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1 i ' t i i ! l - i - I , . or? SEEGQD0 Ml mo odds U. S. Columns Fast I i - I I I I I I 5 1 lif II C i:.:.1' I I 11 - I 11 II I I ' 1: - I I' I ft I U LrLnli Wl 1 MA I l-lh II II V- I i The curtain appears to be ris ing on. the fifth act of the drama that is Adolf Hitler's Germany. Again comparison is made to a t Wagnerian Goetterdammerung, a 'twilight of the gods;" and per haps Hitler himself behind his guards and battlements may fan- .cy himself a Siegfried gripped in mortal - combat But Hitler be longs not to the legend of the Ring. Another legend out of old Germany fits him better. He is a Doctor Faustus who sold his soul, .'and Germany's, to the devil, writ ing the deed in lifeblood (though not his own) ; and he and his "country face the fate of Faustus. . I do not refer to the Faust of Goethe, with its witches' kitchen and Walpurgis night and the sniffing poodle and the betrayed ' Margaret, by Mephistocles con demned, by the Voice from Above ' redeemed; but to the- starker '"Tragical History of DoctocJFaus- tus" by Christopher Marlowe. - The Faust story is old and fa miliar. The ambitious Faustus, "his parents base of stock," impa tient with law and medicine and theology, seeks ' through black ' magic to rise to supreme power: . "Till swoln with cunning, of a self conceit, ; His waxen wings did mount mbov his reach, - . AnC, melting, heavens conspired . -"- his overthrow." 1 ..." He makes his deal with Mephis tophilis (Goethe's Mephistocles), servant' to Lucifer, fallen angel and devil s agent. Faustus ac- . claims "no chief but only Beelze bub," and for the space "of four and twenty years (Continued on Editorial Page) Franco-Yankee Relations Due To Get Worse WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 - UP) The government announced to night a far reaching program for French civilian supplies, but pri vately officials - conceded, that ' Franco-American , relations will get worse before they-get better, The j announcement cove re d thousands of food stuffs, industrial materials, and badly needed trans portation ' equipment, including 700 locomotives and 9000 trucks, authorized for French purchase here. i The goods are being shipped as rapidly as cargo space becomes available.' The announcement dis closed. that 46,000 tons of civilian supplies were shipped to France during January. Officials said, however, that the French ; people ' are : now going through one of the worst winters in their history, suffering intense ly from lack of fuel, clothing and food in many parts of the coun try. They said the failure to get supplies delivered in time to pre- r vent this suffering inevitably means some loss of good will be tween France and the other Allies. Raymond Freilag of Scio Dies in Battle , SCIO, Feb. 3. Raymond Gale Freitag, motor machinist mate 3c, has been killed in action in action overseas, j His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Freitag, Riverview -community, have been notified by the navy department, Y0UI1 SUIIDAY STATESMAN AGAIN 0DIIIGS YOU -TiODIID-OP; i ll His! Turn now to th Qassified lection . . . . you may find th .Real Estate you've , been wanting I NINETY -FOUHTH YEAR i . . i " Marshes Of Oder Reached Reds Advance 8 Miles Against Stiff Resistance LONDON, Sunday, Feb. 4 -JP) (iP)The Red army, closing swiftly on Frankfurt and Kustrin, jlast Oder river strongholds 38 and 40 miles from bomb-shattered Berlin; yesterday reached the marshes bordering the last natural barrier to the axis capital, and killed or captured 17,4S trapped Germans, Moscow announced last night. Advancing up to eight miles against fierce resistance by heavy enemy reinforcements hurled in to the flaming struggle, Soviet tanks pushed through Sonnen- burg, six miles southeast of Kus trinn and also seized Reppen, 10 miles east of Frankfurt's east bank suburb of Damm. Captured Sonnenburg is 47 miles east of Berlin, the closest Russians have officially plac ed their troops,! but the Germans said that Kustrinn, 40 miles north east of Berlin, was the scene of furious combat,; with the Rus sians attacking the garrison from four directions and trying an ef fective forcing of the Oder near that town. Crossing Fails Soviet shock troops made one crossing of the Oder near Kustrin, but were wiped; out)-Berlin said. Nazi reports said the Russians were attacking Kustrin from the northwest, northeast, east and south. One new Soviet attack in the suburbs, presumably made by the units that took Sonnenburg, was beaten off during the day, Berlin said. North of the Warthe river the Russians seized Vietz, 11 miles northeast of Kustrin, in an eight- mile two-day advance down the highway and railway from Lands- berg. Stettin Push Vague Moscow did nfit announce any further progress by Russian units fighting their way toward Stet tin, Baltic port 70 miles northeast of Berlin. The Russians on Friday were reported within 38 miles of Stettin, and a Russian German language broadcast yesterday had placed them only 11 miles from their goal. The capture of Stettin would cut off a 13,500-square-mile section of Pomerania, the Polish corridor and Danzig. There were unconfirmed reports that German ships already had fled Stettin and put into Copenhagen in Denmark.; Farther east other Soviet troops were attacking toward the Baltic coast in a similar effort to split up - Pomerama and lessen the threat of a German flanking at tack on the central salient pointed at Berlin. Two Valley Soldiers I Killed in War Action In a list of Oregon men killed in action in the - Mediterranean area today is included the names of Pvt. James M Myers, whose iwife is Mrs. Bernice H. Myers, route two, Cornelius; and Sgt. Gerald E. Phillips, whose mother is Mrs. Pearl S. Phillips, route one, box 1 15, Sherwood. Administration, Each (Mum Prof it for Week By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. --()- Administration land opposition forces- box-scorinjg their congres sional week, reached widely vary ing totals, with contrasting claims of profit from the maneuvering over manpower,! Henry Wallace and government lending agencies. Administrationjists added it up like this: - , " - ' 1. A major legislative victory in the house through passage of an administration-patterned compul sory manpower act. : - 2. The senate compromise on the former vice president, which Wal lace supporters called a political victory ; in that i bolstered 4 his chances of becoming secretary of commerce. -. i" ' . .-. But the opposition figured they had a credit balance on the week. 23 PAGES Soienv Educator Dies - a -1 Si Julias CharchlU 1 J. A. Churchilli Statd Educator. Dies Saturday ! Julius a Churchill, prominent Oregon educator for more than 50 years died! in a Salem hospital Saturday njght following a brief illness and k longer period of fail ing health. 11 Bora OctJ 14, 1863, in Lima, O, he was graduated in 1883 from Ohio Northern university and came to Oregon in 1891 to become superintendent of schools at Bak er, a position he held until 1913. That year he became state-super intendent ot, public instruction and when he left the office. 13 years later, having in 1920 received hi master's degree from University of Oregon, hej became"; president ;of Oregon Normal school. f In 1932 he moved from the Ash land college to the presidency of Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, land at the same time to the directorship of elementary teachers' training for the state. He had been president emeritus of OCiT since 1 139. At the time of his retirement from the presidency of the teachers college, Oregon State college conferred upon him the degree'Of "doctor of laws I Dr. Churchill was a member of the Elks lodge and the Episcopal church. Survivors are three daugh ters, Mrs. J. S. Elton and Marie Churchill, Portland, and Mrs. George Weller, Salem. ' j f Funeral services Will be held Monday at 2 p. m. from St. Paul's Episcopal church, the Rev. George H. Swift officiating,, with inter ment at City View cemetery. . One incident To Eyeryl3 Cars in 1944 There was one traffic accident for every 13 motor vehicles reg istered in Oregon during the year 1944, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrellj jr, reported to the legis lature here Saturday. FarreiTi Jreport showed 30,953 traffic accidents in 1944 as com pared to 31,378 accidents in 1943. In' 1941, the peak year, , there was one traffic accident for xv ery eight vehicles registered. Traf fic accident! in 1941 totaled 49.674 with 435,97 Vehicles registered in the state department. : j Opposition out of senate, action' to divorce the reconstruction finance corporation. and other "financial agencies from the i commerce!; department before voting on Wallace. . 1 ! I Meanwhile I an aDDarent move by numerous southern democrats to join forces with house republi cans on the Wallace issue posed a new i thou eh indirect threat to the nomination. , - : Rep.5 Cox (D-Ga) 5 said there were indications that 85 per cent of the southerners would go along - f ', ' -t - S J v witn tne republicans in their drive to expand the senate-passed RFC bill to prevent President Roosevelt from dealing; any other .financial agencies tc Wallace as ' secretary of commerce. . ,i m - . Any such coalition would ' be sufficient to write in the new re strictions, t ! , . , . 1 li'i f-i E-?:.;; ."':'t i k ' POUNDDD 1651 Orecon, Sunday Moraine;; February 4. 1945 Big. Bills g; ession 1 Ta Stddy Is Up Tiresday; 'HoteP i Plan Wednesday I ' By Wendell Webb' , Managing editor j Th Statesman i Veterans aid, a state tax study, pension Isystems,! the hotel bill," and equalized ' rights : for federal income . taxpayer! constitute- ma jor business facing the 43rd legis lature when it reconvenes for the 29th day of its session tomorrow. Already, with the session prob ably but, little if any half over, 498 bills have been entered and but a small fraction disposed of to date. Workman's compensation, milk pasteurization, salary bills, building j programs and scores of other proposals still faced the sen ate and jhouse. j Long Session Seen . The week brought at least one change of pace-4-the odds were less than' even that the legislature would fihish in the legal 50 days. 1 The program for veterans' edu cation and home! loan provisions, approved m general last Novem Der, was expected to take con crete form within the next, few days. A measure; for a veterans' welfare department was Intro duced last week, but details of what it hoped to, accomplish re mained a bit of a puzzle even yet. ; The proposal of Gov. Eari'Snell for a thorough tax 'study will be' debated Tuesday afternoon in the, senate, and the civil rights (hotel) bill making it a disdemeanor to discriminate because of race, creed or color will be argued by the solons Wednesday 'morning. Liquor Probe On The liquor investigation asked by the governor .was a side issue for the time being a committee was given $25,000 and the probe was on. j. . ,. -j The senate Saturday voted, to repeal the community property, law, under virtual compulsion of a supreme court (decision, but by memorial asked that the federal government recognize all states as having equal rights in the fed eral tax program.; i The fish commission, which has asked to; be put on a direct ap propriation basis J to assure itself of funds,' was aken somewhat to task Saturday when Rep. Will iam Niskanen, who alleged it had been late in producing its annual report, demanded that 'such re port be j provided all legislators immediately. Building 'Flan Entered The $10,000,000 building pro gram previously outlined for the state was Injected into the ses sion last week fwhen i the state board ol higher education pro posed a 2,237,000 plan; for insti tution at Monmouth,' Ashland, Eugene, Corvallis and Portland. , i There Was some talk of a.Ievy to -augment ; whatever the legis lature might provide. . i Both legislative bodies held Sat urday session.' The senate will reconvene at 10 : m. tomorrow, the house at 11. (Legislative News Page 11) Paper Drive Slated Today Although It is obvious some of today's salvage paper collections may not be made-until late in the afternoon residents of the capital city 'should have' their contribu tions to the drive on ; curbs ' by 12:30 p.nw Lyle;' Leighton, Boy Scout executive, said Saturday. Trucks will start promptly at that hour, he explained. r , -' i Boy Scouts of I Salem are at-j tempting to fill four railroad cars wltlj the heeded war material, and every street in the city wm De covered.? Pipe r contributions should be placed n cartons or tied hi packages, members of the sal vage teams havej pointed out A number, of Salem, business - firms are providing trucks and: drivers for the collection i Weather 1 Msx. Via. iS7 43 r, . 54 ',' 45 Bsla Saa Francesco EugCB ... J3 bjem . J5 Portland 4- Sattl Facin Waimett river J ft. f la i - - . i - 1 - . I - i. . - ' v. , . n Explosion Rips Subterranean Rest Rooms , - S i: S I Salem residents were startled at 1:10 p. m. when an explosion rocke3 the downtown section at State and High streets. "Its epi center was at the men's and wom en's public rest rooms under the sidewalk r at : the corner! of the courthouse property. The blast was caused by an overheated wat er boiler which was ripped to pieces by force of the explosion. The walls separating the men's and ' women's compartments were knocked down and the outer doors blown from the' hinges. One man was catapulted out into the pass ageway, to the steps. He avoided formalities in being long gone from the premises. j SI 5 4000 Airplanes in, Other Targets By William Frye LONDON, Sunday, Feb. AHJPy Nearly - 4000 Allied warplanes pounded German installations yes terday, Berlin itself being rocked by the most concentrated assault ever made on the German capital. t In a wild, 45-minute' period, more thin 1000 U. S. Eighth air foroe Flying Fortresses, escorted by more than 900 fighters, blasted Berlin. They" were in sight of Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's assault against the Oder river line 30 to 40 miles to the east as they poured ome 3000 tons of high explosives and fire bombs on mil itary targets In the refugee-packed itT. t ; " -j. ! I This raid, a diversionary stab at the oil center of Magdenburg by 400 U. S. Liberators, clst the Americans 35 bombers and five fighters missing, a communique Said. Twenty-one luftwafte planes were downed in combat near Ber-. lin and 14 others were destroyed on the ground. I I ' Weather was good for bombing, and for the first time in the war, there was no German air! opposi tion over the reich capital ;What dogfights there were occurred as Mustangs and Thunderbolt pilots carried out sweeps over scattered areas some distance from the city. DNB Newscast Signals 'The EiiS,Tlie Ehtf j LONDON, Feb. 3. (P)The of ficial DNB news .agency myster iously signalled the , words "Schluss.r.schluss! (the end, the end)" tonight in the middle of one of its regular broadcasts j after a smashing 'daylight raid by Amer ican bombers on Berlin. J -A : -; . : The words :- "Schluss, scbluss" were recorded on Hellschreiber machines in the Associated Press listening post where German news transmissions are picked up. f The Hellschreiber ; machines are ; tele printers operated by radio signals from German transmission " .sta tions, presumably '; located jiaBer "Schluss" sometimes is used by German' broadcasters to indicate the end of a transmission period, but never, before, Associated Press listeners said, has it been inter jected during a transmission. Yank Tanker Sunk by Sub WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. jp) The Wat Shipping administra tion annbunced tonight that an enemy submarine sank a large American tanker in the Arabian sea with the loss of 33 merchant seamen. ; ine date was ?not -re ported. I : ; T'i- -; I The tanker, the H. D. Collier of the Standard Oil Company of Cal ifornia, was transporting 102JDO0 barrels of high-octane gasoline when strUck by three torpedoes. The raider surfaced and shelled the tanker as two lifeboats were launched.' ? One lifeboat, carrying the ves sel's master, Capt, Joseph: Fox of Oakland, Calif., was swamped and drifted Into the flames fed by the gasoline. All aboard were lost Several days later the S3 Em pire picked up 14 survivors in the second- lifeboat. " -f HammerBerl Pries 5c No, 27S Western Mounts I Yanks ThrustS Miles Deeper in - Br Austin Bealmear PARIS Feb. 3-tVAmerican troop thrust three miles deeper into Germany today within a mile of a break through the permanent fortifications of the Siegfried line and pushed the last Germans off Belgian soil. J U.S. first army spearheads were 11 miles inside the western bor der of the Reich and 31 miles from the Rhine, while the French first army and its American re inforcements in Alsace liberated the city of Colmar and carved five-mile slice off the German salient in that province. Other Defenses Total penetration of the west- wall's double belt : of defenses would not open the way com pletely for the continuing fisst army advance, as the Germans feverishly have been throwing up temporary fortifications far ther back . , First army doughboys liberated Krewinkle, last German-held town in the eastern tip of Belgium, a late dispatch reported. In clearing the Germans from the three-mile area held by the Germans, 'east and northeast of St. Vith, the Americans seized three other towns earlier in the day. Nails Jittery I" (The Berlin radio said that de spite' thaws, Gen. Eisenhower was making "frantic preparations" be hind the lines for a big push from the west, "with no effort to keep it secret.") Two of Lt Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' first army divisions were ripping the vitals from German defenses due east of Monschau and 25 miles southeast of Aachen over rough- river-cut terrain where, if anywhere the Germans, should be expected to attempt a stand. ! ! Japs Capture Chinese Town CHUNGKING, Febi S.-PJ-The Chinese high command acknowl edged tonight that the Japanese driving against air bases east of their corridor across . China had reached and taken their first ob jective, Suich wan, half way be tween Hongkong and Hangkow. ' .The Chinese said fighting con tinued south of Suichwan, where bases of the U. S. 14th air force were destroyed and abandoned January 24. ' j - The enemy drive in that area is designed to protect Japanese rail communications from Hong kong to Manchuria land Korea. Having taken Kukong, provincial capital of Kwangtung province 12S miles north of Canton, the Japa nese swung eastward and stormed Chining on January 30, the Chi" nese reported. : ; Occasional ": v; ; Rain Showers i today with little change, in temperature, p r e d i c t s U. S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem. 4 ' s Offense Big 3' Considers Plan for Grand Council of Conciliation '-r- By John A. Parria, Jr.; j LONDON; Feb: 3-ff-The vie tory and peace" deliberations of the Allied Mbig three' ere believed, here to Include creation of a grand conciliation council to settle polit ical and economic problems' and prevent disagreement' among the Allies on European policy. ' : ' ; The urgency for such organiza tion has been underlined by ad mitted policy disagreements be tween : Britain and . the United States on Greece and Italy and the separate views of. the Soviet un ion and the British and Americans on the Polish question. .,- 1; t Whether this organization will be called the "grand . conciliation countir or by another name was not known, but its creation- was Bearing Down On IPliilippineapital Luzon Broadcast Says Patrols Reach Qty's Outskirts; Main Army Less Than 15 Miles Away ? By C. YATES McDANIEL ' GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, 1 Cen tral Luzon, Sunday, Feb. 4 approaching Manila, far outdistancinjr the official reporto today which put them less than 15 miles away on the north at 6 p. m. Friday. " " , ' . American bie runs are close enough this (Friday) eve ning for Manila residents to hear them," reported Associated Press Correspondent Russell which is in a neck and neck cavalry division for the honor the city. (Broadcast reports front trols reaching the "outskirts" I l i Ik Manila, capital of the Philippines and s main objective of Gen. Dong las Mac Arthur, sprawls over 14 square mile on the east shore e 1 Manila bay at the month of the muddy Faslg river. , Heat Bothers YanksMore Than Nippon SAN TRANC1SCO, Feb. 3 Ar thur Feldman; Blue network war correspondent,' said in a broadcast from Luzon the march on Manila is moving so fast that some Yanks are collapsing from the heat, v Forty such men were placed in ambulances and taken back to the rear, Feldman said, quoting an unidentified colonel. . - ' "The next day, the colonel said, "every one of them was back in the line of march again. When we get to Manila, I'm going to get down on my hands and knees and thank every one of my doughboys. I've 'got the movingestftarching est bunch of men uvfne army.': Feldman- reported seeing Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold,. com mander of the 14th corps, standing on a bridge over one river direct ing traffic ."and just shoving trucks and halftracks across the span." At Least 100 More Blood Donors Soil At least 100 more registrations are needed Monday if the Salem area, blood quota is to be filled Tuesday, officers of Salem Junior Chamber of Commerce announced Saturday night. Persons who believe they are eligible to make blood donations when the mobile unit of the Mult nomah county Red Cross is here Tuesday should register Monday by calling Marion county Red Cross offices, 8277 Jaycee leaders said. , "For a good many persons right here in Marion county the fall of Manila is going to be a sad vic tory If one of theirs loses his life far the campaign, they pointed out "Now that we are beginning to get back our men who have been prisoners, the need for blood plasma will continue : to grow," they added. T ' ! . : considered certain in . informed London quarters.- , ; in this .connection, the "big three" alsol are reported -Consid ering a proposal for a quarterly meeting of their foreign ministers to effect closer' liaison. i " ' Such meetings were proposed by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in commons last December when Anglo-American relations were at their .lowest point of the war. - The grand council idea is more significant from the American viewpoint, since both Secretary of State 1 StetUnius and presidential adviser' Harry Hopkins recently have made it clear that the Unit ed States intends to. take a firm hand la European affairs J I. - gat (AP) Yank columns are fast Brimes with the 37th division drive with the motorized First of being the first to enters Luzon today referred to pa without specifying places. X 71 'X Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler's 37th was running into just enough) harassing resistance along high- way three skirting Manila bay to permit the First cavalry of Maj Gen. Vern Mudge, driving on th east down highway five, to pull abreast' . ' ';' "''' . ' ' ' ' The First virtually was unop posed, in 4 truck, jeep and. tank march.. '- . ' . Air observers reported no sigrk of enemy defenses at Manila itself but Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold, commanding the 14th army corps, emphasized he would not risk sending1 the 37th and first calvary into a trap but would pace their advance with that of the heavy guns. f J 11 Japs Still la Cttr " However, Filipinos drifting out of Manila all told of Japanese sailors and marines remaining in the city. I -' .. - -: . ' , ' Dean Schedler, Associated Press war correspondent with the first calvary spearheads said, thi flying squadron has done virtually no fighting, leaving bypassed Jap- anese pockets to the main columns following. Gen. Douglas MacArthur moved! his headquarters into central Lu zon to be closer to the climax punch poised at the city where hm . had his headquarters when tho war broke Dec. 8, 1941 (Dec. 7 U. S. Date) : I ! t Today's communique made no mehtion of any enemy resistance as it spotlighted a heavy move ment of the first calvary down u the Angat river where its patrols were . reported yesterday. First calvary elements then crossed the closer approach. .! , 1 i General Beightler's 37th, origin ally railed the Buckeye division) but presently representing vir tually every state in the union, hag the Inside track as it had through out a 114 road mile drive from Lingayen gulf where it landed Jan. 9. Brines, with the 37th, said tb infantrmen, were ."crossing blas ted bridges and fighting pocket- sized - battles against small -but bitterly ' resisting groups of Jap anese. . J 'Arthur Feldman, blue' network' correspondent in a broadcast from Luzon said there were rumors the road approaches to Manila have been heavily mined by the enemy tbejast few days.. Pole Troops Desert Nazis ROME, Feb; S--A number ef impressed Polish troops from Si lesia have deserted to the Ameri can lines. They learned for the first time today thai the Germans were . being rapidly driven from the homeland by the Red army of fensive. ; ' I The Poles some of whose, countrymen are fighting with tho British Eighth; army on the Adri atic front said they were sub- jected to contemptuous abuse . by German non-coms and had been told only of "local attacks" on the eastern front ' 1 - - The US Fifth army and Eighth) army patrols, again made raids in to the enemy lines,'' inflicting cas ualties and taking prisoners, but there, was no other ground ac tivity i y -' '' . -