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0 Tfinrnrui - rn JSJUUNj u Lain' Lr U o OTP SGQOOQS u2)LsuuUidu1JV .' i ' .:" '..- v. I ' .'' ' ' - - . i 4 IJ While the war is taking large chunks out of the civilian lives of ; our youth,- it is filling the void i 'with varied experiences. Nor are those experiences all ones of com j bat and bloodshed, j The length 1 of time in front lines positions is short compared with the months and years of training and camp life, so there is time for observa tion. Perhaps the greatest val ues aside from the association in the comradeship of war come from .travel. Young men and women from all parts of America are be ing sent to nearly all parts of the globe. Thus they are getting an opportunity to study geography at first hand. r And don't think they are miss ing the chance of learning about viand and sea and life and climate everywhere, in Burma and India and Iran and Egypte and Eur ,ope and Australia and Alaska and the Aleutians and Panama and hundreds of places between. While home always seems best, whether it is in some prairie town in South Dakota or in a dingy industrial street in Passaic, N. J. still they find things of interest and often of delight in the countries where they are stationed. The letters that come back-are full of observations and comments, and give home folk much infor mation. I have just been reading the copy of a letter which Otto Paulus has received from Alfred Lauraine, who will be remember ed as a former instructor in dance here the one who trained the dancers for the Salem Centennial In 1940. He enlisted in the sig nal corps early in the. war and ts j now on duty in the Philippines. His description of the country and - the people is so vivid and inter esting ; (Continued on editorial page) Most of Vienna WestrSouth of Danube Seized LONDON, Wednesday, April 11 (JPy-The Russians seized all of Vi enna west and south of the Dan ube except the narrow island be tween the river and the Danube canal yesterday and thrust within - three and one-half miles of the German rail escape route north ward to Brno (Brunn), the Soviet communique disclosed last night. J Fall of the remainder of the old 1 Austrian capital appeared immi inent as heavy street fighting raged ion, and Moscow told how the en emy's defenses were crumbling in announcing that on Monday 2000 soldiers were captured along with 72 tanks and 75 field guns inside - the city. Russian artillery from three sides were raking the three-mile-long, .half-mile-wide .crescent of land between river and canal, I where the Germans still were holding out in the old Jewish quarter of Leopoldstadt and in Brigittenau and Prater commer cial districts. Within the battle zone were two large railway stations, the 125 acre Augarten park, Vienna's mod- - era sports stadium, and the mod- I - est site where in 1867 the younger Johann Strauss - wrote the Blue Danube waltz. German Radio Quit 5 Hours j LONDON, Wednesday, April 11. yp)German-radio news services resumed broadcasting shortly j af ter midnight following an unex plained silence of more than five hours for some stations. j DNB's European service that went off the air at 8:20 p. m., came back at 12:40 a. m., with an an nouncement that a holdout garri son at Wuerzburg had surrender ed.! Its service then was interrupt ed ! again by a loud whistle. The German agency's home service, which had stopped at 7:05 p. m., resumed at 12:40 a. m., also. The trans-ocean agency was silent, ex " cept for, call signs, from 8 p. m., to 10 p. m. No allied bombers were report ed ! over the reich before 10:20 p. m. White Flags Flying LONDON, April 10 Thunderbolt pilots of the V. S. Ninth air force who attacked the reported that white flags began German city of Brunswick today to appear throughout the city while dive bombing was in prog ress. " ' Weather Max. Mln. Bala M 45 0 .51 41 JO .49 42 .10 M 43 .11 ...49 43 43 Fan Francisco . Eugene Salem Portland - , Willamette river 8 It. I in. FORECAST: (from V. S. weather-bureau McNary field) Cloudy with light rains today. Temperatures about a de grees beldw normal. NINETY-FIFTH YEAR Miners Win Big Pay Boost 235 Mines Taken Over by Ickes To Stop Strkes By Harold VV. Ward WASHINGTON, April 10-(Ay-Soft coal miners won broad pay concessions in a new contract agreed on tonight shortly after federal seizure of 235 mines. A basic wage of $10 a day Jor the average inside miner up $1.50 was understood to be em bodied in the agreement reached by operators and President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Work ers. Lewis abandoned a demand of 10 cents a ton royalty. The plan will be ready for rati fication tomorrow afternoon by the full negotiating committee. It will be subject to review by the war labor board and Economic Stabilization Director Davis. Small Part of Total The mines taken over to keep steel production flowing are a small part of the 3478 total over the country. Nearly six weeks of negotiations were ended by announcement of Ezra Van Horn, chairman of the bituminous wage conference, that the two sides had gotten together on a contract to supplant the one which expired March 31. And that its form will be perfected by a subcommittee meeting at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow. The full committee will meet then at 3:30 p.m. for final ap proval. Wildest Strikes The government stepped in to operate those mines affected by a wave of wildcat work interrup tions which had partially closed plants turning out war-vital steel. It acted while the; negotiators plodded doggedly ahead in their deliberations. Van Horn's an nouncement came less than three hours after the federal action. President Roosevelt ordered In terior Secretary Ickes to take over any mines where stoppages exist or are threatened. Within an hour, Ickes followed through and the government thus was back in the coal business the fourth time since the country declared war. French Find German Plot PARIS, April lO.-t-Two men wearing French air force uniforms arrested at Saint Cyr were accused by the authorities today of com plicity in an enemy-inspired plot against the French state. The men, arrested in an auto mobile which contained several sub-machine guns and documents described officially as "incriminat ing," were not air force officers, police said. Pamplets found in the car urged the population to solve food short age problems by intercepting food trucks on the road, and the air ministry in a communique said "these tracts are the work of troublemakers in the pay of the enemy." . ; i ' ; f, I . . - . ' f- -; : : Marion Women Are Hostesses At Annual Homemakers Festival By Marguerite Gleeson Valley News Editor Homemakers of the four neigh boring counties of Linn, Benton, Polk and Yamhill came to Salem on Tuesday to attend the second annual Marion county homemak ers spring festival, at the VFW hall on Hood street. " .", Each of the 19 units organized for the extension program had an exhibit at the festival and these Included a style show, a revamp ed furniture show, housecleaning exhibit and many other tricks too numerous to mention. More than 250 women from these units listened to words of praise for their work from County Judge Grant Murphy. Roy Rice, county commissioner, was also a guest Judge Murphy recalled the start of the work in 1942. William Schoenf eld, director of extension, was the speaker at the luncheon attended by more than 12 PAGES Wins Victory s - j? L John L. Lewis Yankees Land On Small Isle Off Okinawa . By Miirlin Spencer . j GUAM," Wednesday, . April .11- (VTenth: army troops landed, on little Tsugen island off Okinawa's east coastt yesterday while on the main island. 24th corps doughboys battered at the "little Siegfried line" on the south from the sixth straight day without appreciable gains. ii Some opposition was encounter' ed on Tsugen, an island only a mile and one-quarter long about 10 miles off Nakagusuku harbor, important'; because in American; hands it would complete American control of that onetime Japanese fleet anchorage. The navy announced today that 5009 Japanese were killed and 222 prisoners of war taken in the first eight days of the battle for Okin-: awa, 325 tniles south of the Jap anese homeland. There was no late estimate of American casualties. Field reports said they were running high in the bitterly-contested southern sector, where the? most furious artillery; duel of the Pacific war is under way. " i ;' Mexicans on Way4o Salem PORTLAND; Ore., April 10.-P) Three more trainloads of Mexican nationals are enroute to the north west from El Paso, Tex. ! A train fwhich left El Paso to day will arrive here Sunday with Oregon towns receiving: Salem, 39, Troutdale 39, Grants Pass 43, Milton - Fj-eewater 15 and Med ford 19. Washington will get 451 from this trainload, Wyoming 90 and Idaho 80. . A train leaving El Paso Monday will bring 282 -to Oregon, 415 to Idaho, 45 to Washington and 98 to Utah. 275 women. Mrs. Harry Martin presided as toastmistress. Others introduced; were Frances Clinton, first Marion county agent and now assistant state leader. Helen Cow gilL assistant state club leader, was also present at the morning session when 4H clubs gave demonstrations-before the homemak era. . .Jk " . Helen Taylor and Helen Zim mer, war food Workers respective ly for Polk and Benton counties, and Vivian Hansen, home dem onstration agent for Linn accom panied their women. Jean Mc FJhinney of Yamhill was unable to be presents : Marjorie Tye, Marion county home demonstration agent, and Doris Woodbufn, war food work er, were in charge of the festival. W. G. Nibler, Ben Newell and James Bishop, other Marion coun ty extension staff members as sisted. - if r - y A !Ir""T POUNDED 1631 Salem, Oregon. Wednesday $lornlng, April 11, 1945 8th Ar By Lynn Heinzerling ROME, April 10.-(P)-The vet eran British Eighth army, open ing what probably will be the last major battle in Italy, crossed the Senio river today on a wide front in a campaign . to annihilate! the German 10th and 14th armies be fore they can retreat intoj the mountain fortress of southern Germany. j The Eighth, with a brilliant rec ord reaching back to El Alamein, moved into action last night after a six-month lull behind a mur derous artillery barrage and the greatest coordinated aerial assault ever carried out in Italy. j The barrage, which opened at 7:30 o'clock last night, was pre ceded by an aerial assault by US 12th and 15th airforce and RAF warplanes. All three air forces resumed the assault today. Shortly before noon 3400 100 pound high explosive bombs and 180,000 fragmentation bombs had been dropped in front of the Brit ish, i . j t i The brjeak across the Senio .was accomplished near Lugo, a town of some ,14,000 inhabitants about 13 miles; west of Ravenna, and junction, point of the Faenza-Fer-rara and Ravenna-Bologna roads. Initial objectives were 'gained against relatively light opposition and the! Tommies continues to press forward over the swampy terrain, interlaced with numerous drainage I ditches. j An allied "advance westward be yond Lugo' would endanger hazi strongholds; upstream along ( the Senio into; the northern Appen ines. ' I d riA woups Will Support Tax Proposal Officers of Salem's three Parent Teacher Associations, representing a membership of 500 persons, Vot ed unanimously Tuesday night to support te proposal upon which taxpayers! will vote Friday, April 27, namely, authorizing a tax levy $67,215 oyer the 6 per cent limit ation, f No such additional property tax will be levied, should the taxpay ers approve, but funds which come to the district as an additional offset froni income tax monies vot ed by the recent legislature would then be made available for tem porary sajary increases, j I The representatives of the En- glewood, I Richmond and high school PTAs, meeting following the well -attended ; high school open house Tuesday night, agreed that immediate action should (be taken to I bring Salem teachers' salaries to the level of other; first class districts to avoid vacancies in teaching staffs and to cut the number of poorly-qualified teach ers. .'Hi I i Supt Frank B. Bennett told them that the greatest shortage is currently in fourth, fifth and sixth grade teachers although few are preparing to teach any grades. tend-Lease Extension OK WASHINGTON, April 10. -fH The senate passed a one-year ex tension of lend-lease today after Vice President Truman poinedr in defeating, f 40 to 39, a republican amendment designed ' to; make doubly sure that lend-lease ends when the shooting stops. -! . The bill, already passed; by the house, now goes to President Rooe- eveit r.. J - .i- f :f Administration officials have said there ire no plans to use lend- lease for postwar relief and re- naoiuiauop oi ioreign counuea. Senators opposing the amendment offered by Senator Taft (R-Ohio) told the senate today it was su perfluous n and would hamstring orderly liquidation of the vast pro gram,.- 1 - my Launches Assault Everybody Calls Herr Goering Mr. Meyer These Days MUEHLHAUSEN, Germany, April 10-P)-Early in the war Reirchmarshal Hermann Goering told the German people that "if ever a single bomber is able to fly over Berlin my name will be Meyer." Now that the German capital has been largely reduced to ruins everybody is calling Goering "Mr. Meyer," captives said here. Yankee Airmen Destroy 397 Nazi Aircraft LONDON, April 10. --American fighter pilots and bomber gunners destroyed 397 German aircraft today and shattered eight aerial warfare records in the most devastating blow ever delivered against the once-feared nazi luft waffe. Countless other German craft were damaged as both American and British planes again assaulted the German reich. Losses of the US Eighth airforce were announced as 25 heavy bom bers and 15 fighters. ' Jn attacks on more , than 25 en emy air fields, 336 German planes were 'destroyed on the ground and fit were shot down in aerial com bat. Twenty of the 61 were the deadly jet-propelled fighters, the largest bag of these high-voltaged interceptors ever collected in a single day. ' Fighter pilots destroyed 284 parked planes and shot down 21 others, while bomber gunners ac counted for 17 enemy aircraft Continent - based US Ninth air force pilots, in attacks on 15 air fields, destroyed 39 planes on the ground and shot down 18 others. The Ninth lost five fighter bomb ers. School Board Eyes Teacher Slate for Fall Salem school directors voted Tuesday night to offer contracts to eight elementary and one junior high school teacher and gave ini tial consideration to another group who may fill staff vacancies here if details of training prove satis factory; r Resignations of Gladys Humph rey, English teacher at Parrish junior high school, who is to be married, and of Robert Craig,, in dustrial arts teacher who has ac cepted another position, were , ac cepted. : ... - --; Contracts are offered to Janet Jucht, Avon SD; Genevieve Cur ry, how teachings Roberts; Thel- ma Delzell, Corvallis; Pearl Met calf, Lima, Ohio; Edna Turner, Wallowa; Lila Swenson, Tacoma; Betty Lou Phelps, who is return to the Salem system after special work at ' Columbia university; Pearl Cleaver, Salem, who is now teaching at Independence, and Don Dawson, now at Benson Poly technic, who will teach at Leslie junior high school. 5 Arabia Royal Princes Arrive for Peace Meet NEW YORK, April lO.-CffVFive royal princes of Saudi Arabia, each accompanied by a body guard, arrived here today on an ATC plane en route to the San Francisco conference to which they are delegates. His Royal Highness Namir Fai sal Ibn ' Abdul Aziz headed the delegation. Electronic 'Stick Makes Bombers Easy to Guide ; LOS ANGELES, April 10.-P- Aa electronic control 5Uck" de scribed as enabling a pilot to guide a heavy bomber with less effort than 'a child uses in turning a bicycle, was unveiled today with army approval by the Minneap olis Honeywell Regulator com pany, , . No. 13 41st Vets 9 ' - Move Gives U. S. Full Control of Sulu Archipelago I By Fred Hampson MANILA, Wednesday, April 11. -PJl-V e t e r a n infantrymen of Maj Gen. Jens A. Doe's 41st di vision invaded Jolo island Mon day and quickly seized the capital city and its airfields to take "com plete control" of the Sulu archi pelago, Gen. Douglas ' MacArthur reported today. He announced also that all or ganized resistance had ceased on southern Luzon island, and that American invasion forces had lib erated hundreds of Filipino lepers in the Culion colony by( occupying Ctroh bay, fleet anchorage be tween Busuanga and Culion Is lands north of Palawan. The 41st division, which cap ture4 the big harbor of Tawitawi in the Sulu chain only 30 miles from Borneo on April 2, swept ashore at the Jolo city waterfront, on the 20-mfle-long island's north coast. They swiftly seized the city and struck inland eight miles, scat tering all enemy resistance. There was no indication of the intensity of the opposition at Jolo, but Mac Arthur said two weeks aerial pounding had disrupted enemy defenses. Jolo, shrine city of the Moros, is the capital of the Sulu archipel ago, which stretches between southwestern Mindanao and nor thern Borneo. It is the finest port in the string of islands. . , , No Look-In For Neutrals At S. F. Meet WASHINGTON, April 10.-JP)-There will be no look-in for neu trals and other uninvited nations at the San Francisco conference, Secretary of State Stettinius indi cated today. Stettinius disclosed at his news conference that some countries had inquired about sending infor mal observers to the .golden gate conference on world organization, but they were told it was impos sible to arrange. Meanwhile, " the United States delegation to the conference, hav ing agreed upon making unit de cision! by a majority vote, worked toward a meeting of minds on matters of policy likely to arise. The members are meeting at the state department all this week. "i Bonds Over America OREGON CAPITOL Oregon's capitol at Salem Is now on of the fine structures which Americans buy War Bonds to pro tect It's new and beautiful; one of th nation's prized possessions. It U worth buying m great many - War Bonds to provide planes and materi el for our fighting men to use in its defense. Oregon City and Corvallis were capitals of the territory for brief periods but Salem became the permase&t capital .when Congress provided funds for the erection' of territory capitol buildings there and the U. S. Treasury refused to pro vide the funds for construction any where else. Fire destroyed the first capitol and also another in 1935. I U S.Trtesnfyptrtmul Editor's note: The above layout was issued nationally to all newspaper this week by the U. S. treasury department In connection with appeals for con tinued purchase of war bonds. It is published here in reciprocal recogni tion of the worth of that cause. . Price 5 c Invade Jblo Isle . Worn ;: -CapoftaB Hannover Topples; Brunswick Entered; Third Capt ures 258 ' Members of j Foreign Ministry r By AUSTIN BEALMEAR' PARIS, Wednesday,! April 11 (AP) The VS. Ninth army, in a neck and neck race with the American First army toward Berlin, quickly toppled Germany's 12th city; of Han nover yesterday and swept on 28 miles into Brunswick's outskirts at a point only 110 While tank units of the site of the Goering steel works illed Brunswick, VJS. First army troops in a 40-mile advance on the south smashed into Nordhausen and likewise struck within 110 miles of Berlin with the seizure of localities near Auleben, 45 miles west of Halle and 57 miles from Leipzig, j Farther south the UJS. Third army, capturing; ,285 mem bers of the German foreign ministry at Muehlhausen, rolled on and reached the outskirts from the Czechslovakianj frontier in the swelling drive to split Germany. j Thousands of allied warplanes were aiding the explosive advances into the heart oif Germany and destroyed 377 Ger man planes during the day. , I In the north the British Second army sent back columns across the shattered Weser river line north of fallen Hannover, a city of nearly a half million population, and reached the Aller river at a point within 60 miles of Hamburg, great German port Berlin said units of this army already had crossed the lower Aller and were only; 50 miles from Hamburg. j r (British troops, last reported Monday five miles south of Bremen, have entered the western suburbs of that big port, ABSIE, the OWI transmitter in London, said in a broadcast heard by NBC.) Canadians Drive on Emden To the west the Canadians plunged within 25 miles of the sea port jof Emden in their race tot close the last corridor leading into Hol land where between 100,000 and 200,000 Germans are pocketed. Other units fought deeper into Holland itself. : ' . At the southern end of the 400-mile front curving deep! into Ger many the UJS. Seventh army; struck within 45 miles of the Danube headwaters and the French First army captured Pforsheim 15 miles southeast of Karlsruhe and 22 miles from the big communications cen ter of Stuttgart . : x . Elements of the First and Ninth army fought savage rear actions as they compressed the shrinking Ruhr pocket where 100,000. Germans were trapped. Field dispatches said the Germans were flyjng in eld planes by night and trying to rescue key officers and personnel. Asked to Protect Docks j i , : General Eisenhower's headquarters, in a broadcast declaring that "German resistance in the west has collapsed,' called on the German population in the big ports ini the north to keep fanatical Nazis from destroying what's left of those city's dock Installations.' ; ; I , Lt..enK William H. Simpson's If in th army doughboys tiding cap tured German half tracks stormed and captured Hannover, which gave the current English monarchial line to Britain. Troops of the 84th infantry division under Maj. Gen. Alexander BoUng made the quick conquest of the city which mostly was a pile of bricks after five years of constant bombing. Thousands of the city's peacetime population of 472,527 still were living in the ruins. Artillery Ammunition Output Slashed; New Tank Plans Out ! WASHINGTON. April 10.-m- Announcement of big cuts in 5 ar tillery ammunition production and a ; decision against completing 1Z new tank plants combined tonight to reflect official pleasure at pro gress ol the war. 'Army ordnance men at Chicago announced the ammunition pro- pram ehanee and the war deoart- ment at Washington said the army has- now. decided it won t need the dozen tank plants which were not scheduled for peak operation until autumn. I The 1945 schedule now contem plates a 10 per cent reduction in the entire artillery ammunition program authorized last Decem ber. That was at a time when the Rundstedt breakthrough made the situation dark on the western front 1 Howard Smalley Killed in Action On Escort Ship Howard Jasper Smalley, jr., S 1c, listed as missing in action February 21, has now been re ported to have lost his life on that date while on duty as signalman aboard an escort carrier sunk dur ing the battle of Iwo Jima. " ' , j ': Howard was born in Salem, May 3, 1926. He was graduated from Salem high school in 1943, entered the navy; September 17, 1943, and finished his boot train ing and signal school at Farragut, Idaho, in April 1944. , . ; s j I 1 Howard was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Smalley, sr. He also leaves a wife, FJenor Smalley, and a sister, Mrs. Marvin O'Brien, lr i Memorial services will be held Sunday, April 15, at 7 p. m.,? at the First Baptist church,. with the Re,v. Irving A. Fox officiating. j ! Maybe She Will Lay a j Golden Egg Next Time ' GRESHAM, -AprU io-(A goose happy because she was not roasted for Christmas dinner (the W, W. Ball family, was too tender hearted) determined to reward her owners. , ! . She lay an eight-ounce egg ev ery other day for weeks. Then she tried doubly hard and produced a 12-ouncer as heavy as six large hen eggs. X. - '. S (-jj; v 'o.'.;" ' miles from the reich capital. Ninth also overran Salzgitter, 10 miles southwest of imper of Erfut and Coburg, 50 miles The Chicago announcement said that full consideration would be given to the need of 'guarding against losses or hardships to in dustry or labor when the ammuni tion cutbacks, estimated at nearly $200,000,000, are applied. And the tank plant statement said it was imperative that exist ing tank plants will have to con tinue "to meet production sched ules in full." i A war department statement said: "American production is now at a levels which assures American fighting men of a sufficient pro duction rate to complete j the war against Germany and provide the output necessary to supply forces to be used against Japan." J! i Ablebodied Soldiers Will Go Overseas WASHINGTON, April 10-(4-Every able bodied soldier in the United States , who has hot seen service overseas is earmarked to go abroad just as fast as he can be replaced by a returning vet eran. " .-a. j. . - - j . Secretary of War Stimson set this ' forth in a communication made public today by Rep. Mahon (D-Tex), member of the house ap propriations committee, j "According to February) figures, wrote Stimson, there werj approx imately 8,050,000 men in the army, 3,150,000 of whom were Overseas. "Of the 2,000,000 on duty in the United States, almost half (rough ly 1,400,000) have already been earmarked for overseas duty and are being trained accordingly eith? er in tactical units or as individual replacements and students In re placement training centers, train ing regiments and schools; 180,000 others were in army hospital.' 14 British Parachutists Shot by German Captors v LONDON, April 10-(PHAt least 14 British parachutists haye been shot by Germans who captured them. Sir James Grigg,.war secre tary, told commons todayi . He said strong protests have been made to the German govern ment through neutral Switzerland.