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Salem, Orscon. Tuesday Morning. February 27, 1945
Prlc Sc
No. 234
POUNDDD 1651 - - 1 ! . - " S -i
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On this page today appears one
of the truly, great pictures of this
. war: the raising oLthe flag of the
United States on top of Mt. Suri
bachi extinct volcano at .the south
ern tip of I wo Jima. .?;.:
I should like to name it: "The
Spirit of '45" for it seems a mod
ern counterpart of that famous
painting, "The Spirit of "78" in
which the flag vis proudly borne
by a soldier of the revolutionary
armv attended by drummer and
lifer. .-
There have been many remark
able Dhotoeranhs taken in this
war, both the intimate individual
scenes of v ar's incidence and the
panoramic views of D-days and
convoys and bombed landscapes
The venturesome photographers
have broueht to us by film the
gory scenes of combat, where men
lie prone on the earth, stopped by
bullet or shell fragment. We have
seen too the long lines of home
Kss refugees tramping to name
less destinations along roads lit
tered with the crumpled gear of
war. And picture of the emaciat
ed forms of newly released pris
oners have revealed the long tor
- ture of concentration camps where
men and women of our blood and
nation have suffered. :
But this picture of raising the
flag on Iwo Jlma's peak is one
of triumph: the end of which the
convoys and invasions and the
battles of sea and sky and land
are the prelude, the compensation
for the suffering and the
(Continued on editorial page)
New Air Raid
Alerts Sounded
In Jap Cities
US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Feb. 26.-;P)
-New air raid alerts for Tokyo,
Yokohama and other parts of
east central Honshu island "Were
reported by the Japanese radio
today following the terrific
pounding of the Nippon capital in
daylight Sunday by powerful
waves of American carrier planes
and a record flight of superfort
resses. Meanwhile fleet headquarters
nnd the 21st bomber command
here awaited further details on the
-twin strikes Sunday against in
dustrial and military targets in the
Tokyo region and elsewhere on
Honshu. As usual radio silence
enveloped the Yank carrier task
force in Japanese waters.
Returning. B-29 fliersi said sec
tions of Tokyo undoubtedly, were
left burning. The Japanese ack
nowledged fires in their capital
but said most of them were under
control by nightfall. ABSIE, Am
erican broadcasting station in Eu
rope, said 25,000 square yards of
. the center of Tokyo was ablaze.
Gerald Worley
Dies iii Action
MT. ANGEL, Feb. 26. T. Cpl.
Gerald Worley. 21, was killed m
action February 3 on Luzon. His
father. William Worley has been
notified by the war department.
Survivors include his father and
stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. William
Worley a brother, Sgt. Robert
Worley in France, a sister, Mrs.
Marilyn MacDowell, Iowa Park,
Tex.; and a half sister and two
half brothers, Elaine, Billy and
David of Mt Angel; also his grand
mother, Mrs. Sarah Worley of
Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
; Requiem high mass and mili
tary funeral services will be held
from St. Mary's church in Mt
Angel Thursday at 8:15 a. m,
t (Picture and additional details
on. page 2).
20 Die in Explosion
PARIS, Feb. 26-J!P)-The French
news agency reported tonight that
a munitions dump" explosion "in
western France" had killed 20 per--aons
and injured 30. It said sparks
from a truck caused the blast
Oregon's Own 70th Fights
OH Nazi Attack in Alsace
By A. L Goldberg :
, OETINGf. Alsace, Feb. UHJP
The 70th "trailblazer" division,
known as Oregon's own, fought off
an enemy attack-of company
strength early today near Stiring
Wendel, north of Forbach, where
Another of . -' Oregon's own" (di
visions, the Timberwolves of the
104th, held the news spotlight this
past weekend as the story was
told of its spearhead operations; in
the crossing of the Roer. Lt dL
Fred Needham, with the division
at Camp Adair, whose wife is jas
gistant Salem public librarian,
commanded troops credited With
r cleaning out approximately 200
Germans holed up in strong points
at Arnoldsweiler, two miles north
of Dueren, Associated Press dis
patches said. - '
the Germans still are putting up
fight foe part of the town.
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U. S. Uses
Iwo Jima
Airfield
Marines Capture
Important Hill
Position on Isle
ABOARD ADMIRAL R. K.
TURNER'S EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE FLAGSHIP OFF IWO
JIMA, Tuesday, Feb. 27-(P-"We
expect to Uke this Island In
a few more days," Lt Gen. Hol
land M. Smith, commander of
the marine expeditionary force
on Iwo Jima, said today.
By Leif Erickson
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Tuesday, Feb.
27-(fl3)-Iwo Jima's captured south
ern airfield was put to American
use for the first time Monday
while doughty US marines ad
vancing up to 400 yards captured
an important bill overlooking
most of the remaining Japanese
positions.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz report
ed today mat two-seater marine
observation planes were using Mo
toyama No. 1 while Third marine
division elements won most of the
second airfield, Motoyama No. 2,
in the center of the bitterly-con
tested island.
Use of Motoyama airfield No. 1
indicated tnat iignters soon may
be flying off that major airdrome,
750 miles from Tokyo.
Third division marines under
Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Cates cap
tured hill 382, east of the central
airfield. Militarily, the hill is as
great a prize as captured Mt, Suri-
bachi. From it artillery observers
will be able to direct murderous
fire on Japanese positions.
Opposition to the accelerated
American push increased through
out the day. The deeplyi-entrench-ed
enemy threw a heas'y rain of
artillery shells and rockets at the
advancing Yanks in the eighth day
of this fiercest fight of the Pacific
war.
Solons Debate
Manpower Bill
Don't Agree
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -(JP)-
Senators opening floor debate on
manpower legislation attacked the
pending measure vehemently from
both sides today as too drastic
and as too mild to be effective.
A majority of the voices raised
were in favor of less mandatory
control.
Senator Bailey (D-NC) protest
ed at the outset that he saw little
"compulsion" in ttie legislation
Bailey is a backer of a "work-or-
jail" bill aimed at employes, simi
lar to the house-approved measure
which the senate military commit
tee re-wrote completely.
"The compulsion is on the-employer,"
Chairman Thomas CD
Utah) of the senate committee re
plied.
RAF Attacks Convoy
LONDON, Feb. 26 RAF
coastal command aircraft contin
uing their vigil against enemy
shipping in the Skagerrak, attack
ed a convoy of nine cargo vessels
Sunday night and probably de
stroyed at least three.
The 70th, fighting- its .st ac
tion as a division, was lying in
the battle line along ridges near
the German border at ' the Saar
river and westward through the
Forbach forest. ' ,
Several units of the" 70th were
already battlewise from service as
elements of the task force which
won Wingen from the Germans in
a bloody battle early in January.
Decorations are now coming
through for men involved in that
three day struggle against Nazi SS
(Elite Guard) troopers.
The division now is commanded
by Maj. Gen. Allison J. Barnett,
former chief of staff in the south
Pacific. . Barnett visited the For
bach front this afternoon.
At one point north of Spicheren,
where the trailblazers can look
down into the German valleys
and see Saarbruecken, the division
holds an area where a wooden
plaque proclaims: "Here stood
Adolf Hitler on Christmas, 193$."
7t
Sees Fighting
I
Secretary of Navy James Forres-
tal stands at a shift's rail 'off
Iwo Jima and watches the bitter
fighting an the Island. (AP
wirephoto) I . I ; J i
Isleto Secure
Shipping Route
MANIEA, Tuesday, f"eb. 27-(iP)
Veteran 24th division troops, tak
ing : the Japanese completely! by
surprise, i invaded! small ! Verd Is
land between Luzon and Mindoro
Sunday to secure the Western end
of the vital shipping route through
the ; Philippines from the United
States tq Manila ; . ,' : f -
The Eighth arjny Yinks "went
ashore with practically no loss,"
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said in
his communique today; f
He termed Verde, which flies
midway ;.in : the narrow Verde is
land passage, "the key!: to the con
trol of the main navigational route
through I the central Philippines."
With the battle for Manila end
ed. ' MacArthur i announced that
3056 Japanese dead had been
counted 'pn Corregidor fortress, be
sides the sealed-pff enemy troops
who have : been blowing them
selves up by touching off under
ground Ammunition stores. f-:
en Stone
Skid Misiuig l
Maj. Stephen A. Stone, jr, : 26,
son of Ir; and) Mrs. ? Stephen -A.
Stone, 373 Leslie st has been
missing fin ; action since February
13 bverAustria,! his parents were
notifiedfMonday by the war de
partment, j - i ' f 1
An operations officer, Stone had
been with! the 15th air force In
the Mediterranean threatre since
last autumn. Prior to that h had
served 13 months in the Aleutians
where he 'was awarded the- Air
Medal for action against the en
emy.' :.!; ; - . 1 1 " vvf'f -
The Stones have two other sons
both in ihe service, Norman Stone,
Phi M c, USN, serving with the
marines in the south Pacific, and
PFC Jerry Stone, Fort Lewis, cur
rently dn furlough here, j
(Picture on page 2).
Chancellor's Son
Killed in Burma
EUGENE, Feb. 26,-rCapt. Mau
rice Harold Hunter, son oi gnan
cellor Frederick; M. Hunter of the
state system of higher education
and Mrs. i Hunter, was killed at
Lashu In the Burma road cam
paign January 131. Word of his
death Was. received Sunday by his
parents- here., 5 " ' j f i .
; Captain Hunter was cited Janu
ary 20 for his work in connection
with the Burma road fighting, as
an officer of the 475th regiment.
and the Bronze Star is to be
awarded to him posthumously.
M. Donald Spepcer ',
Dies in California ;
LA JOLLA, I Califs Febv
(Py-UlJ: Donald' Spencer, 65, for
mer owner of I the Spencer, Ma
chinery, company, Portland, Ore.,
died in a local hospital today aft
er a brief illness, j i i . $v f i
He had come here for his health.
Funeral services will be held in
La Jolla Wednesday.' :
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Get Back
ftlacArtliur Turns
Liberated Areas
Over to Osmena'
MANILA, Tuesday, Feb. 21-(JP)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, standing
in war-scarred Malacanan palace,
today turned the civil government
for liberated areas of the Philip
pines over to their president Ser
gio Osmena, in a ceremony before
wildly cheering Filipinos.
MacArthur, after bitterly de
nouncing the Japanese! for wreck
ing Manila's churches, monuments
and, cultural centers, lifted mili
tary rule from the freed sectors
and said the commonwealth is "at
liberty to pursue its destiny in the
family of free nations.!
Men who fought with him at
Corregidor and Bataan clustered
around him and Filipino soldiers
formed a guard of honor.
. Osmena in replying spoke of
MacArthur's ; military operations
as a "crusade," urged all Filipinos
to submerge political ' differences
in quickly reviving their common
wealth and expressed the hope
that the United States can accord
full freedom to the achipelago this
year.
4000 Allied Prisoners
Of War Transferred
LONDON, ? Feb. 26-(P) -The
British war office said tonight it
had been informed that 4009 sick
American and British prisoners of
war have left Stalag 344 at Lam
sdrf in eastern XSermany for an
other German prison tamp as yet
unknown. S
Islands
Berlin Tar get for Greatest
Daylight Raid Ever Made
Against Any German City
i By Charles Chamberlain
I LONDON, Tuesday, Feb. ST-CPrfefugee-choked Berlin was
Jhe target yesterday for the greatest daylight raid ever made on
any city, with nearly 2000 American heavy bombers and fighters
dropping 3Q00 tons of explosives, and last night British Mosquito
bombers followed up with two-ton block-busters.
Three of Berlin's downtown
mary objectives in: the great
American raid, in which 16 bomb
ers and seven fighters were lost.
Crews of the i RAF Mosquitos
said huge fires still were burning
in ; the city when they swept
across. t
The mighty American Armada
smashed at Berlin- without inter
ference from a single enemy plane.
Flak was described as only mod
erate, i ' , I
I never 'thought I. would see
the day when we could attack Ber
lin with so little trouble,"' com
mented Capt Joy Smith of Weep
Marineb Hoist Flag on Suribachi
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United States marines of the 28th
American flag step Suribachi, Iws Jims volcano, alter battling
Japs to top of the crater. Phots by Joe Eo sen thai. Associated Press
'photographer an assignment with wartime picture pool, and trana
' mltted by navy radlophots from Guam to San Francisco.. (AP wlre
? photo) - (See "It Seems" colsmn). -: i -. . . ' '
Mill
Vicious Dogs Cut
Into Small Supply
Of Mail Carriers
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-
The postoffice department called
today for strict enforcement of its
regulation barring mail deliveries
to homes having vicious dogs.
A total of 1,259 mail carriers
were bitten by dogs in 1944.
"We've lost about- 30,00 em
ployees to the armed forces," an
official sair, "And we simply
can't afford to have carriers chew
ed tip." " . ij-
Nazis Report
Action Flaming
On Berlin Road
LONDON, Tuesday, Feb. 27-ifl5)
-German brodacasts said last
night that heavy batteries had
erupted on a 100-mile front along
the Oder and Neisse rivers facing
Berlin and Dresden, and declared
that red army flanking forces to
the north had speared to within
23 miles of Stettin, Pomeranian
capital and Baltic port at the
mouth of the Oder.
Moscow did not confirm the
nazi transocean agency's report of
spreading tank; and infantry ac
tions on the main front - - pos
sibly a prelude; to an all-out so
viet offensive by upwards of 1,
000,000 Russian veterans in the
crack First White Russian and
First Ukraine armies.
Transocean said the First Uk
raine army now had reached the
Neisse "everywhere" along a 60
mile front south of the Oder con
fluence, 50 miles southeast of
Berlin, and that German and Rus
sian armored forces w locked
in a ' merry-go-round of death'
as the Soviets attempted to force
the river. j s
railway stations were the pri
ing Water, Neb, pilot of a Lib
erator. ! .
Mosquitos also bombed Nurn
berg during the night
The German "achtung" air raid
warning service also tracked oth
er formations of bombers over
western Germany early in the
night and radio stations at Ham
burg, Stuttgart and Frankfurt-on-
the-Main suspended broadcasting.
The long-wave j Deutsehlandsender
station which supplies news to
most German cities also blacked
out,'.-' v ,
regiment. Fifth division, hoist the
Tax For
Schools
Planned
Xiegislative Com
" mittees Will Ask
For Referendum
A special election regarding a
five-mill property tax and a to
bacco tax on dgarets, designed to
raise an additional $14,000,000 for
schools and institutions in the next
two years, appeared a possibility
today. ) .
: The legislature's joint ways and
means and tax committees Monday
voted to recommend passage of
both plans, which would have to
be referred to the people.
The money would go for needy
school districts, the higher educa
tion building program, and build
ing plans for state institutions.
Added Money Asked
The joint committees also decid
ed to recommend that schools be
given an additional $3,000,000 a
year of surplus income tax. They
now get $5,000,000. The added in
come is expected to disappear af
ter the war.
The five-mill property tax would
be for but two years, with an ex
pected $10,000,000 revenue in a
biennium and proponents said they
expected it to be offset by income
tax collections.
The tobacco tax would be on
a permanent basis, with expecta
tions of $2,000,000 revenue a year
by a levy of 2 cents a package on
cigarets. A tobacco tax plan was
defeated In 1942.
Would Finance Plan
The suggested $10,Q00,000 prop
erty tax income, coupled with $3,
000,000 available in the state budr
get, would finance the proposed
10-year $8,000,000 building pro
gram of the state board of higher
education and the $5,000,000 plan
for new buildings at state institu
tions. The new tax suggestions came
from Sen. Dean Walker of Inde
pendence, chairman of the senate
ways' and means committee.
A move in the house Monday to
petition congress for a referendum
on a proposal to limit federal in
come, gift and inheritance tax to
25 per cent was beaten 48 to 10.
Toaay 5ist or the session
senators and representatives start
working without pay.
(Legislative news pages 5
and
10).
Most Oregon
Counties Raise
Chest Quotas
All Oregon counties, with the
exception of two, raised- their quo
tas in the Oregon War chest cam
paign last fall, Executive Director
Irl S. McSherry reported at the
annual meeting of the state chest
held at the capitol Monday. Plans
for next autumn's campaign, laid
at a recent conference in New
York attended by McSherry, were
presented to the organization and
to the directors, whose session fol
lowed. ; , !
Lyle Thomas of Polk county was
elected secretary to succeed Mrs.
Marguerite Staek of Tillamook,
who; declined re-election. Other
officers were re-elected. Charles
A. Sprague, Salem, was- named
president; Frank J. Lonergan,
Portland; O. A. Houglum, Eugene,
and Burt K- Snyder, Lakeview,
vice presidents; J. J. Card, treas
urer! Other members of the exec
utive committee are Elliott R. Cor-
bett, Portland; A. L. Schroeder,
Baker; Nathalie Panek, Portland;
Robert W. Sawyer, Bend; and
James T. Marr, Portland. - ,
Syria Declares War
Against Axis Nations -
LONDON, Feb. 26--Syria to
day .became the third middle east
nation within four days to declare
war .on the Axis."., .:;.--
' The Beyrouth radio announced
the Syrian president in a 20-min-ute
speech to the chamber of dep
uties had asserted that since the
beginning of hostilities Syria had
placed all resources at Allied dis
posal and now wished to take an
active part in the, struggle.
! Partly Qoudy
today, - becoming clear . in the
afternoon in the mid-Willamette
area, predicts the U. S.
weather bureau, McNary field,
Salem. r
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American
Within Ten Miles
Ninth Army Apparently Makes
Breakthrough; Third Advances;
Canadians Resume Offensive
By Austin
PARIS, Tuesday, Feb. 27
drove troops and tanks within lO'i miles of the great Rhin
city ot Cologne last night and pounded it with heavy gun
while the' Ninth army on the north achieved gains which t
field officer said appeared to be a breakthrough six miles)
from the vital Ruhr basin. ! ?:
With four allied armies on
front, German Field Marshal
rally his disorganized forces in an order of the day calling on
them to defend the Ruhr's approaches to the last man, say
ing that otherwise all was lost.
Front dispatches said the US
Third army appeared to have
achieved a second breakthrough
60 miles south of the ' First army,
where in a seven-mile surge tanks
and troops broke across both the
Pruem and Nims river and were
swiftly j enveloping the enemy's
Eif el mountain stronghold of Bit
burg. Canadians en Move
The Canadians First army re
sumed Its offensive on the north
flank and behind a mighty bar
rage fought three and a half miles
southeastward within a dozen
miles of the Ruhr and cracked
Into the bitterly-defended town of
Calcar. j .
I Plowing 27 miles into Germany,
the First army drove two spear
heads within a dozen miles of the
great arsenal city of Cologne. The
Ninth army on the north was six
miles from-the Ruhr foundries at
Muenchen-Gladbach, had fought
clear through the minefields and
was overrunning anti-aircraft po
sitions rarely captured in battle.
! Reports from both the First and
Ninth army fronts told of rapid
deterioration of the German po
sitions, and a Ninth army officer
declared: "There is no organized
line in front of us, and it appears
we have a breakthrough."
38 Towns Fall -
The i front now was 40 miles
Wide beyond the Roer and 38 or
more German towns fell during
the day. Tanks and troops, sweep
ing over .trenches and fortifica
tions, were three to four miles at
four points from the Erft river,
last-ditch enemy line before the
Rhine, j !
r Sixty; miles to the south, the US
Third army broke loose on a seven-mile
near breakthrough in the
Eifel mountains that shredded the
enemy's Pruem river defenses and
was driving before it German for
ces so bewildered that it was dif
ficult to say where they could
make a stand.
Curfew Rule
Made Stricter
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:j WAStHNGTON, Feb. 26-(P)-The
government tightened up the
midnight curfew rule just before
it went; into effect tonight,
j The Office of defense transpor
tation Warned that taxicab drivers
serving: establishments violating
the curfew stand to lose their car
rations.' '"' j
; ODT Director J. Monroe John
son asked all cabbies "to comply
fully with the spirit of the regu
lations.';? ' All hope of last-minute changes
in the 'decree, to relieve the dis
comfiture of the stay-out-late pub
lic, vanished. :
Montague Lord o f Salem
Among Internees Liberate
By Rossell Brines i
U. S. 41ST FIELD HOSPITAL,!
LUZON, P. I., Feb. 25 -(Delayed)
(i?)- The Philippine sugar outlook
is not promising .at ; present be
cause of, the war ravages and the
Japanese occupation,, - Montague
Lord of Salem, Ore and Hono
lulu, said today. He was, among
the internees liberated at the Los
Banos Interment camp. .
Lord is the son of the late W.
P. Lord,! aj former i governor .' of
Oregon and lambassador to Argen
tine , under the McKlnley and
Theodore . Roosevelt administra
tions, fce and W. IL Babbitt of
Honolulu, also one of the rescued.
are joint representatives' of the
Hawaiian Sugar Planters associa
Uon in the Philippines.
Lord plans to remain in the
Troops
Bealmcar 1
- (AP) The US First array;
the offensive on a 200-mila
Karl Von Runsledt sought to
ARC Officers
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All Re-elected
For New Term
Justice George Rossman was re
elected to the Marion County Red
Cross board for three years, un-'
der new by-laws adopted at- last
night's meeting setting staggered
expiration dates for terms of. di
rectors. He was ;also re-elected
chairman at the annual meeting in
the Carrier room of the First
Methodist church.; ' ;
Wfiiiam Hamilton and Milton
Myers, first and second vice presi
dents, respectively," were re-elect
ed for two years;" Mrs. Ronald
Jones and Lynn Smith, secretary
and treasurer, respectively, for on
year' each., ; f .
Edwin Carroll,: assistant man-
ager of the Pacific area office ot
the American Red Cross, told how
the ARC reaches men and women
on world battlefronts with th
small comforts their families and
friends would like to provide but
cannot send. Orpha Dasch. home
service worker, in the ebsence of
Judge George Duncan, home serv
ice chairman, told of the work of
that department. t
More than 10,000 pints of blood
were given through the Red Cross
in Marion county last year, Mil
ton Myers reported. One hundred
thirty-two Marion county womeo,
are active nurses' aides, said Mrs. y
Floyd Utter. Eight certified In-
structors are offering Red Cross
home nursing classes in the county
Mrs. W. Or iWiddows reported.
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Churchill WiW
Give Important
LONDON, Feb. 26 - W) - Prime1
Minister Churchill will open in
commons tomorrow Britain's most
important foreign policy debate ot
the war with the first public ac
count by one of the big three on,
the Crimea conference. j a
He may incorporate, one of his
famous progress : reports on the
war's developments, and his state
ment is awaited with hopes h
may shed new light on plans for
establishing solid peace. j
London's diplomatic colony .
particularly those of the smaller
nations counted ! upon obtaining;
hints that will help them prepare
for the San Francisco world s-
curity parley. - ; f " J
Islands - and continue with th
HSPA. At 64 he is in good health
although he lost 50 pounds whfls
interned. - -
1 "The best information . is that
the HSPA mill property ths
Hawaiian-Filipino sugar central
at Sflay, on : the west coast pt
Negros Island - was totally ruin
ed," said Lord. "I believe it was '
damaged by Filipino guerrillas
who were attempting to prevent
Its use by the Japanese, and later
by the 'Japanese 'v";.;v-; WTf -4
( Lord added that it will take at
least two years to get sugar crops
from the HSPA plantations be
cause most of the sugar - lands
were converted by the Japanese
into 'totally fruitless, attempts to
grow cotton. " V - i
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Speech
Today
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