, ,,TTi OBEGON STATIStfcN.;,Salem. Oren. Saturday Morning, March 2jL 1945
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Yankees Drive
On Luzon Jap
MANILA, Saturday. March 24-
(P)-Thirty-third division infantry
lias moved to within 18 air miles
. of Baguio, reported headquarters
of Japanese troops on Luzon, and
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's land-
based bombers have sunk five
ships, have sunk or damaged eight
to ten others, and destroyed 12
'luggers In maintaining their
v blockade of enemy communica
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v MaJ. Gen. Percey Clarkson's
33rd division, operating with
-guerillas to move toward Baguio
from San. Fernando on the north
west coast, crossed the Naguilian
river to seize Naguilian town and
Its airfield. Clarkson's Infantry is
' moving along Naguilian highway,
a good hard-surfaced mountain
road. ; . : " !
j Other elements of the 33rd are
moving on Baguio from the south
and last were reported in tortuous
Kennon canyon, about eight miles
south of the summer capital.
' Mac Arthur today said capture
of Naguilian town, which had 15,
l ooo population before the war,
f opened another route to Baguio.
A spokesman said Naguilian
airdrome was in good . condition
and capable of handling fighter
;and transport , planes.
Japanese aircraft raided Linga
;vyen gulf and Clark field on the
night of March 22-23, but caused
ronly "minor damage." This is the
'.-"first enemy air raid reported by
7MacArthur in several weeks.
' : Lt Col. Arthur Collins, Boston,
-LMass., commanded the 130th in
fantry regiment which seized Na
i'guilian after wading across the
river. Japanese, heavily attacked
i' by artillery, had "blasted a bridge
""before fleeing. Engineers com-
manded by Lt Col. Francis P.
. ' Kane, of Chicago,! immediately
-. began repairing the 250-yard span.
A pitched battle at Bauaung,
! "four miles northwest of Naguilian,
- j preceded capture of the town.
Troops under Lt. CoL Ernest. D.
' Jessup, Manhattan, Kan., took a
v heavy toll of Japanese and cap
tured enemy supplies and equip-
ment.
14 Army Men
Arrive Home
, SAN FRANCISCO, March 23-
(-Fourteen U.S. army men, pris
oners of the Japanese in the Phil
ippines for the last three years,
were returned here today by ship.
They constitute the third and
smallest group of liberated pris
oners arriving in the U.S.
: They were sent to Letterman
General hospital for treatment
and checkup.
The army placed them under
the customary 24 hours seclusion
-regulations governing newly ar
rived released prisoners.
They included:
Pvt. William H. Kilpatrick,
: 1497 Franklin Blvd., .Eugene,
J1. Oregon.
Portland. Bank Deposits
"peach Ail-Time High
pi PORTLAND, Ore, March 22-(JP)
Bank deposits here have climbed
jt $1,252,230,453 an all-time
jhigh, officials said today.
Deposits have gained SI 1.486,
;$48 since the last bank call on
December 30, 1944.
Loans and discounts for Port-
t land banks, however totaled $127,
f 165,842 $26,650,142 drop since
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i $ LISBON, March 23--All LU
'I'fcon's church belli rang tonight as
;f.tain ended a long drought. '
-Nazis9 Prermratinn inr Fifrhtin
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f ,y-Nizi preparations for fighting
i on after Germany is defeated co
r, ver everything from vitamin pills
'(,;to hidden ammunition, radio sta-
; eons and printing shops not to
f Mention spies pre-labeled as anti
r nazis the Journal De Geneve re
I 'ported today.
f Men who sabotaged the Ver
''Sailles treaty after the last , war
;,have been designated to propa
! : gandize systematically and sub-r-'Tersively
against whatever peace
igreement" or restrictions come
from this war, the paper said.
, .'1 The German high command has
f ! jbeen preparing ever .since the
; Stalingrad disaster of February,
p . 1943, for a new effort two gener-
tions hence,-according to the
j jitory which the Journal carried
i "under a Strasbourg dateline. The
f; 'paper continued with these items
i 'of the plan: ,
Since -1943 special emissaries
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A parachute carrying weighted end of telephone wire drops from
C-47 cargo plane (top photo) In a demonstration at Fort Dix. N. J,
of process of wire-laying by plane under battle conditions. In low
er photo (I to r) Pvt. Marshall Theemling, Bell, Calif.; Sgt. IL M.
Mtrrit, Winston-Salem. N. C and SgL Frank Saye, Oakland.
Califs check wire laying equipment In plane. (AP wirephoto)
Navy Won't Demobilize Any oi
Its Forces When Nazis Fall j
WASHINGTON, March 23-P)-Fleet Admiral' Ernest J. King de
clared today that the navy won't demobilize any of its forces when
Germany falls because it plans tothrow everything it has at Japan.
Explaining why "there will be no paftial naval demobilizatioii"
tne cniei pi naval operations said:
"All naval forces are required to
prosecute the war in the Pacific.
It is the intent to shift to the Pa
cific all naval power now devoted
to the war in Europe and in the
Atlantic as soon as may be.
"This shift must be made as ex
peditiously as possible, to the end
that the war in the Pacific may
be brought to a successful conclu
sion at the earliest possible date."
Army Plans Not Sure
While the army's manpower
plans have not been announced in
detail, the program on the table
of the high command generally
seems to be this:
Discharges should not be; ex
pected by soldiers in the army's
service forces nor in the air for
ces, either air or ground crews.
The service troops will be needed
in the Pacific at the earliest pos
sible moment to build staging
areas and bases for combat forces.
Airmen and air forces ground
crews will be needed to step up
the aerial bombardment of the en
emy's homeland and supply
routes.
There will be some demobiliza
tion of combat troops since the full
strength of troops now deployed in
Europe can not, for geographical
reasons, be -brought to bear on
Japan. The extent of this demo
bilization not expected to reach
any substantial proportions-v-can-not
be estimated by the high com
mand at this -time because of still
unpredictable factors in the Euro
pean situation.
Fnrloaxhs Planned-
Furloughs will b granted for
troops going through this country
en route to the Pacific theatre.
; The partial army demobilization
will follow the previously agreed
upon plan of "adjusted service
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have gone abroad wherever pos
sible and bought vitamin products
to assure a proper diet for the
children who will fight a future
war.
Others were designated to see
that funds were properly hidden,
war industries put underground
and safeguarded, and a political
program for revenge prepared.
Heinrich Himmler directed the
organization of armed bands with
in the country for the purpose of
ultimately sabotaging -the peace
administration. Wilhelm Schep
man, who directed German sabo
tage of the Ruhr in 1923, was said
to have been named chief of counter-espionage.
; Throughout the Reich thousands
of "cells' of nazis have been or
ganized. Party workers are going.
V.F.W. Victory Qub'
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rating," with a system of weighted
creaiis rasea upon service, over
seas service, combat and parent
hood. The, army so far has hot
announced the point value fof
these credits. i
Three Young Children
Are Burned to Death
LOS ANGELES, March 23-ifP)
Three; young children of M i .
Elva I Adams ; were burned to
death; today when their home
caught fire while they were .tak
ing their afternoon naps.
They were:; Angelina, 4; Mar-
garetta, 2, and Charles, 8-months
Mrs. il Adams, 23, . and another
daughter, Carmen, 3, were taken
to at hospital suffering serious
burns '
Mrs. Adams told officers she
entered the bedroom to find it
ablaze. She was able to rescue
orilyljCarmen:'
German, Other Women
Warned to Leave Ruhr
LOffDON, March 23 -(fly
Ger
man and foreign women
were
warned to leave the bomb racked
Ruhr "today in the latest of j Gen.
Eisenhower's series of radio in
structions to non-combatants I to
flee from the path of the allied
armies.
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Th legal designation of
the
wife!; or widow of a baronet or
knight is "dame in England
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The German sheep dog is a large
and handsomely built dog: with
a short smooth coat. ."
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or, aire ready to . go, into prison
camps posing as anti-nazis to un
dergo fake trials as enemies of
the regime to win confidence in
allied circles then to turn against
the allies, r ,. i i ;
Printing depots, clandestine' ra
dio sets and buried munitions
stores' art included in the plan. '
s "Weldwoche," a Swiss weekly,
reported many "dead were cpm
ing back to lif from Germany
These are nazis whose "obituaries".
wer publicised in papers and how
are reappearing under assumed
names to avoid the war xrimiifals
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There's action and ro
mance when East meets.
West . . and how the
twain do meet!
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Pole Mission
WASHINGTON. March 23-UFV-
Balked in an attempt, to get a
Russia visa for an American rep-
resenutuve, ine uiuwa nations
Relief and Rehabilitation admin
istration today named a Russian
to head an ; "UNRRA mission to
Poland. !j
John P. Gregg, originally chos
en head of the mission to neeoti-
ate a j relief agreement' with ' Po
land, I resigned Rafter several
months of futile' attempts to get a
Russian transit-Visa, z :v-
It was announced that Michail
Menshikov, who is an UNRRA
reputy director 1 generaL would
head ithe mission. An UNRRA
statement also declared that the
Polish provisional government in
Warsaw is the only Polish author
ity with which UNRRA will deal.
This placed another trump in
the hands of this eovemmenL
which has relations with Moscow
while jthe United States and Bri
tain recognize the rival, regime in
London. However, it Is'in line with
UNRRA's announced .jjolicy of
dealing with the administrative
authority in control of any area.
The Yalta agreement calls for
the reconstruction of the Warsaw
government to include other ele
ments, but ' so far this ha nnt
been I accomplished.
Salem Firms
Refund $312
In! 11 Cases
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Refunds ; totaling $312.95 in 11
cases! have been effected durins
the past two months by the price
panel of the Salem war price and
rationing board, Herman J. Joch
imsen, chairman of the board, an
nounced this week.
The persons or companies mak
ing the refunds were Orval's Used
Car i lot $4.50; Hatfield's Used
Cars $35; ; E. ! Anderson $78.75;
S. M. Picha $32.37; Stiff Furni
ture company $20; Holotoff
86c;l Staab--$30; Salem Laundry
$102.15, Capital City Laundry-
$9.32. - $' ,
In addition to the refunds to
the customers, the nrice nanol tl
tied j four administrator claims in
the total alnount of $348.3.4 which
was: paid to the treasurer of th
United States. These claims: Stiff
Furniture company $40; Senator
Food shop $285; Schneider's Cof
fee shoo S 14.70.
During this same period, the
Portland district office settled an
administrator's claim in this area
in the amount of $1050 with the
Paramount market This case was
referred to Portland because of
its complexity. ; -
The price panel now has three
cases pending settlement and
Jochimsen requested that persons
report to Jthe board' when they
fee that ;they have been over
charged, declaring it a service to
all the community in fighting In
flation. ONtheHOMEFRONT
' By IS ABEL CHUDS v
The cigaret shortage won't be
fori long, ;the -University of Ken
tucky ' predicts. " .
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But meantime, lots of cenons
who wouldn't walk a mile for a
have stood in line an hour
for, a package and had to get a
hump on em to get one even then.
It'Sv ben pretty well i proved
that not only is there not a cough
in a carload, but also that there
Isn't a carload in the U. S. '
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Perhapf it was the sugar ration
that brought on the tobacco fam
ine in the first place, just: too
many persons reaching for a
j instead of a sweet
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, Western -Front - lightning
move carries 3rd: army across
Rhine near Oppenheim, spear
.ing down shortest route to Ber
lin from firm bridgehead.
, Nazis report : Russians
break through Oder river de
fenses to within 31 miles east of
Berlin, as Reds, spirt defenders
of Danzig! and Gydnia.
PbUlpplnes Yank infantry
men drive; within 16 air mUes of
Baguio after ' seeing Naguilian
airfield, : ' ; - k:: :
- Chin ff Tanks lead new Jap
offensive northwest of Hankow
In . attempt to seize ! northern
Hupeh's wheat crop. - -,
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towns of pindale and Wundwin,
tightening trap around thousands
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Allies in Italy
Glad to Be Rid
Of Kesselring
ROME, March 23 -fV- The r.
ported transfer of? Field Marshal
Albert Kesselring to the western
front will hot be lamented in tM
theatre, where hismasterly with
drawal urj the Italian i peninsula
nas made Allied progress slow and
costly, but it is doubted that hi.
acknowledged brilliance will help
ine cermans much along; the
Rhine. f , j-;
For one tiling, hie will not have
the advantage of the terrible
mountainous terrain, which has
been his fhief ally in Italy. For
another, he will find it difficult
if not impossible to shift his new
armies around - with the atrffitv
that time and aeain halted threat.
ened Allied breakthroughs on this
peninsula.!
Allied Officers generally credit
Kesselring with havina- done an
extremely efficient job, particu
larly m his defense of bloody Cas
sino and fa stopping the British
Eighth army at the edge of the
Po plain; last fall. He has the
ability to! extract the utmost from
his troops. i
Allied Intelligence officers said
they had! received two vague re
ports that Kesselring already had
left for Germany to succeed Field
Marshal j von Rundstedt An
nouncement of the enemr chahee
in commands was announced last
night from Field Marshal Mont
gomery Mi headquarters on the
western front
State Police
Arrest 3198
. Of the! 3198 arrests made dur
in February-by state police, 2,-
878 were for traffic law viola
tions, a report issued Friday by
State Police Supt Charles P.
Pray reveals.. .. 1
Thirty j nine of the arrests were
for game code violations and six
were under commercial . fish
eries law. The other 273 repre
sented crimes against nrooerty
and persons, for which sentences
totaling 84.14 years this week had
been meted out
Traffic violation fines totaled
$9648, while sentences totaled
965 , days. One hundred .' nine
traffic cases are still pending. .
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CAtCUTTA, March 23-JP)-In-dian
armored forces, driving south
from iMandalay at a 20-mile-a-day
clip, have captured the towns
of Pindale - afid Wundwin just
short I of Meiktila. : further con
stricting the noose around thou
sands or Japanese troops cut off
west of the Mandalay rail line-
allied j headquarters announced.
nnaaie is 19 miles north of
Meiktila and Wundwin la 18 miio
northeast on the main north-south
trunk; roadr "T.z ry?--'
It IS possible that the 20th HI.
vision! making the southward spurt
already had made contact with
forces' I of the British 14th
who seized Meiktila In an earlier
piunge eastward from the Irra
waddy river and cut the enemy's
main supply and retreat route to
the port of Rangoon.
Th 20th division, operating un
der aj news blackout drove the 60
.ac j w a uiuue ui u4Tcc uays
ana then cut eastward to Wund
win, (meeting only lieht Jananese
resistance except for a stiff en
counter at Wundwin.
Yoiihg Chicken
Price Boosted
Cent and Half
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WASHINGTON. March
Youhg chicken prices were boost
ed aj pent and a half a pound at
retail j today, effective July 1, to
encourage production and partial
ly offset the decline in meat sup-
Plies.
The order came while western
congressment continued their not-
shooting against OPA ; policies,
contending that the real shortage
is m prices. ;
It was the second move in that
direction since the meat saueeze
began to clamp down. The first
was) an additional subsidy for
beefj packers, which officials ex
plained in detail today. In effect
it i j a graduated extra payment
for slaughterers, ranging up to 50
cents a hundredweight for those
who! ipay full ceiling prices for
lives cattle. f
The whole business, along with
other food difficulties, will come
out I for airing Monday in the start
of an investigation by a senate
agriculture committee. I ;
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Realtor Tells
Of Inflated
Calif . Prices ;
U- "Pacific roast states ar enlor
ing mx permanent not a mushroom
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realtor, told members of the Sa
lem Board of jRealtors at their
noonday meeting Friday In Hotel
Marion. Mrs. Pettyjohn had lust
returned from the San Francisco
. L.t !. 1-11.1
ymj iw woerr sue was vnuing
with her. daughter. -
"The inflaUoal ia itffll;es4te
prices in California amounts to
23 or 30 per f cent," she said,
"higher than it lis here but build
ing costs there laie much greater
than here. The? trend there Is to
bund five-room ; houses which
cost from $6000 - to $9000 and
then instruction jumps to the
$15,000 and 82(1.000 elan, nothins
in between.
,.Land prices: are high in most
sections. I visited Carmel . and
was surprised id learn that resi
dents there look upon the late
Aimee .Semplei JMcPherson as a
person foreign to that village.; I
also looked at sbme lots there
priced at $750d and was told by
residents in thi neighborhood the
only objection they had to the
district was intrusion of deer
which ate the! flowers, and they
were - building 1 r fences - around
their $7500 lots. . ' .
"If you are planning on, a trip,
forget it When I was ready to
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return home I asked for reserve
tions and managed to get a book
ing in a week for a Pullman. Then
I decided I wanted to leave more
quickly and offered to' take any
kind of accommodation. The agent -told
me "You're lucky to even get
on - a train in" a week, usually
even a day coach passage' takes a
month." . - ' " .
.The board avoted topass next
week's meeting In observance of
Good Friday. . v , : . .
Some Lumber
ToBe Saved
From Vessel
COOS BAY, March 23-(P-Sea-bees
will salvage lumber already
washed ashore from the wrecked
S.S. Alvarado but S won't try to
move cargo still In the hold unless,
the vessel settles into the sands,
a naval officer said today. :
A battalion of workers win haul
lumber from the scene six miles
north of here to Coos Bay, be
ginning tomorrow, Lt J. B. Kleven
reported. ' But' the half million
board feet locked in the forward
hold of the ship can only be reach
ed by cutting through ; the hull,
he said.' , -V :
The coast guard reported the
vessel split amidships and the bow
section turned . and ; is facing'
astern, as high seas continue to -pound
it to pieces. The supers true- -hire
is almost gone, workers re
ported, and the sections' are now
200 feet apart
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