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Salem, Oregon. Friday Morning; February 23. 1945
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ML Sorlbachi, an extinct volcano en Iwo Jlma, has been captured
by American marines. The Japs had tamed the volcano into a fort
rets and Tanks on that strategic island had a tooth time over
coming-it. (AF wlrephoto from
The influence of environment
on animal life is well illustrated
in the report of the state game
commission that since the Tilla
mook burn deer shot in that area
-weigh as much as 200 pounds,and
come 300 pounds, while the gen
eral average for the coast is only
125 pounds. Since the great fires
of 1933 and 1939 swept the area
killing the coniferous trees the
region has grown a cover of brush
- which makes good forage for deer.
The following is taken from the
fame commission's report:
. "In this connection it is of in
terest to note the change in the
size of the deer in the burned
iover area of Tillamook county
since the big fire that devastated
some 300,000 acres in 1939. The
area was then closed to all hunt
ing until September,. . 1942, at
which time about two-thirds of
the burned-overland was opened
to hunting. Since that time hunt
ing has been permitted in the
whole area during the open sea
son. Prior to the fire, deer in this
territory have averaged along
with other deer in the coast range
' at about .124 pounds. Since the
Tillamook burn was opened, many
deer taken there have weighed as
much as 200 pounds and a few
have run as high as 300 pounds.
"This . improved condition is
shown by the research findings of
the commission. An analysis of
the forage growing in the open in
the Tillamook burn compared
With the same varieties in terri-
tory not burned oyer, that is, in
shaded areas, disclosed a marked
difference in the protein content.
For example, in vine maple, a
favored browse of deer, there was
found to be a decidedly increased
mount of protein in favor of the
(Continued on editorial page)
800 Yankees
Killed When
Nip Ship Sunk
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.
More than 800 Americans perished
When U. S. bombers sank a jam
tned Japanese prison ship off Lu
on ' in December, a survivor - re
vealed today. : ,
But he said the bombing ac-
tually saved American lives, as-.-serting
that without it even more
of the 1600 men Jammed in the
. suffocating holds would have
smothered. A "great number," he
said, already were dead when the
-bombs fell.
The survivor, Lieut. George Karl
Petritz, USN, 27, of Rockford, 111.,
told newsmen the 1600 were pack
ed in . three ; tiny, unventilated
holds. He said he was In the af
terhold with' 801 men, in space
t not big -enough to accommodate
snore than 40 normally. Two
smaller holds held 400 each.
Off
ffiDCDXg
f Freedom From F ear y Want
For All Men Chief U.S. Aim
CHAPULTEPEC CASTLE, Mex
ico, Feb. 22. -A)- Secretary of
State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
told the interamerican conference
today , that an essential aim in a
five-point American foreign policy
program ; Is an Atlantic charter
; peace -of "freedom from "feat and
want f or aH men. ' i;
Stettinius, in the first review of
American foreign, polky since the
Yalta conference, asked the other
18 countries represented here to
support the ideas of the Crimean
declaration, and., alerted - them
against any Nazi attempts to use
' the western hemisphere, as a base
; "for an ultimate comeback.".
. Mexican foreign minister Eze
quiel Padilla joined Stettiniss In
calling on the American nations
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U. S. navy)
Greatest
Air Blow
Delivered
7000 WarplaneS
Pound 100 Nazi
Railway Centers
By Charles Chamberlain
LONDON, Friday, Feb. 23.-P)
Allied air chiefs hurled an esti
mated 7,000 bombers and fighters
at approximately 100 nazi com
munications hubs yesterday in the
greatest simultaneous air assault
in history - - a supreme coordin
ated blow to knock out Germany's
railway system and the attack
continued Into the night. .
The Berlin radio said 2000 Rus
sian planes also had battered tar
gets along the eastern front, prin
cipally in East Prussia.
Altogether nearly ,10,000 sorties
were flown from the west and
south before dark, but; the peak
was reached at around noontime
when through ; careful planning
and timing explosives, cascaded
down at an estimated average of
100 tons a minute. -.. I
Some 30,000 airmen from sev
en) allied air cdiwnlnds4 partici
pated in the great obliteration
raids. f
The "buckshot blitz" - - an en
tirely new idea which allied air
chiefs had mapped and held in
readiness for a break in the wea
ther - - was spearheaded by more
than 1400 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators and 800 fighters of the
US Eighth air force.
Two divisions of this gigantic
fleet poured into Germany from
the north and a third attacked
from the south. Over the reich
they broke up into wolf packs of
up to 100 bombers each and ham
mered at least 24 freight yards
and other rail targets in the heart
of Germany during the noon hour.
Eight bombers and 19 fighters
were missing from this phase of
the operation.
Camp Adair
Hospital Gets
First Patients
CORVALLIS, Feb. 22.-JP)-K
hospital train brought the newly
commissioned United States na
val hospital its' first battle casual
ties today.
Capt. Paul W. Wilson, USN
medical corps, said the group of
more than 300 men came from the
Pacific area.
The hospital, formerly the sta
tion hospital at Camp Adair and
taken from the army in January,
will be, used for naval, marine
and coast guard personnel from
this area and for sick and wound
ed ' returning from war theaters.
'" Many of the staff - - medical,
dental and hospital corps officers,
nurses and hospital corpsmen - -have
just returned from long pe
riods of overseas duty.
The commanding officer said
all types of cases, from wounds to
tropical diseases, will be handled
at the hospital.
to unite for a securely peaceful
and prosperous world.
. Outlining the five cardinal prin
ciples of United States policy,
Stettinius declared that the new
states would give active and full
support to the principles of the
Atlantic charter,- which,1 he said,
were upheld by the big three at
Other points in the U. & foreign
policy program as disclosed : by
Stettinius included the "earliest
possible final defeat of the axis;
measures - to prevent ' Japan ' and
Germany from aggression again:
guarantees i to the liberated peo
ples of Europe of their own gov
ernment and sovereign rights and
creation of an international secur
ity organization to preserve the
peace of th world. -
Fish Unit
Voted
State Aid
Direct Appropri
ation Favored by
House 52 to 6
The proposal to place the fish
commission on a direct appropria
tion basis for support, rather than
keep fit dependent . on poundage
fees, Was passed by the house 52
to 6 Thursday. , 1
if Voting "no" were Hesse,: Jones,
Kimberling, Lindberg,' Snyder,
Staples.-' ! " - ' '
Most impassioned plea for the
bill came from Rep. William Nis
kanen of Bend who said he was
supporting it with considerable
misgiyings but that he also was
anxious to see conservation meas
ures supported, too. (Niskanen's
bill to' prohibit commercial fishing
in coastal streams and bays, ex
cept the Columbia river, now is in
the house fisheries committee.)
Larre Income Cited
Rep! John Hall of Portlapd, in
urging passage, said, the bill was
"necessary to' save the commer
cial ffshing industry of Oregon."
The industry, he said, supported
8000 people, had a taxable invest
ment of $23,000,000, and brought
in $30,000,000 a year. f ;
Rep. Henry Semon of Klamath
Falls, I asking regarding what ap
propriation would be necessary,
was told by Rep. Fred A. Hellberg
of Astoria that the amount would
be up to the budget director and
the committee on ways and means.
The; fish commission last year
was allotted $20,000: in emergency
funds to continue operation.
The house Thursday also passed
measures for the education of vet
erans lof "Vorld war II; increasing
from $4,500,000 to $7,500,000 the
backlog of the state industrial
accident fund; raising the salaries
of Marion county (15 per cent)
and Yamhill county officials; vali
dating divorce decrees which oth
erwise might ' be challenged be
cause of residence, and allowing
cities 1 to buy I surplus '- war ' goods
without competitive bidding.;
The senate passed buf ce bill
creating a game refuge in Polk
county. ;
(Legislative news pages 8 and
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Stimson Hints
At Big Allied
Push in West
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-iP)
A broad hint; that a major allied
offensive on the western front is
impending came today from Sec
retary of War Stimson. If;. .
"I may say that the officers in
the war department who have re
cently been with Hour troops in
that theater have been much im
pressed with the confidence: of the
entire command in their ability to
carry! through an aggressive cam
paign," Stimson told his news
conference. '"'-'- I::;:;''.!v
Among those recently I in , the
European theater and now back
in Washington Is Lt General Bre
hon Somervell, chief of army
service forces. In this connection,
Stimson's next comment was in
teresting: ;
"There are' no serious difficul
ties how regarding supplies id the
forward dumps of the various ar-
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'Yank' Sets Up Special
Press on Saipan Isle
NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (ff)
Yank, the army weekly, announc
ed today it had sent a j six-ton
printing press to Saipan, and now
was printing a new edition of the
magazine especially for troops on
Islands newly-won from, the Jap
arese. . -" , i
' It said soldiers on the; islands
previously had to depend on cop
ies of the magazine flown In from
Pearl Harbor.
Two Valley Soldiers
Wounded in Europe
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.
Among Oregon soldiers wounded
In : Europe, the war department
today listed:;
' Pfc. Melvin W. Brownell, brother-in-law
of Mrs. Frances Brown-
ell, route three, box 47, Silverton.
T4 Andrew L," Penne, son of
Peter Penne,? route two, box 158,
Woodburn. .
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American 4th division marines, invading Iwo Jlma, dig In and await
orders after taking a Japanese pillbox-blockhouse which was con
sidered almost impregnable until the leathernecks came along. Note
man apparently dead In foreground. This picture was made by Joe
3rd
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Triangle
Conquest
Co:
Pattoii's Forces
On Loose Again,
Threaten Trier
By Austin Bealmear
PARIS, ; Feb. 22.(P)-The ram
paging US Third army broke
across the Saar river at two points
65 miles : from the ; Rhine today
and completed a whirlwind con
quest of i Germany's 80-square-mile
Moselle-Saar triangle as 7000
allied, warplanes struck simultan
eously at enemy rail life-lines.
A field dispatch said Third
army ; officers and men were in
high spirits as they ripped across
western Germany's ramparts with
a speed reminiscent of their his
toric dash in France, seizing the
fortress city of Saarburg and 29
others reich towns on a 55-mile
front; j l
Saarburg, ones' a thriving city
of 10,000,1 was deserted save for
100 aged civilians. ! H
Trier In Sight
This powerful thrust 18 miles
deep into the reich, collapsed all
enemy resistance In the triangle
and rammed a steel spearhead to
a point five miles from Trier, for
tified, city 88,000 population on
the mountainous j route to the
Rhine. J v I r
While Trier's battlements came
under Lt Gen. George S. Patton's
guns, artillery to the south tore at
the fortified lulls into which the
Germans had been; Chased east of
the Saar river. The, attackers
were confident the enemy soon
would be driven from these new
positions.!. ' " i . U
To the fury of the allied air at
tack - - ;a new technique under
which swarms of battle planes un
load their, cargoes of destruction
on communications f centers - -was
added the shock of two oth
er allied j armies 'hammering at
Germany's first line Of defense.
Seventh prlving ;: !
. Forty miles southeast of the
Third army, the US Seventh army
captured two-thirds of the French
gateway I city of i Dorbach, two
miles' from the Saar basin's steel
city of Saarbruecken.
The Canadian First army on the
north end of the! front captured
Moyland and fought nearly to the
edge of Calcar, bitterly-defended
highway center two miles south
east and 15 miles from Wesel In
the Western Ruhr industrial ba-
sin. . ) , , f i ... ,
German Oil Plant
Severely Damaged
LONDON, Feb. 22 The
royal air force 'announced . .to
night that reconnaissance of the
huge Zeitz synthetic oil plant near
Leipzig allowed exceptionally se
vere damage was inflicted by an
tnplete
Leathernecks Take Iwo Pillbox
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This Gives Idea i
Of Close Quarters
Fighting in Manila
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-. MANILA, j Feb. 22 (IP) (This
gives an idea of the close quar
ters fighting which rages in sec
tions ox south Manila.
In the postoff ice building, the
Yanks hold all five floors but the
Japanese are in the basement.
In the Manila hotel, the Yanks
are on the first .floor the Japa
nese are on the second and above.
It is a five-story building. '
The Yanks hold the city hall
but the Japanese threw them out
four times before they went in to
stay. t
3-Car Crash
Sends 2 Women
i ' i
To Hospital )
Collision of three automobiles on
the Pacific highway approximate
ly one mile north of the railroad
underpass at Salem's north boun
daries Thursday night sent two
women to the hospital and two
cars to the wreckers. - j
Mrs. C . Harrison, Oswego,
driver of one vehiele, was suffer
ing from pains in a leg she said
had earlier been ill-affected . by
infantile paralysis. Mrs.' ;dith
Kiecker, ' 533 Southeast Salmon
street, Portland, riding with her.
sustained injuries to both legs and
a possible nose fracture, city first
aid men said. The two women are
at Salem Deaconess hospital.
Vernon Clementson, 1945 South
east Yamhill street, Portland, driv
er of the car believed most dam
aged in the ' accident, reconstruct
ed it thus: ! ''4-:y-1r:--'-:.,.r'-l'
Nath Frank NohV Salem, driv
ing south toward Salem ahead of
Clementson,!; seemed to . slow or
stop his vehicle and Clementson's
car nosed into Nolz's then skidded
directly across the highway. Mrs.
Harrison was ' driving north and
her car struck the Clementson
vehicle squarely In the middle of
its right side, caving in the heavy
body and breaking glass.' -1
. The hood and grill of MwAHafeJ
rison's car were damaged; the rear
bumper of ; the Nolz car , wit
knocked loose and the rear of the
body 'dented, but no one In it
was injured. Clementson received
a gash more . than an inch in
length on the right temple. ; r
Nolz denied that he had slowed
down or stopped, told state police
he was driving at an ;- even 30
miles an hour.' The accident oc
curred at approximately 9 p. m.
when traffic in that sector was
heavy. f , ' . !M
.lJ Partly Qoudy ' j
with occasional light rain show
ers. Temperatures about thf
same in -i the mid-Willamette
area, predict U.v S. weather
bureau, McNary field, Salem, i
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Rosenthal, Associated Press . photographer on assignment with the
wartime still picture pool, who went ashore with the marines on
D-day. (AP wtrephoto) .
Tiny Strip
Of Land
Captured
Oppositibn Light;
Move Will Clear j
Shipping Route
By C. Yates McDaniel
MANILA, Friday, Feb. 23.-JPh
Veteran Yanks of the Americal
division invaded tiny Capul is
land in the San Bernardino straits
just off Luzon's long southern -tip
on -Wednesday in a move to clear
the Japanese from '.the main ship
ping route from the United States
to Manila.
Opposition was light
The small oval island, five miles
long and two wide at the middle,
commands the straight through
which the Japanese sent a war
fleet to harass the American in
vasion of Leyte last October. -
It lies directly between the ex
tensive southeastern tip of Luzon
and the northern lend of Samar
island, which is I practically in
American hands. It is 260 airline
miles southeast .of Manila ' and
about 325 by sea. !
In 'Manila, - meanwhile, point-
blank shelling of the thick east
wall of the Intramuros was in
tensified as first cavalry Yanks
made ready for a grand assault to
clean up the Japanese garrison
there. Howitzers and cannon were
attempting to pound an entranch-
way for tanks. J j
Front reports said 37th division
infantrymen seized the three-story
city halL near the Intramuros, af
ter a bitter hand-to-hand fight in
which the Yanks withdrew from
the building, four times in the face
of ma chinegun fire before going
in to stay. -.. ;
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ARC Official
To Visit Here
Edwin Carroll, assistant mana
ger of the American Red Cross
Pacific area office in San Fran
Cisco, will be principal speaker at
the annual - meeting of - Marion
county chapter, ARC,, to be held
at S ' pjn. next Monday In the
Carrier room of the First Meth
odist ' church. " f f ;
CarroIL son of a former.. weU
known Oregon newspaperman, re
places on the program Raynfbnd
Barrows, deputy manager of the
San Francisco office, who is re
ported seriously CI. A report Of
the nominating committee and an
nual reports will also feature the
Monday night meeting.
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Reports Say Middle .
East to Declare War
jCAIROJreb - 22 (Reports
that could not be confirmed here
said tonight that most of the Mid-
Idle East would ' be at war with
weekend.
Usually reliable informants
heard that Turkey, Syria, Lebanon,
Saudi Arabia, TransJordania, and
Yemen would formally declare
war on the two axis nations.
Rejections for
Army Service
41 Per Cent
About 25,000 men or 41 per
cent of all those ordered inducted
into the armed services In Oregon
have been rejected because of
physical reasons, -Col. Elmer V.
Wooton, state director of selective
service, told a sub-committee of
the legislature Thursday. Most of
the men were between 18 and 29.
The colonel was a witness at a
joint: ways and means committee
hearing on house bill 53 which
provides for a program of physi
cal fitness in all high schools of
thestat. '.
The hearing developed no ob
jections to the bill but there was
comment that the $28,000 speci
fied perhaps wasn't enough.
.Wooton said the Oregon rejec
tion rate wasn't as large as the
national average but he urged
passage of the bill to raise the
standards of. the state's youths.. .
Others urging passage includ
ed R. W. Layton, dean of the de
partment of physical education at
the . University of Oregon; Austin
Landreth, Pendleton school prin
cipal, and Rex Putnam, state su
perintendent of public instruction.
Senate Group Shifts Work-orA
jail Penalties, to
i ; By Francis J. Kelly
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 - (JP)
The senate military committee, in
approving a revamped manpower
control bill today, shifted the pro
posed fine-and-jail penalties from
Industrial workers to their employers.-
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At the same time, the commit
tee Voted for five years imprison
ment and a $10,000 fine for de
ferred farm workers who leave
t h e farm without their ' draft
boards permission.
Almost immediately a move
was started to substitute the house
approved work-or-Jaa bill when
the committee measure reaches
the senate floor.
Senator Bailey (D-NC) said
that if he becomes convinced he
can' obtain majority support for
the action, he will move to dis
place the : committee's bill with
Capture of Peak
Ends One Phase
Of Bitter Fight
By Elmont Walt
1 U. S. PACIFIC FLEET .HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Friday, Feb.
23 fPi Hard-fighting United
States marine, who have, paid the
Pacific's highest price for 58TiourB
of battle with 3372 casualties at
Iwo, wrested 546-foot Mt. Suri
bachl on the south tip of the isl
and from the Japanese today, j
! The United States flag was rais
ed on the crater's rim at 10:35: a.
m. by the 28th regiment, signalling
the end of one phase of the five-day-old
struggle. . .. . . )
t From Suribachi, whose slopes -had
been t blasted by battleships
and dive bombed by carrier planes,
the Japanese had raked marjoe
positions throughout the southern
sector with deadly mortar and ar
tillery fire. : , ..
Nimlts Telia Victory
f I Adnt Chester W. Nimitx
an-
nounced " the victory in a brief
communique soon after one which
had reported only minor advances
through Thursday against fierce
opposition. j '
; The earlier communique, cov
ering marine casualties only"
through 6 p. m. Wednesday, dis- .
closed that 644 marines had been
killed, 4168 wounded and 560 were
missing. Since then severe bat-'
ties have raged. -
In the. same 58 hour period,
total of 1222 enemy dead were
counted. 1 1 .
No invasion of the Pacific Vvar
for a. comparative period hasVost
so many American casualties. ; At
Tarawa, previously considered the
bloodiest fight of the war, marine
casualties for its entire 72 hours
slightly exceeded 3400,, -j
Fighting Bitter j j
: Today's communique repotted
more of "the same type of bitter
fighting which has built up the
casualty totals.
ir It reported gains Thursday,, af
ternoon too slight to affect the
Virtual stalemate which develop
ed Wednesday. . -I
i The three marine divisions, th
third, fourth and fifth, Inched for
ward silghtly on the north toward
the enemy fighter base in the cen- i
ter of the island and constricted
their lines around volcanic ML
Suribachi on the south tip. j t
The Japanese launched two
powerful ; counterattacks on jthe
flanks of the forces attacking 'the
airfield. Significantly, Nimitz -did
not specifically claim either had
been completely blunted.
U. S. War t oil
Past 800,000
i WASHINGTON, Feb. 22
Reported American casualties of
World war II climbed past 800,-
000 today. j
1 'The compilations by the army
and navy came out along with
hints of impending big-scale ;ac- !
tion which indicated little if any
diminution in the rate of losses. J
i Representing a rise of approxi
mately 100,000 in the past month, '
and up 18,982 for the week, th
casualty figures were rising at a
rate which would raise the total
past 1,000,000 within two months, t
Valley Men Liberated
From Philippine Islea
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22
The war department today an
nounced additional names of civil
ians liberated In the Philippines.
They include (with next of kin):
' . Don C Crow, son of Mrs. Peter
H. Crow, route four, Albany, Ore.'
j' Kenneth L. Gripes, son-in-law
of Mrs. A. N. Poole, P. O. box 148,
Monmouth, Ore.
Employer
the house bill, written by himself
and Chairman May (D-Ky.) of
the house military committee. t
The bill reported by the com- '
mittee Is not a total effort (and
to that extent I am disappointed,
he said. j . '
. The bill, nearly three weeks in
committee,- emerged today by a,
vote of IS to 4: with one member "
refraining from voting. By! no ,
means all of those who voted af-
firman vely actually favor! th
legislation as a whole; their! ob
ject was to get something out on
the floor for a showdown, j j
; The senate measure would ap
ply to all persons regardless of
age or sex.. The house bill would
affect ionly 'civilian men -18
through 45 who had not been spe- '
ctfically deferred from the draft
by law, such as public officials or
divinity students. -. . - v , j
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