TWO HERALD AND HEWS
REDS ENTER
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nouncement which would signal
that the allies in the east as well
as in the west have joined battle
with the nazis .in the heart of
Germany.
To the north the Russians
pushed forward from an arc
eight miles southeast, east and
northeast of Berlin's Baltic port
of Stettin and rushed up boats
and landing craft for an assault
across the Dammscher lake
which fronts Stettin on the east
Crossing Made?
Moscow dispatches said a
crossing, which would outflank
Stettin on the north and threaten
a northern sweep around Berlin,
might already have been made
along me cananzea section 01
the Utter between me iokb ana
Stettin bay.
. Soviet bombers loosed a tor
rent of bombs and fire on Ger
man troops falling back into
Stettin and destroyed an lm
Dortant bridee near Altdamm
the Stettin suburb on the east
side of the Oder outlet.
Maximum Farm
Waqes Outlined
. PORTLAND, March 9 UP)
The state WFA wage board has
set 85 cents as the hourly max
imum farm wage rate in Ore
gon, corresponding to the $200
a month designated by the war
food administration.
Only with WFA approval or if
they paid more during the year
before December 9, . 1943, can
farmers exceed this pay, said
Alden E. Orr, board executive
officer. To prevent loss of food
crops, however, or hardships to
growers or workers, application
may be made to the board for
change if needed.
The rate is based on a nine
hour work day and 26 work days
monthly.
Man Found Nailed
To Cross on Elevated
Railroad In Chicago
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the victim changed his story
later, and finally refused to talk.
Questioning of a brother, Frank,
only produced a blank wall.
Police advanced these theories
as to the motive: '
A publicity: stunt; a religious
fanaticism in which Walscher
was to be a human sacrifice In
"emulation of barbaric rites of pa
ganism; a martyr complex in
which Walscher offered himself
to some cult.
"I've seen nearly everything
else in my 30 years of police
work," O'Connell said, "but I've
never seen anything like this."
Information on Walscher's
background was sketchy. Police
said he had been born In Austria,
had come to America in 1921 and
worked as a professional glass
blower, more recently as a tav
ern porter.
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KUE5TRIN FOR
C01TII
Friday March 9. 1945
Service Men
and Women
Home on Leave
1st. tt. Edwin B. Le from
Italian theatre. Here until March
27.
F 1e Fred D. Floetke from
South Pacific. Here until March
10.
Pvt. Rex H. Morehouse from
Camp Howze, Tex. Here until
March 9.
Pvt. Ralph Mundlin from Mis
sissippi. Here until March 15.
Cpl. John Stewart from
Barnes General hospital, Van
couver, Wash. Hero until March
15.
The above service people are
entitled tp free passes to the
local theatres and free fountain
service at Lost River dairy by
courtesy of Lloyd Lamb of the
theatres and R. C. Woodruff of
the dairy. Please call at The
Herald and News office (ask for
Paul Haines) for your courtesy
tickets.
Extent of Bombing
Damage On German
Cities Assessed
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the Kaiser Wilhelm ring, is vir
tually wiped out. It is difficult
to describe such devastation.
But if a New Yorker should
wake up some morning to find
every building in Manhattan
just a shell and the streets piled
with rubble with no water, no
lights, no gas and not a pane of
glass in the whole island the
situation would be comparable
to that in Cologne.
From the center of the city
and around the port the devas
tation dwindles off in the sub
urbs, where there are some
buildings with just a hole or
two in them.
Germans in the city estimate
that raids have killed or injured
70,000 persons 30,000 of them
last summer and fall.
Every factory has been hit
once or twice. Some are out of
commission permanently. None
have been operating since last
September 1. They could not
keep enough workers in the
plants for efficient operation.
Cologne had such vital war
S reduction plants as the . Ham
aldt Deutz motor works, which
built airplane and tank motors
and employed 22,000. This
plant was destroyed. The Ger
mans say the same destruction
is happening in the rest of the
Ruhr towns.
Seaman Files Suit
For Shooting Mishap
PORTLAND, March 9 (IP)
Suit has been filed here against
the William J. Burns Detective
agency, Kingsley Lumber com
pany, and an agency guard by
a seaman who was shot on his
way to his ship February 27.
Claude A. Eldred, the seaman,
asked $40,000 general and $4200
special damages in circuit court,
claiming the shot incapacitated
his right arm by shattering ten
dons and muscles.
Police said Raven Blackwolf,
the guard, explained he intend
ed only- warning shots, '
HE HAD '4.28 IN HIS POCKET
ji. AND LOVE IN HIS EYES I
Want to meet a guy you'll fall forf That's Steve
not much dough, but plenty of nerve, an4 a sock
to back it up with ! When he crushed hit girl in
hit. arms she knew what LOVE really meantl.
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BRIAN DONLEVY,
ANN RICHARDS WALTER ABEL
JOHN QUALEN HORACE McNAIXY
PORTSMOUTH
STILL DRY;
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concrete wall, and the Scioto
county hills.
"Wo Hre just sitting hero hold
ing our breath," Col. French told
newspapermen.
He remarked that the waters
must recede "a foot or two" be
fore residents could return to
the threatened two-thirds of the
city's area.
Reports from Marietta, far up
stream, said the river there was
falling at a rapid rate, and thst
merchants were returning to the
flooded city block by block.
Senators Watch
Moscow Dealings
WASHINGTON, March 9 MP)
Senators watched the Moscow
negotiations on a provisional
Polish government today for ad
vance signs of the kind of Big
Three nation cooperation they
may expect at the world secur
ity conference.
Calling the Moscow meeting
a testing ground, Senator Van
denberg (R-Mlch.) told a report
er the results will demonstrate
to him, at least, how far Russia
is willing to go in accepting
American and British view
points on political matters vital
ly affecting the Soviets.
Transportation of
Japanese Resolved
PORTLAND, March 9 (IP)
A resolution urging congress to
transport all Japanese both
nisei and aliens to "some
island under jurisdiction of the
American government" is being
circulated by a group of Spring-dale-Corbett
area farmers.
Their spokesman, Erlck En
quist, Troutdale, said the farm
ers drew up the .petition be
cause Oregon legislators have
failed to act on -anti-Japanese
memorials.
The resolution asserts that
Japanese hold "dual citizen
ship," declares that residence of
the two races in the same neigh
borhood "embarrasses both,"
and that low Japanese living
standards are .detrimental.
Jap Bombs Cause
Ship to Founder
WASHINGTON, March 9 VP)
Japanese aerial bombs set off
fires which caused the Liberty
ship William S. Ladd to founder
in - Leyte - gulf "several weeks
ago," the war shipping ad
ministration announced todav.
Six seamen were injured. The
attacking plane was shot down.
Captain Nels F. Anderson,
Silver Lake. Wash., ordered the
ship abandoned when flames
menaced several hundred bar
rels of gasoline and 100 tons of
ammunition.
The vessel, named for a ni-
oneer merchant and banker of
Oregon, was built at Portland,
ure., in iwas.
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EDITORIALS ON
NEWS
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lace's confirmation, and wants to
know who is going to boss them.
The notion is loose that Jesse
Jonoi might somehow wind up
with them under his wing, and
there were many questions about
Jones' status.
The President grinned and
answered that so far as he knows
Jones is "an ex-socrctary of the
department of commerce."
"Doos HE know it?" a reporter
asked, which raised a laugh in
which FDR Joined. Ho did, In
answer to a question, admit that
a loan administrator will be
named soon.
COMEONE wanted to know
" why San Francisco was
chosen for the United Nations
conference to bo held in April.
"Well, It just looked like n
pretty good place," FDR an
swered. TF you read carefully between
the lines, all this may give
you an idea as to why there is
so much conflicting news from
Washington. There are so many
things that people want to know
about as. for example, why was
Henry Wallace chosen to be
secretary of commerce? Was It
merely to pay a political debt?
Or does it portend a sharp
change of economic policy In the
future? And so on.
Clear, definite answers arc
not available to these questions.
So the reporters speculate, and
their speculations are answered
often with heated denials. A
franker, opener news policy
would head off much of this.
T57E should perhaps make an
" exception of the news deal
ing with international confer
ences such as that at Yalta. The
Russians are a peculiar breed.
They have no conception of our
Ideals of freedom of the news.
They look upon newspapers, the
radio, pamphlets, etc.. as merely
devices for the handling of the
people by the rulers. There is
no opposition party in Russia.
If you don't like the way the
government is running things
you keep quiet about it. Other
wise the government will keep
you quiet. Maybe for a long
time
The Russians are extremely
suspicious of the western democ
racies. It is conceivable that if
our people and the British had
given out everything that hap
pened at Yalta, exactly as it hap
pened, the Russians might have
taken it as an insult and called
everything off. And. again read
ing between the lines, there
seems little doubt that Russia
was the dominant power at
Yalta. So, much as we may dis
like it we have to take our in
ternational news as we get it.
The P-59A was the first jet
propelled fighter plane used by
the U. S. army air force.
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Cigarets, Either
PORTLAND, Mnrch 9 W)
When Mrs. S. W. Kaplan took
down hor curtains to wash
them, the doorbell startod
ringing so fast sho couldn't
even reach her wnshtubi.
Sho finally hung a sign In
the empty-looking window.
"Not for rent! Spring house
cleaning," It says.
OF BITTED BATTLE
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old palace on its raised brick
plutform.
Fifty thousand Japanose do
fenders of Mnndnlay and its sur
rounding area were faced with
an increasing threat of encircle
ment as allied forces 80 miles
south, on the north, northeast
and west consolidated their Irra
waddy bridgeheads and other po
sitions astride central Burma's
communications.'
German Males
Must Register
LONDON. March 9 (ID Ger
many i today summoned every
mule in the reich from 18 to 65
years of age to register with mil
itary authorities in a drastic ef
fort to unscramble tangled army
units and scrape up more man
power for defense.
Hinting that the contusion pre
vailing, a decree broadcast by
DNB apparently had for Its pur
pose the rounding up of deserters
and the sorting out of soldiers
lost from their unite. It said:
"Many people have sought
shelter In the Interior of the
reich during the last few weeks.
Workers and officials have lost
their working places and sol
diers wcro cut off from their
units."
The decree then cancelled all
furloughs except for reasons of
ill health.
Hitler Visits Oder
River Front, Report
LONDON, March 9 (P) The
German radio said today that
Hitler had visited the Oder river
front.
The Transocean agency said
he had "convinced himself per
sonally of the fighting spirit of
the German soldiers of the
Oder."
"A number of photos of the
visit have been published in the
German press," it added.
The broadcast also said that
Hitler had assured himself of
German defensive measures. It
did not specify the date of the
visit.
Hans Norland Fir Insurance.
Phone 6060..
riiMIIVrl Y
ANGERED BY VICE
PORTLAND, Ore., March 8
(P) A hundred angry citlions
demanded today that Purtlund
close houses of prostitution and
send trustworthy officers to pa
trol tnvorns and bars to clump
down on incipient vice.
The citizens' conunlttco was
organized after a federal si'cm-lty
agency (FSA) roprcionUtlvc
threatened fcdoral Intervention
"if organized prostitution contin
ues to b toleratod in Portland."
John W. Sears, FSA field rep
resentative, told a meeting of
civic leaders that city officials
had given "only lip-iorvlco uud
the superficial kind of coopera
tion" in combatting brothels.
Even strangers In Portland say
the city It ''wide open," Sears
stated. "It Is woll known that
organized houses of prostitution
cannot operate without the
knowledge and tacit ennsont of
the police department," ho de
clared. Merrill Residents
Urged to Contribute
MERRILL Residents of tho
Morrill community are urged to
bring In : salvage material, tin
and paper to the Merrill garage
where room has been allotted
for storage and to take their
wasto fat to olthor the Safe
way storo or to Jones' grocery
during tho countywldo drive
which got underway this weok.
Mrs. Dalo West and R. R. Walker
are In charge of the campaign.
Tho period of March 12-15
has been set for thu campaign
in tho Merrill schools and any
one telephoning tho schools may
make arrangements for the stu
dents to pick up the donations.
Sabu Awarded DFC
For Smashing Attack
THIRTEENTH AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS IN T H E
PHILIPPINES, March 9 (')
Sgt. Sabu Dastaglr, tho elephant
boy of the movies, and a Liber
ator tall gunner, has been award
ed the Distinguished Flying
Cross along with nine other
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ug two small freighters and
damaging threo olhun by bomb
ing n ml low level strafing.
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