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'-. Two statements made in recent
days are of real interest to the
vest. One was by Benjamin H.
Fairless, president of US Steel,
that his corporation was Interest
ed in bidding for the big new steel
plant built by the Defense Plant
corporation at Geneva, Utah, and
now being operated by Big Steel
for the government, also that it
was planning on putting in a bid
for the Kaiser Fontana steel plant
rear Los Angeles. This drew a re
joinder from Henry ' Kaiser who
said that the Fontana plant was
not a. DFC enterprise, but his own,
and that he was letting aside as
sets to pay about one-third of the
$100,006,000 which Fontana cost.
Kaiser added that he would be
fntAtvsted in bidding for the Ge
neva plant; and intimated thaf in
financing thesedeals he might re
sort to public issuance of securt
ties.
The west can view these devel
opments with real satisfaction. As
the February number of Fortune
magazine points out, the west feels
that it .must have cheaper basic
metals to promote its industrial
ization. Heretofore,, aside from a
small steel plant at Pittsburgh,
Calif., steel used in the west has
come from the Chicago-Pittsburgh
. district or the Birmingham district
In Alabama. The freight rates have
been high, thus cutting the ability
of western manufacturers to com
pete in the national . market for
finished goods. If we have per
manent steel mills in the west,
' und freight rates are not too bur
densome, and then if we can de
velop our light metal industry into
- permanent, large-scale operation
the west can really forge ahead in
peacetime production.
i The recent great i increase in
population on this coast (Califor
nia now claims to be third largest
state in the country) helps over
come another handicap the west
has labored under lack of a large
consuming marker. While the west
. will still be thinly populated, its
growth by expanding local con
sumption help local industries to
grow. x
You have to give full credit to
Henry Kaiser to being an indus
trialist of vision. He isn't disposed
to sit down on hid war profits and
call it a day. He is ready to throw
his war profits into the pot in the
gamble for postwar business. His
example might well inspire others
who talk glibly about the virtue
' of private enterprise but are so
' cautious they are unwilling to
t make any real adventure in fi
nance. There must first be EN
TERPRISE if private enterprise is
to live. I ,
Jet Propelled
Nazi Fighters
Attack Heavies
IX)NDON. Feb. 8-(A)-A mighty
force of 1300 American heavy
'bombers guarded by almost 900
fighters faced the greatest chal
lenge of German jet planes today
land escaped with a loss of 19
bombers and three fighters.
'. Baffled gunners aboard the Fly
ing Fortresses and Liberators
failed to shoot down any of these
attackers, flying at a speed of 10
miles a minute, but escorting Mus
tang pilots knocked down five of
the jets.
Eighteen ordinary-type Messer
fcbmitt and Focke Wulf fighters
also were blasted from the sky
and 41 German planes were de
stroyed on the ground.
Despite the resistance of the
German luftwaffe, the American
armada drove through to a suc
- cessful completion of its objective,
' (lunging 4000 tons of explosives
n the synthetic oil refinery at
Lutzkendorf, factories at Weimar
and railway yards at Magdeburg.
New England
Storm Brings
Death to 18
- -BOSTON, Feb. 9-(P)-With a
death toll . of 18 and damage
. mounting into the millions,' New
England .tonight was digging itself
out of hs worst blizzard since the
Valentine s day storm of 1940.
A record fall of snow, ranging
tip to 17 inches in Boston, clamped
shut stores and schools and left
most war plants limping on sparse
manpower.
Transportation, virtually para
lyzed for 24 hour?, was wheezing
along in low gear. Highways were
flecked with stalled automobiles.
abandoned by their owners. Sol
diera answered a railroad appeal
to shovel out switches. Thousands
of commuters trekked wearily
homeward after 'spending last
night in police stations, railroad
termains and hotel lobbies.
Partly Cloudy
with morning valley fog today
In the mid-Willamette valley
area, with somewhat warmer
temperatures, predicts U.S.
weather bureau "vat McNary
field, Salem. - -
NINETY-FOUBTH YEAB
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Narrow- r;: v.;
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In Vote C -H
North End Ballot
Heavy Opposing
Bush Tract Buy
The city of Salem turned
thumbs down Friday on propos
als to acquire the remaining por
tion of Bush pasture and to grant
a franchise to the Salem Electric
cooperative.
The plan to purchase 47 acres
of the Bush tract for $173,000,
adjoining the 53 acres the city
already has by grant, was defeat
ed 2567 to 2110.
The proposal to grant a fran
chise to Salem Electric was beat
en 23CS to t 2283.
" Approximately SO per cent of
the city's 14,079 registered voters
turned out for the special elec
tion. .
The vote by wards:
Bash Salem
rastnr Electric
Ward Yes No Vh N
1 J2S S4 SM
a 34 287 29 337
S 17S 17S 177 172
4 m m 27 iss
5 27 2 Ml 4M
Ml 499 M. 42
7 42 HI fi, ,! .
Total 2S7 223 tM
j The Bush purchase carried In
three wards, but - lost heavily in
ward 5 (North Salem) and was
defeated in the east ward t(6),
north-central (1) and in the ward
which includes a portion of the
tract itself (4).
The franchise plan also carried
but three wards the downtown
district (3), and wards 4 .and 5
but its total vote was closer than
on the other issue.
RAF Hammers
Verona, Nazi
Supply Town
ROME, Feb. 9-(P)-Railyards at
Verona, the crossroads of all-important
lines supplying German
armies in northern Italy, smoul
dered today after a massive over
night attack by RAF heavy bom'
bers.
Swarms of American medium
Domners and lighter-bombers had
spent yesterday blasting new gaps
in the battered communications
which the nazis must keep open
for supplies or for eventual escape
from Italy.
The Americans were credited
with cutting tracks at 55 places
and destroying or damaging 34
locomotives, 100 rail cars and 107
other vehicles.
13,600 Workers Idle
In Detroit Strikes
DETROIT, Feb. 9-()-Some
13,600 workers were idle tonight
as the result of strikes in plants of
the Briggs Manufacturing Co. and
the Square D Co.
The Briggs walkout, involving
an estimated 12,500 employes,
started Tuesday over a dispute
concerning job assignments in the
Mack avenue plant and has spread
to four other plants here.
Observers Keep Close Watch
For Fleeing War Criminals
WASHI NGTON, Feb. 9 -P)
American observers in Spain and
Portugal are keeping a sharp
lookout these days for fleeing
nazi war criminals, Acting Secre
tary of State Grew disclosed to
day. ' '
At the same time he called in
directly for 'definite assurances
from neutral countries that they
will cot harbor axis; ring leaders
who escape from Germany.
The subject came i up for a
thorough airing at Crew's news
conference, in connection with re
ports that Britain and Argentina
made a secret agreement last
summer by which the Argentines
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This is the first photo of Manila
photo from signal corps radio)
Big 3 Believed Whipping
PUmslInto Shape to Occupy
Reich at
1 ' ' M ' jBy John A.
ij LONDON, Feb. 9-(fP)-The big three, realizing the possibility
of a sudden collapse of military and civilian resistance in huge
areas of Germany under pressure of the joint Allied offensive, are
believed whipping plans into! shape for occupying the reich at a
moment's notice;. j
! Well-informed quarters here
Roosevelt, Prime - Minister
Churchill and Premier, Stalin pos
sibly are preparing two occupa
tion plans, under the first of
which specialized! forces are being
alerted now for femergency duty.
The: second plan would provide
forces for long-term assignment.
There are indications that spe
cialized troops already are being
concentrated on the ! fringes of
Germany! to take , over quickly
when all! or part of the country
collapses.; This force includes civil
affairs experts and "teams" of the
United Nations relief and rehabili
tation administration. ;;
With Nazi military forces being
withdrawn to the south and south
east, British officials, said northern
Germanyj might collapse at any
time. They based this belief ion
reports from inside the reich that
many sections of northern Ger
many already are showing signs
of progressive deay. j
III any event, the big; three prob
ably will shape their plans to the
extent they will! not be caught
napping by any development.
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Three Valley
Men Included oh ;
Wounded :List ! i
The names of ' three mid-Willamette
valley men were includ
ed today in a Bst of 2374! an
nounced as wounded In action in
the European theater of war: 1
Pic Wendell E. toe, son of
Emil O. jLoe, route 1, ' box ! 187,
Silverton; CpL William R-llMc-Knight,
husband of Mrs. Zella L.
McKnigfi 608 Baker street, Al
bany; St Sgt Ffederick J. Sny
der, son of Omar S. Snyder, of
Turner, j I s
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pledged themselves to shut their
doors against Hitler and his ilk.
; The agreement was revealed In
Buenos Aires after Lord Vansit-
tart had criticized Argentina land
other neutrals in? a speech in the
house of Xords at London three
days ago. j ' ?. .
; The Argentines were reported
as saying! that tHia constituted a
violation of the agreement; ; that
amain nad promised to refrain
from such; criticism in return for
the ! assurances. Britaui Informed
the United States off toe corre
spondencei That was the only part
Washington had in this particular
phase of war criminal precautions.
Solam. Oregon. Saturday Morning; February 10. 1945
Flames
Manila, capital of the Philippines.
under battle conditions. (AP wire
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Moment's Notice
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Parrii, Jr. ' -
suggested today that President
ges
Friendliness
To (Jermanv
! u i
LONDON, Feb, 9j-;P)-The Bi
shop of Birmingham advocated "a
new friendliness" toward Germa
ny and : abandonment of harsh
peace! terms today, while the
world! trade union cpnference re
ceived proposals for economic
subjugation of the reich and
wholesale transfer of workers and
industries elsewhere.
Dr. Ernest William Barnes, 70
year-old Church of England scho
lar who! has been Bishop of Bir
mingham since 1924J told the Na
tional Peace councils that a peace
based on maintenance of military
force would fail, and that he be
lieved; hard surrender " terms
would! only hasten a new war.
"The significant people in cen
tral Europe when! hospitalities
have ended will still be Germans,"
the churchman declared. "By rea
son of their good qualities the
Germans became strong; for the
same reason they will again be
come i strong, whatever - peace
terms are enforced.'
Canadians Cross Rhine
Reports Berlin' Radio
LONDON, Feb. Berlin
broadcast 'said tonight; Canadian
assault forces had crossed the
Rhine j at Erlecom, east of Nij
megen, and were being sealed off
"and- subjected to heavy concen
trated fire." .;. s;t- t ( - ;
The crossings were made in 20
assault boats, the broadcast de
clared,' eight of which were sunk.
Norwejgian Neurologist
Executed by Germans
NEW YORK, Feb. j 9 1- (P) - The
Royal Norwegian information ser
vice said! today that; Dr. Haakon
Saethre. ! internationally known
neurologist, was one of 19 Nor
wegians executed lnj Oslo . Thurs
day nigh j within a few-hours after
Karl Marth insert, head : of the
Quisling pstapo, was: assassinated.
Italy Asks Big jThrec
For Easier Armistice
ROME,! Feb. 9 - ffi - Premier
Ivanoe Bonomi has' telegraphed
the "big Jhree" conference asking
that the allied armistice terms for
Italy be i relaxed, it twas learned
Bishop
authoritatively tonight.;
'Gigantic'
Red Push
ed
Russians Sweep
Closer to Stettin x
On Baltic Coast
By W. W. Hereher
LONDON, Saturday, Feb. 10 :
(fl-The Red army swept to with
in 29 miles of Berlin's Baltic port
of Stettin yesterday in its swift
drive to seal off all northeastern
Germany, and ; the enemy an
nounced that a new "gigantic"
Soviet southern "offensive had
deeply outflanked Breslau by roll
ing 35 miles west of that SUesian
capital.- -
On the Berlin front the Rus-
sions were said by the Germans
r"t" JtZ? X? " !
to have crossed the Oder and cut
direct north - south communica
tions between Kuestrin, Frank
furt' and Fuerstenberg at points
within 35 miles of imperilled Ber
lin. ' These three fortresses are
Berlin's major shields and the
Russians were trying to encircle
them.
New Red Armies Used
German broadcasts said . that
several Russian armies had been
hurled into the swelling Silesian
drive that sent Soviet spearheads
to the edge of XJegnitz, big transit
center and manufacturing city of
76.000 astride the direct Berlin-
Breslau communication lines, i
Breslau's garrison on the upper
Oder miles east of Liegnitz was
threatened with imminent encir
clement, only a 32-mile gap still
being left open west of the city.
The Russians simultaneously were
threatening to break open the
door into German Saxony in a
wide flankinc move through
Liegnitz, which is 135 miles south
west of Berlin.
Etbing Surrounded
In East Prussia the Russians
drove new spearheads to the Bal
tic coast and surrounded the har
bor city of Elbing, between Koe
nigsberg and Danzig territory,
thus dimming further the escape
possibilities of the remnants of
200,000 to 250,000 Germans orig
inally trapped in a pocket below
Koenigsberg. -,
Moscow dispatches said Mar
shal j Gregory K. Zhukov's First
White Russian army was 'laying
down one of the heaviest artillery
barrages of the war on German
lines between the Oder and Ber
lin. ;
(There was no further mention
of the German-language broad
cast j from Moscow which last
night placed the Russians 74
miles from Berlin.)
800 on Strike
At Todd Yards
SEATTLE, Feb. 9 P Eight
hundred welders voted late today,
with only two dissenting voices,
to "stand pat" in the strike which
began this morning at the Todd
Pacific shipyards and Todd dry
docks, and J. B. Bart, organizer
for the - United Brotherhood Of
Welders, . Cutters and Helpers.
(Ind.) predicted the navy. would
take over the two yards "within
a few days." ' k
The walkout climaxed a three
year feud between the independ
ent union and the welders local
of the International Brotherhood
of Boilermakers (AFL). The im
mediate cause of the strike was
the discharge of six welders due
to their suspension by the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, which
has a contract with the yards and
docks calling for such action. ,
They Usually Obey.
This Yank Private1
FORT LEWIS, Wash. - - An
unusual name can be a handy
thing! sometimes. ,
Pvt. Colonel Underwood of the
engineers, doesn't use the ; word
"private" ., when " calling for hotel
reservations while on leave.
"This . is Colonel ? Underwood
speaking," he says. It usually
Claim
I works. -. . ,
emorial
Revived
OnDijaft
4BigTruclBill
Passed; Salary
Increases lAsked
- I - i
Big trucks will slide over Ore
gon's highways at least two more
years, chickens no longer will be
the fair game of dogs unless the
latters owner pays the price, and
any district attorney in Oregon
can try to pu the stop-light on
initiatives and! referendums un
der legislation adopted Friday.
The big truck bill ( goes to the
house with the 18 toj 10 blessing
of the state senate. The. chickens-are-livestock
measurej was a house
bill and the senate's approval Fri
day was the final step.
Bill Sent to Senate . j
The other measure,! which if in
effect would have permitted Dis
trict Attorney T. Lester Johnson
of Sherman county to challenge
the Townsend initiative when he
sought to do so last year, was
passed to the house land sent to
the senate without argument
i a bill (SB 88) 'to validate the in
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vurvvs vm. ursuia r tun
otherwise might be questioned be
cause of state residence. It was
designed to clarify the status of
service wives. ! j;
New introductions l in the sen
ate included proposals to raise
Marion county officers' salaries
15 per cent; increase the salaries
of circuit court judges to $6000,
and permit the board of barber
examiners to fix minimum prices.-,
The house , spent !a compara
tively quiet day, pissing seven
measures, but found a considera
ble point of controversy in a me
mortal (HJM 6) to petition con
gress for consideration of Ore
gon's farm labor shortage, In re
gard to the draft The memorial
was given hew life by a vote to
reconsider. It was beaten Tues
day 29 "yes" to 25 "ho" (needing
31 to pass), but went back to
committee Friday after a 36 to 21
ballot approving -its revival. ;
First Veto Arrives
The first gubernatorial veto of
the session was attached to HB
70, returned Friday to the house.
The bill would provide lump sum
payments to minors, n regard to
workmen's compensation, and was
vetoed because! by title "it would
change the age; of majority Fur
ther action was postponed indef
inite, j
Both the senate and house will
take up at 9 -JO jn.j today.
(Legislative hews page 3.)
China Adviser
Is Liberated
' - -I' ! -SYDNEY,
Australia, Feb. 9-P)
-W. H. Donald, famous adviser
to China's Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek, has been liberated from
a Manila internment camp after a
three - year masquerade during
which the Japanese vainly sought
him so they could kill him, it was
disclosed here today. v
Donald, an Australian, went to
China in 1904 as a correspondent
for the old New York Herald,
Then he became secretary to Dr.
Sun Yat-Sen, first president of
the Chinese republic,' and finally
the most trusted foreign confi
dant and counselor of Chiang.
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S.Pe Obtains Transfer of Spur
Track Suit to Federal Court
Judge E. M. Page, I acting on a
petition of the Southern Pacific
company Issued an order Friday
transferring to; the tJS district
court, district of! Oregon, the pend
ing suit of Bertha B. McMahan
against that company in which the
plaintiff complains against pro
posed construction of m spur track
for the Western Paper Converting
company on North Front street
Petition for removal of the suit
to the US court waa filed at 11
am. Friday and parties Involved
In the suit notified that an action
would be heard before Judge Page
at 2 pm. At 2:l?;p4tt. the order
approving the bond of $500 of the
Southern Pacific and j the removal
of the case was filed in the county
clerk's office."" f i . -;
f Defendant in Its petition cited
that the complaint asked that the
railroad . be perpetually restrain
ed and enjoined from! constructing
a spur track, which! when con
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JUL Edith Corns, Jap prisoner In
Afanila for three years, has been
rescued in the Yank drive on
the picturesque port the
Paslg. Her heme la in Loa An
geles. (International Soond
photo) 1
Yanks Clearing
Southern Half
Of Manila Gty
MANILA. Saturday, Feb. 10
(iT American infantrymen, driv
ing down mined streets against
pillboxes and mortars firing from
the upper stories of office build
ings, gained. 2000 yards (toward
Manila's prized dock area ' yester
day. It was dear the trapped Ja
panese defenders would : contest
every yard' f ground. j
- Gen, Douglas. MacArthur, de-
ribintenemy'a resistance
day house-to-house fighting was
"of the fiercest" j . . -
- - Enemy-se fires still were burn
ing in three sections of Manila,
but appeared to be diminishing.
Maj. Cen. Oscar W. Griswold,
commander of the 14th corps, told
Associated Press Correspondent
Fred Hampson. that "a lot of this
destruction is wanton and of no
military purpose."
Griswold said the Americans
were virtually powerless to stop
the enemy demolition crews who
have turned much of Manila's
heart into blackened ruins.
Chinese Miake
Counterblows
CHUNGKING, Feb. 9-(P)-Suc-cessf
ul Chinese counter-attacks in
three provinces were reported by
the high command tonight as pre
parations for a Chinese-Allied of
fensive against the Japanese were
announced by Maj. Gen.! Kung
Chi-Kuang.
( Chinese forces struck back at
the invading Japanese In Hunan,
Kiangsi and Kwangtung provinc
es. They were reported to have
recaptured Chihing, 30 miles east
of . Japanese - occupied Kukong,
which lies on the Canton-Hankow
railroad in Kwangtung.
River Recedes Here
After 15.6 Ft. Crest
' The Willamette river reached a
crest of 15.6 feet at Salem Friday
afternoon and started to recede.
The Santiam river reached a crest
of 16 feet Thursday night at Jef
ferson and was going down Fri
day, reports from the i Salem
weather bureau indicated, j
structed and completed will be
used as a public team track; that
the loss to! the defendant,! if the
i . - . - . 4'-
relief prayed for be granted, win
be approximately $23,000 a year;
so that the amount in dispute In
the suit, insofar as the defendant
is concerned, is more than; $3000,
exclusive of Interest and j costs."
(A federal cout suit must involve
in excess of $3000). - ; - : v '
il Holding that the defendant
company is a foreign corporation,
being incorporated under the laws
of the state of Kentucky, the de
fendant cited that the suit; is be
tween citizens of different; states.
The petition asked that removal be
had before the trial and within 30
days from . time of filing ;of the
petition. . " - v'-
The railroad company was rep
resented by Alfred A. Hampson
and James C. Dezendorf, of Port'
land. '' t
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Fury Of
Assault
Mi
Monty's Forces
Within 4 Miles
Of Vital Kleve
. i By Anstin Bealmear
PARIS, Feb. -(P)-Tne Canad
ian army broadened . the front of
its big new offensive to almost 10
miles today after sweeping up 14
towns in gains of nearly five miles,
and drove to within four miles of
flaming Kleve, imperiled northern
fortress of western Germany's de
fenses. . .
The fury of the assault from the
west mounted on a 200-mile front
as Gen. H.D.G. Crerar s Canadian
and British forces battered east-
ward between the Rhine and Maaa
rivers '27 miles from Wesel, at the
northwest corner of the Ruhr val
ley last great source of the en
emy's war potential. ....
The US first army 85 miles to
the south outflanked . the giant
Schwammenauel ' dam, whose
pent-up waters could be unloosed
to crush and British and American
drive on the Ruhr from their
springboard positions north ' and
east of Aacheq. '
EUsenfeld FaUa
Striking behind one Of the heav
iest barrages ever laid down - by
First arrpy guns, the Americans
seized Hasenfeld, less than a mil,
east of the dam, and brought the
structure, itself within" range ' of
machineguns.
Farther' south, the US . Third
army was hammering at the Ger
man defenders of the Eif el moun
tain stronghold of Proem from po
sitions three-quarters of a t mil
northwest of the city. The enemy
fought furjously to, hold the im
portant communication .center.
Less than six miles to the north,
doughboys already eight miles in-
Side the reich threatened to out
flank Pruem by forcing two cross
ings of the river of the same name.
They were within four miles of
the main road east out of the city,
Naxis Wiped Out
In southern Alsace, all enemy
resistance was wiped out, an of
ficial announcement said, and vic
tory flags flew over the city of
Colmar. The only Germans re
maining on French soil were in
northern Alsace, where they were,
dug in for nothing more than a
defensive stand..
Field Marshal Montgomery
threw reinforcements into thv
mountain battle at the northern
hinge of the western front, where
Canadians and Tommies were'
slogging through , the mud against
still relatively light resistance
about 360 miles from the Russians
on the eastern front.
Subs Torpedo
Allied Warship,
Five Vessels
HALIFAX, Feb. 9 - tP) - Long-
range German submarines, sniping
at allied convoys bound into and
out of Canadian ports this winter,
torpedoed a Canadian warship and
five merchantmen within one pe
riod of 22 days off the Nova Sco
tia coast, it was disclosed tonight.
The enemy underseas craft ap
parently were making a desperate
attempt to cut the allied north
Atlantic supply line at its west
ern anchor.. J
The sinkings included the Ca
nadian minesweeper Clayoquot, a
Canadian merchant ship, and four
vessels of other nationalities. . A
total of 36 men, eight navy men
and the rest merchant seamen, lost
their lives In the six sinkings. .
Due for Cut
WASHINGTON, Feb.
The war production board tonight
ordered most of the civilian sup
ply of cotton fabrics channelled:
into moderately priced clothing. 1
The action is effective March 1.
, . It Is title first major step uvthe
joint WPB-OPA program to cut
clothing costs 6 to 7 per cent and
to replenish dealers' supplies of
Inexpensive garments. ;
-The consumer should feel the
effect of the order's provisions hy
early summer," said Kenneth W.
Marriner, director of the WPB
textile, clothing and leather bu
reau. ' ' ,
ounting
Qotliing Costs