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, A few years ago Paul Robeson
Save a concert in Salem. He is
one of the world's great singers
and now is proving a great actor
in a production of Shakespeare's
Othello. '. '
' But Paul Robeson could not get
' hotel i bom in Salem.
Robeson is a negro. ;
. . Because there is discrimination
on the ground of race or color
the so-called civil rights bill is
introduced in the state legisla
ture. It has been there before, but
always it has been defeated.
i Why is it defeated? Because of
the opposition of the restaurant
proprietors, the hotels and apart
ment houses.
t ? But do not blame these proprie
tors and managers with exclusive
guilt of racial intolerance. In
many respects they merely reflect
the intolerance of the white com-
munity. ' ' '. j
The hotel keeper may be will
ing to house a negro, but he is
fearful some of his regular pay
ing white guests will check out
The restaurants keeper may be
Willing to feed a negro, but be is
K nrVf t 4t4 a will flrtitn
-a - I
clrk at the hotel desk who says
Tn i-AAmcrt in 4K errant npcrrn
ainger. And prejudice W hard.
Of course there are objections !
to! the civil rights bill the argu-
it Vw, t Mark-
in o nr rMtrant. There
i- 4i i:
s v
legislate tolerance into
; i (Continued on Editorial Page)
House Passes
Manpower Bill
Minus Changes
IWASHI NGTON, Feb. 1
Brushing aside every proposed J
major tuauge, . uic nuusc ynucu
and sent to the senate today
legislatioft tofewMre wrcn be
tween 18 and 45 into war plants.
The roll call i vote was 248 to
163.
came only after its backers stav
ed off a mighty drive by oppo
nents to substitute a voluntary
plan for meeting manpower neeas.
I The; substitute, backed heavUy
by repuoncans, weni oown oy a.
non-recora vote oi uw to
Earlier the house decisively re-
Jected moves to incorporate in the
legislation a so-called "anu-cios-
ed shop" amendment , and a ban
gainst giving. essenUal rating to
an emrfoyer unwilling to hire a
- worker because of his race, color
-or crged.A;-i ,
ti riai,i at;iii
f f ats l"1 J - miai a avjuitvi
By KCAF Court Martial
i MONTREAL, Feb. HVSqdn.
Idr. Harold (Whitey) Dahl, inter-
nationallv-known war flier was
- acquitted today by an RCAF court
martial on 10 of 14 charges of im-
tvomr disoosition of government
rmwriv H must await nnnnnn -
cement from the Canadian judge
4 ,.4'.
fmrilnm nn ha ntnalnina fr.nr-
charges;'
The Big
Gassified
Section
Of Today's
Statesman
Where Leading
Used Car
Dealers
Advertise! :
out in disapproval. The prejudice, "A"r f "j
inTother words, lie. b ilfJ ir-
WNETY-FOUBTH YEAR
yLBLr
Jaws Of
U. . Trap
Newest Invasion
To Stop Union
Of Jap Forces
- By C. Yates McDanlel
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
TI17 A TAT T A Ttrntm C T i
f -
invasion ox imzvu isi-na - - lor-
'J SSLJf
I mitk evma Vflnlr AAltimm.
"'7 --w,.
i
Virtually sealing off the possi-
bility of Nipponese troops south
of Manila! Joining those to the
, ,.u j:.j.5 v.
Eighth army landed at Nasugbu
on the west coast of Batangas pro
vince 32 miles southwest of Cav
ite naval base.
Open Posh North
They opened a drive north
while Yanks of the Sixth army
pressed south from Calumpit down
Bulacan province to the Angat
river, the closest approach to Ma
nila. These Yanks have covered
approximately 100 miles since
their January 9 landing at Lin-
gayen gulf. .
pQgj jj, communique today
uen. iJougias MacArtnur re-
that patrols were operating freely
on this closest approach to Ma
nila. . : -
Move For Junction
Eighth army elements which
landed Monday northwest of Ma
ae f. .a.A rtf
t.n in,, w.m . fnot..n.
with Sixth rfllnrnn, drivin
southwest from Lubao,
MacArthur reported the enemy
Was "caucht off balance and we
handed without loss" at Nasugbu.1
A fme road leads from Nasug-
I bu to Manila by way of Tagaytay
ridge through Cavite province,
. . -
T - A T 1
Fvt. Ace Uaiiy
km
jlac 111 ,iiuu
Pvt Ace Daily died in action
December 25, in Luxembourg. His
wife, the former Lila Green,-1050
North 18th street, has been noti-
fied 7 the war department He
was Previously reported missing
m ctton. i
Having served in the regular
1 army and a member of the re
serve- was f311 UP m reb
I ruary, 1944 and sent overseas in
i SePteTODer
1944. Before he was
inducted he worked for the South
era Pacific freight deliveries. He
attended St Vincent de Pau
school and Salem schols. Besides!
the widow two children, Lila Mae
and Asa Rufus survive..
l)SS Norili
r
I
i'
V:ae ot the United States' newest
tnte aeavy sea, urowmg nnge
accompanies an aircraii earner.
Closin
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H PACTS
Yank Rangers Filipino Aides
Rescue SWPrisoneys of Nips
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb. 1
(flP)-Green-clad -United States
rangers , an d Filipino guerrillas
rescued 513 gaunt and ragged
men, mostly American survivors
of the Bataan "death march" and
Corregidori in a bold raid Tues
day night f 25 miles behind Japa
nese lines. ' :. .
It was the first mass rescue of
prisoners in the Pacific war, car
ried out by 407 picked fighters
of the Sixth ranger battalion and
guerrillas.!
Steathily piercing the Nuevo
Ecij a province hills, the comman
do force led by Lt Col. Henry
Mkicci, of Bridgeport, Conn., with
thie Filipino guerrilla unit under
Maj. Robert Lapham of Daven
port, la., hit the ' Abanatuan pris
on camp near Cabu at 7 p. m.,
their guns blazing.
The prisoners feared the firing
meant their liquidation by the
Japanese had started and. end
to their nearly three years of cruel
American Aj-mies Hammer
Into ISa iSieried Line
; j Agcanst Slight Resistance
r ... By Austin Bealmear .
PARIS, Feb. l.-(yp)-U. S.' troops drove as deep as two and a
half miles today through hitherto
wall south of Aachen against resfetancai sa,lighfcthe ''belief 4rew
that the Germans had weakened the reich'a great ; western fortifica
tions! to I bolster the eastern front-: -v:!'" -wf4 r: "":
The full weight of the assault
Mighty B-29s
Hit Singapore
With Bombs
WASHINGTON, Feb. . 1. -P)-Singapore,
the great naval base
Japan wrested from the British
in 1942,1 felt the sting of India
based Superfortresses again to
day. ' . f, ; i : I": 'I
Apparently flying 3000 miles or
more round trip, a force of Brigl
Gen. Roger M. Ramey's 20th
bomber command attacked ' by
daylight :': :- i '
It was the third time since No
vember Ithat the B-29's lashed at
Singapore."; ... ; f "
The target is prime. Built up by
the British as their Gibraltar of
the east the Malay peninsula tip
has facilities to handle the mighti
est ships. There are -huge repair
shops, . -":
The last raid on Singapore was
Jan. fH.f The continued attention
may mean that the U. S. air force
intends to pin down in that base
any shipping crippled on the high
seas by Admiral Halsey's far-
ranging carrier task forces.
i '" ' 1 ' 1 " 1
Carolina Bu
and blrrest haUIefihlM. th tt.' r
-learners" of water ahead of her.
wire;nota cram U. B. rivy)
Salem. Oregon.
custody since; the fall of Bataan
and Corregidor. '
The gaunt I and hungry men
dodged to the floor, waiting. Then
rangers burst into the bdrbed
wire-enclosed barracks with the
reassuring words: ,;J l-
J "Take it easy fellows, the Yanks
re here. We got this 'place, pals."
I Freed were 486 Americans; 23
British, some of whom defended
Singapore; three Netherlander
ind one Norwegian. 3 Two of the
Inen died on : the way to safety,
their: failing hearts unable to
withstand the ordeal which cli
maxed their three years' impris
onment j f . -, .
I They were all that were left at
the Abanatuan camp, which once
held j 10,000 captives. Hundreds
had died from disease, malnutri
tion or mistreatment Others had
been ; removed to work camps in
Japan... i .- I' - ' -S
Clean-up of the Japanese guards
proceeded briskly, the 121 rangers
and 286 Filipinos moving with
deadly precision.
-
unbreached ramparts of the. west-
by i the U. S. First I and Third
armies was chunching through
dragon teeth tank traps and pill
boxes on a 40-mile front widen
ing the breaches in the Siegfried
line against an astounding lack of
resistance. . ;-: . '
Some First army forces in the
forefront of the assault found the
Germans had fled from! roadblocks
and pillboxes, abandoning main
position with guns and ammuni
tion. ;
I. The Third army, closing to
Within seven and a half miles of
Prum after seizing Winterscheid,
swept three and a half miles into
"Germany without sighting a tank.
Prum Is the big road and railway
center which supplies the ' Siegfried-
network h facing southern
Belgium ' and ' northern Luxem
bourg. ; . ;;;H
Ahead of them, hundreds of Al
lied heavy bombers battered rail
yards and bridges in the Ruhr
and Rhineland, attempting to par
alyze German troop movement
from the western to the eastern
front
I Far to the south, the battle to
drive the Germans from Alsace
gathered momentum. French and
American forces virtually wiped
but the Rhinebank salient south of
Strasbourg and tightened the ring
around Colmar last big French
town in German hands-by sev
ering Its main railway line to the
Rhine.
"k ' - : 1
Heavy Seas
.H
r. Knrtii r.artV.n. fin fcer bow
iinrwhere In the racific, as she
.......
Friday Morning, Tmbnatj 2. 1S45
nn
With no time to lose, the res
cuers and rescued - started their
night forced march back to Amer
ican lines. Some of the prisoners
Walked .despite tropical ulcers,
wounds and bodily weakness.
Others were carried on the backs
of rangers. Some rode in carabao
carts. ; ' ' I !' - y
1 1 The Japanese struck the column
in persistent, tank-led attacks, but
the Americans and Filipinos were
hot to be denied their prizes
i . Fighting on the way back took
$23 Japanese lives, petter than
One for every rescued man, and
Cost the enemy 12 tanks.;
j The daring operation cost the
Uvea, of 27 American! and Fili
pinos. Two more were wounded,
j "No incident of the campaign
has given me such personal satis
faction Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur said in his communique an
nouncing the rescue, f j
' To emphasize his satisfaction,
he awarded decorations to every
member of the commando party.
(Additional details on 'page 2.)
Senate Okelis
ge
?:s,(. By Jack. BeQ V-
WASHINGTON, Feb, l--The
Senate and President; j. Roosevelt
agreed today on separating the
huge RFC from the commerce de
partment. The - assumption was
plain that Henry . Wallace . can
have what's left of the cabinet
P081- i - ' f j, .
jj The confusion centering around
nomination of .Wallace for the
dual Job held by Jesse Jones was
rapidly cleared in this series of
quick steps: . j ,
1. The senate forestalled by a
Vote of 43-41 efforts to bring up
Wallace's nomination , Immediate
ly. . M.:
! 2. The George bill divorcing the
multi-billion dollar lending agen
cies from the commerce depart
ment was passed, 74 to 12, and
sent to the house j f
I. U 3. Majority Leader Barkley of
Kentucky then : read a message,
coming indirectly from the pres
ident, saying he would sign the
George proposal. I l l.
1 1 This message promptly enhanc
ed Wallace's chances of being conr
tinned as secretary of cpmmerce--
k post In which he would super
vise the census, the weather bu
reau, the coast and geodetic sur
vey, the civil aeronautics admin'
lstration and statistical: bureaus.
i
Sub f Growler'
Believed Iiost,
3 Sliips SuijIc
. WASHINGTON, Feb.! l-(ff)-The
U. S. submarine Growler finally
has lost its : long duel with the
enemy Japanese-and the Pacific
i The raider, saved once by a
plucky skipper, who cried "take
her down" even though it was
costing ' him his life,: is overdue
and presumed lost ' f'.c V-
; The navy made the announce
ment today, along with disclosure
that the - mine sweeper! j Hovey
and Palmer and the tank landing
ship LST 759 were victims of en
emy action off the Philippines,
j The navy presumes that Cmdr.
Thomas B. Oakley, jrl of Los
Angeles, Calif," and his crew of
63 went down with the Growler.
She was the 36th U. S. submarine
announced as lost in this war.
Jap Diplomats Depart
Berlin for Safer . Spot
I.NrW YOSK Feb. iP)-NBCs
Paul Archinard said in a broad
cast from Switerland today that
the Japanese ambassador to Ger
many and ' his entire : staff had
left Berlin for an undisclosed des
tination, presumably a new Ger
man capital. Archinard said oth
ers in the Berlin diplomatic corps
also bad left the city. X
Gebr
BOl to
Fish Unit
dinner
In Senate
Direct Appropri
ation Bill Passed:
Probe Gets Fund
The fish commission's request
that it be placed on a direct ap
propriation basis was over its first
hurdle today with senate passage
of SB 99, and the joint legislative
committee to probe the state's li
quor business had $25,000 to im
plement its work, j - I
These were the major orders of
business transacted Thursday
when an avalanche of new bills
all but buried previously-intro
duced legislation. U .
Fifty-two new measures . hit
the house, including HB 271 which
would set up a new department
of veterans affairs, and separate
provisions for increases in sala
ries of top state officers. 1 . '
Anditing Firm Hired r
Eleven new proposals were
dropped in the senate.
The $25,000 accrued to the li
quor investigation with house f
passage of SB 113, after not-too-enthusiastic
debate, and the five
man commission later announced
it had retained the auditing firm
of Smith, Kimberling and com
pany of Portland to aid in the
probe.' JM; K' '' - --:
KTh house i proposal for the
new department of veterans af
fairs was designed to replace the
state veterans' aid commission
with a three-man advisory board
and a director of veterans' affairs,
with the latter to draw $5000 a
year under governor appoint
ment. Would Boost Pay j u
Under HB 283, by the commit
tee on administration and reor
ganization, the governor's salary
would be boosted from $7500 to
$9000, those of the secretary of
state and state . treasurer . from
$5400 to $6000, and the attorney
general from $5000 to $5750. HB
262 by the same committee would
increase the salaries of supreme
court judges from $7500 to $8000,
and HB 249 would pay the state
superintendent of schools - $5000
instead of $4000. . 4
Other bills would increase the
labor commissioner's' salary from
$4000 to $5000, and the real es
tate commissioner's from $4200 to
$5400, . 1 !
Three more school bills also
were dropped in the house, pro
viding for the addition of $3,000,
000 to the state-county school
fund to reduce - property taxes,
usable when and if the $5,000,000
cushion was depleted,
Several bills were up for final
action today, including the house
measure j providing ' that there
should be no return of unsold
bakery goods " 1
Today marks the 26th. day of
the scheduled 50-day session, and
in the house particularly the day
was expected to bring a new ava
lanche of bills poured in ahead of
the deadline set by the legislation
and rules; committee." ' After i to
day, that committee must ap
prove , measures before they can
.hit the floor. 4 ' j ... :. ..
; (Legislative news page 3)
Bases Evacuate Nazis
LONDON; Feb. 1 -P)- Double-
deck omnibuses from Berlin are
helping evacuate refugees from
Danzig and west Prussia, the Ger
man radio said tonight
Departmen of Veterans9 AH airs
Pfoposed in House Bill; 26 Sigh
Creation of a state department
of veterans' affairs, as ' recom
mended by Gov.' Earl Snell in his
biennial ; message, was proposed
Thursday In a house bill intro
duced Jointly by 14, .representa
tives and 12 senators. . ? ;
The measure (HB 271) provides
for a director of veterans' affairs,
appointed by the governor at an
annual salary of $5000, who' "shall
organize the administration of all
laws, federal' and state, pertain
ing to war veterans' . f
' The bin also provides that the
governor shall name an advisory
Price
Mrs. Flynn?
Jack Eddlngton, chief petty offi
cer attached to navy Intelligence
at Los Angeles harbor, said
that his daughter, Nora Edding
ton (above), 20. former Los An
geles aircraft plant worker and
cigar stand salesgirl, ! had mar
ried Movie Actor Errol Flynn
in Acapulco, Mex, . tn August,
1943. Flynn denied the report.
(AP wlrepheto) .
For Germany
e .
LONDON, Feb. l-W-Disclos-
ure that a full fashioned "instru
ment of surrender"- awaits only
final "big three approval was in
terpreted in London tonight as
heralding a major psychological, as
well as military drive to bring
about Germany's capitulation.
An authoritive source announced
that the specific terms to be handed
the Germans after their surrender
had been initialed by representa
tives of the United .States, Britain
and Soviet Russia, respectively U.
S. ambassador John G. Winant, Sir
William Strang, British undersec
retary of state, and Soviet ambas
sador Fyodor Gusev. '
Simultaneously came word that
prime minister Churchill was tak
ing to the conference with presi
dent Rooseveltand premier Mar
shal Stalin a meeting : perhaps
now underway a concrete British
plan for four-power rule over the
Rhineland and the Ruhr believed
to imply creation of a separate po
litical and economic entity. France
would share this . measure with
Britain, Russia and the United
States.
Sgt. Carl F. Widhalm
Killed in War Action '
The. name of TSgt ! Carl 7.
Widhalm, ' whose sister, is Mrs.
Anna Meyers, route bne, Scotts
Mills, is among a list j of nine
Oregon men killed , in action in
the European, theatre, - announced
by the war department. (
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FEPC Made Permanent
i WASHINGTON, Feb. 1
A house labor sub-committee ten
tatively: approved today legisla
tion making permanent the presi
dent's fair employment practices
committee, (FEPC) ;- "
committee of three persons; that
offices of the director shall be
maintained in the capitol building,
and that there shall be an $80,-
000 appropriation to carry out the
act. : -v--' '! "
-; The measure would repeal the
1943 bill setting up the War vet
erans service committee. . "
j Signing the bill were all nine
members of the house committee
tm military affairs - and postwar
planning, eight other house war
veterans, all five members of the
senate committee on military af
fairs and seven other senate war
. Vj
V -k
;s ' s v . -
apecihc lerms
Await Approval
Wow 273
Russians
At Banks
Of Oder
j Soviets Encircle
I Pomerania Fort,
Gipture Torun
LONDON. Feb. L-(P)-A
Stockholm report, unsubstanti
ated elsewhere, quoted travel
ers arriving in Sweden tonight
as saying that a Russian patrol
had penetrated to the outskirts
of Berlin today . and withdrew
after recennoiterlng.
By WW. Hercher
LONDON, Friday, Jeb. 2.-WV
Russian troops encircled the Ger
man j Pomeranian stronghold' of
SchneidemuhF and captured the
northern Polish stronghold of To-
run yesterday as the nazi high
command disclosed that other so
viet units had reached the frozen
Oder river 30 to 40 miles north-'
east of the capital.
Moscow officially placed the
nearest red army units 59 miles
northeast of Berlin with the cap
ture of Duhringshof, 18 miles from
Kustrin, one of the last strong
holds barring the road to the axis .
capital.
; The German communique, how
ever, declared "that "north of the
Warthe (Warta river enemy for
ce advanced as far as the Oder
northwest of Kustrin,: where they
met our newly brought- up re
serves." M J ' ' v , .
40 Miles From Berlin !
Kustrin is 40 miles northeast of
panic-ridden Berlin, and the Oder .
in ; its windingcourse northwest i
of the city ' flows to within SO .
miles of Berlin. The Germans did
not name the exact point where
the Russians; broke through to the
last natural! defense line before
the capital.' ' i
German broadcasts said that the
5c
Russians crashed into the eastern
side of Kustrin and then were
thrown out by strong reinforce
ments which have been hurried to
the eastern front from central
Germany, from the western front
and from the Baltic port of Stet--.
Berlin in Panic i
,i A Moscow radio broadcast ear
ly today on the second anniver
sary of Stalingrad said that th
diplomatic corps in Berlin had
been instructed to leave for Mun
ich in the south. German broad
casts said that "frantic prepara- ,
tions" were tinder way to fortify
Berlin, which is choked with thou
sands of refugees.
Although Marshal ; Gregory K.
Zhukov'a' First White Russian
army apparently was meeting in-'
creasingly heavy German resist
ance on the approaches to both
Kustrin and Frankfurt, another
Oder river stronghold 16 miles to '
the south, the soviet communique
announced that Zhukov's troops
had gamed from four to 14 miles -during
the day and captured 150
German localities. :
Wounds Fatal
To E. Watson
DALLAS I Feb. 1 -Pfc. Earl
E. Watson, 2fl, son of Mrt. T.M..
Waters, died December 25 In
France as the, result of wounds'
received in action 'December 18.
Mrs.' Waters 1 was notified of bis
death this week by the war de
partment. . i , .
He was a member of the army .
engineers and had been In the army
for two and im half years. He re
sided in Dallas when 11 and 12
years old and later lived ' near
Airlie and was graduated from
Albany high" schooL ' J
An older brother, Kenneth -J.-Waters,
is in the army air corps'
now in Florida. His father lives
at Minden, Nevada. Surviving sis
ters are s Eva Cohoon,-' Portola,
Calif.;' " Marie Blondin Minden,
Nevada; Ina Bemis, Albany. ;
-- " Occasional '
t light Rain :
today in the mid-Willamette
valley area with slightly cooler
temperatures, predicts U. S.
Weather bureau, McNary field,
Salem. ;:.W:',J ;s; . . - .
veterans. ..
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