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Berchtesgaden, Hitler's .
Private Lair, Blasted
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The opticians bill -drew the fire
to draw up even with Zhukov by
reaching the Noisse. river. ; ; 1
! In addition to Crossen, Moscow
announced capture of two other
large towns, , Bobersberg and
Chrlstlanstadt, and more lhati HO
populated 1 places by Konev's
troops.
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
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Artillery Still Hammers
Wall Protecting Japs
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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
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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.
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Phone 639R
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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.
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