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They're the State's Best til . - .... V --- - Y 1 1 ' NINETY-FOURTH YEAB 22 PAGES : Salem OrecjQrv Sunday. Morning, March 18,1845 Pric 5c. No. 311 Washington High's "A" Champions: Front row, left to right: Athletic Director Exley, Bob Lavey, Jack Keller, Brace Cowan, Jerry Krafve, Willis Urban, Bob Maxwell and Coach Ted Schopf. - Back jow: Manager Goldman, Nick Sholian, Dar Johnson, Bob Taggesell, Chuck Strader, L. Urban, Bowes and BoUtad. . - " ' . 1 , S i-,TT,v,mini i ii "! "'L'.gBg pmHH' yyYr""T'"' ''" '"s'''f --i; ; ' A' r D u Hon ;,Vi r " r if i Imii sJi CUUkxnie Hifh's MBW Champions: Front row. left to rifht, Allen Somfleth, Milton PhUbrMk. Alfred Goertsen, James Snyder, Robert Rydina, nuuucer. Back row: Coach Georfe Sindberr, Vernon La- , Fonntaine, Donald Parker, Allen Van, Wayne Erickson, Donald Eriekson, Robert Norrren and Soper r Intendent Iloward F. Ton. - - i CFtP 1 Washington Prep Wins H opp Title With 51-41ictdry Oatskanie Topples Reedsport,? 29-26, for 'B' School Grown; i ' ' i I J it' Capacity Audience Sees Finale?; . "A good night for a murder," remarked the old time reporter in an aside to the cub police reporter; as the OTR dropped a sheaf . of copy in the basket. The night was foul, just the kind that the author of a who-done-it would pick; for limine ' his fictional crime. "But there probably: will be none," con-1 g fcy the prognosticators aa one j of the meet's toughies at the was j idle "fori Ofj tinued the OTR just as the cub l beginning, took to the Rose City the first state high school bas- minutes when , was commencing tosniff possibili- ketball title m 17 years last night after defeating the hosting Ore- IMahoney de ession I- i c t . . Extends 4 L . i . i is I ' 69 Days Senate Says No To Pension Bill,, Governor Home s By Wendell Webb (Managing Editor, The Statesman) The longest I legislative session 69 days) in Oregon's history was at end today after determined ef forts to pass a firemen's retirement bill had failed. i The house, which relaxed and marked time most of the day Sat ,x'fj urday, finally was gavel led into history by Speak' er EugeneMarsh at 5:49 pjn. The senate; weary af ter hours of bick ering, went out of existence -18 tEat6r:V-iV?lUtei, t0 - -: the gavel of Pres ident Howard Belton Last-minute business left unfin ished were the firemen's pension plan and the proposal to authorize a home for the governor, Sen. Thomas Mahohey tried re peatedly all day to obtain suspen- sion of the rules I to bring the fire- Carrier Planes H Hit Nip Homeland Says Tokyo Radio SAN FRANCISCO, March1 17 (JP)- Carrier planes of an Amer ican task force , are i making their third attack In little over a month on the Japanese home- . land, an Imperial headquarters -communique of the enemy an nounced Sunday at an ; hour when the raid already i had ex- : ceeded seven hoars, f r i The official communique. varying from earlier unofficial accounts, ' said the target was Kyushu Island, southernmost of the i homeland group, and that it ; bef an at 6 a.m. Tokyo time (4:54 p.m. Saturday eastern war: time). , ; - IFMywiaaiwifc.v: ,., . In in t Br Al Uchtner lltfiun Spoilt: Editor mens . measure up for final pas-1 Washington highV height-heaiy Colonials of Portland, peg-ltimo ' the senate! ties of a by-line story. "The big news doesn't come when you're expecting it, the OTR concluded. -About all we'll get tonight will be a few obits. Storms seem to speed the passing of the mortal spirit." . It was just the old time report er's usual gripe about doing obits. He did them only on the regular's day off, but he didn't like the job. "I thought I was through with that stuff 20 years ago," he'd ay, at , times when he. thought the manag ing ed. might overhear.! Usually he'd let the subject drop with that, but this night with the phones still and only the dull chattering ol the - teletypes to break the quiet of the - city room, the OTR went on with his monologue. ' ' "You know, kid, obitusfries and funerals aren't what .they, used to . be. ' Even the causes of death have changed. A man used to die brain fever; now it's ; coronary thrombosis or streptococcic Infec tion, and if you don't mention the ' cause the readers start whispering. must have been cancer. , ; And the obituaries they run now are nothing but the bare bones of biography. In the old days . (Continued on Editorial page) Wanted! 125 Blood Donors gon City Pioneers, 51-41, in the 216th annual tournament's final "landed a "call of the senate" and clash at Willamette universitv. Atisiml irinrin this 2fith Hassir Sen. W. A. Moser of Orabts fass a jam-packed audience bulged the blue ribbon basket bin In the "B" division finale pre ceding last night's main event, Oatskanie high's Tigers topped Reedsport's Braves, 29-26, for the championship in that class. Not since 1928 wffen a Center Ed Lewis paced Colonials crew swept to the championship has Portland held a slate title. And . Final results: "A Championship ' Washington SI, Oregon City 41. -B" Championship Clatskanle 29, Reedsport 26. For "A" third place: Medford SI, Baker 49. For fourth place: Eugene 48, Vernonia 25. "B" consolation: -Grant Union 28, Arlington 27. last night it was another center, All-State Repeater Jerry Krafve, who acted as shepherd for the Ted Schopf coached Portlanders while en route to the throne room. ..The six-foot three-incher looped 19 points in pacing the win and time and again swished counters when the Colonials needed 'em most in the thrill-dripping battle, For Oregon City, it was her first finish in the money in history Nine straight years prior to this the Coach Dan Jones club came to Salem, but always left long before the finals. This time the hippety- hopping hosts of district 6, fig ured strongly at the start, .waded right on through to the finale, dumping Medford 's top seeded ; One hundred twenty five more . . blood donors are needed in Salem on Tuesday! If this area is to provide the maximum contribution i of blood Black Tornado in the Friday night .for plasma to be used on battle- semifinals after Washington had -fronts of the world wnen tne mo- ousted Baker. : bile Red Crocs unit calls here Tuesday, at least 125 more per sons must register,' Junior Cham ber of Commerce workers declar ed Saturday night . (Continued on page 15) 3 Valley Men Added to list Of War Dead Names of three mid-valley men i are added today to the list of war dead. i Two, PFC. Edwin Eugene Pow ers and Pvt. Robert (Red) Miller, died on Iwo Jima. The third is William Ed Thom as,: 19, apprentice seaman, wnose gold star is on the Pringle com- could not be located, i His efforts precipitated heated remarks di rected at President Belton in re gard k to parliamentary law to which the president adhered. The firemen's program which op ponents said i was not actuarily sounds was . dis approved by the ways and means committee b u the committee's report was turn ed down 16 to 14 Proponents, how ever, were unable to muster . the necessary two- obtain i suspension V to thirds vote munity. service flag dedicated this of the rules and thus obtain a weekend. Powers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Powers, route live, Sa lem, was killed February 20 a :5; . ; snn mm necnn- " Miller. Whose wile, the former . . j. ' . j j it j i. ed to permit re- vote. The senate: by a narrow mar gin disapproved the house-passed measure for the governor's home Iva Greenwood, and small daugh ter: reside in Salem, was; killed i February 19. Both were marines. Thomas died of meningitis in 1943 at Avalon, Calif., but his death had not previously been re corded among the service 'dead. (More details on service page 12) 1200 War Casualties Returning Every Day WASHINGTON, March 17. -(TV- Battle casualties are being re turned from overseas at the rate of '1200 a day and there are ap proximately 50,000 more sick and wounded soldiers than there were three months ago. j This was reported today by the army in an appeal for more dieti- I clans and occupational therapists. Roseburg Youth Carries Of f . Registrations may be made on tbjt p or A f Ti the telephone by calling 9277, Majority ot oveecli Honors ; Marion chapter, Red Cross, head- J J L Quarters during office hours Mon day. Rain Falls in Detroit On Santiam Saturday. Elliott Motschenbacher of Rose burg, single-handed, carried 'off a majority, of the honors for his school at the 11th annual high school speech contests which closed Saturday , on the Willam ette campus, and proceeded on DETROIT, . March 17 -While Saturday also to win the state snow was reported falling in the j American Legion oratorical con- mile high Cascades 50 miles east test of here, rain was falling here at j Medford high school and Salem 9 o'clock tonight. Rain and snow I high took a portion of the honors had fallen intermittently through- f in the contests in which 11 schools cut the day but there had" been no were represented by approximate- 'ecpreciable wind. . jly 100 students. Dr. Herbert E, Kane, wuiamette university pro- V7f nther I fessor of speech, directed the two- .'WW--- ' i; ., , K.. ... '". .. . A Max. Mia. Rata aay event t rranclieo m m j s. Motschenbacher won first in ga.im ... rertland Willamette . . ' .45 ,44 ..4S .4$ 3S 41 43 1.44 ,79 1 oratory, in serious interpretation, I and with Maree Stenhens. first in ft ' t -. -r t ' ' , t consider a- rf tion asked for byj," 1 Sen Marshall' 1 Cornett. A I' A Both the sen-;? - ate and house ad- , " the house sing ing Auld Lang Sang after members had expressed appreciation' for Marsh's work and been thanked in turn for their co operation, and the senate folding ud ' after Sen Coe McKenna of Portland ' expressed : thanks members to President Belton for his long supervision from the ros tram. ' I Major business transacted Sat urday included senate passage appropriation: bills, the contro versial : measure providing' for registrar of elections in Multno mah county, and a bill liberaliz ing tax exemptions for disabled vetetana, All previously passed the house. The final motions for adjournment were put by the two deans, Rep. Harvey Wells of Portland and Sen. W, H. Strayer of Baker.' ; Galleries were well-filled Sat ond in extempore speaking . and tied for third in humorous inter pretation. ... .. T.-Ml f m f M ... J . Maurice Deckard, Salem, took urday, lor, one oi we lew umes first in humorous interoretaUon. we session, out oy late evening and Bill Hedrirk at Mwif ord. first the aUtehouse was all but desert in extempore speaking. Hedrick ed., ;Manjr legislators Jeft for their also won third in serious inter- homes last night and others, were oretation. Jerrv -Jrcf rf XTfnrH leaving today. The state was "on took second in oratory and Bob fats own' for another two years. Boyer of Medford third i in" ex- (Legislatiya roundup pages 18 tempore speaking, -and with Bob I and 15). Boyer .took second in debate. I Second in humorous interpreta tion was won by Barbara Bauer, Corvallis, while We Poyntef, Hillsboro, tied with Motschen bacher for third. Second in seri ous interpretation was . won . by Jeanne Barnes of Hillsboro. Betty Neumany Corvallis, won third in oratory ' " -' Occasional Rain Showers today, except for brief periods of sunshine in the mid-willam ette valley aree,, predicts' U.' S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem. 1 Stettin's Defeiises 12 Per Cent Cut In Meat Supply Starts April 1 I Hi". WASHINGTON, March 17-(P) Civilian meat supplies will be cut 2 per cent next quarter and steps taken toward ironing out unequal distribution. tl The home table allotment is re duced to "the lowest point in 10 years' for the three months 'start ing April 1, the government said. At the same time, subsidy pay ment adjustments to balance com petition among slaughterers be come effective. t ; j This together with a plan soon to be formulated to apportion live animals among slaughterers event ually is' expected to alleviate short ages in such reas aa. congested war production centers." . . Less beef and ' pork will be available, said the announcement issued by the office of war infor mation, but the civilian table wiU get more veal, lamb and mutton. Simultaneously OWI announced "substantial reduction" in lend- lease shipment of ; meat, and in creased supplies fori US army and navy use. 4 1 Deep Slash in Tire Quotas ! Set for April I WASHINGTON, j March ll(P) The OPA today ordered a deep slash in passenger tire allocations for April" because of an acute shortage of the vital tire ingre dient carbon black; 1 . The agency announced that on ly 1,000,000 tires will be available for rationing next month, as com pared with 1,600,000 fin March. Steps have been taken to increase the carbon black output :. ' I This 37 per cent cut reduces the monthly allocation below ! the 1,500,000 mark for the first time since last May, and pushes far ther into the future any release of new tires for "A" card motor ista. ' ; - I Breached' Russians Attack; At Lake Balaton Berlin Reports By Richard Kasischke LONDON, Sunday, March 18 -(iT,)-Russian forces, backed by fire from 1000 heavy guns . and hundreds of dive bombers, yes terday knifed three miles into the southern defenses of Stettin, Ger many's big Baltic seaport, while Soviet troops in east Prussia cap tured the key costal stronghold of Brandenburg, nine miles south west of Koenigsberg. - , While the Germans threw wounded soldiers into the blazing battle for the strategic northern anchor of Berlin's 'Oder river de fense line, Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's first White Russian ar my troops extended their control of the river's east bank barrier to a point four and a half miles south of the Pomeranian capital. A Moscow radio front report an nounced that the Red army had killed more than 20,000 Germans and destroyed more than 600 tanks in repelling German . counter-at tacks in a 13-day battle near Lake Balaton, - southwest of Budapest, capital of Hungary. - - ' . In the Balaton sector, Berlin re ported that the Russians had open ed an offensive of their own, and the . Moscow radio said that with the collapse , of German attacks, Soviet forces "now threaten south ern Germany with the added dan ger of a link-up between the Red army and allied forces in Italy. Smashing toward Stettin from the south, Zhukov's troops cap tured the Oder river villages of Frauenhoe, four and a half miles from the city, Retzowsfelde and Ferdinandstein. i Their capture ex tended the Russian control along the eastern channel of the Oder to six and a half miles north of cap tured Grief ennagen for a possible smash across mile-wide island marshes in mid-river. '-ireati-' .Hraaomidl ADD tPDiraeeir j Nazi Forces Appear in Collapse; j U.S. Seventh Smashing Siegfried ; Defenses; Bridgehead Expanded .1 " By EDWARD KENNEDY I j PARIS, Sunday, March 18 (AP) Historic Cob?enz the biggest prize sinfce BoruvUfell swiftly to the Third VS. army today as American armor and infantry plunged for ward ajgajnst German forces which appeared in collapse through all of the palatinate. ' J " t Aa Coblenz toppled before the flying columns of Lt. Gen. George j S. Patton's army, the Serenth U. army, operating on the southern end of the flaming Saar front smashed into Siegfried line defenses for gains of six to eight miles. , j With the 45th and Third infantry divisions pacing this assault, the Seventh's momentum carried Americans through HornDacn, omy a va miies souw ; Council Will Get Gun Bill An ordinance bill-which would prohibit the purchasing of revol ver or pistol in Salem without a permit' from thd thief of police and? providing penalty , for both purchaser and seller of such fire arms will be introduced at. Mon day night's city council meeting, Lawrence N. Brown, city attorney, said here Saturday; Twice recently ihortarms pur chased in Salem have, been used illegally on city streets, once in a holdup and once in street fight Police charged that both guns had been purchased in Salem and tha the required -record of sale had not heen kept by the merchant involved. . . Cargo Vessel Breaking Up; All Crew Safe COOS BAT, Ore, March 17-(P)-AI1 the efficers and crew of the earge vessel S.S. Alvarado stranded en the rocks offshore near here were safe tonight af ter 11 men, braving a 95-mile gale, fought their way to the beach on a life raft. - COOS BAY. Ore., March 17-UP) Coast guard rescue crews battling rains, high winds ' and pounding seas td -rescue the 31 man crew of a small cargo vessel breaking up on the rock offshore near here said tonight they could no longer see anyone aboard, - - - ' Four efforts to. rig a breeches buoy line have failed. .A third line - which was shot from the ship had just been secur ed ashore when the vessel rolled with the tide and it snapped. Since then there has been no sign of life aboard and darkness was rapidly settling over the shoreline. - of Zweibruecken. This placed the farthest ele ments of the Seventh army only about 55 miles by shortest over land routes from Third army forces in Rheinboeller and Ellern and 1 created the threat of a great pincers around all of the rich Saar industrial area and its defenders. Meanwhile, fast traveling Third army tanks 30 miles 'to the south of poblenz ripped 15 more miles across the rear lines of two flee ing German armies and were pos sibly only 21 miles from the great Rhine escape "city of Mainz.. ! Bridgehead Expanded j First 1 army . troops, Simula tn- eously, expanded the important Remagen-Erpel bridgehead east of thei Rhine, seizing control of 1 a 4 -mile stretch of the Autobahn leading to the Ruhr and capturing several more towns. ' Flying tank columns of the Third army s 'Fourth armored division reached the Nahe river last barjrier before Mainz with im mense, ! ground-devouring strides that fast were cuttng off all north ward routes of escape out of the Sarr and Palatinate. The Germans said thei Nahe had been crossed. Peace Rumors Fly. As supreme allied headquarters reported these . general successes on all fronts, rumors of armistice and peace ran riot through allied Europe. I There was absolutely no confirmation at supreme head quarters , that the Germans had asked for a cessation of hostilities. Eyes were on Switzerland where many felt negotiations might come. Gen. Eisenhower warned civil ians in Frankfurt, Mannheim and Ludwigshaven, in the Third army's path, that these big Rhine- land cities would be subjected to merciless bombardment and the Germans themselves reported ma jor breakthroughs in the. starkest terms ever used in this war. Fiiiins Throng Polling Places HELSINKI, March 17-flVThe Finns jammed polling places in great numbers today and political observers predicted that at least 70 per cent of the qualified 2,200, 000 persons would cast ballots in ah election .generally considered "crucial" for Finland's, future. No incidents were reported any where in the country tnd the polls will' remain open until 8 p. m. Sunday in tEla first parliamentary election in almost six years. . I : B-29s Destroy Kobe Factories 2 1ST BOMBER COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Sun day, March JMffJ-Great fires set in a 12 square mile vital area of Kobe, Japan's leading shipbuilding city, by more than 300 Super fort resses yesterday still cast too great a smoke pall for photographic checking but latest ' evidence on last Wednesday's' raid on Osaka showed nine of its 14 vital war in-" stallations wiped out. Headquarters disclosed today that new reconnaissance photo graphs of the destruction wrought by 300 B-29S with more than 2000 tons of 1 incendiaries at 1 Osaka showed conclusively that seven and eighth tenths of a 10 square mile target area was burned out. Among installations destroyed were the Osaka j metal industry, Kubota iron and 1 machine works, Nakahama ' steel j company, Nitta leather belt manufacturing, works, the Hatsudoki engine works, Jap an diestuff t manufacturing : com pany and the Kukuzahl steam power plant. j . Heavier Draft Of Men Over 30 Foreseen if- 1 ' ? WASHINGTON, March 17 -ff) Heavier drafting ! of men 30 and older from i essential jobs was foreseen by K selective service to night as it authorized deferment of some45,000 younger men in five vital war industries. The government broke its rule that not more than 30 per cent of workers in the 18-29 group could retain deferments,' for the benefit of steel, coal mining, transporta tion, synthetic rubber and non ferrous mining industries includ ing copper, lead and zinc. ' "It Is obvious that if we dont get them under 30 well have to take older men" said a selective service7 headquarters : spokesman. "The draft calls are not being reduced." J -J,;: T.V -' -;. Snow, High Wind Closes Santiam Highways; Cars in Ditches Atl Along Willamette Pdss Sgt. Applegite Missing Notification that ehef son, Sgt D. E. Applegate, .ivak ..missing' in action in German; was received Saturday by Gladj-s Jewell, 1945 Oxford st; Salem.') (More on serv ice page 12). Small Fire Reporteid ? Sparks from this saWdust con veyor at the Spahlding: Lumber yard, Front and Ferry sts were the cause of a small blaze there at 9 pjn.city firemfla reported. Not much damage occurred 3 - . - - IT' ' - f ; . v . ' Snow and high wind, left the Santiam highways closed today. Cars Saturday night were in the ditches all along the Willamette highway and the Greyhound buses were 12 hours lato, into Eugene from the south. Drivers, reported the storm getting worse. Eighteen inches of snow; was reported on the Siskiyou highway and chains are necessary the state police said. , The ' . Santiam , highway .was closed at 4:24 p. m. Saturday by a snow' slide at Suttle lake on the east side of the. summit, and the' gates were up at Upper Soda on the south . Santiam, and at . Mill City on the north Santiam, west of the summit, the state highway reported. The. Bend bound bus with one pasenger had been step ped at !the junction of . the north and south highways. '. ;- Hoyd Hamman of the Ham main Stages, said his west bound bui from Bend had been an hour law's arriving and as a result the outgoing, bus was late departing. Hamman said he took the tickets himself and his remembrance was (hat there wai one man passenger with a; ticket to Bend. Hamman talked with his driver at 4:45 p.- m. from Marion Forks and was informed 6f the. slide and proposed closure. The driver reported the bus and one other car would be let by if Hamman wiished him to go through. This was authorized by the Salem man. He1 had not heard from the driver at 9 pm Saturday night -"A caravan of three cars com- - U f posed of legislators and members of their staffs.! had 1 planned to leave for Central Oregon over the Santiam this morning. Members of the party were William A: Nis- kanen, - Deschutes representative and Mrs. Niskahan; William B. Morse," Crook county " representa tive and Mrs. Morse; and E. A. Kimberly, ' t representative from . Grant and Harney; and tela A. Jacobson of Prairie City. 'Early, this morning members of the . party favored making the trip to the midstate by .way of the Wapanitia highway. The state po lice had received no report oh its condition, : crews not having re turned to thiir quarters. ' This seemed to indicate, . police t&id, fhat'oondilions were not good.