Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 1

AIS RAID SIGNAL Short blasts, repented every f.a second for two minutes, l.s the official air raid warning A long steady blast, approximate! a minute lottg, will bo the sll-cUtf. Leased Wirt Nwi invest In yw Uncle Sara Boy bonds, stamp. if tf me 1 VOL NO. 239. CORVALLIS, OREGON, SATURDAY, FiRUARY 19.

ESTABLISHED KZ'2 lFd ltd mm 54 Per Cent of Kev jni Trcl: GsrrifuhsThrov Everyihingaf Anzio Landings Allies Give Way Slightly But Rally For Strong Comeback Is Short 12 Inches in Benton Lasi Three Months The fire fianger signals are up throughout the western Oregon counties and especially here in Benton county where the wooded areas are dry "for this season of the year, according to Myron Myers, Keep Oregon Green county chairman. Rainfall for the last three months in this area is 12.15 inches below normal. The real fire threat will come within the next three months from fern fires, for with the shortage of rainfall a few days of tiot sunshine could turn the thousands of acres of heavy, matted bracken patches into veritable tinderboxea. These fern patches In the went-era Oregon counties are nature's seedling nurseries, for millions of young tree find shelter in the fern for the first few years of their lives. Fern patches are ideal sites for While we shaU be" wise not to celebrations pending details a the new battled in the southwest Pacific, the overall picture of our aperations is gratifying one of treat striking-power and initiativetwo elements which Kpell victory.

Our fighting weir are wearing fteir cap a eocky angle these days, nd tht fact vastly more important than auceesa in apy tingle battle, action; We are be-jinning to strike when and where wt will. 'and Indieatlonii are that oor new and really magnificent ma-chine in the Pacific i la-high gear and won't slow, down again until Yankee troops have the dust of Tokyo on thir boots Just look at the latest development: We sent a great fleet of war-planes to bull-dog of the world's most powerful naval bases, specially designed; withstand any manner of attack which Uncle gam could bring against it. We're landed unit, of pur gallant marine and army amphibious form on the important inland base FnloMtak. in the Marshall, and S. BOMBERS FLY LOW TO 'BLAST JAP PLANES Flying low, B-25's of the 7th Air Force cot a Japanese oombing piane in two teenier; ana caught other Jap planes In and near a revertment (left).

Note bomb falline (arrow). This Jap-held island got 800,000 pounds of bombs during the Marshall Islands attack. (AP photo from Seventh Air v. Red Army Draws Hourly Nearer Key Rail City Forces Strike Hard At Nazi Troops Caught In Dnieper Bend Area ALLIED HEADOUAET.F.TJS. Naples, Feb.

19. () Allied 'orres Brevholdinsr their lines in-t the battle-churned Amio hephhcfd ftr smashing back attacks by four full German divisions 40,000 to GO.O0O men in the ptwvifrest Nasi blows vet jWivwpij, allied headquarters annunod today. The Fifth army on the main front the et, reinforced by New Zealand and Indian troops, tightened a ring on Cassino from the northeast, northwest and south, winning two heights west of Mt. Cassino and Teaching the railway station south of the town after throwing 50.000 shells into the ruined stronghold. Powerful Nai Driv The powerful Nazi assault below Rome knocked a hole in the allied line near Carroceto, 10 miles above Anzio, but Fifth army tanks and infantry struck back in several successful local counter attacks, "causing heavy casualties to the enemy" and making some progress.

An allied officer declared that "unlike previous enemy attacks this is obviously the fullest-scale effort to throw the allied forces back into the sea." The Germans also attacked "else. where" along the main front, suffering heavy losses and failing to gain. Warships in Action, Allied warships' continued a pound the Germans assaulting the ttwaa diselawed, '-while planes lashed at the Natis in the (Continued on tmmn 4. column 8) Radio Use Restored to Beachhead Reporters ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, Feb. 19.

(JP) The allied command has restored the use of army rndio to correspondents fm the Anzio beachhead. Correspondents were not permitted to use the radio for three days because the command said their dispatches at one period had been unduly pessimistic and had resulted in unjustified alarm among the people at Iiome. The correspondents' reply was that they had described the course of battle as they saw During the period tht'y were denied the use of the radio dispatches were sent out on the beachhead by courier. Chennault Airmen Sink 201,150 Tons CHUNGKING, Feb. 19.

UP) -Maj. Gen. Clnire L. Chennault, com mander of the 14th U. S.

Air Force, anngunced today that his airmen had sung 201,150 tons of enemy shipping in operations from October 1, 1943, to date. The announcement listed 38,700 tons as probably sunk and 80,250 tons damaged. In addition, 214, small boats, four gunboats, two tugs and four barges were de stroyed. MOSCOW, Feb. 19.

UP) Red army forces struck vigorously into the shattered ranks of Nazi. Field Marshal Frit von MannsUin' troops in the Dnieper bend While; on the northern front iha battle drew hourly nearer the 'key rail city of Pskov, following the capture of Staruya Russa below Luke Union, 100 tniles to the east Capture of the heavily-fortified city of Staraya Russia, eastern -anchor of the German line in northern Russia, raised the possibility of complete collapse of tho easternmost salient of the Nazis' Baltic front. The next objective before the Ukrainian armies of Gens. Konev, Vatutin and Malinovsky, which aj- Cour.ly Is Covered By 'Forest Lands ForoRts lands cover 54 pe if county, say a suiey by the Oregon Business reviewr, published by the- University of Oregon. Bv far the greater part of this land is privately owned.

Thirty-three per cent of the county population is living in so. called rural areas. The population is largely native white bom; 96.3 per cent. It is estimated that 7300 persona are now working in the county, aa the survey is up-to-date. Principal industries are broken down into the following classifications, agriculture 1652, professional and related service 1203, lumber mills 394, logging 371, and construction 314.

1 There are 1507 farms in the county, with an. average size of 146.7 acres. The average value of each farm (land and buildings) is $7272. The per cent of tenancy is 21.1 per cent The per cent of county area in farms is 63.4. There are 6224 dwellings in the county, with an average of 8.29 persons per occupied dwelling.

Corvallis has 2938 houses with an average of 3.08 persona per dwelling. Ownership of dwellings is large in the county, with 52.9 per cent owning their own homes. In Corvallis the percentage is 45.8. There are 46 manufacturing establishments in the county. There are 264 establishments classified as retail.

There are 18 classed as wholesale. Empress of Cansda Sunk One Year Ago VANCOUVER, B. Feb, into a sea boiling with Mharks and barracuda, 400 persons were loetoft Freetown, West Africa, when the 18,000,000 liner Em press of Canada wa torpedoed and sunk by an Italian submarine nearly a year ago, survivor have been permitted to reveal. British rescuers saved 800 persons. Moat of those lost were Italian war prisoners, some of whom attempted to gain the deck of the Italian submarine, but Were pushed back into the t'jker by crewmen, the survivors The Italians announced last March 15 that the liner had been sent to the bottom, but sinking was not confirmed by allied authorities.

The one-time Pacific liner, which had been taken over by the British admiralty, was filled with troops, navy personnel, Italian Prisoners and Greek and Polish refugees. Oregon Bond Sales Go Far Over Top PORTLAND, Feb. reports brought Oregon' total sales in the fourth war loan drive to 11 5,235,000 today 116 per cent of the $99,000,000 goal. Holman ADDOinted tO Senate Committees WASHINGTON, Reb. 19 UP) Sen.

Holman of Oregon wa named by the senate Republican conference yesterday for a position on the rules and the manufactures committees of the senate. Sen Thomas of Idaho was assigned to the military -affairs committee, giving up rules would require legislation, others which would need merely the order of the president. It was indicated that Mr. Roose velt already was moving to effect some of the economic reconversion plans, the operation of which would not necessarily depend upon the end of war. Aim of Program The expressed aim of the program, drawn up by Bernard M.

Baruch and John M. Hancock, white house advisers and veterans of industrial mobilization in both world wars, is to avoid economic chaos in the period of readjustment from war to peace and to create instead an "adventure in prosperity." This period, the report makes (Continued on Page 6, Column 6) Pa uiied in Fcsi Indicated Sea-Air Triumph of Yanks Stirs Hopes of Quicker Victory WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (IP) -American planes, ranging over the central Pacific, pounded six enemy position in the Marshall and Caroline island groups in what Adin. Cheater W. Nimits described as attacks supplementary to major strikes on Eniwetok and Truk.

Battering four atolls in the eastern Marshall islands, bombers blew up a fuel dump, damaged a small cargo ship sank three small the navy announced today. On following day, Feb. 17," the announcement other bombers struck warehouse and docks at Ponape, large Japanese, base easl of the big enemy base at Truk, Other bombers meantime returned thf attack in the while still another group battered the harbor at Kusaie, southwest of the Marshall near the fringe of the Caroline group. At the same time, the announcement said, American warship car-, ried out bombardment missions against enemy installations on the eastern fringe of the Marshalls. U.

S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD-' QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Feb. 19. UP) Army and marine In vasion forces, speedin up breath-catching tempo of PacKUs1 offensive, battled Japanese today; for Eniwetok in the westernmost Marshall while Americans await ed confirmation of an indicated air triumph over mighty Truk. i K.w.

Thursday at Eniwetok; -laat for by passedi Nipponese tar risona throughout the while gun of battleships thundered a protective barrage and carrier supplied air cover, The assault force then moved in strength against enemy pillbox defenses ready battered by repeated plane, attack. Radio Silence Only the day before at 750 miles southwest of Eniwetok. an American sea armada sent hundreds of bombing plane to open the first 'Uonttnnen on pas 2. column 4 President Lopez Sdd To Be Resigning Soon BOGOTA. Colombia.

Feb. 19 (AVLiberal party leaders said today that President Alfonso due home tomorrow following hs trip to the United States, definitely ha decided to resign hi office in. tho near future. Lopez, elected president for second four-year term in 1942, ei-pressed a desire to retire from pub-lie life before taking a leave of Labsence from his duties last No vember and efforts to dissuade him have "met with these leader said. British Subs Sink 19 Enemy Vessels LONDON, Feb.

19. VP) British submarine sank 19 enemy ships, probably sank six others and damaged eight more in recent patrol in the Atlantic, Mediterranean arid the southeast Asia area, the admiralty announced today. In the actions, which the admiralty described as taking place "in theater of war extending from the Arctic Circle to the eastern limits the Indian ocean," enemy ships sunk included the largest types ef supply vessels, 4- Kaiser to Brinq Into Oregon 7500 Workers" PORTLAND, Feb. 19-VA total of 7,500 male workers will be recruited from out-of-state areas for the Henry J. Kaiser shipyards in this area, tays L.

C. Stoll, state manpower director. Stall said tbe Oregon manpower priorities committee agreed the men are needed to maintain a balanced labor supply. Weather Forecast. Oregon Fair today; increasingly cloudy tonight; Tain Sunday, with snow above 6000 eeU.

Warmer Sunday. Moving now joined, are the the junior forests and if fire can. be kept out of these areas, the county chairman forest reproduction will be insured for future crops. "Don't Burn Fern" Is the title of an attractive colored poster which the Keep Oregon Green association has sent to forest fire fighting organizations throughout the fern belt in western Oregon. i Troop-Laden Liberty Ship Splits Open SEATTLE, Fefci'JO.

UP) A troop-laden Liberty ship which split open -while' standing at an Alaskan dock has prompted army and navy authorities to refuse to use 10 of the vessels had been copve'rted. foff troop, farrier use, the Post-Intelligence rojiorted xsx, cV Senator Mon-- Wallgren, member of the Truman committee which recently held a hearing here on Liberty ship failures was said by the paper to have described the situation as "a major scandal" and one which will become the immediate fconeem of the Truman war investigating committee. Maenuson was quoted as saying the ship, thV Christopher Greenup, had weathered heavy seas and "its plates parted because of locked-up stresses in calm and not excessively cold Waters" of Cold Bay, Alaska, January 24. Rome Bombed Heavily Again Last (light LONDON, Feb. 19.

UP) The Vichy radio said today that Rome was bombed heavily again last night. The allies have been striking al- I -V I in the Rome area irt an effort to in terrupt Uerman supplies liowing toward the Anzio bridgehead. Montreal Street Car Operators on Strike MONTREAL, Feb. 19 UP) -Thousands of Montreal workers got to their jobs as best they could today when more than 4,000 striking street ear operators regained away from work as the result of a tangled jurisdictional dis-' 'pute. nut Uflll) UI UUR jiivrvwj UJI.1 morning.

Twelve Known Dead Twelve person were known to have died and a number of others were injured wben-high explosives struck a preserve and homes in the working class districts. Three, persons were still trapped under the ruin of the factory. Ten other person 'were believed to have been killed when a bomb struck one sector which had already received three direct hits in previous raids. Supplies in the district headquarters of the BritUh Red Cross were destroyed by flames started by incendiaries. -v The Berlin radio said that "hundreds of planes" participated in the (Continued on page 6, column 5) OSC Soldier Program May Be Cut in Half By Hew ASP Order No orders whatever concerning change in ASTP at Oregon State had been received either by President, A.

L. Strand or Col. Glen Webster, commandant, this morning. If the curtailment is carried out aa indicated in press dispatches the present, ASTU enrollment will be reduced by half or more at the end of this term, April I. Present division of the unit shows 533 advanced engineering trainees, 600 basic engineering, and 227 area and language students.

Of the last group 113 are scheduled fa 'finish- WurlrlhP "end of this term, while the remainder had previously been assigned one additional term ending about July 1. Civilian enrollment is now 1859. and total with soldiers 3119. If! the, present level of the advanced engineer groun is continued next term, the total enrollment would be reduced to around 2400, unsmiling- equal civilian numbers. President Strand said the college will survey the situation when omcial omers are received irom me war department and upon return Monday of Dean E.

B. Lemon; di rectorof military programs, in capo to attend a conference on par ticipation of colleges in rchabilita tion of discharged veterans. EUGENE, Feb. 19. UP) Curtailment of the ASTP program would cut soldier enrollment 75 per cent at the University of Oregon, according to the office of Dr.

W'll i Norris, professor of physics and di-I rector of the ASTP at the uriiver-1 sity. i The total soldier enrollment at the university is S47, of which there I are 04fi ASTP men who would be 'removed under the curtailment or-1 dor. The remaining 201 are air corps men. hiddiors and civilians together make up the total enrollment of 2150. Miiu injui.ii.AA, Ulan, reo.

m. iP) Students enrolled in the nM.r. rAim, u. i tt. i army specialized training pro-fram will be notified individually when their schooling is to lie ter specialized training pro minated and they are ordered into i active service, Ninth Service om mand headquarters said today.

13 More Jap Ships Sunk by U. S. Subs WASHINGTON. Feb. 19-)-Two American submarines, oper ating deep within Japanese territory, sank 13 enemy merchant vessels before returning to their home port.

i The sinkings, reported by the I navy today, brought to TJ" the I number of Jap ships sunk, prob-lably sunk or damaged by sub marine action since the war started. The navy said the patrols were carried Out "deep in Japanese empire waters" the first time such specific information has been given submarine operations. Ge rman Efforts to Make Peace Fail MOSCOW 19. (fP) Fail ure of German efforts to make a separate peace with any of the allies was predicted today by the Soviet trade union journal, "Wurtand the Working Class." I 15 of 17 Jap Ships in Convoy Sunk by Planes Three Day Running Fight Shows Steamers No Match for Bombers ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Feb.

Japanese merchantmen rushing oil and supplies to bolster such hard bitba-a Ra. baul and Kavieng were wiped out along with an escorting destroyer and two corvettes during a threo-day attack by allied bombers northwest of New Ireland, headquarters announced today. At most, only two merchantmen eluded the explosives of Catalinas, Liberators and Mitchells which from Monday night until Wednesday morning destroyed 36,500 tons of merchant shipping in the attack and exacted a heavy toll of Nip ponese aboard the vessels. Three Day Fight Bound south from Truk, Janan's mightv naval base which itself has been brought under allied attack for the first time, the convoy was spotted off Mussau island Mondav night. By mid-day, Tuesdav, half of it had been destroyed.

Wednesday morning, Mitchell bombers flew as low as the top of the masts to blast seven more ships within an hour near New Hanover. One corvette blew up. Five 2000-( Continued on one 2 enlinnn 4i Painless Childbirth Method Now in Use MEMPHIS, Feh. 19. UPS Tlv irmy's Kennedv General hospital revealed today it was using a new anesthetic technique for "painless childbirth" in practically all of its cases.

The mother is given multiple injections of metycaine in the caudal region at the base of the spine. This blocks the pain, with the patient remaining conscious. "We are using the method almost exclusively," a staff physician said, "and average about 40 births a month. In 85 per cent of the cases the patient has very-little pain." There have been no ill affeets from the drug in the 275 cases since I last April. Poles Said Willing to Accept Soviet Terms LONDON, Feb.

19. UP) The Polish govemment-in-exile, in an attempt to settle differences with Russia for the duration of the war, was reported unofficially today to be willing to accept the Soviet's Curzon line boundary offer, subject to negotiation after the defeat of Germany. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. OP) -A hint from President Roosevelt that the United States is keeping it diplomatic door open for settlement of differences between Poland and Russia was made public today by Rep.

Mruk, N. V. have established beachheads. We've almost wiped out a great Jap convoy, enroute from Truk to the Bismarck archipelago-at least twelve transports and supply east Is, plus three', warships; Sounds like bragging; doesn't it, mmitiv an ton of all our other Pa cific in the past fort-1 (uoonnueo on ran a. Aoiumn oi KaCYCIlSVill! tj I jn vorvattiSi jouin venter is awn management functioning for the first time this -week.

big affair tonight will see ue announcement of th official club name, which will be determined from entries received this weekThis wilt take place during intermission aome'rtjme around 10:30, Allan name contest (batrman, announced the prixe to be awarded the' winning title will be free life membership in the luh. r- The club' will be open tonight dur-H the usual to 12. Special entertainment will be prewired during the evening and Paul Moatr, chib president, saya it won't pay to miss 'j the dub still need wore equipment in the way- of pool and ping- Jtoftg outfits complete, a radio for th; downstairs- room other tameBof all types, i Vv Parents are urged to attend these A Saturday night get-togethers and inspect what the Juris are: doing for themselvesi Adult memberships are only a dollar and can be secured at ft center anytlmei vv -N- 0,000 Welch Scokh nib LONDON, Feb. Wu-tfP) King Swee. Qneeh King akon of Norway, Princess Elita-wth and Cfenera) Montgomery ere among the 80,000 who atched the English soeeer team west Scotland to 2, iii an in-tenwtional match today.

of $72,000 went to war coaritiea Tf i u.t lfrom a sporta event jit 'England the start of th wf. TODAY'S FIKTCiHAD Th first etsiiVd between 10 ABd SO WMini aVn 8 m. each day will on ue iropt page. ROOM house -Cnmmings TUroaI track, three- acres of -best soil. J.

electric, pump, bam and ekfen house. Room for 3 more on the lane. Paul P. The abore 11 ward eaah ad Mly far Inaer- JW la the first ad Jetween 10 and words tttea after :00 Vdock cities of Krivoi Rog, great iron ore center in the southeastern Ukraine nnd Kherson, 90 miles south of Krivoi Rog at the mouth of the Dnieper river. Krivoi Rog Outflanked Krivoi Rog alrendv has been out-f'anked and dispatches said that the position of the German garrison there extremelv critical.

At Kherson, Russian forces Already are reported to be massing on the banks of the Dnieper opposite the city ready for the command to Launch an all-nut attack. Capture of Starnva Russa and the railroad town of Shimsk, 30 miles to the northwest, together with the towns anj) villages in between, gave the Red armv a three-armed onera- tion against Pskov. Russian troops iu(t fi remi fl riniv un it rn vn thfl the Baltics" from nonneasi ana norm. irra Jua nr nniing Already the German garrison at Pskov is running the risk of Russian drive across the narrow isthmus between Lake Peipus and Lake Pskov to cut the trunk railway connecting Pskov and Riga, I Continued paife fi. eolnmn I) Plans for Changing to Peacetime Production May Be Started Soon Widespread Damage in London From Biggest Nazi Raid in Year WASHINGTON, Feb.

19. UP) -President Roosevelt today was reported on the verge of ordering into effect some of the major recommendations contained in a newly devised master blueprint for swinging America's "arsenal of democracy" back into peace time production. Publication of the document, constituting in effect a strategy for economic victory on the postwar home front, apparently signaled the beginning of a new era for government, business, and workers an era in which continuing production for war will be meshed increasingly from now on into restored production for peace. The report contained mimerou recommendation, some of which LONDON, Feb. 19.

UP) Ger-man hpw and medium bombers. trikinc in double the strength of any recent raid, hit London in three wavps last, nip-tit and left fires, smashed home and apartments and casualties in their wake. The best unofficial estimates were that about 160 of the night raiders slashed at the capital area. Although not all of them penetrated the umbrella terrific antiaircraft fire thrown over the city, the damage was the most widespread of any attack of the part year and casualties were left in half a dozen districts. Fire still glowed red against the dawn skies today as searching parties dug through the for victims..