Red A rmies Near Rumania in South and Lwow, Poland in North
Hitler Sefs-up
Puppet Regime
Over Hungary
Horthy and Ministers
Removed and Sent
Germany as Hostages
London, March 21 (U.I!) Hun
garian sources said today that
the Germans, swiftly complet
ing the occupation of Hungary,
have set up a nazi puppet gov-
Xment at ftludapest and re
i'ed Regent Adm. Nicholas
Horthy, Premier Nicholas Kal
lay and Foreign Minister Jenoe
de Ghyczy to Germany.
(Private advices from the con
tinent said today that after Ger
man occupation forces had set
up a puppet regime in Hungary,
gestapo agents and storm troop
ers took over Budapest and ar
rested more than 600 prominent
Hungarians in a city-wide
roundup. Armed forces were re
ported clashing along the bor
der of Hungary and Rumania,
where the smouldering hatred
of the axis satellites was re
kindled by the German occupa
tion, against only negligible re
sistance.) ' Though the Germans cut all
Budapest's communications
with the outside world, round
about reports reaching London
said some 150,000 German
troops occupied all strategic
pdnts in Hungary in a week
end coup designed to forestall
a Hungarian peace move and
prepare for a last-ditch stand
behind the Carpathians against
the approaching red army.
Fighting Reported
Scattered fighting was report
ed, but the clandestine radio
Atlantic reported that German
troops firmly held all important
railways, radio stations, tele
phone exchanges and govern
ment buildings.
Hungarian quarters in Stock
holm said Franz Basch, Ger
man minority leader in Hun
gary, formed a pro-nazi gov
ernment after former Premier
Bela Imredy, leader of the ra
dical rejuvenation party, had
refused a German request to
appoint a cabinet.
Cabinet Deported
TThe latest official communi
cation received at the Hungar
ian legation at Stockholm, Hun
garian sources in the Swedish
capital said, reported that
Horthy, Kallay, and Ghyczy
had been forced to go to Ger
many. Horthy was believed to have
been seized while at Adolf Hit
ler's headquarters, presumably
at Lwow. An exchange tele
graph . dispatch from Zurich
said a Hungarian diplomat in
Berlin informed a colleague that
Horthy arrived at the head
quarters Saturday with Gen.
Helyi Szumbathy, chief of the
Hungarian general staff.
The two leaders conferred,
the dispatch said, with Hitler,
German Foreign Minister Joa
chim Von Ribbentrop, and Mar
shal Wilhelm Keitel, supreme
commander of the German arm
ed forces, who demanded:
1. General mobilization of the
Hungarian army under German
supervision.
2. Reorganization of the Hun
garian army on the Rumanian
pattern with German liaison of
ficers with each regiment.
3. Hungarian railway and
Ttannhp river traffic be Dlaced
under a mixed general staff of
Hungarian and German officers.
4. Placing of Hungarian food
reserves in a general pool for
equal distribution of all food
supplies to axis countries.
5. Establishment of censor-
shin and Dress control on the
German pattern with a ban on
printing or broadcasting news
originating with non-axis news
agencies.
Sustained Yield
Bill Passes House
Washington, March 21 VP)
Legislation to authorize govern
ment agencies to cooperate with
private interests to set up sus
tained yield forest units" to per
petuate the nation's forests was
passed today by the house.
The bill (S 250) was returned
to the senate for concurrence in
clarifying amendments.
The measure, introduced by
the late Senator McNary (R.,
Ore.), authorizes the agriculture
and interior departments to
establish, in cooperation with
private owners, sustained yield
units under which forest land
would be subjected to coordinat
ed management as to rate, man
ner and time of cutting.
(The measure was called up
out of order and passed at the
request of Rep. Ellsworth (R.
Ore.).
C apital
56th Year, No. 69
Nazis Fight Way
Back to Ruined
Cassino Hotel
With the Fifth Army at Cas
sino, March 21 VP) German
troops fought their way back
into the wrecked Continental
hotel today. Enemy defenses in
the southwestern part of Cas
sino and in the hills behind stiff
ened as Lt.-Gen. Richard Heid
rich, commander of t h e first
German parachute troop divi
sion, tried to make good his
boast that he would throw the
allies out of Cassino.
New Zealanders immediately
went back to their old task of
trying to knock the Germans
out of the Continental.
Get Reinforcements
German troops apparently
moved back into the hotel in the
darkness of early morning, and
brought in more reinforcements
to block the passage through
the southwestern corner of the
town.
The Germans also seemed to
be filtering troops from the
monastery atop Mt. Cassino
down into the hill positions
which they were defending so
stubbornly;:
"Fierce fighting continued for
the fifth day for possession of
Cassino and vicinity without a
decision," a headquarters offi
cer said. "Within the ruins of
the town the enemy suceeded
in bringing up reinforcements
Sunday night and mopping up
has been slow."
Still Holding Out
Although two tanks which the
Germans had placed in the lob
by of the Continental hotel
were knocked out and 180 pri
soners taken there, the Germans
still were holding out in that
area.
The Germans also clung firm
ly to positions on the slopes of
Monte Cassino overlooking the
town, including the strategic
point they regained in a coun
terattack Sunday, it was an
nounced, and are laying a heavy
artillery fire on allied troops
from these places.
Hemmed in by these and oth
er enemy positions in the vicin
ity and by the Rapido and Gari
rivers, the 5th army forces have
little room in which to maneu
ver. Only frontal attacks are
possible since the German posi
tions cannot be outflanked.
Fighting Continues
Three enemy counterattacks
on one ridge on Monte Cassino
held by the allies were repulsed
and three other points remained
in 5th army hands despite Ger
man attempts to take them.
Desperately needed emergen
cy medical and food supplies
again were dropped to allied
troops clinging to positions half
way up Monastery hill. The sup
plies were carried by A-38 In
vaders that skimmed over the
area and dropped 96 parachute
bundles successfully.
On the beachhead British
troops made two successful
raids in force on enemy posi
tions near the western end of
the perimeter, inflicting heavy
casualties. Sharp patrol clashes
occurred on the 8th army front.
Japs Lose Burma Stronghold
But Continue Drive in India
New Delhi, March 21 VP) Allied troops have captured the im
portant communications center of Sumprabum in northeast Burma
but a strong Japanese force is continuing its drive toward India
from its crossing of tht Chlnd-
win river, southeast Asia head
quarters announced today.
Gurkha and Kachin native
troops, operating with the Chinese-American
forces under Lt.
Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, took
Sumprabum and reoccupied
Pinsau Ga to the southeast.
Sumprabum is in the upper
Mali Kha river valley about 70
miles from the border of China's
Yunnan province.
The Mali Kha river has a nar
row valley that twists south to
Myitkyina, also the objective
of the Chinese-American forces
who threw the Japanese out of
the Hukawng valley just west,
and yesterday announced the
capture of Jambu Bum and the
northern end of the Mogaung
river valley which also de
bouches at Myitkyina.
The southeastern Asia com
mand headquarters communique
gave few detaili on the double-
Entered u leeond eluft
mfttur at Sftlara. otoa
27 More Jap
Ships Sunk in
Pacific Waters
(Br tht Associated Press)
The sinking of at least 27
Japanese ships was announced
today by allied headquarters
22 of them by submarines as
Indications mounted that one of
Japan's by-passed fortresses in
the Marshall islands was about
ready for the final assault.
American submarines
accounted for 15 ships in Pacific
and far east waters, the navy
announced, bringing to 642 the
number of Japanese vessels
sunk, probably sunk or dam
aged by undersea craft.
Included in the American
submarines' toll were two trans
ports, two tankers and 11
freighters.
Off Dutch Indies
Seven ships were sunk and
three damaged by submarines
off islands in the Dutch East
Indies, the British admiralty
said. A large river steamer, a
smaller vessel of undesignated
type and a supply ship were
the only victims specified.
A five-ship convoy, including
two transports and three cor
vettes, got within sight of
Japan's bomb-battered base at
Wewak, New Guinea, before it
was obliterated by more than
100 Fifth airforce planes in a
furious-four-day battle.
In the central Pacific, Adm,
Chester W. Nimitz brought in
his mighty battleship guns to
assist carrier-based planes soft
en up Mill Atoll, once one of
Japan's strongest bases in the
Marshalls.
Assault on Mill
Continuance of the Mill as
sault was indicated by the fact
that Nimitz, in announcing the
combined battleship-c a r r 1 e r
plane attack last Sunday, lifted
for the first time in more than
a month his policy of not desig
nating raid targets in the eastern
Marshalls because allied posi
tions in the western and cen
tral Marshalls have cut the Ja
panese communication lines and
Tokyo might not know all the
details of the eastern Marshalls
condition.
Pilots returning from the We
wak convoy battle estimated
about 1,500 Japanese were kill
ed or drowned. The convoy ap
parently was attempting to
sneak into Wewak with rein
forcements. Wewak Bombed
While planes poured 113 tons
of bombs into Wewak's defenses
during the ninth consecutive
daily attack, destroyers steamed
boldly into Wewak's harbor to
shell shore installations.
Other planes hit Rabaul, New
Britain, with 60 tons of fire
bombs and raided Ponape, in
the eastern Caroline islands,
and five targets in the Marsh
alls. Tenth Traffic
Victim Recorded
Portland, March 21 (U.R)
Portland recorded its 10th traf
fic fatality today with the death
last night of Verna Bergoquist,
32, Portland, who was injured
fatally when the automobile in
which she was riding collided
with a truck.
pronged Japanese offensive in
the upper Chindwin area and
the Chin Hills sector, roughly
150 miles southwest, but said
that north of Tiddim, on the
Chin Hills front, allied forces
repulsed two Japanese attempts
to advance.
The headquarters report also
hinted at an important engage
ment in the Kabaw valley, just
east of the Chin Hills and
roughly 100 miles due south of
Homalin, in noting that "there
has been a tank action in which
a number of enemy tanks were
knocked out and one was cap
tured." Allied commanders, while not
discounting the threat of the
Japanese movement in force
toward Imphal and other com
munications bases in India,
nevertheless welcomed a deci
sive test against Japanese forces
in the area.
-n . ni
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, March 21,
Eisenhower Inspects British "West Point" (IP) General Dwight
Eisenhower, supreme allied commander in the European theater
(center, front line), inspects a line of tanks during his tour of
the British "West Point," Sandhurst military college. He is ac
companied by British officers.
Crater of Mt. Vesuvius
Explodes Burying Villages
By Eleanor Packard
On the Slopes of Mt. Vesuvius, March 21 (u.R) The volcanic
.crater of Mt. Vesuvius exploded with a terrifying roar tonight,
blanketing the countryside for 10 miles around under a pall of
smoke and burying two mountain villages beneath tons of flow
ing lava. At 4:30 p.m. I saw a huge column of flame-specked
British Subs Hit
7 Jap Vessels
London, March 21 VP) Brit
ish submarines operating on far
eastern waters have sunk seven
Japanese ships and damaged
three, the admiralty announc
ed today. ",
The actions took place off
the Nicobar islands, in the
Straits of Malacca, off the east
coast of Sumatra, and off Sa
bang on the northern tip of
Sumatra, the communique said.
One of the submarines fought
a brisk gun action with a large
river steamer, scoring more than
20 hits and leaving it in flames
and sinking,- the bulletin de
clared. A smaller vessel burst into
flames after being driven ashore
under a hail of gunfire.
In the Straits of Malacca, one
submarine pursued a small sup
ply ship so close to shore that
Japanese coastal batteries open
ed fire, but caused no damage,
the communique said.
Russia Rejects
Liberty Ships
Seattle, March 21 VP) Rus
sia, the Post-Intelligencer stated
today, has refused to accept de
livery of 28 American-made
Liberty-type ships "until the
United States spends more than
$4,000,000 to correct structural
weakness."
"The 28 freighters, most of
them built in west coast ship
yards, have been ordered to
Vancouver, B.C., where two
Canadian yards will undertake
to make them acceptable to the
Russians," the newspaper de
clared. "At a cost ranging from
$i00,000 to $200,000 per vessel,
addition of a double shell plat
ing along the sheer strake, plus
an expansion-type of reinforc
ing in the interior of the hulls,
is now underway in the Burrard
drydock and at North Vancou
ver ship repairs.
"The yards," the Post-Intelli
gencer stated, "are acting on
orders from Empire Shipping
Company, Ltd., a Canadian
lend-lease operation."
The newspaper said a mari
time commission spokesman de
clared the strengthening was re
quired because the ships were
destined for use in cold waters.
Florists Join in
Delivery Plan
Portland, March 21 (U.R) The
office of defense transportation
announced today that 40 flor
ists in the Portland metropoli
tan area had agreed to parti
cipate in a joint action delivery
plan that would save 175,000
automotive miles yearly.
They will in most cases use
common carrier local delivery
service in place of their own de
livery vehicles.
Journal
1944
smoke whoosh up out of the era-
ter and soar 5000 feet into the
air, where It billowed out, show
ering the mountainside with
rocks and ashes.
The smoke spread as far north
as Naples, 10 miles away, halting
all traffic in the streets there,
and blanketed the ruins of an
cient Pompeii, which was buried
in the volcano's greatest erup
tion almost 1800 years ago.
The unexpected flareup indi
cated that the eruption, which
began last Friday, was worsen
ing, and allied military author!
ties announced that more than
14,000 additional men, women
and children were being evacu
ated hurriedly from the north
western slopes.
The village of San Sebastian
already was buried under the
70-foot wall of lava flowing
down the mountain, and the
neighboring hamlet of Massa Di
Somma was virtually obliter
ated. More than 550 rescue work
ers, consisting of Anglo-Ameri
can soldiers, Royal Air Force
American Air Force, military
police and carabinieri hastened
the evacuation of Corcola
town of about 7,000 population
at the foot of the northern slope
of Vesuvius.
Allied military government
officials announced that all per
sons already have been evacu
ated from the villages of San
Sebastiano and Mass! Di Som
ma. San Sebastiano's popula
tion totaled 6,000 and Massa Di
Somma's 1,500.
The force of the flow showed
no signs of slackening, although
it was cooling rapidly as it
spread over the mountainside,
resembling a huge pile of slag
spilling out red-hot coals as it
advanced.
After more than 200 military
vehicles, starting work at dark
last night in the ruddy glow of
the volcano, had completed the
evacuation of the two towns in
10 hours, authorities began mov
ing the population of the village
of Cercola, which is lower down
the slope.
Emergency food stations and
rest points have been established,
to take care of the increasing
number of refugees.
Spring Blizzard
Strikes the Rockies
Denver, March 21 HP) A
spring blizzard struck the Rock
ies today with a flurry unequal
led this year, tangling wartime
transportation and leaving from
eight inches to two feet of snow
over a wide area.
The storm, the second within
four days, extended over Colo
rado, Wyoming, northern Kan
sas and western Nebraska.
Winds up to 30 miles an hour
piled up drifts which closed
roads in central Wyoming and
slowed traffic to a crawl in most
parts of Colorado.
Transcontinental planes were
grounded in Denver. Schools
were closed in some parts of
Colorado.
& y v . ive Cents
Rocket Coast
Again Bombed
By Liberators
London, March 21 VP) Bri
tain-based American Liberators
heavily bombarded the Pas-de-
lalais "rocket coast" area across
the channel today. It was the
second heavy attack on that sec
tor in three days.
ine J-iiberator force, appar
ently not large, took advantage
of a solid overcast to thwart
anti-aircraft opposition that had
been heavy last Saturday, and
the first bombers back today re
ported little ground fire and no
nazi fighters.
'It was the kind of mission
you stand around and dream
about," said Lt. Fiord George
Pomona, Calif., pilot of "Ford's
Folly," who finished his tour
of operations.
Is 19th Assault
This was the 19th assault by
U. S. heavy bombers on that
mystery region since the day
before Christmas.
RAF heavy bombers in small
force struck the Angouteme ex
plosive w&rks in southern
France last night in a continuing
nocturnal campaign against spe
cialized enemy factories, while
Mosquito pianes -bombed west
ern Germany for the eleventh
straight night.
German resistance was neg
ligible and not a plane was lost.
Angouleme is 60 miles northeast
of Bordeaux.
Bergerac Bombed
It was the second blow against
an explosive works in three
nights. Six-ton "factory bust
ers" were dumped on a plant at
Bergerac in the same area Sat
urday night.
Other objectives hit in this
specialized campaign have been
the Michelin rubber factory a
Clermont-Ferrand, bombed
March 16, a bearing factory in
southern France struck March
10, and a precision instrument
plant at Hengclo, 'Holland, hit
by Mosquito bombers by day
light Saturday.
Frankfurt Target
American Flying Fortresses
and Liberators described by a
U. S. strategic air force an
nouncement as in "medium siz
ed" force, attacked military tar
gets in the Frankfurt area of
Germany yesterday as the high
light of a day that saw between
1,600 and 2,100 allied planes
cross the channel.
A U. S. communique last
night said six AiVierican bomb
ers and eight escorting fighters
failed to return from the 400
mile round-trip to the German
industrial city. Few enemy air
craft were encountered, but the
fighters brought down four.
Silverton Cannery
Sale Confirmed
Silverton, Ore., March 21
Sale of the Silverton Canning
company, including the build
ing, to a Salt Lake City con
cern, the name not being dis
closed here, was officially con
firmed today.
The manager of the Silverton
plant, which is family owned,
is Roy Wallin, who is in San
Francisco on business this week.
None of the deal was handled
locally.
During the caning season the
plant normally employs several
hundred people.
Finland Affirms Rejection
Of Russia's Armistice Terms
Stockholm, March 21 HP)
today its continued desire for peace with Soviet Russia but de
clared firmly that it could not accept the armistice terms dictated
by the Kremlin. The declara
tion, embodied In a long com
munique giving the Finns ver
sion of their attempts to get out
of the war, all but extinguished
hopes of further peace negoti
ations between Helsinki and
Moscow, for the Russians, the
bulletin said, have declined to
modify their original terms.
The Finnish stand apparently
was predicated on the thesis
that the Russian terms which
involved the withdrawal of Fin
nish troops from their present
positions as well as internment
of all German armed forces now
In Finland were not consistent
with the demands of national se
curity. The communique said the Fin
Reds Expand Dniester Crossing
Capture Main Bessarabia Road
And Smash Rumanian Divisions
Germans Retreating Into Rumania As Drive Is
Speeded Up All Along Front German Black Sea
Convoy Destroyed in Crimean Ports
Moscow, March 21 W) The red
miles of the Rumanian border after capturing the highway lead
ing westward from Sorokl in Bessarabia and smashing two Ru
manian divisions hurled into the gap in the nazi defenses, front
dispatches said today.
(Moscow considers the Prut river the current Rumanian border.
The Russians in 1940 took over Bessarabian areas which previ
ously had been part of Rumania.)
The Russians, who have swarmed across the Dniester river into
Bessarabia on a 31-mile front, have been able to bring tanks and
heavy artillery across in strength on German pontoons captured
in Yampol, Maj. Ogir Agibalov reported in a field dispatch to the
army newspaper Red Star.
The dispatch added that the Dniester crossings have been ex
panded and several more communities captured. Red Star said
German planes were attacking
the Dniester crossings, but in
dicated the nazis had no hope
of halting the soviet advance
because of the large number of
bridges thrown across the
stream.
Pressing on from Soroki, the
Soviets got a good grip on the
highway, the dispatch said.
At the upper end of the Bes
sarabian front, the Russians
were reported poised for a new
great thrust after the capture
of Mogilev-Polodski, major base
on the east bank of the Dniester,
which fell to the red army Sun
day. Far to the north of these op
erations, the 1st Ukrainian army
under Marshal Gregory Zhukov
was only 57 miles from Lwow,
in pre-war Poland, and within
sight of the city of Brody.
It was not clear whether the
Russians planned to storm Bro
dy or by-pass it in their advance
on Lwow.
Surging on Lwow
Soviet forces were reported
surging on toward Lwow, big
German rail hub in old Poland,
in a continuation of a push which
yesterday swept up Korsov, 56
miles to the northeast, and 49
other villages.
A soviet communique an
nounced that 115 localities, in
cluding Vinnitsa, nazi Ukraine
stronghold 60 miles northeast of
Mogilev-Podolski, were seized
yesterday along a 500-mile front
from old Poland to the Black
sea. Mogilev-Podolski, major
base on the east bank of the
Dniester, fell to the Russians
Sunday, it was also announced.
The Balkan cauldron contin
ued to boil with repercussions
of the Russian smash into old
Rumania as the Hungarians were
reported resisting German fore
es engaged in taking over their
homeland in an effort to halt the
red army's onrush.
Rumanians Defeated
In the Novo-Ukrainka sector,
north of Odessa, the Russians
overwhelmed two Rumanian
trench lines and quoted prison
ers as saying the Germans had
shot at least 170 Rumanians
for failing to hold. More than
34 localities were taken south
of Novo-Ukrainka in the drive
which is pushing the Germans
back on Odessa, the Russians
said.
The communique said 11 Ger
man ships, Including a transport,
were sunk by Russian airmen in
Crimean ports, indicating that
the nazis perhaps were trying
to evacuate the pear-shaped pen
insula which has been walled
off by the Russians for months.
Only a small number of Ger
mans escaped from Vinnitsa,
which was taken after one sov
iet unit, in a surprise thrust
across the Bug river, entered
the town from the south, out
witting the nazis who expected
the main blow from the north
the bulletin declared. Huge
stores of war material were cap
tured.
The Finnish government affirmed
nish government regretted that
the Russians had not given Fin
land "an opportunity to express
her own viewpoint before ac
cepting the terms."
"Although Finland's govern
ment still aspires seriously for
reestabllshmcnt of peaceful re
lations, it, however, cannot ac
cept in advance these terms.
which deeply affect the exist
ence of the whole nation with
out even getting any safe assur
ance of the Interpretation and
meaning of the conditions," the
bulletin said.
The Finnish press expressed
divergent views as to whether
the government's stand left
room for hope of peace.
army had driven to within 50
-
Nazis to Seize
Balkan States
Washington, March 21 (IP)
Diplomatic officials here pre
dicted today that full Germany
military occupation of the Bal
kans will end independent civil
government in Rumania, Bul
garia and Hungary.
Along with this will go the
long cherished allied hopes that
one or more of the satellite
states would make peace before
nazi divisions overran them.
This prediction, made as Ger
man occupation troops marched
into Hungary amid reports that
similar fate awaits Rumania
and Bulgaria, was based on the
causes which led to Hitler's new
militarist expansion in south
eastern Europe.
Two causes were advanced.
One is the steady Russian army
drive into Rumania which con
fronts the German high com
mand with a military crisis in
that part of the Russian battle
front. The other is Hitler's fear
that at the crucial moment of
the campaign for the Balkans,
now beginning, one or more o!
his strategic neighbors would
surrender to the allies.
The spread of Gorman mili
tary control in the Balkans was
not entirely unexpected here.
Reports that it was under way
occasioned little surprise al
though some disappointment
was evident.
Rumania and Bulgaria at var
ious times in recent months have
put forth informal and unoffi
cial peace feelers. These gave
rise to the belief here and in
London that those countries
would desert Germany as soon
as they had any hope of avoid
ing the fate of Italy In becom
ing an active war theater.
Snell Replies
To FDR's Query
Oregon s election laws pro
vide "more complete election
opportunity" than the federal
soldiers vote bill, Gov. Earl
Snell declared today in reply
to President Roosevelt's query
as to the acceptability of the
federal ballot in this state.
"The attorney general and
election officials arc still study
ing the provisions (of the fed
eral act) looking to coordina
tion with the Oregon laws any
features which would expedite
soldier balloting in this state,"
Snell said.
The governor indicated that
he would have a "yes" or "no"
answer to the president's in
quiry as soon as this study is
completed.
"Under Oregon laws all
servicemen and women from
this slate will be permitted op
portunity of casting complete
ballots," the governor pointed
out, adding that "it is under
stood however, that airmail
service will be provided in de
livery and collection of over
seas ballots.
"Oregon's legislature and
election officials have already
taken necessary steps to insure
soldier voting but you may be
assured, Mr. President, that
should subsequent develop
ments indicate the necessity for
further action. Oregon will pro
ceed forthwith."
Nazis to Occupy Rumania
Ankara, March 21 (UP) For
mal German occupation of Ru
mania was believed imminent
today after reports reached in
formed Ankara quarters that
five nazi divisions one infan
try and four armored had
crossed Hungary and moved into
Rumania.
The Weather
Occasional llaht rains tonight
and Wednesday warmer. Max.
54, mln. 30. Rain, trace. River, .8.
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