(U. S. Marines Take Mt. Suribachi, Highest Peak on Iwo;
Greatest Allied Offensive Opened in West, Say Nazis
28TH REGIMENT
HOISTS BANNER
Furious Fighting Taking
Heavy Toll; Yanks Seize
' : Island Off Luzon Coast.
Br United Press
U. S. marines captured fortl.
fled Mt. Suribachi to win gun
emplacements commanding all
of Iwo island today. Army forces
.... seized another island in the
Philippines and gained control
of strategic San Bernardino
strait.
The stars and stripes was
hoisted over Mt. Suribachi, an
extinct volcano and highest peak
on Iwo, by the 28th regiment.
It was the biggest American
success of the five-day-old cam
paign. Losses Heavy
Other marines continued to
, slug it out with bayonets and
grenades with desperate Jap
anese on the approaches ot Iwo's
second airfield, nearly three
miles north of Mt. Suribachi.
The furious hand-to-hand en
counters were taking a heavy
toll on both sides. In the first 58
hours of the invasion, 644
marines were killed, 4,168
wounded, and 860 missing. The
count of Japanese dead . was
1,222.
The Domel news agency re
ported that Japanese forces had
sunk 17 American warships and
damaged 11 others off Iwo. A
Tokyo broadcast said that 100
American warships and 80 trans
ports were standing by off the
embattled Volcano Island.;.' .;
In the Philippines, American
troops seized, Capul island off
southeastern Luzon and gained
nnrnl nf Can RarnanllnA ct-o it
the direct shipping passageway
from the United States to Manila
bay. ;
Manila Fight Rages
Fierce fighting continued in
southern Manila. The . battles
raged from building to building
around the besieged Intramuros
section. American troops occu
pied the first floor of the Manila
hotel, but the Japanese still were
holding out in the upper floors.
. Southeast of Manila, airborne
units advanced seven miles along
the west coast of Laguna bay
and surprised 500 Japanese at
Mabata Point. The Japanese at
tempted to flee in barges, but a
number of the craft was sunk
in the crossfire of American ar-
' tillery.
American bombers continued
widespread attacks throughout
the Pacific. Heavy bombers and
fighters again hit Formosa, de
stroying 13 grounded enemy
planes and wrecking or damag-
f ing 10 coastal vessels. .
Warships and Liberator bomb
ers hit Paramushiro in the north
ern Kurile Islands for two days.
Other American planes also
attacked enemy positions in the
Bonins, north of Iwo; Marcus;
the Palaus, Carolines, and Marl-anas.
MORE NAMES OF
FREED PRISONERS
Additional Oregonians . are
named on the lists of liberated
prisoners-of-war and internees
released by the war department
yesterday and today.
Listed among the liberated
military personnel were Pfc. Al
vin L. Fry, Portland; Sgt
Thomas W. Houston, Oregon
v City; Pvt. Raymond C. Reeves,
""Salem, and Pvt. Zoeth Skinner.
Portland.
On the lists of liberated civil
ians were the names of Cecile
Elizabeth Barnett, formerly of
Medford and now of Berkeley
Calif.; Gerald L. Dunton, Wood
burn, Ore.; the Rev. Alfred L
Griffiths, Elizabeth E. Griffiths
and- Katherlne Griffiths, all of
Portland; Kenenth Grimes, Mon
mouth; Jack Cook, Oswego,
Frank Eugene Long and Norman
and Evelyn Whitfield, Portland
SIDE GLANCES
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Victor Sether putting out card
calendars and a funny story
among business acquaintances.
Ralph McCarty storing up I
y- cartwheel-sized pie against the
day when he must get his own
lunch.
Seaman Barney Riggs roam
ing around the scene of his for
mer athletic triumphs.
United Press
Thirty ninth Year
Tardiest Baby in
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Mrs. Buelah Hunter, 25, holds her new-born daughter, Fenny Diana, thi
little girl whose tardy birth set medical history. The child, weighing sis
pounds 15 ounces, was born more than three months after she was nor.
mally due, according to the calculations ot Dr. Daniel Belts, who attended
Mrs. Hunter, wife of Sydney Hunter, Los Angeles aircraft worker.
Systematic Starvation Suffered
By American
By Henry Shapiro
United Press Correspondent
, Moscow, Feb.-, 23 (U.PJ
American war prisoner liberat
ed by the red army had' been
subjected to systematic under
nourishment by the Germans in
a deliberate attempt to weaken
their resistance to questioning
and deaden their desire to
escape. "
This ' and other instances of
mistreatment were reported to
day by a new group of Ameri
can officers who hitch-hiked to
Moscow, from the German fron
tier. ' The -newly arrived - officers
said the German technique in
the early stages of imprisonment
was something like this: '
The prisoners were stripped of
their personal effects, including
cigarets, fountain pens, blankets,
IN. THIS DISTRICT
Salem, Ore., Feb. 23 (U.R)
Three bills, introduced by Reps.
Baldere, Van Dyke and Bengs
ton, and Sens. Newbry and Mo
ser, which would affect Judicial
procedure in Jackson and Jose
phine counties, passed the house
today. .
One of them (H. B. 158) pro
vides for an additional Judge
tor the first Judicial district.
Another, (H. B. 380) a sub
stitute for house' bill 292, trans
fers judicial authority of the
county court to the circuit courts
in Jackson and Josephine coun
ties, except during the absence
of the circuit Judge.'
The other bill, (H. B. 296)
merely changes the method of
payment of the salaries of the
court reporters of the first dis
trict, and does not change the
salaries.
House bill 161, by the com
mittee on utilities, passed the
house with little opposition. It is
"only a shadow of its former
self' after committee amend
ment, Rep. Frank Van Dyke
said.
In its present form it is "ac
ceptable to all parties concern
ed," Van Dyke said. It would
make the Oregon laws concern
ing utilities conform more close
ly to the federal code. One of
the principal new provisions Is
the requirement of a two-year
notice by the state when it In
tends to take over a utility pro
ject. Van Dyke said that it would
aid projected utility expansion
In southern Oregon - after the
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Medical History
Prisoners In Reich
and overcoats. They were left
hungry to weaken their resist
ance. Finally the nazla sought to
trap the prisoners into giving
military information. ' ' r h
Capt. Frank OlevSky, Cam
den, N.. J., of the 294th engi
neers, was captured in the Sieg
fried line on November 2 while
reconnoitering with a five-man
patrol. He was wounded by a
booby trap.
. He said the. wounded among
the : prisoners were obliged to
march several miles before
receiving medical aid. After
a stop at a hospital Olevsky was
taken to the Dietz castle near
Llmburg and thrown into a soli
tary cell.
Olevsky said the guards taunt
ed the Americans with such
Jibes as "The Americans are
more barbaric than the British
and Russians. They insist on
bombing only hospitals and
churches, ignoring military ob
jectives.
Second Lt. Alvin McCormick,
of Livonia, N. Y., who was cap
tured at Portvall, in Normandy,
on June 19, said immediately
after his capture an. SS offlcei
shouted to McCormick: "Ameri
cans, what the blank are you
doing in Europe7"
McCormick shouted back:
"what the blank are you doing
in jrrance?"
'S ESTATE
Portland, Cre., Feb. 23 U.R)
Mrs. Margaret Rummel. Chi
cago, will apparently receive the
duik or an estimated $125,000
estate, as the result of the sup
posed suicide of Harry William
Bewley, 54, Portland, who was
found dead here.
The estate as left by the
late Koswell Lanson Bewley,
McMinnvllle, Ore., banker, who
died Feb. 2. Mrs. Rummel, the
bankers granddaughter and
Harry Bewley, his son, were the
only heirs under terms of a will.
The son was to have received
all but $500, which was be
queathed to Mrs. Rummel, wife
of Richard Rummel, United Air
Lines executive.
Bewley, 54, a former Portland
policeman, Thursday was found
dead alongside the body of his
wife, Rose, 37, but the shooting
was believed to have occurred
the day before.
OFFICERS WIVES TO MEET
The newly organized Local
Officers' Wives club will meet
at the Outpost tomorrow at 1
p. m. for luncheon and bridge
The committee in charge is Mrs.
Edwin R. Dumo, ' Mrs. John
Daugherty and Mrs. H. D. Bylng-ton.
WORTH $125,000
MEDFORD, OREGON,
JOBLESS BENEFIT
OFFEREDSENATE
Compromise Bill Favored by
Labor, Industries Com
, mittee Ups Benefits.
By John W. Dunlap
United Press Correspondent
Salem, Ore., Feb. 23 (U.R)
Compromise legislation to liber
alize Oregon's jobless benefits
laws went to the floor of the sen
ate today with approval of the
labor and Industries committee.
Main points in the compro
mise (S. B. 78) were raising the
maximum benefits from $15 to
$18 weekly, extending the bene
fit period from 18 to 20 weeks,
raising the percentage of the
base period to be paid weekly
from 6 to 7 per cent, and in
creasing the total to be paid
from one-sixth the base period
earnings (13 weeks) to one-fifth.
Labor Wants More
Labor groups sought even
greater benefits, including $25
weekly, 28 weeks duration, 10
per cent per week, and one-third
the total base period.
The $10 weekly minimum re
mains unchanged and commit
teemen felt employment was not
expected to sag enough in the
next two years to have much ef
fect on Oregon's $67,000,000 re
serve. ; ' .'
, The committee also tabled in
definitely a proposed little Wag
ner act for Oregon (S. B179)
Approved was a bill guarantee
ing equal rights for women
workers (S. B. 239) for perform
ing an equal amount and quality
of labor ' under .' like circum
stances for a private employer
.'The senate -was .expected to
confirm minor amendments to
the .fish commission bill passed
yesterday In the house. The com
mission would be placed on an
appropriation basis under , the
bill (S. B. 99) i
FEAR ALL ABOARD
KILLED IN MISHAP
Bristol, Va., Feb. 23(U.R
American Airlines announced
today that a missing New York-to-Los
Angeles plane carrying
19 passengers and a crew of
three had been found four miles
southwest of Rural Retreat, Va.,
about 50 miles northeast of
here.
It was feared the 19 passen
gers and three crew members
had been killed.
State troopers were scaling
the wooded mountainside to
ward the wreckage. The plane
was sighted about noon, some
10 hours after it had last report
ed bv radio over Pulaski, Va.,
30 miles to the northeast.
The entire area Is rugged and
mountainous with White Top
towering upward nearly to 6,000
feet
The liner left New York at
9:30 last night and departed
from Washington at 12:15 a. m.
El
REJECTED AS
Salem, Ore., Feb. 23 U.R
Forty-one per cent of all men
ordered examined for the armed
forces In Oregon have been re
jected for physical reasons, Col
Elmer V. Wooton, state director
of selective service had said to
day. .
Appearing as a witness at a
joint ways and means sub-committee
considering a bill (H. B
53) which calls for a program
of physical fitness for high
school students of the state,
Woo ten said Thursday that there
are 25,000 men, most of them in
the 18 to 29 age group, who
have been rejected in Oregon.
FRIDAY, FE AY 23,
RELIT
DECLakl WAR
GE
Big Three Ultimatum Brings
Action; Egypt on Verge
of Joining Declaration.
London, Feb. 23 (U.R) Tur
key declared war on Germany
and Japan today as a result of a
note from the Big Three serving
notice on nine "Associated Na
tions" to take such a step by
March 1 or forfeit seats at the
San Francisco conference. i
The Ankara radio reported
that the Turkish national assem
bly had voted unanimous ap
proval of the government de
cision to declare war after hear
ing of the Big Three decision
reached at the Crimea confer
ence. Note Clearcut
The note, couched in clearcut
terms, told the Associated Na
tions that a declaration of war
was essential to any voice in the
peace conference.
As If in protest to the blunt
tone of the ultimatum, the Tur
kish parliament ostentatiously
dated its declaration of war for
March 1 the deadline.
Bracketed with Turkey as the
Associated Nations were Egypt,
Iceland, Chile, Paraguay, Ecua
dor, Peru, Uruguay and Vene
zuela. Egypt appeared to be
about to follow Turkey In the
declaration, Iceland has been
without diplomatic relations
With Germany since the occupa
tion of Denmark in 1940,
All six of the Latin American
nations listed by the Turks have
declared war on Germany with
in the last two weeks. BDDarent-
ly as a result of the notice.
Official quarters in London
confirmed the Turkish list of
nine nations to which the notes
were handed.- ,
The Turks broadcast a lengthy
explanation of their action, ting
ed with Irony. It indicated their
reluctance to give way under a
big stick and declare war.
LEGISLATORS NUDGED
ON FLIGHT OF TIME
Salem, Ore., Feb. 23 (U.R)
A resolution to adjourn sine die
on Monday evening, the 50th
day of the 43rd legislature, was
introduced to the house of rep
resentatives today.
The resolution was laid on the
table "to be read at 10 p. m.
Monday night," (when the house
will not be In session.)
The 50th day of the session
Is the last for which members
of the legislature are paid for
their services, and the measure
was to "Jog tHe memory" of the
members and speed up the work
on bills.
UNWELCOME When Mas
ako Takayoshl resumed dut
ies as nurse training super
visor of Seattle, Wash, hos
pital, some fellow workers
filed petition In protest The-Japanese-American
Univers
ity of Washington graduate
laid aside her white uniform
when she was evacuated from
the Facifle Coast in 1842.,
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1945
Hitler's Hideout Bombed
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This Is Adolf Hitler's mountain fortress at Berchtesgaden, bombed b)
Italian-based force of American bombers. The attack apparently wal
directed mainly against the railway yards in Berchtesgaden village, but
first reoorts said rocket-firing Thunderbolts roared across the fortresi
, Itself at low level
Japanese Roll Hand Grenades Down
Suribachi in Effort
By Mao R. Johnson
United Press War Correspondent
Aboard Admiral Turner's
Flagship off Iwo Jlma, Feb. 23
(U.R) (Via Navy Radio) A fan
tastic fight developed for Mt
Suribachi, Japanese stronghold
on Iwo Jlma's southern tip when
the Japanese rolled grenades
down the steep slopes of the ex
tinct volcano on marines stub
bornly preparing to scale the
exposed walls of the cone.
The spectacular and perilous
battle, although on a compara
tively small scale was on Surl
bachl's barren sides.
The marines have the enemy
In a cul de sac, and patrols com
pletely encircle the cone.
So desperate Is the enemy that
officers reported eight Nips de
stroyed themselves by Jumping
off cliffs on the east side of the
volcano.
The Japanese defenders of Iwo
Jlma are breaking their own
backs with counterattacks, . it
was disclosed today.
In no other Island campaign
in the Central Pacific has there
been so many counterattacks by
Japanese garrison forces against
American lines.
The enemy onslaughts serve
OF
JACKSONVILLE IS
TAKEN BY DEATH
Portland, Ore., Feb. 23 (U.R)
Benjamin B. Beekman, 81, re
tired Portland attorney, and son
of Oregon pioneers, died here
early today.
Beekman was born at Jack
sonville, Ore., in 1863. His fath
er, the late C. C. Beekman, was
one of the famed Pony Express
riders, and founded the Jackson
ville bank. His mother, Julln
Elizabeth Hoffman Beekman
was a southern Oregon pioneer
He presented the annual Ore
gon historical essay award in
honor of his father to winning
school students for many years
Beekman graduated from the
University of Oregon in 1884
and entered Yale law school.
where he graduated In 1888.
On being admitted to the Ore
gon bar, he entered the law firm
of Watson, Hume and Watson
Following the death of the elder
Beekman In 1916, he retired
from practice.
He is survived by one sister
Carrie C. Beekman, of Portland
New Bedford, Mass., Feb. 23
(U.R) Threats of a textile strike
arose today as the government
sought to unravel the tangle of
its first court-challenged labor
draft.
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NO. 283.
to Halt Foe
to slow and sometimes stall ma
rine advance, but the resultant
death toll for the Japs is un-
profltably high.- ; i'
Japs in groups of 50 to 200
or more smash against the leath
erneck lines.
When Jap counterattacks are
seen. forming, our artillery and
naval shellf ire is concentrated
on the area. If the enemy troops
still are able to attack or make
an assault without prior detec
tion, the marines meet them with
heavy machine gun and rifle fire
and hand grenades.
Such charges are costly to the
Japs every time, with entire
units sometimes being wiped
out.
IN HOUSE FRACAS
Washington, Feb. 23 j(U.R)
THe House closed its books to
day on the bloodless battle be
tween Reps. John E. Rankin,
D., Miss., and Frank E. Hook,
D., Mich.
Hook apologized to the House,
Rankin offered his regrets,
and members turned their at
tention back to matters of state.
Rankin and Hook pawed at
each other yesterday after an
exchange of name-calling, Ran
kin said Hook was associated
with Communists. Hook said
Rankin was a liar.
Their statements to the House
closed an Incident which for a
time threatened to turn into a
floor battle over which, if eith
er, congressman should be cen
sured or expelled.
Ding Dong Daddy's
Head Examined
San Francisco, Feb. 23 (U.R)
Francis Van Wie, 58-year-old
trolley conductor who assertely
married 14 wives, was having
his head examined today at San
Francisco Hospital Psycopathic
ward.
Van Wie, awaiting trial on
three bigamy charges growing
out of his wooings last year to
the tunemf thj trolley bell, was
transferred to the hospital from
the County Jail yesterday.
Three court-appointed alien
ists will report their findings lo
Superior Judge Herbert C. Kauf
man prior to Van Wle's trial
March 5.
TRANSPORT READY
Alameda, Cel., Feb. 23 (U.R)
The U. S. S. Admiral Hugh Rod
man, a 22,380-ton troop trans
port, will be launched Sunday
at the Bethlehem-Alameda ship
yard, it was announced today.
The ship Is the seventh of a type
to be converted to luxury liners
after tha war.
BATTLES RAGE ON
40-MILEJRONT
Attack Follows 3-Hour Bar
rage by Massed Artillery;
Dueren Yankees' Goal.
Br United Press
The big Allied push has start
ed in the west, Berlin reported
today. The German High Com
mand said the American Ninth
army and part of the First open
ed a major offensive against the
Cologne plain west of Aachen
before dawn today.
Other Nazi spokesmen refer
red to an Anglo-American offen
sive, suggesting that the British
Second army had joined in. En
emy accounts said armored and
infantry battles were in prog
ress on a 40-mlle front from
Roermond to the headwaters at
the Roer river.
Three-Hour Barrage
The Transocean News Aeencv
reported that the Ninth army'a
attack began after a three-hour
barrage by massed artillery. It
said the Americans were striking
for strategic Dueren and were
across the Roer at four or more
points in the Llnnlch-Dueren
area.
North and south of the Dueren
sector three Allied armies
pounded at the defenses of the
nunr and the Saar basin. Allied
war planes again roared over
Germany In the wake of yester
day's paralyzing assault on the
enemy's transport system lead
ing to the fronts.
Nearly 2,000 American heavy
bombers and fighters struck
deep into Germany, bombing
railway yards and other targets
from Nuernberg to Leipzig.
On the eastern front, Nazi
broadcasts said powerful Rus
sian armored forces have driven -into
Forst and Guben, two of
the main anchors of the Nelssa
river line southeast of Berlin.
The Russians were clearing a 601
mile stretch nf th NpIrm mn.
red on by Marshal Josef Stalin's
declaration that final victory la
near.
Attack Follows Talk
The co-ordinated attack on
Germany from west and east
which was agreed upon by tha
United States, British, and Rus
sian military staffs at the Crimea
conference apparently la about
to get unJer way.
German accounts Indicate that
almost the entire western front
Is In action from the Goch-Cal-car
area In the north to the lower
Saar basin. The blow in the
center had been expected mo
mentarily as the Allied armies
pounded at either German
flank, creating an urgent need
for reserves which could scarce
1 be spared If the Cologne plain
is threatened.
Roer Crossed
Trans-ocean said four cross
ings of the Roer were made In
the opening hours of the offen
sive. Two columns forced tha
river above and below Linnlch,
27 miles west of Cologne, while
two others broke Into the Co
logne plain opposite Niederau
and Krechguf, three and four
miles south of Dueren.
Twin Allied drives were in
progress at the same time on the
northern and southern flanks of
the Cologne plain. The Cana
dian First army In the north was
within a mile northwest of the
German ancho. town of Calcar,
threatening a break-through to
the Rhine crossings barely 20
miles from the Ruhr.
Six Towns Taken
The American Third army In
the south fought to close a pinch
cers around a 17-mile stretch of
the Siegfried line between
Pruem and Echternach. Tha
Americans took six German
towns and villages in that sector
in the last 24 hours and gained
as much as 214 miles at soma
points.
IS
SWEPT OUT TO SEA
Toledo, Ore., Feb. 23 (U.R)
Searchers today were seeking
the body of Mrs. Ada Baum
gardner, 47, Canby, Ore., one of
two persons drowned when a
wave swept out to sea five per
sons walking along the beach
near Newport.
Also drowned was E. W. Bat
leson, 55, Scobey, Mont., whose
body was found Thursday a few
hours after the five persons
were engulfed by the wave. The
three survivors said all were
knocked down by the heavy
surf and that when they arose
the other two persons were
missing. '