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Newspaper Page Text. . . . I LANE COUNTY'S HOME WEWSPAPtft ray Soid)sI1ds Lta LiifldluigsliiifflifeDi EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1945 NO. 80 food Research unds Dropped House Group irtion of the house appropria- committee in eliminating 1S0 for wood waste research the department of agricul Ys budget, brought quick pro j In congress Wednesday from Harris Ellsworth of this Ore '. .Vin manned nlans district. r . toration of the appropria- a by the senate. ,r...uhile. army and navy 13, are supporting wartime re FTi. i- -noH waste at the For- Cproducts laboratories in Madl- iKa! reaction to me nuuse .umittee's blow at wood chem- j,l a felpnhnnp call to -rr inciuucu - .--i EUrth from Herbert J. Cox, Entary-manager of the Willam- jt Valley LUmDCi men o oyv'- . hn was advised by the con- Zmn that Ellsworth hopes to Lure restoration of the research wropriation in me um -es before the senate appro ritions committee, thereby mak r(the matter a subject for later fflworth further made known L intention to work for some Ctwar arrangement for regular lancing of wood waste research, b the time when army-navy bdi are no longer avaiiaDie. rumination of the item by the ouse committee was blamed by Inorth upon lack of under aiding of western problems by irtm congressmen. EUworth and Congressman acr D. Angell both testified at fci committee hearing, that un Es the appropriation is made km will be vast amounts of po- itially valuable forest products Luted. They urged establishment of kd research labortories in tr.e hcilic northwest. The house committee appioved total agriculture budget of 11)3.801,932, compared with $753,- M24 for 1945. An administration request to ok down the $300,000,000 AAA rsp loan program of 1945 to MO.OOO.OOO for 1946 was rejected, jtretary of Agriculture Wickard tied the reduction, War Food '.ininistrator Marvin Jones op tad it. The committee Increased loan flhorizations for veterans nnd the rural electrification ad-tinlstration. Japan Fears Invasion After Attacks On Fleet By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press "War Editor A thousand or more American carrier planes trapped the elusive Japanese fleet in the Inland sea, crippled 17 warships, sank or damaged 13 merchant vessels and destroyed 475 air craft in a two-day foray that jolted the enemy into excited prepartions today for the inevitable battle of Japan. A jubilant communique from Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced "Crippling damage was inflicted on the Japanese fleet" without loss of a single American warship. - . . . . Radio Tokyo reported Vice Adm. WMC Action In New Bedford Under Attack By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH Marc A. Mitscher's carrier forces were within 60 miles of the home land and would return (or further j attacks. Government spokesmen said new fortificaUons were being built throughout Japan to repel an invasion, the army was preparing to take over private property, fac- WASH1NGTON Marph 91 lPl 1 ,VC,I: """ uireu un- -ewer ly evacuated areas 01 lOKyo wouia be demolished jis firebreaks to lessen damage from Superfort STILL SERVING Here Is the old city hall safe, just sold, and beside It is City Recorder John Fields, in whose office it stood. The safe was used by the city as early as 1909 and probably earlier. It still bears the name of Underwood Brothers Ben and David who used it back In the seventies. (Wiltshire photo and engraving) Venerable Safe Retires From City Hall To Take Private Job ortland Eases Up Jo'Conchie' Terms PORTLAND, March 21 U. liberalized policy in dealing conscientious objectors was lOrce in th Pnrtlanrl femoral fat today. t'deral Judge Claude McCol 4 revealed the new procedure ii-year-oia Kenneth Tlvlnr a ir-...n t Pt!on for the duration of the f Jnd six months thereafter, w to exceed 10 years. Menders of this sort previous- f MVS TfaUra lll i .. ' -..v. ivumjr jail pieatiary terms and have been FJMed to the custody of the - -.wiiiey general. 41-. A ... ijntu uic PJ " Portland will be turned U the federal probation If" the U. S. district court p their activity will be deter- -s probation officitls. In " bcing aligned lie Desluoeri05U hospital By ROCH BRADSHAW The mammoth old safe at the city hall, which has served Eu gene business firms and the city since very early days, has been sold to Irish and Swartz. It re quired an "engineering job" by the Couch Transfer and Towing service to move the massive affair from the office of City Recorder John Fields, down-a stairway to the ground outside. City Manager Deane Seeger advertised for bids and Irish and Swartz won the deal with a bid for $310, Seeger said Wednesday. City records which had been kept in the safe are now housed in the reinforced concrete vault in the office of City Engineer W. C. Clubb. This vault extends down to the basement and the lower portion is used by the water board, in charge of J. W McArthur. Lester Hulin and Darwin Brls tow dug back in their memories and old records and provided a sketch of the old safe's history. Used In Seventies The earliest recollection of Its use was back in the seventies, and unconfirmed rumors say that it was brought to Eugene around the horn In a sailing vessel. There users Underwood Brothers Is still painted on the safe. Hulin re calls that Ben and David Under wood came to Oregon before 1860. Ben came to Eugene in 1860 and practiced law. He was one of the most . brilliant attorneys of the time, Hulin recalls, representing the county in the state legislature and' being active in civic affairs. He built one of the finest early day residences here, about where the Oregon hotel stands, in the center of spacious grounds. It cost approximately $20,000. David Underwood was In busi ness in Cottage Grove before coming to Eugene, after which the brothers were connected with the Eugene flour mill, where they probably used the old safe in the seventies. David'Underwood died Aug. 14, 1882, only 11 days after brother Hen had passed away.' I Served Wells Fargo The safe also was used at one time by Wells Fargo, which had an office in the old Wilkins drug store building located in the gen eral area where the Tiffany and Babb blocks stand. The drugstore was run by former Mayor F. M. Wilkins, pioneer druggist who is no authority as to accuracy of died a few years ago at the age these reports, however. The name of one firm of early feees Go Home HVi GT0N March 21 ura - s juurney nome will be- MOIl fnr . C, ! nven by the war to K e"stAfrica- India ?lai5 ' the United Nations -- renaotliUUon adminis- tiA-. i 0SM today that cl 'h lie trans,er of Tfen , n gypi to ineir on Grecian islands. (feather htlr.lth" Breau Forecast: r-ni rain north. .n 4 rnd Thursday; colder east Ltai titan, u- I M1'mum tem-Fmj- ""day morning. 36 isdar y-'"'um temperature, Is iiv deSrees; precipita Period ending at 3 r Wed."elay .19 of an fcltri'.. w,"arnetl river '.C 7 a.m. Wednesday, rb. ,.. r I ns,, aonsei iriui: ', rn -m- and 7:28 p.m.; ieT.- l . m , ' a. , 10:14 p. m. U P. B. ! of 93. R. Bryson of the Oregon liquor control commission here recalls that the old safe was used in the city hall when he took of fice as city recorder about 1909. It was In the office of City Treas- WAHINfTTON. March 21 I urer Frank Reisnor. now deceas- (U.R) Cheap power will determine I ed. The city hall then was locat- Aluminum Industry Likes Northwest the future location of the alum inum industry, and that location probably will be the Pacific northwest, the senate small busi ness committee was told Monday by Dr. Paul J. Raver, administra tor of the Bonneville power ad ministration. Raver said nearly one-third of the national output of aluminum has come from the power supply of Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams in the past four years. ed on a site Just west of the county jail. The city offices were located upstairs and below was the fire department. Hulin is historian of the Lane County Pioneer association .or ganized in 1883. Darwin Bristow, who has been ill in a hospital for over a year, is the grandson of Elijah Bristow, who built probably the first log cabin in Lane county at Pleasant Hill. me war manpower commiS' sion's policy of forced transfer of labor was touch and go today. The whole national system of moving workers from low to high priority war jobs is endangered, officials acknowledged, .as a re sult of a statement that it was used in New Bedford, Mass., to demonstrate a need for national service legislation. The statement was made by WMC's national labor-management committee, whose function is to help formulate manpower policy and to make recommenda tions to the commission. Members signing it represented labor, in dustry and agriculture. In a statement replying to the committee's charges that he four j times had turned down recom mendations for settlement of the I dispute, WMC Chairman Paul V. McNutt said no plan agreeable to all interested parties had been submitted yet. No Alternative He added that when one is re ceived the forced release will be suspended, but that in the mean time "I have no alternative but to continue application of the na tional WMC program of war ser vice trausfers in New Bedford." The committee loosed its bar rage late yesterday against, the so-called forced release program ordered for the Massachusetts community and thus far shunned there. In a statement splitting with McNutt, the committee declared WMC appeared to have been used as a "catspaw" and New Bedford as a "guinea pig" by "certain government officials In Washing ton who favored national service legislation." Compulsion The committee, also referring to "WMC proposals ruled out by a war department representative," said further that the New Bed ford program apparently was an "attempt to persuade the country and congress that the voluntary system had broken down and that compulsion must be accepted." Senate and house conferees now are attempting to reach a com promise on manpower control legislation. The forced release program, which the WMC committee said should be revoked immediately In New Bedford, was ordered into 'effect there to channel .about 200 textile workers to jobs in Fisk and Firestone tire cord plants. raids. In Philippines Conquest of the Philippines quickened. Guerillas captured San Fernando, important port north of Manila. The U. S. 40th division on Panay advanced 25 miles to Join strong guerilla forces, reached the edge of flaming Iloilo and cap tured its airport. Conquest of Ba silan island was completed with the capture of Isabela In a com bined amphibious and overland operation. The months-long hunt for Ja pan's fleet reached a climax Mon day when carrier airmen found principal units of the surviving imperial navy hiding in the 240 mile long Inland sea. Many enemy aircraft were brought down in persistent at tacks on Mitscher's ships. One American warcraft was heavily damaged and a "few others re ceived minor damage." All with drew under their own power. Bomb Formosa Philippines-based aircraft car ried their supporting heavy raids on Formosa airdromes, 500 miles to the southwest, into the third day. "" ,". ' ;' ... t Heavy air attacks were also made on main Japanese concen trations in northern Luzon; It was in this general area that guerillas seized San Fernando on Lingayen gulf. British and Indian troops had reportedly i reached as far as 20 miles south of Mandalay. Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale, com manding army air forces in the Pacifio, intimated that long-range Mustang fighters, already based on newly conquered Iwo Jima,. would soon be escorting Superforts in raids on Japan, Reds Crowd Toward Stettin In Berlin Drive MOSCOW, March 21 The 1st White Russian army, now in possession of virtually the entire cast bank of the Oder from the Baltic to Its confluence with the Neisse, crowded siege artillery to the very edge of Stettin today after wiping out the enemy's Alt- damm bridgehead. The menace to Berlin grew hourly as Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov probed many places along the river, seeking springboards for his next big attack east and northeast of ruined Berlin. Marshal Ivan S. Konev still is engaged in liquidating trapped garrisons in Breslau and Glogau on the upper Oder, but has moved additional units of his 1st Ukraine army group to the Neisse line southeast of Berlin. Final Kill In East P ussia, Marshal Alex ander M. Vasilevsky, for two years chief of staff of the red army, was staging the final kill In a dwindling German pocket along the coast southwest of Koenigsberg. Disclosure that Vasilevsky had taken over the 3rd White Rus sian army front after the battle death of Gen. Ivan Chcrniakhov sky was made in Marshal Stalin's order of the day yesterday salut ing the capture of Braunsberg, one of the two German bastions in the pocket. Vasilevsky's seizure of Brauns berg gathered 4.000 prisoners into the bag. That figure Is expected to be more than duplicated when the nest of resistance in nearby Hciligenbeil is crushed. At Altdamm Zhukov took Altdamm with one fierce lunge after a series of hard actions had reached this suburb, less than five miles from Stettin proper. Front dispatches said an aviation engine factory with more than 1.000 new engines intact, an airplane assembly plant and a torpedo factory were among the booty. (Far to the south at the lower end of the eastern front, two or more Russian army groups were reported by Berlin to be driving toward the mountainous area of southern Germany and Austria where the nazis, according to some reports may make a final stand after defeat on the relch's north em plains, (Berlin said Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhln, .has -hurled 200,000 of his 3rd Ukraine army troops and supporting armor into an offen sive through northwestern Hun gary, with advance forces already plunging beyond Tatr, 10 miles southeast of the big D.iiube river stronghold of Komarom. This is the direct route toward Vienna. Saar-Palatinate Stands ; Take 100,000 Germans By JAMES M. LONG ; PARIS. March 21. (AP) The 3rd army, continuing it spectacular race which has turned the German stand in th4 Saar and Palatinate into a disastrous debacle at a cost that may mount to 100,000 nazi casualties, smashed into the city of Ludwigshafen today. j- The same armored divsion which has played an anony mous role in the current drive from the Moselle, dashed Into Mannheim's twin city, which is one of the greatest chemical producing centers of Germany. Mannheim, just across the Rhine from Ludwicshafen. la 160 miles from Munich in the heart of southern Germany :1 4 11 i..i: . i ..... J aim iniit-o Hum me siaiuug poini 01 me onensive. But ID CROSS I mm ) r , 1 K 7500O' I p n (50000- I TOEUND l ane County lioal (102,040.00 Today's Total I 78,297 'Kiss And Tell' Opens At Very Little Theatre This Evening t.. rniTtf MAimsnN Tonight (Wednesday) at 8:15, the Very Little Theatre will raise the curtain on its presentation of "Kiss and Tell," one of the bet newer comedies, which helped to keep a nondescript Broadway sea son from being dull. The salty humor of the dialogue and situations which stud the piece combine with a decent plot and amusing characterizations to make "Kiss and Tell" a must-see. Under direction of Mary Staton Krenk and Adele Griffith, the tal antii fact ha RiTioolhed out into a performance that showed amaz- ingfv lew iiaws ai ine u,.-.-, rehearsal Tuesday niRhl. Headed by Roberta Quigiey asj the indefatigable Corliss, charm ing but unreckoning daughter of: it., .h.miina htit harassed Arch-1 ers, the players fit into their roles , like ceiiy oraoie miu warning ...: r,.an fhtt Hrnnn Dexter , the boy-next-door is wholly con-1 vmrtng (ties L,uan ncnmiau. i Heroine Rorjerta r.as oecn ia- Mr4 in riramatir productions since she was 12 she was par ticularly noiame in iuuui Wood" and "Vineear Tree." but u at her best in "Kiss and Tfll." And then there's Moronica the dog, In real life, she belongs to the Staton family, and she won the try-outs for the role In a waddle, because she had all the qualifications "beautiful, fat as a pig, and full of fleas." Her legal name is: Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson Windsor Staton she straved to the Staton home about She time King Edward VIII de cided he preferred his American lady to the English throne. Dr. Robert Horn, as Father Archer, and Lewis VoRlcr as Pvt. F.hrhardt (whose eyes keep Cor liss' head swimming she can't decide whether they resemble Ty rone Power. Van Johnson or Charles Boyer) both are veter ans of earlier VLT and campus productions, and have worked in various University Theatre plays. Dale Frederick, the Lennie of the piece, was outstanding in Horace Robinson's "Heaven Can Wait." Lennie, is Corliss' brother, and complicates things by falling in love with Mildred, the girl down the block. Reservations for "KUs and Tell." which will be riven Wed nesday, Thursday. Friday and Saturday nigh:, are available at the Willamette Street Market, phone 128. West Lane Merger Meetings Called County Superintendent L. C. Moffitt announces a series of pub lic meetings next week In west ern Lane to discuss the proposed five-district merger of elementary schools in that area. The sched ule: Westlake, Monday March 26; Florence, Tuesday, March 27; Cushman, Wednesday, March 28; Portage, March 29. Idlewyld peo ple are asked to attend any one of the other meetings most con venient. All meetings start at 8 p. m. Merger of the five grade school district would carry with It the present Siuslaw Union high dis trict, making one combined dis trict with a tax valuation of close to $1,100,000. Construction of a new grade school for the area Is considered urgent. A six-room plant is planned on a site which the Flor ence district has already acquired and cleared. Estimated cost, with full equipment is $50,000. Russia Denounces Treaty With Turkey MOSCOW, March 21. OT) Soviet Russia last night de nounced her 1925 treaty of friend ship and neutrality with Turkey and declared "serious Improve ments" were needed In the pact. "Admitting the value of the Soviet-Turkish treaty for the pur pose of upholdmg friendly rela tions, the soviet union neverthe less considers it necessary to state that as a result of deep changes occurring, especially during the second world war, this treaty does not correspond any longer with the new situation and it is necessary to make serious im provements," said an announce ment from the soviet commis sariat of foreign affairs. Veteran Health Officer Retires PORTLAND, March 21 (U.B Dr. Harold M. Erlokson today headed Oregon's public health activities as Dr. Frederick D. Strieker retired after a quarter century as the state's public health officer. Dr. Erickson has been Strieker's assistant and was promoted by Gov. Earl Snell following Dr. Strieker's resignation In January. The outgoing executive will re main on the staff in an advisory capacity for at least a year, it was announced. Dr. Strieker had a staff of five men when he took office in 1921 but now the department employs about 100. The two-year state ap propriation at that time was about $35,000. The department now administers a million dollar budget in state and federal funds. In recent years, Oregon has ris en to top slate for healthy chil dren, has the best infant mortality rate In the nation, and has cut the rate of mothers' deaths In child birth to one-third. Pace Slows In Red Cross War Fund Campaign By MARIAN LOWRY Only slight gains were record ed on the Red Cross war fund thermometer here Wednesday, with the figure of $78,297 reach ed nearly $24,000 below the Lane county goal of $102,000. This was the total released by the general drive chairman, William H. Lush, and his committees at the third progress report luncheon, Wed nesday, with the Lions club meet ing. x Of the $78,297 In to date, $98,516 are from Eugene city divisions, $19,781 from county groups. The Wednesday total was only about $5000 ahead of Tuesday's. "It will be a big pull to get that figure over the $102,000 hump this week, but the committee workers are making every effort to achieve that end," Lush said. Climaxing the big push in the drive this week will be the final progress report luncheon Thurs day noon in connection with the Active club meeting, Eugene hotel. At that time Lush and his workers hope to see the $102,000 quota mark passed with all di visions, city and county, giving in reports. Sly To Talk Featurinz the Red Cross part of the program will be a short talk by Major Robert E. Sly, wno is at his home here now following nearly three years as a prisoner of the Japanese In the Philippines. Sly states he is not much for this talk business but says he's "been out of it" for quite a time Lane Farm LaborCamp Okayed; Mexican Help Will Be Imported None On Route f, Eh? Well, We Wouldn't Bet At last Route F has to admit a defeat it has no maple trees for mple syrup. And to kinda rub It In, J. M, Niehswander. route 3, Hadley ville area, sent a jug of the maole syrup to Billy Maddaugh and a report on the take for the season. Says Nighswander: "Have just finished 47 gal lons. Sap running since Feb. 25. . . . Best run 1 ever saw. . . 23 gallon the first day from 10 trees, five large and five small ones. . . good flavor, but not like two years ago that was the finest ever. . . Yours for Bigger and Better Route I I." A central camp for farm labor ers will be maintained at Coburg this season as In years past, it was decided at a meeting of the Lane county farm labor committee, held Tuesday afternoon at the 4-H building on the county fair ground. Mexican nationals will also be brought here this year to help with different crops. Tne farm labor committee had invited t'vo groups of farmers to attend this meeting, one being Uiose in the Coburg area intcrest- Coburg grange hall at 8 p March 26 to discuss location and other matters and to take steps to get the project under way. Last season there were 52 tenia at the camp and a total of 639 workers were housed there at dif ferent times. Mexicans Again At an executive committee meeting following the general meeting it was voted that the Mexican nntlonals be brought Here again this year end that a sponsoring committee be formed as was done last year to handle the matter. It was brought out .. ,i , 1 UIC II1HI CO. in me jarm laror camp ana i . ij:-,i .. ,.,ni k. nih. ini.ri.H i- hi.in. th. that the indications are there will Mexican nationals. Favors Central Camp After a discussion of the gen eral labor situation a vote was taken upon the question of whether to have a central camp or to permit farmers In that area to set up camps on their own premises and furnish the equip ment. The vole stood 15 in favor of the central camp and two for the individual camp plan. J. R. Beck, leader of the farm labor project of the extension service at the state college, said that the budget for camps is not be applications for more of these laborers than last year. While American migrants and Mexican nationals will be em ployed on many of the farms of Lane county this year, it was brought out that local people will continue to be the most important factor In the county's farm labor sllu.Hion. The farmers were urg ed to start now In arranging for local labor to harvest their crops. It was generally agreed that at least 90 per cent of the labor on Lane county farms this year will come from local sources. Tuesday's meeting was presided as great as last year and that the ' over by Truman A. Chase, chair. farmers would have to furnish the man of the farm labor committee, grounds rent free and help In the O. S. Fletcher, county agent, co expense of setting up the camp. operated with the comml'.lee in A meeting will be held at the ! arranging for the meeting. BEE PAC4 BLOWS STORY PAGE 6 Britain Says U. S. Agrees On Pole Policy LONDON, March 21 WR) The British government declared its solidarity with the United States today in pressing for the forma tion of a new Polish government. Minister of State ' Richard K. Law said the British and Ameri can attitudes were Identical on the Polish, problem. Some observ ers saw in his statement a con firmation of unofficial reports that Russia Is at odds with the western powers on the matter. Law was substituting in Com mons for Foreign Secretary An thony Eden, who was In Glasgow to make a speech on British for eign policy. The British government Bnd public have been disturbed in creasingly over the failure of a Moscow committee to report pro gress toward the establishment of a new Polish government. The committee comprises Foreign Commlsar V. M. Molotov and W. Avercll Harriman and Sir Archi bald Clark Kerr, American and British ambassadors to Russia. Answering a question whether any progress had been made to ward forming a new Polish gov ernment, Iaw said: "The government fully under stands the importance which the house attaches to these most im portant negotiations. Tho prime minister or foreign secretary will make a statement at the earliest opportuno moment." as elsewhere LL Gen. George S. Patton's men found the Rhine bridge there had been de molished. The structure which connected much-bombed Ludwig shafen and Mannheim was one of the most imposing along the Rhine, Two German armies, the 1st and 7th, either were wiped out or doomed except for scattered ele ments. ; At supreme headquarters, It was estimated that the swift 3rd army of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jt, alone had herded an estimated 30,000 nazis into prison pens in 41 hours as it and Lt. Gen. Alexan. del- M. . Patch's 7th army closed new traps which might boost the overall total of captured in the whirlwind campaign to 75,000. '; The 7th army, driving up from the southern bases of the Saar land and Palatinate, did not even tabulate its prisoners beyond the first 6,000. . ; Cities Topple i ( i .1(1 .1 1 Ctrl 1 i !... A.n HU. hard-hitting Americans 27 'divi sions in nil n, nan,lu Ann AAA ... u . . w. i.bni ij .VU.UUU II, were advancing speedily, Tho German -hold on the west bank of tho upper Rhine was nar- rnwffrl In n l5.mil- ........ u-'. ...... c.ov gap uw tween the Karlsruhe and Lud- wigsnaien areas and It appeared doubtful whether the wounded wehrmnrht rnnlrl cn.nn- tnn.iu enough men from the defeat to iimn inuticriy me vauiaua line east of the river. The Germans flew their last re maining bridges on the Rhine, leaving stragglers west of the river to death or capture. In Rout Except for a 30-mile stretch be tween Plrmasens and Lauten bourg where the Germane clung to fragments 4 the Siegfried line, the enemy was in complete rout. Nazi forces were surrounded ia thr A nlnr and HiMatmaJ , tlk , , ' v-viinA -m Imminent encirclement elsewhere. The large Saarland city of Neu kirchen (40,500), where steel and iron works and coal pits abound, was believed to have fallen,. al though there was no specific word. The 1st army fighting east of the Rhine lengthened its bridge head to 25 miles in a push along flat tank country leading 12 mile to the southern limits of the Ruhr Germany's greatest arsenal ana. The U. S. 9th, British 2nd and Canadian 1st . were - massed lit mighty strength on the lower Rhine opposite the Ruhr, which Gen. Eisenhower said last night "will become a deathtrap." ft U. S. 15th and the allied lit air. borne armies were in reserve, to far as was known, Shell Troops Patton's artillery already wai shelling German troops In some places in the Valhalla line beyond the Rhine. More than 7,000 allied war planes raked the relch. They con centrated on targets in and around the threatened Ruhr as if isolating it for capture or a sealoff. The rich Saar valley, with it steel mills and vast coal deposits, was won, taking from Germany her third largest industrial sector. Some divisions advanced IS miles or more a day. The de struction of the German force! was so complete lt seemed doubt ful that Hitler's army could rally for a stand In strength east of the Rhine where greater offensive currently were in the making. ' Coat Future Dark WASHINGTON, March 21. 0J.FD The soft coal wage conference went Into "indefinite recess" to day. Both union and operator forces said ft was uncertain when they would resume negotiations. Their present contract expires In only 10 days. Signs of early government Intervention were increasing. Prices Basis For f Food Row-Bowles :- WASHINGTON, March 21 01 Price Administrator Chester Bowles said today that "we re-' main the best-fed nation of the world," but he acknowledged that civilian meat supplies will be. shorter this year. ' ' Testifying before the senate! banking committee, Bowles as serted that the American meat ln- stilute, representing the majority of packers, is attempting to "capii tnlize" on War Mobilization Di rector James F. Byrnes' statement on the meat situation "by using It ns a basis for an attack on price control." "Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our farmers, and in spite of the tremendous food needs of the direct war effort," he said, "we remain the best-fed natlon of the world, wartime or peace-' time. "Certainly civilian meat will be shorter than at any time during the war but that arises from 'he" extraordinary needs of the war effort. Moreover, and this is the vital point, the shortage would not be relieved In any degree by higher returns to the packers. 'OPA will not be stampeded Into giving price Increases." The meat Institute had con tended that government price control policies were largely re sponsible for the shortage. -a i QUAKE IN TURKEY ' ANKARA. March 20 (Delayed)! U.R Several towns in southern Turkey were shaken by earth temblor today. Early reports in-,, dicated many buildings were de-, stroyed and the dead and injured might number in the hundreda.