The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, March 24, 1944, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, March 24. 1944 i- r;- 1 ; Nazis Hold On , In Desperate , I Cassino Fight C (Continued frum Page DC that Fifth - army engineers had thrown across the Rapldo river east of town. I ( ' : - Despite all allied efforts of the past two months to break; through into the Liri valley and' these have Included five fierce attacks on the ground and the I greatest tactical air assaults in history the Germans still hold the Cas sino gateway firmly. j The town's - natural defenses permit the nazis to hold it with a comparatively small but deter mined force. While' they have been bringing. up fresh soldiers some could be seen moving up a road In the distance today there Is no information here to support rear area reports of great German I reinforcements in Cassino. American heavy bombers with fighter escort blasted railroad yard at . three ; key points in northeastern Italy j yesterday Verona, Bologna and Rimina 'Wrouflfn which German armies on Jthe'Ttalian fronts are being sup plied, and last night RAF Liber ators and Wellingtons smashed rail yards at Padua with 4000 pound block-busters. I US Pilots Give i War Honoris to Infantry Boys - G (Continued from Page 1) O actly soft Several times jhe had helped bandage seriously wounded crewmen and then helped fight the crippled ship back home. Once the plane had been shot down. He barely bailed out in time and then had to pick up the remains of his pilot and arrange for buriaL And always, .riding the right hand seat with comparatively lit tle to do, he had time to men tally sweat out every bitterly con tested bomb run, his ! imagination admittedly . running j wild. And when ships are going down all around you it doesn't take much imagination to make reason begin to totter. i But he said he had it soft com pared to the doughboys, j "Yeah, ; when you figure on those guys' living conditions and then look at ours we don't even know there's a war going on." Nothing unusual in thai state ment, either, coming from jan air man. Plenty of , others had ,r said it, but the bombardier who made it saw two aircraft blow up in the air, one of, them Just recently. None of the crews of either es caped. He carries bad marks on both legs as mementos of when he painfully dragged himself from a blazing plane. - j That's all-there was to it. Since they all agreed completely ; on the subject, the conversation turned to other subjects. Japs Strike .60 Miles Into -India in Drive f (Continued from Page! 1) F- landed back of the Nipponese lines east xt the railway. The broadcast said the landings had been underway "since the! begin ning of March. " "S i China-based Mitchell bombers raised havoc with Indo-China's narrow gauge railway, including 'destruction of three locomotives. Liberators in the central Pa cific set fires in warehouse and dock areas of PonaDe and Kus ale, outposts of the Truk fortress In the eastern Carolines. I Other bombers and fighters made the customary 'daily attacks on four Japanese-held atolls in the east ern Marshall islands. i Fires were left blazing by south Pacific raiders at Vunakanau, one of Rabaurs five airdromes, Today's Needlecrafi V Elmplest stitchery. Pattern 713 " eon tains & transfer pattern cf 12 motifs from 1 x 2 to 6 x 104 inches; directions; stitches., - ' 5 end fJLWL I CTXTS ta eotn for V-.m r " to 1 Oregon States' rc. i ' srrt't I -""t., &al"n. Ore . . t r PAII ttyiiZLX Jug I.a..' and Ajjiii. 1 1 r - - . r - ' , S.' i . .-j- ' i ; . .. ANCIENT AMD MODERN PYRAMID S Crypt's near the Meoa honse Jost atsida af Cairo in fids picture, Repatriates Sut. ". " V -v Jf - 7; Hailing the Statue ef Liberty as the Swedish liner Gripsholm slips into the entrance el New York, har bor, 524 American and 138 Latin American repatriate returned t their,, homeland March 15. The Gripsholm i docked at Jersey City, NJ, Thrty five wounded Americans, manyv of them Ulrmen shot down ever Germany, were whisked away to a hospital , on Staten Island. No one was permitted to speak with them. One of the rejoicing repartriates remarked: "Berlin is kapnt finished !" The allied landings In Italy have depressed the; nasis greatly, another said. The exchanged prisoners of war were careful in a their comments, having In mind their ternatlonal Soondphoto) v ' Airmen Relax When Do Good Job on Flight By KENNETH L. DIXON US AIRBASE IN SARDINIA, March 15 - (DelayedWP-SDend five minutes in the mess hall of any squadron at evening and you'll know without being told whether it had a good day. . Yesterday this Marauder squad ron got fouled up over the target for' the first time in weeks, scat tered its bombs around quite a bit and even brought some of them back. It was a glum crowd that gathered here last night to eat and sit by the fire. But today was the Cassino bombing, and the boys went over In perfect formation, wheeling in as though over a field when the ground, force "control tower" called their- bombong turn, and every bomb was on. the battered town.- On the bulletin board is a radio message from Maj. Gen. Joe Can non saying mat their timing and accuracy at Cassino was superb and conveying his congratulations to all the group. ; But you wouldn't need that to ii Ends Today "THE ADVENTURES OF TARTU" Pins Chis. SUrrett (n "Pardon My Gun STARTS SATURDAY A sock- hit from the musical that reeked Broadway t r K ) i : ,v oh Gripsholm Salute 'Liberty ii - eolleagnes i - ' know the boys did a good Job to day. There is banter and smart cracking all around; Paul Quinn is unlimbering his accordion and the boys are sprawling over the tables for a song session Paul, a lieutenant ' and i a Ma rauder pilot, is 23 arid one of the most colorful of j all this colorful crew. He has been everything from! a Mormon: minister to an orchestra trumpet player in Idaho and Wyoming. A native; of Nam pa, Idaho, he flew his own ship overseas and sometimes he'd let the co-pilot take over, take his throat microphone to the squeeze box land play hot Jive for the crew; over the interphone. . Wayne Morse to Open College Conference PORTLAND, ..Ore, March 23 (JP) -Post-war educational prob lems; will be discussed! here to morrow at a college' conference organized by Northwest College Personnel - association. Northwest Association of Junior Colleges, and the Pacific Coast Association of Collegiate . Registrars, i I Wayne L. Morse, senatorial can didate and former war labor board member, will deliver .the opening address of the r two-day confer encei 'i a. . ' " i Always 2 Big Features Mem of Mystery, Robert Donat In A Great Double) 21 v Sonjo i - GI2E3 S BUSinXG xxp tha t lea . to thr red hot rhy thm ci Wcxxiy ; Herman ? and his orchestral ! j - . .. I iJaek , Cetar ' OAKT2 EC'IZZO ! " . Carole- . V S - It pyramids are contrasted wtth the pyramidal tenia ef aoedetn JUftlera taken daring to Caira conference and recently released still in eoncntratlon camps. (In- Oregon Yard Gets Contract for 9 All-Steel Ships PORTLAND, Ore., March 23(JP) Receipt of a navy contract for nine 260 - foot all - steel light ers was announced today by Wil lamette Iron & Steel corporation The firm's house organ said the YF-2000 lighters, which will car ry a ten-man crew and cargo and be towed by ocean - going tugs. were designed for inter - island transportation in the south Pa cific Canada Shifts to Civilian Industry MONTREAL, Mar. 23-(P-The peak of war production in Canada has been definitely passed and a progressive shift toward output vi tivman gooas is gathering mo mentum, the monthly business summary of the Bank of Montreal said today. - . . r 1 Tonight - Satnrdaj ACTIO!!! DAf.'GER! 'V M, - M kM Allot . JtsaPAtZtl ' BUI UNIT I r j LJ On - J the - S: Alcaa Koad " ) with the - TJJS. ) Engt ( - neers Nazis Strike Swiftly to Balkan Power A (Continued from Page 1) A ing complete military cooperation under -nazi direction, or of being occupied by nazi trooos. Some London quarters main tained the Hitler pressure could onljr delay and would not prevent the ultimate collapse in the Bal kans. . iv- It was elsewhere indicated that Hitler was preparing to "kidnap" Rumania to shore up his totter ing Balkan edifice. There were widespread j rumors that Premier Ion Antonescu had been sum moned to Hitler's presence as Ad miral Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary, had gone before him. The British 'radio immediately beamed broadcast to Rumania. "Of two evils, you must choose the! lesser," I the British broadcast warned. j "If you oppose Germany, Ger many will wreak vengeance on you, but if you oppose the allies. an even graver fate is in j store." Bus Strike Settled After Week's Delay PITTSBURGH, March 23 JP) Settlement of a week-Ion strike of 600 drivers ana otner employes of the Pennsylvania Greyhound lines was announced tonight by Fred Woomer of the United States conciliation service. . ; Woomer said an agreement end ing the walkout had been author ized : by the executive committee of ! division 1063, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Rail way land Motor Coach Employes (ATL) and H. S. Crawford, re gional manager of Pennsylvania Greyhound.! Crawford said that service out of Pittsburgh, where the strike started,-'.would be resumed im mediately and predicted a return to normal operation by tomor row morning. In Philadelphia, the regional STARTS : 1ATE3T i: : I 11 N. '!' !' "." I -K. V'fc"; v. j " j ' f . . ... ;" j iv- I '! . llillils- ! i Li mu : t fin . -I lXsale . . . Army Planes i Batter Japs In Wewak Area B (Continued from Page 1) B direction of Madang. By the first week of October they had crossed the divide to the headwaters of the Ramu river. : Almost impenetrable terrain slowed progress from that point: Thick' undergrowth was intensi fied by the steep foothill spurs of the -craggy, and towering Finis terre mountains" Against the en emy's mountain guns the Aussies used 25-pounders, which had been dismantled and parachuted piece by piece from planes of the United States troop carrier Command.i: Just before the close of 1943 the Australians captured a precipitous and unidentified -ridge north of Dumpu which had been stalling .their advance. ' From there they; moved toward the coast, into the upper Mlntjim valley, and a week ago were near Daumoina, about 35 airline miles south of Madang. Patrols thrown, out in that area followed the Kabenau river to the coast of Astrolabe bay, seven miles southeast of Bogadjim. Americans who had landed Jan. 2 at Saidor, on the coast below Madang, pressed northward meanwhile. Units of this force made contact with the Australian patrols Just below Bogadjim, which is connected by a modern highway with Madang. j.) . Madang is one of the few re maining Japanese baser ' on the north coast of New Guinea, all of which' are under constant aerial pounding. One of these, Wewak, has been battered with more than 4,600 tons of bombs in little more than a week. In the latest report ed raid, announced Thursday, 160 tons of explosives fell there, caus ing laree fires and exnlosiona. i ' Husband, 67, Kills Wife, 30, in Argument DENVER, March 23.-0irVA 30-year-old mother was shot and killed today while standing; on the sidewalk talking to a friend, and Detective Captain James E. Chfl ders said murder charges would be filed against her 67-year-old estranged husband. The woman was Mrs. Adah Snell, the- mother of three chil dren..,.. . ' Child en said her husband, Guy Snell, of Ramah, Colo, told po lice an argument over furniture in their , former home in Denver led to the shooting. , : i Mrs. Ruby Durham, a neighbor to the slain woman, said she and Mrs. Snell were standing in front of Mrs. Durham's home when Snell approached them and the man and wife' began arguing. "He wanted the furnishings tak en out and she said they were all right where they were," Mrs. Durham related. She quoted Snell as saying, "Well settle this thing right now," and said he pulled a revolver and shot her twice, ,: war labor board said the agree ment was signed by T. E., Ben son, president of , division 1063, and Ivan Bowen, general counsel for the bus company.. They were there to appear before a WLB hearing in the case. TODAY presents mm It Seng ' 'A V v J " SM V ' ' f I . Western Aetlenl "LUCKY C07B0Y,, With Jnlle Glbwm and Eddie Dew f Eisney Cartoon "Ilew Te Ee A SaSor4 I rr i OlltheHOlIEFROirr ', Ij C&XZL CXIZLD3 Every now and then, we must take time off to blow our own horn: : i Andy Burk, sheriff ) pro dem, chided us for running advertising on the front page "want ads at that!", when a Statesman political writer did a little page one plea for republican candidates for the only county office now filled by a democrat' ' With three republicans now In the field and one or j two . more straining at the leash; all we can say to Mr. Burk is what we have always maintained: "Statesman want ads bring results." - Allied Planes Continue Bomb Attack by Day Continued from Page 1) of Liberators- and Fortresses hit: The railway yards at Hamm; an air- station at Achmer; a bomber base: at Handorf; a war factory at Muenster, and the Messer schmitt production ' center - at Brunswick. This was the first time the Ger- man air force had given battle March! 18. . was considered about time, since It for not less than 5000 allied planes had gone deep into the reich! in the 24 hours hours ending at 1p.m. (5 aon. PWT), raining down at least 6000 short tons of bombs, a rate of . approximately 250 tons every hour and more than four tons every minute.' - In this 24-hour period the at tack cost a total of 73 bombers and 13 fighters; less than two per cent of the j total attacking force. In the latest raids all, the- scat tered targets were bombed vis ually; in 1 good weather with good results, the 'air force communique said, : except Brunswick, ' where clouds required use of instruments. The RAF -was barely back from firing Frankfurt, one of ' the big centers of the I. G. Farbenindustrie chemical works and home of im portant plane plants, with a bomb tonnage that the'air rninistry.said was a record for one raid, when the American heavies, escorted by lightnings, Thunderbolts ; - and Mustangs, drove deep into .Ger many. . The German luftwaffe, stung by a deluge of i perhaps 1500 tons of bombs, fought' short, heated bat ties with individual sections of the great! attacking fleet Some' con tingents did not sight a single nazi fighteri. Senior Glass Enlists, But Hall Turned Down LEWISTON, Idaho, March 23 -JPy-AXl the boys of the senior class of Riggins high school tra veled the 132 miles to Lewis ton's navy recruiting station to enlist this week. : ! " Half of them Larry Parks, New Meadows was enlisted and sworn in at Spokane. The other half didnt make it this time but he probably will on the next trip, Recruiter Ray Mullins said. Deors Open II I :p.;m. r - 7 r nil55?55s D if -m -rl&Sl I . Itctlll . - I 11 CD . f 1 I . 1 ' . Famous Screen Star Taken to ; State jffospital 1 D (Con tinned from Page 1) D more is n d more unhappy, her mother said, after her divorce from Leif Erickson, actor with whom she starred in eeveral pic tures, including "Ride a Crooked Mile," made In 1839. - j In 1942, her mother blamed ' Miss Farmer's breakdown on the type of roles given her to play in Hollywood. Volloy Births SILVERTON Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hansen of Silverton are announcing the birth of a daugh- rr?' g W'-'i nrt C"Q Continuous from 1 P. M. How Showing!; Academy Award Winners Paid Ldras Halina Paxisen ; - ' with . Lnisa Dainer , - (Two Time Award Winner) ; HOSTAGES' Paramount Picture . wtth . Uillian Dendix Arturo ' deCordova V 1 . Ce-Feature! SWING IT SAILOR! -,Y fs ft Latest News Opens 6:45 P. M. Now Showing! WHAT A SCRAP! HUMPHREY -BOG ART JAMES CAGNEY "Oklahoma Kii" CO-FEATURE . ROITHWIST oiurnsl T i " f "r't 'i tmc wousc Tnt wH iwCT Opens :45 F. M. i How! 2 Hits! ! mm . She FeUi For Bis . Fast Line! . 7crnsr Uaxisr ;; Ilyrca Loy. ;"BI!0ADUAY BEL" . . CO-FEATURE! "SADDLES AND SAGEBRUSH 1 HJAVi'Alii. IJbiiL' ( 1 nrnm ' "A 1.,. . -A.