Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 13, 1944, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWeather Oia The MAIL THIBUHE Want Ad Way Quick Results At SmcU Cost Tribune Forecast! Continued clear wit warm afternoons and frett ing temperatures at nlghu Temp. Highest yesterday , , 62 Lowest this morning 26 United Pri .fuU Leased Wire Unittd Praia full Leased Wit Thirty ninth Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 33 044 NO. 224. MEDF0RDa L -' i - . : . ; i " T Storm Suburbs of Duren Patch's Force In East Near Siegfried Line. ' Paris, Dec. 13. (U.R) Ameri can first army troops plunged forward up to two miles through three towns In the snow-blanket ed Monschau forest below be leaguered Durne today in a new attack which broadened Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' Rhineland offensive front to at least 20 miles. The doughboys were storming the suburbs of Duren, key cita del - 20 miles west of Cologne, and Berlin said they had reach ed the Roer river on either side of Duren while pressing at tempts to break Into the town itself. Hodges' new push in the Mon schau forest some 15 miles southwest of . Duren broke a three months lull in that sector and in the first few hours rolled eastward through Rollesbroich, near the headwaters of the Roer, and the villages of Bickerath and Simmerath, a mile apart and two miles southwest of Rolles broich. Lt Gen. Alexander M. Patch's seventh army at the other end of the active western front raced northward through the eastern tip of France within sight of the Siegfried line and the German border where it cuts westward from the Karlsruhe area. ' Patch's veterans of the drive from the Mediterranean smash ed across a river beyond Seltz, near the Rhine, and also above Langensoultzbach, north of Hag- enau, In new gains advancing the potential threat of turning the westwall at its Palatinate elbow. TWO-PRONG PUSH United Press Correspondent Jack Franklsh reported from the Monschau forest of Germany that in their new attack the first army troops were driving uphill and through melting snow in the woods lying directly below the Hurtgen forest. It was a two-pronged push that Hodges loosed at dawn un der a heavy artillery bombard ment but without air support which the murky overcast made Impossible. By nightfall, Franklsh said, the gains ranged from one to two miles. The first objective, Rollesbroich, was in American hands by mid-morning. Later in the day the neighboring hamlets of Bickerath and Simmerath, the latter a secondary road junction, were captured. The Germans pocketed in the Colmar area along the Upper Rhine counter-attacked heavily in the area of Selestat, 17 miles northeast of Colmar. Front dispatches reported some street fighting at Seltz, 15 miles southwest of Karlsruhe, but said the spearhead driven beyond the town to the border region had been widened to em brace Niederoedegn, three miles to the west. . Another seventh army spear head probing northward from the Haguenau area was four miles or less from the border and breasting heavy fire from the German guns in the Siegfried line. 1 ASK WAGE BOOST Denver, Dec. 13 (U.R) An in ternational organizer for the union representing approximate ly 8,000 employes of six sugar beet companies today presented employes' demands for higher wages to the National Sugar Panel In Denver, WEEKLY SOLD Winters, Cal., Dec. 13 (U.R) F. C. Hemmenway, editor ana publisher of the Weekly Winters Express, today announced sale of the newspaper to Walter W. Stark of Sacramento, formerly a banker at Winters. Washington, Dec. 13. U.R The threatened shutdown by New York butchers prompted the office of price administra tion today to renew its pleas for price ceilings on live cattle. Center of Barry IM m)K tfK1 " (Acmm Telepholo) Carol Ann Barry, 14 months old, unconcernedly looks over huge legal tome in lawyer's office as her mother, Joan Br'T, prepares to prove in Hollywood court that comedian Charlie Chapud Is the child's father DELAY BY COURT IN JOAN'S SUIT Hollywood, Dec. 13 U.R) Superior Judge Ruben S. Schmidt today listened to a plea for delay by Charlie Chaplin's attorneys and then ordered them to get on with the business of finding out who is the father of red-haired Joan Barry's baby. Miss Barry, a freckle-faced former Brooklynite, says it is Chaplin. The multimillionaire comedian's attorneys say it could be any one of a number of peo ple, including perhaps Hans Reusch, the writer on whose ac count they asked Judge Schmidt to delay the suit. Reusch, said Attorney Pat Millikan, is in New York and won't come back if subpoenaed to testify. Before denial of the motion to dismiss, Millikan said Reusch's testimony was relevant and that if he were here to testify, he would say that Miss Barry spent considerable time in his apart ment, told of taking trips with other men, including millionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, and that she wanted Chaplin to support her. . A note she left Reusch, accord ing to the Millikan version, said: "I did care for you. If only Charles had proviaed means for me to live I would have wanted to know you better. Forgive me. Mommy," On New Year's day, 1943, he came home in the morning, Mil likan said, to find Miss Barry's clothes strewn about and his pa jamas missing. ' Miss Barry presumably was in them, but Millikan never got to that point. . Both Miss Barry and Chaplin were on call, but not present in court as it opened. His chief de fense, it appeared, would be a blood test.- DEFENSE STARTS E Witnesses for the prosecution were cross-examined by the de fense attorney, O. H. Bengtson this morning in the circuit trial of Woodrow Wilson Newburn, charged with statutory rape of a minor. There were no defense witnesses. The case is being heard by Judge H. K. Hanna. Court officials expect the case would go to the Jury some time this afternoon. Serving on the Jury are Ray Zulauf, Ward B. Spetz, Charles Dooms, Frank Sauer. Francis Dudley, Nels Ja- cobson, Frank W. Houston, Lela Shoares, Ernest S. Madden Gladys Roberts. Blanche Hans- com and Mary Igo. Paternity Suit ANEW BY US'. IN NIGHT ASSAULT London, Dee. 13. (U.R) More than BOO British heavy bombers attacked the German rail and Industrial center of Essen in the Ruhr valley! last night while RAF Mosquito raiders pounded enemy targets at Osnabruck. Dense' cloud formations blan keted - Essen, . but returning bomber crews reported that the glow of huge fires was clearly visible through the overcast and that pillars of smoke billowed up almost four miles over the city. li Night fighters of the RAF bomber command supported the main attack, destroying five en emy fighters and shooting up Nazi airfields enroute. Most of Essen already had been badly battered by repeated Brit ish and American attacks, but the city still was considered an important cog In the German army's western supply and com munications system, containing more than a score of big freight yards. E VOTE EVEN, MAGNUSON QUITS Washington, Dec. 13. U.R) Rep, Warren G. Magnuson, D., Wash., who was appointed to the U. S. senate yesterday, today notified Speaker Sam Rayburn that he has resigned his seat in the house. The resignation wiped out the Democratic party's numerical superiority in the house for the first time, since 1930. Both the Republican and Democratic par ties now have 212 members In the lower chamber. Magnuson was named by Re publican Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington to serve out the unexpired term of Homer T. Bone who resigned Nov. 13. Magnuson, elected to succeed Bone last month would have taken office to begin his six year term In January. By taking up his senate seat now, he will have seniority over other newly-elect ed members who take their scats Jan. 3. r Radio Highlights Washington, Dec. 13. U.R) President Roosevelt will speak for about 15 minutes over all broadcasting networks at 5:15 p.m., EWT, on Sunday, Dec. 24, in his annual Christmas eve ad- dress to the nation, the White House announced today. TEN MORE ENEMY SHIPS WIPED OUT, HUNDREDSPERISH Attempt to Save Trapped Japs on Leyte Fails; Final Battle Phase Near. Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, Dec. 13. (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur regrouped his ground forces for the final phase of the battle of Leyte to day after his planes and torpedo boats wiped out their ninth Jap anese reinforcement convoy in aix weeks .off the northwest coast. . Ten of 11 ships in the convoy were wrecked and thousands of soldiers drowned in a two-day air and sea battle that smashed an 11th jour Japanese attempt to reinforce and supply the 20, 000 to 25,000 troops facing anni hilation in the Ormoc corridor. American fighters and fighter bombers sank three transports totaling 19,000 tons nd three es corting destroyers in a series of attacks lasting from dawn Mon day to dusk Tuesday. Two me- d'um transports and another de stroyer were, left dead tin the v.-ater and burning. A torpedo boat sank a fourth cargo transport of 8,000 tons Monday night. Only a single de stroyer escaped from the battle without serious damage. A spokesman for MacArthur acknowledged, however, that some of the .vessels may have k nded a few supplies and troops at Palompon, .sole west' coast port remaining in Japanese hands before they were wrecked. , Japanese planes struck back with an attack on an American co. voy steaming south' after un loading supplies and reinforce ments for the American 77th and 7th divisions at Ormoc. "Some damage and casualties" ' w e r e caused, MacArthur's communi que said, but these were not con sidered great. SENAWVOTE HURLEY & HELLER Washington, Dec. 13 (U.R) The senate -military affairs com mittee today recommended sen ate confirmation of former Gov, Robert A. Hurley of Connecti cut and Lt. Col. Edward M. Hel ler of California as members of the surplus property board. The vote was along party lines, with 10 Democrats and two Republicans voting for Hel ler and five Republicans voting against him. The vote on Hurley was 10 to 6, with 9 Democrats and one Republican, Sen. Rufus C. Holman, R., Ore., voting for him, and five Republicans and one Democrat, Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo., voting against him. ' Sen. A. B. Chandler, D., Ky., took the nominations immediate ly to the senate floor. He told reporters they will go on the calendar and will probably be acted upon by the senate tomor row. They are expected to run headlong into opposition from nearly all of the senate's 37 Re publican members. Washington, Dec, 13. U.R The senate foreign relations committee today concluded open hearings on six high state de partment nominations and im mediately went into executive session to determine its next step in connection with them. Committee Chairman Tom Connelly, D., Tex., seeking the six nominations before the sen ate tomorrow afternoon, indicat ed that he hoped the committee would vote this afternoon to endorse them. The hearings ended with Sec retary of State Edward R. Stet- tinius, Jr., assuring Sen. Albert B. Chandler, D., Ky., that the state department "stands on its own feet" In diplomatic rela tionships throughout the world. About one-third of the United States is forest land. Jap War BUDAPEST AFIRE FALL IMMINENT. Nazis Arm Civilians For Suicide Defense of Hun gary Capitol. London, Dec. 13 U.R) The Germans began arming a rag tag army of Hungarian civilians for a suicidal stand in the streets of Budapest today as Soviet tanks and shock troops stormed through the eastern suburbs be hind an earth-shaking artillery barrage. The desperate Nazi move came on the heels of a Moscow broadcast declaring that Buda pest was at the mercy of the Red army and that its fall was expected imminently. House-to-house fighting al ready -was raging in outlying districts on the east bank of the Danube, where the Russians overran and silenced scores ofj enemy guns ana cut one 01 tne main loop railways over which the Germans had been shuttling troops to meet the multiple soviet threat. But a great concentration of Nazi artillery still was raking the Red army assault lines with a murderous counter-fire ,,nd defiant -German-' and- Hungarian military authorities, proclaimed their intention of defending the capital to 'the death. - With the bulk of their own regular troops reportedly evacu ated to escape entrapment in the burning city, , the Nazis called upon the citizens of Budapest to take up the guns of the fallen and fight for their capital. . Moscow reports asserted, however, that defections were spreading among . Hungarian troops and civilians and that many of them were turning their weapons against the Ger mans in the suburban areas. JUST CANT MAKE Washington. Den. la fllP Witnesses in pffprt tnlrt tha pn. ate war investigating committee today that there's a cigaret shortage because there's a short age oi cigarets. The simple fact, they said, Is that manufacturers can't pro duce enouah ciearets tn meet Increasing armed service de- mana, nigner civilian consump tion, and over-buyng at coun ters. Contributing fact ore. wit nesses agreed, are manpower shortages In ' cigaret factories which prohibit expansion of Droduction. and. tn a pupr Hp- gree, a tobacco leaf shortage. ine ieat snortage, they empha sized will become acute in an other 10 to 12 months. PLAN MORE TIRES FOR WAR NEEDS Washington, Dec. 13 (U.R) The War Production Board has ordered construction of new fa cilities for manufacturing military-type tires to increase out put by 4,000,000 tres a year to meet rising battlefront demands. WFB Chief of Operations Hlland G. Batcheller disclosed todday. CONTRACT LET Sacramento, Dec. 13 (U.R) The U. S. army engineers dis trict office today announced award of a contract for $396,000 to McDonald and Kahn, San Francisco, for Installation of an automatic sprinkler system at Sierra ordnance depot, Reno, Nev. A California redwood, 364 feet high, it the tallest tree In the world, Plants on War Bulletins U. 8. Pacific Fleet Head quarters, Pearl Harbor, Dec. 13. (U.R) Pearl Harbor of ficials declined comment to day on Australian radio re ports that Adm. Chester W. Nimits, commander In chief oi Pacific ocean areas, would, move his headquarters to' Guam soon. London, Dec. 13 (U.R) The Insurgent ELAS forces appar ently held control of tha Athens radio station today. It was broadcasting attacks on British forces. GENERAL STRIKE DETROITjECTOR War Workers Asked Not to Leave Jobs to Picket ' Ward Stores. Detroit, Dec. 13 (U.R) Union leaders today admonished war workers against leaving their jobs in support of striking Mont gomery Ward Sc Company em ployes, but said all other support would be given the United Re tail, Wholesale Sc .Department Store workers in a campaign to force government action against the firm's defiance of the war labor board. - Richard Frankensteen. inter national vice president of the powerful United Auto Workers (CIO) union, and August Scholle, state CIO director, asserted that fears of a general strike In this war production center over the Ward issue were unfounded. - "The UAW will support the Ward employes In every way except Joining them in, strike action," Frankensteen said. "The issue, serious as it is, should not Interfere with munitions sup ply." Most Detroit war workers are affiliated with the UAW- CIO. Labor members of the region al WLB Joined the picketing of four Ward stores here as an estimated 1,650 or 2,200 full- time employes extended their walkout in its fifth day. Striking Ward workers, mem bers of CIO's United Retail, Wholesale Sc Department Store employes, formed the spearhead of a concerted CIO drive to break Montgomery Ward's re sistance of a 1942 WLB order. The order called for union secur ity and minimum wages in seven states where Ward oper ates retail outlets. PLANTS FAVORED Sacramento, Dec. 13 (U.R) Legislation to authorize joint construction and operation by farmers of cold storage plants when "normal" cold storage fa cilities are not adequate to avert crop losses will be considered at a meeting Friday summoned by A. A, Brock, director of agricul ture, Brock announced today. Brock said approximately 70, 000 tons of California bumper peach crop rotted this year be cause canneries could not keep up with production, and that 550,000 bags of potatoes were lost to human consumption for similar reasons. The, amount of money lost by Delta district onion growers would have paid for a cold stor age warehouse, Brock said. arabTanlTne HIT Bakersfield, Cal., Dec. 13. (U.R) The proposed Arabian pipe line to be built by federal agen ies today was branded "tanta mount to power politics," and "practically a prime mover in World War IU," by Congress man B. W. Oearhart, R., Calif., following the annual meeting of the San Joaquin Valley Oil Pro ducers association here. Home Island Blasted BEVINS TELLS OF SOVIET-BRITISH DEALONGREECE Pact Initialled by F.D.R. at Quebec Parley Elas Force Open Offensive. Athens, Dec. 13 (U.R) Elas forces opened a full scale attack from all directions on a shrink ing British pocket in the heart or Atnens toaay, ana in one sec tor broke Into the compound of a military barracks. , London, Dec. 13 U.R) Labor Minister Ernest Bevin revealed today that Britain had an agree ment with Russia regarding the "stabilization" of Greece, and that proposals concerning Greece were initiated by President Roosevelt at Quebec. Bevin, in a blunt speech at the British labor party's annual con ference, disclosed that the labor ministers in Prime Minister Win ston Churchill's cabinet took part in the decisions on Britain's policy in Greece, and "looking back, I cannot convince myself that any of these decisions were wrong." . After Bevln's candid speech wnicn in effect comprised a de fense of Churchill and labor leaders with - regard -to -their policy in -the- current Greek crisis, the army approved a com promise resolution urging an Im mediate armistice in Greece, establishment - of a provisional government and eventually free elections. " ' (Informed sources In Washing ton said that whatever Balkan political stabilization plans Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill initiated in Quebec, could not have antic ipated the present civil war in Greece. No one in Washington officialdom Interpreted Bevln's speech as meaning the president approved of any plans for Inter ference, in the Greek political and military crisis of the last ten days.) . - . , Portland, Ore., Dec. 13 (U.R) The world peace plans laid at Dumbarton Oak ahnnlrl ha thnr. oughly understood by all citi zens, declared Adm. Arthur J. nepDurn of Washington, D. C, leader of A atate denartmiint delegation here to conduct a series of conferences with Port land area citizens. Adm. Henburn la hparf nf th U. S. navy general board and was senior military delegate to the Dumbarton Oaks conference. "The general misconception of me peace plan is that an Inter national arm V wnillH h nraan. ized. Instead, each nation in the United Nations group would make a military force available under a joint command aiirh aa the Allies are now fighting un der,- tne admiral explained. Third Time Charm Deserts Cracksman New York. Itw. 1.1 flIPl Two burglars broke into an of fice building looking for safes hj cracK. iney rouna tnree. on the first thev lledffe-hammareri the dial, but couldn't work the tumblers. They hammered the second ,dui couiant open It Thev bored a hole In th thlrri opened the door and found It empty. San FranHwn Tlnn ii n i d Members of a house subcom mittee on naval affalra srrlvH on the island of Guam, today, Jackson County sales to date In the Sixth War Loan are "E" Bond $445,870 Total Sates S1.989.374 BY B-29 Offensive Speeds Evacua tion of Major Industries From Key Cities. Washington, Dec. 13 (U.R) Heavy explosions and large , fires were reported by Super- . fortresses which made a day light attack today on Kagoya. Japan, home of the Mitsubishi aircraft plant The raid was carried out by a "sisable" force of the mam moth planet from the 21st bomber command base on Sal pan, a 20th air force communi que said. Fighter opposition was alight and flak opposition was moder ate, the communique added. No reports of any bomber losses or enemy fighter planea destroyed were Included in tha report which said such informa tion would be given after final reports of the crews were care fully tabulated. , Nagoya, scene, of the 24th Superfortress raid on Japan's re sources, is one of Japan's four principal Industrial manufactur ing centers, a city of nearly 1,. 500,000. It wa 'Understood the Mlt. sublshi plant was the main tar get although the communique) did -not specifically say so. "Preliminary reports from Brig. Gen. H. S. Hansell. corn mander of the 21st bomber com mand based on Saipan. reveal that tha bombing was accom plished visually and that heavy explosions and large fires war observed in the target area," thai communique said. It appeared from communi ques Issued thus far on the at tack that upwards of 100 B-29i participated. - Washington, Dec. 13 U.R Upwards of 100 B-29 Superfort resses bombed the great aircraft center of Nagoya and other tar gets on the main Japanese island of Honshu today, and enemy broadcasts admitted that tha mounting aerial offensive was forcing the evacuation of major industries from Tokyo and other key cities. A German DNB dispatch from Tokyo said single B-29s also had made new nuisance raids on the greater Tokyo area itself during the night, dropping high explo sive and incendiary bombs "which fell almost entirely in coastal waters without causing damage." The war department announced today's attack on industrial tar gets on Honshu without naming any specific objectives, but near ly three hours later Tokyo said the Superfortresses had hit the "vicinities" of Nagoya, 165 miles southwest of Tokyo, and Hama matsu, 55 miles southeast of Na goya. Another Tokyo broadcast heard in London said that as Superfortresses attacks against Japan steadily increased, "prior ity in evacuation" was being given the "most Important In dustries" and non-essential civil ians. The report' Indicates that Japan, following the lead of bomb-battered Britain and Ger many, was setting up a system of "shadow factories" dispersed over the Japanese home Islands to house industries now concen trated in major cities, where they offer juicy targets to Amer ican bombardiers. - ' Axis radios yesterday said that civilians were being evac uated from Tokyo at the rate of 20,000 a day. Nagoya, named by Tokyo aa one of the main targets in to day's B-29 attack, before the war was Japan's biggest aircraft manufacturing center. It was the site of the Mitsubishi heavy in dustries, which manufactured aircraft, engines, hydro-electria and general industrial equip ment. New England now hat mora area In some form of forest growth than lt did 150 years ago.