sow mm Neiistadt OTP ran " .Heads are bobbing in animated conversation in Ankara. There is -igh talk over ... the coffeecups in the cafes of the city. . Istanbul, old Constantinople..' sleepy with Its, centuries of Byzantine history. pricks up-its ears and wonders, if m new leaf is to be turned in itr own long record book. v. Cause of the fluttering is Rus - sia's denouncing its 1925 treaty of . friendship - and neutrality with Turkey. This announcement means that the treaty will be allowed to terminate this November 7. With out the ; denunciation renewal would have -been automatic. . - London . speculates i that Russia may be , wanting a real alliance with Tirrkey which would bring .that country within the orbit of Soviet influence, and would per.- s jnit-unrestricted use of the Bos--porus and Dardelleles (traits by (the Russians. Under the present treaty convention the straits are closed for military use. As a re suit Russia had to Import war supplies through Murmansk on the '.White sea, across Iran from the Persian "gulf, -and through 'Vladi vostok on the Pacific.1 - ' Evidently Russia wants to escape the constriction at Istanbul. Roose velt and Churchill were probably fearful that Marshal Stalin would bring up the Turkish question at Yalta with demand for control of . the straits to give his country an outlet to the Mediterranean. It was not brought up at Yalta, but the present move of the Kremlin may be an attempt to solve its problem by direct approach to Turkey. ' " What will Turkey do? The old cultan was long known as the ick i ! - (Continued on editorial page) Service Calls May Drop 31 After July 1 WASHINGTON, March 22-A) Draft calls may drop an average of 31 per cent after July 1, the White House disclosed today co incident with a house military committee vote to extend the draft law without change. ' ; ' President Rooseveltsending up a request to congress for an ap propriation to finance selective service another ' fiscal year, said this contemplated an average draft call of 93,000 a month. This companies with a figure of 135,000 which Maj. Gen. Steph en Henry told the house commit tee is the expected average from now until June. .-; The White House spoke of the after-July need as being merely one oi replacements, saia max by then "mobilization of the larg est armed force by far in the na tion's history" will be complete. Powerful TJ. S. Carrier Tor ce Still on Prowl U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Guam, Friday, March 23-)-Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscheri potent carrier task force presumably still was on the prowl today, with the Tokyo radio hinting it might scourge the Ryu kyus or Formosa while withdraw ing from the mauling given Japa nese warships Monday; in Japan's inland sea. j - There has been no official word on the whereabouts of the force, a part of the Fifth fleet, since it moved close to Japan to permit its planes to search out enemy fleet units at their bases in the inland aea. - " N - : : j : In the days that have elapsed since that strike,' Admiral Mitscher has had time to move, his ships Into the Formosa area; about 900 miles from the scene of Monday's crippling blows to imperial war ships.: In so doing he would pass the Ryukyus, .lying between For mosa and Japan . Bitter Row Flares in Commons Names Britain9 , . By John. A. Parris, Jr. ! - LONDON, ' March ' 22 A bitter political row flared up In commons I today when v laborites accused Prime Minister Churchill of packing Britain's , seven-man, two-woman , delegation to the world security conference, at San Francisco in order to maintain his conservative ' party's supremacy after the war. J - y.: --..a :, Tempers snapped in the usually staid house as Churchill announc ed that Foreign Secretary Anth- " ony Eden would lead these dele gates to the conference beginning April 25: ; - V' vj' - - Clement Attjee, deputy prime minister and lord president of the council; Lord Cranborne, domin Ions secretary; Lord Halifax, Brit ish ambassador to Washington; and five parliamentary secretar les, George Tomlinson of the labor Captured By -Reds' . Rues Within Mile -'.Of Czech Land; 45,000 Nazis Fall By Komney Wheeler 1 LONDON, Friday, Mar. IZJPf . Russian troops,' launching a pow erful offensive to clear industrial upper Silesia, have captured, the war production city of Neustadt, driven within one mile of Czecho slovakia and killed or captured 45,000 Nazi troops in a trap forged by twin Red army advances of 25 miles, Moscow announced - last night. Cutting through seven major enemy, strongholds arid more than 400 other towns and villages south and southeast of besieged Bres- lau, troops of Marshal Ivan S. Ko- nev's First Ukrainian army were advancing on an 80-mile front and threatened the key towns of Strenlen, Munsterberg, Niesse, Loebschuetz and Ratibor. Close on Gdynia Simultaneously, Soviet forces battled to within' three and one- half miles of the, Baltic port of Gdynia and tightened their "siege and around the former free city of DanzigJDeep in Czechoslovak' ia's Tatra mountains, other Rus sian shock troops forced the Hron river within fivemiles of Banska Bystrica. - : Konev's , new offensive "dove tailed with a thunderous assault which the Germans said the Rus sians had launched against the prize German naval base of Stet tin, and with a fast-driving Red army offensive in Hungary which Eerlin said was hammering wes of Budapest within 95 miles of Vienna, r Starts Offensive Konev's mighty army went over o the offensive :n areas west and south of the Oder river town of Oppeln, 47 miles southwest of Breslau, in extreme southeastern Germany. . Striking south from Grottkau, 23 miles west of Oppeln, one arm of a giant pincer plunged 25 miles to ward Nenstadt, 58 miles southeast ol Breslau, while the second struck 25 miles from bridgeheads across the Oder between Krappitz, 13 miles south of Oppeln, and Rati bor, 40 miles southeast of Oppeln, Taxi Driver Turns Tables On Assailant Don Ethridge, 32, cab driver of 3618 Maple ave., was the victim of an attempted robbery Thursday night but was able to turn the tables and deliver his would-be assailant to the police station himself. Ethridge told police that two youths about 16 years of age hail ed his cab close to midnight and asked to be driven to box 644, route two, about four miles from Salem. When they reached the driveway he asked one of the boys to get out and open the gate so that he could drive nearer the house. After the one boy com plied with the request, the other in the back seat drew a loaded revolver and hit Ethridge three times on the back of the head. Fortunately, he said, he was able to turn around and take the gun from the boy, but was unable to hold both, so the other youth got away. He then made the boy drive the cab back to town and delivered him to city policemen. who booked the juvenile on charge of assault with a danger ous weapon. Ethridge was treated by first aid men for slight head injuries Hull Hopes to Attend San Francisco Meet .WASHINGTON, March 22 -() Joseph G. Grew, acting secretary of state, said today that Corde Hull : Intends to go to " the San Francisco conference . late next month if his health has suffi ciently improved. s Delegation to Security Meet i ministry; William Mabane, food Dingle Foot, economic warfare; Miss Ellen Wilkinson, home se curity, and Miss Florence Hors burgh, health. ' v -i When the prime, minister, an nounced Eden, a conservative, twould lead the delegation the labor - members Immediately at tacked. Aneurin Bevan, a consis tent critic of Churchill, asked why Attlee, , a laborite, had -.not been given the chief role.- i. 1 , 'Churchill explained that Attlee had : no constitutional . authority while Eden, holding the, -seals of state, was responsible for the con duct of foreign affairs. "That is not the answer at all, Bevan shot back, v- Then Emanuel Shinwell struck. ; "Is it . not all ' quite consistent with his (Churchill's) declaration at a conservative conference,!! Shinwell asked, ."that the conser NINETY-FOURTH YEAB vrarcri: Details! Sought House Memhers .... . v ,.f-... :".. .. "J . " - Declare Actions Are Kept Secret; WASHINGTON, March 22 -(JF) A demand that congress pry the lid of secrecy from operations of the allied war crimes commission was made today before the house foreign affairs committee. Rep. Celler (D-NY) called for a "full time debate" in the house after Herbert A. Pell testified that he doesn't know whether he still is this j government's representa tive on the commission charged with fixing the war guilt on en emy leaders. j s . "The work of the commission cannot; remain secret,? Celler de clared. J "Let the pitiless light of publicity reveal the places where ineptitude and indecion are crip pling its efforts." ' ' ! i Pell was called before' the com mittee to review the work of the unmeant s droDDed war crimes commission until early this year when he was dropped by the state department which said the action was necessary be cause congress failed Ho appro priate money for U. S. particjpa tion in the deliberations. Until the time he left; the com mission, he said, 2000 war crime cases had been presented and in dictments made in half of them. aicunenis maae m naiifoi uem. Formal charges against Adolf xiiuer ;were noi preierrea unui last winter and then they were presented by the Czech govern ment. r ! c:"! ! i ; Asked about the delay in Hit ler"s case, Pell, replied: i "Simply because no government had reported him." The commis sion, he explained, could not use its own initiative in such cases. Snell OKs Bill For Special June Election Gov.! Earl Snell on Thursday signed house bill 418 calling a special: election to be! held June 22, 1945, for approval or rejec tion of two measures referred to the people by the 43rd legislature. Voters will consider! the propos-, al of a1 five-mill tax levy for two years to raise S 10,000,000 for con struction of new buildings by the state and the state board of high- er education. The state would ex pend $6,000,000 while $4,000,000 going to the board of higher edu cation; would be used 1 for state colleges.' The levy would be off set by surplus state income taxes. A two-cent tax on each pack age of , cigarettes sold in Oregon would : be levied underj the other measure. The $2,000,000 it is esti mated such a tax would raise an nually would eo to the miblic schools. Snell.; signed 10 other bills Thursday deluding one appro- pnating $26,000 for 'preparation and direction of health ! education in public schools of the state. Morgenthau Looking For Tax Evaders I ! WASHINGTON, March 22 Treasury Secretary Henry Mor genthau disclosed today he is h ,iith n.. J. th fiinv by wealthy persons -f "the fellow with 'the suite of big rooms and the lush boys.' He told reporters he expected to announce something soon. When Chiirchill vative party, having got all they wanted in the way of I assistance and guidance in the war, are now going :to get everything which is useful in their own- hands?" The delegation was composed of four conservatives, three laborites and two liberals. - Shinwell's statement ? was i met with cheers and, countering jeers.) Churchill roared back: - ' He (Shinwell) has done very- thingto .his Power ) break up deon of Spatuh prtV In thu government and ; hopes to Manila prior to the city's libera gam after. ita dissolution what he ,. i K ;. , would never gain while national ff,! . i ..l 5n H """ "7" . f Any fair minded man would say," Added Churchill,: "that the labor party had faittrepresenta i i Not from you," shouted Shin well. ; - UP AGES Flmrie'ThroiceftR Japs Yanks of the 37th division use a hldinr in the forecastle of a partially sunken ship in Manila har bor. (AP wirepboto from U. S. Government Policies Keeping Meat Short Congress Hears O . WASHINGTON, March 22 - complaints from the range country and packing houses today that there is plenty of meat on the hoof but that government policies keep it off legitimate buyers' tables. i A retailer said "meateasies? are getting more and more pf the steaks and roasts to sell on the; sly. ! mi llf 1Y irCC MUllOU From Tokyo (By the Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Marchifl iy The evacuation . of iferrH 3,000,000 air raid victims from To- kyoone of the greatest mass ci vilian evacuations of the war is in progress in the bomb-torn Nip ponese capital, the Japanese radio indicated Thursday, A Domei, Japanese news agency. broadcast recorded by the FCC said Home Minister Shigeo Odachi a anmittee that Tokyo probably had less than 4,000,000 inhabitants now. with more to leave. The city's prewar popula tion before the war . was around 7,000,000, making it the third larg est in the world The prospect of population cen ters -of Japan being isolated by an American invasion was raised as the:; government speeded steps to organize a civilian . national, or "special-attack," corps. Siiperforts Attack Japs oon CALCUTTA, March 22 -UP)- A sizeable force of B-28 Superfort- bases ; attacked . . .. . . . JaPanese mstaUation afoUnd big Burma port of Rangoon today with "good to excellent" results, laying at least five bombs square ly in dump areas, the 20th XJJS. bomber command announced. The attacking Superf orts, mak ing3; their fourth large raid on the Rangoon area in support of Allied ground forces driving . southward . . m j i . j i n.. encountered only i light anti-air craft and fighter Opposition and completed the mission without a loss. -'.!,- Today's attacks . were : centered on supply and storage dumps near Lake Victoria, just north of Ran goon, and on the Mingaladon air field and cantonment. . Spain Angry At Japanese MADRID. March 22-UPV-SDain ! A , rt,M ,rM-r . A tJ t - with JaP0 tonight as the Spanish government charged the Japanese with ' "systematic' premedita'tetr min-der . of defenseless Spanish Imen. women and children and the "'."."'mmn The charges, made in a commun- Ique, confirmed the declaration I iasi wees oi fiuiippine xrix. ucn. p. Homulo in Washington in which he enumerated the atroc - httes. 1 t I siorm or eaiionai protest ana - 1 denunciations of Japan . in the 1 Spanish press followed. Evacuating Rang C2 Satan, :0?oskr Friday Moratna. March 23. 1845 ,t:v.Bt":... -1 'l ' 7 flame thrower to barn eat Japanese army signal corps) . : ..' . i P - Congressional groups heard The congressmen also got this rejoinder from the office of price administration: Prices and subsi dies have been adjusted to costs and the trade generally is coming out pretty well. Said Rep. Barrett (R-Wyo) at: a meat inquiry called by Rep. Sund- strom (R-NJ), "We've got 10,000,- 000 excess cattle now out in the west -and there's no reason at all why there should be a.xneat jshort- jg&AsQFA is to blame." - In the same unofficial meeting with, industry and government spokesmen, A. L. Erikson, chief of the OPA meat price branch, said all types of livestock ceilings have been adjusted to compensate for increased costs. Cost of Rhine Drive Begins To Show Up WASHINGTON, March 22-- T,he cost .of the army's drive jto Seize the west bank of the Rhine river began to show up today in the casualty reports. After more than a month dur ing which the weekly increase in reported casualties grew-progres sively smaller, the army and navy released figures snowing a rise of 19,998. The army accounted for 18,223 of the increase. j Undersecretary of War Patter son, listing army losses of 767,680 said the report covered the light ing during the latter part of Feb ruary. . : It was at that time that the First and Ninth armies jump ed off from the Roer river line in their final push to the Rhine. Coupled with the navy's casual ties . of 91,907, the army figure pushed the over-all casualties since Pearl Harbor to 659,387. 42 Diphtheria Gases Caused By Raw Milk I MOLALLA, Ore, March 22-P) Source of the diphtheria epidemic which : has stricken 42 residents of this little community was traced today 4o raw mDk supplied by dairyman who state and county health officers said, was a germ carrier, r ": v " : ' " Dr. Harold M. ; Erickson, state health officer, said tonight his de partment had also found one fun diagnosed case of a boy and a woman ill witU clinical diphtheria in the dairyman's household. ' i- ''Contamination undoubtedly occurred at tlui source,, Dr." Er ickson '. declared. "The - explosive type of -outbreak in Molalla could only be 'due to an infected milk supply,'-' : .. - ; - .! : He stated that "proper pasteur ization would have prevented an outbreakVt v ' Partly Qoudy I today with.: occasional brief showers: and. slightly cooler temperatures In the mid-Willamette valley area, predicts U.S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem. - I Defenses In Ruhr - Pounded - By Charles Chamberlain LONDON, Friday March 23.-iT -More than 8,000 American and British planes gave Germany its greatest dawn to dusk lashing yes terday, concentrating particularly on nazi defenses east of the Rhine, and last night RAF Mosquitos maintained the terrific pressure by bombing Berlin for the 31st consecutive time. The German radio declared that at least four other formations of night raiders were on the prowl over western Germany, the Han-nover-Hildesheim area, Muenster and the province of Bavaria. These were the major blows de livered during one of the finest flying days of the year yesterday: 1. Approximately 4000 planes, including 2000 American and Brit ish heavy bombers from Britain, tore up enemy concentrations and reinforcements within the Ruhr industrial' basin and surrounding areas. This attack one of the most violent delivered: by air power during the war, was directed at targets across the Rhine from Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's impending "jump off positions. j 2A force of f more - than Italy-based-US heavy bombers blasted . the . big Ruhland oil re finery 70 .miles southeast of Ber lin. This blow was believed to have virtually halted the produc tion of gasoline within the US 15th air force's range in southern Ger many, Austria and Hungary. 3Using the new 11-ton volca no bombs, British heavy bombers collapsed the main span and the approaches to the important Ni en burg railroad bridge between Hannover and Berlin. Peace From Nazis Denied DUBLIN, March 22-P)-A rumor- that a German peace pro posal had been presented to the United States minister through Prime Minister Eamon De Valera of Eire was denied flatly tonight by ' both American and German officials here. , David Gray, VS. minister to Eire, was quoted in high Dublin quarters as saying "there is no truth in" the report that De Va lera had tendered him 1 a peace proposal received from Dr. Ed uard Hempel, German minister in Dublin. (; I "No representations of -Tiny kind have been made to me either di rectly or Indirectly,,, Gray , was quoted.. Job -of Registering ' Conquered Nazis Starts WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN GERMANY, March 22 - UP) - The job of registering and fingerprint ing conquered Germans has begun and ten million registration blanks have been sent to military govern ment detachments in the conquer ed Rhineland areas. There are not that many people living in the oc cupied areas at present but AMG authorities expect to use up , all the blanks, finger-printing 10 mil lion Germans in the next few weeks." , v! :' -; Proposal of ShrubsNeeded for Hospitalized; Legion Set to Aid; Call910l The natural beauties of the Wil lamette valley are being placed in abundance at the navy hospital at Camp ''Adair where hundreds of men are fighting for .life, and health.. ... ; -V . . ; : " Through - the i cooperation of American', Legion ' Capitol post number 9, shrubs by the truckload are being taken to the hospital where pain-ridden men may see. and appreciate-i-and may know that their valor is far from for gotten. More shrubs are needed, and B. E. (Kelly) Owens. legion post commander, has; announced that i Victorious The V. 8. Third army under Lt. Gen.; George 8. Patton, Jr. has virtually completed a ; brilliant campaign In the Saax area on the west bank of the Rhine and ' Is reported . ready to storm to the east bank of the river bar . tier.! ' Pahay-Yankees Guimaras Isle MANILA, Friday, March 2Z-JP) Fortieth division doughboys, in vader; of Panay, hopped across a mile and one-half strait and seized 25-mile-long Guimaras is land without opposition Wednes day in a move to safeguard the shipping lane into the captured port of Iloilo. i i Heavy bombers, meanwhile, lashed; Cebu island with 240 tons of explosives in three successive days, j ;- J-:, :t: . -. Mountainous Guimaras L is di rectly opposite i Iloilo and r helps form one of the best harbors and seaplane bases in the central Phil ippines. - " 1 ' Gen; - Douglas MacArthur re ported: . this 27th - island invasion of the Philippines in his commu nique today, announcing only that "in a shore-to-shore operation our troops; seized Guimaras i island, southeast of Panay." Canned Goods Supplies Cut WASHINGTON, March fl-UP)-Shipments of canned fruit and vegetable products to civilian out lets will average one-fifth less dur ing the first half of 1945 .than in the corresponding period of last year.'' i ' - ;" This was stated in a report on the fruit and vegetable canning in dustries released jointly today-by the commerce department 'and the office of price administration. -. -' The' report said shipments in the second half of this year may be somewhat larger than in the first half. But total supplies for civil ians in the "pack year" .184$-1846 are likely to be six per cent small er than those during the 1944-1945 period,.. ; v , 4 -;';' -- i-v trucks are available to pick up all donations and transfer, them im mediately to the hospital : where Capt. Paul Wilson? commandant. will see to iheir placement. . With spring transplanting now underway in many gardens, it is believed at least-10 more truck- loads of greenery can be obtained if proper recognition is accorded the plans which: also has the sup port of the 40 et 8 in this area. j Persons' willing to donate shrubs of nny ' size may telephone The Oregon Statesman, 9101, and their names and addresses will be turn ed over promptly to the Legion. J - 'v..- ,4 : . r " - i : : .:-:-:;: :.:: r:---: :-r- -V : . - . :.':;;:::. -v " . , ? , , . Or J ..-". :.. "v:v..:Tv. seize Jearby Pric 5c M Artillery Barrage Reported , -By ! Austin Bealmear - PARIS, March 22.-Cip)-TwO US armies crushed all major resist ance west of the Rhine today in the last phase of a battle that cost the Germans 100,000 captives alone, and the enemy said the riv er barrier was about to be storm ed both from the Palatinate and opposite - the Ruhr, which - was blasted by thousands of allied warplanes. - One German report said Lt Gen. George S. Patton's Third army had massed 300 regular and amphibo lous tanks and strong engineer- ing, and motorized units for a smash into ; the mountainous in ner core of the reich. Another declared that Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgom ery had opened a thunderous ar tillery barrage to screen a Rhine crossing west of Wesel, adding to destruction wrought by the thous ands of warplanes which through out the day sowed ruin through the Ruhr valley. Only 4000 Left Third army strategists now were free to plan the crossing of the Rhine, for possibly no more than 4000 German effectives re in a i n e d In action westof ; the stream after one of the worst dis asters ever visited on German arms. . ; Written off were the great Rhine cities of Mainz and Ludwigshafen, where resistance folded during the day and the few defenders wet ! chased into corners from which there was I no retreat, with the Rhine bridges blown. ; . Field Marshal Albert j Kessel- ring has succeeded Field Marshal Karl Von Runstedt, foremost Prussian strategist, as commander of all enemy forces on the west ern front, it was stated at Mont gomery's headquarters. Kesselring gained stature among the nazis because of his stubborn defense of northern Italy. ' - i First Moves Ahead I The US First army movsd into position to outflank the Ruhr from the south, increasing its hold on the Rhine's east bank to 31 miles and deepening its bridgehead to nine miles. . The First army now held nine miles of the south bank of the Sieg. river northeast of Bonn with in a dozen miles of the Ruhr's south rim and was ready to hur dle that minor river barrier and strike northward. . (The American broadcasting station in Europe said in a broad cast heard by NBC that the Yanks had crossed the Sieg and captured ' Siegburg, city of 20,000). ' Southward the First army bridgehead c extended to within seven and a half miles of Coblenz, on the west bank,' where the Third army sits in firm control.' German broadcasts admitted that the bridgehead had been mushroomed until now : it " had achieved "tactical importance" and might f well form the south J a w to Montgomery's northern pincer. The enemy said Mont gomery had tremendous forces poised ready to strike. 4 Volcano9 Bomb roys Isle LONDON, March 22P)-T h e RAFs new, 11 - ton "volcano bomb literally destroyed a small granite island off the British coast in its first test,' the maga zine "Aeroplane" said today. a Describing ' the bomb, 'now In use on Germany, . the magazine said: Xy lxxU-x I i ix : y "Its" first tests were" conducted on a remote and .uninhabited granite ' island off the British coast . . . Release of the bomb was, followed almost immediately by a colossal, explosion and when the large smoke cloud, character istic of the hew bomb, disappeared the island was conspicuous by its its absence." ' Weather fan rraacttce Eb .. ,? Salem rerUan Mia. 43 41 41 a M XX JU M M .ss -SS SMttl Willamette rJrti 11 ft t ta.