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Manila Japs
Under Gradual
Liquidation
Suicide Units Mopped Up
In City as Planes Blast
Corregidor and Bataan
MANILA. Feb. 13 !(AP) Jan
anose suicide troops, cornered in
south Manila's flaming battle pit
bv a juncture of Ihree American
divisions, were being compressed
and liquidated today as their only
possioie navens oi reiuge, Jorre
gidor and Bataan. smoldered
from a record 1,000-ton satura
tion bombing.
The final phase of the battle
lor the Philiopine capital was
mounting in ferocity as Yanks of
the 37th Infantry, First cavalry
and 11th airborne divisions made
contact to oin the Japanese
against Manila bay south of the
Pasig river mouth.
While six division armored
units far to the north rolled to
the Pacific coast to cut Luzon in
two, the three Yank divisions in
Manila's shell-wrecked downtown
area braved rockets, heavy artil-
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In the Day's News
By T.ANX JENKINS
INTERESTING hints come from
the western front.
The Canadians, backed by a
' typical, earth-shaking Montgom
; try barrage, fight their way into
and through Kleve piercing, ap
parently, the concrete and steel
fortifications that are the hard
DUter crust of the Siegfried line
snd pushing on into the softer
Inner body of hastily built earth-
tvorks. -
? HERE are suggestions in the
dispatches that the Germans
are rushing in reinforcements
from farther up the Rhine and
even from the critical Russian
front as well as building supple
mentary defenses as far back as
.30 miles east of the Rhine.
All these things, if true, mean
that the Canadians are making
dangerous progress. When Mont
gomery lets go with all his artil
lery, somethnig usually has to
give.
THE Germans have apparently
smashed the dams at the head
of the Roer, flooding the valley
below to a depth of several feet.
Obviously they didn't want to.
What they hoped was to retain
control of the gates, so they could
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Salem Wcman Killed
In Automobile Plunge
SALEM, Ore., Teb. 13 (AP)
Lois Lavonne Scharn. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Scharn, Sa
lem, was killed Monday night
when the car in which she was
riding plunged over an embank
ment near Oceanlake on the coast
highway.
Her sister, Mrs. George Lloyd,
iSalem, is in a McMlnnville hospi-
jrtal with chest injuries.
The two women were returning
after spending a weekend at the
coast.
Allotment Racket of Eugene
Girl With Six Service Men
For Husbands Halted by FBI
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13. (AP) The Federal Bureau of In
vestigation last night identified as Vilma Suberly, 26, a girl held in
Eugene, Ore., on charges of mail fraud In connection with obtaining
more than $4,600 in service allotment checks from six service hus
bands. She also is married to two and perhaps three civilians, H. C.
Van Pelt, assistant agent In
charge of the FBI here said.
The girl was arrested Saturday
after more than a years' search
when found working in a Eugene
beauty parlor. She will be return
ed to California to stand trial on
the fraud charge as well as an
Investigation of her Income tax.
Van Pejt said, after confession
she had failed to. report any of
the income from her various hus
bands. Van Pelt said the girl had used
27 other names and had been at
various times a blonde, titian and
brunette during her matrimonial
career. None of her six service
husbands, she told the FBI. knew
of her other marriages. She mar
ried five naw enlisted men and
one army private.
Her first husband was Herman
Pruem Seized,
Ruhr Industry
Area Menaced
(By the Associated Press)
Gen. H. D. G. Crerar's Cana
dian, British and Scottish troops,
smasning into tne German north
ern flank before the Rhine plain
and the war-vital Ruhr, drove
through Kleve to within 20 miles
of Wesel on the Ruhr today, and
to within two miles of the Rhine
industrial center of Emmerich,
against sharply Incroasng mazi
resistance.
"Stupendous forces west of Deu-
ren and Juelich are massed to
carry our enemies to the Rhine,"
the German radio said, predicting
a large-scale blow at any hour
into tho Rhino plain.
The U. S. Third army of Lt.
Gen. Patton posing another
threat to the Ruhr, mopped up in
Pruem, road center whose cap
ture placed the Americans within
45 miles of Coblenz.
Nazi Fears Reflected
German broadcasts reflected
fear that the allies in the west
were massing for a major Rhine
breakthrough. One account said
large-scale offensive impended
in the Aachen area, where the
British Second and U. & Ninth
armies are massed along the
flooded Roer. .
Some anted units were report
ed driving steadily on Goch, key
stronghold seven miles south of
Kleve. ending 2i miles norm oi
Goch, was virtually cleared. Nine
mile soutK of ivleve -British-and
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U. S. Income During 1944 .
Increased $10 Billion
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (AP)
America's 1944 wartime income
was nicked tor $4,iu,yb,33u
an increase of more than ten bil
lion dollars over 1943 or more
than the total tax bill in peace
time. An internal revenue bureau
report shows that the 20 per cent
withholding tax on salaries and
wages of small tax payers ac
counted for $9,842,349,391. Nor
mal and surtaxes on individual
incomes brought in an additional
$7,489,220,384.
Oregon Areas Combed
For 2 Missing Bombers
WALLA WALLA, Feb. 13
(AP) Two heavy bombers fail
ed to return to the Walla Walla
army air field last night from
combat training ilights, Col. Da
vid Wade, commanding officer,
reported.
Searches ".re being conducted
in the vicinity of Troy and Fields,
Ore., he said.
No New Deal for Him
OROFINO, Idaho, Feb. 13
(AP) An ellegcd draft evader,
arrested in Clearwater National
forest by forest rangers for fail
ure to carry a selective service
cafd and register for the draft,
told the FBI "I went Into the for
est right after Roosevelt was first
elected and I haven't been out
since."
Goodman, an army private, who
she married in 1938 at Galveston,
Texas, and her second, Herbert
Edwin March, a civilian, whom
she married in Beaumont, Texas,
April 13, 1939.
In 1939 she came to the Pacific
coast and for a year and a half
lived in San Diego and trained
as a nurse. Van Pelt said.
Husbands Listed
Her subsequent husbands, all
married without resort to the di
vorce courts, Van Pelt said, in
cluded: Roy Hubert Suberly, an electri
cian's mate 1 c, whom she mar
ried at Yuma, Ariz., and from
whom she subsequently received
$3,200 In allotment checks.
Theodore Clarence SIner, a na-
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ROSEB'IRS, OREGON,
Man, Wife Alternate in
Drug Store Sitdown to
Obtain Precious Cigarets
DENVER, Feb. 13. (AP) A
Denver woman asked a drug
store proprietor if he had any
cigarets.
I'll have some later," he re
plied. The woman sat down. Some
three hours later she was still
waiting when her husband enter
ed the store.
She explained the situation to
him, told him to have a chair in
her place and she'd go home to
cook lunch.
An hour later she returned,
took the chair, and hubby went
home to eat.
At 4 p. m. she got her cigarets.
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13.
(AP) To eliminate hoarding, a
Portland newsstand operator
gives- regular customers a card
numbered from 1 to 31 for one
pack of cigarets a day.
He started the plan after a
woman spilled 23 packages from
her shopping bag, then asked,
"Do you blame me? I can sell
them for 25 or 50 cents a pack
where I work."
School Board
Acts to Ease
Overcrowding
Overcrowded Conditions In
Roseburg schools - forced the
ooard of school directors at -its
regular "meeting Monday night
to arrange for the opening of a
room for third grade pupils at
the Junior High school building,
and to provide transportation of
band pupils from the Senior High
school to room 104 In the Junior
Hieh for rehearsals.
Steadily increasing enrollment
In the Roseburg schools has par
ticularly affected the third erade.
which has been overcrowded
since opening of schools, City Su
perintendent Paul S. Elliott ad
vised the board. The average of
students in third grade classes in
the three grade schools at pres
ent is 411 pupils, the superinten
dent stated. By opening a new
room, the average can be reduced
to di, a more favorable situation
for teaching and learning. Mrs.
Stella Woodford, the former Stel
la Qulne and an ex-county school
superintendent, has been employ
ed to teach the new class, which
will be composed of Fullerton
school students living east of the
river. Rose school students from
approximately north of Lane
street, and transported students
from Benson school.
Overcrowded conditions at the
Senior high make necessary
transportation of band students
to the Junior High building for
instruction masses. L,utner Vin
son was allowed $15 per month
to operate the bus to be used in
transporting the students be
tween the two buildings.
Miscellaneous Mattters
The board approved bills cov
ering the cost of wiling for an
electric stove, installation of
lights, plumbing and cabinets for
the kitchen at the Rose school,
where a hot lunch program is be
ing inaugurated.
Difficulties being encountered
In many school districts through
out the state In handling increas
ed enrollments has resulted in
organization of the Association
of Oregon State School Boards,
the directors were advised. The
board voted to loin the new as
sociation, which will exchange
Ideas on matters of finance, new
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Liberties Union Seeks
Weber Penalty Set-Aside
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 13
(AP) Ernest Beslg, regional Ci
vil Liberties union director, said
yesterday, following a two-day
visit to Camp Roberts, his organ
ization win ask the judge advo
cate general of the United States
to set Pvt. Henry Weber's life
sentence aside.
He said the request will be bas
ed on the ground that the 27-year-old
Vancouver, Wash.,
draftee, originally sentenced to
death for refusing to drill, did
not receive a fair trial.
Smelly Situation
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13
(AP) A. L. Poorman, proprietor
of a Portland auto service, has
agreed to suspension for the dur
ation because theft of gasoline
coupons from his place of busi
ness only partially explained a
shortage In Inventory,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13,
Tornadoes Rip
2 States; 42
Dead, 200 Hurt
( By the" Associated Press) !
Tornadoes swirling over Missis
sippi and Alabama late yesterday
took a toll of at least 42 dead, 200
injured, and property damage
running into hundreds of thou
sands of dollars.
Worst hit was a crescent shap
ed area on the southern and west
tern outskirts of Montgomery,
Ala., where more than 50 box
cars of a freight were ripped and
tossti about like match boxes.
Montgomery alone counted Its
dead at 25, and its injured at
more than 100. Two government
warehouses were levelled and In
Chlsholm, a cotton mill commu
nity, 35 homes were demolished
and many others damaged In a
20-block area. . . .
Nine were known dead at Liv
ingston, 125 miles west of Mont
gomery, and one at York, nine
miles from Livingston. At Living
ston, as at Montgomery, a freight
train was tossed about and one of
the Livingston dead was a train
man. The storm first hit Meridian,
Miss., leaving a path of destruc
tion as it cut about the city on
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Pacific Gale Claims Fish
Craft; Two. Men Missing
ASTtoRIA, br,'Feb.'i3MAP)
At least two men were presum
ed today to have perished in loss
of the 54-foot deep sea - fishing
boat Republic in the 80-mile gale
that swept the north Pacific a
week ago.
The U. S. coast guard reported
finding a portion of the forward
deck and a 12-looot section of
the port bow, bearing the craft's
name, on the beach between Long
Beach and Ocean Park, Wash.,
late Monday. The Republic clear
ed for the fishing banks Feb. 6.
Believed lost were Oscar Wirk
kala, skipper, well known Astor
ia fisherman, and Albert Eriek
son. It was not known If more
crewmen were aboard.
Meat Rationing Muddle
Slated for Discussion
PORTLAND, Feb. 13 (API
Problems of rationing and the
WFA set-aside order of more
meat for the military will be dis
cussed by meat dealers here to
night. Milton H. Wolf, president of
the Oregon Independent Meat
Dealers' association, said a de
cline in sales, brought about by
increased ration stamp costs,
have made it difficult for dealers
to avoid layoffs. Lack of red
points has brought a decline of
from 25 to 35 per cent in sales
volume, Wolf said.
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YANKS FREE THOUSANDS IN SANTO TOMAS PRISON CAMP Within little more than five
hours after First cavalry division elements thrust their initial spearhead Into Manila, the Yanks
were In complete control of the Santo Tomas concentration camp, rescuing 3,700 internees. Their
mechanized equipment -fills the courtyard o the former university. - . '
1945.
PlaSim
Episcopalian Diocese
Splits Over Question of
Attitude Toward Nisei
SEATTLE, Feb.. 13. CAP)
Clerical and lay delegates to the
din convention of the Episcopal
diocese of Olympla went home
today after unexpected opposi
tion resulted In a divided vote
on a resolution pledging coopera
tion In re-integrating into west
ern Washington communities,
"loyal Americans of Japanese
ancestry" released from reloca
tion centers under the army's
western defense command regu
lations. A loud chorus of "noes" result
ed in Bishop S. Arthur Huston's
call for a standing vote. The
resolution was adopted 94 fo 42,
with many delegates not voting.
The diocese supports several
priests and a mission at the Hunt,
Idaho, relocation center to which
many Nisei Episcopalians were
evacuated from the White River
valley.
24 Die in Crash
Of Navy Transport
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13.
(AP) Twenty-four passengers
and crew members were killed
today in the crash of a two-engined
navy transport at the foot
of Chestnut street in Alameda on
San Francisco bay, the navy an
nounced here.
The big ship crashed 12 min
utes after it left the Alameda
airport.
Just missing land. It hit the
'waters, of -the Jay. so hard that
nearby residences were shaken.
Several persons said the
plane's engines stopped just be-
lore tne sound or tne crasn.
Santiam, Willamette
Rivers in Flood Stage
PORTLAND, Feb. 13 (API
Heavy rains sent the Santiam riv
er at Jefferson over its banks
again today and the weather bu
reau issued flood warnings at
Harrlshurg.
The Santiam, which flooded at
Jefferson last week in the wake
of a coastal gale, Is expected to
reach a crest of 18.5 five and a
half feet above flood stage to
day.
Weather officials said the Wil
lamette river would reach 14.5
feet tomorrow at Harrisburg
two and a half feet above flood
stage, but would not overflow its
banks at other points.
Extra Gasoline Assured
Job-Hunting Veterans
PORTLAND. Feb. 13 (AP)
Job-hunting veterans and displac
ed war workers will be given ex
tra gasoline for visits to prospec
tive employers, the district UFA
said today.
The gas will be allowed only
for officially-arranged Job inter
views.
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Threat
Russians Near
Dresden; Nazis
Quit Budapest
(By the Associated Press)
Soviet troops battering west
ward across northern Silesia have
smashed the Nazis' Bober river
line and plunged on to the area
of the Quels river, from five to
10 miles farther west, tne uer
man high command said. Marshal
Konev's troops, swiftly develop
ing a flanking threat to Berlin,
had been reported bv the Rus
sians drawn up along a 15-mile
stre.ch of the Bober, after the
capture of Bunzlau, 74 miles
northwest of the ancient Saxony
capital of Dresden.
German reports placed the Rus
sians within 70 miles of Dresden,
and said that farther north other
Konev troops were hammering to
ward Sommerfeld, only 17 miles
irom a junction with the Mrst
White Russian army battling to
ward Berlin. Sommerfeld is 70
miles southeast of Berlin.
Nazis Yield Budapest
The Germans announced that
Budapest, under direct siege since
Dec. 27, has been evacuated by
German troops, ending one- of the
most bitter struggles of the war.
The Berlin radio had reported
earlier a suicide attempt to break
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All Fit, Under 30,
Except Farmers,
Will be Drafted-
PORTLAND, Feb. 13 (AP)
Oregon s selective service direc
tor said today that practically
every physically fit man in the
state will be in uniform within
90 days, even if he is engaged
in essential work. -Col.
Elmer V. Wooton said he
referred to men with deferments
In industry, and not those engag
ed in agriculture.
'We are adhering to the Tvd-
Ings amendment, which provdes
that workers in an essential agri
cultural enterprise shall not be
inducted until a replacement can
be obtained," Col. Woolon stated.
He said an estimated 3.000 to
3,500 Oregon men will go Into
service under the new draft pro
gram before the pool of men un
der 30 is exhausted. The March
quota is 1,200 men.
some men ovor do will be tak
en, but that depends on what they
are doing, ' Uol. wooton declared.
More consideration Is being
shown those older men engaged
in essential activities. Men are
not presently being taken for lim
ited service but those who fall to
continue their work In essential
activitcs will be inducted even If
qualifed only for limited duty."
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Foundation for World Peace
Laid in Nine-Point Program
Drawn at Crimean Conference
Russia Expected to Join in War
On Japan Following United Nations
Huddle at San Francisco April 25
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. (API The Big Three are in
agreement today on a nine-point master plan to hasten victory
over Germany, guarantee tho sovereignty of Europe's, liberated
peoples and lay the foundations of a secure peace.
The pattern of the peace the Dumbarton Oaks proposal
for the world security organization is to be placed before a
united nations conference to be called at San Francisco April 25.
Those are the over-all results of President Roosevelt's eight
day meeting at an old czarist palace in the Crimea with Premier
Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill. - i . .
By their own word it offers the world renewed hope, after
Germany's unconditional surrender, for generations of Inter
national security in which men "may live out their lives In freedom
from want and fear." ,
Tax Changes
Get Approval
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 13 (AP)
The state senate completed action
today on Its three-bill program
to remedy the community prop
erty situation, passing and send
ing to the house a measure to
prevent the state treasurer from
levying gift taxes on property
transferred from husband to wife
under tho 1943 community prop
erty law.
The senate already had approv
ed bills to repeal the 1943 law,
and to permit the 1251 couples
who elected to come under com
munity property to get out from
under it.
The 1943 law was passed to per
mit couples to split their Incomes
to get lower federal income tax
rates. The United States supreme
court ruled, however, they could
n't get lower rates that way, thus
nullifying the ourpose of the law.
The house how may consider
the tnrec bills together. . .
Schenk's Pay Increased
The senate, after prolonged de
bate, voted 20 to 10 to increase
tho salary of Harry $chenk, chiot
deputy secretary of) state,- from
$4200 to $4800 a year, and - to
change his title to assistant sec
retary of state.
Members opposed to the raise
said persons in lower , brackets
should be raised first, 'and that
SchenK was nut entitled to It be
cause ho has served only two
years.' ' : - '
Sen. Walker, Independence, de
clared that the proposed state
budget calls for increases In the
lower brackets of 12 to 18 per
cent, and Sen. Fatland, Condon,
said Schenk has added responsi
bilities, such as administration
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Canadian Navy Upsets
Charge of Bad Conduct
VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 12
(CP) The Royal Canadian navy
Issued a prepared statement to
day saying its official Inquiry Into
reports women aboard a navy
tug were insulted and molested
resulted in the conclusion "the
facts as published... were
grossly exaggerated, badly dis
torted and far distant Irom the
truth."
The Inquiry was ordered fol
lowing newspaper reports some
girl members of the cast of the
United States coastguard travel
ling show "Tars and Spars" were
Insulted and molested Feb. 4
aboard a navy tug during a
cruise of Vancouver harbor.
Three Dead, 4th Missing
In Flying Boat Crash
VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 13
(CP) Three airmen are dead
and one Is missing following the
ciash yesterday of an R. C. A. F.
Canso flying boat while making
a water landing at fatricia Day
air station on Vancouver island,
western air command announced
today.
Four other crewmen are In a
hospital in serious condition.
Cause of the crash ha3 not yet
been determined.
Nazi U-Boats Battled
By Canadian Craft
OTTAWA, Feb. 13 (AP)
Sinking of a German U-boat,
probable sinking of another and
attacks on other undersea raiders
In north Atlantic battles, In
which speed torpedoes were
launched at Canadian ships, were
announced here today. by Navy
Minister Macdonald.
He said the corvette St. Thom
as recently sank a U-boat in the
north Atlantic.
$300,000 Asked for
Umpqua Harbor Work
Appropriation of $300,000 for
maintenance work on the Ump
qua river harbor is a'iked of con
gress In the report of the army
engineers reported today from
Washington. Thlrty-eicht pro
.1rets in the Pacific Northwest
are Included In the report as
needing maintenance funds dur
ing the coming fiscal year.
The dark curtains of secrecy
were drawn from the conference
late vesterdav. This revealed that
the Big Three had agreed not
onlv on mighty new blows to
crush nazlism and permanently
disarm uermanv. But also on sev-
ernl pieces of specific peace ma- :
chinery to unrantee independ
ence and self-determination to tho
small rountries of Europe. A for
mula for creating a new govern
ment In Poland, which will he
acepntahle to all three powers. Is
Included.
The three leaders nponrentlv
compromised the snlit between
United F.f.iffs sr.d TV.iSaia Over
the voting rlphts of creat oowprs i
In the proneod numbnrtnn Oaks
security plin. This cleared the .
wnv for the united nations con
ference In Snn FrnncMeo on
Anril ?5. That is the date bv
which Russ'a must denounce her
non-afgresslon trpnty with Janan
it it is not to run ior anotner
five vears. r .
RH Pledctx 6n!lvd Given
ninlomntic officials here dis
counted the significance of this
fact, termln"! It a coincidence.
But It raked "II over mrain spec
ulation th"t Stalin hart now de
clared to Roosevelt and Church
ill pn Intention to enter the war
In Aila when military condltons
In Eurnne normit. ,
The Big-Three announcement,
envnrlnp' nine ma'or nolnts. was
hnt'ort nt the cnnitol bv both re
ni'HIcnns and drmo"rts. . -
It commits the United States
fn n jiew-and JcPVf role In the ...
settlement of Eiiroienn nr.litical -affairs
a new , droinrture in
American foreign poIlcV.'To con-
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France Resents
Exclusion From
Yalto Conference
PARIS, Feb. 13. (AP) The
povprmncnt announced todav
that the counoll of ministers had
approved a Plan to build a huge
naval and air base at Dakar to
nrntect the French empire life
lines and as a contribution to
"collective security." -
The plan, npnroved at n ses
sion In which Gen. DefJaulle re
ported he was notified last nlcht
bv American, British and Russian
ambassadors of decisions reach
ed at the Crimea conference, re
minded the malor powers that
France will hold a trump card
for conferences yet to come.
The government has reserved
specific comment on the Crimea
conferences decisions. Members
repeated DoGanlle's position
that France wo"ld not be bound
bv decisions affecting her In
terest which were taken without
her consultation.
The first editorial reaction to
tho Yalta conference reflected a
tone of non-committal reserva
tion. "A countrr whose ranld recov
erv and whose courare In ad
versltv have won admiration of
the world Rhould no longer be a
poor relation." said the news
paper Liberation Solr, nddlm?
that the French resented the na
tion's exclusion from Yalta.
Th" editorial ' said, however,
that France seemed to tm resum
ing her nlnee and that "in world
affairs, in the orranl7ntlon of the
pence and the application of the
Atlantic charter she will also
have a word to say."
Wimberfy Affirmed In
Property Titfe Suit
SALEM, Ore.. Feb. 13. (APV
Th" ste sunreme court todav
affirmed the lower court In th
case of Ada C. Frederick, annel
nnt. vs Pnu"1ns eountv and Ben
nd Nannie Zpnor. Anpeal from
Dotmlns county. Suit to c'rtnr
nronev title Onlnlon bv Jus
tice James T. Brand. Judge
Announced prenrom of the
Big Three assures banishment of
fear find want from th world.
Thus all Americans will soon b
living ths life) cf Riley with
nothing to worry about except
payin off a war debt that has
already reached $235 billion.
Levity pact Jant
By L. F. Relzensteln