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There' no use denying it, Al
Brown, county clerk of Multno
mah county, has the republicans
"of that county worried. He got
himself elected auditor of that
county, though a democrat, back
in 1938, breaking into the previ
ously solidly republican court
house. In 1940 he had the" auda
city to run for state treasurer, and
was defeated only narrowly by
Leslie M. Scott, though Brown
carried Multnomah county. In
1942 he was reelected auditor, and
In 1944 he moved up, by popular
election, from that $3600 a year
job to the $6000 a year job of
county clerk, defeating Frank
Shull, veteran county commis
sioner. So Multnomah republicans
re "hexed" by Al Brown.
In 1941 the Multnomah delega
tion," predominantly republican,
tut through two bills, one to
"purge" existing registration rolls
by house-check on registrants, an
other to provide a continuing
scrutiny of persons registering.
The proponents of the bills pro
fessed to fear the democratic-new
. deal machine would do some dirty
work in Portland elections.
Now the Multnomah republicans
in the legislature have put through
the house a bill urged i by the
Multnomah republican county
chairman to create the office of
registrar of elections for that
county, to be appointed by the
county commissioners. This is
aimed at democrat Al Brown, who
' as county clerk now has control of
the election machinery. The com
missioners, being republicans, are
expected to name a' republican
probably James Gleason, present
'registrar under the county clerk
The bill passed the house after
stormy debate Monday.; The
senate, being quite heavily repub
lican, may be expected to approve
it; and a republican governor
would hardly be one to veto
measure endorsed by the repub
lican organization of the I most
populous county in the state.
; I have no particular interest in
the matter one way or another;
but it does seem to me the Mult
nomah republicans are working at
.the wrong end of the line. They
will not win - elections by fresh
laws for purges of registration
lists, abolition of mobile registra
tion booths,, and shifts of election
machinery but of Al Brown's
. hands. They will win their elec
tions when they can swing to their
aide a majority of the voters in
Multnomah county. The place to
.work is at home rather than Sa-
' lem. !
Konev's
DrivejlO Miles,
TakeSOTowns
By Yf. W. Hercher
LONDON-I-Wednesday, Feb.
21
(JP) Russian first Ukraine ar
my forces cjrove some 10 miles
northwest aiid west in Germany's
Brandenburg! province yesterday,
capturing mqre than 80 communi
- ties in the face of persistent coun
terattacks . by Lwhich the Nazis
strove. 4o .hpld the vital south
eastern appfoches to Berlin, 57
miles away, j i
Moscow s Imghtly communique,
announcing these gains, said about
1,000 Germans, were captured in
the sector northeast and east of
Guge, while some 100 miles to the
Southeast fighting continued for
the annihilation of the German
garrison in the besieged Silesian
capital of Breslau.
On the northerni front Moscow
announced gains up to 13. miles
and capture of 50 polish corridor
towns by the second white Rus
sian army. Advancing northward
in a 20-mile front, these forces
were within" 33 miles south of
Danzig, once-free Baltic port.
On the southern end of the long
eastern front tne Kussians an-
nounced capture of 60-odd Czech-
. oslovakian towns in a drive that
carried northwestward 13 miles ot
Banska Bystricia, and .'told of re
pelling determined German coun
terattacks in Hungary on the north
bank of the Danube east of Kom
arom.
Stassen Will
Attend Meet
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 - (P) -
Comchv Harold E. Stassen said to
day he is putting world peace
ahead of his political future to
serve a a delegate to the United
Nations conference:
His selection by President
Boosevtlt is a "political liability,1
the former Minnesota republican
governor, told a news conference.
But, he added, it is his patriotic
duty to help work for1 a strong
postwar league of peace-loving na
tions. . He Si id he would doff his uni
form j temporarily : for the world
conference so that, in civilian sta
tus, he can "speak, act and think"
as he pleases.
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Churchill
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Proi
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Roosevelt Meets
With High Rulers
Of Middle East
By D. Harold Oliver .
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-;P)
President Roosevelt, during a dra
matic near east odessey, has ob
tained from Prime Minister Chur
chill a new promise "to throw ev
erything" at the Japanese. He
also got a snub from General
Charles De Gaulle.
The story of , the president's
meetings with premiers, kings,
and princes after the Crimea con
ference came out in part today.
The White House made public
some details of his trips through
Egypt and Algeria, and how Mr.
Roosevelt is adding, by plane, mo
tor and ship some 14,000 miles to
his stupendous travel.
Given in Egypt
The fresh British pledge for
fullest participation against Japan
was given to the president by the
prime minister at Alexandria. The
White House narration said that
new and important" discussions
of the Pacific situation vfere con
ducted there. !. ,
The account told of an invita
tion to General De Gaulle to meet
with the president at Algiers. Mr.
Roosevelt wanted to discuss ques
tions of "mutual interest and im
portance" to France and the
United States. The French lead
er, declined and the president said
he was "most disappointed."
King Visits FDR
One of those who did accept a
Roosevelt invitation, however, was
King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia,
leaving his country for the first
time in his life, the king went
sailing to the conference in the
Suez canal aboard an American
destroyer luxuriously bedecked
with oriental carpets and gilded
chairs. The kings slept in a tent
on deck and his party brought its
own food, including live sheep.
Nuernberg Is
Battered Hard
By 900 Forts
LONDON, Feb. 20.-(vP)-Nuern-
berg, one of Germany's most im
portant rail junctions and scene
of former nazi party propaganda
spectacles, was battered today by
900 US Flying Fortresses in its
heaviest daylight bombing of the
war.
The big American armada,
which included an. escort of 700
ijgnters, encountered no enemy
aerial opposition but ran into in
tense! antiaircraft fire. Sixteen
bombers and 23 fighters we
missing tonight.
A series of warnings, during
which the German radio twice
went off the air, indicated the al
lied aerial blows were continuing
into the night.
Berlin Claims Sinking
Of 8 Ships in Convoy:
LONDON, Feb. 20-5-The Ber
lin radio asserted tonight that Ger
man torpedo-carrying planes had
sunk eight cargo ship totalling
87,000 tons and two destroyers out
of an England-bound convoy from
Murmansk. There was no immedi
ate Allied confirmation.
Stems
France Assured No Secret
Agreements Made at Yalta
By John M. Blghtower
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (ff
France has sought and received
assurances from "the United States
that no secret agreements were
made by Roosevelt, Churchill and
Stalin at Yalta for the government
of liberated countries of Europe.
- This was learned tonight as of
ficials here studied the effects of
General Charles de Gaulle's re
jection of President Roosevelt's in
vitation to a meeting in Algiers.
The general conclusion was,, that
French-American relations are on
the down-grade and may, continue
that" way for seme time.
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defenders are clvinr the leathernecks their toughest fight in 168
years. This picture, by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press photographer
with the still picture pool, was radioed from Guam te San Francisco
hf the navy. (AF Wirephoto) J
U.S. Third SurgeM Forward
2i Miles in Fresh Attack;
Canadian
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PARIS, Feb; : 20-(P-ThefAmeacah Third army, slashing
into or beyond the, Siegfried line
ward 2z miles irt rain and mud
entered five others in a surprise
river.
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Scottish forces of Gen.
Eden Outlines
Fi
Part
ranee s
In
Occupation
1 LONDON, Feb. . iZO -JF)- British
Foreign, Secretary rAnthony Eden
was believed today to have out
lined to French Ambassador Rene
Massigli the part France will ply
in thej occupation of Germany and
in the Allied control commission
to be established in Berlin.
In i series of conferences cen
tering around the decisions made
by the big three ! In the Crimea,
Eden saw four United Nations am
bassadors and two: former Polish
government leaders j
Besides Massigli,! Eden met with
US Ambassador John G. Winant,
Polish Ambassador! Count Edward
Raczynski and Chinese' Ambassa
dor Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. He
also 'conferred with Stanislaw
Mikolaiczyk, former premier f
the Polish government in London,
and Tadeusz Romer, former, for
eign minister in;, Mikolajczyk's
Cabinet
Gripsholm to
I JERSEY CITY.'NJ, Feb. 20.-i
i-The! Gripsholm Sheared the end
of its sixth exchange voyage to
night, bringing home 2,206 repa
triates, including 63 ill or wound
ed American sold lers who were
prisoners of war in Genhany. I
I The ship . radioed she would
feachj Ambrose light in the lower
channel tomorrow, about 11 a. m
(EWt), which Would bring her
to her pier between 12 and 1 p.m.
Aboard besides' , the American
officers and enlisted men are 178
Canadian military personnel; il
merchant seamen i who were lahto
prisoners and 623 civilians. j
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Is the suffering of the French peo
ple, due to hunget and cold. Of
ficials here say that although, she
United States is getting the blane
for lack of food and clothing) in
France, the shortages are the inev
itable results of tight shipping and
other war conditions. '
As ior the Crimean communique,
thes j .state department said 'the
French had asked for clarifica
tion and the Information requested
had been furnished. The French
request was received here Satur
day and the reply went out yester
day.;
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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning. February 21. 1S4S
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beach at Iwo Jima where Japanese
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Troops Stymied
BeaJmear
on, a 50-mile front, surged for
todaiy and captured 10 towns and
new attack across the. Moselle
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D. Crerar's Canadian First army
cleared all of the Siegfried strong-
hold of Goch except a lew isolated
pockets, but this offensive at the
northern end of the western front
appeared generally stymied in its
13th day by vicious enemy resist-
ande.
Canadian troops fell back slight-
y in the flaming arc before Cal-
cart seven miles northeast of Goch,
as fine uermans nuriea m one
counterattack after another to
deit Allied libes for the first!
time since the drive down the
Maas-Rhine corridor began.
As resistance on the 25-mile
northern front mounted in in
tensity, with ;the Germans rein
forced to the strength of at leasts
nine divisions, Lt Gen. George S.;
Patton's doughboys stepped up the
sure along the major portion
of the Third 'army front, where;!
r divisions ran their three-dav
bag of prisoners to 4500."
The! Americans registered their
best gains in the triangle formed
oy tne Mosene ana &aar riven,
smashing within four miles of;
Saarburg from; two directions.
Union Good Friday
Service Is Planned
From 12 to 3 p.m.
A three hour service will be
held on Good Friday by the Salem
Ministerial association it was de
cided at the; meeting Tuesday
morning. It is planned to. have
the services from 12 to 3 o'clock
with speakers and place to be de-j
termined by a committee of the
gr6up. . . ;
The Easter Sunrise service will
be held on the Capitol steps as
it was last year. The Salem Min
isterial association ; will be in
tion with the Hi-Y and . Tri-Y
groups and the Salem Church
routa organization.
Committees ! for the ministerial
association will be named by Rev
Dudley Strain, president
Greek Cabinet Member
Resigns After; Squabble
ATHENS, Feb. 20.(flJ)-Premier
Gen. I Nicholas Plastiras accepted
the resignation today of Interior
Minister Pericles Rail is in a Greek
cabinet squabble which began
when rallies protested that remo
val of police control from his de-
Ptnt??!ai,2n reemenM
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Nazis Must Pay-Loss
BUENOS AIRES. Feb. 20Un--
The government announced today
that Germany would be required
to pay for the loss of two Ar
gentine ships torpedoed by subma
rines and for damage to another,
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FDR Plea?
Has No
Results
Substitute Plan i
Will Be Offered
By Senate Group!
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. -(PH
senate military committee shelved;
the work-or-jail bill today despite:
a new endorsement by President
Roosevelt and began perfecting a.
much milder substitute.
The 12 to 6, vote to lay aside the
house-approved measure in favor
of the substitute which would:
strengthen the war manpower?
commission's ! present job place-
ment program was taken shortly
after the committee was handed aj
memorandum from the president
Dated February 11 and president
ed to the committee by majority
leader Barkley, it reads: 1
Roosevelt Pleads
I hope that legislation embrac-j
ing the principle of the May bil
can be speedily enacted. It will
assure the armed services they
can rely Ion the flow pf necessary
supplies and greatly contribute to
the success of our arms." j
The house passed the May bill
several weeks ago shortly after its
enactment was urged by Mr. Roos
I evelt.
Senator Chandler (D-Ky), whd
joined Senators O'Mahoney- (D4
Wyo), Kilgore D-W.Va), Wagn?
(D-NY), Ferguson (R-Mich) an4
Ball (R-Minn) as a co-author; of
the substitute, declared the com
mittee's action means the work
Jail bill U "as dead as Lazarous.
- Manoney agreeo.
Favors Voluntary Form
"This is a Iclear indication that
the committee favors a-voluntary
system under the war manpower
commission instead of the work
or-fight principle or whatever yod
want to call it," Chandler added.
The committee hopes to agree
on final terms oi tne suDsuiuie
tomorrow! It got through abou
half the text today,! inserting
few clarifying amendments.
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INurseUratt
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-(P)f
Unmarried women nurses- betweeA
the ages of 520 and 44 inclusivej,
would be liable to draft for mili
tary service Under legislation ap
proved today by the house mlllf
tary committee, v,
But committee members, con.
cludintr three weeks of consider
a tion of ! the measure requested
by Presidenf Roosevelt on Januj
ary 6 to provide 20,000 nurses for
the army and the navy, said pri
vately they 1 did not expect the
legislation, if enacted, to be i en
forced, ' except possibly among
cadet nurses.
Even should the existing volun
teer system, which the legisla-
tioa continues, fail to produce' the
necessary number" of nurses, the
impact of the bill would all hea
viest" on the 27,000 womep
trained under the cadet nurse
corps ''program.
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Wounded in Action
Mick Willamette valley men re
ported wounded in action in the
European theatre by the war de
partment include Lt William C,
Dyer, whose wife is j Mrs. Clara-
belle Dyer, 1201 Pearce, building,
Salem: PFC Raymond L. Petite.
whose wife is Mrs. Vivian L. Pe
tite, Grand Ronde; Pvt ., Anthony
T. Reiling whose wife is Mrs. Ma
rie K. Reiling, 368 Isabel! e street,
Lebanon, and Pvt Wade W. Haw-
ley, whose mother is Mrs. Geor
gia. May Hawley of Dallas.
Series of Explosions
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Shake! Enslish Coast
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DOVER, England, Feb. 20,-(5V
A series of thunderous explosions
from somewhere at sea shook the
Dover area tonight at about ;10:$0
p. m. The first explosions; which
lasted many seconds, were , fol
lowed by another series 10 minutes
later, -
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Farmers Get Stuck
In Mud but Face
Water Shortage
SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Feb. 20
(JF) Paradoxically, farmers in
this region are getting stuck in the
mud while hauling water to re
lieve shortages.
The current spell ol alternate
freezing and thawing is drawing
all the moisture to the surface, ex
plains Weatherman C. C. Willi
ford, and unless there's a rain or
snow socfn -Ozark farmers will
have a bad drought i
Meat Packers,
Textile Trade
May Get Raise
' By Harold W. Ward
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-P-The
war labor board announced;
its willingness tonight to fatten
pay envelopes of 145,000 meat
packers and 50,000 textile work
ers, if it wins its policy fight with
Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson
; The board released j its long-
awaited decisions in these two
cases, but held up the money)
items until it has settled t h e
squabble with Vinson. ; He wants
to give OPA veto powers over!
wage adjustments if they necessi-l
tate price increases, 1
i The decisions came as the two
industries were threatened with
far-reaching, strikes. j
1 For the : textile ; workers, the
board' raised the minimum wage
from 50 to 55 cents, and granted aj
flat 5-cent i increase to preserve1
the present differentials. These
were allowable in the board's eyes
because they would adjust "sub
standard" wages.
1 The meat packers were told to
establish a commission to set up,
for the first time,, a standard wagej
structure for the industry. Cloth
ing, tools and sharpening of tools'
are to be company expenses, alsd
for the first time, f . I
500 Japanese
Troops Killed ;
i CHUNGKING, Feb. ZO-iJP
More than 500 Japanese troops
have been killed in fighting west
of the CantonHankow railroad
near the Hunan-rtwangtung bor-f
der, the Chinese high command
said tonight ; ! "1
The announcement said Chinese
forces attacked the! Japanese id
to 15 miles east of Ichang and
about 105 miles south of Hengi
yang and that heavy fighting is
continuing. Meanwhile, a Japan
ese attack 12 miles northeast' of
Ichang was repulsed, it added, f
Reinforce m e n t s have been
thrown in by both sides In the
battle east; of .the ! railroad town
of Chensien, 80 miles south of
Hengyang," where the enemy is
trying to disperse Chinese con
centrations in order to safeguard
their hold on the railroad. j
Lloyd George Very Sick
I CRICCIETH, Carnarvon, Wales,
Feb. 20-P)-David : Lloyd George,
one of Britain's elder statesmen
and spark plug, of the empire's
fight . in the last I war, was re
ported critically ill tonight at his
home near here. i
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WillametteVcihy Flax Growers
Must Meet Foreign Competition
The problem for the future for
flax growers of the Willamette
valley will be competition from
foreign produced i flax fiber, R.
Glen Ritchey, newly elected chair
man of the Willamette Valley Fi
ber Flax association, warned grow
ers, i
He suggested as factors to help
meet this competition . improve
ment in varieties and better farm
ing practices such as rotation of
crops, ' improved machinery, and
production of as nearly uniform a
grade as possible, a '
Improved varieties would in
crease tonnage and also per cent
of fiber per ton, ; the improved
farming practices would increase
yields and prevent disease, the im
prover machinery ' would - reduce
costs and improve quality and in
crease yield of liber, Ritchey ssid.
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tinues in House;
Actions Delayed
By Wendell Webb
Managing Editor, the Statesman
There was no reason at all why
spectators couldn't have had a
good! nap in the state house of
representatives Tuesday. It defi
nitely was "ho hum" day, and
many more like it would see the
43rd legislature bogged down so
securely it might as well go to
sleep) itself.
It seems the democrats, or some
of them, still were mad rightful
ly or wrongfully because the
house the day before passed a
measure which democrats said was
designed to strip County Clerk Al
Brown of Multnomah county of all
authority in elections. The bill
provided for a $4200-a-year regis
trar to coordinate election activi
ties jwhich republicans said now
were too diffused among three
county officers.
So4 as had been forecast Rep.
James Gleason of Portland, when
ever a measure came up for final
passage Tuesday, asked for a com
plete reading of each bill, section
by section. ,He also asked for such
a reading of a senate joint me
morial requesting congress to oust
the 0PA after the war, but there
wasn't but one section and the bill
got through.
Rep. Vernon Bull, La Grande
democrat, sought to erase the
memory of the house action on the
registrar bill (HB 306) by asking
for Reconsideration, ut Speaker
Eugene Marsh ruled the motion
out of order because Bull had vot
ed tno on the measure in the
first place. - ,
Therefore, in apparently the on
ly "out" to keep Reading Clerk
Richard Wilson from having . an
overstrained larynx, members
moved that the longer bills be
put over including the veterans'
affairs measure, set for today, and
the proposal to put the fish com
mission on an appropriation basis,
now scheduled to come up tomor
row. . -
Rep. Warren Erwin, Portland
republican, suggested that if all
bills jmust be read completely that
an assistant reading clerk be
named as a "humane" measure.
Senate in Low Gear
The house did manage to pass
seven propositions, however (see
page,' 10).
The senate also stayed in low
gear i with hours of debate on Sen.
Hex Ellis' bill to allow assessment
insurance in Oregon, as in Idaho,
bittepy fought by the old line in
surance companies. It was beaten.
The house indefinitely postpon
ed, ii accepting a majority "do not
pass' report, m bill by Rep. John
Steelhammer to require all peace
officers and tax commission agents
to report weekly to the governor
the location, operator and owner
of any pinball machine on which
the state tax had not been paid, or
anv Iclnt marhtn which the state
fholds to be illegaL '
Steelhammer's minority "do
pass" report was defeated, 40 to
14. He argued that the bill would
increase revenues for old age aa
sistance. There were two possible reper
cussions being discussed regarding
the slow-down in the house one
centered around a threat to start
the same proceedings in the senate
unless the Multnomah bill was de
feated there, and the other wajLa
constitutional amendment which
might preclude the necessity of
reading every bill even on de
mand.
(Legislative news page 10.)
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Each plant was urged to grow,
pup, ret, and scutch its fiber so
as to produce as nearly a uniform
grade as possible, and the growers
aim; he said should be to produce
the! grade which spinners can use
to the best advantage. Observing
this rule will increase the demand
for the northwestern fiber.
The association held an all day
meeting at the Salem Chamber Of
Commerce.; Ritchie was named
chairman and R. R. Mitchell, of St
Paul, vice chairman; Clarence -F
Hyde of Eugene, secretary-treas
urer. Ritchie's home Is in Fores
Grove. ;
D. B. Delosh, agricultural econ
omist, was one of the speakers and
others were D. D. Hall, and Elton
Nedsonv both of Oregon State col
lege; and W. N. Hurst, US depart
ment of agriculture.
iYankees
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jAirfield
Jap Resistance
i Unprecedented;
Marines Gaining
! By UnoBt Waite '" fi
i US PACDTIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Wednesday, Feb. 2L
Hfifp-The three-day-old invasion
of Iwo is ahead of schedule de
spite the unprecedented ferocity
pf Japanese resistance, it was
learned today. j.
i The US Fifth marine corps
achieved one of the invasion's
main objectives by noon Tuesday,
a Utile over 24 hours since the
marines landed on the southeast
coast, when they , captured the
three-runway Motoyama bomber
field No. 1, with fighter plane
range of Tokyo, 750 miles to the
north. is
Al. Dopking, Associated Press
war correspondent, confirmed that '
the invasion plan called for seiz
ure of the airfield, also known i as
Suribachi, by tonight !
Marine's Attack Bills I
Today the marines, still backed
by one of the most concentrated
ship bombardments in history
which in six days has pitched
more than 8,000 tons of steel i at
the Nipponese, tore into enemy
hill positions on the flanks after
sealing off the south third of die
island's eight square miles. ; .
There is a terrific fight ahead
against Japanese on the north end
of the island, on a plateau over
looking the beachhead. The bulk
of the Nipponese garrison is there.
( As the marines consolidated
their flanks yesterday, Dopkijng
said they encountered "probably
the stiffest enemy fire yet faced
Sn the Pacific war." ' I
Gain 200 Yards ..
I Controlling the south third fof
the island, the rain-drenched lea
thernecks advanced 200 yards be
yond the airfield on the north
flank against Nipponese rocket,
mortar and artillery fire. -
I On the south flank, they At
tacked formidable enemy posi
tions offering stiff opposition trbm
the slopes of volcanic Mt Suti-
bachi.
House Votes
In Favor of
Ousting OPA
j The House, by. a vote of 33; to
2 1, Tuesday completed legislative
action on a memorial' asking con
gress to end the Office of Price
Administration as soon as possible
after the war. ' i j
i Opponents of the memorial con
tended it was too critical. !
I Rep. Carl Francis, Dayton (re
publican, explaining he does "hot
defend the bureaucracy of the
jOPA," said the OPA did do a g4od
ob curbing inflation. Rep. Man-
ley J. Wilson, St Helens demo
crat, said the memorial "casts re- ,
flection on citizens doing an im
portant job i ) I 1
Rep. ( Henry ' Semon, Klamath
alls democrat and a potato gray
er, said that without OPA, he could .
iave received three or four tiipcs
as much money for his potatoes.
But he added, "I'd just have more
money to spend, that's all." i
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Middle East
In Spotlight
CAIRO, Feb. 0 - (JP) - The In
creasing military and political Im
portance of the middle east has
been sharply emphasized by the
conferences President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill held
in Egypt and nearby on their way
home from the big three Yalta
meeting."-' "K'V- "7 r-: ",:
The president and the prime
minister delayed their returns to
their respective; capitals nearly a
week after leaving the Crimea.
With the war In Europe approach
ing its climax, it Is obvious that
they would not have agreed to thia
delay if they had not considered
the discussions here to be of Vital
importance.
Two Lebanon Soldiers ;
Die From War Wounds
LEBANON, Feb. 20 Two more
Lebanon men are casualties of the
war, information hat beenl re
ceived by relatives from the war
department William Green, army
cavalry, was killed in action in
Burma, January 20. His mother,
Mrs. Lela Green, is now in Eu
gene with her daughter,' Louisa
of the U. S. forest service staff.
: Lt William Gale Bindshadler
dled In a military hospital in
France January 11. His mother,
Mrs. Theda Binshadler, is a
teacher in Lebanon high school.
. Goudy J
today with intermittent rain
showers in the mid-Willamette
valley area, predicts US weath
er bureau, McNary' field, Salem.
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