The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, February 09, 1944, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textrn r SCOD0DS tKD CDQGB 7czlhcr ., : Taesday 1 moxlmtna- isn- . peratnre 47, minimnaa rrec!;itation JSS ef aa Lich. Vilad from the tsrtiwest. Clondy. Hirer M feet. Snow en west side and oc casional snow in east por- -tion. CoUer la east pcrtlaa I7edaes2ay ; : ' -, PCUND3D 1651 At the last meeting of the state board of higher education Chan cellor Frederick M. Hunter sub- mitted recommendations for the . extension division of the state system to establish in the imme diate postwar period in cities of 6000 population and over "adult and vocational f education" cen- . ters. These centers would pro vide "terminal vocational .courses for those already empldyed, and courses usable by the veterans bureau for rehabilitation of phy sically handicapped or mentally handicapped service men." : - The recommendations are bas ed on the report of a committee from the state system which in vestigated the junior college sys tem operating in adjoining states. The committee rejected that plan and approved the alternate which the chancellor then recommended. Rejection of the junior college plan is not surprising. The state administration of higher educa- ' tion has been hostile to any such . venture in this state, and rightly so, because the established pub lic and private , Institutions are " still adequate to meet demands for collegiate education in this . state. . It seems to me, however, that the state system gets out of its proper territory if it enters the . field of vocational education., That .lield is preempted and pretty well , occupied by the , present voca tional school system administered by. the vocational education divi sion of the state department : of education and operated in con junction with public school dis tricts. In 1941 a law was passed giving a firm legal foundation for this system rand authorizing es tablishment of regional schools. While the7 funds for financing such schools failed through de feat of the cigarette tax on ref ' erendum in 1942, the advent of ' the war opened a flow of federal funds for training of 'persons for war industry. . " The vocational education divi ' s ion now has schools in all cities - of 5000 and over and gives asslst ' wee for vocational courses' in ' many of the smaller communities. Up to the close of last year a to tal of $7,771,000 had been expend . ed on these schools of which $1, 187,000 was for equipment and $6,583,000 for (Continued on edi torial page) -y, , ; AlKesBlast Franldiirt . Third Time By AUSTIN BEALMEAR LONDON, Feb. 8 -(&)- Strong formations of Flying Fortresses, supported by long - range Light nings, Thunderbolts and Mus tangs, smashed at the great indus trial city of Frankfurt in western German again today, third assault in 11 days, climaxing all - day allied air operations in which perhaps 2500 offensive sorties were flown from British bases. The RAF took over the night shift of the gigantic non-stop aer ial ' assault, sending a fleet of bombers roaring across the chan nel in more than an hour's pro cession after dusk tonight. The Berlin radio left the air -and other stations in western Ger many warned listeners that allied aircraft were - approaching ' the reich from Belgium. ' A Joint US .army air force and British air ministry communique said American fighters escorting the fortresses , to Frankfurt shot down 18 German planes and the heavy ! bombers accounted for three others. RAF Typhoons ad ded to the day's bag by downing two enemy planes during patrols over Brittany. . The cost of all the day's com bined operations, the communi que said; was 12 heavy American bombers, one ' medium and one - light bomber, two fighter. bomb ers and nine fighters. ; i; The fact that this gigantic punch has been followed.: by two more quick blows February 4 and to day is evidence of the allied in tention to give Frankfurt the same kind of hammering to which Ber lin and Hamburg already have been subjected. - It seems . probable that these three American raids have deluged r (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Nimitz Pines For Carolines ..: .US PACIFIC FLEET 1XCAD- GUAETE2.S, Pearl Harbor. Feb. P-(J(yta It fine. Adm!raL that , since the. triamph-at Cwajaleia atoll year theme ceng has been' Tm pining for the Carolines?" The question was asked Adm. Chester W. Nimitlz today at his .press conference, referring ' to the Caroline island to the west cf the Marshall islands in which Zlwaialela is located. " Tw two years, the admlr t.1 said, pointing to a xzzp of the Tacirij, Tve been lookizg at all ' th:s rrcls (Lilisds) and X want NINETY-THIRD YEAR Aimzi(0) Nikopol Falls To Russians Seven German I Divisions Are Routed j By Tom Yarbrough LONDON, Wednesday, Feb. 9 -(AP) The Rus sians have captured Niko pol, one of the world's greatest sources of manga nese, cleared the nazis from their nearby exten sive bridgehead across the lower Dnieper river and routed seven German divi sions which left 15,000 dead and 2000 prisoners in their retreat, Moscow announced today. The four-day battle for this vi tal area was climaxed by a night attack in which soviet assault forces stormed into Nikopol's streets and cleared the Germans out house by house. Another force dashed across the river and ripped nazi flank and rear positions, sending the Germans reeling in retreat. The clearing of the bridgehead, a strip 75 miles wide-and 21 miles deep on the south or left bank of the Dnieper was an important victory for the Fourth Ukrainian Kfront forces of Gen. Feodor.L Tol- oasjun. The Germans had hunt thr rOWS Of trlrtn"fr! tM ar.vf .t- rounding their positions with barbed wire and 4nin fields. Heights commanding the area were heavily protected. As- the nazi struggled to reach crossings of the river southwest of Nikopol they were snraverf h Russian artillery and mortar fire wnile Russian airmen easel essly bombed and machineeunned the enemy ranks. Thousands were drowned in the river. Forty other towns fell in the drive, and a great amount of booty was captured or destroyed.: The Russians listed 53 tanks destroyed, along with 217 guns. 118 mortars. 370 machine-guns, ,1,277 motor trucks and 570 truckloads of mili tary supplies. In addition thev counted 24 tanks captured, along witn 392 guns, 180 mortars, 473 machine-guns, more than 4.000 ri fles and tommyguns. 1.686 motor trucks, 86 tractors, 18 radio trans mitters, 1,118 truckloads of mili tary supplies and 20 stores of am munition and provisions. " The Russians made a 10-mile advance in the last 24 hours to strike to within 17 miles northeast of Luga on the Leningrad-Pskov-Warsaw railway. They captured several' more populated places in the Novosokolniki area. - SchoolrBoard To Proposed 6 Mill Levy . The Salem school board Tues day night enacted a resolution to present to city voters on March 7 the question of a proposed levy of six mills beginning with July, 1944, ; and - extending: over five years to raise funds for postwar school construction and rehabili tation. ; A board committee, Roy Bar land, Ralph Campbell and Dr. H E. Barrick, has been named to ac quaint the public with the pro PosaL .. . ;.- :.. The board in a special resolution expressed regret at the death of James C Nelson, late Salem high school registrar and principal em eritus. No action has been taken yet toward appointment of a suc cessor, j although it - is ' intimated the office xrf regis tier may be ab sorbed . into- other administrative departments.? T j " r ' f r - Supt. Frank Bennett cited fig ures showing that Salem recently has been, under the national av erage in school costs per student during the past three years. Dur ing the year 1940-41 the national average per student stood at $1C3. 11 in schools situated in cities of 30,000 to 100,000 population, while in the same period the Salem fig ure was $33. In 1941-42 the nation al figure was $115, the Salem cost, $105. Thus far in tha present year CTurn to Page 2 Story C) r a. -w O j PAGES ijap Ships At Jaliiit i US PACIFIC FLEETj HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Febl S-P-Warship bombardment island bases still in Japanese ancf 7, Adm. Chester W.jNlnutz TJhe admiral's press Release were sunk at Jaluit atoll Feb ruary 6 by fleet airwing search planes and 7th army air force fighter planes. j ' Except for Jaluit there! was no mention as to where the attacks csnrred.' " " Japanese communications pro bably have been disrupted at Ma leoUp, Jaluit. Mfli and Wotje at olls! from . steady poundings. ; 1 I By WILLIAM H1PPLE US PACIFIC FLEET j HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Feb. 8-p)-Adm. Chester W. j j Nimitz, radiating confidence and satisfac tion; after returning from an in spection of Kwajalein atoll, said today his aim is to get the forces under his command moving across the! Pacific and setting up bases in. China. . if la the last analysis, he eon--. tinned, "I do ' not believe we can defeat Japan from the sea alone.' jf .... "That's the simple strategy of the Pacific war. I believe the Japs can only be defeated from bases in China because they draw food, iron and other supplies from Man churia and China, and a$; long as they have access : to these they will be difficult to beat;! "fTurthermore, we want air bases in China from which ; we can.ideliver air raids not sporadic ones but like those the Germans are I receiving." ;- - k- t . jj .; When reminded that Isnost : of the discussion of . gaining allied bases in China centered!, on the f campaign for BuAnaJtfiinitx satd? "it stands to reason we -Would land on all parts of China we could." ; ' -; :s. ) .: Thus he further indicated that his fleet, the army and; marine corps forces under his command intend on taking a leading part in ine China offensive. ; Kimitz would give no indica tion of the China offensive time table, naturally, but heir said, "I think that if youll watch the com muniques, youll see us moving on.; j. k-- " ; He wrote a simple- finis to the Kwajalein invasion in the Mar shall islands with the brief -announcement today that organized resistance on the atoll "has ceased arid; Jits capture and occupation have been completed."! ji There still was no mention of ground action on the ! extreme western portion of the j atoll, in the;Ebadon island area. ! .1 -U : Li Points - i l ToMESAStrike WASHINGTON,' Febi 8-() The war labor board announced tonight it Is calling President Roosevelt's attention to j the war plant strikes of the Mechanics Ed ucational Society o f j America (MESA), so thai criminal penal ties-may be invoked promptly in the , event of another interruption. The board said its action also would permit immediate consider ation of civil sanctions' ofj the war labor disputes act. f -: ;-. j ' ' " 4 The board acted within a few minutes after a public bearing at which Matthew Smith,! British born leader of the MESA,! virtual ly threatened a resumption of the strike which the union leadership called off "temporarily ji yester day. FDR Scoffs At Rumors By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON," Feb. B-UPl President Roosevelt turned away at bis press-radio conference to day a direct Question whether he would r accept a fourth ternv but in an ensuing political discussion: i 1 Described -as hoary with -age a proposal that he run with a re- pullican -vice presidential nomi nee on a coalition' ticket. : X'Scoffed at -reports 'that the elections might be put off a year. People who talked that way, he commented, have not read the constitution. : : ? -: i. j -: Ta the question'" whether he wccJd accept a fourth term nom ination, he replied -that that was on of then things and.ht would have to "go back to the usual old stcry which he said is the killer cf s.torie?. .Then he ad Jed there wz.3 to r..vs cn thai toly. WLB Salem, Qragon. WdnMday Morning, Fabruary 9 1944 Sunk and air strikes against Marshall hands were resumed February 6 said tonight. said several small enemy boats Losses Reach ts S By ROBERT EUNSON . ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Wednesday, Feb. 9. -(fl5) Aerial combat losses of both the Japanese and allied air forces in the Pacific war reached new heights in Janu ary, a month of increased allied of fensives in the skies. - The loss raf tio continued to run heavily against the enemy. . j -- A total of 594 Nipponese aircraft were destroyed in the air in that period against allied losses of 119. The figures, covering the central, south and southwest Pacific, were disclosed today by a compilation of Official reports of the aerial war fare in those areas. , I j Another 80 Japanese planes were destroyed on the ground and pro bably 192 more in the air, for a to tal of 868 enemy aircraft definitely or probably put out of the war in the first month of 1944. j ; I That total l was surpassed only once, last October, when the al lies loosed their first great raids on Rabaul and destroyed 506 enemy planes in the alx. and. 337 on the ground and ; probably J. accounted for169 more? Never before, how ever, have .the Japanese lost so many planes in the air as in Jan uary. ' - !.. I' ! The allied total of 119 for Jan (Turn to Page 2 Story F) 1 1 Paramushiro Raid Bottles! Up Jap Fleet By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER f WASHINGTON, Feb. 8H?)-The American warship assault oh Par amushiro island has nailed Ja pan's fleet inescapably to the nar row confines of Japanees home waters.;- i - f r : Naval experts sajr this was one of the most important strategical results of the bold foray j which carried United States surface units across waters of the north pacific to bombard a key enemy base on ly 1300 miles northeast of TokyoJ The i raid - profoundly changes the strategic picture of the war for the Japanese, J as much so as does the conquest of the Marshall Islands, which first broke the real outer ring of Japan's 25-year-old central Pacific defenses. ',' ; i ' ,. i . , ... -'j j. ".-r f The Paramushiro raid ' means that from now on the admirals in Tokyo cannot afford to risk send ing their battlefleet steaming to the south or southeast in hopes of catching United States forces off balance. '.- ji;:iv:' C-f; The United ' States naval strength is probably twce ' as great as that of the Japanese in terms of modern equipment and (Turn to Page 2 Story E) 4 i Atoll Pacific Air New Heidi Navcd Attack oh ParamusldTo f DfjSSI A V f"" 1 1 x' if" K,J KAMCHATKA I j JPL Kl.I A ,'i'AusHio. - ALEUTIAN . . MWr d&C-' .BUNDS ? ' j - wSWAr . . -'LA' - - 1 .!- : - . , " MARIANAS WAK1 ' ' Ho!-l JjJit!!fl-j .''Hi.' ' " m nil' Arrows Indicate L'3 navy. task ferce mns!Jxo Lland. La the Enrlls thiLj ; -O . ! r ,- LuMangis Is Killed Lt. Maurice W. Mangis, Sa- lem pilot, was killed fa action In the European theatre of war December 22, his wife, the for mer Frances Weddle, was noti fied by 1 1 h e war department early this week. Graduate of the'high school at Jefferson, Ore., where his grand mother, Mrs. Catherine Warner, resides, he was employed by the state highway commission prior to entering the service. Lt. Mangis, commissioned in the ah corps : in' April, 1943, went overseas last October. Survivors In addition to his widow and grandmother include two children, Patricia and Jon, Salem; sisters, Mrs. Lois Mar tin, San Diego, Califs and Mrs. Helen Gordon, a corporal in the Royal Canadian air force, Leth bridge, Alta., uncles, Fred E. Mangis, Salem, and Floyd War ner, Forest Grove, i ; I Notification that the fortress he piloted had been lost was never received officially by bis family here, but they had known something of its fate be cause mail was , returned and families of crew members were notified...- - i:. : . . Postwar Plan Sees Continued . Federal Control ;To Halt Inflation PORTLAND, Ore Feb..8- Federal govemmeiir Trespon sibility ' to war , industries and their workers must not end with the war. Vice President Henry A. Wallace said today. r New west coast plants have been unable to amass huge re serves and government assist ance will be necessary to keep them In operation, he said, j The vice president said he fa vors heavy personal income taxes and lightening the load on ' cor porations, particularly those which demonstrate ability to expand em ployment in the postwar period. Peacetime excess profits tax-; would make it difficult for young , corporations ; to continue and would tend to give industrial control to old corporations which have large reserves, he said af ter visiting shipyards and war plants in this area. .. . The best way to get out of the mess after the war will be to raise our standards of living,. Wallace a4VUyi - f"""'" 1 "' He said he is opposed to the six hour day, 30-hour week as j a means of taking up labor slack in the I postwar program. "After the 'war we . must produce $170,000, 000,000 worth of goods and servic es yearly to keep this country on an even keel, he said, and the 40 hour week is more likely to sue-' ceed ' than any proposed ' cut down.". - . " : The vice ' president told AFL representatives at a . conference which followed a public reception that the government probably will have to retain many of its con trols over business and consump Turn to Page 2 Story G) attack at K: :La roL:t ca 14; : Szzt rcrth it il.t Jart -crs r-.c!- Wallace Maps Forlndostry 27 Ki'lledo Three' AmaeFicaini- Nmuri i' - j .Fatally Are Memorial Services Set For yiQtims; Believe - Bomb Dropping Accident By Daniel De Luce 7TTH THE FIFTH BEACHHEAD, Feb. 8 (AP)l-A jammed bekclihead evacuation hospital so plainly mar k e d with red crosses it couldn't have been mistaken lor anything else was bombed by a German dive bomber yester day, and today the death reached 27, with 68 wounded still in a critical condi- ! Although first reports indicated the attack was deliberate, Acting Commander Lt, Hubert L. Binkley of Denver, Colo., said today a summary of eye-witness reports collected after the naa passea mcucatea tne tiermano bomber may have jettisoned his bombs while trying to escape from a ISptifire on his taiL The dead included two officers. three nurses, one Bed Cross work er; 15 enlisted men of the hospital personnel and six patients who had been waiting to be admitted. Forty-five hospital workers were wounded, including nine officers and three nurses. 7 Four of the wounded officers " continued on duty today. About 20 patients re ceived new injuries. fJThe American nurses Were the first, to" die through direct enemy action n t this war.:yTodayr in capvas tent, memorial s e r v i c-e i wfre held for the victims. But the chapel was far .too small to accom modate the several hundred . who win ted to attend,' and many stood outside. A mass burial will be held to morrow. All will be laid to rest in common grave in the new Am erican military cemetery at Net- tun o. fWe've been asked not to go to the cemetery," Lt. CoL Binkley told correspondents. "So many combat dead still await burial, and our presence would interfered Some of the witnesses estimated the plane swooped in as low as 500 feet and dropped its load of anti personnel bombs, which tore through the big g r e e n hospital tents located a i mile from the nearest military objective and in cope . cases shredded the canvas use zisnnets. , Praise from all the officers and men was high today for the cour age and efficiency of the surviv ing nurses after the attack.' When the bombing was over, the entire surviving personnel went into ac tion.-A number of the dead and wounded were from Lt. CoL John G. Baxter's unit which evacuates hospital patients by sea. (The Phoenixville, Pa, officer is sued a call for volunteers for, ex tra duty, and the unit went right on with its work. ; Today, the remaining nurses were grimly declaring their Inten tion to continue at their posts. fYou couldnt get me to go home now," insisted Lt Gladys Joyce of Duluth, Minn of course that plane knew what it was doing." Senate Passes Federal Ballot By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK Washington, Feb. t -yp The senate finally passed a wat ered - down version of the Green Lucas federal ! ballot, today and tossed it over to the house which already is on record in favor of leaving to the states the machin ery for voting by members of the armed services. - House rejection is in prospect, o be followed by -appointment cf a joint senate - house conference committee to try to work out some sort of measure acceptable to both. ; The senate attached the Green Lucas bill to the house-approved states ri-hts measure as an axa endraent ca a roll call vote cf 3 to 3and passed the anended till by a voice vote. v ! Then, in vctzt was regarded as a fback ' stc-ppin"- maneuver, it r?sed the modlSed Green-Lucas t::i scraratclj ty a vets cf 47 ta ZZ. Fries 5c mjpretii - ARMY ON I THE i ANZIO toll from the attack had first shock of the tragedy f Desert Song' Premiere Aids Bond Selling ' There is assurance of a packed house fori the Elsinore theatre's war bond premiere tonight fea turing the - technicolor musical "The . Desert Song.M Interest in this event has I stimulated - bond sales in recent days and the liar- ion county wart finance commit tee announced late Tuesday a to tal of $3,552,000, or 83 per cent ox toe county's official quota In the fourth war! loan campaign, - . Doors of the Elsinore 'will pen at 7:45 p. in. for the bond pre miere, i The curtain will rise for the stage show at 8:30; but before that. Manager V, P. Byrne an nounces, there will be an organ reverie from 8 io 8:15, 'and from 8:15 to 8:30 prominent citizens and bond campaign f workers will be interviewed in I the ' lobby for broadcast in the; theatre and over radio station KSLM. Some of the stage entertainment, win be pro vided by the navy V-12 unit at Willamette university, whose col or guard will also be present. The unit's "minute man flag award ed for a notable bond-buying rec ord will be publicly displayed for toe first time, j . j . . Block : leaders of. Salem are within $10,000 of their ambulance (Turn to Page 2 Story A) . i ' - . S-44j Cisco Listed Mis sins WASHINGTON, ' Feb.! HAVA long-range US submarine of the type that has prowled close to the r shores of Japan itself, and a small, old raider are long over due and obviously lost," the navy announced today.- . I The missing submarines are the 1525-ton Cisco, Commissioned on- ly last ; May, j with a crew of 65 men, and the 850-ton S-44, built 18 years ago and carrying a crew of 45. . . ! . Officially listed as missing In action were the skippers, Com mander James W. Coe. 34. of Richmond, Ind-J in the Cisco and Lt. Comdr. Francis E. Brown," 32, or Reno, Nev, in the S-44. The navy has lost 19 submarines since the start ot the war. Against those losses, -though, the undersea arm of . the fleet has accounted for 572 Japanese vessels sunk, . prob ably sunk or damaged. Weeks Appointed To US Senate V BOSTON, Feb. 8 -tip)- Sinclair Weeks, treasurer of the republican national committee, was appointed to -the United States senate today by- Governor Leverett Saltonstall who immediately announced that he himself would be a candidate for the post in the fall election. Weeks - was named - to -succeed Henry : Cabot Lodge, jr who re signed four days ago to go on ac- i live duty with the United States army. Shortly "after he accepted the appointment Weeks , said he ; would net be a candidate for elec tion in the falL :;' Lod defeated Weeks in the primaries In 123S. Ha was reekc t;i in 1312 and Weeks thu3 will r:n-3 czlj util the r:t election.! ITa. 273 Tl " iNazi iniantry, Tanks Crash Against Allies German Force Strengthened At Beachhead By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Feb; , 8-(P-Tank-sup- ported German infantry attacks developed today against Bri tish and American lines guard ing the Fifth army, beachhead below Rome,- but no significant changes in position were noted in dispatches from the field. - Nazi troops and armor advanced last niffht tn nrnh nllleH infan try positions at a half dozen points. Heavy artillery batteries duelled through the day. Any hopes that allied com manders may have had of an ear ly conquest of Rome now are gone. However the allied air force once again yesterday demonstrat ed its mastery over, the beach head by shooting down 13 out of a force of 70 attacking nazi planes. Eighteen days after the initial landings,' the American and Brit ish force on the beachhead has firm hold on an area enclosed by an arc some ; 30 miles In length and extending inland about eight miles, but it is faced by a prob- aDiy superior German .force that is girding for 'new assaults. With nazi resistance showing no signs of diminishing, the pros pect of an early Junction of the main fifth army force with troops on the , beachhead is ; dim. And, since the Germans are massing an ever stronger containing army around the beachhead, the pros pect of a major allied push on Rome is equally remote.' i After five days of fierce fight ing in the streets of Cassino on the main front,, the Germans still hold three-fourths of the shatter ed town, including its center. They also hold open a supply corridor Into the embattled place, though American infantry is slowly clos ing in on this passage in a grim, uphill struggle. ; t Wave after wave of bomb-ear- rvinav Focke-Wulf fiirhters rwent over the Anzio beachhead yester day in a savage attempt to wreck (Turn tn Page 2 Story B) , US Warns r Finland i ; - - WASHINGTON, Feb. 8-(JT) The United States has renewed. a warning to Finland that she must shoulder all responsibility for fighting at the side of the nazis, Secretary of State Hull disclosed today. .. " ; . . This darkened the dire picture painted for the Finns by Moscow -Which broadcast a threat that two devastating Russian air raids on Helsinki over the weekend were only the prelude to greater blows aimed at knocking Finland out cf the war. .' .;";...... The United States ' maintains diplomatic relations with Finland, at war with Russia ' and Great Britain. The American statement serves to dampen Finnish hopes that this government might seek to soften Russia's stand. Succinct Hint - : Given Britons t LONDON. Feb. -iJPy-Hini a succinct hist to Britons, Dally ZlzH carried a csrtsca U day on the Xirzl a!l-Ai:r!: i Presidential CLa.r.r:il!- t Cer the eapiloa "Zz;cZs lit-:, I mui. -..'The cirtsca -Czz'ziz I a i:i with Hscssvtlt ar.I ..;::! ' r - pint rr-cLIr tirs arl 1 rc;e w! l3 t-3 . E3&A v. ...1 an Xz. .saters at neck Il'il . trjLtr t I- t" 2 i" erJcrs, "Zcrzm, Tt.U Ti f . .