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" -. ' ii' ' o Ii - i 4 ' .- A - - J -if , ill - f S Art 1 - -i, " I r - .. ' '-' " T' -j 1'1 ! '"t for j McNai?y - Funeral im Relegations Today we i Hr 935TDS 7cather ':! Thursday snaimum tem perature : 5S, minimum , 41. Seotherly wind. Preclpita-, tioa .2 ! f an Inch, River . Jt tt. Occasional , rain ta ; western portion with new , ever and east f the Cas cades Friday and JSafnrday. little change la temperature. tKD HDDS Capitol fe mtm iiSlilt i tmm ' r;l v 1 n .'; poundqd 11651 , 1. T;.: " .. j. . . It was aTeautiful day In Aug i tut, 1940, when the notification ceremonies for Senator Charles I . McNary as republican vice nresi- dential candidate were heldj. A great company or people as sembled at the state fair grounds to witness the recognition of Ore gon's senator selected by a great political party as one of its chief candidates. Men high in political and public life held the official stage in the . proceedings. The great andthe lowly made up the throng. Sen. McNary himself made the response to the address of ' Governor Harold Stassen of Min nesota. Today representatives of a great nation gather to pay the last tri bute of love and affection - to . Charles I McNary. For he has ' come home for the last time, for the long sleep in the soil of the land he cherished. Again notables ; will attend, and a bishop who i was also a friend will speak the . last words. 4 . A contrast Indeed in these two . scenes. Yet they are part of this I. moving tableau we call life, 'The moments of high ecstasy may chance auicklv to i seasons of . mourning. The paths of glory, as do those of tragedy and mediocrity, . lead to a single terminus the - ultimate democracy, Death. Senator McNary was a man of simple tastes and quiet habits. He did not love ostentation or show, Being a great public figure, the -' ceremonies of 1940 and now , of his funeral had to be in some DroDortion to the degree of his prominence. Yet he will be re membered not ' for any pomp or V ceremony, which attended him, but for his own intimate self, kindly, genial, helpful. The state of Ore gon which gave him to the nation and saw him reach high places re- i ceives him back to its warm . bosom. The Oregon boy, grown to - a man's estate, who mingled with ? the great of earth and gave them counsel, weary from his labors, has come home. By $2.7 Billion NEW YORK, March 2 -(Jfy-Secretary Morgenthau said tonight the American people answered the treasury's fourth war loan call with $18,730,000,000 $2,730,000, 000 above the goal set for the month-long campaign that ended February 15. ' . . , ' Of the total, the treasury head v said in a broadcast over the Blue : network, $3,187,000,000 represen . ted purchases of "E" boitds, the 4 so-called "little money' phase of , the drive : that , placed emphasis upon participation by individuals . rather than banks and corpora- ; tions. . , -: Each one of the 60,000,000 in dividual "E'v bonds sold, Morgen- thau said, "stands as an expression of the will and the way of free- . dom." - j- - -, - In addition to the E bonds, indi ' vtduals bought $2,122,000,000 in other securities for a total of $5,' 309,000,000 short of the individual goal but corporate and other big , money buyers topped their $8,500,- ' 000,000 quota by $2,921,000,000. , ! Tonight's final report was de- layed more, than two weeks after ? the official closing of the drive to permit - reports rrom t au ,: 01 xne . 75,000 bond issuing agencies . throughout the country. ' V Wbjnan Killed In Cathedral By TOM REEDY : - WASHINGTON, March 2 -(A3) I A woman librarian was found bludgeoned to death today in the basement , of . the library at the magnificent Washington cathe dral, resting ' place of Woodrow Wilson and other notables. Near the body . lay a man's blood-soaked undershirt, and to night police said they were seek ing a handyman employed at the library, . -- ; The victim was Miss Catherine Cooper Reardon,- 37-year-old na- , tive ox Alexandria, va,' and a William & Mary college graduate. Co-workers found the body when they arrived for work this morn ing at the Library on the grounds of , the $30,000,000 Episcopal ca thedral which' looks 'down on the capital from the northwest heights of. the city. They saw her coat and purse, and, mystified, searched until the body was seen sticking out of a steam pipe pit in the library base ment. She was clad only in a slip: OUier articles of clothing, appar ently ripped from her, were stuff tA into the pit Her skull was tir.ashed by a pipe or some simi lar instrument and there was a! ci ta the throat KINETY-TKIBD YEAB A iesi Service At. oMock For Seoator 'I ' - r - House 'bf .-Representatives Scene of Ceremonies Many, men and women, prominent in Oregon affairs, in cluding several members, of the officials, had arrived in Salem last rites for Senator Charles L. The funeral service will be tives in the state capitol at 2 Baxter, Methodist church, for the J Calcific Northwest district, and former president of Willamette university, officiating. Senator McNary and Bishop Baxter Were close personal friends for many years, O Red Gains Soviets Step Up Estonian Drives; Take 30 Towns By TOM -YARBROUGH LONDON, Friday, March, f- OT-Moscow announced - today that the red army captured 80 communities Joday : in drive toward Ostrov, 35 miles south of Pskov on the great trunk railway to - Warsaw, while north ward around the Estonian strong hold, of Narva the. Russians , im proved . their ; bridgehead- and flung the Germans from several strongpoints, The drive upon Ostrov was! a flanking attack by the Russians cutting south of the nazi bastion and aiming at the second of three railways by which the Germans might retreat The first was ut Wednesday .when the Pskov-ld- ritsa-Polotsk line was crossed' at several points. Moscow dispatches said red i army mlf ht not wait fi mopping- u p ' operations ta Pskev and Narva but insteid might by-psss these towns and plunge ahead toward Reval and Riga, capitals of Estonia and Latvia. The Moscow, communique, corded by the Soviet Monitor, made no mention of the fighting in the Vitebsk sector ; of wliite Russia where . yesterday it ire ported the capture of ,30 locali ties, ! including . four which ; were 12 miles north, eight miles east, six miles southeast and seven (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Senator McNary! In Washington ; ; At Work and J at Leisure A cIoso-ud portrait of he late Oregon senator in his. d a 1 1 y rounds in official Washinaton, written by John W. Kelly, ye teran newspaperman of . Oregon, who spent , ten years cover ing Washington ' for north-' west papers, now. executive director of .the state postwar readjustment : and develop ment commission. i ; .An Intimate personal ; friend of , the late senator's Kelly tells how the sen ator worked, how he kept tip his contacts, how he relax ed, and how his office be " came the "Oregon lodge" for visitors from the bid : home stale. - " r.lNTHE'-- March 5h I , Don't Miss It ! Continue 14 PAGES SmasM Nasi Offiemsive df Awie men r I liri - legislature and other public Thursday night to attend Jhe McNary, ' ' . held in' !the house of representa p.m.v !Fnday with Bishop; Bruce l The' basket, now at the W. T. Rigdon mortuary here, j will . be moved into the house of . repre sentatives at noon Friday. Heavy demand for seat reser vations at - the funeral: service continued, here Thursday. Among these was a ', request . from the Portland city council which will attend jthe service in a body. Of ficials said reservations - would be restricted to active and honor ary : pallbearers, members , of , the congressional delegatioj enroute here ' from- Washington, DC. and other official groups. A telegram received vfrom : the Southern Pacific company" late Wednesday was to the effect that special - train : would carry - the congressional : delegation - from Portland to Salem. ' The special train twill leave Portland immed iately fallowing the arrival of the Portland -Rose, on which the dele gation; is traveling -from Chicago to ; Portland. ;The iatter train is due td -arrive in Portland at VM a.rn. 1 v Members , of the board of . con- ji. ii inciuaing uovemor . tan iclij State Treasurer Leslie M Scott land Secretary of State Rob- erf fs Farrell, jr.i will receive the congressional delegation . at the aaiem aepoi. ine aeiegauon wui then tlbe taken to a Salem hotel where there will be a noon lunch eon arranged by the chamber of commerce. - vn ' - I ; -::v- Fight members of! the: Washing ton i State legislature will 7 attend the services. . ' y i ;'':: Beits have been provided in the house of representatives for ap proximately 600 persons, , exclu sive 'of reservations. With addi tional seats in the capitol corri dors4 Amplifiers have; been in- suued m the corridors: : A I telegram from . Representa tive James W. Mott said members of : the congressional 'delegation would go to the cemetery follow ing Ithe service. The delegation j (Turn to Page 2 Story E) H : Rome Attack Said Needed By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK WASHINGTON, March 2 -VP) War Secretary Stimson warned to day that the allies will have no alternative but to attack parts of Rome put to military use by the Germans. : At a press conference, he de fijied the allied military policy as one of taking every possible pre caution against the destruction of "cultural, historical and religious property, but of placing lives above material things, f ; ;--! H "Should it become obvious, how ever; that the enemy Js. making use j" of these places and American soldiers are thereby en dangered,, there can be no alter native," he said. "American lives must be safeguarded, whatever .the cost in material things,", Alaska, Hawaii Soldiers Not in Federal Ballot WASHINGTON, March 2-VPr- Senator Green (D-RI) said to night that in the final : drafting of the 'federal soldier vote bill sen ate and house conferees had made no provision to handle; the ballots of Soldiers of Alaska and Hawaii. it He reported the conferees took this action because fit would have caused too much5 confusion' handling required ballots for the territories. Salem. Oregon. Friday Morning, March 3. 1944 Marines Relieve Infantry WE t t R. f f t f e Marines ef the Z2nd retiment move reUeving pressure exerted en soldiers of the 106th Infantry, as American ferees Invade and eaptare the Japs Marshall Islands bases In the Eniwetok atolL Fhoto by Frank Fllak, Associated Press pho tographer en assignment with Wtrephoto) .- RA F Bombers in Force Follow US Blitz on Reich ' i By W. W. LONDON, Friday, March streamed out over the southeast second successive night assault The big black RAF bombers. went4; out as VS FLYING HiFesses and" IJberatdfs returned British bases after nammermK ; inuusiri laxgeis French Invasion coast'. 'and Char-O' tres iirneiab, ao mues ifoutnwest oi Paris. XJS marauders hit; the railway center i of Amiens. ' ' ' I The daylight raiding fore of -Amerlcaa and i allied planes was believed te have been one jef the most powerful air ar 4na4as ' ever teen ever , the hanneL '- - ' i Thunderbolts, Lightnings and Mustangs "along with' Spitfires of the RAF escorted Tthe bombers, presenting formidable '1 front which few German interceptors rose to challenge.! - Eighteen German fighters were shot' down by the allied escort, while the bombers, toll was not immediately announced. From the day's "operations 11 bombers and three fighters were , missing, the American air command announ ced tonight ; ' A The strong assault was the second phase of the'ene-twe' punch techniq.oe developed by the allied air forces. Exact tar gets were not announced lmme- (Turn to Page 2--Story A) Bombs Hit 1 Vatican Area By RICHARD R. KASISCHKE LONDON, March 2-iip)-A sin gle i unidentified plane, flying' at a 600-yard altitude, dropped four bombs on extra territorial ground of the Vatican in Rome last night and two others near the holy city itself, killing a workman and in juring a priest, the Vatican radio said today. Four of the bombs, said the broadcast which was recorded by the Associated Press, "fell on the papal propaganda college and two on Santa Monica, 'directly oppo site Saint Peter's. One worker was killed and an Augustinian monk, a Dutchman, was injured. For tunately there were no victims at the : propaganda college." - Farrell Retains Foreign Policy - " By CARLOS DOBARRO v . BUENOS AIRES, March 2-P) Gen. - Edelmiro Farrell, acting president of Argentina, declared today that . Argentine foreign policy would "not be modified and that close cooperation'-with the other American republics was an aim of his temporary regime. In an interview at the govern ment house General FarreH,. who took over thev executive power from President Gent Pe dro Ramirez a week ago in a : bloodless coup, indicated he, in tended to prepare the country for elections in the shortest time possible, saying ft was only the desire ; of Argentina's . present military leaders that the people should not commit . an error when the elections are held. 4 1 tn.oa .the Japs en Eniwetok bland. the wartime still phot polL (AP , PCERCHER . 3 iJP) - RAF heavy bombers coast last night f for their on German-held Europe. in souwwesi ucrniany, - uic r: -"3 j 1 rrr. AlliesCUWff LeridLease To Turkey .9 By JOHN M, tUGHTOWER - -WASHINGTON,' Marelr t-i&l American lend lease and British snntnal ' aid shipments - te Tor key -were mderstood tenlght te have been suspended! hi s move apparently linked with vigorous military and diplomatic prepa rations for the Angle-American Invasion ef Europe, j The action, taken by the Brit ish with fall allied approval, cute Turkey off, at j least tem porarily, from her, sources ef arms and ether military supplies and confronts her with the ne cessity of deciding whether to go more deeply Into the war en the United Nations side er continue a policy of! neutrality, -favorable to the allies but In some respects helpful to Ger many.! ,. . , yA::r ' , Turkey baa a position of great strategic and political Im portaace In relation to future European - war ' developments. Her I jBorthern I. border : flanks Bulgaria and any strong move en her part favorable ' to the allies would undoubtedly hasten the end : ef Bulgaria as a Ger man satellite ; and - weaken the nasi hold throughout the Bal- Senate Appointment f Expected Saturday . . . Hundreds of telegrams, letters and telephone calls continued to arrive at the executive depart ment here .Thursday urging Gov ernor Earl Snell to appoint var ious persons to the office of United States Senator to succeed Charles L. McNary. , , , - The governor said he -had no idea , how. many -' telegrams,', tele-r phone I calls and letters - he has received in connection with the appointment since. Senatorv Mc- Narys. death in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, last Friday,. . - Governor Snell has refused ;to comment on the : appointment but indicated that it would be an nounced Saturday. 1 ' .: Salem Plant 7ins 7FA A' Hag j PORTLAND, Ore Mar. 2 -Pr one Oregon and three Washington plants; of the California Packing corporation have been awarded the war food administration A flag, R. G. Lucks, division man ager. said today. f - "The plants, cited for outstand ing production, are located in Sa lem. Ore., ar.3 Tcppenish, Yaklna, and Vancouver, Wash. , Troops Reinforce Invasion Turns I Into Big Drive j For Occupation ; By C. YATES McDANIEL' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Fri day, ; March 3-fP)-Heavy rein forcements have; been landed on Los " Negros island in tlhe Admiralty .islands, turning , the surprise " American thrust against, the .Japanese from re connaissance in force into j a campaign for Complete occupation. .Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com munique today said " the original landing by the Fifth cavalry rei- meni . uiesaayi caugni ine numeri cauy-supenor; Japanese rorce f so completely by; surprise that it was "out-maneuvered :. into,; dispersed positions' and Jthe reconnaissance was .immediately . developed into a penetration which is being ex ploited .into complete occupation." , The reinforcements were leaded yesterday and were re ported ready to push beyond . the original beachhead alter the first Invasion' troops had with stood ; repeated Japanese Infil tration and mortar attacks Wed- - aesday night. .'"The. enemy attacks were against the thinly-held American perim eter around Momote airfield, the 5,000-foot long airstrip which was captured shortly after the Tues day landing at the seaward edge of the airfield.. Early Wednesday morning: the troopers 'had- thrown back v; a Japanese counterattack. taking a toll of nearly 100 enemy dead." J i,- ,4 V:f -X crc,' Fighting with their backs to the beachhead, the cavalrymen beat off an attacks until morning brought boatloads of men and equipment With 1 1 h e perimeter defenses (Turn to Page 2 Story B) New MacArthur (Hub Forms NEW YORK, March 2-C)-The MacArthur National Associates, which Is backing General Douglas MacArthur for president, opened headquarters today at the Mur ray Hill hotel. The organization, which has no connection with a national Mac Arthur association formed recent ly in Chicago, is headed by Orms- by McHarg, a former assistant to the United States attorney gener al, as chairman, and Edmund J. Horwath, . a , public . accountant, executive secretary and treasurer. Horwath said he had been in communication . with groups in terested in opening offices in Boston;! Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco. - i ' . Admiralty 61Q0 Percent9 List Grows In! Red Cross q While reports from several of the? 45i workers in Marion county communities outside of Salem in dicated : that ot only will can vasses j be completed but that quotas will be-reached before ar rival of the March IS deadline, Red Cross war fund workers have get for themselves, the list of "100 per; cent firms', within the ' city proper lengthened. - To the US National bank, which on the first day of the drive com pleted its own campaign among employes as a tribute to Elton Thompson, its own assistant man ager : and , campaign chairman, were added the names of: Schreder's Four-Star market; Hogg Brothers, furniture; Willam ette Cherry Growers: Blake, Mof- fitt 8t Towne, paper wholesalers; and Reid Murdoch company, food processors. , ; HMrs.tAlvin Van Cleave, Hazel Green, reported that her com munity had already contributed 7.5 iper jcent cf lis $325 eiota. One of the reasons for added la terest in the Red Cross war fund caxpafm tL!s year Is die tact tlit Price 5c British Army- Said Ready For Invasion s LONDON, March Z-;P)-Brlt-aln's army, felly equipped and reorganised for maximum strik ing force, la bow ready to In vade Europe, War Secretary Sir James Grigg told the house ef commons today. At the same time, he said the task of carrying the war to Ja pan Is net being neglected. Grigg disclosed that a special British mission had recently visited the US, Australia, New Zealand.' New Guinea,' the Solomons, In dia and Burma to Study the re quirements ef the offensive against the Japs, - j-.-T :'':..'' r ; ' ; . - The. army in . Britain Is now fully mobilised, Grigg reported. Equipment Is adequate to the task, and includes potent secret weapons recently developed. Jap Navy 3rd Slink : Fleet.of pnemy- still Strong; Air Arm eak . By HAMILTON; W. FARON WASHINGTON, March 2 - WVOne. third of the navy ViUi wmcn wapan started the war has, en trqyed, and the Ajnencwrfleknpw can cruise the Pacific looking for trouble and battering any enemy forces encountered, a high navy official said today.: : - : ;r - . He added the warning,: how ever, that the enemy fleet still is strong and might in time be brought into battle J Stipulating that be not be quo ted directly, this source said the principal Weakness' of the Nippon ese now appears to be airplanes which, flying from carriers, spear head most naval saults. Addi tional damage to the Japanese air arm was reported only today by the British admiralty in ac noun cing the probable sinking of a Japanese aircraft carrier by Brit ish submarines in the Strait of Malacca. . j- ; ' Mobility of the American fleet, this naval : authority continued, now has reached the point aimed at for 35 years. Huge fleet trains such as shipsf carrying! fuel, making it possible for them to re main away from bases for indef inite periods. , '-.;'- - As an example he cited .the car rier force that launched the first big attack on Truk, principal; Jap anese base in the south Pacific, then moved on to pound enemy bases in the Marianas more than 600 miles further I from its home base. : . 1 ' A i A-, Three of the five carrier groups that hit Truk, he said, refueled at sea and moved on for the subse (Turn to Page 2 Story C) ... "... . '. . i .. - ...... . Fund Drive numerous residents of this area ha vex had n opportunity the past year to contribute in a different way to the work! of the. national society of the international hu manitarian organization, ' Milton L. : Meyers, . county. Red j Cross blood donor chairman, suggested Thursday. V: -' . s -; "During the nine months "which ended with the close ot January, .1944, 7817 plntsj of blood have been,:, donated - in Salem ; for I the plasma " bank. ,'vv . ; '';;''-: iAA "From Salem and nearby com munities alone, there must be doz ens ' of soldiers and sailors now wearing the purple heart who are alive today because someone gave to the Red Cross: a pint of blood from which life-s a v-i n g f blood plasma was processed, Meyers de clared. --AA: hA Cost of operation of such serv ices as that for i blood donors Is paid for from "war fund monies, Meyers pointed but, adding that persona who have given blood er who wish they could are anxious to see that those gifts are deiiv ered ranldlr and efficiently, to bafJefronts. Ho. 233 Nazi -Won Ground Regained ":-.''. O ' i v :i- 'A ... . ' 1 . I : j Clark Inspects: Troops in jField; : Beachhead Safe . vv - ' ; .- v : By RICHARD G. MASSOCK ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NAPLES, March 2-iP)-Lt. Gen." Mark W. Clark, visiting the al- lied beachhead below Rbmej today after , k powerful one-two-attack led by three tank- led German divisions, brought out word tonight that the of- . tensive had - been! . repulsed. that ground lost to j the enemy had - been regained and that , the ' beachhead situation Was well in hand.'".;;..: i ;.. :( 1'"'"- '.-"A!: . Ground broops, artillery .and ' heavy bombers rolled back tho third , strong ; German , attack, in the 40 days since the landings. . .The allies ; threw the Germans back with heavy casualties after they T had penetrated for 1500 ' yards nearly a : mile Into the heart of the Nazio beachhead de- ; f enses with the big offensive launched early Tuesday'..The bat tle raged through Wednesday. Gen. dark, spent nearly all f today with his troops la the - field, going far forward. .In one Instance a" German shell hit the road harmlessly behind the . . general's party only SI seconds ' after the. officers wheeled by. i , - Upon his return to Fifth army headquarters Gen. Clark said he Was convinced that allied control of the bridgehead is now firmly established, and he was enthusi astic over the manner, iri which his men turned back the attack ing foe and then re-won the lost ground.!- f : j . - ': ;V . ; : He told British troops m the beachhead that he ! was confl- . dent 'the allies could repel any attacks the nails might' new , bunch, and he said the outcome of the battle Tuesday and Wed nesday was j setback for the German army j ' American heavy, medium and -. dive bombers in full force took5' advantage of the favorable wea ther to pound German troop con centrations, tanks and gun posi tions all along the battlefront from Carroceto to Cis tenia. Many tons of fragmentation bombs were dropped by the waves of attack ing aircraft. ; -v. '; , ; - . -v Amid a relative calm that fol lowed two days and nights of sav age fighting, h e a V y American liberators and Flying Fortresses swung over the battlefield today in -clear weather and poured thou sands, of fragmentation bombs on concentrations of w e a r y nazl troops ; and! on the 'enemy's gun - positions ringing the beachhead. The Germans struck this time with only about half the force they employed m their costly of fensive down the Carroceto-Anzio highway . two weeks , ago. With nazl infantry riding : on the broad decks of. 60-ton TTIger" tanks, Gen. Eberhard von Mackensen'g . (Turn to Page 24-Story D) ' Tito Partisans IOU500 Nazis ' LONDON, March 2-if)-Mar-shal Josip Bros (Tito) reported In a communique tonight that his Yugoslav- partisans' had ' wiped out 500 Germans in'a 14-day bat tle on the banks of the Soca river in Slovenia 1 and . dealt the' nazis , heavy .blows on other fronts. , Four bridges over - the Soca river were destroyed by the 30th, division, one brigade of which killed 260 Germans and took pris oners and much booty In one day's ' fighting alone, the broadcast war bulletin added. . . j In fighting near Novo Mesto, 35 , miles east of Zagreb, a German column was said to have - been routed and 179 Germans killed. The' communique also reported destruction rof r railroad, equip-melat.- . :)A !"'.; ? '. An . earlier war bulletin' said German armored units which had forced their way into Glina, a Croatian town 40 miles south of Zagreb were routed from their positions by partisan troops yes -terday aftar a fierce battle. .