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PAGS TWO Th OSIGOXl STATESMAN. Cetax Oregon, Thursday Morning. April 23, 1S44 Nazis Launch Counter-Push Against Reds F (Continued from Page 1) s trongly-f ortified defense centers around -Sevastopol itself, notably Fedyukhiny Heights, south of In kerman about five miles from the center of the city. " A Russian maneuver from the couth also outflanked the hill of Sakharny Galovka, which cov ered the entry to the Inkerman valley, ; the Soviet communique said. Captured and deserter Ru manian troops said German machine - runners were shoot ing down Rumanians who tried to leave the Sevastopol defense ' trenches, the communique ad . ded, llany of the enemy were j. slain and many captured as the i survivors were pressed inexor I ably back against the sea, the Russians reported. The Sevastopol battle took on j more and more the character of a ; siege, however. The Russians an ? nounced they were heavily shell ing German positions there, i On the Bessarablan front the i Russians reported they took sev- era! populated places and en ; Urged their bridgeheads on the ! west bank of the Dnestr river ' la the Chislnau area, kiling 80 of the enemy and beating off German attempts to regain lost . ground. These successes, however, were , subordinated by the communique, i which frankly began: "On April ''19, east and south of the town of .Stanlsla wow, our-troops fought the enemy, repulsing attacks by large tank' and infantry forces." A news dispatch from Moscow said the offensive appeared to be 1 ' a strong, well-organized' and 1 systematic attack by Germans and Hungarians destined to stavo off drive In the Lwow direction by troops of Marshal Gregory X Zhukov's Ukrainian :, army. to try to keep the Russians from driving on through the Czecho slovak frontier passes that they reached April 8. Lwow, 170 miles northwest of Stanlslawow, is a railway junction and German base already under . heavy attack by the red air force. Tonight's communique said long-range bombers made a . mass raid overnight on Lwow, hitting concentrations of trains . loaded with enemy troops and war materials and causing 48 large fires visible 108- miles " away. -V - .. ' j. . , 1 , . The, red ; army for some time ;has.hten at. points. approximately 45 miles' east of Lwow. In the drive' towards 'Stanisla vow, tho Russians announced on lllarch 29 they had captured Kol ' omyja, and immediately swept on to take Nadworna, 21 miles southwest of Stanlslawow and Tysmienca, 'seven miles east. That front. Ion the plains just south of the Dnestr river and north of the Carpathian mountains, has been ' comparatively quiet ever since, nnitl today's German counterat tacks.- x Leath Plans Eastern Trip B (Continued from Page 1) B '. representatives in each city, and prospective building sites will be visited and other matters includ ing the availability of office help, transportation facilities, hotel ac commodations, airline travel, rail road facilities and mail I service will also be studied. Leth states that there are ap proximately 125 office employes f this organization, therefore representing . a sizable business enterprise. The American Jersey Cattle dub does business with ' approximately 50,000 purebred breeders in America. Sweden to Reject Allies' Request STOCKHOLM, Thursday, April ZO-GTVTbe government has in formed the Swedish parliament in secret session it would reject the US-British request that it halt ball bearing exports to Germany, the newspaper Dagens Nyfaeter said today. " v.- ; The paper said the reply had not yet been transmitted to Wash ington. CHAN... LAM Ot.T.TSmJtJi. DtJG.ChmmJtM Herbalists XII North Liberty i - Cprtetn TorUand General Electric Co Ctffleo open Saturday only- to turn, to 1 pja4 4 to I pjm. Com uttattoav Blood pi iuia and orU tests are trot Of char, Practiced jinca LSI. ... - , 'x- I i'r.CLAXXSTS CHOICE! Ut formula - -nt ua my XMrniOB e aumr viimwt, -'.v -rUe pain. Itching-, aorenesa vvjic:tl .i ea tends to shrink twen- j; criTss. Get fl.C tubo Thornton ,r K.nor'a P.-tr Ointment. Or- set , nor man St Minor's Rectal Suppotd- r a -few eita more. Try jC C:-.S wst TODAY. At all food u -re averynijere in Salem, at . rt i I oyer's. ' : . HQ ON THE HOME FRONT By ISABEL "Open Friday a. m. Red's home." . V ' ' The sign on the Marion barber shop door speaks eloquently to many a Salem man. For Red is, of course, that young marine cor poral whose life in the south Pa cific they have discussed under the shears and the hot towel these past two years. l-; And, Pat Thatcher may talk as he will of the visit to friends in Lebanon, but there are those not far away from his shop who would wager as much as a new hat that the fishing poles went along. And Red may tell his father of his fishing in the south seas. Why, sure, and I have it from his own lips that he fished for tar- Ipon, got them, too. Though, dis appointingly, ne couia not ao it in the way his father would have had him accomplish the task. For there wasn't time to cast and play when the marines went out to add to their larder.' The fishing there was done with dynamite. Mullet, tropical 'sun fish and tarpon rose, very dead, to the top of the water. Truthfully,'. Red speaks of his fishing there only when pressed. ' But last weekend he really fished on some Oregon river, al though the jaunt, like that of thou sands of other season' openers, was unsuccessful so far as the take was concerned. Down here on South Commer cial street we are using our pull with the Almighty so that there may ' be sunshine and spring clouds, calmed streams and good luck for the Thatchers, father and son, today. . ' - - .. . V Note to Servicemen's editor: CpL Richard Thatcher, son of Mr. and Mrs. ; Patrick G. Thatcher, 1548 Waller street, is at home on leave after, 25 months with the marines in Australia and the south Pacific islands. WFA Experts Study Potato Crop in State WASHINGTON, April 19 War food administration experts are re-surveying the potato situa tion in Washington and Oregon to . determine whether there will be a surplus; sufficient to justify opening a plant in Oregon for the conversion of potatoes to alcphoL William M. Case, principal mar keting specialist for the commod ity credit corporation, said the changing condition of the early crop, with some of it being lost through adverse weather condi tions, has made early estimates inaccurate. Local potato interests, he said, had' advised that 400 carloads of potatoes were on hand in both Washington and Oregon, but a more recent report from surplus commodities representatives indi cated there were only, 77 carloads surplus in the two states. It takes a large surplus to jus tify starting an alcohol conver sion plant," Case said. "Some large plants handle 30 carloads day.- Case said consideration also might be given to moving the Washington -Oregon surplus to California to start two large alco hol plants there operating before the California potato harve reaches its peak. Irish Effort To Save Rome Looks Futile k (Continued from Page 1) A were published, German broad casta made clear that the nazi government intends to continue the policy it has followed a tongue-in-cheek declaration that Borne is an "open city while making every military use of it The situation, according to of ficial views here, offers very little hope that the ancient seat of cne of the world's great religious faiths will be spared heavy de struction. Do Valera's note was dated March 15 and Mr. Roosevelt's re ply was dated April J. Sprague Campaigns V Coastal Counties :J PORTLAND, Ore, April Publisher Charles A. Sprague of Salem will take bis rampntgn for republican ""atifTn as US sen ator into Columbia and Clatsop counties tomorrow, bis Portland headquarters said tonbzht He will make talks in St Hel ens and Astoria, and wQ spend Friday in Tillamook county. Next week he will campaign in eastern uregon. - r-y - n CHHD3 i 1 f K PAT THATCHER New Havocs Noiv Operate Frm Kng and A US HAVOC LIGHT BOMBER BASE, England, April 9-P)The new A-20 light bombers, which were brought out from the wraps of official secrecy today with the disclosure they are operating again from England, already have had their share of f adventures during several -weeks of action. Lt William Ostrander, Las Ve gas, Nev., had to ditch his flak damaged Havoc in the North Sea while returning from one mission. His two gunners,? Sgts. Irving Binney, Woodside, LI,? and John E. Wilson, Bogalusa, La bailed out and floated down! onto Eng lish soiL :f -i . - Ostrander was pulled out of the & ocean a few minutes later. f While one-engine landings ; in the twm-engined Z medium and light bombers have become fre quent, Lt Horace F Pair, At lanta, Ga., pushed his skill a little further and executed a on-engine landing. One engine quit on the way to the target,' but Lt Pair managed to keep the plane in for mation and carry through his bombing. The' second engine conk' ed out on the ' way back to his base, so he crash landed.-: v The only injuries in his mishap were: broken ankles suffered by Lt Pair and one of his gunners, Sgt Herbert Marion, Byderwood, Wash. -. :- v. v One of the pilots on yesterday's raid, Maj. L. O. Hawel,! 48781 East 180th street Seattle, piloted one of the six American planes in that joint RAF-USAAF attack on French railroad yards in 1942. WiU Ease Up I (Continued from Page iy I cials believe it would be possible to avoid a . return to rigid ration ing during ' the next twelve months. By. that time, fhe war in Europe , may be over and direct war demands lighter, i . - A factor in the. situation is offi cial concern over the possibility that the war might end with the government holding huge amounts of food in reserve. The problem of preventing a- snarp decline Sin ... . zarm commoaity prices is ex pected to be difficult at best It would be complicated by the ex istence of larg e . gpvernment stocks.. . ., ,5t, 5 v Another factor is a belief in of ficial quarters that not' nearly as much food will be needed for European relief feeding as waa thought earlier in the War. Portland Man Finds That He Just Can't Win " .-. ..... .' ., PORTLAND, April 19-MV1 wasn't drunk, a defendant ar rested pounding on an Apartment house door told municipal court nere. -j - t . - . e I came home at 2 ajb. and my wife was drunk and wouldn't let mo in. She is the one who should be fined. . . -i quite agree with iyou," re plied the judge. TU fine her $20. xou pay IX." . f x Last Tines TonlsM! ;tc:jc:.tjay Rationing I:- i . i. f -". j . AlKes to Keep World; Peace SAN FRANasCO. April 19-6T1 Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia, en route to Washington for war and postwar conferences with President Roosevelt said to day he looked to the United States and her allies to prevent world peace from being disturbed again by aggressors.' f T f - s:-:- The prime minister said : at a press conference that the conflict has taught the allies' that no sin gle power can stand alone- and that a concert of nations is needed during and I after : the war. V J : Curtin said all occupied coun tries should be taken from the enemy. He declared that no allied country should ! claim certain ter ritory, such as an island, merely because its forces captured the region. If Australian troops, he said, took a Pacific island thev could do so only with the full cooperation of allied sea and air power. He said Australia will not proclaim sovereignty over any such island or region. V ; The premier; stressed that the Japanese-mandated islands should never be allowed to become 'po tential bases of strength to an enemy. j : " The question of awiTi janan after the war is one for the peace conference, he ' said. John Beford, Early Mayor, Dies John Robert Bedford, who "was the first mayor of West Salem, died Wednesday afternoon at his home, a JO statesman, street Survivors include his widow. Mrs. Emma K. Bedford and two daughters, Miss kuui Bedford and Miss Betty Bed ford, i - Mr. Bedford Came to Oreeon in 1889 from Canada bv wav of Cali fornia where he spent some time. He came to West Salem in 1901 and lived there until about three years ago, when the family moved to Salem. He was the first man elected mayor of West Salem and served lor several years in that position. 1 He was a member of the Meth odist church all his adult life of the First Methodist church in Sa lem since he came to West Salem. He was a member of the Woodmen of . the World, i Funeral arrange ments are in charge of Clough Barrick and time of the service will be announced. Lovell Talks About Russia Russia . suffered the second worst invasion in historv. its rvxv. ple do not want it ever to be re peated, R. Ivan Lovell, Willam ette history professor, told fellow members of the Salem Rotary club Wednesday noon. Lovell sketched the ways in which Russia holds a commanding! position in the world of nations' in the matter of population, land, minerals, agri cultural produce and industrial products, i The possibility that East Prus sia might be given to Poland at the close of the war met with the approval of the Willamette fac ulty man who said it would mean the breaking up of the old Jun kers party group. Dr. Lovell has given the same talk on Russia at other meetings m saiem including the Salem Lions club, other Marion countv club groups and various out of the county meetings. Wallace Will Visit Siberia on Journey NEW YORK, April 19 The Herald Tribune in a dispatch from Washington says It has learned authoritively that Vice President Henry A. Wallac will go to Siberia as well as China on his impending l l I I I I C 3 I I I I i t 11 Greatest Mystery of Oar Time! One WefJea, Joan Fontaine I 1 I IT 7f 1 I 1 C-Fetr ' f 1 I "TSOCADEXO j with Rosemary Lane y j OonttoMoaia from t r. EL u Today and Friday One Wife in His Heart ' Another ea U2s Eaads M t so-o-o romonf:cf Also: This Great Actta Yesterday a a asaTa'a": j m7 nil RAFf AAF Drop 9000 Tows Of Bombs in Thirty Hours D (Continued from Page 1) D of 4400 tons of bombs last night on railroad Installations near Paris and elsewhere behind the naak' Atlantic wait Aerial warfare never: before has witnessed a bombardment of such sustained volume and violence, and the end is nowhere in sight Tose T who have ' followed . the European air war closely the last few months feel certain: that the present pace of tho attack' cannot only, be maintained, but can be increased from British bases aug mented further from" the Italian theatre.';"'"'''":.-: -;:-"t ."t'SV The allied 30-hour offensive cost less than one per cent of the attacking force; ?: . ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES,' April ; 19-ff-Tho strain on battered and overload ed nasi communications sup plying German forces en the southern Russian front was dis closed today to have been In creased tremendously by the mining of SOO miles of the Da- , nube river, historic and all-Important commercial lifeline ef southeastern Europe. British bombers spent several nights dropping mines along the river and shooting up vessels from Budapest to Bucharest The axis radio announced that all traf fic had been halted on the great waterway. The river has been the prin cipal channel along which Ru manian oft as well as grain and other loot from the Balkans, flowed toward Germany. Its Im portance to nasi war plans has become even more vital as the Russian army pushed Into Ru mania and allied bombers from Italy began their methodical de struction of rail common teat! ons In Hanrary. Romanix, Bulgaria and Tngoslavla. Using Wellingtons and Amer ican-built Liberators, the RAF night fliers first went in at very low altitude and dropped scores of mines along the river ; by para chute. The next night the gunners of a low-flying Liberator shot up Snell Predicts Accident Wave PORTLAND, April 19W)-Gov Snell predicted today that casual ties inflicted by jalopies on the nation's highways after the war might exceed the number killed in battle. M r Gov. Snll addressed the open ing session of the' regional meet ing4 of the! American Association or Motor vehicle Administrators, "With the -coming of -peace it will be tjhe single desire of "mil lions of our citizens to take to the open road again, Gov. Snell said. "For several years that 'wM mean that cars with better than 250,000 miles chalked up, ' with ragged tires and mechanically un safe, will be racing along our highways - to present one of the gravest hazards that could befall our nation. Casualties might well exceed those caused directly' by the war. ' ' ' TWC WOOS THAT WTS Bim.T" - Opens 1:15 F. K. - IIow Showing! WOMEN DEFILED , . MEN BUTCHERED . . BT RUTHLESS JAPS! co-mt toy HC2ERS And a New Thrilling Serial!; Chapter 1 "PERILS OF THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED" "TT c c t u - Opens f :4a F. JUL - Hsw HayLg! The Great- st Flight la Stetery! s Hie-Ill - '. 'MMil It co-xnti, and exploded a tanker that spread blazing oil ' and gasoline among some SO other craft blocking all traffic Crewmen said the surface of the Danube was blazing for at least 1000 yards. . , Although the operation was ex tremely' hazardous, both because of nearby mountains and enemy anti-aircraft fire, the only loss was a Wellington that crashed in to the river. - ! ;.. '' i ifi I , ' i i " I ' ; - British Crack India Lines Of Japanese E (Continued from Page 1) E numerically superior Japanese force which attacked night and day; (: ' The main dispatches from Dim- apur . have advanced i to within 1,000 yards of positions held by the Kohimal garrison in prepar ation for the final nutcracker ac tion against the Japanese, it was announced. Hi " British mountain guns were re ported in positions dominating enemy batteries. From Inside Koh ima, the 'other observer radioed that fighting had been particularly heavy in the western part of the town. There British troops, . in strong defensive positions, . were steadily shelled from above by Japanese 75-millimeter guns. All Japanese infantry attacks during the past week, however, were de clared to have been -thrown back with heavy losses. British tanks crawled up 1,000- foot slopes for the attack which knocked the Japanese from hill positions northeast of Imphal. Turkey Plans To Cooperate NEW YORK, April 19-P-Tur- key has formally replied to British-American notes requesting a cessation of chrome shipments to Germany and the reply is be lieved to place the nation on the side of the allies "within the lim its of Turkey's material possibil ities,'' it was stated in an NBC broadcast from Ankara tonight . OUT OF THE FRANZ WERFEL'S JMMORTAL NOVEL COMES THE RADIANT STORY OF A SIMPLE GIRL WHOSE FAITH . ! ' SHOOK THE BomBersHit Nomoi Island Second Day ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Thurs day, April 20-iP)-Four-engined Liberators based in the Solomons bombed the Nomoi islands m fhe Carolines for the second successive- day Monday and again ; met neither anti-aircraft fire nor op position from enemy interceptors at that southern guardian of their Truk fortress, ' " r Flying at medium altitude over the target the big bombers saw number of Japanese planes In the air, but they failed to give bat tle. . " On Tuesday, an unopposed bomber force bit Woleai. far to the west in the . Carolines, con centrating on the airdrome , and supply Instalaltions, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Woleai is 450 nautical miles west of Truk, and the strike re presented a long haul from Solo mons bases. Nomoi Is 150 miles southeast of Truk. The day be fore a strong bomber force neu tralized the Satawan Island air drome there. ; Two American planes were lost In day and night raids on RabauL the shattered enemy base of New Britain. - Liberators bombed several Ja panese bases in northwestern New Guinea, but weather hampered other operations. ; Hitler Reaches 55th Birthday C (Continued from Pege 1) C war until the war. is over. It needs a well-trained eye. to dis cern the trend of historical de velopments while a war is still going on- X Suggesting that many Germans may not approve of. Hitler, Goeb belj recalled contemporary oppo sition to Frederick, the Great . - Of the damage caused by the allied air raids on Germany, Goebbels remarked that. "Ten years after the peace has been declared there will hardly beany signs left of the destruction caused by the enemy's terror raids. "All of us, Goebbels said, "Consider ourselves engaged in MIGHTY PAGES OF ..';-''- EARTHi . CHASLB EICKFOHD Y1"CNT PKICE LEE J. COSS 3 r GLADYS COOPER Directs ri HFNRY KlfIG . Produced fcy RLUAM C5CTZ ia Caargt of froductioa Screw Flay fey Caorn Sutaa From r&s Kctnl tj Franz Tffarfal ContlaaoTts Shows TDallyt IXat tm S . ile Service S5e - Features at: Jr Children 4te TEvenlng . $Llt - - lS - f :il X Service 1U - Children 53i f-3Sr.lL . (AU Trices Include Taxes) GE&3XJD THSiiTRS the fuehrer's historic mission. Fog us the waf aims are not so clearly- defined but unalterable. So to serve our aims means to be loyal to the fuehrer and to follow him through all the storms of war." Hart Declines Making Guess On War's End SAN FRANCISCO, April 19-(JP) Returned from an on-the-spot in vestigation at Pearl Harbor, Adm. Thomas Charles Hart declined to day to hazard a guess on the Pa cific war's duration, but expressed the belief "it is going very welL despite the fact we hate a great deal of geography to dftrcome .. He told a news conference be could ."absolutely deny .that drunkenness - among naval per sonnel had any weight whatever in the extent of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. ' "That feature, he added, "has been investigated to death. ; The admiral is a member of the general board of the navy, and "was charged with unearthing evidence for the postponed courts martial lot Lt Gen. Walter C Short and Adm. Husband Kim meL military commanders in Hawaii when the war began. Be yond bitting at the drunkenness reports, he said "that's all I've got to say on that (Pearl Harbor) subject i r Japan cannot possibly make up in new buiiding or repairs for the great destruction its merchant shipping has suffered, he continu ed, and for much of this accom plishment the nation can , thank its submarine service. 1 "I think' no other arm of the service . . . has contributed more than they have toward rolling back the Japs. I ' Frozen Foods Use lo Increase soon PORTLAND, Ore., April 19 -JP) A vastly increased array of fro zen foods, wider use of plastic and glass containers, and increased use of mobile stores 'after the war were among the predictions made at the meeting of 100 Oregon food merchants here tonight The concensus' was that credit and deliveries will continue to be curtailed,! while self service and fresh packaged meats will become more popular. 1 20th CENTURY-FOX presents FTiT i Vfl I tttl CVTUr YlLLIAF.l PERLBERG 1-. .$ l;. - "I llLJULU mm w