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! , S I V i -J : -V. V i ,- V ' , I J. - .; l1 7erttBer f Wednesday maximum temperature 59, ! minimum 28. Southerly wind,' Partly cloudy. River at zero. - Rain west and snow over4 and east of Cascades; Thurs day and r r i d a y; little change in temperature. tKD COlO What has become of the prophets of famine of a year af o? On of them was: the, author farmer, ' Louis Bromfield, who wrote in Header's Digest a dole ful forecast of the short rations which were destined to be the lot of the American people the pres ent winter. Others, ; "congress men, publicists and some farm leaders, painted the same gloomy picture. They must be completely confounded with, the news that meat ration costs are to be re . duced again. Here we are in early March, the period of shortest current production ' of vegetable crops, the time when foodstuffs are usu ally most scarce. Yet the food conditions are definitely im proved over a year ago. Then in eastern cities potatoes could not be had for weeks by many con sumers! Now there are plenty of potatoes. Then meat markets were bare of supplies much of the time and butter hard to obtain. At present meat is in . such quantity that pork and beef ra tion costs art to be cut again this Sunday. Butter is still scarce at some points, and dairy pro ducts in general are .none too plentifuWbut babies ; are . not ' lacking milk. - Canned goods are in over-supply. ; In brief the prophets of famine have been proved wrong. The credit for the current "easy" sit uation in provisions is not due particularly to government agen cies, but to the response of the American people in producing food. ' This response was actu- ateAJjy 'different motives: first. desire of profit on the -part of . i commercial producers; j second, j patriotic impulse; third, fear.; Not - that Americans" really feared fctar- vation or anything near- it,1 but that they did fear ability to get a j good variety of foodstulfs at rea- sonable prices. This led to the ; -great victory garden activity of 1943. . What about 1944-45? , this is .the, time to plan production ? for . ,' (Continued on Editorial Page) Governors For State Ballols WASHINGTON, : March 1-(JP) A poll of governors indicated gen- eral approval today for . the fed-1 eral-state service men's v6te com promise, but the executives were practically unanimous in emphasis en the state ballots.. , With most of them, in fact, ap proval was based on the fact that : they believe state ballots can be made available. Some questioned whether they could approve the short form federal ballot which the "pending legislation - provides for use in event service men or women apply for but do not re ceive a state ballot by October 1. Under a change made in the measure today! by a senate-house committee hammering V it into shape for final action, the federal ' ballot could be used in any event only by service voters overseas on election day. Advocates of state ballots insisted on this ban against the federal ballot's use within the United States. : ' The . compromise, which is ex pected to come up for house and senate action next week, provides: 1, Use of a federal ballot for voters of states which have no absentee balloting machinery, if the governor certifies by August 1 that the federal form is accept - able. . . yV,,..- 2. Use of a federal ballot to supplement state absentee ballots If the governor certifies the fed- ' eral form is acceptable under state law. Service voters would have to ' (Turn to Page 2 Story oy ; Alpha Alderman Dies in Tillamook TILLAMOOK. Ore, March 1 CP)-Funeral services will be held a tomorrow for Mrs. Alpha Matilda Alderman, 75, a founder of the i Presbyterian church here? and member of the Tillamook County Pioneer association. She died Sun clay. . lied Cross For Goal With $8000 . More than' $8000 in p re-cam-paign subscriptions brought in by Rex Putnam's division, served to , start Marion county Red Cross war fund solicitors on the way to their $74,000 minimum goal, Wed nesday as the opening gun of the campaign was fired at breakfast at the Marion hotel. First definite reports will be issued Monday at a chamber of commerce luncheon which work ers will attend, Elton Thompson, drive chairman," said Wednesday night' However, it was . known - that E. Burr Miller's mercantile committee was "leading the way fcr the first day". - The US" National bank, of which Thompson Is an assistant manager, set the pace for .all ether firms of the county when Its employes subscribed 100 per HINETY-THIBD YEAR in ' rinr-Ayet Red teace De anas People Informed Britisn Approve Soviets Terms By ALEX H. SINGLETON LONDON, March i p (JP) -The Finnish j people were in formed in a Helsinki commun ique tonight of Russia's peaCe- now-or-else", , armistice' terms, - . j. I j - which were disclosed to have been indorsed by Britain. Hope persisted that the . litilo axis satellite . would accept the terms and get out of thejwar. j The Finnish radio outlined the six points of the Russian propos al, broadcast last night from Mos cow, and said the terms had been' transmitted to parliament. It was emphasized, however, that no ne gotiations were in progress, j The effect of a Russian- ln- nish peace on the other jtxis sat ellites Bulgaria Romania and Hantrary was not overlooked The Hungarian MTI ageney an nounced that Premier Nichotas 'on Kallay would discuss "in ternal and external matters of great importance" tomorrow before deputies in the Hungar ian parliament. i J -J - Authoritative London ij ?pokes men reported that the British gov eminent after consultations j re-j quired .by the Anglo-sof iet ; pact had agreed to the terms; submit ted by Moscow-io Finland,, terms described ; byl one inl orrrted r gov ernment -source as "modieratei.'' There was no positive iluebere; to Finland's reaction, but jthe at-j mosphere generally was optimis tic despite apprehensions express ed in dispatches from Stockholm some speculation developed on the possibility that Finland might offer counter-terms and jthat sh might ask for British-Americart guarantees.''; "V j 'Vs I, A Finnish legation source hj Stockholm said that Finland wa planning to ! send an arroistic commission to Moscow headed by (Turn to Page 2 Story D) GOPs Favor i Price Control v-' -v-v.- . v.- ij.-j WASHINGTON. March! lL(JPi The house republican leadership today advocated price control for at least another year. But the very announcement contained i ji broad hint of a ding-dong battle over the way it was, is and should be administered. : ' .. The price control act under which OPA operates expires June 30. r Rep. Martin (R-Mas.) mi nority floor leader, said uva statej ment that it should be renewed and congress - should take; up this problem right now. , Martin apparently expects a drawn-out fight for he H warned against delay. ;; ;- U . "We have had too 'much of the bureaucratic technique oCj waiting until the last minute and then forcing the acceptance of congress of necessary legislation hi a (form not desired," he asserted.- "There is no question; of the need of a price control act: With a scarcity of consumer goods, price control is absolutely necessary f we are w avuiu runaway, prices. Drive blarts cent to the fund before .Wednes day's noon whistles. -M ! - Marion county will raise 'more than $75,000 for the Red Cross war fund this year, Rev. W. Irvtn Williams predicted as , he deliv ered the keynote adres3 at Wednesday morning's I i kickoff breakfast 'i , 'V V ) ;'V H-, j ' To 100 workers gathered around the red spangled tables he handed on a new slogan for use as they press. forward jon j a money-canvass venture ("which we must complete." Jt,'; said Williams, the Red Cross I uses trie slogan "behind the mah j at the front," every worker miy; assure himself that the man: i at ' the front is behind The Red Cross.1 Urging every solicitoz to make of the task a very personal obli- (Turn to Page 2 Story A) 12 PAGES Km VI. German Bomb Kills Cerman p . V Aa 'allied truck, loaded with German prisoners, bams with its human bomb dorlnr. attack by enemy planes In Cerasnolo area f Italy. 'Allied; soldiers at left attempt to smother fire In clothing of soldier at their feet who was polled from track. (AP Wirephoto from US army signal corps) i ' Russ eal Off Nazis Reds Cut Escape RailFrom iNarva Estonian Fort ; T ' By TOM YARBROUGH LONDON, Thursday, - Marcrw 2-P)-Moscow announced Ho- day! that the red army in Eston ia ! had . punched - a bridgehead across the Narowa river south of , the German-held fortress of Ndrva and cut the only escape railway from the town : while farther south other soviet troops, oh the approacches. to Pskov, pfured 70 localities and cut the PskOv-Idritsa-Polotsk railway. ; In white- Bassla soviet t oreea were - reported ea , die move again near the long dormant front ef Vitebsk, capturing aaore I than St ; populated places . In clodiag Sknlovicbt, nine ' miles east of the German bastion. I The Moscow communique and its midnight supplement,, recorded by the soviet monitor from a broadcast said the Russians "sev eral days ago" crossed the Narova ong a 22-mile front land pene trated nine miles beyond. German resistance was powerful but sov iet infantry and artillery were de clared to have smashed through and ! reached he rail station of Auvere, cutting the railway be tween Narva and RevaL capital of : Estonia. t . j rThis placed the Russians ap proximately 15 miles inside Es tonia and left Narva virtually en circled. The nazis could still es cape by sea through the nearby Eulf pf Finland but highway estward was parallel i to the cut railway less than a mile north of (Turn to Page 2 Story H) piapliu Blood Test Disputed By JAMES LINDSLEY LOS ANGELES, March 1-4PV- After listening to hours of argu ments by counsel, Superior Judge Mosk took under submission to day a motion by Charlie Chaplin's lawyer to dismiss Joan Berry's paternity suit, against i the white haired little actor. Her attorney, the veteran"" Jos eph Scott, shouted that Carol Ann, the four months' old I child of whom Miss Berry asserts Chaplin is the father, "is entitled to her day I In court" Scout demanded thatj the paternity . case be " re opened "to permit a . judge and iury; to weigh the issues." He strongly criticized the blood test which three physicians re ported established that the 54-year-old comic is not the baby's father. . : f ; : Vf i i fMany things could lhave hap pened, he declared. The bot tles of blood ' might have been switched. It has evenbeen sug gested . to me that Mr Chaplin might have had the blood of an other person placed in his veins. Sqott ridiculed the! Idea of blood tests in general referring to them repeatedly as a "cock eyed theory." . . 1 Salem, Orexu Thursday f Japs Belittle Yank Invasion NEW YORK, March Japanese forces garrisoning the Admiralty islands were declar ed by the Tokyo radio tonhrht to be f 1 g h 1 1 B g fiercely against American landing wilts, -r The transmlasibav recorded by CBS, declared American pre Invasion bombing:-had little ef-' feet and that "the landing units pre?. sun& tceying .ar" terrlSli .Mow from the Japanese gar- : rison." ! ' ! ' i-'V. ; i ' kV The IandlnsS were, made, a Japanese commentator said,- in order to encircle Sabaal, bat '"Rabatd Is fortified ae thor eushly that sneh an empty strategy : could ; hardly be dan reroos to the Japanese base." The difficulties of supplying an encircled base were net stress- Allies Mop Up Japs in Burma NEW DELHI, March 1 Allied troops in Burma, now mop ping up remnants of the enemy forces which tried unsuccessfully to encircle the Fifth and Seventh Indian divisions last month, have killed or wounded 4500 Japanese since February 4, the allied south east Asia command announced to day. A communique from the headr quarters of Adm. Lord Louis Mounfbatten said stragglers of the defeated Japanese units, which originally totaled 8000 meiyrwere being rounded up In Arakan and added: A conservative estimate of Jap anese casualties between February and 29 is now given as 4500 killed and seriously wounded." (Prime Minister Churchill sent a congratulatory message to Lord Mountbatten and the British 14th army today, saying "it must be u great satisfaction to all ranks and races engaged in our common ef fort that the Japanese have been challenged and beaten in jungle warfare in Burma and that their boastfulness should have received salutory; exposure.") . : i AussiesVrge Yank Pay Cut BRISBANE, Australia, March 2 (Thursday )-()rVReduction in pay for ' United-SUtes forces in Aus tralia, the balance to be paid on their return to America was urg ed today by a conference of the chambers; of commerce federation. '.George Groom, president of the federation, explained the Austra lian government would-be asxea to negotiate with the United SUtes government seeking to limit pay to American fighting force f in Australia to standards of equally similar ranks of Australian troops. ; The federation said such action was desirable to prevent inflation and to-promot the best Interests of the "allied war effort in the Pacific.' especially as United King dom trooDs must eventually be stationed here. Morning. March 2, 1944 Prisoners X v U cargo after being hit by a German Argentine up Fails FarreU Regime . Weathers First Serious Threat ; By, CHARLES H. GUPTILIi . MON TE VIDEO," Marclr ' 1-MP5 A . fcrief and I bloodless armed rebellion by an army colonel who marched his regiment out in battle kit in an attempt to overthrow the : Argentine gov; ernment of acting President Edet- miro Farrell fizzled early today. and Farrell's troubled regime ap parently had weathered its first crisis, " j Lt CoL Tonus Due, a pe litieal unknown, staged the re volt with his third Infantry regiment, perhaps In hopes ef aethur as a fuse for a revela Uou by the aavy and ether dis sident army groups to retuni Gen. Pedre jlamlres to the presidency Kamlrea - stepped dewm in favor f Vie rreddeat Farrell In a Thursday. . Duco and Palace ceepe last his , men perhaps 1000 . strong f surrendered - un- conditionally" early today after marching from Buenos Aires to government : an a suburb, a nouncement declared. Farrell's position appeared fur ther improved at least superficial ly, during the day by the friendly attitude of Rear Admiral Alberto Teisaire and his naval colleagues when (Teisaire was sworn in as new minister of the navy. Naval leaders, It was report ed, 4 had demanded yesterday that Farrell either return presi dential powers to Ranurea, er (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Senator McNary Iii Wasninaton At Work and . at Leisure A close-up portrait of me ' lata Oregon; senator in his' -daily roimds in official Washinaton,! written bys John V, Kully. veter a n newsrxrpennan of '.Oregon, . .who spent ten years covering- Washinqrion for norm West pctpersj nofWecaiive'; director of the stcrte postwar ; readjushnent and develop ment commission..' ; : ;Vf An intimate personal friend -of the- lale senator's Kelly tells how y the sen ator worked, how he kept up his contacts how he .relax ed, and how his. office be- :camev the. "Oregon i lodge" for visitors Sirom the old ' home state.' ( " "' - 5 .'"""- IN THE V: March 52i : Don't Miss It Go it. t Nazi Piish At Anzib Blocked 'Secret Weapon' Unsuccessful Against Allies By RICHARD G. MASSOCK ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, March l-(P)Allied forces today blocked a German ; lunge ; on the strong Anzio have peaenheaa which may! been intended to start la new nazi offensive! i - Brief dispatches from the sector reported no great cen tralized drive toward the; sea , as having developed yet, although the nazis applied pressure at sev eral points along the perimeter of the British and American lines. j Field guns and mortaraj roared against Germans who had ap peared to be making a third ma jor effort to drive the allies into the sea. ! ' l v : (The aaxi controlled Rom I radio broadcast a report tonight j that the allies were attacking. The British radio. In a broadcast -1 reported by. NBC, quoted the Some radio as saying that "one " of the heaviest artillery harrag :' es yet seen fas the beachhead : was laid down by' the allies." ;' German positions were report-' j ed "subjected to prolonged and concentrated shelling.") As the reinforced enemy! launch ed his attack,' allied headquarters disclosed 'that Field: Marshal Al bert Kesselring had been equip ped with a new secret weapon"- aa explosive-filled, pilotless tank meant to be steered byj remote control into allied positions and detonated in the midst of! the de fenders."-'"-' This latest nazi weapon! .had its initial try-out in the enemy's sec ond big assault against the beach head, just two weeks ago, and was singularly unsuccessful. Fourteen were exploded by allied artillery as they waddled .across no-man's Punching and probing j harder i at American and British lines at several points around the ap : proximate 25-mlle perimeter ef 1 the beachhead, the , Germans pened their newest thrust with m strong attack by Infantry aad tonka . about midway : between Carrecete and Cisterna day morning after a heavy ar ..(Turn to Page 2 Story F) Blast Wake By ELMONT WATTE US PACIFIC I FLEET j HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor1, March l-(P)-Navy Liberator bombers gave Wake island, 2300 miles west of here, its 14th raid of the war Monday, probably destroying six grounded Japanese planep, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced to day. I jvv .; i Other actions reported j by the admiral included the bombing of Naunv far to the southwest, by a sinde navr search nlane. and new blows by army and navy planes against three enemy-held bases in the eastern Marshall islands. The attacks on Nauru and the . Mar shalls also were on Monday. ! As in almost all the previous attacks on Wake. Numtz conclud ed his announcement with the words, "AH our planes: returned." There was no mention of losses or damage over Nauru or the Mar- ShallsV; V, , ' Wake bad not been raided since February 10, when navy Coronado bombers delivered their second at tack there within two days. These assaults -are designed to keep the Wake airfield' neutralized., pre venting enemy air, operations against American forces how es tablished on Eniwetok and Kwa Jalein atolls in the Marshalls, to the south." V " : 1 " Greek Guerrillas .. j 7rcck Nazi Train; CAIRO, March 1-WVFour-hundred German soldiers, in cluding a nazi general and his Staff, .were killed' February 22 near ML Olympus in Greece when Greek guerrillas led by a British officer exploded mines under uoop tram ana , sent gi cars plunging into the icy Pinfos river it was reported reliable here to day. ' - S Navy Bombers Price So V-j"- -ivf -m:'- -V . --'K-i' - v? ' ""-'."wH" .:'.' i;-'L? -V ;-r " P '" , "l ''V--y-: j ' :-.v Va .'".' Yaekvleyaders Secere Positiibii On Jungle Base . US tosses Said Negligible ; Through Whole Operation By. ROBERT ALLIED i HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Thursday, March 2. -(AP) airfield on Los-Negros island in the Admiralty group repulsed a Japanese counterattack yesterday, less th'an 24 hours after tve Americans surprise lane ing on the island. : j vVvf 'V- ' ' l tr-'" Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who personally direct ed the invasion, said in his communique today the en- emy'g counterattack ; in the rainsoaked jungle was monnted First cavalry division had "successfully con solidated" their position. ' ,f -' - -- -' -- --j . r- - - . 1 I ;.. - ..!.' . . T "There are a few deUUs avail RAF Hits y ";V v.:.v (- v --'-.; -' fi Germany Heayy Bomhers In Force Raid J. SoutliwestReich LONDON, Thursdayr March 2- (JP) - RAF 1 heavy " bombers thundered out across the Eng lish channel in apparent force last night and early today the German radio' said that south Germany had j been attacked. T The British subsequently con firmed that the RAF had been over Germany, bat gave no indi cation of the targets. ' A Berlin broadcast said the British raiders had ' encountered bad weather and had dropped their bombs aimlessly. Vv V "Despite the weather condi tions German' air defenses shot down a number ef fear-en-ciaed planes.' the broadcast -added. ' - ' - Coastal observers said the RAF force headed for j the continent was in great strength. The RAF was last out in force when Augs burg was hit Friday. : V ; (The OWI said; the Frankfurt radio suspended its regular broad cast schedule at 8:33 p.mu, but in the next 45 minutes broadcast three brief warning bulletins that enemy aircraft were passing" over the city! At.10 pm, the OWI add ed, the Frankfurt j announced said a great number of allied planes XTurn to Page j 2 Story E) - , Spanish War Pensions Raised WASHINGTON,' March President Roosevelt signed today legislation increasing from $60 to $75 a month pensions of veterans of the war with Spain, the Phil ippine Insurrection and the China relief expedition. V' The measure provides pensions for veterans 65 or older, and those totally disabled. J - - ; - Senator's Body Arrives For Funeral Tomorrow The body of Senator Charles L. McNary, ' who died .'recently - in Fort Lauderdale,. Flav arrived in Salem shortly before noon yes terday and was i taken. to thm W. T. -Rigdon mortuary where it'wiin remain until' tomorrow soon. ? t ' Funeral services will be held in the house of representatives in the state cspitol at 2 pjn tomor row with Bishop' Bruce R Bax ter of the Methodist church, and former president j of WiIlamette university, ' cfficiatlng. Interment will be in lOOFi cemetery here. - Accompanying the body from Fort Lauderdale - Were Mrs., Mc Nary, her adopted, daughter, Charlotte, and ; Mrs. . McNarys sister, Miss .Mary j Louise Morton. They were met in Portland by Salem relatives of Senator Mc Kary and the body waa brought No. 2S2 EUNSON Pacific, Troops holding Moniqle able, but apparently the enemy attacks was pretty sharp," said a headquarters spokesman. . He said that approaches . to the 5000-foot long airstrip were v on favorable terrain : bat very narrow,, forcing tie! enemy to concentrate his eoanterattack Ing force along- a narrew front. The Japanese attacked about 4 o'clock in the morning,' but were -driven off before daylight Near ly 400 enemy dead jwere jpounted, ' The communique V said ;that ' American losses "through bti these operations have been neg ligible." , The mtraders- went ashore Tuesday from destroyers without interference from Japan ese planes or airicraf t They soon wiped out Japanese! resistance ;to -take possession of the 1 airport. . ' MacArthur' said j the airfield, which was taken with little dam age, "will shortly be in full use by our air forces." j ' - The Japanese could be rein forcing their Los Negros garrison from Manus island, jacross a nar row strip of water to the west. Size of the force on Manus -whs not precisely knownj. j . American . Liberator heavy v bombers- and Mitchell medium are supporting the ground forces by hammering enemy positions ' behind their lines". j Today's communique also told of heavy allied air. strikes against Japanese south and southwest Pa cific airfields Monday, nailing en emy planes to the ground while elements oi one iirst : cavairy Di vision's fifth regiment were being taken through Vitiaz strait and on across the Bismarck sea tor the Admiralties invasion.. - r The. base at RabauL New Brit- - ain, took a 153-ton repeat bomb ing by allied aircraft from Solomon islands bases, which struck at Vunapope' and Rapopo airdromes and Rabaul township doing heavy damage to installations. It was the 14th consecutive attack in nine succeeding days in Which no en emy aerial interception was en countered over this formerly heavily-defended bastion. . Other enemy bases bombed were Wewak, Hollandia, Hansa bay and Madang, all Son the north eastern New Guinea coast. here by hearse under state police escort' V;;VVVri"vl U'?'-----v:V . Seat reservations 'for the . fun eral will be restricted to mem bers of . the congressional delega tion, Oregon legislative' commit tees, active and , honorary pall bearers, members of the state su- fpreme court, state board of con trol and a delegation from the Washington state legislature. - Capitol, officials aakj " approxi mately 00 other persons could be seated In the bouse of representa tives while many , additional seats will be provided in the corridors. Amplifiers were being Installed Wednesday. .'jv - " ' : A telegram from Representative JameS W. Mott, a member of the , congressional delegation, said the delegation had accepted an invi , (Turn to Page 2 Story B) !Vi v i