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Equipment of
Entire Panzer
Air Armadas Deal Heavy
- Blows to Railways, Oil
Plants in Reich Areas
(By the Associated Press)
Allied planes left the smolder
ing wreckage of more than 4,000
nazl armored and motor trans
port vehicles cluttering the icy
highways of Belgium, Luxem
bourg and western Germany as
Marshal von Rundstedt, the
weather at last against him, fled
from his collapsed Ardennes sa
lient. American planes, continuing
the two-day assault on fleeing
German armor and transport in
the Ardennes, raised to 4,583
pieces the toll of destroyed or
damaged nazl heavy equipment.
Yesterday's attacks cluttered
wreckage of 4,158 pieces on the
, nazi retreat route. B noon today
415 more were added to the toll.
The total was enough to equip
an entire panzer army.
U. S. First army tanks plung
ed Into St. Vith. which apparent
ly was evacuated durin the night
by Germans fleeing the Ardennes
salient. On the north the British
moved to' within less than two
miles of the Roer river.
Nazi Resistance Ebbing
The U. S. Third army found the
Luxembourg half of the salient
virtually deserted and resistance
disorganized as it speared ahead
up to five miles, and in Belgium,
the enemy stand before the U. S.
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In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
kUR supreme . headquarters in
1 Paris has finally announced
that the German offensive in
Belgium has failed without seri
ously affecting, .pur own plans
end preparations for future' op
I rations.
The map has told us that same
story ever since von Rundstedt
was definitely stopped short of
the Meuse. We HELD our posi
tions at the base of his wedge,
and when we had driven him
back out of the bulk of it our
positions were roughly the same
as when his drive started.
It was a costly failure, because
he lost more men and material
than we did which is exactly
the siatuation we are trying to
force on him.
WHAT did the nazis hope to ac
complish by this great ef
fort? Well, of course, they took a
gambler's chance. They MIGHT
have caught us off balance, bro
ken through our lines, cut our
communications and demoralized
our armies in northern Belgium
and Holland.
That would have been great.
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Son-in-Law of Senator
Engdahl Killed in War
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 23. (AP)
Senator Carl Engdahl, Pendle
ton, was notified yesterday that
his son-in-law, Lt. Robert C.
Jones, 23, was killed over Bel
gium December 2G. He was a
glider pilot, and went overseas
last July.
Mrs. Jones, the former Elea
nor Engdahl, was married almost
two years ago.
Brownell Retained as G. O. P.
Chairman, Given Free Hand
To Carry on All-Year Work
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23. (AP) Herbert Brownelf, Jr., had a
free hand today to run the republican party for the next couple of
years Just about any way he chooses.
The G. O. P. national chairman, who laid his chips on the line
at a one-day midwinter session of the party's national committee here
yesterday, emerged with almost
unlimited authority over porsoi
S nel, program and policy.
! He had behind him a vote of
I confidence taken boldly only a
j little more than two months aft-
er the party's unsuccessful foray
? at the Dolls In November.
$ Desnite a considerable amount
i of individual grumblin? In the o
? publican ranks e.bout Brownell's
i close association with the defeat
"ed presidential candidate, Gover
nor Thomas E. Drwev of New
York, only minor opnosition voic
es were raised at this midlands
meeting to his retention of the
chairmanshio.
Most members, reviewing the
closed sessions in which national
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M Qualified
For Loan Post,
Foes Declare
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP)
The senate rus'led with revolt
against turning the government's
huge lending agencies over to
Henry A. Wallace today as a 19
man committee began consider
ation of his appointment as secre
tary of commerce.
Opposition among southern
democrats and republicans was
strong. The only apparent possi
bility of averting a bitter fight
over confirmation seemed to lie
In a proposal to strip the Com
merce department of those agen
cies and make them independent
once again.
This was advanced by Senator
George (D.-Ga.) in, .a" resolution
which, if approved, would leave
the former, vice president only
the routine resoonsibilities of the
Commerce post.
Chairman Bailey (D.-N. C.)
called the Commerce committee
into a locked door session to dis
cuss both the Wallace nomina
tion and the George bill.
Declared Unqualified
Members who regard Wallace
as a left winger still were rock
ing from the impact of President
Roosevelt's letter requesting
Jesse Jones to give up tne com-merce-and-loan
nost so he might
award it to Wallace- for services
to the democratic ticket in the' re
cent campaign. .
His opponents view Wallace as
unnualified to handle loans and
commitments aggregating thirty
billion dollars, because ol nis lack
of previous experience.
However, the senate s senti
ment on Wallace's confirmation
is by no means unanimous, nor
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Woman Striving
To be Allied Flier
Runs Afoul of Law
SEATTLE, Jan. 23 (AP) An
English dancer, who crossed the
Atlantic by stowing away on a
Liberator bomber in 1943, tried
to reach Russia as a stowaway
on a soviet ship and is being tak
en to Port Angeles, en route to
Canada, the U. S. immigration
service and coast guard revealed
last night.
She will be given her choice of
returning voluntarily to Canada
or facing arrests and deporta
tion. District Immigration Officer
RaDhael A. Bonham reported.
She is Elizabeth Drewery, 25,
of Derbyshire, England, and Bon
ham said she was taken aboard a
U. S. coast guard vessel after al
call from tne Kussian snip, wnicn
was five days at sea.
Her motive, Bonham said he
understood, .was a desire to fly
for the United Nations. She had
come to North America and
learned to fly at Yakima, but
failing-to obtain a place in the
flying services of the allies here,
she attempted to reach Russia
for a new attempt.
committeemen voiced their sen
timents freely, said a new sort of
harmony appeared to have grown
up within the party. Obviously,
some of them did not like to see
Dewey keep even a second-hand
grasp on the party reins. But they
had no single standard bearer
around whom they could rally.
Continuous Work Planned
As a result, Brownell came out
of the conference with unani
mous approval of his plan to es
tablish a yeararound organiza
tion wTilch will tike a leaf from
the CIO Political Action commit
tee book and will work contlnu-
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DIVORCES F. R.'s AIDE Mrs.
Helen M. Nelson, above, of
Glencoe, III., wife of Donald M.
Nelson, special representative
of President Roosevelt and for
mer WPB head, was granted a
divorce In Chicago, on the
ground of desertion. The Nel
sons were married in 1925 and
are childless. Washington gos
sip Is that Nelson is to wed
Marguerite S. Coulborne, 1939
campus queen of George Wash
ington university.
Clothing Prices
To Be Slashed By
Federal Agencies
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP)
The government today an
nounced a drastic textile and
clothing program designed to cut
consumer costs six to seven per
cent and to increase supplies of
low and medium-priced essential,
garments.
The plan. blanketing mills.
clothing manufacturers and deal
eps --and admittedly "tough" on
tnem was announced at a joint
news conference by chairman J.
A. Krug of the war production
board and price, administrator
Ch ister Bowles.
The price cuts and increase in
supplies are expected by late
spring, they said.
The joint control will channel
75 per cent of all civilian fabric
into garments termed essential
by WPB to avert what Krug
called "A very serious supply sit
uation" ahead.
It will roll back prices, from
mill to dry goods stores, to the
level oi tne iirst half oi 1943 as a
remedy for what Bowles des
cribed as "The most serious
breach in price control." aualitv
controls to protect consumers are
inciuaea.
"We have enough textiles In
the country to fill essential needs
if all fabrics are. made into the
tnmgs civilians need and not into
a lot of frills and ruffles," Krug
asserted. ,
Proposed Phone Co. Sale
Set for Public Hearing
A public hearing concerning
the proposed sale of the Myrtle
Creek Telephone comnanv bv V.
H. Cornutt to Frank E. and Opal
M. Burr, Roseb'irg, is announced
by George H. Flagg, public utili
ties commissioner, to be held at
Myrtle Creek at 10:30 a. m. Wed
nesday, Jan. 31.
The commissioner reports that
application for an order author
izing the sale has been filed in
his office, and that patrons will
be given an opportunity to file
objections, if any, at the forth
coming hearing, which will be
held in the Myrtle Creek city
hall.
Pension Proposal Would
Exclude State's Aliens
OLYMPIA, Jan. 23. (AP) A
bill to bring state, county and
municipal employes into the old
age and survivors insurance pro
gram if similar federal action Is
taken was expected to be offered
the legislature todav by demo
cratic Reps. Pennock and Hurley
of King county, but there was
strong indication that alien resi
dents of Washington would be
cut off at the pension pockets.
Gov. Wallgren declared yester
day that no aliens should receive
old age . pensions or any public
support whatsoever,
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Vice Crusader
Shot to Death;
Killer Escapes
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 23.
(AP) Arthur Kasherman, 43,
vice crusader and publisher of the
intermittently issued "Public
Press," an "expose" tabloid, was
shot to death, apparently by
someone he recognized, from a
passing automobile shortly be
fore midnight last night.
Police Chief Elmer Hillner said
that thus far police are without
clues to the identity of Kasher
man's assailant.
The slaying was the third of
its kind in Minneapolis in the
last eleven years. Howard Guil
ford .publisher of the "Saturday
Press" and "Pink Sheet," was kill
ed September 7, 1934, and Walter
Liggett, editor of the "Midwest
American," was shot down De
cember 8, 1935. Neither slaying
has been solved.
Kasherman twas shot as he
and a woman' companion, Miss
Pearl von Wald, 34, emerged
from a restaurant at 1435 Chicago
avenue.
Woman Describes Killing.
Miss von Wald told police a
dark sedan" drew up beside
Kasherman's car and one shot
was fired through the left front
window. Kasherman threw him
self into her lap, pushing her out
the right-hand door, and climb
ing out himself.
- "Don't shoot; for God's sake
don't shoot " he cried as he
ran. mentioning a name Miss von
Wald said she did not hear dis
tinctly. Several more shots were fired.
One struck Kasherman in the
head, another in the back. Two
more shots were fir,ed into the
air from the sedan before It dis
appeared. - No one was able to
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U.S. Soldier, Girl
Friend Sentenced
To Die for Murder
LONDON, Jan. 23 (AP) A
British jury today convicted an
American parachute trooper, 22-year-old
Private Karl Gustav
Hulten of Cambridge, Mass., of
the murder of George Heath, a
London taxi driver.
Hulten was sentenced to be
hanged under British law. Mrs.
Elizabeth Jones, 18-year-old strip
tease dancer and his blonde one
time girl friend, was adjudged
guilty of the same crime. She
will go to the gallows with Hul
ten.
The jury recommended mercy
In the case of Mrs. Jones, but
Justice Charles pronounced the
death sentence upon her.
The jury's recommendation,
however, may make It possible
for the British home secretary to
intervene In the case of the Brit
ish girl.
Mrs. Jones broke down and
sobbed bitterly as sentence was
pronounced, and had to be assist
ed from the dock.
Her father, who had been sit
ting at the, back of the court,
slipped out quieily with bowed
head.
While the judge still was speak
ing a piercing scream "the
brute, why didn't he tell the
truth" was heard from the cor
ridor into which Airs. Jones had
been taken. Then came the clang
of a heavy door closing.
No Meat Spoiling, Market
Operators Tell OPPA
PORTLAND, Jan. 23. (AP)
OPA representatives said today
that a personal check in 23 meat
markets failed to bear out
charges that beef hindquarters
have been piling up in shops to
spoil.
John O. Ferris, OPA meat ra
tioning representative, and Verne
F. Llvesay, OPA agricultural
relations adviser, said market
proprietors told them they had
no complaint to make and no
meat spoiling.
Ferris discounted reports by F.
A. Redrlck, proprietor of several
Vanport mirkets, of "more than
normal" spoilage. An OPA state
ment said Hcdrlck recently paid
$1000 to the government in set
tlement of $25 on each of 40 meat
violations. v
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Stanfield Tavern; Dozen
Occupants Escape Injury
PENDLETON, Ore., Jan, 23
CAP) A dozen men In a Stan
field tavern escaped injury early
last night when a 100-pound prac
tice bomb plummeted through the
building from an army bomber
high overhead, Deputy Sheriffs
F. F. Jacobs and Roy Johnson re
ported today following an inves
tigation. ' The two officers believe the
bomb was released accidentally
from a Walla Walla air base
plane on a routine flight to a
nearby bombing field. The mis
sile, loaded with five pounds of
powder and a quantity of sand,
partly exploded on contact. The
bulk of the bomb casing tore a
four-foot hole in the floor and
burled itself six feet in the earth
beneath. .
' The fact" that the bomb was
dropped at 7 p. rn. during the din
ner hour probably prevented se
rious' consequents, the deputies
said, since the place is usually
crowded later in the evening.
Bigger Share
Of Gas Taxes
Asked in Bill
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SALEM, Ore., Jan. 23. (AP)
Paving the way for the Oregon
legislature's biennial argument
over distribution of gasoline tax
revenues, the house roads and
highways committee agreed to
day to introduce a bill to give
counties 20 per cent of gasoline
tax revenues, instead of the 15.7
per cent they now get.
The committee said lt was in
troducing the bill at the request
of the Association of Oregon
counties.
The senate- passed a bill by
Senator Strayer, Baker, to make
all taxing units bear the revenue
loss which results from giving a
3 per cent discount for prompt
payment of taxes, but th senate
defeated 15 to 15 the "bill fo in
crease salaries of election judges
from $3 to $5i a day.
New Bill Offered.
Senator McKenna, Portland, In
troduced a measure to reorganize
the state board of health, giving
it full powers to control commu
nicable diseases, and also giving
it several functions of the state
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Pvt. T. C. McClintock
Wounded in Belgium
Thomas C. McClintock, private
first class in the U. S. army, son
ot Mr. and Mrs, John McClintock
of Portland, was wounded in ac
tion In Belgium on New Year'3,
according to word received by his
parents. He Is reoorted to be get
ting along nicely. He is a grand
son of J. E. McClintock, and a
nephew of L. E. McClintock and
Mrs. Vera McClintock Jones, of
Roseburg.
Roosevelt Dog Air Priority
Incident Slated for Inquiry
By Senate's Military Group
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. (AP) The senate military com
mittee today voted to Investigate the priority system which gave a
dog owned by Col. Elliott Roosevelt precedence over three service
men. The three, flying west on leave, were forced off an army cargo
plane at Memonis, Tenn., early
last month while the English bull
mastiff, traveling under an A
priorltv was permitted to, con
tinue the fliht.
The dog was s?nt from Wash
ington to . Colonel Roosevelt's
bride, Fave Emerson Roosevelt of
the movies.
Roosevelt who lias returned to
duty with the air forces In Eng
land denied that he ordered a pri
ority for the animal.
Tn approving an Inquiry by a
sub-committee, the military group
ordered nn investigation of the
entire priority practice as well
as the dog incident.
The investlgntlon was suggest
ed by Senator Hridgos (R.-N. H.),
who told reporters later his mo
tion carried without a dissent.
mcrgiog Xrora the dosed ses
No. 45-19
Revolt
Formosa Again
Bombed; Army
Nears Manila
(By the Associated Press)
American warplanes beat - a
bomb trail from Formosa to the
main island of Japan, American
and Japanese sources reported
today as the 14th army corps roll
ed past the halfway; mark on its
way to Manila. I
Some 70 Marlanas-based Super
forts struck at the Nagova air
craft center on Japan's Honshu
Island in their frist mass flight
under command of youthful Mai.
Gen. CurtisE. Le May. Tokyo said
they were over' the oft-bombed
city for two hours. . ' : i
Japanese broadcasts reported
100 Liberators and Lightnings
presumably from the Phillomnos
raided Formosa in the wake of
the fifth carrier strike against
the Island this month. It was the
first report 'of such a land-based
raid on Formosa where Third
fleet carrier planes destroyed
140 Japanese planes, : damabod
100 and heavily damaged ship
ping and shore installations bun
day. One major U. S.' ship was
damaged.
Jans Claim Big Toll
Tokyo said I he canlcr planes
swept on toward Japan the next
dav sending 450 sea-borne air
craft against Okinawa .island in
the Ryukyus for nine hours.-A
Formosa army eomotii nique
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Organization of
Junior C. of C. of
Roseburg Planned
Tentative plans for organiza-
tion of a Junior Chamber of Com
merce at Roseburg were complet
ed last night at a dinner meeting
at the Umpqua note! sponsored
by the Grants Pass junior
chamber. Paul A. Hess Was elect
ed temporary chairman, to serve
until permanent otlicers can ue
chosen.
Fourteen members of the visit
ing delegation included Ralph
Hansen, president of the Grants
Pass Jaycees, Atena Carr and
Leavitt Craven, vice-presidents
wno explained tne program,
services and benefits. The pro
gram was accepted by the Rose-
ourg group.
Attending from Roseburg, in
addition to Mr. Hess, were lies
ton Gross, Detella Mc Cool, Wm.
Adair. Adrian Bowen. W. G.
Schoenleber, G. J. Gilbo and Cy
Smith. Plans were made for a
dinner meeting to be held at 7
p. m. Friday, Feb. 2, In the civic
room at the Umpqua hotel and
Chairman Hess is Inviting all
young men between the ages of
21 to 35 to attend.
The contemplated program of
activity Includes war aid. social
and public events, and civic im
provement.
sion, Bridges handed reporters
conies of a statement he said he
had made before the committee.
It said: '
"This disgraceful Incident of
three serviceman being put off of
an alrnlane while nn English bull
mastiff, consigned bv the presi
dent's son. Col. Elliott Roosevelt,
to his notress wife, Fave Emer
son, at Hollywood was allowed to
outrank them In travel nrlorltv,
has shocked every right-thinking
citizen."
At his suggestion, Bridges as
serted, the committee will Inquire
Into "a train of sirangn acts and
Incidents" which he s.ild Includ
ed the do'lverv of the dog "BHze"
tn Miss Emerson by army truck,
"chaperoned by an army major
In uniform."
Hitler Sends Himmlei; Top
Generals to Eastern Front in
Effort to Stave Off Disaster
- (By the Associated Press)
Berlin ennounced today that Russian armored spearheads
had "temporarily" reached the Oder river at an unspecified point
in German Silesia and a Moscow report also placed a vanguard
along the stream, where the nazis were expected to make a
supreme effort to halt the red army. v
, Farther north soviet forces were said by a Berlin dispatch to
Stockholm to have broken into Poznan, last big enemy base in
western Poland and 137 miles from Berlin.' . :
Berlin announced that Hitler had sent Heinrich Himmler,
his gestapo chieftain,' and "his best army commanders" to the
east front, with "full powers to make drastic decisions and to
guarantee their execution." Himmler has been reported direct
ing the German attacks across the Rhine in Alcace on the western
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ON TO BERLIN Leading two
of the Russian armies smashing
into Germany are Marshal Ivan
Konav. : At ton jtnA kArcliAl
Gregory Zhukov, lower photo.
Konev's forces are driving
through Silesia and Zhukov's
juggernaut crashed through Po
land after liberating Warsaw.
Hindenburg Grave
Desecrated, Nazis Claim
NEW YORK, Jan. 23. (AP)
The German DNB agency said to-
aay tnat tne national monument
to Marshal Paul von Hindenberg
at Tannenberg, captured by the
Red army on Sunday, had been
"blown up after the coffins of
von Hindenberg', his wife, and
the colors o the East Prussian and
West Prussian regiments had
been removed to a place of safety.
Von Hindenberg commanded
the German army that scored a
major victory over the Russians
at Tannenberg in the first World
war.
Group Named on Plan for
Permanent Pacific Bases
WASHINGTON, ('Jan. (23.
(AP) The house naval commit
tee today created a seven-member
subcommittee to study possible
permanent United States posses
sion of Japanese-mandated is
lands In the Pacific.
Undertaken with navy depart
ment approval, the study is In
tended to determine what pres
ent Japanese holdings are need
ed by this country for outer de
fense bases. The committee's con
clusion will not be binding on
any treaty negotiations.
Engineer C. J. Hurd to
Aid Bonneville Plans
PORTLAND, Cr.. Jan. 23.
(AP) Clarence J. Hurd. nation
ally known agriculture! engineer,
will aid In establishing a pro
gram encouraging full use of Co
lumbia rlvrr power.
Bonneville Power Administra
tor Paul J. Raver, said Hurd Is on
loan from the Tennessee Valley
authority. He is a native of Ore
gon and a graduate of Oregon
State college.
From the Gorman frontier
came a dispatch saying that Ger
man generals from all fronts, in
cluding Marshal von Rundstedt
from the west, met at German su
preme headquarters Saturday and
decided to make every effort to
defend the Oder line and to at
tempt to save. the Slloslan Indus
trial area from the? advancing
Russians. Decisions wore said to
have been made concernlne use
of reserves from other fronts.
Declaring "the decisive hour is
here," Moscow broadcast a warn
ing to the German peonle that
"soviet troops now are 350 milc,s
from Berlin." There still was no
indication that the Germans were
able-to rally for a stand nt any
point along the eastern front.
Giant Pincers Formlnu
The Second 'White Russian ar
my of Marshal Rokossovsky.
thrusting from the south, and
Gen. Cherniakov sky's Third
wnite nussian irmy from the
east were executing a classic pin?
ccrs movement on East Prussia,
threatening one of the greatest
military encirclements' In history.
Rokossovsky's troops were head
ed for Ebling, Baltic port, while
Chernlak ovsky's forces ovei-J
whelmed Insterburg, the JunkeVs
nrrarlnm'a aarnnil ilf.r un.4 j4..ta
toward Konlgsborg. its capital.
Allenstein and Osterrode, 22
miles beyond " the 'eapftircd Ger
man shrine of Tannenberg, fell to
the Second White Russian army.
Marshal Zhukov's First White
Russian army, which has driven
150 miles westward since over
running Warsaw six days ago,
was reported headed fop the Po
lish corridor and Danzig. A Ber
lin dispatch to Stockholm said
that if Poznan fell, "the threat to
Berlin will enter the acute
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Konev Closing Vise ,
Marshal Konev's First Ukraine
army to the south, already 30
miles inside Germany on a 50
mile front, was six to ten miles
from the Oder by last night, and
was clamping a vise on Oppeln,
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Brakeman Faces
Charge of Murder
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Jan.
23 (AP) First degree murder
charges were on file today
against Archie O. Davig, 42-year-old
railroad brakeman, in the
gunshot death of John Rathlel
Ewlng. Ewing was found on Jan.
12, mortally wounded, near high
way No. U7 southwest of here.
Davlg was arrested last Friday
and questioned for two days
about the case before charges
were filed. His arrest came after
Dr. Joseph Becman, state crimi
nologist, reported that bullets
found in Ewlng'a body wore shot
from a gun which Davig turned
over to the sheriff a few days
after the shooling.
Sheriff Low said Davig had
steadfastly denied guilt in the
shooting of Ewing, but admitted
he knew Ewing and spent some
time-with him the night of Jan.
19. He claimed Ewing borrowed
his car, with tha gun in It, on
that night, but that he found it
on the dar later parked on the
street here. He said he never saw
Ewing ngfiin.
"We've found a Jot of holes In
Davlg's story," was the sheriff's
comment today nCter charges
were filed.
Explosion, Fire Cause
Damage at The Willows
Repairs are In progress at The
Willows, roadstnnd four miles
north of Roseburg, which suffer
ed minor damage in an explosion
and fire Sunday night. Explosion
of nn oil stove caused a fire which
was kept largely confined to th?
residential section of the build
ii'f. l.tvlty pact Rant
Bjr U T. lUlzMuteu)
Tha Russians, driving to Ber
lin, have reached the Oder river.
An appropriate name for a
place to erase the foulest stench
that ever beset civilisation,' ''