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NEARLY FALL NEAR,
SAYS MAC ARTHUR;
JAPS SURPRISED
Land and Sea Operations
Gain Vital Points; Enemy
Given Ultimatum.
Gen. MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Luzon, Sunday, Feb. 18
f (U.R) Veteran American para
troops and amphibious infantry
have landed on rocky Corregl
dor Island guarding. Manila bay.
and its capture is assured, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur announced
today.
"We hav.e landed on Corregl
dor and seized its decisive
Mints," he said in his daily com
munique. ."Its complete capture
Is now assured with ngnt cas
ualties. . . The recapture of Ba
taan and Corregldor clears the
entrance to Manila bay and
opens this great harbor to our
fleets."
The combined air and sea op
eration took the Japanese by
surprise. It was made Saturday
two years, nine months and 11
days after Lt. Gen. Jonathan
, Walnwright surrendered the is
land to the Japanese invaders.
MacArthur announced the re
s capture of nearby Bataan penin
. sula yesterday. It and Corregl
dor were the last strongholds of
the gallant American and Fili
pino defenders of the Philip
pines in 1942.
Thus, 40 days after American
troops landed on Luzon, Mac
Arthur . wa ne rcomp1ish
rnent of his three principal ob
jectives in the Philippines the
reconquest of Bataan, Corregl
dor and Manila. It took the Jap
anese a little over five months
to accomplish the same objec
tives. Shortly after paratroops drop
ped on the top of the rock, tak
ing defenses in the rear, Amer
ican assault boats dashed across
the narrow channel from Bataan,
little more than two miles away,
and landed on the south shore,
"thrown the enemy's garrison
into complete dislocation," Mac
Arthur said.
Manila, Feb. 17 (11 a. m.
y-(U.R) Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Grig
wold, commander of U. S. forces
in Manila, called upon Japanese
troops holding the Intramuros
district of south Manila today to
surrender or permit the evacua
tion of civilians "in the true
spirit of the Bushido and the
code of the Samurai."
(Bushido is the name given
the unwritten laws supposedly
governing the conduct of Jap
anese nobles. The Samurai are
Japanese warriors.)
The ultimatum first was sent
by public address system and by
radio at 3 p. m. Friday and was
sent again Saturday morning
The Japanese are believed to
have received lt. But there was
some confusion in establishing
radio contact with the enemy
and the result of Griswold's ac
tion still was doubtful at this
hour.
"Your situation is hopeless
and your defeat is inevitable,"
the message said.
, "I offer you honorable sur
render. If you decide to accept.
, raise a large Filipino flag over
the Red Cross flag now flying,
and send an unarmed emissary
with a white flag to our lines.
This must be done within foui
hours, or I am coming in. In
event you do not accept my of
fer, I exhort you that in the
true spirit of the Bushido and
the code of the Samurai, you
permit all civilians to evacuate
the Intramuros by the Victoria
gate without delay, in order that
no innocent blood be shed."
FRENCH AIR ACE
Paris, Feb. 17 (U.R) Com
Y Tnander Marin La Mesle, French
ace who shot down 20 German
planes in six weeks during the
1940 Battle of France, has been
killed In action on the Alsace
front, it was announced today.
He was 32,
Bombers Blast Fort Drum in Manila Bay
(Acme Telephoto)
. . . . . ,.tj Vr,r nrum in Manila Bay, after "Ken's Men," a B-24 unit of the Fifth
S"TeStaTlSrM t!; Place a. Yank .round force, moved to wipe out last-
Japreltetice ""Manila aid Tokyo radio nervously hinted Imminent American landing, on Corregldor.
LOCAL MAN IN
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Archer,
route 1, box 342, have been no
tified that their son, Sgt. Ernest
T. Archer of the air corps, will
dock in New York Tuesday on
the exchange liner Gripsholm.
Sgt. Archer is among the 463
army officers and enlisted men
who were exchanged in Switzer
land for German prisoners. He
has been a prisoner of the Ger
mans since his plane was shot
down on a bombing raid over
occupied territory October 6,
1943. He suffered a bullet wound
in the leg during the raid, ac
cording to a previous announce
ment.
Mr. and Mrs. Archer received
a telegram from him in France
a week ago telling of his pend
ing arrival here. It is not known
when he expects to arrive in
Medford.
VAST JOBS PLAN
Washington, Feb. 17 (U.R)
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes tonight proposed that the
government undertake a vast
post-war conservation program
to provide jobs for millions of
ex-servicemen.
Such a program, he added,
would make for a more abund
ant life for the country as a
whole.
The recommendations were In
Ickes' annual report to President
Roosevelt. It reviewed the work
accomplished by various units of
his department and credited
them with having contributed
materially to the war effort.
'One World Center'
To Honor Willkie
New York. Feb. 17 (U.R)
The Willkie Memorial fund of
Freedom House announced to
night they would purchase and
remodel the former New York
Club in memory to the late Wen-
lell L. Willkie, republican presi
dential candidate in 1940.
When remodeled the building
will be known as the "one world
center" to ''perpetuate his mem
ory and his vivifying Influence
upon American life," the an
nouncement said.
SOLIDARITY SEEN
Mexico City, Feb. 17 (U.R)
Mexican Foreign Minister Eze
quiel Padilla, in a speech broad
cast tonight, said the inter
American conference opening
here next Week would offer an
"extraordinary opportunity" to
amplify political and economic
solidatory in the western hemis
phere. CRASH HURTS 24
Garden City, Kan., Feb. 17
(U.R) Twenty-four persons were
injured, two critically, when the
bus in which they were riding
struck a stalled truck-trailer out
fit four miles east of Garden City
on Ice-encrusted pavement early
today. S
NAZI PRISONERS
SOLD AS SLAVES
Moscow, Feb. 17 U,R) The
soviet army newspaper Red
Star said today that inmates of
huge German prison camps in
Poland and East Prussia were
sold in slave markets and those
unfit for work were put to death
in gas chambers.
Its account of murder fac
tories, slave markets and prison
camps was written by Maj. Al
exander Mandrugyn.
"Beginning with Cracow,
more and more frequently we
run into compounds of black,
standardized barracks enclosed
within several rows of electrified
barbed wire," he wrote. "Prac
tically every industrial commun
ity boasted such slave camps
with inmates from various coun
tries, including France, Czecho
slovakia, the Netherlands and
Greece."
A group of Russian officers
were conducted around the Pla
showa camp by a former inmate.
Ferdinand Perchak, a Pole who
had been interned because he
jumped onto a trolly car reserv
ed for Germans. Perchak said
that the daily check, of inmates
often was marked by murder,
particularly when Superintend
ent General Goett was present.
"Goett would walk past rows
of prisoners and woe to him
whose face did not please the
general," Perchak told Mand
rugyn. .
"In such cases, Goett would
pull out his pistol and shoot the
victim straight in the face. Often
the general would amuse him
self by ordering a prisoner to
run to the gate then unleash
bloodhounds who tore the vis
um to pieces while the general
laughed."
Mandrugyn said he saw three
graves, each containing 800
charred bodies.
GERMANS ALL SET
FOR GAS ATTACK
London, Feb. 17 (U.R) Stock
holm reports said today that the
nazi high command had ordered
renewed precautions against
allied gas attacks because they
believed gas might be used in
reprisal against a new German
"wonder weapon."
The Swedish reports said or
ders had been given for distri
bution of new gas masks, exa
minatlon of old ones, and estab
lishment of gasproof shelters and
public havens.
STETTINIUS IN RIO
Rio De Janeiro, Feb. 17 (U.R)
United States Secretary of
State Edward Stettinius Jr., ar
rived today by plane from the
Crimea where he was a member
of the American delegation to
the Yalta "Big Three" confer-snc.
Kt5mPiliB
BOMBERS IN FOG
TFRAIFURT
. London, Feb. 17 (U.R)
American Heavy Bombers blast
ed Germany for the. fourth con
secutive day today when a force
of 500 Eighth Air Force planes
flew through heavy fog to drop
1000 tons of bombs on the Ger
man western front rail centers
of Frankfurt and Giessen, .
Bombing by instrument, re
turning pilots from some of the
350 Fortresses and 150 Mustang
Fighters reported they could see
fires break out in the railyards
at Frankfurt, hub for four main
lines leading from central Ger
many to the front. Giessen is 30
miles north of Frankfurt.
Anti-aircraft fire was Intense,
but the Luftwaffe failed to offer
opposition. The Fighters swept
over a wide area from north of
Frankfurt to as far south as
Munich and mm, setting fire to
trains loaded with military vehi
cles. Two bombers were lost and
two Fighters were reported miss
ing.
seek Injunction
Los Angeles, Feb. 17 (U.R) -
Woof, a 5-year-old Staffordshire
bull terrier, tonight was prom
ised another day in court after
the dog lost the first round of a
court fight to save her from a
death sentence.
Superior Judge Walter Gates
denied a writ of habeas corpus
for Woof, condemned to die In
the lethal gas chamber next
week for fatally biting 21-months-old
Marguerite Derenger
Tuesday night.
Cafe Owner Grady C. Terry,
who says common law gives
every dog his day in court,
sought the habeas corpus writ.
But Judge Gates held that a dog
was personal property, and, as
such, is not subject to action un
der a write of habeas corpus.
Undismayed by his court fail
ure today Terry said he would
return to court Monday for an
injunction to stay the execution
GERMAflPORT
U-BOATS SINK 7
London, Feb. 17 -- (U.R) A
German communique said today
that Nazi U-boats, tracking an
Allied convoy .bound for Mur
mansk, sank seven fully laden
ships, one destroyer and one es
cort vessel off the Russian coast.
Torpedo-carrying planes pre
viously had sunk four ships and
five destroyers in the heavily
guarded convoy, Berlin said.
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 17
(U.R) Alan Ford, 20-year-old
aquatic star, set another world
swimming record today, with a
time of :49.4 second for the 100
yard free style In a 20 yard pool.
E
Four Mile Break-thru May
Force German Retreat to
New Line.
Paris, Feb. 17 (U.R) Field
Marshal Sir B. L. Montgomery's
Canadian 1st army flanked the
twin Siegfried bastions of Goch
and Calcar today. It paralyzed
the entire German position south
of Kleve with a four-mile break
through that cut the Goch-Cal-
car highway.
Both Goch and Calcar were
made valueless as defensive an
chors by the sudden plunge
through the German line two
and one-half miles northeast of
Goch along the Kleve-Uedem
highway. The breakthrough may
force the enemy to fall back
seven miles to his next line, be
tween Kevelaer and Xanten.
A British column spearing
down from Kleve found a weak
spot in the Goch-Calcar line and
crashed through Friday after
noon, breaking in behind the
nazi 116th panzer division. They
cut the Germans to shreds and
swept up nearly 1,000 bomb-
dazed prisoners, raising the total
captured in the 10-day offensive
to 6,000.
Other British columns were
closing in on Goch from four
directions and on Calcar from
two under a hail of artillery and
mortar flrs.v; FrorH 1 dispatches
said the fall of both bastions
was imminent.
Goch was all but encircled by
steady British advances north,
east and west of the town and
the nearest column was only one
mile away from the northwest
where Welsh and Scottish fight
era captured Asperden and Her
borst, and fought into Kessel.
T
FOR QUONG CHIN
Portland, Ore., Feb. 17 (U.R)
Hing.Quong Chin, 75, Portland
Chinese, found today that he
will have to wait two more
years before he can achieve the
goal on which his heart has been
set for 56 years.
Tears welled In his eyes when
V. S. naturalization officials
here told him he would nave to
wait at least that long aftei Chin
had filed his declaration of in
tention become an American
citizen.
During more than half a cen
tury Chin had been waiting at
the "gates of citizenship" barred
by the Exclusion Act. Only re
cently the law was changed to
admit persons born in China
Chin's wife, Zuan Cue Chin.
64, also filed her declaration.
The Chins have a marned
daughter and a son in Califor
nia, BE WAR SHRINE
Rome, Feb 17 (U.R) Two
thirds of bomb-battered Casslno.
scene of fierce fighting last
spring, will be left in ruins as a
war shrine, lt was announced to
day. One-third of the town, at the
foot of the Abbey of Mount Cas
slno, will be rebuilt by the Ital
ian government.
PACIFIC LUXURY PLANES
Washington, Feb. 17 (U.PJ
Pan-American Airways said to
night that lt is ready to buy $30,
000,000 worth of giant new lux
ury planes for service over the
Pacific after the war If the gov
ernment is willing. t
LONO STRIKE ENDS
Minneapolis, Feb. 17 (U.R)
The 11 months old labor dispute
at the Minneapolis studios of
radio station KSTP was at an
end today following confirma
tion of settlement.
RUSSIANS CHALK
EASTERNjECTOR
Red Planes Hit Berlin Sub
urbs Oder Dams Are
Blasted.
London, Sunday, Feb. 17
(U.PJ Russian troops, smashing
across the enemy's Quels river
defense line, yesterday drove to
within 60 miles of Dresden, capi
tal of Saxony, while Berlin re
ported that the medieval fortress
town of Sagan, southeast of Ber
lin, had fallen.
While Moscow reported that
sky-filling fleets of Russian
planes, flying 10,000 sorties a
day, were lashing the outskirts
of Berlin ahead of Soviet spear
heads, the Red army chalked up
important new gains all along
the front.
Soviet assault forces broke
Into the encircled lower Slleslan
capital of Breslau, encircled and
wiped out a huge enemy group
in Pomerania, and all but cut
the last escape route for enemy
troops in the Vistula fortress of
Grudziadz.
. Russian columns drove to
within 50 miles southwest of the
port of Danzig, and in East Prus
sia toppled the Nazi strongholds
of Wormditt and Mehlsack. The
enemy's hold on East Prussia's
14,000 square miles of territory
was reduced to a mere 600
square miles.
In Poland the Russians- won
almont complete control of the
encircled city of Foznan, on tne
Warsaw-Berlin railroad. Enemy
troops were cleared from the
east bank of the Warta river and
Were left holding only the area
of the "citadel" on the west
bank.
At the north and south of the
Red army's vast eastern front,
the Germans, however, launched
violent attacks. Southeast of the
Baltic port of Stettin, the Red
army hurled back vicious enemy
blows In the area of Stargard,
19 miles from Stettin.
In this area, Berlin reported
that the Oder dams between
Fiddlchow, 20 miles south of
Stettin, and Zehden, 84 miles
northeast of Berlin, had been
blown up. No explanation was
offered.
E TAX CUT
Salem, Ore., Feb. 17 (U.R)
The argument that lowered tea
eral Income taxes would Increase
national income and curb fed
eral spending today was con
trasted with labor's claim that
the working man would be
harmed under such a system as
the proposed 22nd amendment
to the constitution came before
the Oregon legislature.
The house committee on taxa
tion and revenue took under ad
visement pro and con hearing
arguments last night on whether
Oregon should join 18 other
states which have petitioned con
gress within the past six years
to call a constitutional conven
tion and submit to the people a
25 per cent celling on federal
Income, gift and inheritance
taxes.
Rep. John Hall, Portland,
sponsor of the resolution (HJR
5) said all groups would bene
fit under a 25 per cent limita
tion because there would be
more income in the hands of
the taxpayers, production and
investment would be encourag
ed, more jobs would be created,
and a lower tax rate would cur
tall "wasteful government ex
penditures." ZURITA BOUT SIGNED
Philadelphia, Feb. 17 (U.R)
Juan Zurita of .Mexico will de
fend his NBA light- Mght cham
pionship against Ike Villlami of
Trenton, N. J., In a 15 round
bout at Philadelphia's Conven
tion Hall April 9, lt was an
nounced today.
Chicago, Feb. 17 (U.R) War
Mobilization Director James F.
Byrnes is planning no action to
curtail sports for the duration
of the war.
WAR BULLETINS
Br United Presa
Lt. Gen. Harushige Nimo
mlya, 67. who was relieved re
cently of his post at minister
of education in Premier Gen.
Kuniaki Koiso't Japanese cabinet-,
died in Tokyo Saturday,
the Tokyo radio said In a
broadcast heard by the FCC.
By UnitedPress
Isolated Chinese troops in
altera China hire won con
trol of a 25 mile strip of the
Canton-Hankow railway from
the Japanese and are blocking
enemy attempt in several
places east of the railway to
open up another land route, a
Chinese communique said Sat
urday. -
London, Feb. 17 (U.R)
Here's the latest version of the
old ope about the farmer's
daughter. It's true. too.
When Flying Officer J. P.
Crlip parachuted from his
night bomber, he fell halfway
through the roof of a Belgian
farmhouse. He wriggled
through the roof into a room
below.
"There was a scream from a
young woman." Crisp said. "I
had balled out into the bed
. room of the farmer's daugh
ter." GERMANS TO GET
London, Feb,' 17 (U.R)
Russian Commentator David Zas-
lavski said tonight that occupa
tion of the German Reich will be
a "rough but beneficial school
ing for the German people."
- Broadcasting from Moscow by
radio, Zaslavski said that the
Yalta conference passed the
death sentence on German fas
cism and militarism.
. He said "old Germany" Is dead
and will never reappear In Eu
rope. "Never again will the Ger
mans succeed in repeating their
felony of the post-Versailles pe
riod and control their wolf ears
under grandmother's nightcap
the social democratic hood," he
said. "Annihilation of the Ger
man general staff implies anni
hilation of all possibility of form
ing new fighting units.
"Old Berlin will be liquidated.
New Berlin wiU not be the cen
ter of military designs. It will
not be a bandits' nest, feeder of
crime and larder of the canni
bals." Zaslavski said that under Al
lied control the Germans will
learn how to live among peoples
of Europe.
'The Germans will learn how
to sit at a common table," he
said. "So far, whenever they
have been admitted to that table,
they immediately put their feet
on it. Never again will this hap
pen." Salem. Ore.. Feb. 17 (U.R).
James J. Richardson of Portland
has been named by Governor
Earl Snell as chairman of the
state committee to plan living
memorials to be dedicated to
service men who have died in
World War II.
A state committee meeting
will be called soon to consider
various suggestions. Included in
the committee named by Snell
are eight members from Port
land and one each from Eugene,
Baker, Salem, LaGrande, Hood
River, Grants Pass, Corvallls
and Pendleton.
IN STATE HIGHER
Salem, Ore., Feb. 17 (U.R)
The traffic death rate In Oregon
was slightly higher in 1944 than
In the previous year, although
there was a reduction of 8 per
cent In the pedestrian faUlity
rate. Secretary of State Robert
8. rarrell reported today.
RICHARDSON HEADS
MEMORIAL BOARD
FLEET
ISLES JOJAPAN
Tokyo Reports Iwo Invasion
Opens Details of Air
Raid Lacking.
U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar
ters, Guam, Sunday, Feb. 18
(U.R) Adm. Chester W. Nimlti
announced today that a power
ful American battle fleet had
carried the bombardment of Iwo
island into a third day. and
Tokyo claimed American troops
nad begun Invading that "door
step" island to Japan, 750 miles
south of the Nipponese capital.
A bulletin Issued at 10:30 a.
m. (7:30 p. m. Saturday WET)
reported that one ship in a task
force of Adm. Raymond A.
Spruance's U. S. 5th fleet had
been damaged by "intense"
Japanese fire from Iwo. which
was being blasted by naval ar
tillery shells or airplane bombs
tor tne 74th consecutive day.
Carrier planes of the attack-
ing force strafed the Bonin
islands of Chichi and Hah a
north of Iwo, damaging 23
grounded planes and exploding
an ammunition barge. Warship
anti-aircraft batteries shot down
two Japanese planes attacking
the mighty warship aimada in
what n.i tk- t4 ,
enemy attack to stnke back.
Tokyo claimed the Americans
had attempted to land on th
southeastern- coast- 'of Iwo' at"
v.uv m. in,, rpaucne uma sap
urday morning but were r.
pulsed. Ten minutes later an
other force battled ashore at a
point two miles to th north,
east, the enemy said, without
adding any claim to having re
pulsed it
None of Tokyo's claims wars
confirmed by Adm. N units al
though from the scope of th
three-day operation it appeared
momentous developments were
at hand in the Battle of the Pa
cific. Nimltz bulletin did not say
whether attacks by some 1,200
carrier planes on the Tokyo-Yo- '
kohoma area jf Tokyo were con
tinuing into the third day.
"Further reports on th at
tacks on Tokyo by aircraft are
unavailable," Nimltz said.
But Toky reported that the
carrier planes attacked Japan
for six hours yesterday second
day of the attack. A high officer
here said a radio silence which
had blacked out details of the
Tokyo assault was "beautiflul,"
meaning that as long as the Jap
anese did not attack the carriers
and escorting warships t h a
American commanders would
not break silence.
(The FCC reported that a high
Japanese air defense official ad
mitted Saturday that many resi
dents of Tokyo spent almost the
entire day In underground shel
ters, seeking refuge from the
American attacks. He warned
that civilians may have to spend
most of our lives underground
in the future.)
TOKYO CLAIMS 24
By United Press
Tokyo radio claimed Saturday
night that 23 U. S. warships
and transports had been sunk In
the waters around Iwo Jima in
the Volcanoes.
The Japanese broadcast, re
corded by United Press in San
Francisco, asserted that ships
instantaneously sunk" were: on
battleship, three cruisers, three
warships "of lndentifled type."
Other sunken vessels Included
a cruiser, four transports and
two mine sweepers while on
cruiser and eight landing trans
ports were damaged, the enemy
broadcast said.
71 NURSES HONORED
Allied Headquarters, Luzon,
Feb. 17 (U.R) Bronze stars
today were given to 71 army
nurses for their valiant work In
the Santo Tomas prison hospital
during the Japanese occupation,
it was announced.
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