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Tfc OSSGOII STATESMAN. Salssa. : Oi&n. Tuesday bloml March 13. 1945
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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.
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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. .
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"CASANOVA BROWN "
"CALL OF THE ROCKIES"
TOMORROW! !
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Comedy, Piano and Songs
Remember We Close
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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
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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
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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
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Divided Union
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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. (
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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