U. S. money deals with Britain and Russia. The plan was presented by ad ministration forces as an essen tial part pi the - structure of en during peace" and promptly was challenged!! by both Taft and Sen ator Wheeler (D-Mont). 4 Army Releases 900 Medical Officers WASHINGTON, July The army! said today It has re leased about 900 : medical officers since January 1 in line -with its policy "to return as many doctors to civilian practice as can be spar ed by military needs." , . - NOTICE .. Marcel Bloch. eaueuto of tha laat wui arte estate of Paul Blocb. wotMd haa filed hU final ecceunt as such in the Circuit 3 Court of Marion County OrcaonJ and July 15. 1943. at 10:00 o' -clock A. M.. in uid Court, haa dm fixed as the time and place for bearing ooiacuona to tne-aame. MARCEL, BLOCH. Executor. FAUL X. HENDRICKS, attanev. I $ jaa.Jiy j-i-n-a4 Cary Grant "None Bat the Lonely Heart" i ' llnda Parnell -SWETt AND LOW DOWN" - Of ENS :45 P. M. L TOMORROW! Kay Kyscr And HI Bcmd 3 l TBal'i Hlglill Yca're I Wrcsg" CO-TEATUBEI O Mystery! Snspense! I ti OREGON STA xxC Army Wpuld Charge City ort i The war department is ready to. charge the. city of Salem for a portion of the repairs and main- a L 2 .r . . tenance ai mcnaij item, vie mu nicipal council was notified Mon day night. ,' - f J. " ; - fi How heavy the charge might be was hot indicated In a letter from the properties division of the army engineers which was referred, to the airport committee. - But it was indicated that, since the city is collecting from United Air Uines -fori the transportation company's use of the, city airport, the war department is under the impression that the army does' not have exclusive use of the field, i Nine and six-tenths minutes worth of specifications for an in strument landing system" and ap proach lights which the civil aero nautics authority!! proposes to install- the city to pay for the elec tricity were read to the council and then referred to the airport committee. . li Treasurer Paul' Hauser reported $519,757.34 city funds on deposit July 10. 1 ! The council authorizes Dr. Fred W. flurger to have eurbings-re moved and the parking paved at the store he owns at the Miller and I Commercial Istreets intersec tion; j W. H. Raynor fwas given re vocable permit to use Alder at. south of Rural and the alley which runs between Alder and Yew. 2Troovshivs w 'si Dock hi V. S. NEW YORK, July IS--Two ships, the U. Si army transport Torrens and the freighter Thad- deus Kosciuszkd, arrived todayj from Europe with 2373 troops for reassignment. i The Torrens, a former Norwe gian ship making its first Atlan tie crossing since the beginning of the war, carried 2001 men, mem bers of the 214th field artillery group, 209th fold artillery, 425th field artillery, Ninth air force, First tactical air force, 4288th railhead company, 474th ordnance evacuation company and the Eighth infantry division. Aboard the freighter which car ried 374 men were members of the 3052nd quartermaster salvage collecting company,- the 6837th, 6838th, 6839th. 6840th, 6841st, 6842nd and 684rd quartermaster detachments. 1 ' . - v. .: Jefferson Shortens Time for Irrigating JEFFERSON f City officials have found it necessary to shorten the hours for irrigating purposes, Heretofore,' water for irrigating was available any time during the day. But heavy Irrigation of lawns taxed the city pumps, so they were not able to pump - water fast enough during tha hot weather of last week. Hours for irrigation have been set from 5 to 9 o'clock inithe mornings only. Good teer 1; A glass or m aaaaarekesi SaaT m-tmm , . Airp ... OLYMPIA is perfect with chicken a-la-king,' Italian spaghetti, or with any othcif- sippcr dish. . r 1 yptbZtlicLWaier ' Oregon. Tuesday Morning. July Foliage at f Blind9 Corners To Be (Trimmed Of Salem City Council j Traffic hazards at 18 street intersections were "ordered removed by, the Salem ' city council Monday;, night. The removal order. handed jointly to the park1 board mean , that all the shrubs and approaching vehicles must be up- rooted or even drastically : trim med in hot weather, the council indicated. ' ; ' -- But it does mean that the city engineer may; cut away offend ing branches and order greater changes when the season . for transplanting arrives. The, hazards, listed by Engineer H. Davis, who credited the po lice department with assistance in the survey, are at 14th and State, 23rd and Breyman, Liberty and Gaines, Fourth and Pine, High arid Division, Summer and Gaines, Shipping and Cottage, Union and Church, Columbia and Church, 18th and D, 20th and D, 17th and A, 19th and Ferry. 15th and Court, 25th and State and 7th and D. Parkings are part of city streets and are responsibilities of the park board. Plans of the Isaak Walton league to erect a $15,000 cluhouse on a portion of the Pringle park prop erty in the angles of Church, Belle vue and Cottage streets, offer "an opportunity to turn a liability into a very real asset, Milton L. Meyers, park board chairman, told the council. The request, for the right to purchase the building site was turned over to the park board and the real property com mittee. V To the real property committee also went a recommendation from the water commission that block 25 in the Fairmount Park addition (old reservoir site) be hold and for not less than $10,000. Dan Fry has offered that amount, and oth er persons have queried concern ing availability of lots for build ing purposes in the top-of-the- hill property. The water commis sion has also suggested that the council dispose of the north 50 feet of lots 3 and 4 in block 21 of the Nob ' Hill addition for not less than $1100 The E. L. Crockatt sign com pany has agreed to remove the double billboard on the Traglio property at 827 South Cornmer cial st. within the next 60 days, the council was informed. How ever, the company has sought a permit to re-erect it nearby on the same lot The billboard, its erection approved by the council, drew objections from at least one business establishment and sev eral residents of the neighbor hood. The : new location sought would place the board so' that it would not obstruct the view from a nearby service station, Crockatt said. Sewer connections for the Kel ley-Farquhar cannery the Keith Brown company is building on the Keith Brown company prop erty at the north edge of Salem were approved, by the council. A Southern Pacific set of drawings for rearrangement ' of tracks across Smith and along an un named street to serve, the Wil lamette Cherry Growers., associa tion and for a new spur track in the same area to serve the Keith Brown Building Supply company were referred to committee. Permission to Oregon Stages, two of light 17, I31S - by Order i and the (city engineer, does .not trees now bunding motorists to operators of city buses, to dis continue its Fir st loop was rec ommended by the street commit tee and then the recommendation was withdrawn because aldermen in that ward said they would not approve of such a change until a new route had been drawn to serve hill residents. j A beer license recommendation for Preston Faught at the Dutch Mill, held up two weeks ago be cause of neighborhood objections, was approved Monday night Kenneth. Perry, chairman of the committee investigating, said that objections had been withdrawn when Faught indicated that the beer was to be a sideline to a luncheon business. 70 Carpenters, More Laborers Asked at Adair i i ! A call for 70 journeymen car penters las well as additional la borers for hew army installatin work at Camp Adair came Mon day to W. H. Baillie, Salem man ager for the United States em ployment service. The message from Col. Ralph A Tudor, I VS. army engineer, re layed by State Manpower Direc tor Lee C. Stoll, emphasized urg ency of recruiting carpenters and laborers to build additional mess halls, barracks and recreational facilities at Adair to accommo date troops in process of rede ployment from Europe to the Pa cific theatre. i "Buildings at Camp Adair are presently being used as a reha bilitation center for navy1 person nel, which means additional fa cili ties must be built for the army at once," Tudor said. Baillie quoted wages of $1.37 an hour for journeymen land 95 cents for laborers plus overtime pay, with free living quarters in the barracks and good meals at a mess hall for only a nominal charge! The work will go on nine hours a day, seven days a week, he said. Carpenters available for work on the Adair project should apply at the Salem office of the employ ment service, 710 Ferry st Finn Military Of ficers Under Arrest for Plot HELSINKI, July 16 -)- An undisclosed number of military of ficers were arrested. today in con' nection with a plot against the Finnish government, government sources said. The i plot was revealed in par liament July 4 by Yrjde Leino, communist minister or the inter ior, who said a group within the army had planned an armed re actionary uprising .and secret stores of weapons and goods had been found. ! LAST DAY. HUMPHREY . Plus OTTPTir STARTS WEDNESDAY" 2 HITS! . I the well- 1 , I . - frowl fer !X TVereekaf :V mm If) PLUS CO ttlSTXKN ROUARTIC ACTIOIt AT ITS Thumbnail of War! Br the Associated Press Aerial Fleets of Superforts numbering 450 to 500 hammer four Japanese industrial centers. Navy silent on further activity of surface fleet bombardment of northern Japan. . i Borneo Australians mass troops to drive Japanese from path to new oil fields. Banna British capture vil lages north of Rangoon. rnUlratne FifA air force dive bombers wreck Jap vehicles in northern Luzon. China Chinese mop up Japa nese troops near Kanhsien, sixth former American air base recap tured.- ' Pendleton Hotels Threaten to Close PENDLETON, July lMVHo- tels here threatened to close to day after appealing to Senator Cordon (R-Ore) over closure 'of all' the city's laundries., ' Laundrymen said they needed OPA wage ceilings and WLB price ceilings, and that relief promised by OPA not later than this morning did not materialize. Auto courts also planned to turn away guests. Boy May Have Fainted ROSE BURG, July Twelve-year-old Johnny C. Jones may have fainted while swimming In the South Umpqua river.' 21st's Losses of Average Little More Than One Airplane Per Mission WASHINGTON, July 16. -V Losses of Superfortresses have averaged only slightly more than one airplane per mission since the 21st bomber command began operations last fall. An . army air forces summary issued today reported that a total of 261 missions had been flown by the ,21st command since it went into action from I Marianas bases fin November and that between then and last July 9 losses numbered 291 Su perfortresses. These figures do not cover the 20th command, which started op erations from southeast Asia bases on June 6, 1944, striking targets on Kyushu, southernmost pf the enemy's home islands, and on the mainland. Records for the : 20th command were not immediately available, but they were expected to lift the total loss of B 29s well above the 300 mark. ' The heavily-armed bombers of the 21st command knocked 760 Japanese planes out of the air and destroyed 159 more on the ground, incidental to their primary mission of putting bombs on the target The largest number of Super fortresses lost in a single opera tion" is 19, which failed to return after- a raid on Tokyo in May. From November, 1944, when, the 21st bomber command began op eration against the enemy home islands from bases in the Mari anas, to last June 15, a total of 61,053 tons of bombs was dropped on strategic targets. Of this, 46,- BOG ART In "CONTLICT Df SOCIETY" - FEATURE t ' Airmen Wreck Jap Vehicles On Luzon Isle MANILA, Tuesday, July 17.- (jjFifth air force dive-bombers killed more than 300 Japanese ana wrecked 400 vehicles - near Kian gah in northern Luzon while, a single Liberator search plane de stroyed or damaged 37 enemy two-master cargo-carrying junxa near Hongkong, it was announ ced here today. ; Both outstanding! air actions occurred Saturday. I The Fifth fighter command, which reported the Luzon action, said it was in the Kiangan area, where the Mustangs bombed pill boxes and other strongpoints held by enemy remnants. iScene of the lone Liberator strike was 35 miles southeast of Hongkong , ' j American blockade planes meanwhile continued their inces sant assaults on Formosa and the Asiatic coast jNavy Liberators ranging around Saigon, Indo-China, on Saturday sank a 4000-ton enemy freighter, a loaded 300-ton cargo ship and a motor launch and forced a riv er steamer aground. j Indo-China port f acilities were hit at Quinhon. i j Mustangs and A-2S attaek bombers destroyed ! a station and either railway facilities on For mosa's west coast and hit the Tal haro sugar refinery which makes alcohol for Japanese military fueL Superforts 473 tons went down on "urban targets' (presumably in satura tion type attack) and 14,582 on precision targets, where individual factories or installations were se lected. . ; "An accounting of results ob tained in the bombing of 26 enemy cities between last March 23 and July 9 showed that incendiary at tacks . had damaged 56 square miles, or 51 per .cent of. 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