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PACT TWO Jbm CIXGON STATESMAN. Seism. Oregon, Thursday Morning. February 3, 1841 Marines Take Roi; Two More Isles Invaded - E (Continued from Page 1) B . planes of the American seventh air force and of fleet air wing two ; were conducting this phase of the Invasion. "-'v,? - - - - . -i. ! - -. " : : i Carrier based pjanes, coordinat ing their bombing with artillery ' and naval . shelling, covered the landing parties, j 1 Units of the fourth marine dl- i vision, commanded by Ma J. Gen. :s'Harry Schmidt," had shoved the Japanese into the; extreme north . em portion of Namur inlet. There . the Nipponese, confronted with an . overwhelming force, apparently were putting up a desperate, last- man defense. T- seventh infantry division, ' commanded by MajL Gen. Charles M. Corlett was firmly, established ,-on Kwajalein key, the communi que said, and was pushing the en emy back. . .'" ; ' ': v-. Runways of the Roi. airfield prrvimably were badly bomb - pocked from the weeks of pre-invasion softening-up. The field will be repaired quickly, however, for use against other enemy strong- holds in the islands. Namur, con nected with Roi by a -causeway, was an enemy barracks and plane dispersal area. r New tactics were followed in striking at the Marshalls, catch ing the enemy off-balance. . "It is now apparent." said Adm. -Nimitz today, "that the attack , took the - enemy completely ; by surprise." ; These tactics, in strong contrast to the frontal 'assault in the invas , Jon of the Gilbert islands last No i v ember, took advantage of 'the . numerous cays that flank the atoll strongpoints. This enabled the as- sautt forces to establish beach heads and set up artillery with ' which to blast their major object ives on adjacent islands. Under cover of this shelling; and while warships and planes continued their pounding of the .enemy, the assault forces moved Tuesday onto Roi. Kwajalein and Namur. They used a new type of landing boat. Today's communique still gave no indication of enemy sea or air opposition. It was believed, how ever, that the Japanese would make some determined effort to hold these islands of their inner defense ring, once they - had re coiled from the surprise of the In vasion. . Just before the fourth marines started their invasion of Namur, Gen. Schmidt issued a message to his officers and men in which he aid they were i "superior to the enemy in any kind of . fighting. He added: ! . "Your weapons are superior to those of the enemy. The naval gunfire and air support you are to receive will surpass anything j previously provided. . If everyone j In the team does his part - and does it on time, the enemy will be so fully .occupied -as to -minimise our losses and-increase his. The blow fell Monday in the Kwajalein -atoll area, in the heart of the Marshals, a ad t least ten beachheads were quickly estab fished. Coupons for Coal :- NEW YORK,- Feb. 2-P)-The Herald Tribune says a coupon ra tioning plan for coal, to become effective by April 1, has been pre pared by the OPA, but that the coal industry. and solid fuels ad- .ministration are perfecting -an al location . plan, not requiring cou pons, which would also .go into effect at the. end of this winter. Not Yet, Ladiea 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 - (Jf) New girdles and garters of syn thetic rubber, moved several pumths further away, industry sources said today," propelled by an order from the office of the rubber-director forbidding use of neoprene for any except a few critical civilian items. - Around Oregon Walter F. Smith, Portland pa trolman accused by a negro pris oner of releasing him from the city Jail for payment of 150, was cleared of the charges -by a po lice disciplinary board . . . , Vice President Henry A. Wal lace and Oscar R. E wing, vice chairman of the democratic na tional committee, will arrive In Portland February 8 to confer . with party leaders and speak at the annual Jackson day banquet . . . First fire warnings of 1944 were posted in coastal fern areas by the Keep Oregon Green com- ,- mittee, with a reminder that a repetition of last February's out break of blazes would destroy seedlings planted in the reforesta tion program . . i 4 . Certificatej of . merit for high freshman grades at Oregon -State college were awarded to Charlotte - J. - Bohle, Lebanon; Shirley E. Tucker, Estacada; Calvin H. Kiest, Jr, - McMinnvffle; Dan P. Norris, Salem; and Marybelle Russell Barbara M. Dawson, Prlscilla E. ; Wilson, Lowell E. Iladley, Al- bany . 1 ; - . v The Rev. noward C Eddy, pas tor of the First :; Presbyterian church at 'Ashland, died at the veterans hospital at Portland . . . . Tapl Hudson was named president ? I the-Nffwpcrt city council, sjc- - ceedLns ; Tiiaat".McKevitt -'' Targets in Marshall Islands -V. I. . , 1 4.. 0 'Sx- i. J i 1 1: .r , t ; j ' r ' ' ' - Here ara twa af tTae Islaaas In I 4 Paetfte awa rgalng terrlfte attack by Amerieaa planes -aad satrface craft. The airfield at the top of the pictara is slot blaad which Is eejuMetaaV by a narrow strip af earal sad roadway to Namnr Island, beiaw. Nate Jap plaaes an graaad at Kol sad baralag haagar. sad the Strang eaaereto eaastraetlom aa Nsmar. (AP photo from US navy). Canceatrated Jap development I of the Marshall island of Watje kaa-beea presenttag American jaaaabiag plaaes with good targets. Nate the aanwrtu bomb casters. T Ptctare was taken Deeenaber 14 when Amerieaa forces began concentrating an the Marshalls. (AP. photo from 7th AAF Four in Albany AreiKnifed ALBANY, Feb. -2 -A Foui persons nursed knife wounds to day and a Camp Adair soldier was under military guard after a light in an Albany restaurant. Police Chief Perry Stellmacher said Pvt -Aaron Autrey drew a knife when the restaurant refused to serve him. Ethel Fry McKid- dy, a waitress, was slashed in the face, and Andrew Butchko, a fellow employe, .stabbed in the body. Both were taken. to a hos pital here. .: Two soldiers, who joined in the scuffle in an attempt to wrest the knife from Autrey, 'were taken to the Camp ' Adair hospital with knife wounds, Stellmacher said. None of the four were believed seriously injured. Stellmacher said mmtarr nolice ares ted Autrey and charged him with wielding a knife. ; Lebanon Roof Burns LEBANON In a heavy rain storm : the Lebanon f fire depart ment Tuesday afternoon answered a call to the house recently bought by Mr. and - Mrs. I Alfred Rucker from Mai. Frank Southard. Th fire which causht from an. over heated flu burned a large hole in tne cone of the root - Amount of the damage has not yet been as certained. .'.;". Guiiey Criticizes WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 - (ff) Sen. Guffey (D-Pa.) declared In the senate today that Sen. Butler (R-Neb.) attempted to "play poli tics with our foreign policy in criticizing American expenditures in 'Latin America, and that he should make a public apology. Ui!l2r:cll2 Dzdvcrdly '"Gtcrzte Washington Slept nere" . ' Salem TT.gh School Aadltorloa 14th and D Sts. . FrU Feb. 4, at 8 P. M. Ceserved Seats SSe. Tax lad. Tickets aa Sale: Eaton null. A. II. 5 P. U. Ar.l at thi Aciltorlsm Door 1 f j II 5 5 " -frr. . . , , r , j . J . ,. - i ; .. . ; . s- - , r i the afsrshaJl sraap mt thm eeatrsi Ford Strike to End j DETROIT. Feb. 2-rp)-Leo Ry an, president of the Fraternity of Laboratory Workers (independ ent), announced tonight that members of his union who have been .picketing the Ford Motor company's J Rouge plant had vot ed to; -end their 15-day strike against the -company pending war labor board determination of their dispute. .;- i Apparel Firms Merge SAN FRANCISCO. 1 Feb. i-to Grover Magnuv vice president of i. Magnin and Company, announc ed today his firm had agreed up on a merger with Bullocks, inc., of Los Angeles. Both firms are re tailers of appareL J ; Grasnid Decorated il HAMILTON -Ft ELD, Cajlf, Feb, -0T-Capt Samuel C Gra shio, only air forces survivor of the "March of Death following the fail of Bataan in 1942, will be decorated with the distinguished service cress Friday. Mai. Gen- William E, Lynd, fourth air force corhmander, said today. s Another Cross Added NELSON. BC Feb. iOK-Th United States distinguished wrv. ice cross .awarded posthumously u tapt. jr.,T. Peters, VC, DSO and DSC and bar, was presented to his1 mother. Mrs. Fred Petm, at a ceremony here today. - 5 ; MiOBHMMMMWMiaMva - - i . . Burner Overheats ; CitT firemen wera rallml tn tK Guardian bulldln ahmit in -in Wednesday night when a gas bur ner left on in the office of Dr. K. K, Higgins became overheated, causing a burnt out tTtTiatin No other damage was reported. 1 4 3 tt 8aT I RAF Follows Up Day Raid Over! France" F (Continued from Page 1) F Pas-de-Calais coast last Friday without loss, joined Fortresses for a record 800-plane raid on Frank furt Saturday, went out with them again Sunday to -attack Brunswick and Hannover . and returned to Pas-de-Calais Monday for another without-Ioss raid. t V Thf absence of German fighters over such an important segment of the'. Atlantic . wall, as Pas-de-Caiaia suggests these possibilities: 1." The staggering German air force which ' lost 220 planes in the last five days alone now . is forced to devote its entire strength to the defense of the home front and pug its reserves lor ytba" In vasion .tesf.'.".,". I I ----- 2. me uerman forward tions at Pas-de-Calais now are so smashed by more than 30 winter raids that they no longer are worth defending at the expense of first line fighting craft and pilots. s. The allied command of the air this dose-to Britain is so ab solute that it would be foolish for the German air force to challenge it until the opening of the second front r ; '-:--?. ..- .f:.5 4. The steady raiding pace of the Liberators faster ships than Fortresses and capable of carry ing Heavier bomb loads is taken as an indication . of their growing numbers in this theatre and . the increasingly important role they wui piay in the conquest of Cer many. ..... 3 Car Thefts : Cleared-Up State police wiped three more car- thefts off the slate Wednes day with the arrest of Eari J. Bonney, 19, and Harry W. Detil lion, 19, both of Salem, and Floyd Torgeson, 21, Camp Adair soldier. Bonney was picked up Wednes day i afternoon on a . charge of stealing a car belonging to Charles Claggett earlier In the week, while Detillion ; was caught .Wednesday night some few hours after tak ing a car from the garage of R. L. VaU of Salem. ; i-.. ;:- - i - Torgeson was booked at Jeffer son also Wednesday night by state officers on a charge of speeding. being returned to Salem before it was -learned that the car ha was driving belonged to Duane 'E. Reed of this city and had been stolen from in front of a down town theatre. Warren Signs State Service Ballot r SACRAMENTO, Feb." 2-P) Gov, Warren today signed a bill giving service men and women abroad the right to vote by ab sentee ballot. The principal feature of the measure is the combining. of the -May presidential and August state primary elections into a single el ecuon to be held May 18. The former dates for the elections were May 2 and August 29. Arrested for Burglary Kichard Parsegian, 19. of 918 Trad street, and La Verne Arthur Flynn, 20-year-old soldier, arrest ed by a Marion county deputy sheriff Wednesday on charges of attempted burglary of the Pink Elephant tavern southeast of Sa lem, are: held fa the" county jail. BUY A BOND TODAY! OPENS C:45 P. M noonAY! 'OIIE IHSDT EI THE TEDPZCS' r ' ABea . I Janes Naaey SeUy ; CO-FEATOtE UVI!!G...L0VinC... . Key agers - 'HED. V21LLE7" Ez5 ; Those ' J Kings v' V Bed : t t j Lea r V Ifews )' OHthenOIiEFROlIT By QAXZL - If you should ' see , police - cars parked near or patrolling; North 24th street from State to Center don't believe . that the pleasant residents of that street of attract ive homes - have taken up- arms against one another. . - v " - ' They . merely believe that mo torists such, as the one who Wed nesday morning struck' and killed a puppy, property of Mrs. Myrtle Ross, 233 North 24th, are a dan ger . to even : the t most cautious child. V The little dog shrieked .and the neighbors ran; all they could say iJWier was that the car was speed- . i I 't.. t,,.. h umu Vill. ea in mat area in uie past iwu months. To i date only one child has been struck. Reds Cross Estonian D Continued from Page 1) D .' :t Russians could see the red army developing- a new -pincers, attack. One arm, was coming south from Bangisepp-Narva arae and swing ling otward Luga from the north west. The spearhead of this drive was at Osmino, 35 miles north west of YugostitsL The other arm, coining up from Novgorod in . the southeast, was within 14 miles of Luga at Yugostitsi. The pincers' tips were less than 50 miles apart. Their prize would be all the Ger man troops north an'd east of Luga in a great pocket still held . by struggling Germans, j - i . In the north, where the Rus sians were driving for. Narva on the threshold of pre-war Estonia, the battle-was expected to lap over into Estonian territory shortly. I Cunningham Confessed Murders Unofficially: Reported Confirmed iiarvey Cunningham, negro condemned to die at the Oregon state penltentairy March 6 for a Portland slaying, described accur ately two .- Kansas - City murders when he "confessed last Friday to Warden George f Alexander, state police were notified through unofficial sources here Wednes day, v- . -j;- ; ; To; date no confirmatioo has been-'received directly from peace officers of either Kansas- City or Missouri, but announcement that such murders had been committed at the time Cunningham was in that section of the country came through other channnels. j Richard Gregory Out of Hospital Richard Gergory. 12, 1155 North 13th street, was released from Sa lem General hospital, Wednesday night after a period of observation following a bicycle accident ear lier in- the day, in which he struck a curDing to avoid nitung a car at Garnett and D streets. The boy sustained cuts of the right eye brow and cheek .and at the time was feared to have received inter nal Injury.' " I' : Bay- a Bond: Iavest Is thai I Fvtare! , ! s- f CONT. FKOM l r. M. - How Showirrj! IBs Great ' est Tree Life Bole! PAT XL r t::ianui . CO-FKATTJKX; Sweet and n-a-t: :- Ardla: r , EJrar ; Kexuiciy : : , o- :j Newsl All'-ts Las J -Delaw 1 . name t Bdimdary JL fx "Its J Girl vl If w - ' 7ilIMe Urges Taxes Boosted Pay for War B (Continued from Page 1) B in ordinary times. It is fatal In these times. : I; . - " . -Whatever the poUtical lisk the political leader: is not worth his salt-who shirks the responsibility of presenting war time necessities to the people. We have. been fol lowing a fiscal primrose path. It will not lead to a solution of our problems. It is time for us to face WOlkie said i that the treasury program to raise an additional ten billion, six ' hundred . million dol lars was not ; realistic and I- also was misleading because it includ ed a provision to refund two bil lion, seven hundred million dol lars after the war, which Willkie termed a political gesture. - Willkie said; that a realistic so lution of the problem meant that "we must actually materially low er the American standard of liv ing during the war." . " He said he believed the nation would face the peace with a pub lic debt of more than three hun dred billion dollars which at 2 per cent interest meant an annual six billion dollar service charge. "That is a staggering charge-r only a little less than, eur whole federal t budget as recently - as 1943 Jie said. -And Itfis that contemplated: U debt and that charge Which must determine our fiscal policy from this day for ward, whether in peace or in war. Aussies Close v . -... ii .... .- - ' . In on Japs In New Guiiiea G (Continued from Page 1) G in that - mountainous area and counted 220 Japanese dead in the valley.! y -:h- !': ; : Liberator heavy bombers In an attack on Hansa bay, northwest of Madang, sank a 5000 - ton en emy freighter, t the communique said, j . :! :L; r ? Nearly 150 fighter planes and bombers made the raid on Rabaul in two separate strikes; Besides the 15 enemy planes damaged on the ground, seven, others on the strip were i demolished. The lat ter, with ' the eight ahot down, made a total of 567 enemy planes destroyed or probably destroyed in the Rabaul; attacks In January, against the loss of about 85 allied aircraft.' . - -v He Got Out of It p Anyway - RP kMNGFTELD, . UL. Feb. 2 (JP-InUrnMl Beveaae CeBectar V T. :Dallmaa af the eighth II liaais district repartad jtalsy five depaUes ia Us efflee "agreed te the penny fat separ ata eaaaBotatiaBS af identical ftgares ia a eeaapUeateg retara. , None oT the depaties knew It was a test, DaUaaaa said, that the tax aaeertaiaed DailamaJts aertil abllgatlaav Bay Bonds: Back the4 Attack r jt ywft h it i OPENS C:45 P. M. iron fijye:g! TWO HAPPY HITS! S ) DALE EVANS ! VERA VAGUE RANSOM SHERMAN it CO-FEATURE r n HTS A ONC-MAN HUTUttCAME tok Lays 0wa Uta law. . : . la Tka Wild-Herta I Country; . And AhwH 5traMM His Nadd . -i 1 w! yj- y J " f ' 1 1 Turner Takes Bond Drive Spotlight : A (Continued from Page 1) A F. Goodrich Rubber company. SP&S Railway and General Pe troleum company. j , ; Mutual Federal Savings and Loan association has t purchased 230,000 in bonds to add to the volume of corporation sales. A. A. Lee of this association has been, an active member of the war finance committee since its creation. Chair man Gard pointed outj ' - Persistent soUciUUon In the St Paul district is reported 4y Chair man S. J. Smith. Against a $75, 000 quota,: sales there! have am ounted to $50,000 of which $30,- 000 -is in series bonds. - : . Oregon has reached 31 per cent of its quota, j - 17 Selectees . .. - . . .. Arrested n (Continued from Page 1) II while cramming for bar examina tions and ; to fkeepr going." " Thirteen of the defendants are negroes.:;;;' '' j, -"J-; j; 1 1;;f, k :;-r;,!V Hoover, said the men took the drug shortly before . reperting-to the induction center. It produced abnormally high blood ; pressure for several hours, long enough to cause rejection for military serv ice. i. I . .- :i 1 : r .... Some of the men had the drug in their possession at j the- induc tion station, Hoover said, and lab oratories found a drug 'in the sys tems of 15 of them. Complaints charging! evasion of the draft were r filed against 17 of the men in Richmond, Va. The charge of aiding evasion of mili tary service was filed ! against the mail carrier In Washington. ; NOW SHOWING ' Companion Feature a couitaiaetcToac Latesi News SiDTiIIG y -I ' ': : W Tin- ijsitJ Jill a. ALICE Jim frrwrtrSs Vt;!a r lit rila Taking Drugs jShort - X 1 1 , ' ' : . air- IT mrW t UrszTi trcrstl Tc.-.y Ca r.r:a ? ; Associate Hit- i 'hr tj Love ia hzr eyes; but Elack- -Tagil "la fctr heart :V;' i . we e,spi aaevMaaesaaa ' "-rj,- f -V: with i.:tr. .: Jerecae Cowaa 'J' '-. f : -i. - Tfaye Cmersoa :' . r t. :V" i .' Gene Loci. I.art Latest Excitin- iiahcii ci? JAVAL LCU c victc? Eden to SpeaL On-Rucsian h-' 3 C (Continued from Para 1) O ia eUplemaey, matcbiag some ef the red army's best efforts tar strategy, by deciding te grant a sew measure of auto nomy ia foreira relations to Its IS eeastitaent republics. -.. It is felt by some diplomatists here that the Russians have scored brilliantly, no matter what the immediate developments may be. The new status of the 18 Sov iet republics is expected to give Moscow great bargaining power In foreign relations, and it is believed, the Russians will seek to realize .as much as legally . possible from the - reconstruction period. , (In London it was suggested that. Moscow, by announcing au tonomy in foreign affairs for Es tonia and Lithuania along . with the- other constituent Soviet .re publics, was making an effort to solve the problem embodied in the provisions of the Atlantic charter stipulating freedom of ac tion and decision for small na tions. The Soviet governments of these three Baltic states have not been formally . recognized by the United States and Great Britain.) Songstress Breaks Bond Sales Record i NEW YORK,' Feb. i-iflVSong- s tress. Kate Smith's 18 H hours at the microphone yesterday solici ting war bond sales netted $106,- 657,975 in purchases, Columbia Broadcasting system said today. Miss Smith, broke into practical ly every program on the full net work, CBS said, adding that re turns - still were coming in from every part of the country. ip'Tr llarry! Ends Tonight ,i.';2ilfj.la! GIG YOUNG -Sao. ikrMira i Camaiatoa Feature - With Jimmy Lydon COLOX CAKTOON LATEST NEWS ETENT& FDEilY M s - au ...j siarl r ' itl T5hi T77I o Latest O - aiL?e H.I . - T