1( - . A Teather Mas. Mia. 5i 45 5J M .53 JT M tt : S9 ! lu Fraactace ; Ens , S&lem . : itortlaa. Seattle : Use J WD COOS Willamette rivet J ft I In. NINETY-FOURTH YEAR 10 PAGES Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, February 24. 1345 Price 5c No. 232 POUNDDD -1651'.'. I-- M i'" ll - ; The stock market, which has been feeling the inflation virus, especially since the last election " returned the soft money admin istration, took a bit of a jolt a ... lew days ago after Marriner.S. Eccles, chairman of the board of . the federal reserve bank, recom- . mended to the senate committee on banking and currency the levy of a special tax on wartime spec- ulative profits in farms, homes and stocks. "Some one is always taking the joy out of life!" Many have been getting on the escalator, even if merely to get rid of property, they have had on their hands since the last war or before. They have sold out at prices that seemed quite vision ary a decade ago. They have found a surprise, however, when they -went to buy again, because the price inflation ran up prices on what the other fellow had, too. Eccles endorsed continued price and ration control, but with ref erence to speculation in stocks and In real estate said: That is the one door left open the capital market. Nothing can keep cash or future cash represented by government bond holdings in the hands of .- individuals from being spent to ; buy farms and stocks when they can't buy goods arid services. He was quite right Money burns In people's pockets. If they can't buy automobiles and radios they may buy liquor, entertain ment and (Continued on editorial page)' , Reds Clear Berlin Road In New Gains By W. W. Hercher LONDON, Thursday, Feb. 24-(P)-Russian shock troops, includ ing Stalingrad veterans, conquered the west Polish stronghold of Poz nan . (Posen) yesterday after month's siege, killing or capturing 48,000 Germans and opening vital supply urterie for the impending ; knockout offensive against Berlin. The last big Polish city held by i the enemy fell to artillery, tank and infantry teams -which blasted their way through six huge three story subterranean fortresses and scores of, lesser ones, finally reach ing the cornered Nazis' last refuge, the citadel, an old fortress on the west bank of the Warta river. . Combined with Soviet artillery which blew gaps in its walls Rus sian ladder teams scaled its moat ed c sides ' and with bayonets and grenades snuffed out the last Ger man resistance. Supplies Captured A total of 23,000 Germans, in eluding the commander and his staff, were . captured at Poznan and 25,000 were killed, Moscow announced on the 27th anniver sary of the Red army. Hundreds of planes, guns and freight cars also were) seized. " ' Other Soviet forces broke into the southern part of Breslau, be sieged iJilesian capital with a pop ulation of 630,000, capturing 20 city blocks, while in Pomerania the Russians captured Arnswalde, a seven-day road junction 38 miles southeast of Stettin, Baltic port for Berlin. Arnswalde, encircled since Feb. 11, had a pre-war pop illation of 110,000. Nazi Divisions Squeeze ' In Efist Prussia another Russian army squeezed the remnants of 25 or 30 trapped German divisions into a $25-square-mile area south west of Koenigberg, besieged pro vincial capital, Moscow announced, These Russian triumphs occur red as Berlin said that other Sov iet forces, threatening to turn Ber lin's eastern defenses, had broken into Guben and Forst. 51 and 57 mile southeast of Berlin, crossing the Neisse river and establishing bridgeheads, less than 10 miles . from the Spree, last water barrier protecting the Reich capital. Mos- ow's communique Ignored devel opments in this area. Salem Firm Told : io juemsiaie .WASHINGTON,' Feb. 23-A-A n4?rtfi1 laKir rMotirn rviaivf ml. j in i m i hvw wwa. m lng - today upheld ' an examiner's recommendation, ordering the W, W. Rosebraugh Co., Salem, Ore. 4n rnfat fvn Hixrharirml mrrk " . ers. f ' The board held that Gail Ethell ' and James Burton were dismissed . because of union activity. ; The company was ordered to pay back wages and to give employes free dom to join and to bargain with any union. Partly Cloudy today with temperatures about the same in the mid-Willamette valley area, predicts Hi, S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem. . UK Gain 700 Yards In 72 Hours Japs Use Rocket Mortars to Slow Up U.S. Divisions By Elmont Waite U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Guam, Saturday, Feb. 24-(Py-Th9 raging battle for Iwo swayed slowly in favor of three United States marine divi sions Friday as they occupied one end of an airfield in the island's center and strewed the volcanic slopes of Mt. Suribachi on the south tip with Japanese dead. It still was a slugging match, with the leathernecks' requiring more than three days to cover 700 yards up sloping ground to the south tip of the two-runway fighter field. The Japanese, constantly blast ed by the guns of U. IT. Fifth fleet and dived on by carrier planes, fought back from concrete pill boxes. Veterans Enter Struggle The first devildogs to get to the fighter field were elements of the U. S. Third marine division un der MaJ. Gen.! Graves B. Erskine, veterans of he Solomons and Guam campaigns, who entered the fiery struggle Wednesday when the Fourth and Fifth divisions had been halted in )their push north. The communique disclosed that the three divisions are fighting side by side ina coordinated drive on the fighter; field. The Third is in the center,! American gunnery experts have confirmed the Japanese are using a new weapon never encountered before in thei Pacific 1000-pound rocket mortars, Lawacbing Platforms Used The shell has, a nose fuse and a rocket motor.. Launching plat forms probably are used by the enemy. ij Today's communique j made no further addition - of casualty fig ures which up to Wednesday night had totaled 5372. In the drive toward the only other usable airfield still in en emy hands, the; Fourth marine di vision on the right flank edged forward 300 yards. In the centerj of the advancing line, other elements succeeded in occupying the south end of the airfield which ih American hands, would base fighters within fying range of Tokyoj 750 miles to the north. 1939 Japanese Die On Mt. Suribachi, on the south tip of Iwo, where marines raised the United States flag Friday morning, a total of 717 enemy dead has been added: to a previously announced figure of 1,222 Nip ponese dead on the island's eight square miles. The guns of the warships, which began unlimbering on Iwo three days prior to Monday's landings, still thundered in support of the attacking Devildogs. - Carrier-based planes, including a new type of Hellcat divebomber, also aided the slow drive. Blonde Admits Eight Marriages, But Not to Get Allotment Checks PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 23 UP) Blonde Vilma Suberly, 26 or 28, admitted today marrying a string of men beginning when she was 1 1 or 12 years old but not, she said, for money. She testified at a hearing be fore the U. S. commissioner that she- married most of the men "when I was drunk." Her first spouse was Pvt. Her man Goodman, married "when I was 11 or 125 don't remember very well, she said. The FBI said the marriage occurred in 1930 at Galveston, Texas. They went together to Florida and worked in bar room, said Mrs. Suberly. "I got a divorce from Goodman about 1938," she testi fied, "and went to Beaumont, Tex where I married a man named Marsh ... I got a divorce from j : j mj Tdsnj" BOD'S First Slief ford 1 : Cheese Plant to' Open in Portland ' PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 23-fl)-A Shefford cheese company; plant here, only one on the Pacific coast, should be ready to operate about April 1, T. J.I Thompson, the com pany's northwest manager, said today- J ' ! . ' Thompson, who arrived ! here from! Green Bay, Wise, Shefford headquarters,! said Oregon! cheese Was S'far ahead" of that produced in other sections of the country. He predicted a big future devel opment for the state's dairy in dustry, j , f j ' War to Gain Sat at S.F. By Frank O'Brien, j ANKARA, Feb. 23-iP)-rTurkey declared war on Germany and Japan tonight in order to win a seat at the forthcoming world se curity conference at San Francisco and ended a 5 li -year-old policy that had veered between neutral- iiy ana non-oeuigerancy. 41 Foreign Minister Hasan Saka asked for the declaration in an ad dress to a specially-convened ses sion of the assembly. Prime Min-1 iAter Sukru Saracoglu closed the debate with 4 supporting speech, and the assembly voted ' unani mously for war against the Axis. Saka's proposal to the assebly followed the presentation on Feb. 20 of a memorandum from the British ambassador stating that it was decided by the "big three" at the Crimea conference that only nations at war with the Axis pow ers before March 1 -would 1 be in vited to the San Francisco confer ence! - 1 s Other Nations Warned The foreign minister said that other "associated nations'! were told similarly . that they, would have to declare war on the axis to qualify for San Francisco, nam ing them as Egypt, Iceland, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. l , Saka's speech and others left no doubt that Turkey's declara tion of war was a direct out growth of her desire to partici pate 'in the San Francisco confer ences as a full-fledged member of the United Nations. Premier Sara cogul said flatly that "we want to take our place officially amongst the United Nations." Shortly before he spoke ; to ask for the war: vote, Saka , signed with U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt a formal lend-lease agreement which had been under negotiation for several months. Lend-Lease Agreed Upon : The lend-lease signature on the same day that Turkey went to war .was a coincidence, but Tur key's shipments may now be aug mented if Turkey proceeds to pos itive military action. v I What the military consequences of Turkey's declaration might be was not clear. Among the most discussed possibilities is the sug gestion that Turkey may partici pate fin a campaign to clean up the ! Aegean I islands, on which there are German and Italian troops. : him and married Ray Suberly." 1 She married a few other men also,', but couldn't remember ex actly when, naming William Cav- ender, Lawrence Smith and Har old ;;Winniger, -whose allotment checks she cashed. ;' "I sent checks back to the governraent," $he said, "and they returned them." After Suberly left for the South Pacific, she worked as barmaid in hotels. i" ., - . -' , Her attorney, William M.-Larg-ley, claimed that the indictment for alleged mail fraud in connec tion with allotments from service-men-does not constitute a crime. The commissioner took the j case under advisement. . . - ,; ( The woman, born at Jonegville, Tex4 was arrested In Eugene, Ore., February 10, after a two-year l M . r j, J 1 ' nunt - , Turkey Enters ir J L nrnn...rq3.j;r)q3) - . t i i. - .-- i (gDD!l Neti Allied Offensive Reported rs- I pygyM-Vj grn I FRANK jj MmjtH frT I iurvif mk JaaBBBMMXJlJLsaBaBBssiB2ik Berlin said that the allies had launched a- great offensive (A) oa the Roer river front north of Aachen, crossing the river on both sides of Linnich. White arrow Indicates drive reported by Germans, which -was without any allied confirmation. Black arrows show allied drives officially annAnaeetLrXAr wirephoto snap) t Two Lose Lives In Newport Wave NEWPORT, Ore., Feb. 2Z-UP) The body of a man swept into the ocean by a sudden wave was tossed back onto the beach, but coast guard patrols today report ed a woman companion still miss ing. . ? ! . j. The two were in a party of five persons engulfed by the wave as they walked along; the beach near here yesterday. Survivors said that when they regained their footing Edward W. Battleson, 55, Scobey, Mont., and Mrs. Ada Baumgard ner, 47, Canby, Ore., were gone. Two Drowned While On Visit From Mantana MONITOR, Feb. 23 Mrs. Ada Baumgartne'r, who was drowned at Depoe Bay Thursday afternoon, was a sister of I: rxUund, . who runs the flour mill here. She was visiting from Montana. Ed Bat tleson, also drowned, was under stood to be a Montanan visiting Canby relatives, i All were member of a group of five making a trip to the coast. Information received here was that Mrs, Baumgartner and Bat tleson were sitting on a rock when a wave washed them out to sea, Mr. and Mrs. Edlund Were mem bers of the party, r . Marines Ask 'More Women' MaJ. N. E. Lineweaver, U. S, marine corps recruiting service, was in Salem Friday conferring with Sgt Herman Doney, in charge of the local office and Sgt. Dav id A. Ringland. Sgt. OrviUe W.: Joachim, U, S marine corps accompanied Major Lineweaver and theyi both wear campaign ribbons indicating much service. Sergeant Joachim recent ly returned from 2$ months in the South Pacific and saw his 22 months-old daughter for the first time. He was with the Second Marines taking part in the inva sion of Saipan. His home is at Green Bay, Wis. i Women marines: are the wish of the major and his sergeants, who will take "all the girls who quali Oregon Soldiers Wounded in Europe The war department Friday list ed among Oregon: soldiers .wound ed in Europe the following: T. Sgt Edward B. FarrelL Jr, husband of Marjorie E. Farrell, box 131, Scio. ,PFC Lynn V. Kampfer, son of Mrs. Ingeborg F. Kampfer, 524 West Sixth street, Albany. Sgt Lee'R. Rider, whose wife, Frances B. Rider, resides in Wood- burn. -'!'! - Senate Fails To Cdmplete Big Calendar While the! Oregon state senate waded less than half way through calendar crowded with contro versial measures passing a bill which would limit peoples' utility districts to areas in which voters authorize their existence and two compromised unemployment com pensation measures the house of representatives dealt with and de feated one debatable measure. I A senate bill which would have distributed among all tax-levying bodies the loss occasioned by the 3 per cent i discount allowed ad valorem taxpayers who pay in advance wai killed in the house. (News of the legislature on page 2.) I V Better Street Lighting Urged For' Capital j Traffic accident would be re duced, retail business stimulated, and property, values, increased with a more effective street light ing system for Salem. This was the conclusion of a survey Teport made to representatives of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, Sa lem city officers and members of the city planning commission Fri day noon. : The survey was made by the General Electric Co. without cost to the city, Carl Hogg, past presi dent of the chamber, said in ex planation of the survey. The re port of the survey will become part of the records of the planning commission recently organized, Hogg said, i It was presented for mally to C B. McCullough, com mission chairman at the close of the meeting. , The report shows Salem Is far short of the national average for progressive cities in the light flow per capita mile of unproved streets, and In the number of street lamps for the population of the city. ' It is also below the av erage in effective light on pave ment and effective dollar of the budget the -experts declared. . Salem's annual street lighting budget of 83 cents per capita based on a population of 38,000 was com pared to the average of $1 through out the nation while the- recom mended expenditure Is l per cap ita. . Cities in the class of Salem av erage $443 per mile of lights while Salem pays but $214 per mile, the report showed. So Artillery Breaches I 20-ft. Wall Heaviest Ground Shelling of War ; Precedes Attack By C. Tales McDanlel MANILA, Saturday, Feb. 24 (JF) Doughboys of the 37th divi4 sion, bursting into the ancient In tramuros yesterday through two breaches in the thick outer wall made by a thunderous artillery barrage; engaged Manila's last Japanese defense garrison amid a tragic scene of civilian suffering: The 20-foot-thick northeast wall of the.Intramuros (Walled City) was pierced in the most concen trated ground shelling of the Pa cific war. i The 3rd battalion of the 129th infantry regiment then dashed from the protection of the general post office, crossed a' wide boule vard and an old golf course which was once a moat, and entered the shell-wrecked medieval citadel It had become a place of horror for thousands of civilians held within the walls by the Japanese. Smoke Screen Protects Simultaneously, under a heavy smoke screen, the second, battal ion of the 145th regiment swept across the Pasig river in assault boats and vaulted ashore near the wrecked Philippines mint build ing. They crossed the golf course and leaped through another breach in the walL V j The Yanks encountered heavy sniper fire and strongly entrench ed enemy pillbox "positions. ; ! 1 Many half -starved, . frightened and beaten civilians who survived the merciless Japanese rule with in the centuries-old Spanish fort ress were dispatched to. safety by the Yanks. Several nuns and priests were rescued. . 1 I ; A number were hurt by the in- tense but necessary American ar tillery barrage. Wounded and dy ing civilians lay among the dead in the paths of advancing Yanks. Atrocities Reported I Newsmen reaching the Intra- muros reported scenes of Japan ese atrocity and brutality against civilians! matching anything be fore in the Pacific .war. One told of finding a pile of Filipino bod ied, hands tied behind their backs. Many civilians bore Japanese bul let and; bayonet wounds. Some had been raped. Fourteenth corps Commander Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold call ed on the Japanese commander in the Intramuros a week ago to sur render , honorably and free the thousands, but no reply was re ceived. ' ! With seizure-also of Capul and -Biri islands, invaded Wednesday, the Yanks now control the straits through which supplies may flow from the United States to Manila. Attack After Siege 1 American penetration of ' the medieval Intramuros came after a two-week siege. ' Willamette Trustees Elect J. J. Card, Make CanipusVlans Willamette - university trustees Friday elected Jesse J. Card, Sa lem and Portland banker, to the university's official board and authorized Chairman J. C. Harri son to appoint a committee on campus; planning and new build ings.. First; undertaking of such a committee, it is understood, will be plans for a men's dormitory, Meeting j in Portland, trustees re-elected faculty members, ap proved j four faculty advance ments, named Dr. Chester F. Lu ther to the James T. Matthews chair in mathematics, and heard President G. Herbert Smith report the last half-year's financial ad vances 1 aggregating more than $350,000 in building, endowment and scholarship funds. j Pledges and cash In the new dormitory fund total approximate ly $120,000, the university execu tive told trustees. In the past six months special gifts to the univer sity in form of scholarships, etc have totaled $17,500. American i Launch Biff Drive i Toward Rhine Line j ' - - - j 'I J ' j Six Towns Taken in First j j Lunge Other Parts of Western j Front Ready for Final Of fensives ; By AUSTIN BEALMEAR j ! PARIS, Saturday, Feb. 24 (AP) The American First and Ninth armies launched their long-awaited drive toward thei Rhine yesterday on a 22-mile front along: the Roer river, quickly captured the ancient j fortress city of Juelich and fought their way into Dueren. j t i After hurdling the still-swollen Roer in the opening; as sault of what may be the final great offensive of the west Timbenvolf : j - - - '! : . - Men Lauded For Nasty Job SEATTLE. Feb. 23-P-The en tire 1: 104th (Timberwolf ) infantry division, organized in Oregon, largely from Pacific northwest draftees, has been commended for "magnificent work" from the com manding general of their army corps, it was disclosed here today. The information was contained in a letter received by John T. Sullivan, whose son Daniel is a sol dier in the Timberwolves. The letter enclosed a copy of a letter written by Maj. Gen. J. Law ton Collins, commanding gen eral; of the VII corps to Maj. Gen. Terry Allen, commander of the Timberwolf division. Thctnlsslcm of seizing the great Industrial 1 area Eschweiler-Weis-weiler-Stolberg, which was assign ed to the 104thivision, was a dif ficult and nasty task," General Collins wrote. "The speed with which this was accomplished is a tribute to the leadership, dash and sound training of the division. "The second phase involving the crossing of the Inde river and the advance to the Roer was even more difficult but with character istic; skill and dash, in a series of brilliant night attacks, the 104th division forced a crossing and cleared its entire sector. "Ij regard the operation one of the finest single pieces of work accomplished by any unit of the VII j corps since D-day. During the entire time the 104th divi sion! was under my command, I and my staff were tremendously impressed with the cooperative spirit and exceptional fighting ability of the officers and men." General Allen in presenting each; man of the division with a copy! of the letter "said: "There willjbe other rivers to cross and more objectives to take before fin al victory . . . nothing in hell must stop 1 the Timberwolves." , Whole Blood to Be Flown to Iwo Jima PORTLAND, Feb. 23 (ff) The Red ! Cross blood plasma center will be open late tomorrow to ac cept? type "O" whole blood to be flown direct to marine casualties on Iwo Jima. The 12th naval district today appealed for 180 pints of the uni versal type blood, promising it would be In Iwo Jima in 48 hours. A recent bequest In the will of the late Alfred L. Seaquist, Port land, will amount to about $200, 000, which will go into the uni versity's endowment. Several col leges will participate in a trust set up by the Will of the late Thomas Roberts, long prominent Portland merchant, and Willamette's share will amount to approximately $40,000, which thus becomes a type of endowment. Trustees approved of advance ment of Maurice Brennen from instructor to assistant professor of instrumental music; Dr. Robert E. Lantz from assistant to asso ciate professor of education; Dr. Kenneth McLeoct from assistant to associate professor of chemis try, and Dr. Robert Tschudy from assistant to associate professor of biology.' - -v, Dr. Luther continues as acting dean of the college of liberal arts as well as professor of mathema tics in the Matthews chair, never before held by other than the late Dr. 'James T. Matthews. - i - I !! I - I ' "o)nY7l ) If ' I . I Arnjies ern front, the doughboys of botht armies advanced up to two miles to the east j Juelich as well as five smaller towns were seized by Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's Ninth army. Citadel By-Passed The citadel in the northern part of Juelich still was holding; out but had been by-passed. j The citadel is a cluster of build ings surrounded by walls which, measure more than 2000 yards around. The walls are 13 to 14 feet thick and some 50 feet high. protected by a moat 20 feet deep and 70 to 100 feet wide. j ' Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges First army fought into the streets of Dueren, the German stronghold 10 miles southeast of Juelich,! and also captured the towns of j Hu- chem and Stammein. i Casualties Said Light ' p Correspondent Don Whitehead said casualties in the attack wer surprisingly light in view olj the tricky maneuver of crossing: the flooded river in darkness, j By assault boats, infantry bridg es and amphibious jeeps and tanks the Americans struck in the moon light behind a 45-minute barrag in which guns massed 100 to th mile caved in dug-outs and trench systems and left many; enemy front line troops too stunned to resist. , A field dispatch called It a 'Rus sian style of attack" combining man and gun power. I . 1 At least 10 of Field Marshal von Rundsted's carefully hoarded di visions had been pinned dowi by the Canadian First army offen sive on the north flank, and that many or more were trying to hold . back the US Third army, hammer ing toward the Rhine through the Eifel mountains. j y Mere Towns Captured ! 1 To the north in the EifelsR th Third army also widened twa west-wall breaches to nine and 19 miles, narrowed the gap between them to four miles and captured 10 more German towns. j To the south, the US Seventh army pounded at the gates of Saar bruecken, first city and capital of the Saar coal and steel basin, af- ter caDturin nearlv all the rata, i way town of Forbach, j ; The Canadian First army re sumed its drive after a temporary, breather, scoring advances it a number of points. . More than 2000 American war planes carpet-bombed German tart gets ahead of the charging Firs! and Njnth armies, cutting a Wid swath between the Roer and, th Rhine. In all, more than 5000 Al lied planes flew to the attackj Salem Folks Liberated in Philippines Notification that her daughter. V Louise Waddington Harris. I wis ! among civilians liberated inj th Philippines and was in "fair icon- ' dition came Friday to Mrs. James ' F. Waddington, S48 Belmont st. The war department telegram made no mention of Mn. Harri husband, Charles E. Harris J em ploye of an American bank in Ma- ' nUa, or of, their two sons. (Mrs. 1 Waddington believes that informa- ' tion may have I been sent to jHar- 5 ris' mother In Rochester, NYj and Friday night was attempting to learn whether any word had coma through. i i' Also on Friday's official lists of . liberated civilians were the names of Harriet Louise Richards, sister t in-law Of Charles Tracey of Salem, a university teacher in Manila who a few years ago visited here, and William Chittick, son of Mrs. ; A. Chittick. 2234 Lee st, Salem. : Although this was the first war department i listing of . Chittick among the rescued earlier Associ ated Press dispatches faad told the , story of his services to fellow pris- , oners in Santo Tomas camp, indi cating that he had been liberated j