53 UM NINETY-FOUHTH YEAH Provision of school support by the state has developed into quite game of ping-pong. In 1942 the people voted to di vert all the surplus of income tax receipts to school districts. The 1943 legislature, bounced the ball back by limiting the district take to a possible $5,000,000. In 1944 the people defeated a proposed constitutional amend- ment to establish a substantial state fund for school support. . The 1945 legislature is setting money wiui f v t tached, the same to be submitted : to the people. THus the legislature j is bouficing back to the 'people again. . Maybe that's the play, batting the ball back and forth between voters and legislature. In all the talk about millions ior education (if. when and as) Is any provision being made for vocational education? The federal 1 government has put up the money wfefe OSdSadji EgiD'SD OTP for training workers for war in- der of tffe day disclosing the ca in dustry and will continue the fi- ture by fihe First White Russians nancing for rehabilitation and. re- conversion. So long as blueprint-1 tog for school finance Is being at- tempted the needs of vocational education should be recognized. ' The adoption of the dental col' lege at Portland to the state sys :S "KkJ 'has passed both houses of the legislature is a progressive step. It will 1 provide permanence '' for . am mrsA worth rofioni ,.h; t v,-i tain Portland's reputation as a medical-dental center. Most im- i portant however is the assurance mans tHmselves said was under rthat public health need not irof- Red Arny artillery fire. The Ger-1t-r the lack of trained dentists. mans f&nkly called Stettin "an As an early and strong advocate I of the inclusion of the dental col- An ea-ly-morning Moscow bul t lege in the state system of higher letin defirribed German manpower education this paper is highly losses m the thousands in dead gratified at the legislatures ac - Hon. Yanlts Regrotii For Last Phase :Ne4rly Fourth Of Luzon Fight O MANILA, Wednesday, March 7-(iT-American forces in all sectors "are regrouping for the final phas es of the Luzon campaign," Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today In announcing only limited activity against the estimated four Japa- nese divisions still on the island. In the air war, however, Ameri can bombers were busy. ' - They sank a 6000-ton freighter - transport on rormosa ana leu a . destroyer escort In flames. Xhey sank a small freighter and dam- 'aged another southeast of Shang - ; hai, and sent four small vessels to the bottom east or nong is.ong. : Naval patrol torpedo boats sank ,l coastal vesseMoaded with "es. ; caping" enemy troops off the west ! coast of Luzon. - 5 v j - The critical and seemingly hope - ess posmon oi me Japanese on Luzon island , of the Philippines Land, bub f Nippon's crumbling i greater east Asia co-prosperity ; Tuesday communique. Chiang Might Come to Meet WASHINGTON, March 6. - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ; may come to the united nations conference in San Francisco but if he does it can be for little morejcenMrsJ) Prime Minister - .nru9nnr. An Invitation has gone to the . Chinese leader, it developed to- day. ; i However, he is preoccupied in arranging for a May 5 meeting . In China. While this meeting fol- ' lows the opening of the one In ' Ean Francisco by 10 days, Chiang . was reported to be heavily con- cemed with getting ready for It, as it concerns granting more gov- ernment Dower to the Chinese ceode Salem. Reds In 25-Mile Advance Nazi Pomerania Sliced Into New Shreds by Push By Romney Wheeler LONDON, Wednesday, March 7, (JP)-Thq first White Russian ar my reached the Oden river's northeastern outlet to the Baltic yesterday! in a lashing 25-mile ad vance that took German towns and extinguished the staggered en- emy,s of any eXective un f the Soviet sparhead aimed at !,. 7J ' . Berlin friom the east. The Gjrman province of Pom erania wis sliced into new shreds by the gipeat northward and north westward thrusts of the First White Prussian and the Second White Rissian army, which reach- ed the Baltic at new points and scored gperal but less spectacular gains inthe northeast - Premier Stalin announced the day's toil developments in an or of Camtjiin, on the Oder, delta outlet dream of Dievenow, 37 miles noSth of Stettin: TreDtow. 21 noftheast of Cammin; and in the sam region the big German strongpofpts of Grjefenberg, Guel zow andl Plathe. Stettirtr Berlin's Oder river t-tt Baltic, was In im mediate ganger of being outflank ed both.'horth and south, and last night's Moscow communique an nouncedjjthat the First White Rus 8ians Mf oved westward with- of the, which the Ger- outpost fat the Reich apd capfiired at nearly every point, either tik the annihilation of en- circled groupings or the destruc Ition of Seeing, troop trains by the Red aiff -force. ..8 f ed r?ss, ff liitri tinman Incorlete returns Jxom 11 of the 1Z imvisions In the Marion county Jpmpaign to raise $80,500 for thelAmerican Red Cross 1945 war fuffd showed $17,224.33 paid in messay noon. The lumen's division, with a $9000 yota in Salen! is keeping quiet a1?fut thenresults of its house- to-nous canvass, But ft Tuesday noon's meeting 1 of the lem Kiwanis club the fol- i lowing divisions reported I Automotive and transportation $1558 $3700 quota; contractors 1 and builders, $718 of $440: general gifts, $682,75 of $5200; govern- mental fl 1384.78 of S7000; educa tional $758 of $1700: industria $271 of f$7700; mercantile $4753.50 of $7Z0; , professional $1642 of $4550; Utilities $l of $15000: ru 1 ral 538 JO of $2700 and suburban if o.aw ei sisuu quouu Broy Confirmed "YfJ ViOniimicU WASfUNGTON, March The senate ; confirmed today the nomination of William A. Brophy of NewilMexico to be commissioner of Indian affairs. ncuan a f 'Strone Heave' Says Churchill f, Br Ned Nordnexa MANY March 4.-(Relayed by cnurcrsu, tourmg tne western front in Germany, told Scottish troona In the northern Rhine m? tor today that "soon the enemy will bf driven " across the Rhine and anyone can see one strong heave Will win the war." .. ., Puffing cigar, the uniformed prime minister made no. effort to disguise his personal satisfaction in stepping on German soil won by the (victorious Allied armies. : During his trip through the Ca- nadlan! army sector, Churchill stood on one oft the highest points 12 PAGES r pounddq 1651 ; ;. V . , Oregon, Wednesday Morning, Rome i - B Ojal WithEmnonu 0eath to KingP By George Br ROME, March 6-JP)-A communist in a riot before thej royal palace norm's resignation jwas demanded by a coalition oi leit-wmg pahies as the escape of Gen. Mario Rtfatta during his trial for war crimes threw liberated Italy into Its gravest political crisis since the Allied invasion. - 'I II rJ Innocent Mince Pie Hides Ijooting Qf Cafe by Boys Kansas city, March t-ijpf- Thpee boys robbed a cafe and took a awice pie. id they eat "it? rutbed it on the Nope. They window so passersby couldn't see them loot ing the place, they! told police, who caught them robbing an other cafe. . i - Start M arines V. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Guam Wednesday, Mfrch 7 Preceded by the most Intense artillery bombard ment of the Iwo campaign, three marine divisions resumed the of fensive on the north end of the tiijy island Tuesday and engaged the Japanese in "heavy fighting." Bi 3:30 p.m. the leathernecks had scored small local gains.. pThe marines were supported for the first time by land-based army fighte-planes flying! from the cap tured Motoyama airfield No. 1 on uis souui ena oi uie lsiana. inese fighter planes thus: began oper ating from a base which puts them wjthin flying range of Tokyo, 750 miles to the north, j More than 14,000 enemy dead ha;ve been counted. IThe gains were scored on the wfst side by Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rickey's Fifth marine division and near the center by Maj. Gen. Clif ton B. Cates Fourth marine di vision which is on the right flank oft Maj. Gen. Graves B. Erskine's Third. JjloodXegion WiURestore Nisei Names ! HOOD ; RIVER, March .-P-dommander Jess B Edgington of the American Legion post here skid today the post still opposes the return of Nisei to this area, despite its decision io restore Jap anese-American soldiers to the Honor rolL i f The post's official statement, is-- sued after the national legion &reatened to investigate, said: f Upon', the directive of National Commander Edward M. Scheiber Bng of the American Legion, Al bany, NY, Hood Riter Post No. 22 toted at its regular' monthly meet fig Monday night, March 5, to re itore the names of 15 men of Jap anese ancestry to their honor roU. I "This action, however, does not fhange the sentiment, of the post regarding the return of the Jap anese to the Hood River valley. Will Win War' After Toiir ; nd gazed long and silently , to ward the mist-covered Rhine. ; i Perhaps he was recalling that our years ago, when Hitler was triumphantly planning a visit to London, he could promise the peo ple of Britain only "blood, sweat and tears" before! "final victory. jnd there across the Rhine was dctory. ;.;- p ' - r (A dispatch from London said Churchill returned there Tuesday Mter visiting the) western front and the headquarters of Gen. Eis enhower and Field! Marshal Mont gomery "for the purpose of dis cussing with theml and other Al lied commanders i wide field of Inilitary : matters.1 Heavy Assault On Iwo Island March: 7, 1945 Rioters Yell demonstrator was slain today land Premier Ivanoe Bo- The nemand. for: the premier's resignation was presented by a group composed of communists, socialists, actionists. republicans, partisans and war veterans. Bo nomi hks called a cabinet meeting for tonforrow. , v i The J slain demonstrator was identified as Guiseppe -Lastagna ManciiliJ a member of the com munist! party, by the membership card ii his pocket ' Three: other persons, two Allied soldiers j and an Italian "police agent,'! were wounded when police fired qn the crowd attempting to burst into the royal palace and shouting "death to the king." Crown Prince Umberto, lieuten ant of the realm since his father, King fVittorib Emahuele, relin quished his rights, was in the pal ace during the riot, but he, did not appear while the carabinieri drove bff the crowd, estimated at louu persons. The lung has not lived In Rome since the Italian armistice, having retired to a villa at Salerno. Americas Plan WliattoSay 1 To I Argentina By Flora Lewis MEXICO CITY, March .-P)- Delegates to the Inter-American conference" today reached infor mal agreement on what to say to Argentina, it was learned on high authority. The statement, which is expect ed on Thursday, the last day of the conference, remains to be phrased, however. The main peints will be: 1.. Expression of regret at Ar gentina's absence from the Inter American conference. 2. Hope that Argentina will be able to put herself in a position to sign; the Mexico City resolutions ana rejoin the American system. 3. Hope that Argentina will be able to put herself in a position to joi4 the united nations, which means a. declaration of war. 4. Provision for consultation among uie zu otner republics to deader whether Argentine . acts actually constitute a sincere change in position. " Meanwhile, delegates were sche duled jto meet In a plenary session this afternoon to give formal ap proval to fifteen resolutions, in cluding the reorganization of the Panamerican union and the act of Chapultepec. j - f ". t i .!'.'.. Senate Quickly Okehs Vinson i - - - . WASHINGTON, March 8. iP The senate confirmed today Presi dent j'Roosevelt's ' nomination of Fred !M. Vinson to be federal loan administrator. ; ' ' i Acting with unusual speed, the chamber approved the appoint ment of the 55-year-old Kentuck ian to head ( the $40,000,000,000 reconstruction finance corporation and allied agencies. The action was takeri on a voice vote without word of debate. . . Vinson thus steps out as eco nomic stabilization director to as sume . authority which congress stripped from the commerce de partment before the senate con firmed 'the cabinet nomination of uenry a. Wallace. -,- -is ' - 1 ! . 'Germans Slust Husband Forces for Tomorrow' i LONDON, March 6-(1P)--German forces fmust have as their' main aim the husbanding of their strength while inflicting maximum loses: on the enemy,' but all forces must be kept intact for the tasks of ? tomorrow,"' said Dr. Otto Kriegk, aide to Propaganda Minis ter Goebbels, today over the Ber lin radio. Prfc 5c No. 301 Risk Bill Iii House . 38-21 Vote Beats 3-Way Plan; Of fice Plant Wins : i ' - - -i Managinc editor,. The Statesman . j By Wendell Webb : Two of the. most controversial measures of the 43rd legislature were j killed Tuesday the plan (HB 232) for the so-called three- way method of ; workmen's com pensation insurance, and the pro posal (SB 271) to split up eastern and ' Southern Oregon senatorial districts. i ! On the affirmative side; the sen ate completed legislative action on the plan to borrow $1,500,000 from the irreducible school fund for a state office building, by' passing house! bill 312 with a vote of 22 o 8. Both the senate, which defeated the reapportionment measure 18 to 12 and the house, which ap proved a senate resolution SJR 8) adding the secretary of state and the state treasurer to the presi dent of the senate and speaker of the house in the line of succes sion to the governor, completed full calendars.' j Terms Are Specified The house also approved the senate Joint resolution (SJR 17) providing that terms of legislators shall run . until ; the biennial ses sion fefter the general election- not just until such election. The house also disposed of the bill (HB 401) extending from six months to one year the time in which, workmen may file actions to recover overtime pay under the wage-hour statute, passing the measure 51 to 7. The move (HB 232) to provide a three-way method (state, priv ate or employer) of carrying work men's compensation insurance was defeated after a two-hour debate n the house. Report Substitute Byithe vote of 38 to 21, the rep resentatives elected to substitute a do riot pass recommendation for the major committee report of d0' pass,- and then voted to lnaerm- wTTf .! rT The 21 who Voted "no" to the proposal to toss out the bill were Repsl Balderree; Chadwick, Chase, Dickson, Duniway, . Frisbie, Gpe, Hall, Carl Hill, Earl Hill, Lage, Landbn, Lonergan, Meyers;, Moore, Morse, j Peterson, Pooled eVErt. Staples. Wills, I Marsh. . Excused was lAiien. Rep. Brady, supporting the sijc cessful move to substitute the ad verse report, said he opposed any one f making money out of work men's misfortunes, and declared administrative costs under the (n dustrial accident commission were less than hi private insurance com- ReD. Manlev -Wilson echoed a similar belief and said that open - ing the insurance to private com panies and to k employers them selves would hamper - the states safety program. ' y , ; ; - Rep. John Hall, speaking (for the measure and against the move to substitute the adverse reccom. mendation. said he -believed the three-day method of insurance -would be more beneficial to la- Defeated bor? than the present program of her corporation officials today con limiting such ; Insurance to jthe finned rerjorta that ime concern is stete. .1 He denied the present program was! monopolistic, pointed out that it would provide coverage both In hazardous and non-hazardous oc cupation, and ! said amendments asked by labor reducing the wait Ing period from seven to three days ana removing xne maximum benefits for disability had been Included in the measure.' The minority "do not pass's re port, adopted, was signed by Reps. Bull, French, M. Wilson and Bra dy; jthe defeated majority report by Reps. Balderree, Chadwick, Moore, Carl Hill and Lage. Y. . Y rt ; Both the senate and house fac ed full calendars today, the Sfth of the session. As a special order of business at 2:15 p. m, the house wQ consider adoption of divergent committee reports on the liquor control measures, SB 144, 143. ill?. (Legislative -news t page 12) ' Weather Max. Mln. J 32 . kaia t JM I 2l trace trace trace Sam; Francisco Eugene , i Salem. Portland - , . .53 .so rSS SrafUa WlUamette tivcr A tL Captured J ... :;. ::: . . . ...... laaraaraTKawraMftTifc View ef Cologne, with Cologne Cathedral in center. Allied bomber bombs on the ancient church and the war. i Patton For M iles Toward Rhine After Big Breakthrough in South Rampant Ohio River Causes Heavy Damage CINCINNATI. March 7-( Wed nesday ) (JP)-The j Ohio river, swollen by .Uie heaviest rains In years, .' passed a 68-foet stare here early today. With the death toll in the worst flood since 1937 reaching eicht In four states, Flood stage is 52 feetj C1NCINNATI, March . t-Wf- Swollen by two to nearly four . Inches 'of rain along much -of its length, the war-vital Ohio river n eared a 70-f o o t itage tonight, while its valley, already record ing'- six deaths in I three states, braced against the midwest's most disasterous wartime torrent War plants closed by the score; transportation . facilities founder ed; eastern headquarters of the American Red Cross reported probably 5000 to $000 families evacuated 'and 10,000 homeless in Cincinnati alone. . Relief shelters were set up; the army released blankets and other Lommand at Columbus. 0. while ( ... . mmnitii p-ew by the hour. " . I m "l J T I - J. OleClO JtSOV S i J J c ji tirl MLS'VJBJlVC? M. VJCJLB-SVa. PORTLAND, Ore., March &-Jf) old Lee Roy Search for , 15-year-Bridges which star ed after fire destroyed his ' home near Toledo, Ore. was halted, tonight when the remains of human bones were fcund in material taken from the I ruins. Dr. Joseph Beeman, director of veittloievemledrfh,Doy died I in the fire and that 'there was no I im (Inn v nl tl nltiw .Tn. Vl 1 . ,,:',,, . . er, Wilkie Bridges, told of arriv ins? home.' falline asleen in his auto and being awakened by the fire. The boy's mother and an In fant half-sister live in Hunting- ton Beach, Calif. NcW Type of U. S. Tank BeinS Manufactured I tjetrOIT. March S-jJn-Chrrs manufacturina a new type tank- I nfflriallr known as lT-25 and de- j scribed by undersecretary of war I Robert P. . Patterson as "the "an- swer to the German Tiger tank. -m si Mf M a Damage Near $10,000 Results From Fire at Turn TURNER Damages "mounting . toward $10,000 and, discontinua- j tfori of classes here until repairs can be made resulted from the fire which early Tuesday morn ing destroyed the: jifurnace; room of the public school building here. Third and . fourth: grade rooms, directly above ; the furnace were considerably burned and smoked and: water damages resulted in other parts of the structure, which was built in 1822. . ;;N--;;. "Flames were discovered by Ray mond Eser, a paper boy, who no tified O. E. Warren, the janitor, while his father i turned? in -the alarm. ,- ;'- ;;,'; ''"-', ' The fire department, arriving at 333 o'clock" was able to confine by Yanks Tuesday Night i. i ,1 V I . it is believed that the stately structure has not been damaged by ces Advance 32 By AUSTIN PARIS, Wednesday, March ly to the U. S. First army in the drive yesterday as General Eisenhower, lifted the news .black oat on operations of the American Third army and revealed that its armor was racing toward the Rhine in a break through that covered 32 miles in two days. I These dramatic developments, coming when the Ninth army and its Canadian allies had virtually completed occu pation of all German territory west of the Ruhr, shifted the big punches to the middle Rhine farther south and open W Exploded Ship StUl'Blazing kAMancouver VAirCOUVER, March 6,-(CP) -Three crew members and .two stevedores were reported unac counted for tonight as fire-fighters struggled vaytfy to check a blaze in three . holds of the 10,-000-tcjn victory ship SS Greenhill Park which was ripped asunder In the forward sections by a se ries ojt explosions at noon today. The! vessel which was beached on Sijvash rock, just outside the harbor entrance, Was still burn ing far an aft at a late hour to night and fireboats were playing hoses jinto the holds in an effort to stop he spread of flames. Actual number of men .trapped in the! holds was unknown as res cue squads have been unable to board the vessel and the exac't numb sr of men working on the boat kt the time of the mishap was "obscure. Berlin Radio Predicts Early Rhine Crossing LONDON, March The Berlin radio military commentator Capt Ludwig Sertorious predicted tonight that Gen. Eisenhower would "immediately attempt to cross khe Rhine in force." : The various small scale but re pulsed crossing attempts carried out by units of the (US) Ninth army Monday between ' Duisburg and rjhuesseldorf perhaps were cur- Gotbbels' Castle Used Forj Jewish Services WITH THE U. S. 29TH DI VISION IN GERMANY, March 6. (-ropaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels castle near Rhe ydt was used for Jewish church services today by Chaplain Manuel M. Poliskoff of Baltimore, Md. The banquet hall where the serv ice 4-as held still had a picture of Hitler in the background. School the fire to a comparatively small area! James C. Russell, principal, believes the blaze may have been from spontaneous . combustion.! The furnace had not yet been fired for the day. , Evidence Indi cated the fire had smoldered some timej before bursting into flame, ne said. ' Damages probably are less than $10,000, according to RusselL The builling is covered by insurance. ScfhooF will be discontinued un til Uie heating system can be re built and wiring repaired. High school classes, Russell said, pro bably will be resumed before thos of the grade school, because damage was largely confined io the latter portion of the building, v i i f Ml ' V i Z ' .W; erews were ordered not te drop BEALMEAR 7 (AP) Cologne fefl swift climax of its great eastward .. : the way fpr tne auies to pusn m enemy out pt the area west of the Rhine and north of the Moselle. The supreme allied headquarters announcement of the capture of the 'bomb - blackened Rhiioeland capital said that only sporadic fighting 'continued Jast Slight in Cologne's southern outskirts.-' . (A broadcast from London re corded by National broadcasting company quoted BBC Correspon dent Frank Gillard r as reporting the Hohenzollern bridge at Col ogne was still standing yesterday; and open to foot traffic.) j Falls en 12th Day Thus, Germany's fourth largest city and the , greatest enemy in dustrial center that has so far ca pitulated was in allied hands on ' the 12th day of the powerful of fensive from the Roer river. 1 Last night its beaten nazi gar rison was being driven southward toward Bonn through a narrowing corridor along the - Rhine's west bank. Since the start of the slashing attack from east of captured Bit-; burg at dawn yesterday, Patton's armored forces had captured more than 1500 Germans, including a corps commander, and had reach ed a point only 20 miles from the Rhine. Tonight tanks led by Bright Gen. Holmes Dager of Union, NJ, ' were reported smashing on against disorganized and sporadic nazi re sistance. . I ' .;. Fastest of All , i , .- - - - i A field dispatch declared . that Tor the rampant Americans it was a surge which "outdid any thing witnessed In France. Wea ther, not the Germans, was said to be impeding the advance. A news blackout still prevented dis- j closure of the exact whereabouts of American spearheads. Motor-( Ized infantry was ' piling along . German' highways be hind th : speeding tanks. : , I f The German garrison of Cologne put up surprisingly weak resist- . ance as the US Third armored di- J vision and 104th infantry smash- , ed through to the Rhine near the , cathedral, at the western end of the Hohenzollern bridge. 1200 Prisoners of War Liberated by Seventh WITH THE U. S. SEVENTH ARMY, March .-P)-More than 1200 Allied prisoners of war were liberated from a stockade in the village of ' Stiring-Wekerfel in France on tbfe German border when troops of the American 70th division completed clearing For bach yesterday. ;: t ". - .vj' A ' Russian, French, k Poles and Czechs - were among those freed by the 247th regiment during the ? process of occupying the For bach 1 area two to three miles southwest I of Saarbruecken. i Partly Cloudy 1 with' occasional light rain and little change in temperature today in the mid-Willamette valley area, predicts U. S. wea ther bureau, McNary field, Sa lem. '" ' - ' "35. XT