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Thm OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. WeInesday Morning. May 22. 1949
Allied Armies
.: Still Retreat
i Von Richenau Says Nazis
, M Have; not yet Fought
lj I Main Enemy Force
! By LOUIS P. LOCHNER
i WITH THE WESTERN GER
x AN ARMY. Mar 21.-UTV-From
hill within one mile of the re-
- , tiring allied forces, I witnessed
this afternoon the. attacks along
: one small sector f General Wal
ther Von RIchenau's eighth army
it relentlessly drove to com
plete the encirclement of perhaps
600,000 British, French ana tsei
Man soldiers. i
Some German I soures said
there may be even 1,000,000 al
lied soldiers in this trap against
the English channel.
The allies, chiefly British, were
below me in a valley withdrawing
from the Sheldt canal, near Ren
aix, 35 miles southwest of Brus
sels. , J ,
Htnnon bodmedJ shrannel rent
the air, andrGnman scouters
roared overhead directing the ar
tillery. Ugly - cBpFds or yenow
white or grey linoke indicated
when, the deadly 4loads were de
posited on the roads upon which
allied troops were withdrawing.
Inrislble to us, because they
were hidden by .trees, were Ger
man . infantrymen pushing after
the enemy.
Where-we stood English artil
lery observers had . been only a
day before. Thus quickly do the
fortunes of war change in this
area.
We had threaded, our way up
with the stench of putrid cada
vers of horses and cows in our
nostrils, with abandoned tanks,
motorized guns and horse-drawn
French artillery . scattered ' here1
and there.
All day and night battalion aft
er battalion of German infantry
and artillery had been' pouring
- into this section from conquered
sections of Belgium and there was
many a halt before we could
move out again in the midst of
vehicles moving in three columns.
At noon we had been with" the
man who bears the responsibility
for this action. General Von Rich
enau. -
At S o'clock' this morning he ;
had moved into new headquarters,
this time into a delightful 17th
century 'modernized chateau at
Enghlen, property of the Duke of
Arenberg.
Greeting us warmly on the ter
race, he observed that until now
the German troops had not en
countered the main body of the
allies.
"We are facing the future with
utmost confidence," General Von
Richenau said.
"This is no mere phrase. But
we have no illusions.
"We have not yet come Into di
rect contact with the allied main
forces. That's why we do not pro
pose to proclaim victory prema
turely. "We know we have completely
offset plans of our enemies for
present operations and we also
know we are bound to win in the
end."
Von Richenau declined firmly
to make any prophecy regarding
the duration of the war.
"I pride myself on never yet
having, had to take back any re
port I have made to my superior,"
he said. "That was true of the
World war in 1914 and 1918 and
I want it to be true also this time.
"I report only what I absolute
ly know. I hope that after what
you yourself have seen you will
agree our high command reports
are acenrate."
Richenau spoke with the great
est adoration of Adolph Hitler.
"He not only is the nnlitimi
leader of the reich; he also in
k truth Is the supremest command
er of the reich's armed forces,"
uenerai von Kicnenau said.
I talk to him every day. He
anows just wnere every army is
operating." ' mt&M
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Companion Feature' i
Tlie Idist Mile ... at
v- the end of
"Thm Crooked Road
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Death and Destruction in Amsterdam, Holland
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Once this street In Amsterdam, Holland,
with activity. But today, since the German
and Holland's subsequent capitulation, the
Crop Loan Basis
Same as in 1939
CORVALLIS. Ore.; May tl.-UP)
-Oregon wheat growers will re
ceive 1940 government loans on
the same basis as a year ago,
N. C. Donaldson, director of the
state AAA office, said today.
The rates, based upon Portland
terminals, are:
No. 1 Hard Federation. White
Federation, Baart and Bluestem
grading hard white, 74 cents. No.
soft white. No. 1 western, red.
No. 1 hard winter. No. 1 white
club, No. 1 red winter. No. 1 west
ern red and No. 1 northern spring,
73 cents.
Country point rates will be fig
ured as in 1939, I. E., Pendleton
rate 14.4 cents less than at Port
land. County AAA committees
will certify producers who stay
within the 1940 allotments.
Plank Funeral Thursday
TILLAMOOK, May 21. -(Funeral
services will be held here
Thursday for Mrs. Ella Plank, 83
Tillamook pioneer. She died last
night at tie home of a daughter,
Mrs. Joseph Franklin of Corval-
lis.
Call Board
EXSINORB
Today Eddie Cantor
and Rita Johnson in "40
Little Mothers." Plus Ed
mund Lowe and Irene
Hervey in "The Crooked
Road."
Friday Jack Benny and
Rochester in "Buck Benny
Rides Again." Plus Isa
Miranda and George Brent
In "Adventure In Dia
monds." CAPITOL.
Today Zane Grey's
"The Light of Western
Stars" with Victor Jory
and Jo Ann Sayers. Plus
Richard Cromwell and
Helen Vinson in "Enemy
Agent."
Saturday George Raft and
Joan Bennett in "House
Across the Bay." Plus
Weaver Brothers and El-
viry in "In Old Missouri."
STATE
Today "The Great Victor
Herbert" with Mary Mar-
tin, Alan Jones and Wal-
ter Connolly. Plus "20,000
Men a Year" with Rand-
olph Scott.
Thursday "Hurricane,"
co-starring Dorothy La-
mour and John Hall. Plus
"Kid Nightingale" with
John Payne and Jane Wy-
man.
Saturday midnight ; show
"Four Wives" starring
Lane sisters and Jeffrey
Lynn.
HOLLYWOOD
Today "Tower of
-4-London" with Basil Rath-
bone, Boris Karloff and
Barbara O'Neill. Plus
"Two . Thoroughbreds"
- with Jimmy Lydon and
Joan Brodel.
Friday "Johnny Mack
Brown in "Desperate
Trails" with Bob Baker
, and i Fuizy Knight. Plus
": Robert Taylor and Greer
Garson in "Remember."
GRAND
Today - Loretta Young and
, Ray Milland In "The Doc-
tor Takes a Wife."
.Saturday Doris Karloff
in "The Man With Nine
Lives." Plus Rochelle Hud-
son, Jule Lang, Lola Lane
in "Convicted Woman."
LIBERTY
Today i "Letter of In-
troductlon" . with Charlie
McCarthy and Edgar Ber
gen. Plus "Bullets or Bal
lots? with Edward G. Rob
- in son. -
Friday "In Old Monte
rey"! with Gene Autry.
. Plus' ''East i Side Kid"
with? Dennis Moore.
M. . . '
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streets I truck used to
Captured Germans in London
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Cablephoto from London shows group of Britain's captives, nasi sol
diers, taken at the Belgian front,
while silent London crowds gaped. Most of the prisoners shown are
crippled. Forty others were brought in on stretchers. UN photo.
Four-State Confab
Scheduled June 7
The Washington, Idaho, Cali
fornia and Oregon agricultural
departments joint conference for
discussion of uniformity of grades
and standards and standard con
tainers for fruits and vegetables
will be held at Med ford Friday
June 7, Director J. D. Mickle of
the Oregon agricultural- depart
ment announced yesterday.
W. B. Parker, director of the
California department, will be rep
resented at the conference by S. S
Rogers, chief of the bureau of
fruit and vegetable standardiza
tion:
Portland Writers
Win Nominations
PORTLAND; May ll-UP)-Two
nationally known Portland writ
ers were winners in Friday's
primary election.
Robert Onnond Case," whose
stories of two-fisted adventure
appear frequently in - national
magazines, was elected to the
Portland school board.
Richard Neuberger, author of
factual articles in Colliers and
Saturday Evening Post, was
among 13 democrats nominated
for representative from Multno
mah county.
Postmaster Named ,
WASHINGTON. May' 21-OPV-
f resident Koosevelt . nominated
Edwin. M. Hoare . today - for . the
Canyon City, Ore., postmastersnlp.
TODAY and THURSDAY . .
Two Blcj Features 15c '
w JIMMY LTDOM 1
JOAN BKODU.
Also Xews and Sport
Today and Thursday Are Fam
ily Kites. Mom, Pop
And Second Feature :
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J. J. N. Cablephoto .
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pinned beneath the wreckage of
collect garbage.
arriving at Charing Gross station.
Sitting Skeleton
Significance not
Fully Known yet
GRANTS PASS, May 21.-C5V
Dr. L. S. Cressman, University of
Oregon anthropology . professor,
withheld comment today on his
study of a skeleton found earlier
in the month near Prospect. .
The skeleton, unearthed by a
highway maintenance crew, was
deeply buried in pumice. It was
in a sitting position.
"If it. should be finally estab
lished," he wrote, "that these In
dians were killed by the hot pum
ice ejected by the eruption of
Mount Mazama, . . . we will have
more evidence to support that
from eastern Oregon showing' that
human beings were witnesses of
the formation of Crater lake.'
Referee Approves
Pay for Trustees
PORTLAND. Mav 21. SJPWRef-
eree in bankruptcy Estes Snede-
cor approved s&o a month com
pensation for Portland- EleetHe i
Power company Independent trus
tees and S800 for the tmstAP at.
torney today. The company is be-
iore me leaerai district court ion
a reorganization proceedings. i .
The amounts are subject ! to I
approval by Federal Jnd re James
a, .- ee. , . , i
Baker Is Leading i
In lypo Election
INDIANAPOLIS. May Slan-
Claude M. Baker at Fmn,.
co, independent candidate, forire-
cievwun as president or . the , in
ternational TypographlcaJ union,
had a lead at in a mu. m. w.
Progressive candidate, Francis G.
Barrett of New York, an unoffi
cial laouiauon of. returns . from
705 to 850 local unions showed.
today. ':-:i"-':'y- -4 j :..
j The count, made publlc'at the
Office Of Woodruff . rUndnlnh
secretary-treasurer, gave , Baker
aua Barrett 2 S, 114. i
ALLEM -fr MARY;
JOIIES MAItTCI
WALTER CONNOLLY !
"The Great
Victor Herbert" -
second nrr
Men a Year
Randolph Marjraret
Scott Lindsay
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Academy Track
ResdtsLasted
Placings Divided; Only 5
Win More Than one
First Position
Places were well -divided in the
annual grade school field day held
recently : by Sacred Heart; aca
demy..
The meet was run off in four
! divisions and only Leo Fols in the
boys' fifth and sixth grade di
Ivlsion, William Armour in the
boys seventh and eighth grade
divisions: and Josephine Kennedy
in the " girls seventh and eighth
grade divisions won more than
one first place.
Results in boys' divisions:
First and second grades Bas
ketball throw by Robert Donnel
ly, Francis Cooney second; egg
race won by Melvin Staab, Ter-
ance Cooney second, George Bach
third: 25-yard race won by Mel
rin Staab, Richard Huckestein
second.
Thirds fourth grades 35-yard
race won by Jack Suing and Ar-
lin Staab. Donald Young second,
Frederick Day - third; 3 legged
I race won by Walters Davey and
George Hemann, Ray Comstock
and Jack Suing tied for second:
baseball throw won. by Frederick
Day, George Fols . second, Walter
Davey third. Sack race won by
Eavld Domogalla and Walter Da
vey.' Donald Rlngwald and An
thony . Davey, seconds, and Jack
Suing, and George - Hemanh,
thirds. -
Fifth, sixth grades 25-yard
race won - by Leo Folz, Lynn
Callahan second:. Edward Con-
my third; 3-legged race won. by
Richard ' Wichman and Thomas
Ford, Gilbert Allen and Robert
Schnider second; sack race won
by John Day, Raymond .Hickman
second, Paul Muller third; base
ball throw, won by Leo Folz,
Raymond Hickman second. Ed
ward Conmy third.
Seventh, eighth grades 50-
yard dash won by ' Willis Back,
Darrell Rothenfluch second, Le-
I roy Vogl third; 3-legged race
! won by Donal Sommer and Dar
rell Rothenfluch, Thomas Coop
er and Blaine Hanks second; Da
vid Lovik and George Crolsan
third; sack race, won by Philip
Day and William Armour, John
Glllas and Darrell Rothenfluch
seconds ; Leroy Vogl and Stuart
Compton ' thirds. Baseball throw,
won by William Armour, Dar
rell Rothenfluch second; Stuart
Compton third; cross-country.
won by William Armour, James
Bremmer second, Leroy Vogl
third.
Girls Division
First, second grades- Basket
ball throw, won by. Dolores High-;
berger, . Joan Johnson second.
Jean Ringwald third; egg race,
i won by Helen Tharalson, Joan
Johnson second ; . Dolores High-
berger th ird : 2 5-yard race. - won
by Peggy Day, Dolores : Highber-
ger second: Marjorle Davey third.
Third, fourth grades 35-yard
race, won by Theresa Meier, Ann
Schwitegart second ; BerniceNash
third; potato race, won by Bar
bara Albrich and Theresa Meier.
Margaret Hay and Anne Schwlte-
l gart seconds, Cynthia Needham
and Elizabeth Tharalson thirds:
baseball throw, won by Bernice
Nash, Patricia Burrell second,
Eleanor Francisco third ; sack
raca, .won by Theresa Meier and
Carmen Given. Bernice Nash and
Patricia Cowitz seconds, Eleanor
Francisco and Mary Katherine
White, thirds.
Fifth, sixth grades 35-yard
race, won by Elizabeth Staab,
Marian nauer second, ' Rosemay
Martsfield third; potato race,
won by Elizabeth Staab and Con
stance Dignan, Patricia Sommer
and Mary Ellen Davey. seconds.
Mary Theresa Mullen and Mary
Renner thirds; sack race, won
by Mary Davey and Elizabeth
Staab, Maxinge Whollensen and
Patricia Sommer seconds, Mary
Kenner third; baseball throw,
won by Mary Davey. Elizabeth
Staab second, Marian Bauer
third.
. Seventh, eighth grades 50-
yard dash, won by Dolores Bach,
Athanasia Glllas second, . Grace
Slick third; . sack race, won by
Josephine Kennedy and Athana
sia Glllas, Elizabeth Meir and
Miriam Nash seconds. Grace Slick
third; egg race." won by Carol
Wollesen, Mary Coursey second,'
I
vouns
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- TODAY and
I THURSDAY.-. hQQ
InarcasciiM'' L1
with . v-
Adolphe Men Jon - -Andrea
Leeds ,
Edgar Bergen and -Xarlie
McCarthy
Ann Sheridan
George Mnrpliy
-. Bit Johnson
Companion Feature. .
Edw. 0. 1 Robinson in '
'Tzlleb or
CaU:is"
With Joan Blondell
and Frank Mcllngh
a i .i
IIIL1"UI"
bkseball
throw, won by Miriam
Nash,
Mary Coursey third. 1 Caro
Wol
lesen third; relay race, v
won
by
Josephine Kennedy, Miriam
Nash
second, Dolores Bach third.
State Retirement
V i - 1
Plan Draft Be 51m
Governor Charles LA. Sniame's
committee to study retirement
systems for nubile emnlovia met
here yesterday and drafted a
rough plan whereby state,
county
and r municloal . emnlavea
would
receive benefits somewhat similar
to those received by! private em
pioyes under the federal
security program. I !
The employes each won lit eon
tribute a share of-their mIIdHm.
not ,y e t . def enitely . determined.
mis amount to be matched
employing agency, whether
jby the
it be
state, county or city.
An employe could retire oh half
pay at tne end of 40 yearis ser
vice with maxlmuml j retirement
compensation of 383 a
This is the amount fixed
federal social - security nndrram
me retirement age was filed at
66 years
60 Per Cent Vote
Cast, Multnomah
-. .-;-,. -UK.- - -.
PORTLAND, May 21-UPUMult-
nomalL county led in the number
of votes cast . in - Frlday'f , pri
mary election, virtually comnleta
returns showed today. . j .
n was estimated that fO per
cent of Multnomah's registration,
or 1,05.000 voters, ' went to the
polls. The average . for the; state
Carol Wollesen third;
VyFKE seeingjlots of real-life sit
W uations this rear liice the typical
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a 1940 Ford V-8,
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HEL THE POWER I Of the only 8
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Smooth, responsive power fewer cyl
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CHICK EQUIPKCMTl tee
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la a Ferd atne eatra eeatl
37S Center St.
National Legion
Officer to Visit
DaTis to Be Feted Here
May 27; Memorial Day
Plans Discussed
Invitations to participate in the
reception here next Monday night
TT Eim Davis, national vlce-
icommander of the American Le
gion, have been mailed to all posts
in the second and third districts.
Commander Art, Johnson of Cap
ital post No. 9 announced at ts
Monday night meeting.
The meetlnr at which Davis
to speak will be held at 8 P.m. la
th old hlsh school auditorium.
The national officer, whose home
ia at Puehirt. flo.. will be accom
panied by Nell Allen. Oregon de
partment adjutant; Carl It. M fl
eer, department adjutant, and Ray
Gossett. department membership
chairman.
Memorial day clans were also
discussed at Monday night's meet
lnr which was followed by a feed
and entertainment. The post ac
cepted the invitation of Rev. P. W.
Krikwn to attend services next
Sunday at the American Lutheran
church. The members will meet
at the church at 10:10 a.m. and
go In together. f
Capital v post membership Is
about '25. short of the anefa and
may. go over the top" by-the date
of Vice-Commander Davis visit, it
was-announced; : " v
pn a committee to study what
the post's' attitude should be on
the department redisricting plan
was 47 per cent -of, the registra
tion. ,4 ... ....... .
on the road in
that here's
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surprising big-car
big motor-
TUs year
with year Ferd
Dealer first!
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Commander , Johnson appointed
O. E. "Most" ralmateer chalr
man. Dr. La baa Steeres and CLt j
Zumwalt. ... '
Jerry Owen reported on tte'
meeting of the natlonsl commit (
which he recently attended in
dlanapolis.
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