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" . . , , i' Dtr Weather Max. Ml. Rata HDD08 1 San TrtncUee Eugene Salem Portland Seattle ., a . .aei J . M .. J M ' M .09 .44 M Tr. Willamette river: 34 feat, i rorccast (from U. 8. weather' bureau, McNary eld. Salem ): Generally fair today with normal July temperatures. Maximum expected fer this afternoon. imiETY-nrni yeah Scdexoj, Oregon, Wadnesday Morning. July 25. 194$ h aeft-rees. . Price 5c i -.! .' . .l" ; i! '1 I '. -i J i , POUNOnoV 1651 .1' ,' ' -:- ' ": ' pw LLi , i L J-- , ; i : 1 ? ; - - . 3 i . r;: .-: -fil 10 PAGES! - 'trH ! .. . . ,- . - . I . - . iio: ic3 - Monday the American Tele. phone & Telegraph co. sold $175, 000,000 of its debentures to Mor gan, Stanley &. cb. at slightly un der par for a 2 per cent interest rate. This was the largest block of . securities sold under competi tive bidding in history. The de bentures were reoff ered by the underwriters at par and the books closed on the offering within two bouts, me low raie ana me quick L mmm m at . . sale - are merely added proof of the surplus of cash seeking invest? ment . '- ' The community is apt to smack Its lips over such a deaL The low rate is beneficial to the borrower. It shows that money continues "easy." . But there is another side to the picture. Those lending money re ceive a constantly" lowering re turn for its use. Investments of this type are not so much held by individuals as . by Insurance companies, banks, savings societ ies, trust accounts, " endowment funds, coming under the .general head of fiduciaries, holders for the benefit of others. As interest rates decline prem lums for life insurance go up. ' Lower returns on .endowment funds affect the income of hos pitals, educational institutions, pension funds, welfare founda tions. Colleges then are forced to raise tuition rates to gef increased contributions. Research supported by endowment investments has less to work ori It truly becomes a grave question (Continued on editorial page) 1 ! '''.' Airmejn Sink Many Ships Near Shanghai By Spencer Davis MANILA, Wednesday, July 23-(p)-More than J50 far east air force bombers and fighters of all categories, returning to Shanghai Sunday sank or damaged 13 war ships and freighters and hit three major airdromes. -''"' Todays communique listed a de stroyer, 3,000-ton freighter trans port and a small freighter defin itely sunk; a d-stroyer escort, two submarine -eiders, a 10,000-torf freighter-transport and six freight er-transports aggregating 27,000 tons orobably sunk, and much small shipping damaged. First line combat planes of both the fifth and seventh air forces, based on Okinawa, took advantage of the first break in weather since July 18 to drop bombs ranging from 20-pound fragmentation dus ters' to 1,000-pounders on shipping and airdromes. An eight-ship enemy convoy pro ceeding toward Shanghai was bombed and dispersed by seventh air force Liberators before dawn Sunday, several hours before the heavy daylight attack. An estimated 45 planes were ' caught on the ground and de stroyed or seriously damaged at Kiangwan, Tacbang and Tinghai - airfields. Australians Gain MANILA, Wednesday, July 25- (AV-Australian ground forces on Dutch East Borneo moved two miles further along the Interior highway toward Sanaa rinda and were within 50 miles of their ob- ;jcvuvv WJ.vuuaj( thur reported today. The advance was aided by close ground support by Australian Spitfires, which caught a Japanese road convoy nine miles, north of Mount Batochampar and probably destroyed ' 18 trucks filled with Nipponese troops. ' Mrs. Kline Named ' Mrs. Abner K. Kline of Salem, sales manager for Eyerly Aircraft company, was appointed Tuesday by Gov. Ear! Sneil to succeed Dr. A. O. Olson on the Marion county public -welfare - commission. Ol son's term has expired and he has moved to Polk' county. Animal Crndicrs By WARREN GOODRICH van .Ttalixt u'i been eatinz 9875XH) worth of auto- 4 laaD"od!D(o)k 1 . . u tni Lyjini(QiU itd tCDirD? Dooms si Deal With Mussolini Not Favored PARIS, July 24.. HJPh Under scorching cross-examination at the treason trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, former French Premier Paul Reynaud revealed the secret fact today that In May 1940 France and Britain consider ed buying . off Mussolini's 1 entry Into the war by giving Italy ter ritorial rights In Africa. Reynaud said he made the sug gestion to Britain himself; . al though he opposed the plan. The plans were scuttled, he said, by the opposition of Prime Minister Churchill of Britain. . World figures by the dozen, and the hiden history of France's col- opse and her armistice negotia tions with Germany, were dragged into; the limelight as former Pre mier Edouard Daladier joined Rey naud in testifying against Petain on- the second day . ox the aged marshal's historic trial. V .' In the steaming, crowded court room, the 89 -year old lormer chief of the Vichy state," charged with Intelligence with ; Germany and! with plotting against the se curity of France, listened unper turbed, his face expressionless, as he .heard Reynaud ' call him I a traitor. . .-' 1 ' Vv vvV" f "' , Petain heard Reynaud, the last premier of the FreiS-cK third re public: . , f ! 1 -'. : lriAccuse King- Leopold of the Belgians with treason; 2. Assert Petain had obstructed the rearmament of France as far back! as 1934; 3. Declare that the late Presi dent Roosevelt sent an "extremely strongly worded telegram to Pe tain,'! saying France would lose America's friendship if she dealt with; the nazis. I 4. iSav that a French - British union, proposed j Churchill in. France's last days, was "an ideal which some day must be realized; and i - ,, y . . '.: - : . 5. Describe his (Reynaud's) op position to the armistice with Ger many and- give i the reasons why the British attacked the French fleet in North Africa in 1940. (More on Page 2) Jap Revolution On Way, Declares Adnia Tom Catch LOS ANGELES,' July 2L-VP)-Rear A dm. Thomas Leigh Catch of Salem told a war chest rally today that Emperor Hirohito would meet the same fate as Mussolini and, that the I Japanese people would rise in one of the bloodiest revolutions In history to destroy their military, '.leaders. - " K Admiral Gatch, judge advocate general of the navy, said the theory that the emperor is a God to the Japs was "pure bunk." . !We11 see soon just how; ven erated he is; I am certain he win tile like Mussollny declared the admiral. "But It is the Samurai, the ! 300,000. Japanese military leaders, who must be destroyed. I don't think well have to do the Job.: We are going to see one of the j bloodiest revolutions In the history of Japan." , . MOTHER DISCHARGED Mrs. Louis Schmerber and her nine pound baby girl were taken home to Gervais on Tuesday, after a stay In the Deaconess hospital, where the baby was born July 18, NeivbornBabyDoingfim Ater Nine Hours in Garbage TACOMA, Waslu July 24-i?V A newborn girl who spent nine hours wrapped In newspapers and cradled in a garbage can todv was? "doing fine" at a hospital hetk tonight, attendants said. Acting Capt cf Detectives Per cy Gregg said the mother was Hri William Felesky, 24, wife of an army sergenaV nl thfi' SDe was! under technical arrest at the hospital pending disposition ci the casL ' - Three garbage men making their weekly round discovered the child whca'lt wsi!cd s czt'tl wm Oh Trial t! .Tf !" TP rrr ' tMtt - the lchy French mime, i wears hjs field marshal' eouTt-at the sPalaw of Justice 2 HJiffiillirK I:. ZTi . . iTWr-.r the enemy. (API WIREFHOTO by radio from Paris) if X i l erms Mft'V Siihrteii Wm -4 Mdtor i ; WASHINGTON, v!:LrC m senator iviajnusuii the senate today the (D-Wash) told Unllea States should make dear! It Is ttickmgl to its unconditional surrenaer for- mula for Japan. The Quickest waV to: fvhip the Nips, he said, is td "sayj tfiat tin- conditional surrender meahs just that." AnV loftenintf Of the terms might enable-Japanese leaders w nersuade their people tb Prolong the war. - r Uniformed men in the senate gallery applauded Magnnsbn's re - marks. "! r ;! H 1 1 They , were occasioned; by Sen- i 1 1 i i ii - W J Kaii M m- i ator Wheeler, iwhi observed an preventing effective aerial recon increasing Remand, for ; defini- naissance, but; observers said spot tion of Japanese tv to shorten the war.; def terms 8ATS WAR NEAR CLOSE i TRINIDAp, Colol, July; 24.-(ff)- declared to4ay ithai "according to rumor, not Officially- confirined by the state department but generally acepted ai being founded oji facts, the war lnHhe Pacific is jrapidly .lo H lit' "If the Industrial group i m ja " " 5. pan can take over from tHe mili - tary group ijwhich seized icontrol Just before Pearl liarbor,-ICheno- weth added -therf seems to be no doubt tney wiu maxei every effort to surrender without delay.' Camp Adair Jobs Held Essential ! pntJTT.Ainn ini i4Wv-fMv- Ilian emnlofment at Camril Adair has again been classified las es- genual since reactivaaon i tnei"" ww, kuhu au auui- base, the dvU service commission announced 4bday. '' . H f fi them prepared to emp the can mrl rnick. 1 i l uiw . i . Gree? said the mother told him she came Here yesterda " from WaHa Willi where she! bad been working, and went to the! Kpme of a brother. !Ie .quoted her F- ln th-hilJ Wai bom between flnH am.knd that she tamed- io wrsnfed it in newspapers and placed t In the can. 1 After ihm rfismverv. officers fouf.d her in home nearby. ! 1 ! Sgt. Pelesky is believed to have t 4 . from overseas returned recently duty. Cariu .-nssi n in- fi :aoim Senate In en WASHINGTON, i July 24 - (ff)'- The senate waf investigating com mittee today put its weight behind the drive to recruit 75,000 railroad workers needed to j help Ibreak the redeployment transportation job. joined defense transportation 1 director J. Monroe Johnson in pleading for assign ment of more workers toj the over loaded western1 trunk lines. Committee chairman Mead (D. N. Y.) promised to pursue the question with jthe commission, the war department, war manpower selective service, the railroad re tirement board; and any other or ganization that might be able to help. Johnson suggested that the sim plest solution would be to dis 1 charge enough experienced rail- roaders from te army, or at least furlough thenar ; When MMitlittM tuhnt HrwM to recruit men, Johnson re- torted. ellihg my head off! torted. "Yelling my head off! can doJ- j wouldn't need as many battahon,t on the Pacific us as in xairope, . . ..." R tb jr , r r 111 VlSlV KrPJlK Qut of Bounds -I PORTIA NT. Ore. Julv 24. I i . : " i (-Taking advantage of a lull on Lthe northwest's major forest fire I front, armies fiffhtins! the ereat -Tinamook blaze scurried to re- denlov ianlehi to! meet the roar ing: breakout that is expected. All sectors were relatively quiet during the dat, but humidity was down to the low thirties and stiff nnrthwHt hriM whlmwd thm flames. Nearly 5000 men were around. th 140-odd-mile Mrim ter of the burn. 1 Unless humidity rises and the J winds. die, "all hell can break I loose,, one fighter said.! Smoke blanketed the region, I fires set by; Wind-borne embers Sunday night iwere spreading and new ones were creasing out. names Sweep! Caayens t . A major battle was shaping at the! southwest comer of : the Wil- so river bla.awith of Jordon creek where iebris-fed Jlames are burning hptlyi down canyons on hoth sides of the Portland mills caavSj:. J,.' 'iy- ; In Polk coiinty,. flames leaped - i"" "u aiiusiw I 11 u . - . i . 1 the fire to enclose. 12,000 acres, a . jreawtuo. Thf Willamejte ) lumber com- IWj large fnill at Dallas was j - t- li f flames.' . ! : New fires were reported in western Lane county, and on the Kazusku national, forest near mate destroyed a sawmill. Brash Burned; in Idaho ' A anf P aoKa in soutn) laano was report' I ssw4 4a Vla naon'ri ey sVvtfw1 nwvtrl AaA I weather conditions remain favor- awe. 11 naa coverea ituu.uuu acres on a 20-mile ront ; Two major fires, one near Pom eroy, ash, arid one la the De- laney-Snake 1 fiver area, burned an estimated 500 acres of grain and 6000 acres of pasture land nnn iTa during three dayaT - 1 onumui Aciuviru . . . .t?;.,. ! ritM h rntamnrfr ; burn reforestation ha been dektroved bv current fW-officials Isaid today. : - The memorial sign where the 51 r?;na1 TiTlaTrinnlr firm miarteA fn Ar,ist u. 18S3 was blackened. T i ESCAPEE FBORI HOSPITAL William T, iSmith, 45, inmate, ; watted tway from, the State hos- i . . . M. , j pital at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening. Police were notified to be on the 1 lookout fox hka. Drive for Fires Qiecked I ': n IITTli ! i Fines Woman When Passes; Jury for Mejeting PORTLAND, July U. I Because Mrs. Margaret 8 Mey ers, St. Helens, went foff to a eoBTentloB." ' Federal I t d g e James A. Fee today fined her $25. .: f '':.. He said the fine would 'be re mitted if the president ef the women's auxiliary, rura mall carrier of America, "showed her patriotism by Jury service,' Of Britis ote By Daniel De Linee POTSDAM, July 24 'Uftr The Big .Three conference will pause temporarily late tomorrow while British' leaders go horop to learn eiecuon results and discover who shall speak finally for Britain in the history-charting negotiations.' Prime-Minister Churchill, For- -fJ Secretary Eden, anji Clement Attlee, labor party leader, will fly to Ixaidon for Thursaay's an nouncement of the July 5 ballot ing. ! On Friday at the earliest the party , is ; expected Dacx eitner Churchm, the conservative party head, with Eden still his foreign expert, or Attlee with new for eign secretary oz ms cnoosmg. .A formal British announcement said, "There is no Question of the conference being over by Wednes dar.? ' M' ' ' - -j - UPresWent Truman, Premier Stal- hy.and tte Brleheld I U1r xormai . owerencc session looay ana anomer zormsu session may be held tomorrow be fore the Britons depart What special plans Truman and Stalin have for Thursday were not disclosed, but it was isaid they might confer on matters of purely Russian-American interest, such i las continuing. lend-lease, of post- war loans. I : In the British election camnalen I -v 7 rj I uv wmu- uiiin unw wnc lauw between Churchill and Attlee over foreign policy. Navy Sets Up I?-i' Q-mTa'JLw JL Olill O V Dit?IH J HVkl KacaWaq I Ul XlvSvl ViCS WASHINGTON; July 24,-i)- The navy today put intd effect its announced program for release of certain older personnel on their request The program, under which ap- proximately 30,600 reserve offi- I cers, warrant officers and enlisted men are expected to be eligible for release by next December 1. I sets un a formula by which men will be allowed one point for each year of age figured to tie nearest birthday, and one poiaf for each month of active duty since Sep- tember 1, 1839. ' j .' To be eligible, reserve line of- ,-t5rt- 1 -- , l inductees and enlisted! regulars xnirM enlistment. must have i minimum of B3 Regerve officers of the ppiy COrps must have 55, and i reserve oracers oi me civil en gineers corps 57. i In order to prevent impairment of the operating efficiency of the navy, commanding officers with- CU MUCT ; W Wk UWU f- plications of enlisted men,, and abroad commanding officers afloat and were given six months. Lt. LOUIS ? Fcnlney t . . -t r; ' Reported Missing HAYESvTLLE, July 24 Ltl iouis remaer. navieaior on bomber, did hot return to his base In tngiand loiiowmg a mission on fw PtrS ?4l w. Pentney, now of 1364 "NE I n . m 11 1 uclia Te- f" nouaeo. ,, -j .v, : S I Lieutenant Pentaey attended I Willamette university after grad- uatimr from Salem hieh school and I ... . . ... ,s : " "l "V - , brother, Capt Robert W, Pentney. Big Three to Await Results 1 J I a meteorologist stationed In Although claims activities in the Washinrtrm. D. ci'ThWr-'slst.lJIon, offices continued to v . I juaiicuc ukuj ia n iui iici ivcaxH j3 Portland, where they mov 1 ed a jesx sj S25 ptatiomng TT " II . ' - S ay End- Next Year Plans for Book 5 in December Are. Announced WASHINGTON, July 24.-6P)- The OPA said today that rationing will probably ' continue through most of 1946, but held out hope that it may end late that year. Announcing plans to" distribute ration book five next December S to 151 price administrator Ches ter Bowles said:. "Supply agencies the depart ment of agriculture and the war production board have told us I that meats and fats, canned coods. sugar and shoes all' will be in J tight siipply for some months to I come, so it looks as if a ration book Will-be needed throughout most of; next year. "We hope that book five will be the last In the series of war- time raition books. New A gasoline books also will be Issued at the 'same time. As In the past, schools and other public buildings will be the dis tributing points. :" - Also i today, Secretary of Agri- culture Anderson announced for- mallT that there are no clans for goap rationing. He appealed: to housewives to buy only what soap they need, "instead of starting run, or Andet scarce stocks," Andefson ' ' said manufacturers will bei permitted to make a 10 per cent increase in the output L hou.4hold heaw dutv laundrv chips, fes, powdery crranulaled and other similar types. Flap Industry Appropriation AvAWm's s4a4a fTav InAwW fea repaid Jn full to the state's gen Wl C(uu aesh auvu0M j era! fund the $339,1)00 appropriated several (years ago to place the in fant industry on a sound operating basis, the board oLcontrol was in formed Tuesday. : j Wartime . sales- have increased profits and the $250,000 in the in dustry fund will be - Increased, members of the board declared. Gov. Earl Snell's' hopes that pay ments to flax ' growers could be increased cannot be fulfilled now without handicapping the coopera- Itive flax plants, the board agreed. prison labor is used almost ex- j dusively in ihe operation of the state flax industry. wheri the cooperative flax plants -kre . thoroughly, grounded. I the state will retire from the Cax ousmess, ooara memoers inaicat ed. I The board entered Into a con- 1 tract with the Otis Elevator com- pany f4r maintenance of the 13 elevator la the capital group of buildings for $349 a month. The company now has a . contract for partial jrnamtenance ,w hi ch in- eludes labor costs but not the cost i . n. 1 ? " eohtract includes parts. I P1 iuiuuuuh iw "f uonna toHobbins- ff Por a bid of $3939.75. The contract in cludes (SO blouses, 88 breeches and 34 slacks. Expected Here The greatest unemployment since pre-war days may arrive in Ore gon soon, the state unemployment compensation commission declared Tuesday In its monthly review pointing out anticipated changes m shipyard and aircraft plants a 1 DayroUa. v. I "By the end of this year, the commission said, -the number of T0? i"? a ?, f? yards and aircraft plants : in the . I .... Portland ana Astoria areas prot 5 ably, will be .bade-to the .1941-42 I levels. tVhile many of . the emer- J workers wdl return to. their ?.ome m. ouie BUsxan" tUJ DUaDW 01 SklUCd and tUl- skilled iworkmen wfll De looking for lobs. case ofi. ia June, the number of beneficiaries and- the amount of - J beaeCts. Licreased over May, the V I report fcidicateg, . m nepay Heavy UnemvloYii Point-free Lamb Filis Need in ; Local Markets . J Salem - markets '.stocked . with ! point-free Iambi served a brisk trade .- Tuesday,! although meat dealers were coLaaU smile. . . mose who kill their own or buy on the hoof for custom slaugh ter declared that a large percent age of the lambs jjready for market are -gooa", or 1-0106'" and so may not be sold point! free. C Others, stocked -with the com mercial or utility grade lamb for which no - red j points need be charged, said it would be more desirable when not so freshly- killed. V'-,'. f. f ".'- At no place was a Tun"V re ported. . Beef and pork continued to move slowly, j ' . i Charter; Would WASHINGTON. July 24.-flPV- aiormy senate qeoaie oroxe out a .al today when Senator Wheeler (D Mont) declared ! that while he would vote reluctantly for the United Nations charter; he would fight later to limit the use of Am erican troops under it. ! Senator Connelly (D-Tex). Sen ator Barkley (DKy)t and others limit Powers Immediately objected that to rat- Lindsley, AP correspondent, re ify the charter and then to re- ported front aboard a Third fleet fuse to back it tip with troops to warship that it was thej first enforce peace would be to welsh round-the-clock bombing o Jap on any agreement r j , an ever launched by the fleet, Senator Hatch (D-NM) i chal - lenged Wheeler to try to make his reservations now, and Senator Pepper, (D-Fla) I commented that Wheeler intended, to, vote for the Charter simply, to? get on record .Ibefore the next election.'' words exchanged ! Wheeler called Pepper a mem- ber Of "an international crowd and Pepper retorted: " I shudder to think" where we would be today if the people had ! followed you." j f , -. Wheeler's ration was this: That John Foster Dulles, chief adviser to the American delega- tion at San Francisco, was of the vuuuu uwi mwauon 01 voops i mirai Kunitx announceo- these re was an issue to fbe settled to an t suits: - : -.. 1 agreement with he world secur ity council, subject to senate rati fication by a I two thirds vote. Some senators disputed that, say ing the agreement should be sub mitted to a majority vote .of both nouses. . U A to Be Obligated . Senators Lucas (D-HI). Batch (D-NM); Hill (D-Ala) and Con- nauy declared that When the sen- ate ratified the treaty the United owes wiu De unaer ooiigauon to rurmsn troops. . j . ConnaDy, chairman of the sen - ate foreign relations committee, said the senate had the power to refuse to supply them, but he did not oeueve a wouia. Hnsband illed; Wife GitFina 1 PLENTYWOOD, Mont, July 24 -WVSomewhere tonight between Spokane, Wash and Portland, ,tT T woman wifco. vwo-yrai Old Child, Unaware 1hat her hUS- band was kiUed f Jfwnv oam saia. i for Mrs. Walter Olson was being conducted witnout success. went mad Is TMs Wu kmuuu, naMtw, mini xw mm ledo offices showed considerable rowed" his dog, Sandy, don't have gains in Iiiitial claims filed during . change of heart Sandy, frlend l, 1. imess may b undoing, lor b. v4W . mwMwu gaua p wuuuuauuns, inaicaung siownessi and wouid willingly., enter! any-1 um uiwui uwi yvu w joo. lone'SXar. - i - ' For the- first half of the year.4 Th- Acs nH jmU. Wn. Portland, Saleni Oregon City, Medford, Bakery LaGrande and! kinese aneestrr ' but bearln a Corvalh - reported i most ' of the? rsnblanc ia a abenherd doff. gain tn initial claims," while con- tinuations showed the greatest m- crease in Portland, Salem, Corval - lis, - Lebanon, Baker, LaGrande, Albany and McMinnville. , . Full effect of 'the higher bene- machedule . adopted by the 1S45 ' . r legislature will hot be felt until and in a recent letter f -I; " -July reports are received, officials dy Is all I have left ntrvs. j of the commission 'said; Sizf ci tbe - i! . . , .ana aits, irern n waci iiny average weekly f check Increased. M fc(tni k. fo Johlk from S 13.10 In Hay to, 13Jtg Sxsz. - - 1 - Ai Ciit Down Japleet! Battleships and -Carriers Hit in ; Naval Base Foray By Marlin Spencer i"'. GUAM, Wednesday. Julyz5.- iVPJ-American and British carrier planes heavily damaged two Jap anese battleships, two " aircraft carriers, and three cruisers! in co ordinated attacks oh Japan's great Kure naval base and at a Shikoku Island port yesterday. Today's communique r disclosed that the bombing and bombard ment of the Japanese homeland was carried into its eighth day of the past 15 when cruisers and de stroyers moved inshore early this morning and shelled a seaplane rmen 1 ' ' I oase ana an airneia on soutn I 1 , I western Honshu. 1 j ; On hr m munique reported that American T: and British carrier planes renew ed their heavy attacks on. Japan ese, warships, and merchant ves sels at dawn today after night fighters hit the Kure and Kobe areas in continuous sweeps over those vital! military .bases throughout the night, James I The new V carrier attacks cen- tered in the Kure naval - region and at Kobe. 4 V , About 2,000 Plaaea ttaekt Japan had possible Its iwrst bombinc of the war verterdavl-for 1$ b-29s joined In the strikes to attack oft-bombed Osaka and Ha- aova war Industrie. The ! total I snreadin ruin nvor iKi Mfnrvnn. ese homeland ran 2000 or more. With reports from Admiral Halsey covering less than half of yesterday's action - by well: , over 1.000 American and Hriti&ni air- craft in a 325-miu frmt northern Kvushu thromm the in- land sea to Nagoya, Fleet Ad- The 32,000-ton battleships, the . r Ise and Hyuga, heavily damaged. Heavy cruiser Tone and light cruiser Oyodo left burbinc fiercely. ..''.. : ' "i 1 1- i Heavy cruiser Aoba damaged. One large aircraft carrier dam aged. . , 1 s -' , ' f., f . The" British, .attacking to the north, damaged a Kobe-type escort aircraft carrier ia waters: north 1 0f Takamatsu on Shikoku Island. I British. Damage Maaty ; The British also damaged two 1 freighters near Suta, on the Shi- I koku coast i and .sank1 a small coastal cargo vessel, three luggers 1 and four. Junks,, all v caught, also in the Inland sea. Flagship reports said 18 Japa nese took to the air, first resistance in IS days. Eight were shot I down by American pilots. J Between the two days concen trated aerial Bccaulfet- 1tfi! Arim. t n tv . m.i1 I n T,t.m .wv . u t. J southwestern, tip f Honshu to bombard Kushimoto seaplane base Ln1 Shinnnmicnlrl lrf!M a- r-rf' and other military iosUlla- oOlQier L08e8 1 - -1 Wife, JXow His Dog Is Stolen PFC John Trent, widower ol only a few months, -may come rkorlr frnm AHAveAna 4a a !av4 hnrna If iwcmi' wKa! Krw- makes up easily with strangers and with a face ahowm its Pe- j disappeared on Sundajr from the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. & Trent 1 0f route 2 box 29, Turner, where J he has been .living. They believe that Sandy was enticed Into th cai,25ssingJ m?t0rt', I V - That's special reasw icr to I when he returns, and bcj Kjhtea th soldier IccLscx. ! I