POUNDDD J l05I NINETY-FOURTH YEAR 12 PAGES . Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Meaning. March 6. 1945 Price 5c No. 300 f I am highly pleased at the near-unanimous vote by which the two measures lor civil service nd retirement systems passed the house yesterday. Phone they receive a similar cordial treatment in the senate and the approval of the governor. The legislature then win have earned a medal for dis tinguisbed service in the cause of good government. I do not know of anything -which would go farther toward Improving , standards of public service than these two bills. The first establishes (after the war) a very practical merit system for selection and promotion of state employes. This will not be very revolutionary. For many years po litical changes have extended only to the top positions, the majority of employes in the state offices and institutions - being retained regardless of political affiliation , Now large departments operate under a merit system set up un der federal compulsion. It is en tirely reasonable to extend it to virtually all departments. The retirement system set up Is compulsory for state appointed employes and for school teachers. Other municipal subdivisions have the option to be included or, ex cluded. This will do more to in- I spire continuity of service than salary increases. School teachers for example will think twice be fore leaving. this occupation to enter another. In my judgment it Is the more important of the two bills, but they really fit together nicely; and it is proper for the two to pass at the same session. Government' service requires trained personnel more than ever (Continued on Editorial Page) 85-Mile Dash Threatens All Japs in Burma CALCUTTA, March 5.- (JPK British armored units, cutting" across the Irawaddy river' valley in an 85-mile dash, have severed the main Japanese land,' air and water links between Mandalay and Rangoon and have seriqusly threatened the entire enemy posi tion in Burma, Allied headquarters aid today. ' . With the aid of British airborne infantry, flown in at the climax of the operation," the armored column seized . eight airdromes intact, killed more than' 1600 Japanese, captured 40 guns and destroyed enough enemy supplies to feed a Japanese division' for 10 days. The important communications center of Meiktila, 70 miles south of Mandalay, was captured. In a Jong sweep through central Burma American fighter pilots gave the ground units support 1 from the air and the column which was partially self-sustaining, re ceived some supplies from cargo planes.' ' : : X 1 ' 25,500 Dodge Strikers Back j DETROIT, March 5 .-(-Approximately 25,500 Chrysler cor poration employes in the Detroit area moved back into .war ma teriel production today after a strike in the company's Dodge main plant was called off.. Full resumption of aircraft -parts production in the area was prevented, (however, as a j second strike involving some 11,000 workers In six Briggs Manufac turing company factories here continued. i . As strikers and others j affect ed by the Chrysler work stoppage returned to their jobs in six plants, officers, of local 212, Unit ed Automobile Workers j (CIO), representing Briggs employes, ad opted a resolution calling for "un conditional reinstatement of 12 discharged employes." Tokyo Tells U. S. Raid On China City of Amoy By toe AssocUted Press . Tokyo, radio said "several tens f bombers, fighters and B-29s raided Amoy, Chinese city in the southeastern province of Fukien, Monday from 1 to 4:10 p. m. Jap anese time. ;' ' I The broadcast was recorded by the federal communications com mission. FDR Aska $7,984,900 For Farm Crop Program WASHINGTON, March 5.-tfV The president sent to the house today a request that $7,884,000 be appropriated for administrative and operating expenses of the federal crop insurance program in the 1945 fiscal jear beginning July. Intermittent Rains today with cloudiness and low temperature, predicts the U. S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem. . ; - V. Russians Drive On Stettin Outer Bastions Of Baltic Port Fall to Soviets By Romney Wheeler LONDON, Tuesday, March 6. (JP) Russian troops, anchoring their Pomeranian flank securely on the Baltic coast, yesterady wheeled toward Stettin and cap tured that port's outer bastions of Stargard and Naugard, while oth er Soviet forces to the northeast cut deeper into two pockets where possibly 200,000 Germans were trapped. Overwhelming Stargard in a vicious street battle that cost the Germans 4000 killed, the Russians pushed on toward Altdamm, east bank Oder river crossing town just opposite Stettin and 15 miles west of Stargard. Altdamm and other localities ringing Stettin, Pomeranian capital and Berlin's main port, were reported under Soviet artillery fire. Naugard, 22 miles north of Star gard, also fell as the Russians folded back the Germans into an 1800-square-mile pocket in which the enemy was battling with his back to a 45-mile waterline formed by the lower Oder, Stettin bay, and the Dievenow river. , Dolberg, on the Baltic 65 miles northeast of Stettin, also was be ing stormed by Soviet troops "un der, cover of a blizzard,"' Berlin said. The enemy broadcast claimed that the Russians had been held in the fringes of the town, site of a large , American prisoner of war camp. . . ' .? - y-'A Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's first white Russian" "army and. the adjoining second white Russian group under Marshal K. K. Rokos sovsky. captured a total of - 230 towns and villages yesterday in 10-mile gains, Moscow announced. A third major stronghold toppled by Zhukov's men was Polzin, 52 miles northeast of Stargard.' It had been by-passed earlier in the race to the Baltic coast . L. Gutlip Dies At His Ranch v In Coos Area NORTH BEND, Ore., March 5.- (iT-L. A. Cutlip, 49, member of the state fish commission and one of southwestern Oregon's leading businessmen, was found dead be side a tractor on his south Coos river ranch late today. Death was attributed to a heart attack. The widow, Stella, former ly was a member of the state legis lature representing the Coos-Curry district. Cutlip was mayor of North Bend for three terms. Cutlip was born near here. After serving in world war I he founded an ice cream manufacturing plant. Surviving, in addition to the wid ow, are his father, Sherman, Coos Bay; a daughter, Lauruelee, stu dent in Catlin school, Portland and a son, Capt L. A. jr., serving in the south Pacific with the marines Reatiy DealUp$eU Plans West Salem Had for Industrial Spur The West Salem city council Monday night . saw a monkey wrench tossed Into its plans toi combine a proposed 20-year fran chise for a spur railroad track to Blue Lake Producers -Cooperative with a sub spur track to its own 28.70 acres of industrial sites, a portion of which are' under option with the "if and when railroad facilities are available." The city had been dickering with the Beutler-Quistad Lumber company for a spur right over block . 18 in order to give Blue Lake a spur, and in turn was of fering Beutler-Quistad closure of a street, to be used by that firm. When the council met, City Re corder Robert E. Pattison read a letter from Quistad ; announcing sale of block 18 to Blue Lake can nery. ';-----:'-'.yA:'r-. It was pointed out by council members that sale of the . block put the city under oblgatiom to Blue Lake for a right of way and left Beutler-Quistad Lumber with out a bargaining factor for - the street's abandonment O. . Sni der, manager of Blue Lake, said his company gave $6300 for . the block and announced the company only wanted to break even and would sell the property, minus the Yanks Fight WW?-! I i t : 1 ; If A combat medic (center) races across a' white-taped Intersection in iPorbach. southwest of Ssarbruecken, Germany, as a light tank f team keeps watch with one man I ground beside the tank. Signal I under machine gun fire at the I corps radlophoto, Paris) IrwUatianSent I W odd Security Conference; 1 Poland Doesn't Receive Bid P - " f:J y By John M.Hirhtower I I WASHINGTON. March ruritv' ronfprpnre went out todav Will strive to limit the authority I All the United Nations, except Poland, were invited to the conference beginning! April 25 has been called to form a world Americas Eye Declaration n Argentina MEXICO CITY,! March 5-P)- Drafting pf a statement on Argen tina today remained' the . top job for the ihter-Amercan Jconf erence here. ' ' '!"' It was ascertained that repre sentatives of 20 republics here will definitely make a formal declara tion on Argentina; but' they still re trying to agree on what to say. I Only other major topic still be ing debated is the 'economic char ter for the American. Officials ex pressed . hope a Compromise de cision could be reached tonight I r T - a- . A I 1 t some ':. iauii vtxiericiuui uhvc been holding back epproval on the charter, which- establishes a policy ibf free trade in this hemisphere. They are attempting to . include specific commodity provisions, es pecially on cotton and copper. Lebanon, Silverton, Scio Bus Service 1 Approved I WASHINGTON,! March 5.-(V- Bus service between Oregon City and Lebanon and Silverton and Scio and Lebanon have been ap proved by the office l of defense transportation. Senator Cordon (R Ore) said today. I , The routes, urged by Lebanon citizens to relieve "critical labor and housing shortages' will pro vide 10 daily trips between Ore gon City and Silverton, two from Oregon City through to Lebanon 'and two between! Scio and Leb anon. , I f risht of war. The matter was fin ally referred to the planning com mission for further study. City At torney Eimeij Cook also was au thorized by the council to insti tute proceedings to quiet title to the city's industrial-acreage, ever which hangs a cloud. , ' I Fred Neely, chief of police and street commissioner, was author ized to secure services of 'the county road crew in repairing pot holes in the city's main streets. I The City voted $73 for the Red Cross, increasing the amount $25 ver last year due to the: extra need. V- - L y The city voted to stand the cost of building a backstop on a base ball diamond to be located on city property. ; In addition to the 20-year fran chise to Blue Lake, ', which was tead for the first time, the city also entered into u lease with that Company for 3.70 acres of ground, With, the company having the op tion-to buy within a year at price of $3200. $,:t r The council adjourned to meet Monday, March 122 at 8 p.m Mayor Guy Nugent! announcing that in addition to givig the fran chise another reading that further developments on the railroad spur also would be discussed, - v. i " : . j inForbach -' - - la the turret and two on the corps oaptton said .that area was time: (AP wirephoto from signal Out f or Invitations to the world se- amid si ens that smaller nations of the big powers. in San Francisco. Themeeting organization and to set up in ternational machinery to enforce peace. The state department announc ed the long-awaited Yalta formula on how the great powers should vote In the proposed ; world coun cil. It would allow a great power: to pe formally, accused and., fried before . world public opinion on a charge of threatening aggression but any one of the powers, includ ing the accused, could veto the use of force against it. France passed up the opportun ity to serve as a sponsor of the San Francisco, conference,; although her attendance is assured. She wants to have a free hand in trying to alter l the basic Dumbarton Oaks plan for world organization. A number of other, smaller na tions have - already proposed changes, seeking either to limit the powers of the greater nations .or to gain" the same end by increas ing-the voice of smaller ones. Fred Vinson To Take Over Loan Position W ASHINGTONf March 5 - Ufi president Roosevelt; today nomi nated Fred M. Vinson, now eco nomic stabilization director, to take over, the federal loan admin Istration ; job ' which the senate wouldn't let Henry Wallace have. The appointment. Which the sen ate seemed ready to confirm quick ly, completed the division of the jobs from which Mr. Roosevelt ousted Jesse Jones, Houston, Tex banker and publisher, lnaugura tion day to make room for Wal lace. . '. L' The loan administrator is, head of the multi-billion dollar recon struction finance corporation and its giant subsidiaries. Vinson has been economic sta: bilization director since James F, Byrnes left the post to become war mobilization director. Eisenhoiver Urges Nazis s To Surrender , By the .nocUtcd Press - An appeal from General Eisen hower's headquarters, address to German army officers Monday via the American broadcasting station in Europe, urged that they "recon sider the situation of Germany, the situation of their men and their personal" situation1 and surrender to the Allies. . " ' 'Germany has lost the westwalL her most powerful defense In. the west The Allies have reached the Rhine ard Ruhr," said the broadcast as reported by the OWI. "In the east the Red army is stand ing before Berlin. (The industrial areas of upper Silesia, East Prus sia,! Posen (Poznan) and parts of Saxony, Brandenburg and Pomer ania are in Russian hands. The end is merely a question of time.". Si' " l " u 'Oiie Meatball' on Aleatless Tuesday I Brings Court Fine NEW YORK, March 5.-;p)-Play- ing fOhe Meatball' loudly on a phonograph on a meatless .Tues day cost a Bronx music store pro prietor $2 in magistrate's court today. - In fining the dealer on a charge of causing unnecessary noise, mag istrate Ambrose J. Maddock com mented: i UH does seem as though, on a meatless Tuesday, the least you coulq do would be to play, Three Little FishesV ' ' . 90,000 Nippon Troops Killed In Luzon Fight I By C. Yates McDaniel MANILA, Tuesday. March t-(Jf) Six Japanese divisions perhaps 90,000 troops of the 10 divi sion! defending Luzon have been destroyed together with consider able: war materials, and ' the re maining forces bottled up in the mountains are under continuous attack by ground and air. , Gen. Douglas MacArthur an nounced today that Lt Gen. Tom oyuki Yamashita's forces still on this largest island of the Philip- Dines were "split into a number of , divergent groups'" and their position is critical.' . ' ' - Only yesterday MacArthur an nounced that thousands of Japa nese had been cleaned out of Ilocbs' Norte province, on Luzon's northwest corner, by guerrillas operating under an American army officer, Col. R. W. Volck- mari. 5 ". On bloody Leyte island, south of Luzon, more than 125,000 Jap anese shave .been ; killed. This makes : total for these - two Islands! alone of more than 215,000 Japanese troops killed, including some of the empire s best. Second Term strations 505 at WU First-day registrations for the second term of the. school year Monday at Willamette university totaled! 505, of whom 387 are civil ian! and 138, navy students. Navy registrations' will reach about! 150 this' week, it is anticipated.' Sev eral of the men were snowbound on ileaves in the midwest, univer sity; authorities were notified Mon day. Civilian students probably will number approximately' 400, Registrar Walter Erickson , be lieves. ' Of the 367 civilians, 335 are reg istered in the college of liberal arts; 300 are undergraduate, wo men, two are graduate women en rolled for fulltixne work and 33 are men. There are 31 students in the music school, including one man. One full-time law student brings the total to 367. ' : 1 1 Registration will continue today although highlight of the day's events is the academic convocation scheduled for 11 a.m. Graduates receiving degrees will be Rosella Marie Bell, with a major in biol ogy; Mary Edith Bennett, physical education: Martha E. Burdett, speech-English-drama; John How ell; Glasse, psychology-philosophy; Marion Beth! Nordean, history; Kenneth R. Torgeson, history. Dr. John Owen ! Gross, Nashville, Term, is to be the speaker, ! Columbia Power Dam Proposed at The Dalles PORTLAND. March 5.- () - Army engineers here confirmed to day a report from senator cordon (R-Orc) that if power and navi gation dam has been proposed for the Columbia river at The Dalles. Cot Ralph A. Tudor, district en gineer, said his office, has been instructed to submit a survey of the proposed dam and that be ex pects to finish his report this faJL ,pyy, Berlin Women Look Forward to Air Raids LONDON, '. March .-P)-Ber-lin's housewives looked forward to'an air raid alert these days be cause electricity has to be turned on for the warning . sirens and this gives housekeepers a chance to cook meals, the German radio said tonight. I Air Transport Head Dies WASHINGTON, March 5.-(ff)- Col.. Edgar Staley x Gorrell, 54, president of the air transport as sociation of America and Chicago Investment banker, died today of a (heart condition after a brief Illness.- - . 4 v- . v- - Rem i Pension Civil Service ; A1- so; Passes; Sal ary Bills Beaten ; 1 1 ,-.!. y . Wading into some of the heavi est business of the -43rd legisla tive session, the house Monday: Passed 50 to 8 the bill (HB 294) to set up a state civil service sys tem. I ' l -!. --a? : Passed 55 to 3 the bill (HB 344) providing for a disability and re tirement system for all employes of Oregon and its political sub divisions including school districts. Passed 52 to 6 the bill (HB 345) to provide "a more workable and equitable" transportation code for highway carriers, f Adopted 55 to 2 the resolution (HJR 10) to have an interim com mittee study the need for estab lishing institutions for under-pri vileged children. Salaries Boosts Lose The senate, with a somewhat lighter calendar, turned down pro posals to increase the salaries of the governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, supreme court jus tices, attorney general, real estate commission and adjutant general. It approved salary S increases for the state engineer ($4500 to $4,- 800), labor commissioner ($4000 to $4500), and the state superin tendent of public instruction ($4,- 000 to $4800). The latter two rai ses already have been approved by the house. - The senate also completed leg islative action on the house-approved bill (HB 313) for state ac quisition pf the North Pacific Den tal college in Portland, and -adopt ed its own memorial (SJM 9) ask ing congress to enact legislation for the increase and stabilization of the price of gold. Second Fond Approved . Other major actions Monday in- eluding house $ approval of the senate bill (SB 183) creating a second-injury fund: in the work men's compensation setup.' The house also concurred in a senate joint memorial (SJM 7) asking that tenure of the president of the United States be limited to two terms. : l ' A faint hope continued to be expressed Monday that the 43rd legislation, now in its 58th state, might end next Saturday night (Legislative news page ) Riots Reported In Bucharest MOSCOW, March 5 -(&)- A Tass news dispatch reported to day that pro-fascist bands were rioting in the streets of Bucharest and tearing pictures of United Nations leaders from buildings in the Romanian capital, which has been without a government since. that of Prime Minister Radescu resigned a week ago. - The Tass report quoting the Romanian newspaper Momentul said that bands of legionnaires, protected by Radescu's ministry of the interior, .were racing through the streets in automobiles, shoot ins up the homes of democratic leaders and spreading panic among the population. Program Favored Resolution Terminating All City Services Outside Salem Given By Isabel Chllds City Editor, The Statesman . A resolution calling for termin ation of all city services - - sew er, fire-protectioiM water and po lice - outside Salem's limits, in troduced to the Salem city council Monday night by Alderman James Byers, will go to a special com mittee of three to be named soon by the mayor.' 'Hy:; V Voting thus to rid Itself for the time being of this new piece of high explosive; the council seemed o heave a sigh of relief. -Several of its members who have sought legal advice, reportedly have been told that, no matter how much householders outside the city taxj pay, under Oregon's law and Sa lem's charter services to them now are provided illegally in a major ity of caws.; "B f t t resolution would excepti thoser sewer con nections made under: contracts in which there iU no termination clause and would not remove fire protection from any governmen tal agency. - f. . . -Having landed this matter to a special committee and. having Accepts x ' : f V Senator Vandenberg, republican f Michigan, announced Mon day that; he had accepted Presi dent Roosevelt's invitation to . become a delegate to the world security conference in San Francisco. Iwo Positions nged as Japs Hit Back By Vera Hangland i U. iS. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, . Guam, Tuesday, March 6.P)-Uj S. marines grim ly pressing I w0 Jima's strongly entrenched - Japanese toward . the northern and Bortheastern j cliffs made1 no major attack Monday but broke un a number of enemy at tempts to infiltrate American posi tions. - j - ' ' Adm Chester! W. Nimitz said in his 'communique today 'the battle lines i remained substantially un changed- as . the j three divisions of marines, who hold two-thirds or more; of Iwo, consolidated their holdings elsewhere on the ! small but Vital , island where fighting is now In its 16th day. . Thus, 1 or. thie second straight day, Nimitz reported little change in position in the bitter .fighting for the strategic little island 750 railed south of Icyo. 6Q PeCent Cologne Razed L0Nl5ON, March S-vPJ-Ameri-cansf pushing into the heart of Co logne will find 60 per cent of the maui ! built-up rea approximate ly 2000 acres fazed by a total of 55,000 tons of explosives dropped on the city in repeated Allied air Fifteen thousand tons were un' loaded By heavy bombers of the US Eighth air force and the re maiider by . the RAF, which in June, 1942, selected Cologne for its first 1000 bomber raid on a large German city. t 8 Killed, 14 Injured In Cargo Plane Crash DAYTON, O., March Eiglit persons were killed and 14 hur today as a twongined C-60 cargo plane crashed and exploded at Wright field, setting fire to a hangar In which a number of ci vilians were working. - fc decided to hold up for two weeks any; action on the proposed sev erance of sewer service now pro vided under contract to Lone Oak Village - subdivision, the council postponed any vote on West Sa lem's request for i a written con tract governing Salem's fire-protection service which is now giv en (sold, really) to the city across the river. -.- t ---.- ; ;; The - Lone Oak - Village ! action wag held up so that the city en gineer could prepare for the coun cil's study plans ; and costs for. three suggested, means of reliev ing; residents in northeast; Salem of winter sewer floods. The West Salem contracts awaits the recom mendations of the committee 'of three, on the 'resolution' for the canjcellaiton of city, services out side city boundaries. . And the whole thing follows the uproar raised by resident of sub urban areas when first : moves wete made this winter to call an election to consider annexation of the heavily-populated districts at the edge of Salem. , : (More Council Action on Page 2) Unclia 1 ' ,.) - One-Fifth Germans Fleeing Area by; Boats; S J Bridge Blown Un By Austin Bealmear I PARIS, March 5 HP)-The US First army sent tanks plunging more than a mile into Cologne to day, seized more than one-fifth of the city in assaults from the north south and west and the fall of the ' largest German metropolis ever stormed by the Allies seemed near at hand. ! .; , The Germans apparently wrote off the fourth largest city in the reich, for they blew the big Hohen- 7fIIom hrMffa on4 Va., l nll : it from the east bank. Field dispatches said the Ger mans were .fleeing across the Rhine in boats, and one staff of ficer estimated that only 1000 en emy soldiers remained to garrison the city. S - In aty's Old Part ( Prisoners said these forces were falling, back into the old part of the city, which represents only one-fourth of Cologne's area of 25 square miles. The Third armored division. now within two miles or -less of the heart of the city, was the first to enter at 7U0 and the 104th in fantry division came in from the west at 9:23 a.m. ' ' Cologne is: the largest city in Rhenish Prussia .normally with a population of 768,000 which ran her once-busy war factories, but most of the civilians had fled now or cowered in basements as the battle swirjed around them.. " . 9Ut la Rheinoerg y ; Vi ' ; . ' Simultaneously, the US - Ninth army struck into the center of the shrinking Rhine pocket to the north, fighting into Rheinberg, one of the chief ferry! points for an estimated; 50,000 German sol diers trying to fight their way to the east bank of the river. -; American and Canadian armies had seized control of 70 miles of the . Rhine's I west bank between Cologne and the Dutch border, and the , Germans were hemmed into three slender 'pockets in the re maining 20 miles. Supreme - headquarters estimat ed the Germans had lost 100.0QO troops in the battle of the Rhine, sapping enemy strength so severe ly, that he will be hard put to re pulse . Rhine crossings without weakening some other front, i The battle of the Ruhr basin last important resource of the once-mighty German war machine had in effect begun with its big gest munitions cities now within artillery range. Some of them al ready shook to American shells bursting in their factory districts. 16 Per Cent Of Red Cross Quota Given . Thirteen thousand dollars, ap proximately! 16 per cent of the Marion county quota of $80,500 for" the ,.1945, Red Cross war fund had been received when first, and incomplete, returns were tallied at Monday noon's Salem Chamber of Commerce luncheon. First two rural communities over the top are Bethel, for which Lucy1 Hain is campaign chairman, and Sidney, where Nellie Wiederkehr heads the drive. Violet Belknap and Hattie McCarthy of Mrs.' Wie derkehr's workers attended the chamber luncheon to drop their report in as a surprise, brinains? rural division contributions to $843 of the 127,500 quota. The automotive division, ivith a 13700 quota, had $1348 Monday noonr contractors and builders, $4400 quota, $718; general gifts, $5200, $2077.75; governmental, $7000, $1000; education, $1700, $214; industrial, $7700, $2581; mercantile, $7200, $4437.50; subur ban, $1500, $78.50. - : Professional, utilities and wo men's divisions made no reports. Britisher Would Let Daylight Into Balkans . ; NORWICH, England, March 5-(T)-Pierse C Loftus, member of parliament, said today I feel It is time daylight was let into many parts of Europe" and asked for access to Poland, Romania, Bul garia, Yugoslavia and other lib erated countries for British and American journalists - '; - - Of City Captured