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Newspaper Page Text'PAGE TWO. Tfc OSSGOII STATESMAN. Salssa. : Oi&n. Tuesday bloml March 13. 1945 - 4 Unemployment Only Slightly - .February unemployment 'Claims in wregon were nuj lightly . greater than those for January and were considerably .lower than the average wartime February, in spite of widespread reports of shipyard layoffs, the stale unemployment commission .reported Monday to the legisla ture. .- - Initial claims number 1328 of which 516 were from Portland, as against 1240 in January and an average of 2952 for February in three other war-time years. Port land's initial claims Increased over last year as did Salem, with 216 showed little change. ; February benefits were $21,915 as compared with $13,965 a year ,ago. $60,493 two- years ago and $525,898 in February, 1942. The monthly total was the highest since April, 1944 when $24,951 was paid out. Workers migrating to other states filed 98 claims, approxi mately the same number bs last year, but the number of contin ued claims was lower. Interstate payments " of $2927 were barely higher than the previous Febru ary's $2896. Of the 643 claimants who re ceived benefits last month, only 58 were shipyard workers. Of these 39 filed from other states. Lumber and logging linns report ed 198 idle employes, but the canneries led with 218. Slightly more than 50 per cent of those drawing benefits were women. All but 1 of the cannery workers and about 40 per cent of the idle ship workers were wom en. ; I Movie Strike Shuts Down Four Studios HOLLYWOOD, March l2.-&) Charging film producers with bad faith in labor relations, un ion spokesmen pressed strike maneuvers tonight in the. face of an ultimatum from the war labor board after a day that witnessed the shutdown of four major stu dios and the threat of paralysis of the entire industry. Advised; that the war, labor board in Washington had instruct ed some 15.000 employes to re turn to work before it would fur ther act on petitions by the produ . cers for a review in the three cornered controversy, Herbert Sorrell, president of the confer ence of studio unions, responded. T. B. Handler Is Sworn in Thomas B. Handley, appointed district attorney of Multnomah county to succeed James R. Bain, recently elected to succeed Cricuit Judge Franklin C. Howell Monday was sworn in by Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, jr, in the executive department The brief ceremony vs wit nessed by Gov. Earl Snell and Attorney General George Neuner. Handley has served as chief crim inal . deputy in the Multnomah county district attorney's office for many years. 1000 Iwo Casualties Already Reach Hawaii ' WASHINGTON, March 12-()-More than 1000 battle casualties from Iwo Jima already have been landed in Hawaii by army transport command planes which meet navy hospital ships in the Marianas. The war department said today that between 250 and 300 wound ed leave the Marianas by plane for Hawaii every 24 hours. - Too Late to Classify WELFARE CASEWORKERS. TELE PHONE OPERATORS: for PERMA NENT positions with the State apply at BIS Mead Building, Portland 4. Final filing date March 31. Positions locally r throughout state. WASH. Mach.; lawnmwr. 2960 Laurel ATTEND the sale Wednesday at Groesbeck Auction Mkt. across from State Fairgrounds on SUverton Road. Phone 6098. . Cocktail Bar Opens 5 P.M. . Dinners Serrod 6 to 12 P. M. 7VX71 f 011 the pcWo - iioir r Green & Dooley Ventriloquil and Code I Come Early Folks FREE PARKING FO0 mm How L.H. Pack Got Air Medal Now Revealed (Special to The Statesman) .FIFTH AIR FORCE PHILIP PINE ISLANDS Sgt. Lawrence H. Pack, son of George L. Pack of route 2, Box 177, Salem, Oregon, recently presented with the "air medal for "meritorious achieve ment while participating against the enemy" by Brig. Gen. Jerrard V. Crabb, command-general. Fifth air force bomber 1 command, Phil ippine base, is a veteran of 48 combat missions. The aerial gunner is an origin al member of the crack "Grim Reapers" third attack group which left the United States in January 1942 - - the oldest fighting team in the Fifth air force. Technical Sergeant Pack is also an old army man having enlisted in January, 1938, at Vancouver Barracks, Washington. With the Grim Reapers, Pack has participated in many daring low-level bombing and strafing attacks starting in the early days of the war against such targets as Buna, Lae and Salamau, and later Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Hollan dia, Jap bases in western Dutch New Guinea and Jap strongholds in the Philippines. Pack received his gunner's wings in the midst of the battle for Buna at Port Moresby in 1942. He is married to the former Mar ilyn Sikes of Claxton, Georgia. He is authorized to wear a presiden tial citation awarded the Third at tack group for its part in the Pa pua campaign. The gunner's bro ther, Frank L. Pack is in the Sea bees. , Pack first returned to the Unit ed States on rotation in June, 1943, and returned to the wars in April, 1944. He is back with the Third attack group again flying combat missions as a photograph er against the Nips, Ten Oregon and Two Mid-Valley Men German Prisoners WASHINGTON, March 12-P)-Oregon soldiers held prisoner of war by Germany: Counts, Pfc. Roscoe E. Mrs. Elaine Hirtzel, sister. Rainier. Dowell, Staff .Sgt. Dale E. Mrs. Iris E. Dowell, wife, 8611 N. Johns wood Dr., Portland. Elliott, Tech. Sgt. William B. Mrs. Mary' B. Dowell, mother, 8625 North Hurst Ave., Portland. Garrison, Pfc. John E. Mrs. El la Garrison, mother, Falls City. Hanson, Pfc. Harold Mrs. Lau ra Hanson, mother, route two, SU verton. Hendrix, 1st Lt. Ralph W. Charles O. Hendrix, father, Alsea. Kemp, 2nd Lt. Stanley N. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Kemp, wife, 1331 SW 12th Ave., Portland. Lehmann, Tech. Sgt. Richard E. Mrs. Eugenia Lehmann, mother, 4915 North Montana Ave., Port land. Massey, Tech. Sgt William C Miss June M. Holmes, half-sister, 3215 Northeast Schuyler St, Port land. Peart 2nd Lt Donald L. -Mrs. Gertrude E. Peart, mother, 707 West Main St., Medford. Ivan Stewart & Co. Sell Property to Blue Lake Ivan Stewart & Co., dealers in seeds, have sold the warehouse property at Murlark and Arling ton streets, in West Salem to the Blue Lake Producers' cannery and purchased the former Gile-Jenks warehouse at Trade and Liberty streets, Salem. Stewart said Mon day night that the business would occupy the Salem warehouse later this year but that no date had been set for the change. . I v v I I iviifvawiai ENDS TONIGHT! , "CASANOVA BROWN " "CALL OF THE ROCKIES" TOMORROW! ! ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S "BERMUDA MYSTERY" J&LT LT 11 (2E.HJD H1"hwJr Ou Block North of virimsc " Ray Mayer and Edith Evans Comedy, Piano and Songs Remember We Close COCKTAIL BAR OPENS 5 DINNER SERihCE STARTS j , Floor Shows 8 emdlO P. tL '. ' Saturday! and Sanday 1 Cocktail Bar Opens 2:M 'No Cover Charge! Until Af'.rr 8 e'clock, Week days and SandLiys, ,75e Saturdays, 1X9 ' S f -v. id-- .1 1 ; , - f ; i ' ' u A r ' f I " -i -f - I - i r Lt Thomas R. Brantner, 2 L Wil ed In plane crash en Luson Febraary 15. Salem5 Woman Writes of 1 PFC Maud;Haynes of the won en's army corps has written Lt Edith Di Re of the local army re cruiting office telling of the lafge convoys of founded soldiers now arriving at Mason General hospi tal, Brentwood, NY, where shej Is stationed. 4 . I She writes, "as you probably already know; this is a receiving hospital lor wounded men return ing from overseas. They cope here first before being assigned! to other army hospitals for treat ment Mason General holds ooly 1000 patients sa you see, tlfey don't stay long," she explained Private First Class Haynes tpld of how she had been called ori to assist the doctors and nurses af ter the arrival of large . conveys from the European theatre, he wrote, "Although I have been as signed to the medical library, I often have to help out in the wards, for ; the men arrive fin large numbers and they are jal- ways hungry, and tired from th trip across.M Mrs. Haynes is the daughter?; of the late Mrsi Florence Gordon! of 2245 Walker: street and is th wife of Lt. (g) Arthur Haynes: of the merchant marine. Her broth er, Cpl. James Gordon, Is serving with the army. Warren Gilbertson Rifleman in Drive Against Japanese (Special to The Statesman) WITH THE AMERICAL IN FANTRY DIVISION SOME WHERE IN THE PHILIPPINES Pvt. Warren," L. Gilbertson, fa lem, Ore., began his first cam paign by participating in a drive against strong Japanese positions. The Salem soldier, a rifleman, has been working in terrain where supplies must be carried in packs, where only foot trops can find and hit the enemy. J This: is the veteran American division's third campaign against the Japanese. The infantrymen met the enemy on Guadalcanal and Bougainville before coming to the Philippines. I . TURNER S t Melvin Baler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ba ker, is home on leave from Camp Maxey, Tex.; A graduate of Tur ner high school, he is now cok for his company in an infantry unit ! ' : .- I , - ujnnr.inn 9 CRYSTAL I GARDEN ! . Wednesday, Modern I ( Featuring the I I Top Hatters Thvrmday, Old Time 1 Featuring "Fop Edwards" j " Saturday Old Time and Modern! . I Two Floors and ' I Two Bands i WE CLOSE at . 12 MIDNITE Com Early Underpass vjjggj.: Rae and Rae Acrobatic Dancers at 12 P. U. 6 P. M. 8 Many Wounded ITT a WWaWaUiB ' 41 Iff "V r: - Pate New Orders Allow WACs U.S. Duty The U3 army recruiting station in Salem has received word from the war department that a woman in, , the army serving overseas may request i return for du7 la he United. States when her husband is returned to this country from a permanent overseas; assignment with any of the armed forces. This rule applies to members of the women's army corps, nurses, hospital dietitians and physical therapy aides. Theatre commanders are auth orized to i return for duty in the United States any woman offi cer, woman warrant officer or enlisted- woman, upon her request and presentation of satisfactory evidence , that her husband has been returned from permanent overseas ! assignment with the armed forces to the United States for reassignment hospitalization or honorable discharge. This new ruling, which applies only to women overseas, is in ad dition to an older policy with re gard to married members of the women's army corps whose hus bands have been discharged for medical reasons. In the latter case, considera tion is given to the circumstances arising out of the discharge of the woman's husband from the armed forces or merchant marine for dis ability or his retention in the service for medical treatment. If he is dependent upon her for care or support and material contribu tion to his reconditioning the woman soldier may ask for her own discharge. j ...... Major thomas m. niai Major Thomas M. Nial, who writes the new Veterans' Guide column that starts in The Oregon Statesman, Thursday, March 15, and I knows -veterans and their problems from the ground up. A veteran of two wars himself, the major was commanding offi cer at the Syracuse, NT, air base until last spring. Later, because of the aggravation of an old leg injury as a pilot in the first World war, he went on the inactive list During World war I, Nial en listed while a senior at Syracuse university, trained at the Univer sity of Illinois ground school, went to England and flew , with the British. His squad, operating at night got seven German Gothas. Transferred to air photography, his plane crashed and he was hos pitalized if or two years. . As a civilian, he was in the in surance business in Maryland, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma and New York, and did : free lance writing, i Major Nial will make Washing ton the base of his operations in writing the Veterans' Guide. ENDS TODAY1 Fred MacMurray Paillette Goddard "STANDING ROOM ONLY I Hedy Lamarr 'THE CONSPmATORS" "1H irWl HCTt WrrW1 HTTT sssn OPENS :45 1. M. - TOMORROW! 'i h A Toucn Guy Makes GoodI t"ifdOSI2s GessLCfAST O COTEATUHE O tlUITjillltlT tiat'i I3II I - - ; Tvo Impor;laiit West Coast OU Firms Merge The consolidation of two impor tant west coast oil companies was announced Monday by A. H. De Friest vice president of the Gen eral Petroleum corporation, and C SA Beesemyer, president f the Gilmore Oil company, according to information received byB. F. Ball and E. W. Ellis, . Oregon; man agers for the companies. Both or ganizations have, served Western motorists for many years and have quite- similar backgrounds.; . Operations will continue Uinder the management of General Pe troleum, west coast marketers of Mobilgas and MobiloiL Road oil and. asphalt operations will, how ever,! be handled by a Gilmore organization. '-. . The merging of the two organ izations results : in the appoint ment of B. F. Ball as resident manager and E. W. Ellis as as sistant manager for the . Oregon division, and other assignments will be announced in the near fu ture, according to DeFriest t Divided Union .. i- .. Causes Woes i i - At Auto Plant j DETROIT, March wi-P)- George T. Christopher, president of Packard Motor Car Co, told a senate sub-committee tonight that most of the labor troubles Sin his plant were due to divided local union of the United Automobile Workers (CIO). He said the present local head, whom he did not name, has no control over the men and that there was no way to settle a griev ance in the shop except by saying "yes.'' Louis de Bearne is; presi dent of the Packard local. ; Christopher testified before the committee, which is investigating war j production in the Detroit area following a long parade of union stewards and plant workers who had charged labor hoarding in the Packard plant Germany 'Real Friend' Of Foreign Workers LONDON, March 12.-P)4Prop- aganda Minister Goebbels told the reich's foreign workers today that one j day' you will leave us but not. with hatred but as real friends." I The German transocean agency said Goebbels spoke before Ma large delegation of European workers, including representatives from; almost every nation on the continent" , German Panzer Chief Dismissed in Disgrace NEW YORK, March 12.Gen- eral Brandenmeger, chief of the German Seventh panzer army, has been dismissed in disgrace, the British radio said . tonight in a broadcast monitored' by NBC. The boardcast said it had been re ported from the U. S. Third army front: that half of the seventh panzer army had been destroyed in the Eif el campaign. Firemen Called Out Firemen reported a call ;to ex tinguish a chimney fire in the school administration building at 434 North High st Monday night No damage was reported. ( ENDS TODAY! 4:-?'GENE AUTRTT' " "GU Along Iittlo Dogie" Rochester Lena Berne -STORMY WEATHER r . OPENS 8:45 P. M. 1- r Tomorrow I Bomcmcsl Thrills In tho South Pacific I Consiance iue ironies JEFFREY f LYNN O CO-FEATUHO O fJJ Ctzrles -STATJIITT CUAFTES NQfc rms czenrr ; . zxavz" Europe's Smaller Nations Seek International fBill of Rights' ' By Alex Singleton LONDON, March 12 -(tfV An International "bill of rights" prob ably will be sought at the San Francisco world security confer -ence by some of Europe's smaller nations, . and a . world free press will be high on their "musf list of ; safeguards against ' political, economic or military subjugation. Demand for removal of all bar riers against untrammeled trans mission of news hasv increased among the little countries repre sentatives here in direct propor tion to . disappointment over the Yalta agreement giving the big powers immunity; . against , the league's military action in any war in which they are aggressors. An informal survey of opinion among . London's diplomats, how ever, showed an increasing tend- Defend Every Inch in Italy Nazis Ordered ROME, March 12. - (P) - Field Marshal Albert Kesselring has or dered German troops to defend "every inch" of Italian territory as though they were "fighting on the soil of Germany itself, it was disclosed today as enemy resist ance stiffened greatly along the entire US Fifth army front j "You do not defend Italy in these battles but Germany itself," said the order, which was found on a nazi prisoner. . "Not ene inch of ground must be surrendered to our enemies without a battle. Offi cers and men alike must be per meated with this thought j, .. I know that the troops, and particularly the commanders, are convinced of the necessity of this campaign." ! '!.'" Kesselring's appeal to his troops gave direct contradiction to rum ors abroad that the Germans plan ned to withdraw from northern Italy soon and take up new posi tions in Hitler's last-ditch fortress in southern Germany and Austria. Juvenile Delinquency Jumps Among Girls V WASHINGTON, March 12.-() -A wartime report of the federal bureau of investigation disclosed today a sharp increase in juven ile delinquency, particularly among girls. Arrests of girls during 1944 in creased 134 per cent as compared with 1941, the last peacetime year. Those involved were under 21. - The report showed that the number of boys under 18 who ran afoul of the law was : 18 per cent greater in 1944 than in 1941. French Delegate Eyed PARIS, March 12.-)-Foreign Minister Georges Bidault onetime university historv Drofesso'Whn was a leader in the FrerfT under ground movement, will head the French delegation to the United Nations conference in San Fran cisco, next month, French sources said today. ni;ijjjlil Continuous from 1 P. M. How Showing! IT'S LOVE ON LEAVE! SmrdsjrDfcner iWaSoldier, Pins (he Greatest Pictures ; X the War! ttROKKT TAYLOR, . - - : - a i fyav 1. 1 m'l x ymHHz0' M " T T r 1 News! Prsiient Reports! Tanks Freed la TJsntlal ency to regard the agreement on the league voting procedure as mundanely practical not Uto pian on the theory that the future of the peace, as well as of the league, depends upon the big powers' continued accord. " But while they may finally ac cept this conclusion, the little countries maintain that the chief purpose of the new league must be to set up international stand ards of conduct rules of good behavior among nations and find -. means for insuring adher ence through the pressure of world opinion. Thumbnail off War! By tha Associated Praaa Knasia-Kuestrin, fortress city 38 miles northeast of Berlin and hinge of central Oder defenses, falls to red army. -'i Western Front US First army Jumps off in first big allied as sault east of Rhine. Italy Field Marshal Kessel ring orders German troops to defend every inch of Italian ter ritory as though on soil of Ger many. I Burma Indian troops push ing through Mandalay encounter stiff resistance. , Pacific Veteran 41st divi sion overruns strong Japanese positions on southwestern Min danao. . Lost Times Todcrf -r ' J ' 1 - - II VI STARTS WEDNESDAY 2 BIG HITS ! fryc) ' :ig!' I 1HIS AN r" ryi-G-M it lll! 1 COMPANION FEATURE 1 PLUS LATEST "MARCH OF TTME . .. Dennis Morgan Decmor Parker Dcm Clark Faye F.merson. fax "THE VERY THOUGHT ' OF YOU" STADTS EDDIE WdthM COMPAMON FEATURE . A 1 fS A VX; y ;-x - . . ....... . ' .i.;IZ-:r v-- r-: '. ON the HOME FRONT By BABEL CHHD3 ' When we considered that the bright new store held dealership for products carrying the name of a great rubber f establishment the window display of men's sox seemed, at first, to be stretching ! a point But after all, this country was built on such things as the LEATHER STOCKING TALES! Mexico Plans Called Beacon For S.t Meet PORTLAND, f Ore, March 12-vD-The war food administration said today the first four trainloads of Mexican farm laborers will ar rive in six western states late this month and early fa April. The WFA's Portland office said 1279 Mexicans ill be assigned to farms' In Orego, Washington and Idaho. Another 1921 wiu 8 to Colorado, Montana and Utah. Oregon will, receive 417 work ers from the first trains, mostly for- hop growers in the Salem area and fruii operators near Hood River. Washington will be allocated 782, With Yakima and waua waua claiming the greatest number. Oregon's i tota ment is I S000 seasonal allot workers while get 6000 and Washington win" Idaho 5300. This Is IU Thrill of Tnrills! "WIIIGED VICTOHY" Plus "LETS GO nSfflNG" MflTJS jlAVY TOM DRAKE JAMES GLEASON Jan CLAYTON Selenk SOT7JE Noah BEIST, Sc. Henrr CNCTiL DEATH ! FOR REVENGE! 2 Bi? Fsatures "Sheriff lof Las j Vegas" Wild BUI -Elliott as . f . REDBYDER i I'ni-T-j r i UEDIIESDA7 . f BRACKEll ELA RAINES U WILLIAM DEMAREST and Dfaectod by PKSSTOM STUBGCS mtfry mysf erjr tfcot rocb yov with htnhHrV ) )(t5 T t .-2 1