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row run fo)(fann m Weather Forecast! taereutng cloadtnett wlUi Intermittent rain tonight and Wednesday; warmer to nicnt. Temp. Htfheit yesterday ... 55 Lowest this morning 14 Thirty ninth. Year Second Saar Crossing Forced by Patton; Storm Into Outer Siegfried Fortifications T AIM AT HEART OF Gen. Hodges' Tank "Column Charges Out of Forest to Within Mile of Upper Roer Paris, Dec. 5. U.R) Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army forced a second crossing ot the Snap river south of the Saarlau- tern bridgehead today and punched forward a mile into the outpost fortifications of the Sieg fried line. ' ' ' Front dispatches reported that units of MaJ. Gen. Harry Twad dle's 95th infantry division tnrmed across the Saar and carved out a second bridgehead a mile deep in the minerai-ncu . c... hnin onH the dragon's tooth hnrrlrades fronting . the Nazi westwall. Other units of the 95th, pour ing across tne &aar ai virauj conquered Saarlautern, had struck a mile and a half beyond the river, and twin spearheads . mile., anart now were aimed at the heart of thelndusJ trial basiri and the.KMne. Tm.r Patm Advances Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' first army to the north sent a hnir column charging out of the Hurtgen forest seven miles be low Duren to witnin lessumu mile of the upper Roer river guarding th,e Cologne plain, cap .,..!, h. villnee of Bernstein. Third army reports said Pat ton's forces had captured 85Z towns in France and Germany since they went into acuon The Sixth armored division of the Third army captured Roun ling, -six miles south of Saar hn.rVm. after it had been hit by Thunderbolt fighter - Bombers aiming through a cloud cover, r.nhin Rail Crossing Mai.- Gen. Paul W. Baade s 35th division pushed within three miles southwest of Saaregue- ninn nt Woust Viller in 8 tWO- mile gain. Farther south other units gained a mile eastward ana captured a railroad crossing 10 .nt,h nf Saareuemines. mi r.en. WUlard'S. Paul's lath "Vpnirpe" division in a com panion push northward, gained more tnan.mree macs fntv nf ftermineen. four and a half miles north of Saare Union. Elements of the Fourth armor- A 4itriinn sained more than two miles in a northeastward drive imeH l Dehlingen. 10 miles sbutheast of Saarguemines. 81 NAZI PLANES London! Dec. 5 (U.PJ More hon ssn Flvina- Fortressec and liberators, escortedNby upwards of 800 fighters, nammerea Hrfrini tar-sets in Berlin and roil frelsht vards at Munster, Just behind the western battle front, today In another phase of the non-stoo aerial offensive acainst Germany. The assault on the German emits! attracted the luftwaffe. which engaged the American raiders in furious aerial com bats. Preliminary reports show ed that at least 81 German shot down. The American raid followed a heavy night attack bn Karls ruhe and Heilbrown by almost 1,000 British planes. INVITATONSllUTF0R EXECUTION OF LAYTON Salem. Ore.. Dec. 5 (U.R) Invitations to attend the execu tion of Richard Harry Layton who is slated to die in the Ore gon state gas chamber on rn day, were in the mail today, ttuoo officials anaouncedj DOWNED IN RAID Bedford United Press Cigaret Shortage Caused By Trusts Is Belief of FTC a Washington, Dec. 7 (U.PJ A federal trade commission spokes man said today, after a meeting of the commission, that the group is convinced there are vio lations of the federal anti-trust laws in connection with the cur rent cigaret shortage. The spokesman said FTC In vestigators already are looking into the shortage and trying to determine Its causes, and that if their inquiries uncover defi nite violations of the law formal complaints will be issued. OF OF Six men representing various Chambers of Commerce through out the state are meeting in Med- ford today to formulate a state wide plan to coordinate promo tional efforts of the various sec tions of the state. The committee was appointed byi Frank Hull, manager ef the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and president of the state organiza tion of Chamber of Commerce secretaries, at a recent State planning conference. Sessions continued throughout the morning and afternoon, and a statement concerning the plan will be drafted for publication this afternoon. Here for the meeting are Frank E. McCasIln president of the Portland Cham ber of Commerce; David B. Simpson, a past president of the Portland group; Arthur J. Farm er, general manager of the Port land Chamber of Commerce; Fred M. Brenne of the Eugene chamber, Malcom Epley of the Klamath Falls group and Charles R. Stark of the Klamath Falls Chamber of Commerce. TAX COLLECTIONS EIGHTY PER CENT Current tax collections for the 1944-45 total $1,020,939.28, or aDnroximately 80 per cent of the total tax levy of $1,325,- 351..33, the tax collection de partment of the sheriff's office reports. The amount does not include delinquent payments lor this year. The collection Is tne largest in the history of the county. Payments for the full, year ended November 15, with a three per cent discount allowance, Taxpayers took advantage of this, which accounts in part tor the large maount paid. Practic ally all the large corporations in the county made full year pay ments, as did the majority of the individuals. Furman Evernham Family Has Twins Born Here Monday Mr. and Mrs. Furman Evern ham of 519 Mayette street are the parents of twins born yester day at Sacred Heart hospital. The twins are a boy and a girl. the boy weighing six pounds and three ounces and the girl four pounds and nine ounces. The Evernhams already have one child, a daughter, two years old. Mr. Evernham is manager of the Joe Hearin Lumber com pany in Ashland and formerly was employed by the Commerc ial Finance company. The couple reports that there Is a history of twin births in both Mr. Evern ham's and Mrs. Evern ham's fam ily. . ' There were 7.500.000 more women employed in the United States in 1914 Man in 1940. rull Leased Wire JAP WAR CRAFT OFF LEYTE ISLE Communique Reveals Return of Nips To Philippines Since Big October. Fight. ' By United Press The reappearance of Japanese warships in Philippines waters for the first time since the big air-sea battles of last Octobre was revealed today in a communique announcing the sinking of one enemy destroyer and heavy dam age to a second in a new night action off Leyte Island. At least three Japanese fight ing ships, all apparently destroy ers, were discovered in Ormoc gulf off the east coast of Leyte Saturday night when an Amer ican destroyer flotilla steamed in to ' bombard the enemy's shore installations. V. S. .Destroyar Lost One American destroyer was sunk, either by a floating mine or by the Japanese bombers that Joined in the action, but six or eight ' enemy planes were de stroyed In addition to the losses inflicted on the enemy's surface units. Most of the American war ship's crew were rescued. , Meanwhile, : American war- planes sank six enemy merchant vessels and damaged three oth ers In Philiopine waters and off Boreno and struck heavily at Ormoc and enemy airfields on Negros and Cebu islands.: Yanks Push On American troops on Leyte pushed down the eastern rim of the Ormoc corridor despite con tinued heavy rains that made the terrain all but impassable and cleaned .put a number of by passed Japanese positions. Gen. Douglas MacArthur also reported that Allied ground forces mopping up by-passed areas In the southwest Pacific killed 1.821 Japanese and cap tured 180 in the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Bismarck archipela go and the Solomons between October 7 and December 1. They also liberated 713 Allied nation als who had been held captive in those areas. JAPS WILL DESTROY MONUMENT TO PERRY Chungking, Dec. 5 flJ.R) A memorial monument erected at Yokohama to Commodore Matth ew Perry,- American "navy of ficer who "opened" Japan to world trade in 1853,- will be "ceremoniously destroyed" De cember 8 as an early observance of a month-long "crush Amer ica" period in the Japanese homeland, the Chinese news- paperTa Kung Pao, said today, quoting a Tokyo radio broad cast. Icaza Muddles With Many Evasive Answers Hollywood, Dec. 5 (U.R) With 39 "I don't remembers" in 10 minutes under the grilling of Defense Attorney Jerry Gelsler, Antonio Icaza, the Panamanian actor, today concluded two days of confused and contradictory testimony' that left Jurors In a daze and the prosecution with only one more witness, a guitar player who appeared out of no where to wind up in the middle of a brawl at Tommy Dorsey's apartment. Icza, who remembered every thing three ways or not at all, had Superior Judge Arthur Crum throwing up his hands be fore he stepped down in favor of Jesus Castillon. Castillon Join ed the Dorsey birthday party at the Swank Clover club and fol lowed. U to toe pal co ay wbexe nr A TT MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, FIGHT LOOMS ON FOR STATE DEPT. . v ' Four Votes-C a s t Against MacLeish In Committee Meet; Laud Grew Naming Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R) The Senate Foreign Relations committee today approved the nominations of the new state department high command, but a senate floor fight against some of President Roosevelt s selections appeared Imminent, f Nomination of Joseph C. Grew to be undersecretary was endorsed unanimously. r Four Against MacLaish ' There was one vote against William L. Clayton as assistant secretary that of Sen. James M. Murray, D., Mont. and four unidentified votes were cast against Archibald Mac Leish as assistant secretary. Committee members reported there also was "some discussion" of the designation of Nelson A. Rockerfeller as assistant secre-tary.-v-i""u-t"- r.-'ltr, " All (four nominations finally were approved by the commit tee, however, with some mem bers reserving the right to op pose some of the names when they are brought up on the floor of the senate for conformation. ' The committee also approved a bill to create two new assist ant secretaryships, raising the total to six. The two new posts, it was understood, will be filled by James C, Dunn, chief ot the department's European division, and Brig. Gen. Julius C. Holmes, civil affairs director of the staff of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. COL GREEN BACK ON ACTIVE DUTY Mrs. Fred Green. West Main street, recently received a letter from her husband, Lt. Col. Fred Green who was wounded on Leyte,, October 25, stating that his wound was Inflicted by a shell fragment near the heart, The letter hinted that he was again on active duty. Coi. Green is with the combat quartermas ter corps on Leyte. . "NO STRIKE" PLEDGE San Francisco, Dec. 5 (U.PJ Approximately 4,500 ware house employes and a group of some 200 employers today were pledged against strikes and lock outs for the duration of a three year contract, believed to be one of the first of its kind in the United States. Dorsey Trial Jon Hall lost the slice of his nose that led to the assault charge against Dorsey, Mrs. Dor sey, and gambler Allen bmuey Judge Crum entered the ques tioning himself, asking Icaza if he d ever been in a mental hos pital. "I don't remember," said Icaza. . "Were you ever an actor?" asked the Judge. "I don't remember," said Icaza. "A lot of your answers," the Judge said soberly, "sound like subterfuge and very close to per jury, a felony." Isaac Pacht, who with dea ler is bearing the burden of the defense, introduced a deposition to show that Icaba really was an actor, whether sinister meaning might bo lead into last. Belgian in ' . Dead and wounded civilians lit where the sky into a hues shopping crowd. PROVES FATAL TO Delwln. pthello Hurley, 69, route 2 Ashland, was killed about S o'clock yesterday when he fell from the running board of a 1934 model Ford truck driv en" by Robert Wendell Reynolds, 16, also of route 2. The accident occurred about a half-mile east of Talent on the Valley View road. Reynolds, who was driving the truck, registered to George Yockel, Llthia Hotel, Ashland, had picked Hurley up to take hlme to his home. Hurley died of a fractured skull and a broken neck. In vestigation showed Reynolds was not responsible for the acci dent, according to C. M. Litwll ler, deputy coroner. Hurley was born August. 28, 1875, in Jewell City, Kansas, and had lived in. the Rogue valley over 40 years. He is survived by two brothers-in-law, Frank and Charles Holdridge of Talent. The body is at Litwiller's Funeral Home in Ashland pend ing funeral arrangements. BY EIGHTH ARMY Rome, Dec. B-OJ.R) Eighth army troops have captured the Important road center of Raven na, eight miles lniana irom Italy's Adriatic coast, it was an nounced today. Ravenna, with a population of 30,000, is the focal point for highways leading to Bologna in Italy's Po valley and to norm eastern Italy. . British infantry units previ ously had cut the Ravenna-Bo logna railway line in occupying Godo and Russl, midway be tween Ravenna and Faenza, the latter a key center on the im portant Bologna-Rimini high way. (A Berlin military spokesman reported that Field Marshal Harold R.' L. G. Alexander, commander-in-chief of Allied Mediterranean forces, had launched a new offensive in Italy.) . FEDERAL PRISONERS HOLD FOUR OFFICERS Washington, Dec. 5 (U.R) Warden Joseph W. Sanford of the federal penitentiary at At lanta advised the Justice depart ment that about 25 prisoners barricaded themselves In a pri son building today and held four officers as hostages. The department said 'It has been impossible so far to learn exactly the cause ot the difficul ty, except that some objection has been made to the quarter ing of German saboteurs and spies in tne same building." 3 s&48gggd Tribune United Press FuU 1944 Victims of Nazi V2 : f 1 M - Ate & - I - rV L". i. 1 I 1 f Acme Radio-Telephoto) they fell on Belgian city street after German V-J bomb screamed from Force of blast was so terrUio that the victim' clothes vera blown off. Signal Core radlo-tdeolwtn. , Woman Takes Four Furs Off Dummies In Daring Robbery Portland, Ore., Dec. S-XUR) The woman who calmly removed four furs valued at $1,339 from the dummies in a display win dow of a downtown Portland de partment store and then walked nonchalantly out In the broad if . cloudy daylight, : was no dummy herself, police admitted ruefully today. An assistant window dresser saw the woman in back of the display windows and asked her what she was doing there, tine replied that she was an employe and the store wanted to see the price tags on the furs. 1 ' The theft was discovered few moments later. - BLAZE DESTROYS APPLEGATE AREA Fire yesterday afternoon total lv destroyed the old Frank Cameron home In the Applegate district. The home, constructed in 1868, stood near the bridge which marks the Junction of the Little Applegate and Applegate rivers and was considered a landmark of the Applegate area Mr. and Mrs. Carl Murphy were residing on the place as caretakers and were able to save most of. their possessions. The Murphy s reported that the blaze evidently started irom tne iiue or wiring upstairs and that tne entire second story was well afire before they discovered the blaze. The house had no water sys tem. A pressure pump had re cently been purchased for a newly dug well and was to have been installed yesterday about the time the fire started. The. ranch and home was leased last summer to James Miller of Ashland and extensive repairs, and remodeling had re cently been completed. MILK PASTEURIZATION LAW WILL BE SOUGHT Salem, Ore., Dec. 8 (U.R) E. L. Peterson, director of the Oregon Department of Agricul ture, will urge the passage of legislation requiring the pasteur ization of all dairy products as a means to combat undulant fever, in his biennial report now being prepared for the legisla ture, which will meet In Jan uary. A conference of various state officials and other persons in terested is expected to be called soon by Gov. Earl Snell, Peter son said. NO BEET CHANGE Washington, Dec. 5 (U.R) The War Food Administration today told representatives of the sugar beet Industry that no change will be made in the an nounced 1945 price support program (or becU, Leased Wire NO. 217. Bomb ip j i r'myiw" nsw 1 1 mu" FEDERALS SEIZE E STOCK OF Denvfir,.D.ec.t B (U.R) -r-The seizure c" $50,60(C" worth of whisky, gin, ruirit and wine In three; southeastern Colorado towns near the ; Kansas and Oklahoma borders was disclosed tonight by District Superintend ent A. V. Anderson of the fed eral alcohol tax unit. It represented the largest seizure ot liquor in the history of the 13th district, which Includes Colorado,- Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico,' Anderson said. . The liquor 1,716 cases of na tionally known brands did not bear the federal wholesale tax stamps. It was seized from three estab lishments the Jones liquor store at Holly, of which Ed Jones is proprietor; the Dulaney liquor store at Buckeye, of which Mrs. Iva Hazel Dulaney Copley 'Is the owner, and the Oasis liquor store at Walsh, the owner being Paul Thompson. Each of the proprietors is be ing held in technical custody, ALARiDlAZIS FLEEING VIENNA London, Dec. 5. U.R) Rus sian armored columns crashed through the German defenses on both sides of Lake Balaton in a mile-an-hour drive on the Austrian frontier today and roundabout Berlin dispatches said alarmed Nazi officials were fleeing Vienna in the path of the red army Juggernaut. Routed -German and Hungar ian troops fled westward over roads choked with refugees as the soviet onrush crumpled both flanks of the Lake Balaton line barely 60 miles from Austrian soil and 120 miles or less from Vienna. Berlin acknowledged the fall of Siofok on the northeastern shore ot the lake to a fast Rus sian column that pushed up four miles from captured Sagvar, and snoke vaguely of "elastic" de fensive tactics in that sectoi: the usual prelude to announce ment of a general German with drawal. MADE IN JAPAN Washington. Dec. 5 (U.R) Reo. John Z. Anderson, R. Calif., told the house today that some trophies sold at the Army- Navy football game at Baltimore last Saturday were , stamped "Made in Japan," STAR DIVORCED Hollywood, Dec. 5 (U.R) Film Star Eleanor Parker held a divorce decree today from Lt Fred L. Losee, navy oral sur geon, because, she said, he told her being married to a movie star, just wun't the life for him. M5 ALLIES WILL m TO KEEP British Forces In Greece Wilt Attempt to Stave Off Civil War, Commons Told. London, Dec. 5 (U.R) Prima Minister Winston Churchill said today the Allies would exert their full weight of arms to re store order In strife-torn Greece, but they could not succeed if ' tommyguns provided for. usa against the nazis were used in an attempt to impose a "com munist dictatorshiD" on tha country. Churchill sketched for a clam. orous house of commons, which frequently Interrupted him with pointed questions, the bloodv crisis in Greece. He said tha 'considerable" British fnr n Greece would be engaged fully in an attempt to put down left ist demonstrations and attacks, and to stave off the threatened civil war. New Outbreaks Even as he spoke, Athens dis patches reDorted new nnthrMlra of violence. We and our American allies are doing our utmost to give as sistance and our troops are act ing to prevent bloodshed," Churchill told a cheering house of commons. Whether the Greek peopla es tablish a monarchy or a mmih. lie. government of the right or left, "'are matters entirely ft iiiciu, wnurcniu said. uensL Dec. 5-U.R)Flerca fighting broke o u t at several poihts In .Athena today and minor clashes spread throughout the city after an unofficial re port circulated that Premier George Papandreou had re signed. Athens oollca entlmt (. that about .100 persons wars killed In yesterday's rioting and possioiy as many as 250. persons were wounded. Forty-three were killed or spirited away by tha . f rces ta an "ck last night on Citv crlsnnn i,(Knrll said. Leftists Attack Leftist Elas . forma .ba the gendarmerie barracks o Hadjikosta In tha center of Athena and a pitched battle an sued with both sides using mor tars. !' -. Followers of the rlahtt.it TA.m organization barricaded them. selves In the Metropolis hotel. They showered pistol fire hand grenades on Elas demonstrators wno counter - attacked with heavy weapons, precipitating some of the heaviest fighting of the three days of disorders here. Washington. Dec it mm The state department today set " an omciai pioicy toward internal politics in liberated areas which seemingly placed the United States In direct op position to British exercise of In fluence in Italian and Greek governmental affairs. - The cabinet crlsl in Ttni department said In a prepared statement, Is "purely an Italian affair" which should be settled by Italians "along democratic lines without influence from out side." The statement left the clear Implication that this coun try disapproves of British influ ence as expected In current ef forts to set up a new Italian cabi net. . HOUSE FOR INCREASE IN WAR I PENSIONS Washington, Dec. 6 (U.R) The House today passed and sent to the White House a bill to Increase the government compensation paid tot the wid ows and orphans of the first World War. Limiting total benefits In any case to $74 per month, the bill authorizes a pension of $35 month for a widow with no chil dren, $45 a month for a widow with one child and $5 a month for each additional child. COVER GIRL "SERIOUS Hollywood, Dec. 5 (U.PJ Cover-girl Kay Aldrldge who ia now a "queen" of the serials, today radmitted she was "seri ous" about Arthur Cameron, wealthy Texas oil man, whose divorce from Actress June Knight caused headlines across -the nation, but said there was no engagement. Jackson County salts to date in the Sixth War Loan ere "I" Bends $296,535 Total Sales S1.209.303
