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Sodenx, Oregon. Saturday Morning, April 7. 1945
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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.)
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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
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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
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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.' ;. -
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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 . , -
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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."'
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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
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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
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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.
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