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 . " . y -, 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 1 ' t V