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Debacle in Saarland Costs German Forces 100,000 Casualties "Japan's Hidden Fleet Blasted by Carrier Planes 17 Warships Crippled, 600 Planes Wrecked in Inland Sea by Task Force Guam, March 21 (U.Rt Dis patches from famed task force 58 today boosted the toll of two days of daring air attacks on the Japanese fleet in its home bases to at least 17 warships and 600 or more planes wrecked. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said the raids Sunday and Mon day on Kobe, Kure and other bases in Japan's inland sea had crippled the surviving remnants of the Japanese fleet at a tjme when it was rushing repairs to meet an anticipated invasion of Japan itself. The carrier-borne fleet of 1000 to 1400 U. S. navy planes broke off its attack late Mon day. A Japanese communique said the lank force, including its escort from the Fifth fleet, was "fleeing southward"' to ward the Marianas with Jap anese aircraft in "close pur suit." Radio Tokyo said, however, that there were '"plenty of pos sibilities" the task force might renew its attack. Nimltz's Rejiort Nimitz's communique on the attack listed 15 to perhaps 17 warships as damaged, but late radio dispatches from task force 58 said at least 17 and pos sibly more wareraft were left smoking and bomb twisted. The toll included a minimum 'of seven aircraft carriers, prob- ably all that remained in the ' Japanese fleet, and two or more battleships, dispatches said. In addition, six freighters were sunk and seven damaged. The number of Japanese planes destroyed or damaged was revised by late dispatches from 575 to at least 600. Japs Resist Desperately "Japan's hopes of rebuilding her cripple airforce and fleet were smashed," United Press War Correspondent Lloyd Tup ling reported from the flagship of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, commander of task force 58. The Japanese resisted the de fiant American challenge to their fleet with the heaviest and most persistent air attacks on the task force and its planes since the air-sea battles off Formosa last September. (Concluded on pace 9, column 8) Trap 3000 Japs in Burma Calcutta, March 21 i-Ti Brit ish troops struck out from newly-won Mandalay today to mop up Japanese forces squeezed in the area between the ancient city and Meiklila, 75 miles to the south. British forces hold Meiktila. cutting the southern escape routes for some 30.000 Japan ese troops in central Burma and leaving the invaders only minor mountain trails eastward into Thailand. Fort Dufforin, the last Japan '. ese stronghold in Mandalay. fell yesterday to the British after pn0 fanatical enemy defenders escaped through allied siege lines at night. British and Burmese civilian hostages were left behind by the Japanese. The hostages sent a long messenger carrying a Union Jack to allied head quarters and notified the Brit ish the enemy has fled. The civilian internees report ed they suffered numerous cas ualties during the allied aerial and artillery bombardments of the port during the weeks the Japanese held out. They said the Japanese often forced them to stand nut in the open during the attacks. Northeast of Mandalay Chi nese troops cleared snipers and stragglers from the Hipaw Namhsin area and the British 36th division consolidated their hold on newly-recaptured Mo gnk. The fall of Mogok virtu ally ends Japanese resistance north of the Burma road. Japanese Told of Loss of Iwo Jima (San Francisco, March 21 tjp- )Prcmier Kuniaki Koio of Japan told his countrymen to day the loss of Iwo Jima to the American marines "is the most unfortunate thing in the whole war situation." and again warn ed against a United States in vasion of the Nipponese home land. Koiso. in a Tokyo domestic heard by the FCC. said the Am ericans had "numerical super iority" and appealed to the Jap anese to exhibit a "burning de termination to defend the na tion " "There will be no uncondi tional surrender." he said. "So long as there is one Jap anese living, we fight to shat ter the enemy's ambition to PifrP5. We 'must not stop fight -in until then." Capital 7fU V - kl CQ Entered ,s leeond elui Jttl Tear, INO. 07 m.lter Silm. Oteeoo Red Siege Guns Batter Stettin From Altdamm Moscow, March 21 M The first White Russian army, now in possession of virtually the en tire east bank of the Oder from the Baltic to its confluence with the Neisse, crowded siege artil lery to the very edge of Stettin today after wiping out the en emy's Altdamm bridgehead. The menace to Berlin grew hourly as Marshal Gregory K Zhukov probed many place5 along the river, seeking spring boards for his next big attack cast and northeast of ruined Berlin. Mopping lp Trapped Nazis Marshal Ivan S- Konev still is engaged in liquidating trap-j ned garrisons in Breslati and I Glogau on the upper Oder, but has moved additional units of his first Ukraine army groim to the Niesse line southeast of Ber lin. In East Prussia. Marshal Alexander M. Vailovky. for two years chief of staff of the red army, was staging the final kill in a dwindling German pocket along the coast south west, of Koenigsberg. Disclosure that Vasilovsky had taken over the third White Russian army front after the battle death of Gen. Ivan Cher niakhovsky was made in Mar shal Stalin's order of the day yesterday saluting the capture of Braunsberg. one of two Ger man bastions in the pocket. 4.000 Prisoners Taken Vasilevsky's seizure of Braunsberg gathered 4.000 pris oners into the bag. That figure is expected to be more than duplicated when Ihe nest of resistance in nearby Hciligen beil is crushed. Khukov took Altdamm with one fierce lunge after a series of hard actions had reached this suburb, less than five miles from Stettin proper. Front dis patches 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. As in Kolberg last week. Rus sian storm units found German dead hanging from makeshift gallows in Altdamm. An Ez vestia dispatch said an order from Hitler had been found, say ing that troops leaving positions voluntarily should be shot on the spot. On bodies in army uniform were signs reading. "Hanged Because I Fought Bad ly." The corpses of executed civilians had a sign saying. "I Was Hanged Because I Evacu ated." Drive On Austria Several enemy divisions were routed in Altdamm. but the number of prisoners has not yet been given. (Far to the south at the lower end of the eastern front, two or more Russian army groups were reported by Berlin to be driv ing toward the mountainous area of southern Germany and Austria where the nazis, accord ing to some renorts. may make a final stand after defeat on the reich's northern plains. (Berlin said Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin has hurled 200.000 of his third Ukraine army troops and supporting armor into an offensive through northwestern Hungary, wilh advance forces already plunging beyond Tata. 10 miles southeast of the big Danube river stronghold of Kn marom. This is the direct route toward Viena. Storm Warnings on Coast Portland. March 21 'P Southeast storm warnings were hoisted at 10 a. m. Wednesday from Coos Bay to Tatoosh and through the Straits of Juan de Fuca to Port Townsend for southerly gales the next 24 hours. Army Personnel Ordered to Obey Midnight Curfew Rule New York. March 21 OP- Mayor F. H. La Guardia. replying to President Roosevelt's support of a midnight curfew as against the mayor's 1 a m. amusement deadline, said today ' He's running the country: I'm just running4 the city." LaGuardia. questioned as he entered the municipal builriinc. said he was "too busy running the city to comment on the nation-wide reaction to his de- 1 fiance of War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes request. "I'm running the city." the mayor continued. "I tried to run the army but they wouldn't let me." This latter remark was in reply to a question about his reaction to a war department order directing army personnel to observe the midnight dead line and apparently referred to the time he sought an army commission. The war department move. interpreter! as the government's ; ter and spirit" of Byrnes re fyst counter-measure against I quest. Yanks Storm Burning lloilo Panay Capital Manila. March 21 (U.R Amer ican troops linked with strong Filipino guerrilla forces on Panay today in an offensive that hurst into the suburbs of burn ing lloilo swept through more than 250 square miles of the island. The lightning strikes of Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush's 40th division, which threw the Japanese into disorder on Panay's south cen tral plains, ripped through three key road towns and tumbled Mandurriao airdrome, with its big 4. .500-foot runway. The rapidly developing cam paign on Panay, sixth largest of the Philippines, was disclos ed in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique which also revealed new important gains on Luzon and continuation of neutralizing air attacks on Formosa and Ja pan's shipping lanes in the China Sea. Brush's seasoned troops over ran Japanese machine-gun points and small arms resistance in a two-pronged offensive that carved out a beachhead 18 miles deep and 14 miles wide on Pan ay's southern coast. One column raced seven miles in one day along the hard-surface coastal road, captured the seven-span Carpenters bridge across the lloilo river and storm ed into the suburbs of the capi tal, already aflame from large fires. Jans Destroy Capital The extent of the blazes indi cated the Japanese were at tempting the same destruction of Ilolio and its 90.000 inhabi tants as they did at Manila. At the same lime. Brush's second force speared inland to seize Janiuay. 18 miles north northeast of lloilo. From there it made a sharp turn to the east, raced seven miles to the big road iunction of Potoan and continued another eight miles eastward to capture Barotac Nuevo, 16'? miles northeast of lloilo. The drive inland enabled the American troops to ioin with Panay's strong guerrilla forces, said to be the best organized in the entire Philippines. Patrol Activity On Italian Front Rome. March 21 Eighth army troops in the Adriatic sec tor improved their positions northeast of Ravenna with a local advance in the Mezzano area yesterday. Otherwise ac tivity along the Italian front was limited to patrol operations, allied headquarters said today. Increased activity of Italian patriots in German-held north ern Italy was reported and a 15th army group communique quoted a caotured enemy officer as saying the nazis often were forced to use a whole regiment to combat partisan attacks on supply dumps and troop move ments. Some enemy prisoners were taken in the action in the Mez zano area. A strong German oatrol forced eighth army troops to withdraw from a strongpoint northeast of Cu ffiano. On the fifth army front only scattered contact with the en emy was reoorted. Eight Ger mans were killed in a clash in the central area south of Bolog na while a number of prison ers were taken by another al lied patrol. One patrol penetrated into the vicinity of Monte Rumici but was forced to withdraw under a smoke screen when it encoun tered heavy enemy mortar and mall-arms fire. I LaGuardia's curfew extension. u"as Put int0 effect here last n'ni In New York City, which still is holding out as a 1 a. m. oasis, the order came as a sur prise to cafe owners, barkeeps and grumbling soldiers. The first inkling anyone had of the order was when military police suddenly appeared in the plush confines of the Stork club and ordered all army per sonnel to leave. The second service command then confirmed that a midnight curfew enforcement order had been issued and a few minutes later in Washington the war department announced that all service commands had been in structed tn live up to the "let M l IfTbll l r TTfi Pi dTgj. rsBr Jr Wt- XL 11 11 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, March P Task Fon-e on the Prnul ip blow againj.1 the Japanese in the Reich Blasted from Dawn j To Dark by 7000 Aircraft London. March 21 M1 Allied air forces ripped Germany from dawn to dusk today with explosives from 7000 warplanes. includ ing 2000 heavy bombers which unleashed one of the greatest coordinated attacks of the war. The four-engincd bombers from Britain attacked the reich in relays, while tactical aircraft from Soviet Discards Turkish Treaty Moscow, March 21 iV So viet Russia last night denounc ed her 1925 treaty of friendship and neutrality with Turkey and declared "serious improve ments" were needed in the pact. "Admitting the value of the soviet-Turkish treaty for the purpose of upholding friendly relations, the soviet, union nev ertheless 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 situa tion and it is necessary to make serious improvements," said an announcement from the soviet commissariat of foreign affairs. The 20-year pact would have been automatically renewed on November 7 this year unless de nounced six months beforehand. An Izvestia editorial said that "in the present war there have been individual moments when relations between the soviet union and Turkey could desir ablv have been better." The newspaper made no ref erence to Turkey's recent dec laration of war on the axis. The previous diplomatic rupture be tween Turkey and Germany in 1944 was coffed at by Russian newspapers at the time. They held that it was a disguise bo hind which close connections were maintained between An kara and Berlin. Canada to Seek Small Nation Rights Ottawa, March 21 A Canada will seek at the San Francisco conference to amend the big three's world security proposals in order to win for the so-called secondary nations more regard for their power and responsi bilities. Prime Minister W. L. Mac kenzie King made this intention clear as he opened debate in parliament yesterday on Can ada's program for the securily parley, He listed Australia, the Netherlands and Brazil as rank ing among the secondary states and entitled with Canada to a greater voice than out lined at Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta. Although making clear that Canada was a strong supporter of the security proposals. King ureg clarification of the con stitutional position in the pro posed organization of "import ant secondary countries." 62 Scarlet Fever Cases Portland. March 21 uV- Sixty two persons in Oregon were stricken with scarlet fever laM week the largest number since last May, the state board of health reported today. The Weather (Released by the United Slates Weal her Buretuu Forecast tor Salem and vicin ity: Cloudiness uiil lnnea.-e to niht wit.n he h t rains developing and com muinii Thu rsflav Warmer temperatures expee'ed lonigiv. with a minimum ii'-ai 40. Max. yesterday. 47. Mm. todav. 32. Mean temperature yesterdav, 45. whirh wa.s 2 be. low normal. 7o?i 24-hour prr cipi'aiion to 11 :30 a m. today. 18 Total precipitation for the month rili which is 29! inches above normal Willamette, river height, 11.3 ft. 21, 1945 A mighty U. S. navy task force Pacific orean area. continental bases mauled Ger- man troops reeling from the American advance toward the Rhine. Still another fleet of U. S. loth airforce bomber forma tions from Italy assaulted nazi communications in Austria. In the smoke-blanketed Ruhr valley, more and more the po tential death trap threatened by Gen. Eisenhower, railroads, highways, and bridges were struck steadily with shells, rockets and bombs. In morning raids. 2000 U. S. bombers and fighters ham mered nine airfields in north western .Germany and a tank factory at Plauen. 10 miles from the Czechoslovak border, and British planes struck a large oil refinery at Bremen. U. S. fighters downed at least nine nazi jet planes near Plauen and destroyed 40 planes aground at various airfields. American Liberators from It aly bombed the jet-plane air base at Neubcrg. 50 miles north of Munich, and Flying Fort resses pounded the Kagran and Vosendorf natural oil refineries in the Vienna area which pro duce gasoline and lubricating oils for Germans on the east ern front. A second fleet of U. S. Eighth airforce bombers flew into Ger many late this afternoon, in the first double-header mission by Americans since last summer. Some rainfall handicapped fliers operating along the lines of German retreat from the Saar, but to the north it was bright and dear and Ihn tnrrifir attack shifted to the Ruhr, I where Gen. Eisenhower has ; made it plain the next allied ; blow can be expected. The continent-based 29th tac tical airforce struck heavily at German troops and tanks mov ing from the Dortmund area to ward the Rhine in front of the U. S. Ninth and British second armies. Four trains loaded with tanks and armored vehicles were spotted moving up and were attacked. North Santiam Road Opened to Traffic The North Santiam highway was opened lo traffic this morn ing and by nightfall the South Santiam will be far enough out from under its burden of snow to carry its normal complement of automobiles, state highway engineer lialdoek said today. Ninety inches of snow was measured at the summit by state highway department workers. who are using two large rotary snowploughs to clear the routes Contrary to popular belief the deepest snows in tiie Ore gon mountains arc not in De cember but on or about the first of April, Baldock said. Gestapo Offices in Copenhagen Bombed Stockholm, March 21 UP) The Danish press service re ported today that an attack by British Mosquito planes this morning destroyed g e s t a p o headquarters in Copenhagen. The gestapo headquarters, housed in the Shell building, wa destroyed, the report said. The attack apparently was similar to others carried out by the RAF in which picked small forces of planes have carried out pin-point bombing attacks on nazi headquarters. i .w-. ., X, . , A ,. . ..... - -m -. j I i Price Fi cnrs steams out to deal another lethal Soviet Warns On Peace Meet 'By the A.uorlntrd Press) Criticizing advocates of a change in voting procedure at the coming world security con ference at San Francisco, the Moscow radio declared today that attempts were being made under the guise of a "sincere re gard for the small countries" to "return the fulure organization of security to the evil days of the league of nations." "The future international or ganization of security." the broadcast asserted, "can in real ity insure the interests of the small countries only if it he comes an effective organization; that is. if it will be built on the same foundation on which is be ing built the great structure of our common victory; that is. on agreement and unanimity and the close collaboration of Ihe main great powers of the anti German coalition." The broadcast, reported In die FCC, declared that the smail countries in the league of na tions had "formal equal rights." "This made it possible for one or another small country, on the instruct ions of a large aggressor, to disrupt important measures intended for the in surance of peace and security." The broadcast addd that the league of nations had done "ab solutely nothing to insure real security and peace and to save the first victims of the murder ous fascist aggression." Office Holders to Travel by Plane Terming airline transporta tion "a luxury for politicians and office-holders." State Treas urer Leslie M. Scott cast the only dissenting vote as the state 1 board of control today approved ', a $400 deposit with an air trans ' portation company to obtain a 5 percent discount on air travel. The board discussed but did I not decide for or against the ex- penriiture o f approximately i $10,000 for water rights to pro j vide irrigation for penitentiary ; and state cottage farms south ! east of Salem. Reluctantly, hoard of control members agreed that if it is re quired, the states name might be used on a property holders' petition to permit erect ion of the Central Lutheran church in Ihe resident ia I zone on t he northeast corner of Capital and j Chenieketa streets. The only objections raiser! were that t he state is now buying property close tn that area and may ex tend its building program east of Capital street Churchill Denies Huge Food Stores Being Held by Allies London. March 21 'V- Prime the "suggestion in some quarters in the United States" lhat Britain had 700.000.000 tons of food storks on hand and said the country had less than 0.000.000 ton. This amount, he said, is in the process of being reduced by aid to the liberated countries and by the end of .June will amount lo onlv 4.750.000 tons. "This lalter figure," Churchili said, "is no more than is neces sary to maintain the regular flow of distribution under pres ent conditions," The prime minister explained that Uri tain's food stock had been "built up bv foresight and i self denial over fiv years and under bombardment ' The housn cheered Farlier. Col John Llewellvn. food minister, told commons the government had decided that it would have to continue to pro hibit export of food from Britain Yanks Finish Off Peon's Trooos nu !- U-...TI 1 miy iii new Mopping Up Stage Reached in Saar and Palatinate .Pockets Remagen Bridgehead Extended Over 3 Miles in Drive Toward North Paris. March 21 V The Third army, continuing its spectacular race which has turned the German stand in the Saar and Palatin ate into a disastrous debacle at a cost that may mount to 100,000 nazi casualties, smashed into the city of I.udwigshafen today. The same armored division which has played an anonymous role in the current drive from the Moselle, dashed into .Mann heim's twin city which is one of the greatest chemical producing centers (if Germany, .Mannheim, just across the Rhine from laid wipshafen, is 100 miles from Munich in the heart of southern Germany and 75 miles from the starting; point of the offensive. Rut as elsewhere Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's men found the Rhine bridge there had been demolished. The structure which connected much-homhed Ludwigshafen and Mannheim was one of the most imposing along the Rhine. Two German armies, the First and Seventh, either were wiped out or doomed except for scat-' ' tered elements. j At supreme headquarters, it ; was estimated that the swift j Third army of Lt. Gen. George ' S. ration. .Jr.. alone had herd- ! ed an estimated 30.000 nazis j into prison pens in 48 hours as it and Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Seventh army closed ! new traps which might boost j the overall total of captured in the whirlwind campaign to 75,- j 000. The Seventh army, driving up ! from the southern bases of the j Saarland and Palatinate, did not ! even tabulate its prisoners be- yond the first 6000. The U. S. 78th division drove north of Bonn in the Rhine bridgehead today, and seized more than seven miles of the southern bank of the Sieg river cxtneding from the Rhine to the town of Niederpleis. Cities such as Saarbruecken, Kaiserslautern. Worms, Voel kingen, Zwcibruecken, Horn be rg and St. Ingbert toppled like ten-pins. The hard hitting Americans 27 divisions in all or nearly 400.000 men were advancing speedily. .15-Mile Escape Gap The German hold on the west bank of the upper Rhine was narrowed to a 35-mile escape gap between the Karlsruhe and Ludwigshafen areas and it ap peared doubtful whether the wounded wehrmacht could scrape together enough men from the defeat to man properly the Valhalla line east of the river. The Germans blew their last remaining bridges on the Rhine, leaving stragglers west of the river to death or capture. Except for a 30-mile stretch between Pirmasens and Lau tershourg where the Germans clung tn fragments of the Sieg fried line, the enemy was in complete route. Nazi forces were surrounded in three places and threatened with Imminent encirclement elsewhere. The large Saarland city of Neunkirchen (40.500), where steel and iron works and coal pits around, was helieved to have fallen, although there was no specific word. Hridgehead Lengthened The first army fighting east of the Rhine lengthened Its hridgehead to 25 miles in a push along flat country leading 12 miles to the southern limits of the Ruhr Germany's greatest arsenal area. The U. S. ninth, British sec ond and Canadian first were massed in mighty strength on the lower Rhine opposite the Ruhr, which Gen. Eisenhower said last night "will become a deathtrap." The U. S. 15th and Ihe allied first airborne armies were in reserve, so far as was ! known. ! At least four racing columns uf Patton's third army curled in j a tightening arc before Lud- j wigshafen Mannheim, twin in-j iustrtal cities on the Rhine with! a total population of 427.000. Patlon's artillerv already was : shelling German troops in some places in the Valhalla line be- I vimrl the Rhino 1100 Plane t'srd More than 7.000 allied war planes raki-d the reich. They concent rated on targets in and around the threatened Ruhr as if isolating it for capture or a ceal-off f'nnchnlrd on pane ft. column fit Minister Churchill today denied j: except on government account He added that the government had made "all possible provi sions" for the people of liberated areas from Ihe supplies in this country. Cries of dissent t hundered through the house when Miss Flea nor Rath borne, independ ent, suggested that Ihe British government was "behaving very selfishly" by refusing to permit . , ' " , . , , ,. , L ,,,, III' v'MH J IM MI . Churchill declared that mili tary operations were being ac- ; eelerated. for one reann. he 1 came targe port) one of Europe might he faced with varying' degrees of fnmin during the j 1 coming winter. 2 Nazi Armies in Ludwiashafen iiiiiui un Kuiir Protest Forced Labor Transfer Washington. March 21 '- The war manpower commis sion's policy of forced transfer of labor was touch and go to day. The whole national system of moving workers from low to high priority war jobs is en dangered, officials acknowled ged, as a result of a statement that it was used in New Bed ford, Mass.. !o demonstrate a need for national service legis lation. The statement was made by WMC's national labor-management committee, whose function is to help formulate manpower policy and to make recommen dations to the commission. Mem bers signing it represented la bor, industry and agriculture. Although WMC Chairman Paul V. McNutt chose to ignore the committee's assertions deal ing with national service, it was clear manpower officials are ap prehensive of spreading defiance of the labor directive. In a statement replying to the committee's charges that he four times had turned down recommendations for settlement of the dispute, McNutt said no plan agreeable to all interested parties had been submitted yet. He added that when one is re ceived the forced release will be suspended, but that in the meantime "I have no alterna tive but to continue application of the national WMC program of war service transfers in New Bedford." 12,000 Wounded On Iwo to Recover New York, March 21 (U.RV Secretary of Navy James For restal said today that as many as 12.000 of the 15,300 Ameri cans wounded on Iwo Jima might be completely restored to health. He told a Red Cross luncheon here that between R.000 and 7. 000 of the wounded returned to their divisions before the con quest of Iwo Jima had been achieved. "On the basis of our past ex perience, we have reason tn hope and 1 assure you we in tend to realize that hope if w can that between 11.000 and 12.000 of the men wounded on Iwo will he so completely re stored to helath as to be capa ble of complete activity." Col. Maison Heads 20th Infantry With Sixth lufantrv Division on Luzon. March 21 'UPLt. Col. Harold .J. Maison, former deputy superintendent of Ore gon state police, has been nam ed commander of the 20lh infan try regiment of the sixth infan try dj vision, it was announced today. He resumed command nf the regiment during the bat t le of Motion in February where the 20th and other elements of the sixth division killed I .'257 Jans and rfest roved 1 2 enemy tnrks. Maison's home adorer is 315 Bellevue street. Salem, Ore- Remagen Bridge Completely Wrecked ' With the Kirt A nny Across the Rhine. March 21 4 The Ltidendorf f bridge across the Rhine to the expanding Rema gen bridgehead is wrecked so I completely that there is no pos sibility of it being repaired before the war ends Pontoons are bearing the traffic, Engineers who looked at the twisted and broken girders ly- i ing in the Hln tie ;un today it wou hi req 1 1 i re t wn yea rs of work to re bin !d t he dm i hie- .a(.kprt r.,Mrnaf hl.irii, wi,h ,he j equipment now available, (len. Arnold Returns Waehint:tnn. March 21 V 0) On H II Arnold, commander of the armv air force-, returned 'o Washington todav after a five weeks' rest In Florida.
