Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 1

'Associated Proaa'; iMMi Wir NfM InTat tn your Uncle Sam-Boy war bonda, stamps. VOL, 'XXXVI, NO. 213. CORVALLIS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1915. ESTABLISHED 18C5.

c-n -v U-T UJ LiU 11S Vi nu; mm mmmimm Three Allied Armies Chase Nazis Poyerful Spoof hoods of Yankee 5 The XTbi? Today Advance on Lunon Despite acnotan South China Sea 3 Stiff Gnemy Around in Belgian Bulge, Which liow Is Two Fifths Original Size WITH THE U. S. THIRD ARMY, Jaiu ThV Third arm drove the Germans back ud to two and a half GENERAL MacAJRTHUR'S Br DeWITT VACKBRZI Hrw Wr Atwl- The German report; that the Radians have opened a major offensive on the southern 'Vistula front in Poland signals a momentous de? velopment 'if true. This, anxiotftly awaited Red drive i miles alon a eeven-mil front Bofutao SANTIAGO CASARRUYAM Cull PARIS, Jan. S.

First array troops drove more than a mile through snowbound forests today toward Houf-falize, heart of ihe, Germans' shrunken buljf into Belgium, while Third army forces on the' south battled within five miles of that highway stronghold. 1 1 Ousted from 100 -square miles at the tip of the bloody Jan. lS-CffVPowerful spearheads of the Sixth army invaders of Luzon pushed forward steadily today toward Manila during the fourth day of the invasion after advancing 12 miles to cover more than half the toad distance to the Agno river, without meetlnsr any enemy opposition. The American troop moved cautiously despite advance patrol reports of empty trenches and abandoned near the river, the most formidable natural barrier across the central Luzon plaiiUv-. Only In the pastern sector of bulging beachhead have they met ajsy considerable resistance, Japanese guns and mortars hidden on the elopes or ridges forming the south-' em spurs of the Benguet mountains fired intermittently into the flank.

1 Slight Opposition 11 FjjMangaldanVk- salient. Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt already had fallen back to Within two to three miles of the Ourthe river. The new blows' menaced any German hopes, of holding a line through Houffalize least of the river. Aqno RiiMiAta Infant a A- drawal Idoes not eeem to have been Costly Effort i A is calculated to provide the per-'feet complement to the allied pressure, on Nask Marshal -von Rundstedt in the west It will -establish the hft ruceie which shortly should give us a fair Range of the enemy's remaining strength, ultimately will crush the life out of him. Into this picture iU.

in big way, the -sensational news that Turkey is 'opening the Dardanelles for passage, of allied supplies to Russia. This is the quick eed-. line to the Soviet Vistula Uncle Sam's soldiers are snffer-, ing- heavy casualties in the bloody battle of the Belgian bulge and the end isn't in night. So great is the call for manpower in Eu--rope, and in the Pacific theater, that Washington is inducting a minimum of 900,000 men for the armed services in first six months of With this stark background, the publisher a daily newspaper has aked me what substantiation there y's for reports that, while our boys are being sacrificed, there are Freach and Belgian youths who also could be used, but are nofc an unpleasant i sub? ject but onwhiclj should be ironed out, for the sake of all -concerned. rrJjgSgzCM LUZON Absence of Capt: Herrmann.

First Officer to Arrive at Camp Adair, Leaving Captain and Mrs. Wesley P. Herrmann and their, twin daughters, Jane and Janette, leave tomorrow noon to drive to Camp Mc-Quaide, where Captain Herr mann is be director of supply. Captain Herrmann was the first officer to arrive at Camp Adair, coming here on April 29, 1942, when there were about 25 buildings on the grounds. The first office of the camp was located on the third floor of.

the Corvallis Elks building. Captain Herrman 'occupied quarters there along with Colonel Des Islet (now a general) until about July 10 when i the camp was completed During his stay here he has been with the quartermaster corps as chief of purchasing and contracting branch and also sales officer, Captain Herrmann was a mem- ber of the local Lions club. During their nearly three years' stay in Corvallis. the Herrmanns resided at 137 north 27th street, The twin daua-htera are now in'i Junior high school. Captain Herrmann was an in- surance man In Rockford.

Ill prior to call to duty at Adair, ntl hai said many times he expects to set tie. hvCorvallis fter- the war. NavalAcademy VcuId Help Pacific Coast WASIIINGTON, Jan. 13 HiPh Defense of the Pacific coast would be strenirthened. Senator Cordon (ff-Ore) by establishment of naval academy in that area.

Cordon, like i his predecessor, th I A TANKS WIDEN LUZON BEACHHEAD Black area is beachhead held by American forces invading Luzon island. Yanks have widened their original Lingayen-San Fsbian "beachhead to the westward, reaching points within two miles of Port SuaL Average general advance inland is about four miles although patrols have gone farther. (AP Wirephoto map.) Oregon Dairymen to Meet In Corvallis Starting On Monday iTJie state-wide interest in the relationship of dairy sanitation and milk handling to. ttiran-trol of'undulant fever will bo reflected in the program of the fifty-first annual convention of the Oregon Dairymen's association at Oregon State college January 15-17. The main program will start Tuesday, January 16, following committee sessions on Monday, according to, programs just distributed by Roger Morse, Secretary of the "association and extension specialist in dairying at OSC.

Among eight to ten principal speakers on the session programs, at least half will touch 1 on some phase of disease-control subject Speakers listed include E. L. Peterson, director of the state department of sericulture; P. M. (Continued on Page 1, Column 7) First Japs Return Quietly to Hood River HOOD RIVER, Jan.

-The Japanese to come back since the local American Legion post came out in open opposition to the return of Japanese-AmerK Cans arrived at their valley homes quietly yesterday. Ray Sato and F. Noji of Purkdale and M. Asai of lower Hood River valley were not molested when they 1 reached here on an early morning train. rwu: u.

fire. On the extreme Hght Reds Launching Gigantic Drive Three Mighty.Armies In Poland on Nazis Are Jittery LONDON. Jan. 13. -(P)- Marshal Stalin announced (o- night a Red rrnv west of Haranow had advanced 25 miles in two days on a 25 miie front.

LONDON, Jan. 13. () The Germans declared today "that the Red army had launched a gigantic winter offensive with three mighty and northern Hungary The major assault, the Germans was from the Vistula river bridgehead, 'approximately 120 I miles below German-held Warsaw. Admitting penetration of Nazi lines west of Baranpw, Berlin de- this offensive as "the big- gest of all time." Suggesting simultaneous1 flanking drives both in the north and the south, 450 to 600 miles apart, the Germans said the Russians lashed out on a 30-mile front in the East Prussian sector after tremendous artillery preparation, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) Defense HEADQUARTERS, Luzon. 191 dip Ships Sunk, Damogcu1, OHIniSo-China By Associated Press For the second successive day Third fleet carrier planes dove, on broken Japanese convoys off the South Astatic Coast today, deter mined to increase the toll of 191 Nipponese ships and surface craft sunk or damaged off indo-China, Formosa and the Philippines.

The 191 total was announced Inst night by Adm. Chester W. NimiU and Gen. Douglua-Mac Arthur in naval vtim. nrocting the almost, unopposeu Ktx'tK army drive toward Manila in the Philippines, Here is the new Javanese naval and merchant fleet destruction at a glance Stink S2 ships inclnding 12 loaded transports and half a down warships; 18 small craft.

Sunk or damaged 45 small freighters and coastal vessels. Damaged- 54 ships, including six destroyers? 42 small craft. In addition, 68 Japanese planes were destroyed. 'f Japs Asleep -the surprising strike yesterday at the Indo-China coast by fast carrier forces of Adm. William' F.

Halsey't Third fleet caught the Japanese completely by surprise. Twenty-five ships were sunk and 13 heavily damaged as American (Continued oh Page 2, Column 1) Hew Molor Coach Line Turned Down PORTLAND, Jan. 13--VP)-Safc Way Motor Coaches, whose appli cations to operate in Pacific coast states have been rejected by the interstate commerce commission, appealed to federal court today. E. S.

Lufkin. San Francisco, own er of the company, asked for an order revoking the commission de- cision and preventing both the com mission and the Washington state public works department from interfering in operation of the stage, line. Slight Earthquake Jars Central Japan By Associated Press A "slight earthquake" struck the central area of Honshu, main Japanese home island today; the Jap. uncse Dome) agency reported in a broadcast. i The dispatch, recorded by the federal communications commission, said "a little- damage to a small number of had been caused, but declared "transportation facilities sustained no damage whatever." The quake was recorded at 8:55 m.

(Tokyo time). German News Predicts British Navy Attack LONDON, Jan. 13-W)-Admirai Alfred Sallweichter, naval commentator or the German news agency Transocean, predicted today the British navy may attack Singa- pore or the Netherland East Indies while the Japanese fleet Is being tied down by American operations on Luzon. west of Bastognc today. CilyValsrWorks Tekes in $100,046.51 In Receipts in 144 Attention of Corvallis water consumers is called to the annual report of the year 1944, published in this newspaper yesterday, showing the excellent cash condition of the works.

Total receipts in 1944 from all sources, rents, service connections, miscellaneous receipts, and sewer charges amounted to $100,046.51. The sum spent for maintenance totaled 146,268.03, of whifh, was for of operating the plant lor and. operation." InWMatf'jSald" kmounted to -V. The water Wfirks debt free, on the disbursement side of the ledger, having sinking fund improvement bonds worth. $16,500 and sinking fund shed bonds for $13,940.

The water Works holds govern ment bonda worth $224,000 if held to present worth listed a $170,860. In the generul fund is $48,038.17. High Stakes in Gl BIsckMsrl Poker PARIS, 'Jan. lMP)-Testimony of high stakes at GI poker games was introduced today as the fourth group of enlisted men accused of looting military supply trains in French black market deals went on trial before an army general court martial. -V- Lt Robert OHeily of the" army criminal investigation division, who worked as a fireman in a railway battalion while, investigating the looting outbreak, testified watched poker games at which sol ders paid as.nign sswhw irancs ($160) to see the last card of a seven-card etud poker game.

inere was an iiicrcuiuie nmuuui. of cash monejf. around the bar racks" he Said, "also whole cases (60 cartons) of -cigarettes and whole cases of chocolate bars." O'Reily said he was present on a number of occasions when men planned the next train looting. WPB Eases Order for Time WASHINGTON, Jn. 13.

-The war production board proposes shortly to emasculate its reconversion order allowing advance production of machinery and plant equipment for peacetime manufacturing. v-''fl expected within five or 'six days, would wipe out the authority, now 'granted machinery builders to fill orders which laek military or other priority standing. 603rd Blasts 63 Tanks in Six Months WITH TH8 S. SIXTH ARMORED DIVISION, Jan. 13 -W-The 603rd tank destroyer batUl-ion, attached to the Sixth armored division in (he drive northeast of Bastogne, boasts, the record of knocking out 63 tanks and self-propelled gum while losing only four tank destroyers since last July.

To state: my conclusions jfirstj I find no'suprV foP'uehl an idea. On the contrary, both France and Belgium Been) to be doing all they can to get their available Men. into action, and the allies are. render, i ing such assistance as they can However, the situation is compli-i cated and Take the case of France, With pre-war population of about she might be expected under normal conditions to put a maximum of 10 per cent under arms say 4,000,000 apart from colonial But -actually the French "government reports that (Continued on Page 4, Column 0). Plant Pathologists To Work lor Better Local Nursery Slock Frank McKennon, head of the bureau of plant Industry, Oregon State department of agriculture, Salem, is chairman of a new per- 'manent committee to combat yirua states.

Committeemen, named at the close of a two-day-conference of western agricultural leaders at Corvallis yesterday, include Fred Desellem, Washington agriculture Earl C- Blodgett, University of Idaho; Earl Hutchins, Utah agriculture department and D. G. Milbrath, California agriculture department. A uniform system of certifying nursery stock, as disease-free will be sought by the committee. Opposition was expressed to state-line embargoestkn stock when States were urged to cooperate in eh a federal school.

en trained on the Pacific coast. rdon told a reporter, would have 1 0fef ense needs of the coastl they would encounter every ''conceivable condition of terrain, climate" and navigabje water. Opposition of the war and navy departments heretofore has pre-, vented enactment of a bill authorizing an additional academy, Cordon said, but he expressed belief that opinions may be changed by experiences, in this war. He predicted that an additional academy would be necessary because of "the enormous increase in the present enrollment and, the probability that a much 1 a peacetime military and naval strength Will be maintained in the future." V. Correspondent Spencer Davis of I the Associated.

Press reported that the Japanese in those foothill pumped shells into American posi tions. at the rate of 60 to 10 a minute before dawn Wednesday until they were silenced ty warships Air support was also called up to smash an enemy, position fn this area. Japanese attempts to land sup- Plies for "the defenders resulted in ws lor tnem or a pig transport and 45-loggers, -which iwere mnk or badly damaged at Sao Fernando, about 45 miles north of the American Lingayen Gulf beachhead. So far the Sixth army troops Vhave encountered none of the last ditch stand on Bancat charges which featured enemy delaying ac tlen in the arllr stages of the campaign on iytusiaMt to the tm tl1 invasion -the, PhUippliws-i Slow Advaace. jbne American eolumrt gained ree miles in the 24, hours to Thursday 'midnight to reach San Carlos and Malasiqui, 12 miles from the coast, which General MacAr thur's communique conservatively located as the deepest point of American penetration.

"Uot a Ringle Japanese was seen ivr iivuiu iu mis iuiuniu mien. San Carlos was occupied against nothlnR stronger than scattered flank in the' west the Americans found only deserted trenches and a few pil) boxes. Malasiqui and San Carlos are highway centers near the center of the Luson valley. San Carlos is the sub for three roads and two across at Malasiqui. From Malasiqui 'it is 08 airline miles to Manila, down wide valley well suited for the tanks pacing the Yank columns.

By highway the distance it more than 130 miles. Supply Column Smashed Japanese attempts to bring reinforcements north to meet the Mad-Arthur forces were jolted again as American warplanes strafed and bombed airdromes, motor columns and rail facilities." More than 200 vehicles and live tanks were destroyed in one attack Another knocked out many locomotives and 40 freight cars. Along the Manaoag-Posorrubio road ground troobfi thought they had run Into, a strongly-defended position and called for air support: Navy wildcats responded with a half -hour' rocket barrage, after which th Infantrymen pushed ahead and found several abandoned pillboxes, two machine guns and five enemy dead. One of the day's most spectacular events was the smashing of the enemy supply convoy at San Fernando. Big Motor Convoy Is on Ledo Road MVITKLYINA, Burma, Jan.

WVThe first allied motor convoy destined for China in 2Vi years. and the first ever to eross Burma from India 4s ready to leave Ledo, India, with vital war supplies for American and Chinese troops, The trucks will travel 1000 miles over the Ledo road, construction of Which was begun more than 18 months ago. Just 439 road miles south of Ledo, Chinese First army Units under Lt. Gen. Daniel I.

Sultan are in position for the final drive to captUre Namhkam and the 25-mile- long Shwell river -valley 611 that remains to be cleared before the main road to China opens. By unofficial estimaterVon Rund-4 stedt had lost the equivalent 20 divisions perhaps 200,000 men in his break-through drive. But he had rescued the bulk of his far-reaching armor, in strength still constituting a striking threat The tip of Von Rundstedt's drive had bees bent 4ack 23 to 25 miles from its nearest approach to the Meuse river, and American and British armies had rewon 60 per cent of German-overrun territory. Soldiers of the First army shoved 2000 yards through forest lands south of Langlir, seven miles above Houffalice, reaching to within three miles of the all-important Houf, falie-St; Vfth highway; Permana fought back violently. ji ji Houfalisa -the, Germans" probably would have to pull back air the ay to St, Vith on the north and Viandert on the south, retreating again into the Siegfried 4Utw d'etat First rmy patrols which stabbed east of the Salm river already were within nine miles of St Vith, and the largest Third army punch, up through northern Luxembourg was only six mile from Vianden.

At both these danger spots the Germans appeared to be putting op their stiff est resistance. While Von. Rundstedt had power to lash out again, It seemed likely such a thrust would be directed elsewhere on the' western front than in the Ardennes bulge. Held in Alsac The Alsace plain, wtth Stras-bourgh as its chief nrize, was a potential toehold for such an of- fensive but stiffened French- American defense there was hold ing the latest Nati assault, to a virtual standstill. German 1 rearguard resistance folded quickly in the collapse of the western end of the Belgian pocket as Von Rundstedt abandoned a sec- tor from seven to ten miles long I North of the Belgian bulge, the Germans were stabbing out in small counter-attacks, and one- in com pany strength hit S.

Ninth army lines this in the Lindern-Leiffarth area. A front dispatch said it was making no appreciable headway; Along the southern -end of the front, U. S. Seventh army troops were forced from Oeting, five miles southwest of $aarbructeert, But farther east in the Bitehe salient the Americans were doing most of the advancing now, and occupied Althom, six miles below.Bitche. score of miles farther east, I Americans cleared Rittersbofen.

iiwu Cr inline WASHINGTON, Jan. U4-The names of two Oregon counties Gilliam and Union have been given to, transports and cargo ves-i sets no in naval j- The navy explained today that names of counties have been selected for this type of vessel and 310 have been so designated, most of them launcnea ana many of them already In senrtce. Vessels in these categories vary in leagt between 400 and 500 feet, with a beam measurement of more than 60 feet Their tonnage ranges from ,7,000 to 1300 tons, full load displacement. They are armed with 6-inch anna and 3-inch gnna and with 20 mm. and 40 mm.

anti-aircraft gTins. ''Z control and eradication projects and i eight miles below the German bor-to expand research, fder at Wissembourg. 1 Delegates discussed 16 virus I i diseases prevalent'in the west. TODAY'S FIRST CASH AD Thii is the first cash od between 10 and 50 words taken offer 8:00 o'clock this morning: THREE ROOM apartment completely furnished. Electric range nd refrigerator.

Lots of hot water. 533 So, 4th St. Phone 910-R. The above II word cask ad eost only 57 jents for one in sertion. The first cosh ad between 1 0 and 50 words token ofter 8 a.m.

each day will appear on the front page. IHFRPI YAVKS rPFEI I.IIZftV T1WVASIOV Shoreline near the towa of San Fabian in the southeast sector of Lingayen Gulf Lazoa in the Philippines ties in this pre-war aerial photo. Announcement the invasion of Luzon was made, by General Douglas MacArtaur, after he landed with his troops. (AP Wirephoto)..