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wlUi Intermittent rain tonight
and Wednesday; warmer to
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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.
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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."
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United Press FuU
1944
Victims of Nazi V2
: f 1 M - Ate & -
I - rV L". i. 1 I 1
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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,
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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