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ii t .3 I mML I ?;4;:2 f ' I attended a hearing before the i aenate and house ; committee n ! highways when the freeway bill J 'vai oinder consideration; This bill -! .would give the highway commis ; sion power to designate routes i constructed primarily for through i traffic as "limited access" high- I Ways. This would mean that ve- ! hides ; and pedestrians would not j be permitted to enter or cross such t a highway except at stated inter- ! Vals. It would thus automatically ! restrict the improvement of the ! abutting land. i ; The purpose of the bill is first i for, safety, nermitting traffic to ! How on the' main thoroughfare ! without the menace of vehicles i cutting in or out of the stream on "I intersecting roads and turnouts or nedestrians walkin2 across the highway. At appropriate intervals there would be proper turnouts, i and presumably at such points clusters of commercial facilities ! would congregate. The second I reason for the bill is preservation ; of roadside beauty by confining r commercial encroachment to se ! lected . zones and not have the i highway fringe continuously clut- tered up with satellite business. The argument in the broad pub- ! lie interest seems Quite sound. On i existing 'highways no such cur- , j tailment of property rights could I be done except with j compensa- I tion; and If the amendments pro- 1 posed by the highway department are accepted the law would apply i only to new construction. What friends of Oregon highways and- i of Oregon's scenic beauty would, 1 like to see is some protection of this great natural asset i (Continued on Editorial page) House Rejects 2 Amendments U WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, -(P)- i The house-took its longest and most important stride toward pas sage of a limited national service bill today. Two amendments some members had feared would peop- I ardize the whole bill were firmly i rejected. In succession, the membership I turned down the proposals that man compelled to go to work In a "closed shop" war plant need i not joint the union; and 'that race, ! creed or color should not be a condition of employment Disposition of the' two explosive i Issue left nothing in the way of final approval except a host of less controversial amendments, i generally considered as minor, There was likelihood, though, i that a record vote would be forced i on the anti-closed shop proposal when, the bill comes up for final uto faction probably tomorrow. B : Indications were that the 178 142 teller vote that rejected the riroposal today would be sus tained. ' Home Where Babies Burned 'Not licensed i, AUBURN, Maine, -Jan. 3 !-)- i The privately - owned boarding i home that became a funeral pyre . i for 18 babies and a nurse early to day was being operated without a legally-required license from the r bureau" of social welfare, Harry O. Page, Maine commissioner of health and welfare, disclosed to- ' night. - j - r Page arrived in Auburn from the state capital to launch an in I vesugauon in one tragedy even i while, stunned 'relatives sought ' means of identifying four yet un- ' i claimed bodies remaining in the morgue. - -. - " ' I . Three women and five children scaped the flames, which origi- naieu in we wicnen aoove a coal atove. Mrs Hosa Cote, 50, a nurse, ;was among the fire's victims." Soviet Church Meeting Opens ! MOSCOW, Jan. 31-(-The first-congress of the Russian or thodox church since the revolu" t tion: opened today amid prayers for peace and: victory, and praise for Premier Joseph om all ovS in Moscow's bearded eccliastics from the world gathered flittering Church, of the Resur rection to name a new patriarch. n i Hundreds ot spectators jammed the beautifully decorated church fn a mixed atmosphere of ancient ' clerical gowns and caps and sym bols. of modern times including floodlights and movie cameras as !the acting patriarch, Alexei of Leningrad and Novgorod, opened f the concress with a prayer for the ' health and .longevity of all the Kr?jest3. " ' rVeather m.. Min. sum Faa Frandse j-it eerie i'.tm . s si . ...41 32 J4 S4 19 n To Service Bill fortiand - - - a1U6 4 .aiU tivr I ln.ti. Aachen Breach Widened I 1 -r " ; ., T. 12 Twns Taken; Allies in South Circling Colmar By Austin Bealmear PARIS,- Jan. Sl.-tAVAmerican doughboys of the U. S. First and Third armies smashed across the German border in rain and slush at four new daces todav and wid- ened the Aachen breach in the Siegfried line by two . additional miles and overran at least a doz en more towns, some of them in side Germany. ' V Pushing a. full-scale offensive along a 40-mile section of the westwall, the power of the Amer ican twin-drive carried the troops ofLt Gen. George S. Patton, jr.. and Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges as much as 5000 yards further east. The front extends all the"' way .from the Aachen breach along the'Roer river to the Welchenhaulen bridge head, now expanded towidth of seven miles, along the Our river. Drive on Colmar As heavy U. S. artillery and armor, were poured against the Western face of the Siegfried line American troops under the French army command in southern Al sace drove east and south in their maneuver to encircle Colmar, the last major unliberated city in France. I . - French forces captured Witten- heim, northwest of Mulhouse against extremely heavy German opposition, and the troops besieg ing Colmar punched a serious blow j into Nazis defending the metro politan pocket by dominating the main highway which connects Col mad with the! Rhine river bridge at Bresisach in new encirclement advances. ? I Reach Rhine Canal , ' ' Otfter units under the French Command drove nearly a mile and a half and occupied Gambsheim and nearby Bettenhoff en against light resistance then plunged four miles across the HI river in, the Benf eld area . and reached -the Rhine-Rhone Canal. : ' ' It(Was estimated that Allied troops operating in the area of the Colmar packet have killed at least 5000 Nazi troops and taken 2,500 prisoners during the past 48 hours. I Januaryyp.945 Warmer Than i i AverageiHere January, 1945, was somewhat warmer and had more rainfall than the same month last year, reports the US weather bureau at McNary field to a summary of the maximum and minimum tempera tures and tnei amount of precipi tation for the! month. A total of 5.34 inches, compared with 5.27 inches for the same month in 1944 and a normal rainfall for January pf 5.33 fell the - past month. -j I v t- "Average maximum temperature last month was 49.5 degrees, mini mum was 34 degrees. Highest maximum temperature was re corded on the 10th; and 13th as 59,degres, and lowest minimum on the 21st and 25th as 21 de grees, i " r - . .i,, ........ Greatest amount of rainfall in any single 24-hour period was .80 inches on. the 6th Most of the 5.34 inches total for the month fell during the periods between the 5th and 7th and between the 10 th and 16th; ' ' Stimson Cancels News r t Meet, Uut-Ol-iown WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. -JP- Secretary of War Stimson has can celled his weekly news conference scheduled for tomorrow, the war department reported today. : A spokesman said the secretary Is out of town ibut gave no further information. Barkley Seeks In Dispute Over , ' - , ' 1 By Francis J. Kelly WASHINGTON, Jan. SI. -VPh Majority leader Barkley ' today summoned democratic senators to an j emergency conference in an eleventh-hour J effort to compro mise the disputed Henry Wallace cabinet appointment, , r The flemocrats, split wide open over the issue of granting the f or- mer vice president power as the government's .- thief loan agent as I wpII as the commerce secretarv- ship, are to meet at 10- a. m. (EWT tomorrow, two hours ue- ! fore the senate convenes for what ,37 may ce me evuiuutsk uKcuug ui the new session, t .. . - ; . , The importance which the demo- i r 3HU rarnnr-rouBTH year r Jap Oil Goes r I A huge pillar of smoke towers hijrh Into the sky at Saigon, French Indo-China, after a snceessf al; raid by carrier-based planes of the Third V. S. fleet. (AP wirephoto 3 Definite Types of Allied to ected WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 - ff Machinery ExP nite types of allied machinery to conduct European affairs is ex pected here to result from the ig three meeting. i The form of this machinery will depend on (1) the speed of offensives gainst Germany; in the next few days and (2) how far Churchill and Stalin are willing to go in accepting American principles; for handling liberated countries.-; h . v.- r H -" The military picture is consid ered of utmost Importance at this conference. Regardless of when the big three meet, it is possible that before .their talks are : con cluded the nature and duration of German resistance may be more exactly estimated than at any time since the conflict ; begaii Partly this Will be shown by th force of enemy counter-measures to the Russian drive along the Oder river line. Partly it will be shown by; enemy retreats in the west and to some extent it may be reflected in indications from inside the' reich of arrangements for a retreat j into mountainous southern Germany and a last ditch fight Inv jttiat area. The. more .accurately Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin can foresee the end of : the war in; Germany the more accurately they can plan for long range German control policies, for the liberation of Aus4 tria and for; the tapering ' off of militaij activities. : ,,;,;.. - J' ;;!'; j Silver'i Thaw Cloaks ; I . -, y. - -. , i ' . i Columbia Valley Area J PORTLAND, Jan. 31. -tfPH A silver! thawf cloaked the Colum bia valley7 landscape west of the Cascades and east of this city last night, slowing travel on icy rivej highways and closing schools hi Gresham and Corbett, where bus) es stayed in school garages. 1 Hospital Ship Expected I . LONDON, Jan. 31-P)-The hos-j pital ship Letitia is expected to arrive at Liverpool tomorrow witi 721 wounded, repatriated prisoners of war from Germany the first group of 8; total of 1861 Allied sol diers in the process of being ex changed. I , ' ; '1 Compromise Cabinet Job '. crats attach to tomorrow's caucus was emphasized by the fact that Barkley will have to leave a sick bed to marshal his forces for th widely heralded parliamentary dispute. The Kentuckian has been in a hospital suffering fx 6m ' an eye disorder.! ; The effort to keep some sem blance of unity within the major ity group was complicated by the fact that the commerce committee, in addition tq voting 14 to 5 again&l Wallace's nomination, approved 1$ to 4 a bill which would strip from the secretary of Tcommerce the control over. RFC and other big loan egenciej.held by Jesse Jonej before his: dismissal .by President Roosevelt ' - " . 12 PAGES Salasu Up in Smoke from U. 8. navy) Europe From Conference - Creation of at least three defi Russian Help Against Japan Not on Agenda LONDON, Jan. Jl.-Mem- bers of the house of commons conscious that the absence of their leaders and a meeting of the Mbig three might be synonymous were given a guarded hint today that the question of early . Soviet aid against Japan had . been re moved from the agenda of that conference. . j v!- Replying to a suggestion that British war prisoners would I ceive better; treatment if Russia spoke sharply to Japan," minister of state Richard Law said "it Is not proposed to raise this question at the forthcoming conference. Law's reply, "codftled with Har ry ; Hopkins statement ' In Italy that Britain and the United States were counting on their own re sources against the Japanese, drew the interpretation here that Presi dent Roosevelt, Premier Stalin and Prime Minister : Churchill would have other things to talk about Solon Would y FireTiigwell WASHINGTON,-Jan. 31 -(JP) Rep. Cole (R-NY) called today for the removal of Rexford Guy Tug well as governor of Puerto Rico because, he-charged, i the former new deal brain-truster "has suc ceeded in undoing a half-century of American development" "No ; one,i Cole told the house, can be mindful 'of certain recent laws of Puerto Rico and not come to the conclusion that -there has been developed the nucleus for the most fantastic, fascistic system of government! Imaginable. - Cole is a member of the house insular committee which is' con cerned with the Island's problems. Italy. Says She Can't Bear Up Under Terms ? ROME, Jan.; 51.-(P)-The gov eminent of Premier: Ivanoe Bon oml told the allies today that the Italian economy; "cannot bear up under the massive weight" of the financial burden.; imposed by the armistic e, I and asked " for ' credits in dollars and pounds for virtually all, expenses Italy now is charged with under the armistice terms. Or7on Thursday Morning, Fund For Probe Up To House Rules, Are Su&r -; pended, Permit Balloting rToday The house ' of representatives, under suspension of rules to per mit speedy determination, will de cide today whether $25,000 shall be allotted for the1 widely-heralded probe of Oregon's s liquor business. ' The measure to t provide the money (SB 113) was passed by the senate after a heated debate Wednesday morning and came to the house a few hours ! later. It was introduced 1 in prosaic style, but was rushed through first and second reading on motion of Rep. Henry Semon, member of the five-man investigating Committee, who said the group wanted to know what it had to work on. Halfway Mark Today The house itself, too, will know better tonight what it has "to work on," since today is the last on which bills may be introduced without approval of the legisla tion and rules committee which has indicated it will be "tough" in allowing new introductions. The senate, however, has no such check-rein. j Today is the. 25th day of the 43rd session and marks the half way mark of the -prescribed 50 days. j; ,? ' - . ' The house ridded Itself of large ly;! rninor measures Wednesday, approving nine of them, but had ttnore than , a,, score of new ones landed in its lap including such bills as HB 225 to compel the en richment! with vitamins of flour and bakery products; HB 228 to Increase the minimum salaries of teachers : from $75 a month to $1200 . for nine months,! and HB 234 requiring the pasteurization of milk and licensing of opera tors of pasteurization equipment Gas Tax Killed The senate passed measures tightening laws in regard to the liquor control commission's pow er of enforcement the house reso lution congratulating President Roosevelt on his birthday, and 19 other bills. ; The move to tax aviation gaso line 5 cents a gallon, for! the pur pose of raising funds to construct and operate airports, bogged down in I a ' battery of protests and In timations of illegality in commit tee meeting and was considered a dead issue pending introduction of a completely new bill. (Legislative new pace IS) . Persian Gulf Command Will BeEiqiii TEHERAN, Jan, 27-(Delayed)- (iThe Persian gulf command Is being liquidated since the opening of a -shorter supply line to Russia through the Dardanelles; and the Black sea, but American military railway service troops are likely to linger for some time in Iran." American withdrawal from the once-vital life-line to; Russia was planned about a year ago, and ev en before the first allied convoy passed through - the Dardanelles, the Persian gulf command began its "streamlining!, with abandon ment " of motor, transport service across Iran about two months ago. The plans' now calls for immedi ate ; dissolving of mountain ' and desert districts of the Command and consolidation of the! gulf dis trict with jthe Khorramshahr port units. -. " - !f ' Russia Might Oppose Jtevealing Meet Plans ' LONDON, Jan. 31 -CSV Uncon firmed reports circulating here to night said the . Russians ! may op pose any,; announcement by the "Big Three" of allied plans v for treatment" of Germany i after - its surrender, urging that such j an nouncement be postponed until Berlin has fallen . Light. Rain ' to continue intermittently to- day, with . temperatures about the same in. the mid-Willamette valley area, predicts; U. ST Weather! bureau, McNary field, Salem. ' ! . . February ! 185 Star Aivarded iwk..l...mu'. m ft V AW y.- "V?Ct At Bomber Command Headqnar i ten, Guam, Brir. Gen. Emmett ODonnell (ri(ht) receives SU ; ver Star award for bravery and j .gallantry , In . action. ' General : OTMnnell led the first Saipan ! based B-29 strike in force over I Tokyo, November 24 last The j presentation Is betna made- by 'Brig. Gen. Haywood S. Hansell, j jr., former commanding; general j ef the 21st bomber command, i (Intenuitional) . r , U. S. Diplomats End Rome Visit Leave by Air '. ROME, Jan. ( 31-()-US Secre tary of State Stettinius and Harry Hopkins left Rome; by air today for, an undisclosed destination, which may or may not be the scene of the big three conference. i Hopkins, who was received by Pope Pius and conferred with Ital-1 ian; Foreign Minister Alcide de Gasperi during; his two-day visit, acknowledged that : his trip was connected with the preliminaries for the conference of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin With Stet tinius, he conferred with Ameri can military leaders yesterday and today.' j : U- h , - Hopkins, an official announce ment said, conferred at ! length with Lt Gen. Joseph T. McNar- ney commander of American arnty forces in the Mediterranean, andj Lt Gen. Ira C. Eaker, allied air leommander in this theater, yesterday morning. Then the three leftl American field; headquarters to meet Stettinius, who arrived at a nearby airfield by plane. Bill on Civil Rights to Be Up to Senate The controversial "civil rights bill (SB 34) will come back from the senate judiciary committee without recommendation and go directly on the floor of the sen ate for debate,' it was disclosed Wednesday. , . - The bill . . . guaranteeing to every, person, regardless of race, color or creed, equal treatment in hotels, ! resorts, I assemblies and places of amusement; . i . Is spon sored by three .Multnomah! coun ty senators. It was given a public hearing Tuesday night - i ; 3.1'-. - - p r -. --' j.; . --Tri- . Smokes to Get Scarcer In Next Few Months t NEW YORK, Jan.! 31H5VA1- ready-scarce civilian smokes will get scarcer in the next few months but all of the leading brands will be in adequate supply 60 days after Nazi Germany : is beaten. Harry M. Wootten, investment ad visor: for Reynolds and company, New Sfork stock brokers, said to day. '. - ; : i treacherous Female Sends Fdla to Hospital With Bite wi WASH! NGTON, Jan. 31 Perhaps It was pure jealousy, but Fala, president's Scottie, wasTJack in the news today and Blaze, Cot Elliott Roosevelt's Mastiff, Was in relative obscurity.'." Fala did it the hard way; he went out and got bunged up. The Walter Reed hospital admitted him to the veterinary section, patched up everything but his dignity and sent him homei X It came . out today that r some thing put the bite on Fala. The chain of circumstances is like this: -'Mrs. Roosevelt said: some, time ago Fala was missing because he No. 272 8 th Ar Secured Subic Bay 6th Force Takes Calumpit; Yanks Get Naval Base By C. Yates MeDaniel GENERAL Mac ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Thurs day, Feb. 1-(JP)-Eighth army troops secured Subic bay, includ ing Olongapo naval-base,; Tuesday without, opposition, and! the US Seventh fleet then entered the bay while to the east the Sixth army seized Calumpit and crossed the Pampanga river, 28 road ' miles from Manila. , Fleet entrance into the good an chorage and repair base on the fringes, of Manila bay followed unimpeded occupation of, Grande island, Subic's "little Corregidor, - - - - American guns which were de fending Grande island when it fell to the Japanese in 1942 were re captured. Olongapo was dotted with dugouts and pillboxes all abandoned. j Pass Swamp Land j The surge of the Sixth into Ca lumpit in an advance of 13 miles southward down Pampanga prov ince, carried motorized units of the 14th army corps safely through a narrow stretch of land compressed between two Swamps. Beyond, the plains open wide, to Manila with no good defenses for the Nipponese in between! While the "Yanks of Lt Gen. Robert Eichelberger thus advanc ed more thaq 20 miles from Mon- dayVDearcfiheads on the Zambales coast to win , Olongapon, ' Sixth army columns rolled 10 miles southwest of San Fernando to ward a juncture with-the Eighth which would seal off Bataan pen insula. . ' j Units Near Union ! The two army elements are Bpshing toward each other along a winding road of 60 niles from the Zambales coast to San Fer nando. 1 ' , Other Eighth -army units land ed on Grande island at the en trance of Subic bay, whose waters can supply the US Seventh fleet a fine base on the very fringes of Manila bay. . Nips Close in On Suickwan CHUNGKING, Jan. 31 - () Japanese troops are closing in on Suichwan, site of a large allied air base in western Kwangsi prov ince, the high command an nounced today in a communique which disclosed that Hukong, pro visional capital of Kwangtung province, fell to the invaders Sun day night 'r ; 's :J"";:-; (A Tokyo broadcast said Japa nese troops had captured ' the Suichwan air field.) The Chinese high command said Kukong, 125 miles north of Can ton, fell after .'virtually all of the defenders had been slain in two days of bitter fightingT ; s Suichwan, situated halfway be tween Hankow and Hongkong, Is the first major objective in the current Japanese offensive to knock out allied air bases in China. c::-- -1 ' S Storm Warnings lJp 'i f SEATTLE, Janl 3l". (iip- The Weather bureau ordered storm warnings J for southeast winds of gale force hoisted at 10 p. mT for the straits of Juan ' de Fuca and from Tatoosh south to the Oregon-California line. . . ; was hi the country and "we hope he is having a wedding. - He came back and disappeared again, the first lady explaining that he wasn't f eeling. so welL The second disappearance took him to the vet- MaJ. ;Warner Hall of . the army medical center confirmed that Fala was! treated for "external injuries ; "-, The Washington Post said they were Inflicted by a - treacherous female who resented his advances, r . . .. The weddmg, the newspaper said, was a flop. Fala and his in tended mate were incompatible. -Prlc 5c my 10- Mile Advance Reported Continued Gains .... Made All Along Eastern Front , V -r,: -y;l :r::,. -: .;;" - f V By W. W. Hercher LONDON Thursday, Feb. The red army, dashing unchal lenged across the . frozen : ap proaches to Berlin, was 63 miiea from the nazl capital by its own account today and a ( scanty 44 according to! the alarmed German radio. v : :, j , The soviet communique late last night announced the capture ' of,; Beyersdorf, 63 miles northeast ot Berlin a distance equal to that LONDON, Feb. 1 Rus sian armored spearheads bar reached the vicinity of Kastria, n the Oder river 42 miles eaai ef Berlin, the German radio de c 1a red today. Kustrin is situated at the confluence mt the Oder a n d Warthe ' rivers, less than 20 miles north of Frankfurt It Is connected with both that city and : the German capital by bread, straight highways. from Philadelphia to Newark N. J. This represented a 10-mila advance in 24 hours for Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First Whitf Russian army, which took the big "communications center of Lands- berg in passing. One report from the German, radio placed Marshal Zhukov'i men north of Frankfurt-on-the ' Oder in the Oder river valley; not more than 45 miles from th -capital, and driving on Kustrin, a ' rail center 41 miles east of Ber lin, scarcely more than the dis tance from Washington to Balti more. -. - i i 7. Advance Everywhere ' 1 The soviet communique report ' ed continued advances along th entire eastern fron from East ' Prussia, where , surrounded Ger man divisions- were' squeezed in side less than one-fifth of , th province's territory, , to besiegeq; Budapest, where 8200 prisoners were taken Tuesday. ' j . The Moscow bulletin made nJ ' mention of besieged Breslau and . the S iles ian sector where Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrain rmy is operating,; but the Berlin radio, contending that the lin west of Breslau had been' stabi- ; lized, acknowledged Russian crossings of Ithe Oder at many points in that area and placed tha i northern end of Konev's line at Sorau, 45 miles inside Germany and 30 miles west of the Oder. Sorau is 84 miles southeast of Berlin. t : Topper Captured f . In the First Whit Russian army's sector directly east of Ber lin, the soviet communique an nounced the! capture of Topper, 70 miles due east of the capital and 11 miles west of Schweibus, a town which fell to Zhukov's army earlier in the day.; The northward spread of tha First White Russian army in Pom ' erania brought the capture of Flatow, Jastrow and more than, -50 other populated places. - Th thrust to Jastrow represented an advance of 12 miles in a drive, which threatened to cut off th greater part of Fomerania from Germany anjd endangered Stettin, Berlin's port of the Baltic. Union Backs! Wallace Appointment of Henry A. Wal lace as secretary of . commerce 1 with full powers over the' RFC has the backing of the Oregon Farm ers', union,-Ammon Grlce, state, president said here Wednesday.' Grice made public a telegram h had sent to Senators. Guy Cordon and Wayne Morse, urging their support for Wallace.' - ."-.- v: : Grice's telegram follows: "I want to urge you to work and vota for the approval of Henry Wal lace as secretary of commerce and urge you to leave the RFC with that department.' ' " SgteLeTaUey Dies in Action MILL CITY, Jan. 31 Staff Sgt' Lawrence W. Talley was killed in France, January 9, his wife, the former Alice; Roberts, has been notified by v the war department He had been in the army for sev- f en years and served for 30 months in Alaska and the Aleutians. Re turned to the mainland for hos pitalization, he was sent overseas again in November, 1944. ; He had been for a time assigned to Camp Adair after being discharged from the hospital.' Mrs. Talley is. making ' her home with ; her par-,' jents, Mr. and ..Mrs. R. I Eobertu