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oror looking Naples and hava driven inland in the Battipaglia area.
Moroccan Fusiliers Land on C
Without Opposition
Bf Dana A. Schmidt
United Press Staff Correspondent
AJacclo, Corsica, Sept. 17 (Delayed) (U.R) Dark-skinned
Moroccan Fusiliers landed at this island capital one hour after
midnight today in a naval operation supporting the landing of
French shock troops four days ago. Neither force encountered
any opposition here. . '
News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington. Sept. 21 Trou-
le is rearing again on the in-
'ernatlonal police force idea.
Senator Hatch
construes the
Ball - Burton
Hatch-Hill biU
(which Vice
President Wal
lace indorsed'
as calling for
an intemation
al police force
acting under
orders of an In
tema t io n a 1
body. Powerful
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rial ttaUost
Foreign Rela
tions Chairman Connally says
there can be no such force and
no such surrender of sovereign
ty. The man whose views count
more State Secretary Hull
has announced only that the
"means" of international action
Jo keep the peace is being dis
cussed (which may be signifi
cant In view of the fact that his
now resigned assistant Mr
Walles promised an interna
tional police force).
ET us sift the argument for
facts and analyze the resi
due. Fact No. 1 is the term "in
ternational police force" and is
obviously a misnomer. What ev
eryone means is not internation
al policemen sauntering around
the world with night sticks, but
an international army and navy
ready to do battle.
When you call the argument
by its right name, you also can
measure accurately the extent
to which some sort of super-
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I accompanied the second
force. At a place within sight of
Napoleon's birthplace, I watched
French officers hurrying the
tough Moroccan mountain forces
down the gangplanks.
Wild Enthusiasm u.
Crowds of Corsicans sesticu-
lated in wild enthusiasm at the
waterfront, and the streets were
decked with French, American,
British and Russian emblems.
The dry brush on the hillsides
on both sides of the harbor en
trance were aflame where Ger
man planes had dropped incen
diary bombs. But the Germans
stayed away from the town.
The warships which carried
the Moroccans had to dodge one
German U-boat's torpedo and
were spotted by at least three
enemy reconnaissance patrols.
The naval units which carried
out the shock troop landing
were a submarine which arrived
at Ajaccio at dawn on Sept. 13,
followed by destroyers at mid
night. It was the first Invasion of
French European soil and the
first all-French operation by the
recreated French army and navy
in Africa.
RIGID CURFEW IS
Stockholm, Sept. 21 (U.R)
German occupation authorities
were reported today to have im
posed an 8 p. m. to 9 a. m. cur
few on Copenhagen so rigid that
it prohibited inhabitants from
opening windows facing streets
or remaining in doorways, gar
dens or on rooftops.
(A Stockholm newspaper dis
patch reported by the Office of
War Information said a Nazi
military court at Horsens, Den
mark, had sentenced a Danish
business man to a year for
"laughing at German soldiers
doing military drill" and two
other Danes to similar sentences
for "tearing down a martial law
notice" and "insulting a Danish
volunteer.")
Largest fish ever caught in
; Florida water was a whale-shark
; harpooned in 1912 by Capt
I Charles Thompson. It was 33
i feet long and weighed more than
126,000 pounds,
RETREATING NAZIS
TRY DEMOLITION TO
DELAY OPPONENTS
Attempt to Counterattack
Near Salerno is Slammed
', Back With Heavy Losses.
By Reynolds Packard
United Press Correspondent
(Representing Combined
' U. S. Press)
With American Fifth Army.
Italy, Sept. 21 (U.R) A big al
lied push which started 24 hours
ago was well under way today
and several more Italian towns
all of them of strategic im
portance had fallen into Amer
ican and British hands.
The Germans, as they were
shoved back along the entire
Salerno front below Naples, be
gan resorting to the demolition
tactics they used in retreating
before the Eighth army in the
toe of the Italian boot. The en
emy had mined areas irora
which they were retreating in
a systematic manner, blowing
up bridges and roads in an ef
fort to break contact with the
swiftly-moving Fifth army and
retard its progress.
Counter Fails '
The Germans tried to counter
attack near Salerno yesterday
but were slammed back with
heavy losses by allied assault
forces. . : - .-
The - allied -drive -was . pro
gressing with steamroller' effec
tiveness. Areas which have been
a rather confused no man's land
have been mopped up and con
solidated. The beachhead which
has been secured for several
days has become a great spring
board for offensive operations.
Allied Headquarters, North
Africa, Sept. 21 (U.R) Allied
forces broadening their Mediter
ranean offensive have seized
three strategic Dodecanese is
lands, taken Sardinia, driven
the Germans back In Corsica
and are battling toward . the
Naples plain after capturing
Eboli on the Italian mainland
front.
Cairo, Sept. 21 (U.R) British
troops have been on the Italian
Dodecanese Islands of Cos.
Leros, and Samos in the eastern
Mediterranean off the Turkish
coast for several days and are
using their strategic air bases,
It was announced today.
Churchill Gives Heartening War Review
In Answer to Critics of Italian Handling
London, Sept. 21 U.R
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill told commons today
that tha United Nations were
hammering their way toward
complete aerial domination of
Germany, that the Nasi U
boats have taken an unprece
dented licking, and that Benito
Mussolini escaped only be
cause his Italian guards failed
to obey orders to shoot him if
necessary.
Churchill replied to critics of
the Allied handling of Italy,
hinted that the Italians might
declare war against Germany,
and said that the Italian capitu
lation might be followed by the
collapse or surrender of other
German satellites.
Successes Reviewed
Strongly defending the mili
tary and political handling of
defeated Italy, Churchill . re
viewed a period of outstanding
Allied successes in which not a
single Allied merchantman was
sunk in the north Atlantic for
four months ending September
18, and not an Allied ship was
sunk by U-boats anywhere in
the world for the first two weeks
in September.
But, Churchill warned, the en
emy apparently has re-equipped
submarines with new weapons
of novel character and they are
now returning to the battle of the
Atlantic In a new phase of fight
ing for which the Allies are pre
pared. One attack on a convoy
now is ir. progress, but only by
Eagles Hall Robbed Before
War Bulletins
London, Sept. 21 (U.R)
American Marauder medium
bombers opened a new series
of allied air attacks on Axis
Europe today with a raid on
the Tills airdrome at Beau
vaii, 35 miles north of Paris.
Strong formations of other
bombers also swept across
Dover straits toward north
France on offensive missions.
One formation took nearly a
half hour to cross the English
southeast coast
Washington. Sept. 21 (U.R)
Japanese planes have carried
out their third attack in six
days on Guadalcanal, Ameri
can base in the Solomons, the
navy announced today.
RAID JAP
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By United Press
The Allied campaign in the
southwest Pacific appeared to
day to nave entered a new phase
with bombing planes delivering
heavy raids along the route to
ward the major Japanese base
at Rabaul.
"Gen Douglas Mac Arthur's
'communique-, reported .that- Lib-'
eratorg - and - Flying oFrtresses
dropped 94 tons of bombs on
Cape Gloucester, New Britain,
135 miles above newly-captured
Lae, New Guinea, setting off big
fires and wrecking five enemy
planes.
Capture of Lae put Allied
troops in possession .of airfields
400 miles southwest' of Rabaul,
which is the hub for the enemy's
outpost positions.
Other planes bombarded the
New Guinea coastline in the
Finsch harbor area 88 miles
above Lae while the troops
mopped up enemy pockets In
the area. A spokesman said one
Japanese regiment of 2,250 men
of those caught in the Lae
Salamaua pocket had lost at
least 1,453 In casualties during
the coastal drive.
The castle bean weed, some
times known as bladder pod and
coffee bean, is harmful to live
stock and should be mowed to
prevent it going to seed.
MO EARLY PEACE
London, Sept. 21 (U.R)
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, hoping for a meet
ing this year with Premier Jo
sef V. Stalin and President
Roosevelt, declared today that
the "time is coming" for mass
Invasion of Europe on a sec
ond front, but strongly warned
against optimistic hopes for
an early ending of the war.
negligence can the Allies fail to
beat the U-boat in the long run.
Churchill in a speech so ong
that a luncheon recess was taken
at 1:30 p. m, said that "com
plete strategic air domination of
Germany Is not necessarily be
yond our reach even in 1044
with consequences which must
certainly be profound."
Strikes at Critics
The prime minister struck
back at critics who had said
there was unwarrantd delay and
fumbling in regard to the capitu
lation of Italy, giving the Ger
mans a chance to seize that coun
trycharges which Churchill
emphatically denied.
Reviewing briefly the Italian
developments, he disclosed that
the original plan was for an
American air-borne division to
land in Rome, for the govern
ment of Premier Marshal Pietro
Badoglio to hand over ousted
Premier Benito Mussolini and
for BsdogUo to make peaca-
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week at the Portland navy recruiting station to welcome another family into the bluejacket
ransk. Above he is shown assisting the Lucas brothers from Sams Valley, near here, making out
their enlistment papers. The brothers are, from left, Elmer, 20, Bill, 23, and Clarence, 18. Bill's
wife, Virginia, also is in the navy, having enlisted in the WAVES last week. The Lucas boys'
parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Lucas of Sams Valley. -
Willkie is Willing if GOP
Seeks Liberal Objectives
Washington, Sept. 21 U.R
Wendell L..Wlllkiefls announce
1944 republican presidential
nomination is on the nation's
newsstands today betweenthe
slick paper covers of Look, a
magazine with publishing roots
deep in the fertile Mississippi
valley.
In it he offers himself as the
G.O.P. nominee or as a worker
in the ranks if the republican
party will "drive heart and soul
for liberal objectives."
There was no surprise here In
Wlllkle's ambition again to be
the republican nominee. But
there was much interest in the
spectacular prominence given
him in the magazine which is
published by the Cowles family,
which also Is a major factor in
mid-west politics, newspapers
and radio. It is In the mid-west
that Willkie finds, also, some of
his most bitter opposition. That
is led by another published, Col.
Robert R. McCormick, of Chi
cago. The Look splash was re
garded as the opening of Win
The suggestion that 40 days of
time and the lives of many Al
lied soldiers were lost needless
ly is "as il-founded in fact as it
is wounding to those bereaved.
he said. "There was never one
moment lost. The timing of the
attack was fixed without refer
ence to the attitude of the Ital
ian government."
The sole limiting factor, he
said,, was preparation of land
ing craft.
Even then, Churchill said, the
Invasion date was advanced from
Sentember 18 to September 9.
Because of secrecy designed to
deceive tha Germans regarding
Badogllo's intentions, Churchill
said, it was impossible to hand
Mussolini over to the Allies at
once but careful plans were laid
to prevent him from being res
cued by the Nazis.
Carlbln.rl Balked
The plans, he acknowledged.
did not prepare for the large at
tack by Nazi parachute and
glider troops which descended
on the Gran Sasso hotel, north
of Rome, where Mussolini was
held, but the ousted premier was
rescued only because the Italian
cariblneri guarding him failed
to carry out their orders to shout
Mussolini rather than permit
his escape or rescue.
Churchill addressed a crowd
ed chamber in one of the most
eagerly-awaited sessions of his
career. He was applauded loud-
ly by members who had been
sharp-shooting at tha Italian sit
of the navy with eight sons in
kle's campaign .. . . .,
Loolt Is ulf by Gardner
Cowles, Jr.; president, and John
Cpwler, chairman of the board,
sons of an Iowa publishing
dynasty with bedrock founda
tions In Des Moines and Minne
apolis. What Willkie proposed in
Look is to conduct a liberal re
vival meeting within the repub
lican party. He said the GOP
could win next year but "must
first win victory within itself"
through action of the "progres
sive and courageous party mem
bers" in re-establishing : the
party's "great liberal traditions."
Willkie called for "a rebirth
of enterprise a real enterprise,'?
and added, "we must distinguish
between enterprise and private
ownership."
About 5000 members of Brit
ain's Land Army Women belong
to the Timber Corps, engaged
in cutting and finishing timber
for use in. the mines.
uation for some days. .
The prime minister empha
sized that the Mediterranean
campaign never had been con
sidered as a substitute for a di
rect attack on western Europe
which would establish the sec
ond front demanded by Russia.
But his review of the m-ofound
effects of Allied aerial warfare
against Germany was not ex
pected to quiet the advocates
of a second front In Franco, es
pecially since the prime minis
ter revealed a tremendous vic
tory at sea which cleared the
path from .America for ships,
men and supplies.
Italy 1S43 Objective
Churchill referred to "almost
unbroken successes by land, sea
and air" during the last year and
revealed that last May he and
President Roosevelt decided that
the principal objective was
knocking Italy out of the war
this year.
"No one, in attempting to set
a time limit for the task, would
have expected that it would have
been so rapidly achieved," he
said.
The prime minister asserted
that "there has been an enor
mous diversion of German ener
gy from the war fronts and
the effective power of the enemy
has been noticeably crippled by
It."
' "The complete strategic air
domination of Germany by An-
glo-American air forces is not
necessarily beyond our reach
Fire, Officers Told
En Masse I
the service, was on hand last
LAST SECTION OF
DESNA DEFENSES
London; Sept. 21. (U.R) Rus
sian assault forces crumpling the
last section of the German de
tenses based on the Desna have
burst across the river 80 miles
above Kiev and captured the
railroad Junction of Chernigov
in three days of fierce fighting,
Moscow announced today.
Premier-Marshal ' Josef Stalin
hailed the capture of Chernigov
in an order of tha day, describ
ing it as the most important
center of German resistance on
the lower reaches of the Desna.
The fall of Chernigov laid
open the Red army way to the
Dnieper river, only 30 miles to
the west, and drove a wedge
through the main line of Ger
man defenses between . Gomel
and Kiev.
The toppling of the German
defense bastion heightened the
Red army threat to the Dnieper
river line.
even In 1944 with consequences,
if attempted, which can not be
measured but must certainly be
profound," he said.
"The RAF at present Is main
taining in action nearly 80 per
cent more aircraft than Ger
many. In addition, the United
States air force Is already in
action on a great scale-"
4 io Plane Edge
He estimated that the increase
in available Allied planes now
exceeds the German supply by
more than 4 to 1.
"This opens the possibility
of saturating German defenses
on the ground and in the air,"
he explained. "If the growth con
tlnues, we should with very
small loss be In a position where
the actual methodical destruction
of every available building of
the enemy would be possible."
He said that the Russian air
force is now in many ways su
perior to that of Germany.
"We must expect that the ter
rlble foe we are smiting so heav
ily will make frenzied efforts to
retaliate," he warned.
Churchill reported that the
Germans are using a new type
of aerial bombing on Allied
shipping. He described It as
"sort of a rocket-assisted glider
which Is released from consid
erable height and apparently is
guided towards the target by the
parent aircraft.
"It might ba that the Germans
are developing other weapons
on novel lines," he said.
LODGE QUARTERS
,F
City and State Police Inves
tigate Source of Fire
Adjoining Places Unhurt.
City and state police are to
day investigating source of tha
fire which last night burned tha
Eagles' hall at 42 N- Front street,
causing an unestlmated amount
of damage to it and business con
cerns on the first floor of the
building. Fire Chief Roy Elliott
reported today that officials of
the lodge stated that the club
room had been robbed of an un
disclosed amount of money Just
before 8:40 p. m., when the fire
broke out in that room, located
at the rear of the building.
Volunteer firemen turned out
to aid In fighting the blaze, which
was not completely extinguished "
until 11 o'clock. No members of
the lodge had been in the hall
since Sunday evening, lodge of
ficials said, adding that the
money taken was hidden in a
box in the ,club room,
' Damage Confined
Damage was confined to tha
Eagles' rooms and stores lmme- '
dlately beneath. Actual flnsuv,.
clal- loss has not yet been esti
mated, but dwnage to the lodge
rooms was expensive! ffhe club -room
was1 comoletetv demol
ished, the roof and walls being
caved in and furnlshlnsa
burned. Parts of the ceiling and
walla in the Aerie lodge room
collapsed, and water covered the
rioor. The ladles' club room, nn
the front of the buiding, suffered '
least damage to the ceiling and
walls, but was ravaged by fir
ana water inrougnout.
water Damage - .
Lloyd's barber shon and Clan.
ence Ead'a second-hand furniture
store below were both damaged, '
niamiy Dy tne water which
poured down from the second
noor where firemen had alv
two-and-one-half-lnch hoses in
use continuously. Wind. thrt.
ened for a time to spread tha
urn io omor nearby buildings.
Supplies and equipment were
moved from the army first aid
station next door to the S. P. lot
across the street, but were later
moved back when the fire was
Drought under control withnnt
damage to the station.
Officials of the Easles lodm
stated today that Insurance cov
ered at least a part of the loss.
Allied HeadminrtAr fiitti.
west Pacific, Sept. 21 (U.R)
uen. uougias MacArthur issued
a statement tonight saying that
'Island hopping ... is not my
idea of how to end the Pacific
war."
MacArthur said t h t
it
"makes little dlffemnra
I or others wield the weapon"
wnicn aeieata Japan.
MacArthur's statement was In
reDlV to rennrta treats th TTntA
States and England implying
mai nis roie in tne war would be
progressively curtailed and re
duced to a secondary role.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTER
A comely WAC pausing to
stare at the fruit display in a
grocery window with tha ex
clamation, "I'm so hungry, I
want to eat everything I sea."
Neva Samuels trying without
success to extract payment at
so much per word for news she
gives out.
Harry (call ma "Rugged")
Morris returning from the Cali
fornia forests with unshaven
beard, a buck deer and blood in
his eye for one reporter, , ;