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The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Sunday Morning. March 19. 1944
Shock Troop
InchFoi
In Gassino
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knife-wielding fighter from the
Himalayas, was marooned high
up Monastery ; hill, Associated
Press Correspondent Lynn Hein
zerling radioed from Cassinorto-
night, and was being supplied by
. parachute from Mustang fighter
planes, swooping down low
through small arms fire. j
- Fighting furiously from every
-point of shattered masonry from
which guns could be, brought to
bear, the allied forces in Cassino
were slowly pushing the Germans
from their warrens in the south
western part of the town in the
area of the railroad station now
held by the allies. ! ; I
. Working without rest since the
tremendous allied air 'attack lit
erally turned Cassino upside down
Wednesday, Fifth army engineers
finally cleared a path through the
rubble, permitting tanks -to move
into Dosition ahead of the tntan
try to blast, the remaining gun po
sitions and hidden nazi strong
points. -: "' :
The strength of the enemy forces
remaining In Cassino was difficult
to gauge. They were clinging to
caves in the side of the Monte
Cassino to the west and southwest
as well as to a sizeable number
of reinforced concrete emplace
ments and broken buildings in the
fringe of the town. ;
Eight German tanks and two
anti-tank guns were in position on
the heights about 750 yards south
of the town from where they were
able to rain shells on the advanc
ing troops and engage allied ar
tillery. . ; j: - I . , j
Above the city to the west the
fighting was described as fluid
br allied headquarters. The e
esny still was clinging to the
shattered Benedictine abbey on
Moate Cassia.
New Zealanders were in the
thick of the fighting in Cassino.
In severe skirmishing for the pos
session of commanding heights,
British Ghurkas, knife-wielding
night fighters from Nepal on the
Tibetan frontier, held firmly to
the hills immediately south and to
the west of Monte Cassino but lost
, another in the face -of a severe
counterattack. Subsequently the
enemy was driven from this slope
and - at latest reports neither side
was in possession of it - 1
Official allied reports said the
attack on the railroad- station, the
loss of which was acknowledges!
by the Germans today, began
- shortly before noon yesterday,
with tanks rumbling through the
town over bridges hastily thrown
ever bomb craters.-Pressing ahead
despite the efforts of 15 German
Focke-Wulf dive bombers to break
tip their assault, New Zealanders
reached their objective by 2 p.nv
Jay Camp Opens Today
PHILADELPHIA, March lM
Manager Fred Fitzsimmons will
lead about 15 of bis newly chris
tened Philadelphia Blue Jays
south (about 35 miles) to Wilm
ington, Del., tomorrow for the
opening of training camp.
The squad will" include Out
fielder Ron Northey, who has ex
pressed some dissatisfaction with
what the club wants to pay him. 1
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Indspendence to these United States. The
public is cordially invited to see this ex-
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United States National Bank
Member F D X C
Benson Possible
Allied-Fire Victim
"" Possibility that LL Gordon Ben
son, Salem high school graduate
and former Willamette student
who was reported, lost in action
while attached to si troop-carrying
squadron In Sicily, was killed dar
ing the shooting down of 20 allied
transports by their own gunners
at the time of the Sicilian invasion
in July, is seen by the flier's fa
ther, Harry Benson, of the state
highway commission. -f ;
Some 400 plane and troop per
sonnel were lost in the action,
which was revealed to the Ameri
can people only this week by a
correspondent; of the overseas pa
per, "Stars and Stripes.' i.
The elder Benson relates that it
was not until. October that Lt.
Benson's wife! was notified of bis
death, which was reported to have
occurred on July 11.
Reds Sweep
To Dniester
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badly cut up lit could not fight,
and ten others soundly whipped
but still retaining! what the spe
cial communique called "some
fighting capacity."
The remnants of this army were
declared now fleeing westward in
dividually or in small groups.
Split and virtually trapped, the
Germans confronted major dis
aster as the Russians pushed the
war to the door of panicky Ru
mania and advanced through the
mud at all points up and down the
200-mile-long Ukrainian battle
line. : - v . i
The fall of Yasapol was an
nounced la the regular midnight
eommunia.il, German forces be
low that -point are caught be- .
tween -fhe Dniester, and the
Bog rivers, with only two rail
crossings of the Dniester re
maining to them. j
Their quick doom was presaged;
by the subsequent., special an-!
nouncement that the sixth Ger- j
man army, reconstituted since
the original sixth was annihilated
in February, 1943, at Stalingrad,
had ' been routed in the soviet
break-through across the Igulets
river' to the southern Bug between
March 6 and 16, with 38,800 Ger-
mans killed. ;
CoL Gen. Hanig was named as
commander of j the ' reconstituted
German sixth jjarmy, now con
fronting a fate! recalling the -en
trapment and capitulation of the:
former sixth army of 330,000 men
under Marshal Friedrlch ; Von
Paulus at historic Stalingrad.- -.
Soviet Gen. Rodio Y. Malinov-
sky's main victory over the sixth
army was accomplished between
March 13 and 16, the special com
munique said,' when a soviet
guards group drove into the Ger
man rear. I
The German command lost
all power of direction ever Its
troops, the announcement said,
and ordered jlhtm to try to
make their way westward in
small groups of individuals,
each man for himself.
The staggering weight of booty
that fell intact into Russian hands
included 131- tanks, 74 self-propelled
guns, 078 field guns, 13
trainloads of ammunition, 9100
motor trucks, 99 supply dumps,
12 ammunition dumps, and thou
sands of rifles,; mortars, machine
guns and shells and cartridges.
Even a nver j steamer . was cap
tured by the advancing Russians.
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RAF Pounds
Frankfurt; US
Hits Germany
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bombers on February 25 and a
week before that US Flying Fort
resses made a heavy attack on its
industrial targets. -J j
American fighters in yester
day's operations destroyed 39 en
emy planes, but the number of
nazi interceptors to fall before the
guns of the bombers was not an
nounced. The escorting - fighters
represented both the US eighth
and ninth air forces.: X j. ' .
It was announced that some of
the American bomber formations
"encountered considerable enemy
fighter opposition. 4 , ' '
Besides Augsburg and Fried
richshafen, military targets also
were hit at Lechfeld, Landsberg
and Oberpfoffenhoffen.- j j
The loss was the heaviest for
American daylight raiders since
the March attack en1 Berlin
which cost 68 heavy bombers.
However, at least 13 4 planes
missing from today's SOO-tnile
penetration Into Europe were
reported to have landed safely
in Switzerland. t -
Augsburg, a center of aircraft
engine manufacture, has been
pounded heavily before and on
February 23 was a target for both
a daylight attack by US bombers
and two separate, blows j by the
RAF at night It Is 30 miles north
west of Munich. .f"1 ...:'
At Augsburg is located the pres
ent Messerschmitt plant used for
experimentation, d e e 1 o pment
and production . of twin-engined
ME410s. Lechfeld, Landsberg and
Oberpfoffenhoffen also sxe all,
near Munich and all are sites of
airfields where- new Messer
schmitt models are believed being
perfected. ' .; -f.l-t';'"'
Friedrichshaf en, J u s 4 across
Lake Constance: from Switzerland,
was hit by US heavies for the
first time Thursday, It has air
craft industries, and a big radio
location plant This ; time it was
the objective of Liberators, which
apparently bore the brunt of Ger
man resistance. ' j t " 'i
The Berlin radio went off the
air tonight, suggesting that the
KAF nit hi shift was. takug ot
er the aronnd-the-clock offen
sive which at mldnlxht had
been la progress for S4 hours.'
Liberator crewmen upon their
return! told of encountering much
more savage opposition than did
the Fortress. fliers. I & 'A ;" ",
"We were really lucky to get
through today," declared Capt
Andrew S. Low of Allenton, RI,
pilot of one Liberator' end e dep
uty, group leader. The flak , was
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builds highways on a work-bench ... i
turns the weather on and off at wilL
Imagination sees with the. X-ray's eyes,
measures the muscles in metal,
studies atoms to learn hoir tons j
irill behare in action.
Icuinstion is the searching, fact-finding
force in laboratory work that gives
gpccial chsracter to all Chrysler
Corporation
so thick; there were times when
you couldn't see through Jt .
Another Liberator pilot, 1 Lt
James ' E. Muldoon of 42 Green
street, Fairhaven, Mass said his
formation of 12 bombers was at
tacked headon by about 75 enemy
fighters.
His own escort had pulled ahead
when fthe . Liberator, formation
slowed down to protect two crip
pled planes and he said: "This was
the chance the enemy, was . wait
ing for. They hit us In a solid
mass. A 20-millimeter shell came
through the co-pilot's window and
set off the 'abandon ship' : belL
Smoke and flames filled the nose
of the ship.' I saw several Liber
ators go down. . . ; :
' The big operation was the 13th
of the month for US heavy bom
bers making daylight raids from
British bases.
Breakthrough9
Menaces Jap
Burma Supply
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and expanding into a powerful
threat i to enemy rule in Burma,
that the Japanese mounted their
first feeble counter-blow, an aer
ial sortie that RAF Spitfires
quickly broke up. rV f "f!::
Jackie Coogan, one-time won
der boy of the movies, now a
USAAF glider pilot, was the first
to land his ship on the site of the
advanced base when the big show
started.;, ;
:: Airborne engineers in the first
wave ot gliders, using mules also
flown to the site, hacked an air
strip out of the Burma jungle in
z hours,: which heavy transports
were using byVthe night of March
to reinf oree the original garri
son with 7 additional troops and
supplies. 1 ' . ' r,
Some idea of the magnitude of
the operation was given in a
headquarters report which ; said
that at one stage of the carefully
planned operation, a transport
was leaving or arriving every 47
seconds. ...
CuB Roster Off
Forj Camp Grind f
CHICAGO, March 18 -(kh A
party of Chicago Cubs, will-leave
tomorrow, to open spring training
at French Lick, Ind, but no one,
including ' General Manager- Jim
Gallagher, seems to be certain of
the number of players to be on
hand.' i V'; . :s ; U;
Several 'have failed to return
signed j contracts, -either because
they were unsatisfied with terms
offered or because they expect to
enter military service soon. Am
ong those unsigned Is Bfll Nich
olson, slugging Outfielder.
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were seen in Gen. f Douglas Mac
Arthur's communique statement
that they were ""now fighting in
Lorengau." j .
Yesterday's ' communique said
that the cavalrymen had hammer
ed their way throuhg the enemy's
pillbox defenses : to within 600
yards of the, townj'- " "
When the Americans landed on
Manus island Wednesday - north
west of Lorengau they separated
into two forces to make a two
pronged attack on the airstrip,
which they captured the next day.
-"The combined forces launched
their final attack j on the town
Friday noon. The town is south of
the airfield. ;. j " ; '
Allied bombers j and fighters
again showed mastery of the air
in the Bismarck sea area as all
planes of the fifth and thirteenth
army air forces which engaged in
raids on three enemy bases re
turned safely to their home air
fields, meeting no aerial resist
ance r (!,;- y ."- r
; Heaviest blow was dealt We
wak, where 194 tons of bombs bit
Boram airdrome and Installations
at Cape Moem. .
' A raid on Rabaul, the shattered
Japenese base in! New Britain,
placed 88 tons of j explosives on
Vunakanaa and Tobera airdrom
es, Vunapope supply area and the
waterfront . j
: This attack' and: one on Kav
leng, the enemy strongpoint In
New Ireland, were-staged Thurs
day. Kavieng was hammered with
42 tons of bombs which scored di
rect hits on 10 gun positions and
ah ammunition dump, s
Australian Beauf orts and Beau
fighters dropped 19 j tons of bombs
on enemy positions at Kalai plan
tation, on Wide bay, New Britain.
Liberator heavy! bombers on
night patrol damaged two 6000
ton. -vessels in a Japanese convoy
caught off Hollandia, New Gui
nea. I
Toronto Trims Bruins
TORONTO, Ont,j March lffF)
The Toronto Maple Leafs wound
up their regular National Hockey
league reason tonight with a lop
sided 10-2 triumph over the Bos
ton Brums before llJ09 fans. The
victory practically assured 'Toron
to of third jplace in the final lea-
jrue standings, which would .pit
them against the Montreal Cana
diens in the Stanley cup play
offs,' :
FORC0 AT CHRYSLER
FOR YOU IN WAR
Laboratoties have the last word on all Chrysler Corpora
tion products. To uncover any possible weakness, scirnfisfs
put parts through tests equivalent to years of service, then
check tbem for changes or wear
approved for i
The laboratories d'tf out facts for the entire operating
and prodiictiisChrTsler Corporation. lathis way, CJhrysler
u orjaued to apply mU. its resources to escA of its mam
acturing dirision and to exchange sflsoaj th divisions
tfas skills and experience of each.
This practical use of imsynation brouit you 4-wheel
hydraulic brakes, hishrmnprcssioa
floatms -power, fluid drive and other- car uupsaysasents
which owners of Ouysler Cocporstion cars now enjoy.
ToJrr.CJirrrfer Corporation prJmce Urxe qwtntlties
l ttnks. ntUnxrit runs, mhrcrmft
trucks, hetbor
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Swegle School
Is Rewarded - ' -With
Party
SWEGLEThe school children
were given an annual nartv hv th
membership committee of - the
PTA for their help in making the
membership canvass, in the fall.
It was a Saint Patrick day party
this year and Friday afternoon the
committee: Mrs. Cecil Frame;
Mrs. William HenseH and Mrs.
Charles Bottorff provided a pro
gram, ana served refreshments to
the entire school group. y::'u
' The third grade class gave the
special assembly program with
Delbert Bolton announcer for the
following numbers: the Lord's
prayer, led by Earl Peterson; a
song j by the grade members,
"Raise Our nag;" a reading, "St
Patrick's," ; Donald Cozad; "Our
Part' by the entire grade and Earl
Peterson ' read, a selection on
Table- Manners," written by
Jackie Utterback. ,
' Ronald Nelson, son of Leonard
E, Nelson, is new in the fourth
grade: and has been attending
school at Kennewick, Wash.
Donkey Engine
Accident Fatal
LEBANON Philip Steele
Johnson, 22, of Corvallis.wis kill
ed Thursday while working in the
woods for Emmert Brothers. Log
ging company. He was feeding a
donkey when a tree caught in a
cable. -. - -l. - :.K - .
' ;Hia parentSr Mr, and Mrs. Dello
Johnson and two brothers, Verne
and James, all of Corvallis, sur
vive, p - - ;-ii:-v;':-;-v--:-'-": .:
Funeral services were "read in
Albany at the Mennonite church
Saturday. Burial was made in
Willamette Memorial park. 1
Dayton Boxing Finals
DAYTON Wednesday night
saw the first of the intramural
boxing rounds fought off at Day
ton high with 20 punchers partici
pating.: Final rounds are dated for
March 34 in the evening. Imme
diately following, Tayton opens
baseball practice for the seasonal
start on or about April 1. -
Diamond Drills Held
JEFFERSON Jefferson
high's .baseball team is now hold
ing daOy practices, rounding into
sh-ap for the .upcoming South
Marion county B" loop schedule.
Four returning lettermen. Catcher
Autis Bares, Pitcher Jack Skel-
ton and Inflelders Monte Weddle
and Bob Bruce, are back from
last year's Lion nine. t
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Kurile Raids7
Bring Air War
Nearer Japan
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Shimushu on the same day. Again
there was no opposition.
The navy announcement of the
raids also told rof smashes by
navy - planes against four Japa
nese-held atolls in -the eastern
Marshall Islands. Thus : Pacific
aerial; warfare 1 front stretched
from the sub-Arctic Kuriles to the
Marshalls, near the equator, a dis
tance 01 more than 3100 miles.
The Matsuwa .raid, representing
another step on the, road.to the
Japanese mainland, was carried
out from an Aleutian base. It was
the closest approach to Tokyo
since Maj. Gen. James Doolittle.
led a wave of Mitchell bombers
over the J apahese capital. It was
30 miles closer to Tokyo than the
raid of. last August 31 when car
rier "planes lashed at , Marcus
island to the southeast of Nippon's
seat ol government. In order to
reach Matsuwa the army bomber
skipped m half dozen other Japa
nese islands. ' , .
Valloy Obituaries
l MONMpxrnji urt . d. i.
gtitt, longtime- resident of Mon
mouthvr where her tote ? husband
was owner and editor of . the
UonraoUth Herald: for many years,
died thig pontit 'sou&av
uv the family plot atv Tlr Crest
cemetery here. . She had made her
home in;. recenti years' with s
daughter, . Mrs.- Guy. Scheibel,
south of Eugene L .
LEBANON" Mrs. Carrie" Cor
yell, born in Nebraska 67 years
ago, died Friday at her home and
will be buried in the IOOF cem
etery after services in the Howe
chapeL She is survived by one
brother, Charles Callison. She was
a member of the Church of Christ
and of 1 the Mill City Rebekah
lodge. She had lived in Lebanon
nine years. j .. ;.
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Workers on the production front have an obli
gation to protect their general health by keep
ing teeth in sound repair.
Dr. Painless
Parker Says:
"Neglect takes too heavy a toU
of teeth land health in the na
tion. . Only by visiting a den- :
tist and having teeth examined
can you: be certain of what
dentistry .you require. Use
Accepted Credit to take care
of your dental expense. Pay by
the week or month."
Transparent dental .
plates have added
beauty and realism
Natural appearance is benefit
ted by dental plates made with
improved material, because,
dentists have found that lt has'
more faithful reproduction and
greater adaptability. Plates
have a graceful design they
are lighter in weight their
color is carefully blended . . .
all factors that add to their
popularity. One of the most
" sought-after effects in plates is
a naturalness tin color and
form, and this is achieved by
new style transparent plates.
They will not shrink. or warp.
Translucent teeth in
the same shape and
. size as your own
natural teeth
'When having restorations
made, choose' translucent teeth
,s recently - perfected artificial
-teeth for dental plates. These
refined teeth absorb and re
flect light, and haver the soft
surface lustre of your present
teeth.- Translucent-' teeth are
available in the color: hue and
shading of human' teeth.
Get into the fight.
Buy More War Bonds
And Stamps. -
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Guest Spends s A
Time yisiting ,
IMonmouth
CLOVERDALE Mrs. Herbert
Fleetwood of Salem, . one time
resident of this community, is vis
iting Mrs. Nellie Hamilton. She
spent part ' of Friday at the Fred
Schifferer home , and with Will
and Frieda Schifferer 'and Mrs.
Arthur Kunke.
; Mrs. Rose ' Burmuwurth left
Friday for Prosser, Wash, where
she will spend a few days with
her brother and family before
returning' to her home in Switser,
Ind. She is 78 years old and this
was her first trip out of her na
tive state.7 She traveled - alone
coming out. She visited here one
week with her sister, Mrs. Fan
nie Goodlander. ; '
Leonard Hamilton
Dies in Washington
CLOVERDALE Mrs. Nellie
Hamilton received ' a me&saff
Thursday morning from Washing
ton saying that her stepson, Leon
ard Hamilton had died.
Some time ago he was stricken
with a stroke and has not really
been wen since. She has not yet
heard-the particulars concerning
the funeral arrangements.
Guy Curtwright 1-A
- FRENCH LICK, Ind, March
IsVManager Jimmy Dykes of
the. Chicago , White Sox said to
day he had been informed Out
fielder Guy Curtwright has been
classified 1-A in the draft and
probably will report for a pre-in-ductioh
physical examination next
month.:;-. ;-. - . : .
Rifle Shoot Slated.
SEATTLE, March IS-H-The ,
annual Washington state .indoor
small-bore rifle tournament will
be held Apra 28; with shooters
competing both in Seattle and
Spokane, it was announced to
night . r . f !
Spokane and Seattle scores win
be compared by telegraph to de
termine the winners. '
Army makes
available for
service more than
350,000 men
through
construction
of dentures
An example of what can be
accomplished in the making
of dentures is the fact that
the Army Dental Corps has
made over 700,000 dentures
in the two years of war
making it possible for 350,
000 men to take their place
in the fighting units.
Dentistry of all
kinds on terms
to suit you
Make Your Own
Terms, Within
Reason
For whatever dental service
you may require. - Fillings,
bridgework, crowns, extrac
tions, inlays. Make your
first visit . without . an ap
pointment., Pay for plates as
you wear. them.
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