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mo ana
Kwan Pei Kwan, attache of the
Chinese consulate in Portland,
gave the Salem Chamber of Com
merce a brief and unscheduled les
son in economics at the termina
tion of his address Monday. The
guest speaker had pointed out the
needs of China for machinery and
technical skills, much of which
would have to be imported, in the
period of development expected to
"follow the war. A question came
from the floor as to how China
would pay for these purchase from
America, and whether China had
any money. Kwan's answer was:
- "Chiiia has land and China has
labor." . j- ' ' .
The essence of the instruction
was that production, npt currency,
is the basis of our economic sys
tem. The amount of gold in the
world even if it were in circula
tion As hot" i the basis. Money,
whether as gold or as currency, is
merely the convenient medium for
the exchange of real values in
' goods and. services. Fundamental
ly people pay for what they get
not with money, ut with their
- own production for which money
' jis the symbol. . j
Of course Kwan might have con
tinued his instruction one point
further: America must be ready to
receive goods and services from
China (products of her land and
labor) as payment- for the goods
and services which America may
furn'sh China. That rule applies
'to all trade, both domestic and for
eign, though it is more painfully
"conspicuous in foreign trade be
cause of the objection of domestic
producers to foreign competition.
The; United States and other
countries are not going to free
trade after this war, and no one
should fool himself to think they
are. The -nationalist feelings are
too strong. American poultrymen
will not, want dried eggs from
China, admitted free of duty. "and
filbert growers will not want' to
compete with Mediterranean nuts
without tariff protection. But
there are broad areas where inter
national trade can be; carried on,
- particularly with the orient. China
, is a source of wolfram (tungsten)
tung oil, tea, silk, rugs,: etc. Ma
laya ships rubber and tin. With
study for the broad interest of the
.American people we ought to be
able to frame trade policies which
will not give away our domestic
marker but still will expand our
foreign market, though definitely
we must expect payment, not in
"money'' but, in the products of
labor and land. .---", ..
Kwan Pei Kwan taught the les
son in few words.
Hitler & Gang
To Be Treated
As Murderers
LONDON, March 20.-(JPy-A de
mand by the archbishop of York
that "The master criminals Hit
ler arid Himmler and their gang"
should be killed on the spot when
captured was followed today in
the house Of lords by official dis
closure that the war crimes com
mission already is screening nazi
" prisoners fbr trial, i !
"j Lord Wright, chairman of the
United Nations war: crimes com
mission, arose with a statement
that orders had been given to al
lied armies to hold, hot shoot, any
criminals they captured. He add
ed, however, that the commission
definitely 'had decided to treat
Hitler and other "major criminals
as murderers, assassins, thieves,
torturers and the like." f
Viscount Simon, ' speaking for
the' government as lord chancel
lor, reported lists j of criminals
were piling up as the armies push
ed deeper into Germany.
2 Salem Men
Die in Pacific
One In action and one in aerial
accident, two Salem - men ' met
death in the Pacific, within the past
. month, their parents were noti
lied here this week.
. PFC Mervyn Lynn Hurley, son
cf Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hurley, 2016
Lee st, was killed . as he served
with the Third marines on Iwo
Jima on March 1. i
i Lt Glenn E. Pavey, son of Lulu
Tavey, 1140 North Fifth sU was
killed on Saipan in an aircraft ac
cident February 23. ' ,
; (Further details service page, t.)
U. S. Wants Air Base
lii Egypt After War
VCAIRO, March 20-(ff)-The
United; States intends to'ask Egyp
tian representatives at the. San
Francisco conference lor U. S.
air .base in Egypt after the war, It
was reported here today. : ; ;
The Egyptians j reportedly al
ready have been Informed of the
request and are said to favor It
Partly Cloudy
today with scattered showers
and increasing cloudiness ton
night in the mid-Willamette,
valley ; area, predicU U. S.
weather bureau, McNary lield,
Salem.- : - J
Nazi esDsSaihice
West
Virtuply
Saarbruecken,2weibrue
To Patch's Me W
Take Worms ii
By AUSTIN
PARIS, Wednesday, Mal-ci
enth and Third armies formed
yesterday in a great coordinated
out the last German resistance west of the Rhine and cap
tured the historic cities of iSfairbruecken, Zweibruecken and
Worms. I
Contact between the twl
about 12 miles west of Kaisetlautern by elements of the Sev
enth army's Sixth armored
26th infantry division.
Saarbruecken, a city of
tal and economic center of
Ceaseless Air
War on Reich
Still Continues
LONDON, March tl-(JP)-A
powerful force of RAF heavy
bombers blasted at oil refineries
and other targets la western
Germany last night while Mos
quito made their 29th consecu
tive night assault on Berlin, the
air ministry announced today.
LONDON, Wednesday, March
21 -UP)- RAF Mbsquitos attachep
Berlin for the 29th consecutivt
night last night after perhapi
5000 allied heavy bombers durin l
the day had rained explosives oi
German communicat ions, oi
plants and submarine yards While
lighter warplanes raked German
troops.
The round-the-clock offensije
was a continuation of multiple
raids yesterday when approx
mately 8000 allied planes swarm
ed over Germany and knocked
out 5000 nazi Vehicles, and a pre
dawn attack on Berlin for trie
28th consecutive night by Mo:
quitos. Striking at dwindling
sources of nazi oil supply,' 400
U. S. Eighth air force bombers
attacked a natural oil refinery It
Hemmingstedt on) the Danish
peninsula and raided. Hamburg
much-battered port and its Blohnt
Voss submarine 'yards where tne
latest type of U-boats reportedly
are being constructed. An oil tf
finery in the Hamburg area alio
was hit
Santiam Near
Flood Stage
State police and Red Crois
workers were "standing by" todefy
after receipt of the word that tne
Santiam river near Jefferson wis
expected to reach a crest of p
feet, flood stage, by 8 a.m. today
Local observers at the weather
bureau and river station said th
no flood was expected along t) e
Willamette, although a slight ri e
was apparent River readings la e
Tuesday, were 8.9 feet at Salem.
Flood stage on the Willamette
20 ft f
The three inter-county ferries
this area, Wheatland, Indepen
dence and Buena Vista, were ot
of operation Tuesday because if
high water.
GermcmyWpvM
WorkingiB(d
.... f "It . ! li it l J
, By Flora Lewis
WASHINGTON, March -50
-United States officials are reac!
ing agreement on a plan for Ge
man- reparations, it was learn'
today which would leave the rei
with a functioning, balanced eco:
omy. - j-j:
: The question of reparations,
be taken up with Russia and Bri
ain In Moscow soon, is tig
linked to the overall economic; pol
icy for Germany. v
The amount of reparations Ge
many' will be able to pay depen
directly on how much Indus
the allies decide to leave to the
Germans. ; .
ff ralmie
lleJ Fall
j i
Patton's
Forces
itniiig
r
I S ".'.11
Is t
BEAU1EAR
21-(AP)4The U.S. Sev
a junction in the Saarland
assault that SvirtuallyJ wiped
irmies was made at a poirtt
(division and the Third army's
35,000 population and the capi
.he industrial Saar, fell to Lt.
pen. Alexander M. Patch's Sev
enth army as did Zweibruecken,
17 miles to the east I
!' : Worms, on the Rhine about mid
day between Mainz and Ludwig-hafen-Mannheim,
was seized in a
lightning stab by the Fourth ar
inored and flOthj infantry divisions
)f Lt.Gen. George S. ; Patton's
Third army. I I ' j
r The sensatioijlal drive by the
wo American armies operating in
inison disposed of the j German
Seventh army 1 and bottled up
much of the German First army
i the-: last ' two : enemy i armies
fwest oftheRhiiie.;1 I V
3)ef eases" Collapse i . j
Si Under the unrelenting assault,
he enemy's defenses in! the Saar
land salient collapsed-f and nazi
Sroopsjwere attempting to flee
eastward by the thousands under
storm of explosives from Am
erican .: warplanes. : j ; '
II The f fall of Saarbruecken and
.Zweibruecken fore-told the pos
sible swift evacuation of all Ger-
'many west of the Rhine. '
Saarbruecken fell to the 70th
.division, which crossed the Saar,
sliced through jthe westwall and
stormed the city fromi the west
against light opposition I j
I Zweibrueckeii feU toifte Third
.division, which had breached the
fwestwill after three days of fierce
fighUhg. ,;.- -f. .. Ul y,
Citiei FaU Easily; .,.' t:;
ifjj The comparatively, easy con
quest ff the two stubborn cities
dramatically symbolized the com
plete collapse of the nazi defenses
-or tne jsaar-Moseile triangle.
Nil Thousands of G e r m a n s were
captured, one front dispatch say
ing that the Third army alone
bagged possibly 20,000. j M
: At the same , time, German re
sistance east of . the Rhine seemed
Ito falter and Lt Gen. Courtney
H. Hodges US First army broad
ened its east-bank bridgehead to
124 miles with advances measur
Sing up to 4,000! yards.
On day of crushing defeat for
German arms, General : Eisenhow
er himself bodily pointed toward
phe sector of the reich' presum
ably next marked for destruction.
pbroadcasting a p roclamation
warning all German civilians and
foreign workers to flee from the
great Ruhr industrial area
Turkey Earthquakes
Killr Injure 14 Persons
I K7 tne Associated iss
j: At least 14 persons were killed
:and hundreds injured q,a series
pi earthquakes! that shok central
and -f southern I Turkey t Tuesday
pnoaning, the Ankara radio report
ed by FCC saidi : Property damage
was not estimated. - A ?
The war itself is a prime factor
in these calculations. As one of
ficial put it, if lithe other . cities of
German -resemble the I rubble of
Cologne, there Will be no problem
of destroying the German war ma
chine. ! WhUe tfieUiUted States has lit
tle direct interest in reparations,
Ithis country is li developing defin
ite ideas on thej' related subject of
Germany's future economy,
ff A high official faid the US be
lieves everything necessary should
be done to remove the German
War potential, but he saw no ex
cuse for carrying a destructive
policy further limply to stifle
commercial competition,
Secret Army m
Ready to Show
AJter V-E Da
WASHINGTON, March 20-r-
The army has prepared a motion
picture for release immediately at
teij Y-E day, but it's a secret what;
it'i about t
The fact that there is such a
film was acknowledged today by
the motion picture bureau of the
ofic of war information. It is
under seal f in film exchanges
throughout the country.
An OWI official said he could
not even give a tiny hint of its na-
. ill 1 i.
uise.
auks Capture
I
Iloilo I Airfield
Isle
ANTLA, Wednesday, Mar. 2 It
-if)-Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush's 40th
division infaintrymen captured thej
important Iloilo airdrome on Pa-
nay j island Monday In a swift
eastward drive into the outskirts of
thf capital city. . j
r SMother column spearing nbrth-j
wrd 25 miles from the beachhead;
overran the' broad costal plainj
captured the towns of Janiuayi
Pdtotan and Brbtac Nuevo and es-j
tapli$hed contact with a strong
guerrilla band which had done;
mich to clear the southwest sec-l
uon ; of the big central Philip-i
pines island.
Sen. Douglas MacArthur - said
in; his communique today1 that the
Yinks were "taking full advan
iage oi me enemy s coniusion as
thfeyj swept rapidly north and east
front the, beachhead established at
dawh Sunday with naval and air
support, . f
ipeavy fires were observed iri
Ilfcilo, indicating . the enemy was
putting: the I torch to the city of
80,000 inhabitants.
olalla Struck
y 36 Gases
f DiDhtheria
r ' ,A :
OLALLA, Ore., Mar.
epidemic of diphtheria which
ight had struck an estimated 36
rsbns in this small town brought
ciosiire of the grade school, the
aire and a warning from health
aathbnties to shun public gather
Dan P. Trullinger, Oregon
tyi Clackamas county health of4
nceo, said laboratory cultures es
tabllshed 19 cases and that clinicai
atagnosis incucated 17 more on
wruh cultures were awaited.
Trullinger said the epidemic
ifk a wide age range, some in
ei? sixties and the youngest three
years old. i Several families had
Rtor than jone member ill. The
heallh official stated he could not
disciver any public ! gathering
iih might be suspected as the
clusle. Molalla had a census of
986 In 1940, but defense work
has f increased the population.
bspital Name
S Approvea
The board of governors of Sa
lem! Deaconess hospital voted
unanimously . - Tuesday night to
ciirie the new hospital to be conl
strutted on South Winter street
tjie Memorial" hospitaL-They ap
proved also: plan! to offer organi
zations and, individuals the oppori
tiiniiy. to memorialize persona and
movement' through gifts to the
institution.!
C&ic and
tion$ will be Invited by the public
relations director to the hospital,
oh authority given by the, board
of governors,: to name reprcsenta
trvei to a board to sit In with the
governors as. a planning council
I)e
Gaulle Demands "
Arms for Iiido-China ,
PARIS, March 20 -UP)- GenL
T4e Gaulle speaking before the
cnsjultative assembly, demanded
t4day that the allies ' drop" arms
td French! troops - fighting ; the
Japanese in the mountainous jun
gles of upper Laos, west of Hanoi
iii Iido-China. " ' " i
j D Gaulle asserted the French
!ould hold out until relieved and
declared: "I insist that arms and
jxtunptions be parachuted to them.
(h Pahay
alls To
ussiahs
... :M I 1 o.;.. ...
Soviets Wipe Out
Nazi Bridgehead
Opposite Stettin
'.-ir ! I-
LONDON, Wednesday, Mar. 21
-(-Russian troops wiped out the
Germans' powerful bridgehead on
the) east bank of.j the; Oder river
opposite Stettin-1 yesterday and
laid the flaming Pomeranian cap
ital open to a final assault by cap
turing its last outmost bf Altdamm,
70 miles northeas of perlin, Mos
cow announced last night
Far to the east other Sosviet
fortes, rolling up both ends of the
partly-flooded East Prussian pock
et southwest of Ioenigsberg, cap
tured the ancient bastion of
Brunsberg and fought down the
last two miles to MeiUgenbeil, the
enemy's only remaining strong
hold there. I
Scoring gains of up to five miles
the; Russians compressed the pock
et to 15 miles ift length and no
mare than four (miles from the
sea at its deepest swept up to
40 towns and hamlets in addition
to BTaunsberg, ook more than
40( 0 Germans prisoner and' cap
tured upward of 300 guns, Moscow
said. At least 5000 Germans were
$lain. ;.). j - .
j The Germans said that two pow
erful . Soviet armies had opened
new? offensives in the south,
Sweeping j through Northwestern
Hungary within 58 miles of the
Austrian frontier; on the road to
Vienna, and smashing through up
pe Silesia and across .the Mora
vian' frontier into Czechoslovakia.
These operations, jnot Confirmed by
Moscow, would have jthe effect of
forcing large-scale German with
drawals along the southern end of
the eastern front and are aimed
at khe mountainous area of south
ern Germany and Austria where
thi Nazis,; according ; to some re
ports,, may make 'a final stand af
ter! the defeat off their armies on
the Reich's northern plains, i
Economic Accord Signed
ARIS, March ;20 -WV An eco
nomic accord was signed , today
by France, Belgium, :Holland and
Luxembourg, pledging mutual aid
in!
rebuilding
jtheir war-torn
cot
i tries.
a
F
DR Orders Study of Plans
Xivirig umapteed Annual
Wage in American Industry
j. ' -j ".By D.Harold Oliver I' ', ' : '
WASHINGTOrl, March 20-P)-P,esident Roosevelt today or
dered a study ojf plans for a guaranteed annual wage, described
bjf the wf r labojr board as , "one of the main aspirations of Ameri
can workers." i! 1 .; 1 -i '!(; -'
He told his! news conference
WLB will be road! by the office
board
of .12 headed by O'Max
Vraruner, ; ; ionnen
J m
former!. North Carolina
governor. J The bbanf is composed
of public, labor, farm and manage
ment representatives, -: ' . . '
Gardner! announced later 1 that
the f 01 1 p w i n g sub-committee
stob, president of the chamber oil
coijMnerce of the U.S Philip Mur
ra, chairman of j the; CIO; Albert
Gojss, head of the national grange,'
Mrs.! Anna jtosfnberg; labor
and manpower expert, r 1 -!
At the same conference, held an
hoar earlier than usual and con
fined for the first; time In months
exclusively to domestic phases of
the! war, the chief executive: 1 i
i: ? tr-Stood by War Mobilization
Director Byrnes and his midnight
curfew, but Indicated he wasn't
planning any action 1 against New
Yoikfor relaxing th ban. r 'i .-
Promised a Statement Friday
on j the food situation, saying the
co4ntry ought to know what's hap
pened. ; - -
S-Described as 'Iffy" ques
tioh"whether govenujnent had any
plans to keep the coat mines run
ning In event of failure of the op
erators and unions' td Teach a con
tract agreement.iwTr''-tf.-r-;-'o
4 Said it would depend on the
individual case a: good deal when
asked if - he '-; favored 'penalties
against workers jwhp fail to get
Into essential war jobs, as well as
against employers who disregard
employment ceilings! He" added
that the government is trying to
getl manpower, the gest way it can.
Battle Chief
i - I
Adm. Raymond A. Spraaoee eom
. mauds the U.S. Fifth fleet which
i boldly attacked the Japanese
! fleet in its home waters yea
: terday. 1 '
Falls to Allies;
Japs Crushed
CALCUTTA, March 20 - VP) -
Mandalay, Burma's second city,
fell today to British 14th army
troops..
; i King George VI hailed the con
quest as a "notable landmark" of
the war in a congratulatory .mes
sage to Adm. Lord Louis Mount
batten, supreme allied commander
in southeast Asia. . '
The fabled city was secured af
ter British and Indian troops
crushed the last fanatical resist
ance in thick-walled Fort Dufferin,
last Japanese stronghold.
; Mountbatten said the conquest
and ; the entire Burma i campaign
was accomplished "against a back
ground of. what are perhaps the
most difficult lines of communica
tions in any theatre of war."
British 36th ; division troops,
meanwhile, occupied Mogok, the
ruby capital of the world which is
65 miles west of Lashio on the
Burma road land 65 miles north
east of Mandalay. These troops
were driving to clear i all. of , the
area north of the Mandalay-Lashio
road. 1 . ,.
'j ; J
the inquiry requested by the
of war mobilization's advisory
Bank Robbers9
Appeal Fails
j The appeal of Elmer Riley Lane
and Maley Stone, each serving 15
years in the state penitentiary for
robbery . of the state bank at
Grand Ronde last summer, was
dismissed Tuesday by the .state
supreme court, : The pair was con
victed in Polk county circuit court
at Dallas in October, 1844.
Lane - and Stone held up the
bank near closing time,, tied the
cashier, and escaped with approx
imately; $12,000, much of which
was recovered. ; f ' -
District Attorney R. S. . Krea-
son of Folk county moved for dis
missal of the appeal; loo grounds
that : it was not perfected within
the statutory period.'! '
Salem Building! Permits
Second Only to Portland
j Salem was second only to Port
land in the volume of building
permits - it issued during- Febr
uary, a report from the statistical
department of the Equitable Sav
ings; & Loan association reveals.
The ; capital city's permits Issued
last J month ; represent $64,533 ' in
building, a drop of almost $30,000
from the January high of $93,211.
Portland's permits totaled $609,
7J5 last month.
All Mandalay
Bbld Strike
Ila Nippon's Ho
jSeas By Yankees
475 Enemy Planes Destroyed
In Carrier Blow; No American
Ships Lost, One Badly Damaged
I By Morrie Landsberg j
tJ, S. PACIFIG TLEET HEADQUARTERS.
Guam, WedhesdayJ Alarch 2 1 (AP) American .
aircraft flying from the mightiest carrier fleet ever
assembled attacked the Japanese fleet in the em
pire's inland seas M onday in one of the boldest ex
ploits of the war, and' damaged 15 to 17 enemy
warships, including one or two battleships, and
destroyed at least 475 plane. j !
One of the battleships damaged Was known to
be cif the Yamato class, a 45,000-ton dreailnaught,
mightiest in the Japanese navy.
1 The enemy fleet thus was hit in! its home wa
ters for the first time, but no actual engagement
between surface. units was announced.
I Adm. Chester W. Nimitz apnounced the dar
ing attack today in a coinmunique which said pre-
limmarv survevs of damaere Hriowffl that two or
three aircraft carriers, four light carriers, two
Cruisers, four destroyers and various other war
esielT also were included
ix freighters were, sunk and
werei destroyed.
.Admiral Nimitz said the brilliant raid Inflicted "crippling dam
age" pn the Japanese fleet .which
in the second battle of the Philippine seas.
Not 4 Ship Lost pj.-. . .
j Although Nipponese fliers made many attempts to bomb the Amer
ican rmada, not a ship was lost. One ship, not Identified as to class,
was leriously damaged, but is returning to port under its own power.
A few others sustained minor damage, hut fill are fully opera
tional." Admiral Nimitz raid. I f.
The Pacific fleet, whose planes twice routed the Japanese fleet
last fear, swung northeast! after a day of destructive attacks on the
enemy airforce on Kyushu, southernmost of the Japanese home islands.
One hundred enemy planes were destroyed there. J
I On Monday, Adm. R. A. Spruance moved ships of his Fifth fleet
into position from where Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitseher sent his carrier
planes Hellcats, Corsairs, Helldivers and Avenger; torpedo-bombers
in the first seaborne attack on the home bases of the enemy in the
Japanese Inland sea. .jT : '.I ' " . ' . , .,
( Nil! Freighters Sank ! M ' ' jj :j '- : '
The report of the sinking of jsix small freighters and damaging 22
otheri! ships, the latter mostly combatant 'vessels, was described as only
preliminary. This Indicated the likelihood of even sreater damage or
ai revision of types of ships blasted by the Yank bombs and torpedoes.
I This is the preliminary report
in tactical command of the fleet forces:
Sunk: Six small freighters. .
amaged: One or two battleships, two or three aircraft carriers.
two light aircraft carriers or escort
heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, four destroyers, pne submarine, one
destroyer escort, seven freighters. ' I
Installations Destroyed j - .
J American planes also destroyed a large number' of installations, h
udlhg hangars, shops, arsenals and oil storage facilities.
I At Nagasaki there are additional facilities for fleet anchorage,
j he bold foray into the heart of Japan's dwindling sea power un
doubtedly will mean the erasure of the Imperial fleet as source of op
position in tne luture. ;
Carrier planes may have hit
amage suffered in the Japanese
pronged attempt to break up
ytfe last October. , ,
Nijw Carrier
IslClvfistened
i . i . f - - ' - . r '
NI WPORT NEWS, Va; I March
21HJ j)-The United States navy re
eeiv d a potent shot in its air arm
tida; f with the christening iere' of
tie 4 $,000-ton aircraft; carrier Mid
way, the largest" warship ever
bunt, vw-itv':i.'''"
f In jtfiristenlng ceremonies, Arte-
mus jufuaxes, assisuuu sccrviuj
of . 1 be- navy for air, announced
that he mighty Midway wilt carry
a tyro of 1945 model aircraft" so
new lit has not yet seen combat
actio
U.S. Supplj of Crude
Rubler at Low Ebb
j WASHINGTON, March 20 -,(JP)
The war production board! warn
ed .tdhight that the United! States
supply of crude rubber will fall
40 per cent below the estimated
dangjsr line by the year's end. v
t in mounting demand, for na
tural!! rubber in 4 heavy artillery
tires jj will -reduce . the "national
stockpile "considerably ' j below
61,000 , tons in 1943, a kpecial
rubber report stated. One hundred
thousand tonsils, regarded as . the
lowest margin of safety, j . .,: ...
M
ade
tne
in fne
jag.
a number
of ground installations
was decisively whipped last October .
from Admiral Spruance, who was
. -
Carriers, two escort carriers, one
-r . ?f ... -
enemy ships undergoing repairs of
fleet's grandiose but unsuccessful
the Invasion of the Philippines at
. i . i ' -" -
170Q Yankees
Arrive Home
'- r .Ui : H :-,:y. -f 'r--y ''.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., March
20.-()-More than 1,700 Ameri
can - soldiers who served on the
western front were returned to the
United States disembarked today
from a' troops transport at the
Hampton Roads port of embarka
tion. ;. : .:J y, y : ,
The Ship brought 725 wounded,
injured and sick men and 1000 ro
tation troops - jj- soldiers who will
be given 30 days leave . and then
assigned to duty In this country.
Each of the nation's 48 states was
represented among the ship's pas
sengers.' i . ' . 'f?;
WU Friends Invited
To Ship Launching
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Willamette University trustees
and ' alumni al well ;as students
and faculty, have been invited to
attend the launching of the USS
Willamette Victory, at Oregon
Shipyards in Portland on Friday
of next week. Admissions to the
yard are offered through the uni
versity offices j to those who can
attend the ceremonies. ":' .
Mrs. Gi Herbert Smith, wife of
the university Vf president, is to
be sponsor fori the Victory ship.
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