Hammering of Formosa Increased by Superfortresses
Plane Toll in
Prior Attacks
Raised to 376
Jap Army In Philippines
Isolated as Tokyo Warns
Land Invsion Imminent
Keep On Buying
The 5th war loan Is over but
Ihe war Isn't. Don't wait for tha
6th drive. Steady, continuous
buying of bonds means less on tha
national quota when the next call
cornea. -
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.
(AP) A large task force of
superfortresses attacked Oka
yama, on Japan's island of
Formosa, the 20th bomber
commad announced today In
a communique which identi
fied the city as "the most Im
portant air target south of
Japan proper." ,
The communique said that
"none of our aircraft so far
has been reported lost."
' Okayama Is a vital Japan
ese repair base.
"The mission was carried
out from bans in China,"
the announcement said.
(Bv the Associated Press)
A "large force" of. land-based
B-29 Superfortresses slashed at
Formosa today in a flaming two
wav attack which Tokyo head-
quarters said was coordinated
with a third days' bombing of
the Island by carrier planes.
Increasing aerial fury over the
fortress underlined a Japanese
admiral's warning to his people
tnat tne American oiiensive pre
luded an Invasion of the Philip
pines. He added that landing op
erations against Formosa and
the Ryukyu islands also were
possible behind this vast bomb
curtain.
Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander
of the 20th air force, reported
that a large force of Superfort
resses made today's assault and
sal 4, details would be announced
when received.
A broadcast Japanese commu
nique said 100 Superfortresses
made the raid, following two
morning attacks by 450 carrier
planes.
Heavy Toll Taken
Adm. Nimitz , announced that
(Continued nn page 6)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
TWO or three weeks ago, the
Office of War Information
(OWI) Issued a report predicting
that Germany would go down
"before or not long after the end
of 1944." Last week it put out a
follow-up to the effect that the
lallure. of allied air-borne troops
at Arnhem makes "more remote"'
the. chances of victory In Europe
this year.
If OWI would spend a little
more of its time seeing to it that
we get the news as it happens
and a little less gazing into the
crystal ball and predicting what
is going to happen, it might be
better for all of us.
THE truth is that NOBODY
knows when the war in Eu
rope is going to end.
So much depends upon things
that can't be predicted unerringly
in advnace the "breaks," as we
say in football. Things, for ex
ample, like the attempted end
run at Arnhem. We MIGHT have
caught the Germans unprepared
there and got clear around BE
HIND their Siegfried line before
they could stop us.
But we didn't They got to Arn
hem with "the mostest men fust
est." llfE might plan a mighty, con
f centrated blow against a nar
row section of the German line
with success depending princl-
pally upon a bombardment from
the air such as was never seen
or dreamed of since the world
(Continued on page 2)
Proposed Ban on
Japs'
i Return Gets
Pro, Con Argument
AUBURN, Wash., Oct. 14
(AP) Cmdr. Melvin H. McCoy,
navy survivor of the Bataan
"march of death" from a Japa
nese prison camp, and R. B. Coz
zens of San Francisco, west coast
assistant to Dillon S. Meyer, di
rector of the War Relocation au
thority, gave verbal approval and
disapnroval to actions of the Re
member Pearl Harbor league last
night.
McCoy told the league, formed
to prevent return of Japanese
and Japanese Americans to the
Puyallup and White River val
leys, that trouble would likely
arise if veterans returned from
the Pacific to find their homes
still surrounded by Japanese.
"I believe It would be better If
the Japanese remained away
.If they return they will un
doubtedly be discriminated
against and people In that cate
gory are not apt to be good loyal
citizens," McCoy said.
Cozzens, however, reminded
the audience of the "thousands of
Japanese whose certificates de
nounced the emperor of Japan."
"Some 12,000 of them are serv
ing in the United States army.
Four American-born Japanese
Were given honorable mention
lor their performance against the
enemy on Saipan."
Established 1873 v . "
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v Q
HOOVER RUNS AGAIN Bear
ing the same name as that of
the only living ex-Dresident.
Herbert Hoover, above, of Co
lumbus, O., refuses to be fazed
by five past defeats in races for
state offices. The former Akron
and Cleveland insurance sales
man is a candidate for lieuten
ant-governor of Ohio.
Greek Island of
Corfu Captured
By Allied Troops
HOME, Oct. 14. (AP) Allied
troops have captured the fertile
Greek island of Corfu in the
Ionian sea after the German erar-
rison of only 60 men surrender
ed witnout firing a shot, it was
announced today.
At the same time Albanian par
tisans on the mainland occupied
Delvino, an inland road center
above the port of Sarande (Porto
Edda) which Dreviouslv was can.
tured. '
The fall of Corfu. Sararidn and
Delvino eliminated hnih thn ai.
banian coastal road and coastal
Waters as avenues of nazl es
cape northward from Greece. The
comparatively- light opposition
encountered in the area indicated
that the nazis no loncrer attached
high value to these routes.
Allied headquarters announced
that at Sarande delayed action
explosives left by the Germans
oiew up' tne center of town but
mere were no casualties.
The area affected had been rop
ed off because many booby traps
had been discovered. The explo
sion was 50 hours after the Ger
man surrender and the 60 who
surrendered were in the northeast
corner of the Island. Numbers
of deserters were believed scat
tered elsewhere.
Allied headquarters once again
was sllnt on the continuing opera
tions of British land forces and
partisans on the Greek mainland.
mere still was no official con
firmation of yesterday's reports
that the Germans had evacuated
Athens and that the Greek flag
was flying from the Acropolis.
Stage-Truck Collision
Kills One, Injures Two
ELLENSBURG. Wash., Oct. 14
(AP) Donna Danford, 17, of
Yakima, was killed and two Cath
olic sisters from Providence hos
pital in Seattle were injured last
night in a collision between a
west bound Washington motor
coach stage and a truck on the
Snoqualmie pass highway at Lake
neecneius, tne state patrol re
ported. ' ,
Providence hospital attendants
to where the two sisters were re
turned said their injuries were
not critical. They were identified
as Sister Mary De Sales and Sis
ter Delores Mary.
Draft Dodging Cfiarged
To Reedsport Prisoner
REEDSPORT, Ore. Floyd
Mearl Land, 37, who has been a
resident of Reedsport for the
past two months and who claims
to be a commercial fisherman,
was taken in custody by an FBI
official here this week and
charged with draft evasion and
failure to register for induction.
He is now in the city jail await
ing further developments of his
case.
Land states that he is a resident
of California and was born at
Pomona, that he came north on a
fishing boat, and for the past two
years has been a resident of
Marshf ield. ,
Smuggled Salmon In
"Trial Run" Captured
VANCOUVER, B. C Oct 14
(Canadian Press) Canadian
fisheries officials revealed yester
day they had seized 600 pounds
of white spring salmon in a truck
near Douglas, Wash., Thursday
nliht.
The officials expressed belief
the shipment was a "trial run,"
the forerunner of bigger ship
ments that were to be smuggled
into the United States In viola
tion of a Canadian embargo.
Vch Railway
t--.es Lashed
By Bombers
LONDON, Oct 14. (API
Great fleets of more than 2,200
American and British bombers,
with more than 1,100 fighters as
escort, battered at railways and
Industrial targets in Germany to
day, delivering the main blows to
Cologne and Duisberg 5 to 40
miles Inside the reiclrs frontier.
Duisberg was drenched with
one of the greatest concentrations
of bombs loosed over a nazl city
in daylight. More than 1,000 RAF
Lancasters and Halifaxes dropped
more than 4,5uu tons of explosives
and Incendiaries on the railways,
inland port and industries there.
Another armada of more than
1,000 U. S. bobmers struck at
railways, freight yards and other
objectives at Cologne 20 miles to
the south. Still other formations
of Flying Fortresses and Libera
tors bombed military objectives
in the Saarbrucken and Kaiser
slautern areas. .
British Lose 14 Bombers
First reports indicate that great
damage must have been done at
Duisberg, an air ministry com
munique said. Fourteen British
bombers were lost.
The American planes hit five
freight yards at Cologne less than
eight hours after British Mos
quitos gave it a softening up blow
last night. Cologne lies less than
40 miles east of Aachen on the
road to Berlin.
U. S. Flying Fortresses and Lib
erators also returned to German
Silesia today blasting a synthetic
oil refinery at Blechahamer, 75
miles southeast of Breslau, and
a plant at nearby Ordetal while
other bomber formations hit com
munications in Czechoslavkla,
Hungary and Yugoslavia.
Work Progressing
On Timber Plant
At Shady Point
R. A. Hcintz, owner and presi
dent .of the Heintz Construction
company, Portland, was in Rose
burg today Inspecting the prog
ress of the work being done by
nis company lor tne Diamond
Timber company, which is con
structing a large log pond at
Shady Point. The company has
moved in a large amount of
heavy equipment and has com
pleted excavation of the upper
section of the pond and has made
a good start on the dike work.
Form carpenters have completed
the forms for the concrete spill
way, and concrete will be poured
tne urst oi tne weeK oy tne neat
Mix Concrete company.
Grading has been completed
for the railroad spur and a die-
sel power plant is being installed
which will permit continuous
work, two 10-hour shifts are
being maintained.
Lester Laurers, superintendent,
and his assistant, George Zig
ler, have moved their residences
from Portland to Roseburg.
Harry Bryson, who is supervis
ing the construction work on be
half of the timber company, re
ports the work is being done in
a most satisfactory manner.
Man Hit in Hotel Fight
Not 'Roosevelt's Friend'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (AP)
Senator Green, democrat of
Rhode Island, today said that
members of the A. F. of L. team
sters union involved in the so
called "battle of the Statler" fol
lowing President Roosevelt's open
ing speech at that hotel Septem
ber 23 had been identified "to
some extent."
None, he said, "was a person
al friend of the president.
One of two navy officers who
said they took part In the fracas,
Lieut, (j. g.) Randolph Dickins,
Jr., told newsmen after the in
cident that he had been told by
bystanders that he had struck
"a personal friend of the presi
dent," and could expect a repri
mand.
Speculators Make High
Profit on Oregon Farms
PORTLAND, Oct. 14. (AP)J
Farm speculators have bought
Oregon farms and sold them six
months later for a 50 per cent
profit, H. H. Williamson, agricul
tural relations advisor from
Washington D. C, said today.
Control of farm land prices Is
one of the most difficult wartime
problems for agricultural leaders,
he told a group of farm represen
tatives here.
Northwest Scouts-Cubs
Roster Now Totals 57,002
TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Oct. 14
(AP) Region eleven. Boy Scouts
of America, now boasts a mem
bership of 57,002 Cub and Boy
Sctouts, H. C. Mugar, deputy re
gional executive, declared yester
day. The membership represents
a gain of 14,891. The region In
cludes Oregon, Washington, Ida
ho, Montana and Alaska.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1944.
AMERICANS LUNGING DEEPER INTO AACHEN;
RUSSIANS SEIZE
East Prussia
Now Slated
For Assault
MOSCOW, Oct. 14 (AP) Fall
of Riga, Latvian capital and last
Baltic city that remained to the
Germans, released two powerful
Russian armies today for a thrust
southward toward East Prussia.
(The German radio denied Ri
ga's capture.
(The transocean propaganda
agency's version was that Ger
man troops evacuated the eastern
part ot the Latvian capital, out
sun neia tne western part.
(Reporting a new red army
landing on saare, off tne Eston
ian coast, the German radio said
14,000 troops, 5,000 refugees and
18,000 war prisoners had been
evacuated in the nazis' retreat
from the Baltic islands.)
Announcement of the red ar
my's entry into East Prussia in
force from the frontier belt 12
miles northeast of Tilsit may be
maae tonignt.
Nazi Flight Plan Upset
Riga, a city of 385.000. whose
capture was announced last night
oy Marsnai Stalin, was taken by
storming the port area on the
mouth of the Dvina, after the
Russians crossed supposedly im
passable swamps on the . north
east. Thus the soviet forceslock
ed a German plan for a seaborne
evacuation.
A correspondent of Red Star,
soviet army newspaper, said the
enemy tried to burn Riga and
had demolished centuries-old St.
Peter's church. However, a swift
Russian breakthrough prevented
complete destruction of the city.
The German commander, Col.
Gen.t Schemer,- was reported -to
have ordered wholesale execu
tions among the wavering troops.
Eleven nazl soldiers were remov
ed from a movie house In Riga
and shot in the street for being
absent without leave, a soviet dis
patch said.
Belgrade Penetrated '
(Although the Russian commu
nique said nothing of a direct at
tack on German soil In East Prus
sia, Berlin reported massed so
viet tank assaults on the East
Prussian garrison at the port of
Memel and a large-scale red ar
my attack across the Narew river
in northern Poland on the lower
side of East Prussia.)
Russian troops and their Yugo
slav partisan allies are "fightim
the enemy in the streets of Bel
grade," a broadcast communique
(Continued on page 6)
Conviction For
Assault Appealed
An appeal from the findings of
a justice court jury was taken to
day by Al Doney, Riddle, recently
arrested on a charge of assault
and battery. The complaining
witness was Virginia Sutton. A
jury, composed ot U. W. Parker,
Roy Catching, D. Y. Allison. Joe
Blosser and C. H. Meusch return
ed a verdict of guilty. A fine of
$50 was imposed, but was not
paid as a result of the appeal to
the circuit court. The defendant
was continued at liberty under
$150 cash ball.
Edwin T. Daniels, arrested on
a charge of being drunk on a
public highway, pleaded guilty,
Judge Thomas C. Hartfiel report
ed, and was continued In custody
in lieu of payment of a fine of
$25.
Traffic fines included Ray V.
Chastain, $15, overload, and Ver
non n. i-ippert, a, overload and
$10, no operator's license.
$12 Million Sewer Bond
Issue Sold by Portland
PORTLAND. Oct. 14 fAPI
Portland's $12,000,000 bond Issue
to finance a sewage disposal pro
ject was sold today to a syndicate
headed by Harris Trust and Sav
ings bank, Chicago.
The city council, which earlier
protested that the 1.49795 per
cent Interest rate was inn hluh.
voted 4-1 for - the sale of the
largest bond issue ever floated by
the city. Mayor Riley cast the
opposing vote.
Restaurant Accused of
$7,000 Overcharges
PORTLAND. Oct. 14. (AP)
A Portland restaurant charged
with raising prices enough to ac
count for $7000 In overcharge
was defendant today In a suit
niea oy tne urfl.
The government aecnev asked
circuit court for an Injunction
barring the China Clipper from
charging more than ceiling prices,
Iff S ; feiiiiiilT ' 1
YANKS TOSS STREET CARS AT GERMANS Grinning American engineers load a German trolley
with 88-mm shells and dyamite abandoned by nazis at they prepare t0 roll the street ear down
a steep grade into the heart of the bomb-blasted city of Aachen. The engineers itill have a
week's supply of the "secret weapons" they call them V-1 3s and a good steep grade along
which to roll them.
Roosevelt Turns Down Invitation to Talk
At Fprum; Berle Raps Dewey for Effort
To Link Administration With Communism
Jap Forced Into Nippon
Arm Aids Americans x:
FARRAGUT, Idaho, Oct. 14.
(AP) Lyman B. Keeney, Kim
berley, Ore., pharmacists mate
third class, now on duty here,
tells of one Japanese soldier who
was not suicidally fantalc during
the landing on Cane Gloucester.
New Britain.
One enemy soldier, he said, ran
out to give up oetore tne light
ing really started. Not only that,
but he pointed out gun emplace
ments ana gave otner valuable in
formation, Keeney said.
The sailor explained: me sol
dier had a family living in Cali-
tornia ana wantea to get nom.
He told his captors he had been
forced into the army while on a
visit to Japan.
Funds Listed for Loans
To Unelectrified Farms
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. (AP)
A total of $12,500,000 half of
the available funds for the cur
rent fiscal year, have been ear
marked for loans in states on the
basis of the estimated number o!
unelectrified farms as of last
July 1, the REA announced yes
terday. Allocations reserved for loans
during the vear ending June 30,
1945, and the farms without cen
tral station electric service July
1, 1944, as announced by states
Included: Oregon $50,119 and 14,
129. Says Vets Will Never Be
Pencil, Apple Peddlers
POCATELLO, Idaho, Oct. 14.
I AP) Brig. Gen. M. G. McCon
nnl told the Bannock county
veterans' service committee last
night that "veterans of this war
will never have to face the grim
task of making a-living selling
lend pencils or apples."
Veterans' service committees In
each county, he said, "will make
It practically imposisblo for re
turning veterans to miss receiv
ing information and specific as
sistance." Eastern Oregon Scene
Of Fatal Plane Crash
CANYON CITY, Ore., Oct. 14.
(AP) A plane crash, heard yes
terday by deer hunters in Grant
county, was reported by Sheriff
I. B. Hazcltine todav.
The sheriff said the plane was
located yesterday and the occu
pants found dead. He did not dis
close the type of plane nor the
number of persons it carried.
Inidan Bureau Official
Killed in Truck Upset
JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 14
'API Caupht beneath an over
turned truck which had plunged
off the Glacier highway and Into
n slouch, Oeortre W. Iiuden. Jr.,
about 30, director of the rehabil
itation of the Aleutian Indians In
western Alaska for the Indian
bureau, was drowned yesterday.
RIGA, BLOCItf NAZIS' FLIGHT
. (By the Associated Press) i v
President Roosevelt has declined an invitation tq speak at the
concluding session 'of the New York Herald Tribune forum-next
Wednesday night. His republican opponent, Gov. Thomas K Dewey;
will address the forum that evening. ' ' - ' " ' ' .
Presidential Secretary Stephen Early, announcing Mr! Roose
Dewey to Invade
Home State Of
Hannegan, Truman
ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 14.
(AP) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
has selected "the urgent need for
honesty and competence In our
national government" as the topic
of a major campaign speech In
St. Louis Monday night.
The republican nominee in
other speeches has challenged
directly the competency of the
present democratic leadership, as
serting also that on Nov. 7 the
American people "will see that
we restore integrity to the
White House so that its spoken
word can be trusted once again."
A governor's office spokesman
said It appeared likely Dewey also
would discuss support President
Roosevelt reportedly was receiv
ing from big city political groups.
The speech, to be broadcast ov
er two national networks (NBC
and Blue), will find Dewey in
the home town of Robert E. Han
negan, democratic national chair
man, and in a state which twlee
has elected to the United States
senate Harry S. Truman, demo
cratic vice-presidential nominee.
Dewey declined to comment
yesterday on published reports of
a demand by Senator Ball (R.,
Minn.) that the two major presi
dential candidates answer this
question:
"Should the vote of the United
States representative on the
Uniled Nations Security council
commit an agreed-on quota of
our military forces to action or
dered by the council to maintain
peace, without requiring further
congressional approval?"
Ruling on Delinquent
Taxes Issued by Nouner
SALEM, Ore., Oct. 14. (AP)
Interest and penalties arising
irom ianure to pay taxes, -winch
had become a lien upon property
prior to the state's acquisition of
the land by foreclosure of mort
gage but upon which no certifi
cate of delinquency had been Is
sued, are cancelled and neither
the state nor the party purchas
ing the land from the state is re
quired to pay them, Attoreny
General Neuner advised the state
land board today.
Capt. George L. Eckert
Reported Wounded
Captain Georee L. Eckert, hus
band of Mrs. June W. Eckert,
Rnsehurp, Is listed in an army
release today as being among
Oregon men wounded In action.
He was serving in the Asiatic
theater.
velt's decision not to speak, refer
red newsmen to Democratic Na
tional Chairman Robert E. Han
negan for an answer to the ques
tion why the invitation was turn
ed down. The president usually
has addressed the forum in other
years. -;
Governor Dewey will speak on
the topic, "This Must be the Last
War."
With the main contenders for
the presidency in an oratorical
lull this wrek-end, the rival vice
presidential nominees centered
their efforts on California's
weighty bloc of electoral votes. .
Berle Answers Dewey
Whilo Dewey polished an ad
dress set for St. Louis Monday
night, on a topic announced as
"the urgent need for honesty and
competence In our national gov
ernment," the White House took
a pot shot at ono he made in
Charleston, W. Va., a week ago.
It released a letter to President
Roosevelt from Adolf A. Berle, as
sistant secretary or state, saying
(Continued on page 6)
Japs Allow Capt. Weikel
Family Correspondence
Captain Ivan W. Weikel, son of
Mrs. D. O. Tower of Coos Junc
tion, has at last received mes
sages from his family. Captain
Weikel was captured by the Japa
nese at the fall of Bataan and Is
a prisoner of war at Zontsujl,
Japan.
In a letter to hi swlfc, a resi
dent of Corvallis, he reports he
has received 21 letters from his
wife, one containing her picture
and that of his son, together with
10 of his mother's letters and one
from his father.
He Is permitted, he reports, to
write only six letters each year,
and these must be to his wife.
Kellogg Prisoner Says
Nazi Treatment Good
Staff Sergeant Ralph H. Hoi
comb, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. K.
Holcomb, Kellogg, is getting "sur
prisingly excellent treatment," In
a German prison camp, accord
ing to a letter, dated July 3,
1944, received by his parents. '
Sgt. Holcomb, a radio mnn and
machine gunner with the 8th air
force, was taken prisoner when
shot down over Germany June
21, 1944. In his letter he reports
that he is "physically O. K.A .
He has high praise for the
work of the American Red Cross,
which, he reports, "is doing a
wortdcrful work and the boys ap
preciate their aid very much."
Hell or Howdy?
ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 14. (AP)
Col. Hubert Jolly wrote that
while engaged In the capture of
a French town he mpt a resident
holding "nn American flag In one
hand and a German flag In the
other until he was sure which side
had won."
No. 44-15
Nazis Fail in
Attempts To 1
Aid Garrison
Last Escape Gap From j
Burning City Reported ;
"As Good as Closed" ;
(By the Associated Press)
. Flame throwers, grenades and
maehineguns slowly blasted a
path toward the center of the
smoking hulk of Aachen today
for U. S. First army troops bat
tling warily from street to street
against spotty resistance. .-;
American bombs and shells al-'
so ripped apart a reckless nazl
attempt to break through the
half-mile gap in the American
ring around Aachen. In 48 hours
of fiery combat the Germans lost
84 tanks and 30 fighter planes,
and still more German tanks
were rolling up, shifted from Hol
land. The Aachen escape gap now
was "as good as closed, an of
ficer at the front said.
But some German reinforce
ments possibly had slipped into
the burning city, and a front dis
patch estimated 2,000 Germans
were left there, fighting back
more desperately now. In five
days an American division has
taken 1,000 prisoners.
Germans had to be squeezed
from pillboxes and dug from
wells and celars of ruined houses.
Allies Gain Near Aachen
Four miles north of Aachen,
tank-reinforced Germans threw in
: (Continued on page 6
Bulgarians Leave
For Moscow to
Plead for Peace
LONDON, Oct. 14. (AP)
' The Ankara ranio, wiinout .;
confirmation from other .
sources, said today that a
Hungarian delegation had
left for Moscow to ask for
peace, and said a Bulgarian
armistice delegation also was
on its way to the Russian
capital.
The radio said Its Informa
tion oame from an official
Bulgarian announcement.
Bulgaria ended a short-lived
technical state of war with Rus
sia on September 9 after the so
viet declared war on the Balkan
kingdom to force her withdrawal
from partnership with Germany..
The kingdom had declared war
on the United States and Brit
ain, but not on Russia.
The Bulgars have been maneu
vering to win concessions lnvolv
Ing Grecian Thrace and Mace
donia, however, the Greeks have
served notice that the Bulgars
must withdraw from Greek terri
tory, and the British and Ameri
can governments are reported to
have backed them up.
Prime Minister Churchill re
cently announced that the Bul
gars would have to work their
way back into allied graces, and
the Russians have demanded ac
tive Bulgarian participation In
defeating the nazis as a condition
of an armistce.
The German communique an
nounced today an attack by "Bul
garian divisions" on German
troops along the western border
of Bulgaria.
Oregon Spud Shippers to
Get Refrigerator Cars
PORTLAND, Oct. 14. (AP).
A statement released by Sen. Guy
Cordon's office said today that
refrigerator cars would be re
leased at once for Deschutes and
Crook county potato growers
through a special permit obtained
by Cordon.
Refrigerator cars will be made
available for " Klamath basin
growers "as soon as possible,"
the statement said.
Klamath area growers protest
ed the recent regulation which
prohibited use of refrigerator
cars for potato shipments, charg
ing that potatoes could not sur
vive the wide changes of tempera
ture in moving from Oregon to
California.
s L r. Ratanatata
Less than three months ar
left In 1944 and Berlin Is still a
long way off by land. And
winttr Is coming on. But don't
lost optimism. Hitler ot ol are
as good as kaput and when It's
all over Germany will stay put,
t Vf
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