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Plasma on Iwo Jima, Nazis Hit -BackWith sir I -v. J I ? I ...' i t - , . v-; pounddd 1651 I '7 ... - 4 . ter.r 60:Flane I ' v. "? , f, : .-' - .-V. 'J A wounded marine who fell in the flchtinr near the end of airstrip No. 2 on the Volcano Islands Islet of Iwo Jima is pictured as he receives blood plasma from Ph. M. 2-e J. K. Irwin (holding plasma flask) from Chief Ph. M. James Sossette (left, with face showinx). Cossette Is from Marshfleld, Ore and Irwin from Philadelphia. This photo taken by Paife Abbott of International News Photo for war picture pool. (International) GRZP S33HS3 tRDQuDCB leaders of George Fitch's stor ies on "Good Old Siwash" may re member one on "The Funeral That Flashed in the Pan." That -apt title come to mind with word that the touted Investigation of the bi state distillery purchase by a com mittee of the Washington legisla ture won't come off. This isn't a funeral that "flashed in the pan." It's just a case of legislative still birth. Hardly that; the bill author izing the investigation died in a legislative committee. .t - This leaves, the Oregon commit tee saddled and bridled and going for an occasional gallop; but work ing alone, quite alone Initiated as a backfire to a Washington inves tigation, the investigation, as one of the Oregon liquor administra tion said yesterday, has become Just a fire. , j The Oregon joint ' committee will without doubt see the thing through, the chief item remaining J?cing receipt of the report of Its auditors; but no one expects eith er much heat or much flame from the inquisitorial fire. It is doubt ful if the committee will spend more than $5000 of the $25,000 appropriated to finance its inquiry. ' The partial Investigation made by the division of audits in Wash ington state was used with dam aging political effect against Gov. Arthur Langlie in the recent cam paign." Released in October the audit revealed, what had already been understood before the deal ' was consummated, that the broker would make a killing. ; The Wash lngton legislature was primed to probe - '"' . - ' (continued on editorial page) Promotion of er WASHINGTON, March 13--Eelection of Lt Gen. Walter Krue- ger for promotion to the four-star rank stirred speculation today that be Is slated for a bigger jobpos sibly as an army group com mander. ! The German born leader of the Sixth army in the Philippines was the only army commander among nine lieutenant generals nominal ed -today ' by President Roosevelt for the temporary rank of full gen- : eraL . ,- .. . " :V The list, however,' included the three army group commanders in the European and Mediterranean theatres Lt Gen. Omar N. Brad ley of the 12th, Lt Gen. Jacob L. Devers of the 6th and Lt. Gen. Mark Qark of the 15th. 7 USO Entertainers Killed in Plane Crash I WASHINGTON, March 13-(ff)-Eeven USO entertainers have been killed in the crash of an army plane overseas, it was learned to night - ;'.- : .... ; Details as to location, date and circumstances of the accident were withheld pending notification of the next of kin. 7ealher Max. Mia. fan Francisco . 65 4 trace S3 M Eugene . Portland 45 45 S3 .40 38 Jl Kruea Speculation KiDmtt rim ft, U. '4 - 41st Pursues eselnto Mindanao Hills MANILA, Wednesday, March 14 (JF) - Forty-first division troops, seizing four villages north of cap tured Zamboanga, pursued the dis organized Japanese into the Min danao hills against increasing re sistance Monday while on Luzon the Yanks conquered the southern end of the bitterly-contested Shim bu line. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said In his communique today that Maj. Gen. Jens A Doe's battle-tested 41st, after capturing the villages of Canelar, Santa Maria, Sinonog and Litogo, was in hot pursuit of the enemy. Tanks paced the drive. Antipolo, southern anchor of the Shimbu line east of Manila, was captured . after a fierce fight. To the south, ' 11th airborne division troops reached Los Baribs, sue of the former internment camp, and. Santo Tomas, on the main rail and highway route into southern Lu zon. New Hospital Suggested as War Memorial First large memorial , in Salem to men and women giving their lives in the current war will be the new hospital on South Winter street,' if recommendations agreed upon Tuesday by the executive committee of the board of gover nors of Salem Deaconess hospital are adopted , at next Tuesday's meeting of the board. The executive committee, in special session yesterday, voted to call the new institution "Memorial hospital," and to dedicate -it to the memory of the service and sacrifice of lives in the present conflict by sons and daughters of this area. Individuals and organizations of J the area will be given the oppor tunity to memorialize friends and relatives as well as pioneers, lead ing citizens and the work of or ganizations would form the me morial committee or board of the hospital, under the executive com mittee's plan. OWI London Employes Give $500 to Polio WASHINGTON. March 13-UfV- Leon Henderson, back from an economic mission to Europe, brought President Roosevelt a check for $500 today to help com bat infantile paralysis. The money was raised at a party given by office of war informa tion employes In London In honor of the chief executive's birthday. Over there they called it j t h e "march of six pens es." ' Japan Proposed Boundary Changes Presented to SchobUBoard i - Contemplated boundary changes' which would send children 'living between Breyman and Fredrick to Washington rather than Engle! wood school were presented to Sa lem school directors Tuesday nigh as one way out of the housing di lemma, which faces the capital city's public school system. x The boundary shift and addi tion of three grade school teachers would make possible rearrange, ments which should mean that 4 teaching load of no more than 35 pupils would face most Salem ele mentary school teachers, Supt. Frank B. Bennett said. - I Directors were asked to consid er the plan. At the same time tentative calendar for the coming KEHTY-fOURTH YEARi 5 i assive Assault j Germans Report j 9 Dfyisioiis Fight j Welt of Oder 1 J . n v- t ... ; ( 1 - v . I 1 By Romney Wheeler LONDON, Wednesday, March 14--Marshal Gregory K. Zhu kov, achieving a breakthrough in a! frontal assault toward Berlin, has pushed nearly 100,000 Russian troops across the Oder river be tween Frankfurt and newly-cap-t4red Kuestrin and has sent slpear- heads within 33 miles of the Reich capital, the Germans . said last night ; I - I. : -A f The German DNB agency con tended the breakthrough was only temporary;; but said; nine Russian divisions now were fighting on the west side of the 1 river on the 18-mile-wide, Kuestrin'-Frahkfurt front. .'' , 1 While the broadcast Soviet com munique made no mention f any crossings In that critical areajiJaos cow dispatches toldjof preparatory artillery fire by heavy Russian guns Yfheeed into positions In bat tered Kuestrin. Reports Irokn the Russian capital Indicated: that three nRussian arrtiies wer ex pected! to make the massive assault fv i Bejflin. :,' - According to the Germans, Rus sian task forces are attempting to force open the forefield defenses of Berlin in these three areas: j Westward from Oder's1 west bank tin. "I ' Kietz on the opposite ;Kues- thtf bridgehead opposite Ooerite, six miles below Kuestrin. In i the r Lebus bridgehead, six miles north of Frankfurt i The; Russians' ! breakthrough was secured in Tlielebus .bridge head area, a Nazi commentator aid, high adding that fighting on the ground commanding the jFrankfurt-Berlin (highway was leavy and fluctuating. Fold Becomes Pioiid Eathir Girls RHINEBECK, N- Y, March 13 f-(4tt'sjftwin dajughters-Meggy and Peggy for Fala and Buttons. And all is serene in tne raia iam ily.i ill il: - ! . I ' X President Rooievelt's fwidely traveled Scottie became affamily man! March 9, Dft rnomas &nei donl Veterinarian, 1 revealed! today, The puppies were taken; home yestefday with their mother, own ed by Miss Margaret Sucley of Rhinecluf. i I "Fala lind Buttons got along every ! ! weu, uss t oucmey, who Js Dutchess counxy arcnivisi in the Roosevelt library at Hyde ParkJ, Unidentified jYoulh Saved From Drowning j iii I- : j i . A 13-year-old boy whose row boat capsized near the 17th street bridge Over the Mill creek between Center and Chemeketa streets Tuesday; afternoon sped np the ladder city firemen lowered from the hrldge to him, untied from around his waist the rope they had tossed him and kept on going. So Hariey ; Cross and Lynn Hastey, firemen; know they pulled a lad from! the cold stream, but they couldn't give his name even to the Carnegie medal eommittee.r M If.- W -f '.'., 4 - : school year was presented: Open ing September It, the school year woujd close May J31. One iday Ar mistice day holiday, two days at Thanksgiving, a j Christmas holi day from December 21 to January 2, j Friday and Monday, at Easter ail ,! Memorial day 'holiday would mean that the schools would 3iave 172 teaching days, BenneitSsald. 1 , , ' . The board authorized Bennett an4 Director Fay Wright1 to per mit use of the jCapitola p school grounds for playgrounds I provid ing such use does not . interfere with previous jcommitments to gardeners who used a portion of the district-owned ive afires last year. M 5 Expedted I! !'l i ! I 10 PAGES Osaka, Japan's Turned Into By Huge 21ST BOMBER COMMAND I HEADQUARTERS, ? Guam, Wednesday, March 14-(jiP)-Osakat factory-congested second city of Japai, was transformed into "a hu;e pit of fire", by more than 2000 ions of incendiaries dropped today by a huge force of B-29s which on Monday completely burned! out 47,600,000 square feet of industrial Nagoya. Just a Reminder March 15 Deadline Is Almost Here ATLANTA, March 13 JP)- Po lice were called to straighten out a pedestrian traffic tangle in front of a cigar store today. ; They made the group form two lines. : Otherf saw the crowd, hurried to the scene and inquired of the police "Which is the cigaret line? They walked away in disgust when told both lines led to the bureau pt internal revenue office, where income tax returns were be ing received. ; Marines On Two Rocks ! I ' i . A At Iwo Jima U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Guam, Wednesday, March 14-(fl1)-Elements of two marine divisions landed unoppos ed Tuesday on two barren rocks off the west coast of Iwo to end their j use by the Japanese as mor tar positions, i . From the rocks the enemy had been" lobbying shells at leather neck! advancing into the Kitano point sector, northernmost on Iwo, where the Nipponese are making their last stand a fierce one. The rock landings, announced in today's! communique of Adm. Chester: W. Nimitz, were amphib ious operations involving units of the Third and Fourth marine di visions. Kangoku Iwa, the northernmost of the two islets, puts the leather necks ; almost due west of Kitano Point, northern extremity of Iwo where the Japanese continued to hold out yesterday on the 23rd day of the invasion with; small arms,! machine guns and mortar fire, j ; There were no appreciable changes in the marine lines on Iwo Tuesday. Henry Wallace Aims to Learn How to Fly WASHINGTON, March Secretiry of I Commerce Henry Wallace intends to demonstrate personally his department's inter est in the post-war aviation indus try by learning to fly. ;i Wallace announced this today to the senate commerce committee in his first appearance before a sen ate group since his appointment to the cabinet post was confirmed af ter m rousing fight He testified in support of an administration program to spend several hundred millions of dollars for airports in the first 10 postwar years, t "Just to indicate how seriously I thinkr the ! (commerce) : depart ment will be interested in the avi ation industry, Wallace said, I intend to learn to fly just to find out! what this private airplane business will be like." i; He said he foresees an aviation industry in eight to 10 years after victory over Japan, with $1,700, 000,000 annual revenue, s and a "possible four hundred thousand workers.' New Freighter Crashes Into Nanaimo Harbor .f 3: -. ----- -,. - '. . 11 it"-.-: .-j; NANAIMO, March 1S.-(CP)-A new 1 10,000-ton freighter from PorUind, Qre., crashed into the Nanaimo harbor western fuel com pany ballast wharf during a heavy gale today. An estimated $50,000 damage was done to the wharf which was partially submerged as a result of the collision. The ves sel' was undamaged. ' ; ) More Rain today, becoming intermittent by late afternoon with continued cold temperatures in the mid Willamette valley area, pre diets U. S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem. W ' Salom. Oreaon. Wclnosda7 Mining, Second City, h Pit of Fire Fprce of B-29s The first Superfortress pilots backlfrom Osaka, where they gave it fhf same devastating treatment accorded Tokyo Saturday, then Nagqya, Monday, reported four squaf-e miles of Osaka were a solid sheet of fire. ' 1 ! 1 Thteir reports covered ionly; the first J three-quarters of an hour before many of an estimated 300 B-291 had unloaded. i it! Joseph R. Carroll, of Jack sonville, Fla flying in the "Lady Luck,", said that seven minutes af ter "His wave hit "the whole damn towij seemed to be burning like a huge pit of fire." ; : I Mj. Edgar Toole, Of Casa Graride, Ariz., also aboard the Lady Luck," made the prelimi nary estimate of four square miles engxllfed. . ' Meanwhile, further reconnais sance photographs added 13,000, 000 Square feet to the total wiped out Monday at Nagoya. That made 47,600,000 in all or about 1000 acres roughly two square . miles. Oregon Man TTf ins Highest Honor Medal 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION, 7th Aniy, France, March lJHV-Cpl. Robjert D. MaxwelL Cottage Grove, Orel, will receive the Congression al Medal of Honor for saving four comrades by throwing himself up on jjan enemy hand grenade, of ficets said today. . I ; The Oregon soldier ! will ; be awarded the nation's highest dec oration for his action near Besan con, France, last September, where he was defending a battalion com mand post against heavy odds. Four companions and J Maxwell had only pistols to fight of the flak and machine guns of an en tire German platoon, officers' re ported. - ; . ; The enemy suddenly pitched hand grenade straight toward the squad. Maxwell hurled himself upqn it and kept the .explosion from injuring the others; using his unprotected body and his blanket. I Maxwell's vision was! seriously impaired by the blast, and he was senjt back to the United States. Surgery has since then restored his sight, latest reports indicated. A. B. Anderson Will Remain At Silverton ; SILVERTON, March ,13.-A. B. Anderson, superintendent of the Silverton schools, indicated - to night that he expected to sign the contract which the school board has offered him for the coming year at an advance in salary. I Three of the regular staff, all offered contracts for the coming year have -indicated they will not sign. Ivan Luman, principal of the grade school, will go to Mad ras next year; Katherine Nash, girls physical education, will con tinue her studies next year; and Mrs. Mae Lightheart, fifth grade teacher, also will not return. i Senate Okehs : Planning Fund !l . & r t- I. WASHINGTON, March 13.--The senate voted today to make ($5,000,000 available 4o '(states, counties, and cities for advance planning of postwar public works after sharp disputes over wkpt constitutes economy ; - iSenator Russell (D-ga) . led . a successful attack on a proposal by Senator La Toilette (Prog-Wis) to raise the sum of $75,000,000, but lost a fight to require recipients of federal money to match it dollar f or-dollar. . ; t. S. Troops on Rhine Heceive Fresh Foods - I t - - y - , !-:--.'-; -! -vttr -: PARIS, March 13HVAmeri can troops fighting on the: Rhine receive daily supplies of fresh ineat and dairy products which are rushed to them by army refrige rator trucks,' ..... . 'i March 14. 1945 Big Row On Food 1 - v " - Raging Meat Shipments To Great Britain Would Be Halted By Ovid A. Martin (Associated Press Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, March 13-(P)- A war food administration move to halt shipments of meats to Great Britain and liberated areas and to trim military demands has precipitated a bitter interagency controversy. : ! President Roosevelt may be call ed upon to settle the issue because of its possible Impact uj&n inter national relations and upon home front psychology. Fundamentally, the issue is whether civilian food supplies should be reduced further to meet international commitments '' and obligations. With good produc tion now 'on the downgrade, total demands being made upon this country are considerably greater than the supply, particularly in the case of meats, fats and vegetable. oils, sugar, and some kinds of dairy products. The issue came to a head late last week in a WFA effort to allocate supplies for the April- June quarter among various claim ant groups the military, civilians, lend-lease, foreign relief, and oth er export demands. Big Bombers Of RAF Blast Ruhr Targets LONDON, Wednesday, March 14 -P)-RAF heavy bombers blasted targets in the Ruhr last night fol lowing up their , raids against the same area by. day light yesterday, while Mosquitos made their 22nd consecutive ; attack : ; on Berlin, was announced today. The night blow, directed against the last main rail line leading into the Ruhr, marked the fourth time the four-engined British bombers had struck the reich's rich indus trial region in three days. After writing off Dortmund and Essen as dead cities after two of the RAF's greatest daylight . assaults of the war, British bombers blast ed Barmen, on the southern edge of the valley, yesterday. : U. S. Eighth air force heavy bombers took their first day of rest in a week, but Flying Fort resses and Liberators from 15th air force bases; in Italy bombed Regensburg, 90 miles northeast of Munich, the birthplace of Nazism. Navy Personnel Soon Will Reach 4,000,000 WASHINGTON March 13.-UP) -The United States navy, already the greatest ocean' power in his tory, . expects to pass a personnel strength of 4,0 0,000 within a mat ter of months. : g ; -. - This was disclosed ' today in President Roosevelt's request that congress appropriate $23,719,153,- 050 to run the "navy in the fiscal year beginning July 1. , ' ARC Donations Reach 73 Per Cent of Quota - Red Cross contributions in Mar ion county had reached 73 per cent of the $80,500 quota Tuesday, with the professional division of which Frank Spears is chairman joining educational and women's divisions in the "over the top" classification. Salem Servicemem Participate In Bitter Battle for hvo Jima Mail call from Iwo Jima! Salem families who have known or "felt" that their young men were in the battle to take the Japanese island, this week" received their first "after-the-battle" notes. Under date of March 5, Lt Col Richard M. Baker, who is on Lt. Gen. Holland Smith's staff, has written to his; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester C. Baker, 1515 Sag inaw st, praising the work of the marines , and the navy " at Iwo Jima. .- ' - ; . : Sgt Carl J. McLeod, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C McLeod, 5S3 North Pric U. 1 ' T ession Oh Home Stretch Operating Bills Passed Rapidly; Calendar Heavy ij By WendeU Webb Managing editor. The Statesman Barring an unanticipated hitch in the; senate regarding school and tax bills, the 43rd legislature was rolling fairly smoothly down the home stretch today - - tne 66th and record-tieing day of the ses sion. I , i"; j ( -' Scores of bills remained in com mitted and many will stay therel- - but 60 were reported out in time to get on today's long cal endar!.' Among those bogged down in clude, the house bill (HB 345) re vising the truck-taxing code on a ton-mile basis (now in the senate roads and i highways committee) and the senate memorial (SJR 9) opposing the return of persons of Japanese ancestry (tabled in the 1 3 L,--A? !ll nouses resolutions commmee;. Bills rasa! Quickly Appropriation bills went tnrougn tne senate in one-two- three J order Tuesday, as they did in the house the day before, and 12 others - - including a public welfare allotment of $12,000,000 - - were up for final passage in the house today (see house calen dar).! -----r.-- The house Tuesday completed legislative : action on the senate joint memorial (SJM 3) asking tax parity ; with community prop erty I states, approving ; a maxi mum! unemployment compensa tion payroll tax of 2.7 per cent (SB 136); and providing the votes on annexations to cities may be called on petition of 15 per cent of suburban.Yoters (SB 121). The bill permitting county . zoning (HB 374), however, was re-referred, i The senate passed a bill (SB 220) permitting counties to ex pend $25,000 on war memorials. Heayy Calendars Faced . The senate today faces one of its heaviest calendars, including proposals for a cigaret tax, $3, 000,000 additional for the state school support fund,; a wine tax, preferential for Oregon wine, Bang's disease control, pasteur ization of milk, a special election, and short tax forms.'. ' . Thirty-measures are before the house, including workmen's com pensation j bills, proposals to re strict fishing, and the plan to add a 31st senator by splitting the 17th senatorial ! district. - r . Estimates of adjournment time now: range from Friday to next Tuesday, with Saturday appar ently a fair compromise.. (Legislative news pages 10 and 4) .vs . ' Fjlying Freight Cars' Coming lie promising future of air car go development in this area, with "flying freight cars' rushing local products , to important markets thousands of miles j distant, was discussed here Tuesday by C P. Graddick of Chicago, director of air cargo for United Air Lines, in the course of a business tour of the Pacific coast. J' j "Air cargo transportation will develop entirely new markets and its, speed will supplement the op eration of almost any line of bus iness," the airline executive said. Salem and other Pacific north west cities, because; of their im portance as agricultural and man ufacturing centers, ; have impor tant places in the rapidly develop ing! air cargo picture, we do not expect air cargo to eliminate any established form of ground trans portation but rather for air to supplement the ground transpor tation pattern,-Graddick said. : Summer st, has written that newspaper accounts of the battle have not been exaggerated. A hot bath, a - shave and - "cot were among his desires of the moment. ' Three letters from Franklin N. Barth, motor machinist 3c, reach ed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C F. Barth, 1112 Mill st, on his 27th birthday. They told .that he had "participated in operations in sup port of forces that captured Iwo Jima Island ' and witnessed the raising of the US flag en that is land,' - i ? - 1 yjTksiWithin 2 : iMile8,of Super . Highway to Ruhr , By AnsUn BealmeaT PARIS, Wednesday; March 14- (JPy-The Germans attacked the. American Remagen-Erpel bridge head with at least 60 planes yes terday and fought stubbornly In' the hills east of the Rhine river, but the US First army troops pushed relentlessly deeper and reached within two miles of the great six-lane superhighway link ing Frankfurt-On-Main and the in 1 dustrial Ruhr. I '; Gains made by American Infan try were measured in yards, but it"' was pointed out that the advances gave the doughboys control of im portant heights controlling the bridgehead, which was now being 1 speedily built up with the help of a newly-erected pontoon bridge. Throughout . the day the skies were filled with dogfights as the enemy made frequent raids and fighters of the Ninth air force la bored to keep them away from the bridgehead area. Jet Planes Used I Half a dozen or more lightning fist jet-propelled planes were among the enemy attackers in the Germans' strongest air effort since ' the Rhine crossing March 7. American planes shot down 10, claimed five probables and dam aged six while losing four of their own. Anti-aircraft ' gunners de stroyed others; but no tabulation of their score- was yet available, Monday, whei the German raids were lighter, ack-ack batteries shot down 19 enemy planes. While fighting flared over. and around the bridgehead, the US Third. army lashed out in a new attack on a nine-mile front in the Saarburg are! and advanced up to 2 M miles. " Pontoon Bridge Used ' A ' field dispatch tonight from Don Whitehead of the Associated Press disclosed for the first time that Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges First army engineers had succeed ed in throwing a temporary bridge across . the wide, swift river to share the burden with the shell scarred rail structure captured in dramatic fashion last. Wednesday. Berlin broadcasts declared that 70,000 American troops had been jammed into the bridgehead and were waging j a "ferocious" battle' with tremendous air support in an effort to break out of the Wester wald mountains and plung on to ward Berlin, f ' One Nazi commentator said US assault troops had crossed the Rhine in boats downriver from Remagen and had expanded the bridgehead to the north, being halted at Koenigswinter, two miles north of Honnef and about seven airlinef miles north of Re-, magen. - ' I ; Watzek Gets Ruhl's Posts On Edi Board PORTLAND. March 13-6Py-A R. Watzek, Portland, was appoint ed chairman of the committee on rules and by-laws and was named to the curricula and building com mittees at the; state board of high er education fleeting today. Watzek, newly appointed mem ber, succeeds Robert W. Ruhl, Medford, in the posts. A member when the board was first formed in 1929, Wattek then served two years."''""" i; :.-. ; The board commended Ruhl, ed-1 itor of the Medford Mail-Tribune, for his nine years' service. Pres ident Willard Marks appointed Phil Metschan, Portland, to the ag ricultural experiment station com mittee. -'I iY , MAJOt THOMAS M. MAI J ; o Starting Tomorrow -fi .. in ' c3rf:aCcito5aatt . TXIZ TTOLD AT TO US v bOOX HCU MOKNTNG It timiWSr )