1 : : : : -J : .. . . .. : (Story in Column 2) Weather. Saa FT incite Salem FortUad sattla Willamette mer R. I a. , FORECAST: fnM V. S, wthr l4 turn, McNarr tteld. Salta) Bala - rs, wit ireq.M ceari w tweea skowerm, Mt Me cassis w temperature. ... . r j.; NINETY-nrTH YEAH 10 PAGES Sodenx, Oregon. Saturday Morning, April 7. 1945 Prlc 5c No. 10 OTP Max. Mia. Bala s--s 41 .. - . -13 - ; ss 1 .. , af ; ss - M Earl Riley is mayor of Vanport- ; Vanport is a brand-new city across the river (Columbia) from Portland. .. ! These gems of errata appear in an article in the April Harper's ma e a zine, "The Empire of the Northwest" by C. Hartley Grattan. They illustrate , the danger from motor stage reporting over an area as vast as. the northwest empire. The result is a blend of hurried eye and. ear impressions.' Grattan records his visual images of towns and country, and echoes pretty much the comment that long has been stock about the cities of the northwest It is not that his com ments and conclusions are unkind or unwelcome but that they are superficial. We ought not to complain, how ever, that we are "discovered.'' National attention is what the northwest has been clamoring for. That Fortune magazine should re cently devote an entire number to the Pacific coast, and now Harpers gives articles in two issues, one to California and one to the north west, is gratifying from the stand point of publicity at least. . Grattan findr Portland, "the least spectacular city on the Pa cific coast' though fortunately he spares us the conventional cliche of eastern journalists 'that it is "like some New England city." He finds that its growth has followed the Pacific coast average, that it has never really (Continued on Editorial page) Hong Kong Hit For Third Day By Liberators MANILA, Saturday, April 1-JP) -Fifty Liberators heavily bombed the. Hong Kong waterfront for the third straight V llay Wednesday while in the Philippines 11th air borne paratroopers, landing in. Cub planes, seized Lucena, capital of Southern Luzon's Tayabas prov ince, -and its two airfields. The. escorted f our-engined bombers set off tremendous water front fires and wrecked three - merchant ships in the harbor with shower of 104 tons of bombs. Gen. Douglas MacArthur an nounced today the heavy bombers cored direct hits on a 10,000-ton freighter and two smaller vessels. Oil storage tanks were set ablaze and fuel fires sent smoke up 6000 feet. There was no interception. Giant Nippon Mortars Kill Many Marines BREMERTON, Wash, April 8-(P)-The giant Japanese mortars encountered by the marines at Iwo Jima which caused the "aw ful mangling of so many" were described today by Cpl. Bill Faulkner, 21, one of the first cas ' valties of' that campaign to be admitted to Bremerton naval hos pital- ." .. - "They were the - great-grahd- I daddies of all the mortars in the I world," he said. "I don't know ; Just now Die they were some said they were 2 4 0 millimeters ! and others said .they were over 800. But I do know you could drop your helmet right into one of them. "It was these mortars that caused the awful mangling of so many of our marines so long as - I had to get hit, I'm sure glad It was Just a bullet" Faulkner was shot in the right elbow by a sniper. Marion Red Cross Fund Reaches $115,000 Total The 1945 Marion county Red Crocs war fund now totals $115, 000 or 141 per cent of the quota, Announcement was made by F. G. Leserer, 1945 campaign manager, at the Salem Credit, association luncheon Friday noon. , . -. " The Marion county quota was $80,500. ; ! Jerome L. Moshberger Loses Life in Tar ; WOODBURtfj April Jerom. L. Ioshberger,.,water tender sec ond class, US navy, previously re ported missing in. action, is now presumed to have lost his life in enemy action, i His parents, ; Mr. and Mrs. Xawrence MoshbergerV have been notified by the navy department. - (Additional details" on - service- men's page t.) nJ 150 Jap Some U.S. Ships Receive Damage But Stay in Fight GUAM, April 7 -CP)-Japanese planes belatedly attacked the Am erican invasion fleet in the Ryu kyus in force for the first time yesterday and by . late afternoon an incomplete count showed 150 of the attackers shot down. There was every indication the raid was continuing. A fleet communique today said some U.S. ships received minor damage, but "all remained fully operational." An invasion armada of 1400 ships was involved in the Okinawa island invasion last Sun day. In the Okinawa ground fight ing, marines on the north end -of the American line scored advanc es up to 5000 yards, still finding only "small, scattered groups of the enemy," while infantrymen pressing upon the capital city of Naha at the south fought deeper into fixed defense positions, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announc ed today. 539 Japs Killed Nimitz reported . 539 Japanese were killed and .166 captured In seizing the Kerama islands off the southwest coast of Okinawa prior to the main invasion. . The count of 150 enemy planes shot down attempting to- attack the VS. invasion fleet was still "preliminary and incomplete," the communique said. The carrier task groups were commanded by Rear Adm. Fred erick C. Sherman and Rear Adm. J. J. (Jock). Clark. Some Ameri can ships received minor damage, but all remained fully operational. Loses 1212 Planes i The enemy air force already had lost 1212 planes destroyed or dam aged by American naval fliers since the start of the Okinawa operations March 17. The communique did not speci fy the location .of surface ships under prolonged assault in this hottest air attack yet reported from Okinawa, but it evidently was off the Okinawa invasion beaches, for Yanks ashore were being hit also. Chinese Open Counterblow Against Japs CHUNGKING, April 6-WV-Chi- nese troops in southwestern Honan province launched a major coun teroffensive yesterday against Jap anese troops battling toward Shen si province, northern gateway to China's war-time capital, the hign command disclosed today. An army spokesman said Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek's for ces wiped out an enemy battalion and encircled a number of strong points west of Neisiang on the Ho-nan-Shensi highway, but lost con tact with a garrison defending Nanyang, one of the primary Jap anese objectives. China's . three - pronged drive, mounted against a double enemy attack, came after the Chinese an nihilated more than 1000 Japanese troops and destroyed nine enemy tanks about 31 miles from the Shensi border. . Attackers Destroyed m Police Officer, Wins Furious Rassle Officer Harold See of the Sa lem police force demonstrated the versatility of members of that de partment ' Friday afternoon when he answered a call from irate res idents on North 20th srteet who "wanted a cow corralled." Arriving on the scene, the offi cer applied all his knowledge of bovines to the occasion, and when Bossy insisted on doing the oppo site of that expected of her, the officer' grabbed her by her-short horns and proceeded to "bulldog" her to the ground. But agile as was the officer, he was no match for the cunning of the cow. Drop ped to the ground, she rolled and S3 DB J Rocket Ship sjfW'i.eeweM-ww Koeket bombardment Official U. American rocket ship prepares the by army troops and marines. A "played" like a fire hose on the ternatlonal) r f' ;V- I I i ? A $ v 5 Nazis Report Suzuki Forms New Cabinet With Tojo, Other Former Premiers LONDON, Saturday April 7-r-Tht German agency DNB quoting the Singapore radio, said today Premier Kantaro Suzuki had formed a new Japanese cabinet which included Gen. Hideki Tojo, premier at the time of Pearl Harbor. . ' .;'; (The office of war information, which! recorded the same dis patch in the United States, said it was possible the DNB report DSM Awarded To Gen.Rilea At Vancouver VANCOUVER, Wash., April 8-(tf)-The? Distinguished Service medal was awarded today to Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, USA, who as adjutant general of the Oregon National Guard went overseas with the lamed 41st division. j Brig. GeniRilea's citation, rec ommended by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, was for service in Aus tralia as ' commanding general of the armyf service and supply base early in ;the southwest : Pacific campaigns, -f . . The medal was presented by CoL Charles Berle, commanding officer of Barnes General hospital, where Rilea'.is recovering from a tropical illness. , '. 1 - 5th Outflanks 3000 Ft. Peak ROME,tApril 6-PThe Amer ican Fifth' army, outflanking 3000 fL Monte folgorito, has gained nearly two miles since yesterday in a surprise attack southeast of Massa on, heights dominating the IJgurian coastal highway in west ern Italy.vAllied headquarters an nounced, i ! . ! ' The smouldering Italian front flared into activity at both ends. In the wet the Americans, at tacking from Azzano, six miles in land, passed Monte Fplgorito, which overlooks the coastal shelf. An . accompanying push h from Strettoia, two miles from the sea, made Initial ' gains also, but col lided latef with a German coun terthrust from Porta, a mile be- With Cow came up n her feet with the of ficer still .maintaining his hold.: men tne cow decided it was nine io leave, -and- made: for a picket f etteel The officer stuck out a foot to meet the fence in order to lessen the shock, but his foot met not a post or pale but went cleanly between two pickets. When thf cow wheeled, the off! cerr foot tore down a section of the fence and a section of the of ficers now much-mauled hide. - Then he conquered her via the "bulldog route. First aid dressed the many! scratches and bruises of the thoroughly tired by victorious COP.' ;. - ft at Okinmva S. navy photo. A barrage from an way for the Invasion of Okinawa constant stream of projectiles Is enemy's shoreslde Installations. (In was a garbled version of a pre- vious Japanese announcement that former premiers of Japan met Thursday and recommended Su zuki to form a new cabinet.) i This account said Suzuki, who often had stood against army and navy extremists, has selected' a cabinet studded with former J pre miers.. . I S If the report was correct, then It was a strong mingling of politi cal opinion in Japan, because it in cluded moderates as well as sabre rattlers. I The lineup, none of whom was a member of the cabinet of former Premier Kuniaki Koiso, includes: Prince Fumitaka Konoye, j pre mier Just before Tojo took over for the surprise blow at Pearl Har bor, f . . Admiral Keisuke Okada, j pre mier at the time of the bloody ar my revolt in 1936 in which he first was reported . assassinated by the extremists who found him too con servative : J - Gen. Koki Hirota, former pre mier and foreign minister at the time the Japanese began their cur rent war on China. I I J Gen. Baron -Kiichiro Hiranuma, long an advocate of a strong! and militant Japan. S Gen. Baron Waratsuhe and Mar- quiss Hiro, the latter former lord privy seal. The broadcast did not say to what portfolios these men jhad been assigned. Successor to Lumsden : if. . " Named by Churchill LONDON, April 6 - (JP) - Prime Minister Churchill has appointed Lt. Gen. C. H. Gairdner as his special representative , to Gen. MacArthur's headquarters inj suc cession to Lt. Gen. Herbert Lums den, who was killed in the Pacific January ; 6, it was announced to night . , - 4 -' " ii . in ; V Lt. Comdr. Christman Dies When Truck Upsets MT. ANGEL, April 6 Lt Comdr. Hwyn L; Christman 29, was killed March Jl In the south Pacific when a truck upset follow-. ing a" plane crash. His mother, Mrs. J. R. Christman, route 1, Mt Angel, was notified this morning by;. the navy department (Addi tional details on page 8.) I h Cpl. Ralph f akefield Killed in War Action' SCOTTS MILLS, April eCpL Ralph' Wakefield was killed In ac tion in the European- theatre of war! His -mother, Mrs. Everett Shilts, has been notified by the war department: ' " ; Suburbs Of Vienna Reds Bear Down On Capital City - From AH Sides Z By Eomney Wheeler LONDON, Saturday; April 7 () Russian shock troops captur ed four suburbs of Vienna on the city line yesterday, cleared the south bank of the Danube east of the city in a 10-mile advance, and reached the Morava river barrier protecting Vienna's northeastern approaches on a 37-mile front. Intensifying the blazing battle of tanks and Infantrymen raging around the old capital, the Rus sians approached the southern and southeastern limits of the city on a five-mile front and battered through suburbs to within four miles of St. Stephan'a church in mid-city. :. Just before midnight last night, the Vienna radio reported that vi olent street fighting had broken out in the city proper and that Russian tommygunners had pene trated the' railroad defense line along the municipal boundary. The roar of guns was heard in the background and the broadcast as serted that Vienna had been under shell-fire "for several hours." At the . same time, Red army forces battered out new gains along a 850-mile front In south eastern Europe and were mopping up enemy remnants on the Vistula delta east of Danzig. . Along jthe active front, ,16,340 enemy troops were, taken prisoner, -v, . v In Czechoslovakia, Soviet forces swept to a point 38 miles south east of the big industrial city of Bruenn (Brno), while in Yugosla via, Soviet - cavalrymen slashed through enemy lines within 41 miles northeast of the Croat capi tal of Zagreb and 104 miles from the Italian border. Germany's Rail Traffic Choke Points Blasted LONDON, April 6-y!P)-More than 1250 U.S. eighth air force planes attacked rail traffic choke points today at Leipzig and near by Halle and Gera as hundreds of other allied craft likewise smashed at targets ahead of on- rushing American armored spear heads in southern Germany. At the same time it was dis closed that at least 21 warships and freighters, including the 6000 ton cruiser Koeln and 11 subma rines, were sunk In last month's massive port-busting raids on Bremen, Wilhelms haven and Hamburg. Jfaycees Issue Call For More Blood A call for more blood donors for next Tuesday was issued Friday by Salem . Junior Chamber of Commerce members. There has been no decrease in the call -for plasma from battle fronts, they explained, and Salem's weekly quota will not be met unless other persons who believe they are eli gible to contribute register. Would-be donors should call Red Cross offices, 9277, to regis ter and receive instructions, r. Acute Housing Shortage Claims First Casualty PITTSBURGH, AprU 6HThe acute housing shortage in the Pittsburgh7 area claimed; its first casualty today. , . '' Reed M. Krotzer, 52, of Wilkina- burg, ' who had been seeking house for five weeks, dropped Into a real estate office. When an agent told him he'd found a house for him, Krotzer became excited and dropped dead. . Capt. Mason W. Harris Die in, Europe ActionJ Capt Mason .W, Harris, whose wife,'- Rosemarie - Harris, 1545 North. 16th st, - Salem, has been killed in action in . Europe. ' His name appears on the current OWI list ..- - -: - Captured Named Adm. Baron Kantaro Suzuki (above), president ef the Japa nese privy council, was asked t form a new cabinet following fall of the government of Gen. Knnlaki Kelso, Tokyo radio an nounced. (AP wirephoto) Japs Slightly Damage Units eet I I By . Mwlia Speneer , - GUAM,Saturday, April 1-ifP)- Some major units of the British Pacific' fleet including possibly the battleship HMS King George V, were damaged slightly by a con certed attack of Japanese aircraft as the . British force ' struck ' the Sakishimaj islands March 31 throught April 1. - v Five eriemy aircraft' made a con certed attack on the King George, a British naval observer,' just re turned from the battle, related to day; after VS. Tleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported in a press re lease that "some major units" of the! British force were damaged slightly. The King George is a 35,000 ton battleship. That particular group of planes were driven off, the British spokes man said as he related his eye witness account British fighters and ships' anti-aircraft gunners destroyed 22 enemy planes and damaged nine more in the three- day engagement which constitut ed the Japanese's first attack on the allied force since it went into action against Sakishima, south ernmost of the Ryukyu islands. German Army Being Split Up As Guerrillas LONDON, April &-(JP)-The Ger- mans were reported today to be splitting up the Wehrmacht into practically autonomous army groups under SS (elite guard) con trol for last ditch resistance and guerrilla warfare. The scheme is called "decentral ized resistance," according to Swiss reports which said it was adopted at a - recent emergency military conference at Adolf Hitler's head quarters. . '"'.;;"v These jeports followed Gen Ei senhower's statement' that Guer rilla warfare could be expected in Germany because, of recent west ern front experiences, that "even when); formations as small as divi sions! are . disrupted their frag ments continue to fight until sur rounded."' ,.,,?(irN.Kiv OfRovalFl i - J Army Concerned Over Morale During Shift to Pacific War WASHINGTON April t-Jf) Army concern over the attitude of the soldier and his home folk dur ing the redeployment of . forces fromi Europe to the Pacific was voiced today by Gen. George C Marshall r vJ-rK: ':y; '" , The chief of staff told an army day i audience the . transfer of troop' and equipment to the .east will be one" of the greatest prob lems i In administration and sup ply ih history, although, he is con fident thai it will be carried out in at vlfthoroughly, workmanlike manner," : : v : That ' phase of the Job,. he. de clared, Is Tot-wrryihg the army but the human element;!. Once V-X day comes, he said, this will be- the general picture: -: Ivery soldier In Europe v.will havs an "overwhelming urge" to r rd.WKhlini Haiiim, Wuerzliurg Taken; Weser River LincRipped to Shreds; Allies Drive Close to Hannover ' . ' B- AUSTIN BEALMEAR j . . PARIS, Saturday, April 7 (AP)A relentless tide of allied tanks and troopssometimes sweeping ahead 40 to 60 miles broke the Weser river line 18 miles from Hannover yesterday, all but sealed off Holland and her greatest cities, and engulfed Hamm and Wuerzburg. ' ! I A wholly unconfirmed German broadcast said U.S. Third army forces, coursing far! in the van of the western ad vance, had suddenly spurted 40 miles east into Martin Lu ther's birthplace of Eisleben, in Saxony 90 miles southwest of Berlin, striking with airborne tanks. l j The. Weser river; line only the Elbe now stands be tween the allies and Berlin was ripped to shreds by multiple British Second and 17. S. Ninth i army crossings as . the U; S. First army jumped into the j swelling attack with a 22-mile push to the Weser 164 miles west of Berlin. , One of the British Second army's flying columns, soma of which traveled 60 miles' in. 24. hours since breaking out on to the north German plain through the moun tain passes, turned up abruptly in Diepholz, less than 35 miles south of the big German river port of Bremen..; V'..-., j A' Hamm,- Germany's biggest rail way center, fell with astonishing swiftness to the U. S. Ninth army, which .with the powerful First army began a broad scale attack on' 125,pOSJor more Germans trap ped in tha Ruhr. ' j. ' ' Woersborr Captured - . ' I Wuerzburg, 55 miles, northwest of .Nuernberg,-where me nans In their heyday held their party j raU lies, was captured by the U S. Seventh army which had one col umn within 39 miles, of that inazi shrine and had hurdled a bend in the river Main in the southeast ward push. Wuerzburg had a nor mal population of 108,000. j ; The Canadian First army kept up the dazzling pace set by! the U. S. First and Ninth and British Second armies, sending one steel freighted column north to within 35 miles of the North sea jand broke into the center of 1 the stronghold of Zutphen, barring the last 20 miles to the Zuider Zee, in twin strokes designed to trap the enemy in Holland, j Bridgeheads Deepened : The British Second and U. S. Ninth armies deepened their bridgeheads over the Weser river to five miles but had not yet be gun the assault on Hannover. (The British . radio said without any other confirmation that the allies were less than two miles from Hannover.) I - ; The U. S. First army in Joining the assault fought through! -the Hessian gap, historic military gateway to inner Germany, in its drive to the Weser.- i V-12 Program Will Last Until Nov. 1 . Willamette university's navy V 12 program will be continued Until November 1, and, as a resultj the university will continue to operate on a three semester basis for an other year, President G. Herbert Smith announced Friday. I . The university catalogue, held up pending receipt of the notifica tion as to navy training plans,! will now be sent to the printers. " get home to his wife, family: or girl friend. The soldier who learns that he is eligible for demobiliza tion, but finds there is no room on ships going home, may become in tolerant "even to the smirching of a fine and soldierly fighting; rec ord." Mail from home will be of no help because "protests will be more, articul te on this side of the Atlantic from the .wives and the families and the sweethearts.! ' ; The army, Marshall said, will cot be able to meet these - 'Very human .'desires": without the ; risk of higher casualties in the orient and denying .the fighters there the support they. must. have. 4y For these reasons, Marshall said, the attitude, of the people at home will be of the "utmost importance? to the armys morale and fighting efficiency. . .; - r -- .i," Superf orts Hit Tokyo, 2 1ST BOMBER COMMAND, Guam, Saturday, April 7 (A") A large force of Superfortresses, aid ed for the first time by long-range Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima, raided Tokyo and Nagoya today 4pril 7, Japan time.) -- ? : The B-29's, as usual, flew from their bases in the Marianas Islands and. jvere Joined by : thaMustangs near i Iwo,- the half-way point on the 1500-mile , run to the enemy capital. '! -,"' - Presumably about 150 bombers took part in. the raid.1 Tokyo said there were about 100 B-29's and. about 40 Mustangs. The enemy radio added that the : Mustangs . bombed and strafed the western, part of the Tokyo-Yokohama area while the Superforts hit military objectives. . ; j Negotiations On Soft Coal . . . j ; i - Wage Collapse WASHINGTON, April 9 -(JPy- Soft coal wage negotiations vir tually broke down today! and John L. Lewis summoned his 25-man policy committee to determine the . United Mine Workers' future course. While the mine leader did not say for what specific purpose the committee was called In, it was understood that the various of fers of the operators and the pro posed contract advanced last week by Secretary of Labor Perkins will be placed before the group. Lewis had accepted the Perkins proposal but operators turned it down. , The ' committee, scheduled to meet Monday at 12:30 PWT, would have to pass upon anylnew con tract, as it did the original 18 de mands of Lewis on February 26. GOING TO THE BEACH? It t cf r a r e . pleasure these days, of course, but the fishing season ' opens , soon and . carefully saved "A" gas will be! brought into use. And many beach , cottages will open.1 With these factors j in mind. The Oregon Skztes mas has arranged; to ob- : tain tide tables, computed ' for TcA from " (he ; U. Coast and Geodetic sur Vey. The tables, to include compufcrtions for several days in advance, will be published daily as a new service for readers. Starting tomorrow in 'T&yrdrldetYour Door Each Morning9, Nagtiya; Musta ngs Help i