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PAGE TWO Ih OSEGON STATESMA1I. Sdua. Oroo, Thursday Momliij April J2. Mi Yankees Move 'With Speed to liberate Luzon ' MANILA, Thursday April 12 ' (A1)-American forces are moving a . c " w iwuuj 10 uoeraie soumern j-.uxon, exploiting the enemy's disorgan ized state, Gen. Douglas MacAr thur announced today. Dismounted troopers of the First cavalry division advanced 14 miles from Lucban to occupy Samp aloe and sent advance units to Mauban on the east coast of southeastern Luzon. ' ' ' , Elements of the 11th airborne -division meanwhile moved in force .into the Atimonan area,, on the east coast, and the 158th regiment al combat team pressed its attack in the Legaspi area, capturing 14 pieces of artillery and other mili tary equipment i These gains followed yesterday's announcement by MacArthur that all organized enemy resistance had collapsed in southern Luzon nd its liberation "is at hand. -: On Negros, the 40th division ad vancing 30 miles around the north ern end of the island, forced en- . esny remnants into a narrow pock et MacArthur said civil govern ment was rapidly being restored. . In the air war heavy bombers hit the Victoria docks at Hong " Kong, bombed two radio stations and rail installations on Hainan island in the China seas and sank ; a small freighter off the Luichow peninsula.' Farther south French Indo- . China troop train was destroyed with direct hits and a small cargo ship -sunk.' Heavy bombers also pounded the Davao area of Mindanao island in the Philippines and oft-bombed Formosa. Boraea was another target American liberation forces which are rapidly clearing the Philippines of Japanese imposed a greater threat to oil-rich Borneo from the Sulu archipelago, brought under complete control af ter a speedy campaign. Pleas Made To Recognize Italy as Ally WASHINGTON, April 11 - (P) -Pleas for recognition of Italy as a full ally were heard today by the house foreign affairs committee but Rep. Mundt (R-SD) objected that the committee was going out ; side its province. " Rep. Mundt (R-SD) interrupted ; a hearing on a resolution calling for recognition to express Amaze ment and disappointment" that the' if ate and war departments hadn't been consulted. Pointing out that congress can 'not recognize . the former Axis ' partner, Mundt said: "It (the resolution) is an at tempt on the part of the branch of government which has the least information to tell the branch with the -most information what it should do." He told a reporter, later he will Write the secretaries of state and war asking their views on Italy. Advocates of the resolution, in . troduced by Rep. Marcantonio (ALP-NY), jammed into the com mittee hearing y urge its adop tion in time to give Italy a place In the United Nations conference at San Francisco later this month. , Recognition of Italy as a full any instead of its present desig nation as a rco-beilierenr would make that countrv eliihli to receive lend-Mease aid from the United States. Quakei Shake Helena Recall Cycle Theory t! HELENA, Mcjnt. April 11. -(&)-, Jostled bv earthauakM ; gold rush days fa 1868. this capital city or 15,000 Is wondering un . easily whether the 52 tremors in the past 40 days are. the pre liminary rumblings of a big one ; which may repeat the destruction , or October, 1935. , The current frequency of the ' tremors, latest of which came at ... 7:29 a. m. (MWT) today, has re- 'vived fears that the 'quakes now are running in ten year cycles. Basis for this belief is that the strong tremor -which shook the : region on June 27, 1925, did not ; recur until October, 1935, when ' property loss was considerable and three persons were killed. -"I, can smell 'em," said one old .timer in all seriousness. "And , we're due for a lollapaloozer this year. Stolen Car Recovered The 1835 Ford -coach, stolen ; from the streets of Salem March 14. was found abandoned In the brush -near Washougal. Wash, ' Wednesday by itate police. The .car belonged to Joe Lanus of Sa niltiMwramflU Doors Open 1:4 J P. M. . Regular Prices "Ihe Psrple Heart ' Dana Andrew 'y'Zz&vf', Ernitt"''.if',: tt.z or Tig TLAirry Baruch Sits on 1 tf V "1 ft- Similar te the park bench "office'' he maintains In Lafayette park oppesite the White House in Washington. 1, park bench "office" la epened by Bernard Barmch, President Koeeevelt's special adviser, la famous Hyde Park, London, a wirephoto from signal corps radlophoto, London) New Break Within Big Three Over Polish Problem Feared By John M. Hightewee ( ' ' WASHINGTON, April 1H)-A new break within the big three is feared in diplomatic quarters here in connection with word from London that Prime Minister Churchill Is readying a discussion on unhappy Poland. Already, there is more than dis satisfaction on the part of the United States and England about Russia's attitude and vice versa. Churchill is to address the house of commons Thursday of next week. No one in responsible po sition here will predict he will have anything good, to say about progress toward establishing the Yalta-proposed "national unity" government for Poland. - It appears implicit in London's news on Churchill that the Brit ish are telling Moscow that the facts of a very unhappy condition cannot be kept much longer se cret Also that if Moscow wants to help avoid an outbreak of trou ble just prior to the San Francisco conference of United Nations it should cooperate quickly for a so lution. The tendency both here and in London is to put most of the re sponsibility for the. bogging down of Polish negotiations on the Rus sians. The impression in Washington is that the Yalta agreement provided merely for broadening but not for reorganizing the present Warsaw government ON the HOME FRONT 1 By BABEL CHJLD3 i No one has opened the bottles. but they are presumed to contain, as -declared by label, blackberry wine. V For several days now the elder ly Indian man who walked out of a Salem retailing establishment with the bottles under his arm, has been ill in the Marion county jail, cared for by the county doctor and not gaining strength in the basement room. He is charged with "selling li quor to an Indian" ... to date no charge has been filed against me Keeper of the store which sold the wine to him. . . Whether or not any money changed hands as. he nut the twn bottles into the hands of his step- son-in-iaw is a matter for the courts to decide. Until they do the stepson-in-law remains in jail, too, as a ma terial witness, bail 8500. WeN haven't gone very deeply into the problem so we don't Irnnw just who is holding down the war 1 1 A ... inausiry (logging camp, .we un derstand) job which the young inaian is said to have fi led h fore that unfortunate day he handled the bottles of blackberry wine ana Decame in the eyes of the law not a criminal but a ma terial witness. v ' Criticizing? No! It vmM k. .n if all suspected lawbreakers were snatched in the act well, (re membering that reverse turn) al most all. But the speed with which arrests art made and tice is dispensed does seem 'to vary. . CRYSTAL GADDEI7 - Wednesday, 5fodern . . 'Featuring the Top Hatters Thorsday, Old Time ' Featartng "Fop- Edwards" Old Time sad Modern Two Floors aad Two Bands' London Bench 1 2 he chats with two Tanks. AP f , Nippon Forces Counterattack In Honan Area CHUNGKING, April 11 -UP) The Chinese high command: an nounced -tonight that Japanese forces were: counterattacking in northwestern Honan province. presumably in an attempt to smash Chinese forces barring the invasion route into Shensi prov ince. , The communique said the en emy attack was based at Loning, on the Lo river 80 miles from the Shensi 'border. The Chinese, in a diversionary thrust eastward, attacked Japa nese . - positions southwest of Shanhsien, on the Lunghai rail way 60 miles from the Tungkwan gateway into Shensi.? Chinese troops, the high command said. occupied - a number of : enemy strongpoints and killed 200 of the invaders. ' ' , " Chinese troops in southwestern Honan province are continuing their attacks northwest of Slch wan, the communique said. The high command, reiterating a previous declaration that ; 5000 Japanese were killed when the Chinese beat "back a previous at tempt seVeral weeks ago by the Japanese to invade Shensi from Honan, disclosed that the Invad ers at one time occupied Chung yangstierfc less than 16 miles from the border. The war bulletin said 21 enemy tanks were destroyed and 12 mountain guns and a large amount of military material In cluding four field guns, 34 ma- cmne guns ana bob niies were captured.. Albany Mining Lab. Is Now Headquarters n.uoenx ure., April 11 : A r n a m . ine u. a, oureau of mines' north west electro-development labors A. m m wrw nere naa tewi namad Aim sional headauartert for nmcmn Washington, Idaho and Montana. -a- n. tiorame. now distri-t mi. gineer at Moscow. Ida . will nin Dr. B. A, Rogers, who heads the laooratory metallurgical staff. Lo- ' . - . . raine wiu conduct mining investi gations. I , LEOIIAHD'S SUPPER CLUB Open Every Night , VnUl It o'cleck I STARTING HELD OVER T Oregon's Favorite Comedian h' - - the Most Versatile Enter tainer to Appear in Salem Busiy Cclnan I Comedy Singing and Danc ing Star of Night Clubs, : Stage and Radio - F. - PLUS Aft All-New Fleer Shew taVEBN & DOZEN Acrobatic Tap Comedians TEE FLYING BUDDIES Sensational Skating Stars JOHNNT WHITTIMOSSa DIXIELAND OSCnzSTSA ' 2 FLOOR SHOWS NIGHTLY AT 8 AND 10 P. M. mU- Weekdays, flUXT Lconnrd' Ceektafl Bar Service from 5 P.M. Week days: S'P. M. 2zzr.zi Sat-S 1 Kk. N. mt um ems Planes Pound Nazi Southern Arsenal Area LONDON, Thursday, April 12 -(-Allied planes pounded Ger many again during: the night after day in which more than 4,000 medium and heavy bombers and fighters blasted the Nazi's south ern , arsenal area., and,,. pounded traffic in front of ' the Allied ar mies. : .. ,- i'. The German radio reported that between 10 pjn., and midnight three separate air attacks were made against the Berlin area. . During the day U.S. Ninth air force fliers, who made more than 15QQ ' fighteirbomber sorties, re ported they destroyed 74 German planes on the ground on fields around Brunswick, Halle, Jena and Erfurt and at Eger in Czecho slovakia. ' ..: In an hour-long dogfight north west of Magdeburg, TJ.S. Thunder bolts shot down 17 new Focke Wulf 190's while protecting the Second armored division spear head that reached the Elbe at Gagdeburg. These kills raised to at least 898 the number of enemy planes de stroyed in five days. The Ninth reported loss of 12 planes dur ing the day. Thumbnail off War! By th Associated Kiwli Russian tanks cut one of the last remaining German es cape routes from Vienna. Western Front Armored eol umni of the US Ninth army ; sweep to within 57 miles of Ber lin, f Italy British Eighth army bursts out of bridgehead across Senio river and reaches Santer- no river against heavy opposi tion. . Barms British armored unit drive east from captured Thazi in effort to intercept escaping Japs heading for Thailand. ' China Jap forces counterat tack in northwestern Honan pro vince in attempt to smash Chi nese forces barring invasion route into Shensi. Pacific Yanks stalemated in southern sector on Okinawa for seventh straight day. Demos Urged! To Unite U. S J Behind FDR PITTSBURGH, April 11 - (JP) -Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan tonight called on his party to "Unite the Ameri can people" behind President Roosevelt's policies and. prepare lor the 194S elections. "The election of 1944 is still, for us democrats, a very big piece of unfinished business, he said in a speech prepared for a Jefferson day dinner. We of the. democratic party must now acknowledge a steward ship, a responsibility far beyond that which a political party is or dinarily called upon to accept. "This responsibility of the demo cratic party is to back the policies of the president on which he won his election. This stewardshin is to muster the greatest possible public support for' those policies, to unite the American people whatever their traditional oolitic may have been in times past, to unite them now behind the admin istration's efforts to brinff our country and the world triumphant ly through the crisis that Is still ahead of us. r ; TONIGHT 75e Per Person After I T. U. fKIENDS AT s Full Course) Dinners Clzb Served from Vndenmam mJ S P. te reruaaa . No Admission Charge ' ' Befere t P. if. ' Government Moves to Obtain, More P6rkf orNext Year I By J. W. Davis - - WASHINGTON. Anri! 1 1-Jfn-Th mmrnmmt mnvmA 4ni4 4n get more pork next year, while critical senators studying present food snonages accused UfA ox laxness, unlairness and inemciehcy. v - , War Food Administrator Marvin Jones asked farmers to increase fall sroduction. of Diss 18 ne cent to S7 OfMl non hwi rtmmA h price the government supports for Former Pole Chiet Causes ation LONDON, April UPJ-Reports that 70-year-old Wincenty Witoa, former premier of Poland, left his home 12 days ago in the company Soviet agents for an "unknown destination" aroused speculation London tonight that Russia was planning to sponsor a new inde pendent Polish coalition government-' I Both the United States and Britain have held firm to a de cision reached at Yalta bv the hie three that only representatives of a Polish government of national unity would be invited to the world security conference at San Francisco. Russia has sought a saw provisional government in bid for the Soviet-sponsored War event the Poles failed to form a coalition government In time. British Trying To Intercept . Fleeing Japs CALCUTTA. April lliwv-Brit- fsh armored unit drove east to day from captured Thazi in an ef fort to intercept Japanese troops attempting to escape eastward in to Thailand from central Burma along the Thazi-Taunggyi high way. Taunggyi is 85 miles east of Thazi. Forward elements of the British column were reported to have reached Hlainjrdet a villase eieht miles east of Thazi, important junction on both the Mandalay- Kangoon highway and railroad. Other British forces pushine southward from Thazi toward Rangoon, 230 miles south, estab lished a roadblock -south of Thazi on the main highway and ambush ed a column of retreatinr Japa nese troops. In a brisk engage ment 200 of the invaders were killed, and eight artillery pieces captured.' J Medium bombers of the eastern air command attack sj Japanese supply and troop base at Kviuk. padaung, railhead of a 70-mile branch line southwest of Pyin mana. Pyinmana is 77 miles south of Meiktila. k-rnrrsnrf - OPENS 6:45 P. M. - NOW PLAYING! Romance and Laughter I Jean Arthur f. r: i Charles Cobura Robert m j Cummin gs "The Devil and Hiss Jones' 11. CO-FEATURE Packed With Thrills! Action! HEROISM r. fits! eaas! a. V1JMITJ NOW PLAYING! 1XUULL51 tuni O g Taza IxrcJ C W V 'V'! IllStll Lf"'"x J?WWfT ACTION JTLIXD CO - Ail Specul Fights IQah, Wide & Hcmdsome la "FMIGQ ED" hogs from $1150. to til a hun- area pounas. A department of . agriculture forecast said there is plenty of corn in reserve to fatten the fall crop of pig which won't be ready to eat until next spring, r Thomas L Emerson, deputy CPA admhiistrator in chargeof enforcement, underwent another rough day in hearings of the sen ate food investigation committee. Senator Wheeler (D-Mont), who said black market operators in meat thrived under OPA tactics, told Emerson to his face that "You are the best evidence" of OPA in competence. . ; ; Emerson testified that OPA dis covered about 350,000 violations of price controls last year and se cured 67,039 convictions. He told questioning Chairman Thomas (D- Okla) that OPA needs more en forcement agents, also that short supplies and. bad distribution of supplies tended to Increase the black market. Snow-Tractor j Rescues Man . 1 ' i :! MED FORD. Ore- April 11-W-- A snow-tractor late today faced over 28 miles of deep snow to Diamond Lake resort to brin out Caretaker Bob Shampine, stricken 111 and needing medical attention. A short wave radio report said the lake was reached and that the return journey would start shortly. The combination sled and caterpillar-tread auto was trans ported by truck 32 miles from Medford to Union creek, where it started fighting its way over mountain drifts, in places over ten leet deep. Princess Elizabeth Gets : Grimy Hands, Auto Job ; LONDON. April 11 - -Trin cess Elizabeth, who some day win rule tne Britisn mni. la fin grimy hands learning to change ores, clean spark plugs and grease andtnaintain automobiles. ' The comely heir presumptive is in national service, takma- auTil- iary territorial service- training woico tcmas 10 nitmltern'f muc CONT. FmOM 1 F. NOW SHOWING " i a' Hi m A' mm IP'itE) j mm a i' a 1 u n Co-Hit! Melody 1 Mirth! and Beatrrf! Attack on Okinawa! Xjn-rSV - OPENS 4:45 P. AL - A Pjzm Princf js! Tl OIFPOSD . i (ley) IHIFFIIID jT) HTT1 k ft W$0B or J 1 P Chaplin Butler Helped Joan Enter Housel LOS ANGELES, April U Joan Berry testified today that Charlie Chaplin's butter, Edward Chancy, had helped her to break into the white-haired comedian s Beverly Hills mansion. ( j 4 7 Under cross-examination In the retrial of her suit to have the actor-producer declared the ifath- er of her 18-months-ol4 daugh ter, Carol Ann Miss Berry j was asked .by . Attorney .Charles . MUUkan: . .i h ' "IsnH it a fact that you broke into Mr. Chaplin's home several times during the spring and sum mer of . 1842?- . .. , 1 - ' Her lawyer. Joseph Scott, ob jected, but Joan was permitted to answer: - 1 - "Yes. I remember once I climb ed up a ladder when he was mad at me, and his own butler helped me up. "" ' v - "When he saw me, Mr. Chap lin said, 'Oh, Joan, when will you stop doing those things?' But he wasn't really , mad. Ha i liked things like that . I sUyed. with him that night And on other oc casions when I broke In I stayed eajidiiMiU Lost Times Today .. Stars - Lots - Comedy; V rrrrrr 1 riJS- Plus It's a ThrHIsrl "STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT" LIT TOUR HEART SINGI ALL TH CHARACTERS 01" THX E2ST-LOVED OJ BEST-SELLERS AI3 OH THE SCREEN I .i - Doro&yMjGUIREjaEuTB ! v' "Everyone leved Johnny. He warn atin gay aad haatd-' seme, a sweet singer , of sweet songs I , f .oanBLONDEIlas AUNT SISSY "Peggy Ann GARNERasFRANCIE T)eep gray eyes i . . jTWpT", .V 5X she worshiped jjj-i22Jfon - X Johnny and shared S-rfjS i iL. his passionate love j M Betty Smith ?ii I TedDONAIDSONasNEy I He looked exactly yv-ZX f j JQZ ' like Johnny: Golden A 5 hair, bloe eyes. Be U&rnJa? " ft . becante Katie's ' T whole world. : , s5 " ' STARTS -rr. Floer Sliov' Opens Friday; Salem and Men's Garden clubs committees - arranging - for ; the weekend's' flower show - at j the YMCA, Wednesday night urged gardeners to cut flowers today, put them in water out of the wind and thus be assured of entries In good condition for the Friday op ening. The large variety of flowers now in blossom should guarantee a splendid show, with camellias, primroses, v muscari, hyacinths, narcissi; flowering shrubs, etc., it was said. " .''"-' - :!; :. ' . Entries will be received--from 10 a. m. to one o'clock Friday af ternoon. : The public show will open at 2 p. m. and continue to 8 o'clock Friday: night with him all night and had break fast with him in the morning. Millikan quickly ended, the line of questioning as Scott shot at him: . ? , u; ' "J ; Well; you asked for it; I , TAday and Friday. It s a Gay Musical! KAY ZYSER '" Ann Mnierf - Victor Moors -In "CAROLINA BLUES" - CO-FEATURE - Dcd Dyder She had black hair brewa eyes . . . "a nlee shape too . . . r slight and vivid." ' James DUN1I u J0HNN7 4il "She had , roving eyes and a high, clear color. She was witty, clever, warm hearted." m SB-' CAT NOLANaMcSHANE "Net as good-Iook- tng as Paps . . . he was taller and more aaaastve. His . veiee was gentle. - f WMUAI .nilD AY i . : : ms TJZSERT IIAWaT No. 10