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Oil UUM U Marine Casualties Frs 48 M ours SfiSOy&MiM Taken f Another Now Goal Established 1873 ROSEBURG, ORESONVEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1945. No. 45-43 IfuiBsSamis Berlin. Pound 'F&nkfuirl Civilians Flee As City Strips For Death Tilt Guben, Southern End of Berlin's Defense Wall, Another Goal of Reds LONDON, Feb. 21 (AP) Marshal Zhukov s troops, lighting to encircle Frankfurt on the Oder, 38 miles east of Berlin, have "temporarily" slashed the city's lifelines to the capital, a German military commentator said today. - N The fortress town on the west bank of the Oder is under siege and the constant hammering of Russian artillery and bombers, said the report from inside the city by Transocean war reporter Hans Arntz. His broadcast coincided with a military review in the Moscow newspaper Pravda which said the red army was 34 miles from Ber lin. This report, the closest the Rus- (Contlnued on Page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I WO JIMA holds our breathless interest this week. Our marines are staging another Island battle there possibly the toughest since Tarawa. . . ' ' TWs ByspecK "In" 'the" Pacific, ivith its two completed airfields Mid a third under construction, nly 700 miles from Tokyo, Is In Japan's INNER RING of de fenses. Its burrowed-In garrison, under orders to fight to the last man, is buying delay with typical Jap fanaticism. - ISIE'RE ashore, with! a beach fjf head about 2 J miles long and some 600 yards wide, and have penetrated the defenses of one of the airfields. The Japs who sur vived our landing bombardment' are coming out of their holes and fighting back with artillery, mor tars, machine guns and rifles. It's a famllar story, and a nasty, bloody one. AT Manila, we're mopping up the bay. We control the top side of Corregidor, but still have to dig the' Japs out of Its tunnels. The bay is far enough cleared of mines that, our warships are able to steam up to its entrance and shell the Japs on the Cavite shore. A few suicide pockets re main on Bataan. The fighting in the old walled city still goes on. Our troops, 'Continued on page 2) Less Home Canning Sugar Individual Allowance Cut by Five Pounds; Applicants Must Estimate Needs, Use Stamp 13 WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. (AP) The OPA pulled the draw string on the sugar sack even.tighter today with a cut in allotments for home canning. . For the 1945 canning season housewives will be able to obtain a maximum of 20 pounds for each member of the family up to eight instead of last year s 25 pounds with no limit on the number re ceiving an allowance. And unlike last vear, when five pounds of the 25-Dound max imum for each member of the family could bo obtained by mere v presenting suear stamp No. 40 pll allotments must be obtained from local rationing boards. ... . . Price Administrator Bowles called the 1944 program "too easv." savins It resulted in an overdrawn! of the 700.000-ton al lotment for home canning by 300.000 tons. This vear 700fW tons of su gar will be available for homo canning, and the tightentin up is intended to limit consumption to thnt amount. Bowles said that sugar stocks for this time of the year are the lowest since the war began, with Cuba production down from a year ago, plus a shipping short Berchtesgaden. Private Lair Of Hitler, Targef of Raiders; Nuernberg, Dortmund Ripped ROME, Feb. 21. (AP) Rocket-firing Thunderbolts of the U. S. 12th air force made the first attack of the war yesterday on Hit ler's private city of Berchtesgaden, the mountain hideout high in the snow-capped Bavarian Alps, it was announced today. The planes, sweeping in from Italian bases, pumped rockets into Ji.il YANK GUERRILLA One of the few American soldiers who es caped from Bataan in l42, Lt. Clayton t Rollins, above, led a Filipino guerrilla force in north ern Luzon for three years until MacArthur's forces invaded the island. He is pictured at U. S. 2 5th division headquarters, where he gave valuable infor mation about Jap activities. Gripsholm Reaches N. Y. With 1,209 Repatriates JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 21 (AP) Joyously welcomed by uni formed Wacs the (lirfs they left behind them 463 sick and wounded American soldiers camp back from German prison camps today on the exchange ship Grips holm. The ship carried a total of 1,209 passengers. -....-' The American soldiers, all ill or wounded,, included many aviators Who were shot down over Ger many. Adventist Church Defers World Conference TAKOMA PARK, Md., Feb. 21. (AP) The world general con ference of the Seventh Day Ad ventist church, scheduled for May 22-June 3 at St. Louis, has been postponed indefinitely. The general conference execu tive committee, which announced the- decision,, explained that it was a voluntary move in coopera tion with the government's de sire to restrict travel. age for bringing supplies Into this country. OPA district offices will an nounce when issuance of coupons for 1945 canning sugar will be gin and end In. each area. No ap plications will be accepted in any area after Oct. 31. The allowance for canning fruits and fruit iuices will be on the basis of one pound of sugar ror eacn lour quarts to be can ned. In applying for sugar for home canning, housewives will use OPA form R-341 rmd attach a "snare stamn 13" from war ra tion book No. 4 for each member of the family covered in the ap plication. They must answer sev eral "simnle ouestions" about home canning done last year and about the number of quarts of fruits she expects to can thh year. ' , . railyards at low levels, ripped rail tracks, cars rnd locomotives and smashed at other targets in and near Berchtesgaden, which may be the most heavily fortified spot In all the reich. They ran into intense flak and small arms fire. While there was no official comment on the attack, it was speculated that the surprise strike was directed against the move ment of top priority personnel. supplies and Nazi files from Ber lin. It is supposed to be Hitler s hideout." an air force officer said, adding that if the raiders found' railway cars there, "one guess is as good as another as to what they might contain." Tne assault tits into a pattern with two attacks yesterday -and today from British and French bases by the U. S. Eighth air force "on the packed rail yards and locomotive repair shops-at Nuernberg, 90 miles north of Munich,, the center 'of former Nazi propaganda, spectacles and an Important rail Junction. The extraordinarily heavy concentra tion or traitic at iNuernrjerg lea to speculation that it might be a (Contiued on page 6) Douglai Turkey ' Production to be Increased In 1945 Douglas county turkey growers Intend to produce 10 per cent more birds in 1945, was the con clusion reached at a meeting of turkey growers Tuesday in Rose burg Breeder hens on farms in the county were estimated to be aDproximately 20 per cent above the number a year ago. Local producers appear to be in line with the national produc tion trend for 1945, states J. Ro land Parker, county agricultural agent. Production in 1944 is now estimated at 220,000 birds, return ing well over a million dollars to growers. Sales of turkey eggs and young poults are estimated to have added another $350,000 to the farm income. Ceiling prices and market out look for turkeys and other poul try and poultry products was dis cussed by N. L. Bennion, exten sin poultryman, who stated Ore gon is one of the too turkey pro ducing states and is recognized as having outstanding breeding flocks. Dr. E. M. Dickinson, poul try pathologist, warned growers that it was essential to keep their breeding stock free of disease if out-of-state markets for hatching eggs and breeding, stock were to be maintained. Monte Belvedere Again Captured by Americans ROME. Feb. 21. (AP) Ameri can troops striking over Italian mountain terrain so forbidding that at times thev used rooes to scramble ud the stepo slows, have captured Monte Belvedere and several villages on the peaks west of the Pistoia-Bologna high wav. The Germans fought back viciouslv. but all counterattacks were repulsed and the fighting for the dominant heights con tinues, an allied communique sa'd todav. . Once before allied trnonn bad held the commanding. 3.500-fnot neak of Monte Belverripre, but the nazls recantured it last Nov. 29 and had held it since. Rer6rt from the front said alwiut 200 prisoners had been taken uo to yesterday. More Imported Labor For Northwest Likely WASHINGTON. Feb. 21 ( AP) Allocations of lmnnrted farm labor may be- "a T'ttle larger" forh northv oit this year. Sena tor Morse of Oregon said today. Brl". Gen. Phllin O. Brnutnn. Wr Food administration's labor officer. Is now In Mexico recruit ing farm labor for the current season. Morse said, adding that he had been assured no chnnpe was enntemnlnted In the methods iwd the onst two vears In sun. nlvtng farmers with additional help. ' Scots, Yanks Lunge Deeper Into Germany PARIS, Feb. 21 (AP) Scots of the Canadian army completed capture of the northern German fortress city of Goch today while in the center of the western front the American Third army ad vanced up to five miles in a broad sweep in the Moselle valley to ward the Rhine,, seizing 11 towns. The last enemy suicide squads were cleared from the ruined road center of Goch, once a town of 13,500 and still the center of eight military highways. The Scots thrust on 600 yards south westward. Goch is eight miles south of captured Kleve, terminal of the original Siegfried line, and 17 miles southeast of the Dutch city of NUmegen, whence the Ca nadian offensive started. Beyond the once-bristling town lies a small open plain in which no fixed German fortifications (Continued on page S) U. S. Envoy, DeGaulle to Confer on Bid Incident PRIS, Feb. 21.-MAP) U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery prepared today to confer with General DeGaulle, who refused to meet with President Roose velt, on the decisions made by the Big Three in the Crimea. American embassy officials de scribed the wording of the presi dent's invitation to ueuauiie ror a meeting as unfortunate. They said Roosevelt had planned to hold a quick "business session" with DeGaulle to Inform France of the details of the Crimean conference and to obviate lengthy diplomatic correspon dence. . It was learned that DeGaulle either wrote or personally edit ed the statement issued by his office In which he turned down the invitation. The sentence say ing that De Gaulle was "happy to learn that President Roose velt Intended to visit a French port" was cited as reflecting the general's bitterness at being "in vited" to confer on French soil. Bottom Fish Ceiling Up Three Cents a Pound PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 21 (AP) The celling on bottom fish which. Astoria fishermen have long contended was too low was up three cents a pound to day. The district OPA said increases on flounder, sole, and cod were allowed to encourage frozen pro cessing of winter-caught fish. Kaiser Gets Contract for Eight Escort Carriers WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (AP) Award of a contract for con struction of eight aircraft escort carriers to Henry Kaiser, Inc., Vancouver, Wash., was announc ed by the navy yesterday. The carriers will cost approximately $88,000,000. No other details were disclosed. Vi s: r""7Jii "ANGLES OF BATAAN" LEAVE FOR HOME The first truck load of American army nunet, famed "Angeli of Bataan," leava Santo Tomas, w here they were impriioned after their capture by Japaneie on Corregidor three years ago. This !s the beginning of the long trip back to the .United States and home. Photo by Tom Shafter, NEA-Acme photographer, for war picture pool. Veterans Aid Bill Passed by ouse 1 SALEM, Ore., Feb. 21 (AP) The Oregon house of representa tives, which had been almost at a standstill for two days, was back to normal today after demo cratic demands that bills on final passge be read in full were dis continued. In short order, the house then passed unanimously and sent to the senate two bills to create the office of state director of veter ans' affairs, and to establish a $100,000 revolving fund to buy and exchange lands for reforestation. Both were requested by the gov ernor. Rep. Wells. Portland, chairman of the house military affairs com mittee, said all veterans organi zations new are behind the bill for the new veterans department. which would adrninister all mut ters relating to loans and bene fits for veterans. The director would be a war veteran, and would bo responsible to a seven-man advisory board appointed by the governor. Each ot the five malor veterans' organ izations American Legion, Vet erans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Order of the Purple Heart, and United Span- (Contlued on page 6) Curfew to Hold With 2-Front War Official Predicts -' WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (AP) "Primary responsibility" for ad ministering the national mid night curfew for entertainment places today rwas formally assign ed to the War Manpower conV mission. hixYiltondnl'-iirolMMH'? ALBANY Orp.; Feb; 21. fAPf will be retained "at least as lonl Ray Cox, owner of -an Albany ; The curfew, which is effective as we are fighting a two-front war," one high authority vho withhold use of his name, s.ild. The assignment of responsibil ity for compliance covers not only imposition of "zero" employ ment ceilings in violation cases but policing of night spots as well. . The Official who predicted In definite continuance of the cur few commented: "It depends on Mr. Hitler." ' Asked about exemptions for places providing recreation for swing shift war workers, he said these will be "few and far be tween" and added: "I don't know why there should be any such exemptions. The sol diers don't have any swing shift enjoyment." For actual checking on com pliance, WMC regional and area officers are expected to enlist the aid of local law enforcement agencies. Drop In Salmon Runs Scheduled for Study PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 21. (AP) The . S. fish and wildlife service, - which has $100,000 on hand for work in Oregon, wasn ineton. and Idaho, wili be asked to study the decline in the north west's upper river salmon runs. The request was voted Dy rep resentatives of the Oregon fish commission and the Washington fisheries department, meeting here - yesterday. The delegates, mulling the drop in natural sal mon spawning, also called for a halt to pollution of streams, par ticularly the Willamette river. - - Artillery Sfill Pounds Wall Protecting Japs; Presence of Civilians Deters Air Assault MANILA, Feb. HI. (AP) Medieval siege tactics in modern guise were employed against trapped Japanese garrisons in Manila's thick-walled Intramuros and on Corregidor today as Gen. MaeArthur announced the past week's fighting has cost the Nipponese 24.000 casualties. ; Cannon and howitzers gnawed steadily at the 40-loot-thick outer wall of the Intramuros to cut an entrance way for tanks and in fantry seeking to eliminate the cornered enemy snd liberate an estimated 7,000 civilians. The Yanks could pulverize the Intramuros and everybody inside with air power, but they are try ing to save the civilians. ' Arthur t eldman of the Blue network termed this a possibly futile ges ture. Hd, was of the opinion the Japanese already have killed most of the civilians.; Gen. MaeArthur said " in his communique today that the enemy garrison in south Manila, now compressed into an area only 1.200 yards by 800, "Is act ing with the greatest savagery in his treatment of non-combatants and private property." - corregidor Tunnel Blocked On Corregidor. both entrances of the main tunnel Were blocked by explosives and Yanks swarm ing over the topside poked through rubble in search of the ventilation vent. When they find it the JaDanose will be completely sealed off, their doom certain.. Liquid fire and explosives were killing the few Japanese who managed to dash from the few re malnlng crevices in Banzai charges. . - - MaeArthur, describing the fighting in Manila as still bitter, underscored its severity by an nouncing . enemy casualties of (Continued on Pago 6) "Fag" Quota Flops, So He Puts Them an Frea List - caieteria, got urea trying to stretch his weekly quota of eight cartons of clgarels. tpall custo mers. ' !; .J!-,- i . f, So ho derided to give .''them away one after-dinner cigaret to a customer. The fags sit in a bowl by the cash register, marked "take one." - "People take them, but they're a little choosey," he said. "They peck around in the bowl until they find their own brand." - Willamette University Benefits From Estate PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 21. (AP) The bulk of an estate esti mated at $100,000 will go to Wil lamette university, probate court records showed today. Alfred L. Seaquest, Portland, who died Feb. 15, also bequeathed his pioneer homestead at Sil ver Lake, Wash., to the state of Washington for a state park with the proviso, that no liquor be used on the premises. He left minor bequests to a church and friends. Delicious Apples Again Available to Civilians PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 21 'AP) Delicious apples, frozen for sale only to the government since Jan. 16, went on the civil ian market counter again today In the northwest. The War Food administration said the government has filled Its needs of that type of apnle. Wine sap and Newton varieties remain frozen. - i ? It M LEADS INVASION Vice Adm. Richard Kelly Turner: 59, above, led the amphibiouj invasion team that "brought marine at lault force! to two Jima. Turn er holds a dual title-commander of amphibioui forces in the Pacific and commander of the Fifth ; amphibious ? force. He holds latter role how. ; ' Prison Sentences Meted Circus Men For Tragic Rre ' HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 21. (API Superior Judge William J. Shea today imposed prison sentences on three officials of the Rlngllng Brothers and Bnr num and Bailey circus, and sent three other circus., men to Jail, all for involuntary manslaugh ter in connection with the circus fire here last July which claimed 168 lives. Those sentenced were George W. Smith, 51, general manager and Leonard S.t Aylesworth, 42, chief tent man, two. to seven years in state prison. James A. ' Haley, 46-year-old vice-president and director, one to five years in state prison. Edward R. Verstceg; 44, chief electrician, and William Caley, 35, chief seatman, one year in the county jail. They are all from Sarasota, Fla. David W. Blanchfield, 57, chief truckman, Hartford, six months in Jail. At the same time Judge Shea fined the Ringllng Brothers, Bar num and Bailey Combined Shows, Inc., the official name of the concern, $10,000. All of the defendants and the corporation itself had pleaded no contest to involuntary man slaughter and before passing sen tonce Judge Shea remarked that this was "equivalent to a plea of guilty." '" !: " Employers Censured In Negro Discrimination WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (AP) Failure of a lubor Union "to perform Its duty does not excuse or mitigate non-performance by an employer, even though the employer may be a party to n closed shop contract with the derelict union," the committee on fair employment practice declar ed yesterday in affirming anti discrimination orders issued to five west coast . shiDvards last December. The original orders called upon the five shipyards, which include Kaiser Co., Inc., and Oregon Ship building, In Portland, Ore., to halt the "practice of firing or refusing to hire qualified Negro workers who refuse to accept discriminatory membership in the boliermakers union.'-, Portland Traffic Toll Registers 18th Death PORTLAND, Feb. 2t.(AP) Portland's mounting 1945 traffic toll stood at IS deaths today af ter Henry Pfenning, 53, suc cumbed to Iniurles suffered in a head-on collision between his au tomobile and . a streetcar five da vs ago. . ' Police arrested" two men Tues day In their campaign against pedestrian trafie violators. Thir teen of this year's deaths are at tributed to Jaywalkinft .. Leathernecks Waging Tough, Uphill Bottle Kr-val, Air Fleers Join In Blasting Rocky Lairs of j , Nippons tn Suicide Stand U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Guam, Feb. 21. (P) Approximately 3,650 ma rines were killed or wounded in the first 48 hours of the battle for Iwo Jima, Adin. Nlmltz an nounced today as he reported the Leathernecks made general ad vances ranging up to 1,000 yards on the island's central airfield. Nlmltz listed anoroxlmately 3.- 500 enlisted men and 150 offl-. cers as casualties killed, wound-; cd and missing. He said 3,063 of the wounded have been evac uated, indicating about 600 were killed or missing. 4 There was no estimate of Ja pancse losses. Tank-led marines, holding firm control of more than a third of the island, began an enveloping drive against the fighter field, known as Motovama No. 2. Every yard of the advance was made under a steady hail of Japanese ' machine gun,, moitar, nue ana rocket fire over wet, rocky slopes criss-crossed with revetments. jlllboxes, blockhouses, and re-., nforced snloer holes. Mines and tank traps were plentiful. Slow Perilous Task. The marine drive stemmed from Motoyama airfield No. 1, the island's prized bomber field, captured yesterday noon 30 hours ahead of schedule. About 700 yards separate these -two fields, the only completed air strips on the island, 750 miles south of Tokyo. , Other Devil Dogs crawled 100 painful yards up the slopes of Surlbachl volcano, a fortress mountain on the southern tip of the Island from which Japanese Lgiuis. dDmimte..everv. inch of. the dismal ground tne xanKS coniroi. Jao Counterstabs Fall. '; Vicious Japanese defenders at tempted one small tank-supported night-time counterattack and almost constant infiltration, both coordinated with mortar, rocket . and artillery barrages. All attempts were broken up (Contiued on page 6) 25 More Nippon Shlpps Bagged By : American Subs WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. Twenty-five more Japanese vessels, Including three com bantant ships, have been sunk In far eastern waters by United States submarines. . A nvy announcement today . aid the fighting ships In cluded an escort aircraft car rier, a destroyer, and a large converted cruiser. Non-combatant vessels In cluded a medium transport, 14 medium cargo vessels, three small cargo vessels,, a large cargo transport, two . medium oargo transports and A mall transport Tne announcement, raised to 1,045 the total of Japanese ships sunk by Amerloan sub marines since the start of the war. These Inolude 110 com batant and 935 non-combatant craft. While not confirmed by the navy, the converted orulser listed In today's communique , was believed to be one of the enemy's pre-war 18,000-ton luxury merchant vessels. Farm Bureau Exchange 1 Sets New Sales Record Douglas County Farm Bureau Exchange sales during 1944 broke all previous records, amounting to more than $620,000, it was re ported at the annual moettng held Tuesdav. Members reelected D. N. Busenbark, Ed Bloomquist and JamPs E. Conn as directors. Andrew J. Townsend was re elected manager and Albert Kronke was retained as assist ant manager and secretary. The auditor's report was pre sented, showing the concern to be in good financial condition Wl otnnllli. ln',w,J'!i bllllnPJS, evity pact ant By L. F. Relzensteln In having a qovernmen lead er lilt the sulky Gen. Charles DeGaulle, who declined to con fer with President Roosevelt on matters vital to the nation. Franc presents .another ex ample of a 30-inch dog being operated by a sis-Inch tail. T
