ft r Tto OISGON STATESMAN, Salem, Ocon. WtdaMdar Morning, March 22. IM PAGZ TWO Yank Airmen Sweep 'LONDON, March IHSVAmer Ican .four-engined liberator! at tacked tilt Pas-de-Calaisj invasion coast ara of northern France to-day without losing a plane and swift Mustangs of the eighth air force made an unprecedented sweep over 450 miles of, occupied France, strafing enemy airdromes , ; and destroying 20 planes. Ranting all the -way from Paris to the Pyrenees mountains at the Soaniah border: the Mustangs, . which combine a long range with aoeeds ud to 425 mph, shot down 11 enemy aircraft and destroyed ? - nine on the ground. A communique tonight reported "even Mustangs missing from the daring operation. :- The German radio tonight said "nuisance raiders are over west- I em Germany,'! an indication that RAF Mosquitos were attacanng. In attacking military targets in the Pas-de-Calais area, which has become one of the most bombed , regions of the world in the last three months, the Liberators ana their escorting Thunderbolts met no -fighter opposition, although th air rocked with anti-aircraft ,'i fire. v Mt. Vesuvius Erupts Lava Over Big Area D (Continued from Page 1) D Standing 100 yards from the ad r vancina 30-foot wall of red clink ers on the outskirts of Massa Di Somma today, I was unable to conceive of a more horrible form of destruction, though I have watched flood waters sweep down the Ohio river valley several times and observed the effects of the 1938 New England hurricane. When - it "blew off Saturday the volcano spilled laval down its slopes in three streams. The flow of two subsided, while! a third Intensified as it snaked! down a deep s Valley in a northwesterly direction." ' A iM noon today it was flowing from the crater . at an estimated speed of 40' miles an hour, then slowing in., the course of its do scect uata-ly-ihe time it fanned out pa the comparatively flat Jow- er slope; it wm only creeping. The: people of San Sebastiano r and ;, MassaVdi, ; Somma, whose town! "also? were buried . in the eruption of 1872, watched the great lava field Inching its way toward them over the weekend.) but few prepared to move their household belongings until allied authorities took the situation in hand.' So bewildered was one woman that ah poured a pitched of wa ter on the- smoking' mass as it piled up behind a stone! wall at the edge of - her garden. - Others, protesting that Saint Januari, pro tector of Naples, would halt the flow, tried to prevent the author ities from moving them, j " When' the first buildings went down and the people at last real ized that the force was irresistible, they thronged into the; narrow, walled roads by the hundreds, bearing bedding, food,! cooking utensils and furniture on every thing from their heads to donkey carts. .This afternoon the roads below the two towns j were so choked that trucks could move only a few yards at a time, mater ially slowing the task of evacu a ting Cercola's 5000 residents, ma" ny of whose homes will be buried tomorrow. ,-. . kp Australian Bride Misses Sunshine PORTLAND, March 21-WJ The first Australian war; bride to arrive in this area declared today that the only large difference be tween Portland and her homeland is a scarcity of sunshine here. ' In other respects, said Dorothy Walsh Fisher, this area! 1 very similar to Australia. j The former corporal in the Aus tralian women's army I service, who married Sgt Jess C. Fisher of Portland at Melbourne- last April, was one of 11 American soldiers brides who came to the United States this year. Gas Coupons Must Last Month Longer SAIf FRANCISCO, March 11-fP)-The- regional office jot price administration today emphasized the reduction of the gasoline al lotment for "A book holders ef fective- tomorrow will not change the three-gallon value of each coupon. . ; , . -r Am CPA announcement on to morr ow'i validation of A-ll stamps said "all A' coupons will remain at the three gallon value. However, they will bare to last until June 21 Instead of May 21, a three month period instead of two. Thus A bookholdera will have a total monthly mileage of 120 miles instead of 180. E!L Y7XLL I. tx:o::?co:i Optometrist and Ortheplst 211 Oreron Cliz. Over Sears Store Si ' ' '.- Mini!.,. ! u-iummum. 1 Naval Engineer Tells of Escape FromPliUippines Miter's ''Kate: Chatter SC Paten. SJ-ywr-old Unhrenity oC Washington Graduate and a etrfllan naval anglnacr a ttoa ;PhIUppto islands at the time of the Japanese occupation, escaped from the to lands, reached Australia and returned to his noma country. Her ha tells soma iat h -eapertMiea, . I i WrtttM far tha SEATTLE, March ll-rVPfrVft were at work at Sjpgley point across the bay frW the Cavite navy yard that December raorTiin when Manila newspapers brought word of Pearl Harbor., J C We begani bufldmgbcarsbteri ' j , j " We saw no Japanese planes the first day, but we had 14 or, 15 Catalinai patrolling .the Manila bay area. They went up the se cond day and we never saw them again. ' "" j . Two days later Cavite was bombed. We got about half an hour's warning. Seventy - two Japanese planes came over in six flights. We saw them drop a few bombs over j Nichols field, then fly over Manila and come back over Cavite j Some were dive bombers. 1 We could j see the explosions from across the bay. It was some of the best j bombing. I've ever seen the Japanese do. They missed only once, one flight of bombs dropping into the bay. Their bombs hit in the office buildings and barracks and tremendous fires started Immediately. Most of the deaths were among laborers and office and navy per sonnel. From 500 to 1000 no casualty listsj were announced were killed outright or burned to death in the crowded quarters. For 10 days after that there was little regular! work for us. After Christmas we planned our escape, knowing that Manila would soon fall. Several . other Americans, my wife and I left early in January in a 20-foot racing sail boat We had an extra pair of sails, some boat equipment and canned goods. ,1 , We talked with another Ameri can and he planned to go with us but gave up the idea for arrange ments more suitable to him. We intended to head for Singa pore. The first two nights we stayed aboard, but after that nearly every night we got ashore. We took the so-called "outside route" ' away from the regular channels. Jt was several months before the Japanese finally invaded the central islands in the Philippines. We didn't seeiany Japanese ships on the way through these islands en route to a large city. That city was shelled twice in the days we were there, j . We abandoned plans to head for Singapore When . we learned that the Japanese bad moved south swiftly, along, the Malay ; penin sula. f 1 ' : ' Later we reached another large island ana spent nearly a year there. Of that, I can say nothing at the. present; time. Finally, with others I reached Australia. There were rewards offered by the Japs for the capture of Amer icans. These increased in size as the months went on. The equipment with which re sisting Filipinos and Americans had to fight was inadequate and out-of-date. For one thing there were old Enfield rifles and am munition dating back to 1918. TVazi Fanatics Re-take Hotel, Cassinb Fight E (Continued from Page 1) E destroyed and the slopes almost too rugged for pack mules, P-35 Invaders .dropped parachute bun dles of food, water and ammnnV tion to an allied detachment isola ted on a small; plateau halfway up. The Germans appeared deter mined to gain : possession of Castle hill. In their three strong counter attacks against it yesterday , they came some 400 yards down a wide guuey from northeast of the wrecked monastery.. Each' time they were thrown back with loss es, but they were expected to come again. ; . - '.Jj . : - Down In the smoke-filled valley allied troops f had little room in which to maneuver and were for ced .to make frontal attacks on the remaining German positions. ' . wmcn couia not be outflanked. Jennifer Jones Goes -To Reno for Divorce HOLLYWOOD, March 21.-(P)-Jennifer Jones, who recently-won the motion picture academy award zor the best feminine screen per iormance in 1943, announced to night she Intends to seek a divorce. The action, charging incompati bility, will e filed In Reno against her screen actor-husband, Bobert Walker, as soon as her film com mitments wilt permit her to es tablish, residence in the Nevada city.he said.! - The Walkers were married in 1939 and have two children, fi9NE OF THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIMES Ts I 1 . , 1 1 1 r ?C3u DUM 6. MMMOUNT'S TECHMCOLOil TIlIUMPItl f Feature today sit 1:35 4:50 - 7:50 p. a. i X lutiace catU 5:C0. (indnding tax) , 1 Aaaodated Fret " n $ ... Bond Quota by C Continued from Page 1) the Million Dollar club broadcast all spurred on purchasing. 1 Every outlying district met its quota, and in all cases, sales were high! in E bonds. . Mrs. Carma lite jWeddle, rural school chair man, reported her organization's final sales at $62,69928 against a goal of $25,000. Eighty four per cent) of the schools made their quotas and 73 per cent -went over the top. 'ft :- - Not to be outdone, Salem school pupils raised $53,730.89 with) a quota of $29,985, and the faculty purchased $2384.$" worth f of bonds against a $12,800 quota. Miss: Mathilda Gilles of Richmond school is city schools chairman in the bond organization, I At Salem high schpol the goal was the purchase price of a train er plane ($15,000), and sales amounted to $16,226 The. plfuie purchased with the mbney invest ed there will wear a plaque show ing that Salem students purchased it Travis Cross, fripdent body president, reported that two cm 1 tests j were responsible f or i large sales of stamps and bpnds. In one, Peggy Smith was elected Victory Belle and Don Chapman was nam ed sweater boy. Bonds and stamps purchased were; counted as votes. Winning home room in sales com petition was that of George Brant, vocational education j'shop room. where sales reached $2000. f Salem block leaders! directed by Miss 1 Hazel Harper as chief, and Mrs. David Wright, county wom en's participation chairman, rais ed more than $110,000, and ob tained more than enqugh to pay for the ambulance plane to be named "City of Salem, Oregon.? The -downtown women's divis ion likewise sold more .than en ough j to purchase such a plane and will fiame it "Salem Sooptimists,, for one women's service club whose members were particular- y active during the drive. Mrs. Winifred Pettyjohn was chair- .-.ii-i'. !". man. : Chairman Carl Ai. Gies of the Hollywood Lions club committee, which solicited the Hollywood dis trict, 1 reported that his group sold $72,162.87 worth of bonds aiid that $39,512.87 went into E bonds. James W. Tindall, president of 6ie club. was high solicitor,. -llmg $12,100 in bonds. Hillcrest School : And Needs Adopted By Soroptiiiiistsy Declaring that Hillcrest school for girls offers opportunities for individual, financial and organiza tional service, the Soroptimist dib of Salem "adopted1 I the school "and) its needs" ai tits project Tuesday night 3 1 At j the same meeting, the club, an international classified worn en's j service organization, char tered here last August, received its first class - of new members. among them '- Miss Mary Way, Hillcrest superintendent, who as speaker of the evening presented state ! school and its needs. - J Problems of ' staffing, housing and. schooling girls (currently 60 in number) of ages fwhich may range from 12 to 25 years, were presented as a challenge to the club i which has declared service its reason for existence. - Josephine Albert Spaulding, ac companied by Alice Crary Brown, sang "Eventide" by Genevieve Da vis; The Sweet o . the Year" jby Mary. Turner Salter, and. as m encore for the enthusiastic audi ence "Oh, What a Beautiful Mom- m'rjfrom rOklahojuw ' Miss Florence Beardsley, lauon chairman, conducted the brief ceremonies which marked the reception as members of Mrs. Daye Idleman, school principal jjat the Fairview home; Miss Helen Bristow, social worker! for the Sa lem, public schools; Mrs. Marion Wooden, dietitian at the state tu berculosis hospital; Mrs. Frank Needhtm of T. EL Needham and Company hops; .Mrs N "Philip uoKistein, Army & Navr stores: Mks Dorothy WhelanJ abstractor, with the Salem Abstract company, ana suss way. f .5 3 v nil 3S1 75ef EvrJnr 11tft V- J County Top Large HSJ luargiq Soviets Sweep,; Nearer Danube, Cut Off Nazis B (Continued from Page 1) B Poland toward Lwow had captured 62 more villages. Soviet spearheads were reported already within sight of Brody, 50 miles northeast of Lwow. ; Berlin's high command said-the Russians were attacking KoveL 100 miles north of Lwow,' 170 air line miles from -Warsaw, and' 500 miles front Berlin the same dis tance from Berlin as the Ameri can-British invasion forces gath ering in Britain. f One soviet unit "which had bro ken into Kovel was wiped out," said Berlin, and German radio commentators said the battle for that strategic rail junction on the Kiev-Warsaw line was raging with unparalleled ferocity." , f Attacking on a 500-mile front from Poland to the Black sea near imperiled Nikolaev and Odessa, Mascow s broadcast bulletin, re corded by the Soviet Monitor, said three big red armies had seized a total of 330 towns and - villages during the day. " f . The 40 villages captured in Bes sarabia made a total of 80 taken in three days as the Russians pounded toward the Carpathian mountains in the west and toward the Danube In the south, Ataxi, Just across the river from Mogilev Podolski, was among the points seized. The cutting of the Cernauti- Baltsy (Chernovits-Balti) line pre sumably occurred at Oknitsa, 14 miles west of Ataki, where the trans-Dniester line meets the rail way running 75 miles west to Cer nautl and 50 miles south to Baltsy on the way to the Ploestl oil fields and Bucharest, capital of Rumania. Oknitsa is 30 miles from the Prut, and if the Russians cut the line elsewhere they would be evei nearer to the river.' 1 Moscow front dispatch said i steady flow of red army tanks, in fantry and artillery was pouring across the Dniester into Bessara bia, apparently in an effort to strike southward to the Danube and tie a great noose around huge German forces retreating toward Odessa in a 10,000 -square mile area of southern "Russia yet to be liberated. Falling back on Odessa from the north, the. Germans admitted in their broadcasts that they were trying to "disengage" their troops from the attacking Russians and withdraw them safely across the lower Bug ' river in ' the Pervo- matsk-Voznesensk sectors. Hull Defines ! Foreign Policy, Blasts Vichy ! A (Continued from Page 1) A with Vichy officials. Such reports are "false on their face" and "evi dently inspired.' The policy toward Vichy was set forth because of reports from Algiers implying that the United States would deal with Vichy of ficials after the liberation of France begins. "No loyal supporter of the al lied cause would make the ridicu lous charge that the United States government, while sending its military-forces and vast-military supplies to the most distant bat tlefields to prosecute, the war against the axis powers, would at the same time have any dealings or relations with the Vichy re gime except for the purpose of abolishing it," the statement said. Assurances to this-effect were given to Rene Massigli. foreign minister of the French committee of national liberation at Algiers m January and were communi cated by him to the committee, it was learned at the state depart ment. - t Last Saturday Gen. Charles De Gaulle addressed the Algiers con- suiauve assembly, which Includes underground leaders from France, ana made a bid for Anglo-Ameri can recognition of the committee as the proper governing power to follow Invasion armies into France. He was quoted as saying that "AH attempts to jnaintain even partially or by, camouflage any part of Vichy or any artifi cial form of powers foreign to the government , will be Intoler able and condemned in advance." Roosevelt Improved After Cold in Head WASHINGTON. March 21.HTJPW President Roosevelt, who had been confined to the living quar ters of the White House with a head cold, was described tonight by his physician as "definitely im- Tonight and Thursday last limes TriirWlU,, '! OlltheHOlIEFROlIT Our bus creaked and groaned from the time it left the Portland terminal until it dropped us in the alley behind the Salem liquor store, and there were times when we wandered whether we were hearing the gears or the teeth of our rawboned driver grinding.' First there came the lady who alone would have found the aisle too narrow fori comfort (either front .or sideways) and who brought along with her a good- sized leather suitcase, a shopping bag from which stuck out the heels of two pa Ira of not-new shoes, and,- topping everything else, a large pasteboard carton which smelled like , baby chicks. Since there were no noises from it we assumed that the chicks had been sold or were dead. Some thing after the manner of ship at a poorly-planned launching. she -finally got to the. rear of the car. - I'. I Then there was the woman who wanted ; her ' ticket marked for Canby, so that she could use the Other three-cents worth next day if she so desired. Patiently, al beit a little grimly, the driver told her that wasn't being done, but that he'd let her off at Canby he did, too, and at the right side Of a mud puddle. .;- ;. . v ; , Climax to his hour of strain (an the time the motor sounded as if it might start moving back to Portland of its own accord and the; bus was labeled for the through trip to San Francisco) finishing touch to these troubles was the thin old gal with the screeching voice j who got cm at one small town and declared she Was going to the next small town aunougn sne naa purcnased no ticket Informed: she couldn't do that, she proceeded to talk to ev eryone in the bus station while the big driver fumed and waited. Some of us are still trying to figure whether it was the Red Cross flag on her; shabby coat, the tightly slicked back hair remind ing us of numerous other women we had liked better or the hole in the heel of one gunmetal stock ing that made him smile gently as he helped her off at her destina tion. However, I don't suppose it matters much: She didn't even thank him for the waiting, to say nothing of the smile. Sen. Cordon Asks Jobs, Education For US Veterans' PORTLAND, March li-tipl Jobs and an opportunity) for fur ther education must be provided returning veterans, Sen. Guy Cor don declared today. The Roseburg man, appointed interim successor to the late CharlesL. McNary, told an Amer ican Legion meeting that an allot ment is not suffiicent compensa tion "for these heroes." "We must give back to them, as far as we are able,, the things that were taken from them when they left their private lives to fight for their country, Cordon said. "We must provide the me chanics and the opportunity for them, whether it be in further ed ucation or immediate employ ment . - Fishermen Start Season 10 Days Early ASTORIA, Orej March 21.-(V- Commerdal fishermen embarked on the Columbia j river today, for an open season moved forward from the usual. April 1 date f Or the first time in years. : Fishermen have been promised 20 cents a pound for salmon and 1 J cents for steelhead, unless cat ches prove too heavy for local markets.; i " s : - : i: -1 , CO-nrrt "8plder Wemaa1 with Basil Rathbeae as ' Sbertock Holmes Zlzxh teisjl WALTER H'LLA I I id -1 mnmY! rev - """i A a;- 1 r rVn Nazis Occupy! i Capitals of 3 BalkanNatioiis F (Continued from Page 1) IF presaged a full-scale drive into Bulgaria such as was sent agamn Hungary, where the German 1 oc cupation was meeting mm The Ankara radio also brought Rumania; into the picture, declar-? ing that she was -expected to; be included, along wita Hungary ana Bulgaria, under a . unified com mand "to intensify the German war effort in southeast Europe." . The Daily Man said it was be lieved In Turkey, mat formal Ger-i man occupation of Rumania is imminent The dispatch- q u o t frd unconfirmed reports that four armored divisions and several in fantry divisions! were speeding through Hungary toward Bueha rest V- . The Budapest radio went off the air tonight, announcing that an air raid- was in nroeress. but re sumed broadcasting an hour and three quarters ' later. It subse quently broadcast a ' warning, heard by US government moni tors, that "nuisance raiders were over various Hungarian localities. An Associated Press dispatch from Ankara reported all import ant points in Hungary -especially transportation lines are firmly in the hands of the Ger mans,, whose entire southeastern defense command is being. tight ened. This dispatch quoted the cor respondent of Andalou Ajans, who declared "these measures are much more important than they might appear . j I (The British radio, heard, by by CBS in New York, relayed a 'Stockholm repeat that Marshal Tito (Jasip Broz), leader of the I Yugoslav Partisans, had already made contact "with the opposi tion in Hungary and is organize ing Partisan groups there.") : ' Spring Snowstorm Hits Colorado Plateau ' ; - i ; i DENVER, March 21 (JPf- One of Colorado's heaviest spring snowstorms in recent years closed scores of schools today, hampered war factories, in Denver, disrup ter traffic and, on the . asset side, heavily blanketed croplands and watersheds- s j.f From the Colorado plateaus and mountains the storm spread into Kansas and New Mexico. ; j " The worst blizzard In' many years struck Pueblo, Colo, with visibility almost niL j K Over a vast area transcontin ental air service was terminated. 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