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Salem, Oregon, Tudcry Morning, March 13. 13AS
Pric 5c
No. 303
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The interstate -cnmerce com
mission has reported on the wrek
Which occurred last Pecember on
the Southern Pacific just west of
Ogden wB en 50 were killed and
81 injured. A speeding mail train,
its engineer dead from a heart at
tack, crashed into a slow-moving
passenger train on the causeway
of Great Salt Lake. The commis-
sion's report says that the wreck
could have been averted if an
' adequate , automatic train-stop or
train-control system had been in
use in this territory. Under such
a system the brakes of the second
train would have been applied
automatically when the engineer
lailed to act."
If there had been a cab-signal
system in use the fireman would
have known that the block signal
ahead, hidden in fog, was set for
"stop", and he could have applied
the brakes when the engineer
failed to do so.
The pertinent point now is why
the interstate commerce commis
sion itself has been so slow in
- forcing the installation of safety
devices which it now admits might
have prevented this - wreck, , the
worst in the history of the west.
The commission knows from ex
perience that while some roads
are progressive and constantly ex
perimenting and putting in new
equipment in the interest of safety
as a rule the commission has to
lay down orders with definite
dates when proven devices must
be installed to get general compli
ance. That is true both for track
safety and for rolling stock. And
all too often the commission
(Continued on editorial page)
Iwo Campaii
Fast Reaching
Mop-Up Stage
V. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Tuesday, Mar.'
13.-i"f')--Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rock
ey's Fifth marine division reduced
the area of the last sizable pocket
held by the Japanese around Kit
ano point on the northern end
of I wo Monday but enemy resist
ance there still continued stiff,
headquarters isaid today! A smaller
pocket on thj northeast coast con
tinued to; hdld out against Maj.
Gen. Graves! B, Erskine's Third
marine division and Maj. Gen.
Clifton B. Cates' Fourth division.
The navy communique's word
ing made it evident, however that
lr a large sense the Iwo operation,
23 days old today, is in its mop-up
Stage. : I ;. ; . , "V
John jConnell h
Dies in Action
Withl7thArmy
WCXJDBURN, i March 12.-S1
Sgt John W. Connell, jr was
killed in action February 22 while
serving with the 70th- division,
Seventh army in France. His
wife, the former Gelta Mae Hunt,
'was notified Sunday by the war
department. - She had been noti
. fled . March 6 that her husband
. , was missing in action. He is a son
of Sheriff John W. Connell of
i. Washington county. . ,
-. rSergent Connell was salesman
for Ray-Maling company at Hi 11s
boro until inducted Aug. 10, 1943
and received his basic training at
Camp Adair -with the 70th divi-
- sion. Transferred to Ft. Leonard
Wood he went overseas early last
.December.
Survivors are his wife and son,
John Winton, 11 months old; of
Woodburn; his father, John W.
- Connell, Reedville; and a sister,
. Mrs. Kenneth Patterson, Oswego.
Capt. Qiarles Ayleswcyjh
Dies in South Pacific
AMITJf, March 12 Capt,
Charles Aylesworth has been
killed in action in the South Pa
. cific, friends here have learned.
He was a brother-in-law of W.
M. Richter of Amity. Mrs. Ayles
worth is the former Anette Sincox
and spent her childhood, in Amity.
Robert Borland
McuiagerhyS
- SILVERTON, March 12 Rob
ert E. Borland, who succeeded H.
C McCrea as c city manager of
Elairsville, Pa, will succeed him
also -at a similar post here. Bor
land, who had been McCrea's as
sistant for several years before
McCrea . came to Silverton last
year, was elected at a special
council meeting here ' tonight
The new manager will be avail
able immediately, he had inform
ed the council, and Mayor George
Christensen has wired him asking
that he come at once., Borland is
41 years old, married and the
father of two children. - '
The question of whether the
leer rarlor licenses held here last
year by Leonard Goiit shall be
;;; . J 1 i : - .1
New Red
Offensive
Russians Smash
Nazi Defenses .
Around Danzig
By Kmmey , Wheeler
LONDON, Tuesday, March 13.-
(-Kuestrin, the fortress city 38
miles northeast of Berlin on which
the Nazis hinged their central Oder
river line defenses, fell to the Red
army yesterday and its capture
was announced by Premier Stalin
even as the German radio was
reporting a new Russian offensive
from bridgeheads west of the nv-
er. ; - '
The new drive, unconfirmed by
Moscow, merged thrusts from sev
eral Soviet crossings of the. Oder "
south of Kuestrin "into a Isingie'"
attack on a board front,, the en- j
emy broadcasts said.
'Nazi commentators claimed this
offensive was not a drive on Ber
lin itself, but was aimed at "ex
tension' of the Russian -" bridge
heads and at getting the - Oder
crossings out of range of German
artillery '
Stalin's order - of the day an
nouncing the capture of" Kuestrin
was preceded by another order
which disclosed that Perman de-
enses northwest of Danzig had
been smashed by the second white
Russian : army and that Soviet
forces were closing, in rapidly on
the great port city, itself. ;
The regular communique broad
cast from Moscow indicated that
only small isolated pocks of Ger
mans remain to be mopped up in
northeastern' Pomerania on the
approaches to Danzig.
Kuestrin fell to Marshal G. K.
Zhukov's first white Russian army
after a week of bloody street fight
ing. Much of the city, situated
on the Oder's east bank at its
confluence with the Warthe river,
was destroyed as Soviet dive-
bombers, artillery, mortars . and
flame-throwers blasted out the
Nazi defenders., .
Mexicans Will
Arrive Late
This Month
WASHINGTON, March 12.-(P-Ch
airman ConnaUy (D-Tex) of
the senate foreign relations com
mittee today described the inter
American agreements of Mexico
City as' a beacon . to guide the
United Nations at San Francisco
next month.';, V-v .
The Texan, a delegate to both
Mexico City and San Francisco,
reported to the senate on the ses
sion in the southern republic just
one day ahead of a preliminary
meeting of the group which will
represent this country in the Unit
ed Nations , meeting beginning
April 25. ;A v
: Referring to the act of Chapul-
tepec, Connally said: - ' -
;. "This is. a forerunner of , what
we hope will happen at San Fran
cisco. This Is. a beacon which shall
enable the states at San Francisco
to see the roadway to peace."
Elected City i
renewed was tossed , into the ; lap
of the liquor commission by the
council after both Gouge and his
attorney, John Steelhammer, had
been heard Monday night , 5,
V On the matter of a favorable
recommendation, city fathers cast
a three-to-three tie secret ballot
then proceeded to record a simi
lar vote on the question of send
ing any recommendation as to
Gouge s licenses to the commis
slon. A recommendation: had prov
iously been denied 04 petition of
some of the city's residents, ; but
at a recent council session petU
tions carrying a greater number
of names asked, for reconsidera
tion and declared Gouge's estab
lishment well-operated.
Reported
JSew Fighting
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I S PHILIPPINES
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ff k 2mboirJ wjy MINDANAO
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Large arrow indicates where Americans are fifhtina in the Zam
boanaa, area or Mtnaanae roiiowinr ineir utest lanauc wmcn car'
ried the Yanks within 655 miles
other Americans are driving on Barnle and the southern part of
the island. Black areas tare American entwlled-. Ar- wtrephoto'
map) r
B-29 Set Fires Burn Heart
I Out of Nagoya; Singapore
i " Also lasted by Big Forts
J - By Elmont Waite
i 21ST BOMBER COMMAND, Guam. March 13-tV(via Navy
radio) -Fifteen fires still Jwere burning in Nagoya, chief aircraft
production center of Japan, 12 hours .after a terror-spreading
middle of the night incendiary raid by mora than 300 B-29
bombers. ;. '-'I . "
Reconnaissance photographs
Great Fleets 4
! -t.
Of Bombers?
Ravage Reich
LONDON, March 12-(-Great
fleets of American heavy bombers
and, the ? largest force of IBritish
heavies - ever used in daylight
formed a mighty armada of more
than 2550 planes .which Ravaged
Germany's communications and
industries from the Ruhr; to the
Baltic sea today partly id direct
support of Russia's armiesf
As the war's greatest sustained
aerial assault raged through its
28th day, the RAF, in the develop
ing campaign to obliterate the
Ruhr's industrial cities, sent more
than 1200 big Halifaxes ad Lan
casters . to unload 5000 Hons of
bombs on Dortmund. At the same
time 650 American heavies blast
ed! the ' German naval . base of
Swinemuende, clogged . with sea
borne reinforcements for Russian
besieged Stettin. J '
The British air ministry said the
force hurled against Dortmund
was even larger larger than the
1200-plane attack unloosed Sunday
on Esseii-which would make the
Dortmund attack the bigest yet
in dayught by the kajt.
i.
Mrs. II. L. Carl Critically
111, Woodburn Hospital
WOODBURN, March li-Mrsr
H. L. Carl is critically ill i a hos
pltal here. At her bedside are her
sons; Maj. Marion Carl, south Pa
cific 'marine ace who came west
by plana Monday from Maryland,
and Man ton Carl, who after two
and one-half years as a paratroop
er came home to run the Carl dai
ry! ranch at Hubbard this;: winter
when his mother was first report
ed HI, ahd her daughter, Virginia
Carl, who left week left hr grad
uate studies at Northwestern uni
versity to return to Hubbard. - :
" Mostly Cloudy ;
today with brief periods ql sun
shine in the late afternoon in
the mid-Willamette valley area,
predicts JJ. S. weather, biireau,
lIcNary field, Salem, - J -
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in Philippines
of oil-rich Balikpapan. On Luton
disclosed today the greatest sin
gle item in the official ; list of
flame-swept targets was the AichI
Aircraft Works' Eitoku plant A
total of 358,000 square feet (neatly
14 per cent of the roof area) was
destroyed. This Included complete
gutting of one of the main sub-assembly
buildings. '
Smoke at the time the photo
graphs were made at noon yester
day still obscured a large portion
of the city but the 21st bomber
command does not expect to find
"any extensive damage under the
smoke,' said Maj. Gen. Curtis Le
may, commander of the 21st after
Viewing the pictures.
. Major damage was done in five
areas; - centered about two miles
south! of Nagoya castle but the
flames evidently were controlled
just as they started to merge.
Another force of approximately
40 Superfortresses,' flying from an
India . base ' of the 20th bomber
command, hit factories adjacent to
the Japanese-held Singapore naval
base yesterday. The raid follow
ed by two days an attack on Kuala
Lampur, Malay, 200 miles north
of Singapore. These two strikes
were announced in Washington.
r1
Go Over Top
In ARC Drive
; First " two Salem' city divisions
to go, over the top in the 1845 Red
Cross war fund campaign, the edu
cational ' team headed by h i g h
school principal Harry ' Johnson
had Collected 140 per cent of its
quota Monday, and the residential
division with. an all-woman team
directed by Mrs. Douglas McKay
had 118 per cent of Its quota.;
Marion county campaigners as
a group had. raised approximately
68 per cent of the $80,500 quota.
Utilities had 73 per cent; profes
sional' 92; mercantile 78; indus
trial SO; governmental 68; general
gifts 69; contractors and builders
66;i automotive . 78; ' suburban 75
per cent, and communities outside
Salem 17. .The 17: per eent figure
Is : misleading, declare - General
Chairman F. G. Lesserer and Di
vision : Chairman Frank Doerfler
since' communities are not report
ing until they have collected their
full Quotas, and a cumber ' are
hearing their goals. -, ' ; -
City Teams
re
11
Japanese
Positions
Overrun
"41sl Vets Take
Zamboanga Civic
Center, Airfield
By C. Yates McDsnlel -
MANILA. Tuesday, March .13
Oip)- Veteran Yanks of Maj. Gen.
Jens A. Doe's 41st infantry divi
sion overran strong Japanese po
sitions on southwestern Mindanao
Sunday as they captured the civic
center of Zamboanga and a Stra
tegic air field only 200 ailes
northeast of Borneo.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
in his communique today the
doughboys, who Invade4 the sec
ond largest Island in the Philip
Dines on Saturday. 24 hours later
were 'overrunning strong (steel
and concrete pillbox and arMlery
positions with only minorloBes."
t MacArthur said the Japanese at
Zamboanga, caught off guar 1 by
the amphibious landing, hac not
yet been able to organize their
defenses. . ."
Air Field Captured 1 ;
i The air field captured was near
San Rogue, about four miles west
of the Zamboanga governmental
seaU-Th .village . of -San-Xoque
was seized along with four ethers
shortly after; the invasion.
The Yanks previously overran
a smaller ait strip, Wolfe iieja, in
their lightning sweep'from the in
vasion beaches. The San Roque
airdrome, considerably larger, is
one of the best in Mindana
There was no mention of fight
ing' for the San Roque I airdrome,
which; has ai airstrip 4000 feet
long, or enough to accommodate
i zee
ipdat
L
medium bombers.
Klpa Use.Mertars t
Associated Press Correspondent
Russell Brines reported! the Japa
nese were using mortars from hill
positions with good effect, how
ever. A headquarters spokesman
said the Yanks faced moderate
machine gun and mortar fije as
they entered the city center. '
I On Luxon, troops of I the First
cavalry division and Sixth infan
try division continued to advance
on the front east of Manila.' The
dismounted : troopers t captured
high ground: beyond the town of
Antipolo. ; j
House Votes
New Lease on
Life for GCC
WASHINGTON, March
A new lease on life for the com
modity credit corporation was vot
ed by the house today j after ad
ministration assurance of vigorous
dealings with, any employe found
involved in speculation "scandals."
The legislation, approved 359 to
8, boosts the borrowing power of
the agency, which supports farm
prices, from $3,000,000,000 to $5,
000,000,000, half a billion dollars
above the amount set by the sen-
ate. . - vryiX:f'S i -1 'f. -I
; Passage came without a fight, on
consumer food subsidies an-issue
on which many previous CCC bat
tles have turned.: 1
LubinNamed
Delegate for
arations
"WASHINGTON, liarch 12.-VP)
--Dr. Isador Ibin, economist and
statistician,- was appointed today
as American membiT of the rep
arations nnmissioa.- .
t Created by the big three at Yal
ta the commission' will meet in
Moscow in about a-month, to de
cide how Germany ihould pay for
the- devastation caused ',1 by her
armies . throughout .Xurope. - ' sy
U The appointment t Immediately
raised the question of what other
countries would be itpresented on
the commission, other than Brit
ain, Russia and the; United States.,
To this question tht. state depart
ment had no Immed iate answer.
"CP
UNJ
Job Preference -Eor
Vets Wins :
Final Approval f
The , senate . Monday ; passed
measures taxing domestic insur
ance companies, giving war vet
erans job preference and asking
the federal government to limit
expenditures to budget-estimates,
as the 43rd legislature waded into
what may or may not be its last
week. V- 'U.--VV--
The house approved bills in
creasing the "cushion" for 'future
property tax relief ; in a program
which left doubt that there would
be4 an income tax : discount next
year if it wins final approval. The
house also approved a ! $20,000
fund for a state tax study, and
voted in favor of a less drastic
form of compulsory military train
ing than the senate favored.
Appropriation bills passed the
house with little argument: '
.. Today is the 65th of the session.
(Legislature "news- page 7). ";
Bataan Men Parade Through
Cheering
Crowds in Frisco
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12-P)-Through cheering crowds,
many of whom removed their hats and wept unashamed, the 272
liberated prisoners of Cabanatuan motored up Market street amid
a shower o ticker tape and confetti today in an official civic
welcome. - - l -, ; ; . . -
Looking over the heads of the flag-waving throngs, Cpl.
John Bailey of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
turned to a Japanese prison com
panion and grinned: "Remember
those 10 kilometers through Ma
nila?" ; '- -if ; -
"If this is a dream, what a
dream!' boomed back Cpl. Al Jol
ley of San Francisco. They had
marched together in a humiliating
parade of defeat through jeering,
dancing Japanese in the Philip
pine capital three years ago.
That memory and today's form
ed the keynote of the celebration
that included ,sirprise promotion
of three of their number to full
colonel, presentation of gold wel
come medallions, prayers for their
deliverance by rangers and guer
rillas and a hotel banquet that in
cluded T-bone steak. j y--
The parade probably was the
only military procession in history
without a smgle soldier with the
rank of private. : All 272 had been
raised a rank. , ?
Chinese Foil
Jap Landing
CHUNGKING, March 12-(JP)-A
Japanese attempt to land a small
force on the Fukien!eoast about 40
miles south of; enemy-held Foo
chow has been frustrated by Chi
nese forces, field dispatches said
today. About 100 of the invaders
were killed and' the others driven
off. .
Two Japanese warships covered
the landing, which apparently was
an attempt to extend the Japanese
protective area : along' the coast
against possible American land
ings from the Pacific. j
: Other .official Chinese, reports
declared severe; fighting was rag
ing inside Suichwan; former site
of a US 14th air force base in
Kwangsf province. The reports
said Chinese troops had broken
into the city in their current drive
against Japanese forces in south
west China. . . -
Pvt. Corby Ray Dies '
In German Action
. SILVERTON HILLS, March 11
Pvt. Corby Ray was killed in
action In Germany, his wife has
been notified by the war depart
ment With their Infant daughter
Mrs. Hay Is making her home
with her parents, Mr.' and Mrs.
Frank Gilpatricks on the P. A.
Loar ranch., ? "''
t Mrs. - Ray had previously been
notified her husband was missing
in action.". " "
New Department of Veterans'
Affairs Becomei Oregon Law
- The -house bill (HB 271) creat
ing the department of veterans'
affairs became a law Monday with
the signature of ?Kv. Earl Snell
who termed it an important step
in Oregon! determination to pro-
vide every possible service and
assistance to our returning 'vet
erans.' : -v y f '
: The biH carried an appropria
tion of $30,009 and . provided for
an advisory council of seven per
sons. Including one from each' of
the five established veterans or
ganizations, one from World war
II group, and one at large. The
director, to be appointed by the
governor, will be paid $ICC3 a
year. i
- .Tollowed by other enactr.tr. ts
including education assistance and
" '"T , l" :'m"" T
First Across -
y
u
Est. Alexander A. Drablck, above.
1 of Holland," Ohio, was praised
I by his commanding general for
1 leading the charge across Bem
i aren bridge ever the Rhine
1 which gave allies their . first
I bridgehead. (AP wire photo)
2WLBCases
Fail to Make
Highest Court
I WASHINGTON,' March - 12.-(JP)
-Two cases springing from dispu
ted orders -of the war labor board
failed t? get tata supreme court
today. -v-';-.- . j-'. "w '
"f7. Thrtwvoverlenirsa
ure of Montgomery Ward & Co.
properties was, in effect," handed
over to the circuit court of appeals
when the supreme court declined
a review at this "time. This" meant
the case cannot reach the .high
court again before next fall.
Both sides sought to appeal di
rectly to the supreme court from
a Chicago, federal district court
decision that army seizure of
plants in seven cities was illegal.
In the second case, the United
States Gypsum Co. asked an in
junction and 'a broad judgment to
define requirements- of a , WLB
directive vof 1943 concerning its
Warren, Ohio, 'plant --.
PFCNaderman
Said Missing '. ,
: PFC Gerald W. Naderman, son
of Mr. and Mrs. George V. Nader
man, 1024 Highland ave, has been
missing in action in Germany
since February 23, his parents
have been notified by the war de
partment A" graduate of Salem ..high
school, he entered active service
with the national guard when' it
was called out in tha autumn of
1940, was stationed at first at Fort
Stevens with a , medical detach
ment and was later sent to Ford
ham university as an army special
ized training program . student
When the ASTP was discontinued,
he was assigned to the 329th engi
neers of the 104th division, which
had trained at Camp Adair but
was at that time at Camp Carson,
Colo., and went overseas late in
the summer of 1944.-
A sister, Mrs. R. I. Applegate
also makes her home In Salem.
Berlin Bombed . Again
LONDON, Tuesday, March 13-(AV-RAF
Mosquito bombers rock
ed 'Berlin with two-ton blockbust
ers last night for the 21st night
in succession, the air ministry
announced. today. - -
real estate loan measures, Oregon
will occupy a foremost position
among all states of the union in
discharging its obligation to the
brave men and women who have
served our country so gloriously
during this terrible .conflicV Gov-
ernor 2neu saia. - " ; -i ,
The governor also signed two
bills to repeal the. 1943 laws pro
viding for " certain - redactions of
corporation and, personal Income
taxes. These laws never became
effective because they were con
tingent on passage of the sales tax,
which was defeated at the No
vember general election. 1 ;
Other measures signed included
the plan . permitting the barber
board to approve price scales.
(Legislative news page .7
f actones
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n
M.M. -U. J
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Americans Gain
Up to!2JMiles;
23 Towns Taken
By Austin Bealmear
PARIS, March- 12-tip)-The US
First army jumped off early today
in the first big Allied assault east
of the Rhine, scored gains up to
two and a half miles, and expand
ed its bridgehead to nearly five .
miles deep nd 11 miles wide.! ,
At-least; twp more towns were
seized, bringing to 23 the number
captured on the east bank since
the American! charged across the
Ludendorff bridge from Remagen
Wednesday. ; j , .
The : Germans said Lt ' Gen.
Courtney HHodges had thrown
40,000 troopsj including two ar
mored and two infantry divisions,
into the push which placed the
Ruhr's factory cities in their grav
est peril of the war. '
Drive Eastward
' The greatest American advance
was eastwards More than" four
miles almost due east of Remagen
bridge,- .tanks and infantry seized
Ginsterhahn and Hargarten, slash
ed across a. German lateral supply
line, and pressed to within three
miles of a super highway to the
Ruhf.. ' , -j 'I .'.
Previously fthe Americans had
driven five miles north in Honnef
on dne main highway, to the Ruhr,
and were less than 25 miles from
the southern J region , of the 600
square mile Jbasin teeming with
war factoriesi One counterattack
was beaten back at Honnef today.
Eleven miles south of Honnef
iSorces driving south fought Into
Hoenningen;'ix miles southeast of
the, Ludendorff bridge. r, '
.Starts toDarkv-
Associated Press Correspondent
Don Whitehead said the attack
rolled over the steepj wooded hills
of the Westerwald in the black
ness of 5 a.m ( ' ' .
; At first the? Americans were met
by small arms, self-propelled guns
and a lew tanks, but later the Ger
mans threw units into the line and
began striking back with small
oounterthrusts. ' 1
The Germans .were hurled from
heights ' east bf, the Rhine and to
the south, . This robbed them of
direct observation of their , artil
lery fire, which was watering the ;
bridgehead and had scored a num
ber of ineffectual hits on the Lu
dendorff bridge, the Remagen life-toe.vj-;-j
- v r
Boats shuttled men and supplies !
across the Rhine to lift some of
the load from the' bridge, and the
Germans said Hodges had estab!
lished ."many Rhina crossings"
north of the bridge. , t
Power Massed -
Whitehead said Hodges had so
much, power! massed across the
river that only a major counter
assault could budge it
German broadcasts said the
Americans also . were attacking
northeast of I Honnef, which lies i
astride one of the main roads to
the Ruhr, and said the furious
fighting around Honnef was - so
fluid that it Was not known which
side now held the town.
Honnef Is five miles north of
Remaken, and , is the closest ap
proach to the; southern end of the'
Ruhr. 8
For. discharge
, servicemen and
women.' f
.For readers with a
friend ; or relative I
in the service. '
-A new veterans' aer.
' lice column written '
' in' m simplified 'and j '
; interesting style . by j '
r Major Thomas UJ
y Kial.lor this paper.'
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