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Priorities y-Ot(n"f60PI'dml- Plant M Concern Will Erect Unit at $400,000 Cost Log Pond Already Built; Machinery to Be Moved From Puget Sound Area The final obstacle In the path of construction of a plywood plant near Roseburg was remov ed Tuesday when the War Pro duction board approved the appli cation of the Umpqua Plywood company for construction of a $400,000 unit proposed to be erect ed on property recently acquired ut Green. Congressman Harris Ellsworth who has been devoting much time over a period of several months to assist the company In securing priorities and authoriza tion for the Droject, wired Tues day that WPB approv"! had been obtained, thus permitting the company to proceed with its con struction program. Tile Umpqua Plywood comrianv i Is composed of a group of Wash ington operators, who lor a num ber, of years have been engaged In sawmill and plywood opera tions In the Puget Sound area. The company is headed by Loren Haugen, Port Angeles, Wash. 8ite Under Development. Construction plans call for the erection of buildings on a tract re cently purchased between Shady Point and Green, where the pres ent Pacific highway intersects the old road. The.Diamond Timber companyi which is af(iliated with the limp- (Continued on Page 61 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE high spot of the news is American recapture of Manila. The emotional highlight of the taking of Manila is the liberation of thousands of war prisoners, mostly Americans, after three years in a Jap prison. That story will be told and re- tld to American children 'down through the centuries. UIHAT a story it is! ff An American tank rolled up to the gate of .Santo Tomas. The captives inside didi'i know what was going on. They feared some new Jap barbarity. It must have seemed reasonable to them that their captors .were planning to kill them all 'tefore they" could be rescued. , The tank commander, pausing before the gate, called out: "Open up." The gate didn't open. He yelled: "Open the goddam thing or I'm coming anyway." Still the gate didn't open. The tank began to move. Its nose pushed against the gate. Its engine roared. The gate cracked and gave way. The tank rolled in l Continued on page 2) Great-Great-Grandma on Another Honeymoon SCAPPOOSE, Ore.,' Feb. T. (AP) A great-great-grandmother was honeymooning contented ly today. While her eight children, seven grandchildren, and two great grandchildren wished her hap piness, Mrs. Sarah R. Lonkey. 71, was married to S. Jackson Wade. Botli were widowed more than a decade ago. Nothing unusual about it in her family, pointed out the elder ly bride. Her great-great-grandmother married at the age of 76 and lived happily to 95. Nazi Vengeance Weapons Again Strafe England . LONDON, Feb. 7. (AP) Ger- man vengeance weapons fell on Wsouthern England between dawn F yesterday to 7 o'clock this morn ing, causing additional damage and casualties, the British air miritry said. Reported Reorganization of Reich Regime Looked Upon as Bait for Armistice Angling STOCKHOLM, Feb. 7. (AP) The Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet said today it believed that a reorganization of the Ger man government under which Hitler would give up the title of fuehrer to beconv.' the relch's president, with Franz von Papen as chancellor, was Imminent. Its information was attributed to "rumors in Berlin which reached German circles here." Von Papen, an ace of the Ger man diplomatic .'service, was am bassador to Turkey when Ankara broke relations with Berlin last Aug. 2. The report had the earmarks of a German trial balloon design ed to sound out allied reaction to whether such a revamped gov ernment would have any chance of suing for armistice terms. It came while President Roose velt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin were report edly in conference with war prob lems including "Germany's fate. Aftonbladet, which in the parly sta-jes of the war had a strong ly pro-German attitude, said Hit ler's reason for such a change as that he "is no longer able v r w v. w p Established 1873 Germans' Defense Line On Oder River Sagging Under Russian Smashes Advance of Reds Matched by American Army's Invasion Of Reich at Another Point (Bv the Associated Press) German broadcasts, declaring the entire Oder river line from East Prussia to Slovakia was sagging under territic soviet pres sure, said today the red army had widened menacing bridge heads 35 m.iis or less from Berlin in the Kustrin sector. - A new blow fell meanwhile on the Germans from the west as four' U, S. Third army divisions invaded the reich at a new point, storming across the Sure and Our rivers on a ZZ-mile front. The Germans, who have reported numerous crossings of the Oder in the Kustrin-Frankfurt area east of Berlin and at points farther south, said red-tanks smashed "temporarily" into the center of Kustrin, 40 miles east of the capital, while in-Silesia, the naiis reported, the Russians chalked up new gains in the drive menacing Berlin from the flank. ' Marshal Konev's First Ukraine-army has shattered the Ger-. mans upper Oder line with a hard-won crossing ona-bO-mile front southeast of Breslau. Outflanked and under frontal assault, Breslau-was expected to fall soon. The industrial city, of Brieg, 27 miles to the southeast, is in Russian hands. Lt. Gen.- Pat ton's Americans stormed into Germany between Echternach and a point in north ern Luxembourg, five miles northeast -of Clervaux. assaulting the Siegfried line in the face ol stj-'ong smalj iirms fire. The new ln'vasiBh'gave the allies virtually a continuous lM-mile tront in western Germany between Hol land and Saarlautcrn. - The U. S.' First army was less than a mile from Schmidt, behind the last Siegfried defenses pro tecting the vital Roer river dams southeast of Aachen. The Americans were 'jp to, in to or through main west wall em placements on a 35-mile- front, equal to the stretch of Siegfried defense immediately north breach ed by U. S. Ninth and British Second army forces. Other Third army troops were i few miles from Pruem, Siegfried supply fortresses. In Alsace. American forces have occupied Neufbrisach, forti fied 17th century cny near me Rhine, about 35 miles south of Strasbourg, collapsing a deter mined last stand by the nazi de- (Contiued on page 6) Field Ambulance Fund Goal of Students Here Students of the Fullerton grade school, who already have furnish ed three jeeps at a cost of $1,165 each, through purchases of war bonds and stamps, are now work ing toward a fund for a field am bulance, which will bear the school name. Since school opened in Septem ber, the 200 students have bought bonds and stamps to the total sum of $3,899.10. The cost of a field ambulance Is $1,950 and the students expect to buy sufficient bonds and stamps before the close of the school year to furnish the equipment for army use. to manage both the matters of state and war leadership." By becoming the president of the Reich a post he abolished Hitler would be "laying a favor able basis for taking up interna tional negotiations," the paper said. The newspaper quoted German sources in Stockholm as saying Germany's central administration would be moved to southern Ger manyprobably to Dresden but that the people would be encour aged to believe th?ir government was remaining in the capital to the last. , , Most members of the foreign office, together with the Gestapo and the general staff, were said to have fled to Kreummneuoei 60 miles west of Breslau and 170 miles southeast of Beilin. Roseburg C. of C. Retains Officers; Forum Meets Set Earl Wiley, Roseburg realtor, president of the Roseburg cham ber of Commerce for the past year, was reelected to a second term last night by unanimous vote of the board of directors meeting to organize for the com ing year. Directors were unani mous in the opinion that the or ganization which has functioned for the past year, handling a great deal of new development and expansion, could best serve the community by continuing in office, taking advantage of the knowledge of oro.iects still in pro cess of development. Marshall Pengr.i, KRNR mana ger, was continued as vice-president; G. V. Wimberlv as treasur er, and Harold J. Hickerson was reelected secretary-manager. Due to ODT regulations regard ing conventions and meetings, making it difficult to secure out side speaking talent, the direc tors voted to cancel the annual membership meeting for this year, but plans were laid for a series of forum meetings open to all members. The auditing committee's re Dort was accepted and a num ber of reeomme".dations were submitted; prooosing revisions in bv-laws governing membership. The directors instructed the sec retary to have the annual report printed and copies mailed to all members. Endorsement was giv en organization of a iunior cham ber. General discussion was given objectives for the coming year. Legislation Slated for Tax League Discussion The directors of the Douglas County Taxpavers league will hold a meeting Saturday. Feb. 10 at the Roseburg chamber of com merce rooms at 2 D. m. The pur pose of the meeting is to dis cuss legislative matters with the Doula county delegation. Sena tor Parkinson. Ren. Carl Hill and Rep. Bob Gile expect to be in Roseburg on Saturday to meet with the directors Members of the leeislatlve com mittee, countv offices committee and special committee on sales of countv lands will be In attend ance. President Mover states that the meeting will be open to the public and anyone having mat ters to discuss relative to countv affairs are welcome to present them. Elks' Clubhouse Site Half "Dry." Half "Wet" PITTSBURGH. Feb. 7 (API Drlnkine merobrs of the Wil kinsburg E'ks' lod?e are poln" to hve to watch thlr t"n. The clubhouse Is locator on the c"v line, nart In "wi" Pittsburgh pnd nart In "drv" W'klnsburcr. Jud"e L: Kenneth Harklns pranted a li cense vesterdav which permits the lodf-e to sell liouor onlv in , that nortion of the building 'which lies ia Pittsburgh. Archduke Says Nazis Plan Last Stand in Mountains PORTLAND, Fob. 7 (AP) Countries in the Danube basin want to form a Danubian con federation after the war to as sure them of safety from Inva sion, Archduke Felix, leader in exile of the Austrian under ground, said here today. i The 28-year-old grand-nephew of former Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, who will deliver an address here Thursday nlghf, is under two nazi death sentences and a 10-year concentration camp sentence "In absentia." Although his elder brother. Otto, heir to the throne, has five death sen tences, "I'm not jealous," the archduke said. "After all, he is entitled to more recognition.'' He predicted the Germans would make a last stand in his mountainous homeland and that their defeat would take months -r-not-week?.. , . . - ' Donald G. Dahrens, Logger, Killed at Camas Valley , , tfonald G. Dahrens, 29, of V'Rosoburg, a partner in the .Flora Logging company," op1 i- eratlng in the Camas Valley area, was instantly killed Tuesday afternoon when struck by a log which fell from a truck. He was reportedly assist ing in the loading of the truck when the load shifted ' and a log fell to the ground, crushing Dahrens. Born at Sandy, Oregon, May 23, 1915, ho had made his home In Roseburg for the past four years. He was a graduate of Oregon State college. Mr. Dahrens was a member of the Elks lodge. surviving are a aaugnter. Donna: his mother, Mrs. Helen Dahrens, and two brothers, Les ter and Vernon Dahrens. all of Sandy. The body has been removed to the Douglas Funeral home. Ar rangements for services have not been completed. Statehood Sought by Alaska's Legislators JUNEAU, Alaska, Feb.' 7 (API The territorial house unanimously passed a memorial to congress yesterday asking ad mission ot Alaska as the lytn state in the union, with an amendment calling for complete control over all the territory's re sources. Another house-approved meas ure memorializes congress to grant Alaskans the right to elect their own governor pending state hood. Father of Local Man Dies. George P. Humphries, father of William Humphries, Roseburg, died Friday at his home in Port land. Funeral services are being held in Portland Thursday. 15 V "i i f FLYING FORTS STOKE FIRES IN HEART OF BERLIN A Flying Fortress of the Eighth air force passes over the heart of Berlin as smoke rises from raging fires in the Tempelhof area. This ship was one of a force of 1,000 planes which unloaded 2,500 tons of bombs en Hitler's key city while Russian forces pounded to within 40 miles of the bomb-shattered nazi capital. ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Civil Rights Bill Loses In State Senate SALEM, Ore., Feb. 7 (AP) The senate defeated 21 to 6 today the civil rights bill, which would have prohibited such public plac-: es as hotels, restaurants and hos-' pltals from discriminating against Negroes. - Sen. Mahoney, Portland demo crat, one of the sponsors of the bill, denied he introduced it for political purposes. He cited many cases where Negroes have been turned away from hotels, restau rants and hospitals. - Mahoney said the question is "are we going to travel the road o prejudice and denial of humun rights, or take the road of equal ity?" House Passes Bills The house passed and sent to the senate bills to Increase the state labor commissioner's salary from $4000 to $5000 a year, let the game commission buy paths along streams for use of fisher men, let the state board of health require vitamine enrichment of flour and bread, let school dis tricts buy buildings and land for other than school purposes bv vote of the people, and let school districts take out accident insur ance on school athletes. The senate passed and sent to the house bills increasing annual nurses license fees from $10 to $15 a year, and the annual fees for physicians and osteopaths from $5 to $10. Two bills to permit the state board of higher education to is- (Contlued on page 6) Missing Groom -Sought By Officers and Bride - PORTLAND. Feb 7 (AP) Avion Eueene BlanKensnip, wno left the bride waitinir at the altar. was being sought by both police and bride today. Judge John B. Seabrook paroled the 28-year-old man from a ou day sentence for after-hours prow ling to obtain a wedding license, after the bride pleaded that "I believe he will reform." Blankenshio didn't come back. Seabrook, waiting with the bride to sign the marriage certificate, signed a bench warrant instead. Grant Lands Mining Memorial Is Adopted Salem, Ore ,. Feb. 7 (AP) The senate passed and sent to the house today a memorial asK ing congress to pass a bill by U. S. Sen. Guy Gordon, Roseburg, which would open the 2,000,000 acres of Coos Bay wagon road and Oregon and California grant lands to mining. These lands were closed to mining in 1937 by the U. S. de partment of the interior. Freed Prisoner Writes Unaware of Home Blow ' TOWANDA, Pa., Feb. 7 ( AP) In June, 1942, The war department reported Pvt. Car lyle Bevan as missing in action In the Philippines.. The first word of him came the other day, from a Japan ese prison camp. "Keep well,,' he wrote his father, "So we can go fishing and hunting again when I get home." He was unaware that both his parents have died, and his home has been sold. - -t. Hft ' ,k i y ' , FEBRUARY 7, 1 945. RADHG Veteran of First War In Philippines Passes Maj. Gen. F. J. Kernan WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AP) Maj. Gen. Francis Joseph Ker nan, 86, who organized and com manded the army service of sup ply in world war one, died last Saturday at Welch convalescent hospital. After the war, Gen. Kernan served as technical advisor to the American Commislon to negoti ate peace with the Germans In November, 1918. At the outbreak of the Spanish American war he was serving with Lt. Gen. Arthur McArthur in the Philippines. Crashed Plane, 8 Aboard, Found " Near Brookings SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 7. (AP) A navy patrol plane which disappeared i week ago with eight persons, crashed in rugged country 12 miles from Brookings, Ore., the western sea fontier headquarters here said today. Brookings is just north ot the California-Oregon border, on the coastline. A ground search party left Areata, the naval auxiliary air station near Eureka, Calif., at 4 a. m., for the scene. Comdr. H. S. Woodman, in charge, said the automobile party hoped to get a pack train at Gold Beach. Ore. A medical officer accom panied the group, but there was no word whether the air searchers had noticed signs of life around the Carolina patrol plane. The ship left San Francisco a week ago today on a ferry flight to Seattle. Tillamook Darkened by Storm; Power Impaired , TILLAMOOK, Ore., Feb. 7 (AP) Fishermen spent the night at Bay City docks to prevent boats from being torn from moor- : ings oy heavy winds. A severe wind storm beginning ' late last night ripped power lines . and blacked out I he city of Tilla I mook. IB Enemy's Suicide Crews Add New Fires to Manila's Ruins; Many Filipinos Die in Homes - MANILA, Feb. 7. (AP) Doughboys closed in on barricad ed Japanese flanking the Pasig river and hunted .them down in other sections of smoke-shrouded Manila today after the corner ed garrison wantonly dynamited and set the torch to the most modern section of the city. ' ! i ' Japanese retaliated by shelling the Santo Tomas Intern ment camp where one shell missed Gen. MacArthur by only 100 feot. . Japanese demolition crews added new explosive fires to those already kindled on both banks of the Pasig and in other sectors of the city. One appeared to center in Manila's Chinese L.1.1 .... 1L. c. 11. Al I-..1 11 .11... x: . I 1. L- iiuitfi, nuar ilia biwna. ryt itai uimg viuai inn gppafliaa ig uv burning south of the river. They were large, but not wide spread. . , .-,,()!'" Damage south of the river Is not extensive- yet. It will become so unless the Yanks run down these demolition crews and Incendiarists. ; i -' i. ' It was hard to tell whether the Japanese were destroying merely their own supplies and stores In concentrated sections of the city or trying to burn the city in retaliation for the American invasion. Freed Captives to Return Home When Situation Permits WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AP) General Douglas MacArthur has Informed the War and State departments that persons liber ated in the Philippines will be permitted to come home "as soon as the military situation- per mits." ' A joint statement of tha two -departments was Issued by act ing secretary oi atate urew. ria also reported that a Japanese ship, the Awa Maru, traveling unuer saie conduct guarantees, will leave Japan Feb. 17 with re lief suplies for allied nationals in Formosa, as well as those at or near Honk Kong, Saigon. Singapore, Surabaya, Batavia ana MUntOK. In discussine the status of In. ternees liberated In the Philip pines, the War-State announce ment said it is expected that the names of those freed will be come available in the near future through appropriate War depart ment channels." Liquor Law Tightening Voted by State Senate SALEM. Ore .: Fob. 7 (AP) The state liquor commission's program to tighten enforcement of the liquor laws Was passed by the senate today and sent to the house. The three approved bills would make lt illegal for persons under 21 to have liquor in their posses sion or irequcnt places wnere it Is served Illegally: Increase the penalties lor operation oi illegal liquor places, allow confiscation of liquor and furnishings in places where lt Is served illegally, pro- vicie ior aoatcmenr oi nieeai places, and require that liquor bot tles must bear truthful labels. Two Douglas Soldiers Furloughed to Homes First Lieutenant John C. Ulam. Days Creek, and Corporal James l. uarncs, uaKianu, nave been returned home on furlough from the southwest Pacific. They were among 59 soldiers from Washing ton and Oregon who arrived at Fort Lewis, Wash., Monday. Within three hours from the time of their arrival at the army nost, they were processed for leave and en route to their re spective homes. Birth and Death Rates In Oregon Decrease PORTLAND, Feb. 7. (AP) Both birth nnd death rates de creased In Oregon last year, re ports Dr. Frederick Strieker, stne health officer, but the 1!M4 ratio of 185.4 births for every 100 (lea I lis was the highest since 11)21. Births drooped 3.3 per cent to a total of 24,621 and deaths de clined 9.2 per cent for a 13,281 total. Dairy Co-Op Sales Rise $1 Million During 1944 PORTLAND. Feb. 7 (AP) Sales of the Dairy Cooperative association In the Portland-Sa- lem-Vencouver area totaled 58,- 500,000 last year a million dol lar increase over 1943. Dr. A. L. Strand, Oregon State college president who spoke at the cooperative's annual meeting, complimented the 3000 dairymen members on their production rec ord. - rem Bonds and Blood Keep on buying the former, keep on giving the latter. Both are still needed while the foe la reeling and ready for the Knock-- out. Enemy No. 1 Is the axis; No. 2 Is complacency. No. 45-33 While fires still smoldered in the blackened, nubble-strewn busl : ness area, MacArthur told his soldiers "you will shortly com-' pleta the liberation of the Philip pines" climaxing Japan's "worst military defeat in Us history." Ho requested divine services ' throughout his command for "our hallowed dead." , Flames appeared to be dying : out . along Escolta avenue, throughfare of theaters, shops and office buildings, where Nio poncse demolition squads touch ed off explosrws and drums of gasoline Monday night. . . A mile square area was report ed destroyed, including all major among them some of the Orient's finest theaters. : .... Manila's water mains were empty, for the eenmy had blown un the pumping stations several days ago, and the great fire raged unchecked through the (Continued on Page 6) Japs Grab 2 More Air Bases in China (By the Associated Press) Two more China air bases from which the U. S. 14th air force has raked the China coast were abandoned yesterday and over run by Japanese troops. The lat est two airdromes to fall were Namyung, also u producing cen ter from which Woiiiam was sent to the U. S. Steel industry, and Kanhsien. Expanding American air forces in the Philippines will have to fill the gap left by ihe loss of China bases. Tokyo reported 1,000 Amer ican planes are based on Luzon Island. Dally sorlies, reaching to Islands guarding the China coast, accounted for two more small en emy freighters. Washington dispatches indicat ed U. S. battleships may eventu ally be using 18-inch guns against Nippon. The largest naval guns are 16-lnchers. Superfortresses from India yes terday bombed targets In Thai land and Indo-China. Bangkok in Thailand and Sai gon or Camranh bay in Indo- China were the indicated objec tives. Girls' Charge Against Canadian Sailors Heard VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 7 (CP) A royal Canadian navy board of Inquiry has completed" hearing evidence in connection with allegations that women members of the O. S. coastguard show, "Tars and Spars," were "in sulted ami molested" by Canadian sailors, it was announced here last night. The incidents were alleged to have occurred Sunday aboard a royal Canadian navy ttlg during a pleasure cruise In Vancouver harbor. The cruise, although scheduled for three hours, lasti-u only 40 minutes as the Spars de manded to te put ashore. At Seattle y.-terdav a nirl member of the travelling show company said there was drink ing among Canadian seamen aboard the tug. Put she denied knowing of In- evily pact fant By L. F. Relzensteln Every fishing net taken out of a coastal stream means replace ment by a bigger snore of tour Ut dollars. ml