- - i- . - ; - - ULU LUULjD .. ; ... : J. . . - U ? ' .POUNono .165! . 4 , f . , When information was given out at Yalta that Edward Flynn, ex-Tammany boss of New York, was in the presidential party the statement was made that Flynn merely was given the courtesy of accompanying the president on a journey to Moscow. He sort of thumbed a ride as far as Yalta, so it appeared. , That immediately projected the question of why Edward Flynn was going to Moscow. He occu pied no official position. He had had no previous connection with Russian affairs. And people do not go to Moscow in wartime just on a sight seeing tour. It comes about, as was surmised by alert reporters at the time, that Mr. Flynn's errand was to attempt a rapprochement between the Kremlin and the Vatican. That is a tough assignment to be sure. The hostility between these two seats of power has been long and bitter. Recently there -have been ex changes showing that the antago nism has not been meliorated. What .chance then would Flynn the two? . effort by President Roosevelt him self. The president entertains a warm . friendship for Flynn. He (the president) carries on friendly relations both with Soviet Russia and with the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Naturally ; he would like to see an end of the mutual recriminations between these two great powers, one political and geographic, the other primarily (Continued on Editorial page) Senate Turns Down Williams For RE A Post . " i .. ." WASHINGTON, March The senate rebuffed President on . 9 n rejection of his. nomination of . .r..-A. i i nuL iiiumuu u luiai ucvui fication administrator. . I. A; 1 democrats joined to "blackball' the selection of the ardent new dealer for a job which in the ; WASHINGTON. March 23 , UP) - Washington's two demo- cratie senators, . Mitchell and : Magnuson, voted today to eon- . firm Aubrey Williams as rural electrification administrator. Senator Morse (R-Ore.) also voted for confirmation, but Sen-:- ator Cardan (E-Ore.) voted against. early post-war period may in volve lending up to a billion dol lars to finance rural electric lines, Voting for confirmation were 31 democrats, 4 republicans and Sen ator LaFollette (prog.-Wis.). . i President James G. Patton, president of the Nation Farmers' union, announced at a Williams news conference that the organiza- tion. would hold a "victory din- ner in honor of Williams Wed- nesday. He aid Mrs. Roosevelt had accepted an invitation to speak,' Women Slow PORTLAND, Ore., March 23 ! (JPy-The Oregon legislative cham bers were so crowded with worn- en this year that there is dan- Legislature ger of men being pushed out of caused by a defective oil broodi the house and senate one of these r destroyed a brooder house, 2400 , years, the editor of the Oregon Voter said today Addressing the City club here, C. C. Chapman declared he be- lieves the session, longest In Ore-1 gon history, was slowed down be- cause "every .time a member wanted to confer he had to crawl over some woman's legs or talk across his wife's lap." i He said the legislator's were- tary usually sat on one side and his wife on the other. Easter Sunrise Speaker Nanied Rev. Dudley Strain, president of " the Salem Ministerial association, will be the speaker at the taster sunrise service .Easter Sunday morning at , jaeicresi memorial . a. - , park.' t The service is sponsored ny tne Hi-Y and Tri-Y groups, the Salem Christian Youth Service and the Salem 'Ministerial association. t)r. Willard Hall Mi cn airman in charge.' Virginia ward wuott, tu- Rector of the Presbyterian choir, will be in charge of the music Max. Mia. Bate tun rraaelsee Miieo . faiem m J ; j-ortland wnumrtte river 11 ft. 1 to. f ORECAST: FrmV. S.watM with warmer temperatures. Inereasiaf ciondir.es, and iijht ram. pcU to . vt . . n,iflir&riiT nuuoi NINETY-FOURTH YEAR 731 Jap Airplanes Claimed Tokyo Reports U.S. Navy Blasts Ryukyu Islands U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- AITIOTTBC Guam, Saturday, down, destroyed or damaged 731 Japanese planes in the March 18-19 raids on southern Japan,; the navy announced today in an SAN FRANCISCO,! March 23 I (P)- More than 200 carrier planes, presumably . from the p same task force 58 , which smashed southern Japan Sunday and Monday, opened an attack naj on utuuwi m me jb- t . . . . A !? yn isianas ana resumea u oat-1 arday (Japanese time), Tokyej radl announced. The unconfirmed report ; was Intercepted by the federal eom- municatiens commission. amplification of earlier . reports. Previous figures were 475 enemjf planes definitely destroyed an more than 100 damaged. The new communique also sup fU!?tnew, " to land, targets damaged on Kyushu, lT1 b added nothing further to the earl ier figures of It enemy warships in Japan s inland sea. . . . -i The latest total of 731 enemy planes was made up- of 281 shot down, 275 . destroyed on the ground and 175 probably destroy led or damaged before they could get aloft. The communique figures were based on further reports from Vice A dm. marc A. Mitscher's task force 58 covering the period of March 18 to 21. Inasmuch as all previous official reports have listed carrier attacks on Japan only on the 18th anil 19th, presumably the aerial bag also consisted of enemy planes shot down while the fleet was retiring. . i Tokyo radio reports have told of such air attacks on the 20th and 21st. , -1 ! The communique said the car tier plane assaults on Kyushu. barring the southern approaches o the inland sea, resulted in ex tensive damage to air, installai. Oita, Omura, Kanoya, Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Saeki.and Nittagahara. Kyushu has some of the most extensive air defenses on Japan because of its strategic po sition 1 . - $2000Fireffits Brush Creek SILVERTON Fire thought to baby chicks and 50 hens late Fri- U4y mgni.nere at tne nome oi Hubert Esser, in the Brush Creek district ' Esser, a poultryman who "lives on the oldLCarl Benson place, es- timated his loss at around $2000 j 50 per, cent covered by insurance. The fire also caused the electricity to be cut off in the five other brooder houses on the farm,- and may cause additional damage to' the chicks in those houses. FDR Assures IJ.S. Delegates j Free Action at Peace Meetl . By Jack Bell WASHINGTON; March 23-(M- . r President Roosevelt was . reported to have assured United States dej- l esates today they would have much freedom of action to chart this country's course at the San Francisco . world security confer- The president talked briefly lo five of the eight members of the i American sroup . at the White f erred with Undersecretary of g tate .Joseph a Grew. Secretary tary Cordell Hull and Comdr. Hat Delegates atrjarently came awav . Wh!l .. w5th i " - - j'impression that Mr. Roosevelt Lo- j tends to leave largely to them the 12 PAGES Salem, on (S Ml '-W" -: LI -i ,1 i ii.: i :- s. , ti-;z:-rz i Berlin, Other BigGerman Centers j Virtually Ruined r. By Hieavy Allied Air Blows LONDON, March! 2MVBerlin has been virtually ruined along with the devastation heaped precedented raids during the last British bombers, the air ministry It i is estimated i unofficially died in the flaming ruins of the made homeless. The center of the city is. believed to be completely wrecked. , : L. i. "The effect of this campaign can be estimated not only in terms of material damage, but iij innumer able signs of confusion and lack of control in the enemy's war effort," the official statement said in a summary of some of the recent damage. j.. j .: . Never before has air power been exerted with such paralyzing ef fect behind any war j front One industrial and railway town after another has been ripped for both strategic and tactical; reasons. . j Here is the chart on some cities hardest hit by the American-Brit ish teams: , i ! i Berlin More than! 75,000 tons of bombs have been, dropped on the imperiled German capital on ly some 30-odd miles west of the Russian lines. Besides! the gutted center of the city other heavily hit districts include Steglitz, Wilmers dorf, Schoeneberg, and Charlotten- berg. f More than 100 of Berlin's major war factories have been de stroyed and heavy damage caused on every large rail; station and many government buildings. ! Essen The largest and one f the most heavily bombed cities in theRuluv It is called! the "town ithat Krupp built" j because the Krupp armament works which attracted , the bombers covered 12150 acres inside the City limits. jNot one of the hundreds of Krupp buildings remains ! Undamaged. Several other factories in the area lalso are gone. ! Dresden The central, south and eastern districts of this his toric Saxon capital in the south are almost entirely gutted. An air craft factory, main ; railroad sta tions, .Nazi headquarters buildings, and' an arsenal are among the placesheavily damaged. . Chemmitz Great damage throughout the entire city, which is essential in the defense of east ern Germany. ' Rapid fires set in a series of attacks in the past 60 days have knocked it out as a key communications base. Its pre-war population was 370,000. Judge Asks Adair Deals Investigation , PROTLANTJ, Mar j zS-Fed- eral Judge Claude McCulloch ask ed today for an investigation j of condemnation suits involving land acquired by the government for Camp Adair. ' - - . " : Judge McCulloch previously had charged he was "deceived by lat torneys into overpayments for land itnd that some land office ap praisers gave false j testimony l in i'4 cases involving $200,000. j WiH H. Masters, chairman! of the committee on discipline for the Oregon federal court -district, was asked by letter to start,: an inquiry. "It has been known jsihee the first disclosure two years ago that your committee must investigate cer tain aspects of the condemnation cases," McCulloch wrote. evolution of this country's pro gram; at the April-May conference, This was with the understanding that they will work ; within the general frame-work' of the Dum barton Oaks preliminary formula. The Big Three security agree ments made at Yalt4 and : else where were; said to be regarded by the president as! projected! so lutions of pressing security prob lems which are open to modifica tion if it becomes apparent such actioh is neetssary to bring about conference, harmony, j In other words, the delegates were given to understand that they do not have to accept 'such agree ments as that involving the Vol Ing procedure of the proposed se curity council as final and not al terable, j. s ' ! Oracjoxu Saturday Morning; March 24, 1945 on other German cities in un three weeks by American and announced tonight that more than 50,000 persons Nazi capital and that 400,000 were Mightiest Air To Loud Climax LONDON, Saturday, March 84- (JP) powerful force f British bombers battered Ger-j man troops and positions on the east bank of the Rhine during the night, it was announced to day, i . : " . LONDON, Saturday, March 24- (ff)-History's mightiest aerial on slaught roared to a thunderous climax yesterday ! as more than 8000 allied warplanes battered communications - in and around the devastated German' Ruhr. With the successful bridging of ther formidable river barrier by Lt Gen. George S. Patton's swash buckling US 3rd army troops, there appeared to be no respite for the Germans from the aerial at tack. "' ' The, German radio indicated that Mosquito bombers were bver the Reich In strength again; tor night, blasting varied targets in bright moonlight. . : ' . The 19th tactical air - force planes, formed a protective um brella!; over the 3rd army front and Associated Press Correspond ent Edward D. Ball reported that 23 German planes were shot down in; the biggest air battles in the 3rd army sector in months. Gov. Snell OKs School Support: Bill The' state school support fund bill which originated in the house of representatives during the re cent session of the legislature, al locating $8,000,000 .; annually for the next biennium from surplus state : income tax monies, was signed Friday by Gov, Earl fenell. Public schools now. receive $5,- 000,000 annually from that source, so the; new statute provides an ad' ditional $3,000,000 a yean In order to apply the money as directed for increase of teachers' salaries (Salem's - share will be approximately $100,000, it is esti mated), a special Salem school election must be , called, district directors agreed at a recent meet ing. Voters at that election would be asked to approve a budget call ing for expenditure of $100,000 above the six per cent limitation ceiling, but no additional property levy would be required. - Snell signed 33 bills Friday and vetoed HB 281 i relating to the horse racing seasonHe explained that the step was taken "because of the obvious ambiguity and the inevitable litigation necessary to clarify its meaning. - - Movie Actors Against Joining With Walkout HOLLYWOOD, March 23C$V Film actors, big name as well as bit players, apparently are over whelmingly against ' joining the walkout of approximately 15,000 film technicians, it was disclosed by early returns today on voting of the actors, ' - With ballots still coming in following the deadline last mid night, the incomplete tabulation was 2760 votes against joining the strike and 73 favoring the walk put' Senator Would Divide Taxpayers Into Groups ; WASHINGTON March 23 -() The idea of dividing the 50,000,000 American taxpayers into four al phabetical groups, with different filing dates was advanced today by Senator 0Daniel (D-Tex), as a. means of getting away from the deadline rush each March 15. ;OT)aniel said in letters to all his colleagues he would offer his plan as an amendment to the next tax bill. Assault Roars Prie Ducks-Lose High Scoring Thriller To Arkansas U. . (By the Associated Press) j I The! University of Oregon Web- foots 'were eliminated in their National Collegiate Athletic asso ciation basketball semi-finals de but at Kansas. City, Mo last night by bowing to the Arkansas Razof backs, 79 to 7C, in a free- scormg game. Arkansas led, 47 34, ajt half time. .Oregon rallied in the second half and finally tied the count at 72, 74 and 76, only to l4se in the final 14 seconds of the game. The victorious Razorbacks Will play j Oklahoma A & M tonight for the Western regional title. Ok lahoma defeated defending nation al champion Utah, 62-37, last night. , The Kansas City winner advances to Madison Square Gar den, New; York, Tuesday night to play for the national- champion ship with the eastern regional winner. (Complete details of Oregon-Arkansas game on today's sports page, page 8.) . Bismarck Sea Sunk by Japs Off Iwo Jima l VS. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Guam, Saturday, March 24 - (AP) - Japanese planes which counterattacked U. S. am phibious forces off IWO Jima the night of February 21 sank jthe UJS.S-- Bismarck Sea, an escort carrier, Adm. Chester W, Nimitz announced today. I .The Bismarck Sea, a 400-;ton vessel, was the '11th U. S. carrier listed as lost in the war. Ten of the 11 have been lost in the Pa cific. Six of the. flattops wereies corts, one was a light carrier and four were full carriers. i Nimitz said "most" of the Bis marck Sea's -personnel estimated at 1500 were rescued but.Capt John Lockwood Pratt, the skip per, in an interview told war cor respondents "many" of his men were killed in explosions caused by Japanese aerial torpedoes and by the fires which followed. He said many others were killed in The water' by Japanese pilots who returned toStrafe the survivors. Extension of Draft Okehcd WASH1NGTON, March 23-)- A one-year draft law extension bill sped through the house today in less time' than it takes a draft board to make a man 1-A. jucss wan live mm ultra was re- quired to dispose of the measure. Army spokesmen had urged that the draft " machinery be kept in- tact! : : There was no debate only brief explanation of the 11-line bill by Chairman May (D-Ky.) of the military committee. There -: was not even a vote, passage coming under procedure by which a single objection could have delayed consideration. But the absence of an objection aytb matically passed the bill U I j4P Correspondent Ken Dixon Turns Up With Mumps j ARTESIA, NU, Ma reft Z3fA) AP War Correspondent Kenneth h. Dixon : dodged shells, bohibs and small arms fire In Africa land Italy and on the western front for 18' months, came home on Uave and today turned up with-j-the mumps. I' ; ".". v . i ' Dixon who plans to return to the war front soon, was ordered to bed for a week by his doctor, j "I'm OK. Just teU folks ndt to laugh at me," he s a i d tonight. fBuV he added, "I can't help laughing myself."; l Nazi Piano, Opposition Too Scarce for Yanks ! LONDON, "March 23-C)-Oppo-sition from enemy planes was so scarce in the massive raids j on Germany Joday that pilots escort ing allied bomber formations! re turned with only a nazi trailing baft added to their kills. It was bagged by Capt, George Doersch of Seymour, Wis, and LA. Ken neth Barber cf Turner, Ore,: ' , 5c No. Sift Reds Solit , JL Defenses On Baltic Germans Report KiifiQ vllrivp SiY f By Romney wheeler LONDON, Saturday, March 24 -JP)-Berlin said last night that the Red army had reopened a wazmg Datue xor tne lmpemea Nazi capital i while Moscow an-1 noupneed thaf Russian forces had split the Nakl defenders of the prize BalUc ports of Danzig and Gdynia. . i , - Waves. of Russian infantry and tanks were rerxrted by the enemy to have brokmt through Nazi de-J ienser aiong oerun s uaer river line and to Have swept six nules beyond captured Kuestrin to with- in 31 miles east of the capital. A thunderous 90-minute artil lery bombardment, followed by at tacks by.liundreds of Soviet dive bombers, preceded the assault which smashed to Golzow on the main . Kuestrin -Berlin trunk rail' road. There an enemy front re port said, a German counter-at tack stalled the drive but the Bus sians struck again in a swaying, indecisive battle, . v , , ? The, major I Russian offensive against Berlin is immediately at hJnd,,, said i Berlin report to the German-con trolled STBegency in Stockholm. There was no confirmation of . lrt w utcnooyM, At the southern end of the eastern frount hfiwvr th Red army was clamping a huge pincer on . v,.-. Moravia, Bohemia and . Vienna Marshal -Itan S. Konev's First Ukrainian army reached the fron tier of Moravia in pursuit of en emy forces fjrom upper Silesia in to the Sudeten mountains and bat .-j .S4v:J A , w'""? xt t of the Silesian citadels of Neisse ana loeDSClieu. . v - Simultaneously, Berlin said a four-day Red army offensive south of the Danube river in Hungary naa xeacneaj nomarom, strategic key to Bratislava and Vienna, 54 and 84 miles to the west, and Red ,".. lJ t i 1 , xJI air iorce nejavy Dampers oiasieu the Hungarian town of Papa. For Jap War TLfinpm I MnrvVi 9t-ISK-Rn Japan tonight as the government awaited Tokyo's reply to a strong note of protest against the "pre meditated murders" of Spanish nationals prior to the liberation of Manlia by American troops. The Franco government seemed willing to carry the issue to the conclusion if war, despite , a re- nort that Gfermanv had D resented a nottto the Madrid government saying any Spanish action against Japan would be considered an un friendly act by the Reich. 2 Salem Men Killed in War The names of Sgt Edwin . De- Wayne Appegate and Pvt Roy H. Dobell have been ' added to .the list of SelenVs war dead. , Applegate, son of Gladys Jewell, 1945 Oxford st, was killed in ac tion March 2, In. Germany. - Dobell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Dobell, has been officially list ed as dead. He was ,a prisoner aboard a Japanese freighter sunk last September.' (Further details page 10). Fog,,Then Sunshine Predicted for Today . PORTLAND, March 23 -(JP) Mother Nature'! weather maker was one up on the official fore caster today f with a brief haa storm on record amid flashes of mid-day sunshine; The U. S. weather-bureau to - night said Sa'turday would open with lots of. i fog, then clear up and remain fair all day. ' IBsitIIddii Ready BerllDini pini ra c an n - r- , iiuora Yanks Overwhelm Startled Nazis, ' 1 Strike Inland; Three Other Allied jArmies Poised for Drive to North :. I - By Austin Bealmear PARIS, Saturday, March 24-(AP)-The U.S. third army swarmed in Thursday night in the war's greatest river 'cross ing, (overwhelmed the startled enemy and struck inland with lightning speed from a firm bridge head on the shortest road ahead. By Friday the Americans had seized a sizeable strip of territory east of announcement referred to head)' which in army terminology means the cross- ings;are beyond enemy light artillery range, (that &i ca11 wwcress. yond the ithine.J Three other allied ninth! Canadian first and n G i . nnU r"" w m crossmss wnictt tne OermaDs said were imminent ir-- ,JM- s wn jiug. oui iu ; pcuccuou a cuup reucarscu for months, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, jr., put the J V i 9, - ' ' r.. lir American assauu I closed ooint on the east bank without the Uermani I iJi .i., J l, . ""fe " wmwi actual crossing. i i rwn . - i AUC crossings wmcn made With . amphibious boats, came without a preliminary bombardment which might have tipped Patton was pressing home what without giving the enemy time to west of the Rhine. The charging its of. beating the Russians to Berlin. The enemy was so startled by resting from their defeat west of not a.'Kinffla hpW shr11 nras flrmd touched the "east bank in the moonlight of 10 .25 n.m. Thursday: Thus Patton showed his contemot for the Rhine. Germanv'a his- toric imoat which, never before had First army won the honor of being dorffj bridge Intact at Remagen more than two weeks ago. I Germans Admit Crossing ; i The Germans, giving the first "er m me aay inat wtMn aa crossed near Oppenheim, 10 miles south . ot the fallen city of Mainz. . j , ine ease OI crossings ana ine swux pusn imana pointed up tremendous victory which the Third and the VS. Seventh armies had won on the west bank. The German First and Seventh the east bank for the defense of inner Germany, were destroyed 100,000 of their troops in prison cages and their tanks, armored ve hiclel, trucks and guns strewn by the thousands" on the battlefield west of the Rhine. If the Germans are correct in rvnVM?Y! than hia fnr im ntit nn XT . -rr - best natural approaches to Berlin t- there the Rhine is 500 yards I turnri Intn th narmw vnrir. that 1 65 Miles' From Fhit That would place it about 55 least bank front, which is bursting lnnine opposite coDienz. i - . Oppenheim is 20 miles southeast of Frankfurt-on the-Main, and Is little more than 300 airline miles west of where the Russians are I : iL; - i ....... -. . i i ii iwidui( wesiwara. Wave on wave of hard-hitting veterans crossed in what Associ ated j Press Correspondent Edward D. j Ball declared from the j front was Tthe greatest over-water assault since the Normandy beaches." The Germans then began pouring in some mortar and anti-tank fire and they were answered and silenced by thunderous salvos from American artillery drawn up along the river, j ' ' . j - By dawn the first wave had pushed on inland and more and mora I men jand supplies were landing 1 P",u ure B-ll iL kAk..il V There was no question of Patton's ability to exploit his surprise. for the stuff that he had landed tar outweighed that which the Ger mans Were able to muster after the debacle west of the river, j r- s 1 1 --' 1 1 - Cooperation Asked in Checking List of Heroes in J ? The names of approximately 275 mid-Willamette vauey men wno navel given their lives in World War ill will appear in The Oregon Statesman tomorrow, Sunday, Manjh 24, in order to assist or ganisations renewing or Installing plaques In honor of deceased he roes. A ;:-, : S'--: - The Jlst has been compiled ex clusively by The Statesman from many sources since Dec 1, 194 L and has been subject to exhaust ive (ihecking. . v-; - ;vv;;f:' ' But witti many factors working against 100 per cent accuracy such! as ' the induction of valley men (in other areas, the removal of families, notifications that might- go elsewhere, mistakes in the transmission .of names, etc, the aid of everyone is heeded to redute possible errors to a mini mum For Marion county, the Federa tion jof Patriotic Societies has en listed s The Statesman's aid in ob taining names for a plaque to be placed on the courthouse grounds, and this newspaper has been glad to cooperate. -- If jthere are misspellings, omis sions, erroneous inclusions or any ether; error In the forthcoming list. ! readers are asked to write The Statesman immediately. I It jls emphasized that there is no single official source that lias suchf a list available.. That is why The Statesman in this way is try n strength across the Rhine to Berlin 265 miles the river, for an official the position as a bridge - mucn as live mues oe- armies the 'American British second were t W t.i PUt-i wi iuc iiuui iui ivuiuc ri ' - waves across ai an unuis- v. . t - .t. uic iuw wi iu ' t " me Germans sam vas tanks as well as assault off the enemy. might well prove a mortal blow recuperate from the Nazi catasttopht doughboys were talking in high spir j this swift assault that some troops. the river, were caught eating and until turn hnnri afior th first fmnra been stormed, although the VS. the first across by taking the Luden- hint of the dazzling coup, said ear- . f armies, which might have been on saying that Patton crossed at Od- tVi a FranVfiirt nlatn . . v through the waist of Germany, wide, and a short distance north it ImH. rm tn rr.hl.nT I airline miles south of the First army1 out southward and is nearing tb . f . ( on the bridgehead in assault boats. U.J - - . . t 1 n i vcvuhk ; as sui as a ounaay i Sunday Paper ing to be of all service possible The list sadly still growing will be available to any organization wishing to make use of it Or any part of it, and every effort will be made to make it as accurate as humanly possible.' j 60,000 Japs Launch New; a Drivel ; CHUNGKING, ; March : 23 Sixty thousand tank-led Japan.es troops have opened a new offen sive northwest , of the central China city of Hankow, aimed at seizing the wheat crop in north ern Hupeh and southern Honan provinces and removing the Chin ese threat to the Peiping-Kankow Tail way, the Chinese announced today.- J I ' " I ; ; Initial reports indicated .the en emy columns were making good progress. ' f Several allied, air fields are in the' path; of the drive, Including one at Laohokow, 190 miles north west of Hankow. The Japanese struck from bases between King men, northeast of the Yangtze river port of Ichang, and Sinyang, on the Peiping-Hankow railroad.