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Thm 0'HIGOIl STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Saturdar Morning. February 24. 1945
Hemispheric
Peace Plans
To Be Talked
. By Flora Lewi
u MEXICO CITY, Feb. 23 -(P)-Pians
for enforcing peace in this
hemisphere were placed before the
Inter - American conference today
by the United States and several
Other countries. . . -
,! U.S. Secretary of Stat Edward
R. Stettiniui presented two reso
lutions. The first proclaimed the
jrightof-"JEree and impartial access
; to information." ;
i The second laid down directives
aimed at turning the . Pan-Ameri
can union into a strong .political
jnd economic organization which
"could function under, a world se
curity agency. ; .
M Brazil,. Columbia and. other na
tipns introduced plans for military
sanctions by joint American action
;and a new "Monroe Doctrine," en
, forced by all the. republics instead
o( the United States alone.
Bogota Meeting Planned
'- Brazil asked that solution of dis
"rjiites in this hemisphere be reserv
ed to action by American coun-
"tries whether peacefully or by
'force. The world security organ!-
. zation would be limited to tackling
only those troubles in this part of
the world "which endanger the
peace of some other groups of na
tions. ' , .'
The United States 4lan for
strengthening the American sys
tem leaves the' decision on how
fmith power the Pan-American un
Ion should have to the next meet
lng of American states scheduled
at Bogota.
Specific U. S. proposals to be
put into effect at once included:
1. Regular) meetings of the in
tre-American states every four
years.
2. Regular : meetings of Ameri
can foreign ministers every yeaf,
, 3. Additional meetings when 15
countries approve.
Military Power Hinted
"- 4. Strengthen the Panamerican
xinion by giving it the power to
fake, up any inter-American ques
tion and the general welfare of
the American republics. (This
vwould mean political and possibly
military authority for the union,
. which now is primarily a clearing
house.)" ,
; 5. Create an inter-American ec
onomic and social council under
the direction of the Panamerican
Union, iv-.
6. Create on inter-American ed
ucational and cultural council un
der the Panamerican union.
7. Give the Panamerican union
authority to coordinate all the oth-
. er inter-American agencies, with
more money, personnel and estab
lishment of branches in several
( countries.
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The senate Friday passed a bill ; 'WASHINGTON, Feb., 23 V-
by Senj Merle Chessman, Clatsop The government expects momen
county, providing that - when- at tarily to turn back 70 bituminous
peoples iutiUty district proposes-to i mines it has operated since the
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Wounded soldiers arriving In New York from Europe was as ft WAG
band plays on the dock. (AF wlrephoto) ; :
Thumbnail
of War!
By Jhe Associated Press
Ohio Trip Is
Made for Visit
FALLS CITY Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Mehrling left Wednesday for
Northern Ohio to visit relatives
and plan to be gone a month.
Mrs. Lizzie Treat spent the
weekend with her brother and sis-
;'ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs." Ed Rog
ers of Monmouth.
Mrs. Burt Blight left Wednesday
for San Diego. Calif to be with
W daughter, Mrs. John Williams,
who is seriously ill. She expects
to' be gone about a week.
; Mrs. Harold Frihk and daugh
ters, Mrs. Jean Feasley and Mrs.
i Virginia McDonald of McMinn
ifille, visited her husband's par-
tnts, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Frink.
By th Associated Press
Western Front Biggest offen
sive since Normandy underway
as Yanks launch big drive to
ward Rhine on 20-30 mile front.
Pacific Marines slug way to
south tip of Japanese fighter
base on Iwo Jima, scoring "lim
ited gains."
Philippines Yanks smash. In
to ancientIntromuros, old Span
ish fortress and! last Jap-held
pocket in Manila.
Russia Month's siege ends ss
Poznan, last big ; nazi-held Pol
ish city, falls to Russians.
London Germany's railways
wrecked after gigantic two-day
air offensive by 12,000 Ameri
can and British planes.
China Chinese troops capture
Panghai, old Burma road town
20 miles northwest of important
Latshio.
Limit Favored
In Annexing
Utility Areas
Coal Mines
To Go Back
To Operators
annex outside territory of facili
ties there must be a majority vote
of the electorate! in the territory
to' bo annexed, I. '
There were but two dissenting
foremen's strike last September,
Charles F. Potter, deputy solid
; fuels administrator, I disclosed to
night ,
Although John JJ Lewis, Unit
House at Least Sets
Stage for Adjournment,
But Time in Doubt
The, house Friday received its
customary sine die adjournment
resolution and tabled it By Rep.
Harvey Wells, Portland, it called
for adjournment at 10 pjn,-Monday,
which will be the 50th day
of the session. On that day, the
pay bf legislators will end. Con
sensus appears to be that the
session will go 14 days past Mon
day to Saturday, March iC.
votes.'; Amendments.'.,: prohibit- I ed; Mine Workers chieftain, begins
peoples- utility district - from pay-1 negotiations with the operators for
inz any fee of more than $5000 new contract next Thursday; Dr.
without the consent of the state letter said the action had noth-
hTdroelectric commission and tiro-1 to to d directly -with that situ
vide that any fee paid for the auon and was not intended to be
floating of bondslshall come from concniatory gesture.
an ad valorem tax on the prop-1 x- .Potter said that J ohn McAIpine,
erty of the district and hot out I president of the United Clerical,
of the bond issue, r i f I Technical and Supervisory Em-
Senator Chessman declared that ployes, a unit in the UMW's dis
trict 50, had notified Interior Sec
retary Ickes he was withdrawing
a strike threat he 'first Imposed
last September. '
passage of the bill at a previous
legislative L session would have
prevented what he termed the
Hood River peoples utility; district
fiasco, and criticized the activities
M r t M. - L - M 1
ux iviurvon ionuuns, master ox yne I "Wm -' -' ' f
Oregon: state grange, who he said I Jtlane VuTaSlX
iiempiea w aeieai uif laiesi I .
peoples utility measure. I ' T"5llavil H ill-
Sen. I W. E. Burke. Yamhill AlkJJLia X 4 111
county, also spoke in favor of the
measure and flayed the state
grange for its indorsement of the
Hood River project
Sen.; .Thomas; R. Mahoney,
Multnomah county, asked elimi
nation i of the emergency clause.
Committee Split
On Change in
Income Tax Law
The divided report of the house
taxation and revenue committee
on a resolution requesting repeal
of the 16th amendment to the con
stitution the income tax amend
ment and replace it with a tax
limit of 25 per cent on income
and corporation excise taxes, will
be considered at 2:15 p. m. Mon
day.
A majority of the 10-man tax
committee signed a "do not pass".
report, while four members signed
the favorable minority report
Opposed to the resolution are
Representatives Giles Flrench,
chairman of the committee; Ned
H. Callaway, Herman H. Chind
gren, Earl Hill, E. W. Kimber-
ling and R. C. Frisbie. Favoring
it are Representatives Stanhope
Pier, Ralph T. Moore, W. W.
Chid wick and John R. Snellstrom.
B-29s Strike
At Singapore
In Daylight
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (Sat?
urday India-based B-29s o:
the 20th bomber command struck
at Singapore, harbor crossroad!
for war traffic between Japan
and Japanese-occupied territory,
in a daylight attack: today;
Headquarters of the 20th air
force here reported a "large force'
of the Superfortresses : a term
usually indicating upwards of 150
of the pig planes bit at the ex
tensive and well established dock
and harbor facilities. Results of
the mission will be announced
when operational reports are re
ceived , in Washington, f !
The raid was the first by the
Superfprts on Singapore since
February 1 when Brig. Gen. Roger
M. Ramey's B-29s destroyed a
huge floating drydock capable of
handling the largest warship in
the world, f j . . .
Singapore's dock and harbor fa
cilities are prime targets f for the
Superfortresses. The naval yards
were among the largest in the
world When the Japanese capWuv
ed the stronghold from the British
and there are oil storage tanks,
munitions dumps, warehouses and
navy work! shops in the irea.
The round trip from the Super-
forts' India base to Singapore is
approximately 3800, miles.
I Virginia I HUls
CEDAR SPRINGS, Va, Feb. 23
(A?)-Th crash of an American
Airlines plane In the steep, heav-
iW vmvfH mntinfsina tf uitK.
it m : m , .u.j - .uu, w
xx mouW xorr-rexrai 10 eixec west Virginia about four miles
that change, by en. Geore Wins- from this town today cost the lives
iow, iiuMMM- counxy, iosi oy Qf 17 persons and injured five oth
None of the dead, who were still
TTi n W T fiTYI VlTC heing removed from the wreckage
AA,V .""mf,V early tonight, had been identified.
Hit Rail Hubs,
Hamper Nazis
By Charles Camberlain
LONDON, Saturday, Feb. 24
&) Great fleets of RAF heavy
bombers roared over Germany
again last night and early today.
maintaining the! massive air sup
port to the new Allied offensive
on the Western front .by hammer
ing the Reich's battered traffic
centers and rail lines. I
One of the targets for the huge
armada once more was much-battered
Belin, but emphasis in the
assault remained on the Nazis'
transportation. Pforzheim, a com
munications center in the upper
Rhineland, was' one of jthe rail
tiubs hammered; I
The air over the English coast
line reverberated for hours with
the sound of heavy motors as for
mation after formation of bombers
winged toward: Germany. One
great fleet required more than an
hour to pass over the North sea.
The British heavies made a con
centrated raid on Pforzheim, be
tween Munster and Bielefeld. Ber
lin was pounded for the fourth
consecutive night j
: Falls City Women
Entertain Friends
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' FALLS CITY The Tuesday
afternoon club met for 1 o'clock
: "dessert luncheon with Mrs. Ed
White. Present were Mrs. Jack
Grant, Mrs. Margaret Thompson,
'Mrs. A. Teal, Mrs. E. P. Brown,
-Mrs. F. E. Driggs and Mrs. Laura
"Horn.-" Guests for the day were
Mrs. Fred Hughess, Mrs. Nellie
Westbrook and Mrs. Van DoBosh
of Pedee.
A no-host luncheon was held
Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
! Jack Strauss. Guests for the oc-
casion were Mrs. .Margaret Mc-
Cower, Mrs. Margaret Thompson,
Mrs. Jack Grant, Mrs. Ed White,
Mrs. Laura Horn and Mrs. Fred
Hughess, The afternoon was spent
In sewing and social conversation.
Too Late to Classify
. BUIUVln Salem select residential
district. Walaut Park. Lot X Block S.
-Rose St. Price SIMM. Terms to atiit mu.
.bujMlnf program. Box SOT Statesman.
HOUSEKEEPER, preferably between
.age ox so una 60. Room, board and
. zr f" 33B r. o' es.
. RENT l rm. Pullman apt for
wuikihK VIU mom 6408.
Silverton WAC
Is Entertained
SILVERTON CpL Nellie Bark
hurst WACS, who has been visit
ing here, left for Sumpter, SC.
She is a graduate of the Silverton
high school and enlisted 20 months
ago. She took her basic training
at Des Moines and attended army
administration . school at Com
merce,. Texas. She is now in the
personnel department at Shaw
field.
Mrs. Helen M. j Wrightman en
tertained in her honor. Guests in
eluded Corporal Barkhurst, her
mother, Mrs. Sadie Barkhurst
Mrs. Al Down, Mrs. Charles Hart
man, Elizabeth NicoL Marion Ni
col Hutchins.
Prisoners' Kin I
Asled! to Meeting i
Announcement that a party of
12 repatriated prisoners j of war
from camps in Germany and Ja
pan will b in Portland March 10
to meet with the next of kin of
prisoners of war came by tele
graph; Friday to Marion . CouBrty
Red Cross. ;i . I
All hext of kin in Marion coun
ty are; being urged ito attend this
meetmg, Awhich will be! held at
p. nt inj the Ciyic aiiditoriunl
at Southwest Third and Clay
street; . f . 1 . :
Letters of announcement have
gone to famines registered with
the local chapter ; but in order
to reach others the Invitation' is
being made public i I
Hoose Favors Notice
In Utility Acquisitions
Municipalities or the state would
have to give two years' -notice in
writing before taking over any
projects of private utilities, under
a bill which passed the house Fri
day and went to the senate.
fill V. J Special Kiddies' Matinee Box Office
II I Viltai t,if Jp , Openlnx with Cartoons! This Evening
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JFm9 - awakwaK
ESTHER WILLIAMS
Harry JAUES ISicViKEIS
xiTier cugat i:: orch.
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Measure to Prorate
Tax 1 Loss Defeated
The house kffledj 32 to 26 Fri
day a; bill .which would have re
quired fiscal officers of: counties
to prorate? three per cent dis
counts, allowed taxpayers for
cash payment and Interest on de
linquent taxes, between various
tax bodies; in the county.
The Injured remained in the
freezing weather for about 12
hours from the time the twin-en
gine plane plunged into the trees
of Glade mountain at 2:30 am. un
til about 3 pjn.
Stretcher-bearing state police
and forest rangers -were forced to
ascend an almost; perpendicular
slope and travel about three miles
before they could reach the scene.
A reporter said 5 wreckage was
strewn along the ; slope of the
mountain for about 100 yards and
a trail of slashed: trees marked
the path of the crippled aircraft
Personal belongings were scat
tered- about the plane, among
them a framed picture of a strik
ing girl with blonde hair. A letter
found among the wreckage was;
dated Thursday night and said
simply: j
"My darling:
"1 didnt go over" . . tonight
after alt So here I am writing
again." - -.. I
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Pension Limit
lqoLoic9 bays
Welfare Body
PORTLAND, Feb. 23-)-The
state; 'public Welfare commission
today called again on the legis
lature to life the $40 ceiling on
monthly, old-age pensions and al
ow payment on basis of need. . .
The state's average payment Is
$34.44.'
The commission also reported
that 4945" cases' of general assist
ance! in January, ' 1945, received
$135,769 compared with 10,945
cases in January, 1941, receiving
$185,791,
Al delegation representing five
state charitable societies asked re
vision of state legislation which
they said under war-time condi
tion! Is preventing adequate hos
pitalization for children in their
care.
Rev. Jerome M. Schmitz, direc
tor of Catholic Charities, told the
commission that in emergencies
the 'agencies often were "desper
ate because the ; dry emergncy
hospital seldom has a physician
there.
Lowering of
Cane Fruits
Pric;Fouglit
By LUlie L. Madsen
Any effort on the part of the
rational office . of price . adminis
tration to rower the 12-cent mini
mum set oh cane fruit will be
strenaovjly fought by the Oregon
Ore j fruits Control board. The
decision was reached; jnway ai-
ternoon at ! the, board's annual
price-setting meeting held, In the
Salem jChamber..- of Commerce
rooms. sl sv '.'"'-.; -:
- The minimum price of. 12. cents,
the same as in 1944, was set again
by the board for 1945. - Wires, to
that effect tyere sent out Friday
mghtl to the OPA? and the war
food i administration -offices In
WashingtonJ D.C Last year this
was awo tne ui s maximum
price. Considerable rumor has
been j current among the . cane
growers to the effect that OPA
planned to lower this. .
William : J. Unfoot secretary-
treasurer to the group, said Fri
day that he had been unable to
learn if this rumor was based on
any fact, but.that if it was, the
board would go into action at once
against it 'Costs have mounted
this past year and the crop is ex
pected to be smaller than in 1944.
Dry ; weather in autumn as the
canes were l getting their growth
was blamed tor the expected crop
shortage, ji
Present at' the Friday meeting
were the chairman, K. D. Coomler
of North Howell, Harold Horner
of Estacada; Roy-'Miller of Mon
mouth,' W. H, Zivney of OsWego,
Don j Covey, of Hubbard and D.
Osterman of Woodburn.
Fleet Pours
4 ?!
Many Shells on
Kiirile (Airfield
AN ! ALEUTIAN BASE, Alaska,
Feb. 19 (Delayed) )f-For 20
minutes just- ibefore inidnight,
north Pacific warships f of Vice
Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher's
force bombarded the enemy's larg
est, airfield on Paramushuru with
170 tons of shells.
On this sixth surface raid of the
northern Kuriles since Pearl Har
Approval Given Bill ,:
Allowing Incorporation
Uf 2-County Areas
The house, passed and sent to
the senate Friday a bill which
would permit towns lying across
county lines to incorporate. The
measure would apply immediate
ly to Mill City,: part in Marion
and part in Linn County.
Brazilians Aid
Yanks in Italy
ROME, ' Feb. 23-(Fr-Swift and
well-timed "one-two punches' by
JJSt mountain troops and the
Brazilian expeditionary force have
knocked the Germans off the last
heights from which they had dom
inated for months the long stretch
of highway 64 from Pistoia to the
battlefronts southwest of Bologna,
the! allied command announced
today. .
Brazilian troops in their first
major victory of the war captured
3000-foot Monte Castillo on Wed
nesday and then American dough
boys took the summit of 3500-foot
Monte Delia Toraccia.
The Germans hastily organized
numerous small counterattacks
which were smashed with heavy
enemy losses. Allied casualties
were described as relatively low,
particularly in view of the deep
ly entrenched defenses.
ONtheHOME FRONT
By IS ABEL CHUDS
The slim chicks should be pop
ular figures at - the legislature,
where UJ05 per cent" and similar
bor, the criss-crossed airstrip, the statistics are favorite subjects for
hangers, shops, ! radio station and i discussion. , i
shore installations at Kurabu cape
at the; southern tip of the island
were hit I-
... V4- '
Personally, I'd " cut a larger
swath in federal Lawmaking clr
cles! . I
Churchill Acclaims
Debt to Red Army J
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LONDON, Feb.i23 Prime
Minister Churchill sent a message
to remier Stalin; saying that the
Red army, celebrating the 27th
anniversary today of its organi
zation, was "on the threshold of
final victory," and had sealed the
doom of German militarism.
"Future generations will acr
knowledge their! debt to the Red
army as unreservedlyTas 'do we
who have lived to witness these
proud achievements,' Churchill
said. i
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Youngsters Violate
Curfew in Salem
Eight curfew violations were
reported by city police Friday
night Parents of the youths were
later called to accompany them
home. !
Smelt Kim Hits
Kalama River
LONG VIEW, Wash, Feb. 23-W)
A smelt run has at last hit the
Kalama driver, and 15 or more
boats have been making good
catches. .
Dippers began taking fish from
the Kalama! last night when they
noticed the run falling off in the
Cowlitz river. Over 7000 boxes
of fish, orj about 35,000 pounds,
have been taken from the two Co
lumbia tributaries this week.
Heavy Sea Keeps
Skis Offshore
rack BAYr Ore- Feb.
For mere than 2 hours, the an
griest feas in years have pounded
the Coos Bay bar, the coast guard
base at Empire said today;
The ocean was stirred up by an
offshore storm early Thursday,
and continiiea wild today. hips
are keeping well off the bar until
the seas quiet down. v '
Funeral for Deelz
BojtoBe uftfonclajr
funeral services for Calvin
Jesse Deetz, nine-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs, Jesse Deetz oi w
gon City, widely known In Salem,
wffl b held at 150 pjn. Monday
from the Holman-Hankins and
Rllance chapel in Oregon City.
i The lad died following an ox
erdose of pain-relieving pulsT the
nHmu county coroner, said.
His i4year-old sister and mother.
both ill at the time, took
the same medicine and were in an
Oregon City, hospital late this
week, jboth expected to recover.
Father of the children is a for
mer Willamette university ath
lete. He and Mrs. Deetz made
their home here for several years
while h was attending -theunl-versity
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KORVINW RAINES
Mexican Workers
Wear Sombreros in
Montana Snowfield
MISSOULA, Mont, Fed. 23 $)
It snowed fill Montana today
but the spring straw-hat season
was in full sway anyway. -
Mexican national beet field
workers arrived in force, many
with Palm Beach suits. The South-of-the-Border
men 'defied the 18
below freezing! weather witl1 col
orful sombreros. . j J
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Tonight's floor .
Show;
Frank Kande A
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Athletics with Degs
Freddie Jenal
Sensational Singing
M. C -
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Superior Acrobatic
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O Ec:yclcring, aninalcd pidnre O
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O Pl?siic Tea Sels 15, 33, 42 pes. O
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Salem