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4. tarns - ,' 7'7. I ' " ' - 77 Is, there any relation between events in Italy and the sudden or der to overhaul deferments under elective service? There may be. If to, it is probably not the losses round Cassino and Anzio which re so serious as the experience in the Italian campaign which may be regarded as a forerunner to what will happen when the west em front is opened. That is, the perimeter of the German defenses will be broken and advances made toward Berlin only by over whelming force skilfully . u led, with Jan abundance of reserves. May it not be that the experience in ItalyJ justifies the selective service administration to push for the expansion of the armed forces tip to the .original limits, which would mean first to overcome the present deficiency of 200.000 in the schedule of inductions? a Whatever the reason it is evi dent there is firm purpose behind the statements of General Hersh- ey as to military needs. The pres ident himself has issued an order directing the review of all occu pational deferments. In particular all men in the ages below 26 will be Inducted, where physically fit. '. The review will extend however . to all men in.fthe ages of . 18 to 37 tiow listed in classes 2-A, 2-B, 2-C and 3-C Already there has begun reclassification into 1-A of many agricultural workers who have '. previously enjoyed deferment for ' occupational reasons." Farm work ers represented the largest group. cn a percentage basis, of men giv en occupational deferments, i This, may mean real manpower shortages. But as time goes on it may mean more of a transfer of ' workers as continued shrinkage in less essential industrial lines oc curs, more women are employed. . and as men discharged from the military service become available for reemployment For the nation as a whole the manpower short i ' age may not be as acute this year as it has been because of the slackening of .-war -construction i nd the completion of our adjust- ment to a war economy. But the new "orders from the president ' and the head of the selective serv t . ice system mean that the de I mands of the military for man ' power are going to be satisfied even if that means a further cur : tailment of civilian activities. But If that is what is needed to do up '. the. job in the shortest time, then , we must accept it and do the best - we can with -what is left befetnd. - Name Sprague : , New President Of War Chest i , Charles A. Sprague, Statesman ? publisher and former governor f Oregon, was elected president of the " Oregon War Chest, " at the '- annual meeting of the directors 1 "held In the capitol here yesterday. ? Other officers are Frank J. f Lonergan, Portland, first vice i president; O. A. Houghlum, Eu - gene, second vice president; Burt K. Snyder, Lakeview, third vice president; Mrs. Marguerite Stas--ek, ' Tillamook, secretary, and Jesse Gard, Salem, treasurer. The financial report showed J that contributions and pledges to . the recent War Chest campaign ' aggregated $1,305,417, against . state quota of $1,341,100. The . deficit amounts to $36,682. Of this amqunt, Multnomah county ; has ' agreed . to contribute $5000, while ! over-quota counties, will . be asked to make up the differ , ence so that the full quota ob it ligation to the national war fund ;and seven state-aided child i car ing agencies will be met. : Twenty-nine counties exceeded t their quotas by a total of $78,050. Irl - McSherry, Salem, executive (Turn to Page 2 Story D) 1-:::':t;l7-,':::i.7:.7-i Argentina Says ; ForeignoKy ' Not to Change : v BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 28.-JPr . Acting Foreign .Minister Diego iJtlason declared today there would . be no change" in Argentina's for eign policy during the regime of ' Acting President Edelmiro J. Far 1 rell. . Mason issued a press statement I shortly after CoL Juan D. Peron has been sworn in as acting min s ister of war, by Farrell in cere i mcaiies attended by cabinet mem ! biers and Giacomo Luigi Cardinal t Copello, archbishop of Buenos Aires.' , -7- ;'7 '7 i (Peron, known as the "power ; behind the throne, was leader of f the 'Colonels' group credited with' the coup d'etat last Friday in -which President Pedro Ramirez delegated his powers to Farrell.) Mason declared the "Argentine government intends : to continue aa always with hteir foreign pol icy, which tends toward strict ob servance of its pledges related to continental security, s o 1 1 d a rity . end defense, and to give practi cal effect" toward these goSIs. ' The Ramirez government broke j eff Arsentine relations with the I oLBtrLaa . ! - . v ' .r -,' , inifrrY-THIHD YEAR Mi Eiineral State Capitol To Be Scene For Services Funeral services for Senator Charles L. McNary,- who ..died recently at ; Fort Lauderdale, Fla., following a brain opera tion, will be held in the house of representatives in the state capitol here Friday at 2 p. m., instead of Thursday afternoon, as announced by members of the family Sunday, -Change in the funeral plans fol lowed receipt of word from J. Mark .Trice, Washington, DC, sen ate deputy sergeant-at-arms, yes terday that the congressional dele gation is making the trip to Ore- eon by train and cannot arrive here until Friday. Members of the delegation, including 14 senators and seven representatives, prev iously had intended to make the journey by plane. This would have made it possible for them to reach Salem Thursday. The 1 congressional delegation la scheduled te arrive la Salem bef ere neon Friday. A grasp mt state officials, headed by Gover nor Earl Snell, probably will meet the delegation in Portland. : Senator.- McNary's body, accom panied by Mrs. McNary, her adopt ed daughter, Charlotte, 8, and Mrs. McNary's sister. Miss Mary Louise Morton, will arrive in Portland Wednesday moi?nuiig-,The casket will be brought from Portland to Salem by the W, T. Rigdon com pany,' local funeral directors, un der state police escort. . - Bishop Bruce R. Baxter of the Methodist church, formerly presi dent of Willamette university, will officiate at the services. Senator McNary and Bishop Baxter had been close personal friends for many. years. , . The house of representatives, in cluding the balconies, will seat ap proximately , 500" ' persons, while several hundred additional persons will be provided with seats in the capitol corridors. Amplifiers will be installed in the corridors for the benefit of persons who are (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Snell Silent On Successor To McNary Gov. Earl Snell, upon his re-1 turn , here . late Monday from Portland, refused to make any statement in connection with the appointment of a United States senator to succeed Charles L. Mc Nary,' who died recently in Flori da. It is no secret here that a large number;; of. telegrams, telephone calls and letters were received at the executive department over the weekend suggesting the names of various persons for the appoint? ment. Governor, Snell was not ex pected to announce the -appointment : until, after the funeral ser vices f for Senator , McNary here Friday afternoon.' An' attache of the ' governor's office said that, out of 12 letters received in one mail - the names of 11 different persons were sug gested for the office. The appoin tee will serve only, until the No vember election when a senator will be elected to serve the re maining four years of McNary's term.; ,-7-.7r,'7: 7 This will be the first time in the history of Oregon that the two senatorial offices have teen filled at the same time.; :7r :V7 If Gov. Snell Is a candidate for the office at the primary election he probably " will appoint a man who has no desire of serving as senator beyond the November election. Gen. Roosevelt Takes New Post NEW YORK, Feb. 28-i-Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt has. left his position as liaison officer with French forces fighting in Italy to "take over an important post ' m Great Britain," the Brazzaville ra dio said in a broadcast : recorded by CBS tonight. The nature of his sew duties was not announced. , ' " V'; ' " . - - , cNary Friday PAGES- Jap Freighter Strafed Off Marslialls jr.,. t-m- r im"'" M - 7 - - - 7 I" - ' Hace geysers spent abeat a Japanese freighter In a dramatic strafing atavy carrier-based planes mopped ap shipping about the J&Imit atoU, AJP Wlreplioto from US sutvy Bo Ha rii rii er 200 Planes Join Assault on Jap Pacific Base : 7 ' By ROBERT EUNSON ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Tues day,; ' Feb. 29-(P-Army and navy ;, bombers' and fighters frona - Solomdn islands airfields hit the. Japanese-- base at .Ra baul, New Britain, Saturday with 1647 tons off explosives, Gen. ; Douglas - MacArthur an nounced today. It was the sev enth consecutive allied raid draw- ing no enemy aerial interception, but one attacking plane was lost to antiaircraft fire. More than 200 planes joined' in hammering the most-bombeden-emy strongpoint in the south Pa cific, striking especially at Vuna pope airdrome, the harbor area. There 14 barges and four jetties were destroyed or damaged and several houses and other build ings were flattened. It was the 12th straight day of pommeling given the one time heavily defended enemy base by planes from Adm. Wil liam F. Halsey's command. MacArthur's communique told of intense allied aerial activity against ' Japanese bases, including the Admiralty : islands where 36 tons of explosives were dropped on supply and bivouac areas j at Lorengau township and Momote airdrome. ' ' ' - . 7 , ; Liberator heavy bombers, dive bombers and attack planes pound ed the enemy's important ; troop. air and supply centers of Wewak and Madang on the northeastern New Guinea coast. . ; But and Dagua air fields In the Wewak area caught' 80 tons of bombs which started large fires and destroyed five parked planes. Tadji airdrome at Aitape, to the west, was. hit with 73 tonsv dam num to Page 2 Story B) j. 4 WillameUe Robert Keniien Bombs Reich, Back in Salem PORTLAND, 1 Feb. 28- -A Salem youth came home from 25 bombing missions oyer Germany to declare today that 13 . was his favorite number. ' '.- Tech. Sgt. f Robert S. Kennen, who left Salem high school be fore graduation to join the air force shortly after Pearl Harbor, explained that his squadron num ber ended in 13, his Flying: Fort ress occupied parking area 13, and he slept in bed 13 in" barracks 13. Moreover, it took him 13 days by ship to land in America on February 13. Kennen, now visit ing his parents here, won the dis tinguished ' flying ' cross and the air medal with three oak leaf clusters. The radio operator-gunner, said he was wounded in the arm by nazi flak over Kiel December 13 but it could have been worse. mbers Rabaul Sedan. Oregon. Tuesday Morning, February 23. 1944 :.:.;:;'.:.---c5x; i7:jA:'...."" it TJS Bombers Make 18th - w .. '7 Raid in Month By AUSTIN BEALMEAR LONDON,1 Feb. 2Hff)-Heavy bombers . of the United States eighth air -force spear-headed -a series of daylight assaults on en emy installations in northern France today, raising to 18 their record total of operations during February six more thaft in any other month. Working as four separate teams, two formations of Flying Fortress es and one each of Liberators and medium - B-28 ; Marauders were virtually unmolested as they struck at '. different placet along one of the world s mostkpomD Nattered - strips - the. ccrt. a France. ' RAF medium ' bombers joined in the day's widespread blows (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Moscow Claims 195,000 Kiev Citizens Slain LONDON, Feb. 28 -i&r- More than 195,000 soviet citizens were "tortured to death, "shot, or poison ed in murder vans' by the Ger mans during the occupation of Kiev, a commission investigating destruction of the ancient city said tonight in a report broadcast from Moscow. The account held Erich Koch, German commissioner for the Ukraine, Field Marshal Gen. Fritz Erich von Mannstein, and other nazi officers "responsible for bes tial crimes perpetrated against the soviet people. - Before evacuating Kiev the Ger mans demolished the whole center of the city and - destroyed 1742 communal dwellings and 3600 pri vately owned houses, the Moscow radio said tonight in announcing the report of a commission of in quiry. .' -- The broadcast report, recorded by the soviet monitor, said hund reds of thousands of citizens were transported to Germany, -. along with factory equipment. .Nearly a thousand state Institutions were destroyed - and t 200,000 - persons were-made . homeless, it said.. '. Valley Men Hugh.Scott Tells of Anzio .Terming the 3rd division, orig inally composed of Oregon and Washington , men, "the .e hardest fighting division ; that has ever been, Maj. Hugh A. Scott, former employe in the office of the Ore gon .secretary of state , in Salem, discussed the action of the divi sion on the Anzio beachhead Mon day with an Associated Press cor respondent. :V7 7-: 7 ' Scptt,. whose wife the former Erma Weisser, continues to make her home in Salem while ha hus band is seeing action in the Med iterranean theatre of war, is the son of the Quincy Scotts of Port land. ;7--0 7 ,7 '- 1 The 3rd - division, which was stationed first at Fort Lewis and later at Fort Ord, Calit, has been in the thick of action In Morocco, Sicily, ' Salerno, across the Vol turno, at llinano and Mt. - Ro tondo before arriving on the An zio beachhead. . ' ' T, i v.' , - - . - - 1 i. . y . V. JfsM Jl -N. II I I 1 .1 i I I I I II f- III I I I I III I I I PCUNDDO J651 attack eff the Marshslls where US A i 1 1 wr lilies w in Victory IriBurn la Japa Lose 8000 In TWo Weeks Of Jungle Fight By the Associated Press NEW DELHI, INDIA, Feb. 28 The allies have scored their first major victory; in . Burma with the destruction of a task forcj?jof 8000 Japanese jjn two weeks of confused fighting in the dusty choking jungles , of LArakan north pf Akyab, 7 the southeast Asia command an nounced tonight. The Japanese "gradually1 were driven back, hemmed in, split up, hunted and killed. Most, with their accustomed tenacity, fought to the death. Some battered and wounded escaped through : the jungle : to the south. A few sur rendered.". A special summary thus pic tured the end of an ambitious drive by the force of approxi mately 8000 Japanese, who set out to isolate and destroy , two Indian divisions, the fifth and seventh, (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Postwar Planning Session Here Sunday A portion of the Institute on Postwar Planning for Internation al Peace, in Portland, March 6 and 7, under auspices of. the United Nations assoclatio n," will be brought to Salem Sunday after noon with Salem branch: of the American Association of . Univer sity Women as sponsors. . v Dr. ,E- Guy Talbott, editor of the San Francisco Argonaut, world traveler, will speak on "America's State in the Postwar World and C Langdon White, professor . of geography, Stanford ' university's school of humanities, " will speak on . La tin-American Relations." The program is - scheduled 'for 3:30 p. m. at Waller halL Make News on War Fronts Lowell Eddy Gains Fame With Plasma Capt Lowell Ladd Eddy, who came from Independence to Sa lem to attend Willamette univer sity from which he was graduated in 1S3S, this week gained nation al prominence for his4 foresight as a " flight surgeon in the south Pacific. y ;.- .The young physician had in sisted on crews -, taking - along blood plasma and ' had taught them how to use "it, reports Time magazine's medicine department editor in the dramatic "story of how the life of a young bombardier-navigator of an army B-25 plane was saved because a plasma transfusion was administered by fellow crew, members inr midair. ; At Willamette, , Eddy was stu dent yell leader; active in student publications work and was con sidered an excellent and popular student. . . 7 . . JO II EH British Capture 2rPoints Tommies Take Over Offensive ; In Anzio Sector By KENNETH L. DDCON ; ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES," Feb. ' 28-()-British troops, going over to the of fensive, on the Anzio beach head, have stormed and cap tured two nazi n strongpoints southwest ' of the German-held village of Carroceto after two days of sharp : fighting, the al lies announced today. The scene of the British at tack, which broke a week of com parative quiet on the beachhead front, is near the headwaters of the Moletta river, a little stream that originates about a mile and a half southwest of Carroceto and runs almost ' due west to empty into the sea 11 miles up the coast from Anzio. - ' (The German high command communique, eiving; its version of what apparently was the same en gagement, said that about two battalions of allied troop were wiped out after they had been en circled near Buon RIposo, a ham let situated on the Moletta river approximately a mile and a halt southwest of Carroceto and a mile west of the Carroceto-Anzio highway.- The German bulletin claimed 830 allied prisoners in the fight Such an encirclement of al lied forces was claimed repeated ly by the enemy - last, week -"but never" confirmed . by allied sour ces.) . - . , ' Artillery duelling rose to a new Intensity- en the beach head, with bath aides harling thousands af shells. American guns frustrated several enemy attempts to infiltrate throurh lines seath af Carroceto. Continued .adverse weather lim ited the number of allied air sor ties to about 400, while the Ger mans flew some 20 sorties over the ' beachhead. : One nazi fighter was shot down and . two allied planes were missing. An American cruiser joined the big gun duel on the beachhead. swinging' in close to shore and blasting away at enemy emplace ments in the nearby hills. Ground fighting on both the main Fifth and Eighth army fronts again was limited to patrol ac tion. ... - -v Douglas County Court Urges Cordon for Senate ROSEBURG, Feb. 28-JPH3uy Cordon, Roseburg attorney - and legal advisor of the Association of Oregon Counties, was '- recom mended today by the Douglas county court to succeed the late Sen. Charles L. McNary. Urging other : county - courts to appeal to Gov. Earl Snell for Cordon's appointment, the Doug las court said. the Roseburg man's experience with :-. public timber lands would. ie valuable in the senate. 7 Cordon - has - been ' repre senting land grant counties - of Oregon and other western states in the national capital. ' 7 '. Leonard Davis Wins Medals WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-Cff-Staff Sgt Leonard D. Davis, who drove a vital army truck out of a blazing field of exploding am munition has received the silver star, the department, announced today. ' J The artillerymen, son of ' Mr, and Mrs. Paul Davis, Salem, Ore., was firing a' 135 mm. howitzer battery in the Sicilian campaign when German batteries scored di rect hits on! two four-ton ammu nition trucks. ;7 '7-7777, 7 The entire area roared with ex ploding" shell fragments and en emy bullets. Sgt. Davis leaped in a blazing communications truck, drove it out of the danger area and extinguished: the blaze,", the citation said. "His cool and daunt less courage under fire saved the truck with its vital signal equip ment.' . Prlc So El Helsinki Raids May Hold Up Finnish Peace STOCKHOLM, Tuesday. Feb. 2&-Py-The Russian air raids on Helsinki may have jeopardized peace negotiations between ' the soviet and Finland, . the Helsinki newspaper Social Demokratti in dicated today. A dispatch - quoting this news- paper, which represents Finance Minister Viang Tanner's strong democrat party, said the air at- I tacks ,were generally interpreted as a Russian effort to give impetus to the peace conversations. "Muitary. results are neglig ible, the newspaper asserted iln attacking Russia for the bomb- ins- The war cannot be won by - these - methods.' . The Demokratti declared, V. "if Russia thinks she can bomb Fin land out of the war, then - she must have an erroneous notion. Bulgaria May Follow Finns Toward Peace Br JUDSON O'OUINN - LONDON. Feb. 28 WPVr- Under nressure of soviet air mipht Fin- land appeared moving tonight to- ward an armistir with Rnia and this prospect that yet another ally would desert Hitler was re- ported to have caused disorders in satellite Bulgaria. . - . . ., . . Balgarta called more aoen U the Caira radU said, to steam spread ins clashes between pelke and particaa bands who were expected by the prospect at Jlanlsh-ftBsslaa rappreaeha- '. Germany, meantime, took pre cautions to meet Finninsh capitu lation and a war correspondent of the German news agency, DNB, said in a . Berlin broadcast after a - visit ' to . the Arctic coast that nazi troops in Finland and Norway were ready to meet any emerg encyeven an " allied landing. : A-Helsinki dispatch to Stock holm said Finland and Germany had signed a trade agreement for the coming year under which Ger- many would ' continue to provide foodstuffs to her northern aUy.7. Finland has depended largely on Germany for food, supplies five miles directly south of Pskov, throughout the war with Russia, Advancing; alanr the all-lm-and such an agreement would ap- . portant railways, the Russians pear to lessen the prospect for a Finnish-Russian armistice in the near future. (The London radio, in a broad cast quoting Stockholm reports, said the Finnish diet would con vene tomorrow and -a ; "govern ment statement about the Russian ment statement about the Russian armistice is expected., The broad- cast was recorded by CBS.) Firemen Fight WoolemMUl Blaze 3 Hours Fire in the flooring of the pick- ing house at the Thomas Kay Woolen mills on South 12th street kept city firemen at work more than three hours Monday night because of difficulty in reaching smoldering runners which lay just ; above Mill - creek ' and - jdst I beneath ; the heavy picking machine. " No estimate of monetary dam- I age was available at an early hour I this morning but costly delays were foretold since much of the floor must - be replaced . .and the machine reconditioned. " '. Second fire of the day involving little blaze but considerable prob lem, that at the woolen mills fol lowed by five hours one " at the John Carson residence. 785 South Commercial street, There, -coal dust either within or near, the I furnace was blamed for the only j flame involved. (Turn to Page 2 Story H. ) "... Tokyo Says Allied Planes Raid Taroa j NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-P)-The Tokyo radio said : today that .18 awAvi w et kj4 4a uivut muwiait axoa asaaaw mg. The broadcast." recorded by the! US Foreira Broadcast, InteHi-1 gence Service, claimed that two of j the att 'eking planes had been J damaseA and asserted that - "Ifo dama re was suffered by our uu-1 It- I roa island, part of Maloelap atoll, I man was suested today as in in the Marshalls Sunday morn- j teiim appointee for the senate va- Hon Jay ' maxhn&ra tem perature 55, minimum 35. " Precipitation a trace. River J ft, - Occasional raia la west ' and new flurries east por stea Tuesday and Wednes day. Colder northeast por- . tion Washington; little change la temperature. ; Ho. Germans Oil Last Defense :- Soviets Within : Six Miles of Baltic Bastion ' By Tom Yarbrougb: LONDON, Tuesday, Feb. 29 (AP)--The red army ,l,,wwl annou,,ccd at midnirrht 1 1 h a t its trip-hammer atl- vance upon ifskov had reached to within six miles of tliat railway bastion of the Baltic region which the nazis turned into a concen tration camp for German soldiers who mutinied on the Leningrad front in January. Three enemy divisions were routed by a Rus sian column advancing on Nov orzhev, 70 miles to the southeast. ' The German troops in the line struggled at bloody cost to retain t . ..... I ov, on wnicn much of their I Baltic, defense" is predicated, but I soviet communique broadcast tTOm Moscow told of the slaugh- wr Ol iW3 OermanS at One DOUlt, 500 l another, a battalion at stUl nothr nd id everywhere the nemy WM beu forced to sur- rcndfr- r r 1 or In .vast j iiuujuers, uae uemums were uo- ..., thr' The continuing: soviet offensive has gained up to 25 miles in a day's time, liberated 453 commun ities close around Pskov, and an other 200 t&ns In the, region near Novorzhev, the announcemnt said. The closest .. announced ap proach U Pskov came with the captare ef Toroshins, railway station six miles nartheast ef the city en the Logs line. Dae east, en the Staraya Sossa line, the Soviets were dclared to have taken the station ef Karamyshe ve. It miles frem Pskov. In taking Karamyshevo and the I nearby town of Slavkovichi the j Russians forded the defended river j Cherekha, the communique said. This ' stream meanders north and I northwest into the Velikaya river In passing took Molody on the northeastern Une and Lnnevo, Podsevye and Veshkl en the eastern Une, It was announced. Southeast of Pskov, in the drive (Turn to Page 2 Story E) . j T . Tp UOCtOrS V Q&T Lower Draft Standards "7 I By J. W. DAVIS WASHINGTON, Feb. 28-0PV-A White House commission of mili tary and civilian doctors asserted today - that military - physical standards must not be lowered. that to do so would cripple the march toward victory, finding up a study on the Question whether class 4-F con- tains . men who actually could aerve and thereby cut down the lather draft, the commission came up with this dual conclusion: ' The physical requirements cannot be redneed without Ira- Palrtnc the efficiency ef the servleea. 2. The manpower req aired for war "can not be obtained except by lndactlon - of men living with their families and reeeorse te all ether available soareesv But the doctors skimmed over lightly the "other availabe hit hard the idea sources" and that family men, sound in mind and body, are a prime source from which the - army and navy must (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Niel Allen Sufrrrested For Senate Vacancy GRANTS PASS. Feb. 23.'-AV Niel Allen, republican state chair- cancy - crested ty the death of Sen. Charles.L. McNary Josephine county civic . leaders telegraphed Governor Cnell, urn tog Alen s of the Grants I -rf head sell Alien would r ; : - tr.e t tion . race il ti;w..:. . zv. .1 slsw