Nazis Flee From Western Bulge; Start New Push in Northeast France
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Thirty-ninth Year
Utah Train
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At least 48 persons were killed and more than 100 injured in this
Southern Pacific's crack westbound Pacific Limited passenger train
Lake. 14 miles west of Ogden. Utah. Most of the dead were in the
shown here telescoped after the 12-car second section plowed into it.
S.P.
ADDS 48 TO LIST
OF HOLIDAY DEAD
' Br United Press
i Deaths caused by accidents
during the three-day holiday
week-end reached 241 today
with the collision of two sec
tions of a Southern Pacific pas
senger train claiming 48 lives.
Aside from the train wreck,
which occurred near Ogden,
Utah, California led the states
with 22 deaths.. Pennsylvania,
was second with 18 and Michi
gan third with 15. .
: Throughout the nation, traffic
accidents took more than 115
lives.
,-. Ogden, Utah, Jan. 2 U.R
Traffic was resumed over the
Southern Pacific railroad today
as officials tentatively sched
uled an investigation into the
wreck of the Pacific Limited in
which 48 persons were killed
and 76 others injured early
Sunday in a disastrous rear end
collision 22 miles west of here.
. Eleven cars of the two trains
were broken and telescoped
when the fast 20-car mail and
express section of the Limited
ran through red signals, tor
pedo warning and flares and
ploughed Into the sleeper car
at the rear of the 18-car passen
ger section.
Delayed By Freight
The passenger train had been
delayed by a freight which had
stopped to repair a hot box. It
had just started to move again
when the fast express hurtled
out of the pre-dawn darkness
and ploughed into it, telescop
ing the cars, ripping up a half
mile of track and scattering
pieces of wreckage and bodies
for nearly 100 yards on both
sides of the tracks.
' It was all over In a few sec
onds, but in that time the crack
train was turned into what Dr.
L. S. Sycamore, Ogden, de
scribed as a "mass of twisted
and broken steel, sprinkled with
arms, legs and torsos of passen
gers and crewmen."
Nearly all of the dead, many
of them servicemen returning
to duty after spending Christ
mas furloughs with relatives,
were among passengers and
crewmen of the sleepers, diner
and daycoach at the rear of the
passenger train.
Only seven occupants of the
last car of the passenger section
escaped alive. One whole fam
ily of four, a man and his wife
and two daughters, were snuff
ed out in the crash.
They were identified as Mr.
and Mrs. Leroy Porter, Sparks,
Nev., and their daughters, Peg
gy, 14, and Mary, 8. In addi
tion, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fran
cis, a brother and sister-in-law
of the Porters, also were killed.
James McDonald, 64, Ogden,
engineer of the mail express
died as the steam locomotive
crashed, but his fireman, M. E.
Hardman, also of Ogden es
caped with minor injuries and
shock.
Hardman said he saw the
flares and shouted to the engl
nees that "something is wrong".
A few seconds later, he said the
engine hit the torpedo warning
signals and immediately after
that the crash occurred
Medford
OaiUd Prni
Wreck Takes
Search For Dead In Wreck
fin iMnMlm,
Using crow bars and torches, rescue workers (arrow) fight their
way into twisted cars of tha Southern Pacific's Pacific Limited,
wrecked near Ogden. Utah.
IN WINDUP PLEA
Hollywood, Jan. 2 U.R)
Charlie Chaplin's attorney, mak
ing his final argument to a jury
of seven women and five men
today, hammered away at Joan
Barry's story of the month of
December, the one in which she
says the comedian caused her to
become a mother.
She was mixed up on the
dates, told at least two different
stories, and on at least one of the
three occasions wasn't with the
actor long enough for anything
to happen, Attorney Charles E.
Millikan said in slow, deliberate
fashion.
Two Possibilities
At least two other men could
have been the father of the child,
he set forth, citing testimony of
Dr. Russell Starr that the period
of gestation is 270 days from con
ception, with a possibility of
two weeks variance either more
or less.
"Mr. O. C. Lassiter, former as
sistant county attorney In Tulsa,
Okla., has testified that Miss
Barry admitted to him that she
spent at least a day in the Mayo
hotel In Tulsa January 12 with
oil man J. Paul Getty.
"January 12 is 270 days minus
two weeks from October 2, the
day Carol Ann was born.
With Reusch, Too
"She was in the apartment of
Writer Hans Reusch a number
of times in December, by her
own account.
"The blood test," by which
three doctors ruled Chaplin
could not De tne father, "is com
pletely unrefuted and irrefut
able. Miss Barry's counsel has
waved it aside with a gesture.'
FuU Lund Wire
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 194 g
Many Lives
wreck of two sections of the
near the shore of Great Salt
rear coach of the first section,
New Rocket Bomb
Will Rule Pacific
Is Japanese Boast
By United Press
A Tokyo broadcast, beamed to
Latin America, asserted Tuesday
that a Japanese-manufactured
rocket bomb would make its de
but in the Pacific "soon."
The broadcast, recorded by
the FCC, quoted the Domei News
agency as predicting:
"The day is near when the
efforts of our scientists will
dominate the skies of the Pa
cific ocean."
T
London,. Jan. 2 flJ.PJ Red
army toops captured 232 blocks
of houses in the eastern part of
Budapest today and 63 blocks in
the western half of the Hun
garian capital, a Moscow com
munique said tonight.
The communique said soviet
forces had repelled heavy Ger
man attacks southeast of Komar-
no, west of Budapest on the road
to Vienna, and inflicted heavy
losses on the enemy.
SIR BERTRAM RAMSEY,
NAVY CHIEF, KILLED
Paris, Jan. 2 U.P.) Adm. Sir
Bertam Ramsey, naval commander-in-chief
under Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, was
killed today In an airplane ac
cident while on his way to a
conference in Belgium.
TAX SUIT FILED
Hollywood, Jan. 2 flJ.PJ
Movie Producer B. P. Schulberg
today was named defendant in a
federal government suit charg
ing he, owes $101,808.14 Income
taxes and Interest for 1934-39.
Federal Grand Ju " Eyes Ward Seizure
As Store Managers Replaced by Army
TWO WAREHOUSES
IN DETROIT AREA
ALSO TAKEN OVER
Eight Company Officials in
St. Paul Refuse to Obey
Orders or to Leave Plant.
Chicago, Jan. 2 QJ.PJ A fed
eral grand jury met in special
session today to investigate the
government s seizure of Mont
gomery Ward and company as
the army moved swiftly toward
a snowdown on its ability to op
erate the retail store and mail
order -firm s facilities in seven
cities without co-operation from
the company s top executives
U. S. District Attorney J. Al
bert Woll went before the spe
cial session of the December
January grand jury to ask in
vestigation of whether the com
pany violated the Smith-Connal-
ly act and whether there was
any conspiracy against the gov
ernment in the company's resist
ance to the seizure and operation
of the plants by the army.
Other rapid-fire developments
in the Montgomery Ward case
today included:
1. Maj. Gen.. Joseph Byron,
army officer assigned to operate
the seized Ward facilities, an
nounced Ward officials refusing
to co-operate with the govern
ment's operations would be re
moved and that all other steps
necessary to the army's opera
tion of the facilities would be
taken. . ;
2t Four store managers for
Montgomery Ward in the Detroit
area were removed and replaced
by army officers. .
3. The army seized two addi
tional Ward warehouses at De
troit. ,
4. Eight Wards officials in St.
Paul refused to accept army ap
pointmnets and seven refused to
leave the plant. They were re
placed by a staff headed by Maj.
Paul A. Getty, but no effort to
evict the seven who refused to
leave was made.
Woll did not elaborate on
what violations of the Smith
Connally act might be involved
in the grand jury investigation
but it was the company's refusal
to grant certain union contracts
in compliance with war labor
board orders that led to the gov
ernment seizure of the Ward fa
cilities last Thursday.
"JAFSIE" PASSES
New York, Jan. 2 U.R) Dr.
J. F. Condon, 84, intermediary
in the Lindbergh kidnaping case,
died today ten years to the day
after Bruno Richard Hauptmann
went on trial for the murder of
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
Dr. John F. Condon might
have lived and died and been
remembered in nis native Bronx
as an eccentric schoolmaster, a
booster of his borough and a
writer of salty letters to the edi
tors, had he not, in 1032, coined
the name of "Jafsie" from his
initials find placed his six-foot,
250-pound figure In the spot
light of the Lindbergh kidnap
ing case.
BY JAP PLANE
Pacific Fleet Headquarters,
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 2 (U.PJ A
lone Japanese plane dropped a
single bomb on American air in
stallations at Saipan Monday,
and Liberators of the strategic
air force bombed Iwo Jima Sun
day for the 25th consecutive day.
Pacific fleet headquarters re
ported today.
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimltz'
communique said the enemy
raider, a twin-engined bomber,
failed to cause damage.
Montgomery May
Take Command Of
All West Front
London, Jan. 2 0J.PJ Specu
lation mounted today that Mar
shal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery,
Britain's No. 1 war idol, may be
named deputy supreme comman
der for the western front with
jurisdiction over all seven allied
armies.
Swedish reports that Mont
gomery will be given command
of all ground forces coincided
with increasing criticism that
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the
supreme' commander, has been
saddled with so many political
and economic problems that he
has been unable to devote suf
ficient time to coordinating
ground operations.
- Military informants said Els
enhower's burdens have been
Increasing enormously in the
past three months. Therefore, If
a shakeup should occur, it
would not be due exclusively to
the recent German counterot-
fenslve in the Ardennes, they
said.
TO LAND IN U. S.
New York, Jan. 2 flJ.PJ-
Edgar Hoover, director of the
federal bureau gt Investigation,
warned today" of a new "Inten
sified" effort by Germany to
send saboteurs to this country as
he revealed the arrest of two
agents landed a month ago by
submarine on the coast of
Maine. .
The men, arrested in New
York, were William Curtis Cole-
paugh, 26, a native of Connecti
cut with a discharge from the
U. S. navy, and Enrich Gimpel,
JO, a German citizen, interned
for a time in this country but
sent home as an exchange pris
oner only to return as a spy
They landed November 29 in
Frenchman Bay.
Plenty of Money
The two men, trained in
espionage and sabotage in Ber
lin, Dresden and The Hague,
were equipped with $60,000 in
United States currency, forged
birth certificates copied after
those of the Connecticut depart
ment of health, forged discharges
from the U. S. navy, secret ink
and other paraphernalia. Both
were carrying .32 caliber pistols
when arrested and had assem
bled parts for a short wave radio
transmitter.
"The landing of these two
men and of the two Japanese
balloons in the northwest and
other matters I cannot disclose
at the moment for reasons of se
curity indicate that the German
government has a very intensi
fied program of training and
sending agents into the western
hemisphere," Hoover said.
Hoover asked the public to
alert itself against possible spies
and saboteurs..
Hoover revealed the arrest of
Colepaugh and Gimpel at a press
conference last night. Their
assignment, he said, was to
mingle with service men in bars
and pick up bits of valuable In
formation which they planned
to transmit to the enemy. They
had not yet attempted to send
any information, he said.
268 Divorces and
587 Marriages In
County Last Year
Divorces filed in Jackson
county in 1944 totalled 268, and
387 marriage licenses were
issued, according to records of
the county clerk's office. The
marriage licenses were 377 less
than in 1943, which had a rec
ord breaking total of 964, due
largely to many Camp White
soldiers being married here.
The first 1945 marriage of
record was between Roy Bcal
and Grayce M'Carthy both of
Siskiyou county, Calif. They pro
cured their license here, Decem
ber 11 last, and were married
yesterday by Justice of the
Peace W, P, Tucker, at his borne,
Tribune
United Pru full
ROOSEVELT HINTS
BIG THREE PLAN
EARLYPALAVER
Congressional Leaders Also
Told Annual Message Will
Be Delivered Saturday.
Washington, Jan. 2 U.R)
Congressional leaders said to
day that President Roosevelt had
"Indicated" to them that he
would meet "sometime soon'
with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Premier Josef
Stalin.
The information was. devel
oped at the leaders' first confer
ence of the year with the presl
dent, in preoaration for the new
congress which convenes tomor
row.
Message Saturday
It was decided that the presi
dent will send his annual mes
sage to confess on Saturday.
The indication of an early
meeting of the "big three" al
lied leaders was reported by
Senate Majority Leader Alben
W. Barkley, D.. Ky. He told re-
Dorters as a sort of an after
thought: i
"The president indicated that
sometime soon without Indi
cating the time or place he will
meet with Churchill and Stalin."
House Democratic Leader
John W. McCormack, D Mass ,
quickly Inlected'.' "proBaWy;" " "
Tim Unset '
Barkley echoed this. Then he
and McCormack stressed that
there was "nothing yet as to
time or place."
Barkley said the president's
annual message vould be sent
to congress on Saturday, the day
the electoral votes will be 'count
ed on Capitol Hill. He said he
expected the present would send
his new budget to the congress
early next week, probably Tues
day. Mr. Roosevelt will not deliver
the messages in person. They
will be transmitted and read by
clerks.
STILL UNIMPROVED
Reports from Portland this
afternoon were to the effect that
the condition of Judge Herbert
K. Hanna, circuit court judge
seriously ill in a Portland hos
pital, remains unimproved. A
United Press wire bulletin read,
"Judge Hanna condition semi
comatose with periods of normal
consciousness."
Judge Hanna was taken to
Portland the middle part of last
week after an illness of several
days. When the seriousness of
the judge's condition became ap
parent, the state supreme court
assigned Circuit Judge James W.
Crawford of Portland as tempor
ary Judge for this district.
Mysterious Balloon Is Found
Near Estacada
Portland, Ore., Jan. 2 U.P.)
Army officers and FBI agents to
day veiled in secrecy results of
their intensive investigation of a
large balloon possibly of Japa
nese origin found in wooded
country about 38 miles south
east of Portland.
Belief that the Japanese could
launch long-range, small-scale
paper-balloon forays against the
west coast of North America
from bases between Formosa
and the Kuriles was expressed
by Professor P. E. Church, for
mer army-navy oceanography in
structor, in Seattle.
The balloon was discovered by
unidentified residents of the area
near Estacada, site of a large
power plant Several miles away
lies an important part of Port
land's water system -the Bull
Run headworks.
Army and FBI officials de
clined comment as to: Whether
Leased Wire
NO. 239.
DRAFT OF 4-F'S
Reconversion Director Has
Legislative Plan for Tight
Control Over Manpower.
Washington! Jan. 2 flJ.R)
An administration request for
new laws to tighten government
controls of manpower, including
a draft of 4-F's for essential war
work, faced the 79th congress to
day on the eve of its opening
session. .
The request, together with
other recommendations to bol
ster the war effort on the home
front, was made by War Moblli-
Zhtion and Reconversion Direc
tor James F. Byrnes in a 20,000
word report to the new congress
which begins Its two-year ex
istence at noon tomorrow.
Legislation Listed
Declaring that the nation's in
dustrial and manpower resources
are still far from totally mobil
ized, Byrnes told congress that
the following legislation was
needed to enable the war pro
gram to "ride on a horse instead
of a mule":
1. Authority to assign 4,000,-
000 4-F's to war jobs as well as
military service unless they al
ready are engaged in essential
activity; r " - - .
2. Authority for the war man
power commission to enforce
its regulations limiting the num
ber of workers employers may
retain. -
3. Authority for the war labor
board to enforce its decisions m
courts without resorting to
property seizure, thus permit
ting the government to treat "the
Petrlllos and Averys alike."
,4. Increased unemployment
benefits for war workers who
may be temporarily out of jobs
when the war ends and adequate
financial assistance In re-estab
lishment of small businesses dis
continued as a result of the war.
Revlsa Farm Rule
Byrnes also suggested revision
of draft deferment standards for
men in agriculture in anticipa
tion of increased calls by selec
tive service.
The Byrnes report provided
the first glimpse of the legisla
tive program which the Roose
velt administration will propose
to the new congress as its part
in speeding victory and laying
the groundwork for enduring
peace with economic prosperity.
JUDGE J. B. COLEMAN
CONTINUES IMPROVE
County Judge J. B. (Blin)
Coleman, following an attack
Sunday, was reported by mem
bers of his family, as showing
improvement today. He has been
111 at his home for the past ten
days from a coronary attack, and
his condition has been change
able. -
Power Plant
the balloon was Japanese, for
what purpose such balloons
might be employed by the Japa
nese, where or how they would
have been released. An army de
molition squad removed the bal
loon from a tree in which it
landed. The balloon was report
ed to have no marking.
Church said Japanese "sui
cide" balloons could make one
way trans-Pacific flights at
speed of from 50 to 100 miles per
hour from Kurile bases and " rea
sonably be expected to cover the
5,000-mile distance in SO to 100
hours" with the aid of seasonal
winter gales.
This was the third mysterious
balloon recently discovered in
the northwest. A balloon identi
fied as Japanese was found near
KalispeU, Mont., about three
weeks ago. A second mysterious
balloon of unidentified origin
was found near Tacoma, Wash.,
last week.
REQUEST
PUSH NEAR BITCHE
ON 50-MILE FRONT
Nazi Aggression Spreading
Into Saar Valley; Heavy
Attack Near Wulferdingen
Paris, Jan. 2 flJ.PJ German
forces were reported fleeing the
western-most bulge of the Bel
gian salient today, but to tha
southeast they were building up
an attack of considerable
strength on a front of about SO
miles between the Saarland and
the upper Rhine.
The new German push was
centered in the Bitche area of
northeastern France. Supreme
headquarters announced that
around Bitche the nazis gained
a mile and a half, cut the road
running five miles southeast to
Bannestin, probably captured
the latter town and still were
pressing on.
Attack Spreading
The Germans now are active
throughout the border area from
Bitche tc the Rhine, official
sources reported. A field broad-1.
cast said the nazi aggressiveness
was spreading westward into the '
Saar valley, where a heavy at
tack was launched In the area
of Wulferdingen 13 miles south
east of Saarbrucken.
Lt. ' Gen. George S. Patton's
3d army units chopped into the
south flank of the Ardennes
salient gained another souple of
miles in a number of sectors up
to yesterday morning, supreme
headquarters reported.
They recaptured Molrey,, 11
miles west of Bastogne and
southwestern anchor post of tha
nazi salient, which had changed
hands repeatedly In the previous
fighting. Closer to Bastogne, the
doughboys seized Hubermont,
six miles east of the Belgian
road center; Harlange six miles
southeast, and Neffe, two miles
east.
Patton's gains had Ironed out
the German bulges on each side
of Bastogne, removing any cur
rent threat to the citadel, while
his units pushed on to the north
toward Houffallze, 10 miles
above Bastogne on the Liege
highway. A German commu
nique, said, the Americans- we-re
trying to break through toward
Houffallze, a possible hint that
they were approaching the town.
- - ls Bee Thrust
The steady gains of the Sd
army threatened to cut off the
westren half of the German sal
ient, and lt was this mounting
threat which apparently nromnt-
ed tne nazi withdrawal from the
bulge west of the line through
Bastogne.
The German nullout annarent.
ly was reflected by a front re
port which said that in the area
of Hotton, along the northwest
rim oi the salient, patrol thrusts
nearly two miles deep into the
enemy positions failed to elicit
resistance.
LEAVING FRIDAY
FOR NAVY DUTY
Arthur M. Cannon, manager
of the Fluhrer Bakeries, has
been commissioned a junior
grade lieutenant in the navy and
will leave Medford Friday night
to report to naval headquarters
In Seattle. Cannon received word
December 23 of his appointment
and copies of his reporting or
ders arrived this morning.
For the present managership
of the bakery chain will be di
vided between Mrs. William H.
Fluhrer ,Fred Hoagland, man
ager of the Klamath Falls bak
ery, Ray Harrison, . sales man.
ager, and Eugene Ferrell, chief
accountant for the bakeries. It
was stated this morning that
there Is a possibility that Major
Fluhrer, owner of the bakeries,
now overseas with the air corps,
would be able to return to active
managership of the firm In the
not too distant future.
Mr. Cannon, who came to Med
ford in September of 1940, has
been active In civic circles and
is resigning as president of the
Medford Community Chest, from
the board of directors of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce and as treasurer of
the Civic Music association In
order to enter the navy. Cannon,
a 1933 graduate oi the Univer
sity of Oregon school of busi
ness administration and a mem
ber of the university chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa, was with a firm
of certified public accountants in
Portland before coming to Med
ford. He Is a member of the
Medford Rotary club.
Mrs. Cannon and the Cannons'
two small daughters will remain
at the family home, 16 Glen Oak
Court, for the present.