'I U : -, i o3 'aiptoCu- ,1 r3 ' ; : " ! 0? mmm 1 S y r "Down at Hodgenville, Kentucky. in a log: cabin which now is en- cased . in a structure ot stone, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to a son, Abraham, on Feb. . 12, 1809. At Springfield, "111., a granite shaft rises .120 feet in the air over the tomb of that Abraham; and at Washington stands a memorial in the form of a classic GreekJ temple of pure white marble, be hind whose columns is the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln in colossal size. Tomorrow the nation will honor the birthday of the man who was born in a humble log cabin near a creek in Kentucky and rose to save the nation Ln its most critical ceriod. and crowned his service with martyrdom.' " One who knows the story of Lincoln's war years cannot help but note the parallel with the present- Neither in the Spanish war nor In the first world war was this country really forced to ex tend itself, in 1861-65 the very existence of the nation as a fed eral union was gravely imperilled; and in 1941-42 this country stood in danger again, this time from powerful external foes. In the light of our recent experience we can read with fresh illumination the story of Abraham Lincoln in the White House. , the story of war and its problems and difficul ties.', , i There were early defeats:. Bull Bun was as disastrous, .'and Pudding River Waters Claim Lakeview Boy Lorenzo Grout, 13, son of John Grout of Lakeview, was drowned early Saturday night in Pudding river, four miles from Brooks on the ML Angel road. His body was -taken - from the swollen stream almost two hours after the lad and bis 11 -year-old brother were hurled into the water when a raft capsized. - Pete Grout, 11, Steve Reznec- cek, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Reznecsek, route one Brooks, with whom the Grout boys" had been staying, reconstructed the accident thus: Pete jumped' from bis raft to that on which Lorenzo . was riding at a point in the river not far - from the white bridge, The raft overturned and both boys fell into deep water. 1 Pete swam ashore and looked back, he said, "to hear Lorenzo calling 'Come and help me, I can't swim any longer1." ; But the night was dark and state police and sheriffs officers and Salem city first aid men were summoned to join'Wilta Bell and E. ! M. Boyes of Brooks in the search. The boy was clad in heavy shoes, overalls and heavy leather cloves, and so had little chance to reach ; the shore, it was said. The boys believed he was the best swimmer of the three. The body was taken to the cor finer. The hfrvs' father, emnlnved by the cattlemen's association at night by telegram. German Blows In Italy Fail ROME, Feb. 10 - (tf5) - German tounterattacks have been repulsed at both the eastern and western IZ ""r"J l front, the allied command report ed today.-! , ) US Fifth army artillery dis persed one counterblow, dealt in battalion strength, on the west ern sector in the Serchio river valley, 19 miles north of Lucca, where the Americans earlier had scored an advance. 1 Another attack was stopped farther west near the coast at Etrettoia, 18 miles southeast of the big harbor and naval base of La Spezia, Koiso Shakes Cabinet Again ' ' Japanese permier Kuniaki Koiso . shook up his cabinet Saturday apparently to quiet rising criticism of the nations war production and labor mobilization programs. Radio Tokyo broadcasts, re corded by the FCC, told of the cabinet reshuffle affecting two posts closely linked With the mu nitions ministry In frantic efforts to mobilize manpower for war production. , ; Welfare minister Hisataka Hi rose was replaced by Katsuraky Aikawa; the vice minister. Education "Minister Harnshlgbe Ninamiya gave way to , Count Hideo Kodama, state minister without "portfolio. ." f ; v ! '' ; Chief cabinet secretary Takeo Tanaka was replaced by Nirose. The latter automatically became member of the House of Peers. LEGISLATIVE NEWS PAGE 12 Progress OndBerlin Not fold Russians Point New Spearhead Towards Baltic . By Richard Kastschke LONDON, Sunday, Feb. 10- (Jf)-Russian troops captured the east Prussian port of Elbing and drove a new Pomeranian spear head to within 52 miles of the Baltic yesterday, while Berlin an nounced that other powerful southern formations had broken into the suburbs of Liegnitz, big industrial city and road hub guarding the back door to Breslau, lower Silesian capital. The battle for Berlin's immedi ate approaches' was cloaked in security silence by Moscow, but German broadcasts indicated that the red army , bad broken the last substantial Nazi resistance east of the Oder river and had crossed . the stream in : great strength at points SO to 43 miles1 from .Berlin. Smash Westward Marshal Ivan- S.. Konev's first Ukraine army in Silesia was re ported to have smashed 25 miles west of the Oder river in two days, penetrating to within 92 miles of Dres Dresden, German Saxony strong hold 90 miles below imperilled Berlin, but Moscow's communi que did not mention this sector either. 4300 Nazis Taken Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky's second white Russian army . top pled Elbing, a city of 71,000 and the site of shipbuilding and big engineering works, a day after its encirclement had been announ ced by the Russians. His troops smashed a frantically resisting garrison which had been poster ed by German marine units, and captured 4300 prisoners Thursday and Friday, Moscow said. The Germans had used the guns or, their last two sizeable ships, the pocket battleships Ad miral Scheer and Luetzow, in an efiarts to boud Elbing, the base for German counterattacks which tried vainly to break The trap troops to the east. j Frees Red Troops FJbing's, fall released thousands of Russians for a probable assault toward Danzig and also furnished more Soviet striking power to be turned against the hemnants of perhaps j 200,000 men originally estimated trapped south and southwest of Koenigsberg. On narrowing this pocket to approximately 758 square miles of east Prussia's 14,283, Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky's third white Russian army captured Preussich- Eylau, an eight-way road and rail junction 20 miles south of Koe nigsberg. These troops also seized 30 nearby localities on a , 15-mile front during the day, gaining up to three miles. I i 11 fv7i Rif? Unite Richard Bong, Teacher SUPERIOR, Wis., Feb. 10.-jp)- Maj. Richard Ira Bong the nation's ace of aces, and his schoolteacher sweetheart, Marjorie Ann Vatten dahl, were married tonight in Con- biggest wedding this northern Wis- consin city has even seen. A full hour before the shy, mod est son of a Swedish immigrant, and the attractive girl he met dur ing his first home leave after be coming an ace, were to repeat their vows, the church was packed. The first eight rows of pews were re served for friends of the pair, and shortly before the couple knelt before the Rev. Paul A. Boe, room was made for nine air force of ficers representing Gen. H. H. Arnold who was prevented by ill ness from attending the wedding. German Food Situation Might Become Tragic . By John A. Parris, Jr. LONDON, Feb. 10 -(P)- British economic experts estimated to night that Germany had lost roughly 16,000,000 ' tons -of food supplies as a result of the Russian advances and said that the food situation within the country might be tragic by autumn. They agreed, however, that Germany probably would be able to stave off . famine until after spring. These experts said that Ger many's food situation deteriorated rapidly during the past six weeks because of disorganized transport and the influx of millions of refu gees from areas overrun by the Russian armies, i Germany has lost an eighth of the xezular meat supply, a third imiEIY-rOURTH YEAB Shortage of Meat i Civilian Supply 1 Might I Disappear By Iid-Summer! By Ovid A. Martin i . Associated Press Farm Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 - (JP) Meatstmay virtually disappear from civilian markets by mid summer government food offi cials predicted today. The f ore- cast accompanied new steps to divert -the larger portion of j cur rent production into war stocks, r Civilian supplies could be ex pected, however, to reappear when fall marketings of livestock begin their normal increase. Three factors are involved Un expectedly smaller total meat pro duction; the ; sharp drop in live stock marketing which normally occurs in spring and summer; and the combination of tlpse factors which may leave the government unable to satisfy its wants before hand and get out of the market ahead of the low-supply season. 1 The war stocks are those the government buys for the armed forces, for lend-lease, and for ci- vilian consumption in US terri tories outside the continental lim its of the country, f j I With livestock marketing fall ing .below previous expectations, the agriculture; department cut its forecast of total production j this; year from 22,950,000,000 pounds to 22,000,000,000. Last year t 24,- 700,000,000 pounds were produced It is possible rthat per capita ci vilian consumption thisr year ;inay fair to the lowest level since 1935 When meat supplies dropped after emergency slaughter ' of drought- stricken cattle ;on western! plains in 1934 and a reduction of hog numbers by means of the govern- ments pig killing program; de signed to improve farm prices. Salem Driver! 9 Passengers! Hurt in Crash i TROUTDAtE, Ore.j Feb. lM Ten- persons! Were injured, two seriously, when, a Portland-bpun3 Consolidate Freightways trailer swung into the. front of an east bound Union Pacific passenger bus one-half mile; west of "here, i John Dick, 35, Salem, bus driv er, ' suffered a fractured left le and hand. Cora Royce, 60, Port-. land, suffered a leg fracture an head lacerations. j 1 Oothers injured, taken to Pro vidence hospital in Portland, Jn-l eluded, : Mrs. ! Jurine Fossum 65 Albany,J face lacerations and knee injuries; I I. - f-V The driver jot the truck, Milton E. McCauleyi 9, Spokane, was charged with reckless driving by deputy sheriffs Ed Huita and Ralph Kennedy; i ': j i ectiveness of Nazi 19th Antiy Destroyed WITH THE SIXTH ARMY GROUP, Feb, iOHPhThe effec4 uveness of the German 19th army has been destroyed and approxi mately 75 per cent of its, person- nel ! has l been killed or captured,' Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers told cor respondents today in reviewing the campaign which eliminated the enemy's; Colmar. pocket . :! 4- by Autumn of sugar, a fourth of the potatoes, a fifth t of the bread grain, an eighth of the milk and cheese and a tenth of the butter, an official of the British '. ministry of eco nomic Warfare estimated. Last November the Germans said that their reserve food stocks built up- from occupied countries were then seriously depleted and that Germany would have to face this' winter with her own I re sources. . : ' i During the past week the Ger mans announced mat tne J sugar ration which had covered a two- month period now must be "ex tended to last three months.' They also said that a 10 per cent ' re duction Would be made In other rationed foods Predicted 22 PAGES Salem, j J - ! . ! i '! " f J Young Nazis Captured S$ , -'All. K..- f i lit"- IvTi '4 r J r -A ' I I ) f - ; !- .-J. ' ' i;:-t: --m Two yoanr German SS troopers, keep their hands up alter they American army j In Schfllersdorf, to the west front f rom Nerway. T !4 If Japanese man To Put Up Furious Defense In Flaming South Manila Bt C Tale i MANILA, Sunday. Feb. lf - bloody street and buildifigEp.Uleitt south Manila today with Japanese manning everything, and forcing the doughboys to pick their way over mine fields out rivalling those laid by the Germans in North Af rica, v j I The first cavalry division, which entered Manila a week ago yesterday and rescued the Santo Tomas internees, skirted the city's eastern i ! edge and crossed the bridgeless Pasig river in native boats to join the 37th infantry and 11th airborne divisions in the fierce engagement.; Yesterday the motorized first cavalrymen had to throw the full weight jjf point blank : artillery fare,! heajvy mortars and flame throwers; to break through one en emy strongpoint which held them up for several hours. . The Japanese had drilled holes through stone walls two feet thick around a church yard. Through each aperture, they sprayed 20 mmJ rapid fire cannon shells at Yanks moving across open mine fields. One American officer said these mine , fields were more densely ; planted I than i German mine fields he had observed' in North Africa and Italy. DeGaulle Trip Stird Rumors PARIS1,! Sunday; Feb; ll-P)-Gen,' Chirles De Gaulle left Paris last night; on a trip which, was de scribed as wholly unrelated to the big three ; conference and, accord' ing to the latest reliable informa tion, the French leader did not ex pect to be Invited to the Black Sea area !l z " i Mz i Nonetheless, it continued to be widely : reported throughout the city that DeGaulle bad left for the big three! meeting. This was re. ported both, by the Paris radio and other; sources, j but there was no official confirmation; - Well-informed quarters in Par is expected that President Roose velt would visit Fiance to see De Gaule after conclusion i of his meeting m with Prime x Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin. -: ': if -'"iv -pf ' v::r. Brewers Will Get Less Malt for Beer Making WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 - (JP) Brewers will be allotted 12 per cent less' malt for beer between March 1 and August St than they got a year ago, the, war food ad niinistration announced today. The reduction probably will re sult in less beer and in some al teration i; of formulas to stretch malt ' supplies, officials said. Partly Qoudy today Vith little change in temperature in the mid-Willamette I valley area," predicts U5. weather bureau, McNary Field, Salem. 1 i Oregon. Sunday Morning, Fbruarf 11, 1S45 wearing - a wild. array of elotbinff. were captured by unit ot the 7th France, They were recently moved (AP wlrephoto from signal corps) nverytning M eDajklel I CP - Tbre Yank divisions fought veI stonewalls of a ch.Urch yard, Statesman Is Best Promoter For. Nurses A study-made this past week by the Portland Advertising club re veals that The Statesman has car ried more advertising promotion for the American Red Cross Nur ses'- recruitment program than any other newspaper on the Pa cific coast Quentin Cox, KGW manager and vice president for district No. 3 of the Pacific Ad vertising dub, has announced. Results of that advertising have been gratifying, declares Louise Arneson, -who heads the nurses training and recruitment commit tees for the Red Cross here.Nine nurses' aides have volunteered for service, -three trained nurses have come back into service to help meet local hospital needs, one more has enlisted for, military duty and approximately SO new students have Iregistered for the night classes tor nurses' aides which are to open shortly. Sixty eight women are now training as nurses'; aides in day and night classes. -t " Accident Victim Dies Saturday Mrs. Jennie 3 Mitchell, 64, who was hit by a car near Cottage and Court streets last Tuesday night; died Saturday night as a result of injuries received in the accident f - Mrs. Mitchell, who came here from Hubbard five' months ago was employed ; at the Deaconess Cottage home.' She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. J. T. Foulkes of Spokane, Wasbf, and Mrs. Luella Hawley of Washington, D. C -., Funeral arrangements are in charge of the W.-T. Rigdon com pany., Greek Peace Meeting Reaches Final Stage ' : ATHENS, Feb. lMThe final stage of the Greek peace confer ence has, been reached and a Joint agreement between the govern ment : and EAM-ELAS left-wing forces now is being drafted at an isolated villa 20 . miles south of here. . - . ' , ' Girl Sniper Studies " MOSCOW, Feb. 10-iP)-The So-I Viet Union's most famous gir. sniper, Ludmila Pavlichenko, now is a coed at Kiev state university and is preparing to become a -bis-' tory teacher next year, . : Tremor, BiglFQirts.v; Hit Tokyo - , - . " , - h ' ' : Raid Probably Heaviest Against n A- - ' .. By Elmont Waite ' ' " TWENTY FIRST BOMBER COMM AND ' HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Feb. W.fJ-Aniericah Su perfortresses and an earthquake hit -Tokyo today the big B-28 bombers in probably: their largest raid on the heart of - Japan. ' The number' of planes partici pating was hot disclosed . here or in Washington, where the raid was first announced by 'the 20th air force command. v- But the force, was I as large and probably larger than any ever sent previously oyer Honshu, main Is land of Japan. It was the fifty eecond B-29 mission against the enemy's home islands. -90 ta Assault A Japanese imperial communi que said 90 Superfortresses raided the Tokyo-Yokohama area. Tokyo radio said the raid started at 2:30 m. and continued : for an hour. The Japanese c apital apparently remained jittery throughout Sat urday night L A second alert was sounded at 9:19 p. m. and was caused, a Broadcast said, when a single plane of a B-29 formation penetrated 'the 'area, ii The earthquake, also reported by ' Tokyo radio, started ; at 1:50 m. and shook Japan from Hok kaido, northenmost of the main islands, Youth through' Honshu, on which -Tokyo is situated. Quake Recorded (Seismographs in l the United States recorded the quake. As re corded at Georgetown university, Washington; D. C- It lasted for nearly three hours. " I' ; - " The Tokyo broadcast admitted 'some damage co ground installa tions was sustained" in the bomb ing attack. Earthquake damage was not mentioned. Night Bombers Follow up Day Blow on Nazis LONDON, Sunday, Feb. 1 1-OP)- Allied night raiders aroused west erg Germanyjearly today, the Nazi radio reported, after a series of day-long attacks by front-line bombers and! fighters which flew 1500 sorties ; yesterday , against reich villages along the Rhine. A small force of 150 American heavy bombers and 1 130 fighters smashed U-boat pens at Ijmuiden, Holland, and ) exploded a gasoline dump at Duelmen, southwest of Muenster, Germany, yesterday. Two Flying Fortresses were re-: ported lost and 18 continent-based craft were raissing. but a dozen iornnea uerman villages were ripped apart by dive-bombers and strafers. . " ! The US Ninth air force flew al most 900 sorties and the RAF sec ond tactical air ' force made 600 trips over. the front Ehes, the pi lots concentrating on 1 transport feeding into German positions and hitting 420 pieces of rail equip ment and 147: vehicles. ' U.S. Prisoners Freed LONDON, Feb. 10 - (ff) - The Lublin radio j in Poland said to night that about 70 American and British prisoners of who who had been freed by the ted army in Silesia now were safe in 'Lublin and awaiting transportation home Nazis Tell People to Expect Terror Reign if Allies Win LONDON, Feb. lOPerman propagandists told their people to day that if they failed to' fight to a finish they could expect armed occupation of the entire country for a dozen years and occupation of strategic areas until the year 2ooo. . . -;! -:ijJi:::::J -?;''; Germany knows the price of continued warfare, said the polit ical commentator Hans Haertel In a domestic broadcast; "but it is preferable to be killed 'in battle than to commit suicide by capitu lation." I . ' i . 1 While tbe Allies pressed deeper No. 231 WLB Grants Boss Right to Embrace His Stenographers ATLANTJC Ga Feb! iOP)-A southern J businessman wrote the fourth regional war labor board, asking that "you authorize me to embrace, all my stenographers at their various locations, under gen eral order 31 " M - After a couple of huddles, wage stabilization experts granted the request, deciding that J"embrace," in this instance was a statistical approach .to an intra-office wage problem. - k ree Define Terms For Germans LONDON, Feb. KKVThe hig three, in a move to eliminate Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels' dire interpretations of unconditional surrender, -may soon lay down the first specific state ment of the price the German people must pay for 10 years of nazi militarism. : l . This possibility was raised in both British and American quar ters today with the prediction that a formal outline of surrender pro visions would be timed to coin cide with a major military set back for the Germans. Just when this will be; remained uncertain, but its importance was reflected in unofficial reports that the allied leaders turned their at tention to victory terms! soon aft er completing military discussions at their Black sea conference. Wallace Hopes rove as House Argues WASHINGTON, Feb.jl0-()-Reaction against house efforts to amend or delay legislation sever ing government lending agencies from the commerce department threatened today to alter senate sentiment on the Henry Wallace cabinet appointment ! Senator George (D-Ga) told a reporter he is beginning to believe that if house opponents either bot tle up his bill or load it with veto inspiring amendments the senate might vote to confirm Wallace for commerce secretary with all the powers Jesse Jones wielded. "It would be extremely short sighted if those who dWt want Wallace should make it impossible for. the house to pass the bill or should bring out a measure that the president would not sign," George said. Patterson Get Advisory Job in Europe .W AS H INGTON, Feb! 10 -CP) President Roosevelt's final selec tion of an American member for the allied mission to control post war Germany brobably will come shortly after the -Big Three con ference. i ::v' I This was suggested tonight in competent quarters where it was said that among the names so far mentioned were those of Under secretary of War Robert P. Patter son and Assistant Secretary of War John J. McLoy. U The Army and Navy Journal, unofficial service publication, said that Mr. Roosevelt before his de parture for the Black sea meet ing decided upon Patterson. Into Germany on east and west, the broadcaster called anew on he Germans to resist. : i "History , has no example -; for our enemies' plans of hatred," he aid. There will be no ') German industry, no air force, not even civil aviation. No German pilots may be trained. Submarines will disappear. All able-bodied will be carried off to Russia, France and other countries for forced la bor." iy-.v 'Germany will be occupied for 12 years and strategic points un til the year 2000.' No German po lice force yill fce permitted,''.: Prlc Sc i mi May mg in Imp May Offensive OirTJIeve': Goes Well 2,000,000 Pounds Of SheUs Poured On Dam Position -. - ' : -. ' ,. ;. V. "i f ' , By Edward Kennedy . - PARIS, Sunday, Feb. 11--LL Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' US First army captured the important Schwammenauel dam on the Roer river yesterday following one of the greatest Allied artillery bar rages of the war. - l it Simultaneously, Canadian First army men scored new gains and took two more towns , in their. Kleve offensive. : i ( Seizure of the Schwammenauel dam, which controls the river flow, paramount importance as this British Second army and th American Ninth now stand poised on the western banks of the Roer for . the impending onslaught against the Rhineland. . . . , Tanks (Trees Dam - Hodges' men crossed the dam to reach the opposite banks despite the danger of being blown up by demolition charges set by tbe Nazis. Earlier in the day the en emy exploded the dam, but US engineers . reported the wrecked segments not booby-trapped as was expected. . i .' . It can now be ' disclosed that American guns poured 2,000,000 pounds of shells into German po sitions around the Schwammena uel and other dams during the past six days. Supreme headquar ters has announced that this shell- fire killed some 200 Nazis, broke up enemy counterattacks and pre vented reinforcements from being brought up. s The shattered Schwammenauel dam one of the biggest along the Roer was a vital German control point of a river which Is the chief barrier before the Allied drive to the Rhine. .- j Water Released : 1 As a result of certain enemy de molitions along the .Schwammena uel and Heimbach dams -unspecified by Allied headquarter s 'as to their extent and apparently un known by - headquarters spokes men as to their effect a certain amount of water is pouring down the Roer., The river overflowed its banks, in the Dueren area and was 125 feet wide Friday - noon. - It then began to recede, however, and dropped four inches by lata Friday. Latest reports said it was still receding. ( Earlier, today Nazi units; ex ploded the gates of the Schwam menauel dam, sending a flood roaring north through the valley in hopes of bolstering their west ern defenses. In so doing, they I tossed away a trump with which they had forestalled since Novem ber an Allied smash into the Ruhr and Rhineland. Canadian First army troops made new gains in their Kleve of fensive, capturing two more towns Heinkoni, a mile and a half south of Weiler, and Schottheide, a mile and a hair deeper into the Reichswald forest German ;re-' sistance in this sector was increasing.- . Other Canadian units moved onto high ground south and south west of the medieval citadel of Kleve, -which the enemy has con verted into a Siegfried line bas tion. " -K - .. .J ,- - in this offensive the Allies have resorted to using smokescreens. They threw one 4000 r yards in length . across the ' banks of the Rhine during the first day of the , attacks and followed it up with one twice that length the next day. Late reports tonight said no im portant counter-attacks had , been launched against the Canadians. 1 The - Germans have ' employed some self-propelled guns against troops fighting near the edge of Kleve but so far no Nazi tanks have been thrown in. ) Work Draft Alternate Eyed WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 - (ff) - Substitution of statutory backing for the present voluntary man- ' power controls, in place of work- or-jail legislation now pending,' appeared as a possibility tonight Members of the senate, military committee, which will resume hearings on the house-passed bill Tuesday, were talking about such change.:. -- 'l':..; - v, :? Meanwhile letters on manpow er control kept flowing into sen ators offices from the voters back home. Protests against the pend ing bill were particularly heavy from organized labor. Some par ents of men in the services have endorsed the blty warmly, bow ever. " - Weather Enra Salm PortlmJid ., Max. Hin. Kal 4 42 iJf 44 : . ' 4.. 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