r Sessional democratic leaders.
ltWSre5r . nrced the!
j tut icw- ....
" ... .to the tax bill.
tF has termed
rf; revem measure
5' nrovdes for
Pthe $10,500,000,000
P . ...inn nn the ait'
CfJS wiUbeput off un-
0D - -
.Feb. 21. U.
P"4- . .h house way
P" a.- u here all
VI " .
fTfainj measures must
W .j ii..ir urre in-
aid they ere
p
ui... mnrA fthoilt
J . h,Ml of a success
Hioiiuiu
U m n entirely new
Usllntd1 ta '
f Jrebably In bout three
Ll'epbllcl"is have
U tkit a veto would mean
CJb bin for all of 1944.
nan oc -
!sday.
House leaders of
Cities have an agreement
uide controversial ques-
ttfl then because some m
members have engage-
iway from me copiu"
Jjtons Oinnaay
mit. House attitude to
la taz bill was echoed as
n opened its session io
Rep. Gore (D.-Tenn.) de
Ithe measure "is not worthy
mss." that it "opens
L te wartime profiteer-
KMitson (R.-Minn.), rank-
fcdity member oi me tax
U wavs and means com'
declaring that Gore show
Uraal umorance of our
ax jmieture' wnen ne aes-
sk tax bin as "puny."
retorted that Knutson
Worm himself of the costs
VbH war.
m told .newspapermen
disagreed with Rayburn,
to that congress will over,
ke tax veto.
L and means chairman
Ke (D.-N.C.) after a spe-
uwv nccung w discuss
aid no definite stand
and that action prob'
depend upon the con-
tit menage.
pfors Argue
Mm Milk
BHlNOTOHrFebi-H
pwton (D., La.) called the
dairy in Washington and
you have any defatted milk
ftli morning?"
Wf no, wt don't" the senator
p was told. "What are you
KIOTO.'"
m non-fat milk solids."
yon, by any chance, talk.
Wiktamilk?"
pi exactly what I was
rUbout"
Hurt what Overton
N With 1 bill hv Son Olorlr
p) to change the pure food
Pfrafulatioris so that pow-
SKimmed, we
Inowi millr ktnh. ii l.j
' at milk solids'-' or "de
eailk solids."
P coldly serioui imim..i
paged in the senate today,
f Overton related his tele
P experience. Clark had
P mning, thusly:
n -s,m. he said, re.
" nle of Hriort .1, .!,.
ptteword tself
miiv -. v . so wnen
! hog feed."
fced Public
Ffreeplantin.
m forest r'L
demand
hiZn ung labor sup-
N?M5 Lumbermen's
K rf today, in offering
CT" "fs, two years old.
EUT J"" U at
-v nursery, on th
iiinu--.,. -
&Mor"g"
CkeW!!.iCh n0w Krow
.r.homcoTn:
Pit, ""iica to
come
C mt
ttuk i-r: -.""""ion prac-
h t r.n r. will not
.L1 wi injure the
FftWwih " declared.
brakes. Crowd
eofe
h '8"e Forecast!
fm r.i. noest portion.
!itn.,:L. 'Jra5C!,des to.
"Pam. luoiay. fair
5 cioudv eas;
:i!i!!!muin tem-
i.Z horning. 32 ri..
tl C Perature,
fr tT?' Potation
r '"iti
Tuesday By FDR
GTON, Feb. 21. (AP) Speaker Rayburn
) todav President Roosevelt would send to con
LVmessage vetoing the $2,315,000,000 new tax
... v. ,.,eoinwi Ravhlirn nssortoH
ft?... ovnressed what he calltd his oDinion to
t R after a conference at the White House attend-
LT. ROBERT W. OEVEREIX
Eugene Flier In
14 Bomb Raids
(The following; storv. distrib
uted by the Associated Press, was
written by Staff Sergeant Alfred
E. Lewis of Waterbury, Conn., a
marine corps combat correspond
ent) - ,
MUNDA (Delayed) Second
lieutenant Robert W. Deverell.
23-year-old marine dive .hnmhoi-
pilot, of 958 V4 Patterson street
Eugene, Ore., has bombed everv
Japanese airfield on Bougainville
during nis nrst tour or duty in
the south Pacific but still hasn't
overcome his distaste for enomv
acK-acK mai Dursts au around
him as he goes into his dive.
xne youtnrui pilot has been on
14 strikes against Jananese sun
emplacements, harbor installa
tions, shipping facilities, supply
bases and bivouac areas, but has
only been struck twice by their
ami-aircrari lire.
'That was on mv fifth raid and
they must have had my range,"
Lieutenant Deverell said. "Thro
hit me in the right wing and also
knocked off the tip of one of my
propeuers.
"I'll never forget the dav we
raided the twin JaD airfield.
Bonis and Buka," the lieutenant
said. "Bonis Js..on the northern
tip of Bougainville "and a short
distance away on a little island
is the Buka airstrio. The water
between- the two is known as
Buka passage.
"Our objective on that mission
was to knock out the heavy gun
emplacements which protected
the two fields so other planes
could come in and destroy the
runways. We attacked Bonis first.
As the formation came intoward
the field, I sighted my target and
peeled off into a dive. Thev had
already set up a barrage of flak
which 1 had to fly through. . I
dropped my bombs squarely on
an emplacement housing four
heavy AA Buns. I leveled off and
ew over Buka passage heading
ior tne other strip.
As soon as I hit the Buka side
started strafing, but the Japs
were waiting for us. I was pretty
low and it was like flying through
a gauntlet oi acK-acK. sometimes
I thought I could iust reach out
ana touch some of those cuffs.
They didn't hit my plane that day,
but several days later, when we
attacked Kara airfield on the
southern tip of Bougainville, they
hit my plane twice."
The lieutenant attended Gun
versity high school in Eugene,
Ore., where he was president of
the student body. Later, he studied
at the University of Oregon,
where he was a member of Theta
Chi fraternity. On June 25, 1942,
he enlisted as an aviation cadet
and was sent to Corpus Christi.
Texas, for training. He received
his wings on July 3, 1943.
The lieutenant's wife is Mrs.
Suzzane Deverell of Eugene. ;
CCC Bill Deferred
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. OP)
The house banking and currency
committee deferred action today
on a bill to continue the Commod
ity Credit corporation's life when
the administration was unable ap
parently to marshal sufficient com
mittce votes to prevent any limi
tations from being added to the i
bill.
Chairman Spence (D. Kysaid
the committee would resume its
discussion tomorrow.
Rep. Wolcotf (R.. Mich.), one of
the leaders in the fight to ban food
subsidies through a limitation in
the previously vetoed CCC bill,
said the committee voted 9 to 8 for
including some limitation in the
pending bill. He did not specific
ally define the nature of the pro
posed limitation.
Lt. T. Kleinman Missing
After Raid On Germany
Lt. Ted Kleinman. son-in-law
of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Godlove of
Eugene, has been reported pass
ing while on a flight over Ger
many, word having been received
by Mr. and ' Mrs. Godlove and
their daughter, the former Doro
thea Godlove, who is with her
oarents here. Lt. Kleinman and
Miss Godlove were married last
Seotember.
The lieutenant wa a navigator
on a V. S. bombin plane and was
on quite a number of missinns j
over enemy territory prior to the
lime he was reported missing. 1
f Y.Afell. rAIIVI Vv.w. . . . . . .
ni inn . !
wu. iu txiu&X'S NEWS TODAY
JAPJAjM
AMAZON CREEK
HEARING READY
Slated for Tuesday afternoon,
1:30 o'clock, county courthouse, is
the public hearing on the Amazon
creek flood control project The
hearing is called by the United
States army engineers and here to
conduct it will be Colonel Ralph
Tudor, Portland division office of
the engineers, and several of his
staff.
Elmo Chase, representing the
Eugene chamber of commerce as
well as being a member of the Wil
lamette Valley Basin Project com
mission, urges that all property
owners interested, those within the
area affected, attend the. meeting,
and that written statements be
submitted regarding the project
The Amazon creek project as
proposed by the engineers is an
important one for this area, in
volving widening and straighten
ing the channel through Eugene,
the building of a diversion channel
out west .of the city to flow into
the Fern Ridge reservoir, and the
straightening and widening of the
channel on north. -. - -
Importance of attendance at the
hearing Tuesday was stressed by
Councilman E. A. Bafette, who
pointed out that solution of the
Amazon flood control problem
would be tremendous relief to
Eugene. , ,
Mother of Five Has
But $10 For Food
PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 21.
(U.PJ Mrs. Peggy Hope Adams of
Vanport, the mother of five chil
dren, today has only $10 with
which to feed her family.
Portland police are holding her
husband as an alleged member of
a burglar gang accused of at least
11 jobs.
Mrs. Adams was marired at 14.
Her first child died of pneumonia
shortly after it was born. ,
"We never wanted for noth-
in" she told a reporter. . "Earl
always has been good to u& and
he sure never was in trouble be
fore. I don't know what I'm go
ing to do. They want us to move
out because the rent is two
weeks overdue. One thing's sure,
the... kids are going to get three
hot meals a 'day. I haven't eaten
since Earl was arrested. I can't,
so count me out."
The family came to Portland 14
months ago to get defense work.
Twins were born to the couple a
year ago.
Party Bolt to Stop
FDR Threatened ,
By LYLE C. WILSON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (U.PJ
Moving boldly in Massachusetts
against President Roosevelt's re
nomination, anti-new deal demo
crats are out in the open today
with their threat to bolt the party
if necessary to block - a fourth
term.
Success of this anti-fourth term
strategy inevitably would obtain
election of a republican president
next November. The democrats
who hope to get Roosevelt out of
the white house are reconciled to
that. They seek, primarily, to
eliminate the president as party
leader and to regain control of
the organization for regular dem
ocrats.
The movement was formally
launched in Boston last night with
announcement that former Gov.
Joseph B. Ely is a candidate for
for the democratic presidential
nomination in that state only. His
name will not be entered in other
states. . -
The maneuver frankly was ac
knowledged to be designed to
block a fourth term. The Massa
chusetts presidential preference
primary is on April 25.
The pattern sketched by Ely s
manager envisages a conservative
democratic bolt,' organization of a
third party and nomination of a
Jeffersonian democratic prcsi-
dential and vice presidential
ticket if Roosevelt is nominated
again at Chicago next July.
Draft Age Cut Hil
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. ()
Flatly rejecting suggestions that
the draft age be lowered from 18
to 17, members of the house mill- over the position of chief of gen
tary committee called today for i eral staff of the army in addition
better utilization of existing man- to his other duties.
power resources before considering j
any changes in the selective serv-
ice act,
As an alternative to dropping
the age to 17 should some new ac
tion become necessary. Chairman
May (D., Ky.) said he believed' it
would be beter to raise it "and j
take in some of the non-fathers be
tween 38 and 45 who are now
classified as over-age."
Rep. Harness of Indiana, a high
ranking republican member of the
committee claimed the war depart
ment alone has admitted it has
about 100.000 draft eligible men,
many of them pre-war fathers, on
Its civilian payroll and has not
asked for their deferment.
"If there are that many men in
a single government agency, then
ovr manpower situation 'isn't so
bad: u jusi isn ii ocing nanaicc
properly," he added. I
EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21,
' j 'l f ' J , W-Wlfc-W I Ill mm
r If . 1 "
or th? LSolTf m.J5?" .C M,c.Cornck of Eugene, Is shown above .1 the right, receiving the award
?,nm iJWerH '.2T "eeptlonally meritorious service." upon the occasion of his retirement
from service. The award. miH. at HrMim. n k. . . . . ...... . .
MifSSt'L'nl
H -.J...., m! . r--- r
He graduated from University ef
Levy Program
Finds Favor
Approval of the county's pro
posed levies to build a new court
house and to construct roads and
bridges after the war was express
ed in Eugene Monday."
In general, citizens interviewed
favored creation of a reserve fund
for financing, thought a county
municipal building would be a
"good thing," and said that "much
needs to , be done" on roads
throughout the county.
ine levies, as listed In an or
der filed Saturday by the countv
court for submission to voters at
the primary election in May,
would be for one mill a year for
the next five years to create a
sinking fund for erection of a new
courthouse costing approximately
$250,000, plus two mills a year
ior a similar period tor road and
Dnage construction and main
tenance to raise nearly $500,000.
The projects- would be useful itt
putting men and 'women, return
ing from the armed forces and
war industries, to work here in
Lane when demobilization begins.
Several opined that there was
rro point in "penny pinohinc"
When these local jobs need to be
done ir Lane is to be kept "pro
gressive" in more than talk only.
A few hesitated to approve anv
project which would raise county
taxes, even slightly, in face of
prospect that the presently high
federal taxes would go even high
er in the next few years. Con
versely, others said that Lane's
taxes for necessary jobs would be
"only a drop in the bucket" com
pared to those which will be ask
ed by Washington, and believed
that Lane county should not hes
itate to "take care of its own" just
because of this federal assessment.
Comments included:
Fred J. Stlckels, chairman of
the Central Lane Planning coun
cil: "I'm very much in favor of
it. We have needed a joint city
county building for years. There
is too much crowding the way
things are now. I'm very much
in favor of road projects. Money
spent on roads and a good court
house will be well spent."
Lynn 8. McCready, vice-prcst-
SEE LEVY PROGRAM STORY -1
PAGE I I
U. S. Victories
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
Associated Press War Analyst
Uncle Sam's victory at Truk Is
a dream come true, for we have
administered a defeat which has
so rocked the mikado's capital
that the Japs are making no effort
to conceal the devastating effects,
bofli moral and material.
Not only has the Tokyo govern
ment acknowledged sweeping de
struction but it tacitly has ad- j
initted the gravity of the situation
by firing the chiefs of staff for
hoth the navy and the army. None
less than the great Gen. Hideki
Tojo, Japan's militaristic premier
and master gangster, has taken
During Ihe two days on which!
we blasted at Truk we sunk at l .
least 19 ships, including several l
war vessels, destroyed 201 war- j '
planes and damaged more than 50
others, and probably sunk seven ;
other snips, uur Domes also ere.
atcd havoc among the enemy in
stallations in this great base. As
against this big killing we lost
(nly 17 planes and suffered mod
erate damage to one ship.
Meantime our marine and army
force has continued to consolidate
its position on the Important Jao
base of Kniwetok. And to the Mirlsti and the J60th Army In
south, American destroyers have : fanlry whlrh captured Knie!)l
blasted the Rabaul and Kavleng ,",nd h En'" atoll In
kaKO, ! vation asilnul Jap Marshall ll-
Tokyo certainly has the righl,"nd" "" (Ap Wircphoto from
angle in saying that the decisive ,1'',rine l-orP-battle
of the Pacilic has begun, appears In the material damage
For there is far more aignificam-e
in this sensational operation than 1
DEFEATS
l Ktftr' de'ense command, in
' "' wMwrn acicnsc rommina ana lounn army.
Oregon to 1901 (Army signal corps photo, Wiltshire engraving).
Death Hunch
Proves Right
LA GRANDE, Ore., Feb. 11
(U.R) Dr. Thomas M. Gilmore, 72,
of Union, conducted a stethoscope
examination of Ed Wulf, 73, who
long had been seriously ill.
En route home. Dr. Gilmore re
marked to his wife:
"I don't think Ed Wulf will last
through the night, and, you know,
a uunK i may peat him."
At home, Dr. Gilmore removed
his shoes, sat down and toppled
over dead irpm a heart attack.
Dr. Gilmore died at 10:35 p. m.
Saturday.
While preparing to drive to
Union for Dr. Gilmore's body, L,
i bnodgrass, mortician, received
a call from the home of Wulf.
Wulf had died at 10:45 p. i
Saturday. .
Plot to Kill King
Of Yugoslavs Bared
LONDON, Feb. , 21 (P) The
Mescow radio broadcast a Tass
Cairo-dated dispatch today' de
claring an attempt had been made
' to assassinate King Peter of Jugo
slavia. The broadcast, recorded by the
soviet monitor, quoted the Rus
sian news agency dispatch as say
ing the attempt had been made
by fascists in an effort to put the
blame on Jugoslav soldiers who,
the dispatch said, are trying to re
turn to their homeland to fight
in the partisan ranks of Marshal
Josip Broz (Tito).
Tito announced today his Jugo
slav partisans have routed a Ger
man column of 600 men near
Novo Mesto In Slovenia and also
have broken upy a Bulgarian of-,
fensive in the direction of Zvna
Mlavr.
FSA DEMISE FAVORED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.
A special house agriculture sub
committee approved today legis
lation; Which. .WOUld . abolish the I
farm security administration as
... i'iiu,uu aim tiimiKc mc :
financing of the government's larm
tenant program. .
Spotlight Jap
j, LEADS KMWF.TOK
, Marine Brig. Gen. T.
"raimmsnded units of
ATTACK
E. Wsloon
Ihe 22nd
wrjught, though that in llclf is
a heavy blow to Japan. I
1944
ON STREET 5c
;7
ceremony at San Francisco Pre
Baruch Plan
Leaders Picked
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. bn
In the Initial steps to carry Into
effect the Baruch plan for war and
post-war adjustments, War Mobil
ization Director James F. Byrnes
today named Assistant Commerce
Secretary Will L. Clayton to handle
the disposal of surplus war prop
erties and Veterans Administrator
Frank T. Hines to take over em
ployment and rehabilitation activ
ities. President Roosevelt Issued an
executive order setting up a sur
plus war property administration,
which Clayton will head. He has
: signed his post in the commerce
department.
Another executive order Is In
preparation to create formally the
position which Hines will fill. The
report on readjustment by Edward
M. Baruch and John Hancock sug
gested that this W turned" over to a
"work director," but Byrnes said
he liked the title of director of re
training and reemployment better.
That, he said, was the only point
where he withheld a 100 per cent
endorsement of the Brruch pro
posals. The steps taken today, Byrnes
told a news conference, represent
all that can be done under existing
law to put the government's own
htuse In order for the tremendous
task of turning the nation back to
a peace-time economy.
Some legislation will be needed,
In line with recommendations in
the report, ByrnCs said, and in ad
dition he has some in mind him
self, particularly in outlining pol
icy for disposal of billions of dol
lars worth of government property,
Tires To Be Shown
PORTLAND, Feb. 21 W
Two demonstration cars, touring
the country to show the durabil
ity of synthetic tires and recaps,
will arrive here Feb. 29, the Ore
gon State Motor association an
nounced today.
Tour personnel will sneak
war traffic' nffont nn thn nnllnnol
highway system at a meeting
ncre. ana l ien anDcar at Snlem.
Eugene, and Roscburg en route to
'California.
Ship Shortage
The big point, of course, Is that
our lighting forces have demon-:
stratcd their ability to penetrate :
Japan's most powerful naval base j
by air, from aircraft curriers conr I
voyod by a largo fleet of warships.
In doing this we invited the Jap- j
anese navy to come and get us. !
Now this momentous develop-'
mcnt was no flash In the pan. We '
were able to carry out such a !
highly dangerous operation be
cause we arc stranger Uian the
enemy.
"Bail. someone protests, "How i
can that be when Die Japanese :
have in their possession all the
vast wealth of China and con
quered areas?" j
Well, it's true that the Nippon-
cse have sefcd enough resources i
to enable them to wage world war I
indefinitely if they were able to j
utilize those rcsiirces. In order
to do that, howe r, the raw ma
terials must be transported over
thousands of miles of water to the
mother country to bo fabricated.
Water transport means ships
and the Japs Just haven't gut the
' ships and they can't build them In
i auff ieierit numbers to meet their
j needs. The Nipponese never have
hud enough cargo vessels, and
, they have been losing shipping
steadily because the allies have
been sinking mure than Japan
could produce.
Thus the Japs are like Midas,
I For a long time everything tlicy
i touched turned to gold, but they
finally discovered that it wasn't
doing 'cm much good, because
they couldn't cut it or beat it' into
weapons.
CITY
EDITION
NEWS STANDS 5c NO. 52
NIPS LOSE 19
SHIPS AT TRUK
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
Associated Press War Editor
Lightning blows by Ameri
can land, sea and air forces
which cost the enemy 19 to 26
ships and 201 planes in the
Truk assault alone, brought a
shakeup in the Japanese high
command today.
Emperor Hirohito relieved
the chiefs of the army and
navy general staffs of their
commands, radio Tokyo an
nounced, following Japan'.
most disastrous week of the
war she started at Pearl Har
bor 26 months ago.
The Japanese, in those seven
explosive days, not only lost five
islands the south Pacific group
scores of ships and hundreds of
planes, but learned the allies
could hit out with multiple strikes
simultaneously at key Nipponese
bases from Rabaul to the Mar
snails. v
American fighting men closed
in on Enitewok, westernmost of
the Marshall - islands, with its
strategic airfield only 750 miles
from Truk.
Admr. Chester W. Nimitz told
of week-long naval shelling and
air bombardment of Japanese
territory . in the Marshalls, and
attacks on Ponape, 440 miles west
of Truk, and Kusaie, 330 miles
southeast of Ponape.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur re
ported from the southwest Pacific
the first shelling . of Rabaul,'
Japan's once mighty fortress, and
adjacent Kavieng, New Ireland,
a few hours before allied planes
slashed at Rabaul in three heavy
strikes that neutralized one of its
airdromes, at least temporarily.
The navy listed IB enemy ships
at Truk as definitely sunk, includ
ing two light cruisers, three de
stroyers, one ammunition ship,
one seaplane tender, two oilers,
two gunboats and eight cargo
ships. Nine more vessels were ac
counted' probably tent to the bot
tom of Truk's big lagoon. The
United States losses included 17
planes and moderate damage to
one ship. ,
The Tokyo radio said today
Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo has
taken over the post of the army
neneral alait chief and that. Admr.
Shigetaro Shimada, navy minis
ter, has succeeded fleet Admr.
Osami Nagano as chief of navy
general staff.
Earlier, three domestic posts In
the Japanese cabinet were In
volved in a reorganization. Lon
don diplomats took the view that
the changes in the army and navy
commands marked an effort to
take away all power from mili
tary figures not in the cabinet.
0 .
Housing for Venefa
Bids are being , asked . on
20-unit housing project at Ven
eta by the federal public hous
ing authority, It was revealed
Monday by Ray Mclnnls. secre
tary of the Eugene central labor
council. Mclnnis, conferred Sun
day with C. Thomas Saxton, di
rector of the FPHA from Seat
tle, on the labor situation In Eu
gene and. current wage scales.
According to the Eugene labor
secretary, bids on the project will
be received until Feb. 29, jlicn
sent to. Washington for approval.
Work will start Immediately on
such approval, Mclnnis said.
Under the federal public houa
ing authority the Veneta pro
ject will be government financed
and the houses built for occu
pancy of war workers. E. H.
Peterson, Eugene realtor, has ex
plained that FPHA houses are
temporary In nature and after the
war will be liquidated by tho
government.
In the recent housing allot
ment given the Eugene area, Ven
eta was recommended for 30 pub.
lie, conversions by the national
housing authority. These would
have been financed by the HOLC
and would have been remodel
ling of existing buildings. How
ever, the order for the conver
sions was never given to the
HOLC becaute lt was stated sub
rcqucntly by housing officials that
Veneta could not accommodate
30 conversions. Veneta was tho courthouse flagstaff, announr
o warded ten private houses under ed no new flags were availahln
the Eugene area allotment, but
recent word from the FMA of
fice at Portland uld that no ap
plications thus far had been made
for them.
War In Brief
By UnltedPress
Pacific Japan ousts army and
navy chiefs of staff and admits
loss of 18 ships in American at
tack on Truk only one under the
toll reported by pearl Harbor; U.
S. Invaders nearly complete con- i
quest of Kniwetok atoll.
Italy Counterattacking Amer
ican and British troops recapture
ii lino t half of 4000-yard salient
lost In now blunted German of
fensive against Anzlo beachhead.
Europe British bombers drop
1000 tons of explosives on Stutt
gart and Germans carry out fire
raid on London: 2000 American
planes make second raid in two
days on nazl aircraft production
tenters.
Russian Red army drives over!
approaches to atrategic rail June-
tion of Dno from four directions. I
Biggest U.S. -Raid
On Nazi
Plants Repeated
By Richard McMurray '
Associated Press War Editor
American heavy bombers
attacked northwest Germany
today in strength approxi
mating that of yesterday in
'the biggest United States air
mission in history."
The Flying Fortresses and Lib
erators struck the fourth massive
blow at Germany in less than
two days after a heavy night
bombardment of the southwest
German industrial metropolis of
LONDON. Feb. 21 U.
Soviet troops have broken Into
the outskirts of Krlvol Rot and .
are balllini the nasi garrison
or that Dnieper bend strong
hold, a communique broadcast
by radio Moscow said today.
Stuttgart by the RAF. More than
2000 American planes struck
widely scattered fighter plane
factories in Germany yesterday.
SSTEX H.K'SidT
mander of U. S. air forces, said
a fourth of German fighter pro
duction had now been knocked
out.
The RAF before dawn on Sun
day had plunged 2578 tons of ex
plosives into Leipzig in southern
Germany. ,
Targets today were not immedi
ately named although the north
west German cities most fre
quently bombed have been Wll
helmshaven, Kiel, Bremen, Em
den, Hamburg and Hannover.
American headquarters ' used
most of their superlatives to de
scribe the widespread air blow
at Germany Sunday: "The largest,
most important and most hazard
ous operation" ever undertaken
by strategic U. S. forces.
The Germans again scattered
fire bombs and explosives on
London, setting many fires and
causing casualties. . .
GERMANS IN ITALY
BELIEVED EXHAUSTED
Allied troops in the secure Rohm
beachhead struck back with in
fantry, tanks, planes and war
ships at nine German divisions
which had been bled to profusely
that It appeared unlikely that they
could mount another major of
fensive soon. Two German arm tea
totalling IB divisions now oppose
the allies In Italy.
Violent fighting continued ta
and around demolished Casslno.
French troops beat off a strona
German attack on this main front.
50 miles east of the Anzlo battle.
RUSSIANS ADVANCE
ON 104-MILE FRONT
The Russians drove powerfully
on a 100-mile front toward the
Baltic gateway city of Pskov, ad
vancing up to 12 miles, killing
2200 Germans and eanturina 114
h'lllagei. The Germans said 100,-
uuo Russians were renewing an
olfensive toward the white Rus
sian capital of Minsk and that
other red army troops had pene
trated their lines on two sides of
Krlvol Roe in the central Ukraine.
The red army units nearest to
Pskov were last reported 28 miles
to the north after battling down
the east shores of Lake Pelpua
and Lake Pskov, but Moscow an
nouncements have not mentioned
their progress in several days.
The British reported the de
struction of three submarines of
a pack trying to break into the
Mediterranean through the Strait
of Gibraltar. The British destroy--T
Janus was lost. The Germans
asserted without confirmation
that submarines had sunk II
escorting destroyers in the At
lantic in the past few days.
Chairmen Named
Chairmen , for the remaining
five of the 14 post-war activity
departments of the Central Lane
Planning council were announced
Monday by Fred G. Stickcls, pres
ident of the council.
.Appointments made were Well
ington T. Switzcr, service con
tacts; John Aa Wagcnman, laborj
Mrs. J. Don Smith, park projects;
W, J. Cloyes, sewage and sanita
tion, and Stanley R. Stevenson,
tax structures.
These chairmen together with
those appointed last week will
now complete formation of com
mittees for their departments,
President Stickcls stated.
Chairmen of the 14 departments
together with the elected officers
fo the council will constitute the
executive board of the council,
Slickels said.
Bend Needs Flagpoles
BEND. Feb. 21 OPi-The nr.
schutes county court, criticized
for not replacing a worn flag atop
here.
Within 24 hours Bend residents
donated two flags and obtained
two more from Portland. Said
County Judge C. L. Allen:
"What wo need now is more
flagpoles."
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SUNDAY
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Sunday morning. The
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