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.4 ft fAIIied Bombing devastating SSicily and Italy Jl6 More Enemy Planes 'Bagged Italy Orders 12,000,000 to War Work 1 Allied Headquarters, North ' Africa, June 21 (U.R) Allied il bombers attacked airdromes, 'i wrecking parked aircraft and ij ground installations, and shot : I down 16 more enemy planes in "J a series of new blows at axis air strength on the stepping I stone island of Sicily yesterday, a communique announced today. I The day attacks followed a f Jahck-buster night assault Sat- Wday by British Wellington bombers at Messina at the north eastern tip of Sicily, opposite the toe of the Italian boot. Bomb bursts were seen on the ferry terminus and industrial j and dock installations. k Italian Report v(An Italian communique '? broadcast by radio Rome said that allied planes attacked Na ples, Reggio Calabria, San Gio vanni and Foggia in southern Italy and Ragusa, Licata and Castelvetrano in Sicily. Alto gether 23 enemy planes were shot down, the communique said. An Italian submarine was credited jvith sinking one allied ship and hitting another in the western Mediterranean. A tor pedo plane sank an allied ship off the Tunisian coast, the com munique said.) The repeated attacks on Mes Via, by bombers from both the northwest African and middle eastern commands, were believ ed designed to reduce if not severe ferry communication be tween Messina and the mainland ports of Reggio Calabria and San Giovanni, both of which were heavily attacked by Ameri can four-engined Liberator bombers Saturday. Mobilization in Italy London, June 21 (U.R) Italy drew heavily upon her remain ing human resources today to meet the invasion threat, or dering 2,000,000 women be tween 18 and 24 and several hundred thousand men between 18 and 36 into war work. A Transocean (German) dis patch from Rome, broadcast by Berlin, said the call up Would Qjt between 8,000,000 and 9, !o,000 of Italy's 43,300,000 population into war production or military service. Unrest Among Fascists The number of men involved was not definite. Transocean said Italy had 6,800,000 between the affected ages but that "sev eral million" were in the armed forces and many others already working in industry. The women would do farm work and the men would be parceled out to fill desperate needs of war production, the re ports indicated. The order will become effective July 1. British radio reports told of unrest among the fascists as allied air power continued pounding Italy from the south. Radio Algiers said Premier aenito Mussolini and Fascist lrty Secretary Carlo Scorza, apparent boss of the home front moves, had to replace some lo cal leaders at Palermo. Axis Says Allied Fleet Massing (By the Associated Press) German broadcasts declared today that an allied invasion fleet was assembling in the east ern Mediterranean off the Syr ian coast, that landing craft were being moved into position in north Africa and that a large British and American naval force was concentrated at Gi braltar. The unconfirmed axis reports f the massing of invasion for ces in the Mediterranean theater coincided with an allied head quarters communique announc ing heavy new aerial thrusts by British and American armadas across the narrow seas at air fields and ports in Sicily and eyewitness reports via Stock holm that Italian morale already was broken by bombings and war reverses. Short in food, sleep and hope, the Italians were declared ready and eager for peace, and Jamming the seven hills of Rome in a search for safety. Reliable allied quarters in north Africa, however, denied rumors that Crown Prince Urn berto, Marshal Pietro Badoglio, King Vittorio Emanuele or any other Italian emissary had ar rived there to negotate an un- Oiditional surrender. The German radio said the al lied fleet assembling off the Syrian coast was preparing to steam into the Aegean, presum ably to attack the Italian Do- ' decanese Islands, Crete or other ! objectives. Capital 55th Year, No. 147 British Bomb Lake Constance Zeppelin Plant London, June 21 Lancas ter bombers penetrated deep into southern Germany last night to attack the Luftschiff bau radio factory at Frledrlchs hafen and damaged all main buildings, the air minsitry an nounced tonight. Three bombers were lost. The factory makes radio location equipment and "is one of the largest of its kind in Germany," the communique said. "Heavy damage was done." Swiss dispatches earlier had said the reverberation of bombs shook Swiss houses clear across Lake Constance. The German radio had told also of attacks on the northern part of the reich. Great waves of RAF bombers swept out in daylight today to resume their battering of the European continent. A 90-min-ute silence of the Kalundborg radio in Denmark suggested an other raid on northern Ger many. The drum of motors was heard continuously for more than a half hour. Heard Across Lake One of the largest German centers around Lake Constance is Friedrichshafen, center of the great Zeppelin works, airplane engines and submarine parts factories. Der Bund of Bern reported that powerful detona tions from bombs early this morning resounded across the lake and that flames soon shot up and spread rapidly. The German broadcasts, re corded by the Associated Press, described the raids in the north as "disturbance attacks." The British struck a devastat ing blow at the great French munitions works at Le Creusot Saturday night which was said to have left the sprawling Sch neider armaments works "noth ing but a mountain of debris" with at least 250 dead and half the 15,000 population of the town homeless. Utterly Destroyed The Swiss telegraph agency reported Le Creusot was almost entirely destroyed. Successive waves of allied bombers drop ped incendiaries and explosives for 40 minutes producing "hor rible spectacles," the agency said. No sector of the town was spared, not a house was left standing and all areas of the city still are smoking, the Swiss re port said. - The Bern radio said that some bombs fell in the Swiss canton of Thurgau during the night and that three persons were killed and one was injured in Kuemmershaasen. 15 in One Family In Kaiser Shipyard Portland, Ore., June 21 UP) The John H. Braukmiller fam ily, recently of Sioux City, Iowa, today claimed the title of "Ship Buildingest Family in America." There's Papa Braukmiller, eight sons, a daughter, a son-in-law and four daughters-in-law a total of 15 all working on the graveyard shift at Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard. In addition, there's a son in the army and another in war work on the east coast. Lt. Lentz, Salem Pilot, Bags 3 Nazi Planes Over Sicily Allied Headquarters, North Africa, June 21 UP) In tangled clashes of mounting fury yesterday, Marauders and escorting Lightnings closed with 15 enemy fighters which rose to challenge them as they were leaving Cas-- telvetrano after hitting the airport's traffic control building, straddling the runway with heavy bombs and scoring direct hits with fragmentation bombs on a large number of axis planes dispersed on the field. Lightning pilots blasted an even dozen from the sky and Marauder gunners brought down two more, leaving only on German flier to return to his base with the story of the de feat. It was one of the major field days of the campaign for P-38 Interceptor pilots. The partici pants were paced by Lieut. Har old C. Lentz of 122 Evergreen avenue, Salem, Ore., who shot down three nazi planes in flames. One Marauder "Big Fat Mamma" was reported by Staff Sgt. Roy W. Rogers, Jr., of 652 North Fourth avenue, Walla Walla, Wash., to have "picked up more holes than a SS? ASSESS Salem, Court Restores Communist to U. S. Citizenship Washington, June 21 UP) In a 5 to 3 opinion, the supreme court ruled today that the Amer ican citizenship of an alien can not constitutionally be can celled merely because he was a member of the communist party. Justice Murphy, who deliv ered the majority opinion, as serted that cancellation of citi zenship was not justified by im puting a "reprehensible inter pretation" of an organization to a member unles. there were "ov ert acts" committed by the mem ber "indicating that such was his interpretation." Chief Justice Stone, and Jus tices Roberts and Frankfurter dissented. Justice Jackson, a former attorney general who handled the litigation in the justice department, did not par ticipate. Victory for Willkie The long - awaited decision constituted a victory for Wen dell L. Willkie, the 1940 repub lican presidential nominee, who represented the communist in volved before the supreme court. Murphy declared that "clear, unequivocal, and convincing" evidence was required for set ting aside a naturalization de cree and that such evidence had not been presented against Wil liam Schneiderman, state secre tary of the communist party for California and a native of Rus sia, who became a citizen in 1927. "Were the law otherwise," Murphy said, "valuable rights would rest upon a slender reed, and the security of the status of our naturalized citizens might depend in considerable degree upon the political temper of ma jority thought and the stresses of the times. Those are con sequences foreign to the best traditions of this nation, and the characteristics of our institu tions.". ...... Outside the Scope Murphy said the tribunal did not consider whether Schneider man "was a believer in, and a member of an organization teaching disbelief in organized government, and that his oath of allegiance was false." Murphy said, "these issues are outside the scope of the complaint." (In 1940 congress provided specifically that no person should thereafter be naturalized who advocated or belonged to an organization that advocated "the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the United States.") Beliefs Personal Murphy said that "under our traditions, beliefs are personal and not a matter of mere asso cition" and that "men in adher ing to a political party or other organization notoriously do not subscribe unqualifiedly to all of its platforms or asserted princi ples." "The constitutional fathers, fresh from a revolution, did not forge a political strait-packet for the generations to come," Mur phy said. "Instead they wrote Article V and the First amend ment, guaranteeing, freedom of thought, soon followed." Schneiderman came to this country in 1908 at the age of three, became an American citi (Concluded in Page 8, Column 2) Swiss cheese" in the Milo raid. "The big black puffs came so close you could even hear the explosions," he haid. (Defens ive gunfire and engine noises normally make an anti-aircraft barrage appear to aerial crews as a silent show.) Lieut. H. Clifford Lentz is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Lentz of Salem, and the fam ily has lived in Salem for the past 12 years. Lieutenant Lentz, who is almost 24 years of age, attended Salem schools and was graduated from Salem high school. in 1938. He entered the service two years ago, and over a year ago entered the army air corps. For the past six months he has seen service in Africa, where he has received the purple heart and oak leaf cluster. After graduation, Lieutenant Lentz was associated with Ray Stumbo and the Postal Tele graph office. Oregon, Monday, June 21, rui rz , t 'wi a i I " o & Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Visits Ottawa UP) Canada's Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King (center), introduced Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to Commons Speaker J. A. Glen and Senate Speak er Thomas Vien, when Mme. Chiang visited parliament at Ottawa recently. I. K. Kung, secretary-general for Mme. Chiang, stands back of her. 48 Jap Planes Routed In Attack on Darwin Allied Headquarters in Australia, June 21 (IP) Forty-eight Ja panese planes stabbed at Darwin, Australia, Sunday but at least nine of them were cut down in a furious 10-minute battle with Spitfires. Two of the allied planes, flown by British and Aus tralian pilots, were missing but ground damage and casualties were House Passes $71 Million Bill Washington, June 21 (U.R) The house today passed and sent to the senate the largest appro priation bill in congressional his tory giving the army $71,510, 438,873 with which to wage an offensive war in the coming 12 months. - , Action' on what the ' army termed its "decisive" war bud get was taken by a unanimous roll call vote 345 to 0. Not a single significant item of the sum recommended by the house appropriations committee was deleted by the chamber. Despite the huge total, there was less controversy on the army's appropriation than on any big measure this session. Lackadaisical debate on the measure was completed Satur day, and while several mem bers admitted they were "stag gered" at the enormity of the sum, criticisms were mild and few. .' Passage of the bill brings the house's gigantic appropriating task for this year almost to an end, With the passage of the war department bill, the house has voted to appropriate about $110,000,000,000 since January to finance the war effort and normal government functions during the fiscal year 1944. Governor Urges Army Cooperation The office of Gov. Earl Snell, complying with instructions left by the governor before he left for the national governor's con ference in Ohio, today appealed to citizens and land owners of central Oregon to cooperate in the U. S. army maneuvers planned for July 1-Octobcr 31. Army officers Saturday an nounced 75,000 men would par ticipate in the maneuvers which will cover a 10,000 square mile area in parts of Lake, Harney, Deschutes, Grant, Crook, Jeffer son and Klamath counties. Governor Snell said the army had given assurance that equita ble adjustments would be made for damages which. might result from the maneuvers, and that normal farming, stock raising and lumbering was intended to continue as usual. Yon Arnim Under Care of Psychiafrisl London, June 21 IIP) The London Star said today that Col. Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim, captured commander of the axis African armies, had been plac ed under care of a psychiatrist for treatment of an anxiety neu rosis, induced by brooding over the defeat of his army. He was said to be suffer ing from delusions and under constant observation. Journal 1943 minor, aix enemy bombers and three fighters were listed as de finitely shot down. They were seen crashing on the ground and into the sea. Thirteen others were so badly damaged they possibly never got home. Of these, two bombers and one fighter were in flames and falling when last seen. Eight other bombers and two fighters were observed trailing and los ing altitude as they scurried away from the avenging Spit fires. "." i.,On vthe offense, American flown Liberators dropped 31 tons of explosives and incen diaries on three airdromes in the Rabaul, New Britain, area. Many fires, indicating heavy destruc tion of parked aircraft, were started on each field. One on Vunakanau airdrome was visi ble 50 miles away. The raid raised to 176 the number of tons of bombs dropped on Rabaul airdromes in six raids since June 10. Woman's Body Not Identified Independence, Ore., June 21 The body of an unidentified young woman was found in the Willamette river near the Wells log dump about a mile and a half north of Buena Vista by three fishermen about 8 o'clock Sunday night. The trio making the discovery were A. E. Ar desty, of Independence; John Ross, of Portland and Beryl Bagcley, of Lebanon. There were no discernable marks of foul play but an au topsy was being held today to determine the cause of death. Indications were that the body had been in the water about two weeks. The body was taken in charge by C. W. Henkle, of Dallas, Poly county coroner, and Walter Baum, of the Smith Baum mortuary. The body is described as that of a woman around 20 years old, weighing 110 pounds and five feet one inch in heighth. An upper front tooth is missing. Stale police are seeking to identify the remains. 1942 Income Shows New Record Levels Washington, June 21 UP) Ev ery state in the union attained new record levels of income payments in 1942, the first full year of the nation's participa tion in the war, when the na tional income total amounted to $114,000,000,000, commerce department experts reported yesterday. Among state income tax pay ments in 1942 (in millions of dollars) and the percentage in crease over 1941: California, $8,735, 30.1; Ida ho, $365, 31.5; Montana. $450, 16.8; Oregon. $1,129, 41.8; Wash ington, $2,160, 46.8. Price Five Cents itrejqn Gilbert Island Group Attacked Washington, June 21 VP) Heavy bombing raids scoring a number of hits on the Japa nese airfield at Tarawa in the Gilbert islands were reported by the navy today. Communique Number 420: "South Pacific: (All dates are east longitude) "1. On June 18-19, during the night American Liberator (Consolidated '' B-24) heavy bombers attached Japanese in stallations at Tarawa in the Gil bert islands. A number of hits were scored on the enemy po sitions. Although seven enemy Zero fighters were in the air over Tarawa they did not press a determined attack against the United-States bombers. "2. On June 19th, during the nislft army Liberators attacked Japanese position.-, . at Kahili, Buin area. A number of fires were started. "3. On June 20th during the morning, navy Dauntless (Doug las SBD) dive bombers and Avengers (Grumman TBF) tor pedo bombers escorted by army Warhawk (Curtis P-40) and navy Wildcat (Grumman F4F) fighters, attacked Vila, Kolom bangara island. A supply dump was hit and a fire started. Hits were also scored on the runway. "North Pacific: "4. On June 20th during the day, navy Ventura (Vega PV) medium bombers attacked Jap anese installations at Kiska. Re sults were not observed. "5. In all of the above ope rations all United States planes returned." Scouts Couriers For USO at Bend Bend, Ore., June 21 (U.R) Thirty-one Boy Scouts of Bend, Ore., are enrolled in what is said to be the first project of its kind in the United States courier service for the USO. In uniform, scouts serve in two-hour relays at the USO center here, running errands for staff members, besides serving as guides for servicemen. War Evacuation and Curfew Laws for Japanese Upheld Washington, June 21 UP) The supreme court held conslilu tional today military regulations imposing a west coast curfew on all persons of Japanese ancestry and excluding them from specified areas. Chief Justice Stone delivered the opinion on a challenge of the regulations by two American-born persons of Japanese ancestry, who con tended they were citizens of this country against whom the res trictions could not constitution ally be applied. Stone asserted that "in a case of threatened danger requiring prompt action it is a choice be tween inflicting obviously need less hardship on the many or sitting passively and unresisting in the presence of the threat." "We think," Stone added, "that constitutional govern ment, in time of war, is not so powerless and does not com pel so hard a choice if those charged with the responsibility for our national defense have reasonable ground for believ ing that the threat is real." "The challenge orders," Stone aid, "were defense measures 530,000 Coal Miners Strike for Third Time in Two Months and Look to Government for Cue Rejecting WLB Proposal, Lewis Invokes "No Contract, No Work" Ultimatum Stoppage Felt In Steel Centers Where War Production Curtailed gton, June 21 UP) Secretary Ickes disclosed he met to John L. Lewis to discuss the ending of the third general q JO -n Washington, June 21 UP) Another walkout of John L. Lewis' half-million United Mine Workers cut war-vital coal production to a mere trickle today, but by mid-afternoon there was little to indicate an immediate break In the tense situation. Neither the War Labor Board (WLB) nor the fuels administra tion office under Interior Secretary Ickes had taken any action by mid-afternoon, although some observers saw the possibility that Ickes might have something to say later in the day. The miners, branding as an "infamous yellow dog contract" an over-the-week-end proposal by the WLB that the men return to work without immediate decision on their portal-to-portal pay demand, paid no heed to work whistles at the government operated mines. It was the third time in two months and the second time since the Stars and Stripes have flown over the pits that producion came to a halt. It was not known what move Ickes might be contemplating since his aides indicated earlier in the day that he takes the view that the WLB still has jurisdiction over the dispute and that he is powerless to act without a further grant of authority from the White House. No Action Taken The nominal operator of the mines since the government took over last May 1, Ickes nonetheless has contended he has no power to negotiate, con ciliate or reach an agreement with the miners. Only other indicated action in the dispute was a statement from Ickes' office that officials there are preparing to reinstate for a third time freeze orders on coal in transit, needed to as sure delivery to war production plants as long as possible. In addition to the UMW mem bers idle in nearly a score of states, some 2.500 AFL progres sive miners laid down their tools in a sympathy walkout in Illinois. Steel Centers Hit The Republic Steel Corp. said at Birmingham, Ala., it was forced to halve its coke oven production and added that its four blast furnaces there were operating at only 80 per cent of capacity. At Pittsburgh the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp. banked Its first beehive coke ovens, assert ing the company's coal stockpile still was materially reduced as a result of the second walkout which closed 11 of the firm's 23 blast furnaces in that area. ' Pennsylvania with 200,000 hard and soft coal miners and West Virginia with 1.10,000 bi tuminous workers represented more than three-fifths of the total number Idle. Numbers of UMW miners in other states in clude 60,000 in Kentucky, Illi nois 25,000, Alabama 22,000, Virginia 23,500, Ohio 21,000, Tennessee 10,000, Indiana 8,000, Arkansas-Oklahoma 6,000, Col orado 6,680, Wyoming 4,100, Utah 3,300, Iowa 2,000, New Mexico 1,800 and Montana 1,300. Idaho Dam Break Caused $100,000 Loss Murphy, Ida., June 21 (U.R) Ranchers and row crop farmers today surveyed damage estimat ed at nearly $100,000 caused by the breaking of the 70-foot Sinker Creek dam that sent 2,700 acre feet of water surging through the narrow valley into the Snake river. One man, William P. Bales, 50, of Marsing, lost his life as an indirect result of the break. He was drowned when his row boat capsized as he was .at tempting to salvage lumber that was sweeping down the Snake river. for the avowed purpose of safe guarding the military area in question, at a time of threaten ed air raids and invasion by the Japanese forces, from the dan ger of sabotage, and espionage." Those challenging the regula tions were Gordon Kiyoshi Hira bayashi of Seattle and Minoru Yasui of Hood River, Ore. Hira bayashi, a senior at the Univer sity of Washington at the time of his arrest, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for violating the curfew regulation and for failing to report to an evacuation officer. Yasui, a a graduate of the University of Oregon, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and fined $5,000 for violating the curfew regulation. Approximately 70,000 Ameri can citizens of Japanese ances try were said to have been evacuated from their'homcs un der the orders. 10 Die in Race Riots in Detroit Detroit, June 21 (P) Wide spread race riots that cost the lives of eight negroes and two whites, one a physician, and resulted in more than 200 in juries to negroes and whites alike flickered and flared in termittently this aftcrnono. Gov. Harry Kelly of Michi gan, before speeding to Detroit from Columbus by army bomb er, ordered Michigan state po lice and state troops mobilized to preserve order. Mayor Edward J. Jefferies, Jr., of Detroit said he would ask the governor on his arrival to declare martial law in the city. About 75 military policemen, drawn chiefly from an army post at suburban River Rouge, arrived at police headquarters this afternoon. They were to be assigned to patrol duty to keep servicemen out of the riot areas, police officials said. Tear gas was used within a stone's throw from Monroe ave nue into the Campus Martius, on the cast side of Woodward avenue. Officers used the gas to disperse the crowd which gathered, many of whom were shoppers attracted by the com motion. The physician who was fatal ly beaten as he was answering a call in the riot area was iden tified as Dr. Joseph De HoratUs, v Eight negroes also, were dead, victims of the racial flairup and a police sergeant was critically wounded In a gun fight with a negro store-looting gang. Lull in Battle Russian Front Moscow, June 21 (ft) Land warfare on the soviet front lapsed into local scouting ope rations and sporadic artillery bombardments today just one day short of the second anni versary of Germany's attack on Russia. A tense red army awaited the summer offensive many observ ers believed Hitler must launch soon if he hopes to try to knock Russia from the war before the allies attack in the west, but the continuation of day and night bombings was the only indication that a large-scale mash might be expected soon. The Russians announced last night that 270 German planes had been knocked down during last week, boosting enemy air craft losses to 3,595 in seven weeks. A German transport was sunk and a tanker and two transports were set afire in the Barents sea during an attack by Russian bombers, torpedo carriers and torpedo planes, the Russians said today. Ground action in the Orel sector which had centered about Mitsensk, northwest of Orel, shifted to the Sumy area 100 miles northwest of Kharkov Saturday after 50 German coun ter attacks to regnin lost posi tions near Mtscnsk had been re pulsed. Coal Mining in Washington Ceases Seattle. June 21 (P) Coal mining operations were halted in Washington state's 57 mines to day, as more than 2000 work ers stayed away from their Jobs. The Coal Mine Operators' as sociation here had reports from nearly 00 per cent of the state's mines. All were closed except for maintenance crews, and Secretary James Ash of the as sociation said he believed the same situation existed at re maining mines. At Ronton Secretary Richard Francis of Local 10 of the Uni ted Mine Workers said he ex pected no work today at any ot the state's mines. f (
