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Devy weather did not keep hospital eorpsmen from .' evacuating
Leathecnecks wonnded on the bloody beach at Iwo Jim. Here
- the men are placed aboard a pontoon barge, partially awash. They
were then transferred to an LST
pital ships. This picture was taken by Joe Rosenthal. Associated
Press photographer on assignment
pool. (AP Wirephoto).
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Administration of the liquor
control law is a stone aroundthe
neck of any governor. The division
of opinion on the old liquor ques
tion is so sharp the interests of
those in the liquor trade so con
tentious, and the readiness of
many citizens to violate the liquor
laws so conspicuous, that any gov
ernor has a hard tnne.if he wants
toxgive an honest administration
f the liquor laws.
While it is true that he operates
through a liquor commission, the
irritations and problems play leap
frog over the commission to land
right in the governor's lap. Not
-. only is the commission the oper
ator of a large state business it is
elscTcharged with responsibility
for enforcing liquor control laws.
In fact local police and sheriffs
forces leave the task of liquor law
" enforcement largely to the com
mission, though their own respon
sibilities are equal,
i JL recall that in 1938 Governor
-'Martin's liquor commission was
the target of severe criticism
which was taken out, quite unjust
ly, on the governor. I had a com
mission in which I 'reposed full
confidence, and which now is
pointed to as a very competent
body; but. still the complaints,
largely from persons whom the
commission has disciplined, were
vigorous. Now I note that Gover
nor Snell is under pressure and
his commission is under fire. Al
3 ready the liquor interests which
supported him are openly criticis
ing his liquor administration or
Crumbling in their beards.
The criticisms came to a head
in the debates over some of the
(Continued on Editorial page)
Two Weeks9
Vacation Due
Lumber Men
PORTLAND, Feb. 27-tf')-A
long-debated two weeks vacation
was ordered granted today to
employes of Willamette Valley
Lumber Operators association and
Oregon coast operators but only
to workers of five years stand
ing. v':'..V" 4
i ' The West Coast Lumber com
mission gave its first such ruling
Jn a case brought by the Inter
rational Woodworkers of Ameri
ca. CIO. ' .
i . Men averaging a 22-hour week
r more will be paid five days'
.wages on each vacation week,
' with vacation pay varying accord
ing to the number of hours work
fed during the year. Employes
newer than five years will still
receive one week's vacation.
Victory Ship Will Be
'Named for Willamette
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-AVA
Victory : ship will be named for
i .Willamette university, Salem,
Ore., Senator Cordon (R-Ore.)
aaid today.
i - He reported the ship, now un
tier construction at Oregon Ship
building corporation, Portland,
would be ready for launching
about April 14.
Tartly Cloudy
today with occasional showers
and little change in-temperature
In the mid-Willamette, val
ley area, predicts U. S. weath
er bureau, McNary field, Sa
standing by for removal to bos
with the war time still picture
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Churchill
OK's Pole
Changes
Prime Minister
Defends Good
Faith of Stalin .
By Alex Singleton
LONDON, Feb, 27 (JP) Prime
Minister ChurcJiIU, upheld the Cri
mea conference Polish settlement
today as embodying "just and
right" Soviet territorial claims,
disclosed the Big Three had agreed
to give Poland Danzig and upper
Silesia along with other territory
at German expense and defended
vigorously the good faith of Mar
shal Stalin and the Soviet regime.
Opening in the house vof com
mons a three-day debate in which
he is asking Britain to commit her
self to the broad principles of the
Crimea conference, Churchill de
clared that the American on
slaught against Japan had brought
the war in the Pacific to its peak
period.
The conflicts in Europe and Asia
taken together have now reached
an "overall or double-peak per-'
ioJ," he said, the war against Ger
many having "been prolonged for
a good many months beyond what
was hoped for last autumn."
Churchill said that the, Big
Three had agreed to give Poland
the great city of Danzig and the
greater part of East Prussia west
of Koenigsberg" as well as "a long
wide sea front on the Baltic," the
industrial province of upper Siles
ia and such other territory east of
the Oder river as the peace con
ference might care to take away
from Germany.
Way Opened
For Minimum
Wage of 55c
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -(JP)-
The war labor board today open
ed the way for the establishment
of a minimum wage of 55 cents an
hour in all American industries,'
provided it won't push prices up.
Thousands of workers would be
affected by the new ruling, which
increases from 50 to 95 cents the
dividing line between what the
board now considers substandard
pay and "that providing a decent
standard in war time.
The increase does not go into
effect automatically. But the
board authorized its regional
boards to approve hourly wage
rates up to 55 cents where em
ployers voluntarily seek the in
crease or the union and employer
join in the request
House Amends, Passes J ax
Bill; Senate Faces Bus Day
The 43rd legislature, which has
disposed of but 40 per cent of the
bills passed by this date two years
ago, faced the usual heavy 11th
hour calendars today.
Thirty-six bills, resolutions and
memorial were up for final ac
tion in the senate, including res
taurant regulation, preferential
employment fo? veterans, repeal of
the Chinese property limitation
act, and the granting of "GI rights
to American seamen.
The house had a lighter calen
dar, which included action on the
acquisition of North Pacific Dental
college, but its committee sessions
were myriad.
Both the senate and house took
actions Tuesday, which may, or
may not speed up. work. The house
voted to limit any single talk to
U. S. Stalls
Securitv
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Pro
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Americas Mova
To Insure Peace
In Henilsplierei
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MEXICO CITY, Febl 27--(JP)-Thef
United Stalls managed J to
postpone for 24 burs today a isur
prise move to commit all the Ame
rican nations to! guarantee j the
frontiers and political independ-
. .I i i T.
cues oi uie -counties in uus nenu
sphere with theil armed might
Senator Warreii Austin (RTVt),
member of the lforeign relations
committee, intervened ! just as a
commission of tle inter-American
conference here was about to pass
the plan by acclamation, i' J
Dramatically entitled "the dec
laration of Chapltepej," the feso
lution combines proposals put for
ward by Uruguly, Coiombialand
Brazil. Conferences sjessions are
being held at Cjiapultpec castle.
The surprise pme i the deter
mination of th othej: countries
here to forge links of steel among
the j American republics immedi
ately, without waiting for : estab-
lishment of a
forld security or-
ganization at Sa
The "Declara
Franjcisco. j;
ioflef Chaoulte-
pec" goes beyoi
the Dumbarton
Oaks plan in onm
important point:
The signatory! nations would be
obliged to use f free when aggres
sion or a "sure threat? of aggres
sion developed n this continent
Marines Drive
OnlwoUima
US ACIFld FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Wednesday,
Feb. 28.-()-Two of the three
marine division! battling side by
side toward the high north part of
Iwo gnawed out:small gains Tues
day through the thickly-studded
Japanese defenses buf enemy re
sistance remains high and still in
cludes tanks after nine days of
f ceaselessfiiammering. I ; j
a iie itippuntrse grinuy ciung 10
one, tip of the clntral airfield aft
er , a week of flaming f action con
centrated on an around that, two-!
runway fighter 'base, j - j
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced in a cbmmunique today
mat ine marines resumed a power-packed
pusbj from Ahe south
half of Iwo Tuesday morning aft
er, artillery broke upi a tank-led
counterattack Monday night. En
emy infiltration1 attempts were re
pulsed. I . i ; . I ;
The gains wele registered In the
center by Majj Gen, Graves B.
Erkine's Third division, which1
holds virtually Jjjall of, the central
airfield, and oh' the east shore by!
MaJ. Gen. Clifton B. Cates Fourth
division.
- No mention was made of any
gain on the west by MaJ. Gen
Keller E. Rockyi Fifth division
The fiercely! resisted advance
was supported by marine artillery
carrier-based planes and warships
of the Fifth fleet
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Army Paper Gives Page
i p riaz liaising jriciure
PARIS, Wedtiesdayi Feb. 28-(JP)
The US army Ijpaperj Stars? and
Stripes pushed:! all hews off its
front page today and devoted it to
a full-page reproduction oil Asso
ciated Press photographer Joseph
Rosenthal's picture of US marines
raising the Stars and Stripes on
Mt Suribachi, Jwo Jima.
30 minutes, and! the senate refused
by a vote of 15 to 14 to take from
the table for argument house bill
306 providing por i Multnomah
registrar. It was this bill which
precipitated a filibuster in the
house last week. j
Principal affirmative action tak
en Tuesday was house passage,
with controversial amendments, of
the senate joint resolution (SJR 2)
providing for a general study of
Oregon's tax structure. i
Up to today! 172 Out of a total
of 673 bills have passed both
houses, compared with 275 out Of
688 at the last session. Of the
397 house bilk,1 the house has tak
en final action Jon 239. Of the 276
senate bills, the senate has: taken
Ahead
lowly
final action on 117. f I
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JVaval Air Corps
Holds 9 1 Margin
Against Japanese
WASHINGTON, FeU 27 -UP)-
Naval aviation, with a ibetter than
five to one record against the Jap
anese since tfie start of the war,
Stepped up its margin to nine to
bne in operations since Decern
ber 1. I
I In a recapitulation of operations
of carrier forces for the past three
months, a naifal spokesman report
ed today that 161Q Japanese
planes had been destroyed against
178 America planes ost in com
bat In addition, the carrier borne
craft damaged 1078 planes, sank
1187 enemy vessels of all types, and
damaged 402 j others. I
ocks
Burned Out in
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, (Wednesday,
Feb. 28-0!P)-f-The more than 200
Superfortresses raiding Tokyo
Sunday burned out 240, blocks in
the heart ofj the city, i an area in
cluding factories and business dis
tricts, the 21st bomber command
disclosed today.
The remarkable chieyement,
during which bombs yere dropped
through a thick cloud overcast by
precision instruments! was borne
ou t by reconnaissance photo
graphs.
The area: : devastated covered
29,740,000 square feetjor 667 acres.
The B-Z9s; unloaded bombs in
Tokyo's most congested industrial
section. They crossed the city,
from the northeast to the south
west
Maj. GenJ' Curtis tlron Pants"
Lemay,1 commander of the 21st
bomber command, said the photo
graphs ahowed the Results were
excellenfj l "
Edwin Watson,
FDR's Aide,
Dies at Sea
!
ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL
CRUISER IN THE ! ATLANTIC,
Feb. 20.-iiP)-(Delayed)-MaJ. Gen.
Edwin M. Watson, the man who
made President Roosevelt's offi
cial appointments, died at sea to
day on the way home from the
Crimea conference,r1
General Watson was 61. A cer
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death of the presidential secretary
OllU UUUUU diUC. i
Expressing his great personal
sorrow at the loss of a close
friend and associate," Mr. Roose
velt said it was Watson's "sense
of duty and determination to see
the war through that made him
insist on taking this trip with me.1
The president had no immedi-
ate plans for naming a successor
but it is expected he will divide
the job and appoint both a new
aide and a new secretary.
!
SueM Urges
Fund Support
"To fight the battle of loneli
ness and anxiety, the Red Cross
has stationed many thousand men
and women with our fighting
forces at home and 'abroad. They
provide entertainment to those on
leave, administer to sick and
wounded, supply war prisoners
and refugees. In a dark, war-torn
world, one bright) emblem-the
Red cross has emerged as a
symbol of f mercy,? Gov. Earl
Snell declared Tuesday as he
urged participation j In the war
fund drive which! opens over
Oregon today. j
"There Is no conceivable turn
this war can take which will less-
to any great degree the re
sponsibilities of this -humanitarian
agency," he said.
Tuneful Japs Enter
Iwo Jima Battle With
Song on Their Lips
- By the Associated Press "
Tokyo radio said yesterday in
hmnriact . that th JananeM
fighting United States marines on
Iwo island are roina to battle
240GtyBl
Toky
with a song on their; lips and have WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 flV
become "one big ball of fire." Hope that the CPA's new cloth
The broadcast recorded by the Ing program would bring down
federal commuri cations commis P"ce or cioirang o to i per
sion. said one favorite song of thelcent by next August was express-
sarrison begins: i
"If any YanTr. On the island
comes, each blade ! of grass and
every leaf on Iwo' Jima is -fully
armed to dig a grave for the Yan-
kee," : - '
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Russians
44 Mi
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Swift Northward
Push Perils Nazi
Troops on Baltic
By W. W. Hereher j
LONDON, Wednesday, Feb. 28.
-(-Smashing j 44 miles jnorth-
ward through permanent German
fortifications In Pomeranja, Ibe
Russians yesterday drove! within
22 jmiles of cutting the last! enemy
escape route from Danzig, the
North Polish corridor and
east Pomerania.
north-
This continuing offens:
ve by
the! second White ; Russian
army
group threatened quick
entrap-;
ment of the German forces re-
ining in that great 5000-square-
mile sac along the Baltic sea.
e breakthrough, which began
four days ago in forested lake
country, was disclosed by Premier
Stalin in an order of the day,
The subsequent regular soviet
communique broadcast from Mos
cow credited Marshal K. K. Rok-
ossovsky's troops with capturing
more than 100 German commun
ities in their swift northward
sweep toward the sea.
A later soviet bulletin stressed
the -sanguinary nature of the
fighting in a region favorable to
the defense, stating that at the
town of Schlochau alone 2000
Germans were killed and 22 tanks
and 46 guns knocked out.
Except for the capture of 12 ad
ditional blocks Inside besieged
Breslau in Silesia and the seizure
of seven villages in Czechoslova
kia, the brief Russian commun
ique dealt entirely with Marshal
Rokossovsky's significant offen
sive, ;
ARC War Fund
Kickof f Lunch
J J niS j OOll
With Capt Douglas McKay, long.
prominent Willamette valley civic
leader, delivering the keynote ad
dress, the men and women who
are to solicit Marion county's $80,
500 Red Cross war fund will hold
their kickof f luncheon this noon
t the Marion hotel.
Many of the rural war fund
workecs will not be able to make
connections to I attend this noon's
session, which: is planned as an
inspirational and informational
get-together, but dtjr and rural so
licitors alike are invited, F. G. Les
erer, general chairman of the cam
paign, said Tuesday.
Additional supplies will be avail
able following the luncheon for
those who have riot obtained suf
ficient Final instructions will al
so be given at !the meeting to
workers and chairmen and there
will be opportunity for announce
ments from chairmen.
A feature of the luncheon meet
ing will be a group of vocal solos
Uy accompan-
led by Ruth Bedford.
French Foreign Chief
Home From London
PARIS, Feb. 27 )Foreign
Minister Georges1 Bidault return
ed from London tonight after con
versations with Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and Prime Minis
ter Churchill which served to "re
affirm the determination of France
to work together in war as in
peace," the foreign minister
an
nounced.
Qothing Prices May
Be Lower-by AugUSt
it
fed today by Price Administrator
Chester Bowles. 1
r He also told the senate banking
J committee that program are being
prepared designed to check a rise
'in cost of household furnishings.
Advance
les
PDoiioiig
DSDDllg
Drive for Big
X1 i f it GERMANY
Advanclng toward th kree German
Daesseldorf and Cologne, American troops were reported to have
captured Venrath, Kirchherten, Pntx, reached Elsdorf and, taken
Blatzhem, Rath and Soller. Broken line is approximate battle front
(AT Wirephoto map)
Servicemen to Start Pouring
Home When HitleriGives Uv
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 - (iT'
a lot of their servicemen to start pouring home 200,000 to 250,
000 a month once Hitler is out of the way. !
About half of them are likely to be disabled, to small or
large extent.
This was the big news today
turned over to the house by its
appropriations committee. The
money is to round out various
agencies' expenses ' for the fiscal
year ending June 30.
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, head
of the veterans administration, is
authority for the army-returnees
estimates. He quoted the, war de
partment 1
Hines also told the committee
the present rate of discharges is
around 90,000 s monthly. (That's
10,000 above current army draft
calls.)
The veterans administration is
down for $246,775,00013 the. bill.
Most of this item is for increasing
pension cost. There is also' $5,567,
400 for the war manpower com
mission, the bulk of it to finance
work of finding jobs for veterans.
Last September the war depart
ment set up a point system to de
cide which men will get home first
when there is no one left to fight
but Japan. 'j -
Fire Damages Car j
Firemen reported call to ex
tiguish a car fire in front of the
courthouse late Tuesday night
Some damage was caused but the
extent was not known.
Architects Named to Draw
Salem School Building Plans
Salem school directors Tuesday
night named Freeman & Hayslip,
Portland architects, to prepare the
preliminary plans for the district's
half -million dollar postwar con
struction program, accepted the
resignation of a girls' physical
education teacher at Parrish jun
ior high school and expressed hope
that state school support funds
could originate' elsewhere than in
a cigaret tax.
First portion of the construction
program to be undertaken, it was
indicated,, probably will be that at
the high school athletic field
where lack of materials need not
be a hindrance early in the job.
No successor to Jennie M. Ellery,
who has taught physical education
and health at Parrish, has yet been
named although the teacher's res
ignation was to be effective im
mediately. Eula Creech, head of
IrflllOK
German Cities
Maenchen Gladbach,
-'ask
- American families can expect
in a $2,453,177,125 supply bill
RAF Hammers
Berlin Twice
During Night
LONDON, Wednesday, FeoT28-
Pi-Berlm was attacked from the
air twice during the night after
more than 3000 Allied bombers
had hammered Germany's distin-
tegrating rail network during the
day in carrying the obliteration
blitz against the reich into its third
straight week.
. Early in the night RAF Mosqui-
tos dropped two-ton blockbuster
bombs on the capital, under attack
for the eighth .successive night
and shortly; before 3 ajn. this
morning the German radio said
Berlin again was being bombed.
Other bomber formations were
reported over the reich and single
planes roamed wide areas of Ger
many, creating confusion for the
enemy's "achtung" warning ser
vice throughout the night .
the home economics department of
the city schools, was granted
leave for the remainder of the year
which she requested because of
illness.-
i, The board authorized Supt
Frank B. Bennett to write to the
governor and the proper commit
tees of the legislature asking that
the state school support fund. If
possible, come from something be
sides the cigaret tax and that it
be made more permanent a n d
stable than apparently now is con
templated. -, . ; A . , ;
Directors agreed if the city coun
cil concurs In the plan, to grant
the summer recreation committee's
request that the $2000 unexpended
balance from r last year's play
ground fund be used to erect play
ground. equipment The board voted-
also to join the new Association
of Oregon State Schoolboards
!IM4$$CLfOR
cities of
All Ruhr
In Great
eer
Cologne Only 8t
Miles Off Erft r
Barrier Reached
By Austin Bealmear
PARIS, Feb. 27 (Jp) America
infantry and armor smashed across
the flatland of western Germany
today . In advances o 10 miles of
more, piungmg an tne way to ine
Erft-river and Within 8 miles
or cologne in a
great drive that
threatened the
Ruhr.
whole industrial
German prisoners were scooped
up by the" hundreds and town af
ter town fell t the waves of
troops racing ibrward by truck
and afoot.
The spearhead on Gen. Eisen
hower's mighty four-army offeri-
sive was the U. S.
Ninth army.
which by-passeq the
steel center of
Muenchep-Gladbach
on the west
and drove to the Erft river at the
village of Morken, 18 miles from
Duesseldorf. I
Resistance Feeble
German resistance was so fee
ble and apparently demoralized
that a complete news blackout
tpnight was'clamped on all opera
tions of Ninth arny divisions which ,
have broken through in this area.
It was thought ' he Germans them
selves might not know the full ex
tent of the American break
through. With the Ninth army already at
the Erft last natural barrier be
fore the Rhine river, 13 miles
away, the U. SL First army surg
ed toward Cologne, capturing tha
cross-roads village of Sinzdorf,
miles southwest.
At the same time the Canadian
First array lashed out In an inten
sified attack against, the Germahs
northern flankl rolling back tjhe
weakened Nazi defenses two jto
four miles between the Maas and
the Rhineand drivin within 30
miles of a wing; of the Ninth army
probing northward beyond Muen- '
chen-Gladbach.
U. S. Third Gains I
U. S. Third army troops to the .
south fought into the important
road hub of Bitburg and streamed
across the Bitburg-Trier highway s
In several places in a general two-
mile advance all along their sec
tor of the sprawling battle front
Gen. Eisenhower's whole mighty
offensive sweptj irresistibly toward
the Rhine through German forces
officially described as being jln
"extreme confusion. Several Ger- i
man divisions) were counted las
Completely "destroyed since- the
First and Ninth armies slammed
across the Roeir river last Friday. -
Two Mt. Angel j
Men Are Killed
In War Combat
MT, ANGEL, Feb. 27.-The th rd
war casualty in two days was re
ported to the community of Mt
Angel tonight one from Germany
and one from the Pacific. 4
Pf c. Jack Fennimore, second of
the seven . fighting, Fennimores,
was killed in action February ill
in Germany. , His brother, Pfc. .
James B. Fennimore, USMC, was
killed in action last June in the
Pacific. The parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Fennimore. ;
Pfc. Joseph j Moulle was a Jap
anese prisoner of war, was killed
Sept 7, 944, when a ship was tor
pedoed as the prisoners were be
ing moved. Only 18 of the prison
ers of war were saved. Moulle
was declared dead by the war de
partment s of February; 14, his
mother, Mrs.! Mary Moulle has
been notified.! .
' The third Mt Angel casualty in .
the two day 'period was T. Cpl.
Gerald 7 Worley, notification of ,
whose death ion Luzon was re
ceived Monday. - , '
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