PAGS TWO
The OHEGOII STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning; April 13. 1944
Jap Pressure
OnKohima
i
Eases Down
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: 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
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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
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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
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7 "Honesty is the best policy; but
he who is honest because of that
is not an honest man."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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. .
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propelled guns, declared the sov
iet night communique, recorded
by the soviet monitor. -
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"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
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United States has lost . 388 ships
between January 1, 1941, . and
March 18, 1944, including 79 com
batant vessels and 39 large land
ing craft.
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