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m ROSEBUR KEWS-RSVIEW, ROsEbURS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 1, I $45. Berchtesgaden, Hitler's . Private Lair, Blasted (Continued from Page 1) movement of government offices from Berlin, or a buildup for the defense of Vienna. Havoo Dealt Railways ' Hitler's retreat Is at Obersalz berg (Upper Salt mountain) cn the edge of Berchtesgaden. The previous attack on the Immediate vicinity (other top Nazi leaders have homes in the area, too) oc curred several months aeo when a force of American heavies hit salzburg, Austrian border town just across from Berchtesgaden. The Thunderbolts knocked out a locomotive and eight rail cars in the attack. At towns nearby thev set fire to two passenger . trains, destroyed a troop train estimated to have 150 soldiers aboard, and destroyed or dam aged nearly 50 rail cars, some ' loaded with tanks. I M There was no indication that' Hitler's retreat or Obersalzburg itself was attacked. Presumably Hitler himself is at Obersalzburg, although there have been on au thoritative reports recently of the whereabouts of the Fuehrer.) Key Cities Blasted . '. . spearheads of two American for-1 ma'.ons were over Thuringla and Franconla, indicating another deep penetration of the Reich. possibly In support of the Rus sian armies. .Today's assault, carrying Into daylight the ninth successive day or me nerce aerial punishment of Germany, followed a 1,200 plane strike bv the RAF against Important tartrats. The main force of this attack, possibly 750 neavies, pummeieci Dortmund, Key communications center for tne western front. Rofueeo. crammed Berlin was struck twin Other formations broke off in several directions, striking the much-bombed rail center of Mann helm, two oil refineries south of uuesseiuori on the Rhine, and other targets. . The glow of large fires from the attack on Dortmund could be seen through thin clouds and smoke rose to a great height, the air ministry said. Night fighters and Intruder air- crau or me bomber command supported the heavies and at tacked airfields. The RAF an nounced the loss of 21 planes from thp night's operations. The Fortresses were unchal lenged by the Luftwaffe at Nuern- uerg, out HaK was Intense. Six teen bombers, carrying 144 men; and 23 escorting fighters were jusi. mustangs and Thunderbolts Biioi uown r iiazi planes, and de. Stroyed 39 others on the ground. "Gorgeous George" Wagner Billed On Next Roseburg Wrestling Card Russians, 38 Miles From Berlin, Pound Frankfurt ' (Continued from Page 1) slan press has vet nlncnrt the p. sum troops to Berlin, did not give 1Un nntnt nt U- .1 1..." J UVlH'IIHUOn, out indlcated .lt was in Zmikov's sec tor and possibly west of the Oder. "The purchasers of stolen prop erty in Frankfurt on the Oder have tied to Berlin and no longer know where to go," suld the re view. City Becomes Inferno The bulk of Frunkfurt's 76,000 population has fled and the city has been stripped lor- n death stand defense as a bastion of Ber lin,, the German broadcast said. : "Grenades are exploding in Its streets and Russian planes are flying over the rooftons rattling their machlneguns," he added. ''Frankfurt has become a town without air raid sirens as the oc cupants arc constantly on the Jump. . . , "Many streets are lonelO and dead. Buildings are 'deserted and their occupants have fled to the west. Only vital enterprises are still open. The electricity supply lias been cut down and street cars have ceased running. Street cars have bee-., converted into anti tank barricades." Goal of Quben Noared Russia's First Ukraine . army drove steadily westward toward the Nelsse river stronghold of Guben and the southern end of Berlin's eastern defense wall along the Oder. Advancing as much as 10 miles through a heavily-forested region In the face of persistent German counterattacks, Marshal Konev's troops yesterday captured the hamlet of Schegolln, eight miles east of Guben and 57 southeast of Berlin. ' Four miles to the north Konev's right flank swept thro.igh Neuen dorf, on the southern bank of the Oder five miles west of captured Crossen, and rolled on toward the point seven miles away where the Oder Is Joined by the Nelsse be- jore swerving northward past r uei-srenoerg, t Kucstrin " i " ' i5 1 ' ' ' I -I t . 1 ' '' "" 1 ' ' ' -'i ' --- -mirV f ' I'nn niiMni.MiiniiiuiimjJ George Wagner, above, former i also used his fists to advantage, world and Pacific eoaur llirhr heavyweight wrestling champion and one of the greatest showmen In the graDullnir eame. will make his Roseburg debut at the armory next Saturday night. The colorful Wagner, who boasts a trunk full of beautiful satin robes Insured for $5000, will meet uusi jonnson, tno Seattle Swede. in the headline match. The an nouncement was made by Mutch maker Don Owen. Wagner, who toils on his tur key ranch near Eugene when not making the wrestling circuit, is known in mat circles as "Gor geous Georce" because of his good looks and the fact that he never forgets how handsome he Is. Despite Waener's black hair and beautlous profile, the mat man is a fundamentally fine wrestler. Fast and agile, he em- Kloys all of the spectaculur olds like the dron-kick. flvimr scissors, Sonnebergs, etc. He I which has made him extremely unpopular with fans as well as his opponents. Johnson, who holds the coast junior heavyweight champion ship, will be no easy mark for Wagner. The talented Swede demonstrated his mat prowess here recently by defeating Buck Davidson. Johnson has lost few engagements in recent months and is considered one of the fin est matmen in the business and capable of handing Wagner a licking In "Gorgeous George's" Initial appearance here. The match is certain to attract a large audience, even larger than last week's polio benefit that netted more than $150 for the Douglas county campaign. Owen promises to sign another outstanding one-hour- bout and hopes to book a preliminary three-round boxing match with local talent as an added attraction. more than 60 communities. North west of Budapest in the Danube valley route to Vienna the Rus sians were fighting off German counterattcks east of Komarom. Baseball Travel to Be Slashed 25 Per Cent WASHINGTON, Feh. 21 (AP) The ODT today asked baseball to cut lis 1945 truvel 25 per cent an action that would affect ex hibition games, size of squads and possioiy tne worm series. A statumcnt issued after a con ference between major league Presidents Ford Frick and Will Ilarrldge and ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson said: 1. Games will he ulaved onlv in the home city of one or the other competing teams. This means there will be no exhibition games except at army and navy establishments, where the mili tary will provide transportation. Pre season training will continue to tie neid at places in or near each team's home city. i. Team rosters, when travel ing, will be reduced to a minimum. 3. World series games will be held only It transportation and war conditions ut the time permits. Veterans Aid Bill Passed by Oregon House (Continued from page 1) Ish War Veterans would have a representative on the board. One oil the other two hoard members must be a veteran of World war II. Wells said 130,000 Oregon men and women have gone Into the armed forces. Truck Bill Signed Governor Snell signed into law today the bill extending the high er wartime truck weight and length limits for another two years. The house passed a senate bill exempting newspaper delivery men, insurance agents, and real estate brokers and salesmen from the unemployment compensation law. Two Bills Killed Illlla in nnw npiTfinlvntfrm nf a n k I U r t and mutual benefit insurance -associa- tlrno unrl In rtjittt u fliiA.mmi Capture of Crossen, announced stIlte ol opticians were dead of senators who obected to setting up another state board. A compromise of the milk pas teurization issue appeared pos sible t oday after representatives of producers an ddistributors indi cated they might settle on a pro posal to remove Bang's disease infected cattle from herds, but continue to allow milk from the dlscase f.ee cows in the herd to be sold. As the bill now stands, raw milk could not lie sold from a herd In which the disease exists. Hlqher Pension Favored The joint ways and means com- mlttee recommended passage of a bill by Sen. Mahoney, Portland Democrat, to eliminate the $40 monthly old age pension ceiling. The house already has passed a similar bill. T4ie committee relected a bill to allow the state superintendent of public Instruction to hire a school plant specialist to give ad vise on buildings and financing to scnooi districts, and the com mittee reversed its previous action to put the state blind trades school In Portland under the Bt-Ue board of control. Governor Snell submitted a bill to strengthen the state's alien property law, asserting it Is a re sult ( the recent army order al lowing Japanese to return to the West Coast. AVAILABLE NOW FOR LAWN, FLOWERS Regular feeding should be number one on your seasonal lawn care program. 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Surrender Demand 8purned , The Germans announced that soviet troops had broken into the long by-uassed and encircled Oder river cities of Breslau and Glo gau but declared they were re- puisea. Benin shiu me oresiau garrison had spurned a surren der ultimatum. - Gains of up to 13 miles were registered yesterday by red army forces driving through the Po lish corridor toward the Baltic port of Danzig. Fifty Polish cor fldor towns were captured. In the mountains of Czechoslo vakia some 60 miles due north of Budapest, red army troops open ed up a new drive, capturing V"D0ES"AN AVERAGE 1 j&- A COSTS ONIT PER cawm MIRACLE WALL FINISH Umpqua Valley Hardware ?02 N. Jackson Phone 73 gives pride and comfort. For lawns, and for flowers, shrubs and trees,, too. Use VIGORO.' It's the com'plete plant food made by Swift & Company. It supplies all of the many plant food elements all plants require from the soil Y COMPLETE PLANT FOOD Douglas County FARM BUREAU CO OPERATIVE EXCHANGE Phone 121 Artillery Still Hammers Wall Protecting Japs (Continued from Page 1) loff the French Indo-Chlna coast and another was damaged. Airdromes on the north and east coast of Borneo were hit with sy tons 01 Dombs. 92,000 for the six weeks of the Luzon campaign a3 against Amer ican casualties of 12,929 2,070 killed, 245 missing and 10.008 wounueu. This ' showed 24.000 Japanese and 3,'4(i American casualties in the last week a lone. , MacArthur said a survey of Manila-, disclosed that the Jap anese occupation army thorough ly looted ail private possessions of value and apparently shipped tno stolen goous to JOKyo. . . . Surrender Demand Rejected our nunarea Japanese, trapped by 11th airborne paratroopers on a ridge southeast of captured Fort William McKinley yesterday, re fused an ultimatum to surrender from Lt. Col. George Pearson of Sheridan, Wyo. : The note was carried through the lines by a Filipino ridlne a horse. The Japanese commander read the note, shook his head in refusal and shot the horse, send ing the Filipino back afoot. Planes and artillery opened on the enemy Immediately and at nightfall many Japanese already were dead. Bombers attacked Formosa "In force" despite difficult flying con ditions. Airdromes and industrial targets were bombed effectively. r igniers oestroyeo 10 locomotives and 50 rail cars in low-level sweeps. A l.wxnon freignter was sunk Yankee Toll Heavy in Combat on Iwo Jima (Continued from Page 1) by the marines, with the aid of Illuminating flares fired through out me nigni Dy tne American invasion fleet lying offshore. The flares exposed virtually every Ja panese attempt at nignttime ma neuvers. ... - Naval guns, masses of marine artillery, carrier planes, ' tanks and individual marine units com bined in pulverizing Japanese de fenses which cover the entire volcanic island. But the marines still face an uphill fight. Tho northern mass of the is land rises about 50 yards above Motoyama airfield No. 2, which lies on a plateau. The marines had to climb slopes to approach it from anv direction. Japs Far From Beaten Despite . the initial American successes, there was no discount ing the fact the Japanese on Iwo still have plenty of fight left. au last nignt, tne skies over the embattled island presented the weird sight of bursting star shells, tracer bullets and flames flaring up from bursting explo sives while aground sleepless ma rines scurried from foxhole to foxhole with ammuntion for the advance. Morrte Landsberg, Associated Press correspondent, relayed re ports from Vice Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner's expeditionary flag ship that marine artillery is pounding the caves of Suribacht. . The enemy has pillboxes every 10 feet in the sector around the volcano. - . . Throughout the Island, "thous ands of Japanese are fighting back with . everything at their command," Landsberg said, "with rockets, mortars, artillery, ma chlneguns . and the ever present sniper fire." Inter-American Conference Opens MEXICO CITY, Feb. 21 (AP) The inter-American cnnfm-fnfv on war anrl nnctui- npnVi)nm opens today faced with the job ji laiiunng tne oroao outlines 01 the Crimea conference to the spe cial needs of this hemisphere. PreslHpnr PnmnMirt Uavinn will address the delegates at 8 p. m. His talk 'Will be broadcast on an international hookup. U. S. Secretary of State Stct tir.ius, who arrived yesterday, al ready has communicated the l-e-suits of the Big Three conference to the assembled delegation chiefs. The United States delegation intends to -sponsor t least two resolutions, one providing for fi-eedom of Information in the Americas and the other expected to give the pan-American union sufficient political and economic powers s6 that it can function 'as a subdivision of the world Organ ization contemplated in the Dum barton Oaks plan. '- . ' Wool Growers Am consigning wool again this year for the H. I. Haber Wool Co. Will advance $1.00 per head. Each grower's wool consigned to this company was graded individually and netted them from 54c to 58V2C per lb. at Roseburg, which was from . 5c to 9c more than other wool in Douglas County brought last year. Ora Welker 800 S. Pine St. Phone 639R WEALTH OF THE WEST ' ' ' i ' ' , M III .PL ill xr" jdi&l'ti CstcilAi Nature' ever 9n8rous ,0 West has en if riched this region with the. world's largest deposits of magueslta and with clays rich In alumina. Combined with the83 resources are the nation's greatest hydro-electric power plants among them world- famous Grand Coulee and Bonnoville. As a result the aluminum capacity of western mills today is 315.000 tons annually, double the United States capacity prior to 1940. Additional light-meials production centers and secondary plants for rolling, forging, ' and easting will logically develop which means that the West In the post-war era will continue, as in the war period, to be one of the great aircraft producing regions of the world, as well as manufacturing a variety of other light-metal products. Prodigal Is the Wealth of the West and boundless are its opportunities. SICKS BREWING COMPANY SALEM, OREGON SPfD THE , VICTORY BUY WAR BONDS Brewed in Oregon Slclu' Sslect en ol America's Hunt bwrs. Is also on el Or. aon's jxrrroU ballasts a psn manent part ol Oroaoa's Indus. tr:al 111. IS, gitr i'tt Sci' Qualify - , J V r
