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- - - : $ -1 - -. S ; : - ' . 11 I I I I I , fnr 'UtD mm 7eallier . Eatoray maximum tem perature ' gt, mialmam 27. Kirer IX feet. - ! ' Increasing cloudiness west . pertlra Sonday follewed by 1. rain late Sunday aad M : ; day. Partly cloody east por- tka Sunday. Cloudy Sunday ' , nlchi sad Monday. . A. : i I l l KEJETY-TMBD YEAB 20 PAGES Salem Oregon. Suaday. Morning, March 12, 13U Pdc Se 17o. S31' JTWI II a. -V I f I 10 II I I LAI I II II II II II I 111 17 V:"1V I L Xli 1 1 v. ini I I I I I I I ri I I I I II a u n 1 " ; , . j ) . PCUNDQD 1551 -: Irvin Cobb is dead, and Amer ican humorous literature has lost f ttm nr enirita TJk Vf ark - Twain, Georf e Ade, Eugene Field, ? and a host of others Cobb got bis .start on newspaper and then r graduated Into authorship. Like thm tnti hia' source of material lay among the people of his town and neighborhood. Irvin cood used the human stuff of Paducan, Kentucky, for the characters on which to hang his narratives and dialogues. His "Judge Priest," drawn from real life in Paducah, ' became a familiar figure in the Saturday Evening Post, like Ar- . thur Train's Mr. Tutt. A few months ago Cobb was ."desperately 111 but rallied enough to write a letter to Kent Cooper of the AP and crack Jokes about his ' escape from the grim reaper. Fxi day the old man with the scythe "returned and cut him down: but Cobb had seen him coming and in a numbefof letters made his ' "exit, laughing," . though with - quite a lot of Mark Twain's eynl . cism too. . -r-; I had a very interesting part of a day with Cobb nearly four years Affo. I had rone for the republican national committee on a speaking tour In behalf or tne wiUKie-jc Nary ticket. I Jumped from Kan sas City to Bartlesviiie, uiuano- ma. in the heart of the old oil country. Oklahoma had been strong. Roosevelt territory but It was evident that the tide was turning against the new deal. Bar tlesviiie had its first political par ade in years, which wound up at the opera house for the speech making. After the program I went backstage and was met by Frank Phillips of the Phillips Petroleum company. He said that Irvin Cobb was coming to be his guest at luncheon nexi aay ana mvueu we to loin them. He arranged to have j j J st. I - I nis car take me over to imsa ior the speaking next night Cobb came in. by air from Okla homa Cityaccompanied (Contin ued on Editorial Page) .Ramirez Tells Why He Quit Argentine -' By ROMAN JIMENE? MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar. 11-WVGen. Pedro Pablo Ramir- 'ex telling for the first time his .own story of why he stepped down as presiaen oi. Artoium ur-. dared in his forma W resignation that a majority of high national' Istic Argentine army officers forced him to delegate his powers to Gen. Edelmiro J. Farrell, it was learned tonight. . A copy of Ramirez' resignation was brougnt to : Montevideo oy travelers from Buenos Aires to night In it Ramirez said the op position of the officers was pro voked by a false rumor that he was about to declare war on uie axis two weeks ago. Ramirez said the ppariuon against him started when fleers thought Argentina's rup 4iuta n Mlatlnna with th lTlf WM not provoked by the discovery of an esnionaae ring in the country " - - " - -1 1 but on account of "fear of pressure and purported measures of the government of the United states. Ramirez declared that his with- drawal from the poliUcal scene n February was not maucea M. - a ji by his being too tired to exercise government powers, as siaiea oyr the Farrell retime in Its official announcements. In . bis resignation, he further Stated that the army officers re- fused to believe him when be ex- . ... 9 . A1 f M..... piamea w ."- meetings" that they were ak- about to declare war on uennany and Japan, esuousn maruai law and order a general mobilization, The die was cast; intrigue was snore powerful than reason, Ra mires said. I , tail, Too, Gets Help. On Tax Form . WASIIXNGTON, "March 11 CSV-Secretary ef the Treasary Blorrenthao. like Scientist Al bert Einstein and a host of oth m ninl. YtA film In nrrairiiir Ws mcome tax return. nt n auuM-iata said todav. --- ; - v 17 Kianpnnal bookkeeper at- had his personal bookkeeper at tend to his annual returns; this year's additional complexity about which Einstein moaned had nothing to do .with the mat ter. President Eoosevelt was dis- rloied yesterday to be tackling V. return by himself, making day-fcy-day progress. Senator Danaher (K-Cenn) f f t- e tax-wrltlng senate fl ; v s tcraittee made this to i ent on Einstein's observa-t'-T at ninceton, NJ, that the j tax QesiJoa Is toe dif- t tor a tnaiJiematician: j c r'e ted.' mine-';-by I 1 . 1 net going to rats Morsentl r - j 1 c "y v. t help.' .lew Toulon Bombed Via Italy Florence 'Struck For First Time; Padua Blasted - ' : I. ;-i !!' ' By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUARTEDS, Naples, March 1 l-(fih Ameri can Liberators reached out from Italy today to batter the great nazi naval base of Toulon on France's southern coast, for the second time this week while Marauder medium bombers smashed at the railway facili ties of ancient Florence for the first time in the war. At the same time flying Fort resses also blasted Padua, Im portant railway center In north eastern Italy, 50 miles from Venice. Padua, like Toulon's submarine nens. which were attacked as re- - ----- - centiy M it Tuesday, had been .,;, fmnnmliv. hat until todav allied airmen had spared historic Florence, even though pounding enemy communications lines on an sides of the city. The heavy bombers plastered submarines and snbmarlne pens at Tonlos and covered factories and port - installations with a pattern of heavy bombs. Twin-tailed Lightning fighters escorted the big bombers and pro vided a strong cover - which met but little enemy fighter oposition. Flak was moderate over the tar- get, In contrast to the raid earliet this week when anti-aircraft fire was strong and accurate. Early reports indicated that the Germans lost heavfly m attempt. ing to deflect the attack on Padua, over which there developed one of the biggest aerial battles yet en- countered by airmen from this theatre. i i Thunderbolt fighters escorted the Padua raiders, and they had to fight their way through clouds of German fighters before they (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Stilwell Sees Valley Capture By PRESTON GROVER UTt' Gen- Joseph W. SUlwell, bubbling ... . . - . 1 entnusiasm, aeciarea waay "we enure nuxawng vauey wiu " w " W'UU"'V' . ?feu A Q" CZZZ lmic" cul w . T I i at LJAiieracz anas xaa . uin a uua uici u -- . t nftft I ' . 'V ( - r- "The fight for Manigkwan and Wallawbrum is won and only iso- I la ted mopping up operations re- main," Stilwell said in a state- ment relayed here. "I believe we I t 1- Ml 1 4IAAA T JM 41,1. iuuv " operaUon alone, which should be i Japanese. wish to gtre8g tte fact that i ftn(j Americans fought and idled side by side. They frater nized, shared their food, their comforts and their hardships. "Militarily, elements of two Chinese divisions, a unit of tanks operated by Chinese and com manded by an American, and American combat troops worked smoothly together in the happy Job of exterminating the common enemy. : - j. -:--r "Although I have often been wrong, I am willing to hazard a r v Wr ' - enr!""ka.Wn,S valley will soon be ours.' UnriSinffS KenOrtPfl II i O 1 ...... T i i T. 1 ; I - , BERN, Switzerland, March 11 (ff) i Street fights in Bologna, a series of partisan attacks in rior - ence and-the threat of a new strike in Milan marked the outbreak of another wave of violence in north- era Italy. The Swiss telegraph agency said inrl.w am.t mIIU!. k... ! A iuuiu were auiiea or "UU,K " oomos thrown In several sections. Fascist troops were said to have line anr oersons foutid whr- arms. - " Workers at Milan, resentful of a fine 1 of 2.000,000 lire ($20,0001 imposed for previous strikes, were declared ready to strike again. I I 1 "V S M . ii n n Returninf urine Gets Help 50 A V A battle-blackened marine hops assault transport aided by two Intensive! fighting on Enlwetok black from borrowinc in coral a .. '-:'-.' . if . ' .s . Ji " , L&.--- .ii Milt 111 rlflllaMl 1 1 snipers. (AP Wirephoto front coast gmard) Yank Naval Hit-Japs Stinging i 'Hi S j " By ROBERT ALLIED HEADQUARTERS March 12P)-Allied ground around the rim of the Bismarck quarters reported today, wnue American ugni navai crait ana ulanes hii the Japanese with kinging new blows, " i Pent Douglas MacArthur said bringing in reinforcements, or "evacuating Japanese from positions- near falasea airdrome on the north New Britain coast, were sunk the night' of March 8-9 by PT prdximately ' 40 to 50 combat O troops. One Japanese barge sunk off Talasea i went down under the guns of ah American tank being moved in on a landing craft.' ' . A. spokesman for Gen. MacAr thur said the airstrip at Camp Gloucester, on the western tip of New Britain had been in use by alliea for gome time. The mar- i T 1 ': ines captured the site In Decem- M Fighter p anes from Cape Glou- tester can easUy span the distance to talasea" slighUy more than 100 1 ,r mues away, ; j Newly-captured Talasea, seized by the US marines Wednesday af from Babaul. The airstrip can easily be put Into operation by American Seabees. ';-'t There was no ground action re- . alflSMl nftr from the Aiiraltyands Bismark have been J cleaning up Japanese on strategic! Lbs Negros island. Along the coast of New Guinea, PTlboata shelled the big Japanese base atMadahg. An enemy coastal vessel Was sunk off Gasmata, on (Turn to Page 2 Story E) i OPAto Check Salem Stores 1 : a Salem war price and rationing board, like;others throughout .Utkwul hunch a price chec the state, Willi launch a price checkup this; week to make sure that mer chants understand and are com- r,Win With nriee cei-linrs. it was I . " i . - - imoicaieo cere sanuuay. -U ha, beeA estimated that the hfK0? -I1 DOUl lw ceui " every ,w 1 complied with established price ceingsL, Richard G. Montgtanery, district OPA director said in J Portland as he declared that "price j violations, Intentional and other- wise, have forced food Drices m" I . i - - i paid clerks Will check approxi- niately 10 fcommon food items, and merchants found out of line will be given an opportunity to ex then local price control J conjinittees,: Only willful or rfs j'Peled 1 to he violations will be referred district OPA enforcement I division; 1 others will be handled 'locally,! Montgomery explained. v V over the ran onto the deck of an coast guardsmen after two days 01 atoll la the Marshall. His face is dirt to keep covered from enemy Craft. Planes EUNSON SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sunday, troops on newly-won positions sea had a breathing; spell, head- four troop-laden barges, either boats. Japanese bargea carry ap- 4 Towns Send Men to Fight Fire in Dayton DAYTON, Ore- March ll-(ff) Fire departments from four Wil lamette valley towns turned out today to save the Dayton business district from a fire that threatened to engulf the entire center of the town.-' j. -.' . , .;, McMinnville, .Newberg,' Yam hill and .Dayton firemen held the blaze to two buildings on the main street of this town of 2500, bu water damage was extensive. Fire Chief Ivan Pearson- of Mc- Minnville estimated damage would beat least 150,000. He said the fire apparently started from an overheated flue at the rear of the Odd Fellows building. It swept through the sec ond flodr of that building; and damaged the chamber of com merce building. ' : Water damage was heavy In the nearby payton bank, the Dayton Tribune and a grocery store, but fixe-was kept out. All bank rec ords were safe. The flames reached into a drusj store, and smoke and water ' also damaged a dentist's office and apartments. ? Volunteers aided store owners In carrying" goods from the path of the flames and at the height of the blaze thousands of dollars worth of merchandise clogged the main street. , , Hendrick V Loon, Historian, Dies GREENWICH, Conn March 11 ()- Hendrik Wlem Van Loon died of a heart attack at his home in old Greenwich today while en gaged in writing a new book, "A Report to St. Peter, an autobi- ography covering his lif e up to and including his 21st birthday. The 62-year-old historian, : au thor of a rstory of Mankind" and a score of other works, said when he was last interviewed that his heart was wobbly and remarked that when he died he would take a copy of his new book, hand it to St. Peter and avoid filling out all kinds of entry forms and blanks.; - Blows (Close New Med Bridgehead : Forced Near' . Red Sea Mouth By TOM YARBROUGH : LONDON, Sunday, March 12 (ff- Red army troops forced a spectacular new bridgehead across4 the- wide" Dnieper river in the last 60-mile stretch held by, the Germans, near the Black sea yesterday and captured the district center of Berislav, only 37 miles' abdVe the big sea port of . Kherson, Moscow announced today. Berislav is a" highway hub for at least four major roads branch ing out into the Ukraine. "Units of Xt formation forced the Dnieper during the night (Fri- dayrSaturday) land after a vig orous , attack captured Berislav, district center of the Nikolaev re- Bion, uie nuamgni moscow com- muiuque anawinreo. vvner Aossian lerces ai ih mi . . a . m i northwestern end of the flam ing SOO-mfle Ukraine front were reported stOL flshtlng in the streets of Tarnopol at the end ef the third Oar ef battle for' the airatede rJI towa. The Moscow! communique and Dnieper Crossing its supplement-r-both recorded by the United States of America.' the soviet monitor gave few de- Thetlrish t legation issued,- si tails Of the Russian crossing but multaneousl withi the state for; the firstt time spoke of fight- Ing "southwest and south of Apos- tOlOV ' " The Russians apparently crossed from X a k h o v k a which they convincing evidence that a-rjs sub reachedj early last. November aft- marines actually had been respond er racing In -swift strides across sible for the loss of the two Amer tte .Nogaisk: steppes. ? By yester- lean ships operating under Irish dcys short cut, they, won an ad- charter on which the state depart- Vance Of about20 miles eastward ment based its ran for disannrov- from their last reported position on the west bank of the Dnieper in this area. ; The troops on the east bank in this region had previously been part of the fourth Ukrainian front under Gen. Feodor I." Tolbukhin, and announcement of the crossing may Indicate that the fourth Ukrainian front forces have either begun or are preparing to join the three other Russian army groups! already pounding the sagging Ger-1 man s a i i e n i, in tne southern - . . Ukraine. i " These three captured 180 local!- ties yesterday and kiUed about souu uermana in continued gains along, the, winding front In one area, the late bulletin said, red army guardsmen, "following their (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Peter Seeks Pact With Tito By WES GALLAGHER LONDON, March 11-iPV-Youth- pful King Peter of Yugoslavia, ab sorbed in romance as well as pol itics, launched an effort today to save his throne against heavy odds by seeking an agreement with his country's leading guerrilla leader, Marshal Tito! (Josip Broz). He faced a difficult task. Peter, stepped, off . a plane at a London airport before i a dispatch from Moscow disclosed that his minister to Russia,, Stanojf Simic, had signed and placed himself at the disposal of Tito, Similar action by Lt CoL Meodrag Lozic, military attache at the Moscow embassy, ulen waa ihnrmnnul Peter presumably came with bis seek British help In working out m enmnromise with Titn.' whahax establish his own nwrniniMt In the liberated sector, of Yuen- lav!. ! v n , However! the' young filler cast Berlin to Breslau, toistworflry in id the.. re of tat to m.h formants said today, but the Ger- fianr PHn. AinHr pf Greece, and a short time later both were strolling in the lobby of a London hotel in the best of rpir- i Artliar Roy Sicleljcttqxa T7,?., V-nr 1W !..: II ttlUI AIUlU'af A. A .JKJA EHOOIIS ; Mr. ail Jilrs. A. P. ElJebottom hare had a card from their son, Pf c Arthur Bey Sidebotiom, throngs the Geneva Red Cross, that he Is In excellent healthy' Interned at the PhUip pine military imperial Japanese prison camp No. 1. '-- ... i . - US-Merchant Ship: Sale Refused Ireland Because Of Sinkings by Axis Subs WASHINGTON; March 11 HP The state; department an- ; nounced tonight that it had refused sale of a merchant ship to Ireland because axis submarines had wantonly sunk other Am- ericanships operating under the Irish flag despite Ireland's poli cy of neutrality towards the axis. Although the refusal was made more than a month before the United States asked Ireland to abandon neutrality, the fact that it was announced tonight on the heels of disclosure that Prime Minister de Valera had rejected the abandonment request strong ly indicated that a firmer American policy on economic coopera tion with Ireland is in operation. The fact that Ireland had asked to purchase the SS Wolverine, an 8000-ton vessel, in this country O and the government's reason for declining to approve the sale, were set forth in a note delivered to Prime Minister deValera In Dup lin on January 6 by David Gray, American minister to Dublin. Simultaneously, the department released the text : of a message from President Roosevelt to De Valera on February 26, 1942, re assuring the prime minister that the arrival of American troops in Britain during the first weeks of war did not constitute a threat to : Irish security., j The president rtprlarAd thl ffnvArtimpnt had not .i;PhtMt thought or intention at invadin Irish territory " None - the - less, i Mr. Roosevelt took occasion to tell De Valera bluntly that when the time comes for ' the peace tables he thought that Ireland "in its own best in terest should not stand alone but should be associated with its tra ditional friends, and: anion theml partment release, a, statement by th- Ministers Robert Brennen onf I tWa nmnMi sYiin : Tat in vrhioh nnnn . MnfmHMt hr- m ing the sale of the Wolverine. 2 New Names Loom in Race US Senate I PORTLAND, March 11 -JPl Two more possible j candidates for the senatorial race emerged today, i - . while one oft-mentioned name withdrew from the field. Ray Gill,, former master of the I Orecon state cranee. said be had I been ureed to become a republi- can candidate fori the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Charles I McNaryj but added that I havent yielded? So far only former Governor Charles A. Sprague, Salem repub lican, has announced candidacy to succeed McNaryv !Party leaders, however, predict that Guy Cor don, Roseburg, will file In the GOP primary when he returns to Oregon after being sworn in as interim senator. Edgar W. Smith, member of the state - board of higher education, was expected to come out as a democratic candidate for the seat of Sen. Rufus C Holman. Former Governor Oswald West, "who had said he was considering entering the ' democratic . primary, ended would not be a candidate. To date, Holmans only opposi tion Is Wayne L. Morse,' who re signed as dean of ! the University of Oregon law school and member I of-the national war labor board to enter the GOP primaries. BreSlaU; KeD01ted j ieW lieiCll I - .r'"J " "i 7 JU2iii NAPLES, March ll-a)-Adolf I Hitler has moved his capital from I man nwchinery ; of government still 4 within range of allied bombers. Breslau, one of the largest cities in Germany, is 17S mues south east of Berlin and only; 50 miles from the old Polish border. Most of the . functions ot the uerman government now are car- 1 J-JJ out at the new SHesian head quarters, unofficial. sources here said, since the i transfer from bomb-ravaged Berlin began sev eral weeks ago.' Preslau.is about CSD miles from Britain's coast, 670 miles from the allied air base at Foggia in Italy, and about 425 miles from the Rus sians' front In old Poland, British Press Dublin to Close Listening Posts By ALEX H. SINGLETON LONDON, March ll-(P)-Bri-tish pressure was applied on Dub lin to accept the United States re quest for the closing of axis lis tening posts in Ireland, and in an swer Eire's' Prime Minister Eamon de Valera merely gave the British government a copy' of' the rejec tion he sent Washington, it was disclosed today.; .. ; De Valera's refusal of the re quest, which -was aimed at pre venting the leakage of important military information, may bring the imposition ; of stringent i re strictions on travel between Eire and the United Kingdom. Re sponsible auarters said, there was littleSchance that force such as ecuawmc sancuona wouia oe brought to bear against the Irish government. p In a note dated February 22, Sir John Maffey, United Kingdom' representative to' Eire, informed de Valera that the British wful ly support the request for the! re moval from Eire of German and Japanese diplomatic and consular representatives,? and stated I the British desire "to emphasize -the importance which they attach to this request" j The prospect that border re-. strictions would be - tightened, found support in Home Secretary Herbert Morrison's statement of last July that we are watching the border position, and when further Improvements in control ire wanted we will make them." (Turn to Page 2 Story F) US Weapons. Ready in India WASHINGTON, March 11 -VP) The United State has a huge stockpile of weapons in India $40,381,000 of artillery and other guns, $77,871,000 of ammunition and $42,187,000 of tanks awaiting the time they can be moved Into China for use against the. Japan ese. ; :Vv;;- !'.. .TJ I;-".: This information was given con gress today in the quarterly report of Leo T. Crowley, foreign, econo mic administrator, on operations of lend-lease which he said aggre gated $19,886,000,000 through De cember. . Ori v,- ; It. was the first of such reports to give so much detail of efforts to aid China. Heretofore, the re ports have lumped wiu India and Australia p without . making : clear what percentage has gone to the Chunking government. . j By comparison .with the stock' pile now in China, lend-lease in three years has succeeded in get ting into China only 115,585,000 of ordnance and $22,203,000 . of am munition j although ' aircraft, ma chinery and other supplies run the total of lend-lease aid to China through last December to $200,- 895,000. This total includes $25;- 419,000 of services which were not explained but 1 probably . include training of Chinese pilots in this country and of Chinese troops in India., ' vr. . .tv-v- 1 - , ; , Cobb to Get Funeral r Of Sort He Asked for PADUCAH, Ky, March 11-C35) Irvin S. Cobb's home town ex pects to give the noted humorist the kind of funeral he asked; for in a letter he wrote last Decem ber but which was not opened un til after Lis death in New York yesterday. Definite plans, however, are be ing held in abeyance, until word is received from the widow. .emm RAF Out ;. By -Night, US by Day Forts Meet No Enemy Fighters. Suffer No Loss : i By AUSTIN BEALMEAR LONDON, Sunday, March 12 JPh RAF planes closed put an historic week of heavy aerial attacks last night with a trip across the ! channel under 1 a - bomber's moon" following a big daylight smash by US hea vy bombers at military targets in Muenster, Germany and the Pas - de - Calais area of France. 1 There was no immediate indi cation what targets the British planes were after or whether the operation -was by heavy night bombers or Mosquitos. The were heard in one southeast English coastal district flying towards the continent some time after night fall and later they roared back across the channel. v : The "bomber's moon" under which ' they flew was .like that which the RAF used earlier ta the week ta accomplish night precision bombing. Axis eon-. trelled radio stations ' gave the ; first indication that British ; planes were ant to wind ap per- i nape the meat sifnificaot week ef the ah- war. ; The Paris radio failed to come on with Its regular 10 p jn. news, bulletin and the ' Luxembourg transmitter announced that it 'was "closing down because of th an proach of enemy alrcraftThe Frankfurt radio then broadcast a warning that airplanes were re ported in the alert area. J ; ;r The operation ef the Ameri can Bombers was the 14th this month for the allied heavy weights based in Britain. " : - Meeting no opposition from en emy fighters, Fortresses bombed Muenster through an overcast, us (Turn to Page 2 Story A) ects Held For Shooting Of Don Zander Suspects in the shooting last August 11 of Don Zander, , 24-year-old logging truck operator, , near the Mary & Doc's tavern on North, Front street have been picked up in Arizona according to Information received by Salem police from Kingman, - Arizona, authorities. - .; , Held are Bill Evans, 60, and Vernon Lee Margerum, 13, orig inally detained when Evans was accused of child-stealing, the eld- charged with having induced young Margerum to travel with him from his Sacramento home. Connecting the pair with the Sa lem shooting is story told by the Margerum boy who stated that he and his companion were involved In a fight here with another man and that Evans shot his antagon ist with a .38 revolver and the nan' tried to choke me and Bill tried to beat him to death with the butt of his gun," According to the boy's statement the pair had been camped on the outskirts t ot Salem while engaging in berry picking. After the shooting they drove to Eugene where, they lived t an muw camp xor luur we A3. - Zander Interrupted two men in the act of siphoning gasoline from his truck when he emerged 'from the Doc and Mary Tavern about 10:15 pjn. on the night ot August 11, he told police. An argument (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Pope to Spealc To World Today U AT THE SWISS-ITALIAN FKO N TIES, March ll-OT rope Fins XIX, went by the war, will observe the fifth anniver sary ef his coronation by speak ing te the world tomorrow from the Loggia ef St. Peter's, The pageantry that : nsoaHy marks the- anniversary: will be aoiss- ing, .'" .. ." : Dispatches from Italy Indicate a widespread expectation there that the holy father wCl make some announcement conrcrnL-g the fatsre of Eome, Information here Is that tbe Vatican Is con tinuing its efforts te have Eome spared the ravages of war. ' Susp