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" ' Ronald E. Jones, state president of the farmers union, is back from Washington, D. C, where he at tended conferences ' - called by James G. Patton, national presi dent of the union. One of the af- fairs was a banquet given in honor of 'Aubrey Williams, organizer' for the farmers union, who had just befn given an adverse vote for confirmation as .'director REA. Mrs. Roosevelt was a guest at the banquet, 'which was, given as a testimonal to Williams. This points up the fact that the national farmers union, under Pat ton, occupies the left wing of the farm army. The American farm bureau is on the extreme right, while the national grange is in the middle, though nationally: it strings along quite a little to the right of center. , - Patton is aggressive. The NFU paper, has been busy, denouncing vt11va . xtmnsinn service in some states, which acts - as or ganizer or wet nurse for the farm bureau. Patton has strongly sup ported the program of the : farm security administration in its work for farmers at the bottom of the economic ladder. He is ad vocating an MjVA for the Missouri valley on. the -TVA model, not under the control of the depart ment of the interior. And of course the .farmers union organization was strong for Henry Wallace and Aubrey-Williams. Patton was member of the national , citizens PAC, active in behalf of Roose velt in the last campaign. - Patton is also ;' sincere. He be lieves in .the new deal as de veloped by Henry Wallace and Aubrey Williams; and he proposes to use j : ; ' (Continued on editorial page) Manpower Bill Blocked When Byrnes Quits By Francis J. Kelly WASHINGTON.' April 2- UP) James T. Byrnes' resignation as .war mobilization director today saaa ww vtaawasa twu vvrx. 4 11 vi of legislation giving the holder of that office sweeping authority ov er the nation's manpower. Senator Johnson (D Colo), whose suggestion for a compro mise had pried the measure out of a deadlocked conference commit tee, turned Byrnes' resignation in-. to an argument against the bill, saying "It is a poor time to freeze other people to their jobs." Morse Attacks Proposals ' In a speech against the bill to day, Senator Morse (R-Ore) de clared that it "frightens me" and that it "must not pass if we are to preserve our form of government." Saying there are estimates that a million people will be temporar ily, unemployed after V-E day, the westerner thought it "incompre hensible that there is need for forced labor in essential industries when cutbacks are already at hand." Vinson te Succeed WASHINGTON, April 2-(tf)-President Roosevelt today accept ed the resignation of War Mobiliz r James F. Byrnes and thereby Cave the broadest official hint to date that Germany is as good as beaten. v Fred M. Vinson, federal loan ad ministrator, was chosen to succeed him as director of the office of war mobilization and reconver sion. Sgt. Potter Dies In European War , S. Sgt. Alvin C. vPotter was killed in action March 15, in Ger many, his wife, the former Jean Walter, 235 North 25th st, has been notified by the aar . department, v Potter was em ployed by theaUn 1 o n Oil company in Salem-before his induction June 24, 1942. He left for overseas duty last October. Oth er surviving rela tives are his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E, E. Potter of Springfield; a brother, Lt David I Potter, US army air corps; a sister, Mrs. Roland Dickie of Cen tralia, Wash. Sitting Bull War Veteran Succumbs PORTLAND, April 2 -(flV t Frank Dye,, 86, USA retired, one of the last veterans of the army campaign against Sioux y Indian . Chief Sitting Bull, died yesterday at the veterans' hospital. . Dye served 30 years in the army before retiring in 1904. - Three sons ' surviving include r. TxarjL E;t cf. Mesa,- 10th Army, Marines Advance Again st M o u n t i n g 1 Resistance Yanks Set to Get Fine Anchorage; Airfields in Use By Morrie Landsberg GUAM, Tuesday, April 3.-jP)-TentK army infantrymen and ma rines cut the strategic island of Okinawa in two Monday by reach ing the east coast in a swift drive against only scattered resistance, the navy announced today. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said el ements of the 24th corps reached the east coast at a point near, the village of Tobara. Advances ave raging several thousand yards were made along the entire line "against scattered resistance." Enemy Activity Gains Increasing Japanese activity was reported in the rugged terrain in the center of the island - - only 325 miles south of Japan itself - - which was invaded Easter morn ing. Observation planes were oper ating already from two of the main captured airfields, Katena and Yontan. Japanese planes attacked Yank positions Sunday night, and five of them were shot down, Nimitz announced. He said carrier aircraft, heavy guns of the fleet and field artil lery were giving close support to the ground operations. Supplies- Unloaded Unloading of supplies was re ported progressing satisfactorily. Thus in two days of this amaz ingly easy campaign the Yanks scored a major blow by severing the southern part of Okinawa, in cluding the populous city of Naha and its large adjacent airfield, from the extensive fleet anchor ages of the north. On the east coast, the Americans were in excellent position to se cure the fine fleet anchorage of Nakagusuku bay, a few miles south of Tobara. Soldiers and marines of wis new field force, commanded by Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, jr., already had seized two major air fields and one frontline dispatch said a third airstrip had been se cured. New Invasion Reported Radio Tokyo, in an unconfirmed report, said the Yank forces Sun day night landed on Kume island, 52 miles west of Okinawa. Kume is beyond the tiny Kerama islands, where Americans landed prior to the Okinawa invasion. The navy established a seaplane base in the Kerama group in a 'daring move preceding the landing of Okinawa. Thus Americans quickly achiev ed a vital aim of the operation - -bases from which to raid Japan's mainland, blockade the east Chi na sea and gain air domination over such points as Shanghai and the Yangtze river mouth, only 400 miles away. . Tokyo Plants Hit byB-29's GUAM, April 2 -HJPi- American Superior ts based on this and oth er islands in the Marianas con centrated an explosive and incen diary, attack on the big Nakajima aircraft engine plant on the north western outskirt of Tokyo early today (about noon Sunday, EWT). Two of the B 29s, from the force of probably 150 were lost to en emy action. Roaring in at low level before dawn, the sky giants set numer ous fires. It was the first assault on Tokyo since March 10, when 2300-tons of incendiary bombs destroyed 3000 plants and shops and homes of an estimated 1,200,000 workers. Corregidor Prisoners Escape,? Turn Guerilla, Land Okinawa - By Grant MacDonald . AT.A COMMAND POST NEAR YONTAN AIRFIELD, Okinawa, April 2. -VP)- You hear some strange tales from the marines Up at this 'command post near Yontan airfield I was asking Lt. CoL Jack Hawkins of Roxton, Tex., about this and that' Matter of factly, during the course of our conversation be said, "maybe you would be -interested to know that I was in the old fourth, marine regime in the Phil ipines and was -captured at Cor regidor; rrv- - : v - -ed&ZOKINAWA:: -l ' 1 4" JltUtAlCA.4.i-. From information available early ine arnur ana wuruies na Discctca uie strategic isiana oi usuuwi at approximately the location shows by the white line. The Island, 325 miles from Japan proper, was Invaded Easter day and resist ance of the garrison estimated at 60,00fl te SO.SOf enemy nationals so fax Is described as fairly light. Record; Smelt Run In Sandy Awaited I . TROUTDALE, April 3-(P).-Hundreds of; fishermen lined the banks of theL Sandy river . tonight waiting the midnight hour when they can began dipping smelt. ; Nets were all rented this after noon as fishermen gathered for what veterans predict will beija record run for recent years. Po lice were busy writing out 50-cefU licenses which entitle the ama teurs to 50 pounds of smelt per day value $1.75 on the commer cial market , ! ets Land on East Luzon Coast By James Batcheson x MANILA? Tuesday, April 3HJP) Sixth army veterans, spear-headed by Brig. Gen. Hanford Mac Nider's 158th regimental combat team, inyaded the important har bor of Legaspi on the southeast ern "tail" of Luzon Sunday and quickly secured Legaspi, city of 75,000 inhabitants, and the nearby airfields. ; f The landihg, first on Luzon's east coast, was preceded by ef fective naval and air bombard ment, Gen J Douglas MacArthur reported in his communique today. American losses were light, v The city' and airfields were im mediately secured, and our troops are now rapidly advancing in ex ploitation," MacArthur reported. The new landing came as Yanks advanced on a dozen ground fronts in the Philippines and American bombers sank ' or damaged f23 freighters in the China sea. I; The Monday communique add' ed 10,971 to the number of Jap anese dead, 1 boosting the grind total to around 307,000, compared with American casualties E of around 30,000 killed, wounded and missing, i : "Two years ago, In April, 1843, I escaped with ten others, includ ing Lt. Col, Austin C Shofner whose ; home Ts at Shelbyville, Ten.-and after 11 months o im prisonment we fought the I Japs with the guerillas. Now I am back in the marines again still fighting Japs." i; i ' That i a fine story, I replied, but where Is Col Shofner? across that little road," he, said, - !"Oh, e's isitting over there "he is the divisional provost mar shsi." i ,t . r i t-'' 6th Armv V today (Tuesday) it appeared that (AF photo) Air Blitz for March Doubles All Nazi Bombs LONDON, April 2 -()- Ger many has had its first two suc cessive days and nights free! from heavy bomber attacks this year after the greatest sustained aerial blitz of the war reached a climax " 4.1- 11 A ! 1 l I wiia au unw recora oumuugs in March. . Figures officially announced to day showed that allied planes ope rating from Britain and basts be hind the western front smother ed Germany with 179,330 tbns of explosives last month, nearly two andi one-half times the Ibomb weight the nazis have hurled on England by plane and V-lbomb since the war started. The figures did not include tens of thousands of additional tons poured on Germany by Italy-bas ed planes," which also had a rec ord month. ' Easter Loll Neted LONDON, Aprils -UP)- As Brit ain marked, the longest lull in the nine months of German V4bomb attacks with fervent prayers that the end of the vengeance warfare was hear, measures were authori tatively reported under way today for defense against a possible new revenge, assault a final des perate blitz with dynamite-pack ed obsolete bombers, The British public was warned to take a cautious view of reports that the Germans were evacuat ing rocket sites in Holland. The more optimistic believed it was more than mere coincidence that jut MitKic -mjiiju kih a laiien on Britain since the start of the Easter holidays Friday. Three War Deaths Reported for Area The - office of - war Information today added three names ito the mid-valley's list of war dead J T5 John Froehlich, son of Bar bara Froehlich, 80 Lana aveV Sa lem, was killed in action European theatre. " 1 ' : Sgt Melvin E. Gilmer, in the son of Mabel M." Kropf. route one: box 1 1; Hubbard, also was killed r In Europe," ' '' ' John Garland Debord, torpedo man 8c.USNR,t previously , re ported missing, is , now reported killed. His widow, Edith Rose De bord, resides on star route, Ler banon. Mexicans Arrive for r- Hopyard prk Here - One hundred twenty two Mexi can nationals arrived in Salem on Monday, first of this year's im ported farm ' workers. No camp will be established for the early arrivals, who are under j contract to work in' bop yards of; the area and will be housed at the farms oa which t&ey. work i 1 i ... -1 ' E ' 1- ' I 'Werewolves' Out To Settle Score, Nazi Radio Says . ' LONDON! April 2 -(P)- The Nazis officially claimed today that assassins of the mayors of occu pied Aachen and .Meschede were members of the "Werewolf,, un: derground terrorist organization. ' A radio describing itself as an underground ' Werewolf '-! station claimed Werewolves already-had murdered "American, army officers. A DNB broadcast quoting offi cial Berlin circles "said "Were wolves will not give in toenemy terror but prefer to settle accounts eye for eye." Berlin officially disclaimed con nection with the organization, but Nazi propaganda made it plain the group was the chosen medium for the Heinrich Himmler-enunciated "knife in the dark" scheme to fight occupation forces. Soviets Within 20 Miles of Austria Capital By Romney Wheeler . LONDON, Tuesday, April l.-iJP, Russian assault forces, ripping up to 14 miles through enemy forti fications, smashed within 2 miles of Bratislava, capital of the puppet axis state . of Slovakia, yesterday while Berlin reported Soviet ' tanks in the outskirts of Vienna's southern bastion of Wie ner Neustadt Moscow clamped a news black' out on stiffening , fighting south of Vienna, but enemy broadcasts said Soviet storm units had battled within 20 miles of the Austrian capital, and! had thrust 32 miles inside Austria to Semmering pass, one of five great trans-Alpine passes in Europe. Amid reports of rioting, the Nazis ordered a last-ditch defense of Vienna liner CoL Gen. Sepp Dietrich, . commander of Hitler's SS bodyguard. Meanwhile, the last big Hun garian city in enemy hands fell when Marshal Feodor I. Tolbuk- hin's third Ukrainian army took the oil industry center of Nagy kanlzsa and left only some 750 square miles of Hungarian terri tory unconquered. Gen. Rose Dies Aftl00-Mae Naziland Dash WASHINGTON, April .2 - f) - Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, whose division led an epic drive into Ger many last week, has been killed in action, the 1 war- department an nounced today. - - Without giving time or circum stances, the department said the commander of the Third armored division, a unit of Lt Gen. Court ney Hodges' ' First army . died "while : leading his division in spear-heading the advance of Unit ed States troops in Germany. His was the division that led the way into the heart of the Nazi realm with a record drive of near ly 100 miles between dawn and dusk. I. ; I 'w v - I i ji i Cafes Lack Points, dose for 30 Days LA GRANDE. April 2 -(P) Shortage of red points today forced : four small restaurants to close their ji doors, perhaps for month. -f - Another quota of stamps be comes valid May 1. Big 3 Talk May Replace SF Meet; War Climax Vpseis Plans 1 LONDON, Tuesday, April 3.flJ) The London Dairy Mail in a front page article today said there were indications that a new meeting of Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin might Replace, -or at least over shadow, -the San Francisco con ference. i The Mail's diplomatic corres pondent said that If the European war ends in the next fortnight there mgiht have to be immediate consultations. He added that once fighting teased a big three con ference might be necessary , for Immediate decisions.. -Meanwhile, ; reports circulated that-deputy prime minister Cle ment AtOee and foreign secretary Anthony.- Eden . might cut short their projected trip to San. Fran cisco,' and some . of the London press called tax a jrotjcssss.t jX...;iciea, : 1- Suburbs Services Council Serves Ultimatum on Outside Areas In . effect,. Salem ,.city council Monday night served a come-into- the-city-or-else notice upon subur ban dwellers who now purchase city fire, water and sewer serv ices. Adopting a resolution, to cut off .those services before .Christ mas, city fathers left little leeway except the eight months of grace for almost all non-city taxpayers. Some suburban; .properties do escape the edict, which even for bids a city fire engine to cross Salem's boundaries eight " months hence. Governmental, agencies (in cluding state institutions and West Salem) and purchasers of the ser vices under contract may continue to receive city water and fire pro tection and use of city sewers. So, . too, may outside residents who have signed petitions to come within Salem's boundaries .but only if the petitions carry signa tures of more than 50 per cent of the property owners. - Only one residential area. Lone Oak Village subdivision, where a majority of the property owners are said to favor coming into Sa- lam, now receives city services on contract And ' the council, yoted Monday night to cancel thaLrpn- tract returning to an individual permit basis. ,.,. :esp'-sr The council also authorized con struction of a. short sewer main in northeast Salem at an estimated cost of more than $10,000, to serve Rosedale addition properties par tially inundated during heavy rains. It would be designed also to serve Lone Oak Village. . By. other resolutions, removal of $3000 from the emergency fund into the sewer fund and $600 from the emergency fund into the en gineering fund was authorized. The city engineer will be allowed to employ a deputy in the en gineering department, following the explanation that not only the sewer problems but the recent noticeable increase in ' building have taxed the joint engineer building inspector's office heavily. (Other council action page 2) Mrs. amrchill : Visits British "x Hospitals in USSR MOSCOW, April 2 - ) - Mrs Winston Churchill arrived ! - by plane today for a visit to hospitals and children's homes as head of her own relief fund for Russia. The British prime minister's wife reached Moscow after an all- night flight from Cairo. She will visit Stalingrad and Rostov, where British funds will equip two 500- bed hospitals. Red Cross Quota, : Overreached Here . - Marion county's 1945 Red Cross war fund Is over the top today with $89,948 or 112 per cent of its quota. But the books will not be closed until late this month; F. G. Leserer, campaign chairman, said Monday. Late givers may still contribute, but workers should complete all solicitations as rapid ly as possible and make their re ports, he declared. . - v the meeting. WASHINGTON, April Z-OTfc-Belittling reports that the San Francisco international conference might be postponed,' Senator Con nally (D-Tex) predicted today it will begin on schi-dule, April 25, and Te a success,! zyZC : Connally's refertece was to un official reports - that difference among the major Allies since the Yalta conference - might lead . to a postponement h :.f k ' . Secretary of State Stettinlus at his regular news ''conference to morrow may discuis the matter. The split over aa invitation -for the Soviet-sponsored Warsaw re gime in Poland undoubtedly will come up, as will: other, questions affecting - the proposed peace M L6se '' 3rd Army Over F jAyaist of Germany; Prisoner List ; ; Grpws Allies Nearing North Sea I'V''-' "-'--! . By AsUa ' Bealsaeir ; :u . ;' -).:". I PARIS, Tuesday, April S--American troops again crushed Ger- , man attempts yesterday tp break out are traDDecL. as British snn tTnnadian fnrM a fh AnHh xnseW m , miles Inside Holland and sped within 68 miles of the German North sea , coast threatening to seal off another 'huge enemy group in the wester Netherlands. ; ; 5 r'.v' k' In the race toward. Berhn, swift ing far beyond the encircled Ruhr, reached the Weber river near th miles from' Berlin. " ' 150,060 Prisoners Captured . A dispatch from Gen. Omar N. quarters said a total of 350,000 Germans had been captured in March, i9u,uuu pi tnem by tne xrurd army and 90,000 by the First army, whose troops yesterday smashed Nazi break-out attempts and counter-attacka m the Winterberg and Warburg areas. ! . ' I The dispatch added: "The German situation in the west is falling apart so badly that the possibility of an attempt to transfer some di visions from the "east isn't excluded, despite the sorry Germaii situa tioriln 'ihe.east" ' ' ' . v.- I ' Forward elements of. the sprinting Ninth army were moving un der a security blackout in the attack toward Berlin, and along the Center f the front the U.S. Third army reached the Werra river on s k broad! front and crossed that stream near Eisenach, 155 miles south west of Berlin and 80 miles from Leipzig, j , .' . , t Half Way Across Germany " ' i Thi Third army now was more than half-way across the waist of Germany, racing toward the Czechoslovakian frontier , about .90 miles miles away, in an effort to split the reich and prevent German trpopa from retreating into the Bavarian Alps. Other. Third army units made a new. crossing of 'the Fulda river in this eastward sweep.. . . The American Seventh'army fanned put in sizeable advances to the north, east and west and the adjacent French First army at the isouthero-end, c&tbe 4!ront captured and wiaened its bridgehead: across the Rhine near Karlsruhe to 25 miles. I v;.--' ; --:-: : " ;" : - i I - There still was no indication ohlhe location and role of the new American 15th army which was disclosed Hro' days ago to be in ac tion. It is believed it might be engaged in a holding operation. Allies Nearing Znider Zee - - i Lifting a five-day security1 blackout on the British Second and Canadian First armies, the Allies disclosed last night that the Canad ians, attacking in the area between Emmerich and Nijmegen on both Sides of the IJutch Rhine, had pushed forward and reached the En- ' schede-Zutphen canal. ' r-..j. f - Th4 canal is only 15 miles from the Zuider Zee (Ijssel Meer); Once the Alliea reach that coast they will have biscted all enemy force in Holland. t . ;Vw. W; ,v . i: i Along the Ruhr's northern rim the 79th and 35th infantry divisions captured the industrial city of Recklinghausen, cleared the Diehaard forest south of Haltern and pushed east and captured Suderwich and Berhagen.-' . .' ,v .; ' ";i - ! - Thousands of Germans were reported fleeing from Holland in an effort to avoid the double noose that the British and Canadians were fashioning. As the Allied troops closed in on the V-bomb rocket InJ ', stallatians, rocket fire on Britain already had subsided noticeably.) Black Market r.-. Meat Charges To Be Probed I I. l-O-r-T" " :'i WASHINGTON, April Jv Chairman Anderson (D-NM) an nounced tonight 'that the house food study committee will go to ew York and' Boston to investi of the meat there is sold in the gate , charges that "90 per cent" black 'market. - 1 " . , ; , ., - " . t The committee, he said, expects to- be in Boston April 23 and in New York JApril 24-25.. It will be in Chicago April 16-1? and in Cleveland April 18. . ' ''Charges have come from var ious sources," Anderson told news papermen, "that 90 per cent of the meat handled in New York and Boston is in. the black market It is an astonishing tharge. " ' - v i :. . Rlblalla Goes Vfter 05000' BuOding for Community Cannery 1 MOLALLA, April 2. rv)- A $5000 building . for, a permanent community cannery - replacing the 'temporary -wartime canning center was proposed here today, i A subscription;; campaign will be backed; byi the. ; Union I high school board.. The Molalla grange haT donated a building site. Hudson 'Residence;; Destroyed by Fire v ; ' ' - : I The H. - A. Hudson residence, i out- two," box 41, Salem near the Vlntersection of Cherry ave ind th1orth River road, was de stroyed .by fire,Monday . night C5tyl firemen, called to the scene after the house had gone up in rapidly-spreading flame, said a prune drier and some other build ings' had been threatened but that the i danger had largely , passed Svten they arrived. ; U.LJ ) -(SraSuDedl D Half Way Across bf the Ruhr, where 110,000 Nazis VS. Ninth army columns strlk. v were nearing or might already have PiaH Pinor Inwn nf nmiiTt - : ; Bradley's 12th army group head 9 localities took many- prisoners, Poles to Try Nazi Traitors . LONDON, April 2-(ff)-The PoU ish provisional government h a Sj set . up six special courts to. try persons accused of treason and as sistance to the German Invaders, the Moscow radio said tonight ' , Quoting a Warsaw dispatch c the Tass. agency, Moscow said th defendants would include "active traitors who, together . with tho fascists invaders, took part in the) annihilation' - and prosecution ol Polish citizens and those who; disregarded national, h o nt r and voluntary., expressed a desire j to become German subjects. ."! Textile Firm to! ! Add $50,000 Plant C : Priorities have been granted for construction of an addition to the Bonesteele building on the Pacifio highway' north -to accommodate enlarged, operations of Oregon Textiles,- which colnmenced fiper ations here early last I year on an experimental basis. -1 J , . Revealing plans for the erection : of sf $40,000 addition to his build ing which bow houses Oregon Textiles, Wallace H.'Bonesteel said Monday that the hew 92 by 200-foot factory would be equip ped at a cost of approximately $50,000. ' Construction ! work" will start shortly, he said.i. . ' 'f ' Oregon Textiles manufactures flax cordage and cotton mops.r .' l m , Berlm Dig Shots Slain by Terrorists ; LONDON, Aprii .S I -V. Th German radio said tonight an In- tense manhunt was on for killer of three unnamed but apparently prominent persons shot to death in one of Berlin's most 'fashionabla and ' closely . guarded "suburbs. A reward of 100,000 - marks ($10,- -000 at.the U, S. military excharge,. , rate) was offered,. r .r. ' J