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PAGS TWO The OHEGOII STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning; April 13. 1944 Jap Pressure OnKohima i Eases Down D (Continued from Page 1) D : alone the Chtndwin, the "Chln . dita operating from the Ka- - tha region, already bad virtual-. ly Isolated Japanese force ep- - pasta Lt, Gen. Joseph W. StU- VelTe : adranco from northern Karma by enttinf long stretch of the Mandator - Myitkyina railway and halting traffic on ; the Irrawaddy rhrer. The "Chindits" can get In sev eral weeks more of Intensive oper ations before the monsoon begins, after which they could be with ' drawn by . air if - necessary. The Japanese, on the other hand, could not pall out of India now without fighting their way through allied troops on all sides. : ("ChindiV was the name giv en allied troops operating behind Japanese lines by Burmese na tives, who welcomed them. A Chindit is a sort of good-luck idol that guards the entrances to Bur mese temples.) Dewey, FDR Slay in Lead ; B (Continued fron. Page 1) B i Republican conventions in Con necticut and Maine today will se lect another 16 and 13 delegates, respectively. Wendell L. Willkie had potential support in both groups before he withdrew. They are expected to be uninstructed. Dewey is said to have a good chance for the Connecticut dele gation. " Further tabulation of the Illi nois and Nebraska primary votes Indicated General MacArthur and Lt Commander Stassen will have more than nominal backing in the COP convention opening in Chi cago June 26. ON tbeBOLIE FR01TT ' It num. cxhld3 Road Plans Up for Talk ; Improvement of three sections f the Pacific highway, at a cost of approximately $2,500,000, will be discussed at a conference in Portland today to be attended by R. H. Baldock, state highway en gineer, and -the regional produc tion board. The' proposed improvements in clude ' the Salem-Jefferson, Har ; risburg and Grave . Creek-Woli Creek sections. i Before construction operations can begin the state highway com mission must receive approval of the war production board, Bald ock said -Wednesday. The federal government would provide $1,500,000 and the state $1,000,000. Emanuele Will Retire Soon V (Continued from Page 1) P 7 "Honesty is the best policy; but he who is honest because of that is not an honest man." . : v . . -' Remember that line from our Palmer method penmanship man uals? -, . A: small Statesman carrier be lieves ifc : :;.-.;-' Delivering his papers early on a recent rainy morning he almost fell over a roll of currency. I The lad thumbed through the wad of money, found it contained approximately $130 and, his heart pumping pretty strenuously, I imagine, walked to the front door of the nearest house. You must remember that he is a young boy, an honest boy; and honest persons almost always ex pect everyone else to exhibit that same' quality, V So he flashed the roll as the door opened, asking "Did you lose this?' The answer was you guess! The answer was "Yes." Our office manager saw the small boy later in the day. He had carried the rest of his paper route and gone on to school, and when he came into The States man office he had not yet broken into his reward for finding and "returning" the money over which he had almost stumbled in the heavy morning rain. He still bad in his pocket all of the 25 cents! Air Ace Gets Highest Award WASHINGTON, April lZ-OP) The nation's highest decoration for heroism the congressional medal of honor has been award ed to MaJ. Gregory Boyington, marine flying ace, who shot down 2tf Japanese fighter planes before his plane crashed into jungles near RabauL It was Boyington's-first and on ly decoration. -Boyington, of Okanogan, wash., was the second marine fly er in this war to tie the World war one record of Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. First to tie the record of MaJ. Joe Foss, Sioux Falls, a marine flyer also assigned to the south Pacific. Boyington scored his last vic tory on January 3, over Rabaul shooting down a Japanese Zero and later that day his own plane crashed. He now is listed as miss ing in action. US Bombers Hit Austria C (Continued from Page 1) C nuisance raiders were over many parts of Europe.' " I The day's main blow, how ever,' was dealt by the Liberat ors and Fortresses from Italy,: officially described as eat "in great strengthi f The raiders chose Wiener-Neu- stadt,! 27 miles south of Vienna, as their principal target, and also struck at Fischamend market and Bad Voslau, three and 15 miles southeast of Vienna. Good results were reported. The Germans said without confirmation that allied bombers also attacked Zagreb, capital of the puppet state of Croatia. . '." '13 ;J There were violent air battles as! German fighters rose to defend the Wiener-N4ustadt Messer- schmitt. plant group, one of the most important remaining in Eu rope. A city of 38,000 with en gineering works, - iron foundries and a textile mill besides the plane works, Wiener-Neustadt was pre viously bombed by the Americans August 13, October 1 and Novem ber 2, the first two raids being from Britain, i 111 r About 250 of the medium Amer ican Marauders from Britain to day hit the airfields Of Courtrai and Coxyde, Belgium, the railway junction of Saint Ghislain, five miles west of Mons, and various other coastal military Installations in France and Belgium. One plane failed to return. ' I the important enemy bases of We- wak and Madang. It is about 100 miles northwest of Madang, upon which American and Australian troops are converging. " 1 On this ground front, AustraH lanpatrols several days ago pushed to within a half mile of Bogadjim, which is 20 miles south of Madang, as other Aussie units pushed toward the coast several. miles to jthe east to Join an American force slowly working its way north westward along the shores of As trolabe bay. t I A small unit of Liberators from south Pacific bases carried out the attack on Nomoi atoll, which is '150 statute miles southeast of Truk, on Mfcnday, principally hit ting gun positions. The airdrome on neighboring Satawan island also was bombed. Yank Bombers Hit Hansa Bay H (Continued from Page 1) H plastered with 30 tons of bombs. A lone Japanese plane bombed American positions at ! Saidor on the north coast of New Guinea but destroyed only a few j tents. One man was wounded. The new raid; On the enemy's Hansa supply base was carried out at midday while the target still smoked from the previous day's sea and air pounding in which destroyers boldly moved in to pour steel ashore in coordina tion with the 227-ton aerial bomb ing. Hansa bay is midway between Bus Overturns; Two Killed G (Continued from Page 1) G state police the vehicle skidded on a sharp , turn and overturned, eliding over a 15-foot embank' ment. The top collapsed, pinning five of the passengers under seats. Wrecking crews and bulldozers were sent to extricate the passen gers. Traffic was tied up for over two hours, state police said. ! A partial list of the Injured was j James P. Sullivan, about 75, Chicago; Mrs. Jennie Moss, Grants Pass, Ore.; Steve Domlanovkh, Klamath Falls, Ore.; Mrs. L. G Clark and her small ton, Jerry Lee, Grants Pass; Mrs. Marshall Pruitt and her 2-year-old daugh ter, Granger,; Wash.; Mrs. V. E. Ray and her 9-months-old daugb ter Shirley, Corvallis, Ore., and Mrs. Charles McKee, Rogue River, Ore. All but Mrs. McKee were treat ed in Grants Pass, and she was in the Roseburg hospital suffering from severe burns. ; Others on the bus were Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Dolberg, Piedmont, Calif.; Steve Skoka, Sacramento, Calif.; Mrs. Phil Payne, Toledo, Ore., and three soldiers from Camp White, Ore, CpL Harold Phillips, Pf c. Jerel Johnson and Pvt. Par ker Williamson. : Witnesses said the three soldiers kicked out windows and helped drag wounded from the bus, and Mrs. Pruitt used her coat to help the bus driver beat out flames that threatened those still in the vehicle. Red Armies Go 46 Miles E (Continued from Page 1) E he already had indicated he in tended to do, opened the way for formation, soon of a new wargov . eminent by Marshal Pietro Bad oglio with- the participation of at least three and probably all of It aly's she, political parties. The monarch's decision was entirely of his own volition, a spokesman -for the government aid. T&a-oaly part the -allied governments had in the develop ment was to assure , the king that they had no objection to his tak ing the step, it was stated by al lied representatives. J TONIGHT it SrZASS men tus i man M-G-MV truly great picture)! . W LASSIE CpAlEHOME Stettinus Jr. Widens Work LONDON, April 12-P)-Widen-ing the scope of his mission, US Under Secretary of the State Ed ward R. Stettinius, jr., today con ferred with Fyodor Gusev, Soviet ambassador to Britain probably to discuss the position of the tot tering axis satellites and then established contact with diplomat ic representatives of six exiled governments. In his first contact with the Russians Stettinius undoubtedly extended the congratulations of the United States on the red ar my's swift surge toward the heart of Europe. Details were not divulged but the diplomats probably talked of the possibility of Finland's ac cepting Russia's peace conditions and the chances of Rumania pres sing her- quest for a way out of the war. Boxer Beau Jack 'Up' AUGUSTA, Ga., April U -P)- Former Lightweight Champion Beau .Jack, has been notified by his draft board to take his pre induction physical examination at Fort Benning, Ga., April 17. . ConUnmas from 1 F. 1L TODAY AND FRIDAY Horrors! Chills! LON CHANEY in Sen cf Draccla' CO-THRILLER .it. ivitm mus um tiuoH i - GimilD THE AIDE Starting Wednesday, April 20 WINNER OF 5 ACADEMY AWARDS ''vflfitia: ffIlJ(S(0)I? H L STARTS TODAY! ' f - - 'IT' . I ;i EuiyiAKXEIS .Fr.:UEKXS Waiter CATtETT Six ANNS PLUS3SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION ! p iaimrjis l- e m -.-w Mr ? i m m-m . w w m w ' I t M 1 11 V Vttt -!-2ifv -SS1 X- 1.4 fJt booty included 187 tanks and self propelled guns, declared the sov iet night communique, recorded by the soviet monitor. - : xne wunwina. campaign m "tree the Crimea, which the Ger mans and Rumanians have held since the end of 1914, consist ed t, thrnst frem the - east, after an amphlbieos. landing at Kerch, and two drives from the tterth. ; ;- ' . - Gen. Feodor L Tolbukhin, in charge of both northern drives. freed more than 150 towns today in his rapid strides toward the big central Crimean city of Sim feropol, Including the large rail way towns of Kunnan Memelchi, Biyuk Onlar and Karacha Kan diL The last Is less than IS miles north of Simferopol and 46 air line miles northeast of Sevastopol, the greatest of Crimean prizes. U Sevastopol, which held against the German onslaughts until July, 1942, m one of the elassie sieges of the war, was ; described by the communist party paper Pravda as the "sa cred goal of the present offensive. i '. General Tolbukhin's men- broke the German north Crimean de fenses by a combination of storm and flank attack, a supplement to the soviet communique dis closed today. iThe army coming down the Perekop isthmus stormed and broke the positions at Ishun that were the "second power zone" of the axis line, the communique said. A second Russian army that had come down from the Sivash sea struck in a southwesterly di rection, took the fortified town of Voenka, and advanced around the isthmus defenses. :About 3000 enemy troops were killed and more than 2000 cap tured In this operation, the Rus sians added. At the same time, Gen. Andrei I. Yeremenko's amphibious army annonunced it had freed the en tire Kerch peninsula which Is the eastern neck of the Crimea, and was pushing ahead within 18 miles of Feodosiya, biggest east ern Crimean port. navy's boss warned, axe "tremen dously greater" than those already overcome. The committee also learned dur ing its extensive hearings that the tyrVOKt KNOWS TMO!E CANO lWwl CONT. FROM 1 P. M. Now Showing! 8 YANK FLYERS TIE THE NIP NATION IN KNOTS! BAtmr.UKicrs MEMtT A DRAMA OF THi BOMBING OF TOKYO! ba AmRS Mast CssSi Fgfcj tress GAY CO-HIT I "HI grace Mcdonald J Wrfn Hf Ml I rrsnnsJ lDs?uo M.Am n m IIow Showicg! Two Big HiU! O CO-FEATURE! o W n V4 Twt h-ktc that wrH fcM.T" - Opens 4:45 F. 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