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Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 6

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CORVALLIS GAZETTETtMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1945. Corvalllg, Oregon Page Si i WHITESIDE FEATURE SUNDAY Membership Open to CAP Mondayjighf The second meeting of tb'e Cor-vallis Hight of the Civil Air Pa YOUR SWEETHEART Log Cabin Was Birth Place of S. Starr The last of his immediate family, including parents and 12 children, wasSilas Chambers Starr, Benton county pioneer who died this week, Mr. Starr was laid to rest in Bell-fountain cemetery located "on the farm which he owned and operated trol will he held Monday, April 23r- the CAP and CAPfj members, and all ground school subject required for a private pilot's license are covered in the training program. The progrant-'giyes- training in many subjects required in all branches of the U.

S. air service: theory of flight, aircraft, construction, power 'plants, instruments, map and aerial photograph reading, air navigation, meteorology, civil air regulations, control tower observation, reconnaisxance, and others. Also, instruction is given in military drill, military courtesy and discipline, and other military subjects. Hsr day can mean more than ever before. It I 7v.

pT mean a thank you tor the wonderful work IE can through most of his life, and on a i i i i i in the junior hih" school. Air-minded boys and girls 15 years of ape and over, are eligible for membership its civil air patrol cadets, and persona over 18 for membership in the regular CAP. Application blanks will be distributed to new at the nicftiriK, and anyone interested is invited to attend. Instruction is the same for both that Mother has done during this- war year, both on the home front and for her boys, on the Mother fs a heroine this year, and on Mother's Day we can show our appreciation and love A photogroprv is a gift she" will cherish Have her photograph taken for the family have yours taken for her. New Foundation Officers Installed Last Time Ton itc Sonny Tufa, Biag Crotby in ceae trora their latest Paramount pictare! CMturbMt Betty Horton, "Here Come The romantic tnsical nil! jusi aoove me nouse wnicn was his home.

He was born in a log cabin just one and one-half miles west of Bell-fountain in June, almost 95 years ago, and had spent all of his long life in Oregon. He was the tenth of the twelve children and had a half sister and four half brothers. His father was Rev. John Wesley Starr, a Methodist preacher who brought his family: from Iowa to Oregon by wagon train in 1848 and settled in the Bellf ountain community. The first Sunday school south of Salem was organized near the present site of Alpine, and Rev.

Starr was its first superintendent. Born in 1850, Mr. Starr was 14 years of age when his two older brothers enlisted for service in the Civil War in 1864, and he took over management of the farm. His father was then an invalid and the The annual canmeiignt installation of new officers for Wesley Foundation was held in the sahctu-arv of the Methodist church Sun cni '-j THE day afternoon. Those installed! Churchill Has High Sounding Program BALL STUDIO BRISTOL, England, April 21JP) Prime Minister Churchill declared were Barbara Husbands, president; Stanley Satkett, vice president; Florence Aasen, secretary; and I ill Tebeau, treasurer.

Outgoing officers are Gladys Beckendorff, president; Florence Aasen, vice president; Carol Thornton, secretary; and Maxine Broehl, treasurer. Committee heads were appointed for the "-coming year. Miss Svbil Tucker spoke to the in ROB'T BALL BALL BLDG. PHONE '22 entertainment lr ff(i ya can'l mild 1 UfJf today "a world organization which we must build and shall build will be free and open to all the nations of the world." Speaking only a few days be young son became the mainstay of Okinawa Japs Fighting Tough Defense Action (Continued Irom page 1 Suicide Aspect On little Ie island the enemy defense had taki'ii a suicide aspect as the 77th division coped with makeshift defenses, including wooden mines, depressed anti-aircraft guns which raked beaches, and 500-pound bombs rigged with detonating grenades. Japan's homeland felt the thunder of B-29s again as a fleet of between 200 and 300 of the sky mammoths bombed nine air fields on Kyushu island.

Enemy planes attacking American forces in the Ryukyus have been taking off from these fields. Japanese air activity was limited to only one attack in the past two fore the WorIdSecurity Conference the family, coming officers and new committee at dan rrancisco, uritain wartime leader asserted that "nations heads, and Dr. Jesse iStinch gave Around Oregon By Associated Press the comniiwton; Donna Walker must live in peace and justice with Charred Bodies Prisoners on Display Til PlT A Anvil 9fk He married Mary Barnard in 1875. She passed away 12 years ago, in February. Mr.

Starr spent one year in southwestern Oregon and seven in Linn county, near So-daville. Twenty years were spent sang "Bless This House." A fireside was held afterwards in Wesley hall. uniruuiTWiaHun.UT Mass of Detail at S.F. Confab Confuses SAN FRANCISCO, April 21-jffj -The big-four nations sponsoring the San Francisco Security Conference are expected by diplomat kinw one another," thus envisaging the ultimate inclusion of even present enemy nations in a world peace organization. (ae Kiio." neei-iootea tnier grabbed a tlllUetJ onJ brfofcf ituf lrS SLT.

box containing $1918.56 from mm 1 in Corvallis. Mr. Stair was active in his community and church. He loved life rr" Tnd the cashier at the Vanport admin- sprayed with flaming, acetone and aglMMtrt'Uf CM TIM istration building last night and h. nNCMfmNtCKtMnwr escaoed in a liirht-eolnred car and was interested in politics, cur a firm control otw to the Dumbartm.

amendments rtdaitcMPInlf mm MUKf MleWll llrtitls II 111 UUlll burned and shot to death just before American troops captured this Leimig suburb still were sprawled today In postures of agony. i i. il. He added significantly: "There must be always the necessary force to restrain aggression." Churchill said that as far as Europe is concerned "we are coming to the end of the long journey," but added that the defeat of Japan will require "a new leap forward a new lifting of soul and body." days, occurring when three low- Oaks proposals for world 6rgahii. tion.

But many changes ure rfii. Ernest Haycox, Portland writer of western stories, will speak April 28 at a dinner of the patrons and flying two cngmed bombers made a futile attack on a smajl ship. Two plus be made witnthe agreement of the big IfL. 1 of the planes were shot down. KrrekB nth friends of tlle University of Oregorr concentration camp barracks.

15 era were caught on the sharp spikes nr Eugene Workmen have of barbed wire enclosing the camp. construe ion of the south-Of 324 Polish, Russian, Yugoslav, French and Italian poli-. tral. Polnt- destroyed by f.re three weeks Ships Help Troops Japan's Domei news agency ine cuiuerence opening nexti Wednesday will see the first working out of the principle of bir rent events and sports to the end, his mind remaining keen up to the time of his last illness. In early life he was a member.of the Methodist church, but had been a member of the Congregational church since 1890.

When he was 89 Mr. Starr traveled alone to Seattle to visit a granddaughter and accompanied her on to gee Victoria, B. C. He lived from the era of the ox team to that of the airplane. BLAZED claimed a destroyer was sunk near ago tical prisoners in the camp only mm W- Profit Taking Puts Brakes on Stocks NEW YORK, April 21-(-Individual strong stocks, notably rails, persisted in today's final market of a generally upswinging week but profit cashing continued to put brakes on the climbing propensities of many leaders.

While gainers of fractions to a point were plentiful near the close, minus signs were well distributed. Transfers for the two hours were around fiOO.OOO shares. In front most of the session were Pere Marquette, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, International Telephone, Bethlehem, Hudson Motors, General Motors, U. S. Rubber, General Electric and National Power Light.

Occasional stumblers we're Boeing, Glenn Martin, International Harvester, Goodrich and Union Carbide. Assorted rail bonds advanced. Commodities were uneven. The Intercollegiate Knights, sophomore honorary society at Lin-field are holding their annual festive this week end Milwaukie public school yuwsu- lecpuiisiuiuiy wnicn is to be written into the work! organizatiw itself the principle that on fim decisions the major nations should at all times concur. Thus it appears unlikely that the United States, British, Soviet or Chinese delegations will allow uij critical differences to develop among themselves although in their behind-the-scenes negotiations they may have a toughfthne reconcilinj some of their views.

district No. 1, Oregon, has been" about 80 survived. A Czech barber who managed to short circuit the electrically charged barbed wire enclosure led them tb safety. This atrocity took place in Plant No. 8 of the Erla Works, which made Messerschmitt airplane The.

camp, in the middle of the factory buildings, was a division of the notorious Buchenwald "murder factory" near Weimar. The War Today (Continued trom page 1) comprise Hitler's fortress in the the Kerama islands, west of Okinawa, today. Domel also said 200 carrier planes of the American air force attacked island north of Okinawa. Battleships, cruisers and destroyers conOnuedto blast enemy positions, while land based and carrier planes launched bomb, rocket and straffing attacks. Maj.

George Ax-tell of Laguna Beach, said the rockets and bombs were "very effective" throughout the target area. Marine Corsairs swooped down on Motobu peninsula and set six fires among enemy positions near Itoman. Previously, Nimitz announced American casualties in the area up to April 18 were 7895, of whom 1467 were killed. Naval casualties VVildEIIIEJIioft Russian Artillery Shelling Center of Berlin As Troops Circle City (Continued from pace 1) the Russians reached Kamnez, 19 miles northeast of Dresden and 59 miles from Chemnitz, the Germans said. To the north the First White Russian army, making a frontal assault on Berlin, was locked in a bitter battle with Nazi defenders of the capita! along he Fuersten-berg Strausberg Bcrnau line, the German high command said.

More Oder Crossings Stillfarther north other Russian forces were declared to have forced two bridgeheads over the Oder between Schwedt and Stettin, guarding the northern approaches to Berlin. "Great Russian encircling moves are drawing closer towards the capital," the German Transoccan granted $57,490 for operation and maintenance from the federal works agency A Clackamas county farmer, Dustin Lake, appeared in Estacada justice court today on a charge of placing poisoned grain out for game birds The City club, Portland, has. endorsed universal military training under federal administration 1 Bavarian Alps near hi3 Berchtes-gaden home, the northern will be made up of large pockets along the coast clear to Norway. We must link Hitler's last stand in the Alps with that of the German army wliich is fighting in northern Italy, The allied forces on nnnmeulD am llAur in Vl fill! Uncle Sam, Sfalinr At Outs Over Poland 5000 Japs Are Killed on Cebu, Island Cleared Continued irom paue 1( collaborationist government wen captured near Baguio. A prize collaborationist, Jose Laurel, who headed the Philippine WASHINGTON, April 21 -UP)- th th latter Soviet Foreign Commissar V.

were more than half of these r-1 1 it. i ii pyjjjil No Hope of Early End T6 War in Europe have a strong force-some 25 Ger-1 Molotov was expected to arrive to-i puppet government, and two other- 470p, of whom 989 were killed. Counted enemy dead on Okinawa man divisions and about five Ital i prominent memliers escaped to For ian divisions and the advantage totaled 9108 through April 13. I.ossch Listed of terrain which is cut by numer- agency said. "Russian spearheads I ous rivers.

I should say we have day for a big three foreign ministers conference preliminary to the United Nations meeting opening in San Francisco Wedncsdav. Toughest and gravest question on the" long list of problems to be discussed by Molotov, Secretary of State Stettinius and British For- Although these, figures did not have reached the northeastern, approach the 19,938 casual fe rWi here the prospects of a tough and bloody battle. Now as to the German stand in ties and the more than 20,000 count It 'A' Lfw71r II eastern and southern suburbs of Berlin." ed enemy dead in the 26 days of the far north: There is no doubt Both German and Russian ac fighting on Iwo, they covered only IV 1 "No mastw that the Nazis intend to defend the Sf Eden Blhcd Pollcy Poland. I DIPUAPn niY 1 W.WMmm-,' 18 days of land operations on Oki counts described the fighting along the outskirts of Berlin as a violent I ThAn was anmn hnna llof ho i nawa, 13 days of which were marked by a stalemate on the southern mosa in a plane by night. Prcvioai reports from Baguio refugees said that Laurel had to Japan.

Raid Formosa Bombers of the Fifth air forte and the Seventh fleet continual their punishing raids on Formoa and theChina coast, sinking damaging 11 freighters, a schooner and smaller craft. Thirteenth air force and tit Royal Australian air force wallopd East Indies airdromes, oil installations and destroyed two freight and three coastal vessels. In a special announcement, Mae-Arthur's headquarters disclosed the hanging, April 19, of Maj. Saka Narioka, of the Japanese army, wu I RuBsians wolild back down on their tank battle with the Russians making use of planes to disperse German armored formations. PARIS, April 21 -()- Lt.

Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Gen. Eisenhower's chief of staff, said today he held no hope for an immediate end to the war in Europe and added that there may be bitter fighting and heavy casualties to come. Addressing war correspondents at supreme headquarters, Smith said General Eisenhower would try to get the war oveT as soon as possible but had no intention of throwing away the lives entrusted to him and would fight as economically as he could. With the Germans still resisting and apparently determined to stand to the end in a national redoubt, rooting them out may take considerable time, Smith added.

sides and are threatening to cut tw.ce-presnted demand that the front. Since then the front has flared to white heat. present provisional government in the German corridor previously An earlier German broadcast said The announced American ship mentioned. When the capital sue that 3,000,000 persons still were in losses included five destroyers, the cumbs, the defenders will do their best to retreat to one of the pockets Warsaw be invited to San Jijuicis-co. American diplomats were prepared to stand firm in their refusal to admit the Warsaw group, until it is reorganized along the lines laid down at Yalta.

jTTtj. 1 I plus I Halligan, Bush and Pringle of the 2100-ton class, and the older destroyers Calhoun and M. L. Abele; two ammunition ships, the Hobbs Victory and the Logan Victory; the fire-blackened Berlin "awaiting the battle." The announcement of the shelling of the German capital by Russian artillery was made by the German Transocean agency. Five Key Points By enemy account these are the five key points of the suburban THE CROSS OF LORAINE on the north coast.

The measure of their success is highly problematical, because the Russians are driving hard to cut the German line above Berlin and thus surround the forces holding the capital. mineeraft Emmons and Skylark, convicted of spying. He penetrated American lines in civilian clothes. In 1900, 17 per cent of the U. S.

population was 45 years or older. a WUn 4 the destroyer-transport Djckerson, 4ean fierre Aumont and one gunboat and four landing craft, all of which were listed by number. fighting: Bernau Virtually at the northeastern city boundary just outside RADIO PROGRAMS Nimitz said the 15 constituted all bene Ke Mon.i Wed. i the U. S.

ships sunk in the Okinawa campaign to April 18. Previously he the Ring Autobahn encircling the capital and 11 miles from the heart said several fleet units were dam of the city aged, but did not name them. I ITHTTTTTITITTTTTTIII Strausberg Eight miles east 8 Ballroom Yoor Navy Carnon Hotel Moving' World 11 Hour tt DTeamin' miaiaas-rrf' ff.fl 1 1 iWM jt i Mi and Wednesday MMMMM Wll. i III II Hi mi.lll)!H Hill KOW 820 ktloCTCl" KEX 1190 kilocycles KOIN 870 ktlocyclM 550 kilocycle! KOAC SATOBDAT 5 the Upbeat by Cnt Victory Prs Nw (i Kitrm Hour TiniVOritml Orer Pretts News Of! Red-Yank Tanks Due to Meet Soon 1 KnsHeT i Symtihony Oreh. Hour' a Fronts Facta Lionel Hartid Benny Wagon Hcfarthy Bracken 6:30 Ameriran Album of 7r30-Oomedv Theater (lO-reilt GUdcMeeve Hour Benny Flahe northeast of the Ring Autobahn.

Fiirrstenwalde 12 miles southeast on the Frankfurt railway. Koenigs-Wusterhausen Three miles from the southeastern boundary. Zossen About .10 miles south of the main railway to Saxony. Describing the situation in the southeastern suburb as "most critical," Transocean said: KOIN SUNDAY Saws Pow Bi Voices in 8ong of the A'r College Choir Sweeney Jackets Choir lO.V-Palestine Meks KOIN SATURDAY SHOVouth on Parade Van-Traffic Safety VV)-Hoh Trout fi OO-Your Hit Parade Nijtht Serenade Mayor of Town 7 in Music SiltO-America inlhe ljr to LearrunB Amr'ca Iwiren Lake Tabernacle Framis Orchestra Tlk in the Night nS-News of the Air I'l a. Shift PARIS, April 21-W-Thc dramatic linkjip of Russian and American forces appeared today to be only a matter of hours away.

Reports that patrols already had made contact were heard here but lucked confirmation at -supreme headquarters. Berlin broadcasts placed the forces only 32 miles apart, and Moscow earlier indicated the distance Had been narrowed to 25 miles. for Yon "The Russians have broken through between Colt bus and Bautzen mid enemy spearheads have 1' a Koenigs Usterhausen, where they were halted. Another thrust is being made in the dU rection of WTA HAYWODTH 8 In Peace 4 War IOMS-B. H.

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