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J " M . - ' V. : - I- r - -: A - ' ;': r - ' - f , r. . , M-.- - . - u ...... i , A' - - - h . ITFP : fit GDOLfe ;7csl2:cr T 'f Toes lay tntxlmana ' tela ' peratnre St, minimum . SO. Elver 'A ft. Ore rem Partly iclisdy . Wednesday. . and , Thorsayt wlth showers ex-; i treme Borthwest p r 1 1 -Wedaesday. Little Changs la : temperatsre. - ! - . - ,. . . . . r , If 1W 1 : 1 it . ' I asked a local real estate man the other day how business was. He replied they were, having - - hard time getting enough farms to sell. I asked It purchasers were persons who were making small down payments expecting to pay the remainder out of income. .. He replied that most of the sales were made for all cash or with large down payments. The person try' ing to buy on contract with small ..... JJ A . in max payment was crowaea out by the person with means. At Ai . bany I heard a similar comment, that purchases now are for cash. While this means that equities . are not thin enough to be washed . out with any recession it does not . mean there is no speculation. For It is a mattter of common knowl edge that farm prices have risen Probably most purchasers now are not buying Just for a quick re sale but because they have faith . in the land and regard its owner- .. ship as a sound investment, still the competitive purchasing helps ! shoot up the price of land, and if It goes too high losses are certain . to. accrue. -. f : " ' Back in the corn belt some folk re getting worried lest the land ' boom run away withj itself. Some are even proposing government controls, like heavy taxes on prof its in land sales. A. G. Black, who is retiring as governor of the farm credit administration, says that - some lands in the midwest and south are selling at prices Jrom 20 to 30 per cent above; normal, and ffe rise is continuing at a rate of about one per cent a monui. Good old Iowa surely hasn't for gotten its experience back in 1920 when corn land went to $600 an ' acre (generally on contract) which was followed by prolonged de pression and many j foreclosures and multitudes of heartaches. I do not put much stock in "controls." Why should you seg regate quick gains in real estate from quick gains in the stock market? The public's memory goes back to the previous post war deflation and that is a suffi cient warning of dangers of over ' bidding on farm lands. And per haps they may not be dumb after all if they put their money in good land. . Suppose Inflation did come In full bloom then they might be , the 'smart guys." ! , The place for the controls is in prices to withstand Inflation and " in (Continued on-Editorial Page) Bond Quota by Large Margin Marion county topped its quota in the recent fourth war loan cam patgn with sales of $5,7.64,000 rep "resenting 135.7 perj cent of its $4,246,100 quota, according to Jess J. Card, county war finance com mittee chairman, following receipt of final statistics Tuesday from . C Sammons, state chairman. The real Job," according to Card, "was in sale of series bonds, for which the county had a quota of $1,604,000 and a final sales figure of $2,027,500 or $423,- 500 over the goal, the highest dol lar figure of any county in the state except Multnomah. . This is the first time in any one drive that series bond sales here have exceeded $2,000,000, and both Card and Salem Chairman Arthur W, Smither - are Jubilant over the results. :k'... With 153.7 per cent recorded on Its quota of sales to individuals, Marion county was; second only to Jefferson and Grant counties In that classification. Lane coun ty sold 141.6 per cent of indivi duals' sales quota, i i Total sales In Marion county once again exceeded those of its near rival, Lane, in Marion $5,' 764,000 worth were sold, while Lane sales totaled $5,638,100. Marion s record j could never have been achieved, without the support of committee workers, all "of them, according to Card and Smither, and the patriotic citizens who ; purchased the bonds, - but these special bits of cooperation were pointed out Tuesday: Shows given by Salem theatres. the - carnival . and appearance of war heroes and movie stars and prizes given by Salem merchants; r - (Turn to Page 3--Story.C) Soldier Attacks Two in Albany ALBANY, March 21-VPolice Chief Perry Stellmacher said to iay that a Camp Adair soldier who attacked a 13-vear-old rirl and a woman here Saturday night has been turned over to military police. - . . ; ' ; -. ! Stellmacher said he caught Pvt. Bailey Phillips leaving the home of Mrs. Roslyn Siebenthaler after he was awakened by screams of her daughter, Marilyn. The girl accused Phillips of entering, the house, seizins her without warn' ing and dragging her to the front porch, Stellmacher said. . Fhillips also was identified by I.Irs. Seth T. French as the sol dier who earlier in the evening had struck her on the head as he passed her on a street, Stellmacb- Ey lops KTT3TY-THIKD YEAR Reds Cut Off Black Sea Ports '-AA:. . I " i German Forces, Crimea to Odessa May Be Trapped '," By, TOM YARBROUGH LONDON, Wednesday, Mar. 22 -iffy- Russian troops sweep ing across the Dniester river in to Bessarabia on a 50 - mile front cut the Cernauti - Baltsky trunk railway yesterday, and stormed through 40 villages to within 30 miles of the Prut riv er, from which the nazis launched their 1041 invasion, Mos cow announced today. . Smashing German and Ruman ian resistance on the approaches to the Prut, Moscow's communi que announced the capture of Drokiya, 23 miles south of Mogilev Podolski, and 25 miles west of Soroki, west bank Dniester town which fell to the Russians Sun day. Presumably the railway was cut in the Drokiya area. By capturing Ketrosy, five miles southeast of Drokiya, the Russians reached a point within 20 miles of one German escape railway from southern Russia, the Slobodzeya Baltsy line, and were ; within 48 miles of the major escap? road, the Udessa-Tiraspol-lasi line. - - j. Thus: the Russians,; striking toward I the Danube, .were swiftly developing their threat to pocket scores of thousands of Germans in the Odessa bottleneck, 150 miles to the southeast. As the sweep into pre-war Ru mania tore through Rumanian di visions covering the flight of Ger man troops, Moscow's communique said the red army attacking in old (Turn to Page 2 Story B) River Channel Job Awarded PORTLAND, March 21-WY-A contract to straighten the Willa mette rver channel 12 miles north of Salem was awarded by the dis trict army engineers office today to Kuckenberg Construction com pany, Portland, on a low bid of $178,531. A total of 900,000 cubic yards of dirt and gravel will be removed to eliminate two bends in the river near the Wheatland ferry. The new channel will be 8500 feet long and 110 feet wide at the bot tom, with a maximum cut of 23 feet Willkie Blasts Ghi-Trib: Stassen Hurls in His Hat WASHINGTON, March 21-kffl Lt Com. Harold E. Staasen today became the fourth openly recep tive prospect for the republican presidential nomination, leaving only Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Gen. Douglas MaeArthur outside that category, Staasen wrote Secretary of the Navy Knox that he does not seek and will do nothing personally to secure the nomination, but if he were nominated he would consid er it his plain duty to accept and would request inactive status to permit him to discuss the issues of the day. vv. .:to(..;x .yv',.;;-' The 38-year-old former Minne sota governor thus joins Wendell L. Willkie, Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, and R e p , Everett M. Dirksen of BlinoU to the publicly receptive list of possible candi dates. ; . ' . , T-:- Gov. Dewef of New York re peatedly has said he Is not can didate, but his friends say he, like Staasen, would not decline a nom ination. Gen. MaeArthur also would accept, his supporters say. - Staasen will face his first test before the voters in the Wisconsin primary April 4: in a four-way contest for 2i republican delegates with Willkie, Dewey and MaeAr thur. f- y:; ;,; Staasen's name also is entered In the April 11 Nebraska prefer ence primary, along with Willkie'. 12 PAGES PldneUNose Cut Off, Bitt Pilot Returns , - -1 i AT A BOMBER BASE IN v . BRITAIN, Wednesday, March 22 (iF)-Despite a blinding snowstorm, a pilot flew his noseless Flying Fortress back from Frankfurt Monday after affreak accident in which three bombs from; another B-17 hit the plane. 1 . The three bombs failed to ex plode but they knocked; off the nose and killed the bombardier. Gunner Sgt. Richard A. 'Jones of 3183 West 98thstreet, Cleveland, Ohio, found?; the bombardier's bloodstained ; Bible beside his body. .J . ' - ! ; , Snow blown through the open nose by a 70-kriot headwind covt ered the pilot, Lt. James C. Rey nolds of Coeymans, NY,! and Lt. Mark C. Liddell of 13 Cambria Court, St. Davis,! Pa, the cjo-pilot iteynoids said; we naa to pry open our eyelids because they were iced up and stuck together. Our oxygen was out so jwe used our emergency; Bulbs. "It was the coldest ride I ever had 40 degrees! below zero." : The planes',; instruments were knocked out, but Reynolds man' aged to lead seven: other Fortress' es back to England. f i Nazi Airmen Pour Bombs On to London LONDON, Wednesday! March 22-;p)-The German afir force . : r - - poured incendiaries and nigh ex: plosives upon London eirly this morning in a renewed atfempt to burn out the capital. I The swooping jiraiders vtere met by a terrific r barrage. One was seen speedily . to fall from the flare-lit sky. The barrage' opened up a few moments after fie alert was sounded and: swelled to a sus tained thunder. The barrage sub sided after a hauf-hour. . 4 (14 words censored.) j The nazis used a pathfinder technique, dropping target-lighting devices and, scores of flares. ; The raid was somewhat briefer than the last big one on March ' U l While the riazi air force had laid off the Capital ;for several nights, the nazis, last struck else where in England Sundayf hitting coastal and midlands targets. The raiders : drove in, dropping flares as the barrage swelled to a sustained roar, J : l . ' GREEN BAY,E Wis., - March 21 )-Wendell I Willkie gave the lie tonight to whft he called "stor ies spread around that 1 am in league with President Roosevelt and agree with his foreignjpolicy." "I have never had a political talk with Mr. Roosevelt- in my life," Willkie told an audience here at the close of his fourth day of intensive .Wisconsin campaign ing for a delegate slate 'pledged to him. "If Mr Roosevelt is In favor of some sort of international cooperation to preserve the peace, then we are in agreement at least Mr. Roosevelt la ui agree ment with me." j:- ' ; i . ' At Appleton, earlier in the day, Willkie declared that any republi' can j presidential! candidate who does not repudiate America First or who Is endorsed by the Chicago Tribune, cannot' be. electee i " "Any republican' candidate who does not repudiate America First and its. president, Geralji LI K. Smith, and all i they represent, prior to the - nomination, for who does not. repudiate them after nomination, cannot possibly be el ected president cf the United plates," vvuiKie saia at a third meeting. , ; . ! Wendell L. WSIkle tonight en tered Maryland's republican cres- tdential preference primary May Salem, Oregon, Wednesdar Morning. MarcH 2i IS44 weep Take Over 1 Retake Old Hotfel Fanatic Germans Blast Way Back Into Continental By RICHARD MASSOCK ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, March 21-P)-Fanatic young nazi parachute troops perhaps the toughest young men in the German army - jhaye fought their way back into the ruins of the Continental hotel at Cassino's edge and continue to wage a desperate struggle for vital heights behind the strong hold, it was announced today. Only yesterday New Zealand troops and tanks blasted their way into the extensive wreckage of the hotel on the southwestern out skirts and seized 180 prisoners. but last night the Germans struck back savagely under the exhor tation of their commander, Lt Gen. Richard Heidrich, to throw the allies out of Cassino. New Zealand and Indian troops still held the railway station and Castle hill on the slope of Mt Cas sino, but - the nazis were throw ing vicious counter attacks against Indian Ghurkas clinging tojCas tie hill. Allied r or?", oomDers again supplied isolated v: allied troops by parachute. ' ":. The ferocity of the nazi's- de fense was partly explained by the disclosure that Hekuich's para chute troops, to whom have been added units of a crack armored grenadier division," average bout 20 years of age and are thoroughly imbued with the nazi doctrine. Most of them are fighting to the death. - " ;' An allied communique held no promise of an early decision,! say ing that "Fierce fighting continued for the fifth day for possession of Cassino and vicinity. Within the ruins of the town the enemy (suc ceeded in bringing up reinforce ments Sunday night, and mopping up has been slow Writing from the battle site, a ted Lynn Heinzerling of the Assoc! Press wrote at 4:15 p. m. today that the Germans had firmly establish ed themselves on a commanding height known as hill 165, which they recaptured yesterday, and had planted a wide minefield in! the path of any allied counterattack. With all roads up Monastery hill (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Willamette Student Wins at Stanford PALO ALTO, Calif- March 21 Miss Darlene Dickson of Wil lamette university; Salem,' Ore last night won the Pacific regional finals of the national discussion contest on inter-American affairs. at Stanford university. , '. j Miss Dickson advocated; Inter- American trade and commerce as a basis for permanent cooperation. ' There were eight contestants from 11 eastern states. ' Darlene DicksonV Willamette senior and speech major, Tuesday night telephoned long distance from Palo Alto, Calif, to her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Elbert E. Dick son, and Informed them Jthat she had been awarded first place; in the contest. - - ;f . Miss Dickson win now go, as western representative to Wash ington, DC, where she will com pete with regional finalists from five other sections of the country for a government sponsored jP into Mexico this summer with $500 to go toward study and tra vel in that land. - 1 - ( It is expected that the finals will be held on the TownF Meeting of the Air, a regular Thursday night nroeranv , -. . : ; ' -Professor Herbert Rahe, of the Willamette - speech ; department, said Tuesday night that in the three years this discussion con test has been staged independent Oregon Institutions have, carted off toiT honors Pacific universi ty's representative winning the Initial year, a Linfield entrant the second, and this year Miss Dick A m Airiroops son. Tmmrd SixMissing In Explosion i ot PENDLETON, Ore. March tL -fP-An trie containing bombs exploded at the UasatUla am munition storare depet at fl tonight and five w six perseu are nissinr, Cel. A. 8. Borers, commanding officer, anBooniced at inldiilfhtrr "(?jy He said names of the easoal tles would be annoimeed as sooa as 'determined. Caose of the ex plosion Is uknewn, he said, hut There is so knowledge of any sabotage.1 ' CoL Bayers said the explosion . did not Tommanieate with any other property and that there was no fire.;. . .. ; :r: ' i " He said damage nalght amount to $75,0M to $19,000. j The force of the blast was j felt here, 30 miles southeast, and resi dents as far away as Lewiston, Idaho, reported feeling the shock, which they attributed to an earth quake. . . j i .: : I .. - Hermiston, Ore., six miles from the depot, was rocked and farm ers; near the depot reported see ing great sheets of flame shoot in to the sky. j Damage at Hermiston was ported negligible considering force of ithe explosion. First re the re- ports said only several store win dows were broken. Residents paid the -ground shook as from an earthquake. 5 k s v The ammunition depot covers n area -of some 10 square miles. The igloos ore placed 400 ; feet apart, almost buried in sandy soil. Japs Claim ce Burma Border Bv CHARLK? flRTTMTrTT NEW DELHI, March 21-kjPi Japanese troops are advancing in fierce fighting along the north' west Burma-Assam border, the southeast Asia command announc ed today, i I (The Japanese-controlled Sing apore radio; said Japanese units have crossed into India. It inter rupted its regular transmission; to announce: "Japanese uuits, . sup ported by, free Indian forces, crossed from Burma Into India and are fighting on Indian soil.") The allied communique assert' ed that combined allied forces op erating in northeast Burma scor ed "unexpectedly sudden" victor les in breaking through into the upper Mogaung valley, and in the capture of Sumprabum, 70 miles west of China's Yunnan border. The Japanese had concentrated troops, vehicles and stores on the banks of the Chindwin river and were attempting to push up the Kabaw valley just ; west of the Chindwin. ' Marines Take Emirau Island i By ASAHEL BUSH ! ALL IE D HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Wednes day, March 22-AVAmerican ma rines - from the Solomon islands seized Emirau island Monday while United i States battleships in their first action in the Bis marck sea area pounded the Jap anese base at Kavieng on New Ireland with 1000 tons of steeL The marines overcame light en emy resistance to put Emirau un der ; allied control easily. Posses sion of Emirau, in the St Mat thias group 84 miles northwest of Kavieng, "completes the isolation of an enemy bases in the Bis marck archipelago and places ss within bombing range of Truk." Truk, the bia enemy naval and supply base which already Is with' in range of American bombers based on recently - conquered Marshall islands airfields, is about 600 statute miles north of Emirau. : The three and one-half hour bombardment of Kavieng by bat tleships and other war craft vir tually destroyed the town, a head quarters spokesman said. It had been preceded by an aerial bomb ing.:: The attarkem iitfrfc& ;no At Bomb Dep Advan From MdiUwm Puppets Vesuvius Destroys Villages ition In 72 Years Casts I Pall Over Naples ON THE SLOPES OF MT. VESUVIUS, March 21P-Laf va " streams spilling from the iery crater of historic Mt Ve suvius swollen and multi plied by a recent new eruption -swept on one town j tonight and threatened two others at the volcano's base, after engulf ing two villages during the day. Two Italian boys were reported killed by an explosion of a stone cistern at Massa di Somma after lava spreading above it brought the water to a boil and a geyser eaped into the air. A violent eruption of Vesuvius at 5:30 p. m. threw Jets Jot lava about I 1000 feet skyward . and hurled streams of the molten mass down the slopes. H In the van of the molten, gluey mass scrambled a . tearful, pitiful army of bewildered villagers, oaded down with household goods. - In its wake lay thousands upon thousands of tons of fiery . red coals, piling higher -and higher over homes and orchards and vine yards.. -V'p The towns engulfed by the mol ten rock were San Sebastiano and Massa Di Somma, both about a mile and a half from the top of the volcanic mountain. Faced with a similar fate' was Cercola. At mid- afternoon, the lava field was less than 150 feet from its town halL ' Over Vesuvius, in its most fearsome eruption since 1872, hung a blackish pall, and the en tire Naples area was in a strange twilight caused by a cloud of gray dust. The stream of lava, 90 feet deep at points, sent up flames and sulphurous fumes. ; An Italian scientist. Prof. Gius eppe Imbo of the royal Vesuvius observatory, reported he was un able to detect any signs that the lava - flow would cease soon. He has been on 'the mountain since Saturday noon, when the huge era ter "blew off. . r" J,, U ." Rushing more than 200 big trucks to San Sebastiano and Mas sa Di Somma before the lava reached them last night, the Am erican and British armies, the RAF and the allied military gov ernment played a , major part in evacuating the two doomed towns. (Turn to Page 2 Story D) JDigge8tr.mt Hull Defines Foreign Policy; Blasts Vichy WASHINGTON. March 21 - 4P laid down a 17-point program of American foreign policy! aimed! at a post-war world of international cooperation and called 'on all liberty-loving peoples to show themselves worthy of f reedomj by fighting for it. I " ! Issued as millions of allied troops poised for the coming inva-i sion of Europe, Hull's remarks call . to the peoples of occupied lands to arise and aid the hlerat ing armies when the time comes. i They appeared designed; too, to reply to criticism that the United States has no clear foreign poli cy and to clarify some of the ques tion which have been raised in connection with recent American moves in the diplomatic field. For example, the point on lib erty stating that "never Idid a plainer duty to fight against its (liberty's) foes devolve upon all peoples ' who prize liberty and all who aspire to It" fits closely with the attitude adopted towards the Finns. - j r - Hull has not commented on Fin land's rejection of Soviet i armis tice terms, but he has warned the Finns in the past that they must "bear the consequences of their association In the wax with Germany. ' j Clearly the urge to fight for liberty iwaa also directed .at -the nervous Balkans, where Hitler has occupied Hungary while ru mors of peace feelers by Hungary, Prlc So Ace Aldrich - Captain Donald- K,' CM Aldrleh, U. 8. M. A. C. Before ho was IX years eU. Ma riae Captain Donald N. Aldrich, U. 8. M. A. Cn had 100 hours hi the air! He learned to fly with his father, who was a'eommer etal pUot Captain Aldrich, Chi. " cage's foremost ace of World war n. shot down 28 Jap planes hi the Pacifle in six months and holds the D. 8. C He b home on brief leave and was greeted on arrival by his wife, Mar jori4 and by their family pet (Inter national Sonndphoto). Postmagters May Get Annual Salary. WASHINGTON, March 21- House passage sent to the White House today legislation putting fourth-class postmasters on an an-i nual salary instead of basing their income on the volume of business transacted. - j - The legislation also provides al lowances for office rent, fuel, lights and equipment ; 'i The salary scale ranges from! $72 for offices having receipts of less than '850 a year to $1100 for those whose receipts exceed $1100! but are less than $1500 annually. - Secretary of State Hull tonieht about liberty were regarded as a. O- t , , : 1 creasingly, thicker. .... In listing the Atlantic charter aa one point, Hull emphasized that it "implies an obligation for each nation to demonstratertts capacity; tor, stable and progressive : gov ernment, to fulfill scrupulously its; established duties to other nations. . This' stress on the two-way ap-l plication of the Atlantic charter would seem a response to recent inquiries as to whether the char tr annlieo to Rmninv ; 1 I T . - - . - .... i ."The paramount aim of our for eign policy is to defeat our ene mies as quickly as possible," the secretary declared. "Beyond final .victory, our fun-J damental national , interests are! the assuring of our national se-4 curity and the fostering of the economic and social well being of our people." : . The state department also pledged unequivocally . today the destruction of the Vichy regime of France and sharply questioned the loyalty of those who suggest American intentions to collaborate (Turn to Pa;8 2 iory A) No. S53 ho - . Germans ove On Troops Occupy -Vital Points to : Stop Russians . ' By..WlLUAM, SMITH WHITE LONDON, Wednesday, Mar 22 .-JP (German troops were reported today to have taken over vital communication fa cilities in I Sofia and nazi ar mored columns were' said to be moving swiftly" on Bucharest, indicating that both Bulgaria and Rumania might -soon share the; fate of Hungary, now com pletely dominated by j Hitlerl armed forces. The new! German moves came amid indications that the nazis were maneuvering to set up a -Quisling regime in Budapest un der; the protection of 100,000 Ger man troops which had seized com mand of strategic centers within the past 38 hours. ; ; f ' Without immediate confirmation from other sources, the Ankara Turkish radio, declared that the Germans had occupied the postal and telegraph offices of Sofia. The s, broadcast wwaj recorded In Bern, Switzerland. 1 ' tTha i reported i rnvt 'fperhaps ' ! (Turn to Page X Story F) - Allies Sink ' ' t ! i L I jaDdlUDS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Wednesday, March 22.-P)-Allied warplanes, striking day and night at Japanese shipping -seeking to reinforce and supply blockaded forces! in the Bismarck archipelago, are turning the waters off the northern coast of New Guinea into a graveyard for the shrinking Nipponese mer chant marine. I A convoy I of five enemy, ships was sent to the bottom with heavy loss of life in the latest j reported action by American aircraft in that area off the. coast between the en emy bases of Wewak and Hollah dia. : Gen. Douglas MaeArthur re ported the action Tuesday. (The' navy in Washington an nounced yesterday that United States submarines had sunk IS more enemy1 ships in the Pacific and i from London came official word that British, submarines had accounted for seven more in far eastern waters.' i ;! !.;'--; WA Would Unfreeze 1943 Frozen Foods WASHINGTON, March SIHT) Civilians can expect more frozen foods, particularly poultry, fruits and vegetables, in the next 30 days as a result of a war food ad ministration (WFA) order today making , available cold.- storage space : for this year's perishable commodities. . , The order, effective' tomorrow. requires within 30 days a 20 per cent reduction of stocks of frozen poultry, frozen land cold-pack fruits and 'vegetables, and fruit and. vegetable purees in cold stor age warehouses of ! more than 10,000 cubic feet capacity. In ad dition, ' all products .which have been in such storage 10 months or longer must be removed. : Salem Man Held on -Stolen Check Qiarge ; ELLENSBURG, March 21 - W Wind blew a minor crime wave right Into the lap of the law by. wafting stolen' checks out. of pocketbook from a rooftop to the ground.i4':v--:;-.--:-: - ' Sheriff Bob Dorsey said today Elmer E.' Quinn, 27, was arrested in - the room below the rooftop cache and admitted two apart ment burglaries and thefts of gas oline : and purses. ' Dorsey said Quinn came here in-January from Salem, Ore. , . Salem police said Cumn was xinknown to, them except for be ing booked as "drunk" some time ago.';-V;:'.- , 'v- A'.;-; M Capitals 1