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MARCH 18, 1945 REDS SHATTER HER STETTIN DEFENSE LINE Last Nazi Positions East of Oder Blasted ' LONDON, March 16 fP) A Berlin war correspondent said tonight that tho Russians had broken in to the "Inner de fenses of Stettin"' and that a soviet tank army and five tank corps had been thrown Into a violent new effort to liquidate tho Inst of the German positions cast of tho Oder. Preceded by a furious artil lery barrage front hundreds of guns, masses of tanks and in fantry were attneking on a nar row front trying to split the German bridgehead Into three parts, tho correspondent said. "Small heights and villages have changed hands up to 14 times," . . Dlvldts Lints In East Prussia the Russians announced a seven-mile break through to the shore of tho Frlschcs Hnff, a Baltic lagoon, which divided the remnants of the 200,000 defenders of the Kocnlgsbcrg , zono into two pockets. Another major attack has been started by Marshal Ivan Koncv's first Ukrainian army north of Ratlbor and In the Grottkau area southeast of Brcs Inn In Silesia, tho German com munique announced, and pene trations were made. German broadcasts said several Russian divisions were involved In tho drlvo toward Moravska-Ostrava, in tho, Moravian gate, 17 miles south of Ratlbor. Wlda-ScaU Mora ,' - , The Stettin and East Prus sian offensives apparently were a part of a wide-scale mopping up behind advanced soviet lines preparatory to the climatic battle which the Russians may launch along the Berlin front at any ' time. ' Stettin is the key to Berlin's north flank. For days the Rus sians have been reported on heights overlooking tho city, P.srlin's chief Baltic port, and pouring artillery fire into the streets. Military Aide Named by FDR WASHINGTON, March 16 (IF) President Roosevelt has a new military aide, Col. Richard Park Jr., who succeeds the late MaJ. Gen. Edwin M. Watson. Watson, who died at sea Feb ruary 20 while returning with the chief executive from the Crimea conference, was secre tary as well as military aide to tho chief executive. The post of secretary remains to be filled. Colonel Park had been an as sistant military aide at the White House for a year. Number. 10415 Nazi Superhighway Slashed By 1st Army PARIS, March 16 (IP) The first army cut tho Ruhr-Frankfurt superhighway cast of the Rhino In two places today and extended the bridgehead to at least 13 miles In length. The Americans beat off a Ger man tonk attack In heavy fight ing four miles northeast of Llnz, in tho area where the bridge head is six and a half miles wide. They fought into Kocnigs wintcr in the two-mile gains wilhin three miles of open tank country leading to tho great Ruhr basin. Prtpar for Attack "Tho Germans are building up for a major attack," AP Cor respondent Don Whitehead re ported from the bridgehead. To tho south, the famous arm ored division broke loose again in a swift, unchecked 12-mlle dush southeast of Coblenz. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army on the north and the seventh army's offensive on the south were squeezing the Ger mans from the . rich Saarland and Palatinate and developing every prospect of another great trap like that which yielded more than 40,000 prisoners in tho Eifels. 6 MU Gains The seventh army rolled up aggregate gains of six miles on the south side of the Saar, fought to the edge of its capital of Saarbrucken, outflanked the burned French fortress of Bitche and imminently threatened the Wissembourg gap into the Pal atinate. Tens of towns fell, a thou sand crack German troops sur rendered before the new offen sive was a dozen hours old. The fourth armored division, commanded by Patton's former chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Gaffey of Austin, Texas, dash ed across the Hunsrueck pla teau below Coblenz and cover ed a third of the distance to the great bend of the Rhine be tween Bingen and Frankfurt threatening some of Germany's largest industrial centers. Pilots spotted Germans al ready fleeing the Saarland and Palatinate toward Frankfurt and Mainz, both in the path of Gaffcy's tanks. The breakthrough threatened immediately to cut the whole network of supply and retreat routes behind nazis reeling back from the seventh army's offen sive, powered by at least seven divisions or about 100,000 men. Fightcrbombers worked over convoys seen running for Frank furt. Seventh army troops were but eight miles from Zwei bruccken, 16 from Pirmasens, five from St. Ingbert and at the edge of Voelklingen. To the north, other planes kept up the methodical seal-offs of the whole communications arc from Limburg to Dortmund. Thunderbolts paced the fourth armored division's dash along the Rhine, blasting towns in its path. Lewis Rejects Operators' Counter-Proposals as Basis WASHINGTON, March 6 (IP) John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers policy committee rejected I lie bituminous operat ors' counter proposals today a few hours after they had been APPROPRIATION FOR TEEN CLi BACKED ' Youthful workers for.' a teen age club hero won an Initial victory today through action by tho city recreation committee recommending a- teen-age club appropriation of $1500 from the recreation reserves. The committee's recommenda tion, voted at a meeting yester day afternoon, now goes to the city council. 11 we money is apprupnaiuu, it will be spent in remodeling quarters for the teen-age club In the armory. The Elks lodge, Rotary club, American Legion, and other organizations have been asked for donations to help get the club underway when the remodeling is completed, and recreation committee members said they hoped such contribu tions would be forthcoming. Advisers Named The recreation committee vot ed In favor of the appropriation, with no strings attached except that two members of the recrea tion committee should be mem bers of the teen-age club ad visory committee. Mrs. Frank Peyton and Malcolm Epley were tentatively appointed by Dr. M. C. Casscl, committee temporary chairman. Tecn-ago club supporters said they hope for final action by tho council Monday night, but Mayor Ed Ostendorf said after the recreation meeting that he would hove the matter referred to the council finance commit (Continucd on Page Two) Superhighway Slashed rf GERMANY Juehchy JX . , Siegen 1 . . First army troop.j m. -VTo ,3 mlta In length; places as they .xtendad their brmg mj( north o( Linl submitted as a basis for a new contract, v The policy committee ex pressed the hope, however, that collective bargaining between the miners and operators, sus pended this week while the oper ators ' formulated their counter offers could result in an agree ment before expiration of the present contract March 31. , The miners' 250 man policy committee, which officially for mulated the 18 demands prior to the start of negotiations March 1, has', been standing by. e v o r since, leaving the negotiations to an eight man subcommitte hcad-ed-by-iiewisr- -' Reject Demands ;' The' operators earlier had re jected 12 of Lewis' 18 demand's and offered counter proposals on six. The counter proposals in cluded three involving wages which would boost miners' wages an estimated 28 cents a day. Rejected was Lewis' de mand for a 10-ccnt-a-ton royalty on coal mined.; 1 Lewis summoned ' the policy committee to a meeting imme diately after this morning's ses sion and the following resolution was adopted: "That the policy committee re ject the counter proposals of the operators which rejects the mine workers proposals and' that our negotiating committee be in structed to continue negotiations on the basis of our proposals of March 1 . with the hope that through real collective bargain ing, a mutual satisfactory agree ment can be reached." Recess Called Negotiations had been re cessed to permit Lewis to study the proposals. The operators' wage proposals called for shift differentials of four and six cents an hour for second and third tricks, instead of the 10 and 15 cents requested by Lewis; maximum vacation pay of $5Q for one year of serv ice and $100 for five years; and full time for portal-to-portal tra vel time which is' now being paid for at two-thirds the regu lar rate. ' $110 Million Set For Loan Quota PORTLAND, March 16 (in state war bond officials worked today on the 7th War Loan drive, which has an Oregon quota of $110,000,000. ; E. C. Sammons, state war fi nance chairman, who just re turned from Washington, said the treasury department will conduct two 1045 campaigns in which it hopes to equal the to tal sales of three 1944 drives. He told county committeemen the drives would emphasize pay roll savings with payroll de ductions from April 9 to July 7 counting toward the 7th loan quota. ERICA HEARS DPI NO PEACE FEELERS WASHINGTON, March 16 W), President .Roosevelt' informed reporters today that the govern ment had received nothing at all here in the way of German peace feelers. . .. He was asked at a news con ference if he could give any il lumination on rumors from Eu rope, particularly ' reports . in Stockholm, that there had been some peace discussions. He was told. too. that there were . re- Eorts that Gen'. Von Rundstedt ad1 produced some, armistice prop.qsais., - - Knew Nothing , " : . We have nothing -here at all on them, Mr. Roosevelt assert ed. And he said he understood the British' foreign ' office i had said it had none either. He was asked whether,' in that connection, he would throw any light on discussions he-had had with Robert Murphy, . principal political advisor -to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: It was assumed, he was " told, that 'the' consulta tions dealt .with occupation;- of. Germany. ' ' . " ' ' -. Murphy's Boyhood The chief executive said he had seen Murphy only, once since the latter had ;returned from abroad and that they had talk ed then about Murphy's boy hood in' Germany. . To an inquiry whether the American zone of occupation in Germany has been decided, the president said he had not heard about it since the Yalta con ference with Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin. (Continued on Page Two) Berlin Blasted Again by RAF LONDON, March 16 (VP) Bomb-blasted Berlin underwent its, 24th consecutive RAF night raid last night after specially trained American fliers had cli maxed a peak day of allied air operations with a 650-plane pul verizing attack on Adolf Hit ler's army staff headquarters at Zossen, 20 miles from, the German capital. RAF night raiders also struck at Hagen in the industrial Ruhr and at oil refineries in : Mis bourg, near Hannover. Military Rebellion . Suppressed In Cuba HAVANA, March : 16 (P) Genovevo Perez, chief of Cuba's armed forces, announced today the government had suppressed a military rebellion against President Grau San Martin's ad ministration. Former Army Chief Jose Pedraza was arrested with about 80 other former army and police officers and civilians at a meet ing in the town of Batabano. Tin Challenge Crosses Range Klamath salvage leaders tossed an audacious challenge across the Cascades today, offering to bet a sack of Klamath potatoes against a similar quantity of Medford pears that Klamath's tin salvage this week will outweigh that of Jackson county. Paul Lee, county salvage chairman, sent the challenge to Robert A. Duff, Jackson chairman, as follows: "Inasmuch as your Jackson county tin drive coincides with ours, we hereby offer, you a challenge in poundage collected. Well realizing the excess value of our product, we neverthe less, are willing to wager 100 pounds of Klamath No. 1 Netted Gems against an equal weight and quality of your peerless (?) pears. The loser to personally deliver in the winner's town at high noon at a date later specified. We believe our Klamath Jiephyr can harness your black tornado and out-perform it for the duration in the collection of salvage material." Baby Gets New Shoes - V ,' . i' . wa A little repatriate girl, Eleanor Ruth Austen, being brought to St. Louis, Mo., on a troop transport, from India, where her mother died, -grins up at Chief Boatswain's Mate Joseph Hegner of the coast guard, who makes her a pair of shoes. The girl, being brought back-by-her father. Army Sgt. James F. Austen Jr., learned to walk aboard the transport. (AP wirephoto from coast guard).- - -'..' ".'- . - "l: ". Duke of Windsor-Resigns vJ; Governorship of Bate " NASSAU, Bahamas, March 16 (p) ; The' Duke of Windsor,' .whose : resignation ;Bs governor: of .the; Bahama islands was an nounced yesterday. said - today that " he ' and : his 1 duchess will leaveVior;New York.vthe-latter part, of ApriUj.-' . - From New : York, he added, they. may. go to his ranch; in Canada, and later plan to visit Europe. 'J.fc...'. . . .Plans to Work '1 "My resignation, does' not mean ;- a ' permanent , severance from public life," the duke de- . By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. " SALEM, March 16 (IP) The Oregon legislature, expecting to end ito session by tomorrow night, began, taking action today on the last of its major issues, with the senate approving house bills to -provide machinery for counties . to set up the manager form of government, and to pro vide -retirement systems for em ployes of the state, counties, cit ies, school districts, and other subdivisions of the state. The ivote of the county man ager bill was 21 to 8, while the retirement bill was 27 to 2. : - Counties May Elect ' The county manager bill pro vides that-any county, upon pe tition by 10 per cent of the vot ers, may- hold an election, to de cide whether to adopt the sys tem. The people would . elect a county board, who would select the manager. . The . manager would name all county officials. The bill is the result of a con stitutional amendment approved last November when the voters provided that . the . legislature may establish machinery for the county manager plan. . ' , Efficiency Cited .. 1 Sen. Dean. H..u Walker, Inde pendence,, declared that county government ' is inefficient, and that -the proposed form would make it more efficient. Oppon ents of the bill contended that the manager would have too much authority. Voting against the bill , were Senators Booth, Burke, . Ellis, s (Continued on Page Two) . Downward Tariff Adjustments Eyed ' WASHINGTON, March 16 (P) Administration ' legislation- that would permit downward tariff adjustments on some import items of as much as 75 per cent under the Smoot-Hawley act levels made its appearance in the -house today! ' - It' appeared in the form of a proposed three-year extension of the reciprocal trade act, . with an amendment - following the tariff reductions. Rep. Dough ton (D-N.C.),- chairman of the ways and means committee, -introduced the bill. Republicans - immediately an nounced a "last-ditch" battle to retain the . present 50 per cent maximum duty reduction. clared, "because after the war men with experience will be badly needed, and I'll fit in any .where, that I- can be. helpful.",.-; v Attired in a smart grey-check suit with a- red carnation in; his lapel, the youthful-appearing for mer king "held a meeting -with newsmen this morning. - ; "When the secretary of state for colonies visited Nassau' last December," the duke : said, ."I told him that I 'wanted to -be relieved when my five-year term as governor expired.!' - . - '- He took office August- 17, 1940. - '.' - ' '' - Other Interests '';..: I "Now that the war in Europe is hear an end," he continued, "I have interests -in Canada, America and Europe that need more that! the spasmodic atten tion that I can give them from this distance. - - ' - "I shall' go to England some day, but there, are no definite plans. or dates." '-- ' '-. He explained that . the. an nouncement of . his resignation was made two days before he expected ' it, and therefore the word appeared to:come as a sur prise. . . - This tiny colony will' bid a regretful farewell to the royal governor -who steered the Bahamas- safely through - a war time economic storm..; ; -: I Troops Capture H Italian Village ' ROME, : March 16 (P) Fifth army forces have, captured the village of Serra and won. posi tions from which, they may !be able, to cut highway 64 behind the German stronghold of Ver gato, a 1 1 i e d headquarters an nounced today. , - ; " , After occupying Serra; about iuuu yards west 01 ine nignway, the allied troops pushed-toward the village of Salvaro against stiff enemy resistance. i JAP DEFENSES .. : Costliest Battle of Pacific War Ends By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor American marines have won the battle of Iwo Jima at a cmi of 4189 killed, 15,308 wounded anoi -missing, Fleet Adm. Chester W. -Nimitz - reported shortly before noon Friday. ' The admiral said organized resistance ceased at 6 p. m., Fri day, Iwo time, when the leather, necks, broke through Japanew lines on the northern end of tho bloody island. . .. Of the total casualties of 19.- 938 many of the wounded al ready have returned to action, - ; 21,000 Japs Killed Counted Japanese dead ex ceed 21,000. . . Organized resistance on Iwo ceased on Friday (Iwo time) when, elements of the third and fifth . divisions broke through the enemy lines at Kitano point at the. northern tip of the island. -. The casualties on Iwo, great est of the Pacific war to date, topped - those on Saipan of 16,525 in 24 days of organized resistance on that island in the Marianas, about 650 miles south of Iwo. The Iwo campaign lasted two days longer. ; '-.".' Life Saver ' Iwo Jima is a life saver for hundreds of B-29 airmen whose flaming raids on Japan have killed thousands of the enemy, a Superfort spokesman disclosed today as a major breakthrough, in the Philippines threatened to trap, two Nipponese battalions. The spokesman said 30 Super forts have made emergency land ings on Iwo for repairs or re ; . (Continued on Page Two) More-than '30 interested prop erty holders of the Altamont dis trict gathered last night in the junior . high school to discuss the possibility of postwar con struction of a sanitary district. W. M. Bartlett of Salem, con sulting engineer for the postwar readjustment and development commission for the state of Ore gon, told the group of similar projects in other parts of the state and stressed the necessity for long range planning. - The postwar commission sent Bartlett to Klamath county for the purpose of meeting with any municipal or suburban planning committees for whom, he acts as consultant. Organisation Bartlett told the group the only way the proposed Altamont district would be eligible for fed eral aid would be through the organization of a political sub division ruch as a sanitary dis trict organized through the pro per channels, and as prescribed by. law.. Those ' attending brought ' up . the subjects of sewage, fire and -police protection and roads. It was suggested that the Altamont district would probably need three separate improvement pro jects under the political sub-division to handle all needed protection,- ' ;. - ;:, ... ' Committee v.'A committee was named with W. S. Metier, chairman; S. R. Balsiger, Lee S. McMullen and Bert Bagett. This sroup will look into boundaries necessary for such a district, find out; the as sessed valuation of property and ' '," (Continued on Page Two) Irish Have Big Day Cop Most of Filmdom's Oscars By ROBERT MYERS s HOLLYWOOD,' March 16 (P) It's a big day for the Irish and a lovely miss from Sweden,, Ing rid Bergman. ; .'.'. 1 Bing Crosby, ; Leo McCarey, Barry Fitzgerald, little Margaret O'Brien, all as Irish as Paddy's pig, and Miss Bergman, , walked off with the major share of hon ors as the academy of motion pic;. ture arts and sciences awarded its famed "Oscars" last night. , All Out And the movie capital went all the way in voting "Going My Way" the most outstanding pic ture of 1944. The hit film outdis tanced such nominees as the epic "Wilson" and "Double Indem nity" and earned, all told, seven awards. In addition to being named best p i c tur e,-, other awards were: An "Oscar" for Crooner Cros by for the best performance by an actor; another for Dublin born Barry Fitzgerald, his co star, for giving the finest supi porting portrayal, and two to the man who directed and wrote the original story. Leo McCarey; one to Frank Butler and Frank Ca- y'ett for writing the screen play, and another to James van neii sen and Johnny Burke for the song, "Swinging On a Star" from the same film. , : Miss Bergman won the best actress award for her vivid psy choharassed role in "Gaslight," and crowned her career as one of the finest artists in. Hollywood. ' It was an exciting evening for the 2000 academy guests packed into the Chinese theatre and the 5000 who crammed Hollywood boulevard outside arid, generally speaking, left few disappointed aspirants for the industry's most cherished awards. - Zanuck Listed The coveted Irving G. Thai berg award went to Darryl F. Za nuck, the man who brought "Wilson" to the screen, as the , produced who fashioned "the . most consistent high quality pro duction last year,"- and a special award went to the-child favor He, Margaret O'Brien. .... Ethel Bariymore shared sup-. porting role honors-with Fitz gerald for her mother part to. Cary Grant in "None But-the Lonely Heart." , "ivl.iion. and lougnt on
