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r n-r t 3 ( - ! - Russia,"" "which" has demanded - the reorganization of .the Polish government-in-exile as condi tion .for opening of .negotiations over boundary questions, now is 1051 1 : ! - y si I IN IX J i -'-A TTT.F . '.J-.TT" V A I III' ji vyvy . v v i ' v. v. w v ..VW. '. - II III 1 7 y rLJ) Ns Vk y ill i 1 1 1 1 t - c - - - e . .tV 1 1 . . . . . W . M Ml. . . small nations ma acspcnw iw ef the westward march of com munism, and were- ruthless in their- hostility to soviet Russia. The latter , was equally stern in Insulating itself against any com munication -with the west, an iso lationism which not even the ne cessities of war alliances have done much to mitigate. Russia now reverses the doctrine and in sists that governments of its bor der nations to the west look to ward Moscow, if not with friendly eyes " at least .without L poison in their hearts. Russia's purpose is. to make of these nations a protec tive moat rather than an approach in potentially hostile hands. It is not that Russia fears these small nations themselves,"1 but it fears their being used as catspaws by a resurgent Germany. This attitude on Russia's part is no more astonishing than our own attitude toward the new gov ernment of ..Bolivia, or what it would be toward a coup in Mexico or Colombia unfriendly to the United States and endangering the Panama canal. " The stretch of Europe from the Baltic to the Black and Aegean seas., from Finland to Bulgaria, is what I call the fault-block of Eu rope. It is not a geological fault block, but an ethnographic, econ omic and political fault-block. To the west is Europe, highly organ ized politically and indus- (Con tinued on Editorial Page) Report Finns, Russians Talk at ;aiV ? M. VJL aAA3 Hitler Is Urged To Evacuate Northern Finland By ROBERT STURDEVANT- STOCKHOLM, Feb. 15.-0P-Di rect peace negotiations between Finland and Russia appeared to be underway tonight and Col. Gen Eduard DictI was reported to have urged flitter to order evacution of his troops in northern Finland. ' A ' German source said there were indications that a number of transport officers, essential for a large-scale movement, had been assigned to DieU's command. Col. Gen: Hans Juergen Stumpff of the air force has virtually abandoned ' his' Finnish headquarters in ;favor of .Oslo,1 Norway, t was said. : He ' also' was said to have ordered the withdrawal of fighters and bomb ers from the RovanJemi and Kemi airfields to southern Norway, r- The Finnish legation 'here idis- elosed that Juhu Kusti Paasikivi, former Finnish cabinet minister, had " conferred - with, the Russian minister to Sweden, Mme. Alex andra Kollontay, and expects . to meet her again. : Whether this meeting resulted In any formula whereby Finland could quit the war was not dis- closed.' Madame Kollontay return ed to Stockholm today after .spend ing several cays ixi w uuujuij tr- A Helsinki dispatch, quoting an there had been no advance in the peece crisis in the last 24 hours. - Whatever status Finland ; hopes for in peace, there are a number of snags in that direction the principal one the presence of sev : . (Turn to Page 2 Story H) - Stettiniua Mentioned For Vice Presidency rs By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -VF) Talk of a business man for the democratic : vice presidential nomination was relayed to Pre sident Roosevelt at a news confer ence today, but the chief executive aid he had never heard of It Such talk has been prevalent here for : several' weeks, -'i ',:.: AV: c " Edward R. Stettinius, jr, 43-year-old under secretary of state, former . lend-lease administrator and former chairman of the board of the . US Steel corporation, is a name frequently heard in this new manihfinn avm1 onrwf rt1ar run the democratic ticket. Qotliing Price Same WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.HiT Jletail prices of women's and chil dren's outer - wear garments this spring will be held at the same levls as last spring, the office of price administration announced to- 01 m peace wim luuancu iqui we are teeing the "cordon sanitaire" , theory working in reverse. This theory was that the small nations -of central Europe could through the alliance with France be a cor-? don around , Germany; also that . they, would be a "cordon sani taire," politically speaking, against - communist Russia. In fact this lat ter idea became dominant in Eu rope between the wars. These YEAH rce .Berlin IIDIETY-TI Fo i Flinch, German, Danish . ; Radios Silent iis: Fleet ; Heads Over : Continent LONDON, Wednesday Feb.J 16-(AP)A great force pf RAF bombers hammered Berlin last night, the British announced today, in their first major night operation since the January 30 assault on the German capital. p- M It was the 15th great assault upon Berlin since the RAF launched its obliteration campaign against the city last November 18. Some indication of the weight of the raid was giv en by British coastal observers, whoreported that great forces of bombers had been heard thundering over the channel at dusk last night. East coast residents said theO roar of the engines of the bomber fleet was incessant for more than an hour as the planes headed to ward the sea. - A hint that American air forces were participating was contained in a dispatch from Stockholm which said that, a United States bomber had jcrashedjnear :"Faa brg, Denmark, during a night air raid alert . Radio stations in France, Ger many and Denmark fell silent and alerts were reported in western Switzerland. An all-out assault was made on the French invasion coast during the day by allied planes of many types.4 Two medium bombers and four fighters were lost, The bombardment of Pas-de-Calais and its environs was be gun by formations of American Liberator bombers and Thunder bolt .fighter-bombers which navi gated over vast areas of flak with out a single loss. ."Neither i the heavy ' bombers (Liberators), which were escort ed by RAF- and iRCAF Spitfires, nor i the Thunderbolts encountered enemy air " opposition,'' a :j Joint communique by the US air (arm and the British ministry said to night . a "Other military -:i objectives - in northern France were subjected to a series of - attacks throughout to day by US army air force B-26 Marauders, RAF and allied. Mitch ells and Bostons, RAAF 'Mosqui tos and RAF Typhoons. I r.l V'" "Escort cover and support for these' attacks were provided . by RAF, dominion and allied fighters while other RAF fighters patrolled over northern France," the an nouncement added. ; . j 4 ,': ' Tonight the German! domestic long-wave radio station in . the Berlin' area and the nazi-controjled Danish network left the air, indi- i f (Turn to Page 2-Story B) " : 1 Boativright pUclaims Tliat He Expired in Knoxville ; Otis EL Boatwright, plumbing contractor of Salem whose I death in Knoxville, Iowa, was reported here late in January, walked into The Statesman office on Tuesday to prove that it ' wasn't so. Unlike Irvin S. Cobb, he didn't even left-handedly mention Mark Twain. Put his story is s unusual that there is no,! need for that trite embellishment ' v i ? - Boatwright was working In-Knoxville, Iowa, having gone - there last May; His daughter in Salem, Mrs. Sheila F. Huskey, . : . received a telegram from that city, signed by a total stranger,; - which said: . - v v. "Your father expired today." . - v, . -, " -. " ; ; i. ' The message may have come from malicious source but ? there is another plausible though odd explanation. , , ; i I . Boatwright recalls that at about that time, while he was sit ting in a hotel lobby, a stranger came tip and asked for a piece of - paper. Boatwright had none handy except a letter from bis daugh- ter; be tore off the portion of the letter on which was written her l -name and address and handed It to tfee man, - Possibility was seen that the stranger was in a hurry to send ; someone a telegram conveying news . of the recipient's father's I death, and wrote either the message or the address on that piece ; of paper; that In some manner at tne paper was the one to which the message was sent , " ' Since' the message mentioned no name and since Mrs. Hus-J key knew her father was in Knoxville, the message was taken at face value. Mrs. Huskey notified The Statesman, giving some; facts of Boatwright's life, and the 'story cf his death appeared in this newspaper January 29. That the correction was not made sooner is due to the fact that Mrs.IIuskey left Salem before' learning the truth. . t , ' At any -rate, O. E. Boatwright is alive and in good health. "I wasn't even side, he declares. "I was working six daysi a week and didnt miss a day." , v ; , r, 10 PAGES u wj am McCornack Gets Legion Of Merit SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 15-UFi CoL ' CoadSSS- aj McCfornacs? .oi Eugene, Ore., who served as sur geon then as deputy chief of staff of the Western defense command, was awarded the legion of merit upon his retirement today. Col.7 McCornack began his mili tary career by volunteering for uthe Second Oregon infantry and saw action in the Philippines, in surrection during the Spanish American war. ' ; , He Iserved as sturgeon of the Western defense command and Fourth army from November 12. 1940, to January 26, 1943, and as deputy chief of staff from Jan uary 27, 1943, to September 14 1943. r IV; The award was granted "for the soundest military; judgment, tact and resourcefulness in . the plan ning and coordinating of many de tails incident to two major task forces which routed the enemy, in the Aleutians.' . j 1 Canada, US Fur Agreement Signed 4- WASHINGTON, Feb. lS.-VPy- CongrCssional action was comple ted by the senate' today on legis lation (HR 2324) to give effect to the fur seal agreement of 1942 be tween the United States and Can ada for the- purpose of protecting the fur seals of Pribilof islands. " TheJPribilof islands have been unprotected on the high seas since the abrogation, by Japan on Octo ber 23, 1940, of the fur seal con vention concluded by the United States Great Britain. Russia and Japan on July 7, 1911. . , any fate, the address already oni Bomber Maids As: Sal am. Orcgoxu Viacs4ay J-Icmln rbrocay 18. 1944 DnrDDtf ! Mamies - Says fOver Top9 -1 E. C. SAMMONS omans 115 Millions - ' ft In War Bonds arion Tops Quota fin Series Sale By 8 Per Cent f . . : I ; X Oregon topped its fourth w loan bond quota by more than 19 1 per cent, Chairman E. C Sammons of the state war fin ance committee announced to th-jstate t Margefrom Sallys asf a ' feature of the Marion county victory rally in the high school auditorium, a highlight' of which was the first anniversary broadcast of the KOIN Million Dollar club. The state figure at 10 o'clock when the rally closed, with two hours yet to go, was $115,- 297,166.50. j , j ' A capacity audience hi the au ditorium and an overflow crowd in the high school 'gymnasium learned that Marion county also was ever the top, and ever the self - imposed five million dol lar goal set by i the county com mittee, with a total ef $5,315, 000 which was 127 per cent of the official quota. And Marlon connty in contrast to the state ; at large, ako was ever, the top in series E bond sales with a to-, tal of $1.724.000.. topping the qaota by t per cent. ' Messages of congratulation .to Oregon, .one of .20 states' to reach' Its" quota, by the deadline for the official campaign, come from Sec retary of "t the f Treasury Henry Morgenthau, jr., and other offi cials, and the Marion county 'com-' mittee headed by Jesse J. Gard, was " complimented on its ' double triumph by State Chairman Sam mons and Gov. Earl SnelL . . (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Nation Passea Bond Quota WASHINGTON, Feb. l$-Rr The $14,000,000,000 fourth; war loan" went over the top by: $191,- 000,000 tonight a few hours be fore the midnight deadline . for the campaign. . - . ' Although the drive . ended for "big money" participation, ..war bond purchases reported to fed eral reserve 1 hanks during the remainder, of the month will be counted toward the final total to be announced by .Treasury Sec retary. Morgenthau on March 2. - Tonight's ; treasury announce ment gave no breakdown between Individual and corporate r subi scriptions, but Individual pur chases yesterday still, were more than $1,800,000,000 short of their $3,500,000,000 quota, -r 3 f ; The treasury said it would con tinue to announce daily the indi vidual, purchase totals for the re mainder, of this month. , The' drive .opened officially January 18,. but all. war - bond sales for . both January - and Feb ruary will be counted. 7eatlier ' i . ' 5 I" Tuesday maxlaium temrera tore S3, minimcsi 2$. ,. Elver S feeti ; ' -t : t Cloudy T7edaesizy wli .few showers or ssowXrrirs co'rtb-. em part Thursilay fi!r east, eltidr west portion. lil"e change la ten; : retire. - - 'V'.-? V: Qjreg Buy Forces If Halsey Lands . Men on Corrals, ! Supply Base By Mnrlin Spencer I ; ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC, Wednes day, Feb. 16 (AP) Ame rican and New ! Zealand troops occupied the j an- gle-covered Green islands Monday, completing; the eampaign for the! Solomon islands, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur announced today. j : Japanese : forces e s t i- mated at 22,000 dispersed through the Solomons "are now isolated from their sources of supply at Rabaul (New Britain)," and face Starvation and disease "from the military blockade which renders their position hopeless, - MacAr thur said in a communique. I The allied troops from Adm, raiiasi Halsey'ac.soutli. Pacifip j command, met only machine, gun resistance as they landed, with air and naval surface craft protection, on the boomerang shaped coral Islands only. 120 miles east of. Ra baul, the enemy supply base which has been heavily hit by allied air craft, and 40 miles northwest of Buka island. , I With the northern end of the Solomons archipelago now in al lied hands, and the central and southern islands already firmly held, the only alternative other than death by starvation for the 22,000 Japanese, is surrender. I Allied forces holding the Green isianas, aiso cauea nissan, can stop the Japanese , from ; running supplies by sea to their isolated comrades who still cling to air and sea-battered points ' on : ChoiseuL (Turn to Page 2 Story D) orts : By JOHN" 20. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, -Feb.' 15 -UP) Official American . support of policy. of international free press was disclosed today with belated publication of a letter written by Secretary, of State Hull which de cried political censorship. : . Hull noted that the axis might be able; to make propaganda of criticism of one ally in the press of another, and he also declared that such criticism might have an irritating j effect in the - country criticized. But, he said, the long range interests of good interna tional relations are best served by a free exchange of. information between friendly nations. It was understood that both Foreign Minister - Anthony Eden of Great Britain and Byron Price, American, director' of censorship, subscribed to the secretary's views, which were expressed on the spe cific issue of political' censorship between the United States and Great' Britain.- . i-rf y-h Flax Producers ,5 To Organize ; Fori Postwar Deals The idea of a central organiza tion to deal with such postwar problems as grading of fibre and the marketing ,ol : flax,- products now destined almost entirely for war uses wa approved when rep resentatives of the industry met with, thee state flax board, here Tuesday afternoon.: - Dr. D. D. Hill, Oregon State col lege, chairman of the board; was authorized to appoint a commit tee to work on organization plans and to call another meeting, Thirteen cf tl.e 14 plants oper atic ; la the YTiUKsette valley were represented at the session, held in chamber of commerce rooms. . UPP Awarded DFC hi , 4 S VI i MaJ. Richard M. Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester, C. Baker of Salem, has been j awarded the distinguished flying cross. MaJ. Baker has returned recently to the United States after many months ef combat in the south Pacific, where he commanded a marine fighter Mvadroa which made a distinguished name for itself. ' Allies Forge New Blockades, Knox Reveals French' Coast Sealed; Pacific Ports Surrounded ' ; L . By TOM REEDY WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -A! The sea-wise allies have forged new blockades in Europe and Asia and there are increasing signs that the axis is starting to wince. Navy Secretary Knox told to day how the British navy has roped off the Bay of Biscay as for bidden to axis shipping. This seals off! the coast of France. London went! even further in its disclo sure i the admiralty announcing that a 7000 - square mile , area skirting both French and Spanish coasts now is "dangerous to ship ping." That l means mines, anywhere- from Cape Finisterre, Spain's westernmost point on the shoulder north of Portugal to Ire land. ' --..:- x , . .. An all-out. blockade of Europe's west coast chops directly at any sea-going aid the Japanese 'can give Germany. The nazis showed recently how ' important- Japan's raw materials were to them, gam bling with as many as a half doz en destroyers in an effort to bring one cargo ship through the Bay of Biscay. It failed!. Three more load ed with vital tin and rubber were sent to the bottom in the Atlantic not long ago.--; - f ;:f--";V?r.v Secretary Knox said flatly, al so, that there has been consider- (Turn to Page 2 Story C) ; - i H 'A Si ' P-47 Thunderbolt, Yanks' Ugly PucMing,Top Pursuit Job 'By WES GALLAGHER LONDON, Feb. 15 -V The ugly; duckling is, quite a war-bird in the skies over Europe now. The, P-47 Thunderbolt that ungainly child of American ; en gineering genius once criticized as too fat,' too heavy and too much for one man to handle ' today challenges the Spitfire for the ti tle of pursuit queen of the skies.' Their , tails used' to come 1 off during test flights; but since going into action in Europe, they've shot the tails : off ; C57 nazi planes against a loss of 18 8 to '.compile one ; Of the most remarkable air records of the war. ; During the past six weeks. starting with January 1, Thunder bolts have been, fighting hundreds of miles from home bases over unfriendly territory, and have shot down 223 German planes for a loss of 43 American craft. Not since the Cattle of Britain has such a lopsided sky score been compiled. ? ;. ? f . " .' - ; j ; - . ; ; : It Is all the more remarkable, because during the, Battle of Eriti, aln, the victories were scored ai-gely afainst poorly defended bcrr.bers by Caters often wilhia sliht of their own bases. The Thunderbolt victories have been No. 279 irDQiaa V Press Geiroans In 5 Sectors; End Nearing ; By TOM YARBROUGH LONDON, Wednesday, Feb. 16 -(JPh- jiThe Russians in the north,' moving down along two railroads and a highway, have hammered the Germans far- V-t- 1 i T communications center of Pskov, bombing land shelling the nazi retreat lines choked with trucks, carts and f infantry, . Moscow an nounces xoaay. : c The Russians .were pressing the Germans in five other sectors of the eastern front as well and were making gains so consistently they seemed to have an excellent chance of throwing the nazir completely out of Russia in the remaining five weeks of winter.- - ... Far south in the Ukraine the Russians Were closing in for the kill on an estimated 50,000 Ger- man survivors of a force of per - haps 100,000 trapped by the red army. The MoswJirodcast mid - night bulletin said 1800 more Ger- mans were killed, 80 of their tanks wrecked and as many, as seven re peated German ' attacks to break the . encircling- ring from outside were beaten back. Leningrad front troops striking oo :om- down from Luga, killed over Germans ;iand captured 40 com muni ties fn one part of the drive for Pskovj One force reached the rail station of Serebyanka and a mile further the. town of Kalbu titsy, 16 miles south of Luga and 75 miles northeast of Pskov. Fur ther east Ion the highway Gorod- ets, 15 miles south of Luga, was captured.?!"; ; :- West of this ' area "other Rus sian forces pushed down the Nar- (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Hershey Says 18-45 Men Obliged to Serve GLEN RIDGE, NJ, Feb. M.-flP)- Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service director, tonight declared participation in military service was the "Basic obligation of every man 18 through 45 years of age."! v-;;. He said, the armed forces would need 100,000 new men by July 1 and added. the quota would be tuiea. Kecruiu wouia - De arawn. said Hershey, from L the ranks of youths reaching 18, from men re leased from vital war industries. and from among p re-Pearl Harbor fathers. ,j - . ii. scored almost . exclusively against I German fighters attacking bomb- j er formations deep, in Germany. Two years ago, American, fight er planes were the most contro versial weapons of the war. The now-obsolescent P-40s .and the Alracobraa failed : to impress as pursuit - craft. ' T h e n came the American Lightnings and ' Mus tangs. " Finally, the ?; Thunderbolt arrived, and she has compiled the best fighter record of the group. . The long-range American fight ers have changed the entire con cept of air war. Previously, pur- j suit snips were locked upon primarily a defensive weapon. But the range of the; American Thun derbolts Lightnings K and Mus tangs have carried the war to the enemy and made them offensive ! weaponV-''4. Engineers at - first thought ; It! was impossible to build the ma-1 neuverability . and. speed required ! into a long-racse pursuit ship, but the necessity , for crovidinz lon2 range escorts for bombers forced J the attempt to be made with Lightnings - and Thunderbolts. - It was successful, a ' ? , The Thunderbolts, designed fcr high altitude work, are equipped (Turn to Tzz 2 Eiory F) Prlc Se jmah Pskov 300 Nazi SoldicrD Smoked Out On Mt. Cassino " ! liy oeorgfi mcuer QAP) American b o m x- ers blasted German troops from the ancient Denedio tine monastery - a top Jit. r!naatnrk flrwlitv jttid nttsrip the Tiburiina and Ostiensa railway yards ; of Rome In two operations with the single aim" of speeding the fifth army's push north. Aerial explosives and incendiaries and : artillery shells turned! the Mt. Cassino monastery into a . smoke-shrouded inferno and about 300 German soldiers were sent racing like rats from the stronghold they had fortified to obstruct an allied drive for the relief pf the Anzio bridgehead. Fifty A-36 Invaders dive-bomb ed the .Rome railway yards and left them burning and covered with smoke, US 12th air force i headquarters announced. All the RomejraWers returned safely. Other Invaders bombed af Ger man truck concentration and two nazi command posts near the An zio bridgehead and traffic on the Rome-Cassino road, behind the Fifth j army's main front Three planes were lost on these missions.' Some 250 - heavy -and medium bombers were employed to knock out the ML Cassino stronghold. " Waves of four - engined Flying Fortresses first blasted the closely knit group of buildings atop the 1800-foot peak . with tons of ex- J plosives, and as the 'smoke from this bombardment billowed sky- .fward big guns, from . the valley I below v sent hundreds of ' shells (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Blood Tests Clear Chaplin j . i . J. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15 -(P) Attorneys for Charles Chaplin and Miss ; Joan Berry announced to night! that blood tests had re vealed the 54-year-old movie pro ducer was not the father of the four months old baby of his 23- year-old former protege. The attorneys, Lloyd Wright, representing the British-born pro ducer-actor, and John Irwin, at torney for Miss Berry, said A". blood tests had been completed to- - day by three physicians. - - They were listed as Dr. Roy 1 Hammack, representing Miss Ber ry; Dr. V. L. Andrews, represent ing Chaplin, and Dr. - Newton Evans, a neutral physician in the case.:) .'1 :" -.' ; Chaplin was: indicted last Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges of violating the Mann act by allegedly transporting Miss Berry, to New; York and return for immoral purposes. j The grand " jury also indicted I Chaplin and six other persons oaf charges -of conspiring to deprive j Miss Berry of her civil rights by. allegedly forcing her to leave sub urban Beverly Hills, where Chap lin's home is located. pners Due Oil Grinsliolni 4 I T Ai3IUiU tun, CO. 13Ui ) The j Swedish f motorship Grips holm sailed to d a y from New York with several hundred axis , , diplomats, German nationals . and prisoners of war who will be ex changed at Lisbon for similar groups of Americans.: The state department announc ing tonight the Gripsholm's de parture, disclosed for the first time that founded and sick. American soldiers now! held pris oner in Germany vCl -be included In the exchange. -v Previously it had been an nounced that the ex char; wcu!i involve American d.';l:a'Jc tr. 1 consular officers, relief wcibers and. news? c per ccrrerpcnc enta seized,-by the Gemaxs r-ovir. Into' the .former ur-occui.i zor.s of France'. .'. ; Names of those belr.s rtratriat- ed will be announced later, tha department' said. t SSC!lXHail; HcCOTCrcd WASIirrGTC, Feb. 15H) Rep. Lowell I'.'.r, i i:-ure;, wt? t-tsrei the caysl hcEpt;! 1 days .; j for a r::s crcri-.u.., i--turrri to his tlllce t .'j. -