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- v . !'.-.' J . . rtir"1'. ' if. :. ; . ....... i -. . if - . . -: , ... .. . . . c - , 9 7eallier -. Maximum temperature Monday 57 degrees; mini- bib S7; precipitation; river CI feet. Partly cloudy, Tuesday and Wednesday' with scattered showers. Not. coach change la tempera ' tare.. ." . POUNDOD ffir 'UtD i!DDCE -i A grand Jury in Clackamas county which investigated condi tions in private homes or institu tions for. care of the aged .was very critical of what it observed. Its report Stated that all homes re overcrowded; no homes have sufficient space or equipment to handle bed patients or trained help for such patients; "all build ings investigated, in our opinion, were firetraps." This sounds something like the reports we used to get periodic' ally on conditions at poorfarms. In fact it was' the monotony of such reports that contributed much to the revulsion of feeling against , such institutions for care of the aged. Yet here we go" full circle and find a critical grand jury re- ' port on the way aged persons are cared for -, in. private institutions in Clackamas county. The jury also expressed the opinion .hat the - board of health has been entirely too lenient in its enforcement of the 1943 act making it the state agency to supervise and license such homes.- .. t This does not mean that all private homes for aged are poorly run, but it does mean that paying the aged pensions doesn t guaran tee them good living conditions, I There is the old saying f "out of- ! sight, out of mind." So relatives ! may find it easy to stow away their aged parents in other homes and trust they will get proper care on the old age grants they receive. And the public may be complacent now that direct grants are made and the poorfarm re proach no longer haunts them. The prime duty should fall on the relatives in helping their aged select homes for care, to make sure of the quality of care they will receive. It must be recognized however that whenever many people are assembled under one roof it soon becomes something of an institu tion with the odors, (Continued on Editorial Page) Council Elects James A. By ers AsNev James AT ByersTsole candidate lor alderman from the sixth ward, didn't have to wait for election to become a . member of the city counciE He was . appointed last night: to the post to which be is expected to be elected next month. Byers succeeds Emer O. Berg, who ceased to be a member of the council when in the mak ing over of ward i boundaries the strip of - territory along Center ' street which includes his home was moved into the second ward. i Election of Byers . was unani mous, as was all other action: tak-' en by the council at the colorless session which followed a brief oTy ganization ; meeting of Vi city budget committee. . "Citizen members" of the coni- '. mittee, which elected Aldermen David O'Hara and Kenneth Perry - as chairman and secretary,, re spectively, are Dan J. Fry, Ralph Kinzer, r George Rhoten, Charles McElhinny, A. J. Crose, George 'Hull, Mrs. Hazel Marshall, R. W. rLand. W. D. Evans, J. Loyal Hen " derson, R. L- Elfstrom, Fred ' H. Paulus, Leo N. Childs, Elmer O Berg and Ralph Cooley. ' Kinzer, Crose and Elfstrom were apointed during the council session to fill vacancies left by . th failure of ' Alderman Ross Goodman, who is ill, to appoint a member and by, the lack of any appointing aldermen in the places ; left recently by James H. Nich olson and Berg. - Alleging that there have been Improper sanitary conditions and iimior law violations in the ooer-1 :ation under its current manage-J a. a. I. I A. A - ; ment, the council committee on licenses denied its approval to any (Turn to Page 2 Story I) Paper Attacks Empire Abuse - LONDON, Tuesday, AprU 18 The Daily Sketch in a featur ed article on its editorial page, said today that "anti-British em pire propaganda" in America was "worth several , divisions to . the Japanese" and "might ultimately tip the scales in India if the allies military position In the orient should ever be gravely in jeop ardy' r:?;-:. "The flood of abuse against the British empire that pours out in cessantly from certain quarters in the USA falls very agreeably on Japanese ears," the article said. "And they are not letting it pass unexploited. , "They are telling the peoples of Asia, and more particularly the peoples of ' Hindustan," that the Americans," who are allies of the British, indict the British for the very 'crimes' which they the Japanese - accuse them of, And unfortunately the Japanese propa ganda is - the unqualified NINETY-THIRD YEAR Japanese Invaders Set Baek in tt i r a. Ames nana v?1 . Heavy-Losso& " To Road C;rs . KANDY, CeylonJ April Yl(Jf) Japanese invasion forces that cut the important allied supply road between Kohima and Dira apur in eastern India last week have been thrown from im portant positions and dealt "very heavy" losses by counter-attacking " British and In dian troops, an allied communi que announced today. .'' (A dispatch, to the Indian ob server in New Delhi reported that allied tanks and infantry had cleared Japanese road blocks four miles north of Kohima in heavy fighting. It estimated that allied forces in the Kohima area had a 5-to-l superiority over the Jap anese in artillery.) Kohima is 60 miles north of the principal allied base at Imphal. Since the middle of last week the allied defenders of Kohima have been on the offensive, try ing to wipe out road blocks es tablished by the Japanese at points where the highway pas ses through the 5000-foot Naga hills north and northwest of Ko hima. Today's communique from Ad miral Lord Louis Mountbatten's new headquarters here also listed other blows struck at the invaders at several points where they are attempting to thrust onto the rich Imphal plain, which is ringed with allied strongpoints. ' ; Northeast of Imphal, the bul letin said, allied troops improved ' their positions in the hills sor reandinf the fertile .plain. To the . soothfast of the; big" "base ' It reported that" "mopping-op eoaUnnes " near a featare cap tared yesterday in hih ridxes near the Paleltamn road. Tama is approximately 40 miles from Imphal, bat fighting has been reported within 24 miles of Imphal In that direction. Allied offensive' patrols were re ported active on the Tiddim road running south from Imphal and in the area of Bishenpur, some 18 miles to the southwest of the al lied base. (A Berlin broadcast of a Japan ese broadcast said more than 10, 000 British troops, supported by air units, had launched a fierce counterattack a mile and a half (Turn to P-ge 2 Story D) Sedition Trial ;. Gets Started In Washington WASHINGTON, April'. 17-tfP) Trial of 30 persons charged with conspiracy to incite disaffection within -the armed forces moved toward selection of a jury today as Federal District Court Justice Edward E. Eicher repeatedly de nied motions of more than a score of defense attorneys which would have delayed proceedings. The blanket indictment returned last January 5 against two worn en Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling of Chi cago and Miss Lois De Lafayette Washburn I of Chicago and 28 men, ehages they conspired with I i r w MMn1ai ftnl ma Nr4w German officials and nazi party leaders with' the intent of inter fering with the loyalty, morale and discipline of US armed forces. In addition to the two women, the list of defendants includes Ge rard Wilhelm Kunze of New York, said by the justice department to be leader of the German-American bund after 1939, and George Syl vester Viereck of New York, un der sentence of from one to five years for , violating the .foreign agents registration act The opening day was occupied with fencing between .defense counsels and O. John Rogge, spe rial assistant to Attorney General Francis. Georgia Clearing Tornado Wreckage ATLANTA. April 17 -H Daz ed survivors worked under a blaz ing sun today to . clear t away wreckage . of a " Sunday tornado that killed S3 and injured more than 300 along a 100-mile strip in northeast Georgia and western South .Carolina. v Search of the approximately 150 demolished homes revealed no new casualties and many of the less seriously injured were able to leave hospitals. The Red Cross reported tonight 39 were still un der hospital treatment in the two states. . ' 12 PAGES PmcicliuteiBombs Blast Japs P : r" A V-.. , X 1'- ' " -. : - jfrS J' Pi r Parachute bombs, dropped by 5th spread havoc among enemy planes on the field, many of which have elated Press photo from 5th US air force) J t Britain Forbids Diplomats to Leave Country in Drastic New Security Move By JUDSON LONDON, Tuesday, April 18 - the secrets oi the coming invasion forbade neutral and allied diplomats to leave the country and subjected all their communications to censorship, excepting only the missions of Russia, the United wealths. . . r. The unprecedented restrictions apply alike to neutrals and -! 1 j o members of the United Nations, Sgt. Priem Gets Flying Cross For Fine Work AN EIGHTH AAF BOMBER STATION, England-Staff Serge ant Arthur L. Priem, 21, of Salem, Ore., left waist gunner on an Eighth AAF flying fortress, has been awarded ' the distinguished flying cross for "extraordinary achievement" while participating in more than a score of heavy bombing assaults on vital nazi tar gets in Germany and the occupied countries of Europe. He already held the air medal with three oak eaf clusters. I The AAF gunner, son of Mr. and (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Nazis Think Allied Invasion Due Soon . .... . -...... i NEW YORK Aprir n-MVGeri man military circles were quoted in a Bern radio broadcast record ed by CBS tonight as saying thai the allied invasion "will not be long delayed.' "German military circles do not expect that anything will happen in the next few days likely to bring; the war to a dramatic cli max," it was said. "But judging from the signs of German prepar ations on the one hand and of the concentration of Anglo-American forces on the-; other, one - must necessarily consider that the in- vasion will not be long delayed.! Constellation, Huge IS eiv Continent in By JAMES J. STREBIG f Associated Prt Aviation Editor J WASHINGTON, April n-(M A new giant of the air paths, the Lockheed Constellation, crossed this continent today in 6 hours 5$ minutes, an 'average speed of around 355 miles an hour a speed well beyond anything Cowri previously for a similar distance The big triple-ruddered fou motored ship with a shark's body contour flew east from Burbanki Calif in the colors of Transcon4 tinental St Western 'Air, Inc. which sponsored its development, but is being turned over to the army immediately for use in war! transport work; Compared with the Constella tion's time far non-step flight Is the previous fastest cross-country trip of 7 boors 2t minutes flown in a specially designed plane by Heward R. nnghes on Jannary It, 1937. Bashes flew from Barbank to Newark, NJ, on a 2445-mile route at an aver age speed of 327 miles an hoar. In contrast with his lone trip,' Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. April 18. 1944 : f it- - -. !i.,-:... . ' US- air force bombers on the Jap airfield at Hollandla, New -Guinea, O'QUINN O - Moving drastically to protect: of Europe, Britain today flatly States and the British common with the noted exceptions. A for eign office spokesman .Mid such; allies as China, Brazil and the bth ers were affected the samfuneu trals because they were not im mediately concerned with the es tablishment of the western front The restrictions, which went in to effect at midnight and contin ue until further notice, forbade diplomatic missions to: - ' L Transmit or receive In this country any telegram not word ed la plain langaage; 2. Dispatch or receive any diplomatic bag - which has - not been nbmltted to censorship; S. Dispatch from this country couriers or diplomatic and eon aalar representatives: or any member of their official or do mestic staffs, inelading air, mil itary and naval attaches. In all previous wars and in the present war until today, neutral and 'allied diplomats and couriers have been allowed to move freely and their dispatch pouches and telegrams have been exempt from censorship. First results of the ban were postponement of the scheduled de parture of a Brazilian diplomat and an announcement by Sweden that safe-conduct air travel by Swedes to Scotland was being stopped after one more trip. V The measure was t the . latest and strongest of a series that ' has included prohibition of vis itors on England's east mad sonth eeasis, a complete stop on news of convoy arrivals, and virtually complete stoppage of - travel to neighboring Eire, ' Never before has Britain or any other nation taken such stringent (Turn to Page 2 Story A) 7 Hours for however, the Constellation car ried 17 persons, and there was room in its cabin for 40 more pas sengers with luxury accommoda tions. As a troop transport it could carry 100 soldiers with full equip ment -:: v. I ;; , -.f -;. The fastest transport cross ing previously flown was 1 hours 22 minutes by Leland S. Andrews and EL B.' Snesd In a f two-engine Vol tee : from Los Anreles to Waahlngten an Feb ruary 20, 1935. At an average speed of 22LI miles an hoar. - Hughes, an outstanding figure in aviation as well as a motion pic ture producer; shared the controls of the Constellation with ; Jack Frye, president of the TWA. They flew between 1 15,000 and .19,000 feet, with some help from tail winds. Despite the record,. It was understood ' that the plane was slightly behind schedule. " . Army, officers declined to per mit publication of any; official figures on the flight, but did per mit Frye and Hughes to say that the flight was a record, j at Hollandia already been destroyed. (Asso Stimson Tells Army Position On Drafting; i V, SHINGTON, April 17 Jf) Sec "arr of War Stimson said to- nigfth army's requisiUons for men have been consistent with the job it has to do, in replying to "implied criticism of " selective service uncertainties. -, Stimson, commenting in a state ment on the army's changing manpower requirements, said that the method ot calling men into the service is such that a com' plicated estimate of needed man power, based on only one certain figure, must stand up after a time lag of seven months. Yet despite this lag, he said, the average error between estimates and actual strength of the army was only 2 per cent. "While a variation of 100,000 between estimated and subsequent actual strength appears . very large in a newspaper headline, it is less than 2 per cent of the total strength of the army," he said. "Under, the circumstances, 2 per (Turn to Page 2 Story K) cent is not an unreasonable mar' gin for error in estimates." Camp White Gets German Prisoners CAMP WHITE, Ore, April 17 UPh- .The Initial contingent - of German prisoners of war arrived here to occupy one of the west coast's first prison camps, Brig. Gen. Amos Thomas, post com mander, announced. 3 ; Some prisoners may be hired out as agricultural workers, but most will be employed on the post. CoL Arthur J. Ericsson, former Ft Lewis personnel director, in charge of the prison camp area. Passenger Plane, Crosses 355 MPHSpeed Averag "It b a perfectly marvelous ship, Frye said. "It Is simply great. It flies and handles like s pursuit (meaning ft fihter plane). I guess the thing to say b that tt flies like a dream." Greeting Guy W. Vaughan, president of Wright Aeronautical corporation, which ; builds the 2, i200 horsepower .Whirlwind en gines used in the : Constellation, Frye ' said the power plants !Hpurred, like kittens all the way." . The plane left Barbank at I 3:5 ftjn. Pacific war time and was over the Washington na tional airport at 1:54 pjn. east ern war time. It made ft per fect landing four minutes later after circling nee. The time Is flrored from the moment the wheels begin rolling, at the takeoff until the finish line is l crossed in flight. . ' i The, Constellation has a gross weight of around 40 tons and a pay load of more than 14, tons. Its wingspread Is 123 f feet slightly longer than the flight of . the Wright brothers at Kitty hawk and Hollandia Gfets New Pounding Bombers Leave Jap Fuel Dumps Blazing Fiercely ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Tuesday, Ap ril 16-(PyOne of the heaviest bombing raids yet centered on i. Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, was staged Sunday by bomb- ers ahd fighters of the fifth ar my air force left great columns of smoke rising from Japanese fuel and supply dumps. . All details of the raid were not available today and Gen. Doug las MacArthur's communique did not mention the number of tons of explosives which shattered this frequently-blasted shipping and air . base. First reports said the tonnage was more than 200, but headquarters .officers expected a much! larger figure when final re ports were received. j None of the allied raiders met aerial Interference, and only li-hf anti-aircraft fire was re ported over the base, which a few weeks ago, at the beginning of heavy aerial strikes . against It, was hotly defended by the Japanese air force. Nine storage dumps, barracks. jetties and a small coastal vessel were left aflame in the Sunday raid. I Australian imperial force head quarters reported that Australian troop who captured Bogadjim, on the northeastern New Guinea coast,! April 13 have advanced two miles jup the coast toward Madang without encountering any Jap anesel There wa evidence that the enemy was j evacuating ; the Bogadjim-Madang area. Madang. 18 miles northwest of Bocadnm, was aa Important .(Turn to Page 2 Story B) Nkc, l)ecuMer B25 From Plants .. .i - - . . INGLEWOOD, Calif,' April 17 tffVNorth American Aviation an nounced today it has started production- on two hew versions of the B-25 Mitchell: bomber, one of whichi is described as the world's most heavily-armed airplane. ' A new and deadlier Mitchell be ing turned out at the company's Inglewood plant bristles with .14 .50 caliber machine guns and a 75 millimeter cannon, a company an nouncement said. This compares with three machine guns on the Mitchells piloted by Gen. James Doolittle and his men in the raid on Tokyo, supplemented by two painted broomsticks for bluff ing purposes only. ! . Thej other heavily-armed Mit chell model is being turned out in North American's Kansas plant, and is:equipped with 12 .50 caliber machine guns. Both planes will carry their' normal bomb loads In addition to the extra armament, and the speed and range have not been affected by the new instal lations, company engineers said. Thef California j model carries four fixed machine guns and one fixed Cannon in its nose; four fix ed machine guns in its forward fuselage section; two in the upper (Turn, to Page 2 Story J) 13 feet longer than the span of a B-24 Liberator, j -H ; The j airline distance between Los Angeles and Washington is 2663 miles The great circle dis tance, which - thej Constellation probably attempted, Is 2292 miles. Its actual: distance; probably was somewhere between the two fig ures,' Since the plane i deviated from its course in an effort to avoid Adverse wind. The 355- mile ay erage was based on relia ble estimates. ' ; . - In addition to Hughes and Frye as pilots, the - crew comprised Howard T. Bolton, navigator; R. L Proctor, flight engineer, and C EL; Gloyer, : radio operator. . - The bassengers were L. J. Chi appinoi . Leo Baron,. Robert L. Loomi4 E. J. Minser, Orville R. Olson, (Lee Spruill and . Richard De CompQ of TWA; Richard San ton, R. L.' Thoren and Thomas Watkins of Lockheed; S. J. Solo mon, chairman of the . airlines' committee o n ; postwar aviation policy, fand Lt CoL C A. Shoop of the army air forces. Rolling Pxico 5c Hessian -. - i- Fasf Closing, in Do Sevastopol Thousands of Nazis Caught In 85-Mile Crimea Death f Trap; Planes Hit Rumania By TOM YARBROUGH LONDON, Tuesday, April loFVRussian troops plunged to within a mile of Sevastopol s bay two junctions on roads leading into the city from the southeast, and hurled thousands of German and , Rumanian troops into a .narrowing 85-square-mile oeath mean stronghold, Moscow announced last night. A bulletin also said that Russian long-range airmen had joined O grade, Sofia Hit J Planes Pound j i Rail Facilities 1 1 To Support Reels I ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, April 17-(iiP)-Strong forces of American Fortresses and Libe rators bombed Belgrade and Sofia today, hitting rail facilities, air craft component factories and an airdrome on the third straight day of the Italy-based air assault on the Balkans ahead of the Russian army's advance. . ) The American attack was made in a series of swift jabs. 1 1 Fortresses . led off, pouring bombs into the rail yards at Bel grade in the first .air attccki on the- Yugoslav- capital . itself since the Germans dive - bombed the then defenseless city at the open ing of their conquest of the Bal kans , three "years ago this month. I Next a major force of Liberators dumped its . bomb loads on I the rail yards at Sofia, capital of . Bui garia.' These yards,- like those at Belgrade, are a vital point on f the Zagreb-Bucharest railroad which is the Germans' main artery to the southern Russian front from Aus tria and Yugoslavia. , i Meanwhile, a smaller force of Liberators pounced again on the Zemun air field near Belgrade which was heavily bombed yes terday. The airdrome was describ ed officially as "an important stopover point for transport air craft flying supplies to the Russo German front from northern Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece." The day's fourth major air ope- (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Miller Keeps Campaign Hot For Gen. Mac.! WASHINGTON, April n.-iJF)- Gen. Douglas MacArthur'g dis avowal that he is seeking the pres idency caused no discouragement today among those republicans who would draft him as their nominee. . !..;.. Rep. A. Miller (R-Neb), whose correspondence . with MacArthur started the whole thing, told a re porter he thought the general's re marks constituted "A very fine statement that clarifies the atmos phere." vaSl- "I still think the general is ava able and can be drafted," he said. That was the same conclusion reached by other MacArthur en thusiasts. , I Miller said he "Never felt that General MacArthur was , attack ing the new deal, although he agreed with some of my thoughts" when the general wrote the con gressman. MacArthur's statement repudiated any idea that his let ters were intended as criticism of the administration. He also de clared he never intended that the correspondence should become public. ; 'J- - ::-;; : " MacArthur's statement reached I (TtJrn to Page 2 Story H) Spring Snow Storm Hits Cascade Area BEND, April 17 HB)- Weekend storms dropped a foot of snow in Santiam pass and 10 Inches in Willamette pass, state highway department maintenance crews reported today. ,1 i The spring snow 'was general in the central , Oregon Cascades and reached Into the timbered foothills Just west of Benk Light snow - fell over the Deschutes Bel plateau, --. ; - ' - j - " j No. 332 Troops on the north yesterday, seized trap around the stricken Cri the devastating allied aerial offen sive against Rumania with a mass attack Sunday night on the Dan ube river port and defense hub of Galati. One Russian column of Gen. Feodor L. Tolbukhin's fourth Ukrainian army captured Me kensiya, only two miles north of Sevastopol, which Is built on the chalk cliffs south of the bay. This group was only a mile from the north shore of the bay, which Is reported Jammed with axis evacuation ships sank by Russian bombers. It was striking- atonr a road skirting- the eastern end of the bay. Qn the eastern side of Sevas topol another Russian column cap tured Cherkez-Kermen, eight miles outside the city, the bulletin said. Between this red army force and Sevastopol lie Inkerman and. Malakhov Hill, Sevastopol's last natural defenses. The capture of these hills ended the eight-months axis siege of the city in July, 1942, and also in the Crimean war in 1885. ; ;: "-'X; .'.v,': A. third Soviet nlt fonght lta way Into' Verkhny-Chorrun, road Junction six miles south east of Sevastopol, and only four miles from Inkerman. -Farther south Gen. Andrei - L Yeremenko's independent mari time j army,' fighting , its. way around the coast and through .the mountains, was only 12 miles front Sevastopol and five miles front Balaklava, scene of the renowned (Turn to Page 2 Story C) GOP's Meet To See, Hear Office Seekers A good crow "sized up" various republican candidates for offices all the way from constable to con-, gress at a "Candidate night" meet ing of the Marion county Republi can club held last night at the chamber of commerce, Dr. O. A. Olson,' presiding. A number of the candidates were unable to be present but in the majority of these instances ft representative was on hand to wave the banner." Candidates for each post were given a stipulated -number of min utes in which to speak. ; ' Of ' congressional office-seekers only Charles A. Sprague, candi date for the seat-of the late Sen ator Charles L. McNary, and Dan Harmon, Newberg, candidate for the lower house from the first dis trict, were in attendan c e. Sprague's opponent, Guy Cordon, now appointee senator in Wash ington was represented by his law partner, Frank Sever, Roseb'urg; Wayne Morse, out for the second Oregon senatorial spot, now held. C T M r, . 1 . . . i uj nuiua noiiDin, was ooosira uj D. T. Gillis, while Holman was abetted by Mrs. Lee- Patterson. Rep. James Mott was represented by Charles HeltzeL 1 . Other candidates appearing or being otherwise represented: con stable of the Salem district Earl (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Are Yea ' Degisiercd? If you are newcomer to Marion County , , ' If you failed to vote at the last general election . . If you have moved into an other precinct Yen Ilnsl ' OcaisIcT to veto at tie Primaries Kay ISlh. ' , Regbtratlon Books Clese AprU lSth V-