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WITHIN A WEEK
Adm. Nimitz Report Attack
Now Underway Vital
Bases' Raked
U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar-
ters, Guam, Sunday, Feb. 25
U.R) A great force of American
carrier-based aircraft are again
attacking Tokyo and ' its sur
rounding military and naval in
stallations for the third time
within a week, it was announced
today.
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
disclosed in a brief special com
munique at 7:15 p. m. (PWT)
that the Fifth fleet carrier task
force commanded by Vice Adm.
Marc A. Mitscher had returned
to strike again at the heart of the
Japanese homeland.
There were no details of the
action.
The strike followed two days
of punishing blows dealt by
Mitscher s navy and marine air-
men last Friday and Saturday
when 809 Japanese planes were
destroyed or damaged..
The Fifth fleet, under the
overall command of Adm. R. A.
Spruance, had again accomplish
ed the "impossible."
After standing to within 300
' miles of the Japanese main is
land of Honshu last week end
without meeting any enemy sur
face or air attack, they turned
southward to support the Iwo
Jima landing two days later.
Now, in less-than -a week, they
had returned to scourge Tokyo
again.
Two-Day Assault
More than 1,200 American
war planes roared over Tokyo
for two consecutive days in the
first great naval-air strike
against the enemy's capital and
it was believed that a force
equally as large was again bat
tering the important installa
tions ringing the city.
Naval, military and air instal
lations were being raked by the
avenging carrier airmen.
The brief communique re
leased by Nimitz merely said
that the attack was going on. As
in the previous raid, Mitscher's
task force was maintaining ra
dio silence while in enemy
' waters.
, Text of the communique:
"Carrier aircraft of the Fifth
fleet are attacking military,
naval and air installtions in nd
around Tokyo.
Adm. R. A. Spruance is In
command of the Fifth fleet, Vice
Adm. Marc A. Hitscher is in
tactical command of the fast car
rier task force making the at
tacks." Tokyo radio reported the at
tacks before Nimitz' special an
nouncement was made.
Japanese broadcasts said that
U. S. carrier-based planes had
raided the Tokyo-Yokohama area
Sunday morning.
The broadcast, recorded by
FCC, said the planes "are now
carrying out an echelon attack."
Tokyo radio, as usual, claimed
that Japanese air units were in
tercepting the raiders.
Tokyo said the attack occurred
at 7 a. m. Japanese time.
Mitscher, master of carrier
i a r f a r e, had undoubtedly
'brought his great carrier task
force just as close to Honshu as
before. Standing 300 miles off
the main island last week, he
directed incessant aerial assaults
against Tokyo and the surround
ing area which spread fires
throughout the capital.
Superfortresses had joined In
the all-out air assault against
Tokyo last. They appeared over
the burning city while more than
1,200 carrier planes still roared
over the area.
There was no hint of the
amount of damage being caused
to Japan's vital naval and mili
tary installations.
But it appeared that Japan's
major docks and anchorages
were being singled out for spe
cial attention in the latest carrier-borne
strike.
HOTEL FIRE TOLL 19
L Tacoma, Wash.. Feb. 24 (U.FS
T Fire Chief Charles J. Eisen
bacher tonight officially ended
th search of the ruins of the
Maefair apartment house which
was destroyed by fire a week
ago and said the final death toll
would be 19.
Iwo Jima Invasion Casualty
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(Acme Telepholo)
A Marine casualty from first assault wave at Iwo Jima rests on a bed ot
life preservers aboard a Coast Guard LCVP puffing on a cigaret while
on way to hospital ship lying off shore. Coast Guard ohoto.
STATERS DEFEAT
IDAHO 44-33 TO
TIE
Corvallis, Ore., Feb. 24 flJ.R)
The Oregon State - College
Beavers regained a tie for the
top position in the northern di
vision basketball standings here
tonight when they defeated the
University of Idaho Vandals, 44
33. The Idahoans were much
touger than the night before
when the Staters won 50-28. Af
ter 10 minutes of play, the Van
dals held an 11-10 lead and held
doggedly within shouting dis
tance until late in the second
half.
The Beavers held a 23-18 half-
time lead but in the second half
the Vandals kept on their heels
until finally the Staters broke
away with a scoring spree which
rolled the count up to 41-28 arid
coasted home with reserves fin
ishing the game.
"Red" Rocha, Oregon State's
six-foot, eight-inch pivot man,
dropped through six field goals
and three free tosses for an eve
ning's total of 15 and a series
total of 31." Len Pyne played a
stellar game at guard for the
Vandals and contributed 12
points in the scoring column.
The victory left the Staters
tied .with the University of Ore
gon for first place with the
Washington State Cougars not
far behind.
JAPS VOW DEATH
Aboard Adm. Turner's Flag
ship off Iwo Jima, Feb. 25
(ELD) (Via Navy Radio)
(U.R) Tokyo radio said today
that Admiral Richmond Kelly
Turner whose forces supported
the Iwo Invasion "must not re
turn home alive."
Describing Turner and Adm
R. A. Spruance as being respon
sible for the killing of "count
less numbers of our own younger
and elder brothers on various is
lands throughcut the central Pa
cific," the enemy broadcast said
"they have indeed led their men
to the point vhere they are in
deed close to the Japanese main
land." "But they find themselves In
a dilemma as they are unable to
either advance or recede."
The broadcast concluded by
saying that "this man Turner
shall not return home alive he
must not and will not."
San Francisco, Feb. 24 (U.R)
The dairy market was un
changed today.
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EDS ADVANCE UP
SEAL OFF DANZIG
London,. Sunday, Feb. . 25
(U.R) Red army troops advanc
ing on a 65-mile front up the
f ollsh Corridor and across
eastern Pomerania, yesterday
hacked to within 33 miles south
of Danzig and 64 miles from the
Pomeranian coast in a drive to
seal off the former free city and
its twin Baltic port of Gdynia
Troops of Marshal Konstantin
K. Rokossovsky's 2nd White Rus
sian army threatened the Nazi
stronghold of Preussisch Fried
land in Pomerania and in the
"Polish Corridor" drove to a
point nine miles from Starboard,
an outer bastion of Danzig.
In East Prussia, Red army
forces tightened the steel 1 arc
around trapped enemy forces
southwest of shell-ruined Koen
igsberg, reducing the enemy
pocket to 320 square miles.
In the lower Silesian capital
of Breslau, eighth city of Ger
many, Russian infantrymen
slashed deeper into the city
streets in grim house-to-house
battles with un estimated 100.
000 Nazi troops who were un
der orders to defend the city to
the last man.
Soldiers of Marshal Ivan S.
Konev's 1st Ukrainian army
captured another 15 blocks in
the southern area of the city and
won the suburb of Oltaschin,
four miles south - of the . town
center.
ALLIEDliBERS
KEEP UP NON-STOP
DRIVE ON NAZIS
London, Feb. 24 U.R) Heavy
bombers from Britain blasted oil
refineries and U-boat yards in
northwest Germany today and
tactical planes lashed railroads
and front objects as allied air
men flew more than 6.500 sorties
In the 12th consecutive day of
the non-stop aerial offensive.
The British Second and Amer
ican Ninth tactical airforces put
almost 4,000 medium and fighter-bombers
into the area, pound
ing German rail communications
from the front lines deep Into
the reich.
They also blasted enemy
troops and supplies moving up to
reinforce the fronts In the face
of the allied ground offensive,
striking with particular fury at
enemy objectives opposite the
Canadian First and American
Ninth armies driving toward
Cologne,
TH AND FIRST
NEAR TO COLOGNE,
SEO TOWNS
Roer River Line Wobbles In
Drive For Rhine As Julich
Falls
Paris, Sunday, Feb. 25 (U.R)
The American 9th and 1st
armies, seized 13 more fortified
towns and battled -to within 16
miles of Cologne last night as
they drove nearly five miles
across the Cologne plain in their
two-day-old offensive.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
spurred his armies forward with
a demand for complete annihila
tion of nazi forces defending the
Rhine, and his men responded
gallantly by bringing their two
day total of captured towns to
23. .
One anchor of the formidable
Roer river line toppled when the
last Germans were driven from
Julelich, leaving the city a ruin
ed shambles comparable to St.
Lo, and the second wavered as
infantry battled halfway through
Dueren.
Only at Dueren was the 22
mile wide American bridgehead
pinned against the Roer. Else
where the plunging tank and in
fantry teams were two to five
miles inside the river line and
rolling on for the Rhine.
The offensive front was wid
ened to 31 miles during the day
when the 9th army's northern
wing swept up against the west
bank of the Roer on a nine-mile
stretch to cover the flank of the
assault. The advance captured
forseien, Oberbruch, Kempen
and Schanz. -'
The British 2nd army remain
ed quiet along the -Roer and
Mass (Meuse) rivers. But the Ca
nadian 1st added new fury to
the allied assault by jumping off
at dawn under a five-hour ar
tillery barrage in a new drive
for the Rhine. The attack gained
a mile in the first few hours and
there were signs that the Ger
mans were withdrawing to high
ground to meet it.
The greatest gains were scor
ed by Lt. Gen. George S. Pat
ton's 3rd army as it smashed
five miles deeper into disordered
German defenses east of the
Luxembourg border, seizing 21
more towns.
LABOR DISPUTES
Chicago, Feb. 24 (U.R) Labor
disputes involving some 20,000
workers at two major war pro
duction centers tied up output
of weapons and ships tonight
and threatened to spread to oth
er areas.
The war labor board stepped
into one of the strikes today with
a back-to-work to 7,000 strikers
at the Jngalls Shipbuilding Corp.
at Pascagoula, Miss.
In Detroit government of
ficials studied means to stop a
widening strike of 13,000 work
ers and 154 inter-plant drivers
which was in its second day at
the main Dodge plant of the
Chrysler Corp. Officials said the
dispute might stop production at
all Chrysler Corp. plants.
In Chicago, however, day shift
employes of the cam and gear
department of the Dodge Chi
cago plant stayed on the jobs
today. They ignored the strike of
75 co-workers employed on the
second shift.
At New Orleans, a strike in
volving 1,500 Lane Cotton Mills
workers was threatened over a
dispute involving the company's
refusal to grant paid vacations.
The executive board of the
textile workers union (CIO)
voted to call a strike Monday un
less the vacation demands were
granted or unless the union was
assured of federal seizure of the
mills.
Rome, Feb. 24 (U.R) The
condition of Pope Pius XII is
greatly Improved, the Vatican
announced today.
IMPERIL OUTPUT
GUNS AND SHIPS
DISTRICT 4 TITLE
Medford high defeated Ash
land 46 to 33 last night to win
the District 4 championship, be
fore a packed house. The Black
Tornado was ahead at the half
23 to 11, and was never seri
ously threatened. They will next
play the District Three winner
for the right to enter the state
meet at Salem.
In 'the first game, Klamath
Falls defeated Grants Pass 32
to 22. Ashland won second, and
the Pelicans third place.
. Sportsmanship awards were
presented to Jack Lutz of
Grants Pass and James Noreen
of Klamath Falls.
The outstanding players were
listed as:
Rlggs, Medford, Sarnuelson.
Ashland, Noreen, Klamath Falls,
Ross, Medford, Riebel, Grants
Pass,' Watson, Medford, Palmar,
Klamath Falls, Jandreau, Ash
land, Lutz, Grants Pass, and
Thorn, Klamath Falls.
ADOLF DECLARES
WAR TO TURN
Speech Broadcast By Aide
Threatens All Who Falter
. Sorry For Self
London, Feb. 24 (U.R)
Adolf Hitler, in a speech read
by a henchman, said today that
the war will turn in Garmany's
favor during "1945" and grimly
promised the "elimination" of
any German vho falters during
the struggle.
The German radio reported
Hitler's first reported speech
since Jan. 30, 1945. The German
DNB agency said lt was read for
him at a Munich Nazi party cele
bration by Secretary of State
Hermann Esser.
As he had on Jan. 30, he made
little effort to gloss over the
struggle which faces Germany.
He said that each German "must
throw evevythlng into the bal
ance so as to free our people
from this plight."
"There must be no doubt that
national socialist Germany will
carry on the struggle until the
historical turning point takes
place, and this will happen dur
ing the present year," the speech
said.
Hitler said that to preserve the
German nation, its people must
be ready "to shoulder every sac
rifice in order to safeguard this
life for the future."
"My own life has only such
value as it has for the nation," he
said.
'Therefore I am working re
lentlessly at the reestabllshment
and consolidation of our fronts
for the defensive and the offen
sive, at the production and em
ployment of old and new wea
pons, at the stiffening of the
spirit of our resistance, and, if
necessary, just as in previous
times, at the elimination of all
wreckers who either do not
join in the struggle for the pres
ervation of our nation or who
want to oppose it."
Hitler said he almost was sorry
that Allied bombers hadn't
wrecked his hoaise at Berchtes
gaden, for lud such action been
carried out, he could have shared
this additional burden with his
people.
T
Baker, Ore., Feb. 24 (U.R)
Under consideration of Governor
Earl Snell and the state high
way commission is a proposal
by a delegation of Salem busl
ness men to construct a 50-mile
highway from Grant county to
Baker via Whitney and Sumpter
according to A. S. Grant, presi
dent of the Baker county Cham
ber of Commerce. Grant has Just
returned from Salem.
DESTRUCTION OF
ENEMY IN SOUTH
MANILAIS TOLD
MacArthur Reports Enemy
Out 'of Philippines Soon
Losses Heavy
Gen. MacArthur's headquar
ters, Luzon, Sunday, Feb. 25
(U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur
today announced the destruction
of the trapped Japanese Manila
garrison and forecast that the
entire Philippines Archipeligo
soon would be freed from an
enemy he said had been doomed
by his heavy losses.
MacArthur, 22 days after his
troops first entered Manila, an
nounced that elements of Ma J.
Gen. Robert S. Belghtlcr's 37lh
Infantry and Maj. Gen. Verne
D. Mudgc's First .Cavalry had
overwhelmed the last enemy po
sitions In Intramuros, the ancient-
section of South Manila.
They "completed the destruc
tion of the trapped garrison," he
said. And 12,000 enemy bodies
already have been found In Ma
nila with "many more to come."
Some 3,000 civilians whom "the
incorrigible enemy" had herded
into Intramuros, including a
number of Catholic priests and
nuns, were fieed.
MacArthur said the enemy
"apparently expected to turn the
tide of battle in a supreme ef
fort." He har tailed, and Mar
Arthur's communique said:'1
"This operation and the'' tre
mendous and disproportionate
losses In men and material sus
tained during the progress of
our advance through Luzon, fol
lowing the catastrophic defeat In
Leyte, dooms General Yama
shita's Philippine campaign and
presages the early clearance of
the entire archipelago."
Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita,
whose armies captured Bataan
in the early days of the war, Is
the Japanese commander In the
Philippine. His army on Luzon
has been split. On Leyte, first
major Philippine Island to be
liberated by MarArthur's men,
Japanese losses were more than
112,000 m;n.
American troops are also levy
ing a mounting toll of the trap
ped and desperate Japanese gar
rison of Corregidor, rocky island
In the entrance ot Manila bay
POINTlALUE OF
LARD, MARGARINE,
COOKING OILS UP
'Washington, Feb. 24 (U.R)
The office of price administra
tion tonight Increased the ra
tion point value of lard, shorten
ing, salad and cooking oils and
margarine, effective at 12:01
a. m. Sunday.
A tight supply situation neces
sitated raising the margarine
point value from three to five
points a pound, OPA said. Like
wise, lard, shortening and salad
and cooking oil values had to be
increased from two to tour
points per pound, it said.
Values for creamery butter
and farm butter, OPA said, will
remain unchanged at 24 and 12
red points, respectively.
Lard production fell substan
tially below last year's total and
Is now behind 1945 schedules,
OPA said. Government set-asldes
of lard for war uses also are ab
sorbing a large percentage of
federally Inspected lard.
Shortening and salad and
cooking oils may be used inter
changeably with lard, OPA ex
plained, so it was necessary to
increase their point values simul
taneously. .WELDERS EYE PROPOSAL
Seattle, Feb. 24 (U.R) A pro
posal to return to work will be
submitted to a mass meeting of
the striking welders at two ship
yards here at the request of
Mayor Wlllalm F. Devin. The
welders have already rejected a
proposal to return to work de
spite promises of no discrimina
tions against them.
WAR BULLETINS
Br Unltad Press
- A. Japanese short-wave
broadcast, recorded by .the
FCC. said Saturday that Ja
pan will dedara war on Tur
key. The broadcast was in
Italian beamed to the Euro,
paan continent.
Washington, Fab. 24 (U.PJ
Gen. Nocolaa Radescu, pre
mier of Romania, disclosed in
a speech broadcast by the
Bucharest radio tonight that
an attempt had been made to
assassinate him earlier in the
day as he sat in the ministry
of Interior.
AT 16 MILLIONS
Estimated value of agricul
tural products in Jackson coun
ty is placed at $16,000,000, ap
proximately three million dol
lars more than last year, in the
annual report of County Agent
Robert G. Fowler. Half of the
total, came from the pear crop,
and seed crops, beef cattle, grain,
hay, dairy products, and poultry
made up the balance the report
shows. The report was filed last
December with the Oregon state
college extension service at Cor
vallis. Receipts from turkeys were
not up to expectations, due to
adverse spring weather condi
tions, and late hatch. However,
the- prospects for next year are
good, and the county agent fig
ures there will be an increase
in the number of birds this sea
son. The prospective production
is estimated at 100,000 fowls.
The 1944 output was between
40,000 and 45,000 birds.
30-34 GROUP TO
FACE INDUCTION
Washington, Feb. 24 (U.R)
Selective service tonight decreed
induction for a considerable
number of presently deferred
men in the age group 30
through 33.
Heretofore Industrial defer
ments have been granted men
30 to 34 who were "regularly
engaged in" essential work.
Henceforth, selective snrvlre
said In a new memorandum to
local boards, such men must also
be "necessary to" as well as reg
ularly engaged in essential ae
tivlties to have a chance for de
ferment. The new regulation means, se
lective service said, that nh
ally fit men in the 30-33 group
wno ao not meet the "necessary
to" test Will fflPf. thk rtf-n-na.
of Induction "to the extent ne
cessary to fill the calls" of the
armed forces.
It ends completely the grant
ing of deferment to physically
fit men in the age group who
do not hold Indispensable posts
in war .Droduction or amtlni
civilian activities.
Selective service told local
boards that requirements of the
armed forces for combat re
placements have "sharply in
creased" and that the supply oi
physically fit men in the age
group 18 through 25 is "prao
tically exhausted." It also point
ed out that the supply of men
28 through 29 is "extremely
limited."
VATICAN CLAIMS
Rome, Feb. 24 (U.R) The
semi-official Vatican News Serv
ice said today that It was be
lieved In Vitlcan City that
President Roosevelt "hurriedly
returned to America due to the
fact his condition of health is
not too good."
PRESIDENT SICK
I
HALF IWO FIELD;
2,799 ENEMY DEAD
Sea and Air Forces Aid'
Drive On Stiff Japanese
Defenses
U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar
ters, Guam, Sunday, Feb. 25
(U.R) Tank-led U. S. marinea
won control of half of Iwo's
vital central airfield Saturday
and expanded positions along
the entire northern front, Fleet
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced today. The bloody strug
gle for the island has now taken
a toll ot at least 2,799 Japanesa
dead.
The Americans smashed into
the middle area of the 5,525-foot
airfield where Japanese govern
ment offices and military head
quarters are located. They brav
ed a terrible concentration of
enemy gunfire from the most
elaborate and difficult enemy de
fense system yet encountered in
the Pacific.
Covered by a gigantic land,
air and sea bombardment,, daunt
less fighting men of the 3rd.
4th and 5th divisions hurled
their weight at the complicated
maze of Japanese pillboxes and
fortifications and broke through)
despite intense enemy fire.
Heavy weapons and rocket
fire raked the advancing ma
rines, Nimitz reported. But tha
American troops, swept 300 to)
500 yards northward through,
the interlocking concrete pill
boxes, blockhouses and fortified
caves manned by fanatical Jap
anese., , J
Troops on Mt. Surlbachl were
mopping up enemy remnants on
the southern sector of the beach,
head while the northern forces
opened their all-out assault.
Supplies continued to pour
ashore to support the new of
fensive and Japanese artillery
fire already has begun to de
crease as a result of the U. S.
gains the largest single day's
gain of the bloody campaign. -
All areas crossed were heavily
mined by the Japanese.
By 6 p. m. Saturday, the
Americans had reached the mid
dle area of the central airfield,
had pushed forward several hun
dred yards on the west and had
begun a drive which expanded
the beachhead northward along
the east coast about 600 yards. .
PORTLAND HOTEL
Portland, Ore., Feb. 24 (U.R)
The mysterious disappearance
of a couple registered at a Port
land hotel as Dr. and Mrs. D. B.
Gates was investigated tonight
by police.
Chester Patterson, t a x I c a b
driver, reported that he had
been Instructed to pick up the
couple every . evening at ten
o'clock.
Dr. Gates told Patterson that
he had only a short while to live
and he was out to enjoy him
self. .
The taxlcab driver, who said
Dr. Gates told him he had $35,
000 on his person, said he had
promised to notify authorities If
Dr. Gates and his wife did not
show up as scheduled.
The two have not been seen
since February 18, Patterson
said In his report to police. A
check disclosed that they had
not checked out of their hotel
and their luggage was still there,
California Estate
Waits Nazis Fall
San Liuis Obispo, Cal., Feb.
24 (U.PJ The distribution of a
$450,000 estate to ,17 German
relatives of a wealthy, Prussian
born rancher who died In Fresno,
February 2, today awaits the fall
of the nazls and the subsequent
finding of the relatives In the
war-torn country.