' Mr. Joe Doakes when he buys
. long-term bond in a war loan
campaign, tucks it away in his
safe deposit box and does well to
remember when to clip his cou
pons. He pays little attention to
changes in market prices. Of
course if the bond prices started
slipping he might get worried..
So ' far in the government's
bond -selling program Mr. Joe
Doakes. has had no occasion to
get worried, because the "prices
of his bonds have been inched up.
There are the 10-year 2s offered
in the sixth war loan at par, with
maturity December 15, 1954 (op
tion call 1952) now selling at 102
The longer term bonds, 2Hs, dye
September 15, 1972, are selling
at 102.3. This means for each is
sue an increment of around $20
a $1000 bond. Not bad on a three'
month period, not bad.
This is one answer to the skep
tics who have been skittish about
buying governments because of
the huge volume of the emissions.
The open, free markej rates them
as worth more than par.
The preat reason for the rise is
the abundance of funds which
find no other suitable investment
no other with the liquidity and
the security ' which government
bonds offer. Certainly it reflects
a confidence in the
(Continued on Editorial Page)
Nazis Put Out
Peace Feelers,
Stir
LONDON, March 18 (Re
sponsible diplomats expressed be
lief tonight that a wave of Ger
man peace feelers aimed at sow
in dissension among the allies is
likely to strike neutral European
capitals within the next few
weeks. '
An authoritative source con
firmed that one such feeler was
made to a British official in Stock
holm a few days ago, hut said the
British government "firmly Ig
nored" it and notified the United
States and Russia of all details.
(In Washington, state depart
ment officials disclosed that Bri
tain had reported last week on i
Stockholm peace gesture. The re
port, officials said, was filed away
as another more or less meaning
less incident, and apparently
it
did not reach top state department
officials or the White House,
where President Roosevelt said
nothing at all had been received,
Industry and
Labor Join in
Manpower Plan
WASHINGTON March 16-(-A
drastic easing of the controver
sial New Bedford labor diversi6n
program was indicated tonight by
the war manpower commission.
The WMC national . labor-man-"
agement policy committee announ
ced that an apparent solution of
the month-old dispute had been
(obtained. Details will be an
nounced tomorrow. 1
The WMC "forced release" plan
was put into effect in New Bed
ford to "force" textile workers in
to Fisk and Firestone tire cord
"must" war plants..
i Eighty-nine of the first group of
90 workers picked for transfer re
fused to switch jobs. The program
. also vigorously opposed by civic
leaders called for employment ceil
ings on less essential firms to re
lease workers for munitions pro
jects. ; Lv
Salem Prepares
3489 for Jobs
In War Industry
A total of 3489 trainee; have
enrolled in national defense train
ing classes at the Salem vocation
al school since the program start
ed in July, 1940, O. I. Paulson,
state director for vocational ed'
ucation, announced Friday.
, The $ peak in attendance was
reached in February, 1942, when
442 students were enrolled. Class
es: included aircraft sheet metal,
hln (firnentrr. woodworking, shin
electricity, ship welding, machine
shop, radio and communications.
carpentry, junior repairmen. Job
instruction training, job .relation
' training, related Instruction, main
tenance mechanic, machine tools
cperator, auto mechanics, and job
methods training.
Frequent
Light Rain
decreasing somewhat in the aft
ernoon with temperatures re-
mainlng about the same in the
mid - Willamette valley , area,
predicts U. S. weather bureau,
McNary field, Salem.
Disunity
rrn r nrn n
u;n nm t
Qhmce
Oregon City Five
Thrills Crowd as
Meet Nears End
By Al lightner
(Statesman Sports Editor)
Washington high's Colonials of
Portland and Oregon City's "host
ing" Pioneers led the 26th annual
state basketball tournament into
the final round tonight by nab
bing victories in lastjiight's semi
finals. The highly rated seeded
Colonials rapped Baker, 51-41,' and
the Pioneers knocked out top
seeded Med ford in a typical tour
ney thriller,. 41-40.
Baker and Medford will play
at 11 o'clock this morning for
third place. Washington and Ore-
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS:
"B tournament
Clatskanie 44, Grant Union 27
Reedsport 55, Arlington 33
A" consolation
Eugene 47, Newberr 31
Vernonla 39, Hillsboro 35
A" championship
Washington 51. Baker 41
Oregon City 41, Medford 40
gon City, pegged as strongies be
fore the classic began, will vie for
Ashland's undefended title, start
Ing at 8:45 p.m.
The "B" auints were off to a
roaring start in their private tour
ney yesterday, Clatskanie wallop
ing Grant Union with a final-half
rush, 44-27, and Reedsport top
pling Arlington, 55-33. The second
game saw one tourney record
wiped out when Reedsport's For
ward Clyde DeWitt scored 34
point It bested the 33 set; by
Springfield's CurP" Luckey here
last year.
Clatskanie and Reedsport, both
big ball clubs, will play lor the
B" title at 7:30 tonight, round
ing out the final program, r-
Other! consolation play today
will see Grant Union and Arling
ton clashing at 9 a.m., and Eugene
going against Vernonia for fourth
place in the "A" division at 10.
Eugene bested Newberg yesterday,
47-31. Medford and Baker will
play for third place honors at 11
o'clock. (Full details and pictures
on sports pages.)
Easter Parade
To Bring Out
Folding Money
SAN FRANCISCO, March 16
W)-The pre-Easter parade to the
Pacific slope's department stores
has cost more than ever before.
The Federal Reserve bank of San
Francisco reported Los Angeles
department store sales last week
were $1.25 for .every dollar of the
like week a year ago: Oakland
11.24; San Francisco $1.14: Port
land $1.17; Seattle $1.16, and Sal
Lake City $1.06.
reopie also had more cash on
hand to pay the bills, $1.33 for
every dollar a 1 year ago. The
weekly checkup showed $2,772,
241,000 federal reserve notes cir
culating in the seven Pacific slope
states. Five years ago they had
only $381,437,000 in f o 1 d i n g
money.;'
Nearly 100,000 pavy,Marine,
Coastguard Pacific Casualties
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, March llCff)
American marine casualties on
Iwo Jima, up to 5 p. m. March 16
4189 dead, 15,308 wounded and
441 missing, total of 19,938 com
pared with the following losses
in other Pacific invasions:
Tarawa, Gilbert islands' IS
fkllled, 2037 wounded, total 2950.1
Marshall islands 568 killed,
1683 wounded, total 2249.
Saipan, Marianas islands 3100
killed, 328 trussing, 13,099 wound
ed, total 18,525. t
" Tinian, Marianas 290 killed,
24 missing, 1515 wounded, total
1829.
Guam, Marianas 1289 killed,
148 missing, 5648 wounded, total
7085. ;
I If, X X ' i 5 t - l '
- I p ' - ' I ' ' 3 1 I '
I ill- . . i ii - 1 .'' ! ! "
eft
aft Toftie
15
i m- - -.ill
i TODAY'S GAMES:
(For ! third place) i f
9:00 ajn. Grant Union
vs. Ar-
; f lington '..
(Fpr "A!?; fourth place)
10:00 ajn. Eugene vs. YernonU
W VI UVUI
Baker
(For "A" third place)
1100 jn. Medford vs.
(For "B" championship)!
:30 pjn. Clatskanie vs. i Keeds-
II port' .
(For "A" championship
8:45 p.nu Washington
j con jiiy
Will Eat L
oHelpE
By D. Harold Oliver
WASHINGTON, Man ilS--
Wesideht Roosevelt stepped into
the inter-agency controversy over
division of dwindling food stocks
today with the assertion we will
ave to eat less to help need starv
ing Europe. h j
The American neople will have
to tishten their belts. I he told
news conference in outlining what
lie termed administration policy
cin who is to get I what I from do
mestic supplies. . ;. r '
The people in this country have
rot suffered very greatly jtompar
ed with some others, hejsaid, add
ing they are not going to suffer.
Asserting the War is not won
yet, the chief executive said he be
lieved the country wiluf back up
the idea of keeping people alive
Jit j -l i.-;?J. kiiA- . a
aoroau uj retaining exisung iooa
restrictions at home and adding
6 fhers. :
t
ll
pirin Workers
Parade Before
2 -Day Election
1 By Robert Stardeyant
HELSINKI, March ia4)-A pa
rade of at least 5000 ' persons;
marched through Helsinki's down
town streets tonight singing the
Internationale on thd eve of the
to-day general electipn which;
11 name a new Finnjish parlia-1
ment. 1- ; - - h h
.The Finns will go tor the polls;
tomorrow and Sunday jih the first
election since 1039. Approximately
24200.000 are expected f to cast
their ballots.
Tonight's demonstration began
ri workers' districts with ' a nu
cleus of several hundriL As the
trowds increased, they jmoved up
the capital's principal thorough
fare thousands strong "to the
itrains of the communist anthem.
Penicillin Cures
!Caricer" in Plants
1: TUCSON, Ariz, March 16-P)
The wonder drug penicillin for
the first time has beenjused sue
fcessfully at the University of Ari-
zona in curing - crown ; gall in
l ; . -. ' I. .
woody and herbaceous 'plants.
H Crown gall is a plant disease
often likened to cancer of animals
and man.
I Palaus, Carolines 1022 killed,
280 missing, 6115 wounded, total
417. v i " '
I ; Total casualties In
the central
Pacific campaign, prior to the in
vasion of Iwo, were 7180 killed,
T78 missing, 30,977 wounded to
tal -38,055.
A Navy, marine and Coast guard
casualties in the Pacific since
Pearl Harbor, up to 5 pi m. March
18, totaled 81,242, Adm, Chester
w. Nimitz announced.
f: The toll of 8123 Japanese dead
in the central Pacific i includes
mopping up as well as :those killed
m battle. - l
f; Prior to the Iwo irivasion the
ratio of Japanese dead; to Ameri
l ean stood at about ll'to
I ii
I . Ore-
fsT
FDR
Say
ess
fope
Anglers
Eish Bill
a i l, - -. if
Gets O. K.
School Equaliza
tion Voted; Tgx
Rebate Unlikely
By Wendell Webb
Managing editor. The ; Statesman
Today marks an epoch for Ore- j
gonS nearly 6000 state employes
were assured of civil service; they
and; thousands of other public em
ployes become eligible to share in
a retirement program j; and the rec- j
ord-breaking 43Td legislature was i
going home. j
A- more-than-weary senate Fri
day stamped final approval to the
house bill (HB 294)1 establishing
the civil service and merit system
by a vote of 17 to 12J and HB 344
providing the retirement system
by a vote of 2? to 2
It also voted 21 to (8 in favor of
HB 212 authorizing counties to I
adopt the manager form of gov
ernment; 20 to 10 for educational
eaualization through rural schofcl
districts (HB 80), arid 24 to 5 in
favor of closing- most coastal
streams to commercial fishing
(HB 378). i
Tax Discounts Off
The senate also Virtually assur
ed elimination of state income tax
discounts by approving HQ 259 in
creasing the! property tax, "cush
ion' from surplus income lai rev
enues from $5,000,000 to $15,000,-
000, And It approved HB 371 pro
viding for the official grading of
milk, and HB 421 Providing for
$3000 home I and farm loans to
veterans. f
The house passed senate bills
!-
providing that alien Japanese can
not? hold land under the name
a person eligible fori citizenship
(SB 274): creating the office of
director of J apprenticeship ' (SB
329); Instructing the liquor com
mission to give preference to Ore
gon wine (SB 281) J and permit
ting trucks not over-loaded more
than 2000 pounds to preceed to
their destinations (SB 337).
Term-extension Repealed
The house also approved a sen
ate resolution (SJR 22) providing
for a study of legislative reappor
tionment, and both the house and
senate approved ; a resolution
which repeals SJR j 17 which
would have extended the terms of
egislators until their successors
had qualified, not iust until the
next election
roe constitutional-
ity of SJR 17 was questioned.
A large share ; of i the house s
time Friday was taken up in re
passing bills with senate amend
ments, but it took time out to ap
prove one of its own measures
(HB 398) liberalizing income tax
exemptions .for veterans.
Only two measures, were on the
house calendar today, and only 12
on I the senate's including eight
appropriation bills which will take
little time. I I! .
But there were on file several
notices of reconsideration, includ
ing: milk grading : bills (HB 370
and 371) in the senate, and it was
expected a considerable cumber
of committee reports would be
dumped including tone on the
Portland ' firemen's pension bill
which Sen. ' Thomas Mahoney at
tempted to bring to the floor Fri
day. ! .: . r
Optimists expressed belief the
legislature now In its 69th day-
would get through by tea-time this
aitemoon out many iveierans were
betting the final tifek .down the
siaxenouse steps wouia oe uivmu
artificial light . ,
(Legislative details pages 2 and
Windsors taGo
To CanadaJ Later
Back to England
NASSAU, Banamas, Marcn 10-
OM-The Duke of , Windsor; whose
resignation as governor of the Ba
hama islands was announced yes
terdav. said: today that he and his
duchess will leave for New Yorls
the latter part of April. .
From New York, be added,
they may go to hlsf ranch In Ca
nada, and later plaft to visit Eu
rone. ' including even his native
England.
He took office August 17, 1940.
'- "Now that the wdr in Europe is
near an end," he said, have in-
terests in Canada,
Europe that need a
America
tention."
and
Marriage Spans I
5000 Miles "Wjtit
Southern Humor
DALLAS, Tex., j March 16 -(P)
A Dallas, nurse, who . married i a
broken-jawed soldier sound asleep
in a hospital 5000 miles away, to- j
day received a cable! from him
saying "Our married life will nev
er ej any more difficult than our
marriage." j f I
The bride was Ruth Edna Engle.
The soldier is Lt Jerry Krohg,
34, Chattanooga, . Term., how In I
the Aleutians. ;L ' I "j.
The ceremony : here Tuesday
was by proxy. Due to time differ -
ence, the bridegroom probably
was asleep. f
Hia wife, who said.: the officer
broke his jaw in a fall,' cabled:
"Missed you at wedding; honey
mooning with the girls.: I
Krohg replied: "Never a dull
moment Thought ceremony ex
tremely beautiful and simple.''
Reds Within 4
I: . I i
Miles of Stettin
LONDON, March J6-()-Rus-
sian tank assault forces smashed
through bitter enemy resistance
to within four and a half miles
of the prize German port of Stet
tin yesterday while other soviet
troops threatened to split the nazi
defenders of the big Baltic naval
bases of Danzig and Gdynia. 5
The three great Baltic seaports,
at either end of the red army's
175-mile front across! Pomerahia,
war e Immediately endangered.
Berlin said soviet forces had pene
trated Stettin's "inner defenses"
end , Moscow's war bulletins dis
closed the Russians were within
six miles of both Danzig and
Gdynia.
22 Shipyards j
Bid on 1 anker
Building Job j
"WASHINGTON, March 16 -UP)
Competitive bidding for ship
building - contracts came back
with a, bang today after a four
year absence. . i ; .
The maritime commission, shift
ing away from its own version of
cost-plus now that the construc
tion program is
over the peak,
the building of
invited bids for
24 small tankers.
The response
from 22 firms
overwhelmed the
statisticians, who
are trying to figure: out I whose
bids were the motet favorable, f
Almost every bidder submitted
proposals for various numbers of
. u . i . -ai
from four,. the iiinimum, to 12,
the maximum. J j -
The commission Indicated that
it would follow enmrjetitivehidriinr
mpetitive bidding
in j awarding all jfuture contracts.
It had resorted to cost-plus nego
tiated contracts under ; wartime
pressure.' . f i : 1
Today's bids range from a low
of $588,929 for bach of 4 to 6
tankers, submitted f by ' United
Concrete Pipe Corporation, Los
Angeles, to $1,478,264 for each of
4 ; tankers, submitted by North
eastern Boiler and Welding, Ltd.
Green Bay, Wis. i
ine vessels are 10 oe aeuvereai
by December, 1945. I
Japs Rdady to
Stop invasion
i y-w j-m i i g i?
(Jfl Cllftaj LOOSt
CHUNGKING, March lt-iJPr-
The Japanese are rushing the
construction of defenses and pour
ing troops into possible Allied in
vasion areas, a Chinese army
spokesman said today. - i
Fortifications have been' erected
fn the Shanghai-Hangchow-Nlng-
po region, the Hongxong-tnton
area and the : Foochow area, the
spokesman said, adding that 150,
000 troops had been massed in the
Shanghai section
Nine Slissinj
Gasboat Accident
VICTORIAVBJC, March 18-(ff)
A widespread search was started
tonieht for nine men reported
nin
missing late todly after a 29-foot
ras boat on which they were rid-
ing with Two the men upset
when, caught id a (whirlpool In
Seymour - narrows, t about 110
i miles northwest of Vancouver
; I I
1st Army
Slashes
Highway
3rd in Startling
Break-through;
Nazis Reel Back
By Austin Bealmear
PARIS, March 16-P)-The VJS.
First army slashed across the great
Ruhr superhighway at two points
east of the Rhine today, and south
ward a sensational breakthrough
by the Third army 20 miles be
yond the Moselle river set up two
German armies, for imminent an
nihilation. ;
These two seasoned, hard-hitting
armies were dealing tremendous
body blows to the reeling armies
of the. Reich, while the Seventh
army was crashing through into
German from the south.
The Moselle-Rhine triangle 80
miles from top to bottom and 85
miles wide at the base was col
lapsing under the terrific impact
of the Third and Seventh armies
and it appeared that soon not a
German would stand on the soil
of the Reich west of the Rhine.
Bridgehead Deepened
The First army, carrying a fight
to the enemy fraught with the
most immediate I peril, deepened
the . Rhine bridgehead to seven
miles, swept a mile north to with
in three miles of the open plains
of Germany, and smashed the first
big tank-led counterblow.
The Third army broke loose
along the Rhine valley on a 14
mile rampage that cleaved through
the heart of the enemy defenses
between thet Rhine and the Mo
selle 60 to 70 miles north of the
Germans fighting in defense of
the Saar basin and the Bavarian
Palatinate. f
. The Seventh army was hammer
ing at the underside of this huge
bulge in a co-ordinated offensive
along a 50-mile front that gained
up to four miles; and overwhelm
ed the 200-year-old French fort
ress of Bitche, never before taken
by storm. . ' .
The Germans were falling back
into the Siegfried line, which had
been reached at some points.
By a quirk of nature, the only
flyable weather! on the western
front was whereSthe three Amer
ican armies were attacking, and
2500 tactical warplanes ripped in
to ! the enemy's I defenses, trans
port and supply Efines. j
Police and WMC
LllTieW LilOSe 6
- 0 i TT
JNlgllt SpOt8 Here
D f .
Federal curfew regulations, to
date little felt in Salem, are al-
legedly behind midnight closing
orders served Friday; night on
three downtown! all-night restau
rants. V. ;- - 1-E - ;W V,
. City police, who issued the no
tices, said they were assigned the
task by the waif manpower com
mission. . f : A .
.Two Chinese restaurants and
High street lunch counter, dubbed
"night spots," although propri
etors of two maintain they serve
working folk and travelers as well
as merrymakers, were given the
orders. The third restaurant own
er Is out of the city until Monday.
Idaho Senator
Congress to Help Spectators
WASHINGTON, March MM5)
Senator Glen Taylor's secretary is
about to draw a new j assignment
finding out what the people in
the visitors' galleries thing about
the senate. v, .. I :..;-.
: The Idaho democrat may use
their views to push for some re
forms. .
As the senate's' only profession
al showman, Taylor considers the
usual, day's proceedings pretty
thin "fare for the spectators No
ring to the program deplorable
acqulstics none of the showman
ship Which Taylor used as the
banjo-plunking leader of a cow
boy band.-' -'-l (''C
"IH have my secretary circu-
late around through . the gallery
ana bsk ine people lour or
five
question each,
he said. "I dont
think most of
what is going
I floor." . - :
them ; understand
on down on the
Sires Level 12
quare Miles
f Huge Gty
21st BOMBER COMMAND
HEAQUARTERS, Guam, Satur
day, March 17-A-Three hun
d -ed Superfortresses set afire
i ' completely burned oat '13
s uare miles of Kobe, Japan's
leading seaport and ship-build
Ing center, today in the fourth
h ige Incendiary raid on Nlppo
n sse cities la a week. .
The 2506 tons of incendiaries,
h tting docks, an aircraft plant
a id" locomotive works, started
fres visible for 106 miles and
w hico still were burning fierce
1: two hoars after the first
p anes hit.
The fire area was a densely
p ipolated sector of Kobe.
V MJ. Gen. Curtis E. Le May,
c immander of the 21st bomber
ommand, reported the results.
armes Lose
i 1
189 at Iwo
utIGU21,000
.Sj PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Saturday,
March 17 - (JF) - Three American
ne divisions sustained 19,938
alties. Including 4,189 dead, in
capturing iwo Jima ior an u-
vanced air base 750 miles from
kTokvo. Fleet Adm. Chester W. NI-
tz announced today. :
1pUi aM organized resistance
ased on the volcanic black
island at 6 p.m. Friday when
its bf the third and fifth divi
sions! overran the last Japanese
hold-out emplacements at Kitano
PointJ northernmost tip of the
is and. '
In a second communique today,
Nimitt reported marines were
nthiuing to mop up enemy rem-
ts ion Iwo and that the central
field on that little island was
put into operation Dy American
forces yesterday.
, jNimitz previously had announc
ed that 21,000 of the enemy were
k$ledj . by conservative estimate.
Prisoners were few. -, . .
I
Yanks Advance
ii Luzon, Near
mmmer
i MANILA, Saturday, March 17
() -Tanks fighting " on Luzon
island's scattered fronts have de
stroyed one end of the Japanese
Shimbu line east of Manila, cut
the enemy communication line to
southern Luzon, and - advanced
within - seven miles of Baguio,
summer capital of the Philippines.
j Gen. Douglas MacArthur an
nounced the successes today in a
communique which also recorded
further gains by American forces
invading the Zamboanga sector of
Mindanao island.
In the Shimbu sector, where one
American general has been killed
ahd another wounded in the fierc
est . battling of the Luzon cam
paign; "the entire southern flank
of the elaborate Wawa-Antipolo
line has now been destroyed with
great losses to the enemy in both
personnel and supplies.". .The US
4rd f (Winged Victory) division
has reached a point four miles
east of Antipole v .
Would Enliven
He has a corrective program
Ity well thought out:
I. Redesign the chamber acous-
cally. ' , ,,; - - -
1 2. Enclose the gallery in sound
proof glass; Install "loudspeakers
to pipe in the debate to the visi-
1 3. Hire someone to stand in the
gallery and explain the meaning
of the various parliamentary ma
neuvers. .
f 4. Hand each visitor a leaflet
explaining that some of the mem
bers mre absent because of com
Ciittee meetings, official business
Of golf. ::r;-:J- :
- Taylor applauded a suggestion
by Senator . Downey (D-Calif.)
calling for the broadcast. of two
hours of congressional speech
making every day under special
, rules, v v " -
Capital
Airplane
Plant Hit;
300 Superforts
Hurl Incendiary
Bombs at Center
, ii --. i
i . -1 -
By Vera Haarland
21ST BOMBER COMMAND. '
Guam, March 17j-(Saturday
More than 800 B-29s dropped 2500
tons of incendiaries on Kobe
Japan's great shipbuilding center
and sixth largest city in a pre
dawn attack today. . i
Bombs from the second plane
over the target Started a string of
fires in the; important dock areas.
The third plane scored direct
hits on the Mitsubishi airplane
plant andfKawasake locomotive
plant. I j . "- j :
One Mile Up f ' 3
The Superforts swept over Kobe
at only a one-mile altitude to
dump their' loads on Japan's prin
cipal seaport and shipping center.
Maj. Leon Lowry, San Carlos,
Califs reported; only Might anti
aircraft fire, although, he X saw
searchlights piercing the : skies
from Osaka, havocked only thee
days befoH? by; another 2000-ton
raid. tr'-r :. i
Target for this greatest of all
fire raids that rapidly are turn
ing huge Sections of Japan's in
dustrial centers to ashes, was a
live-square-mile area in the high
ly congested core of Japan's sixth
largest metropolis. i
Enemy Claims 30. i
Although the 21st bomber com
mand announced only that a "very
large task ,f orce" of B-29c attacH
ed, indications! were that more
than 300 aircraft participated.
Tokyo radio; made the uncon
firmed claim that more than 30
of the B-29s were "either shot
down or damaged."; The enemy
said that the raiders, while con
centrating on Kobe, also dropped
Incendiaries "in the vicinity of
Osaka. f i
This was the fourth great strike
--all incendiary on Japan's ma
jor cities! In eight days, and the
first on Kobe, a congested city of
1,000,000 people.
The previous raids details ef.
the Kobe attack are not yet avail
ablecaused great conflagrations.
much damage to industries, burn
ed out many square miles of con
gested areas and caused the Japa
nese government to make many
changes in; its air raid defenses. .
(In Washington, the 20th air
force headquarters announced that
the Kobe mission was a continua
tion of the plan "to;' destroy Ja
pan's industrial production of war
essentials.") i i ',' ' ,. v -
Most of Kobe's buildings are of
wood and plaster. Only about 10
per cent ire constructed of brick,
sheet metal, stone or concrete.
Fires were; visible 100 miles away.
Adair Farms
Cost OTdo Much,
Avei-s Judge
PORTLAND, ! March 18Mn
US District Judge Claude McCol-
loch declared tnriav hm vn vnfclMt
into ordering overpayments in the i
recent Camp Adair land condem- '
nation suits. V : ; - -v,',.. .-.f:: ' 1
"The greedy men and recreant
public officials responsible . .
may take pleasure in the financial
result : lj I doubt, however, that
their consciences are easy," he
slad. He specifically attacked rep
resentatives of the US public
lands division, labeling their tes
timony as false. -'va
The federal court here set pric
es on land for the Camp Adair
site, taken ovet from private own
ers by the ' government, in cases
where no agreement was reached
on values. ! -
f- ,'
Unfit Jleri Barred
From Joining Navy
WASHINGTON. March lMV
The navy has taken steps to pre
vent ; plrpically unqualified en
listed personnel from being sent
overseas -V 'J :i":; ''
A recent order to all navy ships
and stations disclosed' that num
erous reports ihad been received
by the navy bf jnenj arriving in
overseas f areas who were not
qualified; o perform all their du
ties. S"-1-""-.-i; ;
I