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PAGE TWO Biclault, Eden Set Meeting For London ! PARIS, Feb. 2a.-()-Foreign Minister Georges Bidault will leave for London, f probably to morrow, to ' confer with Foreign Secretary . Eden on details of the Crimea conference, the French government announced today. (A diipatch from London, where it was announced that Bi dault had accepted Britain! invi-1 -v tation to make the trip, saia we . . . . . t visit wax expected to help relieve ! : tension resulting from French re ' sentment over being excluded ' from the' Crimea discussions, but li that the real purpose was thought 1 to be negotiations preliminary to ji British-French military alliance, t" An authorized official said to !i day France was. satisfied thus far ,7" With the position accorded her in I ithe postwar world by the Crimea i conference but was reserving de cision on participation in the San ; Francisco United Nations cbnfer . enee. ' This official declared France ; .would delay the decision until full 1 information is received concern- ing France's postwar role. Sumner Welles r Raps Snubbing ! Of 2 Nations l ? MIAMI BEACH; Fla., Feb. 22.- ! (P)-Sumner Welles, former, under secretary of state and a pioneer of i good neighbor diplomacy k took -sharp .issue tonight with the ex- J elusion j of Argentina and El Sal rvador from the American foreign '.ministers . conference at Mexico .-City. ; . . - . In an address prepared for" the il5th anniversary dinner of the Pan American league, Welles said that he saw evidences of disin tegration in the structure of that 'inter-American system which had - been so steadily built up during Uhe years before the second world war years in which every other form of decent and righteous in ternational order was crumbling into ruin. "Two of the sovereign American republics, Argentina and El Sal vador, were not invited to this meeting," Welles said. "And yet this meeting has been called pri- ! - marily to consider the project for International organization formu ' la ted at Dumbarton Oaks, as re ; cently implemented by the further i agreements reached between the -chiefs of state of the United I States, the soviet union and Greal I Britain, and, nominally,; to con ' aider as well the way in which ; the inter-American system, as '! had been established, can fit with T" In , the framework of the new in 1 ternational organization.' Young Woman Freed On Kidnaping Charge FORT WORTH, Tex., Feb. 22 (P) A jury in criminal district court here this afternoon acquit ted Mrs. Melba Branson, 19, wife of an army air. force instructor, of the Jaunary 9 kidnapping of the tiny, two-month-old Milly Mc ;GiIl from the room of her parents In a hotel here. k i : 4, '- pCoffeeMeet Continues ';' RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 22 (flVPredietions the conference of l; delegates from coffee producing states will last another week were I made today as the group met to I continue discussions of production "costs. Boy Escapes School . State police reported that Thom j as Edwin Elliot, 12, has escaped ! from the state training school at ! Woodburn some time prior to 6 p.m. Thursday, and was believed ! on his way to Springfield, Ore. ! where his parents live. j Quid Injures Head . - Sandra Lee Stiffler. four Year I hid, 1035 Highland avenue, fell at i L 1 m ... huuic mursoay mgni, cutting the back of her head, city first aw men reported. Too Late to Classify i WILL EXCHANGE: S-room furnlsh t with bath, upstair, utilities paid, for car of my is months old ! aon rand outer light duties. I Work from pjn. until a ajm. and live cownitairs. Prefer family with one or two" well-behaved children around school ace. who are rlnn inntHi j and. permanent. References, required. (Some Py later if party prove iitis t factory. Call at 24 south 17th St. : after IS p.m. Sunday for interview. phone 713- ' ! WANTED: Cashier or fountain work. i i CASH Paid for old broken, ditcarded j jeweixy ana waxenes. fa. I19S7. FOR SALX: acre wooded tract ! located north of Silverton Road on .Turner Road. Beautiful home site. $900. i a. uia or roone iiwi m ' i ENDS CXSCN TONIGHT --. JOAN Welles - foutai::e STORJIY WEATnER lUIl Sobsoa - Lena Come Alse Truman Saysr America Must Choose Commonsense W orld Organization for Peace JEFFERSON CITY, Moi, Feb. 22-(flVVice President? Truman tonight declared the United States "must choose a: commonsense world organization for peace! to guard against future wars. The nation's No. 2 executive drew applause from his audience of about 1000 when he termed a "magnificent beginning the ap proaches toward postwar cooperation already made by the United States, Britain and Russia. "America can no longer sit snugly behind a mental Maginot line," Truman declared in his 15 minute speech broadcast .over' the Mutual network to a nationwide radio audience. i f Expects Treaty At a press conference earlier. Truman said "I certainly do" ex pect a. world peace: treaty , to emerge from April's United Na tions conference at San Francisco-. "We've got to be in a position to get a peace that will work," the vice president told reporters. He added that the main objec tive of tonight's address was to rally popular sentiment behind peace settlements and build up a public "feeling of confidence in the president and the people who are responsible" for making peace. "Either America must be con stantly ready to repel alone all and any attacks from the rest of the world or we must be willing to cooperate with friendly states! to check the first sign ol agression on the part of any member of the family of nations," he said. Testimonial Gathering Truman spoke before Missouri democrats at what was described as a "testimonial gathering" hail ing the first Missouri an ever to hold the vice presidency. Democratic state headquarters said the speech was the first in a series of national addresses by Truman about "the winning of the peace and the dangers of dis unity at home." "Common sense," said the vice president, "should warn us that obviously all states cannot remain supreme in all they chooseto do unless we are willing to accept the cynical view that might .makes right' " Yanks Attack, Gain Ground In Italy War ROME, Feb. 22 JP Attacking on an eight-mile front southwest of Bologna, the U. S. Fifth army has captured many prisoners, smashed German counterthrusts and advanced' as much as 1000 yards over rough, difficult coun try, Allied headquarters announc ed today. The Germans hitherto had "met such attacks with concentrations of heavy guns, but these were ab sent as the attack rolled up in the area of Monte Belvedere, from 27 to 35 miles southwest of Bologna. However, the American infantry was meeting increased resistance of small arms, machineguns and mortars. On the eastern flank of the at tack, near the village of Abetaia, infantry advanced after artillery had pounded the enemy lines heav ily, and a battle was reported in progress there. Eastward, on the British Eighth army front, patrols were active and there was some sheDing. - CONT. FROM 1 F. Jl . NOW SHOWING! . . . AND ITS SWELL! 'Mi t 1 i A s.t r Hi .- o nam ensca i UIMHUI 18TKISC 7 vnmtssm tmrnuuifl J mm mi DRAMATIC CO-HIT1 Glen JEAN- r .Tin nr; i iiiii.ii: . I V M i LATE HEWS! SCEIS3 : mOM ALL FRONTS! Tho . : . -r - r Thumbnail "loi-Vlarlx' By tbs Associated Prat Pacific Marines count 5372 casualties on Iwo Jima in blood iest" fight of the war j as they inch forward under heavy rain. London 7000 allied, planes drone over 100 nazi communica tions centers in war's greatest assault, aimed at Germany's railway system. Western front U. S. Third . crosses Saar at two points,1 com pleting lightning conquest of 80- mile Moselle-Saar triangle. Russia Reds encircle walled fortress of Guben, 51 I miles southeast of Berlin, forging 11 miles ahead. Italy Fifth army smashes - nazi counterattacks, gaining 1000 yards and many prisoners on 8 mile front southwest of Bologna. Bonn Chinese capture fam ous ! Bawdwin silver and lead mines, among richest in east, northwest of Lashio, Burma. Philippines Americans ' meet only light opposition in invasion of Capul, small island off south ern Luzon, ft IS Nazis Draft Children for Wan Service LONDON, Feb. 22-(7P)-The Germans conscripted some of their school children today boys to dig trenches and fight and girls for auxiliary services as1 their military ' commentators warned that a Russian frontal assault on Berlin was imminent. The German official news agen cy DNB announced that the Ger man "equivalent of Boy and Girl Scouts had been 'taken out "of school for war service. .The Bund Deutscheff Maedel (ffitler Girls organization) has; been "split up in small units which will be em ployed wherever necessary in signal unjts or supplyf depots or nursing services -wherever Gau leiters (provincial! governors) -br der, theg agency said. I, i "While I boys h$ve been 'called up for digging defenses and are being' trained ior Volkssturm (people's I army) in order i to be ready for any eventuality, these girl units will be responsible for preparing; food, nursing sick boys and other duties,"; said DNB. "For the time of service girls need not attend schools." ' OPENS :43 P. M. TOMORROW! ; It's A ' tt FnfisrfainTnpnf , ,. , v ; ' w Hum AnEnteiiainmentil X I leUUWlWi I I OPENS 6:45 P. M. - ! NOW SHOWING! ! Goorgo Dull SYDNEY GREEKSTEIET i Dncligronnd t.rl to Dunncr vf c,. ; CO - DHL OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. hina Troops Take Fabulous Hi I ' I - - t j , Burma ; Mines CALCUTTA, Feb. 22.-UPfChi- nese troops under IX Gen. Daniel I. Sultan have captured the fabu lous Bawdwin! stiver and lead mines 22 miles; northwest of Las hio in Burma, depriving the Jap anese of lead production sufficient to supply their whole ; war i ma chine. -. ; , ! .. '," ( j 4 : The mines, among .the richest injthe east, were captured' intact yesterday 'after the Japanese had put up only brief resistance a few miles to the north. Chinese' units drove on j and captured ' Nantu, which is oh a branch railroad to Lashio. . ! ' tj Oilier Chinese forces, which have been pushing directly down the old Burma road toward Lashio with ; the aid of American tank units, were reported across the Namtu. river and Within Jess than 25 miles of Lashio. 1 H British troops in central Burma, now separated by only some 120 miles from the! Chinese-American forces driving! down from the northeast, enlarged their bridge heads over the Irrawaddy river both north and southwest, of, the big Japan sea base at Mandalay, which fast was being caught in a three-way squeeze. i-J Nij)s!Shake Up WarMimstry9 Admit Blows j! Br the Associated Press A shakeup in the Japanese war ministry was reported j today by the Tokyo radio along with re ports that an American fleet bom barded Paramushiro in the north' ern Kuriles, that Flying Fortresses reconnoitered the empire's five major cities and that two US car riers had been; sunk off Iwo Jima. None of the: radiocasts had al lied confirmation. They were re corded by the FCC. ! i The war ministry, Tokyo said, named new chiefs for the military affairs departments of the Toho ku, Tokai and northern military districts, Nagoya arsenal and Os aka ; military School. Tuesday it had shaken up its military educa tion : department. "Our people have become ner vous," a broadcast quoting the newspaper Yomiuri Hoc hi com- J plained. "Air raids have had some effect in irritating their nerves. With the enemy landings on Iwo Jima, Japan is exposed to dan ger. If we waver now, it means defeat" . ! !:;,; Domei New j Agency told of the rumies attacic, saying eignt Amer ican warships turned their guns on Paramushiro naval base and were pursued by aerial units.! I claimed no ground damage resulted. - Tokyo radio asserted B-29s in apparent aerial survey tours were flying by daylight over Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, : Osaka and Kobe and over half the western coast of Korea. The only; bomb dropping came from a lone Super fort near Osaka, the account said. ENDS ! TODAY! I Phil Baker fit TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT" l ! Henry Fonda R f OXBOW i INCIDENT" Miracle IfF hiiiiiiiws - !Ce-Htt! DramaUe : Thrills! FEATUEEl (nOPALONG) l Ifeolol !1 I ' - . In . ., . a 1 . : E3YD Oregon. Friday Morning, Febtuort 23, 135 Soviets Clamp Assault Arc :r Around Guberi Smash 12 Miles Through Nazi Lines LONDON, Feb. 23--Russian troops : threatening to outflank Berlin's eastern defenses, yester day smashed 12 miles through re inforced German lines and clamped an assault arc around Guben, walled fortress "town 51 miles southeast of the reich capi tal. Guben's garrison already is being attacked, enemy .broadcasts said. - . - ., Premier-Marshal Stalin an nounced in an order of the day that the Germans has lost more than 1,150,000 men 00,000 killed and 350,000 captured between January 12, when the great soviet winter offensive began, and' Feb ruary 20.- s ' '' "Complete victory over the Ger mans now is near," said the sov iet leader in his order commem orating today's 27th anniversary of the red army, which, he said, "together with the armies of our allies is successfully completing the rout of the German ' fascist army." In addition to casualties the Germans have lost 3000 planes captured or destroyed, 4500 tanks and self-propelled guns, and 12,000 other guns in a 40-day pe Mrs. Weiss Dies Here WOODBUR N Mrs. Frank Weiss, 58, resident of Woodburn since 19 13; 'died ' in a Salem hos pital Thursday night following an illness of several months. ' Susan Cecilia Brogan was born in Wan generi. New Zealand, and came to the United States as a small child when her father established his family at Antelope upon one of the. largest (homesteads In eastern Oregon, ; In 1912 she was married to Frank Weiss, who survives her. Other survivors Include a daugh ter, Mary Elizabeth Aicher, a son, Thomas Weiss, and a grand daughter, Susan Beth Aicher, all of Woodburn. . Mrs. Weiss was a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters. Services will be held from St. Luke's church in Woodburn at a time to be announced later. LAST TIMES TODAY ; Joel McCroa Betty Field In "THE GREAT MOMENTT Plus Don Red Barry iMAN FROM RIO GRANDE STARTS SATURDAY Wew! That "Cherry Blondel"! i She's really semethinr . . . in; the Cole Porter musical that's! really "Something" in enter- tainment! -CO-FEATUBE (1 1 - mm fa?) riod, Stalin said, and Hungary, Germany's last ally in Europe, has been knocked out of the war with the recent seizure of Buda pest , I-;:' i Stalin's order was Issued as Berlin predicted that a Cnaf all out soviet offensive was Imminent uoyt that Marshal Ivan S. Konevs First Ukraine army in the south east has drawn abreast of Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian army holding points -along the Oder river 30 to 40 miles from the capital, Zhukov's army was massed like a colossus, awaiting attack orders, Berlin said. i.r r - Powerful Air forces Would Insure Peace LONDON, Feb. 22 (fl5) A hint that powerful air forces would play a major role in a broad Al lied plan to keep the peace came today from Prime ; Minister Churchill, along with assurances that Nazi V-bombs would be borne in mind when armistice terms are laid down for Germany. - Brushing aside a suggestion that "the whole question of the limit ation of aerial warfare"; be taken up after the defeat of Germany, -thf prime minister bluntly replied: "I jcertainly do not think that the victorious Allies should deprive themselves of defenses which are po$siblirough the air." 'lthput elaborating, Churchill implied jthat any sweeping world wide disarmament such as that af ter the last war certainly was not included in the "Big Three" peace SALEII Open Till 7:30 P. 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Those of us who travel by his shop on Ferry street find his iueasat face one of the better eieriences of But did you' know that, with out exception; he haa worked every night. since. shoe rationing began? - - - - Hold Firmly To Little Steel Wages, Advice 1 WASHIN GTON, Feb. 22 -JP) Public members of the war labor board advised President Roose velt to j hold tight to the little steel wage formula so long as civilian goods and 'services must be restricted. Inasmuch as the president has indicated he will rely heavily upon the four public members findings in deciding whether to crack open the ceiling on base wage increases, the. report indi cated no revision until victory is fully in sight, especially not while hostilities continue in Europe. The whole recent trend has been to channel more and more of the na tion's capacity, into war. , ' The public , members reported, at the president's request, on the i status of wage earners in wartime. 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