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ROSEBURG, ORESONVEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1945.
No. 45-43
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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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"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.
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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
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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