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OTT' amide THDOUg There' no use denying it, Al Brown, county clerk of Multno mah county, has the republicans "of that county worried. He got himself elected auditor of that county, though a democrat, back in 1938, breaking into the previ ously solidly republican court house. In 1940 he had the" auda city to run for state treasurer, and was defeated only narrowly by Leslie M. Scott, though Brown carried Multnomah county. In 1942 he was reelected auditor, and In 1944 he moved up, by popular election, from that $3600 a year job to the $6000 a year job of county clerk, defeating Frank Shull, veteran county commis sioner. So Multnomah republicans re "hexed" by Al Brown. In 1941 the Multnomah delega tion," predominantly republican, tut through two bills, one to "purge" existing registration rolls by house-check on registrants, an other to provide a continuing scrutiny of persons registering. The proponents of the bills pro fessed to fear the democratic-new . deal machine would do some dirty work in Portland elections. Now the Multnomah republicans in the legislature have put through the house a bill urged i by the Multnomah republican county chairman to create the office of registrar of elections for that county, to be appointed by the county commissioners. This is aimed at democrat Al Brown, who ' as county clerk now has control of the election machinery. The com missioners, being republicans, are expected to name a' republican probably James Gleason, present 'registrar under the county clerk The bill passed the house after stormy debate Monday.; The senate, being quite heavily repub lican, may be expected to approve it; and a republican governor would hardly be one to veto measure endorsed by the repub lican organization of the I most populous county in the state. ; I have no particular interest in the matter one way or another; but it does seem to me the Mult nomah republicans are working at .the wrong end of the line. They will not win - elections by fresh laws for purges of registration lists, abolition of mobile registra tion booths,, and shifts of election machinery but of Al Brown's . hands. They will win their elec tions when they can swing to their aide a majority of the voters in Multnomah county. The place to .work is at home rather than Sa- ' lem. ! Konev's DrivejlO Miles, TakeSOTowns By Yf. W. Hercher LONDON-I-Wednesday, Feb. 21 (JP) Russian first Ukraine ar my forces cjrove some 10 miles northwest aiid west in Germany's Brandenburg! province yesterday, capturing mqre than 80 communi - ties in the face of persistent coun terattacks . by Lwhich the Nazis strove. 4o .hpld the vital south eastern appfoches to Berlin, 57 miles away, j i Moscow s Imghtly communique, announcing these gains, said about 1,000 Germans, were captured in the sector northeast and east of Guge, while some 100 miles to the Southeast fighting continued for the annihilation of the German garrison in the besieged Silesian capital of Breslau. On the northerni front Moscow announced gains up to 13. miles and capture of 50 polish corridor towns by the second white Rus sian army. Advancing northward in a 20-mile front, these forces were within" 33 miles south of Danzig, once-free Baltic port. On the southern end of the long eastern front tne Kussians an- nounced capture of 60-odd Czech- . oslovakian towns in a drive that carried northwestward 13 miles ot Banska Bystricia, and .'told of re pelling determined German coun terattacks in Hungary on the north bank of the Danube east of Kom arom. Stassen Will Attend Meet WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 - (P) - Comchv Harold E. Stassen said to day he is putting world peace ahead of his political future to serve a a delegate to the United Nations conference: His selection by President Boosevtlt is a "political liability,1 the former Minnesota republican governor, told a news conference. But, he added, it is his patriotic duty to help work for1 a strong postwar league of peace-loving na tions. . He Si id he would doff his uni form j temporarily : for the world conference so that, in civilian sta tus, he can "speak, act and think" as he pleases. 7ealher Fan Francisco Max. 56 51 Mia. 43 SI M . 35 33 lUla - .61 .52 'ortland 48 fttl 54- VViUamette river 1 ft NINETY-FOUBTH YEAR Churchill Renews Proi ise Roosevelt Meets With High Rulers Of Middle East By D. Harold Oliver . WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-;P) President Roosevelt, during a dra matic near east odessey, has ob tained from Prime Minister Chur chill a new promise "to throw ev erything" at the Japanese. He also got a snub from General Charles De Gaulle. The story of , the president's meetings with premiers, kings, and princes after the Crimea con ference came out in part today. The White House made public some details of his trips through Egypt and Algeria, and how Mr. Roosevelt is adding, by plane, mo tor and ship some 14,000 miles to his stupendous travel. Given in Egypt The fresh British pledge for fullest participation against Japan was given to the president by the prime minister at Alexandria. The White House narration said that new and important" discussions of the Pacific situation vfere con ducted there. !. , The account told of an invita tion to General De Gaulle to meet with the president at Algiers. Mr. Roosevelt wanted to discuss ques tions of "mutual interest and im portance" to France and the United States. The French lead er, declined and the president said he was "most disappointed." King Visits FDR One of those who did accept a Roosevelt invitation, however, was King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, leaving his country for the first time in his life, the king went sailing to the conference in the Suez canal aboard an American destroyer luxuriously bedecked with oriental carpets and gilded chairs. The kings slept in a tent on deck and his party brought its own food, including live sheep. Nuernberg Is Battered Hard By 900 Forts LONDON, Feb. 20.-(vP)-Nuern- berg, one of Germany's most im portant rail junctions and scene of former nazi party propaganda spectacles, was battered today by 900 US Flying Fortresses in its heaviest daylight bombing of the war. The big American armada, which included an. escort of 700 ijgnters, encountered no enemy aerial opposition but ran into in tense! antiaircraft fire. Sixteen bombers and 23 fighters we missing tonight. A series of warnings, during which the German radio twice went off the air, indicated the al lied aerial blows were continuing into the night. Berlin Claims Sinking Of 8 Ships in Convoy: LONDON, Feb. 20-5-The Ber lin radio asserted tonight that Ger man torpedo-carrying planes had sunk eight cargo ship totalling 87,000 tons and two destroyers out of an England-bound convoy from Murmansk. There was no immedi ate Allied confirmation. Stems France Assured No Secret Agreements Made at Yalta By John M. Blghtower WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (ff France has sought and received assurances from "the United States that no secret agreements were made by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Yalta for the government of liberated countries of Europe. - This was learned tonight as of ficials here studied the effects of General Charles de Gaulle's re jection of President Roosevelt's in vitation to a meeting in Algiers. The general conclusion was,, that French-American relations are on the down-grade and may, continue that" way for seme time. 1 8 mm - - - " - --'"!" ; ' - " "- - IMS . -i la : s I yV jr. 1 Ha j I n III V, 1 1 1 1 I J II Mill .11' . fP' ' ! : I 10 PAGES ! Wmii Leathernecks ' , - - 4 f if. 1 r , 0- A 4 fV SMI""' Marines charge ever a rise on the defenders are clvinr the leathernecks their toughest fight in 168 years. This picture, by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press photographer with the still picture pool, was radioed from Guam te San Francisco hf the navy. (AF Wirephoto) J U.S. Third SurgeM Forward 2i Miles in Fresh Attack; Canadian j ! L By Austin PARIS, Feb; : 20-(P-ThefAmeacah Third army, slashing into or beyond the, Siegfried line ward 2z miles irt rain and mud entered five others in a surprise river. i hL Scottish forces of Gen. Eden Outlines Fi Part ranee s In Occupation 1 LONDON, Feb. . iZO -JF)- British Foreign, Secretary rAnthony Eden was believed today to have out lined to French Ambassador Rene Massigli the part France will ply in thej occupation of Germany and in the Allied control commission to be established in Berlin. In i series of conferences cen tering around the decisions made by the big three ! In the Crimea, Eden saw four United Nations am bassadors and two: former Polish government leaders j Besides Massigli,! Eden met with US Ambassador John G. Winant, Polish Ambassador! Count Edward Raczynski and Chinese' Ambassa dor Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. He also 'conferred with Stanislaw Mikolaiczyk, former premier f the Polish government in London, and Tadeusz Romer, former, for eign minister in;, Mikolajczyk's Cabinet Gripsholm to I JERSEY CITY.'NJ, Feb. 20.-i i-The! Gripsholm Sheared the end of its sixth exchange voyage to night, bringing home 2,206 repa triates, including 63 ill or wound ed American sold lers who were prisoners of war in Genhany. I I The ship . radioed she would feachj Ambrose light in the lower channel tomorrow, about 11 a. m (EWt), which Would bring her to her pier between 12 and 1 p.m. Aboard besides' , the American officers and enlisted men are 178 Canadian military personnel; il merchant seamen i who were lahto prisoners and 623 civilians. j i f A principal contributing cause Is the suffering of the French peo ple, due to hunget and cold. Of ficials here say that although, she United States is getting the blane for lack of food and clothing) in France, the shortages are the inev itable results of tight shipping and other war conditions. ' As ior the Crimean communique, thes j .state department said 'the French had asked for clarifica tion and the Information requested had been furnished. The French request was received here Satur day and the reply went out yester day.; Today I a i t vv POUNDDD . 1651 ! Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning. February 21. 1S4S j ' I i : n nn HTcUsidU Charge at two w k'. -; J & ' ' i -Ti - i 5 . 1" beach at Iwo Jima where Japanese . j Troops Stymied BeaJmear on, a 50-mile front, surged for todaiy and captured 10 towns and new attack across the. Moselle ; :.tl D. Crerar's Canadian First army cleared all of the Siegfried strong- hold of Goch except a lew isolated pockets, but this offensive at the northern end of the western front appeared generally stymied in its 13th day by vicious enemy resist- ande. Canadian troops fell back slight- y in the flaming arc before Cal- cart seven miles northeast of Goch, as fine uermans nuriea m one counterattack after another to deit Allied libes for the first! time since the drive down the Maas-Rhine corridor began. As resistance on the 25-mile northern front mounted in in tensity, with ;the Germans rein forced to the strength of at leasts nine divisions, Lt Gen. George S.; Patton's doughboys stepped up the sure along the major portion of the Third 'army front, where;! r divisions ran their three-dav bag of prisoners to 4500." The! Americans registered their best gains in the triangle formed oy tne Mosene ana &aar riven, smashing within four miles of; Saarburg from; two directions. Union Good Friday Service Is Planned From 12 to 3 p.m. A three hour service will be held on Good Friday by the Salem Ministerial association it was de cided at the; meeting Tuesday morning. It is planned to. have the services from 12 to 3 o'clock with speakers and place to be de-j termined by a committee of the gr6up. . . ; The Easter Sunrise service will be held on the Capitol steps as it was last year. The Salem Min isterial association ; will be in tion with the Hi-Y and . Tri-Y groups and the Salem Church routa organization. Committees ! for the ministerial association will be named by Rev Dudley Strain, president Greek Cabinet Member Resigns After; Squabble ATHENS, Feb. 20.(flJ)-Premier Gen. I Nicholas Plastiras accepted the resignation today of Interior Minister Pericles Rail is in a Greek cabinet squabble which began when rallies protested that remo val of police control from his de- Ptnt??!ai,2n reemenM with th FAM.KI.AS : I Nazis Must Pay-Loss BUENOS AIRES. Feb. 20Un-- The government announced today that Germany would be required to pay for the loss of two Ar gentine ships torpedoed by subma rines and for damage to another, n nrnnn n LS5DUU FDR Plea? Has No Results Substitute Plan i Will Be Offered By Senate Group! WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. -(PH senate military committee shelved; the work-or-jail bill today despite: a new endorsement by President Roosevelt and began perfecting a. much milder substitute. The 12 to 6, vote to lay aside the house-approved measure in favor of the substitute which would: strengthen the war manpower? commission's ! present job place- ment program was taken shortly after the committee was handed aj memorandum from the president Dated February 11 and president ed to the committee by majority leader Barkley, it reads: 1 Roosevelt Pleads I hope that legislation embrac-j ing the principle of the May bil can be speedily enacted. It will assure the armed services they can rely Ion the flow pf necessary supplies and greatly contribute to the success of our arms." j The house passed the May bill several weeks ago shortly after its enactment was urged by Mr. Roos I evelt. Senator Chandler (D-Ky), whd joined Senators O'Mahoney- (D4 Wyo), Kilgore D-W.Va), Wagn? (D-NY), Ferguson (R-Mich) an4 Ball (R-Minn) as a co-author; of the substitute, declared the com mittee's action means the work Jail bill U "as dead as Lazarous. - Manoney agreeo. Favors Voluntary Form "This is a Iclear indication that the committee favors a-voluntary system under the war manpower commission instead of the work or-fight principle or whatever yod want to call it," Chandler added. The committee hopes to agree on final terms oi tne suDsuiuie tomorrow! It got through abou half the text today,! inserting few clarifying amendments. i - SL - Group Okehs INurseUratt WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-(P)f Unmarried women nurses- betweeA the ages of 520 and 44 inclusivej, would be liable to draft for mili tary service Under legislation ap proved today by the house mlllf tary committee, v, But committee members, con. cludintr three weeks of consider a tion of ! the measure requested by Presidenf Roosevelt on Januj ary 6 to provide 20,000 nurses for the army and the navy, said pri vately they 1 did not expect the legislation, if enacted, to be i en forced, ' except possibly among cadet nurses. Even should the existing volun teer system, which the legisla- tioa continues, fail to produce' the necessary number" of nurses, the impact of the bill would all hea viest" on the 27,000 womep trained under the cadet nurse corps ''program. our lillU" T alley iiicii Wounded in Action Mick Willamette valley men re ported wounded in action in the European theatre by the war de partment include Lt William C, Dyer, whose wife is j Mrs. Clara- belle Dyer, 1201 Pearce, building, Salem: PFC Raymond L. Petite. whose wife is Mrs. Vivian L. Pe tite, Grand Ronde; Pvt ., Anthony T. Reiling whose wife is Mrs. Ma rie K. Reiling, 368 Isabel! e street, Lebanon, and Pvt Wade W. Haw- ley, whose mother is Mrs. Geor gia. May Hawley of Dallas. Series of Explosions . . Shake! Enslish Coast i. !fc . . DOVER, England, Feb. 20,-(5V A series of thunderous explosions from somewhere at sea shook the Dover area tonight at about ;10:$0 p. m. The first explosions; which lasted many seconds, were , fol lowed by another series 10 minutes later, - Price 5c n n lfi)IRfGU Farmers Get Stuck In Mud but Face Water Shortage SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Feb. 20 (JF) Paradoxically, farmers in this region are getting stuck in the mud while hauling water to re lieve shortages. The current spell ol alternate freezing and thawing is drawing all the moisture to the surface, ex plains Weatherman C. C. Willi ford, and unless there's a rain or snow socfn -Ozark farmers will have a bad drought i Meat Packers, Textile Trade May Get Raise ' By Harold W. Ward WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-P-The war labor board announced; its willingness tonight to fatten pay envelopes of 145,000 meat packers and 50,000 textile work ers, if it wins its policy fight with Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson ; The board released j its long- awaited decisions in these two cases, but held up the money) items until it has settled t h e squabble with Vinson. ; He wants to give OPA veto powers over! wage adjustments if they necessi-l tate price increases, 1 i The decisions came as the two industries were threatened with far-reaching, strikes. j 1 For the : textile ; workers, the board' raised the minimum wage from 50 to 55 cents, and granted aj flat 5-cent i increase to preserve1 the present differentials. These were allowable in the board's eyes because they would adjust "sub standard" wages. 1 The meat packers were told to establish a commission to set up, for the first time,, a standard wagej structure for the industry. Cloth ing, tools and sharpening of tools' are to be company expenses, alsd for the first time, f . I 500 Japanese Troops Killed ; i CHUNGKING, Feb. ZO-iJP More than 500 Japanese troops have been killed in fighting west of the CantonHankow railroad near the Hunan-rtwangtung bor-f der, the Chinese high command said tonight ; ! "1 The announcement said Chinese forces attacked the! Japanese id to 15 miles east of Ichang and about 105 miles south of Hengi yang and that heavy fighting is continuing. Meanwhile, a Japan ese attack 12 miles northeast' of Ichang was repulsed, it added, f Reinforce m e n t s have been thrown in by both sides In the battle east; of .the ! railroad town of Chensien, 80 miles south of Hengyang," where the enemy is trying to disperse Chinese con centrations in order to safeguard their hold on the railroad. j Lloyd George Very Sick I CRICCIETH, Carnarvon, Wales, Feb. 20-P)-David : Lloyd George, one of Britain's elder statesmen and spark plug, of the empire's fight . in the last I war, was re ported critically ill tonight at his home near here. i ; j " " ; 1 WillametteVcihy Flax Growers Must Meet Foreign Competition The problem for the future for flax growers of the Willamette valley will be competition from foreign produced i flax fiber, R. Glen Ritchey, newly elected chair man of the Willamette Valley Fi ber Flax association, warned grow ers, i He suggested as factors to help meet this competition . improve ment in varieties and better farm ing practices such as rotation of crops, ' improved machinery, and production of as nearly uniform a grade as possible, a ' Improved varieties would in crease tonnage and also per cent of fiber per ton, ; the improved farming practices would increase yields and prevent disease, the im prover machinery ' would - reduce costs and improve quality and in crease yield of liber, Ritchey ssid. m mmmui lyivv No. 289 Galleries i . - Fine For . i Sleeping i Slowdown Con tinues in House; Actions Delayed By Wendell Webb Managing Editor, the Statesman There was no reason at all why spectators couldn't have had a good! nap in the state house of representatives Tuesday. It defi nitely was "ho hum" day, and many more like it would see the 43rd legislature bogged down so securely it might as well go to sleep) itself. It seems the democrats, or some of them, still were mad rightful ly or wrongfully because the house the day before passed a measure which democrats said was designed to strip County Clerk Al Brown of Multnomah county of all authority in elections. The bill provided for a $4200-a-year regis trar to coordinate election activi ties jwhich republicans said now were too diffused among three county officers. So4 as had been forecast Rep. James Gleason of Portland, when ever a measure came up for final passage Tuesday, asked for a com plete reading of each bill, section by section. ,He also asked for such a reading of a senate joint me morial requesting congress to oust the 0PA after the war, but there wasn't but one section and the bill got through. Rep. Vernon Bull, La Grande democrat, sought to erase the memory of the house action on the registrar bill (HB 306) by asking for Reconsideration, ut Speaker Eugene Marsh ruled the motion out of order because Bull had vot ed tno on the measure in the first place. - , Therefore, in apparently the on ly "out" to keep Reading Clerk Richard Wilson from having . an overstrained larynx, members moved that the longer bills be put over including the veterans' affairs measure, set for today, and the proposal to put the fish com mission on an appropriation basis, now scheduled to come up tomor row. . - Rep. Warren Erwin, Portland republican, suggested that if all bills jmust be read completely that an assistant reading clerk be named as a "humane" measure. Senate in Low Gear The house did manage to pass seven propositions, however (see page,' 10). The senate also stayed in low gear i with hours of debate on Sen. Hex Ellis' bill to allow assessment insurance in Oregon, as in Idaho, bittepy fought by the old line in surance companies. It was beaten. The house indefinitely postpon ed, ii accepting a majority "do not pass' report, m bill by Rep. John Steelhammer to require all peace officers and tax commission agents to report weekly to the governor the location, operator and owner of any pinball machine on which the state tax had not been paid, or anv Iclnt marhtn which the state fholds to be illegaL ' Steelhammer's minority "do pass" report was defeated, 40 to 14. He argued that the bill would increase revenues for old age aa sistance. There were two possible reper cussions being discussed regarding the slow-down in the house one centered around a threat to start the same proceedings in the senate unless the Multnomah bill was de feated there, and the other wajLa constitutional amendment which might preclude the necessity of reading every bill even on de mand. (Legislative news page 10.) - Each plant was urged to grow, pup, ret, and scutch its fiber so as to produce as nearly a uniform grade as possible, and the growers aim; he said should be to produce the! grade which spinners can use to the best advantage. Observing this rule will increase the demand for the northwestern fiber. The association held an all day meeting at the Salem Chamber Of Commerce.; Ritchie was named chairman and R. R. Mitchell, of St Paul, vice chairman; Clarence -F Hyde of Eugene, secretary-treas urer. Ritchie's home Is in Fores Grove. ; D. B. Delosh, agricultural econ omist, was one of the speakers and others were D. D. Hall, and Elton Nedsonv both of Oregon State col lege; and W. N. Hurst, US depart ment of agriculture. iYankees i ' " . " Capture jAirfield Jap Resistance i Unprecedented; Marines Gaining ! By UnoBt Waite '" fi i US PACDTIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Wednesday, Feb. 2L Hfifp-The three-day-old invasion of Iwo is ahead of schedule de spite the unprecedented ferocity pf Japanese resistance, it was learned today. j. i The US Fifth marine corps achieved one of the invasion's main objectives by noon Tuesday, a Utile over 24 hours since the marines landed on the southeast coast, when they , captured the three-runway Motoyama bomber field No. 1, with fighter plane range of Tokyo, 750 miles to the north. is Al. Dopking, Associated Press war correspondent, confirmed that ' the invasion plan called for seiz ure of the airfield, also known i as Suribachi, by tonight ! Marine's Attack Bills I Today the marines, still backed by one of the most concentrated ship bombardments in history which in six days has pitched more than 8,000 tons of steel i at the Nipponese, tore into enemy hill positions on the flanks after sealing off the south third of die island's eight square miles. ; . There is a terrific fight ahead against Japanese on the north end of the island, on a plateau over looking the beachhead. The bulk of the Nipponese garrison is there. ( As the marines consolidated their flanks yesterday, Dopkijng said they encountered "probably the stiffest enemy fire yet faced Sn the Pacific war." ' I Gain 200 Yards .. I Controlling the south third fof the island, the rain-drenched lea thernecks advanced 200 yards be yond the airfield on the north flank against Nipponese rocket, mortar and artillery fire. - I On the south flank, they At tacked formidable enemy posi tions offering stiff opposition trbm the slopes of volcanic Mt Suti- bachi. House Votes In Favor of Ousting OPA j The House, by. a vote of 33; to 2 1, Tuesday completed legislative action on a memorial' asking con gress to end the Office of Price Administration as soon as possible after the war. ' i j i Opponents of the memorial con tended it was too critical. ! I Rep. Carl Francis, Dayton (re publican, explaining he does "hot defend the bureaucracy of the jOPA," said the OPA did do a g4od ob curbing inflation. Rep. Man- ley J. Wilson, St Helens demo crat, said the memorial "casts re- , flection on citizens doing an im portant job i ) I 1 Rep. ( Henry ' Semon, Klamath alls democrat and a potato gray er, said that without OPA, he could . iave received three or four tiipcs as much money for his potatoes. But he added, "I'd just have more money to spend, that's all." i (Legislative news page 10)1 Middle East In Spotlight CAIRO, Feb. 0 - (JP) - The In creasing military and political Im portance of the middle east has been sharply emphasized by the conferences President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill held in Egypt and nearby on their way home from the big three Yalta meeting."-' "K'V- "7 r-: ",: The president and the prime minister delayed their returns to their respective; capitals nearly a week after leaving the Crimea. With the war In Europe approach ing its climax, it Is obvious that they would not have agreed to thia delay if they had not considered the discussions here to be of Vital importance. Two Lebanon Soldiers ; Die From War Wounds LEBANON, Feb. 20 Two more Lebanon men are casualties of the war, information hat beenl re ceived by relatives from the war department William Green, army cavalry, was killed in action in Burma, January 20. His mother, Mrs. Lela Green, is now in Eu gene with her daughter,' Louisa of the U. S. forest service staff. : Lt William Gale Bindshadler dled In a military hospital in France January 11. His mother, Mrs. Theda Binshadler, is a teacher in Lebanon high school. . Goudy J today with intermittent rain showers in the mid-Willamette valley area, predicts US weath er bureau, McNary' field, Salem. 1 "
